Wanli Xinming

Chapter 222 Teachers
The next day, Xu Guangqi, who wrote the article in the middle of the night, took a shower, threw his father to the old servant at home, and asked him to lead him around the house. He carried his backpack and went straight to the Beijing Normal School.

The cowhide backpack on my body was bought from Rishenglong. It is somewhat similar to a bamboo bookcase, but it is much smaller.Because Xu Guangqi was young, he bought a shoulder bag. Officials and colleagues from the Gewu Academy who were older than him wore shoulder bags.

But these are not the mainstream, and the majority of officials and civilians still carry their things in their jackets and sleeves.Now on the market, and at eye-popping prices, there are all kinds of small leather clutches – just for women.

First, the concubines and princesses in the palace held small handbags, instead of silk sachets and pockets, which contained perfumes and sanitary napkins for women.Soon this kind of simple and elegant style, with a strong impact, spread from the two capitals - together with the glass seed and the ice seed jade, it brought a heavy burden to the fearful man.

Every day, Zhu Yijun sees his wife, big and small, wearing colorful silk and satin clothes with intricately decorated patterns, that is, "real ancient costumes", but holding a very modern leather handbag in his hand. After getting used to it for a long time, he still feels a little spicy. Eye.

But there was no way. The Master said, "The person who started the culprit has to call me beautiful even with tears in my eyes." Every day when Zhu Yijun faced Zhuang Jingjia with all kinds of handbags and asked him if he was worthy of the queen's uniform, he always said that he was beautiful—and he searched his stomach. Think of words to say where it looks good.

Inside Xu Guangqi's backpack were the lecture notes that he was going to lecture at the Beijing Normal School.The Jingshi Normal School was rebuilt from the Guozijian, and there was a lot of turmoil at the beginning - but because of the severe shortage of officials in Myanmar, most of the students of the Guozijian were sent out to serve as officials, which stopped a lot.

Xu Guangqi is a part-time lecturer at the Teachers College. He is currently leading a research group in the Institute of Geology and Physics, responsible for the study of the "flow number" in the "Three Laws of Zhu Zaiyu".

Today is July [-], and the school has been open for more than half a month.When Xu Guangqi passed by a few classrooms, he heard his colleagues from the Gewu Institute lead the students to read Latin:

"A'erfa, hold him back, take a shower - come, read with me, A'erfa, hold him back!"

"A'erfa, hold him back!"

Xu Guangqi's mouth twitched and he stroked his forehead with a sigh.He had long heard that the emperor was learning Latin, and he also found a few interpreters from Guangdong to Beijing—these Latin letters were taught by the interpreters and used by the Institute of Geology to deduce mathematical formulas.

However, the scholars of the Gewu Institute, who are deeply influenced by Chinese-style education, let the students learn it first with the method of reading the classics, but this method makes Xu Guangqi laugh and cry.

In his class, he just wrote these letters at random, and then told the students to pronounce them, and they would naturally memorize them, so why did they have to teach them specially.

However, in the start-up normal university, the teaching plans and teaching methods are being explored, because the textbooks and courses are completely different from those of the Guozijian.

Because the court has accumulated a lot of experience in Nanyuan Martial Arts, the medical school and the normal university have avoided many detours.But in this way, the university has been mixed with the style of martial arts, and it has become different from what Xu Guangqi expected, and it is a little sleazy.Compared with the original Guozijian, it is more like a military camp.

When Xu Guangqi was walking across the campus playground, he saw a lot of sturdy young men, shirtless and holding an olive-shaped ball, ramming across the playground.On the sidelines of the court, there was a guy who was facing the sky with a big bag on his forehead, and someone next to him was fanning him with a long shirt. Xu Guangqi guessed that this guy must have passed out.

Shaking his head, Xu Guangqi bypassed the group of people and went straight to his teaching and research group.Today his class is at 09:30 in the morning—this is another reform. As the timer becomes more accurate, the cumbersome and difficult method of timing has also been changed. Nowadays, all universities in the capital use new The 24-hour timekeeping method goes hand in hand with the folk twelve hours.

Xu Guangqi sometimes feels that things like "poetry" and "literary talent" are becoming more and more worthless nowadays.Take timing as an example, he felt that "Sunday" was much better than [-] o'clock, because the latter sounded like playing mahjong.

Thinking of playing mahjong, Xu Guangqi smiled at the corner of his mouth.Princess Leping is a well-known mahjong master in the palace. She grew up with Empress Dowager Rensheng, and her mahjong level is superior to the court.When the two communicated, Princess Leping often wrote in the letter: "Yesterday I accompanied my mother to play mahjong, and I am very sleepy today."

Well, the timing method of the inner palace has not been changed, and now the most pioneering are the great halls of the capital, and all such changes start at the university.On the one hand, Xu Guangqi enjoys this new way of life, for example, he can communicate with the princess at any time, on the other hand, he secretly slanders some reforms.

For example, what makes him feel very outrageous is that the students of the Normal University are now learning the simplified characters that are being taught in Nanyuan Wuxue.The emperor has decreed that starting from the 11th year of Wanli, the graduates sent to various places will only be able to teach simplified characters, and it will be a crime to teach "orthodox characters".From the 15th year of Wanli, the imperial edicts, official documents of the court and newspapers and publications will all use simplified characters.Prior to this, both simplified characters and orthographic characters were legal official document styles.

This "controversy between simplicity and justice" has been noisy in the newspapers for a while, and many scholars have been criticized for this.However, as more and more ritual vessels and oracle bones were unearthed in Yin Ruins, Anyang County, Henan Province, a large number of characters on them were also recognized, which proves that when my ancient ancestors invented characters, they were rushing to simplify the graphics. .

This blow is simply a dimensionality reduction blow, and there is no trace of the voice that directly resisted the simplified characters.Those who support simplified Chinese characters—mainly Hanlins who were trained by the servants’ office, said plausibly, “Simplified Chinese characters have been around since ancient times, so why not use them now? It is the real ancestor of writing!"

The words are good, and the logic is impeccable, but Xu Guangqi still feels that he is not used to it.For example, the word "kiss", the simplified word is just "kiss", how can we kiss if we can't meet each other?
There are so many examples, such as "love", "righteousness", "雷" and so on, after the orthographic simplification, the beauty in Chinese characters is almost deprived.Many people cite these examples for a while, but because the imperial court ignored them, they gradually disappeared.

Another problem with simplified characters is that they do not look good in calligraphy.Many people knew that the emperor was good at writing big characters, and they all waited for Zhu Yijun to write his first simplified calligraphy.But the emperor was very double-standard. He used simplified Chinese characters in the questions and answers, and he still wrote straight characters in his calligraphy works.

Later, Xu Guangqi heard the emperor's point of view from people in the palace, saying that tools belong to tools, and art belongs to art. If you want to write big characters and practice calligraphy, it is no problem to use orthographic characters.But officials who still write orthographic characters in the title book after 15 years in Wanli, then don't do it.

Xu Guangqi walked to the teacher's area in such a crazy way. When he was in the corridor, he saw a group of people blocking the door of his teaching and research room. In the middle, a guy wearing a pure yang towel and dressed like a Taoist priest was Wang Shizhen, the president of the Normal University.

Seeing Xu Guangqi, Wang Shizhen hurriedly greeted him.In the ninth year of Wanli, he finally achieved a positive result, was recommended to the emperor by Feng Bao, and was appointed as the principal of the Beijing Normal School.

Principal Wang was almost stunned by the big pie that fell from the sky. After receiving the decree, he burst into tears.He didn't know that Feng Bao was working hard behind the scenes, but he just went to see Feng Bangning, the president of Nanjing Daily with a gift, and knelt down when he entered the door.

Feng Bangning was taken aback at the time, and after he understood the question, he comforted him and said, "Mr. Fengzhou has been advocating reform over the years, and the emperor has seen every single piece of writing and writing. Where can Lao Feng help you with this?"

Although Wang Shizhen did not enter the officialdom, his appointment as the principal meant that the despairing Wang family was pulled up from the abyss by the emperor. Since then, Mr. Fengzhou has become an extremely determined imperial party - his descendants have been like this from generation to generation.

Seeing Xu Guangqi at this time, he wiped the sweat on his face and said, "Zixian, 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, "Don't do your Highness' business, it's the emperor who wants to summon you."

When Xu Guangqi was bewildered, the eunuch who was behind Wang Shizhen stepped out and said in a shrill voice, "Captain, my servant heard that it was Governor Luo Wanhua's inscription book, which said that it is estimated that next spring, there will be Xiyi entering. Pay tribute. The emperor asked you to enter the Wenhua Palace to learn Latin and Portuguese, and then as a representative of the royal family, you will be in charge of the host and guests. Well, I sent slaves to summon you and ask you a few words - come with our family. "

Because Princess Leping was favored in the palace, she did not dare to neglect her fiance, the eunuch.The inner official explained the information he had in a few sentences, which gave Xu Guangqi a reassurance.

Xu Guangqi first agreed: "Who will take my class?" After speaking, he took the lecture notes from the bag.

After the handover with the substitute lecturer was over, he asked straight again, "Learning languages ​​is nothing, but why do you want to go to Wenhua Hall? Didn't you go to Siyi Hall to study?"

The inner officer looked at him as if he saw a fool.Principal Wang and the people around him also looked at Xu Guangqi with the eyes of a fool.Wang Shizhen broke the embarrassment, and laughed: "You are a hairy head. Yesterday, I went to the school gate and waited for a special messenger to deliver a letter to you. Now that you are allowed to enter the Wenhua Hall, will the letter still take so long?"

He cursed in his heart: "Mom's, that's Wenhua Palace, where the crown prince reads! You are a concubine, commander-in-chief, you don't poop in that pit, why are there so many!"

(End of this chapter)