I am Li Shimin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 231
Li Shimin held the student gift and said respectfully: "Sir, I took the liberty to come here this time, not to invite you to become an official, but to admire your knowledge, so I came here to pay a visit. In addition, Shimin plans to establish a Lishan Academy. In the future, it will become the largest official academy in the world, recruiting and educating talented people from all over the world. Regardless of high or low, regardless of background, as long as they have good knowledge and character, they can come to the academy to study and become officials in the future if they pass the academy assessment. Official, benefiting one side, so that all people in the world can bathe in the way of Confucius and Mencius, and scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen can settle down in their own places, and the world will be in harmony. This academy is right for you, and it is for the scholars of the world. Please don’t refuse.”

After speaking, he made a long bow, very reverent and respectful.

"What? You want to establish Lishan Academy, and you want me to be the principal?" Zheng Xuan asked in surprise.

For so many years, Zheng Xuan has been wandering around, and has also suffered from cold eyes. He is always used by others and has never been respected by others. Therefore, Li Shimin proposed to let him be the principal of Lishan Academy, and he was really surprised.

"That's right sir, the people of the world just want to build a new academy, inherit and inherit the Confucian thought of being an official, and cultivate more available talents for the world. As the saying goes, the king is the light, the society is second, and the people are This. The purpose of the establishment of the Academy is to realize Confucius’ vision of “self-cultivation, family governance, state governance and world peace”, to achieve great harmony in the world, and to carry forward the teachings of Confucius and Mencius.”

Seeing that Zheng Xuan was a little moved, Li Shimin flattered without showing any trace: "Mr. is pedantic about heaven and man. He can be called a master of ancient and modern. His knowledge includes all kinds of classics, synthesizes a hundred schools of thought, and annotates all kinds of scriptures. He breaks the boundaries between modern and ancient prose, and has reached the level of classics." Integration and unification, if you come out of the mountain, you can just bring forth the new and continue to carry forward Confucianism."

Zheng Xuan was very relieved when he heard about it, and nodded subtly, as if he was very interested in the principal of Lishan Academy.

In fact, this is because Li Shimin grasped Zheng Xuan's pain point and grasped his needs. For a scholar like Zheng Xuan, fame and fortune will not let him be moved.

What they care about most is the inheritance of knowledge. At a large scale, it is to carry forward the Confucian culture and carry forward it.

Furthermore, if he can become like Confucius with 72 disciples, cultivate [-] sages, and his teachings are widely recognized and accepted, then Zheng Xuan will be the next sage.

Li Shimin hides his real purpose in it, and let him get into the trap inadvertently. Of course, Li Shimin's idea of ​​establishing Lishan Academy is also true.

In fact, in the Han Dynasty, both Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Guangwu attached great importance to culture and education, the so-called enlightenment of the people.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion of "Three Strategies for Heaven and Man" and "May Your Majesty promote Taixue, set up wise teachers to support the people of the world", and established Taixue in Chang'an, the capital of the capital.

After Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty became emperor, the army and horses did not rest, and culture and education were promoted first.Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty set up Taixue, visited the elegant scholars, and sought out the classics. The scholars from all directions gathered in Luoyang, the capital of the capital, and established a doctor of the Five Classics.In the 27th year of Jianwu, the Taixue lecture hall was built ten (zhang) long and three zhang wide". The construction scale reached an unprecedented level. By the time of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the number of Taixue students had exceeded 3.

In fact, Li Shimin just wanted the opportunity to hold the imperial examinations and set off a "Cultural Revitalization Movement" that respects teachers and emphasizes education. Talents are needed to win the world, and even more talents are needed to rule the world. If the country is not prosperous, why worry about the "rule of Zhenguan" not appearing.

Of course, the Han Dynasty officially had a sound education system, but by the end of the Han Dynasty, "the rites and music collapsed, and the classics and writings were left behind", and "the scholars from all over the world mostly cherished books and fled to the forest" and no one paid attention to education.

In addition, it is not good for Li Shimin to take over Taixue directly. After all, Taixue is the official highest institution of the Han Dynasty. Although it will belong to him sooner or later, if he takes over rashly at this time, he will be criticized by others.

Right now, this one-step-two-step strategy is both safe and feasible, why not do it, when Lishan Academy becomes the largest academy in the world, I am afraid that the world has already been pacified by myself, and by that time, Lishan Academy and Taiyuan Academy will be directly pacified. It's not a matter of course that learning is combined into one place.

Li Shimin glanced at the crowd, everyone understood, Xu Shu, Jushou, Tian Feng and others also saluted disciples together, and said respectfully: "Disciple and others, I respectfully invite Master Zheng to come out and take charge of Lishan Academy." Brush the big ceremony to pay homage.

This made Zheng Xuan's heart extremely touched, and he tossed and tumbled for half his life, just to find the way in his heart.They travel all over the world to promote and promote Confucianism, but it is a pity that the powerful everywhere regard themselves as facades, pretending to respect them, but in fact they do not really respect themselves and value Confucianism in order to win people's hearts.

"Now that I have such an opportunity, what reason do I have to refuse? Besides, the Dahan officials have never recognized me, or no one has valued me." Thinking of this, Zheng Xuan no longer hesitated, and immediately said: "Since the general has such determination , Zheng followed the general's wish and served as the director of the Lishan hospital."

"Haha, that's great. With a gentleman coming out of the mountain, this Lishan Academy must be glorious through the ages, no less than the ancient Jixia Academy." Li Shimin said happily.

With the addition of Zheng Xuan, a master of Confucian classics, even if he does not stand up and support his own imperial examination system, it is still very attractive, and the imperial examination can be widely promoted.Furthermore, once this Lishan Academy is built, why worry that scholars from all over the world will not come here to study and discuss Taoism?

Immediately ignoring Zheng Xuan's objection, Li Shimin personally led the horse and fell into the stirrups, and personally pulled the ox cart for Zheng Xuan, across the entire Chang'an City, and brought him to the Lishan Courtyard in full view.

This place was originally an abandoned imperial palace, covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand acres, magnificent and vast, but it was run down because no one took care of it.

In fact, Li Shimin had already had this Lishan other courtyard cleaned out, and at the same time spent a huge amount of money to repair and remodel it, with the purpose of building an academy of his own, a treasure trove of talents of his own.

At the beginning, everyone thought that Li Shimin was going to build a palace and started to enjoy life, so they wrote letters to persuade him.

Li Shimin was also annoyed, but he didn't want to explain the purpose of this place prematurely, so he simply ignored everyone's advice and continued to go his own way. Until today, people discovered Li Shimin's real purpose of repairing Lishan Bieyuan in advance. I admire Li Shimin's foresight and foresight.

After entering the Lishan Bieyuan, Zheng Xuan was already deeply attracted by the beautiful environment and the spacious and bright hall here. Only then did he realize that Li Shimin had already planned in advance, and the place had been selected. Isn't it just the students who are missing now?

There are not many students themselves, and they are all over the world. I am inviting friends from all over the world. Isn't this academy established?

The more Zheng Xuan thought about it, the more excited he became.

(End of this chapter)