Chapter 1215 Postscript 71·The Prince Consort’s Teaching Career
In the blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching.
Xie Yiqin, Wang Yitong, and Xie Wan returned to Huangzhou Mansion.
Xie Shizhang is going to visit the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake, trying to complete the part of "Fishing Boats Sing Late" hummed by the good grandson.
The old man's "Du Liu Pu" caused considerable controversy in Luoyang, mainly because the lost pieces were questioned.
The musicians were noisy around the book, but Xie Shizhang, the man who initiated the public case, patted his butt and walked away in style.
Hey, just playing!
The fourth uncle and the fifth uncle temporarily stayed in Luoyang to assist Xie Yan in building a cement factory. After they became familiar with the process, they would return to Hebei to set up the factory.
"Mukuro, hat!"
Zhu Tangxi sent her husband out of the house and helped him straighten his clothes before boarding the car.
Xie Yan smiled and said: "I'm just going to teach at Taixue, not traveling far away."
"Come back early, don't be late to close the city gate." Zhu Tangxi wished he could stay together from morning to night.
After watching the carriage go away, she turned around and went home. She yawned as soon as she crossed the threshold.
Alas, I have to go back to catch up on my sleep.
Xie Yan also closed his eyes and meditated in the car. It was quite a long distance from the princess to the imperial college.
At first, I rented the small courtyard of the Li family in the south of the city so that I could study at Taipei University nearby. However, I didn't expect it. I didn't attend a single class while living there, and then moved to the princess's residence.
When the carriage came to the main street, the number of people turning around was quite high, and many passers-by recognized it as a princess carriage.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the honor guard of the powerful was reduced, and no more funds were allocated specifically to officials to support their relatives and followers. More than a hundred years later, although the custom of paying attention to ostentation has recovered, it is still far behind the Song Dynasty.
It was even simpler for Xie Yan to go out, with only one driver and two male attendants.
Four male attendants, including Xie Changshou and Wang Xing, took turns escorting Xie Yan to work every day. Although the security in the capital was good, who knows if there might be bad guys in the suburbs.
Although there was no pomp and circumstance, the oncoming vehicles and pedestrians took the initiative to give way to Xie Yan's carriage.
Because this is Zhai Che.
Generally, only queens and concubines ride, not even concubines.
Zhu Tangxi's car is Yanzhai's car, which is a car for the crown princess and can even be used by the most favored princess.
But whether the consort could travel alone in this thing, the court did not have specific regulations. How could those who formulated the etiquette think of such a strange couple as Xie Yan and Zhu Tangxi?
Pass through a large group of brick-walled buildings outside the city, cross the bridge and continue driving southeast, and gradually you can see the campus of Taixue.
Xie Yan was also prepared to show his badge to the guard, but the guard immediately let him go.
After driving to the school administration building, Xie Yan ran to see the principal. After saying a bunch of useless polite words, he was taken to the dormitory area by the grade director Shen Jian.
The formal position of this grade director is called Waishe Taixuelu. He is responsible for detecting the irregularities of Taixue Waishe students and presides over the Waishe examination every quarter.
"Xie Prince Consort, this is the office building for the teachers in the outer house. The school has specially arranged a separate office room for you." Shen Jian led Xie Yan to a four-story building and said.
Xie Yan said: "Shen Xuelu just calls me a bachelor or a lecturer."
Shen Jian quickly changed his name to Thank Dao Lang.
A lecturer is a lecturer.
In addition, there are doctors, professors, teaching assistants, etc., which all belong to ancient teaching positions.
They chatted and entered Xie Yan's private office, where a teacher in his thirties was already waiting.
Shen Jian introduced: "This is Zhang Chong, Assistant Professor Zhang."
"Student Zhang Chong, meet Bachelor Xie!" Zhang Chong bowed to him.
Xie Yan quickly returned the favor, chatted for a few words, and then took Shen Jian out.
Xie Yan said: "Shen Xuelu, I am just a lecturer in a foreign school. Is it too ostentatious to have an assistant teacher?"
Shen Jian smiled and said, "I also do things according to the arrangements from above."
Xie Yan hesitated, too lazy to say anything else.
Just be ostentatious.
Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, only doctoral level teachers have been assigned teaching assistants to assist in teaching. Moreover, it is mainly Nasu (buying official) scholars who serve as teaching assistants.
After Shen Jian explained some daily precautions, he left in a hurry.
School has just started and he is very busy.
Xie Yan returned to his office and found that the teaching assistant had made himself a cup of tea.
It's very outrageous. A seventeen-year-old lecturer is being served by a teaching assistant in his thirties.
"Where are you from?" Xie Yan had nothing to say.
Zhang Chong quickly answered with his hands raised: "Xie Xie, I dare not call you Your Excellency in person. The student's ancestral home is Shaanxi, and his ancestors were sergeants of the Ming Dynasty. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, he fought with the Jin soldiers and moved to Zhending, Hebei Province with the troops."
Xie Yan smiled and said: "I am also from Hebei, so we are fellow villagers."
Coincidence?
Unfortunately, it was all arranged by the principal.
Zhang Chong said flatteringly: "Seventeen-year-old Bachelor of Furong, Bachelor Xie is really an honor for me in Hebei."
"Don't say such nonsense," Xie Yan asked, "Are you a Juren?"
Zhang Chong said: "I was lucky enough to win the exam, but I kept failing in the general examination, so I came to apply for a job as a teaching assistant at Taixue to find a career."
As long as their performance is not too bad, these kind of Taixue teaching assistants can be sent to other places to become official government teachers. And at least middle school teachers, although they have no grades at the beginning, they can get a good teaching position after a few more years of work.
However, the upper limit of career is very low. At most, you can be the principal of a government-run middle school for a few years before retiring, and you have to have smooth sailing.
Xie Yan asked: "How many years have you been a teaching assistant at Taixue?"
Zhang Chong replied: "After failing the general examination last year, I took the Taixue recruitment examination and has been a teaching assistant for a year."
"Do you know chemistry?" Xie Yan asked again.
Zhang Chong replied: "The student is a science major and knows a little bit about chemistry."
Xie Yan said: "My chemistry class will start with molecules and atoms. Moreover, most of the previous chemistry textbooks about molecules and atoms have been overturned in the past two months. Before each class, I I will show you the handouts, and you can learn along with the students."
"Ah?" Zhang Chong was stunned at first, then overjoyed.
Courses on chemical particles have always been cutting-edge knowledge. You need to be promoted to the inner dormitory at least before you can learn about it, and you can only start to study it in depth when you are promoted to the upper chamber.
And what about Xie Yan?
He teaches lay students.
Outer students are a group of self-funded students who need to consolidate their foundation first and pass the exam before they can be promoted to inner students.
Xie Yan directly taught the most cutting-edge molecules and atoms in the field of chemistry to the students who were outsiders. If the students inside and outside the school knew about it, wouldn't they go crazy?
Zhang Chong realized that he had reached a turning point in his life. As long as he studied molecules and atoms seriously with Xie Yan, he might be able to stay in Taixue and become a formal teacher.
School just started today and there are no classes.
Xie Yan is mainly here to step into the territory, and he also wants to go to the laboratory to have a look.
The next day, class officially started.
The Imperial College of the Ming Dynasty slightly adjusted the enrollment scale introduced by Cai Jing, with 2,000 students in the outer dormitory, 500 students in the inner dormitory, and 200 students in the upper dormitory.
Students living in inner dormitories and upper dormitories are free of charge for board and lodging, and are also provided with pens, ink, and paper every month.
Foreign students have to pay for everything by themselves, and the entrance examination is very difficult. They are purely to generate income for the school. Most of the students drop out of school while studying. Or they take the imperial examination while studying.
Xie Yan has to teach 9 classes, with 25 people in each class, and only teaches two classes a day.
Xun rest means one day off in ten days.
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Xia Gongchen sat in the classroom and looked around. He had just been in Luoyang for more than half a month, and everything he saw felt new.
This guy is an international student from Ceylon!
To be continued...