Chapter 28 Teaching and Learning
The second is Zhu Xiongying’s background.
One of these foundations is Zhu Xiongying’s academic foundation.
What is Zhu Xiongying's personal ability? They are all people who have received the best education in the world. Whether it is Confucianism, He Xi's theory, or various theories of state governance, he has dabbled in it. It can be said to be very broad. Although the research is not too deep.
After all, the emperor does not need to be academic.
Zhu Xiongying's own background gives him enough learning ability. If he wants to, he can learn anything quickly.
Perhaps this ability is an essential ability for future generations of college students. But for students in Yingkou University in this era, it is still a bit too difficult.
The other foundation is the resources Zhu Xiongying can mobilize.
When these students at Yingkou University have questions, it is difficult to find someone to answer them.
It’s not just that they don’t have access to the people who can solve their problems. It is also that knowledge is valuable in this era. It is difficult to get an unqualified answer if you are not a relative or an acquaintance. But for Zhu Xiongying, determination is not a problem.
Zhu Xiongying's identity made him want to find what book? As long as this book is in this world, it is rare to find it. He wanted to ask a question, and as long as the person who could solve the problem was not isolated in the mountains and forests, he would always answer it for him.
In this way, teaching and learning are mutually reinforcing.
Originally, Zhu Xiongying was confused about agriculture. But after some investigation and study, he concluded that in theory, he has become an agronomy expert. There are still some shortcomings in the hands-on aspect. But in theory it is enough.
There are some questions that Zhu Xiongying has never thought of. And it was proposed by the students below. On the contrary, Zhu Xiongying gained a lot.
That’s how Zhu Xiongying looks now.
He became Master Zhu in Yingkou University.
After a while, Zhu Xiongying dismissed all the students.
Only then did Zhu Xiongying raise his eyes and see He Xi. He immediately asked in surprise: "Uncle, why are you here?"
He Xi said: "Come to see you? What do you think of being here?"
How about it? Zhu Xiongying recalled his experience over the past year and sighed, "It's very different."
He Xi looked at the sky and said, "Let's go and have dinner. Let's talk by the way. How can we do it differently?"
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A few candles illuminated the room, but the brightness of the candles was still limited. There was a dim yellow halo in the room.
There were only four simple plates in front of He Xi, two of which were fresh vegetables, one was scrambled eggs, and one was fish. He Xi took a closer look and found that the dried fish should have been cooked again. It's just that this kind of dried fish has an indescribable taste and texture that can't be restored no matter what cooking method is used.
He Xi was a little surprised and said, "Is this what you eat on weekdays?"
Zhu Xiongying said: "No. I usually only have one dish, but today I have these because my uncle came to my place."
He Xi said: "You were not like this before."
In He Xi's impression, it is certainly wrong to say that Zhu Xiongying was extravagant and wasteful. But he is the grandson of the emperor after all, and he has been accustomed to fine clothes and fine food since he was a child. Even under Zhu Yuanzhang's education, food consumption cannot be too extravagant and wasteful. But it is much better than ordinary people.
The one in front of me is also very crude in this era.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang's reception standard for officials is still four dishes and one soup.
Zhu Xiongying paused, pondered for a moment, and said, "Didn't my uncle ask me why I could do it differently? I feel that the people are suffering too much."
There are some things that Zhu Xiongying has been holding back in his heart for a long time, and there are few people in Liaodong who can express his feelings. Now that I met He Xi, I told him everything.
Many of these contents are very complex, very detailed, and very real.
He Xi was also moved by it.
Zhu Xiongying heard stories about his parents and ancestors from his students. There are no narrative techniques or twists, just breathtaking reality.
The school is responsible for food and accommodation. Food stamps are issued to students. However, many students send food stamps home and find ways to make money on their own, or even go to the docks to work as laborers to make money to support themselves. He even admitted that he came to school just for these subsidized food stamps.
But he studied the hardest.
It's not that he doesn't know that knowledge can change his destiny, but that he is not responsible for his own destiny. Now the family's fate is different. He left these food stamps. Although he has no worries about food and clothing, his younger siblings will go hungry. And young children are the most vulnerable.
If one is not good, he will die young.
There were several brothers in his family, but he was the only one who survived to adulthood. He didn't want his younger siblings to live to grow up. I would rather die than give these things to my younger siblings. After all, he is dead now and has lived longer than the other brothers.
Some people who had returned from the army in Ana talked about a winter a few years ago. At that time, he was still a family, with a father, mother, and several brothers. But after a heavy snowfall, someone dug him out of the snowdrift and he survived. His entire family was buried forever in snowdrifts.
Others say that during the turbulent times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, his family was originally a wealthy family, but people from all walks of life came to the door and wiped out the whole family. The father was escorted out by close family members.
Some people talk about how to exchange children for food in troubled times.
The tragic situation of rioters and looting. The people fled in panic and took shelter in countless fields. When winter came in Liaodong, countless people were buried in the snow. Only in the spring of the next year did they see countless corpses, each of them retaining their last appearance.
Poor and terrible.
The more Zhu Xiongying talked, the more uncomfortable he felt. Then he put down his chopsticks and said, "Uncle, I have known how difficult people's livelihood is since I was a child, but the teachers never told me that people's livelihood is so difficult. They just told me to cultivate one's morality and follow the right path. If you have benevolence and righteousness, the world will be in great order. It implies that the emperor's grandfather killed too much. I have thought about it before, but now I think about it, do the right way? What is the right way? If you have benevolence and righteousness, what is benevolence and righteousness? Although the emperor's grandfather killed a lot of people, it was more important than the people. Is it miserable?"
Agricultural science is a window.
How much can the fields produce? Enough to feed several people. A family with several members and less than a few acres of land may not be able to maintain household expenses and must find another job. Grain production decreases in disaster years. To what extent can we reduce production, people can still survive, and to what extent can we reduce production, we must sell our sons and daughters. A few years after the disaster, the entire family would die.
Zhu Xiongying had no idea of these situations before.
But now there is.
Zhu Yuanzhang taught Zhu Xiongying to care for the people and understand their difficulties since he was a child. But Zhu Xiongying has never suffered hardship and has no idea how the people at the bottom struggle on the line of life and death. And some of Zhu Yuanzhang's explanations are difficult for the royal children who have never suffered much since childhood to feel all this.
Now here, Zhu Xiongying felt it.
It was precisely because of these circumstances that Zhu Xiongying discovered that the world seemed different from what his teachers told him. How much food can feed how many people is a hard standard. Just because you are a gentleman, you can eat less, or because you are a villain, you can eat more.
He Xi did not answer Zhu Xiongying, but looked at Zhu Xiongying with complicated eyes and said, "Your Highness, you have grown up."
At this moment, He Xi no longer dared to treat Zhu Xiongying as a child.
The children of the royal family are all precocious.
It's just that he has never experienced the real sufferings of the people. In He Xi's view, this kind of premature maturity is more of a kind of frivolity. Floating in the intrigues and politics of the palace. It seems that there are some calculations and intrigues among the world, that is, in the palace.
Other things they don’t know about at all? Never experienced it either. Even less able to understand.
But now Zhu Xiongying is different.
I dare not say that Zhu Xiongying can truly empathize with the people at the bottom. To put it bluntly, although He Xi has set the threshold for Yingkou University very low, the problem is that the real people at the bottom are still not qualified to climb this threshold.
The real lower class people do not have the ability to learn to read.
But no matter what, Zhu Xiongying had a deep impression of the sufferings of the people at the bottom, which prevented Zhu Xiongying from becoming a fatuous king who could only eat meat. In many matters, we will not be teased at will by the bureaucrats below.
This is good.
Some people died, but not completely...
