Chapter 1296: Lost and Fear
Min Ruoying waved his hand to repel the guards and palace servants, leaving behind the Ming Dynasty craftsman. He felt that this was an opportunity to understand the Ming Dynasty well from the information of the inner guards and from his own officials, all he could get was always a little bit like watching flowers in the fog. From the mouths of the Ming Dynasty officials, he would never get what he wanted to know, and those scholars were very cunning!
He had never understood why Qin Feng could do such a big career in a short period of time, swallowing Yue and destroying Qin, and now he became the biggest opponent of Qi, and he had a faint look of unifying the world.
Min Ruoying is the noble of the emperor. He received the most systematic education since childhood and made a wish to unify the world since childhood. For this reason, he did not hesitate to give up everything, including family affection, but in the end, he fell into an embarrassing situation at the moment.
Why did Qin Feng do it
Although the person in front of me was a craftsman, he was an official of the fifth rank of the Ming Dynasty. He was not as cunning as those scholars. He was a good opportunity to understand the Ming Dynasty, or to find out something that he had never known before.
He sat casually on the shaft of the carriage and waved to the craftsman to approach the craftsman. The craftsman was a little uneasy. This time he followed the envoy to Chu State, mainly to ensure that the super luxurious carriage would not have any problems during installation. He never thought that he would even meet the emperor of Chu State by chance.
Although he is a fifth-rank official, he is basically a craftsman like him. The most common officials he comes into contact with are those in the Construction Department of the Ministry of Works. He only met the emperor once in his life, and that was when he and several apprentices studied the iron thing that was finally named by the emperor as the Lü Feiwheel.
"In your Ming Dynasty, can craftsmen easily become Shangguan'er?" Min Ruoying asked casually.
Lu Song felt a little relaxed. The emperor in front of him didn't look very scary. Just like the Emperor of Ming Dynasty he had seen, he was always gentle and gentle when talking to someone like him.
"Your Majesty, this is not the case. In our Ming Dynasty, if a craftsman wants to have an official position, he must make very outstanding contributions." Lu Song said: "Just like a small official, he was appointed as an official position because he invented a four-wheeled carriage and solved the steering and control problems of the four-wheeled carriage. This time, because he invented a flywheel, he was promoted to a fifth-grade master."
"Is this the thing?" Min Ruoying turned the flywheel in her hand drippingly
"Yes!" Lu Song said
"How many years have you read?" Min Ruoying asked
Lu Song blushed: "Reply to Your Majesty, Xiaguan was poor when he was young, and there was no extra money to study. He followed his master to learn craftsmanship. That is, after I was blessed with the grace of His Majesty of the Ming Dynasty, I hired a gentleman to teach Xiaguan to read, and now I can only barely understand the official documents."
Min Ruoying smiled and said, "Are all the craftsmen in you like you?"
"Basically all!" Lu Song said: "But now in our Ming Dynasty, even the children are reading and literate. We are all officials at least, and it is really unreasonable to be illiterate. So even if we are in great pain, we have to bite the bullet and learn. Your Majesty said, if we are illiterate, how can we pass on our knowledge? How can we write books and make it famous in future generations?"
"You are also thinking about Shuli's Sayings." Min Ruoying wanted to laugh a little. The person who had just recognized a few words knew what Shuli's Sayings was like.
"Your Majesty doesn't know anything," Lu Song said seriously: "Our Emperor Majesty said that the books we will write in the future are not allowed to talk about the literary talent or the parallel and four li and six. Instead, we should write about how to invent these things and how to make them clearly and clearly, so that we can know what is going on at a glance. Therefore, just read and just be smooth and just ask for a clear idea. As long as we achieve this goal, we can leave our name in history."
Min Ruoying couldn't help but be moved: "These are the guys you eat. If you write them into a book and spread them, will everyone know? Don't you plan for your descendants? You should know that with this kind of thing, your descendants can't eat and wear."
"I dare not think so!" Lu Song smiled and said, "Without our Emperor, how could we have such a good life now? His Majesty the Emperor said, only better things and no best things, if our things are spread, smart people will learn to improve them better. If better things appear, our Ming Dynasty will be stronger. We dare not delay our Ming Dynasty's future for our own selfish interests. Let's talk about people like us, like important officials like Lord Shu. Now they have opened medical schools to teach their own medical skills. The miracle doctors of the Ming Dynasty are all teaching in medical schools. Each of them opens their most proud medical skills and print them into books for others to learn. What is our little trick of carvings?"
"So that's how you think?" Min Ruoying looked at this craftsman who had never read a book in shock. The reason seemed very simple, but how many people can really do it?
"Shouldn't you think so?" Lu Song looked at the Emperor of Chu with a little strange. He thought it was very simple. Why did the Emperor of Chu be strange? "I am for everyone, everyone for me! I do this, of course I have to do better. When I build a carriage, I want to make the carriage more comfortable and make it more comfortable to sit. The agricultural officials tried their best to cultivate new varieties, just to plant more food and feed more people. Those who smelter steel make the steel better can create better weapons and armor to protect us. Even if it is used to build agricultural tools, it can be used better and save more energy."
"Do you wise people think so?" Min Ruoying asked with a heavy heart.
"That's not the case. Of course, there are also things that I think about myself. There are 100 people, all kinds of things. How can it be the same? But most people think about it. We have suffered a lot and suffered a lot. In other words, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have a day to stand out and live a life without worrying about food and clothing. How dare we not cherish our current life! Now, there are people in Qi who are eyeing us and wanting to take away our good life, so everyone is thinking about working hard to defeat Qi and everyone is at ease!" Lu Song said.
Min Ruoying was silent for a moment: "Then our Great Chu, are we one of your potential enemies? Haven't your Emperor ever thought about unifying the world?"
Lu Song was stunned for a while and then said, "Your Majesty, aren't Da Chu and Da Ming a country of in-laws? Our Empress is the eldest princess of Da Chu. How could we fight and we are allies now? We have a common enemy, the State of Qi. Are we both fighting each other now?
Min Ruoying smiled. The craftsman official in front of him probably never thought about this kind of problem. Although he is an official, he is still looking at the problem from the perspective of a bottom-level people. However, this is not a bad thing for Da Chu.
"Yes, yes, you're right. Da Chu and Da Ming are in-laws. Like your brother, Ma Junjun, the governor of Changyang County, is the chief minister of our Da Chu!"
"Ma Gong Xiaguan knows that he is a role model for our Ming officials!" Lu Song was also a little excited, "The Xiaguan didn't know that Ma Gong's brother was actually the chief minister of Da Chu."
"So we are two countries and one family!" Min Ruoying smiled and said, "By the way, let's talk about the children in the Ming Dynasty first, what's going on?"
"Oh, this is the imperial edict issued by our Ming Emperor. When the children are six years old, they have to send them to the school to study and learn to read. If the parents don't send them, they will have to pay taxes! You think, you dare to disobey. Now most of our villages in the Ming Dynasty have schools. I heard that Mr. Xiao, the Minister of Rites, is in his early seventies, and is still working hard to make every village have a sound of reciting and reading, and every family has scholars. His Majesty the Emperor also said that Mr. Xiao really wants to do this. A hundred years later, His Majesty the Emperor will personally support the coffin and send the spirits for him!"
"Every village has a sound of reciting, and every family has scholars!" Min Ruoying recited silently several times, and involuntarily felt a sense of fear in his heart. Old Man Xiao knew that he was a famous scholar in the world. Even in Chu State, he was also famous. Such a person could put down his airs and run around the world for Qin Feng. Is this Qin Feng really such a charm?
"Now in our Ming Dynasty, there are primary schools, middle schools, and university schools. Children start to read from reading and literacy step by step. When they arrive at the middle school, they start to sort out the categories. According to each person's interests, different teachers will teach different knowledge. When children grow up, they will not have to worry about their livelihoods."
"It will cost a lot of money to support a child in school."
"Elementary school is a free one, and even the salary of the teacher is paid by the court! It only starts to charge fees when we arrive in the middle school. However, with the current income level of our Ming people, it is more than enough to support our children's studies," Lu Song said proudly.
Min Ruoying talked with Lu Song in the east and west, and did not notice where the inner guard commander Yang Qing had been standing for a long time, but was blocked by the eunuch and did not come over.
"What will Your Majesty say to that craftsman again?" Yang Qing asked the eunuch anxiously.
"I don't know!" The eunuch shook his head and said, "Commander Yang, Your Majesty seems to be very excited. You should wait a while, otherwise it will make Your Majesty angry. Your Majesty has been in a bad mood these days."
Yang Qing nodded, "Thank you for your advice"
After waiting for half an hour, Yang Qing finally saw Min Ruoying walking slowly over. His face was full of a loss-losing expression. Yang Qing actually saw a hint of fear in the emperor's eyes.
He couldn't help but wonder, how could a little inexperienced craftsman make His Majesty the Emperor feel like this
Chapter completed!