Three years already? Why so fast?
Unknowingly, several years have passed in a flash from the time when the academy was opened as a joke to now.
"Hey, brother, are you going to the academy or not?" Han Jingyun saw Han Du's dazed expression and didn't speak for a long time. He couldn't wait any longer and quickly grabbed Han Du's arm and shook it a few times.
Han Du came to his senses and gently broke away from the girl's hand, "Since Brother Fang thinks that students can take the imperial examination, let them do it. It doesn't matter whether I go to the academy or not."
"This is the first time for the academy students to participate in the Spring Festival. From now on, whether the reputation of the academy will be high or low, good or bad, will all depend on their performance this time. Why don't you care at all?" Han Jingyun said with a face. With dissatisfaction on his face, he stomped his feet to vent his temper.
Ever since he learned that the academy students were going to attend the Spring Festival, Han Jingyun had been in an extremely excited state. Although she only taught the students mathematics, and although this spring had little to do with what she taught, she was very excited.
Even her upcoming wedding didn't make her so excited. In order to let the academy students go to high school as much as possible, she tried every means. This was the scene where she came to Han Du because she wanted Han Du's help and advice.
"Why doesn't it matter? After all, you were once a child prodigy who passed the imperial examination at a young age. Many people said that you would be able to become a high school scholar next year."
After hearing this, Han Du laughed foolishly, spread his hands, and said: "But in the end, I didn't have the chance to participate in the Spring Festival. Now you ask me, a person who has never even participated in the Spring Festival, to teach those students how to pass the Jinshi. Don't you think it's ridiculous? Besides, Fang Xiaoru is taking care of this matter. He is a master at it, so we don't need to worry about it. "
The matter of becoming a Jinshi was originally determined by fate, 70% by hard work, and the remaining 90% by whether the students listened attentively to Fang Xiaoru's lectures and studied hard in the past few years.
"Isn't this what I'm thinking, multiple people have multiple ideas." Han Jingyun muttered aggrievedly.
Han Du had no patience anymore and waved his hand to signal her to leave quickly and not to disturb the time when he and his son were loving and filial. I finally got close to my son again, but I don’t want to be disturbed and continue to communicate with my son...ah~
Han Du suddenly felt erect and could no longer care about the son in his belly.
This little bastard, he actually bit me...Han Du's face was twisted in pain. This stupid son didn't know what he was dreaming about, so he bit his stomach with a mouthful of saliva.
As soon as An Qing walked to the door, he heard Han Du's scream. He quickly ran over and looked at Han Du and Han Jingyun nervously, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Han Jingyun raised his hands and said to An Qing innocently, "Sister-in-law, it's none of my business."
The son was also awakened by Han Du's violent movements. When he opened his eyes, he saw Han Du's face was distorted, as if he had been frightened, and he immediately started crying.
Han Du was dumbfounded and handed his son to An Qing to comfort him, and said aggrievedly: "This brat bit me."
An Qing hugged the child and kept coaxing him. He looked at Han Du and asked, "Did he bite you?"
Han Du pointed to his stomach.
An Qing rolled his eyes at Han Du with a bit of contempt and said, "Okay, don't look aggrieved. How old is your son? How much strength does he have to bite you? I think he is hungry. I will go find the nanny. Feed him and continue talking."
"Thank you sister-in-law."
Han Jingyun watched An Qing leave with a smile on his face, then turned to look at Han Du's smile.
"Why are you laughing?" Han Du looked at the girl unkindly while rubbing the place bitten by his son.
Now that he is asking for help from his eldest brother, Han Jingyun couldn't continue teasing him and quickly stopped laughing, "Eldest brother doesn't take care of the children anymore, why not go to the academy to help with advice? After all, these students also want to call you Mr. Han. .”
Han Du really couldn't win over the girl, so in order to avoid being entangled by her, he had to agree to come to the academy to visit.
When Han Du was dragged to the academy by his sister, he met Fang Xiaoru teaching students. Han Du was about to step forward. After all, the girl came to him to give him some advice. It would feel bad if he didn't say something.
But before Han Du could cross the threshold, he was stopped by a murderous look.
When Han Jingyun saw this, he quickly ran up and pulled Han Du away.
"What does he mean?" What does Fang Xiaoru mean? She was obviously here to help him, so why did she have to be rejected by him?
Han Jingyun blushed in embarrassment and pushed and pulled Han Du away.
"Please, brother, don't bother him, okay?"
Han Du awkwardly broke away from the girl's hand and complained, "Didn't you ask me to come? Why do you think I'm disturbing him now?"
Han Jingyun had no choice but to sigh and explain: "Fang Xiaoru doesn't like to be disturbed when he is teaching. You have been the deputy judge of the academy for so long, and you don't know?"
"I am the court judge, and my rank is higher than him, why should I know?" Seeing the girl helping Fang Xiaoru to speak like this, Han Du immediately quit, and even walked back a few steps, saying unconvincedly: "No, I, the dignified deputy court judge, was forced to retreat by a look from Fang Xiaoru. If word got out about this, people who didn't know would think he was the court judge.
I have to talk to him about it. "
"Brother~" Han Jingyun stomped his feet angrily and used coquettish tactics on Han Du. He asked his parents to move out before Han Du gave up the idea of asking Fang Xiaoru to argue.
Since he couldn't go to Fang Xiaoru now, Han Du went to Xue Xiang.
Since Xue Xiang came to the academy, his favorite thing is to stay in his study. Especially at this time, the warm sunshine in winter is the most precious. You don't need to guess to know that Xue Xiang must be hiding in the study, lying on a chair and basking in the sun.
When Han Du found Xue Xiang, he was lying by the window, drinking tea leisurely.
"Master, you are basking in the sun and drinking fragrant tea here. A god would never change your life like this." Han Du did not knock on the door, but spoke directly to attract Xue Xiang's attention.
Seeing Han Du and Han Jingyun walk in unceremoniously, Xue Xiang was not annoyed. Instead, he sat up lazily and straightened his back. He pointed at Han Du and said with a smile: "This is your academy. You are useless here now." The matter will no longer go to the Three Treasures Palace."
Then he looked at Han Jingyun behind him, with a kind smile on his face, "Jingyun is quite good. He comes to teach students every day, rain or shine. It's not like someone who spends three days fishing and two days drying nets."
Xue Xiang pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, which made Han Jingyun lower his head and cover his mouth and start laughing. She admired her eldest brother extremely, but she was also dissatisfied with him, that is, Han Du would never stand if he could sit down. As long as there is nothing to do that day, he will definitely sleep until three o'clock in the morning before getting up. Even if his sister-in-law has already gotten up, she can't get him up.
As for the students in the academy, Han Du didn't care even more, and was completely in a state of letting loose. Where can anyone be like her and Fang Xiaoru, who teach every day without fail and work conscientiously?
Han Du smiled awkwardly, coughed, and quickly recovered. Go ahead and scold me, so what if you point your nose in it? As long as you are not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.
This sentence gave Han Du the confidence. He faced Xue Xiang's sarcasm with a calm face and said seriously: "Sir, please don't accuse me unjustly. This is not because I want to be lazy, but this physical chemistry is required. Students can make progress only by doing their own experiments. I just keep an eye on them all day long, and it’s difficult for them to make progress if they don’t do their own experiments. Rather than letting them go and let them study on their own, I only need to teach them the basics. The principles and methods are good.”
Han Du's reason seems very reasonable at first glance, but it can only deceive people who have little understanding and experience of the world.
And Xue Xiang is a mature man. He has been involved in official circles all his life. What kind of eloquent person has he not seen? Without this vision, how could he have easily saved thousands of craftsmen from Lao Zhu's butcher knife? Han Du's words could be hidden from ordinary people, but they could not be hidden from Xue Xiang's eyes.
"Obviously it's your own problem, but you cleverly said that I had wronged you, and even used the student as a shield. You... are so thick-skinned that you are immune to all kinds of poison, right?"
Xue Xiang shook his head and sighed, looking at Han Du helplessly.
Han Du smiled and said nothing, neither admitting nor explaining.
Han Jingyun looked at his elder brother in surprise, and suddenly had a deeper understanding of his thick skin. What the eldest brother said just now made Han Jingyun feel very reasonable, and he was even thinking in his heart, "It seems that the eldest brother is not lazy, but that is how physical chemistry is." 'But Xue Xiang's words directly exposed Han Du's true colors, and Han Du had no shame in having his lie exposed. This made Han Jingyun extremely angry with his eldest brother and glared at Han Du hatefully.
At this moment, Fang Xiaoru Shiran walked in after finishing the lecture. After greeting Xue Xiang, he sat down next to Han Du. I poured myself a cup of tea and took a sip without saying anything. Fang Xiaoru kept talking during the lecture, which made Fang Xiaoru's throat feel like it was about to smoke. A sip of fragrant tea swirled in his mouth and went down his throat, immediately bringing extreme moisture to his throat.
Fang Xiaoru would moan if she felt comfortable.
Han Du turned around and glanced at Fang Xiaoru with a slight smile. Seeing that he ignored him at all, Han Du knew why. Fang Xiaoru had told him more than once that he would teach students on time just like him.
But he said it over and over again, but Han Du never listened once and still went his own way. There was a reason why Fang Xiaoru had a problem with Han Du and didn't want to talk to him.
Fang Xiaoru didn't want to talk to him, but Han Du took the initiative to talk to him to change the subject. There is no other way. If we don't change the topic, the three people in front of us will be dissatisfied with our laziness. If we let them unite to condemn themselves, they will be miserable.
"I heard that Brother Fang is planning to let the students participate in next year's Spring Festival?"
Fang Xiaoru was worthy of being a gentleman. Even though he was dissatisfied with Han Du, when Han Du took the initiative to ask him about it, he still nodded in a pleasant manner and replied: "Yes, I think some students are good enough, so I want them to try it." try."
After that, Fang Xiaoru didn't pay attention, continued to blow and continued to drink tea with his head down.
Han Du thought for a moment and asked, "How many people are there?"
"More than thirty." Fang Xiaoru replied as soon as Han Du finished speaking.
"Only more than thirty...a little." Han Du pondered for a while and sighed.
When Fang Xiaoru heard this, he immediately put the tea cup on the table with force.
The snap made Han Du's heart skip a beat and he looked at Fang Xiaoru in confusion.
I saw Fang Xiaoru's expression with a sneer, and asked bitterly: "What? Brother Han thinks there are few people, is he blaming the younger brother for not teaching the students well? The more than thirty I mentioned, that can be said with confidence Those who have won Jinshi. If Brother Han is still too young, then forgive me for my inability to do anything. Brother Han should hire someone else."
Seeing that Fang Xiaoru was angry, Han Du naturally stopped talking. When he saw that Fang Xiaoru's anger had subsided a little, he tried to ask: "Brother Fang misunderstood, I never meant to doubt Brother Fang's level."
After a pause, he asked hesitantly: "But, are these more than thirty really a lot? Brother Fang, I heard that every spring in the Imperial College, more than a hundred people can pass the Jinshi examination. Even more At that time, it can still reach the early two hundred years."
Fang Xiaoru didn't hide anything, and nodded calmly and said: "Yes, of the 300 Jinshi people in each subject, the Imperial College accounted for almost half, or even more. But doesn't Brother Han know who are the people in the Imperial College? Every year in the Imperial College Recruit 300 people at a time, and after three years, the number will be 900. If 900 people participate in the Spring Festival, only more than 100 people can pass the Jinshi examination.
And who are these nine hundred people? These are the top-notch people selected from thousands of students from all the chief ministers, prefectures, and counties in the world.
What are we recruiting in our academy? Only those who could not get into the Imperial College would choose to come to our academy. Those who can get into the Imperial College disdain the academy at all.
Now, do you still think that we can have more than thirty people who are expected to pass the Jinshi examination? Is that still a small number? "
"Young Master!" Han Du nodded solemnly, and without waiting for Fang Xiaoru to speak, he continued to ask: "Why can't the academy only recruit students that the Imperial Academy doesn't want, but we can't recruit better students?"
Fang Xiaoru waved his sleeves angrily, not wanting to talk to Han Du, and kept immersed in drinking tea.
Fortunately, Han Jingyun spoke up and explained to Han Du: "Brother, there are also people who choose to come to the academy after passing the Imperial College entrance exam, but they choose to come to the academy. However, there are too few such people. Almost all of them choose to come here because they really like mathematics and physics. Academy. Every year, the truly top students are still snatched away by the Imperial College."
The more Han Du listened, the more solemn his expression became. If you want to run a good academy, you can't do it if the students are bad. There are differences between people, and the differences between people are simply greater than the differences between people and dogs.
It is an undisputed fact that smart students are better than stupid ones. If the academy cannot find a way to suppress the Imperial College and allow more top students to study, then it may be difficult to get ahead.
"Can't we do the opposite? Let the students choose the academy first, and then let the Imperial College choose if we don't want it?" Han Du said unconvinced.
After hearing this, Han Jingyun rolled his eyes at his elder brother, not bothering to talk to such a whimsical person like him.
Xue Xiang was very patient and explained to Han Du with a smile: "This student is studying for nothing more than to get a name on the gold medal list. After all, the Imperial College was built by the emperor's decree and was specially designed to cultivate talents for the court. And the Imperial College has always been It has been proven many times that entering the Imperial College is equivalent to having half a foot on the threshold of Jinshi. Although the academy is not bad, the students have never participated in the imperial examination. On one side, there are real examples, but on the other side, they are full of uncertainty. If you were a student, would you choose the Imperial College or the Academy first?"
Is there still a choice? Guangzong Yaozu passed the Jinshi examination. Most people in this world are still laymen. Everyone believes that hearing is false and seeing is true. Most people will choose the Imperial College first.
Such a simple thing, you can know without asking. But Han Du just couldn't see the sun, which made Xue Xiang look at Han Du with a bit of contempt.
Xue Xiang slowly took a sip of tea despite Han Du's confused expression.
Han Du shook his head slowly and said, "No... we absolutely cannot continue like this."
Seeing that Han Du still refused to give up, Xue Xiang felt helpless. As the vice president of the academy, he naturally did not want to continue like this. He also wanted the academy to be more prestigious than the Imperial College. If students could choose the academy first, he would be happy.
However, Xue Xiang's reason told him that this was impossible.
He had no choice but to sigh, glanced at Han Du, and comforted: "There is no way around this. After all, students are also human beings, and they will naturally weigh the pros and cons. If you want them to choose the academy first instead of the Imperial College, then unless the academy takes every exam It will be better if there are more Jinshi in it than in the Imperial College."
Xue Xiang's words made Han Du's mind flash, yes, as long as the academy has more Jinshi in the spring examination than the Imperial College. The students' eyes are sharp. They will naturally know that the level of the academy is higher than that of the Imperial College, and they will naturally choose to come to the academy first.
"Brother Fang, how many people in the academy are eligible to participate in the Spring Festival?" Han Du had a plan in mind and quickly looked at Fang Xiaoru with burning eyes.
Fang Xiaoru looked stunned, not understanding why Han Du asked this, but still subconsciously answered: "There are more than two hundred people, what's wrong?"
"Let them all participate in this Spring Festival." Han Du made a decision with a wave of his hand.
Fang Xiaoru was very puzzled and said doubtfully: "Brother Han, I'm afraid you don't know the students' admission status. It's not that I don't agree with them all taking the Spring Festival, but except for these thirty people, the level of the others is still far behind. If you don't reach the level where you can be admitted as a Jinshi, it will be in vain if you go."
"Don't be afraid of going in vain..." Han Du said subconsciously. Seeing Fang Xiaoru looking at him blankly, Han Du explained meaningfully: "Even if they fail to pass the exam, then let It’s good for them to have one more personal experience. Brother Fang, don’t worry too much, just let them all sign up.”
"This..." Han Du said this, which made Fang Xiaoru hesitate.
Seeing that Han Du was not joking, Fang Xiaoru could only say: "To be honest, Brother Han, the reason why I only let these thirty people attend the Spring Festival is to make the academy more famous. Do you think, our academy only has thirty people?" There are many people participating in the Spring Festival. Although the number is a little small, if they all can go to high school, it will shock the world. In this way, even if the academy is not as good as the Imperial College in the eyes of the world, its reputation will not be bad. Good luck. Maybe it can even compete with the Imperial College. In this way, there will definitely be better students willing to choose to study in the academy next year."
"But if Brother Han lets all the students who can take the Chunwei exam take the exam, if more than 200 people fail the exam, even if there are more than 30 people in high school, it will be a heavy blow to the reputation of the academy. Maybe it will. It makes the world look down on the academy even more. It is self-defeating and the gain outweighs the loss!"
Fang Xiaoru used eight words in the end to criticize Han Du's suggestion.
According to his original idea, since quantity could not match the Imperial Academy, he might as well win with quality. As long as the students who attend Chunwei in the academy can attend all high schools without falling behind, then even if the number is a little smaller, only about thirty, it can still shock people's hearts and make the academy's reputation even greater. This is also the reason why Fang Xiaoru suppressed his students last time and did not let them participate in the Spring Festival. He just wanted those who participated to have full confidence before allowing them to participate in Chunwei.
Because even in the Imperial College, not all students who attend Chunwei will be able to attend high school every time. If the academy can do this, it can surpass the Imperial College in this regard.
People are all lucky. Since entering the Imperial College can't guarantee that you will go to high school, what's the harm in entering an academy? After all, although there are only a few people in Academy High School, there are still over thirty! Why can't I be one of these thirty?
Han Du smiled and nodded, catering to Fang Xiaoru's request, but after Fang Xiaoru finished speaking, Han Du insisted: "Brother Fang, don't have any worries, just do as I said and let all students participate in the Spring Festival."
Seeing Han Du being so stubborn, Fang Xiaoru's anger also rose in her heart. But after all, he is a man who abides by the etiquette of a gentleman. Even so, he reminded Han Du again, "I said, you are self-defeating."
Han Du nodded indifferently and said: "There are more than thirty people, even if all of them pass the exam, the number is too small. Moreover, when the time comes, the Imperial College will definitely think that there are more than two hundred of us who can participate in the Spring Festival, but only three are allowed." More than ten people came to take the exam and talk about it.”
Indeed, according to Fang Xiaoru's idea, it would naturally make the academy famous for a while. But relying on its temporary fame, it is obviously impossible for the academy to survive for a long time. Moreover, this method will make students fear the academy. What students care about most is the gold list. If the academy prevents the student from participating in the spring semester because the academy feels that he is not knowledgeable enough, this will give the students the illusion that the academy is deliberately hindering their high school.
In this case, which student would dare to come to the academy to study? After all, there is no first place in literature. Before taking the imperial examination, doesn’t every student think that he can be the best and be proud of all the scholars in the world?
