Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 125, Daiyu Xiangling

Without adding the essentials of the saints?

No ideological guidance?

Only practical? Only popular science? Writing in vernacular?

Lin Ruhai didn't even need to think about it. Once this book was really written, the Lin family's ancestral graves would definitely be dug up by scholars all over the world!
And it was done more than once.

Fang Yong understood Lin Ruhai's concerns. After repeated consultations and taking into account the issue of the Lin family's ancestral tomb, Fang Yong finally relaxed the conditions and allowed Lin Ruhai to temporarily put aside the two books "On Scholars" and "On Soldiers" and first write the four books "Elementary Education", "On Commerce", "On Industry" and "On Agriculture".

Among them, elementary education is the simplest.

Lin Ruhai took some officials who surrendered from Daxi and some scholars who defected to Fang Yong to start the work, and completed it in less than a month.

Fang Yong was in Chuzhou at the time. When he learned that "Mengxue" was completed, he ordered it to be printed urgently and then distributed to the army, allowing the soldiers of Huaiyin Army to use it first to test the effect.

According to reports from my subordinates, the book has received good response and the soldiers' literacy rate has improved a lot. However, many soldiers still complain that learning is still too difficult...

However, compared with Da Xi's original "Meng Xue", this new Meng Xue has greatly reduced the difficulty of learning. It has not only deleted many historical allusions and didactic elements, but also deleted some Chinese characters that are not commonly used in daily life. Basically, most of the content focuses on simple and easy-to-understand crash course teaching.

To put it simply, it means to teach the people to read and write first.

Fang Yong certainly knew that many of those traditional historical stories contained very important contents. Every story handed down from history had very important educational significance for people. Many of the ideas of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism were the foundation of the rulers.

But what’s the point of saying all this if the people can’t even read?
Learn to read first, then talk about other things.

Apart from "Elementary Education", the remaining "Agriculture", "Industry" and "Commerce" are not so easy.

It can be said that each one is more difficult than the other.

It is definitely not enough to compile these books just by reading various ancient books. As the saying goes, every different profession has its own barriers. Even if Lin Ruhai is knowledgeable, he has never practiced it himself. If he wants to compile it into a book, he still needs guidance from experts from all walks of life.

And who would be willing to reveal their ability to eat?
Just for the woodworking in Gong Lun, Lin Ruhai invited four well-known woodworkers in the industry, and then came up with four completely different methods of planing wood...

In order to obtain the correct information, Lin Ruhai and his scholars worked so hard that their hair became thinner day by day. This former top scholar in the imperial examination of Daxi was about to catch up with Wu Yuan.

Daiyu felt really distressed when she saw this, so in order to lighten her father's burden, she took the initiative to take on some of the less important work and do the compilation.

When Baochai heard about this, she took the initiative to come forward to help.

"Humph, this is all your fault!"

As Daiyu spoke, she propped herself up and stretched out her slender jade fingers to pinch Fang Yong.

Fang Yong gently caressed Daiyu's delicate body and said:

"Good sister, don't be angry. I will hold an imperial examination in a few days and send more talents to my father-in-law."

"That's pretty much it!"

Daiyu lay back on top of Fang Yong.

Fang Yong said: "Good sister, I brought back a maid this time, you can find a courtyard in the mansion to settle her down!"

Daiyu thought for a moment and asked:

"The chivalrous lady you mentioned in your letter before?"

Fang Yong nodded.

Daiyu thought for a moment and said:
"Then let's arrange it in the west courtyard. The courtyard there is more spacious and convenient for practicing martial arts."

Fang Yong kissed Daiyu and said, "It all depends on you, sister."

As he said this, he was about to slide down to reward Daiyu.

Daiyu quickly called Fang Yong with a red face.

"Well...don't...don't yet."

"Sister, is there anything else?"

Fang Yong asked.

Daiyu said:
"There is one thing. We should have a few more maids at home. We have enough maids and old women to do rough work, but we are short of a few personal maids."

"Sister Baoqin's maid was snatched away by the Southern King before. Xiangling, you have given her a concubine, so you should also have a few maids, and there is also the new girl. I was originally planning to ask someone to buy one, but it is difficult to find a suitable one, and the loyalty of people outside is hard to predict. Can you see if you can think of a way..."

After hearing this, Fang Yong agreed to it.

"Is there anything else?" Fang Yong asked.

Daiyu hummed softly.

Fang Yongsui crawled into the quilt, and soon, one of Daiyu's slender, white and tender calves could not help but run out, with several white and lotus-like toes tightly curled up.

Fang Yong: It seems like I forgot something?
Quietly late at night,

Xiangling washed herself clean, buried herself in the quilt, and waited slowly.

I feel a little nervous, but also a little excited.

From time to time, the two little hands picked up the small jade gourd in front of the chest to look at it. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it. She couldn't help but smile foolishly with happiness. Suddenly she reacted and felt that she was so embarrassed. She looked around quickly. Fortunately, her master didn't come and no one saw it.

As the night deepened, Xiangling waited and waited until she fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, at some unknown time, Xiangling suddenly woke up and cried out, "Master, don't leave me!"

There was silence all around, and Xiangling finally realized that it was just a dream.

I touched the collar around my neck and it was still there.

Oh, where is grandpa?
Xiangling looked around and didn't see Fang Yong, so she said regretfully:
"The master must have seen me fall asleep, so he went back!"

Thinking back to the dream I just had, I wonder if you won’t blame me?
Tears couldn't help but flow.

The servant girl outside heard the scream and rushed over to check. Xiangling stopped crying and said that she had a nightmare.

In fact, she only needed to ask these people to find out that Fang Yong didn't come.

But in Xiangling's heart, she instinctively ruled out the option that Fang Yong did not come.

I said I would come over tonight, so how could I not come?
Even if he really can't come because of something, he will definitely send someone to say hello in advance.

Xiangling thought about this and couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night.

The next day, his complexion looked a little worse.

At this time, Baoqin came to play with Xiangling as usual.

At the beginning, Xiangling was Baochai's maid.

Baochai used a little trick to let Fang Yong visit Xiangling first, so that Baochai had an extra helper.

Xiangling is silly and naive. As long as you treat her well, she will trust you a thousand times. Baochai is confident that she can easily control Xiangling.

What Baochai didn't expect was that as time passed, in their daily interactions, Xiangling actually liked to play with Baoqin, who had no particular thoughts.

The two silly girls ran around the yard together all day, playing with this and that. To be honest, sometimes Baochai felt indescribably envious...

After Baoqin came to Xiangling's room, she quickly discovered that something was wrong with Xiangling.

Ask the reason.

Xiangling didn't say anything at first, but later she spoke hesitantly after Baoqin's questioning.

Baoqin heard this and said directly: "I will go find the Marquis right away!"

Xiangling saw this and hurriedly tried to stop him.

How can I go directly to see me?
What if he gets angry after finding out?
What if I blame myself?
Do you think that I...

Xiangling had thousands of reasons in her mind, but Baoqin was a straightforward person. Once she made up her mind about something, she would go straight to Fang Yong regardless of anything else.

The Marquis is not in Xiangling's room, so the most likely possibility is...

Baoqin rushed to Daiyu's room and saw Xiao Xueyan directing several maids to dry the quilts.

Hey, why are you drying the quilt?
Without thinking too much, Baoqin slipped to Xueyan's side, patted her on the shoulder, and then made a face.

Xueyan turned her head and was stunned for a moment when she saw the ghost face, but she quickly recovered.

"Miss Qin, this trick is useless. I scared me once this morning."

Baoqin had no choice but to give up after hearing this.

"Okay, um, Xueyan, I need to talk to the Marquis about something. Do you know where he went?"

(End of this chapter)