Chapter Seventy-Four: A Gentle Word Like the First Year

At the end of the opening ceremony, Lingxiu Mountain feasted guests, and the slush wine brewed by Concubine Song God saw the light of day again, the aroma of wine filled the mountains, and everyone drank and sang bitterly. Xu You's Xuangong is getting better and better, almost a thousand cups are not drunk, no matter who toasts, he will not refuse, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, red lips and white teeth, and his clothes fluttering, just like a person in the sky.

Xu You seized the time to arrange the work of the academy, with Yuan Qingqi as the supervisor of the Taoist Academy, Zhu Fazhi as the supervisor of the Buddhist Academy, Yuan Wei as the supervisor of the Confucian Academy, and Zu Xiao as the supervisor of the two courtyards of the Tianjing Jade Calculation. Following the alliance system in the Spring and Autumn Period, Xu You and the four major supervisors formed the Xuanji Academy Supervisory Committee, and all major matters, if the mountain chief was absent, four people attended the meeting to negotiate and deal with them, and another supervisor was set up to be responsible for the daily administrative affairs of the college.

It is foreseeable that for a long time, the energy of the four major prisons will be mainly focused on lecturing, and the supervisors will become the actual controllers of the colleges. Therefore, this person must be Xu You's confidant, be able to perfectly implement Xu You's intentions, and have enough ability to deal with all kinds of trivial affairs, but this person must not be too high-born, and he must not have an obvious backer behind him, otherwise he will form a restrain from the supervisor, and the tail will not be lost.

In this way, Shen Meng entered Xu You's field of vision, and Yuan Qingqi had a good impression of Shen Meng and supported him to serve as a supervisor. So when Shen Meng was called into the room by Xu You and said that he planned to let him serve as the supervisor of the supervisory committee, Shen Meng was shocked and immediately realized that this was his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could he not agree?

Then the Xuanji Academy Statute was promulgated, and the regulations on admission qualifications, college etiquette, professional teaching, performance evaluation, punishment for violations, and leave system were all included in the statute. In later generations, Sima Guang once wrote an article on the survival of the statute as the gold standard for the rise and fall of the academy, and Zhu Xi's Bailu Shudong Academy's academic rules were regarded as the pinnacle of academy education, so the regulations of Xuanji Academy were formulated in great detail, and the seventeen behaviors such as not being taught by teachers, failing to succeed in academics, violating the schedule limit and making fun and miscellaneous plays were punished accordingly, but special attention was paid to not imprisoning students' ideological independence and innovative spirit, and how to find a balance between the two, which needed to be deleted and revised at any time in the development and growth of the academy in the future.

Through the incomparably powerful printing capacity of Tiangongfang, Xu You's "Five Classics of Justice" was bound in more than 1,000 copies and distributed to teachers and students in various academies. At the same time, for all those who are willing to serve as the masters of the academy, the Tiangongfang will print each other's works for free, and promote and sell them throughout the country through Luo Baiheng, and all the proceeds will belong to the author.

People live in the world, nothing but fame and fortune, and no one can escape this law of true fragrance, so Xuanji Academy easily attracted a large number of well-educated Confucians, and the faculty swelled sharply.

On the second day after the opening of the hospital, Xu You personally gave a lecture to the first batch of 353 students, not about the righteousness of the Five Classics, but about the interesting knowledge of astronomy and geography.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Yong's "Astronomical Chronicles" said that "there are three families of celestial bodies: one is called Zhou Spleen (covering the sky), the second is called Xuanye, and the third is called Hun Tian". Gai Tian said that there is no need to mention, simple embarrassed to discuss, Hun Tian said a little bit of progress compared with Gai Tian said, but it is basically a beautiful conjecture of intellectuals, only Xuan Ye said absorbed the Taoist ideas about qi, and proposed that "the sun, moon and stars naturally float in the void, and they must be angry when they do it." It believes that the universe is infinite space, and the sun, moon and stars float in the gas, which has considerable breakthrough significance, but it also believes that the stars shine because the quality and essence of the vitality bring its own brilliance, but it is stuck in the framework of the times.

"The earth is round, like a sphere......"

This kind of rhetoric is actually not shocking, after all, there are not many more excessive remarks than this in the Chu State, but what is interesting is that Xu You took Qu Yuan's "Tianwen" as a starting point to explain what the sky is, what the earth is, what the tides are, how the sun and moon shine, how the universe is formed, how the stars operate, etc., etc., etc., listening to the incredible, but able to justify itself, this is very amazing!

Almost half of the more than 300 people sitting in the Ming Dao Hall were very confused, but a few people fell into serious thinking. Xu You wants this effect, as the first time the mountain chief lectured, did not talk about the scriptures, did not talk about poetry, and did not even mention Buddhism, but said such a non-trivial thing, it will definitely bring the strongest impact, the Chinese people have been away from science for too long, Shen Zhen should use fierce medicine, do not be afraid of killing people with medicine, it doesn't matter how much medicine dies, as long as a few can be saved, that is the seed of the spark, is the hope of the future.

"Mountain Chief!" Someone raised their hand and shouted.

Xu You moved the rules of the Tiger Hall over, and the class can ask questions, and raise your hand first to ask questions, and said with a smile: "Okay, please get up!" ”

The man stood up, five short figures, fat, the flesh on his face piled up when he spoke, and the eyes that were originally quite big were ruined into small gaps, on a cold winter day, maybe because there were too many people in the hall, or because of nervousness, there were faint sweat drops on his forehead, and said: "Disciple Yu Ce, dare to ask the mountain chief, what you said just now is neither seen in the scriptures of the saints, nor in the history of the barnyard officials, if it is true, how can it be verified?" ”

The implication is that there is no evidence, this is a cannon shot in public, and there was an uproar in the hall, with Xu You's literary name and power today, dare to question it openly like this, isn't it crazy?

There are people in the hall who know Yu Ce, and they know that he is the sixth son of Yu Fahu, but he has not inherited any of his father's advantages at all. It is said that Yu Fahu was drunk in the stable one night, and he had a relationship with the most despicable horse girl and gave birth to this son.

However, dare to question, this is Xu You's favorite scene to see, and said: "The Heavenly Scripture Academy and the Jade Calculation Academy can be verified, but this is not an overnight effort, nor is it the power of one person and one family." If you are interested, you can go to the two institutes to study hard, and I hope you will find the answer yourself. ”

In order to stimulate the attendance rate of the two academies of Tianjing and Yusuan, Xuanji Academy has adopted a two-year graduation credit system without any suspense, and there is no threshold between the academies, you can go to the Confucian Academy, you can also go to the Taoist Academy, as long as you have enough time, full of energy, and full of intellectual curiosity, you can even listen to lectures in the morning and listen to the evening.

The more courses you take, the easier it is to earn credits, and finally pass the assessment and graduate, and those with excellent grades can be given priority to get the opportunity to be inspected in the twelve counties of Yangzhou - this is the back door that Xu You used the privilege of the general to unite Gu Yun and Zhang Zihua to open the Xuanji Academy.

Later, a student asked Xu You: Chief Shan, Xuanji Academy should give everyone a fair opportunity to receive education, and ensure the fairness and openness of the assessment process, but is it fair to those students who have not entered Xuanji Academy to blatantly use the public instruments of the imperial court for private use?

Xu You replied: The first lesson I taught you is that people must have the spirit of independent thinking and establish lofty ideals, and the second lesson I teach you is that ideals should be combined with reality, and fairness is never absolute!

In fact, the inspection system did not give the Hanmen Shu clan any chance at all, but the Xuanji Academy had no class, and divided the rice on the plate belonging to the gate valve clan, which was much fairer than before.

Yu Ce thought about it, turned around and left the Ming Dao Hall, and walked directly to the Heavenly Scripture Academy. Many people in the hall laughed, this infatuation was a little imaginary with Yu Fahu.

Xu You remembered this name, as for how much surprise it would give him in the future, it would depend on how much Yu Ce had created!

The effect of the first class was very significant, and there were many more people who went to the Tianjing Academy and the Jade Calculation Academy to observe after class, but it was still a minority compared to the Confucian Academy. As for the Taoist Academy and the Buddhist Academy, Confucian students are willing to listen to both, after all, the world is like this, and the Qing Dynasty must talk about metaphysics and Buddhism, learn more, watch and listen more, and pretend to be in place for future gatherings.

But only four or five days later, Yuan Qingqi's class replaced Xu You as the most popular class in the academy, of course Xu You would not think that this was Yuan Qingqi's class of higher quality, and it was not because she was too beautiful? In fact, beauty is only part of the reason, the real reason is that Yuan Qingqi's explanation of the "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" is out of the machine, put forward the concept of "Shangdengqing", which means that there is Taiqing above Shangqing, which is higher than the Shangqing of the Heavenly Master Dao from the realm, and then combined with the traditional Baimai Guanjiao, it is believed that each of the knots can be channeled through the gods, and the method of contemplating the sun and the moon and the twenty-four stars is proposed, so as to achieve the realm of spiritual inner guard and the truth of the Tao that the gods do not gallop outward.

And most importantly, Yuan Qingqi's new Taoism focuses on the practice of personal essence, qi, and spirit, and does not emphasize talismans and golden pills, denigrates the art of aiki, preaches the spirituality of the gods, observes nature, nourishes the spirits and refines the qi, and then rides the clouds to fly to the immortals.

This fundamentally solved the bad influence of the Heavenly Master Dao due to Aikijutsu, and won the hearts of these young scholars with big minds and heroic spirits. However, later He Wei secretly complained that it was mainly because the young man had good bones and was not old enough to need Aikishu to regain his strength, so he scoffed at these filthy things, and Xu You was noncommittal to this statement, although he also wanted to give He Wei two lines of poetry, he didn't know what to do when he was young, and he was crying when he was old, but after so many years of development, Aikishu has become the target of public criticism, and the disadvantages outweigh the benefits.

Two or three days later, Zhu Lingbo and Cui Ying'e came to Mingyushan together, which was mentioned by Xu You and Zhu Ren at the opening ceremony, and they invited her here under the pretext of wanting to see Zhu Lingbo on the pretext of the autumn equinox. When they met, Xu You was surprised to find that Zhu Lingbo had really grown up, since the first meeting of the two in the eleventh year of Yong'an, ten years have passed since today, the former little girl has become a slender and moving girl, it is too late to marry at her age, I don't know if Zhu Li is too pampered, I want to stay for a few more years, or something else went wrong in the middle, if Liang Xiaogu is indeed a good person, I should really bless her.

"Brother Weizhi, long time no see!"