Volume 1: Birth! Seven time travelers Chapter 115 Donglin also wants to publish a newspaper (Part 4)
Although the Donglin Party has a very bad reputation on the Internet in later generations, it must be admitted that the Donglin Academy and the Donglin Party at that time were not all bad people.
However, this political party has been infected with an extremely annoying problem since its birth: it has no ability to do practical things, nor does it like to do practical things, but it is always finding fault with people who do practical things. It likes to use extremely high moral standards to demand others, but cannot be strict with itself.
In short, these are the trolls in Chinese politics in the 17th century!
As for Gu Xiancheng, the person who instigated this group of trolls, Gu Shushi is quite an extraordinary person.
As an opinion leader of this era, although Gu Xiancheng was in opposition, he had great power. After he traveled from Wuxi to Nanjing, the censors in Nanjing wrote to impeach Zhang Yicheng: Newspapers are good, I like them and want to run one. But it would be best if we, the Donglin Party, eliminated our competitors before we run a newspaper!
Moreover, this opinion leader has quite a few fans, who have risen to . After His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has made his position clear and accused Nanjing officials of putting military and national affairs aside and getting entangled in some unfounded issues, which is a typical case of not knowing the importance of the situation, these guys still shamelessly continued to file various petitions, so at the meeting on February 15, Zhu Youdong was overwhelmed by a pile of petitions.
According to the official practice in the Ming Dynasty , once an official was impeached, he would voluntarily stay away from work and reflect on himself at home. As an official within this system, Zhang Yicheng was full of anger and grievances at this time, but he had to temporarily stop his job as the Imperial Censor of Yingtian Prefecture and stay at home to write letters of self-defense.
Zhu Youdong sighed and said nothing more about Zhang Yicheng's attitude: a person's transformation takes time and process. Zhang Yicheng has been Zhu Youdong's teacher for two years and has received realistic education from the Yellow Book Library. It is not easy to come out of the sea of books and help Zhu Youdong run a newspaper. It is really not possible to expect him to be indifferent to any impeachment now.
The road to differentiating and transforming civil officials is truly a long and arduous march.
However, although typical civil officials like Zhang Yicheng have not yet achieved a complete transformation, the positions of the teachers in Fangshan School have clearly changed.
Li Guojun has been working as a mathematics teacher at Fangshan School for more than half a year and has taught for a full semester.
In the final exam at the end of last year, the total score and average score of Class 38, which he worked with Zhang Wenhua and Huang Zhigang, ranked third among the 52 classes. And the score of the mathematics class he was in charge of was the first in the whole school!
With such an impressive achievement, he not only successfully received a reward of 100 taels of silver, but also received a banquet from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince personally poured wine for him. Moreover, because he taught mathematics very well, the students also liked him. So His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also wrote a thank-you letter to his parents in person, thanking them for raising such an outstanding son for the Ming Dynasty!
What an honor! Suddenly, Li Guojun felt that he had lived a dog's life for the past thirty years: before, his entire horizon was a small piece of land as big as the county town, and all he thought about all day long was when the old man would let him take over... Now looking back, he kept shaking his head: This situation, ah, it's ridiculous to think about it.
After the banquet given by the Crown Prince, the school was on winter vacation. He took the reward money, the letter of thanks given by His Highness, and a number of novel goods such as a floor-length dressing mirror and a large clock that he bought at a very favorable price at Fangshan Grocery Store, chartered a large car, and returned to his hometown in Xiuning in glory.
After receiving the envy and endless flattery from his family, relatives and friends in his hometown, Li Guojun came to Nanjing again with great pride.
Come on, this semester, you must work closely with Mr. Zhang and Mr. Huang. Try to get the first place in the final exam this semester!
Among the more than 20 students in his class, most of them are hardworking enough. But there are still two or three children whose grades can be improved a lot. These children are not unruly. Li Guojun thinks that those who can get good grades while playing are the real good seedlings. It takes such people to learn mathematics well. Therefore, this semester, he has to give these children some extra lessons!
Of course, after coming to Fangshan, Li Guojun's horizons broadened, and he also clearly felt that his abilities were insufficient. Jinling Daily greatly broadened his horizons and made him realize that there are so many colorful countries and civilizations in the world.
Once a person's horizons are broadened, his thoughts will naturally increase. He took the initiative to sign up to be Matteo Ricci's student and began to learn more advanced Western mathematics.
Not only him, but nearly 500 teachers of all kinds in Fangshan School have gradually started to find ways to improve themselves. Some worship Zhang Yicheng as their teacher, and learn from the champion how to polish the eight-part essay better, so as to pass the next year's Yingtian County Examination. Some worship Wu Youxing and others as their teachers, and study medicine. Others study physics, chemistry, firearms, etc. Of course, many people follow Xu Guangqi to study hybrid rice or steam engines...
In short, in the hearts of Li Guojun and others, everything is good at Fangshan: the children are generally motivated and eager to learn, and watching them grow day by day, this sense of accomplishment is particularly gratifying for these teachers who are teaching the first class.
The environment in Fangshan is also very good. The tuition is generous, but that's just one aspect. The rest, whether it's the hardware environment such as living and teaching, or the atmosphere among colleagues, are all quite pure and clean: You don't like me? Just teach your children well. All other despicable means are useless!
The most important thing is that you can continue to improve here! Whether you are still obsessed with passing the imperial examination or the imperial examination and want to further polish your essay, or you are interested in various studies of things. Here you can find the best teachers of this era and this country to guide you. Based on this point, Li Guojun estimated that if those candidates knew the mystery of Fangshan, they would be willing to come here to be teachers for these children.
In short, everything here is wonderful. Li Guojun often thinks that if he stays in Fangshan for ten years, has his own children, and has enough savings, he will buy a boat and go out to sea to see the world described in the Jinling Daily!
But! Now someone actually wants to destroy this perfect paradise in his mind!
Since returning to school in late January, teachers in the school have been discussing privately that Donglin Academy was jealous of the popularity of Jinling Daily and was thinking of starting its own newspaper.
Li Guojun is clear about this matter: it is true.
Huizhou Prefecture was a strong prefecture in the imperial examinations. Every three years, at least five people passed the Yingtian County Examination. In the subsequent joint examinations, at least one person passed the imperial examination. Over the past few hundred years, there were countless gentry who retired and returned to their hometowns after serving as high officials. Donglin Academy wanted to publish a newspaper, so it might need these gentry to raise funds, shout, stand on the platform, and even help with sales in the future. These things must be arranged in advance. And once the invitation is made, wouldn't the old father in the county know about it?
Speaking of which, these teachers of Fangshan School and the gentlemen and students of Donglin Academy actually dislike each other!
Not to mention that all the teachers in Donglin Academy were Jinshi, there were many Juren among the students, and there were also quite a few Xiucai and Tongsheng.
But unlike the scholars and students in Fangshan School who were in their thirties, forties, or even fifties or sixties, the scholars in Donglin were generally no older than twenty, and the students no older than fifteen!
This is also normal. There are many people participating in Donglin's academic activities, but those who can study in Donglin for a long time are all the children of officials and gentry! These children have their own fathers and brothers to guide them, and their families are well-off, so they can study without distraction. In addition, there are more or less tricks in the imperial examination. The age at which these children passed the examination of scholars, the imperial examinations, and even the imperial examinations was at least 20 years earlier than that group of teachers in Fangshan!
In Donglin's opinion, the so-called teachers in Fangshan are nothing but a bunch of old stupid dogs who can't read anything, a bunch of shameless clerks' sons, and a bunch of vulgar and uncultured stinking soldiers! Such people dare to be teachers? Isn't this misleading the students? So you can only teach those refugees and starving people.
In the eyes of the teachers at Fangshan, these noble young men from Donglin are always talking about world affairs, as if they can't stop. But how much have you contributed to this country? How much do you know about the development of countries around the world? Do you know that the scientific name of water is dihydrogen monoxide? If you don't know these, what qualifications do you have to put on such a stinking air? What's wrong with our students being descendants of refugees? When they grow up a year or two, one of them will beat ten of you!
In the past six months, although the teachers of Fangshan and the students of Donglin had various objections, one was in Nanjing and the other in Wuxi. So generally they lived in peace. But after hearing that Donglin was also going to publish a newspaper and launched a collective impeachment against Zhang Yicheng, the editor-in-chief of Jinling Daily, these teachers quit!
