Mrs. Qin Xiangguo

098

Running an official school is not a trivial matter.

From preparing for enrollment to repairing the school, everything needs to start from scratch.Fortunately, Zhao Weizhen is not busy alone.There are female officials Ziying and Zhao Ji helping to look after the school's repairs, and the burden on her is much lighter.Right now, we only need to focus on preparing the booklets and admissions examination papers.

afternoon a few days later.

I was busy with government affairs at noon, and I had to bring home the questions I had to ask—you can't just ask Li Si to work overtime, can you?

Just as Zhao Weizhen spread out the paper in front of the long desk in the main room, Lu Buwei walked in.

He glanced at the letter: "A question?"

Zhao Weizhen didn't even look at him: "Yes."

It means busy, don't bother me.

But Lu Buwei still sat across from Zhao Weizhen, picked up the letter and quickly read it, and then said softly: "I think the queen mother is very busy recently."

Zhao Weizhen's hands froze.

"If you think the school expenses are inappropriate." Zhao Weizhen put down the pen in his hand: "I can write you an account."

"Do I look like such a stingy person?" Lu Buwei didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

But one sentence got Zhao Weizhen's attention, and he still achieved his goal.

The man put down the letter and rolled up his sleeves, still looking like a gentleman: "It's just that I didn't expect Weizhen to order Qin Chen, and the Queen Mother is also unambiguous. Recently, she has always been at dinner time , and come over to ask Weizhen for advice."

Zhao Weizhen: "..."

After making such a big circle, it turned out that Zhao Ji always ran to Lu Mansion because she disliked Zhao Ji.

But anyone who has bought a house at home knows how troublesome it is to decorate.Now what Zhao Weizhen wants to repair is not a house, but a school.

Even if Zhao Ji has a female official, Zi Ying, and a large number of professionals, she will still encounter things that she can't make a decision on.

At noon, Zhao Weizhen was busy with government affairs, so Zhao Ji would come at night.

Didn't even have the time to say a few words.

But usually after dinner, Zhao Weizhen and Lu Buwei will accompany Deyin and Wenyin until they go to bed.When Zhao Ji came, she would take up the time with her daughter—it also took up the time for the couple to get along.

Lu Buwei is euphemistically expressing that Zhao Ji is not interested.

"Xiangguo is busy with everything. There are old people in the family, young people in the family, and a wife in the middle." Zhao Weizhen couldn't help teasing: "The Queen Mother doesn't have so many relatives and friends. Her parents and elders are not in Xianyang, her husband is gone, and her son is gone." Even the monarch can't bother you every day, just looking for friends to visit."

After finishing speaking, she added: "At that time, Deyin and Wenyin will enter the school, so what's wrong with getting along with Zhao Ji and Miss Ziying in advance?"

Lu Buwei sighed: "Buwei just feels—"

"Master, madam."

Before he finished speaking, Wei Xing knocked on the door, and then poked his head in: "Li Qing is here, and asked if you two are free."

Zhao Weizhen was slightly surprised: "What is Li Si doing here?"

Lu Buwei: "Come in, please."

Wei Xing: "Yes."

After receiving the order, Wei Xing walked away.

Zhao Weizhen stared at Wei Xing's leaving back for a while, and suddenly realized: "Why are you alone, where is Wei Sheng?"

Lu Buwei: "..."

He gave Zhao Weizhen an expression that could be called a superficial smile.The man said gently: "I went to manage the shop in Sichuan, and I will promote Zhu Ping to work later."

Zhao Weizhen: "Who is Zhu Ping?"

Lu Buwei: "... the shopkeeper of the restaurant."

Oh.

oh!Zhao Weizhen slapped his forehead.

Of course the shopkeeper of the restaurant has a name, but he is in charge of the restaurant, and everyone naturally calls him "the shopkeeper". Over time, Zhao Weizhen defaults to calling the shopkeeper the shopkeeper.

Calling his real name, he didn't respond for a while.

but--

Send Wei Sheng to Shu?

Although the land of Bashu is now rich, it is far away from the Central Plains and the roads are rough. Sending him there to manage a shop is basically equivalent to exiling Wei Sheng.

This is how much you have done wrong to reach this level.

Moreover, Zhao Weizhen did not hear any rumors, and there has been no disturbance in and outside the house recently.

It could only be that Wei Sheng offended Lu Buwei.

As for how he offended him, he didn't say anything, and Zhao Weizhen also decided not to ask.

"Well."

She nodded: "You can arrange it yourself."

After speaking, Wei Xing brought Li Si in.

The two got up, and after saluting, they invited Li Si to sit down.

"I'm here for your majesty's request."

Li Si got straight to the point, and took out a roll of slips and a stack of paper filled with ink: "Your Highness speaks and uses paper as a booklet to sell contemporary literature and classics to countries in the Central Plains, which can spread Qin's governance policies and political opinions. , is indeed a good thing. After thinking about it for a long time, Si thinks that there are more than these that can be spread.”

I knew that Li Si could come up with better ideas.

In terms of ability, she never doubted the level of the future Prime Minister Qin.So Zhao Weizhen looked forward to it: "What else does Li Qing think can be spread?"

"Text." Li Si replied calmly.

The young man sitting in front of Zhao Weizhen and Lu Buwei, although his appearance is ordinary, has an extraordinary bearing, a gentle manner, and a bit of a bookish air about him.

The high-level intellectuals in the pre-Qin period were nothing like this.

Of course, he also showed the level that a top student should have.

"Qin is powerful and powerful, and it can conquer the Central Plains and unify the six countries." Li Si talked eloquently: "Conquest by force is just the beginning. It is easy to force a person to submit with fists and strength, but it is difficult to convince them. Assuming that Qin The day when China really unifies the Central Plains, that is not the end, but a beginning."

After speaking, he pushed his letter to Zhao Weizhen.

"Your Majesty's talk of 'spreading culture' is to convince the people of the six kingdoms."

Li Si said: "The emperor of Zhou governed the country with etiquette. Clothes, food, housing, behavior, speech, conversation, behavior, and deeds all have standards. Anyone who accepts the principles and fulfills the principles is the one who accepts the emperor of Zhou. The state of Qin It can also be emulated."

Zhao Weizhen immediately understood what he wanted to do.

"If you want to change a person's cognition, you must start by changing the carrier of the culture." She said.

"Carrier?"

Li Si was stunned, but he also understood Zhao Weizhen's meaning, and nodded immediately: "The so-called 'cultural carrier' is writing. Si thought that when the books that are spread out are written in other languages, they can also be accompanied by a new language." This kind of script can be used as a unified script when the six countries are unified."

After explaining his motivation, Li Si added.

"It's not just words." He said: "Scales, weights, and even currencies are different in the seven countries. Now we can use paper as a carrier to promote a brand new standard."

Coincidentally, the young Yingzheng also thought so.

Zhao Weizhen hooked the corner of his mouth.

In history, it was Li Si who used Qin Zhenwen as the standard to sort out Xiaozhuan, which was the unified script of Qin State.

Similarly, weights and measures and monetary standards were proposed and formulated by him.Since then, China's history has embarked on a unified culture of cars on the same track and books on the same text.

"You think so." Zhao Weizhen asked lightly: "Or do you think the monarch likes this?"

Li Si paused.

His eyes flickered, and then he responded calmly: "The king did mention it."

Zhao Weizhen didn't care.

Qin Wangzheng is not a person who listens and believes, he has his own judgment.

Moreover, Li Si's move is really good.

When it is not yet unified, first make Xiaozhuan and weights and measures, and then slowly promote it as troops are dispatched.It's better to take it slowly like this than to completely change it overnight after unification.

"I've seen Li Qing's handwriting before. It can be said that the rules are upright and rigorous, which makes Buwei envious." Lu Buwei said with a smile: "Weizhen, I recommend Li Qing. Since he proposed to sort out the writing, why not let him come in person. So as not to waste the accomplishments at hand."

Of course!

If Lu Buwei didn't say it, Zhao Weizhen wouldn't teach it to others.

This is Li Si who wrote "Yishan Carved Stone", the ancestor of Xiaozhuan!Anyway, he had to write those powerful steles for Zhao Weizhen.

Not only that, but Li Si's writing is not bad.

Zhao Weizhen still remembers that Li Si wrote several articles in historical records, and even took Chinese textbooks for a time.

Even though he knew that he couldn't catch a sheep, but this sheep was so capable that Zhao Weizhen couldn't help it.

So Zhao Weizhen moved out the speech he had prepared a long time ago: "If Li Qing is free, can you try to write a "San Zi Jing"?"

""Three Character Classic"?" Li Si was taken aback.

"Each sentence is three characters, easy to understand and catchy." Zhao Weizhen said his request: "Used for elementary school, it can teach students the most basic knowledge."

Who has received modern education, who hasn't memorized a few lines of the "Three Character Classic"!But in reality, the Three Character Classic did not appear until the Song Dynasty, and it was counted as a Confucian classic.

Since you don't have it now, write it out in advance.Not only is it good for enlightenment, but it is also easy to spread.

Sure enough, when Zhao Weizhen said it, Li Si immediately understood: "You can also include legal classics for dissemination."

Zhao Weizhen smiled and nodded: "That's right. But Li Qing is a little busy right now, if I don't have time, I can entrust him—"

"not busy."

Li Siping interrupted Zhao Weizhen calmly: "I have no relatives or reasons in Xianyang, so I spend the rest of my time studying and having fun."

Zhao Weizhen: "Then trouble Li Qing."

Li Si: "I heard that Your Majesty..."

Zhao Weizhen: "What?"

Li Si's expression changed subtly, he lowered his head slightly, and some complicated thoughts flashed across his face.

His emotions and tone remained unchanged, but the air pressure around the young man was slightly lower.Li Si said cautiously: "The king mentioned that Xiangguo was an envoy to the state of Chu, and he once visited his family teacher. The family teacher really mentioned that Si has a junior, is it suitable for Qin?"

Lu Buwei turned his head sideways.

Seeing that Zhao Weizhen remained calm, he immediately smiled: "If Xunqing hadn't mentioned it, how would Buwei know about it?"

Li Si pursed his lips: "Xunzi's family, Si is nothing. If the king needs it, I can recommend it to the king."

Lu Buwei: "The one from Korea..."

Zhao Weizhen did not lie.

Lu Buwei went to visit Xunzi, and Xunzi would naturally chat with him about Qin.

In this way, mentioning Han Fei is also a matter of course-his several treatises, talking about the interests of legalism, happened to be what Qin State needed.

"I do have a younger brother from South Korea named Han Fei." Li Si explained: "But Han Fei is a Korean clan, so he may not help Qin."

"It's okay."

Zhao Weizhen smiled and said, "Isn't it enough for the Qin State to have Li Qing now? You can discuss the other students recommended by Xunzi later when they are used."

Li Si: "... Your Majesty said so."

In fact, what Li Si said made some sense.

Although Han Fei is not a direct descendant of the Korean royal family, he is a descendant of the clan.Now that Qin State is planning to attack Han, even if Han Fei is really kidnapped, he may not assist Qin State.

But in Zhao Weizhen's view, Qin has a huge advantage.

That is, looking at all countries, Qin is the only country that can allow Han Fei to realize his ambitions.

He has written so many articles and so many books, but the only one who can help him turn his ideals into reality is King Qin.

But don't worry, Zhao Weizhen took the initiative to mention Han Fei in order to give Li Si a sense of crisis and let him do more things.

"I heard that Xiangguo still wants to talk about Li Qing's marriage." Zhao Weizhen said with a smile: "Since he wants to marry a Qin wife, he is his own family. Ke Qing can't justify it, right?"

"Weizhen wants to seek an official position for Li Qing?"

Lu Buwei immediately answered her words, and the couple sang together: "Buwei doesn't think it's necessary at all.

"What?" Zhao Weizhen asked.

"Li Qing has done so much for the king. After setting the writing standard, the king will naturally promote Li Qing." Lu Buwei smiled and said, "Do you still need it?"

Some words are both hints and hints.

Li Si understood.

First he beat Han Fei, and then hinted that he could be promoted.Such a model, for ordinary people, would have long been trembling with sincerity.

But the unremarkable young man in front of him still held back his composure like a talented student, and once again raised his hand to salute Zhao Weizhen and Lu Buwei.

"Thank you, Mr. Xiangguo, look at it highly." Li Si said neither humble nor overbearing: "Since the two think it is feasible, then I will go back and start thinking about how to write the "San Zi Jing."

"Please." Lu Buwei raised his hand, "I'll send Li Qing off."

Lu Buwei took the initiative to take over the responsibility of seeing off the guests, Zhao Weizhen just said nothing and didn't really get up.

Now that Li Si was involved in writing and the "Three Character Classic", the burden on her was lightened.Zhao Weizhen can concentrate on preparing examination papers and handouts, and considering how to recruit students.

Speaking of admissions...

Before Zhao Weizhen started thinking, the door was pushed open again.

Lu Buwei, who had just left, came back again.

"You said Han Fei—" He sat down and spoke.

"He wants to come to Qin, I'm afraid Li Si won't be able to accommodate him." Zhao Weizhen said indifferently.

"Because I can't tolerate it."

Zhao Weizhen's fingertips paused slightly as he stretched out his hand to take the slip.

She raised her head, just in time to bump into Lu Buwei's smiling face.

"Weizhen is paving the way for the king and the next generation, isn't he?" Lu Buwei said slyly: "At that time, you and I will go back to the fief to eat food. The brothers from the same school, one is the left prime minister and the other is the right prime minister, isn't it just right?"

Zhao Weizhen laughed out loud.

Lu Buwei's thinking is very sensitive: Zhao Weizhen can promote Li Si to target him, and he can also promote others to target Li Si.

However, Han Fei might not be able to do it.

"Let's talk after you meet him." Zhao Weizhen didn't answer directly: "It's square or round, you have to take it out to see it."

After she finished talking about picking up the bamboo slips, she changed the subject and said in a bad mood: "What are you pestering me in front of today? I—"

"lady!"

A knock on the door interrupted their conversation again.

Wei Xing walked in with cold sweat: "The Empress Dowager sent a message from the palace, asking if Madam is free tonight, she wants to come and chat with you."

Lu Buwei: "..."

I'm so bored!

Qin Xiangguo, who was always in control, couldn't help but stiffen his face.

This one or two, can you let them finish talking? !Li Si left and Zhao Ji came again, so she couldn't have her own time except for business.

You must know that after Lu Buwei and Zhao Weizhen had some unhappiness, they haven't found a chance to confide their hearts.

"Is the Queen Mother busy?" Lu Buwei held back his anger and raised his head to ask.

"I don't care if you send Wei Sheng away," Zhao Weizhen immediately said, "Wei Xing is a good person, don't offend him. The queen mother is very busy, you have your daughter to accompany you at night, how about her?"

Lu Buwei took a deep breath, his mind turned, and he had an idea almost instantly.

Isn't it just a lack of companionship? That's a coincidence.

He rubbed his forehead, and looked at Wei Xing again: "Go, find that Lao Shizi that your brother was looking for before."

Zhao Weizhen: "..."

Wait a minute.

When the familiar name landed, Zhao Weizhen widened his eyes slightly: "Lao Ai?"

Lu Buwei:?

She suddenly regained her spirits: "You bring him to the mansion first, let me have a look first!"

Lu Buwei:? ? ?