Chapter 1 Something is Wrong

Just as Jiang Chen was feeling strange, the young teacher suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhao Ting couldn't help but ask.

He was an impatient person and felt very sympathetic to the children who were freezing.

In this situation, the young teacher could still laugh, which made Zhao Ting feel angry.

The young teacher glanced at Zhao Ting and said, "Having such an environment is already good!"

"This is good?"

Zhao Ting glared at the young teacher, "How can you say such a thing? You're a scholar!"

As he said that, Zhao Ting took a step forward, grabbed the young teacher's clothes, and his face was full of anger.

If the other party dared to say another word like that, he would not be polite.

At this time, a child closest to Jiang Chen said, "Don't hit the teacher, the teacher is a good person!"

Zhao Ting was stunned and said in disbelief, "You say he is a good person?"

The child nodded and said, "My dad and mom both said so."

Zhao Ting was stunned.

If only the child said so, he could explain it as the child being deceived by this young teacher.

But the child's parents also said so, which was difficult to explain.

At this time, other children also chimed in, "The young teacher is a good person, my dad also said so!"

While speaking, the children rushed up, hugged Zhao Ting, and tried to rescue the young teacher.

Jiang Chen frowned and signaled Zhao Ting to let go of the young teacher.

He didn't continue to ask the young teacher, but squatted down and said to the first child who spoke, "You said the teacher is a good person, so what good things has he done?"

The child was innocent and said, "The teacher allows us to have books to read, and my dad said that the tuition is low."

Jiang Chen frowned even more.

After he transmigrated, he had read the laws of the Great Wei Dynasty.

The founding monarch of the Great Wei Dynasty attached great importance to education, so he ordered that at least one school established by the local county government should be set up in various places.

Moreover, in order to ensure that children from poor families could also enter the school to study, the tuition fees charged by the schools established by the local county government were extremely low.

He had asked Xu Changqing about this matter and knew that it was still being implemented.

But now it seems that it is not the same as he imagined.

Jiang Chen stood up and said, "Teacher, my friend has a bit of a temper. I apologize to you on his behalf."

The young teacher shook his head and said, "It's okay."

Jiang Chen said, "As far as I know, the Great Wei Dynasty has ordered that schools be established in various places for children to attend. Doesn't Xiangzhou implement the laws?"

"Of course Xiangzhou has schools," the young teacher said.

"Since there are schools, why don't these children go to that school?" Jiang Chen asked curiously.

The young teacher smiled and said, "Because they can't afford it."

"Can't afford it?"

Jiang Chen was very surprised, "As far as I know, the school established by the imperial court is聘请 by the local county government, so the tuition is extremely low. How can they not afford it?"

Jiang Chen pointed to a child in better clothes and said, "Looking at his clothes, he shouldn't be unable to take out one or two taels of silver, right?"

The teacher smiled wryly and said, "One or two taels of silver? The tuition fee for the school here is five taels of silver per year!"

"Five taels of silver?"

Jiang Chen was taken aback and couldn't believe it.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of this matter, the Grand Ancestor of the Great Wei Dynasty ordered that the tuition fees collected did not need to be turned over to the imperial court, which also eliminated the situation of vying for comparisons in various places. The purpose was to ensure that various places had the financial resources to hire teachers.

But now, in Xiangzhou, the tuition fee has been raised to five taels of silver!

But after thinking about it, Jiang Chen felt that something was wrong.

Five taels of silver could already get you into a slightly better private school.

If it was for collecting money, no one should go to a官学 with five taels of silver, wouldn't that be counterproductive?

As if seeing through Jiang Chen's thoughts, the young teacher gave another wry smile.

"You may not believe it, but this is the only private school in Xiangzhou City."

"What?"

Jiang Chen was shocked and angry.

He understood how the county government was using 官学 to collect money!

But Jiang Chen was a little puzzled, "Then why can your private school exist? "

Isn't this stealing the business of 官学?

"Cough cough!"

The young teacher coughed twice and said, "I tried my best to fight for it before they let go. But the cost is that they don't allow my school to build walls."

As he was talking, a servant dressed person ran in with a few packets of medicine, "Teacher Bai, this is the three doses of medicine that Doctor Li prescribed for you, please keep them."

The young teacher didn't take it, but said embarrassedly, "Thank you, Doctor Li, but I already owe the pharmacy two taels of silver and can't take the medicine for free anymore."

The servant stuffed the medicine packets into the young teacher's hand and said, "This is Doctor Li asked me to give it to you, if you have anything to say, go and say it yourself."

After speaking, the servant turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait a minute."

Jiang Chen stopped the servant and said, "What kind of medicine is this teacher taking?"

"You are…" The servant looked at Jiang Chen, his eyes were a little wary.

"We are traveling merchants from other places," Jiang Chen casually made up an identity.

When the servant heard that Jiang Chen's accent was indeed not local, he said, "This is medicine to relieve stasis and relieve pain."

"Relieve stasis and relieve pain?"

Jiang Chen looked at the young teacher, but didn't find any injuries on him.

The servant smiled, patted his buttocks, "Don't look, Teacher Bai is injured here!"

Jiang Chen suddenly realized that no wonder he didn't see the teacher sit down for the entire class.

Then he was a little puzzled, "Could it be a fall?"

Hearing this question, the servant's face changed, and he didn't answer. He waved to Teacher Bai and said, "Teacher Bai, I'm leaving."

After speaking, he left quickly.

Jiang Chen's doubts had not been resolved, when suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

He was beaten with a board!

Putting the before and after together, Jiang Chen looked at the teacher and said in a deep voice, "The best you could do was to be beaten with a board?"

Teacher Bai nodded and said, "You guessed right."

At this time, a woman's voice came from outside the school, "Teacher Bai, our family has made extra food, you don't have to cook at noon."

After speaking, without waiting for Teacher Bai to respond, the woman quickly left.

Teacher Bai opened his mouth and raised his hand, but the words of refusal had not yet been spoken, and the woman had already disappeared, so he could only put it down helplessly.

"You have good connections," Jiang Chen smiled.

Teacher Bai smiled and said, "Do you have anything else to ask? I'm going to start class."

Jiang Chen then took Zhao Ting and Jing Yue back to the carriage.

Jing Yue asked in a low voice, "公子, where are we going now?"

"Go to the county government!"

Jiang Chen's voice was very cold, which made Zhao Ting, who was driving the carriage, shiver.

But immediately, Zhao Ting became excited.

After hearing about Teacher Bai's affairs, he had already been burning with anger at the Xiangzhou county magistrate.

Jiang Chen's order made him very excited!

"公子, hold on tight!"

After speaking, Zhao Ting whipped the horse whip fiercely and quickly drove towards the county government.