"Old sir, did we provoke you when we opened the school? Why did you say something rude as soon as you came?" Liu Xinnan was faintly angry.
The old Confucian pointed at the courses on the blackboard and cursed: "If you open a serious school and promote etiquette and teachings, I will definitely agree, but look at what you teach? Let a woman learn horse riding, archery, singing, dancing and vocal music. ! Dare I ask if you are opening a school or a brothel? "
"Old man, why are you talking?" Lu Jingxiang was angry and immediately retorted: "Seeing that you are an old-skinned person, I didn't want to argue with you, but I didn't expect that you are also a poor and rotten scholar who can't hold back your words!"
"Noisy shrew! You are so presumptuous!" Wang Chun scolded angrily: "Do you know who the person standing in front of you is!"
Lu Jingxiang sneered and said: "I don't care who he is, in my eyes, he is just a stinking and hard thing that was half-buried in the ground, just like the stones in the latrine."
"Extremely rude!"
Wang Chun was furious, clenched his fist and hit Lu Jingxiang hard.
Lu Jingxiang was not afraid, and her jade palm faced Wang Chun with an iron fist.
"Snapped!"
The two sides fought against each other. Wang Chun stayed put, but Lu Jingxiang was knocked back several steps. It was obvious that the strength of the two sides was not equal.
Song Che was a little angry. He scolded and argued, but he actually hit someone? Still beating his own woman.
He stopped in front of Wang Chun and asked coldly: "Do you recognize me?"
Wang Chun subconsciously took two steps back, but his tone was still stiff: "Who in Hangzhou doesn't know Boss Song?"
Song Che pointed at the college and the female relatives behind him and said: "I invested in this girls' school, and these female teachers are my employees. Wouldn't it be too disrespectful for you to attack my employees in front of me? Already?"
Wang Chun knew Song Che's status in Hangzhou, but he was not convinced or said anything. He only turned his eyes to the old Confucian scholar beside him.
The old Confucian scholar walked up to Song Che, gave a symbolic salute, and said: "Boss Song, I am Zeng Hou, the head of Lingyin Academy. There must be a reason why I am so angry today——"
He raised his head and looked down on Song Che: "If a girl goes to school, it is immoral. Doesn't Boss Song know?"
Song Che said: "I don't know."
Zeng Hou sneered: "I don't know, it's not surprising. After all, you are a businessman. You only know how to do business, and you don't know much about the world."
"Old guy, try saying it again!" All the female relatives gathered around him.
Zeng Hou still boasted boldly, "Scholarship, agriculture, industry and commerce are assessed by the state, am I wrong?" He looked down at the female relatives, "What? You still want to attack me, an old man?"
"you--"
"Hey, everyone, please step aside."
Song Che asked the female relatives to leave first. After such a commotion, many people gathered to watch the fun. If there was a big fight, no one would sign up for school.
"Get out of the way! Master Liu is here!"
At this time, the Yamen officials pushed aside the crowd, and a carriage hurriedly came.
Liu Boyong, the governor of Lin'an Prefecture, immediately got off the carriage, walked up to Zeng Hou, and bowed deeply, "Student, pay homage to your teacher."
This call of teacher and this courtesy made Zeng Hou's arrogance grow greatly, "I have lived in the academy for a long time to cultivate my moral character, and I encountered such a ridiculous thing just after I came down from the mountain. As the head of the institution, Master Liu, is he too lax?"
"Uh, student...student..." Liu Boyong glanced at Song Che and said bitterly: "Teacher, you have misunderstood. Boss Song opened a girls' school because he wanted to better teach girls' ideological and moral character. He did not -"
"Ideology and moral character?" Before he could finish his words, Zeng Hou immediately retorted: "If women are educated morally, I would show my approval with both hands, but see for yourself, what do they teach? Horse riding and archery, showing off elegance, arithmetic and counting! Such! Is this something that contemporary women should learn?”
Wang Chun chimed in: "Teacher is right, what are you going to do after learning these things? To sell songs in restaurants? To kill enemies on the battlefield? To settle accounts in shops? If every woman can do this, who will do it in the future? Marry? Who will take care of the husband and raise the children? This is absolutely ridiculous!"
Cao Guojin's tone was much gentler, and he said to Song Che and others: "Cao is not opposed to the establishment of a women's school, but there is one thing that I don't understand - dare I ask, what are we studying for? Isn't it just to get ahead and climb to the top of the temple one day? Is that so? No matter how talented a woman is, she can only work as a palace official, so what kind of future is there for her?"
"It's your men's idea to study and become officials. Why do you want to impose it on us women?" Liu Xinnan reprimanded loudly: "Besides, after we girls succeed in school, why do we need you to tell us what we want to do and what we don't do? ?”
"Oh? May I ask, is this the one who was admitted to the imperial examination in the early years of Tianyuan?" Zeng Hou stared straight at Liu Xinnan with his vigorous old eyes.
Liu Xinnan puffed up her chest: "It's me!"
Zeng Hou smiled coldly: "Do you think you are outstanding? But you are not enough in front of me. I was one of the first batch of number one scholars in the previous dynasty. I once served as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and served as an official for more than 20 years. Except for the emperor, Outside of my disciples, I have the most students. This is just one of them;
Secondly, you disguised yourself as a man, violated the rules, entered the house, and ruined the feng shui. This is really the crime of deceiving the emperor!
Thirdly, I will leave my words here today. If your Xiaoxiang College dares to accept students, I will call on all the scholars from all over the world to jointly write to the capital and ask His Majesty the Emperor to punish you for the grave crime of disturbing the world! "
"Teacher, please calm down! Don't be impulsive! If you submit this joint letter, the student's hat will not be protected!" Liu Boyong hurriedly comforted and begged.
Zeng Hou reprimanded: "Then why don't you stop them quickly! Fortunately, you are also my disciple. Have you forgotten all the knowledge I taught you? You allowed these filthy people to forget their ancestors!"
"Boss Song..." Liu Boyong looked at Song Che eagerly without tears.
Of course Song Che would not agree. This girls' school cost him hundreds of thousands of taels from the inside out, so how could he just shut it down?
"How about this," he suggested: "Since all the bachelors of Lingyin Academy look down on women so much, how about we have a fair and just competition?"
Zeng Hou, Wang Chun, and Cao Guojin looked at each other and laughed.
Wang Chun asked: "Compared to what? We won't accept it compared to embroidery."
Song Che pointed to the courses on the blackboard and said: "Since it is a competition, it naturally cannot be separated from the academic scope. How about we compete in the Six Arts of a Gentleman?"
"What? Did I hear it correctly?" Wang Chun dug his ears and said with great disdain: "You know, what are the six skills of a gentleman? A man with noble moral character and academic success. He is a man, not a woman! Use our men's skills Academically, come and compete with women, if you tell me, you will only make people laugh."
"You will only make people laugh if you lose!" Liu Xinnan raised her chin and said provocatively: "Stop talking nonsense, don't you dare say a word!"
