XVIII. The building near the water gets the moon first
The scripture that Guo Peng read was "The Legend of the Spring and Autumn Ram of the Yan Family", which was transcribed by his grandfather Guo Yong and passed on to his father Guo Dan.
Later, Guo Shan used this scripture to teach it to Guo Peng personally, and Guo Peng read this book since he was a child, and it can be said that he is very familiar with it.
In fact, Yingchuan Guo's family also has a family tradition, but Yingchuan Guo's family tradition is not a Confucian classic, but "Xiao Du Lu", which is related to law.
From the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, for more than a hundred years, the Yingchuan Guo clan was born as a grammar official.
In the Western Han Dynasty and the early Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of grammar officials was relatively high, and Guo was given the title of "family lineage".
The family has been engaged in legal positions for generations, monopolizing a considerable part of the official position, and there are also those who use it to serve the official position.
But on the one hand, it is a Confucian classic, and on the other hand, it is a legal provision, although the Guo family is a scholar, but it is not the "own person" of the Confucian scholar.
With the passage of time, the Confucian scholars occupied the peak of public opinion, using morality as a weapon to suppress the status of military generals and grammar scholars, and the Yingchuan Guo clan was naturally within the scope of suppression.
However, compared with military generals, the Guo family is still a scholar clan and a cultural person, so compared with the family of Confucian classics, it is almost a second-rate scholar family.
Naturally, there are also people in the Guo clan who do not want the family to continue to sink like this, they do not want to be a second-rate scholar forever, they also want to open up a new situation, and they ask to learn other Confucian classics.
Guo Peng's grandfather, Guo Yong, was one of them.
In this regard, Guo's attitude is ambiguous.
Don't support, don't object, you don't learn Xiao Dulu, you want to learn the Confucian classics, you can, you can do whatever you want, but the family won't help you.
Guo Peng didn't know how his grandfather got the classic "Yan's Ram", and his father didn't say it.
But since he got it, he learned, and after he had learned it, he went to Taixue to verify what he had learned, and then he could study other scriptures.
Those who have spare time to learn, and excellent students who have been recognized, can naturally study more scriptures from other families, and Zheng Xuan and He Xiu, the great Confucians of the late Han Dynasty, are such people.
Of course, Guo Peng would not choose to hang himself on the Yan Ram School, he wanted to learn more, with his extremely excellent memory, he wanted to record all the Confucian Five Classics and turn them into his own.
This is what he promised Guo Shan to do, and it is also what he wants to do.
He wanted to be a well-known scholar, the kind of scholar who could have disciples to follow.
Either specialize in one classic, get the doctor's approval, inherit the mantle, and become the next doctor, in that case, Guo Peng is naturally developed, and it is not a lie that his protégés are all over the world.
But the probability of this is too small, he has to become a master disciple first, and then defeat the other master disciples to become the only inheritor, the difficulty is not as great as the average two.
In addition, the only way to do this is to study more scriptures, promote fame, be recognized by the mainstream of society, become a famous scholar, be an official, and have a certain right to speak, and then there will naturally be apprentices to follow.
This places high demands on one's own teachers.
He didn't know if there were enough doctors among the fourteen doctors under the background of the party.
However, with the degree of importance and devotion of the Eastern Han government to Taixue, as well as the importance of each doctrine to their respective statuses, he felt that the level of the doctor of Taixue must be sufficient.
"Let's worship under Dr. Yan's Ram first, after all, the son-in-law is studying Yan's Ram, and after that, the son-in-law also wants to learn more scriptures, preferably, it is possible to understand all the five classics."
Cao Song twisted his beard and nodded.
"It's a good thing to have ambitions, but Xiao Yi, you have just entered Taixue, you must not be able to get the doctor to teach in person, the doctor will only let the senior apprentice teach the course on his behalf, how much you can learn is all in your thoughts."
Cao Chi also spoke: "This is also true, a few years ago, the party was in turmoil, and there were many disobedient people among the students, and the Son of Heaven ordered strict punishment, and many people in the Taixue were taken down, and even many people died. ”
The meaning of Cao Song and Cao Chi, Guo Peng understands.
Today's Taixue is indeed not the Taixue it used to be, and as a member of the pan-eunuch group, they must know what Taixue is like now.
But for Guo Peng, the scriptures that can be read in Taixue are what he needs very much, and it is also the reason why he must enter Taixue early, and Taixue can provide Guo Peng with sufficient learning conditions.
Originally, according to the regulations of the Han government, officials with more than 600 stone could send their children to Taixue to study.
As an official of Guo Dan Qianshi, he does not need to go through Cao's relationship to let Guo Peng enter Taixue, but entering Taixue is entering Taixue, and Guo Peng still wants to be an official.
There is indeed a set of rules for graduation assignment in Taixue, and the duration of the school is eight years.
First of all, those who have studied for two years and tried to pass the second classics will be made up for the position of literary legends, and those who have been in the position of literary legends, and those who can pass the three classics after two years of examination can be promoted to the prince and the princess.
Those who have been the prince for two years, and those who can pass the four classics in the examination can be promoted to become Langzhong, and those who have been in Langzhong for two years and can pass the five classics in the examination can be filled according to the shortcomings of the officials in the DPRK and China, and become officials.
Therefore, there is a clear promotion route for the outstanding among the students.
But this is a generous treatment for the children of the nobles of the princess, the children of ordinary families and poor families can only leave Taixue and return to their hometowns to make a living after completing their studies, and there are not so many officials to do.
Guo Dan did not have any way in the court, if he did not take the path of the Cao family, Guo Peng had to study in the capital, and after studying, he had to return to Qian County, and then seek the road of filial piety, it would be much more difficult.
Now with the help of the Cao family, Guo Peng can directly enter Taixue as a boy several years in advance, and with the help of the Cao family, he can take the route of the princess and the nobility, study for eight years, and become an official before the age of twenty.
It's a good road.
And in the past eight years, Guo Peng can do a lot of things, and without Cao's help, don't even think about it.
So Guo Shan and Guo Peng actually have no qualifications for choice.
Moreover, Guo Dan and Guo Peng are not satisfied, they just stay in Taixue for a few years and come back.
Guo Shan hopes that Guo Peng will learn the Five Classics and become famous, and if he can't be famous, he will take the Five Classics home, and take the scriptures as the Guo family's family heirloom to future generations and leave the hope of development.
What Guo Peng hopes is to learn the Five Classics, become an official, earn a reputation and power, cooperate with Cao Cao in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty to live a wonderful life, and protect his family at the worst, so that they can start and end well.
Therefore, entering Taixue is only the first step, and after that, Guo Peng will continue to study hard, get an excellent teacher, and become a famous scholar.
It's better to be one of the "Baume & Mercier" and enter the upper class, in that case, the chances of survival will be much higher.
The degree of freedom in Taixue is too high, and it seems very difficult to do this, which requires a high degree of self-discipline and self-awareness, and the determination to calm down and endure the loneliness and hard work, which seems to be very difficult for the twelve-year-old Guo Peng.
Therefore, Cao Song and Cao Chi may not believe Guo Peng a little, and they are not sure whether Guo Peng, who is still a teenager, can resist the temptation of lustful dogs and horses.
But having said that, although the Cao family has invested a lot, as long as they can get married, this capital has actually been recovered, which is very beneficial to the Cao family to improve the social status of the family.
In fact, the next can be regarded as a profit, but any income is a profit, the better Guo Peng, the better the Cao family, the two are grasshoppers on a rope, in fact, they are already a community of interests.
Therefore, Cao Song and Cao Chi did not bother more on Guo Peng's way out.
Don't say it, this thought really made Cao Song think of a good way.
"By the way, Xiaoyi, when Meng De was an official in Luoyang, he got acquainted with Cai Yong, a member of the Lang Lang, and Qiao Xuan, a doctor of Guanglu, Cai Yong is a disciple of the former Taifu Hu Guang, very famous, talented and knowledgeable, Qiao Xuan has been famous for a long time, highly respected, Meng De admires them very much, and they also have a good impression of Meng De.
Now, Cai Yong is being ordered by the emperor to study in Dongguan School, living in a simple house, Qiao Xuan concentrates on his studies and does not participate in social exchanges much, but if you have any doubts about your studies, you can ask them, I asked Meng De to write a letter of recommendation for you, I believe Cai Yong and Qiao Xuan will not reject you. ”
When Cao Song said this, he immediately attracted Guo Peng's attention.
Cai Yong may not be very famous, but his daughter is too famous.
Cai Yan Cai Wenji, or rather, Cai Zhaoji.
Naturally, Guo Peng has no interest in Cai Yan, and he is just a two-year-old doll now.
Guo Peng was only interested in Cai Yong.
Cai Yong is undoubtedly a scholar, a very talented person in academics, Confucian classics, cifu music, astronomy and geography, calligraphy and painting, etc., and he studied under the former Taifu Hu Guang, with a great reputation and great respect.
Guo Peng suddenly realized that he did not necessarily have to find a suitable teacher in Taixue, Cai Yong was proficient in Confucian classics, had a deep level of research on the Confucian Five Classics, and also presided over the engraving of the famous "Xiping Stone Classic".
This is a good candidate for a teacher.
As for Qiao Xuan, he is now a doctor of Guanglu, and he will become a lieutenant in the future, a highly respected scholar and general, both civil and military.
The relationship between him and Cao Cao is very good, and he believes that Cao Cao has the ability to stabilize the country, and Cao Cao sacrificed to him during the Jian'an period and Cao Pi when he passed by the Qiaoxuan tomb in the early Huang Dynasty.
As for the false rumors of the father of Er Qiao, it is pure nonsense, Qiao Xuan died in the year of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and Qiao Guolao lived many years later, and he also appeared before and after the Battle of Chibi.
Speaking of which, Guo Peng is also aware of some of his current disadvantages, Cao Song and Cao Chi can indeed help him move up to a certain extent, but they can't reverse public opinion.
The turbidity current of the Cao clan cannot occupy the high ground of public opinion, and the high ground of public opinion has always been grasped by the scholars.
If you enter Luoyang with the help of Cao's power, you will also be dragged down by the stigma on her body, which is a stain that is difficult to erase, but it is not without a way to reverse it.
Xun Yu married the daughter of Tang Heng, who was a regular servant in the middle of the year, as his wife, but the daughter of a eunuch, if you really want to talk about it, public opinion can bury Xun Yu to death, but because of various factors, Xun Yu relied on his talent to reverse the disadvantage and reloaded as "Wang Zuozhicai".
Although Guo Peng does not have the fame and power of the Xun family, Guo Peng also has his own ideas.
To be famous is to be famous, or to be famous in a way that can be accepted by scholars.
There must also be a reliable teacher-student relationship, under the premise that the marriage will not change, the teacher-student relationship is the best way to stop losses, a famous and talented teacher, absolutely in line with Guo Peng's needs.
Of course, the main point is because of the proximity to the water.