Chapter 78 The Poor Child
"Sir, I still don't have enough time to study poetry and books. Will learning riding and shooting swordsmanship and practicing aerobics delay your studies?"
"The chief of the mountain said no, but you just need to study and practice martial arts according to the time specified by the academy, so you will not delay your studies!
In addition, the mountain chief also said that he would rather spend twice as much time cultivating a group of capable officials who can fight against the enemy and dismount the horse than cultivating some corrupt scholars who are not diligent in their bodies, do not distinguish between grains, and have no power to tie up a chicken!" said the senior in a deep voice.
The seniors hated the title of corrupt scholar. If it weren't for Zhang Junping's salary being high enough, they would have left long ago.
Because he is the weak scholar who is not diligent in four bodies and has no power to tie a chicken, and the corrupt scholar in Zhang Junping's mouth.
On the contrary, those older scholars all knew how to ride and shoot swordsmanship and had some skills in boxing and kicking. All the great scholars agreed. What can they do with ordinary teachers?
It can also be seen from this that these scholars are degenerating. The swords of scholars in the Han and Tang dynasties were not decorations. They traveled around the world and searched for seclusion in the mountains and forests. If they had no martial arts to defend themselves, they would have been eaten by beasts long ago.
When the Song Dynasty was in the early days, it was fine, and many people were willing to learn the art of riding and shooting swordsmanship. Later, they regarded reading as a way to change their destiny, so they became nerds who turned a blind eye to things outside the window and focused on reading only the books of sages.
Of course, there are also the emperor's contributions. Song Taizu was not in a good position and was afraid that other generals would follow suit. He also gave him a yellow robe. He first had a glass of wine to release his military power. Later, he felt that it was still unsafe, so he began to improve his status as a civil servant and suppress his status as a military general.
This situation only arises with the joint efforts of the emperor and civil servants.
Zhao Heng's poems that encourage learning are a very typical example. If a man fulfills his life's ambition, he will read the Five Classics frequently in front of the window.
If you want to succeed, you don’t need to do anything else. Just read poetry and books diligently. This poem to encourage learning reflects the emperor’s emphasis on literati, but it also makes reading more utilitarian.
Zhang Junping sometimes sighed that he was really worried about playing Da Song well.
I made a decree about raising cattle and killing cattle. Some people questioned that they wanted to eat beef. Some even said that they were making a big deal, and some even directly called themselves cruel and unkind.
Little do they know that the government orders that cannot kill cattle are the culprits that limit the growth of cattle.
Europe feeds on beef, but there are no extinctions of other people's beefs. Instead, there are much more beefs than China.
Having a piece of land and a cow was a well-off family in ancient times, but how many such well-off families can there be?
The farmer has his own land.\u0000\u00000. Such a simple thing became a dream in ancient times, and it also became a slogan for the rebellion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with respondents gathering.
It can be seen that the number of oxen plows has nothing to do with killing or not, but whether the people can afford to raise cattle.
It was a little better when the country was founded in all dynasties, but soon after, a group of newly grown wealthy families and the gentry would continue to carry out land annexation wars.
As Zhang Junping said before, the people are so poor that they can’t even afford to eat grass. Where can I get grass to raise cattle?
If you really want to increase the number of oxen, you have to rely on merchants. Only when merchants see the benefits will they invest a lot in raising cattle.
However, Zhang Junping didn't dare to directly suggest that we should kill the cattle! We encourage merchants to raise cattle and eat meat.
He dared to say this, and he would not be drowned in the court. If he left the palace, he would be blocked by a group of guards who were not afraid of death and scolded him.
However, Zhang Junping was not in a hurry at all. He allowed the killing of Lao Yuankou to be a cow. This was like opening the Pandora treasure box. Zhang Junping believed that those merchants had a way to make the opening bigger and bigger, and eventually turned raising cattle, killing cattle and eating meat into an ordinary industry.
As for those who scolded him, he couldn't scold him. He couldn't hear him anyway. No one dared to come to him for the time being, pointing at his nose and scolding him, so they had to go.
Zhang Junping watched in the academy as the 300 students were assigned to class, dormitories, and distributed clothes, books, pens, ink, paper and ink.
After all this is done, it is time for lunch.
Many students are not used to eating at lunch. They used to eat two meals a day. In order to avoid being hungry at night, they all eat at the beginning of time.
Before the Song Dynasty, two meals a day were not only unaffordable for ordinary people, but also the court's regulations, emperors had four meals a day, nobles had three meals a day, and ordinary people had two meals a day.
This rule was gone in the Song Dynasty, but many people still couldn't afford three meals, and they still had two meals a day.
The academy will naturally not let students study hungry, so they will eat three meals a day.
Although it is a big pot of stew, you can see meat and fish at noon and evening. Beef cannot afford it, pork stewed with cabbage, big white steamed buns, rice, and can still maintain fullness.
This made these poor students feel as if they had entered heaven, and they were moved to tears. They all secretly vowed in their hearts that they must study hard, and they would not be driven out of the academy for nothing else.
The next morning, Zhang Junping came to Qingning Palace. After Zhao Zhen and Zhang Junping greeted each other, they couldn't wait to ask: "Zuo Shuzi, I heard that my father went to your academy yesterday?"
"Yesterday, both the officials and the saints went to the academy. The students were excited and burst into tears when they saw the officials!"
"I also want to go to the academy to see it. Three hundred people are studying together, must it be very interesting, right?
Alas! I have grown up so old that I have never left the palace!
Unfortunately, the eldest lady doesn’t allow me to go out, and the father doesn’t allow me to go out!” Zhao Zhen sighed, his eyes full of longing.
Zhang Junping was speechless for a moment. What a glorious identity of the crown prince of the dynasty. Thinking about the records of Renzong Zhao Zhen in historical books, this is a pitiful person.
I don’t know how many grievances Zhao Zhen suffered in his life, but he said he was extremely glorious, but in fact, what is the difference between it and a cage bird?
Liu E was worried that Zhao Zhen’s identity would be leaked, so she kept staring at Zhao Zhen and refused to let him go out of the palace.
After finally Liu E died, she met Zhang Shixun, Lu Yijian, Wang Sui, Chen Yaozuo, Zhang Dexiang, Yan Shu, Du Yan, Jia Changchao, Chen Zhizhong, Wen Yanbo, Song Xiang, Pang Ji, Liang Shi, Liu Han, Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang, Fu Bi and other powerful ministers.
I was almost driven crazy, and I once waved my sword in the harem several times and shouted and vented my depression.
Zhang Junping touched Zhao Zhen's head with some pity. He was such a pitiful child. Since God had let him come to the Song Dynasty and made him the Zuosha son, he would definitely not let Zhao Zhen repeat that kind of frustrated life again.
This is the first time Zhang Junping has taken the initiative to change something.
Zhang Junping stroked Zhao Zhen's head, just a subconscious action. If you are serious, this is a transcendence and disrespectful sin.
Fortunately, those little eunuchs were well trained by Zhang Junping, so they turned their heads one by one and pretended not to see them.
"Master, it's time to run!" Zhang Junping reminded Zhao Zhen.
Chapter completed!