The fourth year of Longqing, the year of the horse.

This year, the world has changed little and no small.

In the east, the Battle of Sister River broke out in Japan, and the two families of Asai and Asakura were defeated, and they were no longer able to confront Oda Nobunaga, and finally they were destroyed by Oda Nobunaga in turn.

In the West, Denmark and Sweden ended the Seven Years' War in the North, concluded the Peace of Szczecin, paid Denmark huge reparations to redeem Efsburg, and curbed its attempts to expand into the North Sea and compete for Baltic supremacy. However, although the war ended with Denmark's superiority, it was no longer able to regain its hegemony in the Baltic Sea.

In the south, because the Ming Dynasty began to try to relax the sea ban, the first port to open the port of Fujian began to form the "sea eye" effect, and the Spanish Philippines began a net outflow of silver that had lasted for nearly two hundred years in its original history, and the outflow place: China.

In the Ming Dynasty, on March 15, according to Qin Tianjian's calculations, it is advisable to go to school and avoid marriage.

On the same day, the crown prince Zhu Yijun officially went out of the cabinet to study.

Gao Gong, a scholar of the Jianji Palace, and Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, who knew the scriptures and feasts, were also dressed in python robes, standing in front of the Wenhua Palace. Qin ordered Shen Shixing, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites who knew the scriptures and feasts, to lead the six speakers of the prince's scripture feast, Chen Jingbang, Shen Li, Xu Guo, Gu Yangqian, Zhang Wei, and Chen Yuma, to wear official uniforms and stand in turn.

At this time, it is two o'clock, the sky is dawning, and the eastern horizon is turned up with fish belly white.

The prince's guard of honor was fully set aside and entered the range of the Wenhua Palace, the crown prince Zhu Yijun was dressed in a crown robe, and a tall man in a cyan official uniform stood in the slightly back position on the left side of his body. The two stepped forward together one after the other and saw the teachers together.

The difference is that the prince bows, while the high minister prostrates.

The prince bowed once, and the high-ranking officials bowed three times.

Then, under the leadership of Gao Gong and Zhu Xizhong, the teachers bowed back and bowed three times.

Heaven and earth are the masters of the teacher, and the division between the monarch and the minister is still greater than the division between the master and the apprentice.

And the time of this ceremony is not arbitrarily set, the time is also known as the beginning of the day, the dawn, and the third month of the Beijing division of the Mao hour of about two o'clock, is the time of the dawn, the prince out of the pavilion to study the ceremony set at this point in time, has the profound meaning of "the rising sun".

Later generations of Westerners like to pay attention to the sense of ceremony, and some domestic "petty bourgeoisie" always feel that the sense of ritual of Westerners is particularly compelling, but they don't know that these things have been played with as early as their ancestors.

For example, in the Ming Dynasty, it was said that the prince went out of the pavilion to study, and even if the tea ceremony was a daily life, there were "thirteen yi" and "seven taboos" in the Ming Dynasty.

But in fact, Gao Pragmatic felt that Daming's "sense of ceremony" was a bit too much - Daming has a major feature since the founding of the country, that is, there are many rules. Starting from the royal family, there are regulations on eating, dressing, and housing, and if you are not careful, you will break the law, and the rules of court education are extremely strict.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born poor and didn't read much of his own books, but obviously he understood the truth that "no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education", and the rules of education in the Ming court were basically set by him. This is divided into two links: one is the daily education of the emperor himself, and the other is the education and training of the crown prince.

There is no need to repeat the education of the emperor himself, anyway, the more the emperor in the late Ming Dynasty, the more slack he is in his own learning, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, it is still hard work, here is only the education of the crown prince.

Different from the emperor's own slackness in learning, the emperor, as the father of the crown prince, also has the heart of "hoping for his son to become a dragon" like an ordinary father, so the prince's learning has always been supervised and implemented in the best place (no wind note: Jiajing ...... may be removed here), and there is rarely time to relax.

The education and training system of the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty was first formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang. The early prince's education has been introduced in this book, and there is no need to say it here, but it is the prince's education system founded by Zhu Yuanzhang that has a greater impact on later generations - the establishment of Wenhuadian University Scholar to tutor the prince, and there are Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi, Shao Zhan Shi, Chunfang University Scholar, Shuzi, Yu De, Zhongyun, Zanshan, Horse Washing, School Book and other official positions. Taken together, these constitute the prototype of the education system of the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Before the orthodox years of the Ming Dynasty, the prince read, in fact, there is no clear etiquette, to the orthodox years, the prince's etiquette of going out of the pavilion to study was also formally established: the morning of the prince's first time out of the pavilion to study, first by the Ministry of Rites, the deacon of Honglu Temple in the back hall of the Wenhua Hall four bows, Honglu Temple temple officials for the prince to salute, please go to the Wenhua Hall to study. On this day, the emperor should attend in person, the three divisions and the three young men and the officials bowed to the emperor in order, and then the officials withdrew, and the inner attendants led the prince to take a seat in the apse, and the attendants and lecturers came in turn every day.

Since then, the prince's study and life have begun, and today's etiquette inherits the previous system in these, and there is no difference. But today, the etiquette of the prince going out of the cabinet to study is still slightly improved or ...... Additions.

That's the scene just now - the prince sees the teacher.

Although the prince only bowed once, and the teacher had to return the bow three times, you must know that there was no such thing before that. This new system was not determined by Gao Gong, but was a change proposed by Emperor Longqing himself. But Gao Gong did not say why the emperor wanted to change like this in the exchange with Gao Pragmatic, Gao Pragmatic himself privately estimated, probably because Longqing felt that Gao Gong himself was his teacher, and now he worked tirelessly to take on the heavy responsibility of educating the prince, and he really was the "Emperor of the Two Dynasties", and he deserved such honor.

But speaking of which, among the prince's teachers, the hardest ones are the attendants. When they speak, let them speak clearly; If the prince makes a mistake, he must be bold and corrected; The prince does not study, but must dare to criticize. If you fail to do any of the above, you will not be qualified as a rule.

However, Gao Pragmatic knows that this seemingly reasonable principle, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but more and more loopholes, many emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when they were princes, are full of behaviors such as truancy, playfulness and pleasure, etc., carefully selected teachers, it seems that this is more and more useless. One of the important reasons is that the prince who went out of the cabinet to study is still a child after all.

According to the perspective of later generations of pedagogy, the gap between children and adults is often easy to fall into the modern gap, and the greater the gap between teachers and students, the deeper the generation gap between each other. Put on the education of the prince, the teachers who focus on the prince's learning, the vast majority of them are middle-aged or above, and even some are already elderly, and the early education is mostly based on profound knowledge and strict old pedants, and between the prince, there is basically no common language, and a naughty prince will definitely appear.

In addition, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the power of eunuchs became increasingly important, and those who accompanied the prince to study were mainly eunuchs who served the prince. On things like skipping classes, it is even more complicit with the prince. The most typical is that when Zhu Houzhao of Ming Wuzong was the crown prince, because he didn't like to study, the eunuchs who served him often set up a name to cancel the lectures of the day, and even the lectures that were carried out as scheduled were also sabotaged by them with excuses, either leaving the class early or making trouble in class, and normal education could not be guaranteed. The eunuch who helped Prince Zhu Houzhao skip class the most was Liu Jin, who was once in power during the Zhengde Dynasty......

In fact, people of insight among the civil officials have long seen this problem, but they have not been able to find any good way to solve it, but this time there was an unexpected appearance of the emperor "took the initiative" to find a Wenchen child of the same age as the prince to read for the prince, and read with the prince, although everyone envied the high pragmatism who finally obtained this position, but the reason why they did not oppose it before was that in addition to the stimulation of the "prince's playmate" incident, it was that they themselves also felt that there was a young Wenchen child to accompany the prince, which can have a positive impact on the crown prince.