When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 502 The First Day of the First Year of Yan (End)

Xin Qu compared the questions and score lines, and could basically conclude that Luan Pheasant was controlling the scores.

His name was on the list that was on the verge of elimination every time, but every time he was stuck in the spot where he was not eliminated.

It might be a coincidence once or twice, but if it happens every time, it's not a coincidence.

You must know that resources are limited at this stage. Even if they are noble children, no matter how rich they are, Xinqu has no intention of letting them receive a long-term education.

After all, the education he provides is essentially to screen out people with really smart minds.

Rather than a group of people who study hard.

It should be noted that the inheritance of knowledge now takes time, and teaching materials need to be constantly edited and organized.

But the Xin family is developing too fast.

Talents can't wait to be cultivated, so they can only screen and keep the ones with more future, while the others gradually start to work part-time.

Some of these eliminated people will become officials, some will become master craftsmen, and some will know what skills are needed to govern a place.

Therefore, the school’s elimination mechanism is very strict, and it is not an elimination system for students who fail to pass.

But the last one is eliminated.

This kid would be warned and told to pay attention to every quiz, but he ended up getting stuck at the top of the elimination spot every time.

For example, Luan Pheasant's current batch of students has eliminated more than thirty students, and all of them have been sent to local places to serve as apprentice craftsmen.

And within a year, he actually succeeded every time, almost every time.

But the results are indeed improving steadily and moving upwards.

The examination paper is a bamboo slip. After writing it, you need to use a carving knife to cut it yourself.

Xin Qu looked at the ink-grey bamboo slips and compared the places that had been cut out and deleted. Some things had been deliberately changed to look like this.

Therefore, Xinqu concluded that this boy did it on purpose.

However, Xin Qu paused after putting down the bamboo slips and asked, "Did something happen to that child at school?"

Xue Ji was stunned, not expecting Xin Qu to ask her this.

But in fact, she didn't understand this either. After all, she didn't pay attention to Luan Pheasant.

"By the way, when I picked him up before, I could always see him alone." Xue Ji replied, "Before the other students were taken away by the servants, they had many playmates to talk to."

Xin Qu tapped his fingers on the table and nodded: "It seems that's all."

"Ah?" Xue Ji didn't know why.

But Xinqu had gone to school at least, and he knew what the bad guys in school were like.

Some are unintentional, but some are intentional.

It seems that in addition to the traditional education of swordsmen and pens, schools must also strengthen moral education.

It's not that Xinqu values ​​morality too much.

Rather, morality is a good remedy to lubricate society, and it is also a means for the ruling class to reduce the cost of rule and unite people's hearts.

It’s time to put my original ideological unification work back on the agenda.

Previously, through the book "Myth", Pangu was introduced and Haotian was brought down.

The purpose was to weaken the proliferation of Dongyi beliefs and the rampant witchcraft. In the final analysis, it was to combat the excessive superstition of witchcraft among the Dayi merchants.

But unfortunately, "Myth" alone cannot completely solve the problem.

"Patriarchal Law", "Etiquette", "Tao Law"

Only by applying these three methods simultaneously can we solve the problem of first-class witchcraft from the administrative system.

"Patriarchal Law" deals with family relationships using Confucian ethical categories, which is very good.

"Etiquette" deals with interpersonal relationships, using Legalist law, Confucian benevolence, and Buddhist persuasion to do good, and multiple lines of emphasis are coupled together.

"Tao Fa" deals with man and nature, obeying nature and man, and integrating nature and man.

Thinking of this, Xin Qu took out the blank bamboo slips and began to repair the two books "Etiquette" and "Tao Fa".

However, Xinqu only wrote a few hundred words before he froze.

Etiquette and law must use the opinions of Fa, Confucianism, and Buddhism, so what should be used to couple them together?

What is the core?

present? Law? Or Buddha?

It's too gentle to use etiquette.

Usage, too hard.

If you use Buddha, it will be too empty.

"So, who made up for this set of shortcomings in history?" Xinqu pondered. In nine years of compulsory education plus high school and university, he has learned some famous works.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the articles to be memorized in ancient Chinese are usually: The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, and an article by Xunzi. "In other words: Meng Yi is the bond between Confucius and Xun Li."

"But I am the ruler, and I must choose what is good for me."

"Especially after I know that if the enfeoffment is followed, the blood relationship between the descendants may be weak, which will lead to turmoil among the princes."

"Then the best means of restraint, in addition to the system, must be: filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty, trustworthiness, propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame."

"Well, Bade is pretty good."

Xinqu wrote these eight words.

Then I thought about the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Virtues that I often explained when I read novels.

Three cardinal principles: monarch and minister, father and son, husband and wife.

Five Constants: Benevolence, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom, Faith.

"These are outlines, and explanations must be written. In ancient times, it took two thousand years to write, and various allusions were used to connect them together.

It's like starting from scratch... So how to solve it...

Well... you definitely can't write about myths, so just write - "

"fable!"

Xinqu thought of some people who liked to write fables during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Then he went to death to defeat the Song Dynasty and the Zheng Dynasty.

It was a cognitive operation unique to that era, so that until now, no one has realized what the consequences of the hacking of Song and Zheng were.

But now, the opportunity has been given to myself.

"Black businessman!"

Xinqu smiled evilly.

Suddenly I had an idea.

He quickly thought of a topic: dismantling witchcraft!

What is witchcraft?

Some people say that it is the result of mystifying natural phenomena, such as the original shaman festival, but no one knows what it is.

But there is such a story, the sky was thundering and the trees were on fire.

So humans learned that fire can be found during thunderstorms.

Then at this time, there were people who kept the fire, claiming that they only needed to sacrifice one person during a thunderstorm, and then flames would be produced.

Or maybe someone discovered that the sparks from a flint blow could ignite a fire.

But in order to develop his tribe, he chose to mystify this phenomenon, claiming that he was the tribe of the God of Fire, and then asked other tribes to pay tribute to them, believe in their own gods, and finally sacrifice their people.

Then you can take away some fire from them.

Every time the fire goes out, food and people must be sent to continue to obtain fire.

In this way, everyone in the tribe can benefit, and then become a tribe favored by gods. Therefore, for their belief in the God of Fire, they continue to compile stories and apply various accidental miracles to their own tribe, which then evolves into a religion.

Therefore, in Xinqu's view, most witchcraft at this stage has actually become religious.

Low-level witchcraft is not like this.

Low-level witchcraft is to turn all naturally occurring phenomena into causes and effects.

At the beginning, you saw lightning chopping wood, but at that time you were killing a chicken.

Then, when the wood catches fire, you excitedly tell your tribe that you understand.

Killing a chicken during a thunderstorm will cause the gods to rain down flames!

So from then on, if you take your tribe and kill chickens during thunderstorms, and the thunder splits the wood, that means you are sincere. If you don't split the wood, that means everyone is not sincere.

Therefore, next time, if killing a few more animals is still not enough, then kill sheep. If the sheep are not enough, then use cattle. If cattle are not enough, then use humans.

So, progress step by step.

In the end, this set of metaphysics continues to prove that if a person of high status is tied to a tree with a rope, and then an iron rod is inserted into his body, there will be a high probability of giving birth to a lightning-struck tree.

You can take away the flame.

Thus, witchcraft always becomes witchcraft.

And this is the sacrificial routine that the Shang people are doing now.

(End of this chapter)