Although this guy Yong Wang is a little out of character on weekdays, he still has a pretty accurate vision when it comes to looking at certain things. These words may even hit the nail on the head. Over the years, Huang Qiong's life in the hands of her mother in this life has been more than simple. It can even be said that it is not an exaggeration to describe it as living like a year.
Think about a person who, starting from the age of three, has been studying and practicing martial arts for 365 days a year, twelve hours a day, except for eating and sleeping. Even later, sleeping soundly every day was a luxury. No matter it is the scorching heat of midsummer or the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, I have to get up in the middle of the night to practice.
Huang Qiong practiced Sanfu in the summer and Sanjiu in the winter without any delay. Whether it's cold winter, scorching heat, or heavy rain and thunder, when it's time to practice, my mother never depends on the weather. When it's time to go out to practice martial arts, even if it's time to use the blade outside, you have to go out as much as you should.
Even on days when you don't leave the palace to practice Qigong, you need to adjust your breath every day when sleeping. The breathing rate was a little off, and I hit him as soon as the ruler hit me. When you adjust, when you stop making mistakes, can you continue to sleep. No matter what time of day you rest the first day, the day of getting up in the morning to read will never change.
It has been fifteen years since he came to this era when he was "three years old" until he left the palace and entered the palace. Sometimes Huang Qiong doesn't even know how he has managed to survive all these years. But even though these fifteen years have been almost unbearable to look back on. But Huang Qiong still believes that the saying that jade cannot be used until it is polished will never be outdated.
It was just what he thought in his heart, but Huang Qiong didn't show it at all in front of King Yong. He just said lightly: "I started studying with my hair tied up when I was three years old. I got up at Mao hour every day to study and could not rest until I was late." There are no schools that do not read, and no one does not learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Although I am an only child, my mother has always been strict in academics."
"If you write a word wrong, you won't be punished with meals, but you still have to copy it more than a hundred times. If you read a word wrong in a book, you will be typed. I started reading and practicing arithmetic when I was three years old, and I finished it that year. Thousand-character essays, large-character drawings in red. At the age of five, he began to read "The Analects of Confucius" and "The Book of Songs", and learned music. At the age of seven, he began to learn Go, splash-ink landscape painting, and read "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Great Learning."
"Anyway, let's put it this way, I had finished reading all the books of various schools of thought before I was ten years old. Counting every subject, I had completed it before I was ten years old. In fact, it was hard at first. Think about a three-year-old child. My wrists haven't grown yet, so I have to sit upright and practice calligraphy. Do you think it's hard or not?"
"Later I thought about it, I didn't even have a playmate in the palace, and I didn't know what to do except study every day. Over time, I got used to it. At that time, I was listening to Xuexuan alone, and I didn't even have a chance to see the outside. I wanted to Whatever you know, you can only look for it in books. Without these books, I don’t even know how to recognize cows and horses.”
Of course, it was impossible for Huang Qiong to tell the truth to King Yong. When he was listening to Xuexuan, his daily life was actually much more miserable than this. Studying is actually not a real burden for Huang Qiong. As for clear calculation, it is not worth mentioning to him. Fortunately, he was also a serious graduate in his previous life, and he had studied mathematics for more than ten years since elementary school.
Go, such an elegant game, feels boring when I first start learning it. After really learning it, I found it very interesting. When I occasionally have free time, playing a game of chess with my mother can be considered a pastime. The real burden is the subsequent daily martial arts training career. That is the real hardship.
After experiencing that assassination, Huang Qiong truly understood the true meaning of Chen Yao's words: "Your mother is teaching you the last thing you need to do to save your life." Without the painstaking teachings of my mother over the past ten years, it would have been very difficult for me to escape that day. Thinking of this, Huang Qiong realized that her mother saw a much longer term than herself.
Even in all these years, she has hardly taken a step out of Ting Xuexuan. But thinking about problems and looking at things are still not comparable to most people. It's just that I can't talk about these things to anyone else, even if the other party is King Yong.
Although Huang Qiong said it in an understatement, King Yong was still speechless when he heard it. As my ninth younger brother, I started studying with my hair tied up at the age of three. I started reading at 9 o'clock every day and could not rest until midnight. There are also hundreds of scholars who have not failed to read, and all have learned music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Not to mention being there, it sounds scary enough.
They all say that their emperor, I, is strict in discipline, but the prince's studies only start at Chen hour and end at You hour. Although those masters were carefully selected by the old man, after all, when faced with this group of ancestors, most people would not be too strict. Besides, except for the prince, these princes are not allowed to go out even a hundred miles around the vassal territory.
Apart from eating and waiting to die every day, the only useful thing is to spread as much as possible for the royal family. No matter how many books you read, even if everyone is full of knowledge, it will be of no use. Anyway, we can't expect them to go out and take the first prize and come back to the royal family to honor their ancestors.
What's more, reading too many books can easily lead to bad thoughts. Therefore, although those masters are all from Hanlin or bachelor's degrees, except for a few who are stubborn, most of them are not too strict in their teaching. As long as you can fool the emperor's assessment, that's basically it.
Besides, these living ancestors are really difficult to manage. You were too strict and went to your mother and concubine to cry and complain. The unlucky one is not you, the master. The emperor is still unwilling to control it too loosely. This scale of severity is indeed difficult to grasp. Most of the masters didn't even dare to curse, not to mention beating them.
The books he read were all selected by the emperor himself. Among the hundreds of schools of thought, Mozi and Xunzi are basically not read. In addition to Confucian classics, there are also books by Han Feizi that the emperor highly respected. As for poems and songs, although he could read them, the emperor was not allowed to teach the book "The Book of Songs".
In addition to reading, among the other six arts, except for riding and shooting because the emperor could not forget the difficulties of his ancestors' entrepreneurship, the rest were basically just left to chance. In fact, even for riding and shooting, the emperor only required the princes to be able to ride horses. As for whether he could shoot arrows, the emperor had no requirements.
The emperor didn't force anything, and the masters who didn't want to make trouble were happy and free. Among the princes of this dynasty, they obviously like eating, drinking and having fun more. Except for the eighth prince Shen, who was somewhat interested in various arts such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting, none of the other princes were keen on it.
Although the requirements are a bit low, in terms of the methods of raising children of the previous emperors of Da Qi, the emperor Yong Wang and Huang Qiong are already very good. Although the Taizu of this dynasty said he was a scholar, he actually did not care about the education of the scholars. Even after Dingding Guanzhong, the education of the princes was half-hearted. If you think of it, find a master to teach you for a few days. If you don't think of it, you can develop freely.
Our ancestors all had this virtue, and we can imagine the emperors of later generations. Except for Taizong, who was quite strict in teaching the disciples, most of the other emperors taught the princes to let themselves go. Although none of the princes in the past dynasties were illiterate, there were still many who could not even read a copy of "The Thousand-Character Classic".
Huang Qiong's emperor, I, was a late student, so it's not entirely true that Emperor Sejong really forgot about him. Emperor Sejong didn't like reading by nature, so he made a mess of his own books. Although it was an ancestral tradition for princes to tie their hair and study at the age of five, Huang Qiong's imperial grandfather did not care at all about the education of his princes.
Although several Hanlin bachelors were selected according to the ancestral system to serve as his prince's masters and established a palace school, the palace school was opened intermittently. If that master resigns or returns home, when the next master can be selected depends on Emperor Sejong's mood, or when he can remember.
The longest blank period lasted five years. In other words, those princes in Beijing did not have a master to teach them for five years. Huang Qiong, the emperor, was at the age when he was studying at the Imperial Academy. There is not even a master to teach in palace studies, so where can he learn what he wants?
However, for the old man to have the talent he has today, he had to be stronger after all. After getting the opportunity to go to school, he started studying hard. No matter how much the other brothers laughed at him, they never put down the books in their hands. Although limited by talent and the ability of the master, he is basically not proficient in various arts such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. But with his handwriting and knowledge, he was definitely the number one among the princes of Sejong.
When I arrived at Huang Qiong's father's place, although the education was much stricter. But these princes are not princes after all, and there will be no throne for them to inherit in the future. Not to mention being a counselor for government affairs, I don’t even have the right to read the official website. Under this situation, the emperor restricted these princes to study more because he wanted them to have good conduct.
No matter how much he did, he was probably just worried that these lawless lords would do something bad and lose his royal dignity. The emperor himself had a wrong starting point. How could those great bachelors who were masters really teach with their heart? Although the courses taught every day did not involve fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, they were mainly to cope with the emperor's assessment.
In addition, when the princes grew up one after another and began to study, the old man had already read through the most stressful period. Most of the princes have not only never suffered the humiliation that the old man suffered, but they have also never tried that kind of precarious life. Except for a few people who are fond of literature, reading is just an extremely boring thing for most of them.
Although under the emperor's strict order, he did not dare to fish for three days and dry the nets for two days, but what the master said in this class, represented by King Yong, basically went in one ear and out the other. For them, it doesn't matter whether they study or not because they don't have to take the imperial examination.
That's why King Yong's jaw almost dropped when he heard about Huang Qiong and Xuexuan's daily reading life these years. This is almost unimaginable among the other princes. If King Yong knew Huang Qiong's entire life over the years, he might not just be shocked.
Huang Qiong just smiled at King Yong's surprise and did not continue to dwell on this topic. For Huang Qiong, that period was indeed difficult, but it was also a strange test. Almost all the minor problems I had in my previous life have been completely eliminated under my mother's training.
The shortcomings that were somewhat weak in his original character were completely corrected under his mother's guidance. In the past fifteen years, I have learned many things from my mother in this life that I never learned in my previous life. This is the most important thing to me. Suffering is often another kind of training. What's more, Huang Qiong didn't think it was a hardship at all.
