Seeing Li Wang's black bear-like figure jumping away with three enlightenment books in his arms, Guo An helplessly patted the back of his head, feeling a little irritated.
"I think I am an upright gentleman, but in order to encourage others to study, I learn to say things that go against my heart. Alas, what a serious sin!"
"well!"
With a helpless sigh, Guo An prepared to go back to the public house to repent quietly.
However, as soon as he turned around, a familiar face suddenly appeared in front of him.
"ah?"
Guo An was immediately startled, "Your Highness, why did you appear so quietly?"
Zhu Di squinted his eyes and looked at Guo An carefully up and down, with an aura of contempt all over his body.
"You black-hearted thief, we were just a good guard for hundreds of households, but we were deceived by those nonsense words of yours!
He even rushed into people's homes in the middle of the night, kidnapped an old man and forced him to teach him how to read and write!"
Guo An was shocked, "How could Li Baihu do such a reckless thing?"
"Humph, I shamelessly told that old master that he, Li Wang, has the appearance of a prime minister. Even if he can't achieve it, his son will definitely become a literary prime minister. The old master must teach him how to read and write. He almost
The old master is so angry that he faints!" Zhu Di said angrily.
Guo An immediately said: "Your Highness, Li Baihu is so reckless, Your Highness must teach him a lesson, otherwise if this continues, the guard general will imitate him, and all the old masters in the Peking Mansion will suffer.
"
Zhu Di's face immediately returned to calm, he looked straight at Guo An and said: "We are also worried that these bastards will go out to harm the old masters in the city, so we are planning to set up a school in the palace to teach those generals how to read and write.
"
"Your Highness is wise, this is a great thing!" Guo An quickly praised.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Guo An felt something was wrong. Zhu Di was looking at him quietly.
"Your Highness, I have some important matters to attend to, so please leave first!"
Guo An quickly cupped his hands towards Zhu Di and prepared to run away.
Zhu Di's face darkened and he shouted angrily: "Stop!"
"Your Highness?"
Guo An slowly turned around with a puzzled look on his face.
Zhu Di was furious, "We just asked you to take some time to lecture those military generals. Why are you running around?"
"Your Highness, the minister didn't run away!" Guo An quickly said with a smile.
"Your Highness, Wei Chen has not read a few Confucian classics, and he is not strong enough to restrain a chicken. If he cannot answer the questions of the generals, the generals will become angry, and Wei Chen will not resist beating him!"
Guo An quickly said with a grimace.
Zhu Di widened his eyes and asked, "Guo Qing is the right-hand official of Prince Yan's palace. Which bastard dares to beat Shangguan?"
"This..." Guo An looked helpless.
"What else can you say?" Zhu Di asked.
"Reporting to Your Highness, if I am going to give a lecture, can I be considered a master?"
After thinking seriously for a moment, Guo An asked.
Zhu Di nodded and said: "Of course!"
Guo An asked again: "How much is the salary of the wife of the minister?"
"Master's salary?"
Zhu Di's eyes widened in disbelief.
"We, the dignified King of Yan, ask you, the Right Chief, to give lectures to the generals in the mansion. Do you still want a salary?"
"Your Highness, you are being unreasonable. Have you ever seen any master who doesn't want a salary?"
Guo An had an indignant look on his face, "Master teaches people to read, read and understand, and all he teaches is the knowledge in his heart.
If His Highness doesn’t want to pay you a salary, doesn’t it mean that you want to have sex for nothing, and moreover, you’re asking a bunch of generals in the palace to have sex for nothing?”
Zhu Di's eyelids twitched. Although it was the first time he heard the words "white prostitution", he had experienced the land of flowers and willows. After thinking about it for a moment, he understood what Guo An meant.
However, it was precisely because of this understanding that Zhu Di realized that he still had not truly seen the evil heart and shamelessness of his right-hand official.
"We all wonder if you are a disciple of Confucianism, and you actually confuse something as sacred as teaching people to read and write with something so filthy?"
"Your Highness, Wei Chen is just a metaphor!"
Guo An curled his lips helplessly, "What your Highness did was too similar to what Wei Chen said."
Zhu Di didn't want to argue with Guo An anymore, so he said directly: "One tael of silver every month!"
He was afraid to continue talking to the bastard Chang Shi in front of him. If these words were spread, even if he was the King of Yan, he would be criticized by all the scholars in the world!
"Your Highness, famous teachers are not cheap, cheap teachers are not cheap!" Guo An said.
Zhu Di glared at Guo An and said again: "Two taels of silver!"
Guo An opened his mouth and was ready to raise the price again.
Unfortunately, Zhu Di had already deeply understood the shamelessness of his Guo Changshi, and said directly again: "We just let you give lectures to those generals when you are free, and two taels of silver is already the highest.
Even for Zhu Fu, we only gave him twenty taels of salary!"
Guo An's eyes widened, "Your Highness actually gave Zhu Changshi a salary?"
Zhu Di sneered and said: "Why, you are allowed to ask for your salary from us, but no one else is allowed to ask for it?"
"Your Highness has misunderstood. It is a pity for me to be a minor minister. Zhu Changshi's situation is too small. With Zhu Changshi's status, five taels of salary is not an exaggeration!"
As he said this, Guo An looked pityful and said with a click of his tongue.
"Now, Your Highness has got a big deal!"
Zhu Di's expression changed, and he asked Guo Anjie: "Don't you have something important to do, why are you still standing here?"
"Forehead!"
Guo An didn't expect Zhu Di to change his face so quickly. He slightly arched his hands towards Zhu Di and said, "Wei Chen, please leave!"
…
Watching Guo An leave, Zhu Di smiled proudly, turned around and walked into the palace.
In the main hall, Chief Shi Zhu Fu and Monk Dao Yan were quietly waiting for Zhu Di.
As Zhu Di came in, the two of them quickly greeted each other.
"Zhu Qing, Master, we are going to build a school in the mansion to teach the generals and some good scholars in the mansion to read and write..."
"Your Highness is wise!"
Unlike Guo An, Zhu Fu and Dao Yan naturally had no objection or shirk against Zhu Di's decision.
As for the master who taught the generals and servants in the palace to read and write, Chang Shi had a large number of learned officials.
In addition, although Monk Daoyan is a monk, he is also proficient in Confucianism and has friendship with some great Confucian scholars.
Therefore, it is also possible to find many Confucian disciples who have no experience in becoming officials to give lectures to the generals and servants in the mansion.
Zhu Di always acted vigorously and resolutely. After making a decision, he immediately arranged for Zhu Fu to implement it.
Therefore, it takes less than two days.
The outer court of Yanwang Palace, a palace not far from Changshisi, was officially renamed as a school.
Tables, chairs and benches were all ready in less than a day.
As for the students in the school, they are ready.
On the first day, a group of burly generals and a group of pale-faced and thin chamberlains were crowded inside and outside the school.
However, with King Zhu Di of Yan taking control of the situation, no one dared to stand up and even speak softly even though all the big bosses in the school scratched their heads and scratched their heads.
Seeing Guo An laughing for a while, I'm afraid they have never been so gentle even when facing their wives.
After lying outside and watching for a while, Guo An quietly left.
It's all the same pattern. The leader comes up to give a speech, draw a picture, and threaten you a little. If you all study hard and become literate, you can have the opportunity to become a civil servant. If you don't study hard, Zhu Di will take good care of him.
you!
So, at first, all the military generals read and chatted with the new masters full of curiosity.
But, a few days later.
A group of military generals truly experienced the pain of reading and literacy.
You can’t understand it even if you look at it, and you can’t learn it even if you learn it!
Soon, all the generals were either making excuses not to come, or looking for trouble in the school.
…
In Chang Shi's office, Guo An was wandering around, when Ma He, the servant inside, came in and reported softly.
"Guo Changshi, His Highness has ordered that no matter what happens today, it is your turn to go to the school to give lectures!"
"ah?"
Guo An was stunned, "Your Highness, if you don't say anything, can I just give lectures when I'm free?"
Ma He's expression remained unchanged and he continued to smile apologetically: "His Royal Highness said that it has been seven or eight days since the school was opened, and you have not been there once, but Zhu Changshi has already been there twice!"
"It's obviously only been five days." Guo An didn't move at all.
Ma He whispered again: "His Royal Highness also said that if you don't go, your salary will be deducted!"
"How could your Highness do this?"
At this time, Guo An couldn't bear it anymore and stood up directly.
"Ma He, how were you feeling when His Highness sent you here?"
Ma He smiled bitterly and said: "Zhu Changshi, you also know that these few times Zhu Baihu, Xu Baihu and others have gone to sea to catch fewer and fewer fish.
In addition, the literacy progress of the generals in the school has not been very smooth these days..."
"Okay, okay, it's just a lecture. Let's go right away."
Guo An nodded and said.
"Thank you Guo Changshi for being considerate of this little guy!" Ma He said with a grateful look on his face.
"It's just you, kid!"
Guo An chuckled lightly and walked out.
Through these few days of contact, he found that Ma and the little waiter were really smart and very studious.
The school was transformed from a particularly large side hall, with more than sixty desks inside.
However, after Guo An came in, the side hall was only half full.
There are about a dozen chamberlains and eunuchs, and the rest are a group of black bear-like generals.
Although the eunuchs in the chamber had a low status and were looked down upon by both civil servants and military generals. However, those who could come to the academy were the favored eunuchs around Zhu Di, and these military generals would not provoke them without reason.
Therefore, this school is strange and somewhat harmonious.
"Everyone, are everyone here?"
It was his first time giving lectures, and Guo An was still a little uncomfortable.
In particular, there is no step under my feet, no desk in front of me, and no blackboard behind me.
"Hey, Guo Changshi, the only ones who can come to the school today are me!"
A tall and sturdy man chuckled.
“As long as they’re all here!”
Guo An nodded slightly, looked around, pointed directly at the two generals in front and said, "Please ask the two generals to move this table over to us!"
"Move the table?"
The two generals were stunned.
"Exactly!" Guo An nodded.
"Guo Changshi, why are you moving the table?" the general asked curiously.
Guo An asked: "Why, you are allowed to sit like this and listen to reading, but we, the master, are not allowed to sit and lecture to you?"
"I see, let's move it to Guo Changshi right now!"
The general who spoke was not annoyed and stood up directly, placing a table in one hand and a chair in front of Guo An.
Guo An nodded with satisfaction and sat down directly.
"Who has extra classics? Which book will I tell you today?"
"..."
All the servants and generals in the school looked at Guo An in confusion.
"Guo Changshi, you are giving lectures, how can you ask us for classics?" Another general asked.
"You come to the school to listen to my lectures. You don't provide books. Can you understand the books I bring?" Guo An asked in return.
"is also like this!"
Some generals nodded slowly.
"Guo Changshi, just use the classics of the last general!"
At this time, Li Wang, who was hiding at the end, slowly took out a book, walked up and handed it to Guo An.
""Xingli Zi Xun"."
Guo An glanced at it and nodded slightly, "Li Baihu is the best at reading. This kind of book is the most suitable for you."
Li Wang blushed and looked embarrassed.
"Please don't laugh at the general, Guo Changshi. The general already knows that this book is the simplest enlightenment book, and it is one of those books that children only read when they are enlightened!"
"Tsk!"
Guo An smiled slowly, "Aren't you starting to enlighten yourself? If you don't read such enlightening books, what else do you want to read?"
"Guo Changshi, how can I, a big old man like me, read these books that are only meant for children?"
"Exactly, Guo Changshi, if we want to read, we should also read the Four Books and Five Classics, the classics read by serious scholars, right?"
"Yes, Guo Changshi, please don't lie to us. We have all found out clearly that those scholars and scholars studied these Confucian classics..."
Guo An sneered loudly, "Why do you, a group of military generals, read the Four Books and Five Classics that scholars read, but prepare to give up martial arts and study literature, and prepare to take the imperial examination?"
"Guo Changshi, is it really okay for me to wait?"
A military commander asked stupidly.
"Of course you can!"
Guo An nodded with a smile and said: "I don't know the name of this general. I will tell His Royal Highness the General's name in a moment and ask His Highness the King of Yan to apply for the general's child examination in Wanping County, so that the general can take the exam next year."
See the Wanping County Children’s Examination in February!”
"Hey, the last general knows his mistake. Please don't blame Guo Changshi. What can we do if we don't know a few military generals just by the word "final general"!"
The general quickly smiled apologetically.
He couldn't tell at this moment that Guo Changshi was making fun of him.
"It seems that you all know that you have a lot of big words in your belly, and you still want to take part in the imperial examination!"
Guo An scoffed fiercely, then said with a solemn look on his face.
"This time, His Highness King Yan felt that the military generals and the servants in the palace were not very literate, and he was afraid that you would encounter some shameless and evil people in the future, so he built such a school specifically for fear that you would be deceived and suffer big losses.
Because these students are either chamberlains or generals, His Highness does not expect you to take part in the imperial examination or become civil servants..."
Guo An's words were very down-to-earth, and all the generals understood it.