back to being a teacher

Chapter 281 Argument
"I guess I gave you some money!"

When the atmosphere became awkward, when Fang Bai didn't know how to speak, Huang Chen said in a cold voice.

"Uh……"

Fang Bai was stunned.

"I already knew that!"

Huang Chen curled his lips and said, "My mother gave them to my elementary school teacher when I was in elementary school. She also took me with her to give cigarettes and wine to my elementary school teacher..."

"Well, she stuffed it with money!"

After this fig leaf was torn off, Fang Bai felt a lot more magnanimous.

Fang Bai took out the money from his pocket and counted it. There were one thousand and two, which was not a lot.

If this money had been in his previous life, Fang Bai would have accepted it.

Faced with so much money, Fang Bai would be lying if he said he wasn't moved. After all, this one thousand, two hundred yuan was already Fang Bai's one week's salary in his previous life.

When Fang Bai was a class teacher in his previous life, he basically accepted all those who came with these gray incomes.

However, transfers are not accepted, basically cash or gift cards, or in kind.

It turned out that Fang Bai didn't want to collect these things.

At the beginning, he felt that he was a teacher. Since he was a teacher, how could he accept these things?
But later, when he went to see his former class teacher, he happened to see the scene of his former class teacher receiving gifts...

After the parent who gave the gift left, the class teacher said the most impressive thing to Fang Bai: "Only when you can earn enough income in this profession, will you have the motivation to do it. As long as you feel that you If you can be worthy of the money you charge, as long as you have a clear conscience, then you will be worthy of others."

At first, Fang Bai didn't quite understand this statement.

After all, when he was just starting out, all he could think about was shining in his position...

But he had to think about his own food.

With a salary of only a few thousand yuan a month, how can you shine?

After being beaten in reality, Fang Bai understood the meaning of this sentence. As long as you can afford the money you charge, then the money can be collected...

It’s like what a colleague said to Fang Bai in the previous life: “You don’t think you should accept it now, because you are not married yet, and you don’t have to pay for car loans, mortgages, children’s milk powder, diapers... just a few dollars a month. A thousand yuan, you can’t even support yourself, you won’t accept this, you won’t accept that… Are you going to take your family to drink the northwest wind?”

A very real question.

Why are fewer boys becoming teachers now?
According to data, when recruiting teachers in Hunan City, they also specifically indicate their gender. When recruiting English teachers in a certain area, they recruited two female teachers and two male teachers...

Later, as many as 500 women applied to become English teachers, while less than 70 male teachers applied.

As a teacher, your income is not even enough to support yourself, let alone buying a car or a house...

What do you buy?
Especially under the scissor policy in the previous life, all tutoring classes were wiped out and everything was cut off with one knife...

Teachers' incomes have further shrunk.

Some people always say that teaching is the most glorious profession under the sun, but no teacher wants their children to continue to be teachers.

……

But in this life, Fang Bai no longer values ​​the money.

Putting aside how much money he has, Qin Meng's family is not short of money. When the time comes and it doesn't work, he can just let Qin Meng take care of him...

Looking at the money in Lao Fang's hand, Huang Chen felt a lot in his heart.

On the one hand, she didn’t want Lao Fang to accept the money, and on the other hand, she didn’t want her family to give her the money. She felt that there was no need for her family to spend so much money on her...

Huang Chen seemed to be in a low mood.

Fang Bai reached out and patted Huang Chen's head, then put the money in her hand and said softly: "The teacher doesn't want to accept this money, your mother forced it on me!"

"So you still accepted it..."

Huang Chen said in a low tone.

She began to think that Lao Fang was different from other teachers, at least unlike her previous head teachers, who would not turn a blind eye to money...

But now that I think about it, I still find it a bit ridiculous. Who doesn’t love money?

"If you accept it, just accept it. What will happen if you accept it?"

"What, is it illegal for a teacher to charge some money?"

Fang Bai looked at Huang Chen confidently and asked.

Huang Chen was stunned by Fang Bai's aggressive question.

"But...but...you are a teacher!"

Huang Chen's lips twitched and he bit his lower lip in confusion.

"So didn't the teacher give you the money?"

Fang Bai said softly.

"Uh……"

Only then did Huang Chen react. She looked at the money in her hand, feeling a little embarrassed.

Now the atmosphere is awkward.

Huang Chen felt like a clown...

"Because I'm a teacher, I know I can't charge this money!"

Fang Bai sighed, and then tapped the head of this little girl who liked to think too much.

"Well……"

Huang Chen covered his head in pain.

"Let's go!"

Fang Bai walked forward.

Huang Chen followed Fang Bai.

The two people were walking in tandem, maybe they were sighing, so Fang Bai continued: "But not everyone is like the teacher and is not short of money..."

"Uh……"

Huang Chen was in a daze.

"It's like when a doctor gives a red envelope to the patient's family before saving the patient, do you think he accepts it? Or does he not accept it?"

Fang Bai stopped and asked.

"This... don't accept it. It's a doctor's job to save lives and heal the wounded!"

Huang Chen thought for a while and said.

"It's not a question of whether the doctor wants to accept it, but a question of why the patient's family wants to send it!"

Fang Bai shook his head and continued walking forward.

"It's as if we met a temple on the way up the mountain, and then we worshiped the gods and Buddhas in the temple, praying that they could protect us..."

"Think about it, why do we go in to worship gods and Buddhas?"

After Fang Bai finished speaking, he asked again.

"do not know."

Huang Chen shook his head.

"Because we want peace of mind."

Fang Bai sighed and continued to explain: "The patient's family members gave the doctor red envelopes because they wanted to have peace of mind and hoped that the doctor would do his best during the operation..."

"Because they couldn't help their most important people during this operation, they could only try to use this method to help their relatives get through this operation, and at the same time, they wanted to have peace of mind."

"Similarly, during your schooling process, your parents also knew that they could not help you, but they also hoped that you could study well, so they placed their hopes on your teachers. They did not expect your teachers to treat you well. That's great, but please ask your teacher to treat you fairly..."

In fact, there was no need for Lao Fang to explain, Huang Chen knew this, but she just couldn't stand it.

"I know……"

Huang Chen responded in a low voice, and she continued to mutter: "But I just feel uncomfortable. I can't understand why such a thing would happen..."

Fang Bai patted her little head: "This is called worldliness." Huang Chen was silent. Sometimes, such worldliness is still a bit too realistic for an underage child.

Looking at Huang Chen's look, Fang Bai also understood how she felt.

When he was studying in the past, Fang Jisheng also gave money to his class teacher, and Fang Bai also remained silent at that time...

"The "Historical Records" written by Sima Qian has this sentence: The bustle in the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit."

Fang Bai said with emotion, and then he got on the motorcycle placed on the roadside.

Huang Chen put on his helmet and got on the motorcycle.

"Everything people do is actually driven by profit. There is a saying: take people's money and eliminate disasters with them!"

"If there is no profit motive, do you think others will do things for you?"

Fang Bai started the motorcycle, and then looked at the shops on both sides doing business: "For example, these merchants who get up early and wait until dusk, they open their doors very early in the morning every day, and only close when it gets close to dark. Sometimes, when business is busy, they can't even eat. Eat on time..."

"Teacher, I know all this, but you all already have a salary. The school has paid you a salary. Why do you still accept other people's money..."

Huang Chen interrupted Fang Bai and asked a little aggrievedly.

Fang Bai was in a daze for a moment, then raised his head and looked at the road in front of him. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Do you think there were more honest officials or corrupt officials in ancient times?"

Fang Bai drove very slowly. He looked at the city in front of him, Hunan City, a city that people both love and hate.

"honest and upright official?"

Huang Chen asked tentatively.

Fang Bai shook his head: "There are many corrupt officials!"

Then he asked: "Do you know which dynasty had the most corrupt officials?"

Huang Chen thought for a while: "In the Qing Dynasty, there was Heshen!"

Fang Bai shook his head again: "Tomorrow!"

Huang Chen frowned. She knew a lot about history, especially the Ming Dynasty. Then she retorted: "How could it be possible? The punishment for corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty was so severe. Would anyone dare to be corrupt?"

Fang Bai explained: "This has nothing to do with whether the punishment is severe or not. The problem lies in the income!"

"income?"

Huang Chen was confused.

"Do you know which dynasty had the least corrupt officials?"

Fang Bai continued to ask.

"do not know!"

Huang Chen shook his head.

"Song Dynasty, or should I say, Northern Song Dynasty!"

Fang Bai replied.

"I know this, there is Bao Zheng!"

Huang Chen quickly replied.

Fang Bai shook his head with a smile, and continued, "Bao Zheng can't be said to be a so-called upright official. If he was placed in another dynasty, he might be corrupt..."

"What?"

Huang Chen was a little confused.

"Because of the income..."

Fang Bai shifted the topic to income again.

"Uh……"

Huang Chen pouted.

"Let me tell you this, during the Northern Song Dynasty, do you know how much Bao Zheng's annual salary was?"

Fang Bai asked with a smile.

Huang Chen shook his head.

"About 600 yuan. What is the concept of 200 yuan? At that time, a yuan of money was almost equal to [-] yuan today. In other words, when Bao Zheng was an official, his annual income was about [-] million yuan!"

"Even the lowest-level person has a monthly salary of [-] thousand yuan, which is almost a monthly income of [-] yuan."

"So during the Northern Song Dynasty, few officials had to rely on corruption and bending the law to make money..."

Fang Bai gave a general explanation of the situation in the Northern Song Dynasty in one breath.

This also made Huang Chen understand why there were so few corrupt officials in the Northern Song Dynasty.

"Then why are there so many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty?"

Huang Chen asked.

"Because of being poor!"

Fang Bai replied casually, while driving his motorcycle, he said: "According to historical records, there were 20 officials in the Ming Dynasty. In the two major cases of Kongyin case and Guo Heng case, more than 8 corrupt officials were killed... …”

Listening to this data, Huang Chen's eyes widened. She was stunned: "Is there a lot?"

"If we carefully calculate the Ming Dynasty, 80.00% of the officials are corrupt. It can be said that the proportion is the highest in all dynasties!"

Fang Bai continued.

"Why so many?"

Huang Chen didn't understand.

"This has something to do with Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a peasant. When the Yuan Dynasty ruled, a large part of the reason why the Han people wanted to revolt was because there were too many corrupt officials at that time. Zhu Yuanzhang was oppressed by corrupt officials when he was young, so when he was After becoming emperor, he was extremely harsh on officials..."

"The most important thing is that the salaries of these officials are very low!"

"How low is it? It's the lowest among all dynasties. It can be said that if you become an upright official, you won't even be able to support your own family with the money and food the court gives you!"

"The most famous example is Hai Rui, an upright official in the Ming Dynasty. He wanted to celebrate his mother's birthday, but he couldn't even put out a table of decent dishes. Even when he died, he couldn't even afford a coffin, and he was still his subordinate. Bought with money."

"In this case, if you are greedy, you can still live with your family having good food and drink for a few years. When the incident comes to light, when everyone is killed, if you are not greedy, your whole family will follow you and drink the northwest wind... …”

"Think about it, what would you choose?"

Lao Fang's words made Huang Chen fall into silence. Looking at it this way, it seemed that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were so greedy that they could be forgiven...

"I... No no, we're talking about collecting money, why are corrupt officials involved!" Huang Chen didn't know how to answer, and then she quickly changed the subject.

"I'm also answering why you want to charge money!"

Fang Bai smiled.

"Uh……"

Huang Chen was stunned.

"Being a teacher is the same as being an official in ancient times. Which teacher has never thought about teaching his students well, and which official has never thought about managing the people under his rule to live and work in peace and contentment and in order? "

"But when you actually come to this position, you find that your passion cannot be exchanged for daily necessities. You spend all your time on your students, but you find that you can't even take care of your own family... …”

Fang Bai's words made Huang Chen's mouth twitch: "Teacher, are you justifying yourself?"

"What's my excuse..."

Fang Bai suddenly felt like he was playing the piano to a cow...

"Then there were honest officials in ancient times!"

Huang Chen retorted.

"Yes, that's why there are so many people who go to poor areas to become teachers!"

Fang Bai retorted.

Huang Chen felt powerless to refute what he said.

(End of this chapter)