Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 305 Mingde Academy
"My lord, this is the list of Mingde Academy students for this year." Tian Feng handed a stack of lists to Li Xiang with both hands, and his steady voice sounded at the same time.

Li Xiang glanced at the stack of lists in his hand, but no familiar name appeared. Sure enough, the pie in the sky will not fall twice, and being hit on the top of the head by the pie once is already very lucky.

"The way of great learning lies in Ming Mingde, being close to the people, and ending in perfection." The name "Mingde" in Mingde Academy comes from the first sentence of the opening chapter of this Confucian classic "University".

After returning to Bingzhou from the last grassland battle, Li Xiang didn't stay in Bingzhou too long, but returned to Hanoi very quickly.After all, as a county sheriff, he can't leave his own land for too long.

Conquering the land of Hetao and eradicating the Southern Huns was a monstrous feat. Naturally, the imperial court would not turn a blind eye to this, and would always reward it greatly.

However, not many of these rewards fell on Li Xiang himself.Li Xiang was already the prefect of a county, if he was promoted further, he would only be the governor. Even if Emperor Han Ling was stupid, he would not let the Li family control the land of the two states.

And since the end of the last Yellow Turban Rebellion, Li Xiang's title has been promoted to County Marquis, and it is unrealistic to go up.Therefore, when neither the official position nor the title can be rewarded, Li Xiang can only be rewarded with some money.

But Li Xiang's contribution this time is really too great, just this little reward is not enough, so how can the court convince the public.If the imperial court really does this, there will still be a few people who are willing to make contributions to the imperial court in the future!

Fortunately, however, many things can be done on a curve.Since there was no way to reward Li Xiang, the Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty simply let his son and father accept it, and transferred the reward that Li Xiang deserved to Li Xiang's father and state shepherd Li Yang.

Therefore, Li Yang's title can be said to have jumped three times in a row, and he was also promoted to the position of County Marquis.In addition, there are three or four important figures of the Li family who were more or less awarded a title because of Li Xiang's honor this time.

Of course, Li Xiang's gains after this war are not limited to this, Li Xiang's soaring reputation is his real gain.After regaining the land of Hetao and the news of the attack on the Southern Huns spread, Li Xiang's reputation instantly soared to the point where no one in the world knows the king!
And the benefits that Li Xiang's soaring reputation brought to Li Xiang have already begun to emerge during this period of time!At the very least, Li Xiang's reputation has brought benefits to the teachers of Mingde Academy, and many of them were invited by Li Xiang one by one.

After Li Xiang returned to Hanoi, he began to set up Mingde Academy.The reason why Mingde Academy was named is because Li Xiang not only regards Mingde Academy as a cradle for cultivating talents, but also includes Li Xiang's high hopes for the academy.

Li Xiang hopes that every student in the academy can carry forward the upright character, apply learning and knowledge to life, so that people can reach the most perfect state, and achieve things, knowledge, sincerity, righteousness, self-cultivation, family harmony, governance, and peace world.

In the teaching content of Mingde Academy, Li Xiang still insists on using the six arts of a gentleman of Confucius, namely, ritual, music, calligraphy, mathematics, archery, and imperialism.

Li, as the name suggests, is etiquette; music is learning music, mastering some important instruments, such as Qin, Se, Xiao, Zheng, etc.; book is learning classics, mainly Confucian classics; Drive a carriage.

But now it is a time of great controversy, so Li Xiang made a lot of changes in the teaching content.First of all, Li Xiang stipulated the part of the book, including not only the Confucian classics, but also the Legalist classics, and even the other hundred schools of thought were also introduced by Li Xiang.

Perhaps Confucianism does have a great beneficial effect on the ruler's rule, but as the soul of later generations, Li Xiang prefers an academic atmosphere where a hundred schools of thought contend.

In fact, during the Han Dynasty, although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted Dong Zhongshu’s suggestion to dismiss hundreds of schools of thought and respect Confucianism exclusively, “heretical theories” such as Legalism, Mohism, and Yin-Yangism still prevailed, and they were not as thorough as those in later periods. To die.

For example, Cao Cao once ordered noble families to wait for a thin burial, and his imperial edict before his death also stipulated that after death, they must be buried lightly, which means that they should not be buried too much.Thin burial is a typical Mohist thought.Another example is Cheng Yu, Cao Cao's famous counselor. When Xun Yu recommended him, he said that Cheng Yu was proficient in many classics and knowledgeable.

Secondly, Li Xiang has also made many changes regarding the source of students in the academy.

In Mingde Academy, there is no limit to the origin of the students, no matter if they are from a noble family, from a wealthy family, or from a poor family or from a commoner, they are all eligible to join Mingde Academy.

Later, in order to ensure that students from ordinary backgrounds could really join the academy, Li Xiang stipulated that the academy would not charge or reduce part of the tuition fees for those from poor families.And set up a student tuition loan project. Academy students can borrow from the government, but they must repay it before the end of the study period, or after the end of the study, serve the government for a certain period of time to mortgage the loan they borrowed to enter the college.

Of course, Li Xiang's real purpose in setting up this regulation is a bit ulterior motives!

As for the students with excellent grades in the academy, Li Xiang even set up a scholarship program to encourage ordinary students from poor families.Scholarships are not limited to money, but can also be replaced by food, salt, silk, stationery, good horses, sheep, wine and other equivalents.

Of course, Mingde Academy's generous entry conditions would naturally impose restrictions, otherwise the academy would simply not be able to accommodate so many students.

Li Xiang stipulated that in addition to the assessment before admission, the academy will make several assessments every year, and the assessments vary according to the students' different basic conditions at the time of enrollment.But the same thing is that any student who fails to meet a certain standard will be forcibly kicked out of the academy.

The establishment of Mingde Academy in this way did indeed spark a different wave in the late Han Dynasty.

After the academy opened, as Li Xiang said, many ordinary people and students from poor families came to study.Not only the students from the northern states, but even the students from the southern states were willing to endure the long journey and choose to join Mingde Academy after receiving news about the academy.

However, compared to ordinary people and students from poor families, not many students from aristocratic families choose to join Mingde Academy.From their point of view, the humble family is barely enough, but those commoners are not qualified to study with them at all.

Although there are fewer students from aristocratic families, those students from aristocratic families who are really willing to join Mingde Academy are all the elite group in their families. Their vision and thinking are farther than those of other aristocratic families.

(End of this chapter)