As a family of officials, the first thing they need is naturally a large family.
In addition to several cousins, Lu Yijian himself had five sons and one daughter, a total of six descendants.
There were also many people in Wang Zeng's family. According to the biography of Wang Wenzhenggong written by Fu Bi, Wang Zeng had four sons and three daughters, a total of seven children.
But compared with Yan Shu, he is just a dwarf compared to a giant.
Yan Shu has ten children so far, six sons and four daughters, and he will have more in the future. According to the Yan family genealogy, there are a total of fifteen people, nine sons and six daughters.
This is nothing. He has even more grandchildren, more than twenty at present. His second son Yan Chengyu alone has six.
Therefore, the Yan Shu family was a truly prosperous family with many descendants. Among them, the seventh son, Yan Jidao, was the most famous. She was already pregnant, but the baby would not be born until next year.
As the patriarch of the Yan family, Yan Shu naturally hoped that his descendants would be able to enter officialdom through family connections and enjoy wealth and glory. Therefore, although he did not oppose Fan Zhongyan's reforms in history, he did not support his good friend either. Instead, he chose to protect himself and remained silent, and was considered a neutral party.
Now everyone is fighting for the interests of their own family. Yan Shu is the first to get the moon because he is close to the water. Now he has become the closest person to Zhao Jun. Naturally, he will promote the talented person regardless of relationship and also start to consider his descendants.
However, doing so obviously angered the public. Although the six prime ministers, including Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng, had created three group chats and did not get along with each other, if these six people joined forces, Zhao Zhen would probably have to consider the consequences.
Therefore, after noticing the angry stares from everyone, Yan Shu could only put on a smile and say that he was just joking, and then he discussed with everyone which family should send the most people.
In the end, it was Zhao Zhen who made the final decision. Each of the seven families would send one student first, and the families of Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Yan Shu would each send one more student, thus dividing the ten student places.
As for the actors who play the adults, it is also simple.
There are seven of them now, including Lü Yijian, Wang Zeng, Yan Shu, and others. Then there are Zhao Zhen, Fan Zhongyan, and the imperial physician who gave acupuncture to Zhao Jun. There are nine middle-aged and elderly people ranging from forty to sixty years old, and one young man.
It is reasonable to keep one or two young and strong people in the village. If that is not enough, we can find a way to add more people later.
In addition to male characters, female characters should also be included.
It is definitely not possible for young boys and girls. According to Zhao Jun, in later generations, young boys and girls in poor mountainous areas either drop out of school in their teens to go out to work, or study hard to get into schools in the county or technical secondary schools. It is almost impossible for them to appear in the village.
Then there could only be middle-aged women over 30 or 40 years old in the village, and Zhao Jun once said that he would report to the village committee. Yan Shu hinted at it and had already learned about the organizational structure of the village committee.
A village generally has a village secretary who is a Party member, a village director, commonly known as the village head, and three to seven village committee members.
The specific number of people is determined according to the size of the village. Taking the situation of Nini Village as an example, it is estimated that the village is poor and the population is not too large, so the village committee will have at most three members, so we can add a female member.
Then there are the spouses that these middle-aged and elderly people should have. One or two widowers can be set up, but since the village is full of old men and women, there should still be a few old women.
It was easy to find a woman these days, but it was harder to find one with rural habits, who was sensible, quiet, and well-mannered. It would be easy to send someone to the countryside to find a few, but country women often didn't know the big picture and didn't understand the priorities. What if she let something slip while talking to Zhao Jun?
If he were to look for his own wife, they would all be the wife of a certain duke, the wife of a certain county duke, or at the very least, a lady of the third or fourth rank. They would all be pampered and elegant, and would not be able to show the spirit of a country woman, so it would be just as easy to be exposed.
So after everyone discussed it and brainstormed, they finally decided to go back to their own mansions to search for the old maids in their own mansions and let them pretend to be their wives to serve as a cover.
Many of the maids were from rural areas, diligent and efficient. Furthermore, having lived in the residences of high-ranking officials, they had learned a few things, such as being able to read people's expressions and speak eloquently. They also knew what to say and what not to say.
Therefore, as long as they can retain their country habits and are given some careful instructions, they should be able to pass.
The best would be an old woman from the Southwestern Yi or Tibetan people, who could speak the minority dialects of the southwest. Anyway, Yan Shu had already asked, and Zhao Jun was from Hunan, which was Jinghu South Road in the Song Dynasty. He could not understand the minority languages in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.
After that, the name, the corresponding identity background, as well as personality traits, character templates, etc., are carefully considered and planned one by one. In simple terms, it is to plan the character setting and story background.
Although the Ming and Qing dynasties were the peak of novels, there were also novels in the Song Dynasty, but they were not as famous as those in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
After several days of preparation, everything was finally ready. The candidates were all found on the first day, and the next few days were mainly for personnel training and having them memorize their identity templates.
On May 9th, which was Zhao Jun's first month in the Song Dynasty, at four o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the Imperial Garden became bustling.
Seven or eight old maids each dragged their young masters and young ladies into the garden. They were all people who had seen the world, and they just looked around curiously without any fear or anxiety.
Yan Shu first went to Zhao Jun's room and told him that he would bring the children over today. He also said that everyone in the village was curious about what the teacher looked like and wanted to come and see her. This made Zhao Jun feel more stressed and he was planning how to arrange the first class well.
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