Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 294 A Seed

Yuan Xi discovered that he was actually quite abnormal psychologically.

The more Mrs. Wu put on a dignified and refined look for a while, the more he wanted to see Mrs. Wu break her defenses.

Of course, Mrs. Wu would not let his bad tastes succeed easily. Although Yuan Xi made a move several times when no one was around, Mrs. Wu still verbally expressed her contempt for Yuan Xi's behavior.

But after Mrs. Wu's reprimand of inconsistency was seen through, Yuan Xi pushed even further. Mrs. Wu resisted symbolically, but finally gave up.

Seeing Yuan Xi taking the medicinal juice to her mouth with a wooden spoon, Mrs. Wu was so angry and anxious that she gouged out Yuan Xi's eyes.

Yuan Xi smiled shamelessly and said, "Ma'am, don't worry, no one will see it."

Mrs. Wu thought this would be more troublesome, okay?

It would be fine if there was someone nearby, but Yuan Xi would not act recklessly like this. Fortunately, now that Yuan Xi closed the door, nothing happened to the two people inside, and the people outside didn't believe it either!

She said angrily: "They are all people of status, young master, please respect yourself!"

Yuan Xi laughed and said, "What identity, why don't I know?"

"Hey, I remembered, you are my wife, when did you pass the door?"

Mrs. Wu was angry: "Who promised to marry you!"

"You are so shameless!"

Yuan Xi sighed, "I also know that Madam definitely wants to go back."

"Twisted melons are not sweet. After Madam gave birth to a child, if she still does not change her mind, if you promise me one condition, I may not be able to send Madam back."

Madam Wu gave Yuan Xi a sideways look: "You don't want to lie to me!"

"You are so kind?"

Yuan Xi sighed: "Really, and I promise not to reveal a single thing about Madam's presence here."

After hearing this, Mrs. Wu felt a little hopeful, "Really?"

"What conditions?"

Yuan Xi asked without hesitation: "One more?"

Mrs. Wu almost cried out of anger, "Are you still the lord of a state?"

Yuan Xi sighed, "Ma'am, have you ever thought about how you would deal with yourself if you saw Bofu and I fighting each other on the battlefield after you went back?"

"After Madam returns, will you help Bo Fu deal with me?"

Mrs. Wu bit her lip, "After the concubine returns, I will persuade Bo Fu to make friends with the young master."

Yuan Xi sighed, "Is it possible?"

"From what I know, Bo Fu obeys Yuan Shu's orders, right?"

"Now Ben Chugong and Yuan Shu are immortal, what can Bofu change?"

Mrs. Wu said sullenly: "Isn't the young master also obeying the orders of Ben Chugong?"

Yuan Xi heard this, and let out a laugh, "Madam is very smart, open your mouth!"

Madam Wu was upset, subconsciously opened her mouth slightly, and Yuan Xi stretched out the medicine spoon in her hand.

Madam Wu opened her mouth to drink, and when she realized this time, her brows were bristling with anger, and she raised her hand to hit Yuan Xi, "You're out of shape!"

Yuan Xi took a slap, and said with a smile: "Madam, don't be angry if you beat me, lest you move your fetus."

Madam Wu hit her a few times before she was about to pick up the wooden plate on the table. Seeing that the situation was not going well, Yuan Xi ran away in a hurry.

Madam Wu looked at Yuan Xi's distressed back, and suddenly felt a lot better, as if all the endless troubles had been left behind.

She found that she had stayed with Yuan Xi for a long time, and she seemed to have become younger, as if she had returned to the carefree look before she got married.

A thought came to Mrs. Wu's mind. If she was born more than ten years later and met Yuan Xi again, her life would be happier than marrying Sun Jian, right?
She was horrified, and hurriedly drove this thought out of her mind, scolding herself for being shameless, she was already a middle-aged woman with several children, what were she thinking!

Yuan Xi ran outside the door and saw that Cao Xian and Cao Jie were having fun with the two girls, and he didn't bother them. He was in a good mood, so he went to the study to find Cai Zhaoji.

As a result, the study room was empty, so he slapped his head, remembering that today is the day when Cai Zhaoji went to the free school to teach.

The earliest record of women teaching careers can be found in the pre-Qin period. The "Goddess Fu" in the Songs of Chu mentioned that "therefore shaking the adornment, calling the jade luan, dressing the clothes, restraining the face, taking care of the female teacher, and ordering the Taifu."

"Ge Qin" in "The Book of Songs·Zhou Nan" said, "Say something to the master, and say something to return."

However, most of the female teachers are professors among noble women, and they have no relationship with ordinary people. Most of the things they teach are moral books such as female commandments, which are not very practical.

But even so, it is still a gap in the basic education of the nobles and commoners.

You must know that many scholars were enlightened by their mothers when they were young, because their mothers were mostly ladies of the family, knowledgeable and respectful, knowledge and education directly determined the study habits and morality of scholars in the future.

From the appearance of the earliest female teachers to the present, very few have left their names. The first one to leave a name in the history books was Ban Zhao, who participated in the compilation of Han Shu and wrote the female commandments during the Eastern Han Dynasty, because of her husband's family name. Cao, so it is also called Master Cao.

Ban Zhao's father, Ban Biao, wrote more than [-] chapters of "Historical Records", and his eldest brother Ban Gu and second brother Ban Chao compiled "Hanshu" on the basis of this.

Later, Ban Chao joined the army, and Ban Gu died unjustly in prison without completing the book, leaving the most difficult eight tables and astronomical records unfinished. Write eight tables and complete the astronomical records.

It took Ban Zhao 30 years to complete the manuscript of "Hanshu". Looking at the women who have participated in the compilation of history as scholars for thousands of years, Ban Zhao is the only one.

Emperor Hanhe called Ban Zhao into the palace many times and asked her to teach the female family members of the harem.Ban Zhao became a palace female teacher, and her teaching content was very extensive, including Confucian classics, astronomy and arithmetic.All the empresses respectfully call Ban Zhao "everyone".

As the editors of Hanshu, many male scholars even gave Ban Zhao the disciple salute. Because of the difference between men and women, male disciples usually kneel outside the Library Pavilion to listen. Thousands of people, one of them is Lu Zhi.

The Han Dynasty attached great importance to the inheritance of masters and apprentices and family status, so after Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan joined Lu Zhi's sect, they became famous among the gentry. It has to be said that the status of Lu Zhi's disciples played a great role.

But also because of this, Lu Zhi later switched to Yuan Shao, which made Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei who were against Yuan Shao at a loss. Liu Bei left Gongsun Zan, and there may be some factors in it.

Yuan Xi's establishment of free schools is of course aimed at enlightening the wisdom of the people, but at this moment of scrambling for the world, he should not have been in such a hurry.

This kind of thing should be the best time to implement it when the world is settled, the country is peaceful, and life is prosperous.

Yuan Xi definitely didn't do things without expecting anything in return. At this time, he had carefully considered the promotion of free education.

One is to gain fame.

Establishing a free school and opening up the wisdom of the people in the world is an act of a sage, and it can echo the rumors of his own real person, thus greatly improving his reputation.

The second is to train and select officials.

One of the crimes Xu Jie was murdered was embezzlement and perverting the law. Yuan Xi personally tested the officials he promoted, and found that most of them were unlearned and incompetent, and they took office by bribing Xu Jie.

After Yuan Xi killed Xu Jie, he deposed all unqualified officials and re-selected them. Free education became an important means of selecting and training officials.

The third is to use identity to suppress.

He presided over the establishment of free schools, and he was the mentor and advocate of all those who benefited from it. If these people want to betray him in the future, they need to think carefully.

Yuan Xi is a person who has no profit and can't get up early, and the abacus in his heart has already been crackling. Yi Xue not only teaches men, but also teaches women. With two prongs, no one can escape his palm.

Through volunteer studies, he let Cai Zhaoji be the master teacher, imparting basic knowledge to women of different identities, and allowing her to teach her children and grandchildren after marriage, so as to plant a seed of hope, which will bloom everywhere in the future.

What it covers is not limited to Confucian classics, but a set of miscellaneous books compiled by Yuan Xi and Cai Zhaoji by simplifying all kinds of knowledge, from basic literacy to weaving tips, from hygiene habits to cooking, to First aid for illnesses has been covered.

There are a lot of things in it, which actually conflict with orthodox Confucian classics. Yuan Xi dared to teach these, but he should thank the world at this time of chaos, rituals and music, and no one would care what Youzhou's righteousness teaches.

This is a great time to establish new rules!
Therefore, a world of great chaos is also a world of great strife, full of opportunities and challenges.

This thing may not have obvious effects within a few years, but the sooner it is done, the sooner it will be reaped. If this model is successful, it will be implemented to the whole world in the future. Cai Zhaoji, Hua Tuo and others will also be famous in history, right?

He closed the door of the study room and went back to the room, only to find that Zhen Mi was sitting on the couch by the window, with some accounts spread out in front of her, cracking her abacus with one hand, and writing something on the bamboo slips with a brush in the other.

She was so engrossed right now that she didn't even know that Yuan Xi had come in.

Seeing Zhen Mi's five fingers fluttering nimbly, Yuan Xi couldn't help but think of certain night scenes, thinking that Zhen Mi is quite talented in this way.

Zhen Mi was making calculations while rubbing her forehead, which was also as white as jade, with her green fingers, obviously thinking about something that took a lot of energy.

Yuan Xi didn't want to disturb her, and after Zhen Mi counted for a quarter of an hour, she stopped before she said, "Don't get tired, go out and do some exercise when you have time."

Only then did Zhen Mi wake up, she turned her face to the side and said with a smile: "My husband is here, so it's okay for me to be a concubine."

She pointed to Cao Xian and the others outside the window, and said with a smile: "They are young, so they don't have any worries about playing Wu Qin Xi."

"As the main wife, if I openly turn around and bow down, I am afraid that others will criticize my husband's family style, so I can only secretly punch in the house."

After Yuan Xi heard this, he smiled and said, "It's hard for you."

"What are you counting?"

Zhen Mi replied: "My concubine is counting the amount of iron ore shipped to Jicheng."

"My husband proposed to test a new method of forging steel. In the past month, the Zhen family has transported a large amount of iron ore from Yuyang to Jicheng through trade routes. I am thinking about how much manpower and time it will take to smelt and forge it."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi said, "It just so happens that I want to go out to see if there is any progress in this new law."

Seeing Zhen Mi's eagerness to try, he said, "You have recovered from your illness not long ago, and the air in the blacksmith's shop is not good, so let's go out after a while."

After hearing this, Zhen Mi could only nod her head, feeling rather regretful.

(End of this chapter)