Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 439 Education Reform

In the Hall of Lizheng, His Majesty Li Er called Fang Jun, who had just dismissed the meeting.

As soon as we met, he kicked both feet without saying a word...

"You bastard, how can you be disrespectful to Zhao Guogong in the hall of the Ministry of Rites, and do you know whether the elders are superior or inferior?" His Majesty Li Er scolded.

Obviously, Changsun Yin came here to complain...

Fang Jun clutched the kicked part and kept rubbing it, scolding Changsun Wuji half to death in his heart, this old fox is too inauthentic, how could he even play a lawsuit?
"Your Majesty has learned from the fact that we have heard that 'the wicked will sue first'. It can be seen that only the wicked will sue first. These words are the crystallization of the wisdom of the sages of the past for thousands of years. An incisive philosophy of life..."

"Hurry up and shut up, do you really think I don't know how careful you are?" His Majesty Li Er gave Fang Jun an angry look, "A gentleman doesn't blame the wicked for his own sake, I can understand that you handed over the magic camp to Chong'er. It's human nature to have some resentment, and I won't blame you. But you also need to know that I don't make this decision because of whoever is close and who is alienated. Everything is based on the overall situation. From now on, you will give I remember it, and I can't do such reckless acts of resentment again, otherwise I will never forgive me lightly!"

For some reason, in the face of this stingy boy, His Majesty Li Er is rarely really angry, even if what this bastard does is sometimes too clumsy!
It was probably because everyone respected themselves, and reverence replaced admiration, which made the relationship more and more distant, but Fang Jun was able to let go of his emperor status and just get along with the elders as a junior?
His Majesty Li Er sighed from the bottom of his heart, even though he always tried his best to maintain the relationship between himself, ministers and children, the relationship between people is really mixed with too many things. Whoever calls the emperor is born alone and widowed. It's too cold to be here?

In comparison, Fang Jun, who admires and worships himself more than reveres himself, is very rare...

"Tell me, how did the negotiation go?"

"No!" Fang Jun responded and handed the two notebooks in his hands to His Majesty Li Er.

His Majesty Li Er took a look at it, put the "Imperial Examination Process" that he had already read aside, and carefully read the other.

"Minutes of the meeting?" His Majesty Li Er didn't suffocate page by page, but turned to the last page to read the summary of the meeting.

"You actually added both arithmetic and martial arts?" His Majesty Li Er was very surprised. No one knew better than him how difficult the old stubbornness was, and he was very surprised at how Fang Jun managed it... …

Although every sentence was recorded in the minutes of the meeting, Fang Jun still replied: "All the elders are His Majesty's humerus and officials of the country. Actually, there is not too much resistance to arithmetic as one of the subjects of the imperial examination, but there are some doubts. Its importance is only, but I don’t think so much about the martial arts system.”

Although arithmetic has never been taken seriously, it has a long history, and anyone who reads, no matter which school or school, is inseparable.

"Zhou Li Bao Shi": "Raising the sons of the country with Taoism is the six arts of teaching: the first is called five rituals, the second is called six music, the third is called five shooting, the fourth is called five imperialism, the fifth is called six books, and the sixth is called nine counts." This is the so-called "six arts" of "passing through the five classics and passing through the six arts".In the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius also taught the six arts in private schools. It can be seen that Confucianism did not reject them, but did not pay attention to them.

It was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that arithmetic was completely abandoned...

In fact, mathematics was once included in the imperial examinations during the Sui Dynasty.

In the early years of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty, it was decided that Guozi Temple would govern Guozixue, Taixue, Simenxue, calligraphy and arithmetic.

In the Tang Dynasty, Li Chunfeng compiled ten classics of arithmetic, summarizing the experience of his predecessors, as an official teaching material.Let mathematics be included in the imperial examinations, and you can become an official after passing the mathematics test. At that time, it can be said that it opened the world's atmosphere.

Although mathematics was not very developed at that time, but first put up the shelf, established an effective incentive mechanism, followed and developed to today, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not become a big country in mathematics, and then promote the scientific progress related to this.What's more, several Nobel Prizes in mathematics and physics have been awarded...

But the strange thing is that in the late Tang Dynasty, the Mingjuan exam was stopped.The subject of mathematics, which could have made great strides, came to an abrupt end in China, and since then it has only been supported by a few folk mathematics enthusiasts.The reason for the suspension is that there are too few people taking the test...

Why does this happen?The imperial court made a rule that the official rank of Dr. Guozi is the top five, but the official rank of the doctor of arithmetic is from the ninth rank, which is the lowest level of the official rank.In the meantime, the School of Mathematics stopped and opened, and there was no continuity. The students also felt boring. The teacher is the sesame officer from the ninth grade, and the students have to hold back to the twenty grade?Just find another way out!

Why did the rulers of all dynasties not pay attention to science centered on mathematics, but only pay attention to the mysterious and mysterious Chinese and Confucian studies?In my opinion, it's all because mathematics is useless for tyranny.The same Chinese classics, you can understand it this way, I can understand it that way, every ruler can play it freely, use it for me, and turn it into a talisman of autocratic rule.

The same goes for astronomy.

Li Chunfeng, who edited the "Ten Books of Suanjing", was also an astronomer. He could deduce from the celestial phenomena that Wu Zetian would usurp the throne 40 years later, but is there any connection between the position of the stars and Wu Zetian's usurpation of the throne?

No, that's what Tianxiang said anyway...

Guoxue functions similarly.Why did ministers have to be loyal to the emperor?There's no reason, that's what the Confucian classics say, you have to do it.In contrast, mathematics is not good, because one plus one equals two, so I should be the emperor, which is outrageous.

In order to be honest, the rulers have pulled mathematics aside one after another...

His Majesty Li Er is also a ruler, but unfortunately, he met Fang Jun, a "demagogue" who led him astray...

As for how Fang Jun persuaded to include math and martial arts in the imperial examinations, it was actually very simple. He just asked His Majesty Li Er.

"Your Majesty thinks it will take how many years will it take for these Confucian scholars who hold the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucian and Mencius Rites in their hands to govern this empire to such an extent that it is as prosperous as ever?"

I have to say that Fang Jun really caught the life of His Majesty Li Er...

What a great joy!

How does Confucianism govern a country?As an emperor, His Majesty Li Er is very clear about this, it is nothing more than four words - rule by inaction!

Governance by inaction is a good thing. It can make people clean and have few desires, and they can keep themselves safe. It can bring peace to the world, be free from competition with the world, recuperate, and reproduce with the people... The highest state of governance by inaction is the great harmony of the world.

This is the ultimate ideal that every emperor is striving for...

However, this realm has never been achieved by any dynasty or generation. Even such things as the rule of Wenjing and Guangwu Zhongxing are only accumulated over the past dynasties and accumulated in one period, and in the end they are only a flash in the pan.

Even if his Majesty Li Er is a genius, how many years will it take to reach this state?

30 years? 50 years?Or 100 years and 1000 years?

Just like what Fang Jun said, 1 years is too long, I only fight for the day and night!

With those nerds who rely on Confucianism, the world will be peaceful and the rule will be stable, but His Majesty Li Er can't wait!

How can this empire grow rapidly and cook oil on fire?
His Majesty Li Er saw the answer from Fang Jun.

Miscellaneous!

In this era, arithmetic is also a kind of miscellaneous science.

Look at Fang Jun, although this kid can write good poems, it is more due to his talent, which is amazing!It has nothing to do with learning!Has this kid read the Four Books and Five Classics?His Majesty Li Er even doubted whether this guy could write the names of the Four Books and Five Classics...

Glass, steelmaking, farming, printing...

Piece by piece, no one knows better than His Majesty Li Er how much wealth these things have brought, how many people they have supported, and even how much influence they have on national policies!
Of course, nothing can be done overnight. No matter how impatient and overjoyed His Majesty Li Er is, he also knows the truth of overdoing it.Therefore, he agreed with Fang Jun to take arithmetic as one of the subjects of the imperial examination, and set up a special arithmetic subject with the Guozijian to improve the grade of officials who made arithmetic.

This is a test to test the attitude and tolerance of those Confucian scholars towards miscellaneous learning, and it is also a wedge to pry open the dominance of Confucianism...

The reason for doubting and distrusting Confucianism, which has been respected by the world for thousands of years, also comes from Fang Jun's words.

A hundred flowers contend is spring!
The highest state of the way of the emperor is balance, balance of court, balance of power...

Only balance is the strongest state.

However, the emperors of the past dynasties have all been kidnapped by Confucianism. They balance and balance, but they put the most important ideology above everything and forget the balance!
Perhaps, which discipline can constrain Confucianism and achieve the balance of ideology, which is the safest state?
　Tired of writing this stuff...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)