The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Ge Cheng was immediately moved when he heard this. The Suzhou Weavers Guild has a lot of energy, but every time they want to express their attitude, they can only use drastic methods such as "calling for a break". The main reason is that they have no way to convey their voices.

Although the voice of "calling for a break" is loud every time, it will also cause the loss of wages of the silk weavers, and the impact tax card will directly imprison him. Although Ge Cheng feels that this is a necessary cost, but such a cost It would be best if it could be smaller.

Ge Cheng felt that perhaps with the "Suzhou Xunbao" as a voice channel, the Suzhou Weavers Guild would be less likely to "call for a break" and other protests in the future. As long as they expressed their wishes in the newspaper, Suzhou would have to take it seriously. .

Ge Cheng thought for a while and then nodded and said: "Assistant Professor Wang, I will do my best to help with this matter."

"Thank you, Brother Ge, for your help." Wang Wenlong thanked him quickly.

Although Ge Cheng was in prison, his reputation was well known, and the Suzhou Weavers Guild would definitely carry out his words. What's more, it didn't cost much to help Wang Wenlong establish a network of reporter stations. Ge Cheng took the initiative to spread the news through the jailers. Wang Wenlong also actively contacted various guilds. However, within a few days, all major guilds in Suzhou and "Suzhou" Xundao" established a good relationship.

Under the control of Deng Zhimo, "Suzhou Xundao" developed reporters in various guilds to report all kinds of news in Suzhou in a timely manner.

After settling the matter at the reporter station and establishing the "Suzhou Xunbao", Wang Wenlong once again embarked on the journey to Nanjing - Wang Wenlong has been an assistant coach at Guozi for a few months but has not yet worked a day.

During this period, Wang Wenlong was also learning about the system of the Imperial College. The more he understood, the more he felt that the Imperial College was really like a university in later generations. The Imperial College in the Ming Dynasty was also divided into semesters. At this time, it was called a six-teaching and four-campus system. The Imperial College was divided into: Justice, Chongzhi, and Guangye. The six halls are: monasticism, sincerity, and straightforwardness.

The rules are: Those who have mastered the Four Books but not the Classics will be admitted to the three halls of Zhengyi, Chongzhi and Guangye, and those who have studied for more than one and a half years and are proficient in liberal arts and sciences will be promoted to the second hall of Xiudao and Chengxin, and who have studied for more than one and a half years and are proficient in both classics and history, as well as liberal arts and sciences. Those who excel in both will be promoted to Suixing Hall.

After students enter Suxingtang, they can graduate after completing the credits according to the points system. During the Zhu Yuanzhang period, after graduation, students from the Imperial College could be sent to government departments for internships or to take the imperial examination.

This system is a specialized training system designed in response to the severe shortage of scholars in the early years of Hongwu. It is two ways to go along with the imperial examination. During the Zhu Yuanzhang period, many Guozixue graduates who graduated from Shuixingtang were assigned to official positions, and they could be assigned to official positions at any time. As the number of candidates for imperial examinations continued to increase, it was almost impossible for the supervisors to become officials by the Xuande period. At that time, "more than 10,000 supervisors were elected in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and they were unable to hold office for more than ten years."

At this time, the imperial examinations were very demanding for officials, and it had long been an illusion for a supervisor to become an official. Later in history, Wang Wenyan was a supervisor, and he could become an official according to the system, but in fact he was dismissed after he became a member of the Zhongshushe. The whole world thinks there is a secret operation.

Therefore, it is meaningless to graduate from the Imperial College at this time. It is unlikely that the Imperial College students will become officials if they fail to pass the imperial examination. Most of the students in the Nanjing Imperial College are studying to prepare for the imperial examination. In a sense, the Imperial College has become a government-run school, with actual lectures The effect is not much higher than that of prefectural schools, county schools or other academies.

During this time, Wang Wenlong's official robe for an eighth-grade civil servant was also completed.

He put on his official robe and black gauze and went to work. As soon as he entered the unit, he approached Ye Xianggao and said, "Siye, I can give lectures, but I'm afraid I won't be able to explain the content of the imperial examination."

Ye Xianggao smiled and said: "Jianyang, it's a great thing that you can come and give a lecture, no matter what the content is."

Wang Wenlong was relieved after hearing this and said: "Then I will start the lecture as soon as possible."

Ye Xianggao discussed with Wang Wenlong and finally set the date for his lecture in three days.

The Imperial College had a strict curriculum system during the Hongwu Dynasty. It had holidays on the first and fifteenth day of every month. On the other days, it was arranged to have "lectures", "repeated lectures", "endorsements" and other courses. This was to cultivate the reserves of the Hongwu Dynasty. Officials are also very strict in enforcing discipline.

But by the Wanli period, this kind of schedule was basically useless. Few people would come to lecture days, and sometimes even the teachers would not show up.

At this time, as soon as the news spread that Wang Wenlong was going to give a lecture, it was a grand occasion for the Imperial College lectures that had not been seen in many years, and many students wanted to come and listen.

On the day of Wang Wenlong's lecture, Ye Xianggao saw more and more students present, and his face gradually showed surprise.

Originally, the Imperial College said that three to five hundred people would be considered good, but now the number of people present has exceeded six hundred.

Originally, Wang Wenlong's lecture venue was in Guangye Hall, west of the Imperial College, but Ye Xianggao soon discovered that Guangye Hall was so narrow that there were too many people to sit down.

In order to avoid accidents caused by crowding, Ye Xianggao hurriedly changed the location of the lecture to the East Lecture Hall in the east.

This place is usually used for gatherings and worshiping Confucius, and the room is very large.

But there were too many students here that day. Even after everyone was seated, the East Lecture Hall still seemed small. Many people had to stand in the corridor to listen to the lecture. The ministers and doctors present at the Imperial College all sighed: "Wang Jianyang is really famous. As soon as he says he can speak, students come to him."

"Yes, I'm afraid we haven't seen such a scene in Guozixue for more than a hundred years after Renxuan."

In fact, Wang Wenlong is not the most famous lecturer in the Imperial College, but other lecturers can't stand it and don't attend classes. Wang Wenlong rarely works as a teaching assistant and still works honestly. "Shangshu Ancient Prose and Evidence" has become famous recently, so it has attracted so much attention.

The average age of the Imperial College students is more than 20 years old. They are generally from the scholar class and are very enthusiastic about participating in current affairs. Just like all academy lectures in this era, after the students arrived, they started talking about themselves as brothers and sisters. Come.

Wang Wenlong walked up to the podium with a smile on his face and said hello to everyone, but everyone in the audience was still talking endlessly. Wang Wenlong did not speak, but a student standing close to the audience first asked Wang Wenlong: "Mr. Jianyang thinks Myanmar is now invading the border." How is it going?"

Wang Wenlong smiled when he heard this and replied: "This topic is far away. I guess the incident of Myanmar's border violations will be settled in just a few months."

"Mr. Jianyang thinks Myanmar will not invade Yunnan in a big way?" the student asked curiously.

"Probably so." Wang Wenlong nodded.

Those students were discussing Burma's invasion of Tengyue Prefecture in Yunnan in August. The Ming Dynasty during the Wanli Period was still able to fight. Now the Ming Dynasty's heavy troops in the southwest have not been completely withdrawn. This time, Myanmar is just watching the trouble caused by the tax supervisor in the southwest. Awesome, find an excuse to fight against the brutality of the Ming Dynasty and go to Yunnan to plunder some.

Now that Myanmar has taken back the things that should be snatched, Yunnan does not want to make this matter a big deal. In the end, both sides must be fooled. Ming Dynasty will suffer a secret loss, and Myanmar will apologize and settle the matter.

As soon as the questions here were answered, another student in his forties stood up and said with excitement: "Mr. Jianyang, I thought you were a great scholar of the world, so I bought your new book to read, but how did I know You criticized the sages in your new book, which is really too much!"

Wang Wenlong was not in a hurry, but asked with a smile: "Have you finished reading this book?"

This man, who was probably a master of the Book of Documents, replied: "Of course I have finished reading it, otherwise I wouldn't be so angry."

Wang Wenlong said with a smile: "A book with more than 200,000 words introduces many research methods. How can you just focus on the final conclusion?"

But the student said: "Slandering the saint is too bad. How can we not let people stare at it?"

Wang Wenlong raised his head with a smile and said loudly to everyone: "In that case, let's start with the "Explanation of Ancient Prose in Shangshu" today.

Everyone gradually stopped talking and stared at Wang Wenlong curiously, waiting to hear what he said.

Wang Wenlong started speaking loudly: "Let me tell you something first:

Thousands of years ago, Confucianism flourished. However, due to the First Emperor's burning of books and the entrapment of Confucian scholars, a large number of Confucian classics were destroyed. Many students were eager for a complete Confucian work. Countless scholar-bureaucrats searched everywhere, and finally a great sage found it in the countryside. A book containing dozens of articles that were not passed down at that time, and the appendix states that this book was discovered by the descendants of the saint in the wall when they were repairing the family temple. It was hidden by the Confucian disciples before Qin Shihuang burned books and enslaved Confucians. It was spread to the world after a hundred years of hiding from disasters in the wooden walls and covering it with loess. "

"However, the things recorded in the appendix about Qin Shihuang's burning of books, entrapment of Confucian scholars, and collection of books were two hundred years after the saint's descendants discovered the book on the wall. Another hundred years have passed since it passed into the hands of this great sage. The events of four to five hundred years before and after are like people today looking at the people of the Song Dynasty. At this time, how can this great sage be sure that the stories mentioned in this book and the appendix of the book are true? "

After speaking a few words, everyone was surprised. What Wang Wenlong said was obviously the story of the people of Jin getting fifty-eight "Books".

Someone couldn't help but asked loudly: "Mr. Jianyang thinks that the Shangshu collected by Mei Zhi from Jin Dynasty is a forgery?"

Although "Shu Zheng" tries to falsify "Gu Wen Shangshu" from all aspects, the name "Shu Zheng" means to list out the evidence of each school, and does not directly indicate that "Gu Wen Shangshu" is It's false, but Wang Wenlong's words just now are even more heart-wrenching in comparison, and they are directly false.

After hearing the student's question, Wang Wenlong smiled and asked: "Does this student think "Guwen Shangshu" is authentic or a forgery?"

The supervisor wanted to say that "The Book of Ancient Texts" was true, but he was afraid of being overturned by Wang Wenlong. He had read "The Book of Ancient Texts" and although he did not agree with the arguments in it, he knew that the arguments in this book were analyzed and written clearly. It is clear that with his ability, he probably cannot defeat Wang Wenlong.

Seeing that the student did not answer, he smiled and continued to ask: "Let me go deeper and ask, why do we say a book is true? Or why can we say a book is false?"

(End of this chapter)