Deng Ming did not stay in Chengdu for a long time. During this period, Xiong Lan came to report again, saying that Chen Zuocai, the academy priest appointed by Deng Ming, had been talking nonsense since he called Chengdu. He could even think that it was a bad intention. Xiong Lan reported to Deng Ming in front of the prefect Liu Jinge, and he also accused Liu Jinge of doing nothing.

"Why is Chen Jijiu's ill-intentioned plan?" Liu Jinge was furious when he heard this. He was busy making money and spending money according to Deng Ming's explanation. He focused all his energy on how to collect taxes, especially the salt industry he personally governed. Xiong Lan had told Liu Jinge about this before, but Liu's prefect did not take it seriously at all. Since Deng Ming wanted the prefect to allocate funds to the academy, he would allocate funds, but he never cared about what the academy was teaching.

"Is there anything wrong with Chen Jijiu saying?" Deng Ming was also a little curious.

"He advocates every day to be 'loyal and patriotism'! The prefect Liu ignored this." Xiong Lan said indignantly. Although his duty was to manage the bank, Xiong Lan was also very concerned about other aspects. Now Xiong Lan's status was given by Deng Ming. He also knew that if someone else had changed, he would never reuse him as a concubine to have a child like this, not to mention that he had three records of rebellion. For Xiong Lan, Deng Ming's political future was closely related to his interests.

"Is there anything wrong with loyalty to the emperor and patriotism?" Liu Jinge quickly regarded Xiong Lan's accusation against Chen Zuocai as an attack on him, and retorted: "Is it right to teach students to take President Xiong as an example and when the admiral leaves the city to fight, it is right to erect a flag on the city tower and cut off the admiral's retreat route?"

"The admiral has pardoned me..." Xiong Lan's momentum was a little slow, but she immediately realized that the other party was turning into defense to offense, and any defense was showing weakness, which would lead to an offense and defense transfer: "When the admiral went to Kunming, the prefect Liu granted another ten thousand pieces of cloth to Yiling!"

"Oh, you poisonous snake, you actually inquire about the affairs of the magistrate's office." Liu Jinge was so angry that he shouted to Deng Ming: "The admiral said he wanted to support the generals of Kuidong, but I did not favor myself! I have also criticized other places."

"I also granted a lot of food to Wanxian, which was to please the prefect Yuan." Xiong Lan refused to give in.

"Of course Wanxian has to give food, otherwise how can we help repair the ship?" If Deng Ming hadn't been by his side, Liu Jinge would probably have made a duel again: "Admiral, President Xiong took the benefits of Director Qin and gave the Industrial Bank preferential loan."

"Okay! OK! If you think someone is corrupt, go to report to the Criminal Department and ask He Tixing to handle it impartially. Don't expect me to settle the case." Deng Mingtou was quarreled by them. The prefect, the Chengdu Bank, and the tax bureau often attacked each other. He couldn't figure out the right and wrong inside. Besides, Chengdu is operating well now, and farmers, workers, and merchants are booming. Deng Ming cannot do anything to clean up at this time, so as not to let everyone in the fragile Chengdu "civilian" system be in danger. Chengdu officials take all the responsibilities behind the rear, so that Deng Ming can lead troops to fight without worries or negotiate cooperation with allies: "I just want to know, did Chen Jijiu teach anything inappropriate?"

After Chen Zuocai arrived in Chengdu, he was surprised to find that Deng Ming did not gather the professors to train - this was a necessary means to unify his thoughts, so Chen Zuocai thought Deng Ming had done it long ago. However, not doing it did not mean that Chen Zuocai would not do it for him. Chen Zuocai immediately formalized the academy and stipulated that all professors should go to the Chengdu Academy headquarters to attend classes regularly and receive his own training before they could go to the pavilion to educate students.

When Chen Zuocai taught the professors, he talked about the reign of the Emperor, the monarch and the ministers were virtuous, and called on the professors in Chengdu to be loyal to the Emperor, love the court, and further spread this idea to the students. Liu Jinge was a military general and knew nothing about education. He felt that how to train professors and how to guide students were all the business of the education department. But Xiong Lan smelled the danger from it. Qin Xiucai, the tax director, was also a serious scholar. He also served as a teacher for Tan Hong for many years. After a secret talk with Xiong Lan, he also believed that Chen Zuocai had bad intentions towards Deng Ming. However, he refused to report it several times, and Liu Jinge, who was devoted to making money, did not take it seriously, and believed that they were meddling in other people's business.

Xiong Lan yelled for a long time, and Deng Ming finally understood that it was President Xiong who suspected that Chen Zuo was here to poach his own secrets and wanted to turn Chengdu into a base camp that supported Emperor Yongli.

"I also support the emperor." Deng Ming commented, but Xiong Lan obviously didn't believe this. Not only did Xiong Lan automatically filter it clean, but Liu Jinge next to her also looked calm, and Deng Ming's scene also made him come in from his left ear and his right ear: "Let's do this, say to Chen Jijiu, I want to listen next time he goes to class."

"It's not good to do this..." Xiong Lan felt that if Chen Zuocai was notified, the other party would obviously be alert and would definitely not speak out in front of Deng Ming. But then she thought about it, Xiong Lan suddenly realized Deng Ming's cleverness. If Chen Zuocai changed his course and suddenly refused to mention loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, it proved that he had a ghost in his heart, which proved that he was a villain who slandered Deng Ming behind his back and confirmed his conspiracy of ill-conspiracy.

"Admiral, great, great." The more Xiong Lan thought about it, the more she felt that Deng Ming's strategy was indescribable, and she praised him sincerely: "In this way, Chen Zuocai's sinister intentions would be gone."

Seeing Xiong Lan saying so affirmatively, Liu Jinge felt a little uneasy: "Is Chen Zuo really a traitor?" If Xiong Lan said correctly, Liu Jinge must have been in prison and allowed this guy to incite rebellion in Chengdu. That would be the dereliction of duty of the prefect. Thinking of this, Liu Jinge hurriedly said that he would follow Deng Ming to listen, and hurriedly called a guard to inform the academy to prepare for the visit of the admiral.

When the order from the prefect's yamen was sent to the academy, Chen Zuocai was scolding several professors. For the past two months, he had been working hard to understand Chengdu's education system and strive to understand every detail. Every time he thought of Deng Ming and scholars, Chen Zuocai became angry and became brave, but this was not something he could interfere with. It only made Chen Zuocai more convinced that Deng Ming was hostile to loyal ministers and filial sons, intending to disrupt Huang Ming's hierarchical order, confuse the world and people's hearts, and ultimately create conditions for him to seek power and usurp the throne.

However, today Chen Zuocai was furious not because of the righteousness, but because of the teaching methods of these professors. Most of the professors in Chengdu were children of small landlords who were plundered from the countryside by Deng Ming and children who could not get a good fortune. They didn’t know how to teach. When teaching the children in the academy, the Eight Immortals cross the sea and each showed their magical powers.

"Is there anyone who teaches like this?" Chen Zuocai threw a book called "The Analects of Confucius" directly on the face of a professor. The teacher shaking his head to read every day when he gave the children. He reads by himself from beginning to end. He himself reads with great enthusiasm, but once the students below ask questions, the professor who is interrupted by interest will shout: "Read!" and then continue reading.

The teaching methods of several other professors were similar. The professor who was hit in the face by a book did not dare to argue loudly, and he whispered in aggrievedly: "There is a wine tribute to you. This is how the teacher teaches when the students are studying in the academy."

"Reading a book a hundred times, the meaning will come true." Chen Zuo snorted. He was not unaware of this teaching method. Many academy teachers kept reciting and letting students read by themselves. This is also one of the means to cultivate students to form their own opinions: "But now it is enlightenment! Many of these children cannot even recognize words, so why do they study by themselves? Did the teachers teach it this way when you were enlightened? Chengdu Academy has a name of 'academy', but is it really an academy? Are you illiterate when you went to the academy to study?"

Almost all professors, including Chen Zuocai, received small class education during the opening class, with only a few classmates. Chen Zuocai was a separate opening class teacher invited by the family. Every stroke was completed under the guidance of the opening class teacher. Now Chengdu Academy has a large class for children. Each teacher has to face more than 20 children in class, and teaching each stroke was very hard, so some teachers just wrote a few words and then hung them in front for students to copy.

"You are teaching writing, not painting, and the students below hold the pen in the wrong way. Isn't this a misleading child? This is teaching, not growing sweet potatoes!" Chen Zuocai cursed again: "No matter whether a class has twenty children or two, the professor must teach them step by step. Don't be lazy, otherwise you can get out of my academy to farm!"

After bombing these professors, Chen Zuo raised the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea. He didn't bother to breathe and let the group of children waiting outside the door come in.

Chen Zuocai was really unable to interfere in the pavilion, but what happened in this academy was that he could not tolerate sand. There are not many children in Chengdu now, but there are nearly a thousand orphans of the canal workers and the families of the eastern Zhejiang soldiers. Chen Zuocai was in charge of the situation. If the students had any questions, they could ask him questions in person. Now, there are always a large group of students waiting outside Chen Zuocai's door.

The group of students who came in came to retrieve their articles. One of the students in the lead was Dong. He heard that his father was a Caotou before. After being killed by officers and soldiers, he brought his younger brother and sisters to Chengdu and also entered the academy to study.

"Take your article back and take a look." Chen Zuocai gave a piece of paper to the student named Dong with a kind look. This group of students had already been fooled and could write some short articles.

More than two-thirds of the words on the paper were roughly cut off by Chen Zuocai. Seeing that so many words he had worked hard to write were cut off, the child's eyes suddenly turned red and almost burst into tears.

"The article needs to be removed from the fat before the muscles and bones can be seen." Chen Zuocai said seriously: "Your article has integrity, which is very good, and it is rare, but you don't want these flashy words and can't leave a single word. Go back and take a look. Why do I have to cross these words and sentences? If I don't understand, come and ask me again."

"Thank you for your wine." The child bowed respectfully and retreated.
Chapter completed!