Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty Seven
"Mr., you are back, who are these two?" A woman in the yard was cleaning up. It was Cheng Kang's wife Ma. Seeing Cheng Kang pushing the door in, there were two people following him. Her husband almost never brought anyone home, so Ma asked a little strangely. Liu Yi and Lu Xiangsheng saw Ma at a glance. No wonder others said that she was in poor health. When she saw this, she was indeed a sallow face and had a sick face. She should have a chronic disease. Liu Yi thought of it. If she had the chance in the future, she could go back to Taiping.
The government hires famous doctors to take care of the care of chronic diseases. Generally, it is a thing that can avoid food and be treated with care. However, many drugs that have been taken for a long time are more expensive. Just like in later generations, many chronic diseases are included in the social security system, so they can naturally be reduced and used for free. However, the Ming Dynasty did not say that ordinary people cannot afford expensive medicinal materials, so they can only wait to die. But since they have been encountered by Liu Yi, no matter whether Cheng Kang’s affairs can be accomplished or not, Liu Yi has to express his feelings, and for nothing else, but respect Cheng Kang as a person who dares to tell the truth.
Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yi bowed to Ma at the same time and said, "I have met my sister-in-law's wife!" Cheng Kang turned around and said, "Don't, sir..." Lu Xiangsheng winked and signaled Cheng Kang not to tell his identities. Cheng Kang coughed twice and said, "These two are friends from my yamen, from other places. We will have dinner at home tonight. You go buy some cooked food, stir-fry a few side dishes, bring the wine I have hidden, and I will entertain guests." Cheng Kang didn't catch a cold about Liu Yi, but due to Lu Xiangsheng's face, he could not lose his manners. So he ordered his wife.
Ma came over to greet Liu Yi and Lu Xiangsheng and said, "I have seen two adults." The door of the house opened, and two children ran out of it. Liu Yi thought that the boy was only in his teens, and the other girl was about eight or nine years younger. The two children were very polite and said, "I have met two uncles!" Liu Yi was a little embarrassed. He was only weak, and he was from his elder brothers. He called himself old after such a call. Lu Xiangsheng didn't have so many thoughts, and praised, "A glance can tell that all the children are so well-educated, which shows that Brother Pingzhang is very strict in his family style." Cheng Kang smiled and said, "My brother Jiandou has praised it, please come in."
The house is nothing special, it is just one more room than the one in Cheng Chongdou's house. When he entered the house, it was very bright. Cheng Kang often reads, writes and copies books at home, so he spent some money on the candle. Although it was night, the room was not dim. There were oil lamps or candles in every corner. The warm yellow light made people calm down.
After seeing the gift, the two children went into the room to review their homework. Cheng Kang pointed at the child and said, "The son and the young girl are studying in a nearby private school. Cheng thinks that both men and women should be educated. Of course, this may be a bit unconventional." Although Cheng Kang didn't earn much and had to buy medicine for his wife, he was still very concerned about the study of the two children. Although he was very disgusted with the eight-legged essay, the most basic way to recognize literacy and learn ancient Chinese, etc. is still necessary. This is the foundation. If there is no foundation, how can the subsequent sublimation be achieved? Cheng Kang has always taught himself and private school.
The combination of learning and he was very opposed to not allowing girls to go to school, so his youngest daughter also studied in a private school. She just couldn't take the imperial examination. If he knew that Liu Yi had already achieved the joint enrollment of men and women in Taiping Mansion, and was promoting it vigorously to Taiping Mansion, he might have looked at Liu Yi with admiration. Liu Yi raised his thumb and said, "This is a great strategy. Everyone is born equal, regardless of gender. This is the fallacy of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism." Cheng Kang suddenly looked up at Liu Yi, and a very strange feeling emerged in his heart. Is this something a general could say?
Cheng Kang's wife went out to buy cooked vegetables. Liu Yi took the opportunity to look at Cheng Kang's house. Although it was old, it was very neat. It can be seen that Cheng Kang was usually a very self-disciplined person. There were simple bookshelfs on both sides of the walls, and there were a lot of books on it. It seems that Cheng Kang's income has become these books. No wonder it is too difficult to buy a book. You must know that buying a book in the Ming Dynasty also costs a lot of money, so Cheng Kang often uses the convenience of copying books to copy more books and collect it himself, so that he can save a lot of money. Cheng Kang finished packing the table in the hall, put away the pen, ink, paper and ink, and said to Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yi: "Let you laugh, please sit for a moment, I'll go make tea." He turned around and went to the kitchen.
Lu Xiangsheng said to Liu Yi, "How about Brother Ziming Guanping Zhang?" Liu Yi replied, "I haven't had an in-depth understanding yet, but one thing is certain. This person is in the heart of the world and dares to speak and do, such as teaching his daughter to read. I always thought that I was the only one doing this in the Ming Dynasty. I didn't expect that someone was doing it here, and it was earlier than me. Although the daughters of the wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty could also read and read, they usually asked their husbands to come to their homes to teach. If he sent his daughter to a private school like him, it means that his concept is essentially different from those rich families. Brother Lu should know that there are girls' schools under my rule."
"Well, I know, that night, President Ruan also told me a lot of new things about Taiping Mansion, which made people admire him. I didn't expect that Ziming, a military general, would attach so much importance to education, production, agriculture, and commercial affairs. If Ziming was not a general, I would probably believe it as a governor. You have done all the things that civil officials did." Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said.
"Girls' School?" A low scream came from the door. It was Cheng Kang who came back from making tea. As soon as he entered the room, he heard the conversation between Liu Yi and Lu Xiangsheng. "General Liu, did you just say that there was a girl's school under your rule?" Cheng Kang said in surprise.
"That's true, Liu believed that the sage education should be different from men, women, young and old, and everyone should read and read. Then the sage's benevolence, wisdom, etiquette, righteousness and trustworthiness can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Otherwise, they will be fooled by the people. If the people's wisdom has not been opened, there will be dirty officials and insects to squeeze the people's strength. This is not a blessing for the dynasty. Moreover, the matter of education should be borne by the government, and taxes should be taken from the people for use by the people. Everyone is educated, and new ideas will continue to emerge. Just as the hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the people's customs will be boosted, and China can lead to the Jiuzhou!"
Cheng Kang was completely stunned by Liu Yi's words. Unexpectedly, his thoughts would coincide with a general. Is this still a general? Most of the warriors in the Ming Dynasty were greedy and forgetful people? How could it be? He hurried to the bookshelf and picked up a thin booklet, put it on the table and said, "Then please let General Liu see this." Liu Yi copied it up and saw that it should be a booklet compiled by Cheng Kang himself, named Educational and Strategic Cases.
After reading it, Liu Yi couldn't help but feel shocked. In his book, private schools should be divided into men and women. The government should draw one tax per year to build an official school. Children who have no silver may not be able to read and read, but they will not be able to do so in ten years. However, they will definitely achieve great success in fifty years and will be successful for thousands of years. In addition, official schools should be divided into levels. Young children should learn the enlightenment of learning, half-aged children learn the classics and lectures, and young people who are suitable for age will learn the learning of worldly governance. Learning has its own rules, knowledge has its own methods, and people's wisdom can be opened.
All kinds of policies are exactly the same as Liu Yi's Taiping Prefecture. Isn't this what Taiping Prefecture is implementing now? And when Liu Yi looked at the last sign of the book, it was actually the 45th year of Wanli. In other words, when Liu Yi was still a child of seven or eight years old, or when Liu Yi had not yet come here, this person had such an idea. It is really shocking that this person's thoughts are ahead of him by hundreds of years. Why is such a person not well-known? It seems that there are many talents like Cheng Kang who are completely buried in the long river of history. Since he met him today, he must not let the pearls be covered in dust.
Liu Yi solemnly bowed: "Mr. The master's talent, and the writings written in Taiping Prefecture have been realized in Taiping Prefecture, almost no difference. Under my rule, there are boys and girls schools, men and women, and their knowledge has different emphasis, and they are classified according to age. This will be named grade, low, middle and high school, and the learning is difficult to learn from simple to difficult. And all the costs are borne by the government. This general is consistent with Mr.'s view, but now there is no effect. Thirty or fifty years later, it will definitely be a state of clear and clear in the world, and everyone knows and is well-educated."
Seeing that Cheng Kang had changed a little, Lu Xiangsheng immediately rang the railway while the hot: "Brother Pingzhang, now, I'll tell the truth. This time I came to visit, and I was also the younger brother. General Liu has always heard that Brother Pingzhang has great talents, and the new army is currently short of talents, so I recommend you. When General Liu learned about it, he immediately wanted to come to Yingtian Mansion to meet. Don't look at General Liu young, but you can't evaluate him with a simple military general. Maybe Brother Pingzhang doesn't know much, but when I met General Liu and I have known each other for these days, General Liu is definitely not comparable to ordinary martial artists in the Ming Dynasty. Sun Ge Lao, Han Ge Lao, and Yuan Shishi are not a person who are praised by others to gain fame?"
Cheng Kang still looked embarrassed when he heard Lu Xiangsheng say this. It’s not that he didn’t believe Lu Xiangsheng. It was because the Ming Dynasty had been in power. The administration was in chaos after Wei Zhongxian was in power. The situation was getting worse. Cheng Kang himself had only ambitions, but the thousand-mile horses did not have Bo Le, and the officialdom was dark. If Yingtian Mansion was like this, wouldn’t the place be even more chaotic? And just to serve as an aide for a military general, it is really hard to speak of. Cheng Kang is an arrogant literati. Although Liu Yi saw extraordinary things, he did have some achievements in Nanzhili as Lu Xiangsheng, but things were unpredictable. Once he made a choice, there would be no room for maneuver. Just by meeting him today or Lu Xiangsheng’s suggestion.
Making decisions in a hurry is not Cheng Kang's style of dealing with things. But this person is indeed a little sincere. He came to Yingtian Mansion to visit him with the emperor. He can be said to be a polite and polite person. As a second-rank general, Liu Yi was a second-rank military general. He could find the relationship between the Ministry of War and transfer himself to him, but he did not. This means that he respected himself quite well. But a general under him must have some staff. His so-called fallacies and evil doctrines are incompatible with the normal cognition of the Ming Dynasty. Even if he gets to him, he is likely to be drooled. After all, many ideas can be said to be shocking. For a moment, Cheng Kang's head had some thoughts.
"My husband, the wine and food are ready." Just when Cheng Kang was embarrassed, his wife's appearance eased the scene. Ma heated the cooked dishes he bought, warmed the wine, stir-fried a few side dishes, and served them on a wooden plate. Cheng Kang immediately called out: "Haha, the hospitality is not good, the dishes are simple, please forgive me, General Liu and Jiandou brother."
Chapter completed!