People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 148 Something Happened to Him, You Are All Going to Die

"What happened to grandpa?"

For the time being, Kong Na didn't bother to settle accounts with Zhang Yi, so he left him and ran to Kong Fu.

"Master was frightened today and fell ill..."

After Kong Fu finished speaking, Kong Na ran into the Confucius mansion as fast as he could. Seeing this, Zhang Yi also ran in.

The Yanshenggong Mansion in Nanjing is very large, probably also the house of a former official or landlord.

If you only look at the house itself, it seems that His Majesty is in full swing with Kong Kejian's family.

It was also because the Confucian Mansion was too big, and the wind blowing over seemed a little cold.

Kong Na immediately ran to Kong Kejian's bedroom, and sure enough, he saw the familiar imperial physician coming out of it.

"Doctor Li!"

At least on the surface, Zhu Yuanzhang has done a lot of courtesy to Kong Kejian. This doctor Li is one of the doctors who often treat Kong Kejian.

Kong Na walked up to him and saluted first.

"How is my grandpa?"

"It's just a cold, it's fine for the time being... I've already prescribed the medicine, and I'll let the servant fry it and drink it later!"

"My grandpa is obviously fine this morning..."

Kong Na couldn't figure it out, he was just going out with Zhang Yi, why did this happen?

Doctor Li did not answer his question, but just shook his head and left.

Not long after, Kong Fu was out of breath, and came back from behind.

"When the old man went back to the Taoist temple to pick up the master, Daoist Deng said that there were thieves in the temple. It was probably at that time that the master was frightened..."

"what?"

Kong En and Zhang Yi cried out in unison.

"My Taoist temple has been broken into by thieves?"

Zhang Yi's face changed drastically.

Kong Fu nodded, and then told him what Deng Zhongxiu had told him.

When Zhang Yi heard this, his expression was serious.

He has been living in the Taoist temple in seclusion, but he has ignored the era he lives in, which is not a peaceful era.

Such things as killing people and stealing goods are very normal in this era.

As for burglary and burglary, it is also commonplace.

The Taoist temple has never been thieves before, because the dilapidated Taoist temple seems to have nothing worth thinking about by the thieves.

Zhang Yi and Deng Zhongxiu lived together for a long time, and they also forgot about this problem.

"Don't worry, Daoist. Brother Deng told me that something was missing inside. It's probably because the thief just let it in and left when he found someone!"

Zhang Yi was slightly relieved after listening.

There are a lot of good things in him, and he seems to think about his own safety after experiencing this robbery.

"Even though Senior Brother Deng is considered an adult in this era, he is still a half-grown boy in essence!

I am a seven-year-old child, if there are thieves coming in, I'm afraid it will be a disaster!
It seems that money should not be revealed casually. I must pay attention to this point. Later, I will ask someone to raise the courtyard wall and prepare some weapons...

It's a pity that I'm not a real Taoist priest, and I don't know much about lightning techniques. Why don't I be a crossbow? "

Just as Zhang Yi thought of this, he immediately shook his head.

Crossbows were illegal in the feudal era, and he didn't want Longhushan to be accused of treason one day.

"Or, make something scary!"

If you want to change your security status, the best thing is to move, into the city...

But Emperor Hongwu banned monks and Taoists, so there was less living space for Taoists.

Zhang Yi's Taoism is registered in Qingxin Temple, and he can't leave even if he wants to move.

This idea can only be imagined and cannot be realized.

The other options are nothing more than strengthening protection, please prepare some self-defense means for the security guard and yourself.

Please rule out the matter of the security guards first. If someone you are not familiar with enters the Pure Heart Meditation, you may not be able to lure wolves into the house.

Then he didn't have many choices left, except to raise the courtyard wall, and prepare some self-defense means for himself.

"People in this world are quite skilled in martial arts. The servant that Uncle Huang assigned me last time was very skilled. How could I forget that the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties were at the peak of boxing development. If I can learn one or two points of self-defense, It's also very good...

It's a pity that I'm still young and can't practice martial arts. Why don't I let Senior Brother Deng do some training?Go back and ask Brother Huang to see if his servants teach martial arts...

Well, let’s get some more protective measures unique to Taoist priests, and do it right away..."

For his own safety, Zhang Yi was already thinking seriously.

"Zhang Yi?"

As soon as he thought about it, he temporarily forgot about people, and didn't wave his hand in front of his eyes until Kong Na went into the room to see his grandfather.

"There is a bit of a delay today, it's not safe for you to go out of the city and return to the Taoist temple!

If you don't dislike it, you can spend the night in the mansion tonight? "

Zhang Yi looked up and saw that it was getting late.

Although it will not be dark, but it is too late to go back.

“Living outside the city is inconvenient after all!”

He nodded and decided to stay here.

"Uncle Fu also told me just now that Mr. Xu came to the Taoist temple. He said that the palace knew about our truancy. If we don't want to be punished, we have to go to school tomorrow!"

go to school?

Hit the board?
After listening to Kong Na's words, Zhang Yi was not surprised.

With Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament of taking care of everything, this matter will happen sooner or later.

He nodded helplessly. Fortunately, he had already made allicin, and he didn't need a lot of time to make alchemy recently.

It's just right to go to school and start a profitable side job.

"By the way, what exactly did you just tell me?"

After confirming that his grandfather was safe for the time being, Kong Na finally had the mood to ask Zhang Yi this question.

Zhang Yi laughed, pulled Kong Na aside and said:

"This matter is actually related to the admission of mathematics into the imperial examination..."

"Ok!"

Conne sat down, ready to listen carefully.

"Now His Majesty has issued an imperial decree that it is inevitable to study mathematics to enter the imperial examination. Although the Enke has not yet opened, this path has been decided, and the scholars of the world should also prepare for the imperial examination!
After ten years of hard work, they are naturally familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics.

But let’s do the math, I reckon there won’t be too many people in the world who can say they are proficient!

Although the mathematics textbooks I compiled can be regarded as easy to understand, but in the absence of teachers, mathematics in the next few years will definitely be a difficulty that will torture students all over the world.

But their difficulties are our market,

Let's come to the way of money! "

"Do you want to make money by taking advantage of mathematics to enter the imperial examination?"

"That's right, if there is a need, someone will come out to solve the need, but there are only a handful of people in the world who can solve this need!
So this problem should be solved by the two of us!
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the textbook, we can publish supplementary textbooks, which explain more in-depth and detailed than textbooks, how considerate?
Also, if you want to progress in arithmetic, you need to do the math...

I reckon that within a year, the imperial court will be able to find very few teachers who can write questions, let alone set questions!

We can earn money just by selling these!

And it's not small money, it's big money! "

Kong Na's face turned red when he heard the words. Sure enough, none of the guy's ideas were good.

He has been cheated by Zhang Yi a lot, and he probably has learned to be smart. When this guy bites us, he'd better be careful.

"How can my Kong family be a businessman? I don't agree to this..."

"We can call businessmen to do business, can the business of scholars be called doing business?

Isn't this the accommodation column?
Let's come up with some questions and just publish a book, what's wrong with getting someone to publish it?
After it is published, what kind of dividends do we count as business?

Is it possible that booksellers don’t give money to those great Confucians who write books?

Besides, aren't we here to solve the distress of the majority of students?We are here to save lives..."

He has a set of fallacies, how can Kong Na be his opponent?

But he always felt that something was wrong. This matter is clearly a business, okay?

Scholars are still very repulsed by selling knowledge as a business, even though Kong Na is doomed not to gain fame in his life.

he asks:

"Then you can do it yourself, why did you drag me?"

Zhang Yi smiled and said nothing, if he could do it by himself, of course he would do it himself?
But he is a Taoist priest, who will read his books?

From the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, story-based novels became popular, which created the powerful combat effectiveness of the booksellers in the Ming Dynasty.

The development of the publishing industry has also created great sales of books such as "Journey to the West" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", followed by the imitation work "Fengshen Romance" and so on.

Are these books written by the booksellers themselves, of course not?
They also asked literati to adapt and create, which is probably a bit similar to the custom-made texts of later generations.

Writing novels is a way for many scholars who can't get fame to make a living, and it is also a means for them to use their pens to influence history.

Zhang Yi has been eyeing this industry since he was determined to enter the imperial examination in mathematics.

The teaching aid market will be a huge market of hundreds of billions in future generations.
Although there were few scholars in Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination meant more to a scholar than to later generations.

Enrolling in the imperial examination with mathematics was a little bit of a stir in the imperial examination structure, giving many people who might have almost been admitted to the imperial examination a chance to get a title on the gold list.

The demand that arises from this is enormous.

And Zhang Yi is probably the only person in Daming who can quickly meet the needs of these people.

With the distribution of mathematics textbooks, in the absence of teachers, scholars can only rely on self-study to become talented, but if you can count yourself as a self-taught talent, you will be damned.

The imperial court will soon find out that they are short of teachers, let alone students.

It was also during this period of confusion that the impact of teaching aids was enormous.

But Zhang Yi couldn't directly enter the game. First, his status made it difficult for him to gain the trust of the students in the first place. Second, even if he wanted to publish a book, the bookseller he cooperated with was also a big problem.

At first, Zhang Yi wanted to cooperate with the Huang family and his son, but the Huang family's business did not include book making.

The business threshold for booksellers is quite high, and channels, relationships, etc. cannot be opened up overnight.

At least the Huang family who just came to Yingtianfu couldn't afford the stall.

Therefore, in the end, we still had to find a local snake to cooperate with, but Zhang Yi didn't find a suitable partner.

It wasn't until meeting Chen Ke today that Zhang Yi confirmed his preliminary plan.

Can Chen Ke sell his face?He is far from qualified to cooperate with this kind of businessman who eats people but does not spit out his bones, but Kong Na is different.

Using the reputation of the Kong family and Kong Na's identity can at least ensure that Chen Ke will not deceive himself in terms of channels and dividends.

It's not difficult to get rid of other people slowly until you are familiar with it.

"Hey, if I, a [book boy], go to chat with shopkeeper Chen, do you think he will talk to me?
Your identity as the young master of the Kong family is useful, and you should use it!
Don't think that I cheated you on this matter, you use it well, it will benefit and not harm the reputation of Confucian Mansion!

It's not that you are asked to write "Meat Futon", but you are asked to give a name to the test paper,

Arithmetic is also one of the six arts of a gentleman set by your ancestors, what are you afraid of? "

"But……"

"It's nothing to worry about. You always think I'm cheating on you, but if you think about it carefully, which thing have I hurt you?"

Zhang Yi's words blocked Kong Na's speech, and he seemed to be right.

The stinky Taoist priest in front of him did trick him a lot, but at least he didn't hurt him?
Don't look at Kong Na's disdain for Zhang Yi, in fact, in this cold city, Zhang Yi is probably Kong Na's only friend.

"Anyway, you are responsible for giving me a name, and I will share your money later...

The two of us, the brothers, will work together to create a bright New Oriental! "

"What is New Oriental?"

"Um...it's probably a very good school..."

"What about "Meat Futon", what kind of book is that, I want to read..."

"What are you looking at, a little kid, it's not suitable for children..."

"You are young, I am older than you!"

"Benefactor, this is not necessarily..."

Zhang Yi looked down with contempt.

Kong Na was immediately annoyed, and was about to do it.Although he couldn't understand Zhang Yi's jokes, he felt his malice,

The two of them couldn't say a few words, and they turned to the quarrel again.

as the night deepens,
The voices of the two were very clear in the silent night.

A person was silently recording in the shadows.

The next day, early morning.

The emperor was in the imperial study, with a cold face, staring at the people below.

"Gao Jianxian, how do you do things?"

The "big steward" of Huang's mansion, Gao Jianxian, the new head of the school, was kneeling on the ground, trembling.

No one knows the emperor's cruelty better than the one who helped the emperor deal with dark things. If one is not handled well, he will confess to it today.

The reason why the emperor was furious was because of the concept of pure heart.

"I asked you to monitor the Qingxin Temple, which is called monitoring, and it is also protection...

Tell me, how did the thief get in? "

Gao Jianxian broke into a cold sweat and said loudly:

"Damn it, I didn't understand His Majesty's intentions, so I only sent someone to watch the front door. The thief must have climbed over the wall from behind, and I made adjustments before reporting to Your Majesty!

Now the entire Pure Heart Temple has been protected by the ministers!

No matter the front door or the back door, Chen promises that not a single fly can fly in in the future...

Your Majesty, forgive me! "

Gao Jianxian was afraid that he was slow to speak, so Lao Zhu killed himself, and the common people kowtowed.

"There will be no next time, if something happens to him, you die! Get lost!"

Lao Zhu rolled away, but in Gao Jianxian's ears it was like the sound of heaven, he rolled and crawled, and rolled out of the imperial study.

It was as if he was afraid that if he took a step too late, the emperor would change his mind.

Zhu Biao sent Gao Jianxian out, and then smiled as he saw the emperor's lingering anger.

Hearing that Zhang Yi was attacked by thieves, he himself was very worried, but he was not as angry as Lao Zhu.

After all, it has been stated in the report that Zhang Yi is not here, and there is no loss.

Father seems to be...too concerned.

"Father, you are just a petty thief, so don't take it to heart. That person didn't take anything away,
In fact, we should also be thankful, at least his appearance reminded us to do a good job of protecting Zhang's brother 1
At least this will not happen again in the future! "

Zhu Yuanzhang said:

"Zhang Yi can't make mistakes, he has a lot to do with the country!

If it weren't for the fear of that kid's suspicion, I would have called him back from that place where no shit! "

Zhu Biao laughed:
"If the younger brother of the Zhang family really returns to the city, it may not be convenient for the father to see him!
Even now, I think he is gradually getting in touch with the nobles in the city, and I am afraid there will be more and more in the future!
Our identity may not last long! "

"Take one step at a time!"

"Ok!"

Zhu Biao picked up the ensemble that Lao Zhu had just thrown away from the ground, looked at it, and said:
"The younger brother of the Zhang family seems to be making trouble again..."

Zhu Yuanzhang took a look and smiled angrily:
"When this guy gave me the math textbook, he was already thinking about his plan to make a fortune?"

Old Zhu felt an evil fire in his heart, damn it, he almost killed his confidant here, just because a little thief got into his house.

He is good, but he wants to use his own policies to make money?
It's okay to make money, but also bring in the Confucius family?
This guy thinks he won't be reconciled if he doesn't ruin the reputation of the two great families, right?

"Father, if you think it's inappropriate, you can stop it..."

Zhu Biao is well aware of the emperor's faults, and the most taboo thing in Zhu Yuanzhang's life is to use power for personal gain.

Although Zhang Yi was not an official of the Ming Dynasty, so he had no right to speak, but he used the reform of the imperial examination to make money.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, it can be big or small.

If it is small, he can laugh it off, and if it is big, he can also go online.

Zhu Biao's proposal, Lao Zhu directly rejected:

"No, I'm not so stingy that I can't even tolerate this little thing from others, he likes to do it, so I just watch him do it!
If what he does is beneficial to the imperial examination itself, let him make money if he makes money!

But if he violates fairness, I will definitely not spare him lightly!
Moreover, every time this kid does a small thing, it will eventually become a big one!
I also want to see if he can surprise me! "

"Or scare!"

In exchange for Zhu Biao's words, Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him, and he laughed.

I have been with Zhang Yi for a long time, and I often listen to that guy complaining, and my mouth is also dirty.

He quickly changed the subject:
"Speaking of which, Brother Zhang and Kong Na should go to school today!

If he goes back this time, Guozixue will probably be very lively!
After those children of meritorious officials are forced to go to school by their father, it may be very difficult for the younger brothers of the Zhang family not to conflict with them!
After all, that kid Chang Mao is also here now..."

When Lao Zhu heard this, his expression became playful:

"I don't care about him, let them mess around, as long as no one is killed.

If Zhang Yi suffers a loss, Quan should teach him a lesson, lest he be fearless all day long!

If those sons of meritorious officials suffer, then he will sharpen the sons of meritorious officials for me!

I am not at a loss either way! "

……

Zhang Yi didn't know that Lao Zhu's scheme had already fallen on him.

When he got up in the morning, the servants of the Kong family had brought up the towels and water for washing.

Under the service of his servants, Zhang Yi changed into the new clothes prepared for him by the Kong family, and Zhang Yi secretly cursed the evil landlord class,

And drooling!
After dealing with all this, before he went out, he asked Mr. Kong to arrange someone to keep the Taoist temple safe, and then he took Kong Na to Guozixue.

During the period, passing by Huang's house, Zhang Yi saw Gao Jianxian busy inside, and his doubts were relieved a little.

"Guozixue is probably going to move soon, so we can take another look at him when we come back!"

Zhang Yi was talking to Kong Na, the two arrived at Guozixue and got off the car.

Just meet old acquaintances!
Changmao...

(End of this chapter)