"Brother Qi~"

Just as Zhao Qi scratched his ears and hair, a shout came from behind him. When he turned around, he saw Ermazi and Ermao foursomes going home together after watching the little pornographic film in the brothel.

"Brother Erma!" Zhao Qi was so surprised that he waved his hand quickly.

"Shh, it's you. We all thought you were home, so why are you staring at daze here!" Ermazi and the other two walked up to ask.

"I picked up some beautiful stones for no reason and was thinking about how to get them back!" Zhao Qi said, pointing to a pile of stones on the ground.

Ermazi bent down and picked up a piece and took a look. He threw it on the ground with disgust.

"Shu, what's the use of picking up this kind of broken stone? There are only little kids picking it up to play. Let's go. It's too late. If you don't go back, you won't see the road!" Ermazi clapped the mud and sand in his hand and curled his lips.

"Brother Erma, I just think it looks good. I picked it up and washed it and used it as a toy for my younger sister. Let's help me get it back. I'll treat you to dinner another day!" Zhao Qi said with a smile.

"You said!" Although the few people were very disdainful, under the temptation of Zhao Qi's invitation to dinner, Ermazi and the four of them took off their clothes very readily. Each of them wrapped more than ten pieces, then hung them on their shoulders, and a group of people walked back barefoot.

Although it was very dark, Ermazi and others were already very familiar with this road, and they would not make a mistake even if they closed their eyes. Half an hour later, several people sent Zhao Qi back to the broken kiln. At this time, the sky was completely dark, and Xiaozhu had already tiptoed to wait at the door of the yard for a long time.

"Brother is back!" Xiao Zhu, who was eager to see, ran up to greet him excitedly.

"We'll go back first, remember to get early tomorrow!" Ermazi and others didn't even have time to take a sip of water, so they threw the stone in front of the cave door and left together, and soon disappeared into the night.

"Ahem, why did you come back so late!" Old Mrs. Su came out of the cave with a crutch holding a small oil lamp.

"After work, I played with a few companions in the town for a while, and they sent me back together!" Zhao Qi hurried forward and supported Mrs. Su.

Although the old woman seems to have blurred eyes, she actually has good ears. She comes and goes every day with Ermazi and others, but she is afraid that in a few days the old woman will know that she is moving bricks at the dock.

But it’s better to take this kind of thing for a few days, just get used to it.

Xiaozhu cooked gourd soup. Although Zhao Qi had eaten a bun, he was already hungry after walking a few miles. So he ate a few big bowls, sat outside the cave and watched the stars and moon for half an hour, then took a shower, brushed his teeth and went to bed.

In this era, if you don’t live in a town, your entertainment life will be basically zero.

Even the neighbors, because men almost work at the dock during the day, they are as tired as dogs, and there are only women, children, young and old at home. They are responsible for mowing grass, grazing cattle, feeding chickens and ducks, clearing weeds in the fields, etc. Women use them as men and children use them as adults. At the age of ten, they are already an important labor force in the family. Even if they are only five or six years old, they need to help with their home work every day.

And basically all the girls stayed at home were girls. Some boys in the village were sent to the village's charity school or private schools in the town to study. Most of them got up before dawn and went to school with their schoolbags on their backs. After school in the evening, it was exactly the same as when Zhao Qi was a child.

The village is Yixue, and there are many people in Maowan Village. Basically every household has land and can work at the docks during the slack farm. Therefore, the family is well off, at least it is fine to have enough food and clothing. There is no problem with this family, as poor as Zhao Qi's family, this family has no branches.

Yixue was raised by several wealthy families in the village. It was considered a primary school student. I hired an old master and accepted dozens of students, including a few girls. I taught some entry-level literacy and writing courses such as Thousand Characters and Three Character Classics. When the boys in the village were five or six years old, they usually sent to Yixue to study. Although the tuition was very small, they had to prepare books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones by themselves, and they had to spend several stagnant of money every year. During festivals, they had to give Lao Xu some eggs, rice, flour, etc.

When you are about ten years old and want to continue studying after your primary school, you can go to the private school in Yanggong Town. Private schools are different from primary school. You start to teach some simple poetry, books, rituals, music and classics. The private school costs more, so there are fewer people who can afford it. However, if you have good grades, the private school teacher will recommend going to the county town to take the college entrance examination. If you pass the exam, you can study in the county school, and there will also be a formal name called Xiucai.

Although scholars are not officials, they are already serious and high-level intellectuals. They are definitely well-known figures in the local area and are very respected. With the status of scholars, they can open private schools and participate in the application for officials at all levels of prefectures and county military supervision. It is quite easy to be an ordinary civil servant. Therefore, as long as you pass the scholar, your life will basically reach a glorious moment.

Every state and county has a fixed quota according to the population, so the competition is very large.

Yang Dayuan's eldest son is fifteen years old this year. He is in the same year as Zhao Qi. He is studying in a private school in the town. I heard that he is going to take the college entrance examination this year. He goes out early and returns late every day like adults. He takes one day off. Zhao Qi has only seen him once. His name is Yang Zhishui. He is much taller and cleaner than him. He is gentle and gentle at first glance, and he is a scholar. He is different from a stupid child like Zhao Qi who used to be swaying with birds everywhere. He looks promising at first glance.

Although Yang Dayuan is a mud-legged man who carries bricks, he is full of hope for his eldest son and spends most of his money on his eldest son. Although he keeps silent on his daily life, he is actually very proud. Because of Yang Zhishui, the villagers also respect Yang Dayuan very much.

A son who can study can give his parents a face.

This is still the case after hundreds of years.

Many people in Maowan Village studied private schools in the town, and several scholars also appeared. Most of them moved to the town and even Yin County. I heard that there were also big names in Jie Yuan, a high school in the provincial examination, but Zhao Qi was not in the mood to inquire.

In the current Song Dynasty, studying can no longer be saved.

Because the Song Dynasty was destroyed by these people's studies.

Since the beginning of the founding of the country, the basic national policy of emphasizing culture over military affairs laid the root of disaster for the destruction of the country.

Literary **... well... light, more ruthless and useless than vulgar martial artists. The party struggles are endless, and there are many powerful officials. However, all these civil officials who are in high positions and plot to strangle all their opponents all day long are not smart people. Almost all of them are from the Jinshi list, and they all read hard since childhood.

During the Song Dynasty, education was very prosperous and developed. From Taixue to provincial education, county education, private schools, village education, and charity education, a broad education system that was no less than that of later generations. A large number of students from poor families climbed to high positions step by step. In order to safeguard the interests of the class they represent, they also worked harder to promote the development of education.

Studying and becoming an official has also become everyone's dream and goal.

However, as Neo-Confucianism gradually formed orthodoxy, this extensive educational pattern also became a main battlefield for promoting Neo-Confucianism.

When everyone's purpose of studying is just to make money as an official, the social atmosphere and morality will come to the verge of collapse. With the development of business, it will become more natural for collusion between officials and businessmen. Under this ethos, upright officials who can do practical things will be excluded and suppressed, and a large number of scholars with ambition to serve the country can only retreat with hatred.

In essence, Neo-Confucianism is an idealistic theory. In the era when economy and materials are so developed and wisdom has already opened up, they are still desperately advocating moral principles, and studying virtue and sanctification, trying to suppress human nature and desires with a set of theories that are sublimated to religious nature.

However, human nature had already had huge conflicts and discussions when hundreds of schools of thought controversially in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. A unified theory has never been formed for thousands of years. However, Neo-Confucianists wanted to form a unified norm by re-annotating the texts of their ancestors. The deeper this research, the greater the struggle. Most of the court struggles in the Song Dynasty originated from the rise and fall of Neo-Confucianism.

Neo-Confucianism prevailed in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern School of Studying Neo-Confucianism completely raised the theory of maintaining the rule of emperors, such as the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, to an unparalleled height, and completely defeated the new school that had always taken the reform of the past and the innovation to govern the world. The reformed materialist thought began to recede, and conservative idealism began to occupy a dominant position. This trend continued to influence the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties for hundreds of years.

According to the cognition of the people of the Song Dynasty, studying and obtaining fame and fortune is the most successful life trajectory.

Everything is inferior, but reading is high.

This is a famous quote from the elementary school book "The Poem of Child Prodigy" that appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. This theory began to be instilled with children who had just read and learned to read.

And the following two sentences are even more tempting.

Zhu Zigui in the court was all scholars.

It is a true portrayal of the Song Dynasty.

In order to give the king absolute control and prevent civil strife caused by the autocracy of the harem, relatives and governors of the Han and Tang dynasties, the Song Dynasty prohibited the royal family from being officials, prohibited the foreign relatives from being officials, prohibited the military generals from participating in national policies, and handed over all rights to the prime minister. In order to prevent the prime minister from being autocratic, the prime minister's rights were broken down into pieces, and the chief minister's rights were used to form checks and balances against the prime minister's rights. All officials with checks and balances were called prime ministers, and all nobles wearing red and purple official robes.

These Zhu Zi nobles were basically born in poor families or came from ordinary families, and few of them were wealthy families.

There were many poor officials who were famous for their advancement in the Song Dynasty.

This is also something that other dynasties cannot compare with.

This is also the reason why the Song Dynasty was hopelessly corrupted, but it was still the people's will.

The tragic tragic 100,000 military and civilian officials jumped into the sea to bury the corpse, and the tragic corpse floating thousands of miles away, has to be admitted that the Song Dynasty was not a decay and useless. His shining points, thousands of years later, still shine with the brilliance of civilization beyond the times.

Although he was very tired, Zhao Qi was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep, staring at the roof with big eyes.

The faint star and moon light shining from the large skylight on the top of the kiln fell to the ground through the narrow window, which looked hazy and unreal.

The outside of the cave is frogs croaking, gathering together in the early summer night, revealing a long-lasting peace in the noise, just like the countryside and rice fields in the countryside when I was a child, full of childhood memories.

I don’t know how my parents in another world are doing.

They had to travel thousands of miles to the mountain temple in Ningbo to collect their bodies. I wonder how sad the old couple would be.

Unfortunately, I can't go back.

I'm afraid that the only one in the world who picks up a bargain and turns himself into an antique is the only one in the world.

Zhao Qi sighed and closed his eyes.

It is impossible to study anymore, and it is impossible for this life. It is even more impossible to go to Beijing to take the exam to get a gold medal. It is better to be a migrant worker and take the opportunity to make money and accumulate capital.
Chapter completed!