Wu Mingjin ignored it. [Read the full text] After a while, the servant brought two porcelain cups and presented them. Wang Ci refused inconveniently and took it. He only felt it was cold and slightly wet under his tentacles. He opened the lid and saw that the tea was slightly green, with many pearl-like fine bubbles rising up from the bottom of the cup.
A few pieces of crushed ice were floating in the tea cup. Collision with each other, the sound is crisp.
"Here, let's drink to cool down first!" Wu Mingjin said and took a sip first, looking very satisfied.
Wang Ci always adheres to the rules of health and is not sensitive to frozen things. But if your elders give you a gift, you dare not refuse it. He took a small sip.
At first glance, the taste is sweet and sour, and the aftertaste is still refreshing with the fragrance of mint, but it has a tingling feeling, as if many things are exploding in the mouth. It feels very strange.
After swallowing it, my whole body felt cool and comfortable, and I couldn't help but take a second sip.
"This kvass has to be drank in one go. It will lose its flavor once it runs out." Wu Mingjin is like a spokesperson for the fashionable life of Lingao's upper class.
The weather was really hot, so Wang Ci finished the drink quickly. Suddenly I felt that there was gas in my stomach and was about to come up. I quickly covered my face with my sleeves and burped a few times. My body suddenly felt much cooler and more comfortable. It is indeed a good thing to relieve summer heat and quench thirst! It's probably an Australian product again. Wang Ci thought.
Wang Ci calmed down and reported on Xiong Buyou's visit today, and mentioned that the Australians were preparing to repair the county school and Moli Xuan.
"My official believes that this matter is of great importance, and I would like to ask for instructions from the Ming government."
Wu Mingjin originally had a grudge against Wang Ci's decision to hand over the school land to the "Tiandihui" as a tenant, because he heard that this teacher was always outside complaining about poverty and asking for donations, always saying that the county did not have money or rice to give him, etc. - ―Although this is true, it is too disrespectful of the leader's face. Besides, the county really has no money.
Wu Mingjin snorted; "What can I do? Since the school fields are in their hands, do they have the right intention to build the Confucian Temple County School?" As he said this, he took out a cigarette from a turned wooden cigarette case. Come. The waiter beside him quickly brought some paper media and lit it for him.
Wang Ci was greatly embarrassed. His understanding as an official was not high. He didn't expect that what he said when he persuaded for donations in the past had offended the leaders. He thought the county magistrate was blaming him for arrogantly deciding to lease the school land to the Tiandihui, so he quickly stood up. Said: "The lower officials are always confused for a moment..."
"Now the county doesn't have the money. Since they want to repair it, let them repair it." Wu Mingjin has completely ignored what Kun Thief did. Anyway, no matter what, they will do whatever they want to do. No matter how hard you try, it's just a mantis trying to block the car.
Wang Ci didn't get any ideas from Wu Mingjin, but he did see Magistrate Wu's recent "Australian enjoyment". He wanted to go to Master Wang, but the footman said that Master Wu was taking a nap and would not see any guests. I had no choice but to return to the county school in despair.
As soon as I entered Lingxing Gate, I saw the doorman in the concierge busy at the yellow clay stove outside the house, seemingly cooking something. I saw him holding a book in his hand, tearing it apart, and stuffing the pages into the furnace to start a fire. Suddenly, a half-burnt piece of paper flew to Wang Ci's chest. He grabbed it casually and was about to throw it out, when his eyes suddenly opened wide.
This is a page of the Analects of Confucius!
I only cared about burning Kun Zei's books, but I didn't tell my disciples to burn the Analects. Although Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics are not rare, they are not available in Lingao. You have to go to Fucheng to get them! Use it as firewood -
Wang Ci almost fainted out of breath. He was about to rush over and yell at her. Suddenly he was stunned again.
This "Analects of Confucius" is arranged horizontally!
Books are lined up horizontally. Apart from this group of thieves, there is absolutely no other family in the Ming Dynasty!
It turns out that the fifty volumes of books sent by the thief were not the strange "Literacy Textbooks", but "serious books" such as the Four Books and Five Classics! Thinking of this, he yelled with all his strength:
"stop!"
Wang Ci was sitting in the hall, with a rattan box at his feet. Inside were the books that Yu Sheng had snatched back from Zhu Rong's mouth. Menzi had just boiled water to start a fire, and had already burned several books. Menzi was very puzzled by Wang Ci's behavior of first forcing him to burn the books and then rushing over like crazy to stop him from burning. He could only explain it as the weather was too hot and Mr. Wang was probably a little phlegm-obsessed.
Wang Ci didn't care what his disciples were thinking, so he quickly picked up the books one by one.
A box of books, mostly "Thirteen Classics", which are the thirteen classics of Confucianism, including "The Rites of Zhou", "Mencius", "Erya" and so on. This was the basis for the imperial examinations in the past. A person who could read the Thirteen Classics thoroughly was considered an intellectual in ancient times.
There used to be a complete set of the Thirteen Classics in the box, but a few of them had been burned by the disciples. Except for the page opening to the right and the fonts arranged horizontally, this set of Thirteen Classics does not have a single vulgar Chinese character in the whole book, and the printing is extremely poor. Excellent. There is no trace of the lines that separate lines of words in ordinary books, but the words are arranged neatly on the top, bottom, left, and right sides. This effect of black text on white paper is the best Song Dynasty edition that Wang Ci has ever seen in the past. It's not in the book. I don’t know how the Australians do it.
Wang Ci felt that the only thing wrong was that they added sentence readings. Naturally, this would save a lot of time in reading, but he was really worried about the Australians' sentence readings. He didn't know whether these overseas barbarians could understand the saints. What about the semantics of ?
I picked a book at random and read it. I found that there was no mistake in the sentence reading. Wang Cina wondered: Aren't Australians so vulgar?
The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't figure it out. I looked at the other books inside, and there was also a set of commentaries on the Thirteen Classics. In fact, this is Zhou Dongtian’s pirated version of the Zhonghua Book Company’s “Qing Commentary Series on the Thirteen Classics”. Since ancient times, many people have written commentaries on the Thirteen Classics. In the Qing Dynasty, the commentaries on the Thirteen Classics reached a new peak. In particular, the interpretation of the text of the classics and the research on the system of names and objects surpassed those of previous generations. When Zhou Dongtian chose piracy, he also considered: first, he must have high academic achievements, and second, it cannot be the work of the previous generation-this will not show his ability to travel through the group, so the research results of the Qing Dynasty should be regarded as other works. The charge was stolen.
He had naturally read the commentaries on the Thirteen Classics, but this was naturally the first time he had seen the work in front of him. It is natural to think that this commentary was written by Australians. After reading a few pages, he couldn't help but be impressed - the level of this commentary was by no means inferior to the previous commentators he had read since the Han, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. Wang Ci couldn't help but become confused.
If we say that Australians are a bunch of vulgar and ignorant people, their level of classical studies is obviously not low. If they are said to be very knowledgeable, they use vulgar Chinese characters indiscriminately and their writing style is vulgar.
"What a bunch of weirdos." Wang Ciyu felt confused. Could it be that the real great scholars stayed in Australia and did not come out? But how can such a great scholar tolerate such nonsense from this group of people? I don’t know who is the king of Australia.
After flipping through it, he was surprised again - he saw the "Big Dictionary". The so-called big dictionary is actually the "Kangxi Dictionary" proofread by Zhonghua Book Company. Naturally, the name Kangxi no longer exists.
The "Kangxi Dictionary" is based on two Ming Dynasty books, "Hui" and "Zhengzi Tong", with additions and "disputation of doubts and corrections". However, "Zhengzi Tong" had not yet been written into a book at this time - it was only officially published in the last year of Chongzhen. The "Kangxi Dictionary" pirated by the time-travelers was not only a collated version from the Daoguang period, but also included modern collation results. Wang Ci was shocked when he took out such a calligraphy book that was a collection of ancient and modern works. After reading a few pages, I feel more and more that Australians are unfathomable.
These books were not only well edited, but also printed so beautifully that he couldn't put them down. It is a habit for scholars to love books. When Wang Ci came to take office, even though he was thousands of miles away, he asked him to pick a box of books. Seeing this box of books, Wang Ci became greedy. Anyway, this was a gift to him, so it was natural for him to keep it as his own.
Thinking of this, I became much less wary of Xiong Buyou. His thoughts were inevitably the same as Wu Mingjin's - since he couldn't stop him, he might as well just let them do it. Anyway, it was something that was beneficial to Lingao.
With this idea in mind, when Xiong Buyou came back the next day, Wang Ci's attitude became much more cooperative. Wang Ci brought him a second gift - a subsidy.
In the past, when the Travel Group distributed subsidies to the county government, they unfortunately forgot about Wang Ci. First, he did not work in the county government. Furthermore, most modern people did not know that there was such a teaching in the county. official. Fortunately, it is not too late to correct it at this time.
Wang Ci declined as usual, but as Xiong Buyou estimated, officials in this time and space obviously did not regard this kind of income as a sin. Furthermore, considering the predicament of this evangelist, this money was very useful to him.
The next day, the construction team of Lingao Construction Company entered Molixuan. This famous Song Dynasty building was nothing more than a small thatched cottage in the early Ming Dynasty. It was not until 1455 that it was renovated into "Dawaxuan" and became an academy.
The entire Moli Xuan is not large in scale, but it is not simple: stone pillars, glazed tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, it can be seen that a lot of effort was spent on its construction.
Although it has been repaired many times in the past two hundred years, it is still old. After investigation, it was found that the wooden structure was in serious decay. . The walls and roof were also damaged and leaking in many places - they were in a state of decay. There are no people who specialize in ancient architecture among the time-travelers. Fortunately, Lingao Construction Company has recruited many carpenters from this time and space from immigrants, so repairing the house is not a problem.
The wood, bricks, lime, etc. needed to repair Moli Xuan are a piece of cake for the Crossing Group. With sufficient materials, workers in place, and the on-site management of modern engineering construction workers, it took less than five days to complete the disassembly, replacement, and renovation of the entire Moli Xuan. A week later, the main structure of Moli Xuan has been restored to its original appearance, and the painting process has begun. ! ~!
