System, help me become the empress

Chapter 67

The public school pilot project lasted until mid-May before finally getting on the right track.

On the streets of Shangjing, there are constantly curious people walking up and down at the gate of the public school, looking inside from time to time.

"My kid is enrolled in public school!"

At the gate of the public school, a middle-aged woman was holding a vegetable basket in one hand, her face was full of pride, and she was showing off loudly to the neighbors on the street.

"Now my boy is contracted by the public school for three meals a day. He eats big hot steamed buns and soy milk for breakfast; he has enough meals for lunch and dinner, and there are meat and vegetables."

"Is there really something good about public schools?"

"It's more than that. The things taught in public schools are amazing. Do you know what small shadow imaging is? Have you ever heard of convex lenses and concave lenses? It's amazing, and it can also ignite fire." The middle-aged woman was beaming with joy. Don't forget to talk and gesture.

"I've never heard of it. These can't be some strange tricks, right? It's not good to let the dolls come into contact with them?" Someone asked hesitantly with a frown.

"It's so different from strange tricks! It's a very advanced knowledge taught in public schools. Yes, it's called science. Many of the teachers in public schools are part-time teachers from the Imperial College. According to them, our baby If you learn science well, you can still be... what, a scientist, this is much more honorable than being an official, and you are as respected as the old master."

"It sounds good. But, I just want my child to learn a craft. He's stupid. I'm afraid public school is not suitable for him..." Some people hesitated.

"But the practical knowledge in the public school is also handed in!"

The one who interrupted was a well-dressed middle-aged man who had just walked over to pick up his children from school.

"My little lady, now she teaches me to read as soon as I get home. But what she taught me is to recognize numbers, and those crooked symbols are quite interesting. Then she yelled to compete with me, I am abacus, she Mental arithmetic, guess what, her speed is not slower than mine at all, is there a successor in our family!"

"Aren't you praising your little lady for being smart!"

The middle-aged man said modestly with pride on his face: "No way, it's clearly due to the public school!"

"It's not just the children of public schools who are learning these things. Mr. Minister of Rites has been offering special literacy classes in busy areas every day recently. He is also teaching 'Pinyin', 'Intonation', 'Symbols' and so on. You don't know, my son Now when I go home, he yells for me to read Pinyin with him every day."

"Ah, why do adults and children learn the same thing?"

"What a wonderful thing, adults have learned it. If the child doesn't understand it in public school, we can teach it by ourselves when we go home at night. It's better than not knowing the big characters. Listen to me, let the adult's class, Really useful."

"This... what is the pinyin? Why does it look so similar to a Taoist talisman? It can't be some kind of sorcery."

"What nonsense are you talking about. Even the emperor's list posted by the imperial court has begun to mark every word with pinyin. The emperor is appointed by the gods, and gods and ghosts dare not invade. The pinyin can be on the imperial list, which shows that even All ghosts and gods in the world recognize Pinyin."

"Ah, pinyin is marked on the imperial list?"

"Yeah, I used to beg others to read the imperial list for me, but now it's all over, I can read everything smoothly when I look at the pinyin. Just read it."

Several women discussed the new policy of the court one by one.

"My God, if there is such a thing, then I have to learn pinyin. It is said that there will be several public schools in the court in the future. When I learn it, I will go back and teach my baby."

"You have to call me in class."

"Me too, me too!"

To be honest, 'Pinyin' became the first to be spread out of the three textbooks. Xu Youxi really didn't expect that Dagan people would be so enthusiastic about literacy.

Perhaps, this is a deep-rooted concept of Chinese people since ancient times: everything is inferior, only reading is high.

Since the last fire in the Meng Mansion, Meng Zhiqian was afraid of leaving a shadow on his grandson, so he rented a place to live in another place, and the old servants at home have also been re-screened.

Regarding the fire house, Jin Yiwei also intervened, but as soon as they found Meng Li's nurse, there was news that the nurse had fallen into the well, and the remaining clues were cut off.

Just let it go.

At this time, the young Meng Li was returning home with his schoolbag on his back.

"Li'er, is the class in public school difficult? If you don't understand something, just ask your grandfather. Grandpa can teach you."

Recently, Meng Zhiqian quietly went to a large private class, and after a lot of rote memorization, he basically understood the pinyin.

Meng Li has been taciturn since he was a child, even if his family members spoke to him for seven or eight days, he might not respond to a word.The family also invited a doctor to see it, but they all suspected that the child may be congenitally deficient and lacking in intelligence.

Meng Zhiqian didn't dislike this grandson, but treated him better.

After Meng Li looked at Meng Zhiqian with confused eyes, he began to pack his schoolbag in an orderly manner, taking out the textbooks one by one.

Seeing that Meng Li was silent, Meng Zhiqian flipped through his grandson's textbook for self-amusement: "It's only been a few days, and your public school has taught the entire book! This speed is too fast. Lier, you can still do the questions ?...It's all right."

Meng Li lay on the table, holding a piece of charcoal in his hand, and began to draw on the paper empty-handed. Then he took out a piece of cardboard from a corner and rolled it up, and put the two ends of the roll up separately Two lenses.

Meng Zhiqian didn't understand what his grandson was doing, but he was very pleased to see his grandson so lively and active.

Meng Li stood up, placed one end of the rolled things in front of Meng Zhiqian's eyes, and pointed the other end into the distance.

"What do you mean?" When Meng Zhiqian realized it again, the place that was very far away from him suddenly became very clear, "Is this a telescope?"

The earliest "telescope" in Dagan was brought back by a tide merchant when he went out to sea in the previous dynasties, and it is known as a priceless treasure.

At that time, the tide merchant brought back a total of three 'monoscopic binoculars', two of which were given to the palace, and finally became funeral objects in the imperial mausoleum, and one was bought by the tide merchant himself when he went to sea. , accidentally fell into the bottom of the sea.

According to the records of official historians, overseas "telescopes" are longer than half an arm of an adult man, but they are so miraculous that they can see everything thousands of miles away.

Such an exquisite object, how could his grandson roll it out casually!
and many more.

If this 'clairvoyance' can be used in large quantities in battle, wouldn't it be easy to grasp the enemy's dynamics when defending the city or fighting?

Thinking like this, Meng Zhiqian fell into this thought and couldn't get out.Picking up the 'Clairvoyance' rolled up by his grandson, Meng Zhiqian strode into the palace, he had to show His Majesty this treasure first.

Meng Li was the only one left who was still sitting there blankly, looking at his empty hands, as if he couldn't figure it out, but after a long time, his eyes were full of grievances, where did his grandfather go?
Just leave, at least give me back my science homework!

(End of this chapter)