In the Guozi Prison, in the auditorium, the current Guozi Priest Jiu Sun was standing on the podium, making a speech on the opening of the school with excitement on his face. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info there are more than 100 people standing under the stage.

This morning, Jia Qing came to Guozijian very early. received his own number plate, took Wang Shun, and found his dormitory under the leadership of an early senior brother.

The dormitory arranged by Guozijian for the students is not bad, although it is not spacious enough, but it is a single room. There are two beds inside, one large and one small. The small one is for school attendants or scholars to sleep on.

Bringing Jia Qing to the dormitory, the senior brother was simply polite, saying that he had something to do to look for him at the registration office, and then left.

"Forget it, you go away, I'll do it myself."

Looking at Wang Shun's rough bed, Jia Qing said disgustedly.

So Jia Qing, who hadn't made the bed for almost five years, made the bed by himself, and after half an hour, Jia Qing gave up decisively. I used to look at the Yiluan shop so simply, but I couldn't make it look like it, so I had to barely be able to watch it.

After a brief look around, and after lunch, we gathered in the auditorium.

Similar to later generations, after the leaders of the college arrived, the student representative first went up to speak, it was a man in his twenties, named Liu Hong, with a Jiangnan accent, where he spoke the words "study hard and make progress every day".

Then Lin Zhongyi, the lecturer of class C, came to the stage to congratulate and welcome all the candidates who were admitted to Guozijian, and then Sun looked down on the stage to make a concluding speech.

“……

Okay, that's all I have to say. Next, I would like to invite the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, the world-famous Confucian Shoufang, to speak. ”

Lin Zhongyi's words immediately caused a sensation in the auditorium, and now it is not like in later generations, when a VIP arrives, the VIP will be introduced first, and everyone does not know that Fang Shou will come.

As Lin Zhongyi said, Fang Shou is the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, although his authority is not as good as the six books in Beijing, but he is also a well-known second-class master, and he is also a world-famous literary master.

I heard that Fang Shou used to be in Nanjing because he was old enough to be a secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, how could he be in the capital now?

Fang Shou, who was in his sixties, walked up to the stage slowly, stretched out his hand, and the audience suddenly fell silent.

Slowly withdrawing his hand, Fang Shou said:

"Just now Sun Saijiu said that I am a great Confucian in the world, to be honest, I don't like this title very much, in contrast, I prefer the title of scholar, and it should be placed in front of the book of the Ministry of Rites, it should be: Reader, Nanjing Ministry of Rites Shangshu Fang Shou."

Sun looked down and smiled bitterly below, this old man, or this temper has not changed.

"Why should I be called a reader? Because, I think the difference between me and most of the people is that, like the people here, I am a reader.

Therefore, what I want to talk to you today is the word reading. ”

The people below didn't dare to speak, giving Fang Shou enough respect.

"Reading is enough for pleasure, enough for Fu Cai, and enough for talent. Its pleasure is also most seen in solitude; Its Fu Cai is also the most seen in the high-minded talk; His long talent is also the most seen in the judgment of the world. Although a person who has practiced can deal with small matters separately or judge the details one by one, but looking at the overall planning and overall planning, it is the only one who is willing to learn and think deeply.

Reading enriches people, discussion makes people witty, and notes make people accurate. Therefore, reporters who do not write often must have a strong memory, those who do not discuss often must be born intelligent, and those who do not read often must deceive the world to be ignorant and knowledgeable.

Reading history makes people wise, poetry makes people beautiful, arithmetic makes people thorough, and scriptures make people reasonable. ”

At this time, Liu Hong, who was standing in the front row, raised his hand and said, "Master Fang, the student has a question!" ”

Fang Shou was obviously a keen scholar, and when he saw someone asking questions about his words, he was very happy and said, "Please speak." ”

"I heard Master Fang say that classics, poetry, and history are all beneficial, why are there only three courses in the college: classics, history, and arithmetic? Does it mean that poetry is of little use to us who read and should be discarded? ”

Sun in the audience knew that it was going to be bad when he heard it, and sure enough, Fang Shou listened to it and retorted: "Poetry makes people beautiful, how can it be useless?" How can you convince people if they don't understand poetry, make people look vulgar, and even if there are thousands of talents in it, they can't be declared?

As for the academy system, he, I had already proposed to let Guozi supervise this course, but some people just didn't listen, and I couldn't. ”

Speaking of which, what else don't you understand? Similar to later generations, the examination subjects determine the content of learning, anyway, the imperial examination does not test poetry, and most people are difficult to achieve in poetry, so, hehe, it will become a rule after a long time.

Judging from the current situation, it is difficult to add a poetry class to the academy even if it is sacrificial wine.

Seeing that Liu Hong still wanted to ask a question, Sun looked down and interjected: "Okay Liu Hong, Lord Fang's words haven't been finished yet, I'll talk about it later if there are any questions." ”

Of course, Liu Hong didn't dare to say anything more. Fang Shou looked at his old friend who was a sacrificial wine in the same year, and he didn't want to lose his face too much, and after laughing, he said: "Okay, just now I talked about the role of reading, and the next thing is, of course, since reading is useful, then how should books be read?"

However, these are the things that the gentlemen in the academy should talk about, and I will not say much about them here.

I only mention one aspect, that is: a reader must love books and cherish books in order to understand books!

I'd like to ask you how you think about books. As he spoke, his eyes scanned over the hundred or so students below.

The standing position of the students is based on the group, although Jia Qing is considered tall among his peers, a little taller than Jia Baoyu, but it is very conspicuous among the surrounding group of people who are more than twelve or thirteen.

Sure enough, Fang Shou's gaze immediately focused on Jia Qing and said, "I just want to find someone younger, then you can answer my question!" ”

Seeing that he instantly attracted the attention of the surroundings, Jia Qing was thinking, is this really a protagonist aura? However, he will not have stage fright or anything, after all, he has seen the bigger scenes a few times.

Quietly straightened up, and listened to Fang Shou: "Do you cherish books on weekdays?" ”

Uh~ Can there be a second answer to this question on this occasion? Jia Qing replied weakly: "Cherish~"

After receiving such a reply, Fang Shou also realized that he had asked a nonsense, and coughed lightly: "Then what do you think of the books you read?" ”

What do you think? It's hard to say, of course, it's a tool to enter the official career. But if he said this, he would probably be sprayed to death, he didn't want to finish the game so quickly, and in his brain teaser, he already thought of a very good reply. He replied, "Master Hui, the students believe that books are the ladder of human progress. ”

"What do you say? What is a book? ”

I don't know if it was because Jia Qing's voice was too small or because he was standing far away, Fang Shouyan asked again.

Clearing his throat, Jia Qing said loudly: "Students believe that books are the ladder of human progress!" ”

Now the whole room basically heard clearly. The entire auditorium seemed to be silent, because everyone was thinking about the meaning of Jia Qing's words!

Fang Shou is a person who loves books and cherishes books, of course, he understands the meaning of this sentence thoroughly, but if any official or even scholar says this sentence, although he thinks it makes sense, he may not be surprised. But the first time he heard this sentence came from the mouth of a child, he was very surprised.

After a pause, Fang Shou asked again, "What's your name, but what others said just now and what you heard?" ”

"Back to Master Fang, the student's name is Jia Qing. What he said just now was nonsense from the student, and if it is wrong, please correct it. ”

Of course, this sentence is not original to Jia Qing, but is translated from Gorky's famous saying. He couldn't remember what era Gorky was, but he wasn't afraid, even if there was such a person in the country north now, it wasn't the same language anyway, and he wasn't afraid that people would say that he was plagiarizing......

"He's Jia Qing?"

"It turns out that he is Jia Qing!"

……

Since most of the gentlemen in front of him had never seen Jia Qing, but many people had heard of him, as soon as he reported to his home, he immediately attracted some discussions.

Jia Qing? Fang Shou silently kept this name in his heart, nodded, and said to everyone: "What this classmate Jia said just now is very good, books are the ladder of human progress!" Because of the existence of books, the ideas of generations of sages can be preserved intact and become the spiritual food of our future generations.

Well, I'm going to talk about this today, and I will come to the academy to give lectures to you when I have the opportunity in the future. ”

As he spoke, he walked down the altar. Jia Qing raised his hand and just wanted to applaud, but found that no one had this action, so he paused his hand and put it down.

Only then did he remember that in ancient times, there was no habit of applauding together to welcome and send off, and only applauded when expressing joy. For example: forehead hand celebration, clapping hand call fast, etc.

After Fang Shou continued, no one finally came to the stage to speak again. After that, he was taken by the sacrificial wine to worship in front of the statue of Confucius, indicating that he had entered the Confucian sect from then on. This is the last event of the day, and the official class starts tomorrow.

So after they dispersed, Jia Qing went back to his dormitory and stood for a day, he really felt very tired.