Chapter 70: Reading and Literacy

In this era when both the emperor and the nobles under him, as long as they see good things, they will stuff them into their homes, Liu Che can take out all the royal books and give them to Taixue first, which is commendable, even if all of this is conditional.

"Ah Yuan, don't think that this is Your Majesty's face for your face, it was all those Confucians who wrote all day long, which caused Your Majesty to make this decision."

To tell the truth, Qin Shi Huang's burning of books and pit Confucianism was actually the same behavior as Liu Che's establishment of Confucian orthodoxy.

Both dynasties are desperate not to let the resonance of a hundred schools of thought reappear, unified ideas help to consolidate the rule, if the idea of a hundred flowers bloom, the most uncomfortable must be the ruler.

After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars gained time to breathe and develop, and many schools of inheritance changed from oral to real writing on bamboo slips at this time.

It seems that everyone is trying to restore the glory of Confucianism, which was dying decades ago.

Now it seems that they have indeed done it.

"I don't care whose face it is, if these books can be placed in Taixue, it will play a great role."

When he entered the Zhuo Mansion at the beginning of that year, Zhuo Wenjun only asked Zhang Yuan to be a coder, and it was difficult for a wealthy family like the Zhuo family to obtain books to read, let alone those poor scholars.

The key to Tianlu Pavilion is still in Chu Da's hands, but it will be handed over to Zhang Yuan in a while.

Chu Da stepped forward to open the door, and then let Zhang Yuan and a few people go in to have a look.

Just by reading a little, Zhang Yuan can feel the heaviness in these books.

The scope of the royal collection is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Not only the classics of Confucianism, but also the hundreds of schools of thought have basically dabbled in it, astronomy, arithmetic, agriculture, pharmacy, and even the method of cultivating immortals and refining pills by Fang Shi can also be found in it.

In response to these classics, Zhang Yuan's first decision was to put the books of the scholars in the box and seal them first.

Fangshi's books are certainly useful, but most of them can be detours.

From Liu Bang to Liu Che, Zhang Yuan can almost certainly say that except for Liu Bang, the rest of the Han Dynasty emperors are basically like Qin Shi Huang, dreaming of ascending to immortal in the Spring and Autumn Period, hoping to prolong their lives for 10,000 years.

If you really want to be read by Taixue students in these books, and then use those tricks to fool people to fool Liu Che, it will definitely be a very big blow to Taixue.

"Brother Yuan, you also want to learn the art of Fangshi?"

Chu Da asked Zhang Yuan very suspiciously, but Zhang Yuan just shook his head in denial.

"The things written in these books will shake people's hearts, and Taixue students should not see these kinds of books here."

Chu Da didn't answer again, it was obvious that he also believed in ghosts and gods.

Zhang Yuan's existence is basically wonderful, in fact, if I can determine a few gods in advance, instead of worshipping all gods like now, the effect will be much better.

It's just that the Taoist set is not yet mature, and the era when Lao Tzu and others survived is still too close to now.

"Let's go, the first thing to do after Taixue opens is to divide the books here into categories.

If you want to study the calendar and stars, you can go to a special layer, and if you want to study the Confucian classics, you don't have to run around. ”

"That's very good."

Out of Tianlu Pavilion, Chu Da took Zhang Yuan to the front hall of Taixue.

This is the main teaching place for the doctors of the Pentateuch, and it is used to answer questions.

Now it is impossible for these doctors to be like the teachers of later generations, giving lectures and solving students' doubts.

If you want to worship under the Doctor of the Pentateuch, the first thing you can confirm is that you have to know how to read.

Then if you want to worship under Hu Wusheng, you have to read "Spring and Autumn" first, just reading it must not understand what it means, then you have to ask Hu Wusheng, and Hu Wusheng will use their Ram faction's understanding of "Spring and Autumn" to solve students' doubts.

So, doctors don't have a job of lecturing.

In fact, at this time, it seems that Mengxue is particularly important, and Zhang Yuan has not only wasted his time in the past six months, but also learned many things in this regard.

The Han Dynasty has Mongolian classics, but there is no one to teach them.

If you know 100 words, you can be a scholar, and the Mengxue classic "Cangjie Chapter" has a total of about 3,300 words, and if you remove the repeated words, there should be more than 2,000 words.

It is very good for someone who knows more than 2,000 words, at least he can be a small official in an important government department, and his salary must be higher than that of a teacher.

Therefore, only very wealthy families and those powerful families can invite teachers of Mongolian learning, and it is still very difficult to popularize Mongolian learning in the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Yuan also thought that after the students of Taixue completed their studies, they could return to their respective hometowns to serve as teachers of Mengxue, but he only thought about it and quickly rejected this idea.

Most of the people who come to Taixue are to be officials, and a small part of them are to study knowledge, even if you are too academic, you can't make people give up other people's ideals.

Those great Confucians who want to teach their students wholeheartedly can't look down on Mengxue, so it is estimated that it is more difficult for them to teach children to read and write than to let them cut off their beards.

The reason why education in ancient times was reduced to a tool for the nobles was, to put it bluntly, that the poor could not afford to go to school and could not afford to hire a gentleman.

The story of those poor scholars who finally became prime ministers, Zhang Yuan believed.

But people's understanding is always different, and everyone always thinks that they are poor to death, and they can't eat or wear clothes.

In Zhang Yuan's journey over the years, the Hanmen is a class between the middle class and the family.

That is to say, most of the poor families are already in decline, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and no matter how poor the poor scholar is, he is hundreds or even thousands of times richer than ordinary people.

In this environment, it is very difficult to make books available to everyone in the world.

The most important thing is that our majesty does not want too many people to be literate, and the officials below do not want too many people to be literate.

As long as more than 95 percent of the people who know how to read and write, then the law will always be interpreted by those in power.

The common people pointed to the law, which they did not know a word, and asked the officials what they had committed.

If the official points to one article casually, he can say that you have committed this crime.

The people asked again, "Why did I sin?"

Those who are in power can say, "The law of the Han Dynasty says that you have sinned."

The common people continued to ask, but it would not speak of the law.

The ruler can continue to say, it's not that the law can't speak, it's that you don't have eyes.

The common people feel that they have been wronged to the extreme, and I have long eyes.

The official smiled and said, Isn't it the same as a blind man who doesn't know a word?