Chapter 197: Xingming Academy
After having dinner with Hu Yuanchun, when Chen Di returned to the Dadu Governor's Mansion, more than 100 young people dressed as scholars gathered outside the Dadu Governor's Mansion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Each of them had a copy of the Poems of the Metropolitan Governor in their hands.
"Let's meet the Governor! We're all here to do the service! One of the leading young students pleaded bitterly to the gatekeepers.
"Yes, I'm from Sichuan, he's from Huguang, and he's from Henan. It's all trekking through mountains and rivers, just asking to see the governor. Just ask for a chance to serve the court! One of the students said.
Chen Di didn't expect his "Dadu Governor Poetry Collection" to circulate so quickly. In just one month, so many young talents have come to serve themselves.
Chen Di said loudly: "Everyone, I am the Metropolitan Governor Chen Di!" Your heart to serve the country is really admirable! Those who have come will stay, and I will arrange for you to live in Beijing first. ā
"Meet the Grand Duke!" The young students fell to their knees in unison.
"Excuse me! Daming has just suffered two military disasters, and it can be said that there are all kinds of ruins waiting to be rebuilt! Young talents like you are needed! Of course, I will not treat you badly! I promise you all to get fifty taels of silver a month. Chen Di promised.
One of the students said, "Governor, we didn't come to you for money. After reading the poetry collection of the Grand Duke, we learned that there was a Dadu Governor with great ambitions in the Ming Dynasty! We're just going north to serve! Governor, there are many more people like us who have come to serve you. It's just that I'm afraid that all of them will come to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and I'm afraid that I will be shocked by the Metropolitan Governor's driving, so I sent a few of us here as representatives. ā
Chen Di asked, "How many of you are there?" ā
The young student in the lead replied, "There are always four or five hundred!" ā
Chen Di was shocked again! He didn't expect his poetry collection to be so influential. It is no wonder that the two wild boar skin emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong, wanted to build a literary prison. Words can really motivate a large number of people to fight for a goal!
But it's a pity that Kangxi and Qianlong will not appear in this history! Chen Di has already planned it. The Flying Tigers have just expanded their army and need to sharpen themselves in actual combat. It is too early to fight Tatar, Warat, and Uliangha. He plans to pull the Flying Tiger Army to Nuer Gandusi, and take the ancestors of Kangxi and Qianlong to train first!
Four or five hundred young students came to the capital, how to arrange it? Arrange for them to be officials? Yan Song would not agree to a hundred of them. If you arrange for these people to be given official hats, won't you have to take off a batch of official hats of the strict party? The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty is very strict, and few of these young people should be from a high background. Yan Song would definitely refuse to admit these people on the grounds that they had no merit.
Besides, how many of the four or five hundred young students have real knowledge? How many fish are mixed up and indiscriminate? Chen Di himself didn't know.
Let them go home? Wouldn't that chill the hearts of the people in the world who have the ambition to serve the country?
Chen Di suddenly thought that Hu Yuanchun's old man was so talented, he couldn't let him be idle! It is better to set up a college so that these scholars can enter the college to study the knowledge that has been applied to the world. Hu Yuanchun will be the head of this academy!
Chen Di bought an entire row of houses on Gulou Street in the west of Shuntianfu. These houses will serve as the teaching houses of the college. As for the name of the academy, Chen Di named it "Xingming". Chen Di invited Hu Yuanchun to be the head of Xingming Academy.
Hu Yuanchun would not have imagined that in a few years, these students of Xingming Academy would enter various positions in the huge state apparatus of the Ming Dynasty. The students who graduated from Xingming Academy will be called "Xingming Party People" by the world.
Chen Di assigned several teachers to Xingming Academy. These teachers are heavyweights! Zhang Juzheng, the left waiter of the household department, and Long Zixing, the right waiter, taught them the tax system and economic lessons of the Ming Dynasty. Tang Shunzhi, the secretary of the military department, taught them the art of war. Zhejiang Governor Hu Zongxian has been in Beijing to report on his work in the past few days, and Chen Di plans to let him give a lecture on local government affairs to the students.
On the first day of classes at Xingming Academy, Chen Di naturally had to be present.
In the largest teaching hall of the academy, four or five hundred students stood with their hands down, waiting for Metropolitan Governor Chen Di to speak.
Chen Di cleared his throat and said, "I want to ask you, who knows what the Three Principles and Five Constants are?" ā
All the students are people who have read poetry and books, who can not know the three outlines and five constants?
A student preemptively said: "The governor of the capital, the three outlines are the monarch as the minister, the father as the son, the husband as the wife, and the five constants are benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith!" ā
Chen Di nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, then tell me, what do these three outlines mean?" ā
The student replied, "The king is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the wife, which means that the minister must be absolutely subordinate to the monarch, the son must be absolutely subordinate to the father, and the woman must be absolutely subordinate to the husband." Naturally, these three outlines have another meaning: when the monarch is to set an example for the ministers. A father should set an example for his son. A husband should set an example for his wife. ā
Chen Di said: "If you can't set an example as a husband. For example, a husband who is lazy and lazy, eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and loses all kinds of property in the family, and loses his wife to others in the casino. According to Sangang, does a wife still have to obey her husband and willingly follow other men? ā
The student replied, "According to the three outlines, it seems that the wife should be like this. ā
Chen Di said: "If a father can't set an example, for example, this father is an alcoholic, because he drank too much and became drunk, he wanted to castrate his son." According to Sangang, is it true that a son must also obey his father, and he can't resist, so he can only let his drunkard father cut off his own life? ā
"Well... The student was speechless for a moment.
Chen Di said that the two paragraphs of the gambler's husband and the alcoholic father's words are just foreshadowing. Below, he began to show his knife!
Chen Di said loudly: "If the monarch can't set an example, for example, this monarch is a faint monarch. Regard the wealth of the world as your own wealth, and regard the names of the people of the world as grass mustard. Because of his greed for women, he wants to include all the married and unmarried beauties in the world in the palace. According to the Sangang Wuchang, when a courtier is absolutely obedient, send his wife and children to the palace ** have fun? ā
The students were speechless. Hu Yuanchun was shocked in his heart, Chen Di, this kid, said that he didn't want to usurp power! What gambler husband, alcoholic father? The point of what he said is actually in the back! Next, this guy should say that the faint king should be overthrown, right? This is Chi Guoguo's wolf ambition, and he is starting from Confucian theories to find a reason for his usurpation!
A student in his thirties retorted to Chen Di: "Metropolitan Governor, you have made a distorted interpretation of the Three Platforms and Five Constants!" ā
Chen Di asked: "I wish Mr. Wen a high view!" ā