The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

Xun Qing was lucky for a while, and finally stretched out his hand to help the young man up, "You brat, you made a lot of noise when you came back, what about Liao'er? Didn't you come back with you?"

"Brother is escorting the things in the back." Lu An smiled, he supported Xun Qing with one hand and walked into the academy, and made a series of gestures towards the back with the other hand.Xun Qing didn't see it, but Lu An's other seniors all saw that a group of small officials came out of nowhere and quickly took over Lu An's job just now.

While distributing leaflets to the students onlookers, and pulling people to enthusiastically explain the situation of Shu County, they warmly invited people to come and see their special products of Shu County. They forcibly used the gate of their Qin Guoxue Palace as a display platform.

Even more exaggerated, they seem to have taken out a small charcoal stove...

Turning his head to look at Xun Qing who had been fooled by Lu An, and then at the doorway which was still buzzing, the disciples who were younger than Lu An scratched their heads one after another, while the older ones smiled, expressing that they just followed Lu An.

Nowadays, only Shu County has opened a channel for recommending and selecting talents among the counties and counties of Qin State. Shu County does have a large talent gap due to special circumstances.

At the beginning, when Lu An wrote urgently for help, out of the friendship between teachers and students, and because the disciples really needed a platform for practice, Xun Qing asked a few interested students to help, but who knew that the younger brother didn't want a few. not one, but dozens.Almost none of the juniors who went to Shu County came back, even if they came back occasionally, they were all come back to pull people.

Although Xunzi was pleased with the growth of these disciples, it was inevitable that he could not bear this consumption method.In Xun Qing's words, Shu County is like a deep pit. It is not recruiting talents at all, but eating talents. After swallowing them, they don't even spit out their bones.

But the effect is indeed remarkable. After a large number of educated and far-sighted young grassroots officials stationed in Shu County, they brought earth-shaking changes to the local area.

The first point is that there is a road in Shu County, which was built spontaneously by the people of Shu County, and the official only gave technical guidance-the Micang Road.

This road is on the east side of Jinniu Road, which is the northeast corner of Shu County. It opens up Micang Mountain and connects Hanzhong and the northwest of Shu.Although this road is more difficult to walk than Jinniu Road, it has a superior geographical location and meets the travel needs of the people of Dongshu County.

With this new road, Berkshire, which is also blocked by the Qinling Mountains, also has a passage to go north.This road may be more important to the people of Berkshire, but as a transportation hub, Shu County has also benefited a lot.

Shu County, which has two direct roads leading to Xianyang, has since become a transportation hub in the south.

Several Tu leaders who participated in the investment at the beginning benefited from this. They set up several rest stops along the way, and opened shops in the stations to sell goods and fresh melons and fruits, and provide donkey and horse rental services.

Because the Micang Road is mainly a mountain road, the stairs are mainly responsible for the task of raising the height up and down the mountain. The Tu people along the way later developed a human sedan chair service. This service is very popular among those who want to leave Shu County and go to Xianyang to learn more. Money people welcome.Of course, it is also very popular with Qin people who travel to Shu.

With the roads open, the local economic benefits have naturally been greatly improved. In just two years, the monthly income of residents along the route has basically increased by [-] to [-]%, and some particularly capable people can even double it.

The completion of the road also means that the cost of living has been reduced, and the lives of residents in this area have become better with the naked eye.

With money, it is natural to have higher pursuits.

"If you want to get rich, build roads first, and study as soon as you finish building roads" has become the mantra of Shu County, and went to Xianyang to meet King Qin as a hanging sweet fruit. Shu County is burning with enthusiasm for learning from top to bottom.

The government office of Shu County set up post stations at several nodes of the Shu Road for traveling and resting horses. The income was used to train local talents and pay the salaries of the Qin people who came to help teach, and there was still a surplus.Later, this money was set up as a special fund, which was used to send students from Shu County to study in Xianyang.

After learning that the government had this subsidy fund, many local merchants came to contact Lu An, who was in charge, and expressed their willingness to contribute. After being rejected by Lu An, they were even willing to give up the favor and sponsor anonymously, just to send more The children of Shu County left the mountain.

As Shu people, they hope that their offspring will be better than anyone else, and they know better than anyone that they must get out of this continuous mountain.

Now that these people have said so, Lu An naturally has no reason to refuse.So Shu County sent six students to Xianyang to study in that year, and another 14 students in the spring of the following year. These students were all sent to Qin Guoxue Palace.

In order to avoid their worries, the government of Shu County paid the travel expenses and living expenses for the twenty students. Their only task was to study.

Such a large number of students voted naturally attracted the attention of other students.

Then they discovered to their astonishment that these students from Shu County studied very hard, almost to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep—they were the first to arrive at every class and the last to leave, and they engraved every word of their master on the In the mind, what is communicated on weekdays is also the knowledge learned.

Moreover, their lives are extremely simple, and they have no interest in the bustling Xianyang Street at all, which is completely different from the noble children of Shu County who came to Xianyang before.In their lives, besides learning, there is only learning.

They don't even miss home.

Missing home?Of course I wanted to.

A young student rubbed his nose and said in Qin dialect with a somewhat soft Shu accent: "We don't have time to be homesick."

"Every moment we waste, every word we miss, is what countless people in my hometown desire most. If they come to study, they will definitely not miss it. As long as I think of this, I dare not relax in the slightest .”

These young students from Shu county shocked many Qin people with their desire for knowledge and their tenacious eyes, and they were deeply moved by the fact that they all chose to return to Shu land for construction after they finished their studies.

In the pre-Qin period when personal honor was the main focus, they had never seen such a person who would rather give up his bright future and go back to the backcountry for construction.And not one, but a group, all Shu County people.

Because of the existence of these young people, more and more people studying in Xianyang are curious about the land that raised these young people.Because of this, when people from Shu County came to promote it, many young students would sign up.

Like their senior brothers, they will most likely set foot on that beautiful and magical land in a beautiful season in the future, be attracted by it, and finally stay there to become a member of Shu County.It is also possible to choose to leave there due to various reasons, but in that poor but rich land, they will definitely be able to obtain spiritual wealth and valuable experience that will allow them to relive their lives.

And now, the founder of all these changes is still being poked in the head by his husband.

"It's all nonsense." Xun Qing nodded his lover's forehead. Although he was reprimanded, his gesture was extremely intimate. Wouldn’t it be difficult for the king if the local officials who reported their duties did not queue up outside the city of Xianyang but came to the academy first?”

Lu An smiled and explained: "Because there are things still waiting in line outside the city, waiting is still waiting, so I will come to see Mr. first, and the delay will not be long."

"I see that I'm a fake, but poaching people is real!" Xun Qing feigned anger, "Why, it's not enough to poach both your non-junior brother and Si junior brother, who else do you want?"

Lu An smiled awkwardly, "Ahem, the more talents, the better. Although the two juniors are very capable, you can't entrust them with all the tasks. They will be too busy."

"Then you just stare at the Qin State Academy and dig," Xun Qing said with some helplessness on his face, "Hasn't Shu County cultivated a group of people? Isn't that enough?"

"Not enough, the gap is too big." Lu An couldn't help but sigh when thinking about the current situation in Shu County, "According to the current education situation, it may take more than 20 years to catch up with the current per capita Qin. The key is language and writing... Writing and language are almost two systems from that of Qin State, no matter phonetics, it is very difficult to popularize writing.”

Lu An was silent for a while, then raised his head and said to Xun Qing, "The students came to Xianyang this time because they also want to apply for the promotion of simplified characters."

A long time ago, Xun Qing wanted to promote the simplification and regularization of the text, but at that time Qin was in a troubled time, so he temporarily pressed it. After the two generations of the king of Qin changed, everything was complicated and delayed again and again. The time actually dragged on for almost ten years.

Lu An believed that now is the time. If King Qin agrees, he would like to apply for Shu County as a pilot area for simplifying characters.

Unexpectedly, Xun Qing laughed as soon as he said that, "You are late."

The old man said proudly, "As a teacher, I have already mentioned it to the king."

"The king...?"

Xun Qing smiled slightly, pretending to be silent, keeping everything silent, so Lu An also smiled.

The Shu County Brigade entering Beijing was queuing outside the city, and Lu An didn't want to stay longer. After the two exchanged a few more words, he got up and left.He didn't know that just after he left, someone turned around behind the screen and sat down leisurely.

This person is none other than King Qin.

The other person poured a cup of tea for himself, and said with a light smile, "You master and apprentice really thought of going together, and competed with this Qin character. Is our Qin character so difficult?"

Xun Qing said with a smile, "It's not difficult, it's not easy."

A kind of script is not easy to write, not easy to spread, and not easy to remember is its biggest weakness, and... "Qin characters are thick and magnificent, and they are quite solemn on the gold, stone and wooden tablets."

However, the writing tool that Qin will spread on a large scale in the future is paper.

The change of the carrier directly affects the change of the writing tool. Qin State used to choose hard animal hair for writing on bamboo slips, but the paper is soft and fragile, and this kind of animal hair is very easy to scratch the paper.Craftsmen quickly produced brushes with soft hair as the main material, and such brushes are fluffy and soft enough to absorb more ink, making it more difficult to control when writing.

The strokes of Qin characters are straight, so the writer needs to have a high ability to control the pen when writing, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of writing.This point is the same for those who are new to learning Qin characters, and for those who are used to writing on copybooks.

It is an inevitable trend to replace bamboo slips with paper, and it is also a trend that Qin characters cannot keep up with the times.

It would be foolish to raise the bar too high for others to learn from your culture, so simplification is imperative.

Xun Qing had already explained the reason to him, and the other person was already vacillating, but what Lu An said today, who was completely unaware of it, was like the last weight on the side of reform.

King Qin closed his eyes hard, and when he opened them again, his eyes were burning. He raised his sleeves and turned to look at Xun Qing and said, "Four days from now, please hand over the documents, and the widows will approve them."

"Here!"

"By the way, when Lu An returns this time, he will make up for the crowning ceremony, right?"

Xun Qing was taken aback when he heard the words, obviously he didn't expect the stranger to let him know about it.The stranger didn't wait for his answer and continued: "I sent this kid to Shu County to stay for three years, but I delayed his coronation ceremony."

"How about this, I will make it up to him, Lu An... Xiangbang wants this kid to be safe forever, which is not bad, but he is too careful."

"A man should stand up in the world, he should be more generous... Be a man who shines brightly around you, and act with respect and virtue."

"Jingxi is quite a name for him."

"But there's no need to tell him that, lest this kid be proud."

"The widow will go back to the palace to see what paperwork he is going to submit,"

"If the writing is not good, then stay in Xianyang to accompany the prince."