allonlinenovel Chapter 309: Liuyang Prefecture School Encourages Women to Enroll
Chapter 309: Liuyang Prefecture School Encourages Women to Enroll
Birds were chirping outside the window. Shen Zheng looked at the second thing Yu Zhengqing wrote in the letter and suddenly laughed.
——"Liuyang Prefecture School has issued a notice to encourage girls to take the initiative to sign up for school, and the response has been good."
Shen Zheng gently stroked the line of words.
It feels good to have someone to work with.
Then, Yu Zhengqing listed several female students who had been enrolled in the provincial school in recent days.
The first female student was the daughter of an official. She had long wanted to study in the official school, but her father did not allow it, fearing that she would make a mistake and bring harm to the whole family.
Her father didn't know what his immediate superior Yu Zhengqing thought, so he didn't dare to send the girl to study at the provincial school.
Sending a girl to the provincial school to study is equivalent to taking sides - supporting the emperor or the new faction.
He didn't dare to gamble his official hat for fear of offending Yu Zhengqing.
The second woman to study in the government school was the daughter of a merchant.
She had been learning to manage the backyard at home, and when she showed her talent, part of the family shop was allocated to her to manage.
It was her idea to go to the government school, but her family did not support it.
But she said something.
——"How can anyone who can enter the government school be an ordinary person? Now that my daughter has the opportunity to study in the government school, it is also for the sake of the family."
Yu Zhengqing told Shen Zheng in the letter that this girl was very smart.
Yu Zhengqing was so smart that he didn't know whether what she said was true or false, or half true and half false.
She may really want to study in the provincial school, but she may also want to go to the county school to meet young talents.
Yu Zhengqing also said that he was a little worried. The prefectural school was a place for children to study, and now that girls were admitted, he was really a little scared...
After all, the emotions of young people are unpredictable.
He asked Shen Zheng whether he should stop them or turn a blind eye. Who knows, maybe he would be able to attend the students' wedding banquets in the future.
Shen Zheng burst out laughing when she saw this.
Yu Zhengqing really asked her this question.
If her previous thoughts were to follow, if children fell in love while they were studying, it might affect their studies, but it does not rule out that both sides would support each other and make progress together.
But these were the conclusions Shen Zheng came to based on what she heard and saw. She was confused about the details because she had never been in a relationship.
Moreover, this era is different from the era she lived in before. Many people get engaged at a young age, and when they grow up, they still rely on appearance to get married, and they pay attention to whether the two families are well-matched.
There are actually very few people who have their own love.
But if you ask Shen Zheng whether she supports free love, she will definitely support it, and the character of both parties is the most important thing.
This idea is indeed somewhat shocking nowadays, so Shen Zheng didn't know how to respond to this question.
She chose not to think about this question for the time being and read the letter as if escaping from it.
Next, Yu Zhengqing listed two female students to her, one was the daughter of a scholar in the mansion, and the other was a daughter of an ordinary citizen.
The female students listed by Yu Zhengqing are actually very representative.
Official families, merchant families, scholarly families and ordinary families.
This shows that he put a lot of effort and "encouraged" the female disciples this time, otherwise all levels of people in the mansion would not have responded positively.
Shen Zheng silently gave Yu Zhengqing a thumbs up.
With the prefect Yu Zhengqing taking the lead, the entire county school in Liuyang Prefecture will probably follow suit.
It's a good start.
Shen Zheng is looking forward to next year's provincial examination.
Her mood became extremely happy. With a smile on her face, she took a sip of tea and turned the page of the letter.
The third thing Yu Zhengqing mentioned is actually not a big deal.
It was more like a long popular science article - explaining to Shen Zheng the current distribution of power in the court.
Shen Zheng saw that his expression became serious. She only glanced at a few words and understood why Yu Zhengqing spent so much time and effort to tell her this.
Yu Zhengqing wrote in the letter that this was the common opinion between him and Earl Yongning.
Even if she doesn't go to the capital for the time being, she needs to know the distribution of power in the capital in advance.
They all knew what Shen Zheng might face in the future.
Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. It is always a good idea to be prepared in advance.
Yu Zhengqing also said in the letter that every six months, he would collect and organize the information of the forces in Beijing and copy it for her.
Shen Zheng was deeply moved.
After spending a few months with them, she actually has a general understanding of the father and son of the Yu family. They have always been neutral in the court, or to put it bluntly, they are "playing rotten."
It doesn't matter if it's none of your business.
But now, both he and his son stood up for her.
Shen Zheng planned to read this passage before going to bed to deepen her memory.
She flipped through more than ten pages before finally stopping.
At the end of the letter, Yu Zhengqing asked about various matters in her county.
Including but not limited to - rice seed sales, craftsman apprenticeship progress, and county government repair status.
His words were sincere, and the scent of ink on the rice paper seemed to bring Shen Zheng into Liuyang Mansion and Yu Zhengqing's study.
He sat upright, concentrating on writing. Sometimes he thought about this and felt he had to ask a question. Sometimes he thought about that and felt uneasy and had to ask a question.
After thinking and asking again and again, another page of paper is written.
Finally, Yu Zhengqing asked about Fang Ziyan. He asked Shen Zheng if Fang Ziyan missed him. If so, he would send someone to pick him up.
After reading Yu Zhengqing's letter, Shen Zheng laughed.
It seems that Constable Sun did not lie or even exaggerate what he said.
She could see that Yu Zhengqing really wanted to go back to Tongan County...
She thought with some pride that perhaps she had done a good job in "maintaining" Tongan County, otherwise why would so many people who came here not want to leave?
As Shen Zheng was thinking, she opened the letter from Yu Shizhang.
Before she read the letter, she actually still didn't understand why Yu Shizhang wrote to her.
She lowered her eyes and the first thing that caught her eye was Yu Shizhang's beautiful handwriting.
I don’t know if it’s Shen Zheng’s illusion, but she always feels that the handwriting in Yu Shizhang’s letter is a little different from the previous ones…
She hissed, looked carefully at the handwriting on the letter, and finally determined that Yu Shizhang's handwriting was a bit "artificial".
In fact, it cannot be said to be artificial, "showing off" is more appropriate.
It seems that Yu Shizhang put a lot of effort into every stroke of the letter.
Cute old man.
She looked down intently.
If Yu Zhengqing's letter sounded like a casual chat, then Yu Shizhang's letter was more like the teachings of a teacher.
He first supplemented the relationship between the various families in the capital in the letter and explained the areas that Shen Zheng needed to pay special attention to.
This alone takes up most of the letter.
Shen Zheng felt that the following content was the real purpose of his writing the letter.
He asked Shen Zheng about the current situation of the county school, whether the teachers were still teaching seriously, and whether there were any students from other places coming to study.
When Shen Zheng saw this, the corner of her mouth twitched.
She finally confirmed that Yu Shizhang was probably bored staying in the mansion and wanted to know what response she would get after writing a plaque for the county school.
It seems really boring.