Ji Tang

Chapter 1468 Chang'an and Academy

"You...why?" Ji Xiancheng said with a sad and angry look.

Faced with Ji Xiancheng's questioning, Wang Xuance touched Wuqing's eye sockets, "hissed" and took a breath of air. But looking at the other person's bruised nose and face, I suddenly felt happy.

"Why? Why didn't you tell me earlier if you had such a good idea?"

He pointed at the manuscript papers in the room and said angrily: "How much useless work have you made us do? You still have the nerve to ask why? You deserve a beating for asking!"

"That's right!"

Ji Qing wasn't much better either. Although there was no injury on his face, his arm was hit hard by the guy. He might not be able to recover after a few days of rest.

"We have been working here day and night for a long time, how about you? Just tell us to start from scratch with just one sentence? Although the method you said is very good, we are just angry, what? Is this a valid reason?"

Seeing the two people's righteous looks, Ji Xiancheng was completely blinded. He shouted at Ji Song, who was sunbathing outside the door and ignored the fight between the three: "Teacher, you just ignore them? You are too bullying. !”

Ji Song took out his ears, then looked back at the three people with gray faces, and said angrily: "You deserve it!"

Ji Xiancheng: "."

"How many times have I told you to think carefully before doing something? Why didn't I get involved? Wasn't it just to exercise your logical ability? Now that you know you are wronged? Why did you go there earlier?"

Glancing at Ji Qing and Wang Xuance who were snickering, Ji went up to each other and laughed and scolded: "You still have the nerve to laugh? Remember, you are a group, why can Xiancheng think of you but not you? Huh?"

"You still have the nerve to beat someone up? Do you have the nerve to do that?"

"Go, now that you are out of anger, the remaining two of you go and complete the preliminary tasks."

In the end, regardless of the desperate looks in their eyes, he said faintly: "What if it can't be completed? Hey, you know the consequences."

"Let's go first, let's go for a walk!"

So, under Ji Xiancheng's proud eyes, the master and apprentice left without hesitation, leaving only the messy manuscript paper on the ground and the depressed two people.

The two looked at each other, and finally Ji Qing sighed: "Let's do it. If I had known better, I wouldn't have beaten him. Now it's fine. It's all our business."

Wang Xuance: "."
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The master and his disciple left the house directly, rode on tall horses, and headed towards the east gate.

Soon, we came to a stop on a small hill thirty miles away from Chang'an. Not only could we see most of Chang'an, but we could also see some of Taibai Academy.

"Teacher, what are we doing here?"

Faced with Ji Xiancheng's question, Ji Song pointed to Chang'an, then pointed to the academy, and turned around and asked: "What do you think is the relationship between the two?"

Ji Xiancheng was stunned, pondered for a long time, and said: "Chang'an is the center of the Tang Dynasty. If Chang'an is stable, the world will be stable, and if Chang'an is chaotic, the world will be chaotic. The academy is the highest institution of Chinese civilization, and it is the place of enlightenment for all new ideas and new things. . If the academies exist, the Chinese tradition will continue; if the academies disappear, the Chinese will continue."

Having said this, he looked at the master with a horrified look on his face, as if he had thought of something unbelievable.

"teacher"

"I'm telling you, listen and don't think too much about anything else!"

Ji Song interrupted him, looked at the majestic Chang'an and the academy, and said quietly: "Chang'an can represent the Tang Dynasty, and the academy represents civilization. In fact, sometimes it can be understood this way."

"When the Tang Dynasty is here, the academy is also there; if the Tang Dynasty is gone, the academy will still be there."

"Perhaps Datang just changed its name." "Plop!"

Ji Xiancheng's legs were a little weak and he slumped down on the ground, his expression changing, but in the end he gritted his teeth and said: "Teacher, if you have an idea about that position, my disciple will definitely do it."

"Snapped!"

Ji Song slapped him angrily and said, "What are you thinking about? Can you talk about this matter casually?"

"Teacher, what do you mean?" Now it was Ji Xiancheng's turn to wonder. Could it be that he was wrong?
"Hey, forget it, I'll just tell you!"

Ji Song was helpless. If this continued to be cryptic, the child might go crazy.

"Being a teacher means that there is a possibility that no matter how the dynasty changes, the academy will still be the academy."

Ji Xiancheng was stunned for a moment, chewing on this sentence repeatedly, and suddenly understood what the teacher meant.

"Are you saying that the academy will always be an academy, even if the Tang Dynasty Academy will still be there?"

"Not bad!"

Ji Song nodded and said, "You have been studying major civilizations, haven't you discovered the stakes between academic thought and royal power?"

"In the face of power, all truth will cease to exist. A reckless man can set a civilization back for tens or hundreds of years. The collapse of a dynasty also means that the ideas and everything attached to this dynasty will be destroyed by the new dynasty. Object of attack.”

"You may know something about the academy's current capabilities, but what you don't know is that it is all controlled by that person. In the short term, this is indeed a good thing, even a huge good thing. At least it can greatly protect Academy.”

"But lessons from the past can serve as a guide for the future. The current academy is so similar to the Mohist family during the Great Qin Dynasty. Do you think that if the Great Tang Dynasty is gone one day, how will the successor view the academy?"

"Kill, ban, or massacre"

"Again, in the face of power, these scholars who only know how to study and study the classics are too fragile. Western philosophers were ridiculously killed by small soldiers. Such examples abound in both the Central Plains and the West."

"I called you here today because you have the least involvement with the imperial court and you are also obsessed with academic research. If, I mean if one day you will become the leader of the academy, what will you do?"

"Don't rush to answer my teacher. You still have a lot of time to think about it. Think slowly. When I need you, my teacher wants to hear your truest thoughts."

Seeing the disciple still sitting on the ground, Ji Song smiled and sat down on the ground.

"Actually, sometimes I feel a little ridiculous as a teacher. It's ridiculous that I am in a cage, but I always think about things outside the cage."

"Life is only a few autumns, why do you care so much?"

He sneered: "For some special reasons, I always have a sense of historical responsibility as a teacher. I always want to make this nation, this country, and this civilization stronger, preferably forever."

"But I think the law is that this is simply impossible. Where there is yin, there is yang, where there is prosperity there is decline. This is the way of heaven and the law of operation of this universe!"

"Sometimes knowing too much is painful, because you know clearly that it is all in vain, but you are still unwilling to give in and always wonder if there is a glimmer of hope."

Ji Song talked to himself and said: "It's just like the academy. Look at how brilliant it is and how many talents it has. But do you believe it? Maybe a hundred, maybe hundreds of years later, it will become a pile of wasteland? "

"This is impossible!" Ji Xiancheng said excitedly.

He clearly knew what the academy meant to Master. It was the forefront of Master's transformation of the world and a talent pool that even the emperor could not stop wanting.