A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 405 The Spring of the Confucian Classics Family

The families of nobles, tycoons, and officials were separated. At first, the first generation were considered brothers. Even if they were different, there was still some family affection.The master's control over those branches is quite strong.

Of course the royal family was aware of this problem, so there was an addition to the Huai Law that year. After the separation of the family, even if it established its own business, even the clan leader could not interfere.

The purpose is to prevent the main family from using the power of the patriarch to control the branch or annex the branch.This also gives branches an opportunity to stand on their own feet.

The previous one or two generations can still control it with their previous power, but it will be difficult to control it again after the older generation is dead.

This situation is naturally what Wang Jing hopes for.

If these branches do not want to be controlled by the main family, the best way is to become officials of the Daqian.It is not easy to become an official in Daqian.

The promotion of Xiaolian is basically a career path that should not be considered. If the masters are not stupid, how can they give the branch such an opportunity?

Anyone who wants to be an official can only choose a few other options: become a soldier, perform military exploits, and be granted a title of marquis immediately, or enter the academy, pass the examination, and enter the officialdom.

If you want to climb from a small soldier to the level of a feudal lord step by step, a few lives are not enough for ordinary people.More than [-]% of people cannot do this.

So there is only one best way, and that is the Academy.

There are many schools in the academy, and there are many directions to choose from. What's more, most of these people are literate.If you have talent, you will naturally have a chance to succeed.

Thousands of buildings have been built in Daqian Imperial College for students to come and study. Although there are many ordinary people among them, there are also many powerful and noble concubines.

Various schools compete in the academy in order to turn their own doctrines into official schools, so they spare no effort in cultivating their disciples.

Those who promote filial piety and integrity are mostly selected from nobles and officials, while the academy selects talents from among tens of millions of people in the world. These talents have been taught by teachers from many schools, and their talents are generally good, even higher. Yu Ju was filial and honest.

Although nobles and officials are noble, their descendants are mixed with good and bad, and there are countless deadbeats.

Nowadays, officials born with Xiaolian can have an advantage in the court. Even high-ranking officials such as the Three Gongs and Nine Ministers are [-]% born with Xiaolian. However, as time goes by, the number of officials in the Academy will increase.

In fact, since the expansion of the Academy and the strong support of the imperial court, many nobles and officials have begun to study various classics.Most of these people have achieved success due to their family education and the knowledge gained from the palace.

The opening of the Imperial Academy gave thousands of people an opportunity, but it also gave the nobles and officials an opportunity.

There are all the classics and theories of various schools in the academy, and as long as you are willing to learn, you can learn them.

Honorable nobles and officials have money, time, and can even hire famous teachers, which can almost be said to be putting food on the table. If they can't compete in this situation, then they deserve to decline.

In real history, the Tang Dynasty perfected the imperial examination system. At the very beginning of the imperial examination, how could students from poor families compete with wealthy families?Only after generations of development can the poor families rely on a larger quantitative base to overtake them little by little.

In the academy, various schools compete to recruit more outstanding disciples, and many people have begun to give lectures in the academy around Daqian.With the help of lectures, these people found out the malleable talents from the schools in this state and county, and then accepted them as disciples and taught them carefully.

Every school knows very well that if the school wants to prosper for a long time, it must find outstanding disciples.Some even left the academy to give lectures outside.

Although the imperial court stipulated that county schools should be free of charge, there were still many families who were unwilling to send their children to the academy for various reasons.

Even in the modern society of the previous life, there were nine years of compulsory education, tuition exemptions, and even subsidized meals, but there were still people who did not go to school, let alone this era?
These people went to various counties and even the countryside to give lectures, looking for smart disciples, and many even opened private schools.

Among them, the Confucian school has the most private schools.On the one hand, Confucianism has this tradition; on the other hand, Confucianism is more attractive.

The future it depicts is more desirable, but on the contrary, the Mohist school began to gradually decline.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were three major schools of thought in the world: Legalism, Confucianism, and Mohism.Legalism was still prosperous with the support of the imperial court, while Confucianism was slightly weaker. Only Mohism became increasingly weak after being separated from the Gewu School.

The Mohist ideal of universal love and non-aggression was not liked by the imperial court, and its requirement to wear sackcloth and go barefoot was difficult for people from the middle and upper classes to accept.

As for the Gewu School, it has basically completely separated from the Mohist school and is concentrating on the study of various instrument mechanisms.

Most of the branches separated by nobles, powerful officials and wealthy officials entered the academy.There is another advantage for students entering the academy, that is, they can copy a large number of classics.

These books and knowledge can be passed down to future generations.If there is no outstanding person in this generation of children in the family, the next generation can also be trained.

Many people have discovered that compared to other things, knowledge can be accumulated from generation to generation and bequeathed to future generations. With books, people, and money, the prototype of a Confucian classics family has gradually begun to take shape.

Teachers of various schools who traveled to various places to give lectures soon discovered another benefit. As the number of disciples they educated increased, their reputation became higher.Even though they do not hold any official positions in the court, they often have a higher status than many officials.

Sometimes, the power of fame is so powerful that even official positions cannot compare with it.

These people with extremely high reputations have become celebrities. Although they are not as good as the scholars of the pre-Qin Dynasty, they still have extremely high influence.

After these celebrities were combined with their own families, they owned various classics and even interpretations of the classics. As long as the people in these families were not stupid, they would educate outstanding disciples. As a result, these celebrities became one after another. A family of classics scholars.

Wang Jing also did not expect that the combination of the academy and the family division order that the royal family had been promoting would actually produce such an effect.

After the birth of the Confucian classics family, the development speed was far beyond what Xungui could compare with. After all, Xungui needed to make military exploits and be rewarded by the imperial court.But this world does not fight every day, and after all, only a few people can make great achievements.

The Confucian classics family does not need these. In real history, the Confucian classics family developed slowly due to difficulty in acquiring knowledge. However, with the support of the imperial court in this life, the shackles restricting the Confucian classics family are gone.

(End of this chapter)