Chapter 19 The First Day of Promoting Illiteracy for the Emperor

After enjoying the loving breakfast from Sanmei,

Tianyu took her on a ride on a cow towards the agreed meeting place.

Literacy should start from childhood.
Ten years old is a good age for learning, so Tianyu naturally would not keep her at home to do housework.

The third sister was so excited when she learned that she could go to school with him that she jumped up and down.

For girls of this era, going to school can no longer be described as a luxury; it is a heinous crime of treason.

But Tianyu naturally doesn't care about these.

He was still sighing at how simple-minded the children in this world were. He used to be beaten with the soles of his shoes by his parents to go to school.

When the two men arrived at the tomb, Zhu Chongba and his companions had been waiting for a long time.
Two dirty sheep and two not-too-fat black pigs were tied to the pine tree in front of their parents' grave.

Zhu Chongba's eyes lit up as he looked at Tianyu riding a cow. He rubbed his hands and said flatteringly:

"Lord of the Land, you are here. I have brought everything you asked me to buy!"

Master Zhu Chongliu, who was standing by, also took out two baskets that he had prepared long ago from behind his back and handed them over.

"Lord of the Land, these are the seasonings that we bought from Fulinlou in town at a high price, as well as some vegetable seeds and two native chickens."

Tianyu's eyes lit up when he heard this.
He jumped down from the cow, opened the basket and looked inside.
Scattered in the frame are many kinds of vegetables, including radish, cabbage, eggplant, cucumber, winter melon, spinach, leek, etc.

It also contains onions, ginger and garlic, which are essential for cooking and can remove fishy smell and enhance the flavor.

Zhu Chongba, who was standing by, took out bottles and jars from another basket and asked for credit:

"Lord of the Land, these are the seasonings you requested, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and some bean paste. I originally wanted to buy some of their secret sauces for the Lord of the Land, but they refused to sell them."

Tianyu nodded, swallowed and asked:

“No chili?”

Zhu Chongliu was stunned: "Chili? What is that?"

Chili peppers were introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty. People in the late Yuan Dynasty had never seen chili peppers.

Tianyu looked at Zhu Chongliu's expression with some disappointment. He smacked his lips and said:
"No, cooking without chili peppers is tasteless."

Zhu Chongba, who was standing by, immediately patted his chest and said loudly:
"Don't worry, Lord Land, I'll go get you some peppers right away."

Tianyu shook his head somewhat melancholy.

He seemed to remember that there was no chili pepper in the MC world, and said that he needed to load some mod to get it.

But in order not to dampen the enthusiasm of my two royal purchasers,
Tianyu took out a shiny gold brick from his game backpack and shook it in front of the two of them.

"Since you are so interested, I will offer a reward. As long as you can help me find the chili pepper, the gold ingot will be yours."

Zhu Chongba and Zhu Chongliu's eyes followed the gold in Tianyu's hand swaying left and right.
The 100% pure gold almost drew out the saliva at the corners of their mouths.

The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were just a group of horse-catching men.

He is mighty and majestic.
But it is obvious that ruling a country cannot be done with muscles alone, the necessary brains are also needed.

But unfortunately, the nutrients that the Mongol rulers ate basically grew in their muscles, not in their brains.

In their eyes, they do not regard the people under their rule as human beings at all.

They even often felt that these civilians took up too much space and were in the way, and they kept thinking about how to slaughter them and use the land for grazing.

From taxes to corvee labor, any subject that people can think of can be used to collect money.

There is "holiday money" for festivals, "regular money" for work, and "official money" for lawsuits.
Even if you just stay at home and eat and wait for death, you still have to spend money.

The paid work recommended by Tianyu's previous life experts had already been implemented in the Yuan Dynasty. During the more than 60 years of their rule, the country did not recover economically or resume production like other kingdoms in their early days.

On the contrary, it was the excessive corvee and taxes that directly pushed the state apparatus to a point where it could no longer bear it.

Such a corrupt dynasty naturally cannot utilize maritime trade. When the Pirate King found one piece...呸...it was using maritime trade to accumulate world silver.

Therefore, at that time, not to mention gold, even silver was hard to come by among the people.

The things on the market are basically Zhizheng Baochao and copper coins that have been over-issued and rotten. Things like gold can be treated as heirlooms.

Although it is said that in ancient times one ounce of gold was equal to ten ounces of silver,
But in fact, the purchasing power of ten taels of gold far exceeds that of 100 taels of silver.

The two Zhu brothers, who had been poor for a long time and suddenly became rich, had never come across gold or even silver before. When they went out to buy things, they had to exchange them for grain and had to endure price cuts from those unscrupulous merchants.

Now, when the two of them looked at the huge piece of golden gold in Tianyu's hand, they suddenly felt their hearts floating.

"Find it! We must find the chili pepper! Lord God, rest assured, I will find it for you even if it costs me my life!"

Tianyu, who was standing by, was startled by the sudden surge of enthusiasm.
Although he guessed that gold should be the superior currency to silver, he did not expect Zhu Yuanzhang and the others to react so strongly.

"Well, don't worry. There's no need to work so hard. This is just a prize. It doesn't matter if you can't find it."

Where do the peppers come from in the MC world? It would be a sin if you get excited and run to the cliffs to pick some strange plants and fall to your death.

Seeing that Zhu Chongba was about to say something,
Tianyu hurriedly took out a "birch billboard" from his game backpack and used it as a whiteboard and knocked on it.

"Ahem! Let's not discuss such vulgar issues for now. This time when I asked you to come here... Damn, you guys have led me astray. Speak Mandarin to me from now on. I asked you to come here to learn. Money is a bastard. You can earn more after spending it. Only knowledge is yours."

"Come, I will teach you the secrets to make a living, grow up to be a Palu office worker... er... get a promotion, a raise, become a CEO, and marry a beautiful, rich woman."

Zhu Chongba and Zhu Chongliu looked at each other, totally unable to understand what Tianyu was saying.

But even if you knew, you would probably be even more confused.
Because with their current wealth, it doesn't seem difficult to live the life that Tianyu described.

At this time, Tianyu took out a piece of matchstick and knocked it on the whiteboard.

"Pay attention, we will study Chinese first."

Zhu Chongba immediately shouted, "Lord of the Land, what is Chinese?"

Why did the immortals teach something different from what he had seen in school before? Shouldn't they be learning the Four Books and Five Classics?

Tianyu immediately glared at Zhu Chongba.
"Raise your hand and speak in class from now on!"

Then Tianyu started to explain, shaking his head like a teacher.
“Language is a polysemous word, usually used as an abbreviation for language and writing, language and literature, and language and culture. Its original meaning is “language and writing.”

"For a bunch of you who are illiterate and can't even read at the first grade level, you must first learn to read."

Tianyu said as he wrote a few letters on the whiteboard.

"Come and read with me, aoeywu..."

Zhu Chongba and the others were confused when they saw the pinyin that looked like ghostly characters.
Zhu Chongliu whispered to Zhu Chongba:
"Zhongba, you have been to school, do you recognize this thing?"

Zhu Chongba also shook his head with a puzzled look, then his eyes lit up and he said excitedly:

"Hush, second brother, this must be the writing of the immortal world! If you learn it, you may be able to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven. We must study it seriously!"

The two's eyes lit up, and they immediately started to read aloud with great interest:

"Ah, I'm hungry..."

The beggar emperor, who was supposed to become a monk in Huangjue Temple, now started his nine-year compulsory education journey in an unknown valley.

(End of this chapter)