When a passerby becomes a princess

Almost at the same time when Liang Xi told Lin Qiu about the process of suppressing the bandits, a rumor related to Lin Qiu appeared in the capital.

The origin of this rumor is that at the palace banquet of the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, because Empress Chu was about to give birth, the crown princess came to receive the wives of the officials.Although Lin Qiu is a man, but because he is a princess and young, no one gossips about it.

But when those wives entered the palace and saw Lin Qiu, they were all startled.Lin Qiu went to Northern Xinjiang at the end of the year before last. Before that, he often walked around the capital because of the management of internal money business. Not only the wives who often went to the palace to pay their respects had seen him, but many ordinary people had also seen him. Because of poor health, the princess is obviously 12 years old, but she looks less than ten years old.

Who knew that less than a year later, the Crown Princess changed drastically. Not only did she become healthy and beautiful, but she also suddenly became fifteen or sixteen years old.

Because Lin Qiu's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, and because of the incidents of waterwheels and terraced fields, he has a very high reputation among ordinary people, but anyone who speaks badly about him will be reviled, so although this incident is strange, it is only in the Pass it in private.

Until March of this year, "Legend of the White Snake" was serialized in Beimo County's daily newspaper. The director of Beimo County came to ask Lin Qiu for a new novel. Drawings were made, and then engraved by others, and it was not officially sold in bookstores in Beijing until July. At the same time, the unillustrated version of "Journey to the West" was also sold.

Not long after that, rumors began to spread that the princess was possessed by a monster. Otherwise, how could he, who was sick all the time, be so healthy all of a sudden, and suddenly grow up a lot.As for "Journey to the West" and "Legend of the White Snake" he wrote, they were basically stories about his accomplices.

In the beginning, this rumor was only circulated among the people, but soon it became more and more serious, and many scholars and literati also joined in. Later, many ministers in the court began to hold the attitude of "rather believable" about it, so Even those generals who supported Lin Lian began to be skeptical.

When this rumor first spread, Lin Bai had just started to investigate He Hua because of Cai E's confession, because He Hua happened to be away from the capital at that time, and went to the He Family Academy in Xudong County, and Lin Bai immediately took people there too. Xudong County, when he came back to check the source of the matter, he could no longer find the person who spread the rumors first.

Although Lin Bai was a little annoyed by this, he didn't take it too seriously. In the history of Daliang Kingdom, many people were once regarded as monsters and ghosts. There are still many small temples among the people to worship them. In the Ciyun Temple, a woman is enshrined. According to legend, she is some kind of flower demon, but in fact she is just an ordinary woman with three-meter-long hair. It is only because few people can grow their hair so long that people say that Became a demon.

However, Lin Bo forgot one thing. Most of these "monsters" who are enshrined and respected by people are said to be monsters after death, and are worshiped by the world. .

It didn't take long for the rumors to become aggressive. No one knew how a "demon" cultivated before. Although there were horror legends about eating children's meat, it couldn't be related to the princess. "Records" and "Legend of the White Snake" provided many clues.

The concubine's health gradually improved after she got married to the prince, and then she improved by leaps and bounds, even her body grew a lot, so his cultivation must be related to the prince.In "The Legend of the White Snake", although Bai Suzhen heals illnesses and saves lives, in Fa Hai's mouth, she is a snake demon who sucks the energy of men.

This is so similar to the Crown Princess. Although the Crown Princess has designed waterwheels and terraced fields to benefit the people, who knows what he looks like in private?Maybe it's also a monster that sucks a man's energy, otherwise, how could he be the son of a great general marrying the prince as a man's wife?

These people have completely forgotten that the emperor ordered Lin Qiu to marry Liang Xi at the beginning, but the rumors are so unreasonable, and various versions of the so-called "prototype" of the princess have begun to appear, some say that he is a vixen Yes, some said he belonged to the snake demon, and even said that he belonged to the peach blossom demon because there were three xenogeneic peach blossom trees transplanted from overseas fairy mountains in the Lin Mansion.

Liang Honglie was furious because of this, and severely punished a group of ministers who played for this in the court, so he also became part of the rumors, saying that he was also bewitched by the princess, otherwise how could he give his youngest son to his wife? Take care of, instead of handing over to the concubine in the harem?There are even rumors that the father and son share the crown princess.

By the time the rumor spread to northern Xinjiang, it was already September.

At the beginning of September, schools in more than [-] counties in northern Xinjiang officially opened. Although the time was a bit rushed, the construction of the schools was fast because of sufficient funds, and because only first-year students were enrolled, the school buildings did not need to be too large. .

As for the teachers, in addition to recruiting teachers from private schools in various places, Taifu Li wrote many letters to some of his friends. Most of his friends are famous literati, so Li Taifu did not invite them, but asked them to send them Disciples come to teach and educate people.

Ordinary literati are still very happy with the inheritance of culture. I heard that more than 20 schools will be established in northern Xinjiang to enroll all children under the age of 12 to study for free. Many people are curious, how can so many students study for free?You must know that the students of Daliang State spend a lot of money every year.So they sent their own disciples one after another, and some even came in person, intending to have a master's addiction.

When these literati rushed to northern Xinjiang, they discovered that the things taught in those schools were very strange, such as Chinese, mathematics, art, music, sports, morality...

As far as ordinary students are concerned, although they can also learn arithmetic, painting, musical instruments, etc., but that is a personal hobby, and they are privately invited to teach others, not in the school, but the newly established school takes these things are included.

As for sports, there is actually a spacious playground in the school. Every morning when young children come to the school, they first need to punch a set and then run a few laps on the playground.How many days do you have special physical education classes?What is this for?Are you ready to go to the battlefield?

As for morality, it is even more strange. Does this kind of personal cultivation need to be taught in class?

Although the curriculum was weird, the literati and their disciples were still shocked when they saw the children wearing uniform uniforms and carrying uniform schoolbags.

"Brother Dong'an, why are these schoolchildren wearing the same clothes?" A literati asked curiously.

Taifu Li stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The princess said that when a student is in the school, he should focus on his studies. Every student's family background is different, and their clothes will inevitably have different grades. They wear the same clothes. , although it is not possible to completely avoid comparisons among schoolchildren, it can be minimized as much as possible.”

The literati sighed: "The Crown Princess is so careful. I never imagined that the Emperor would love the Crown Princess so much that he would allocate so much money, not only to build a school, but also to take care of the schoolchildren's clothing." This literati had also heard those rumors about the Crown Princess. , one of his disciples also said that although he didn't believe that the emperor and the crown prince shared the crown princess, but looking at it now, it is not impossible. Otherwise, how could so much money be allocated at once when the national treasury is not very full? .

Taifu Li glanced at him, still smiled and said: "Brother, this is wrong. Although the emperor gave money, it was only enough to build the school building. Please, sir, distribute books, clothes, schoolbags, pens and ink...these are all The princess's private money."

"What?!" The literati thought he heard it wrong, and lost his voice, "You said it was all the private money of the princess?"

Li Taifu nodded with a smile, and said: "The princess is usually very frugal, and all the money she saved from her private house was given to the school children in northern Xinjiang."

The literati and their disciples around were all stunned. It was definitely not a small amount to buy books, clothes and other things for tens of thousands of schoolchildren in more than [-] schools in northern Xinjiang. Empty is enough!Thinking of this, almost everyone showed admiration.

What are the facts?Were those really bought with Lin Qiu's private money?of course not!

Lin Qiu did have a private treasury, and there was indeed a lot of money in it. When he got married, Su Hongyi felt sorry for him that he was about to marry into the Tian family as a man's wife at a young age, and bought him a dowry of 99% of it. There are a lot of valuable things.After Lin Qiu entered the palace, there were fixed quotas every month, and Liang Honglie and Empress Chu often received various rewards, plus gifts from concubines in various palaces. If the things in Lin Qiu's private treasury were converted into taels of silver, it would be a fortune. Not a small amount.

But the problem is, Lin Qiu doesn't know.

Lin Qiu's private treasury key is in the hands of Nanny Liu, what did Nanny Liu do before?Horse bandits!Anyone who is related to a "bandit" has an obvious characteristic, that is, they can eat anything, but they can't suffer.

Mother Liu regards Lin Qiu as her own son, so how can she let him suffer? Ever since she started to take charge of the keys of Lin Qiu's private treasury, as long as she got any good things, she would carefully put them into Lin Qiu's private treasury. She absolutely doesn't feel bad for flowers, and wants to use the best for everything.As for other people, don't try to get any benefit from her.

Although those schoolchildren were also children, what did they have to do with her?Why should Lin Qiu's money be used on them?So when Lin Qiu mentioned that the school didn't have enough money, she pretended to be stupid and didn't say a word, and didn't mention the private treasury at all.

Last year, when Lin Qiu went back to Lin's mansion to visit his relatives for his birthday, he mentioned the matter of building a school. At that time, the court had not yet approved it, but as soon as Mei slapped the table, he sold Mei Yingying.

The ancestors of Meiying Village were giant bandits. What is a "giant bandit"?That is the person who stole countless treasures.Naturally, it is impossible to return the property that was stolen at the beginning, and it is still buried somewhere. As a result, Mei Yingying just went there for a meal, and then he was copied.

After Lin Qiu came back, he sent someone to dig out the large sum of property. He bought farms and opened various workshops at the same time. The sum of money was used to buy land, and after the school recruited students, the money for making clothes naturally came from here.

Mrs. Li is not very clear about this, but only knows that the money was given by Lin Qiu, so he naturally thought it was his private money, but the literati who heard about it believed it to be true, and they had some doubts about the "monster" in the rumors. Another view.