Chapter 17(1/3)
Four teachers took turns to teach Yinreng. Their teaching styles were completely different, leaving a strange impression on Yinreng.
Zhang Ying is the most familiar master he is. He is very patient and knows that Yinreng can't sit still. Whenever he explains to him, Zhang Ying will use some simple and interesting stories to attract his attention. When he becomes fully focused, he will teach deeper content with him through communication and discussion.
Perhaps it was because of a son who was famous when he was a teenager at home, Zhang Ying had sufficient preliminary training. He was the best way for Yinreng to understand the teachings among the four masters.
However, Zhang Ying likes to drag the hall and progress!
Yinreng was anxious to save his "mate" and wanted to speed up and run for a hundred miles. Zhang Ying was gentle and worried that he would not be able to learn it thoroughly, which made the students very anxious.
So in comparison, Yinreng prefers Xiong Cilu!
At the beginning, this Neo-Confucian master was not easy to understand when teaching children, so that Yinreng always looked at him with a confused and innocent look when listening to his class.
Xiong Cilu was also helpless. He never thought that the emperor would ask him to teach a four-year-old baby!
He quietly whispered to Zhang Ying: "The emperor was enlightened after he was six years old. My child was enlightened at the age of six or seven. When he arrived at the prince, he was five years old and actually four years old. Not to mention the endorsement, he didn't even recognize his words! Even the crown prince of the country was too early. The emperor was pulling seedlings to encourage growth!"
Zhang Ying then mentioned a few words: "It is better to take the Book of Songs as an example to teach His Highness to recognize words and guide him to write. If His Highness cannot explain the meaning, it is better to tell him more stories."
As for writing calligraphy to practice arm strength, they didn't expect him to practice now.
Xiong Cilu sighed and thanked Zhang Ying for helping him.
Being a prince's teacher is a good thing for the ministers to gain both reputation and status. Kangxi believed in their character and talent. With the emperor's kindness and love, how could Xiong Cilu live up to the emperor's expectations? In the past, Neo-Confucianism and Confucianism abandoned obscure words and learned the vernacular words of the people, in order to make the young prince understand it.
In order to teach Yinreng, Xiong Cilu conducted experiments on his six-year-old grandson at home, and personally experienced how unsitating children of this age were and how easily affected by external objects.
"Today's teaching is a passage about Caiwei in "The Book of Songs: Xiaoya".
Xiong Cilu said, Shuke on the desk always thought of escaping from prison, lying on the iron railing of the cage, holding the railing and slamming her teeth with her big teeth...
The slight sound did not affect Yinreng. He focused on staring at the teacher and followed him to recite "Caiwei Caiwei, Wei also said to stop..."
Xiong Cilu sighed in her heart. After comparing, she realized how different the crown prince of the country was. However, this concentration was many times better than his grandson.
He quoted classics and talked about the classics about King Wu's food and picking vegetarian food during the Shang Dynasty when King Wu was pacifying the Shang Dynasty. Yinreng's eyes lit up: "King King Wu defeated King Zhou, I know this!"
Xiong Cilu was extremely surprised: "So your highness has heard of "Records of the Grand Historian" in advance? Why don't your highness tell me about it? How much do you know about it?"
Yinreng said happily: "I know there are Nezha, Erlang Shen, Shiji Niangniang, Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao!"
Xiong Cilu laughed and said, "It turns out that Your Highness has heard of "The Romance of the Gods" in advance."
"The Romance of the Gods" was written by people from the previous dynasty. The storybook was widely circulated, and the fragments of the Romance of the Gods will also be listed in the drama. Xiong Cilu said: "It's just that "The Romance of the Gods" was fictionalized by predecessors. There is no record of Nezha in ancient times in "Records of the Grand Historian".
"Gu knew the meaning of fiction. There were no Nezha and Ao Bing in ancient times," Yinreng replied seriously: "Gu's clear reality and storytelling book."
However, he knew that although there was no Nezha in ancient times, there were dinosaurs in ancient times! In ancient times, which were farther away than Dayu's flood control, it was an ancient period that was difficult for everyone to understand nowadays.
"Caiwei tells the story of a soldier who returned to the field after his army and returned home. The hardships of leaving the border and returning home, the road was difficult to move forward. He was hungry and thirsty. He recalled the past time on the battlefield and felt mixed feelings. At that time, the border was unstable and Rong Di was invading..."
As Xiong Cilu spoke, he found that the prince's eyes were gradually confused. From his face, he knew whether he had understood anything else. So he slowed down his speech and waited for the prince to wake up.
But for a moment, the prince's confusion gradually faded away, as if he had understood his content all at once. The feeling was like a "revelation" understanding, and it was like an invisible person who was always by His Highness's side to explain to him.
Xiong Cilu actually believed in the "given the gift from heaven" by the emperor who was sent by the emperor to promote His Royal Highness!
During the day, the teacher told me how much things happened. At night, he followed the system to watch related animations, listened repeatedly, watched animations repeatedly, recited repeatedly, and studied thousands of miles a day. Yinreng gnawed the progress of the Book of Songs at an astonishing speed.
The day before, I learned "Caiwei" the next day, and I could recite it. I can never forget it. Which master does a smart and sensible student don't like it? What's more interesting is that His Royal Highness will look at him with a "thirsty" look at him and ask him to teach more content.
Before he knew it, Xiong Cilu accelerated the teaching progress a lot, from one article on the first two days to two articles a day, and three articles a day. The people who teach are devoted and the people who learn are full of enthusiasm, and they have achieved harmonious coexistence.
Among the four gentlemen, Xiong Cilu appeared the most frequently. Whenever class was in class, the systemic background music would sound, and Yinreng's mind was filled with two words "Run the duck!"
The other two, Li Guangdi, wanted to help Kangxi quell the Three Feudal Rebellion. The court had more official duties and appeared at least frequently. But whenever he appeared, Yinreng knew that it was time to listen to his master's story!
This is a thrilling master with ups and downs in his life. In order to hear him tell him that he was kidnapped and forced to be a local official by "Wu Sangui", he finally found an opportunity to escape back to the Qing Dynasty. Yinreng would preview the number of chapters he had to study in advance before class and sacrificed his time to study in order to let Li Guangdi know that he had learned it, and fortunately he would tell other stories in class.
Li Guangdi was puzzled and asked his colleagues: "Do you know why Your Highness wants to call me Master Xiaohu?"
No one has watched "The Little Tiger Returns Home", of course they don't know how much stuff Yinreng has put into his little head.
The last master was named Tang Bin, with a wrinkle between his brows and a national face, which was very serious and majestic. He was famous for his honest reputation in the court, and he was very serious in his work. His serious personality was very easy to offend people. He was an isolated minister who was only loyal to the emperor.
Kangxi liked to use Tang Bin, and he respected him especially as a Neo-Confucian scholar, and Zhu Xuexiu.
Tang Bin is over fifty years old and his hair is a little gray. As long as he appears there, it makes people feel scared. Although he is obviously a person who can stop his children from crying, Yinreng felt that he was particularly kind.
It’s nothing more, Tang Bin’s face looks like his grandfather who raised seven gourd babies!
During class, Yinreng liked to stare at his face and beard. If he was whiter, he would be the grandfather of the Calabash.
Despite the busy affairs in the court, Kangxi still planned to personally inquire about Yinreng's study progress. After letting Yinreng study for nearly a month, Kangxi took two hours to come to Tang Bin's class to listen to him telling the "Book of Songs·Zheng Feng".
There are many love poems in "Zheng Feng" that tell the folk customs of the pre-Qin period. The words and sentences are very charming, such as the sentence "The green collar of my heart is lingering."
With so many chapters in the Book of Songs, Tang Bin had the "Zheng Feng" among the four masters. The serious old man talked about Zheng Feng and Yale seriously, and had to deal with Yinreng's strange questions from time to time. Kangxi only listened to a stick of incense, so he felt so hard that he could hold back his laughter.
"Zi Jin's article uses graceful and gentle words, and is elegant and entertaining, and you can appreciate the folk customs of Zheng in the pre-Qin period."
"This story is about a woman waiting for her lover on the city tower. The lover did not come for a long time, and the woman's love was depressed and melancholy and resentful."
Yinreng raised his hand and spoke: "Master Tang, why should I wait for someone on the city tower? Can't I wait for someone on the city tower? There is no toilet on the city tower."
Tang Bin: “…”
The great Neo-Confucian masters were speechless!
Kangxi smiled and walked out of the class with his shoulders shaking. He didn't laugh on the spot and gave Tang Bin a face.
"Master Tang, what is love? Does love mean love? Then why is it not love? Is the ancients written like this because love is less than love?"
Tang Bin asked Yinreng a lot, but His Highness did not make trouble on purpose, but was really confused. Those who are teachers can only answer patiently.
It is a wrong combination to teach the love chapter in the Book of Songs by Tang Bin. In the first class, Tang Bin realized that the prince was not simple in his mind, he taught hard, and the students were tricky, and the other masters responded with sympathy. The emperor was secretly happy and had no intention of changing his master.
Whenever class is over, Yinreng will come and ask the masters: "How is the Lonely behave?"
When the master said, "Your Highness performed very well," he would happily feed the mice.
After completing the first ten chapters of memorization and understanding, Kangxi asked about the four masters and princes’ learning progress. Xiong Cilu and Tang Bin both told Kangxi in unison: The prince is talented and can never forget everything he saw.
Yinreng also rushed over to see Kangxi and said to him seriously: "Ama, I have learned ten articles from me. Please check it quickly and give me an exam!"
The first time when the child came up to ask him to check his homework, Kangxi was very interested and really checked Yinreng's learning progress. All the questions mentioned were answered correctly by the child. Kangxi was very satisfied.
"I underestimate you. I have written ten chapters in seven days. Baocheng is indeed a little genius."
Yinreng took advantage of Kangxi's good mood and smiled and asked him, "Amma Khan is very satisfied with his lonely performance?"
Kangxi raised his eyebrows and was alert for a moment: "It's pretty good, what do you want to do?"
"Can Ama give her son some reward so that she can be motivated to devote herself to school?"
Yinreng attempted to bargain.
"What reward do you want?"
"Khan Ama gives Shuk a bed? It's so cold, Shuk is so pitiful to sleep at night."
Kangxi said expressionlessly: "That mouse has fluff and will not be cold."
Yinreng said pitifully: "But I heard it sneeze!"
When the emperor heard the conversation between the father and son, they laughed and laughed secretly.
Your Highness the Crown Prince is such a treasure!
In addition to wanting a bed, he also needs wood chips, small swings, and small toilets. It would be even better if the craftsmen could build a larger cage and install a staircase so that Shuke could play up and down.
Hearing his son's request, Kangxi's inspiration flashed, splitting these small requests into multiple goals, and told Yinreng that every ten chapters he could recite would receive a reward: "If you recite a hundred chapters, I will let someone create a larger residence for Shuke."
The simple donkey could not understand the emperor's sinister intentions. Kangxi also smiled and drew a design sketch for him of a cage: "It's so big, three floors, and stairs, what do Baocheng thinks?"
This radish was so tempting that he ran forward with a small donkey hanging on it. In order to change Shuke into a comfortable cage as soon as possible, Yinreng gave up the opportunity to watch other cartoons and play, and focused on conquering the Book of Songs.
When Kangxi saw Yinreng studying, he was quite immersed in it and said to the people around him with relief: "Please be like me, I also studied so hard when I was young."
Liang Jiugong served the elderly around Kangxi and experienced Kangxi's hard work. He carefully reminded Kangxi: "Emperor, you were forced by the situation and worked hard day and night to study and coughed up blood. It was because of the situation. It was because of the great empress dowager who forced you to rest, so that you could keep your body well. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still young and you were protecting him. Is it too tired to study like this now?"
Kangxi listened and felt that what Liang Jiugong said was really reasonable.
Learning is important, but physical health is even more important.
In response to Liang Jiugong's words, Madam Liang, who was responsible for the prince's food and clothing, felt sorry for the prince and reported to Kangxi: "Your Highness is still memorizing textbooks before going to bed at night. Your Highness, Your Highness is only four years old!"
Yinreng took a month to memorize a hundred chapters from the Book of Songs. Zhang Ying, who was most shocked by the prince's learning speed, also came to Kangxi, asking: "Your Highness is locked in the study room of Shangshufang every day. When the eldest prince comes to him, he says he is not available and has not gone out to run for a month. The prince, Your Highness has gained a lot of weight."
If you just eat but don’t move, sit and study, and exercise decreases, aren’t you still fat?
Kangxi woke up and finally found out with conscience that he ordered someone to call Yinreng to the front. The white buns he had before were indeed a little more round in just one month.
This won't work.
Realizing this problem, the emperor finally found his conscience and changed his requirements to Yinreng: "From today, Baocheng will study with his master every morning and take time to exercise with the martial artist in the afternoon. If he can exercise for a month, I will return Shuke to you."
Hearing that Kangxi did not intend to ask him to continue to recite the Book of Songs faster, he asked him to exercise. He could get Shuke back after practicing for a month. Yinreng cheered and his tense nerves immediately relaxed.
A month of accelerated learning did not suppress the child's freedom nature, but instead quickly rebounded because of his suffocation. In the afternoon, during martial arts class, Yinreng vented happily, running from singing his legs to learning martial arts with his master.
The direct consequence of doing this is that the whole body is sore and soft the next day, he was bedridden and called the imperial physician.
When Kangxi heard that the prince had hired an imperial physician, he left behind the unreviewed memorial and rushed over.
To be continued...