Chapter 161: The First Lesson of the Academy

Doubts are doubts, and life is not just because of doubts.

Life has to go on, and if Yang Hao wants to participate in the ranks of dominating the world, he must whip himself at all times and not relax for a moment.

The army has been sent out, and they are not worried about the army that goes out to arrest people, with the quality and weapons and equipment of the soldiers of Daqi now, those small tribes will not be able to resist at all,

As soon as the army returned, a large number of laborers could be brought back, and the construction of canals and dikes could continue.

Moreover, the tribes he picked were all far away from them, even if Daqi's actions of arresting people everywhere alarmed those big clans, he didn't believe that after the defeat of Great Xia, those people would start a provocation lightly.

As long as he waits for this year's 10,000 acres of fertile land to be harvested and the barn is full, he will be on defense and will not be afraid of any invading enemy.

The matter of farming is managed by trained agricultural officials, and Yang Hao does not worry about it.

These things only need to be carried out according to the established plan, and there is no technical content.

What Yang Hao has to do now is to start preparing for the construction of the school.

Cultivating talents has been brewing in Yang Hao's heart for a long time, and now Daqi has a rare period of stability, so if this matter is not put on the agenda at this time, and when it will be busy in the future, I don't know when it will be postponed.

And it's not a way for the little kids who are running around the city to wander around like sheep.

In early April, Yang Hao transformed an idle courtyard in Chang'an City into a school.

And named it, Daqi Junior School.

And he, Yang Hao, also served as the first principal of this school.

And he, Yang Hao, as the leader of Great Qi, could not surrender his identity to teach those annoying children, and all he wanted to teach were officials of Great Qi.

There are few people in Daqi, and there is no need for so many officials, and most of the people who have been trained will become the gentlemen of this school.

While learning, teaching at the same time, this is the teaching model that Yang Hao set for this school.

The renovation of the school progressed quickly, and with the introduction of new tools, many carpenters were born among the craftsmen.

Since the most indispensable thing in this era was wood, sandboxes for writing, and small stools for sitting, they were made in batches in a few days.

Only a few days later, the civil officials of Daqi were informed that they had to return to Chang'an City every afternoon, and Yang Hao would teach them personally.

For civil officials, this can be said to be a blessing from heaven.

They have now mastered simple writing and calculation methods from Yin and Shaoyan, and they have tasted the benefits of knowledge, and they have some incomparable desire for deeper knowledge.

There used to be only a small amount of time to ask Shaoyan and Yin for knowledge.

But this time, Yang Hao actually taught them in person for the first time, which made them feel flattered.

On the first day of class, when Yang Hao arrived at the school, he found that all the civil officials of Daqi had consciously found their positions according to the size of their official positions.

Yang Hao is very satisfied with this, this is the habit of living in an orderly environment for a long time and subconsciously developing.

Seeing Yang Hao's arrival, all the civil officials stood up and saluted Yang Hao, their eyes full of longing.

Yang Hao motioned for everyone to sit down, walked to the podium built in the shape of the school of later generations, looked at the officials and said, "Everyone! Today is the first day of the establishment of the Daqi Junior Academy, and you are the pillars of our Daqi, and I hope that this institution will be proud of you in the future. ”

Everyone sat on a small stool and looked at Yang Hao with a fanatical expression.

"You may wonder why I gave this place that name.

"The so-called academy is a place of knowledge, a place of great sacredness, and in my heart, mastering knowledge and exploring the mysteries of this world is the closest means for us mortals to reach the gods.

Many of you have learned the words and arithmetic that you have seen, and these are the first steps in our understanding of the world.

You may have heard or seen that during times of drought, sorcerers cast spells to pray for rain, and some tribes even slaughtered slaves to sacrifice to the rain god.

Do you think they're doing the right thing or not?

Seeing Yang Hao's sharp eyes staring at him, the officials lowered their heads in fear.

They don't know what Yang Hao is asking for, drought must be a punishment from the gods, is it still wrong to pray for rain, as for killing those slaves, they are also a little skeptical about this way of sacrifice under Yang Hao's true god's words, but it is difficult to change their inherent cognition in a short period of time.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Yang Hao sneered and said, "I can tell you clearly that this kind of behavior is farting."

Everyone looked at Yang Hao in shock.

"The so-called prayer for rain means that in the ancient period of ignorance, our ancestors, in times of drought, maybe a person, maybe a certain tribe.

When it was about to rain, he happened to bow down to the heavens, or happened to kill a few slaves.

When they finish these things, it rains, and even if they don't do these things, it will rain.

However, our imaginative ancestors associated prostrations with the slaughter of slaves, believing that these actions appeased the wrath of the gods.

Passed down from generation to generation, there is a tradition of killing and sacrificing, which is really stupid.

Yang Hao used this example to describe the evolution of sacrifice.

This theory that subverts cognition has made everyone panic.

One is the supreme leader of the tribe, a great god, and the officials don't know for a while whether to choose to believe in tradition or choose to believe Yang Hao's words.

After everyone panicked for a while, an official nervously asked, "Chief, if what you said is true, then what is the use of our sacrifice, isn't it the same as those people?" ”

Yang Hao said with a smile: "The so-called sacrifice is to thank the gods for creating us, creating all things in the world, and making us have a sense of awe for this heaven and earth."

However, the god of creation, the god of the sun, the god of the moon, the god of wind, and the god of rain, who are incomparably noble, will not look at us because of our small human sacrifices.

It's like how you worship, the sun will still rise in the east and set in the west, it will not be shifted by the will of man, and the god of nature is merciless.

I admire our ancestors more than such high gods, and it was they who went through hardships from the age of ignorance and barbarism so that we no longer feared wild beasts and did not have to drink blood.

Those are the beings we should sacrifice, and perhaps those sages will become new gods and bless all beings in this world in heaven.

Just like those warriors who died in battle, their spiritual positions will be worshiped by our great qi every year.

We are grateful for their dedication to the tribe, which means that they are still alive in our hearts even when they die, and will always be remembered by the living.

This is the true meaning of sacrifice.