Chapter 115: Visit to Fangcaodi - Sense of Loss

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Although Huang Ping performed actively, the overall strength of the red team was slightly inferior, and the game ended with the victory of the blue team. [Read the latest chapter] The final whistle blew, and Dong Yizhi came down from the playground to say hello to everyone in the visiting group.

Liu Dalin looked at this Australian gentleman with curiosity: a dark face, a strong body, and a referee who had just played a game, running back and forth with the students - there were fine beads of sweat on his forehead after exercise.

"Mr. Dong, you really have the ability to turn stone into gold." Liu Dalin said implicitly, "I heard that most of these children are poor orphans collected from the mainland? I didn't expect that once you trained them, they would all be radiant, unlike those from poor and humble families. He’s a son.”

"Where," Dong Yizhi said modestly, "Didn't Master Confucius also say: There is no distinction between education and distinction. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang also said: Princes and generals should rather have their own kind? Although the world's rich and poor cannot be equal, as long as everyone has Shu Nian, Children from poor households can also really make a difference."

The imperial examination system in ancient China was indeed a relatively fair system. At least the system guaranteed that children from poor families could change their destiny by studying for the imperial examination. However, in reality, very few people can achieve this change. Studying in ancient society requires a considerable economic foundation. Unless there is a chance, the real people at the bottom will not have the spare capacity to provide education for their children.

Liu Dalin himself knew this very well - he himself came from an official family. Whether it was the same year when he took the provincial examination or the later Jinshi examination, there were very few people who really came from poor families. Even if it's not enough, the family still has a few acres of thin farmland or there is financial support from the clan.

Australians run schools, although they do not teach the teachings of saints. But it can be called a true "education without discrimination". Although he is not a businessman and leaves his family to take care of his daily business, he still understands such a big school. The amount of money that thousands of school children need to spend on food every day is a huge amount. Not to mention the various expenses of building a house and building the school itself. Liu Dalin estimated that even Lingao County in the past could not support this school even with the county's tax revenue.

"Haha, the ability to cultivate people over a hundred years is something that students will never be able to achieve," Liu Dalin said from the bottom of his heart. "It's just that students never understand that nobles have spread all over the world. As long as they are willing, they can collect all the wealth in the world." By the way, why do you still have to do this hard work? Don’t you think life is short? The talents you have spent so much money to cultivate will not be useful until ten or twenty years later." He said this , a pair of small but sharp eyes stared at Dong Yizhi closely.

Dong Yizhi was speechless for a moment, thinking how could I tell you the dark secrets of building a harem and an ethnographic museum and so on. I can’t explain it to you either. Liu Dalin looked at Dong Yuanlao and his face turned a little red. Seemingly thinking hard, Elder Dong finally came up with something and immediately raised his head and said:

"We run the school not for wealth, nor for power, nor for fame, but for the hope that one day: in the whole world, there is no one who is not the land of China. On the shore of the land, is there anyone who is the minister of China!"

All the surrounding scholars heard it. Everyone was stunned. These words are extremely arrogant, far beyond the level of "rebellion and becoming emperor".

Huang Bingkun thought to himself: "This is so outrageous!"

He looked at Liu Dalin's expression - but saw that his expression was very complicated. I cursed secretly in my heart: "You are worthy of mentioning Huaxia!" These people are fanatics who want to convert barbarians into summer. They still use the word Huaxia on their lips as a sign all the time. They are really shameless to the extreme.

Huang Bingkun originally wanted to take this opportunity to have a good talk with Huang Ping - especially when Yan Zhen pointed out that hugging female students was "immoral" and that girls who could hug him must also be "watery", and asked him to reflect on himself. Don't fall any further. Unexpectedly, the former boy saw that he had no sense of dignity and had no room for him to start teaching him. He actually said carelessly that he was going to take a shower immediately and left directly because he had self-study in the evening.

"There is a physics test tomorrow, and I have to go back and study hard." Huang Ping said, "The teacher said that if you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you can dominate the world. I have to work hard."

This made Huang Bingkun feel very disappointed: Huang Ping had been serving him since he was a child, and their relationship was far beyond the ordinary master-servant relationship. Now that he has come here to study, he seems to be very different from himself. What is so special about this Australian’s knowledge that it can confuse people so much?

I don’t know if I made the right move by sending Huang Ping to study? Should we just call Huang Ping back and stop studying? If this were the case, the channel he had finally arranged to get to know the Australians would be cut off. If he did not call him back, Huang Pingfei would become a "fake Kun" day by day.

With such a conflicting mood until dinner time, Dong Yizhi saw him in a daze in the cafeteria, so he asked him if he had a bad appetite.

Huang Bingkun shook his head and suddenly asked: "Just now I heard the students from Fangcaodi say that if you learn Shuli dialect well, you will dominate the world. Is this true?"

Dong Yi was stunned for a long time before he finally understood, and laughed: "I want to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well and travel all over the world."

Huang Bingkun said: "Is this tree really so powerful?"

Dong Yizhi said: "Of course, building ships, building buildings, opening roads and building bridges, marching and fighting, there is no need for mathematics and physics."

Huang Bingkun thought that what he said in the tree must be an Australian secret. He heard Elder Dong continue to say: "But if you are good at mathematics, physics and chemistry, you must also have a correct outlook on life." Seeing Huang Bingkun's confused face, Elder Dong explained: " The three outlooks are world outlook, outlook on life, and values." Then I saw Huang Bingkun's relieved expression.

In fact, what Huang Bingkun is thinking is that it seems that Kun Thief's secret technique is Taoism. The Ten Commandments Temple, Renguan Temple and Jiazhi Temple must be three extremely important Taoist temples in Australia. If you have the opportunity in the future, you must visit them to get a closer look. .

Huang Bingkun asked again: "I also heard that students have to practice Shuli Mantras every day, not only reciting them but also copying them repeatedly.

Elder Dong smiled and said: "That's not a spell, it's a formula - the formula is universal and can solve various problems in the world, which is very important."

Huang Bingkun was overjoyed when he heard this. This formula talisman must be the key to Kun Thieqi's secret spell casting, so he humbly asked for advice: "I wonder if the elder can draw... Oh, can you give me some formulas?"

Dong Yi said frankly, why do you want this thing? After visiting it, you really enlightened, so he took out his notebook and wrote a few mathematical and physical formulas to him. Huang Bingkun took the paper, turned it over and over, and asked : "I wonder which one is the most powerful?"

Dong Yizhi pointed to one and said, "This, this is the most important."

As if Huang Bingkun had found a treasure, he carefully hid the formula paper and prepared to take it home to examine it carefully.

That night Huang Bingkun sat at the desk in the dormitory and practiced the Australian spells hard. After copying more than a dozen pages, he still felt something was wrong. He clapped his head and sighed: "Wow, I completely forgot that Kun Thief needs an Australian pen to draw spells and cast spells from the left. Write horizontally to the right.”

So he immediately went to the school canteen to buy Australian charcoal pens, and also learned "Australian calligraphy" to copy formulas. However, his habit of writing from right to left and top to bottom made him uncomfortable and he couldn't help but write while writing. He scolded: "The Analects of Confucius says, 'Being sent to the left.' This thief has short hair and turns into a barbarian after staying overseas for a long time."

But although the spell was well written, he still couldn't figure out how to say it in Shu Li's words - he had to wait until Huang Ping came back to ask again.

It was the last day of the inspection group's itinerary - although they only stayed for two nights, most of the members of the inspection group were already ready to return home.

In this Australian school, they are left with the impression that "they are uneducated people." Even the lowest junior primary school students learn many things that they do not understand at all, which makes the scholars feel very Injuried. Worry about the future has left them no time to think about any critical spirit.

Chinese scholars have always regarded excellence in learning as their ultimate goal in life. When they discovered that their "rich knowledge" was not what Australia wanted to be a "scholar", they all panicked.

Although what they have learned meets the Ming Dynasty's standards for selecting scholars, these scholars still know very well that as far as the literary style of this county is concerned, in another hundred years we don't know whether there will be a single Jinshi - how many people can be elected? It's enough to be included in the county annals.

Now that there is an upstart like the Australians - whether they want to seize the world and seize the Dragon Court, or separatize Hainan, it is nothing more than a new opportunity for unsuccessful scholars. If they can catch up early, they will have a better future in the new dynasty. It's not a problem to have a part-time job. There are quite a few people in the visiting group who want to climb to the top. This time I came to Fangcaodi to get a glimpse of the Australian selection criteria.

The knowledge of Australians now is completely different from theirs. What they have advantages over these students is that they know more words and can compose poems and so on.

As a result, these few people kept building relationships with Mr. Dong Yuan who often came out to entertain them, hoping to see if they could have the opportunity to learn "Macao Studies".

Mr. Dong expressed his gratitude for this with a smile, but he said that Fangcaodi currently only teaches children, and does not offer classes for adults. Currently, the only classes offered for adults are literacy teacher training classes. If you are interested, you can sign up to be a literacy teacher in the purification camp, and then you will have the opportunity to participate in specialized training.

As soon as these words were said, everyone's water receded several feet - it's not that there are no scholars who go to the purification camps to work as literacy teachers, they are just children who can't go to school, subordinate staff who have no jobs, and the strongest ones. They are poor scholars who are down and out, but they are also respectable scholars. It is really embarrassing to be in the company of this group of people. (To be continued...)