Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 262 Dai County University Hall

The academies played a pivotal role in the political life of Ming Dynasty. The three cardinal guides and the five constant principles, the heaven, the earth, the monarch, the relatives and teachers, the relationship between teachers and students is comparable to that of father and son. Through the academies, a teacher brought out a large number of students, and then entered the government and the public through the imperial examination, forming a common The political power enough to control the government, and the party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty also arose from this.

The most typical one is Donglin Academy.

It all shows that the imperial court was an era with the strictest ideological control. The imperial examination was strictly limited to stereotyped essays, and the imperial court strictly suppressed the progressive thoughts of literati and bureaucrats. , but gave birth to a blowout like a cultural explosion in the late Ming Dynasty.

The first is the Yangming School of Mind. The Mind School founded by Wang Shouren took the lead in overthrowing the deep-rooted Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism since the Song Dynasty. The imprisoned social atmosphere also loosened.

Especially during the Jiajing period, Taizhou School also produced a great figure, Li Zhi. In his discussions with Neo-Confucianism, the rotten Neo-Confucianists at that time could hardly distinguish him. In the end, he had to frame him and put him in prison, forcing him to commit suicide. Still give Neo Confucianism a heavy blow.

However, Xinxue emphasizes that there is nothing outside the mind, and the freedom of the heart jumps out of the shackles of Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism, and it does make the social atmosphere, especially the officialdom, glitzy. It was only established, especially after experiencing the Wanli national struggle, the political struggle with the eunuch party during the Tianqi period, and the Bachelor of Science from Donglin Academy was officially compressed into this political force.

With the example of Donglin Academy, academies around the world have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. The competition among various schools of thought further aggravated the social conflicts and political turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty.

Under such a general environment, Song Qingshu's Dai County University Hall quietly set up a sign on Jianwuping under Wutai Mountain, so not so many people paid special attention to it.

The large courtyard with a total of three entrances originally belonged to the Dai family, a local wealthy family. The ancestors of the Dai family served as ministers of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing during the Jiajing period. In the middle of the spacious atrium there is a pond, with green bamboos planted beside it, and the upright Daixian University Hall. The golden characters were written by Cai Wei. Although Song Qingshu has learned a lot of traditional Chinese characters these days, his handwriting I really can't get the scene out.

Most of the people who came here were from the vicinity of Dai County. They heard about Li Jiantai’s acceptance of apprentices at the banquet, and they came here because of their reputation. They are not stupid, and they are related to the Imperial Academy, so they can easily pass during the imperial examination There are many, besides this, the industry and commerce in Daixian County is booming now, and many big families are also involved in it. They just need to form a network of their own mouthpieces in the court to protect themselves.

The emergence of the university hall is precisely this opportunity.

Song Qingshu also looked like a dog and became the president of a university. He was wearing a Confucian robe, with a blue lun scarf on his head, and sat on the futon like a Buddha. More than 100 scholars below bowed their fists and knelt down to pay homage to the teacher. Li, it's really grand.

Of course, even though he has become a teacher, Song Qingshu does not give lectures, otherwise with his level, he would be exposed in a few strokes. Caiwei prepared a well-written manuscript in advance for Song Qingshu to read out, and then appointed Sun Chuanting as the teacher , Caiwei gave lectures part-time for the principal's secretary, and Fu Shan, the magistrate of Yuanping County, was also recruited by him as a coolie and became an external professor.

Among the students, there were not only business and industry children from Dai County, but Song Qingshu also selected fifty teenagers between the ages of 16 and [-] from within the Qihuo Army to fill the school.

Why does Song Jiang always want to Zhao'an in the water park Liangshan?On the one hand, the imperial court was indeed orthodox at that time, on the other hand, there was no way to select talents in Shuibo Liangshan. Once the [-] generals were old and could no longer be recruited, Liangshan had to be finished, unlike the old way of Liangshan, Song Qingshu had to prepare for the next generation and cultivate internal talents. These are the future of the begging army.

Even Li Dingguo was dragged back from Xinkou Village by Song Qingshu, and sat in the crowd of students with a face full of tears.

The Chinese place great emphasis on ritual, worshiping the teacher and worshiping Confucius, and then burning incense and praying. After a long time of tossing, even Song Qingshu himself followed the tossing several times. In the evening, the curtain finally came to an end. Looking at a hundred or so young scholars who were so tired that they were about to lie down under a dozen candles, Song Qingshu himself felt a sense of relief.

However, before Song Qingshu wanted to go home from get off work to escape, Sun Chuanting did not let him go.

"Yuanzheng, there is permanence in the way of heaven, and it is the right way to learn from things. I should teach this way. I don't know if Yuanzheng has any objections?"

Holding the "internal questions of the college entrance examination" left by Li Jiantai, Sun Chuanting clasped his fists in a solemn salute. Before Song Qingshu nodded in agreement, Fu Shan, who looked like Zhu Yingtai and looked like a pink-faced pretty scholar, was also very serious. a bow.

"First discover the original mind of a person, and have a clear mind, then you can be like a tree with roots, like water with a source, Song Yuanzheng, I believe that you should learn from your heart!"

What the hell?
The class has not yet started, the two guys put eye drops on themselves together, Song Qingshu's head suddenly grew bigger, fortunately, there was a talented girl Caiwei behind him, and then in the dim candlelight at night, Caiwei carefully opened her mouth It stuck to Song Qingshu's ear.

"Officials, they are in a psychological dispute! Investigating things to know, Mr. Sun is studying the Neo-Confucianism school, inventing the original mind, and Mr. Fu's knowledge is the Xin school. Science or psychology?"

Seeing that the two of them were staring at him like fighter jets among the roosters, Song Qingshu felt that his scalp was going numb all the time. Academic struggles could reach the national level. Arguing a few words with myself, the principal of the Dai County University Hall will probably have to be exposed on the first day.

Not only Sun Chuanting and Fu Shan, more than 50 real scholars also know about psychological disputes. Some of them are from the School of Psychology, and some are from the School of Neo-Confucianism. body.

His forehead exploded, as if the air had been frozen for a few minutes, Song Qingshu suddenly stood up, walked back without saying a word with a stern face, let alone Sun Chuanting and Fu Shan, all the students were buzzing After a click, they started whispering.

But the discussion disappeared after a while, and Song Qingshu didn't hide his face and run away, but walked to the back of the main hall where there was a rather huge piece of cloth hanging there, which hadn't been lifted yet. In front of him, Song Qingshu handsomely pulled it hard, and the cloth fell down with a bang, and under the joint action of the mechanism, a dozen spotlights that had already been wrapped with five sides of the mirror were suddenly ignited by white phosphorus, which was much brighter than candlelight For an instant, all the lights were focused on the things behind the cloth.

Sun Chuanting's eyes were straightened, and he couldn't help standing up suddenly.

"This!"

"I originally planned to teach everyone tomorrow as the first lesson, but I was forced out by the two teachers today." Song Qingshu smiled helplessly, then took out the pointer and pointed it at the thing.

"This is the world we live in! This is our Daming!"

This thing can be regarded as one of the results of the cooperation between Song Qingshu and Tang Ruowang when they were in Xi'an. More than a dozen pieces of parchment were put together to form a collection of the whole world with medieval colors.

This map not only includes Asia and Europe, but also Africa, North and South America, and Oceania. There is only one Antarctica that Song Qingshu is not familiar with, so he didn't draw it. On the big map, Tang Ruowang came all the way from the Baierjun Prefecture of Ming Dynasty The western land countries and the American colonies of the major countries are basically marked, especially Nanyang, where Tang Ruowang came by boat, Luzon in Spain, and Java in the Netherlands are clearly listed on the map.

This map, let alone Ming Dynasty, is probably the only one in the world of this era. With such a huge space, those students who saw it for the first time were stunned.

"impossible!"

The first scream was actually made by Sun Chuanting, pointing at the vast fertile grassland on the map of Daming, and shouted angrily.

"How could Donglu be older than Daming? How could Daming be so young?"

"Isn't Daming the center of the world?"

"Is there such a big world in the north?"

"seriously?"

Not only Sun Chuanting, but other students, even Li Dingguo, who was not interested in going to school, all looked at him and talked about it in disbelief.

"Of course it is true. It is recorded in the "Historical Records" that Su Wu went north to the Xiongnu and was detained in Beihai to herd sheep. Thousands of miles away, Beihai is here! Zhang Qian traveled to the Western Regions, traveled more than three times, and finally arrived in Anxi, and Anxi is here. , Our Father Tang will also come to give lessons to you. His hometown is in the far west. He started from Rome, the capital of the West Qin Kingdom in ancient legends, traveled westward to Lisbon, Portugal, and then bypassed the entire Africa from here to reach Southeast Asia. , disembarked in Macau in the south, and came to our Daming."

"Leaving aside, before conquering the Central Plains, the Mongols of the Great Yuan Dynasty expanded westward for more than tens of thousands of miles and brought hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world to conquer the Great Song Dynasty. How vast is the territory of the Great Yuan Dynasty? I have heard that the territory of Mongolia in its heyday is now less than a quarter of that of Ming Dynasty."

After enumerating a lot of evidence, Song Qingshu hugged Sun Chuanting helplessly.

"A few years ago, Donglu defeated Lin Danhan and dominated Mongolia. In terms of territory, Donglu is indeed bigger than Ming Dynasty."

There is an idiom called Yelang arrogant, just like Yelang did not know the greatness of Han Dynasty. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese scholar-bureaucrats were immersed in the dream of the heaven and the kingdom, and they did not know the size of the world. In front of the local students from the University of County and Shanxi University, the shock, even Sun Chuanting and Fu Shan, who have traveled through the capital and traveled to several northern provinces, are a little dazed.

"This is the core content of Daixian University, open your eyes to see the world!" Finally, Song Qingshu put down the pointer, and nodded with emotion.

(End of this chapter)