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Chapter 304 Self-recommendation

After Zhao Hao shook enough, Li Zhi pulled out his hand without any trace, wiped it behind his back, and then looked at him vigilantly and said:

"With the same virtue, one's heart means one's heart, and one's heart means one's comrades. How did Dr. Zhao know that I will be with you with one's heart and virtue?"

"Uh..." Zhao Hao realized that he was so excited that he had lost his composure.

After all, Li Zhi was just an ordinary university teacher who was forced to make a living. He had not yet entered the forum in Jinling and spread his shocking heretic ideas all over the world.

Naturally, I don’t know how famous I will be in more than ten years. I don’t know what a brilliant star I will become in the long river of history.

I don’t know what kind of expectations and trust Zhao Hao’s voice “comrade” contains…

Then let us start a great friendship from now on!

He asked Qiaoqiao to make tea again, sat on the ground with Li Zhi, and after the re-satisfaction, Fang smiled and asked:

"What's wrong with Dr. Li coming here?"

"I want to go to heaven to see it." Li Zhi laughed.

"I don't believe you have this leisure and elegance." Zhao Hao shook his head flatly.

Li Zhi's face changed when he heard the Yan. He looked at Zhang Jian who was serving the side first, but then realized that he had never mentioned Zhang Jian's family situation at all.

"How do you know?" Li Zhi became alert again. At his age, after so many hardships, he would not be as easy to believe in the kindness of the world as young people.

"I just know." Zhao Hao smiled faintly and almost choked Li Zhi to death.

"But how do I know? Is this very important?" Zhao Hao said in his heart. If I can explain it clearly, there will be ghosts.

"Uh..." Li Zhi frowned for a moment when he heard the Yan, then smiled bitterly and said, "It's really not important."

"So your real purpose?" Zhao Hao asked slowly.

"Well, I admit, I'm not interested in science at all. I just want to see if I can find some money from you."

"After all, people have to be full and can only study science, right?" Li Zhi spread his hands and said to the truth: "My family is hungry."

Originally, Zhao Hao and his disciples wanted to come over and join in the fun, but they hid far away after hearing this.

Who is so full that he can't feel happy? Well, Master, we are not talking about you.

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Zhao Hao knew that Li Zhi was doing very miserably at this time.

His family was originally a wealthy businessman in Quanzhou.

You guessed it was a maritime businessman.

Then the Japanese riots broke out, Quanzhou City Shipbuilding Office Guan and Zhang Daji, and Daming Sea was banned.

Not all maritime merchants have the courage to continue smuggling. Besides, if you have the courage to do it, you must have the ability, otherwise you will be able to deliver vegetables to others.

So the life of the old Li family is Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year is getting worse.

By the time Li Zhi's father's generation, he was so poor that he could not get rid of the pot all day long. Until the ancestral grave was filled with smoke, Li Zhi passed the imperial examination.

However, the hard days of the old Li family were not over yet. After Li Zhi passed the imperial examination, he failed the two consecutive exams.

The whole family wanted to have a meal, but the younger brother and sister were not married yet. Li Zhi couldn't continue the exam, so he gritted his teeth and went to the Ministry of Personnel to sign up for the big competition. As a result, he was appointed as the teacher in Huixian, Henan.

The place in Huixian is poor, and the teacher's salary is pitifully low, but the financial status of the old Li family has not been relieved at all.

Until five years later, he was promoted to a doctorate in the Imperial College, Nanjing for his outstanding teaching.

Li Zhi happily took office. Although Nanjing is not a political center, it is rich in the world. Especially those who study in the Imperial College in Nanjing are all rich children who receive donations to school.

I heard that these people will give gifts to teachers during festivals and exams. With this gray income alone, you don’t have to worry about your livelihood issues anymore.

However, he has just started to memorize the words.

A few months after arriving in Nanjing, Li Zhi received the obituary of his father's death, so he had to leave his post and go home to worry.

During the period of Ding You, he had no income, and there was a riot of Japanese pirates in Quanzhou at that time. While participating in the fight against the Japanese, Li Zhi was working hard for the livelihood of dozens of people in his family. He was exhausted and still owed a lot of debts.

After three years of obedience, Li Zhi brought his wife and children to the capital to wait for a shortage. This time he waited for another ten months. At this time, he was extremely poor and his second son died young.

But fate did not end the teasing of him. Li Zhi finally waited for the doctoral degree in the Imperial College in Beijing, and the news of his grandfather's death came again...

Because his father was gone, Li Zhi had to leave his father Ding You. He had to leave as soon as he took office three years ago. But this time Li Zhi had no money to return home with his wife and children, so he had to divide the "condolence money" donated by his fellow villagers in Beijing into two parts, one for his wife. He asked her to take her children back to Huixian to buy a piece of land to live, and the rest was used as the cost of returning home to mourning.

Three years later, when Li Zhi finished his death, he rushed back to Huixian to reunite with his family, he realized that Henan had encountered famine in recent years, and his second and third daughters had passed away one after another in poverty and illness.

The successive blows almost destroyed the family. With deep guilt, Li Zhi took his wife and children back to Beijing and continued to teach at the Imperial College...

"As a result, I met the court that had no money and had not paid a salary for several months..." Li Zhi sighed with a frustration and smiled bitterly at Zhao Hao: "And when I arrived at the Imperial College, I realized that the students gave gifts, but they were all given to officials like the Siye Supervisor, who controlled their destiny. No one was willing to waste a penny on a doctor like us who only taught and did not care about things."

As he said that, he pointed at Zhang Jian and said, "This child is an exception, but he is poor and he can't support himself."

"I don't know that the doctor's family is so embarrassing." Zhang Jian couldn't help but look apologetic.

He was not as poor as he was when he was a disciple last year. He saved two or three thousand taels of money from his master. He also created the "drainage king" and his master also rewarded 5,000 taels of silver. In addition, he served as the technical director of Xishan Coal Industry and had an income of 100 taels per month. He was already an absolute rich man.

Zhang Jian is a kind-hearted person. If he had known that Li Zhi's family was so poor, he would have helped him.

Li Zhi waved his hand and sighed, "I wouldn't tell you in one word."

As he said that, he looked at Zhao Hao and said, "The reason I came to see Dr. Zhao is because the first thing I heard was that you have money."

"Well, I'm very rich." Zhao Hao nodded.

"Second, I think you need my help." Li Zhi continued, "I know you have recruited a lot of students, and these people are all for the imperial examination, but your science has nothing to do with the imperial examination..."

Zhao Hao couldn't help but blush when he heard this. Li Zhi was a sensible person.

Of course, Li Zhi was a wise man. There was no one in the Ming Dynasty who looked at the problem more thoroughly than him.

"You may be good at imperial examinations or not, but whether you are good or not, I believe that human resources are sometimes poor. You should concentrate on teaching things that no one can do, and leave things that others can teach to others."

Li Zhi said, looking at Zhao Hao with a clear look, "For example, I."
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