(5)
Within a few days after the name of Yuyi Academy was confirmed, Zhao Kuo relied on the deep friendship between the Zhao family and the government to ask for the privilege of broadcasting announcements in the town from General Yao. He took this opportunity to The not-yet-completed school is creating publicity and recruiting students.
Everyone heard that there was an academy in the town accepting disciples, and saw from notices posted everywhere along the street that Fan Liwu, a great scholar who worked for the Zhao family, would also teach students at Yuyi Academy, and as expected, everyone came in droves.
On the day the notice was posted, no fewer than fifty people came to the academy to express their intention to become students. Although they could see neither the eldest son of the Zhao family nor the young lady of the Zhao family in the academy at this time. There were only one man and two women in charge of internal and external affairs, and there were more than a dozen craftsmen working hard every day. They could not help but feel that there was a fraud here. , but this does not cost a single gold or silver, just write down your name and wait for the entrance exam. This undoubtedly greatly lowered their alertness.
However, among the dozens of disciples recruited at the beginning, the vast majority were originally from high-ranking families and young aristocratic people, and they were already talented and learned before they entered the school. They all came here for the fame of the great Confucian Fan Liwu. At that time, everyone wanted to climb to the top and try their best to curry favor with high-ranking and powerful people for their future career. At the same time, they also wanted to learn more about managing the world from the great Confucian. able.
This situation obviously deviated from the original intention of the Zhao brothers and sisters, as well as Ajuan, Murong Yan, and Bai Feng to establish Yuyi Academy. Therefore, in order to attract more illiterate children and teenagers to come to study, Bai Feng first thought of the "Money Rat" token on his body - a gold-plated copper coin.
Due to his close relationship with the old rat Hunchback of the Money Rats, Bai Feng was able to pass through the alleys of Yuyi Town unimpeded, making it even easier to contact the illiterate.
The young swordsman immediately asked Zhao Kuo for instructions to temporarily leave the academy for a day and asked him to send another capable person to handle the affairs of the academy. Zhao Kuo agreed simply because he really had no time to go to the academy in person every day. He had already planned in his heart to ask his younger sister to take over this task and let her manage the affairs of the academy on his behalf in name, but in fact she was still responsible for it. Zhao Kuo was secretly controlling it.
The younger sister works as a part-time job, but she doesn't feel bored because she thinks from the bottom of her heart: Instead of staying at home and doing nothing, it's better to go out and do something for Yuyi Town! So even though her current contribution is very small, she lives a very fulfilling life every day. If she had been in the past, she would never have dared to expect such a happy life.
Bai Feng walked through the streets and alleys and walked on the tavern street for a whole day. She just wanted to know why so few poor people went to Yuyi Academy to study?
He visited and inquired almost from house to house, and learned that these poor people did not want to be literate, but they did not believe in the government or the Zhao family's genuine kindness to help them. They just said that they had suffered too much in the past. Oppression by the powerful.
This is an extremely sad self-protective mentality, and Bai Feng feels quite emotional about it.
In the end, when there was nothing he could do, the young swordsman shyly approached Shutuozi's door and asked for help.
Rat Hunchback is a living "local emperor" in Tavern Street. Anyone who has stayed in the "mouse hole" will know nothing about him.
As for the mouse hole, it was a cramped house that the young swordsman saw along the streets. These houses are built with mud walls and rotten wood as doors. They are parasitic under other people's strong wooden and stone walls. They are usually on low ground. As the name suggests, they are mouse holes.
The helpless refugees and poor people who wander around live here.
If there is one person in the world who is willing to help these people, that person would only be the Rat Hunchback. Although what Rat Hunchback did was evil: he deceived these people to work for him, gave them the minimum wages, and let them all live in mouse holes. He also whitewashed himself with righteous words and said: "It's all because of me that you can survive!" "
However, he did take in many beggars and orphans. For this reason, everyone in Tavern Street supported him, spoke for him, and led with his opinions.
Bai Feng came to the dilapidated mansion again, and just poured out her request in front of the rat hunchback. The rat hunchback treated it as a kind word. After thinking for a while, he asked: "You guys, what are you doing?" What are you going to do?"
The young swordsman just smiled and said: "I'm just doing the same thing as my seniors - I'm trying my best to help everyone."
Seeing that Bai Feng was very sincere, Rat Hunchback agreed temporarily, intending to earn a favor, and then announced loudly to his face, saying: "Young men, did you hear what Bai Shaoxia said? As long as you have ambition in your heart and talent in your body, you can enter In Yuyi Academy, not only will you have free food and accommodation, but you will also be rewarded with money! Tell the people around you this good news..."
Bai Feng thanked the rat hunchback and immediately left. As expected, from then on, the front door of Yuyi Academy was bustling with people, and more and more people signed up for admission every day.
At first, when the living room was full of people, Bai Feng and Zhao Xiaomei moved to the courtyard to receive students; later, even the courtyard could not accommodate so many people, so they simply moved the table, files and little mats to the academy hall. We are waiting for guests at the door.
Some of the people who come here want to enter the Guozi Temple for further studies after studying, some want to master the art of war and command thousands of troops, and some want to learn advanced medical skills by hanging a pot to help the world. Such as various, nothing more than literary examination and martial arts examination.
Zhao Xiaomei, who was responsible for registering the roster and recording the names of each registered student, would explain to these people one by one: "The entrance test of the literary test is not difficult. For students who are not literate, we only need you to be able to copy out in one stick of incense." A piece of classic articles is enough; and for students who have studied the scriptures, our Mr. Fan will personally test you."
"The entrance test of the martial arts test is not difficult..." Bai Feng, who was assisting from the side, echoed the same.
These kind words attracted more students for them, and they recruited at least 500 students before the examination began. However, after a few examinations, they were quickly screened down to less than 100 students. Coincidentally, this Taoist temple can only accommodate more than a hundred students.
After the work of recruiting students was over, Zhao Xiaomei and the others were finally able to return to the Taoist temple to rest quietly and wait for the renovation work of the academy to be completed.
They looked at the academy that was about to be completed and all thought in unison: "After the beginning of the next year, our Yuyi Academy will never be so deserted again!"
In fact, this is indeed the case. Since then, the name of Yuyi Academy has spread across Beizhen, attracting countless capable people and strangers, which has added a visible deterrent to Yuyi Town.
