Chen Yu was usually very carefree in front of acquaintances, but he was somewhat shy in front of strangers. He didn't dare to look at Zhu Yunwen, so he brushed the snow and simply replied: "I hope so."
Zhu Yunwen looked at the snow. It was as thick as his ankles. The snow was quite heavy. Fortunately, it had stopped. Otherwise, there would have been a snow disaster for three days in a row.
At this time, Chen Yu's two little sisters also got up, playing in the snow in the yard, and even fell, making Chen Yu laugh.
After stretching, Zhu Yunwen bent down and grabbed a handful of snow, kneaded it into a soft snow ball, looked at the two naughty little guys and said, "Be careful, I'm going to throw a snowball."
Seeing this, the two little girls grabbed a ball of snow and threw it towards Zhu Yunwen. The soft snowflakes were not thrown far, but instead formed a ball of snow mist. Zhu Yunwen laughed and threw the snowball over. The snowball fell. Beside the girl, there was a burst of laughter, followed by a counterattack.
Chen Yu looked at Zhu Yunwen who was having a snowball fight with his sister and couldn't help but smile. Especially after seeing Zhu Yunwen take a hit, he started to giggle. When Zhu Yunwen saw this, a snowball fell on Chen Yu On his lap, Chen Yu saw this, dropped his broom and joined the snowball fight.
Cui Niang opened the window and looked at the lively courtyard. She said to Chen Mu who got up and complained about the air-conditioning: "The children haven't been so happy for a long time. Look at how happy Chen Yu is smiling. Isn't she attracted to that young man?" , how about we find someone to work as a matchmaker?"
Chen Mu rolled his eyes, this mother-in-law is really crazy: "We can't talk nonsense about this. We don't know who this person is, but we don't dare to ruin our daughter's life."
Cui Niang closed the window and complained: "Then what do you think my daughter should do? She always looks down on her. She even learned a little literary language from her two younger brothers and thought of herself as a rich lady. The matchmaker came to our house last time. , but what Chen Yu said made her mouth turn crooked, and you didn’t even bother to inquire. Others shook their heads when they heard she was our daughter.”
Chen Mu didn't care and walked out of bed: "My daughter is still young. She will only be fifteen after the Chinese New Year. Wait a minute, our family has no shortage of food."
Cui Niang pinched Chen Mu and said, "Am I afraid that my daughter will eat? I am worried that it will be difficult for her to find her husband's family. As a father, you don't have to worry about it. When the time comes, you won't be afraid of being laughed at if you have a eldest daughter at home."
Chen Mu was in pain and did not dare to refute.
What Cui Niang said makes sense. In the past, girls would get married at the age of thirteen or four. Now the court has changed the rules. Girls must be at least sixteen years old. Now that Chen Yu is not young anymore, it is time to prepare. At least make a decision first. Dear.
But Chen Yu has a somewhat stubborn temperament. He doesn't like anything he doesn't like, and won't listen to anything else he says. When pressed, he dares not eat for several days. Coupled with the words of the matchmaker, parents' orders are not so heavy and irresistible among the bitter immigrant people, so Chen Mu had no choice but to tolerate his eldest daughter's "unbridledness" and take it one step at a time.
Zhu Yunwen suffered a loss in one against three. Xia Yuanji and Yang Shiqi also got up. They stood at the door and didn't know how to come over to help. They just watched the show. They couldn't stand it. They threw two snowballs and it ended up being five against one...
Chen Yu's face turned red while playing, as if he remembered something, and ran out of the door. Just when Cui Niang was preparing breakfast and looking outside the door from time to time, Chen Yu came back, followed by a Confucian scholar.
"You are looking for Mr. Zhang, I found him for you."
Chen Yu ran to the yard, and after speaking to Zhu Yunwen, he shyly hid aside.
Only then did Zhu Yunwen realize that Chen Yu had run away for so long to ask for Zhang Bozhi. Because of the snowy roads and slippery roads yesterday and the late weather, Zhu Yunwen did not ask anyone to find Zhang Bozhi.
It's better now to save Tang Buping from making a trip.
Zhang Bozhi entered the yard and was suddenly stunned when he saw Zhu Yunwen with residual snow in his hair.
Zhu Yunwen stepped forward and said with a smile: "We haven't seen you for a few months, Mr. Zhang is still as charming as ever."
Zhang Bozhi raised his hand and rubbed his eyes before he realized what was happening. Just when he was about to salute, Yang Shiqi stepped forward and pulled Zhang Bozhi: "I didn't say goodbye when you left. It's really a pity that we can meet here today. It’s also a good story.”
"Yang..."
Zhang Bozhi was about to shout, but when he saw Yang Shiqi keep winking, he suddenly realized: "Brother Yang, Master, why are you here? I heard the news that you have gone back..."
Yang Shiqi held Zhang Bozhi's hand with a smile on his face.
The Imperial College was compiling social studies and other textbooks, and Yang Shiqi, Zhang Bozhi and others often stayed up late together. In August, the content of the teaching materials was basically finalized, and Yang Shiqi was able to take time off to follow Zhu Yunwen on his northern tour. However, the unfinished teaching material work was still completed by Zhang Bozhi and others.
They worked together many days and nights, and the two had a very deep personal relationship.
Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhang Bozhi who wanted to kneel but couldn't but couldn't, and he couldn't help but laugh and said: "You, a gentleman who has made great contributions to future generations, just stand up straight and talk. It's just right. After dinner, you accompany us to Peking and talk." Let’s talk about social studies and Peking.”
When Chen Mu and Cui Niang saw that Zhang Bozhi actually knew a few people, they couldn't help but relax and smile, and quickly asked their daughter to entertain them.
At the dinner table, Zhu Yunwen looked at Chen Mu and asked, "I heard that your two sons are studying social studies. Why are they not at home? Social studies are also on vacation at this time, right?"
Chen Mu stretched out his hand and scratched his hair, and glanced at Zhang Bozhi sheepishly: "Mr. Zhang said that the two children have a talent for reading, and there was nothing to do during the winter vacation. It was a waste of time, so he stayed in the Social Science Center. I will study my studies and won’t go home until the twelfth lunar month."
Faced with Zhu Yunwen's inquiring gaze, Zhang Bozhi did not feel the slightest bit ashamed of "making up lessons". Instead, he was very calm: "My child has a poor foundation, but he is dedicated to learning and has good understanding. It is also a good thing to stay in social studies for a while to study more." .”
Zhu Yunwen nodded. As long as the children have no objections, the parents have no objections, and the social studies have no objections, then he can't say anything. Studying is not a wrong thing no matter where you put it.
"Can the social studies teaching here keep up?"
Zhu Yunwen asked.
Zhang Bozhi sighed: "It's far from enough. In the past, there were only forty people in a discipline at most, but now there are at least one hundred and fifty-six people in a social studies department, and even more than two hundred and thirty people, and the number of students has increased by three." Five times, but the training only increased by one or two people, how difficult it is."
Yang Shiqi lowered his head and sighed: "You also know the situation in the south. The current shortage of training is not only limited to Beizhili, but everywhere."
Zhu Yunwen was quite helpless. Discipline is a teacher. This thing is not a tool. It can be made in a hurry. Knowledge requires years of accumulation and precipitation. No matter how talented Zhu Yunwen is, he cannot become a teacher. Otherwise, he will not select supervisors to serve as teachers. .
Zhang Bozhi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said slowly: "Actually, we can still find some people to act as teachers."
Zhu Yunwen's eyes lit up and he asked quickly: "Where is the gentleman?"
Zhang Bozhi looked at Xia Yuanji and Yang Shiqi, and finally said seriously to Zhu Yunwen: "Officials who have become official and their families."
"this……"
Yang Shiqi was a little embarrassed.
Being an official means retiring. Officials who can retire are either too old to walk and it's time to go home and rest, or they are not needed by the court and retire in advance. The former may not be useful, and the latter may not be useful.
However, the families of officials are indeed a good entry point. Official fathers all hope that their sons can enter the court and continue to be officials. Education is indispensable. However, these sons may be blocked from the court by the imperial examination education, but this does not mean It means that they have no knowledge. Select a group of people and test them. If they are suitable, they can indeed be teachers.
Zhu Yunwen pondered for a moment, and then further diverged his thinking: "Since we need to search among the officials' families, why not just conduct a large-scale recruitment."
"recruitment?"
Zhang Bozhi, Yang Shiqi and others were puzzled.
Chen Mu, Cui Niang and others listened to the conversation of several people as if they were in a fog. Although they didn't understand it clearly, they seemed to be talking about a big deal to recruit their husbands.
Recruitment, solicitation and hiring.
Zhu Yunwen said bluntly: "Put up notices in Fuzhou County, indicating the recruitment salary. As long as those who pass the social studies training assessment can enter the social studies to teach. Find teachers from the private sector, such as in Wanping County, where there are so many immigrants from Shanxi. There must be some gentlemen who are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, right?"
"Yes, yes."
Chen Mu quickly shouted: "Aunt Sun's son Sun Ju is a scholar, but Aunt Sun's legs and feet are not good, and Sun Ju needs to cultivate the fields, so he stayed at home and did not take part in the imperial examination."
Zhu Yunwen smiled and said to Yang Shiqi and Zhang Bozhi: "The problem that has troubled us for so long is so simple to solve. If you think about it carefully, we were still a little stupid back then."
Zhang Bozhi and Yang Shiqi smiled bitterly. Everyone had thought about finding teachers from the private sector, but they focused on private school teachers and homeschool teachers, and did not go further.
Zhu Yunwen has relaxed a lot. The problem of insufficient students has become a shortcoming that constrains the education strategy. Now there is hope that this shortcoming can be solved, which is naturally a good thing.
It’s not that Zhu Yunwen didn’t want to directly develop many practical sciences such as physics and chemistry and directly improve the scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty, but the study of these subjects by a few individuals or a few people has limited significance and value to the Ming Dynasty, and basic education must be fundamentally consolidated.
Science and technology is not the achievement of one person, but is supported by a group of people. Without a large number of new education talents, without a large number of talents who understand mathematics, miscellaneous studies, dialectics, and are good at thinking, the development of science will be vain.
Yes, Zhu Yunwen can directly draw the blueprint of a steam engine, but the problem is that Zhu Yunwen does not understand the smelting technology of strong steel. Steel smelting requires talents, without mathematical thinking, people are illiterate and not good at thinking. The progress of steel smelting technology will It will be extremely slow. If you don’t believe it, if you look at the long history, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming Dynasty, evenly divided, it would be good to see a minor technological innovation every two hundred years.
Simply relying on the experience accumulation of craftsmen and the occasional triggering of technological innovation cannot promote rapid iteration of technology. Only talent is the foundation.
Now Zhu Yunwen is laying the foundation, consolidating the foundation, and expanding the talent pool. Once this group of talents grows up and is dispersed into many fields, Ming Dynasty will be able to transform from pure empirical science to theoretical science and rational science, which is organized, directed, and Move forward systematically.
This is Zhu Yunwen’s educational strategy and long-term layout.
