Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 316 0311 [Mencius was wrong]

"Sir, Master Xiao is here."

"Please come in."

Xiao Wei, the principal of the Guizhou State School, had already taken off his official uniform and came in a commoner suit: "My brother Chenggong, I came to you to apply for a scholar. I wonder if you would like to take me in?"

Zhu Ming was surprised: "Your Excellency, you don't want to be a professor of state studies, but you come to be a teacher in my thatched hut?"

"There are not many students left, why not come to Seven Star Academy." Xiao Wei laughed bitterly at himself.

Xiao Wei was a Jinshi 11 years ago. He was first awarded the Gutian County Captain, arrested dozens of thieves, and solved the massacre.

He was supposed to be promoted to county magistrate, but somehow he was thrown to Guizhou to be the principal.

He didn't even know who he had offended!

During the Yuanfeng period, the scale of Guizhou State School was very small. According to the newly promulgated policy, more than half of the students had to be dismissed.The number of teachers must also be reduced, and it is estimated that half of them will be recalled to the capital to wait for vacancies.

Waiting for Xiao Wei, there are only two endings, one is to stay in Guizhou to suffer, and the other is to be recalled to the capital to have a leisurely meal.

He didn't choose any of them, he just resigned and went to Seven Star Academy to teach, and by the way, he discussed Buddhism with monks in Longyin Temple.

This old man is a Buddhist, and some of the deeds that have been handed down to later generations are more or less supernatural events.For example, he cracked the Miemen tragedy, saying that the rescued oriole turned into a human to repay his kindness and guide the way, so he caught a group of vicious thieves.

"Please." Zhu Ming immediately arranged work for Xiao Wei.

Han Chuang studied hard for more than ten years, finally got admitted to Jinshi, went around for another 11 years, and even worked as a principal in a remote area.And the school is downsizing again, students drop out one after another, and teachers face layoffs.

If it was Zhu Ming, he would have quit a long time ago!
Song Huizong frantically increased the number of Jinshi admissions, and every year more than a dozen Tai students were awarded Jinshi.

In the past 20 years, there have been too many Jinshi.

Based on the abolished and reduced official schools, Zhu Ming estimates that there are at least three or four hundred Jinshi, who will all be recalled to the capital for a leisurely meal.They have a meager basic salary and enjoy the super high prices in Tokyo. I am afraid that most of them will not be able to stay, so they can only curse and go back to their hometowns to dawdle.

In addition to Xiao Wei, another county school teacher came to apply.

This county school teacher's name is Huang Jian, and he is only from Juren, and his knowledge is not even as good as that of Tai students.Zhu Ming ordered him to teach children, and he came to listen to his own lectures while teaching.

Now there are only four teachers, Zhu Ming, Fan Zhiming, Xiao Wei and Huang Jian.

Zhu Ming called them into a meeting and said: "The professor has two or three days, and the students are uneven. I plan to suspend classes temporarily, take the exam first to find out the bottom line, and then re-separate dormitories. Copy the three dormitories and divide them into upper dormitories, inner dormitories, and outer dormitories. Elective courses, various miscellaneous studies, must choose two or more to study."

Even if the grades are divided by the method of three rounds, it is difficult to teach normally.

The main thing is mathematics and other miscellaneous subjects. Even some college students have no foundation, so they have to start from relatively simple teaching, which requires the method of taking major courses.

Zhu Ming took out the academy's public funds to buy some writing brushes.

Because a few students from the county came to study, their families were poor, and they used chicken brushes...

"There are also rabbits outside the chicken brush ridge, but they are very few. It is not common to use chicken feathers for rabbit hair brushes.

In addition to giving writing brushes as gifts, Ju Ming also taught students to make hard pens such as bamboo tube pens, so that they would not lack writing tools.

After a few days of exams, the classes were redefined.

Upper house: ten people.

Inside the house: 15 people.

Under the house: 15 people.

Outside the house: 30 people.

Outer house: 30 people.

Elementary school (preparatory class): 28 students.

There are also many students who follow and are willing to read and attend classes. They can choose classes arbitrarily.

Many of the Tai students who were expelled were originally from foreign houses, and their knowledge was similar to that of ordinary prefecture students.

The four teachers are all math subjects, teaching in rotation.

The schedule was too tight, so the students were asked to practice calligraphy, write and recite silently.

After more than a month, the order is in good order, and the academy is on the right track.

Guangxi Changping envoy Lu Wei took office. This is an official who has not yet laid down, and he is eager to try and pursues.

After he was demoted by Cai Jing to Guangdong for many years and Wang Fu was prime minister, he immediately promoted a group of local officials, and Lv Wei was recommended by someone because of his luck.

In Lu Wei's mind, Wang Fu is pretty good, at least he knows how to select talents.

"Ju Ming, who is in charge of this place, is making trouble for no reason?" Lu Wei asked about Zhu Ming's whereabouts after completing the handover procedures.

Because the person who recommended him is a royalist, he repeatedly told him to take good care of Zhu Ming.

Cai Yi regarded him as a traitor, and said angrily: "What can happen to a person who is removed from the editorial management?"

Lu Wei didn't ask much, and just took out a decoction: "I have been an official in Guangdong for many years, and I asked for a decoction. Decoction in the morning and evening can prevent miasma, and the prefect will take it."

"Is there such a decoction?" Cai Yi was dubious.

Lu Wei's nourishing qi soup recipe was later engraved on the cliff stone of Liuxianyan for the people of Guizhou to copy and spread.Modern scholars have conducted research and found that it enhances resistance, which can be regarded as an early version of Guangdong herbal tea.

After this person moved into Changping's yamen, he spent half a month familiarizing himself with the situation, and was confused by other officials who thought he was a dog sent by Wang Fu.

Lu Wei didn't bother to explain, and with a few followers, he went out of the city in micro-clothes to investigate the situation of the people.

He selected some villages and went back to find Fang Tingshi: "Magistrate Fang, I brought some corn and sweet potato seeds, and you can use them to persuade the people to cultivate them. The method of planting is slightly different from that in the north. I have explored it in Guangdong and wrote it all down." Recorded in the article. There may be differences between Guangxi and Guangdong, and measures must be made according to local conditions."

"What are corn and sweet potatoes?" Fang Tingshi asked.

Lu Wei said: "It was Zhu Ming and his father who brought them back from overseas. Although Zhu Ming disrespected the emperor and slandered the king a lot, he still made some contributions after all. You must not waste things because of people. Don't think that Zhu Ming is a villain. Promote the grain brought back by his father and son."

Useless because of people?

Fang Ting really thought it was very funny, this Lu Wei had something wrong with his mind.

Lu Wei was promoted by Wang Fu, and has been an official in Guangdong for a long time, so he doesn't know what Wang Fu has done.He naturally felt that Wang Fu was a good official, because Wang Fu had abolished many of Cai Jing's decrees since he became prime minister.

Since Wang Fu is a good official, then Zhu Ming, who impeached Wang Fu, is probably a person who seeks fame.

After handing over the corn and sweet potatoes to Fang Tingshi for planting, Lu Wei began to rectify the Changping Division again, and found that a large number of accounts were inconsistent.

The officials of Changping Division in Guangxi have all blamed the former chief.

Lu Wei had no choice but to impeach his predecessor, and then re-regulated various procedures to prevent his officials from continuing to embezzle as much as possible.

After doing this, he finally remembered that he still had political missions, so he hurriedly inquired about Zhu Ming's whereabouts and went to check.

Lu Wei crossed the river by boat, dressed as an ordinary scholar.

After walking ashore for a while, I saw dozens of thatched cottages at the foot of the mountain.

There is still an open space in the center of the thatched hut, more than a dozen students are playing Cuju, and a few others are playing in the corner.

Lu Wei became unhappy instantly, how could there be time to play with these in class?

He found a student who was resting on the sidelines, and asked: "I heard that there are great Confucian scholars in Qixing Academy, why don't you work hard to learn, but play here for fun?"

The student replied: "As the head of the mountain said, one sheet, one sheet, is the way of civil and martial arts. Taking two quarters of an hour to play every day can make the body and mind happy. There is also a labor class every ten days, led by the teacher, and the sub-houses take turns to cultivate food."

Lu Wei curled his lips and didn't quite agree.

He asked which class Ju Ming was in, and the students took him there, where Ju Ming was giving a lecture.

Hearing the saying that "sex is too extreme, emotion is yin and yang", Lu Wei couldn't bear it any longer, and immediately questioned: "In the words of the king, what is the theory of the goodness of nature in Mencius?"

Zhu Ming smiled: "Your Excellency, please come in and talk."

Lu Wei strode into the classroom and asked: "Can you follow the nature of the willow and think it's a cup? Will you kill the thief willow and think it's a cup? If you kill the thief and the willow and think it's a cup, you will also kill the thief and think it is righteous." and?"

This is a dialogue between Mencius and Gaozi.

Gao Zi said that human nature is like willows, benevolence and righteousness are like cups and plates; realizing benevolence and righteousness with human nature is like making cups and plates with willows.

Mencius retorted, can you follow the nature of willow to make cups and plates, or do you want to hinder its nature to make cups and plates?If we hinder the nature of willows to make cups and plates, is it to hinder human nature to realize benevolence and righteousness?
Zhu Ming asked the students to move a bench and sit down to debate with Lu Wei slowly.

His theory that there is no good or evil in nature conflicts slightly with Mencius, so he hasn't written "Mengzi Chapters and Sentences" for a long time.

Zhu Ming said: "I am not Gaozi. I don't think that human nature is a willow, and I don't think that benevolence and righteousness are cups. If you repeat what Mencius said, you should go to debate with Gaozi."

Lu Wei said: "What you said is that the nature is too extreme, and the emotions are yin and yang. Human nature is neither good nor evil, but influenced by the world, there are good and evil. Mencius said that the goodness of human nature is like water. The king wants to oppose Mencius. Huh?"

Zhu Ming laughed and said, "You are still using Mencius' words to refute Gaozi to refute me. Did I say that human nature is like water? I am Zhu Chenggong, not Gaozi!"

Lu Wei was a little dumbfounded, because Zhu Ming's remarks were very similar to Gao Zi, which belonged to the negative teaching material in "Mencius", so he subconsciously quoted the original words of Mencius.

Lu Wei thought about it carefully: "Then do you admit what Mencius said, the goodness of human nature is like water?"

Zhu Ming sneered: "Who is your gentleman? You actually distorted Mencius's words."

Lu Wei was even more angry: "Where did I distort Mencius's words?"

Zhu Ming said: "Mencius said that the goodness of human nature is like water. This is to refute Gaozi and use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son. "Mencius·Gaozi" refutes the comparison of physical nature with human nature, and you are still using it. Water nature is better than human nature, what is the difference between you and Gaozi?"

Lu Wei said: "Don't be sophistry. The goodness of human nature is like the water that flows down. There is nothing bad in people, and everything in the water will flow down. This is the original text of Mencius!"

Zhu Ming was too lazy to talk, and said bluntly: "Mencius was wrong!"

As soon as this statement came out, the classroom was instantly in an uproar.

Lu Wei was so shocked that he forgot to speak again.

(End of this chapter)