[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

After deliberation, a total of 15 people were willing to participate in this transformation. Most of the rest were unwilling to waste time on this matter and chose to leave with money.

However, they also said that if the idea of ​​Mu Bai and others can really be realized, then they are willing to be the first batch of tenants who pay to move in. Mu Bai and others also expressed their welcome at that time, and the two parties broke up peacefully.

Warehouses are easy to find. Yingtianfu has well-developed water transport, and there are warehouses all around the wharf.However, everyone wants to study after all. If the selected warehouse is located in the central area of ​​the warehouse, it will be a bit noisy, but if it is too remote, the safety is difficult to guarantee. The students responsible for finding a suitable warehouse location went around several times. Stepping on the dead line, he bought a granary on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

"Although the rental fee for this warehouse is not cheap, after several comparisons, I think it is the most cost-effective." The Guangdong examinee who was in charge of this matter coughed lightly, with a little pride on his face, "I have seen it. Most of the warehouses, only the warehouses used as granaries and cloth warehouses are the cleanest, but the storage requirements of granaries are high, and the environment is better. The bottom of the one we found was made of fir wood, and the surrounding walls were also brick walls. The owner of the warehouse said, It can be rented to us immediately as long as the floor is wiped clean after we leave and no fundamental changes are made.”

Excited on the faces of several examinees who were traveling with him, they took the initiative to add: "Ying Tianfu is hot and humid in summer, but grain storage requires dryness and coolness. Therefore, interlayers are installed between the walls of this granary to isolate the outside water vapor and high temperature. There are transom windows that let out sweat and steam, which is warm in winter and cool in summer for us, which is suitable for living.”

"The most important thing is——" he put it off, and then said proudly amidst the urging voices of the crowd, "the fireproof and waterproof requirements of the granary are extremely high. The granary we rented has underground drainage pipes and wells. , the water is very convenient.”

This can be said to be great news!Everyone immediately cheered, and even the most introverted students pursed their lips and smiled.

If there is well water to drink, for these students, not only can they save a lot of money to buy water, but it also means that washing is more convenient.

At the same time, if there are underground pipes, it is also very convenient to take a shower and clean. The most important thing is that there is no need to run to empty the toilet in winter!

this is not OK!Mu Bai shook his finger and rejected the students' idea of ​​being lazy, saying that the washing water can be poured into the sewer, but the excrement still has to be collected by someone.

After all, this place is a granary, and they don't care about the original people. But as a tenant, you still have to pay attention to hygiene and care for the environment. This expense cannot be saved.

"Did you go in and see it?" Mu Bai asked several students while leaving a written record of the situation, "Also, is it the warehouse owner himself or the Yaman who is connecting with you?"

"It's me." The students who took over the most important task of renting the warehouse were all experienced and cautious students, and several of them assured him, "We paid special attention to this when we went to investigate, and it is indeed as he said. It is warmer than the nearby warehouse, and it is also very clean. The well can produce water, and there is no peculiar smell around it. It seems that the sewer is not blocked."

"Although the position of the transom is high, it cannot be opened and closed without a ladder, but it still has the effect of light transmission. When there is sunlight during the day, it can ensure that the warehouse is bright."

"That's good." Mu Bai nodded with a smile, "In this way, you may save some expenses on lighting and heating. How long will this warehouse be vacant?"

"It won't be until the next summer grain harvest." The examinee obviously has done his homework, "So even if the spring is postponed, we won't be too passive."

Everyone gave him a big thumbs up for his appropriateness.Mu Bai asked some questions about the safety and traffic around the warehouse, and after making sure that the pros and cons were acceptable, he crossed out the item "Looking for Warehouse" and signed the contract.

For the convenience of statistics, Mu Bai's name is written on all the purchasing materials, and the money is also kept by him.

This has nothing to do with age, the main reason is that he is the most proficient in counting and counting among those who can fight, and the best at fighting among those who are proficient in counting and counting. It can be said that money is completely safe with him.

And don't look at Mu Bai's young age, but as an elder brother, he exudes a fascinating and reliable aura most of the time.In addition, because he is too young, in the eyes of everyone, even if he passes the test, he will most likely be left in Beijing to continue his studies in the Imperial College. Therefore, it is most appropriate to keep his name in everything.

However, Mu Xiaobai had some disagreements about this. He explained in advance: "If I really pass the general examination and stay in Beijing, I won't stay in the capital all the time. I have to go back to Yunnan."

He touched the books that he had worked so hard to copy these days, and expressed with high spirits that he would send them back to his hometown and use them as textbooks for his husband who stayed in his hometown, and then he would be able to reap crop after crop. Junior brother!

Everyone has long noticed the pile of tomes that Mu Bai brings over and hugs every day like a treasure. Before that, some people wondered why he had to carry them with him, but now that they are quasi-textbooks, they immediately understand.

The importance of books is the same everywhere, and it is understandable to want to send used books back to the hometown.But considering that Mu Xiaobai was born in Yunnan, these "senior students" suddenly realized a very serious problem.

Emma, ​​wait, Yunnan! ?

Where did the good books come from in that barren land?I heard that the place is damp and full of insects, even a good book will become tattered when it goes there, and the books passed to Mu Bai don't know what kind of tatters they have been.

When they copied the book, just a few typos would cause tragic results, not to mention the bad books in places like Yunnan!It's hard for this kid to make it all the way to the capital relying on such a reference book.

"Junior Brother Xiaobai, don't be so busy, hurry up and take out the book and proofread it!" The Fujian student flicked the booklet that he had recorded his work before and began to dig out his luggage, "You copy my book, while there is still time, Quickly correct all the misremembered places. Don’t worry, I bought all my four books from Shuxiangtang, and it is said that their books are all samples from Guangzheng Stone Classics, and the accuracy rate is very high.”

"I have "Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn" here. You can also refer to it." It was transcribed from Kaifeng Taixue, sure."

"I have a volume of "Mencius", which is the notes of a scholar in the former Song Dynasty. It should be reliable. You can read it, Junior Brother Xiaobai."

"I also have the words of the Four Books, and I went to Kaifeng to check it..."

"I, I, I, I also have a copy of the "Book of Music."

For a moment, everyone seemed to have forgotten why they were so busy before, and all of them entered the master mode. Some took out the books and started to compare them on the spot, some asked their colleagues to borrow books with embarrassment, and some began to recite on the spot. of.

Mu Bai was stunned for a while, looking at the scene suddenly full of academic atmosphere in front of him, his expression gradually became serious - he discovered the seriousness of the textbook problem.

At first, Mu Bai felt that he was located in Yunnan, which was less influenced by Han culture, and it was normal for textbooks to be outdated and inaccurate, but he did not expect that some of these people came from Fujian, where the publishing industry was prosperous, and some came from Guangzhou, where commerce and trade were extremely developed. Some of them come from Sichuan, a city rich in humanities, and there are more or less books that I am not sure about.

He murmured: "The country...doesn't have a unified textbook version?"

"Previously, when the Yuan government ruled the country, how could they care about these things? It's good that they don't waste the books." A student took out a stack of rice paper and put it in front of Mubai for him to copy. He touched the child's head and smiled. Dao said, "It was only 15 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it took more than ten or twenty years to complete the textbook inscription on stone scriptures. Our generation can only make do with it."

There is no such reason, and the proofreading and correction of books and periodicals does not have to be stone carvings. Stone carvings are just more convenient for preservation, but wood carvings should be the main ones for printing.

As long as the state distributes the correct books to local officials, and then requires the local bookstores to correct the rigidity of the local bookstores.

If the template of the book club is correct, then at least the original version that has been circulated in the local area for decades will not be wrong.

In the final analysis, the country does not pay attention to cultural education.But it's normal, the upside is good, the downside is effective. After Emperor Hongwu suspended the selection of candidates in the imperial examination, there are naturally very few people who will keep paying attention to these things, and the voices of these people are naturally even quieter.

What's more, according to the educational level of the officials in the founding period, I am afraid that even the local officials can't recite a few pages of the book themselves. If you want to mobilize them to do proofreading, you may be more right and wrong.

We still have to rely on young officials of their generation.

Mu Bai opened his mouth, inexplicably feeling that his burden was heavy, but he looked at the friends around him, and suddenly felt that maybe it wasn't too difficult.

He casually touched his younger brother who came over to help him study ink, and began to plan to ask Brother Fugui to borrow books.

Brother Fugui has a lot of books in his hand. In addition to the set of Guangzheng Stone Classics that Brother Fugui helped ask the Prince to borrow, it is said that there are many manuscripts, all of which are in Brother Fugui's own private collection.

So, I don’t know how to ask Brother Fugui for a loan.Mu Bai also has nothing to thank him for, he has no possessions, and the only painting skill he can show is now sealed.

How about he learn from his younger brother and let someone rub his head?Mu Xiaobai's hair has just been grown for less than a year, and the length does not reach his shoulders. It is thin and soft, and it should be quite easy to touch.

At least it's easier to touch than his younger brother's head, Mu Bai thought to himself.Mu Wen's hair is a bit hard and prickly, and he often sweats from running, so he, the elder brother, doesn't dislike it.

Mu Bai immediately shook his head to get rid of this unreliable idea, and decided to take advantage of the Spring Festival to write a Spring Festival couplet and send it seriously.

In addition, the Fu family also want to send some Spring Festival couplets.He has been taken care of by others these days. Even now that he lives outside, Big Brother Fu has not forgotten to send people to deliver food and feed every day, and also sent him winter clothes that have been sewn in a hurry. cotton wool, very warm.

I just don't know if the embroiderer of the Fu's family has some bad taste and sewed tiger ears on his and his brother's clothes.

It's just that the younger brother's ears are really sewn up, and there is an embroidery pattern on his clothes. When Mu Bai received the clothes, he didn't look carefully. He thought it was part of the landscape pattern, or the wooden text at a glance. I can see that this is a tiger ear.

However, Mu Bai didn't feel much about it, and there was no pressure in wearing such clothes.

Acting cute?No, this is not being cute.Sha Hong, who used to make clothes for him and Mu Wen, liked to sew some beasts on his clothes, and Mu Bai was used to it.However, he thinks that next time he goes back, he can suggest that the embroidered mother should not sew her ears, and should make some tiger claws or something. Thinking about it is very handsome!

I don't know if these candidates suddenly realized the urgency of time, and all the next tasks were accelerated.

The students no longer cared about the cost, and gave up the previous plan to make their own beds, but obediently handed over the carpentry work to professional people.

So, on the day of Xiaonian, fifteen students moved into their new [home] at the southern foot of the Qinhuai River with big bags and small bags.

It is rainy and humid in Yingtianfu, and the Qinhuai River runs through the city. Therefore, when choosing a location for the warehouse, we will consciously choose a place with a slightly higher terrain, and this granary is the same.

After moving in, the students made a surprising discovery—looking out from their own warehouse, they could see the Qinhuai River from afar.

This is a proper river view room!

The Qinhuai River in the night is extremely lively, the colorful boats with colorful flags, and the high-hanging red lanterns give off an ambiguous atmosphere, but in the hearts of these students, these are not as good as the dark and huge building complex on the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River. attraction.

It was the Yingtianfu School of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the site of the Confucian Temple in Jinling City, which was built in the Northern Song Dynasty and was once destroyed by the war.

The student with good eyesight pointed out to his friends the ever-burning lamp in the Confucian Temple. The flickering candlelight was much weaker and inconspicuous than the shining Qinhuai lights, but in the eyes of the students, it was like a star Bright and dazzling.

—that was the light to guide them forward.

A group of young people are bathing in the night and pointing at the dim city under the thin layer of moonlight. It seems to be pointing to the country, but in the eyes of outsiders...

Cough cough, thank you for the relatively remote location of the warehouse, otherwise they would look really silly like this.

Mu Bai, who came out of the room to call someone, was speechless for a moment, and finally called someone under the urging of his younger brother: "Someone is here to give a housewarming gift."

These students from foreign lands were a little surprised, but after they filed in, their surprise suddenly turned into surprise.

Their specially customized one-piece large desk was filled with books at some point. These books are well preserved, and the fragrance of ink is still there. The fragrance that scholars love most seems to fill the entire warehouse.

The students were a little dizzy: "This, this is?"

"This is... a housewarming gift." Mu Bai blurred the middle words.However, these students didn't seem to care much about it. At this moment, they only had the fragrance of ink in their eyes, and they had already stretched out their hands to hold the books.

"The Kaifeng version, this must be the Kaifeng version. This word was corrected by the Kaifeng Stone Classic."

"No, this commentary is different from the Kaifeng version, it was written like this in the Guangzheng Stone Classic!"

"I think it's a bit like Mr. Song's style..."

"Mr. Song?" Everyone looked sideways, and someone asked hesitantly, "Who is Mr. Song?"

"Mr. Qianxi, who else?" The student glanced at them and said with some pride, "My father had the honor to listen to Mr. Song's lectures, and he wrote down all the contents of the lectures silently when he came back. It was Mr. Song who said it at the time, and I won’t remember it wrong.”

Qianxi is Song Lian's character. As the head of the founding officials personally appointed by Emperor Hongwu, Song Lian's literary talent and character are the idols of most students of Ming Dynasty.

When they heard that these might be the works of Mr. Song Lian, the students immediately became more careful in their movements, and the movements of stroking the books were as gentle as feathers.

But the eyes they looked at Mu Bai were extremely fierce, if not for the self-restraint, they would grab Mu Bai and shake him.

Rao Mu Xiaobai also took half a step back under the green eyes of more than a dozen pairs of hungry wolves, he touched his nose: "This is not Mr. Song's work..."

The green eyes dimmed immediately, and Mu Bai continued to say slowly: "But this is compiled by Mr. Song's students..."

"Students? Does Mr. Song accept any students?" The students all looked at a loss. a

Of course Song Lian accepted students, but he was hired by Emperor Hongwu to give lectures to Prince Zhu Biao.

Yes, these books were specially sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and Mu Bai also froze for a while when he saw the white-faced strong man.

The eunuch who came to give the gift was very polite to him, and he also avoided the etiquette of thanking him. He only said that the prince was very happy to hear that he intended to solve the accommodation problem for Yingtian students. Let him not have to act in a low-key manner, so as not to affect the mood of the candidates.

The prince wanted to keep it a secret, so of course Mu Bai would not tell.Seeing that everyone had already begun to guess which student was so generous, and he was bent towards the correct answer, he pursed his lips, and had to blew himself up in pain in order to cover the prince: "If the Mr. Song Lian Song you are talking about is the one I know ...He is my child test examiner."

Mu Xiaobai tilted his head slightly, showing a smile that was innocent but showed off to everyone: "I heard that I passed the government examination and wanted to come to Yingtian Mansion, and he wrote me an article "Giving Yunnan Wood Birth Order "..."

In an instant, the newly furnished warehouse was filled with sour gas.