"School Palace... You mean, we will open a school palace in Lujiang together with me, just like the Jixia Academy in Qi State back then?"

His pupils trembled slightly as he looked at Zhang Yan in front of him, and Mr. Pang De only felt that his fingers were slightly cold.

"Yes, it is the Jixia Academy, the Jixia Academy in Lujiang."

Zhang Yan said very firmly.

Chapter 23 No Emperor's Life

"Mr. Pang De, maybe I am not as good as you in terms of teaching and educating people, but when it comes to how to open a school, then I still have some experience."

"I plan to approve a special place in Lujiang to build a school. This school is not only used to educate the so-called "six arts of gentlemen" or Confucianism, but contains everything an adult should learn, except In addition to Confucian classics, medicine, scientific calculation, law, and even agricultural and forestry skills will be included, and they will be provided to everyone who wants to learn by category.”

"In other words, just like the contention of a hundred schools of thought at the beginning, after passing the entrance examination, everyone can choose the direction of their own study according to their own needs and preferences, instead of avoiding all knowledge except Confucian classics like now. It’s as good as it is.”

"Of course, after all, Confucianism is the foundation of our country, so what I said above are all things after we have established the reputation of the academy."

"Prior to this, the Confucian school's knowledge about self-cultivation, family management, and state governance was still the main content of education. In this regard, it still depends on you and your friends, Mr. Pang De, to make a lot of effort."

"As for me……"

Zhang Yan paused slightly, and then continued:

"As for me, I don't have the ability to teach and educate people. So in the process of building the academy, I will be responsible for providing you with land and funds so that the academy can run for a long time."

Simply put, if someone pays, someone contributes.

The blueprint given by Zhang Yan was not difficult for Mr. Pound to understand or accept. It could even be said that this condition was already very generous, so generous that even Mr. Pound could not believe it.

People who are willing to spend a lot of money to popularize education and enlighten people's wisdom are often the kings of a country, or like the prime minister and Sikong, at least they can think about problems from the perspective of the country.Zhang Yan, a prefect of a county who is willing to help with all his strength, is rare in ancient and modern times, at least Duke Pang De has only heard of this one.

It's just that, once again, in one's place, in one's job, this is an eternal truth.

Hundreds of years ago, there were King Qi Wei and King Qi Xuan "Yue Zu acting in charge" in the front. Although Zhang Yan's words today made Pang Degong feel excited, it also made him have to consider whether the other party's actions would There will be a plan to imitate the king of Qi in absorbing talents from all over the world into Qi.

If Zhang Yan just wants to build Lujiang, then that's fine.

But what if?

If Zhang Yan's plan is... then wouldn't he become one of the sinners who caused the entire big man to be destroyed?

This is going to be hung on the pillar of shame!

A slight coolness came from Pang Degong's fingertips. Facing such an important decision, he couldn't help but carefully looked at the face of the person in front of him.

But this didn't matter, but it made Mr. Pang De's cold sweat flow down from his forehead.

What he didn't tell Zhang Yan just now is that although Sima Hui's method of observing people in the water mirror is unrivaled in the world, the method of observing people was taught to him by Mr. Pang De himself, and was later carried forward by Sima Hui. Made a name for himself.

As far as Duke Pang himself is concerned, although he can't achieve the opponent's ability to recognize people and kill them, looking at Zhang Yan's fate, there is still no major problem.

And now that Zhang Yan has such a big appetite, what is his fate?

The Pound figurine looked at it carefully for a long time, but it seemed as if he couldn't believe his eyes, and the whole person became a little sluggish.

"This...isn't it right?"

"The sky is full and the eyebrows are flying. This is obviously a typical appearance of a hero. Even if he is the master of heaven and earth, it is not too much."

"But it's because of the appearance of the Holy Master that he doesn't have the life to be the emperor?"

"Is this really reasonable?"

A feeling of collapse of belief began to stir in his heart.

……

Is it because Zhang Yan's face is not good?

Actually not.

From the perspective of simple physiognomy, Zhang Yan's nobility is almost unmatched in the world. Duke Pang De has never seen such an indescribable person in his life.

But it is such an extremely expensive fate, but there is no trace of imperial aura at all. It is as if people in the 21st century have discovered that gravity does not exist, and the absurd feeling in Duke Pound's heart instantly spread to the whole body.

You must know that in China, no matter how noble or humble a person's fate is, he has the possibility of becoming an emperor.

Ever since Chen She uttered the sentence, "The princes and generals have kindness", any common people on the land of China, no matter what their backgrounds, always have a chance to be hit.

Perhaps a person with a noble fate is more likely to become an emperor, but even if a lowly person is like an ant, his possibility will not be completely cut off. At most, the chance will be smaller and the suffering will be more.

But today's Zhang Yan...he is destined not to be the emperor.

Even if all the emperors in China are dead, there will be no one like him in the queue.

This kind of weird discovery made Mr. Pang De's breathing become a little short, and he didn't even listen to Zhang Yan's words behind him too much.

……

"Uh... are you still listening?"

He glanced at the other party in a strange way. Zhang Yan originally said it well, but suddenly found that the other party was trembling as if he had been electrocuted. Then he stared at his own eyes and froze there. Mr. Pound didn't even pay attention to the silence behind him. arrive.

He patted the other party's shoulder lightly. Only then did Mr. Pound shake, and then he swallowed, his eyes gradually became brighter.

"Sorry, just thought of something."

"My lord, where are we talking?"

Pang Degong wiped off his sweat as if trying to hide it, and then asked Zhang Yan softly as if he had made some decision.

"It's weird..."

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with the old man, Zhang Yan could only mutter in his heart, and then repeated what he just said.

"Mr. Pang De, I mean, I will donate a sum of money in the name of the prefect of Lujiang to set up a bursary fund so that everyone can afford to study, so that they won't be unable to go to school because of family poverty."

"As long as the other party's ability is reached, regardless of the children from rich families, those from poor families can apply for living allowances from Lujiang according to their actual family circumstances."

"I don't have much money, but I can eat and drink water every day, and buy some cheap pens, ink, paper and inkstones, etc., so there is no problem."

"As for the library we mentioned earlier..."

Zhang Yan paused for a moment, then turned around and looked in the direction of the large library outside the door, and then continued:

"As for the right to use the big library, let's not bother."

"I have a large-scale paper mill in Lujiang, as well as a special printing factory. Since I first came to Lujiang, the work of producing books has hardly stopped, and the production efficiency has become very high."

"The books in that big library are extremely messy. They range from how to govern a city-state to how to cook a home-cooked dish. It's actually not very convenient to use it for teaching and educating people."

"I thought about it. Anyway, Lujiang is going to build a large-scale school palace. Then we should build a special library in the school palace. It will be smaller and store some books that scholars will use. , wouldn’t it be much more convenient than mixing the two together?”

Chapter 24 The rudiments...and the unimagined road bushi

That's right, just like Zhang Yan said just now.When he first built the large library, in order to make up the number, he stuffed a lot of books collected from the people into it.

Although these books cannot be called literary classics, they can be regarded as some kind of techniques recorded by those "masters", and they also have a certain inheritance value.

It's just a pity that although doing so at the beginning increased the system's evaluation of wonders, in actual use, the excessively large collection of books will actually cause some minor troubles.

In order to solve this problem, Zhang Yan, who had an entire province as his backing, naturally chose the most unpretentious solution.

That is to build another one.

Not only this school, but even the future Shu County, Xiang'an County, and those local princes, as long as they are willing to submit, he will lay the library as the infrastructure one by one.

Perhaps the scale of these newly built libraries is not as large as the Lujiang Great Library, and their influence is not so exaggerated, let alone any wonder buildings, but as the most basic infrastructure, for the people everywhere, this kind of thing can still play a role To no small effect.

One day in the future, when the development of Wancheng has hit a bottleneck, these other cities under the jurisdiction of Lujiang River can also play a role in diverting Wancheng, just like Huizhou in Guangzhou Province was to Pengcheng.

It wasn't until this time that Lord Pound finally recovered from his previous hesitation.

He opened his mouth silently, but didn't say anything.The tens of thousands of words in my heart that I wanted to say finally turned into a long sigh.

……

"Oh, good."

"Good, good, good..."

"From now on, I will treat it as my cooperating with you, the prefect, to establish a school, but I am taking advantage of you, old man."

"My old friends and I just added a handful of more firewood to make our fire more prosperous in this dying age. You, the prefect, have really paid for it, and I feel a little ashamed... "

"In the name of counties and counties, I am afraid that since the first time when the Qin Dynasty was violent and Shushi was destroyed, in order to avoid suspicion, such an act has never happened again in this land of China."

"If this thing is really done, it may not be difficult to reproduce the scene of the time when a hundred schools of thought were contending."

"Your reputation as Lujiang's new city of literati, I'm afraid it must be true..."

Gently twirling his few beards, after Duke Pang De made a decision in his heart, he looked at Zhang Yan a little differently.

That's right, no matter whether you are a god or an emperor, if you are willing to do this kind of thing for the people, no matter if it is placed in the past dynasties, it will be a holy master who will be framed and praised.No matter what I think about my actions today, I will not be reduced to the point of helping the evildoers.

As for the consequences of doing so... Lord Pound can actually think of some, but he doesn't care about that much anymore.

It's nothing more than being squeezed out by the old-fashioned family that was originally hostile to them.

After so many years, he can get to the present fame in Jingzhou without relying on those guys, and he will not be able to survive because of being squeezed out.

On the contrary, when Zhang Yan's school is really in operation, he is also a model teacher with thousands of disciples. Even Confucius's achievements were like this...

When he has thousands of disciples, who will exclude whom, maybe...

In this way, after Lord Pang De made his own judgment in his heart, his way of thinking was completely independent from the original family class, and he began to consider Zhang Yan's plan as a separate group.

For the time being, he still doesn't know what his faction, which relies on education rather than blood to transmit ideas, should be called. However, when the way of thinking about things changes from whether it can be done to how to do it, there are some things that he didn't notice before. The information received appeared in Lord Pang De's field of vision.

He pursed his lips slightly, and couldn't help asking Zhang Yan:

"Then Mr. Zhang, I already understand what you mean. It's a great idea, but there is one more thing that I'm not sure about."

"You also said just now that the foundation of the founding of our great Han country is to promote the Confucian family and suppress the hundreds of schools proposed by Dong Gong. This is the ancestral motto passed down since the time of Emperor Xiaowu. If you change it rashly, will it be wrong? Didn't make it right?"

"Well, if you compare the course of history to a wheel that rolls forward, isn't your behavior going backwards?"

Looking at Zhang Yan in a daze, Mr. Pound wanted to know why the people in front of him valued "academic diversity"—or "students' freedom to choose their own factions"—so important.

It's just that he didn't want to, his statement of "reversing the car" made Zhang Yan laugh.

"Reverse?"

"Haha, I really didn't expect that in my lifetime, I could hear such a statement again!"

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