36. Official learning
The most effective way to spread civility is through schools for the masses.
Therefore, Li Qi has been planning to open a government-run academy for ordinary people.
In China, academies already appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but the academies in the Tang Dynasty were established by the government to collect, proofread and organize books. It was not until the Song Dynasty that he began to deliberately suppress the wealthy families of the scholar clan, and it was not until Fan Zhongyan took charge of the Nandu Mansion School that the academy for the common people really began to flourish as an educational institution. Mr. Hengqu's "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations." It is a good expression of the ambitions and feelings of the great Confucians of the Song Dynasty.
In his previous life, Li Qi always insisted that the greatest achievement of the Qingli New Deal was to promote government-run schools throughout the country and popularize education.
The academy in Jinyang is not called a academy, but an institution under the Jinyang Palace, which is called Hongwenkan. Taiyuan Mansion sentenced Lu Bi and Lu Zihui to concurrently serve the order of the Hongwen Museum of Jinyang Palace.
The regulations of the Jinyang Imperial Palace in the Tang Dynasty were modeled after the Daming Palace in Chang'an, with the Prince's Mansion to the east of the palace and the Hongwen Hall to the west of the palace.
After Li Keyong was named the queen of Jin, he occupied the original prince's mansion in the east of Jinyang Palace and regarded it as his own Jin palace. And the clan school that educates their own children is opened in the Hongwen Hall in the west of Jinyang Palace. Probably because there are more than 100,000 books in the Hongwen Museum, as well as some bachelors, professors, school scholars, school scholars, Lingshi, classics and other officials left in the former Tang Dynasty, which are rich in knowledge and are just used to facilitate teaching.
Li Qi studied in the clan school in this Hongwen Hall during his childhood and adolescence.
The Li clan school is located in a two-hall courtyard on the east side of the Hongwen Museum, which was originally a place for the Tang Dynasty clan to teach. The director of Hongwen, Shi, professors, officials, and calligraphers worked in two courtyards on the north side of the school.
Lu Bi and Lu Zihuan, a bachelor of Hongwen Pavilion, were born in a famous family in Hedong, and were a jinshi in the former Tang Tianfu period. During the reign of Zhaozong, he was the Taiyuan Hexi Order, and was used by Li Ke, the king of Jin, and was left as the judge of Jinyang, and stayed in Jinyang with Zhang Chengye, the supervisor of Hedong.
Lu Bi, who is also the order of the Hongwen Museum, is considered to be half of Li Qi's teacher, and the old gentleman sent Li Qi to Luoyang, and was beaten by Li Siyuan for no reason, and he was in a hurry, and he returned to Jinyang and couldn't afford to be sick, and he was not completely cured until winter.
Li Qi returned to Jinyang from Gujiaocheng and went directly to Hongwen Hall to find Lu Bi.
Lu Bi has an official office in the Taiyuan Mansion, but he works in the Hongwen Pavilion every day, after all, he is the hall order, and he is the most important person to speak in the Hongwen Pavilion.
Of course, Li Qi didn't want to open the Jinyang Academy in preparation to the Hongwen Museum, the students he wanted to train should be both workers and farmers, part-time work and study, and also learn archery, horse riding and archery, and be able to write and martial arts, so naturally he couldn't just hide in the library every day to endorse books.
The address he first chose was the Tang Ming Royal Manor in Yangqu County, but it was still more than 40 miles away from Jinyang City, and the transportation was inconvenient. As the crown prince, Li Qi still needs to stay in Jinyang most of the time to deal with official business, so the address of Jinyang Academy was finally determined on the side of Yuquan at the foot of Longshou Mountain in Beiyuan.
He came to Lu Zihui to ask this old gentleman for a few gentlemen to teach.
A person's ability is limited after all, and spreading the knowledge of later generations in this world, and then carrying it forward is the most important thing to do as a traverser. As for power, wealth, and so on, they are just things outside of the body.
Lu Bi still has some of the Confucian scholarly spirit of the past, but he is not a person who particularly insists on ethics, and as a bureaucrat, he still has some obvious shortcomings.
The main thing is that it is not black enough.
Li Qi told Lu Bi about his idea of opening a academy, and the old guy was suddenly moved to tears: God has finally opened his eyes! At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the martial arts were in power, and this good Tang Dynasty was tossed by these demons who knew how to fight and kill all day long. As a family that has been known for its courage since the Tang Dynasty and fought the world on horseback, the two generations of Jin kings Li Keyong and Li Cunqiao also valued martial arts and light literature, and now they are finally a prince who is sensible and attaches importance to literati!
After listening to Li Qi's ideas and requirements, Lu Bi hurriedly agreed. And it seems that he is afraid that Li Qi will change his hexagram, so he led eight Hongwenguan school books and compilation gentlemen to report to the Jin Wangfu in the afternoon, and said that he can also serve as the superintendent of Jinyang Mansion in preparation, and if necessary, he can even resign from the official position of Taiyuan Mansion General Judge.
Li Qi didn't expect that the old comrades would be so concerned about running a school, so he led everyone out of Daxiamen and came to visit the address he chose at the foot of Longshou Mountain in Beiyuan.
The address of the school was originally a refuge in the royal garden of Beiyuan, which was being renovated intensively, and although in autumn and winter, the superintendent was still repairing and decorating the house according to Li Qi's request. It is mainly to build a fire wall, in Jinyang, the main heating in winter is to use a stove made of soil blocks and a fire wall, a fire kang, and less charcoal basins are used.
The school recruits students to attend classes, and Li Qi can't let them freeze.
The people regard food as their heaven, and the university cannot only learn Confucian knowledge, but mainly learn production techniques such as workshops and agriculture. The knowledge of physics and biology is now called Gewu, of course, it is best to be able to recruit a few more gentlemen who know how to heal, but it is really not good, Li Qi is ready to let the medical officers of the Jin Wangfu come to the academy to fill up.
Jinyang schools must be based on the study of hundreds of crafts, not Confucianism.
In the Han Dynasty, in order to cater to the emperor, Dong Zhongshu proposed to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to "depose the hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone", and was accepted by the emperor, it has changed from a study to a political power. The problem is that Confucianism's unrealistic and empty thinking has caused the domestic scholars to advocate power and scheming while despising production, and the level of social science and technology and productivity in the whole of China has come to a standstill.
The Chinese people were able to make steel swords in the pre-Qin period, when most of the peoples in the world had not even seen bronze. However, in the Tang Dynasty, the Wuzi steel imported from the Western Regions had become the best steel for building weapons in China. The stagnation of technology has flattened the gap between the already strong grassland peoples and the farming peoples of the Central Plains in terms of the level of weapons and equipment, which is also a major reason for the continuous external troubles of the Chinese nation.
It is the world outlook that attaches importance to the development of production technology that is the main reason for the continuous progress of a nation......
Two walls of fire were erected in the middle of a large house, and three classrooms were divided, and in some rooms there were fires in freshly built tandoors, and in the coals were burning in the furnaces, and soot was coming out of the roof through the chimneys installed on the other side of the fire walls. The wall of fire that had not yet dried was steaming, but Lu Bi was very satisfied with such conditions.
"Do you want to get some white ash and repaint the house and fire wall, this school has to be a little new when it opens." He reached out and touched the wall of fire, felt the temperature, and then said to Li Qi.
"That's not a difficult thing, but it's still a bit far from the city, and most of the time you gentlemen need to live in the school, and I'll equip this place with two carriages, so it's easier for anyone to go home if they have something to do." Li Qi said with a smile that when the school is opened, it is necessary to adopt a boarding system, which is also a means to cultivate the collective spirit of students......