Song Yi

Chapter 417 The Teachers of the Two Emperors
At this time, there was a sound of cloud boards in the distance, and Wang Gui said with a smile: "It's just at noon that we are going to leave the office, let's go here in the morning, there are two remaining topics, and we will continue in the afternoon. Hehe, the truth is that our discussion of politics today is the most successful One time, very good, you have to dare to put forward different opinions like this, and fight hard with reason. Good!"

When everyone heard him praise Du Wenhao without naming names, they all understood, with smiles on their faces, and each of them stroked their beards and nodded frequently to express their agreement.

Zai is in charge of discussing politics, there is a special banquet, we have lunch together, and there is still a period of rest at noon, Du Wenhao is not in the habit of taking a nap, and there are too many things that need him to deal with, so there is no time to waste taking a nap now .

Du Wenhao went straight to Ruisi Palace where Zhezong lived.The servant on duty at the gate hurriedly nodded and bowed to welcome him in. The others were about to enter to report, but Du Wenhao stopped him and asked, "Where is the emperor? What are you doing this morning?"

A servant said with a smile, "The emperor has been studying his homework in the morning and preparing for the exam in the afternoon."

"Really, hey, are teachers Zhao Yanruo and Fu Yaoyu here?"

"Here, I came in the morning to help the emperor with his homework."

"Is the topic ready?"

"The two teachers said that a provisional proposition is enough."

"Well, where is the emperor?"

"In the royal study."

Du Wenhao walked to the imperial study room, and before he entered the yard, he heard a child's voice giggling happily, and it was the young Song Zhezong.

Du Wenhao couldn't get in. When he saw the scene in the courtyard, he couldn't laugh or cry. He saw Zhao Yanruo, a straight bachelor of Shumi, kneeling on the ground and crawling around in circles.Song Zhezong was riding on his neck, holding a willow stick in his hand, riding him like a horse, shouting "drive! Drive!", and spanking his ass with the willow stick.

Standing next to them were three children, two boys and one girl, holding their stomachs and giggling, and a little fat man was helping to spank Zhao Yanruo's buttocks with a willow stick.

Next to him, Fu Yaoyu, the censor and reader, stood there blushing, his knees were covered with dust, apparently he had just crawled.

Du Wenhao knew that Song Zhezong was a philanderer before, but he didn't expect that now that he was the emperor, he would use his teacher as a horse to ride.Immediately, an unknown fire rushed straight to the top of his head, but he still held back, after all Song Zhezong is the emperor, so speak politely to him.

Du Wenhao coughed heavily, and walked over with a sullen face.

Seeing him coming in, Zhe Zong said with a smile, "You came just in time. The two of them can't do it. They are too old to run fast. Kneel down and let me ride. They must be faster than them!"

Du Wenhao cupped his hands and said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, I am a human being, not an animal!"

Zhezong was having fun, and waved his little hand: "I know, what will happen if you take a break at noon and play with me for a while. They all played with me."

"Your majesty, the two ministers under your crotch are both dignified scholars who have read poetry and books. The so-called way of serving the country is to uphold the virtuous and virtuous to the people. Is this how the emperor treats the virtuous and virtuous? If the emperor treats his ministers like this, he treats them as human beings Seeing as an animal, with the principles of ethics, the courtiers naturally dare not disobey, but, this will chill the hearts of the courtiers, how can they do their best to assist the emperor in governing the country?"

"It's just for fun, don't need to say that, besides, it's their voluntary,--you two are willing to be my horses, right?"

"Yes! I did it voluntarily." The two teachers replied in dismay.Shame and embarrassment, even the neck is red.

Du Wenhao said: "Even if they are voluntary, the emperor shouldn't be like this! The so-called bridal sedan chair is carried by everyone, and the emperor's throne can only be as stable as Mount Tai if everyone supports it. If you don't treat them as human beings, they are all talented and learned. Who can bear you to treat them like this? They were disheartened, half-hearted, and even made excuses to leave and leave, leaving a bunch of sycophants around you, and the country cannot be maintained by sycophants!"

The smile on Zhezong's face disappeared, and he pouted and said, "General Du, it's not so serious, is it?"

"It's not serious, let's ask the Empress Dowager, if she also thinks it's nothing, then you can play to your heart's content!"

As soon as Zhezong heard about the Empress Dowager, his expression changed immediately, as if Sun Wukong had been chanted a magic spell, and hurriedly jumped off Zhao Yanruo, throwing away the willow stick in his hand: "General Du, please don't tell the Empress Dowager, I will Listen to you, just don't let him ride on a horse in the future."

Du Wenhao still said with a sullen face: "Since the emperor knows that it is wrong to treat the teacher like this, what should he do?"

Zhezong laughed dryly, and bowed to Zhao Yanruo and Fu Yaoyu: "I apologize to the two teachers."

That Zhao Yanruo just got up and was about to dust off his body, when he saw this scene, he hurriedly knelt down on the ground again: "Your Majesty, absolutely must not, I killed the humble minister!" He kowtowed.

Fu Yaoyu on the side also hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, even saying that he didn't dare to do it.

Du Wenhao was dumbfounded. These two old masters valued the courtesy of monarch and minister far more than that of teachers and students, so all his hard work was in vain.With a wry smile, he changed the topic and said: "Your Majesty, I want to ask you about what you have learned before, can you come in and talk?"

"Okay." Zhe Zong stepped into the room, followed by the children. Du Wenhao followed up and took a look. It was a study room, with only a dragon table and a high-back dragon chair, and no desks and podiums. He frowned and said, "Are you here for class?"

Zhe Zong raised his face and said, "No, this is just my study. I go to school in Zishan Hall."

"Then let's go to Zishantang."

"But general, I just had lunch at noon, so I have to rest for an hour as usual."

"The rest is canceled today, because I have to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss government affairs in the afternoon. I want to know about your academic situation first. Good evening, I will report to the Empress Dowager. She is very concerned about your studies."

As soon as the Empress Dowager was mentioned, Zhe Zong withered, bowed his head and said, "All right." He led the way out, followed by a few children.

Du Wenhao glanced at Zhao Yanruo and Fu Yaoyu, and said in a low voice: "My lords, as the emperor's teachers, the three of us should not be too condescending to the emperor. We must teach the emperor to be a wise monarch, not an ignorant tyrant. "

With shame on their faces, the two agreed in a low voice.

They came to Zi Shan Tang.In the big courtyard of the courtyard house, there is a large bright building in the middle, with the plaque on it saying "Zishantang".

There are four tables and chairs at the entrance, on which are the Four Treasures of the Study.There is a long desk in the back, which should be the seat where the husband sits, and there are also pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

Zhezong and the other four children sat down respectively, and Du Wenhao went to the back table, pulled up his robe and sat down.He ordered the servant at the door to move two more chairs for Zhao Yanruo and Fu Yaoyu to sit on.

When Zhao Yanruo and Fu Yaoyu saw that Du Wenhao dared to sit in front of the emperor, even though they already knew that Du Wenhao and his three teachers were exempted from the royal courtesies, sitting like this did not seem to be in line with the general ethics, so they were secretly surprised.Now move the chairs for them to sit, the two of them are not as courageous as Du Wenhao, so they hurriedly waved their hands with awkward smiles and said standing is fine.

Du Wenhao didn't force it, he glanced at Zhezong and the other four children, then put on a straight face with a dignified look, picked up the ruler on the table and clapped it twice in the palm of his hand, and asked loudly: "Let's get to know each other first. My name is Du Wenhao, and my style name is Yunfan. I inherited Emperor Xian and the Empress Dowager Long En. I have been inspecting the three Yamen capitals, and I am also promoted by the Imperial Medical Bureau and an imperial doctor. I am ordered by the Empress Dowager to be in charge of the emperor's academic affairs. These two are The imperial tutors handpicked by the Empress Dowager are all well-educated people, and I must have known them just now. Well, the other three princes and princesses present here, can you tell me their names, and they will be called in the future."

"Let me introduce you." Zhe Zong stood up with a smile and said, pointing to the person next to him who is half a head shorter than himself: "He is my second younger brother Zhao Bi. He has a bad eye. He can't see clearly, so sometimes if you find him If he doesn't say hello to you, it's not that he's arrogant, but that he can't see it. Hehe."

Giggling..., the other three little guys covered their mouths and laughed.

Although Zhao Bi was one or two years younger than Zhe Zong, he weighed more than Zhe Zong. He was a small fat man with several layers of neck. He was so fat that his eyes were narrowed into slits. !"

Song Shenzong gave birth to fourteen sons successively, eight of them died in infancy. Among the remaining sons, Zhezong was the oldest, so he was the elder brother. Second child.

Du Wenhao smiled: "You are welcome, just call me Mr. from now on. So you are the Ninth Prince, I know, you were seriously ill once, and it was my apprentice Imperial Physician Qian Yi who cured you with loess soup .Right?"

"Hmm! It turns out that Imperial Physician Qian is the master's apprentice."

"Yes."

"He's so old. He has a lot of white beards. He's so old and hasn't graduated yet. He must not study hard at ordinary times."

Hahaha, Zhezong and the other three all burst out laughing.

Du Wenhao didn't laugh at all, and when they finished laughing, he said: "Ninth Prince, the villain Qian Yi is your savior, you can just repay your favor if you don't know how to repay it, but you shouldn't make fun of your benefactor, this is at least immoral of."

Zhao Bi quickly suppressed his smile, cupped his hands and said, "I'm sorry, I just said it casually, please forgive me, sir."

Du Wenhao said solemnly: "The poor apprentice Qian Yi is an art investment teacher. Before he asked me to be his teacher, he was already a well-known genius doctor all over the world."

A little princess sitting in the back row stared at Du Wenhao with big black eyes and said, "He is a miracle doctor, why does he still worship you as a teacher? He is so old, and you are so young..."

Du Wenhao smiled: "It should be said that I am so young. If I were to say that I am young, wouldn't I be about the same age as you?"

The little girl giggled and nodded.

Du Wenhao said: "There is a saying: "After I was born, I heard the Tao before me, and I learned from it. My teacher is the Tao, and I don't know the age. Is it born to me?" I heard pass?"

This is a passage from the famous "Shi Shuo" by Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty, and all four of them have learned it.Let's nod together.

Du Wenhao said: "I am the only one in the world who knows my laparotomy, including him. In addition, I have a lot of medical knowledge that he doesn't know, and there are many things he can teach him, so he is not ashamed to ask me as his teacher. gone."

Zhe Zong smiled and said: "Then what is General Du going to teach us? Is it the Four Books and Five Classics? Or poetry and songs? Or the Tao of Qi and Huang?"

The three little kids started giggling secretly again.

Du Wenhao said indifferently: "You will know what I can teach you in a while. Your Majesty, please explain the other two for the humble minister first."

Zhezong slapped his head: "That's right, why did I forget about this..."

"Brother Huang, you can't say 'I' now, you have to say 'Zhen'! Hehehe" said the little girl behind him with a giggle.

Zhezong slapped his forehead again: "Look at my memory..., ah no, look at my memory! Hehe"

The three laughed again.

Zhe Zong waved his hand to tell them not to laugh, and pointed to a little guy behind him who was a head shorter than him and said, "His name is Zhao Ji, he is my third brother."

Du Wenhao was secretly taken aback, Zhao Ji?Song Huizong?This is a very famous emperor in the Northern Song Dynasty and even in the history of China.It is not because of his Wenzhi and martial arts, but because of his romantic stories, wonderful calligraphy of Danqing and thin gold, and his tragic experience of appointing treacherous ministers and being captured.But now, he is only a child of six or seven years old, with an innocent face. How could he have thought that a country would perish in his hands in a few years?

Now that he is actually the teacher of two Northern Song emperors, Du Wenhao felt a little bit tricky.I also feel a heavy responsibility on my shoulders.I don't know if I can pick it up.

Zhao Ji got up, cupped his hands in a childish voice and said, "I've seen you sir."

To save the Northern Song Dynasty, we must first save this future daunty king!

Therefore, Du Wenhao didn't pretend to be the future emperor, but just nodded with a smile, motioned him to sit down, and asked, "Which empress is your mother?"

Zhao Ji's complexion suddenly darkened, his eye circles were also red, and tears fell down.He bowed his head and stopped talking.

The little fat man Zhao Bi put his middle finger in front of his mouth, and said to Du Wenhao: "Sir, you can't ask this! His mother went crazy first, and after her father passed away, she committed suicide by taking poison and was buried in her father's place. This made him cry."

Du Wenhao immediately understood that Zhao Ji's mother turned out to be Chen Meiren who was forced to take poison and died tragically!Du Wenhao really didn't know what to say.Walked over and patted him on the shoulder lightly: "A man won't flick his tears easily! Be strong!"

Zhao Ji raised his small hand to wipe away tears, sniffed, and nodded solemnly.

Zhezong went on to introduce the little girl and said: "She is my imperial sister, Princess Xu, she is still young, she didn't have a real name, she has a nickname Nian Nian, because he likes to cling to people, so she is called Nian Nian, that is, a follower. .Hahaha"

The little girl stared at her almond-shaped eyes: "I'm not clingy, but longing! Hmph!"

All three laughed again.

Du Wenhao sat back on the chair and asked: "Okay, we all know each other, now I will answer the question raised by the emperor just now - what can I teach you. First of all, I want to know what you have learned .Who will answer first?"

Niannian raised her hand first: "I say!"

"Okay. Tell me."

"Together with the emperor's brother, we learned "The Analects of Confucius", "Three Dynasties Precepts", "Shangshu", "Book of Filial Piety", poems and songs, as well as the history of the dynasties and dynasties, as well as various court etiquette and so on."

Du Wenhao knew it in his mind. He glanced at a bag containing calculation chips placed on the rectangular table, and said with a smile: "It seems that you should have learned "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", right?"

"I have learned."

"Will it count?"

"of course!"

"Which of the four of you is the fastest?"

"Brother Emperor!"

Zhezong showed a little pride on his face: "Mr. Shidu, who teaches arithmetic, said that there are few people in the world who can beat my calculation speed. Even sir, I can't beat me!"

"Really?" Du Wenhao said with a smile, "Okay then, please ask Fu Shi to read out a question, and let the five of us do the math to see who can do it the fastest. Is that okay?"

"Okay!" Zhe Zong immediately showed an excited expression on his face. It seemed that he was really confident in his arithmetic speed, and hoped that he could beat this young imperial teacher.Immediately untied the counting bag on the table, and slammed it down on the table: "Fu Shidu, come up with the question quickly! It's difficult, especially difficult, otherwise..., hehe,—you guys Hurry up three!"

The other three were busy, and they all untied their bags and held them in their hands.

Fu Shidu hurriedly agreed, raised his head to think for a moment, and said, "Wei Chen has made up his mind, [-]..."

"Wait!" Zhe Zong waved his hand to stop him, and looked at Du Wenhao: "General Du, quickly take out your calculations, what are you still doing?"

Du Wenhao smiled: "The emperor doesn't need to worry about me. Hehe"

Zhe Zong glared and said: "Okay! Just trust me, and see if you lose later, so don't blame me for not reminding you! ——Fu Shidu, tell me the topic."

"Yes!" Fu Shidu wiped the sweat from his forehead and coughed lightly, "Sixty-four thousand two hundred and seventy six, multiplied by seven thousand three hundred and fifty one, how much is it?"

Hearing the clang clang, the four children began to fiddle with calculations on the table.

Although the abacus was invented at that time, it was far from being popularized (the abacus was only popularized in the Yuan Dynasty). It is easy to make mistakes, so people are still used to calculating with calculation chips.

Counting chip is an arithmetic method before the technology of abacus calculation is mature. It is to use small bamboo sticks in different shapes to represent different numbers. It is quite cumbersome to take it up and down and move one by one, and the calculation speed is quite slow. To calculate a complicated arithmetic problem, you often have to put a table of calculation chips, so there is a saying called "setting up a profit case". , that is to say.

Du Wenhao has been in the Northern Song Dynasty for a year. Back then in Wuweitang, it was common to see Lin Qingdai use calculations to calculate accounts. Knowing that the calculation speed of this thing is very slow, it is estimated that this question needs to be calculated. It is impossible to solve it without a meal. So I took the time to not be in a hurry, stood up, walked up to them with my hands behind my back, and looked carefully one by one, like a teacher invigilating an exam.

Zhe Zong's fingers moved so fast that he didn't even look at the table. When he saw him coming, he looked up at him and said with a smile while blindly counting chips: "General Du, my arithmetic attendant is called a 'magic operator'. If you do the calculations, you will definitely lose to me!"

"Hey," Du Wenhao asked casually, with his hands behind his back, "Your fortune teller teacher, what's your name?"

"It's called Shen Kuo!"

"Ah?" Du Wenhao turned pale with shock: "Shen Kuo? Is Shen Kuo your arithmetic teacher?"

(End of this chapter)