My Brother-in-law is the Prince Chapter 341

  Chapter 341 The Reign of Tang Yu

  Zhu Chun turned pale with shock after hearing this.

  Looking carefully at this person, he is actually carrying a family, and seems to have a lot of belongings.

   "Taiping Mansion? Why did you go to Taiping Mansion?" Zhu Chun said.

  The man was sweating profusely in a hurry, and kept shouting to his family members so that they would not go far away, while moving forward desperately.

  Just Zhu Chun asked, but he still politely said: "Because I went to Taiping Mansion, I will have enough to eat. Why, are you a foreigner?"

   But this person seemed a bit suspicious, because Zhu Chun's Mandarin is very standard.

  Zhu Chun said: "Isn't there enough to eat here?"

"Fuck you." The man said angrily, "I can't live here. If I don't leave, my whole family will starve to death here. Do you know... my family was originally a tenant here... In the past two years, the land rent It has risen year after year, and they are recruiting farmers everywhere, beating and scolding us at every turn, and this year we have suffered a drought, and life is really hard to live. It is said that people are far from their hometown, but if they don't go to Taiping Mansion, there is really no way out.”

  The woman on the side was holding a child in her arms, and she was carrying another child on a sackcloth strap, urging the man, "Go, go, this ship is about to sail."

  The man grabbed his wife tightly and squeezed forward desperately.

  The officer stopped him and shouted: "Lu Yin, Lu Yin..."

  The man immediately began to desperately take out things from his body. After a long time, he took out a bunch of money and stuffed it on the official.

  The officials weighed one or two, looked at each other, seemed dissatisfied, and cursed: "You are lucky, I am in a good mood today. Since you have a guide, then... let's go."

  The man immediately thanked him a thousand times: "Thank you so much, the poor man, the poor man will last forever."

  The officer just pouted, and then stopped the people behind him.

  When Zhu Chun and the others arrived, Liu Desheng tugged at Zhu Chun's sleeve and said, "We'll be at Yingtian Mansion soon."

  Zhu Chun said indifferently: "No hurry, let's go and have a look first."

  The officer yelled at Zhu Chun: "Lu Yin, you can't pass without Lu Yin."

  Zhu Chun said: "We are scholars. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, students can..."

   "Our rule here is to ask for a guide. If you say you are a scholar, you go back to school and write a note. If you want to go to Taiping Mansion...you need this guide."

  The guard shook the copper coin in his hand, and it turned out that...the so-called guide to Taiping Mansion was not the guide Zhu Chun imagined.

  Zhu Chun was dumbfounded, and went to the Taiping Mansion, but he still had to stuff money?

  It's nothing more than stuffing money, but there are still so many people flocking to it.

  He was momentarily dumbfounded and speechless.

   But Liu De was afraid of causing trouble, so he quickly took out a piece of silver and handed it to the officer.

The officer looked them up and down with a big belly, and said with a smile: "Yo, it seems that I was blind and didn't know Mount Tai, but I bumped into a nobleman. The boat is about to leave, and I need two sticks of incense for the next trip. Let's go!" Alright, next one."

   Zhu Chun was pushed and pushed onto a passenger ship.

  The passenger ship opened, rippling with ripples, and then went along the current.

  Zhu Chun sat at the stern of the boat and saw all the boarders crowded together, but many of them seemed extremely excited.

  Although they are dressed in rags, they all have bright eyes.

  Zhu Chun only listened to their noisy chatter.

  Some people put all their eggs in one basket and brought their families with them. Since they plan to go to Taiping Mansion, they don't plan to go back.

   There are also some people, because this Guangde Prefecture is not far from Taiping Mansion, so they have relatives in Taiping Mansion and plan to go for refuge.

  There are also people who have been to Taiping Mansion before and came back to pick up their families. These people who have settled down in Taiping Mansion immediately become the envy of people.

Then I heard the man say: "After you go, don't go to any dental shop lightly. The people in the dental shop introduce you to work because they want to deduct your wages. In every county, there are special squares, where the government has a special office. Announcement information, there are also many workshops that will send their own people to recruit workers, everyone must keep this in mind.”

"Also, for the wages of two silver dollars a month, we must listen to whether they include food and lodging. If they don't, don't go there. If they live outside, they need at least three silver dollars. If they have crafts, they can pay four up to a silver dollar."

   "Brother, what do you do for a living in Qixia?"

   "Me?" The man smiled, "I'm a cattle breeder."

   "Cowherd?"

   "It's not a cowherd. It's mainly trading cattle and sheep. Every county and township has to go. Now the business is good."

  Everyone suddenly realized.

  Zhu Chun only listened carefully, but with a calm expression.

   On the other hand, Liu Desheng and the others showed displeasure. They were not used to such a noisy environment, and most of the people in the boat were vulgar, which made them frown.

  The cowherd saw Zhu Chun and the others, and said, "There are still a few scholars here."

  Zhu Chun then said: "Ashamed."

  The cowherd smiled and said: "It's good to be a scholar, and it's good to study. After reading the book, I don't know how many times better than us."

  Liu Desheng smiled. He has a pleasant face, but he is a scholar, even if he has a pleasant face, he can't help but have a condescending air when he speaks. He said: "Study is of course good, and the family governs the country and the world."

  The cowherd shook his head and said: "I mean, after studying, you can work as a bookkeeper, or apply to a school, or even become a civil servant. You have a bright future, the salary is not low, and you are decent."

  After hearing this, Liu Desheng was immediately ashamed and angry. He felt that what the cowherd said insulted him.

  Zhu Chun laughed and said: "The salary is not low, so how much is the salary?"

   "It's not good to say, some can earn tens of taels of silver, a little worse, maybe seven or eight taels, but they are better than us rough guys."

  Zhu Chun said: "Are there many scholars in Taiping Mansion?"

"Of course, if you study, you will have a bright future. Of course, there will be more people who study. Not to mention other things, now that children grow up, their families will urge them to enroll. After entering the school, they can read and judge. Words, can also do arithmetic, and only in the future can I feel proud."

  Zhu Chun showed some surprise, and said, "A lot of children study?"

   "My son is studying in the elementary school." The cowherd proudly said.

  As soon as this remark was made, everyone on the boat showed envy.

  A few children who came with their parents huddled in the corner of the boat, heard the school...and couldn't help but raised their eyes in confusion and curiosity.

  After hearing this, Liu Desheng looked like he didn't believe it. He smiled and said, "Your cowherd's son actually reads?"

"Can this still lie to you?" The cowherd said: "He also learned to recite poems from school... um... what's it called, oh, yes, the king of Yue's sentence smashed the return of Wu... the righteous men returned to their hometowns... all... With all the brocade clothes..."

  As soon as this remark came out, everyone laughed.

  Liu Desheng was so dumbfounded that he couldn't speak.

   Zhu Chun smiled and said, "Your child has been studying for at least a year."

   "Ah, how did you know? You really only studied for one year."

  Zhu Chun only thought it was funny. This sentence is Li Bai's poem, but for ordinary children, even if they can learn poetry, they should learn relatively simple and catchy lines.

   But this song "Yuezhong Langu" by Li Bai is not Li Bai's famous work, nor is it suitable for enlightenment study.

  Although Zhu Chun doesn't know how the so-called primary school arranges the homework, there are some things that experts only need to take a look to know if they are there.

  So he immediately judged that this should be the reading material after the child was enlightened and before he was not familiar with the classics and history.

  Zhu Chun said again: "Why do you send your child to school?"

"This..." the cowherd said awkwardly: "My mother-in-law works in a textile workshop, and I have to run around by myself. The child is not old, and it is worrying to stay at home, not to mention...in the primary school, the government encourages children to study , if you go to school, you can get 30 catties of rice per month. Although this is not much, it is not easy to raise this child to study after paying the tuition fee. But if you study, even if you have to work hard in the future, your income will be more than double that of a coolie like me."

"The edicts in the county and the clerks in the country tell people everywhere that you can get twice the result with half the effort, and you can live a good life after studying. I am a rough man, and I am poorer if I am poor, but I can afford the tuition. , I can barely afford it, and I always hope that the child will be more promising than me in the future, isn't it?"

  Zhu Chun nodded.

  Liu Desheng murmured to Liu Guangjin beside him with disdain on his face: "Tempting people with money, ah... reading is for self-cultivation, what can this teach you if you go to study for money?"

   Liu Guangjin smiled awkwardly, but did not respond.

  Zhu Chun glanced at Liu Desheng.

   Immediately, Zhu Chun said to the cowherd: "Being able to read is a good thing after all."

  The cowherd said: "Sir, I think he is a person who has read a lot of poetry and books. Could it be that he will go to Taiping Mansion to be a teacher this time?"

  When the cowherd mentioned the word "teacher", he looked admiring, as if he was some kind of extraordinary person.

  Zhu Chun smiled slightly: "Yes."

   "Ah." The cowherd hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

  Zhu Chun said: "But I'm not very knowledgeable, I'm afraid I can't teach much."

   "Where is this talking!" The cowherd said, "In our Taiping Mansion..."

  When he talked about the Taiping Mansion, his voice was higher, and he looked very proud: "I heard that schools everywhere are recruiting teachers, and the government gives money and food..."

   "Government provide money and food?" Zhu Chun was even more surprised.

   "You don't know?" Niu Guan said: "Thousands of teachers have been recruited throughout the Taiping Mansion. It took a lot of effort to recruit them. In Taiping Mansion, teachers are also treated like civil servants."

   "Cultural officials..." Zhu Chun laughed dumbly.

  He couldn't understand that the scholars who taught were treated like lowly officials.

  That's it...but it still seems like something big.

  It's a pity... At this time the boat arrived at a ferry, obviously this is the boundary of Taiping Mansion.

  The boatman yelled: "The Xu family has arrived."

  Several people disembarked sporadically, and several people boarded.

  The passengers on board are mostly commoners, but the clothes on them are obviously cleaner and tidy than many people on board, and although the clothes are not newly cut, they are not worn out.

   And the ones from Guangde, each of them looks ragged, but they seem to have two appearances.

  The most important thing is that these people are full of color, even though their skin seems to be tanned, their mental outlook is very different from that of people from Guangde.

  Zhu Chun fell into deep thought again, and then, the ferry went down the river, Zhu Chun didn't say a word, he looked at the rice fields passing by on both sides of the bank thoughtfully.

  In the Forbidden City.

  At this time, Yi Shiha hurriedly arrived at Wenlou.

   "Your Majesty."

  Zhu Di looked up at him, and said indifferently: "What's the matter?"

  Yi Shiha's face looked a little ugly, and said: "Your Majesty, something happened."

   "What happened?" Zhu Di frowned subconsciously.

   These days, he was in a bad mood, and when he heard that something had happened, he became very angry.

  Taking a deep breath, he said, "What's the matter?"

  Yi Shiha said anxiously: "His Royal Highness, King Shu, is missing."

  Zhu Di jumped up suddenly, and said in surprise: "How is this possible?"

  Yi Shiha wryly smiled and said: "At first, this servant also found it incredible. The last time he was at a post station in Guangde Prefecture, logically speaking, he set off from that post station two days ago. By this time, he should have entered Beijing."

"The person from Guangde Zhouyi sent someone to inform him early, so everyone expected that he would arrive yesterday afternoon or early this morning. Unexpectedly... there was no one there, so...Dongchang went to inquire and found out ...After arriving at a ferry, he did not know what boat he was on, and left...so far...he has not been whereabouts."

  Zhu Di's body trembled, his eyes opened slightly and he said, "You are trying to trap me in injustice."

  Zhu Di was furious.

   This is actually understandable, not to mention that Zhu Chun is Zhu Di's brother, and he is known as a virtuous king. Now the ministers say that he is a virtuous king that has never existed in all dynasties. As a result, at this time, Zhu Chun disappeared.

   This is inevitably tantamount to telling the world that it must be His Majesty who can't even get along with his own nephew, who is jealous of Shu King Zhu Chun, so...

  Yi Shiha was taken aback, hurriedly bowed down and said: "Slave...Slave has already tried to find it."

  Zhu Di paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, looking extremely irritable, and asked, "Does anyone else know the news?"

   "I heard that there are... there are..."

  Zhu Di shouted impatiently: "You tell me the fuck!"

Yi Shiha was so frightened that his forehead was covered with cold sweat, he hurriedly said: "Yes, yes... I heard that when His Royal Highness the King of Shu arrived at Guangdezhou Station, the Ministry of Rites got the news, so many scholars asked, In the afternoon of yesterday and the early morning of this day, we were greeted outside the city, only waiting for His Royal Highness the King of Shu to come to the capital...but we have been waiting for a long time..."

   Before Yi Shiha could continue, Zhu Di sneered and said, "How could such a big living person just get lost? How many guards did he bring?"

   "This... I heard that there are not many, and all the retinues add up, and there are not ten of them." Yi Shiha hesitated and said: "His Royal Highness King of Shu..."

Zhu Di sighed: "My brother...it's like this. At the beginning, Emperor Taizu Gao ordered us brothers to go to Fengyang to plow the fields to compensate the farmers for their hardships. I and other brothers didn't bother to care about it. Lazy, only he enjoys himself, and actually puts on common clothes to plant rice seedlings..."

Zhu Di continued to walk a few steps with his hands behind his back, and then said: "Think of a way, let me search immediately. This matter...we still have to try our best to block the news first, even though this news, I'm afraid it can't be blocked. Send a secret order to Zhang Anshi, Jin Yiwei Over there, you can't be idle, that kid Zhu Chun must have nothing to do, if he has something to do, he will have nothing to do with you in the future."

  Yi Shiha listened, his face was pale, and he hurriedly kowtowed: "Your maid obeys the order."

  Zhang Anshi's Right Governor's Mansion was originally a mansion of Jinyiwei.

  The owner's house here was abandoned due to ransacking, so Jinyiwei repaired it and wanted to use it for office.

  But now, the signboard of You Dudu's Mansion is hung here, and Zhang Anshi officially moved his Dudu's Mansion here.

  It lives next to Nanzhen Fusi and Fuya, and because of the requisition of Jinyiwei, several towers were built to monitor the nearby streets in order to prevent it from happening.

   But now, Zhang Anshi has come in handy.

   What he is doing now is not detailed, just focus on some main tasks.

  Of course, he is not idle. After all, he is in charge of Jinyiwei and Nuoda's Right Governor's Mansion, and many things are ultimately up to him to decide.

   Right now he is getting angry about the teachers in the various schools.

  This is actually understandable, the school is expanding too fast. After the government has a large amount of money and food, plus many common people, they all have the willingness to let their children study. The entire government under the administration of the Youdu Dudu's government is in short supply of teachers.

  Schools are easy to build, but teachers are not easy to recruit.

After all, many educated people have many career choices, whether it is to work in a workshop as a steward, or as an accountant, or as a civil servant, to do business, or even write a little song for a theater troupe, or even a group of craftsmen Those who study, their salaries and prospects may not be worse than those of teachers.

  Scholars are limited. Those who are truly famous don't need to make a living, but those who come from poor families... are all treasures now.

  The students all looked embarrassed, hoping to give the teacher a little more salary.

   "It's not that I'm stingy, but because even if the salary is increased by one level, those who don't want to come still don't want to come." Zhang Anshi said: "How many people are lacking now?"

  Wang Xuezheng stepped forward: "Taiping Mansion has the most shortage of staff, and there are still more than 700 people short."

   "So many?" Zhang Anshi said with emotion: "How about recruiting?"

   "Here. It's at the Confucian Pavilion, recruiting everywhere... It's just... there are people who come to ask, but they are really willing to join... And there are... there are many people... who are not qualified... Although they are willing, they are also..."

  Zhang Anshi said angrily: "I don't believe it, and I can't recruit people. Yes, how about this..."

  Zhang Anshi turned his head and said to the scribe beside him, "What are your plans for this afternoon?"

   "Afternoon?" The clerk took out a notebook and said, "Commander, there are a group of sea merchants visiting in the afternoon, and... that is... the Tongzhi of Fengyang Mansion is coming to visit..."

  Zhang An Shidao: "It's canceled and changed to tomorrow. Come with me in the afternoon to Qunru Pavilion."

"This…"

  Zhang Anshidao: "I went there in person to show that we attach importance to the teachers. At least we have to do it like this, maybe... it can make people change."

  Wang Xuezheng said: "This is also a good way. The governor attaches great importance to culture and education, which is really admirable."

  Zhang Anshi said: "Speak less, you only dare to say this in front of me. If you have the ability, go to Yingtianfu Street and say it. Believe it or not, someone will beat you to death."

  Wang Xuezheng: "..."

   After lunch, Zhang Anshi immediately led his people to Qunru Pavilion after eating and drinking enough.

   Qunru Pavilion here... there are quite a lot of people.

  As soon as Zhang Anshi arrived, many people came to see him.

  Zhang Anshi's retinue is mostly plainclothes, so as not to make too much fanfare and appear to be afraid of death.

   But inside, he was wearing a layer of armor.

  Zhang Anshi greeted everyone immediately, and entered the Qunru Pavilion, where there were long ago civil servants who had studied Zhengya and were busy here.

   After a few teachings and instructions, Zhang Anshi quickly surrounded him, and Zhang Anshi said, "How many people have you recruited this afternoon?"

  A lecturer said: "Captain, there are thirteen people."

  Zhang Anshi frowned and said: "Too few, I see that there are quite a few applicants outside."

  The instructor smiled wryly and said: "As a teacher, you must have some foundation. There are many applicants who can barely read and write, and they are not proficient in arithmetic. It is really difficult to be qualified."

  Zhang Anshi nodded and nodded: "How many people will apply next?"

  A mentor looked at the list: "There are probably more than seventy."

  Zhang Anshi said: "Call in, I'll check it myself."

  The accompanying officials did not dare to be negligent, but Zhang Anshi immediately sat down and picked up the teacup that was poured by someone.

   At this time, he was calm and thoughtful.

   "Fengyang student...Liu Chun."

   Someone is singing here.

   Immediately, a person stepped in, this person didn't feel timid at all, came in loudly, raised his head and glanced at the place.

   Then he smiled at Zhang Anshi and said, "Student Liu Chun, I have met..."

  Zhang Anshi said: "I am Zhang Anshi."

   Liu Chun nodded, still smiling, looked down and saw a small stool, and sat down straight away. After straightening his clothes, he looked up at Zhang Anshi.

  Zhang Anshi said: "How old is it?"

   "Aged thirty-seven."

  Zhang Anshi glanced at him in surprise, this man... is not thirty-seven years old, he looks about thirty years old.

  This kind of situation is relatively rare, because...the ancients are all old...

   Many people start to have a lot of gray hair after they are over forty.

  This person looks particularly young.

   "Why do you want to teach?"

   "Just wanted to come and see..."

  Zhang Anshi's face immediately pulled down, and then he gave Xuezheng and Discipline a hard look.

  These people shivered, lowered their heads, and looked at their toes.

   Isn't this a joke? Daredevil is here to join in the fun, such a person...is also included in the interview?

  Zhang Anshi said with a cold face: "There is nothing exciting here, next one."

The man named Liu Chun smiled and said: "Don't worry, the students just never heard that there is a shortage of so many teachers in this small town, so they are curious. And the students... happen to be After reading some books, I thought, maybe the student and the teacher have some fate, so I came to apply."

  Zhang Anshi said: "Do you have any fame?"

"Have…"

  Zhang Anshi said: "What fame?"

   "I almost got selected as a scholar."

  Zhang Anshi: "..."

  Zhang Anshi's face turned cold, and he said: "That means there is no fame. If you don't have a reputation, you still pretend to be like this. It seems that your conduct is not good. Next."

   "Wait a minute."

  Chapter 2, delivered before 2:00 a.m., will be earlier than yesterday, and strive for chapter 2 tomorrow to be delivered earlier.

  (end of this chapter)

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