Chapter 46 Nanping County School
Early the next morning, Lin Xianyang got up in a hurry, but Su Ze got up earlier than him and had already returned from a morning exercise, holding a few biscuits in his hand.
Su Ze was tortured by lice yesterday. He slept in a daze until early morning, when he heard the sound of banging outside the door.
The people in Nanping County got up earlier than Su Ze expected. When it was still dark, the breakfast stalls were already out.
Su Ze also didn't expect that the county town would be in such a scene. It was as lively as the morning in his hometown town in his previous life.
All the people coming and going were men in short jackets. Su Ze saw that they were all dirty, so he hurriedly had breakfast and headed out of the city.
Su Ze found a biscuit stall, bought a few biscuits and returned to the house where he was staying. Lin Xianyang took the biscuits rather embarrassedly. It was indeed much more fragrant than the cold vegetable porridge at home!
Su Ze asked: "Brother Ayang, why are there so many people who get up early in Nanping County?"
Lin Xianyang said with a smile: "Those are miners who get up early to go to the mines."
Miners? Why is this so different from the life in the county town Su Ze imagined.
Lin Xianyang said: "The Zhouduo Mine in Nanping County has official pits belonging to the government and private pits belonging to local wealthy people. There are copper mines and iron ore mines, and they are mined day and night." Su Ze then remembered that Yanping Mansion is the
entire Mineral base in the southeastern region.
But he didn't expect that the mining industry in the Ming Dynasty had become so developed.
After eating the biscuits, the two adults left the little carrot head to the care of their relatives, and Lin Xianyang hurried out with the money in his pocket.
Su Ze's childbirth qualification needed to be submitted to the county government's ceremony room. Lin Xianyang decided to go to the county school with Su Ze to find the junior student to sign a guarantee, and then go to the county government together.
The county school is next to the Chenghuang Temple. When Su Ze and Lin Xianyang arrived, there was a long line of carriages parked in front of the rear door of the Chenghuang Temple.
Su Ze realized that this was the new prefect's motorcade that he saw outside the city yesterday.
All they saw was that the door to the back compartment was opened, and a few strong women held up curtains and pulled up two rows of temporary screens in front of the carriage, blocking the way from the door to the carriage.
Su Ze quickly grabbed Lin Xianyang and said: "Slow down, it's the daughter of the prefect's family who is boarding the car. We will go there in a moment."
Sure enough, Su Ze saw the figure of a young woman reflected on the curtain. Now the Ming Dynasty is a country with strict etiquette. In that era, the daughters of officials were not allowed to show their faces casually until they came out of the cabinet.
However, despite strict etiquette, various stories of elopement and adultery were widely circulated.
The Jiangnan region, where the literary style was most prosperous, was also the most liberated in thinking. There were already girls' schools specifically for gentry women to study. Some literati have even put forward the slogan of freedom of marriage.
The mid-Ming Dynasty was such a contradictory era. Ethical ethics and freedom, openness and conservatism all collided in this era. Countless ideas collided and inspired various ideological trends.
It is a pity that these trends of thought were eventually extinguished by the last unified dynasty. By the time the next era of awakening arrives, the Chinese nation has already suffered too much.
Su Ze came back from his thoughts when the wind rolled up the curtain, revealing a pretty and cold face.
Lin Xianyang beside him quickly lowered his head, but Su Ze, who had watched countless audio and video clips in his later life, stared at it out of habit.
The strong woman quickly straightened the curtain again. The girl felt the gaze and looked at Su Ze. Then she was blocked by the curtain.
A poem came to Su Ze's mind: "There is a beauty in the south, peerless and independent."
In the blink of an eye, the prefect's motorcade slowly started moving, and the beautiful figure disappeared without a trace. After finally waiting for the prefect's motorcade to pass by, the two of them came to the county school.
As the most basic academic and educational institution of the Ming Dynasty, the County School is a building that occupies a considerable area.
The first thing Su Ze saw was the tall Lingxing Gate directly in front of the county school. According to ancient legend, Lingxing is a literary star in the sky. This gate represents Confucius, indicating that behind the gate is a place where cultural traditions gather.
This gate can only be erected in front of Confucian temples and schools. The gate of Nanping County School is made of stone and is quite tall and majestic.
After the Lingxing Gate, there is another Halberd Gate. In ancient times, when emperors went out, they would place a halberd as a gate. Since the Tang Dynasty, halberds have been erected in front of official offices. The number of halberds is from high to low according to the official position.
However, in the Ming Dynasty, halberd gates became a style of door construction. Government offices all erected halberd gates to warn irrelevant people not to enter casually.
The Jianli Hall in the middle is the main hall of the county school. It is the main hall where major events are held and the statue of Confucius is enshrined.
The two rows of rooftop houses on the left and right are where the county school is used for lectures. On the left is the "Ming Lun Hall" where lectures are given. The main hall is dedicated to Yang Shi, Luo Congyan, Li Tong and Zhu Xi. On the right is the dormitory of the county school students. , and there are small buildings such as canteens and warehouses at the back.
Lin Xianyang quickly took Su Ze to the dormitory on the right, but Su Ze seemed a little desolate in this huge county school?
The sun has risen, but there is no sound of reading in the county school, and not even a few people can be seen.
Although the county school is clean and tidy, and the buildings are well repaired, the lack of popularity still makes Su Ze a little confused.
Nanping County is the hometown of Zhu Xi, with a long cultural history. In Fujian, which has been involved in more and more affairs, the number of Jinshi students every year is also at the forefront of Fujian Province.
And Fujian is a famous holy land for imperial examinations. There are two capitals and thirteen roads. In addition to the two capitals of the North and South Zhili, among the thirteen roads, Fujian has the most people who have passed the Jinshi examination.
Logically speaking, the county school in Nanping County should not be like this?
The school buildings are all marked with numbers according to the heavenly stems and the earthly branches. Su Ze soon found out what the old man said about the old man's acquaintance with the old man.
Linsheng is also a scholar who has passed the boy examination. He is also called a student. There is also a broader name - scholar.
But this scholar named Zhou is already an old scholar.
He looked about forty or fifty years old, with gray hair and some baldness. He covered the center of his hair with the hair on both sides, which made him look even more funny.
He was wearing a shabby scholar's uniform, and he was as thin and short as an old farmer working in the fields.
Su Ze didn't expect that the dignified scholar would look like this?
"Zhou Xiucai, this is the clan brother my father told you, Brother Aze, this is Zhou Xiucai."
Su Ze bowed to Zhou Xiucai. Seeing Su Ze's standard movements, Zhou Xiucai smiled. Said:
"Changningwei finally has a scholar, and I am happy for the ordinary people."
After saying that, he read the guarantee letter, signed his name on the guarantee book, and took out a seal from his pocket. Go up and hand it over to Su Ze.
After getting the guarantee letter he needed, Su Ze asked:
"Zhou Xiucai, why is this county school so deserted?"
Zhou Xiucai seemed to be asked about his pain. After saying "Oh, sorry", he whispered:
" He is not the new Haijiaoyu. There are few people coming to Nanping County School to study. He still has to take the national examination. The junior students who fail the examination will be demoted to Zengguang students, and the Zengguang students who fail the examination will be demoted to attached students. Those affiliated students who fail the exam will be required to be dismissed as student members. If this is done, all the county schools will be gone!"
"It's just pitiful for a poor scholar like me, who lives on only two taels of silver, so he stays in the county school and dares not leave. Hey, hey, hey!"
(End of chapter)