The next day, Xu Guangqi, who had been writing an article in the middle of the night, washed up, threw his father to his old servant at home, and asked him to lead him around the house. He carried his backpack and went straight to the Normal School of the Capital.
The cowhide backpack he was wearing was bought from Rishenglong. It is similar to the bamboo woven bookcases, but much smaller. Because Xu Guangqi was young, he bought a backpack for older officials and colleagues from the Gewün Academy.
, many people carry shoulder bags.
But these are not the mainstream, and the majority of people carry things in their pockets and sleeves. Officials and civilians still make up the majority. Now popular on the market, and the prices are eye-popping, are all kinds of small leather handbags - only for women.
First, the concubines and princesses in the palace carried small handbags to replace sachets and waist bags made of silk, containing women's perfumes and sanitary napkins. Soon, this simple and elegant style, with strong impact, became a luxury product.
It spread from the two capitals - together with the glass and ice jade, it brought a heavy burden to the henpecked man.
Zhu Yijun sees his wife every day, wearing colorful silk and satin clothes with complicated patterns, that is, "real antique clothes", but holding a modern leather handbag in his hand. After getting used to it for a long time, he still feels a little bit spicy.
Eye.
But there is no way, Confucius said: "The creator of the figurines, even with tears in his eyes, still wants to cry beautiful." Every day when Zhu Yijun faced Zhuang Jingjia with various handbags and asked if they were worthy of the queen's uniform, they all said they looked good--and he was so embarrassed.
You have to think of words to express what is so good about it.
...
Xu Guangqi's backpack contained the lecture notes he was going to give at the Capital Normal School. The Capital Normal School was rebuilt from the Imperial College, and there was quite a stir at the beginning - but because of the serious shortage of officials in Myanmar, most of the Imperial College students
They were all sent out to serve as officials, and things calmed down a lot.
Xu Guangqi is a part-time lecturer at the Normal School. His current job is to lead a research group at the Gewu Institute, responsible for studying the "flow number" topic in "Zhu Zaiyu's Three Laws".
Today is July 30th, and the school that has been open for more than half a month is filled with the sound of books. When Xu Guangqi passed by several classrooms, he heard his colleagues from the Gewu Academy leading the students to read Latin:
"A'erfa, hold it down, wash it off - come on, say it after me, A'erfa, hold it down!"
"Alfa, hold him back!"
The corner of Xu Guangqi's mouth twitched, he stroked his forehead and sighed. He had long heard that the emperor was learning Latin, and he also found several translators from Guangdong to come to Beijing - these Latin letters were taught by the translators and were used by Gewuyuan to derive mathematical formulas.
However, the scholars of Gewu Academy, who were deeply influenced by Chinese-style education, asked students to learn the Eight Classics of Children first by reading it in sentences. This method made Xu Guangqi dumbfounded.
In his class, he just writes these letters randomly and then tells the students the pronunciation. They will remember it naturally, so why do they have to teach it specifically.
However, in the new normal universities, lesson plans and teaching methods are still being explored, because the teaching materials and courses are completely different from those in the Imperial College.
Because the imperial court had accumulated a lot of experience in Nanyuan Martial Arts, the Medical College and Normal University had to avoid many detours. But in this way, the university was mixed with the style of martial arts and became different from what Xu Guangqi expected.
It's a bit polite. Compared with the original Imperial College, it looks more like a military camp.
When Xu Guangqi was walking through the campus playground, he saw many muscular young men running shirtless and holding an olive-shaped ball on the playground. There was a guy on his back on the sidelines with a big bump on his forehead, and someone next to him was holding a ball.
He wore a long gown to fan him, and Xu Guangqi guessed that this guy must have fainted.
Shaking his head, Xu Guangqi bypassed the group of people and went straight to his teaching and research group. Today his class is at 9:30 in the morning - this is another reform. As the timer becomes more and more accurate, the cumbersome and difficult timekeeping methods are also
It was changed, and now all the universities in the capital use the new twenty-four-hour timekeeping method, which is consistent with the folk twelve hours.
Xu Guangqi sometimes feels that things like "poetry" and "literary talent" are becoming increasingly worthless nowadays. Taking timekeeping as an example, he feels that "日昳" sounds much better than thirteen o'clock, because later
It sounds like playing mahjong.
Thinking of playing mahjong, Xu Guangqi's lips twitched into a smile. Princess Leping was one of the most skilled mahjong players in the palace. Growing up with the Queen Mother Rensheng, her mahjong skills surpassed those of the palace. When the two of them corresponded, Princess Leping often wrote in her letters:
"Yesterday I played mahjong with my mother until Rending. I am very sleepy today..." etc.
Well, the timekeeping method of the inner palace has not been changed yet. The most pioneering ones now are the universities in the capital. All such changes started in universities. On the one hand, Xu Guangqi enjoyed this new lifestyle. For example, he could communicate with the princess at any time.
On the other hand, they also secretly criticize certain reforms.
For example, what he finds very outrageous is that students at the Normal University are now learning the simplified Chinese characters being taught at Nanyuan Martial Arts School. The emperor has issued an edict that starting from the eleventh year of Wanli, graduates sent to various places will
Only simplified characters can be taught, and it would be a sin to teach "orthodox characters". Starting from the fifteenth year of Wanli, the emperor's edicts, official documents and newspapers and publications will all use simplified characters. Before that, simplified characters and orthographic characters were legal official document styles.
This "controversy between simplicity and righteousness" has been noisy in newspapers for a while, and many scholars have been criticizing it. However, as more and more ritual vessels and oracle bones were unearthed from the Yin Ruins in Anyang County, Henan, a large number of texts on them were also
Identifying it proves that when our ancient ancestors invented writing, they were pursuing the path of simplifying graphics.
This blow was simply a dimensionality-reducing blow, directly wiping out any voice that resisted simplified Chinese characters. Those who supported simplified Chinese characters - mainly the officials trained in the attendant's office, plausibly said: "Simplified Chinese characters have been around since ancient times.
, why not use it now? If everyone wants to go back to the old days, then they must learn oracle bone inscriptions, this is the true ancestor of writing!"
What he said was good, and the logic was impeccable, but Xu Guangqi still felt uncomfortable. For example, the simplified word for "ki" simply means "ki". How can we kiss if we can't meet each other?
There are so many examples, such as "爱", "义", "郷", etc. After the orthographic characters were simplified, the beauty in Chinese characters was simply deprived of them. Many people cited these examples and made a fuss for a while, but because the court ignored them, gradually
There was no sound either.
Another problem with simplified characters is that calligraphy does not look good when used in writing. Many people knew that the emperor was good at writing large characters, and they were all waiting for Zhu Yijun to write the first simplified calligraphy. But the emperor was very double-standard. He wrote in the inscriptions and comments
Use simplified Chinese characters and write straight characters on your calligraphy works.
Later, Xu Guangqi heard from people in the palace that the emperor's view was that tools belong to tools and art belongs to art. If you want to write big characters and practice calligraphy, there is no problem in using straight characters. But fifteen years after Wanli, he still wrote straight characters on the title book.
If you're an official, then don't do it.
Xu Guangqi walked to the teacher's area with random thoughts. When he was in the corridor, he saw a group of people blocking the door of his teaching and research office. In the middle was a guy wearing a pure Yang scarf and dressed like a Taoist priest. He was Wang Shizhen, the president of the Normal University.
Wang Shizhen saw Xu Guangqi and hurriedly greeted him. In the ninth year of Wanli's reign, he finally achieved Zhengguo. He was recommended to the emperor by Feng Bao and appointed as the principal of the Capital Normal School.
Principal Wang barely escaped being knocked unconscious by a big pie falling from the sky, and burst into tears after receiving the edict. He didn't know that Feng Bao was behind the scenes, so he just went to see Feng Bangning, the president of Nanjing Daily, with a gift and walked in.
He knelt down.
Feng Bangning was startled at the time, but after he understood the question, he comforted him and said: "Mr. Fengzhou has been advocating reforms these years, and the emperor has read every one of his grand articles. What does it have to do with me? Come to Beijing as soon as possible to thank me. I
How can Lao Feng help you with this?"
Although Wang Shizhen did not enter the officialdom, his appointment as principal meant that the Wang family, which had fallen into despair, was pulled up from the abyss by the emperor. From then on, Mr. Fengzhou became an extremely staunch imperialist - and his descendants continued to do so for generations.
Seeing Xu Guangqi at this time, he wiped the sweat on his face and said: "Sir, please don't go to the next class and hurry up and enter the palace."
Xu Guangqi asked strangely: "Why? What happened? But Your Highness..."
Wang Shizhen smiled and said: "If you don't do His Highness's business, the Emperor wants to summon you."
When Xu Guangqi was confused, the eunuch behind Wang Shizhen stepped out and said in a sharp voice: "Captain, I heard that the title book of Governor Luo Wanhua has arrived. It said that it is estimated that in the spring of next year, there will be an incursion of Western barbarians.
Pay tribute. The emperor asked you to go to the Palace of Wenhua to learn Latin and Portuguese. Then, as a representative of the royal family, you will be in charge of host and guest affairs. Well, I sent this slave to summon you and give you a few words - come with us quickly.
"
Because Princess Leping was favored in the palace, she did not dare to neglect her fiancé, the eunuch. The eunuch explained the information he had in a few sentences clearly to Xu Guangqi's reassurance.
Xu Guangqi first agreed and said: "Who will take my class?" After saying that, he took out the lecture notes from his bag.
After he finished handing over to the substitute lecturer, he asked straightly: "Learning a language is fine, but why do you want to go to Wenhua Hall? Shouldn't you go to Seikan to learn?"
The official looked at him as if he saw a fool. Principal Wang and the people around him also looked at Xu Guangqi with the same eyes as a fool. Wang Shizhen broke the embarrassment and laughed and said: "You idiot, you were at the school gate yesterday.
I've been waiting for the special messenger to deliver a letter to you. Now that I'm letting you into the study, will the letter still take that long to go?"
He cursed in his heart: "Mom, that's the Wenhua Hall, where the Crown Prince studies! You, the Prince Consort, occupy the latrine and don't shit, why do you still have so much!"