First Minister of Ming Dynasty

And there were more than 100 people at once, the number is still very amazing.

Li Shanchang only recruited a few people at a time, and it was impossible for him to recruit hundreds of talents.Therefore, as long as the large-scale cultivation of talents is realized, the formation of cliques for personal gain and deception will be greatly reduced.

No matter how stable the talent supply is, it can also help Lao Zhu control the new territory as soon as possible and establish a new order.

It's like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger and more overwhelming!

"Sir, it's all thanks to the master's strategizing that we've made it this far!" Old Zhu said to Zhang Ximeng from the bottom of his heart.If Zhang Ximeng hadn't taught him to read and given him so many suggestions, he would never have thought of running a school or cultivating talents by himself.

In that case, we would have to rely on the existing scholars and even use the old officials of the Yuan court.

They are obviously the group of people he hates the most, but they want to hold them in the palm of their hands as treasures, respectful corporal... Thinking of Zhu Yuanzhang, he scratches his head. If that's the case, according to his temper, sooner or later he will be killed in a river of blood.

"The lord has the grace to save my life, and I can only do it with my best. I think that talents are cultivated, but if you can't teach the right things, you will make wedding clothes for others. My lord must be careful!"

Zhu Yuanzhang cheered up, "How do you say this?"

"My lord, have you heard that there is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book?"

Lao Zhu thought for a while, squinted his eyes, and smiled triumphantly: "We've seen this before, it's a poem, Song Zhenzong wrote it, right?"

"What the lord said is very true, but I don't know if the lord wants to make his men full of scholars like this?"

Old Zhu couldn't help thinking seriously, "Hey, so, isn't it just to make scholars greedy for money and lust? Can this greedy and lustful person be an official, can it benefit one party?"

Zhang Ximeng clapped his hands and praised, "My lord is right in my words. It took countless state funds and people's money to support scholars in the Song Dynasty for 300 years. In the end, there was only one Wen Tianxiang... My lord can treat scholars well, but I can't condone them. This time running the school is for The purpose of running a school is not to recruit disciples and grandchildren for Confucius and Mencius, but to let these students remember what and what kind of thoughts they have, but it is for the master to think more about it."

When Zhang Ximeng said this, he naturally stopped. He had a solution, but as a counselor, he stopped.He can't do everything for Lao Zhu, let alone some things that Lao Zhu is much better than him.

Zhang Ximeng was very sure about the proportion of advance and retreat.

But soon Zhang Ximeng regretted it, he almost killed himself.

At the opening ceremony, 120 students stood neatly. Li Shanchang, Zhang Ximeng, and literati such as Song Yuangao belonged to the preparatory teachers and had a seat.

Soon, Lao Zhu stood on the stage, he scanned the audience, and said: "Today is a good day, seeing you guys standing here, it's a bit hard, so I'll prepare something for you...bring it to you! "

As soon as the order was given, someone brought a tray with bowls inside, and the bowls were still steaming.

Is it for food?

The boss really hurts people.

But as it got closer, the big guy actually smelled a bad smell... What the hell is this?

Where does the snack actually taste like this?

When the students took the small bowls one after another, their faces changed color like the light green soup inside... A hot current surged up from the stomach, and they almost spit it out!

Pearl Jade White Jade Soup!

As expected of you!

When this thing was presented to Li Shanchang and Zhang Ximeng, their expressions were unnatural.Especially Zhang Ximeng, he really wanted to make a mouthful of himself.

Even if you want these students to regain their original intentions and not forget their roots, they can't scare people with such a scary thing!

What if you eat to death?

Zhang Ximeng's hands were trembling... Fortunately, Lao Zhu glanced at them, and said lightly, "These gentlemen are teachers, and they respect their teachers. Let's serve them lotus seed soup later."

Finally someone came and took the bowl away.

Zhang Ximeng and Li Shanchang handed over the bowl quickly as if they had been pardoned, as if they were alive after a catastrophe.

Lao Zhu definitely did it on purpose, just to let them experience the feeling of being tied up.

Zhu Yuanzhang also had a bowl himself. He looked at the big guy and suddenly smiled, "This thing is not a good thing, it's just rotten vegetable leaves, rice grains, and stinky tofu... It's a lie to say it's delicious. But back then, when we went to Chuzhou to beg for food, we got help from two beggars, drank several bowls of hot food, and immediately came back to life.”

"Today we prepared this bowl of soup for you, not to tease you, but to let you understand one thing. We can't give you Yan Ruyu, the Golden House... We are a poor person, if two years ago, If we can drink such a bowl of soup, we won't join the red scarf! We won't do such a thing that kills our heads!"

"You will be our officials from now on, and you will help us govern the people! We want you to remember that the people don't ask for much, even if there is such a bowl of stinky soup, they will not rebel! It’s too much, those corrupt officials are too much! We hope you will remember this bowl of soup, remember this taste, and learn to be an official in the future, don’t feed the last bit of conscience to the dog!”

After finishing speaking, Lao Zhu raised his bowl and drank it down in one gulp!

The taste was really unpleasant, but Lao Zhu suppressed it when he stared at it.

Looking at the other students, what else can you say?

The high-ranking ones have already drank, do you still dare not drink?

Fill your belly!

Whether it is life or death depends on God's will.

Do bless!

I saw this group of people resisting the urge to gag, and poured it down one after another.Some people's cheeks are swollen, like frogs, and they dare not vomit, so they can only press down with will... Seeing it, Zhang Ximeng felt uncomfortable for them.

It's just that this immoral tradition has been preserved, and every new student who enters the school in the future will get such a special bowl of "enrollment soup".

It's called Pearl Jade White Jade Soup!

Chapter 82 Wen Zhong

Seeing that everyone had drunk and was in a good mood, Lao Zhu couldn't help ordering: "One more bowl!"

Again!

A few of them could hardly hold back and sprayed out from their noses.

Boss, if you want to kill someone, just say, don't use this thing to trick people, I really can't stand it.

Fortunately, Lao Zhu still has a good conscience, and sent a bowl of medicinal soup to the big guy, which is used for diarrhea!

Very good, very Zhu Yuanzhang!

After drinking a bowl of pearl, emerald and white jade soup, the bitter soup turned into jade dew nectar.

Everyone swallowed the medicinal soup in three gulps, relying on the strong bitter taste to temporarily suppress the terrible stench... What is this?It's rancid soup again, and it's soup medicine again.

While poisoning and giving the antidote, I don't know whether to thank him or scold him?

It's just that when they thought that they were facing Zhu Yuanzhang, they were all honest.

Accept it!

Stop struggling.

But Lao Zhu, he really didn't intend to trick people.

In addition to the reasons mentioned above, Zhu Yuanzhang has another reason.

"We want everyone to ask themselves and know where they come from. We are not rich people, children from rich families, and we didn't study when we were young. The same is true for most of you. We are all people who can't survive. For this Fate, we took up our swords and fought with the Tartar court. After all, we are a group of poor people!"

Lao Zhu raised his head and said to everyone: "We don't want you guys to continue to be poor people, but we also want to remind you guys, don't forget where you came from! If one day, you forget your origins, Forget about those poor people, thinking that they are just like those officials and gentry, aloof, fish and meat people, treat people as human beings, and take whatever they want. At that time...we may not be merciful, you all be careful!"

Everyone couldn't help being excited!

If Lao Zhu's words can solve the problem, that's too high a view on Lao Zhu's ability. Even if you invite all the gods, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the sands of the Ganges River, it won't work.

But these words set the tone for this particular red scarf.

This is a team of poor people... With this sentence, Zhang Ximeng's teaching work will be completely flat.

Putting all the bells and whistles aside, the first task is literacy.

And what Zhang Ximeng got out turned out to be a literacy board!

It is not complicated to make, just a wooden blackboard, each with ten words on it, and then there are simple pictures on the bottom.

For example, draw a puppy under the character for dog, draw a fish for fish, draw a slap and a cheeky face with fingerprints for hitting.

Zhang Ximeng just started. He even encouraged students to make their own, mark each word in a familiar way, and then communicate in class.

The biggest advantage of this kind of literacy board is that it can even be hung on the back during training, and the people behind follow the people in front while staring at the words on the literacy board.

Literacy training, the best of both worlds.

After this word recognition method was popularized in the army, it became a famous scene of military training.

After being teased by Zhang Ximeng, almost all the students breathed a sigh of relief, especially Guo Ying, who was even more excited. He counted with his fingers, and in just a few days, he knew dozens of characters, and he could even write his name. .

The superior is right, reading is not difficult!

It's just that Guo Ying didn't know. After learning about Zhang Ximeng's teaching method, Lao Zhu was stunned for a long time... Something is wrong!It seems that when he was studying, it was not like this.

Zhang Ximeng stuffed him with a lot of books directly.

At the beginning, he didn't even know many words, so he could only read it by force.

Take a word apart, read only half of it, and then guess the meaning of the word, the meaning of the article. This situation lasted for half a year, and finally I recognized most of the characters, and I also read a lot of articles and books along the way.

"Mr. Zhang, you never worked so hard on us before!" Old Zhu said softly.

Zhang Ximeng calmly said, "Master, this is called teaching students according to their aptitude. They are all ordinary people, so they have to do this."

"Ordinary people? Then we are not ordinary people?"

"Of course not! My lord is a heavenly man, and the world is one man!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, there was only one person in the world. Isn't that the emperor?Mr. Zhang is really confident!Aside from emotion, he naturally forgot to ask the teacher for his crimes, and even felt that Zhang Ximeng was really loyal to him.

"I shouldn't have talked to you, but since I said it, we can't figure it out...Since the destiny is on us, why doesn't it let us have a son!"

Now Zhang Ximeng was speechless, of course he knew that Lao Zhu not only had sons, but also dozens of them!It's just that the old Zhu Xu is 27 years old now. At present, he can be regarded as an out-and-out young man, even middle-aged. After all, in the era when the general life expectancy is 40 years old, Zhu Yuanzhang is not young no matter what .

He has been married to Ma Shi for almost two years, and his wife's stomach hasn't moved.

Lao Zhu is not in a hurry about this matter, his subordinates are also in a hurry!

The big guy follows you, Zhu Yuanzhang, in case something happens and you suddenly disappear, at least keep a spare so that the big guy won't be at a loss.

Heirs are very important to small households.

Put it in a court, it will be regarded as the country.

In order to fight for the foundation of the country, it is possible to turn the world upside down, and the sun and the moon will not shine!It is also possible to go on and on for decades.

"My lord, I'm still young, and it seems inappropriate to talk too much... But I think it's good for my lord to let nature take its course, and there's no need to worry."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "Sir, I won't hide it from you. Even if we really have a son, we may not be able to establish a family... We have no other relatives, but we do have a nephew. We will send someone to find him. If he can Arrive safely, we..."

"Lord!"

Zhang Ximeng interrupted Lao Zhu's words decisively, with a stern face and a solemn attitude, which surprised Lao Zhu, "Sir, did we think wrong?"

"My lord, uncles and nephews are no better than father and son. The reason why my wife is not pregnant is also related to the fact that the husband and wife are not able to spend time together. My lord only needs to bring my wife here and get along with each other, and good things will happen naturally. Why bother? When the time comes Being strong and having ulterior motives is not a good thing!"

Zhang Ximeng went further and said, "My lord, have you read the history of the Northern Zhou Dynasty?"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, nodded and said: "It seems to have seen some!"

"The lord must know Yuwenhu? He is Yuwentai's nephew. He fought with his uncle in the early years and made great contributions. Later Yuwentai died of illness, and the sons were young, so he let his nephew Yuwen protect the country. After Yuwenhu took power, First, he forced the Western Wei Dynasty to give up the Yuwen family, and then monopolized the imperial power, killing Yu Wentai's sons Yu Wenjue and Yu Wenyu... The cousins ​​killed each other, which made Yuwen's people panic and the clan was in chaos. Later, because of the clan's discord, they fought each other, Yang Jian, who was born as a relative, was promoted. In just nine months, Yang Jian usurped the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty."

"My lord, I only mentioned one example. In fact, in the later Zhao Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Song Qi, Liang and Chen, there were many scenes of chaos in the clan and cousins ​​killing each other. My lord shouldn't plant the seeds of disaster for myself!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was quite surprised when he heard this, and realized the complexity of this matter.

In fact, his idea is very simple. He has no son for a long time. If he can find his nephew, after all, he is from the Zhu family. inside.

But Zhang Ximeng's words made Lao Zhu realize his blind spot... No matter how good his nephew is, he is not his own son.

After I have a son, do I attack my nephew and cut off the threat?Or would he just sit back and watch his nephew grow stronger and finally bully his own son?

No matter what you do, you are all from the Zhu family.

There are not many people left in their family, so why make trouble for themselves?

"Thank you for reminding me, sir, we won't listen to people talking nonsense in the future."

Someone actually said nonsense to Lao Zhu?

Zhang Ximeng realized in an instant that the speaker might be the two scholars that Lao Zhu had brought back from Liuhe.Lao Zhu will handle this matter.

The two scholars are irrelevant, but this idea really hurt Zhu Wenzheng!

As we all know, Zhu Wen is Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, and he made great contributions in the Battle of Hongdu.

But few people know that before the Battle of Hongdu, the young Zhu Wenzheng had already become the governor, controlling Chinese and foreign military forces, and his position was still higher than Xu Da and Chang Yuchun...just short of Jiuxi.

There is no doubt that Zhu Wen was trained as a successor... But as Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Chen Youliang and the overall situation of unifying the world was established, Zhu Biao became bigger and bigger day by day, and Zhu Wenzheng's situation became more and more embarrassing day by day.

At this point, it is irreversible.

Now that Zhu Wenzheng has not turned to Lao Zhu, Zhang Ximeng pointed out this matter in advance, Zhu Wenzheng may be able to be a famous general in the future, a wealthy and virtuous king!