The Multiverse Starting from White Deer Plain

For example, some wealthy families in the south would not only hire a Mongolian teacher to teach Mongolian studies, but also hire another teacher to teach Confucian classics and craftsmanship. read

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Bailu Academy is the county school, which only provides education for students in the county. The so-called students are commonly known as scholars. Therefore, other students are generally not admitted here.

Otherwise, given Mr. Zhu's knowledge, Bai Jiaxuan would definitely have some persuasive talk to let his two sons attend Bailu Academy and listen to Mr. Zhu's teachings. How could he let Xu Xiucai teach...

However, as the foreign barbarians invaded the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court was forced to make concessions on some systems.

Many old academies have been converted into schools.

For example, Guanzhong Academy, one of the four major academies in Guanzhong, was the place where students moved after being lured to become a boarding school student. Now it has been renamed the First Normal School of Qin Province. It not only recruits students, but also begins to add practical schools. Those who are practical learners do not need to become students...

(Ru Pan, "Book of Rites: Kingship": "The Imperial College is located in the suburbs. The emperor calls it Piyong, and the princes call it Pan Palace." The name of the Imperial College existed in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established the Imperial College as the highest institution of learning, and the Pan Palace It is a local (prince) official school, so these students who enter the school are often called Rupan.)

Zishui County is barren and remote, and the new school has not yet been restructured, so Bailu Academy is still called Bailu Academy and can recruit some non-students.

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When Bai Jiaxuan left in a hurry just now, Bai Gui immediately realized that this should be a gift for Bai Jiaxuan to buy as a disciple. With Bai Jiaxuan's personality, he would definitely prepare one for them when buying gifts.

They were not officially apprentices, but just asked Mr. Zhu to teach them how to make the crafts, so they only needed to buy some gifts, and there was no need to prepare any other gifts.

but……

Bai Gui has experienced the benefits of respecting his master.

If it were not for his comparison of five liters of polished rice and five liters of brown rice, Xu Xiucai, no matter how loyal he was to his teacher, would not be impatient to give him a small stove.

With Xu Xiucai's status, five liters of polished rice was nothing. He had no shortage of food and clothing.

But what is missing is respect.

"Um, I suggest that with the money we have, we don't need to buy the most expensive gifts for our husband. We can pick some pens, ink, paper, inkstones, or books to give to our husband. This is also our own intention as disciples..."

Bai Gui swallowed a mouthful of glutinous rice noodles into his mouth, took a sip of the hot soup, and said.

"That's a good idea."

Several people agreed.

"Well, I know what my uncle likes. We'll wait for my dad to come back later and we'll go to the bookstore to pick it up together." Bai Xiaowen thought for a while and took the opportunity to say that he was also happy that his uncle could be so valued by his classmates.

After a while, Bai Jiaxuan walked into the restaurant carrying large and small bags.

"What? You use your own money to pick some gifts for Mr. Zhu. How about that? You are indeed a good baby from our Bailu Village." Bai Jiaxuan smiled and opened his eyes. Whether it was sincere or not, he could realize this The point is pretty good.

All things are done without regard to the heart.

Walking on the way to the bookstore.

After knowing that this was Bai Gui's idea, Bai Jiaxuan also praised Bai Gui profusely, thinking that he had given a few people a good start, and took out a snack for several people to share.

Bai Gui went to the book store in Bailu Town several times to buy pens and paper. The bookstores in the town only have the most widely circulated Four Books and Five Classics, as well as Zhu Xi's "Collected Commentary on Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books". Some current affairs essays, as well as medical books and other books are extremely lacking.

The name of the book store in the county is Wenchang Book Store, and the gold plaque is erected.

Near the Confucian Temple, standing at the door of the bookstore, you can smell the incense inside the Confucian Temple.

"Across this street to the west is the Shanxi Guild Hall, and Jin Province is to the northeast of us." Bai Jiaxuan squinted his eyes and glanced at the tall courtyard wall of the Shanxi Guild Hall, which stood out like a flock of chickens among the low buildings.

When looking at the surrounding buildings, the Shanxi Guild Hall stands out first.

"Clan leader, do we also have a Shanxi guild hall here?"

"Well, I heard Shanxi merchants are very good at doing business. It's unlikely that they will open a tavern like ours."

Bai Gui said doubtfully.

Shanxi merchants were famous not only in the late Ming Dynasty, but also in the late Qing Dynasty. Shanxi merchants relied on controlling the tea trade of the Qing Dynasty to sell tea to the Rakshasa Kingdom. This was another newly opened tea road after the Silk Road was cut off. During the Kangxi and Qianlong years, Shanxi merchants made a lot of money by selling tea. However, with the signing of a series of traitorous treaties such as the Aihun Treaty, the Qing Dynasty reduced tariffs on Russian merchants, and at the same time, the Siberian Railway was opened, and The Qing Dynasty forced Shanxi merchants to donate silver. It can be said that the merchants of Shanxi Province accounted for 37% of the money allocated for the annihilation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Shanxi merchants donated more than two million taels of silver, which greatly damaged their vitality...

By the time of Guangxu, Shanxi merchants had become lonely.

In addition, Shanxi merchants and Shaanxi merchants have always had a good relationship, and Shanshan guild halls have been built in various places.

What Bai Gui was confused about was that Zishui County was a barren land. If he wanted to open a Shanxi guild hall, it would be more suitable to go to Xi'an. Of course, there must be a Shanxi guild hall in Xi'an. He just wondered why the Shanxi guild hall was opened in Zishui County. Something like that.

He will also be involved in business in the future.

Among the best business people in each province, people from Jin Province definitely rank among the top three.

"This...this is a collection of our silks and cloths."

Bai Jiaxuan laughed and refused to say more. He was used to going to the Shanxi Guild Hall, but since Mr. Zhu almost smashed the archway in Bailu Village, he stopped doing this business.

You can't tell the truth to the dolls.

Since Grandpa Lin banned smoking, although some people have planted it, everyone knows that this is a disaster, ruining the luck of the ancestors and affecting the business of the next generation.

You must know that he planted this thing at the time. After giving birth to Bai Xiaowen and Bai Xiaowu, the Bai Wu family gave birth to three boys and one girl every year according to the frequency of one or two every three years, but none of them escaped the bad luck of Four Six, that is, Four Six Wind. , the doll died young. The death process of the four children was exactly the same. They started crying on the fourth day after birth, and on the sixth day they rolled their eyes, hung themselves with kernels in their eyes, and died!

It wasn't until she planted crops again that she gave birth to her third son, a calf, and escaped the four or six winds.

"So that's it."

Although Bai Gui was curious and had some questions in his mind, he didn't feel comfortable studying further. What Bai Jiaxuan said is reasonable. Shaanxi merchants have always been engaged in textile technology, which is well-known throughout the country and has always been a pillar industry.

But his intuition told him that Bai Jiaxuan was definitely telling lies.

But it's not easy to inquire about him. Anyway, he was in Zishui County during this period, so he would find out one day.

Entered the bookstore.

The bookstores in the county are indeed more than twice as expensive as those in the town. Not only do they have the four treasures of the study of various qualities, among which the jade pens and jade inkstones carved from the jade abundant in Zishui County are the most exquisite and luxurious. Fine rice paper as white as snow.

In addition to these four common treasures of the study, there is no shortage of other four books, five classics, and history books.

There is even a separate section dedicated to translated foreign language classics, including the best-selling "On the Evolution of Heaven" by Huxley, translated by Yan Fu, and the "New Treatise on the Whole" written by Hexin, an English physician who talks about Western medicine. ”, there are also “Astronomical Questions and Answers” ​​by Amei Ken missionary Haba Ander, “A Brief Introduction to Learning” co-translated by Wei Lie Yali and Wang Tao, “Outline of World History” co-translated by Yang Shu and Zhang Xiu, and “Chemistry” by Frenchman Bili "Changyuan" and so on.