prosperous age

Chapter 13

But after getting up the next day, Wei Guangde had to go to the private school to study after breakfast.

In the past few days, Mr. Sun has asked him to start reading "Great Learning", and he has to explain it to him every day, which is similar to before. The daily homework is about ten or so sentences. After explaining it thoroughly, let him write it. One is to strengthen it. Memory, the second is to practice calligraphy.

But Wei Guangde also recalled that this private school system is also very fucked up, there is only one holiday in more than ten days, and only two days off in a month, and there are still two days until the fifteenth holiday.

Fortunately, after today and tomorrow, you can stay at home for a day.

However, Wei Guangde still made a plan in his heart, come back early in the afternoon, and try the gun with a bird's gun.

In later generations, although Wei Guangde also went to university, he never really fired a gun. During the military training at the university, he fired a gun, and the instructor also explained the structure and use of the gun, and then there was nothing else.

Maybe it was a better university that I heard about, or, anyway, Wei Guangde couldn't tell, maybe it was just bad luck, anyway, they didn't encounter any shooting incidents in that year.

Well, after crossing over, I fired a shot at Baihusuo, but forget about the firecracker, it makes me sad to think about it.

However, Wei Guangde really admired the group of people who fought the world with Lao Zhu back then. They defeated the Mongol Tartars and overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty by relying on such firearms. It was quite powerful.

Entering the school today, sat down in his own seat, Wei Guangde took out a book as usual, similar to the students around him, started to read while shaking his head.

To be honest, he doesn't understand why people in this era read in this way. Master Sun was like this when he was studying, and so were the students around him. He didn't know if it was an infection or something else.

There are more than 20 students in Sun Fuzi's school, the older ones are fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger ones are only eight or nine years old, just like when he was sent here.

It seems that Mrs. Sun is not willing to recruit children who are too young. Maybe he thinks that children are too young to be disciplined. Even if your family is willing to give him money, he will not accept it.

For a scholar like Sun Fuzi, although he is not a granary student and cannot receive Lumi from the government every month, he is still exempted from land tax and corvee.

Master Sun also has some fields, so he has no worries about food and clothing.

Moreover, he has always stayed in his hometown town, and he is also a highly respected person in the local area. He has great influence, and his small life is naturally nourishing.

For Mr. Sun, who has not continued the imperial examination, training students has naturally become his last hope now.

If you can't become a juren yourself, then train a few juren to help him fulfill his wish.

Not long after Wei Guangde sat down, Master Sun walked over from the backyard.

Mrs. Sun's home is in the center of the town, and the courtyard of Sanjin is quite large, which was also expanded on the basis of the old house after he obtained the honor of being a scholar.

Later, after the imperial examination was hopeless, the front yard was vacated to teach students in a private school.

When I entered the room, I saw more than 20 students sitting in their seats shaking their heads and reading. I was very satisfied. I stroked their beards unconsciously, and walked around the school several times with a smile on their lips.

After the students had read for a long time, he walked back to the podium and began to call the students to him in turn to recite the text.

When it was Wei Guangde's turn to go up and recite, he naturally felt no pressure. He still remembered the books he had read in the past few years, and he would read them a few times when he had nothing to do.

Very smoothly, Wei Guangde passed Master Sun's examination.

For the students who are still in their infancy, that is to memorize the text, and then the master will just ask a few notes and finish the job.

But for the few little guys he is optimistic about who are expected to have a chance to succeed in the imperial examination, there will naturally be more exams.

Not only do you have to recite what you said before, but you also have to take an exam to pass the test on the meaning of the words of the sages.

After all the students took a turn, the morning time had passed quite a bit, and then the master began to give lectures.

Students are divided into groups, each with its own learning progress.

Students who have finished today's lecture will naturally continue to read the book, memorize the explanations of the master, and then copy the book, practice calligraphy and strengthen memory.

After Wei Guangde and the others finished listening to today's class, it was almost time for lunch.

Lunch was arranged uniformly in the private school. After the teacher said that the get out of class was over, the students all stood up, bowed down to salute the teacher, and then went out to eat.

The meals in the school are mediocre, but they are plentiful. It must be unpalatable for the children of the country gentry in the town, but they can only make do with it.

For children from other ordinary families, it is enough to eat enough, and the taste is not so particular.

After eating, there was a break, and after that, classes continued. Wei Guangde and the others finished their classes in the morning, and naturally read books and practice calligraphy in the afternoon.

After lunch today, Wei Guangde and Zhang Ji and the children from the hundred households took a rest in a corridor where they often stayed in the yard. We didn't have many topics to talk about today, but just chatted casually without saying a word.

Chen Youcai and the others didn't come over today, but went back to chatting and laughing with the children of several big families in the town.

Wei Guangde didn't bother to inquire about the relationship between the Baihusuo next door and these landlords in the town, since his own Baihusuo didn't deal with them anyway.

But Zhang Ji and the others mentioned it to Wei Guangde. It seems that all the big households in the town who secretly sold the military land to the town are just hearsay. Maybe I know something about it.

I stayed in the private school until the end of the day, and it was time to leave school again.

In later generations, the end of Weishi is around 3 pm. Although most of these students in the school live in the town, there are also students like Wei Guangde who are far away from the private school.

In the past, when Wei Guangde got home from school, it was around 5 o'clock. This is because they usually didn't play in the town and went straight back after school.

Today Wei Guangde pretended this matter in his heart, and he told Zhang Ji and the others during the lunch break to go back early and try it out with a blunderbuss.

Zhang Ji and the others naturally knew about the expedition from their respective families, and knew that their father had earned a lot of money from this trip. The family is planning to make new clothes for the Chinese New Year this year, so naturally they also heard about it. I went to the guard to receive some equipment.

In fact, the so-called equipment is just this batch of bird guns.

However, most of them are not interested in this thing, but seeing Wei Guangde seems to be very interested, they naturally said to try it together.

They trotted home with their schoolbags on their backs, and after putting away their things, they ran directly to the warehouse of the military fort. They definitely couldn't do the gun business, but Wei Guangde could. Wei Wencai is in charge of the warehouse now. Wei Guangde's brother is in charge.

(End of this chapter)