Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 382
I only remember that the great magister would study in Chang'an for five years, and he only studied "Shangshu" instead of all the four books and five classics.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui is confident enough that the knowledge he learned in Dazhou is enough to pass on to the students of this age.

For Confucianism to really spread to poor families, it had to be after the imperial examinations were opened in the Sui Dynasty.

During the Han Dynasty, even wealthy families did not necessarily have a complete set of classics and history collections.

It is often after a certain family has a great Confucian who is good at annotating a certain kind of scriptures, and then concentrates on studying this book.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the carrier of learning or bamboo slips.

The real large-scale promotion of paper was also obtained by Emperor Hanhe of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, after 105 AD.

At this time, Wang Mang had just usurped the Han Dynasty, and the new dynasty lasted from AD 8 to AD 23. Naturally, scholars used bamboo slips.

Even at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was considered a descendant of eunuchs, but he still brought bamboo slips when he was studying.

After entering Chang'an City, Shi Zhongkui quickly found a decent house in the east of the city, and bought it directly for two horseshoe silver.

Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and the situation was turbulent. Even in the capital, some high-ranking officials and families were forced to resign or return to their hometowns.

Shi Zhongkui didn't want to find a house near the palace. After all, although he was a fairy who got the Yunban Baolu, he was a real outsider and stranger in the human world of Nanzhanbu Prefecture in the earth fairy world.

I am not afraid of being targeted by the powerful, but it is also a trouble.

Don't even look at Wang Mang's usurper, he is a traitor in the eyes of the world, but at this time he is the emperor of the world.

No god would foolishly kill him.

There is no benefit, but the cost is very high.

And in Liu Xiu's generation, it would be fine if his father who was the county magistrate hadn't died, but once his own father died, he would actually be a commoner.

Even when he was 9 years old, his siblings became orphans.

If it wasn't for my uncle to pick him up and take care of him, it's hard to say whether he can grow up to be an adult.

Moreover, Liu Xiu's eldest brother Liu Yan is extremely unreliable, making friends with heroes and acting recklessly.

To put it bluntly, Liu Yan is a bum.

No matter how you put it, Liu Bang is still a pavilion chief. He has an official body, so he has a certain confidence in making friends with heroes.

At the same time, while making friends with heroes, Liu Bang made more friends with local officials. It can be said that the purpose is very clear, to live a better life, and to open up his reputation.

And Liu Yan went out to fool around in his teens, but he didn't make a name for himself in the end.

Fortunately, there is an example of the ancestor Liu Bang. In the last years of the new dynasty, Chimei, Lvlin, and Tongma revolted, and a large number of landlords and tyrants also took the opportunity to defend against the new dynasty.

Naturally, Liu Yan and other disciples surnamed Liu were unwilling to be left behind, and took advantage of the situation to raise troops.

It's a pity that in the end, he was foolishly tricked into going to the capital, where he was chopped off with a knife.

If he succeeded, he would be the second Liu Bang, but if he failed, he would be nothing.
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Since Shi Zhongkui was waiting for Liu Xiu to enter Chang'an to study, of course he had to consider Liu Xiu's status as a commoner, and bought a house not far from the city wall in the east of the city to sit on the sidelines.

However, during this period, he had to start his own reputation.

They recruited Wang Buli and ordered him to transform into a middle-aged servant. During the day, Shi Zhongkui played the qin and flute in the house near the courtyard wall on the side of the street.

Occasionally read "Zuo Zhuan" and "Shang Shu".

The sound of the qin can easily attract passers-by, and playing the qin is definitely an elegant person in this era.

Not to mention that Shi Zhongkui's qin is a thing of heaven, and that flute is also a middle-grade spiritual treasure.

It's just that Shi Zhongkui will go home to accompany his wife at night, so naturally he won't come to Chang'an City very early.

Playing the flute in the morning and playing the piano in the afternoon attracted literati, and after three or five days, small merchants and vendors set up their stalls on the streets near Shi Zhongkui's house.

After these few days, Shi Zhongkui also knew that it was time.

But to his surprise, it is now the 10th year of the new dynasty, probably 18 AD.

After careful calculation, Liu Xiu should have been studying in Beijing for more than 4 years.

After thinking about it, Shi Zhongkui understood that it is better to attract people than to find them by himself.

In addition to playing the piano and flute on weekdays, when I have free time, I will check the inside and outside of Chang'an City, kill those ghosts and monsters casually, and earn some merit.

Before I knew it, a month had passed.

Probably because Shi Zhongkui never showed up, the curious tyrannical officials, as Shi Zhongkui expected, basically lost their patience, and few people came to see him for seven or eight consecutive days.

As for those rascals in the market, they just want to listen to the music, and they will not trouble Shi Zhongkui.

Even more afraid to trouble him with his elegance.

In the past month or so, there have been many people listening to the music, but there are also many children from poor families who want to eavesdrop on his reading.

Since Liu Xiu was reading "Shangshu", among the books Shi Zhongkui read aloud on weekdays, "Shangshu" was naturally the most.

This day, Wang Buli took a piece of silk cloth handwritten by Shi Zhongkui, spread it out and hung it on the wall beside the gate of the house, and immediately attracted the attention of a dozen young scholars from poor-looking families.

The first thought in my mind after seeing the bamboo slips was that the characters written by the owner of this house definitely have everyone's demeanor.

Calligraphy in the Western Han Dynasty was official script, and Shi Zhongkui only had regular script, which gave people a refreshing feeling when they saw it.

When I looked carefully, I realized that the silk cloth was actually written in the annotations of "Shangshu".

A dozen scholars thought about it carefully, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that the master's knowledge must be quite high.

Dangdang's poor disciples who want to study but have no chance to read the full version are absolutely fine.

Not to mention the Western Han Dynasty, even at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, reading was still exclusive to the powerful and powerful.

If the low-level disciples want to study, they have to ask their grandpa to tell their grandma to find a wealthy family, so that they can learn one or two chapters.

If there is a complete version of "The Analects of Confucius", it will be a treasure like a family heirloom.

Now Shi Zhongkui not only publishes an article of "Shangshu", but also puts notes on the title. For the lower level, no matter whether Shi Zhongkui is willing or not, everyone is willing to regard him as a teacher.

Immediately, someone took out bamboo slips and a carving knife, and started carving seals on the silk cloth.

At the same time, some people ran away after hearing what these dozen or so students said, thinking that even if they couldn't, they would find someone who could write, and they would have the opportunity to leave an article of "Shangshu" for their children to study.

But when the dozen or so students were mesmerized, the song "Mountains and Flowing Water" coming from the house soon made people stop their knives, and even the pedestrians around stopped and looked at the sky above the house.

As a modern person, Shi Zhongkui naturally doesn't know what the real "High Mountains and Flowing Water" is like.

But he has heard the Da Zhou version of "High Mountains and Flowing Water" played by the court master in the world of Red Mansions, and there are more than a dozen court qin tunes.

I have also heard the guqin music played by many immortals in the heaven and fairies during the banquet.

Even as long as he is willing, he can ask Emperor Fuxi to teach him how to play the piano.

So when Shi Zhongkui played the piano, even Wang Mang's court musicians had to kneel.

Not to mention that there is no entertainment at all in this day and age, and even ordinary people who haven't listened to music much.

(End of this chapter)