Dominate the Country

Chen Hui's will was like a pebble falling into the sea, causing no waves in Nanjing. Chen Han's civil and military officials viewed all this logically. The king is ill and the prince takes over. Is there any problem?

So, singing and dancing continue as usual in Nanjing.

But as the time for sealing came, some people's faces became filled with bitterness. This person is Chen Gang! Chen Gang, who felt very unhappy and angry, came to the prince's house to ask for an audience. "Prince, Liu Wen has gone too far in bullying others." Chen Gang stopped calling Chen Ming 'second brother' a long time ago.

"Such a rough man who can read a lot of big words actually occupies a high position in the Ministry of Culture and Education, standing in the national education center, deceiving the superiors and deceiving the inferiors, exercising power and cheating..." Chen Ming had already closed his ears, and Chen Gang cursed Liu Wen in front of him for two quarters of an hour.

"Prince, you are the crown prince of the country. Just because Liu Wen's brother is your confidant, you cannot allow this unlearned and unskilled person to cause harm to the country." Chen Gang only grabbed Chen Ming's robe in excitement. Liu Wu, who was standing next to Chen Ming two quarters of an hour ago, had already retreated to the door, bowing his head and saying nothing.

Chen Ming looked at Chen Gang, who had bulging veins on his forehead, and didn't know whether he was angry or amused. Did he come to me just to file a lawsuit against Liu Wen? Wang Huizu and Xiong Bingzhang were sitting in a room not far away, one with a leisurely look on his face, the other smiling and shaking his head. "Brother Huan Zeng really knows people, I'm not as good as me." Xiong Bingzhang smiled at Wang Huizu relaxedly. Fortunately, he was so worried about Chen Gang before, but now it seems that his worries are really unfounded.

"This is nothing to worry about." Wang Huizu put down the tea cup in his hand and said meaningfully: "Brother Bingzhang, does he know why he is so angry and hateful towards Liu Wen today?"

"I'd like to hear the details." Xiong Bingzhang followed Chen Ming out before returning to Nanjing, so he didn't know much about this matter.

"It's true that Liu Wen is a bit dirty. Uncle Gang, Peng Zhongrui and others created a so-called Zhengyouhui to compete with the New Confucianism. Didn't the New Confucianism already have the power to compile Chinese textbooks? The Zhengyouhui also produced a set of readings and submitted them to the Ministry of Culture and Education for review. I heard that they even hosted a banquet for Liu Wen and had a lot of good things to say."

"You didn't give money to women?"

"Haha, Brother Bingzhang is joking. Does he dare to accept Liu Wen? The prince will kill him if he finds out. Besides, Zhengyouhui prides itself on being an 'authentic Confucian sect', so it's shameful." Behind him are Chen Gang and Peng Zhongrui's.

"As a result, Liu Wen made a big fuss over the Zhengyouhui. It was immediately blocked and there was no news outside. It wasn't until the Ministry of Culture and Education sealed the holiday and the Zhengyouhui people got the receipt that they realized something was wrong. They I thought the reading book had already been submitted to the review team.”

Chen Ming is here. Chen Ming's expression was very exciting, only inferior to the expression when he first learned that his father was ill in a woman's bed.

"This Liu Wen is really outrageous!"

"Don't worry. The "Official Accountability Regulations" are no longer a decoration. They apply to everyone. Liu Wen is no exception." Chen Ming did not say that Liu Wen must be punished, nor did he give Liu Wen any excuse. Those methods were too much. It's low-level. He also believed that with Liu Wen's character, he couldn't do anything like looking for shit on his own, so he casually introduced the "Official Accountability Ordinance" to speak righteously.

Chen Gang couldn't get a definite answer, so he was certainly not satisfied. But no matter how dissatisfied he was, he could only hold it in and say, "Act in accordance with the law!" What's wrong with that?

What grudges do you, Chen Gang, have against Liu Wen? Can it be greater than national law?

"It seems that I am really over-concerned." Chen Ming thought in his heart as he looked at Chen Gangyang's retreating figure. With Chen Gang like this, would he have ambitions and dare to show off? Or is he able to hide his ambitions and plans without revealing even a single bit, and make so many people left in Nanjing by Chen Ming blind and deaf?

"Dad, I want to go on the slide..." After seeing Chen Gang off, as soon as he walked into the second door, Chen Ding hit Chen Ming's leg like a meat ball.

"Slide, slide, I want to slide, I want to slide..."

Chen Ming looked in front of Li Xiaomei and his group who had just turned from the corridor. He lowered his head and patted the repeater Chen Ding on the head and asked, "What is a slide?"

"Dad is lying. Dad knows about slides. Dad made the slide in the school. This is what the teacher there told me." Chen Ding was immediately dissatisfied. He grabbed Chen Ming's hem and raised his head. , two black pearl-like eyes looked directly at Chen Ming, with a red face, looking at his 'bad father' angrily.

Li Xiaomei took Chen Ding to Chengjun Public School in the morning, and Chen Ming knew it. "The little guy is so smart. Did you play on the slide at school? Was it fun?"

"It's fun." Chen Ding's little face instantly turned into a smile, like a red apple, "Dad, please make me one. I want to play with it every day."

Since Chen Ding was born, Chen Ming often went out to fight, so when he returned home, Chen Ming loved his son very much. Little Chen Ding was not afraid of his father, but he was afraid of his mother.

"Don't make it for him." Li Xiaomei's suppressed voice came to her ears. Chen Ding immediately went around behind Chen Ming's butt.

"What's wrong with him?" Chen Ming laughed. One look at Li Xiaomei's appearance and Chen Ding's neat hiding, and he knew that the little guy was definitely causing trouble outside.

"Ask him! At a young age, he knew how to bully others and monopolize the slide. He also made the elder brother's dick bleed." Although it was just his nose bleeding.

Li Xiaomei felt that her face was going to be humiliated by Chen Ding. Especially after knowing that Chen Ding had previously shouted to a group of children from Sungkyun Public School who were two or three years older than himself, "My father is a prince, older than your father, and I am older than you. You are all." You must listen to me. Only I am allowed to play, and no one of you is allowed to play!”

If it weren't for the worries outside, Li Xiaomei would have slapped Chen Ding on the spot. Later, when he returned home, Chen Ding had already been severely scolded in the carriage. But it seems that this is of no use. As soon as he stood on the ground, Chen Ding happily came to Chen Ming to "slide".

Chen Ming had a headache. Chen Ding's 'clashing' was indeed a bit excessive, but Chen Ming didn't have as much experience as Li Xiaomei on how to educate children.

If you don’t set rules for your children, you are afraid that your children will not develop good habits! Setting too many rules for children may affect their free growth! It's really a headache for parents to deal with setting rules. Moreover, Chen Ding is Chen Ming's first son and the future first heir of the Chen Han Dynasty!

"Dad, dad...wow..." Looking at his son who was pulled away by his ears by Li Xiaomei, Chen Ming gave a helpless smile to Chen Ding, who turned to him for help with tears in his eyes.

"The Crown Princess is too harsh on His Royal Highness Wang Changsun." Wang Huizu said beside Chen Ming. When the strict mother was teaching her son just now, he, Xiong Bingzhang, and Liu Wu all arrived. "A king should be domineering. When the eldest grandson of the king is a few years older, he understands the ways of the world, and is domineering on the outside but soft on the inside, haha..." Then he will be a qualified royal child.

Of course, Wang Huizu didn't actually know whether the emperor was emperor or not. What he said was a little self-righteous, because as long as Chen Ming was happy to hear it, that would be enough.

But on the same day, Chen Ming sent someone to Chen Gang's house and delivered many things. There was also a small castle, completely handmade, with pavilions and platforms inside, with big trees and small bridges, people, soldiers, horses, and cars. , and boats, each of which can be changed in position. It can also exercise children's imagination to a certain extent. It is extremely delicate. This is an apology to the child. And the next day Chen Ming recruited Liu Wen into the Prince's Mansion. "I know you have a back-up plan, tell me? What's going on?"

"Your Highness is wise, I will never dare to deceive superiors and deceive subordinates, and abuse power and neglect their duties." Liu Wen had a fake flattery smile on his face, but Chen Ming felt that this smile was full of pride, which made him even more confident that this guy would have a future. Hands on. "Your Highness, please read this elementary school textbook compiled by Zhengyouhui."

"The contents are all taken from the Three Character Classic, One Hundred Family Surnames, One Thousand Character Classic, One Thousand Family Poems, Qionglin Preschool Education, Zengguang Xianwen and Tone Rhythm Enlightenment." These are traditional Chinese There are no kindergarten enlightenment textbooks except "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions". Obviously, everyone in the Zhengyou Council knew that Chen Ming was seriously not interested in Zhu Xi. Although "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" cannot be closely integrated with Zhu Xi himself, just like Cai Jing and his calligraphy. Reading "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" alone, I feel that it really is: upright, knowledgeable, rigorous in life, tolerant and kind, and with lofty ideals. It’s all about China’s pursuit of universal values. If we truly practice this, we will not only become a person with noble sentiments, but also build a happy family and then build a 'harmonious' society.

But Zhengyouhui still had the good sense to take it down.

"However, according to the regulations of the Ministry of Culture and Education regarding school textbooks, although they are literature, they are easy to read. The purpose is to center on children's lives, draw materials from the children's surroundings, and gradually expand to society, nature, and art as they grow. It is required to accommodate children as much as possible The words and phrases should be suitable for children to read and recite.”

"Children are nurtured to be upright, and their roots are strengthened. I dare not slander the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", "Thousand Character Essay" and other time-honored classics. However, Zhengyouhui mainly focuses on traditional elementary school reading books. Although the compilation is careful, It runs counter to the purpose of the Xuetang Readings and is even more different from the New Confucian Readings.”

"Your Highness, please read the reading book compiled by New Confucianism." Liu Wen's face was full of confidence. He was full of confidence in the reading book submitted by Xinru. If the gap between the two was not too obvious, he would not dare to be so Hongguoguo's Yin Zhengyouhui.

Chen Ming took the reading book and opened it. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. This newly compiled reader is not a boring sermon, but uses a large number of small scenes of children's daily life to achieve educational purposes. For example, in the lesson "Kindness", the picture shows an old swallow holding an insect in its mouth and flying towards a nest of little swallows waiting to be fed among the trees. The illustration of the lesson "Respecting the Elderly" shows a child picking up an old man's hat that had been blown to the ground by the wind, and returning it to the old man with both hands. The text of the lesson "Eager to Study" is: "Li Jingwen, when he was six years old, asked his sister about words and gradually understood the meaning of the words." There is a table in the illustration. There is a book spread out on the table. Two siblings are sitting and one is standing. Explaining to his brother. The text of the lesson "Good Neighbors" is: "The mother is in the kitchen, and the cake is ready. The son is holding the cake and sending it to the neighbor's house." In the painting, the mother is standing leaning against the door, and the son is walking out of the house with a basin of cake in his hands, turning his head and looking back. Its mother seems to be giving instructions. These texts, which are full of the flavor of life, coupled with vivid and simple illustrations, play the role of moisturizing the book silently.

For some "major principles" that are difficult for children to understand at the moment, this textbook can also use simple and popular examples to illustrate them. For example, in the "Occupation" lesson, there are only five sentences in the text: "Cats hunt mice, dogs guard gates, each doing their own thing. People without occupations are not as good as cats and dogs." It is a profound and abstract truth that is explained in such a profound, clear and interesting way. Tasty.

There is also the concept of "country", which is even more difficult for children to understand. There is a lesson in the textbook called "Resisting Insults" - "When a dove rides on a magpie, it comes out and occupies the nest. When the magpie returns, it cannot get in. It invites a flock of them to come and chase the dove away together."

Chen Ming couldn't help but smile knowingly after reading this article: It's really easy to see big things from small things!

Looking at Zhengyouhui's reading materials, it is self-evident to compare the two, which one is better and which one is worse, and which one is better or worse in terms of 'educating' children.

The font of the reader is Yan's regular script, which is square in structure, strong in writing, and full of masculine beauty, which is the so-called "Yan Jin". Children **** face such Chinese textbooks. Over time, they will be absorbed by their eyes and hearts, and they will be influenced by them when they write. Its function is equivalent to calligraphy copybooks.

The book has one lesson per page, and each lesson has illustrations, using traditional Chinese freehand techniques. All mountains and rivers, figures, flowers, birds, insects, fish, plants and trees are all outlined with just a few strokes. They are lively and interesting, and complement the regular script of the text. As a contrast, as soon as you open the textbook, you will feel a rush of Chinese charm. Moreover, the reader is also unique in the combination of text and illustrations. The positions of pictures and text are eclectic and change according to the content of the text. Some have text at the top and pictures at the bottom; some have the opposite; some have pictures both above and below, with text in between; some illustrations are in the corner of the page...

Since most of the selected texts are rhymes, they are not arranged vertically, but staggered line by line, with beautiful and square regular script in regular script, like a string of beads clinking on the page.

"Is New Confucianism still at this level?" Chen Ming just asked Mr. Shen Guozhen whether illustrations could be included in teaching textbooks. Did you actually make it this far?

"Your Highness, they spent a lot of money on this New Confucian Reader. They asked Zhai Dakun to do these illustrations."

Chen Ming felt that the name sounded familiar, "That's it..." But he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Your Highness, do you remember "Huolin Dragging the Stick Fan"?"

"Oh, by the way. It's the person who calls himself Wuwenzi." Chen Ming remembered. The "Huolin Drawing Stick Fan" was his favorite.

"Is that Zhai Dakun still in Suzhou now?" This man was originally from Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and lived in Suzhou. His courtesy name was Zihe. He later suffered from an ear disease and called himself Wuwenzi. Whether it is calligraphy or painting, he is very accomplished. And he is a disabled person!

"Zhai Dakun has arrived in Hangzhou. The Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts invited him to be a professor, and he often goes to the Guns and Artillery Branch in Hangzhou to teach mute language and painting to the deaf-mute people there." After becoming deaf, Zhai Dakun learned mute language. For the guns in the city of Hangzhou He was very sympathetic to the deaf-mute workers in the branch. "This person also attracted a wealthy businessman named Du Yiming, who is also deaf. He spent 100,000 to prepare a school for the deaf and mute. The application report has been submitted to the ministry."

A smile appeared on Chen Ming's lips. Charitable institutions such as schools for the deaf and mute, almshouses, and porridge factories, when the country lacks financial resources, can private capital be introduced? "The government will be opened after the new year. Please pay attention to this matter and provide strong support."

The smile on Liu Wen's face did not change at all, but his eyes suddenly shrank, and the prince actually said the words "strong support". Zhai Dakun and Du Yiming had a good protection. "This is a blessing, I understand."

"Then you go to Chen Gang's house again. Take this book..." Chen Ming didn't say anything anymore. He picked up the reading book compiled by New Confucianism in his hand and waved it in front of Liu Wen's eyes.

"I understand."

No matter how much Chen Gang's status was revealed, Liu Wen could not insult him lightly. He was going to Chen Gang's house to apologize, but he could do it in a different way. This is the dignity of the clan and the dignity of the royal family.