Chapter 7 Meng Xue
Zhao Xing followed Guo Yankai’s instructions and practiced for about one stick of incense before he stopped him.
"Your Highness, practice step by step at the beginning. It is not advisable to practice for too long. Today is enough time." Gu Yankai said.
He thought that Zhao Xing would complain if he could not hold on for long, but he did not expect that Zhao Xing would be so tenacious.
Hearing this, Zhao Xing stopped his movements and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, Marquis Ningyuan. You go back first. Mr. Gu Xiaohou will wait here while I go to greet my mother and come back. You can go to class with me." ”
"Yes!" Gu Tingye and his son responded quickly.
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Zhao Xing returned to Mingren Hall, greeted Queen Cao, returned to Yongning Hall, and took Gu Tingye to Zishan Hall.
"Gu Xiaohou, do you have a cousin?"
Zhao Xing asked as he walked without riding the chariot.
"I haven't chosen my cousin name yet." Gu Tingye cupped his hands and said.
As a disciple of the Lord, Gu Tingye, although he is still young, has a military official, so he can naturally call himself a minister.
"How about I give you a cousin name?" Zhao Xing said with some evil humor.
"It would be my honor if Your Highness could give me a calligraphy!" Gu Tingye said excitedly.
The name is usually given by the parents and elders. Although Zhao Xing is young, he is a prince and is likely to become the emperor in the future.
Zhao Xing gave him a calligraphy, whether it sounded good or not, it was a matter of honoring the ancestors.
Zhao Xing pretended to ponder for a while and said: "You are the second oldest, let's call you Zhonghuai. The Gu family is not only a lord but also a general. Our ancestors have made many military exploits. I hope you will not lose the reputation of your ancestors and have the world in mind." , Be loyal to your country!”
A general is not necessarily a lord, and a lord is not necessarily a general.
The generals who Emperor Taizu released his military power over a cup of wine were all nobles. However, after Taizu took away the military power, no descendants have entered the army in the past dynasties, and those people only have one title left.
However, there are many nobles in the court who were awarded titles for their merits by Emperor Taizu during his military campaigns in the north and south, and in the process of unifying the world.
Some of these families have long since declined and have lost their influence in the military.
There are also people who have served in the military for generations, and their official positions are not low.
The Zhang family and the Gu family are among them, so the Gu family is not only a lord, but also a general, and has a high prestige in the military.
Zhao Xing values Gu Tingye not only because of Gu Tingye's ability, but also because of his family background.
As long as the Gu family firmly supports him and the British father-in-law is his future father-in-law, it will be much easier for him to control the military after he ascends the throne.
"Thank you for your highness's words. I will live up to your highness's expectations!" Gu Tingye knelt down on one knee, his voice loud and full of excitement.
Gu Tingye is just ten years old now. Even though he is smart, he does not have so many twists and turns in his heart.
Coupled with the education that the ancients received since childhood, Zhao Xing gave him the word, which gave him the urge to die for his confidants.
The concepts and thoughts of the ancients are difficult for future generations to understand.
Some kindnesses that future generations may see as just small favors, even when they know that the other person is deliberately showing favors, there are still many people who will remain loyal to them until death.
Zhao Xing didn't know that he just gave him a word, but Gu Tingye was deeply moved. When he saw him kneeling, he quickly helped him up.
"Zhong Huai, there is no need to perform such a big ceremony!"
Kneeling was not popular in the Song Dynasty. Normally, even if servants saw their master, they would just bow and salute.
When the two came to Zishan Hall, Qi Heng had already arrived.
Now Qi Heng, who is just five years old, was surprised to see Gu Tingye and Zhao Xing coming in together. He quickly stood up and saluted: "Meet your Highness."
"Cousin, there's no need to be polite." Zhao Xing smiled and gave him a little help.
After Qi Heng stood up, he saluted Gu Tingye and called his second uncle.
Qi Gu's two families are related by ancestors, so in terms of seniority, Qi Gu is a generation later.
Gu Tingye was shocked when he saw Qi Heng was there, and quickly realized that with the relationship between Princess Pingning and the official family, it was normal for Qi Heng to accompany him in reading.
Zhao Xing and Qi Heng wanted to get closer to each other.
The two had met several times before, but the elders were there at that time, and Qi Heng was very well-behaved.
Zhao Xing originally thought that Qi Heng would be more relaxed now that there was no elder.
However, Qi Heng was very reserved when facing him. He answered whatever Zhao Xing asked, and he was very rigid and boring.
After chatting for a while, footsteps came from outside.
After a while, Hai Wenyou walked in.
"I've met the Master!" Zhao Xing and the others quickly stood up and saluted.
The ancients valued the king of heaven and earth and his teacher. Even if Zhao Xing was the prince and Hai Wenyou was the teacher, he still had to salute.
However, Hai Wenyou waited for Zhao Xing to finish his salute and gave him another salute in return.
Hai Wenyou gave a few simple instructions and then the class officially started.
Zhao Xing originally thought that there was no pinyin in ancient times, and literacy relied entirely on memorization.
When I officially started learning, I realized that the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.
Both Gu Tingye and Qi Heng have started to learn. Although Qi Heng has not been learning for a short time, he also knows some words.
However, the main target of the teaching is Zhao Xing, so naturally he is the main target.
Gu Tingye and Qi Heng could only teach and listen.
Hai Wenyou's method of teaching Zhao Xing to read is the Zhiyin method.
The so-called straight phonetic method is to select the simplest word from all the pronunciations to teach, and then use that word as the phonetic notation to teach other words.
To put it simply, the pronunciation of "yi" is represented by the word "yi". As long as the word has the pronunciation of "yi", the pronunciation of "yi" is used to teach the phonetic notation. The reason why one is not used is because the Song Dynasty used traditional Chinese characters, one is still one, and there are too many strokes.
Of course, this method also has some disadvantages. First of all, there is only one sound, which needs to be distinguished later. Secondly, some rare words do not have the same sound, so they cannot be used.
However, it is indeed possible to recognize most common Chinese characters.
In one class, he taught a few words and then briefly explained the meaning of each word. In the second class, Zhao Xing was asked to practice writing.
The same goes for the afternoon, reading and writing.
From this day on, Zhao Xing was like this every day.
I started martial arts lessons with Gu Yan for half an hour in the morning, and then came to Zishan Hall for classes, taking only one day off in ten days.
The official family also began to recruit Zhao Xing's accompanying group, and more than a dozen people came to the school one after another.
In just three months, there were already eighteen students in the school, including him.
These people are all the children of Lord Bianjing, as well as the children of officials with high power or high reputation in the civil service.
Ages range from five to twelve years old.
But apart from Gu Tingye and Qi Heng, Zhao Xing only has a close relationship with a few of them, and the rest are too lazy to talk to them.
Judging from their usual performance, those people are either mediocre in talent or just idiots.
And he also deliberately curry favor with him. Zhao Xing naturally has no good impression of this kind of person.
With the arrival of these people, Zhao Xing's reputation as a child prodigy spread out of the palace and spread from Bianjing to the world.
It is said that Zhao Xing has a photographic memory and can learn any word at once.
Zhao Xing smiled slightly when he heard these rumors.
No way, he was already literate. Although the Song Dynasty used traditional Chinese characters, most of the traditional Chinese characters were not very different from the simplified Chinese characters, and they could be recognized at a glance.
Even if he couldn't recognize it, Zhao Xing remembered Haiwen Youyi's teachings.
Photographic memory is a bit exaggerated, but Zhao Xing can almost remember some things after reading them three or two times.
Maybe it’s because children have good memories, or maybe it’s because he was reborn that his memory became so good.
However, he was a prince and did not need to take the imperial examination, so he was not very happy about this.
Time flies by, and it has been a year since Zhao Xing entered school.
This year, Zhao Xing has finished studying the enlightenment books of this era, and has recognized and learned to write most common characters.
After completing the elementary school, I began to formally study "The Analects of Confucius".
The Four Books and the Five Classics are nine important Confucian classics in ancient education. If you want to participate in the imperial examination, the Four Books and the Five Classics must be learned.
Han Zhang, who had not appeared before, also began to teach Zhao Xing.
Han Zhang is the Prime Minister, so he naturally does not have time to teach Zhao Xing every day, and will only give lectures every other day.
It's about history books.
Li Shimin once said that taking history as a mirror can help us understand gains and losses.
For Zhao Xing, history books are a must-learn.
(End of this chapter)