Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 421 Conflict

"I don't know, come on, tell me." Wang Ci didn't care about his status, so he pulled him to the side and asked him to talk about the Australian school.

Lu Da told the whole story of the national school.Wang Ci listened very carefully, he didn't ask Lu Da, what the brothers Lu Jia and Lu Yi had learned - Lu Da had never studied, so it would be useless to ask.But Lu Da said very proudly: His two sons have learned the knowledge of Australians.

"Australian knowledge?" Wang Ci didn't understand for a while.

"Yes, it's like changing the field, how to draw lines, and how to dig the soil. It's all done by the villain's son Lujia."

Lu Da was bragging, but in fact Lu Jia participated in the surveying and mapping of farmland water conservancy as an apprentice.Lu Da put this honor on him with his father's vanity.

But Wang Ci didn't quite believe it—although he didn't understand the knowledge of the Australians, it was definitely not something an illiterate country boy could learn.

"Who are the teachers?"

"There is the head of Australia, and there are scholars from Ming Dynasty..."

"Are there any scholars from Ming Dynasty?"

"Yes, there are quite a few of them, one is a local, surnamed Zhang, I heard that it turned out to be from Gou's Village..."

"It's Zhang Xingjiao!"

Wang Ci knew this person, because Zhang Xingjiao was a registered child student in the county. Although he didn't go to school, he was under the jurisdiction of his county school.Zhang Xingjiao was originally well-off, but later he was oppressed by Gou Da, and his family was ruined.Because Zhang Xingjiao owed food, he was arrested and chased by the county yamen, and he was still under the yoke. He only spared his life by pleading for mercy. After that, there was no news of this person for a long time, and he unexpectedly voted for the gangster!Thinking that the Kun bandits attacked Goujiazhuang as soon as they landed, most likely he was the one who seduced and led the way.

Wang Ci also thought it was not an exaggeration for him to do this, to avenge his family!Furthermore, the Gou family was not a good person in the first place, and their destruction also removed Lingao's evil.But after revenge and revenge, he continued to follow the thief, which would be a big loss.Wang Ci thought of a way to meet him and persuade him not to hang out with the Kun thief anymore—however, he can be regarded as Zhang Xingjiao's teacher.

He nodded thinkingly: "Any other scholars?"

"I don't know about this little one. I heard that he came from Guangdong."

"Is there any talent?"

"Probably not. Can a scholar have to stay in his own county to get tuition money and cold pork collar?"

This remark was unintentional, but when Wang Ci heard it, he felt it was mocking: the students in Lingao, not to mention the tuition fees, even the cold pork they usually get during the sacrifices have not received it for several years.In the past few years, during the sacrifices, the pig's head was used instead of the whole pig, and after the sacrifice, it became the exclusive possession of his teaching—to be honest, a pig's head is not very good.

He asked perfunctorily, "Learn to read?"

"Of course, of course, learn to read." As he spoke, Lu Da took out a small notebook from his arms, "The boy still wants me to learn to read, and I said I don't have the skills and brains! But he said that everyone You can learn it well. How can you say that there is no one to teach.”

Wang Ci laughed: Unexpectedly, Australians also know this—the Australians he has come into contact with are some people with vulgar words.However, since they claim to be Chinese people and descendants of the Song Dynasty, it is not uncommon for them to read a few books of the Four Books and Five Classics.But Wang Ci thinks that in his contacts with Australians, he doesn't feel that they understand these things.When he mentioned the allusions in the Four Books several times when he spoke, the big boss Wu Nanhai always looked ignorant.

It seems that he knows a lot, but when he speaks, he looks like he has never read a book. I don't know what the knowledge of this Australian is.He casually flipped through the pamphlet Lu Da gave him, feeling a little curious. He had seen letters, notices, and newspapers from Australians, but this was the first time he had read a book.

The book is printed very simply, slightly yellowed paper, but smooth to the touch. On the cover is the title of the book in regular script "New National Literacy Textbook Volume One (Trial Edition)". Wang Ci seems to understand the title of the book very well. I understand, so I don't care about it, and I was surprised when I opened it: This book is so exquisitely printed!

The paper is clean and clean, the fonts are all correct, the strokes are of average thickness, and it is commendable that the size of these characters is exactly the same.There is no ink stain between words.It looks very refreshing.

"Good book!" Wang Ci praised.Even in the big bookstores in Guangzhou, you can't buy such exquisite books-it is true that Australians make everything exquisitely.

It's just awkward to hold, the book is opened from right to left.The characters are still written horizontally from left to right, and I am not used to it for a while.Looking at it further, it turned out to be a children's book similar to the "Three Character Classic", and there are also ballads and slang songs, but all the characters are in vulgar script.Wang Ci's contempt couldn't help adding a little bit—he went overseas, mixed among the barbarians, and lost the source of China.

Looking at the content again, the diction is vulgar and unintelligible, Wang Ci just shook his head when he looked at it—this is a Tongmeng book, it is simply misleading, full of vulgar characters, isn’t it ridiculous to write it out?Not to mention taking exams.In his opinion, the only advantage is that whether it is a song or a short sentence, a sentence is added to read it.It saves a lot of effort for the teacher.

Flip to the front, but it is like a crooked ghost drawing.Wang Ci didn't know it, so he asked, "What is this?"

"I heard from Lu Jia that this is called a pinyin alphabet. It is also a kind of character."

It must be an Australian word.Wang Ci thought.

"...Lu Jia said that if you learn to recognize characters in school, you should start with these letters and learn them all, and then you can recognize characters, and you will be able to recognize them quickly—"

"Ridiculous!" Wang Ci was furious and threw the book to the ground.Learning Fanzi first and then learning Chinese characters, isn’t it changing Xia with barbarians? !These Australians dare to call themselves Chinese people!A group of things that have forgotten their ancestors!

Lu Da didn't know why the master Wang suddenly lost his temper, and threw the literacy textbook that his son solemnly handed over to him on the ground. He hurriedly picked up the book and wiped it in a panic.

"Master Wang—"

"This book, you'd better not let your children read it—it's misleading your children, misleading your children!" Wang Ci said impassionedly.

Lu Da stared blankly at Wang Jiaoyu, whose face was a little distorted, and wondered if the master had become obsessed with phlegm?How come he got sick all of a sudden.He didn't dare to speak, just being submissive.

Wang Ci was generous and suddenly remembered that the man in front of him was a mud-legged man with blind eyes, and he couldn't understand what he said to "misleading the younger generation", so he took a slow breath and said:

"You'd better call your second son back to work the land. I can't read this book."

Lu Da looked at this "Master Wang" who he had always respected in disbelief. In his opinion, Mr. Wang has always been a learned, kind-hearted master.Now that he suddenly said these words, he felt great resentment in his heart.

Australians teach their children to read, and they should not be blind. Is there anything wrong with that?Food and clothing are provided by Australians.Even the scholars in the county don't get this kind of treatment.

He perfunctorily hummed a few times.Wang Ci knew that he didn't want to, so he didn't want to talk nonsense with him at first, but thinking that Lu Da is the tenant of Xuetian, and he will depend on him for many things in the future, he said patiently:

"Lu Da! The things taught in this book are all wrong!" He wanted to explain that the characters in this book are in vulgar script, and the grammar is not very fluent, but it is really difficult to communicate with an illiterate.After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't say why.

Lu Da got impatient and said, "Since they are all wrong, is Master Wang willing to teach the two younger sons the right knowledge?"

Wang Ci couldn't hear the irony in it, so his complexion changed drastically, and he secretly hated: "It's really obsessed with ghosts!" After thinking about it, he wanted money but had no money, wanted people and no one, and even raised the tuition and money for several scholars. Not coming.The other party not only teaches, but is also willing to provide food and clothing. In contrast, he is simply weak and incompetent to the extreme.Can't help but feel lost.

What the common people want is nothing more than food and clothing.The Kun thief took advantage of this to confuse the people.I am full of economics, even if the master is reborn, it will be useless!

Thinking of this, I was extremely frustrated.Wang Ci reprimanded weakly: "What do you know! Go!" He dragged himself to the county seat.

Lu Da looked at Wang Jiaoyu's hunchbacked figure going away, and couldn't help spitting into the ground: "The Lord who doesn't hurt your back when you stand and talk! Stupid scholar, the book has been read into the dog's stomach!"

Lu Da is too lazy to care whether his son's education is wrong or right. He only knows that his son has enough food, warm clothes, and learned a lot of things in the national school. Recently, he is teaching everyone how to farm—— Is this knowledge false?Mizuki's self-consciousness is knowledge after reading a lot of things that no one can understand?

At this moment, Lu Da's previous respect for the scholars in the county school, Wang Jiaoyu, and all the scholars in the county collapsed.He suddenly realized that the knowledgeable people in this world are not just those people who wear long gowns and talk incomprehensible words. Australians have another kind of knowledge, which is more useful than them.

Wang Ci stumbled back to the county school. The Lingao County School in this time and space was rebuilt on the site of the Song Yuan County School in the third year of Hongwu.Yongle was rebuilt in three years, and then it was repaired many times, but the last large-scale repair was eight years ago in Chenghua, and then the county school gradually declined.

Although it is in decline, the old scale is still there.Enter from the Lingxing gate, pass the Ji gate, and you will find Minglun Hall.On both sides are Jindezhai and Xiuyezhai, which are the classrooms of the county school.There are many supporting buildings in the back, as well as number rooms for examinations.In terms of scale, it is also in the forefront of the entire Hainan Island.

The weaving of the county school is also very large. There are six school husbands, two cook husbands, three doormen, and three warehouse managers.But this is just a stipulation in the classics. These servants belong to the silver messengers. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the money for hiring servants was collected from the households of the servants, but people did not necessarily use them.So in the majestic county school, there are only three servants left.

(End of this chapter)