Chapter 14: The "May Fourth Youth" of the Western Han Dynasty
According to the record of "the university is in the suburbs" in the Book of Rites, Taixue is not in Chang'an City, but in the suburbs, which is the biggest difference from the fact that most colleges and universities in later generations are located in urban areas with convenient transportation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Along Zhangtai Street all the way to the south, out of Anmen and then southeast to walk seven miles of road, is the Western Han Dynasty only institution of higher learning and cadre training institution Taixue.
In the 150 years since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Taixue, it has grown from 50 doctoral disciples to 3,000 today.
Of course, as the number of people increases, the scale of Taixue also increases.
At the beginning of its establishment, if you want to enter Taixue, you must be over 18 years old, in addition to good literature, respect for the elders, political and religious affairs, follow the township, and go in and out, the appearance must also be handsome.
Of course, it doesn't mean that you can enter Taixue if you meet these two items, and the general doctoral disciples are either too often selected by the county and county Daoyi, of course, if you think you are very good, you can also pass the exam to enter Taixue.
However, only the doctoral disciples selected by Taichang are formal students, and they enjoy the full scholarship issued by the imperial court, which is equivalent to the full scholarship of later generations, and the cost of admission by other channels can only be self-sufficient, but Taixue allows work-study.
After Wang Mang's operation, coupled with the support of the Queen Mother behind him, Wang Shu and the other three all became official students.
Entering Taixue, as long as you study for a year, you can take the graduation exam if you think you have read through it, the test questions are divided into A, B, C, etc. according to the difficulty, anyone can choose the difficulty and then draw lots to answer the questions.
The most important thing is that if you don't take the exam, no one will say you, and if you fail the exam, you can take the make-up exam at the time, so if you can enter Taixue to study, it is considered a national reserve cadre, then the official students in Taixue can be regarded as holding a golden job.
Facing the gift package sent by Wang Mang, Wei Zheng and Chen Yu were very excited.
There is happiness and depression, and Wang Shu's face is now the same as Changbai Mountain.
Originally, I thought that it would be good to have a long experience, and Taixue also built a house for doctoral disciples to live, that is, they could live in separate rooms, live together with their families, or rent a house outside the school.
But the father demanded that the three of them must go home to live, which means that the three of them became day students.
Moreover, there are only six textbooks of Taixue, Yi, Shangshu, Poems, Rites, Spring and Autumn, and Music Classics.
The teachers of each textbook do not have the rank of professor, associate professor, or lecturer, but are all called doctors.
Don't look at the textbooks, there are only six thin books, but it is very likely that the doctor will not be able to finish one in three or five years.
The problem here is that what the wise men teach, what the students read, in addition to the scriptures, also has commentaries attached to the scriptures.
These commentaries constitute the so-called scriptures, which have been added to and supplemented by generations of commentators, and have become extremely cumbersome and complex, becoming a vast labyrinth.
Take Guan Ju at the beginning of the poem as an example, just to explain why Guan Ju is used to open and the meaning of the word "Guan Ju", the doctor in Taixue can speak more than 100,000 words.
In other words, just the word "Guan Ju" is enough for him to speak for one semester.
The same lecturer explained the four words "Guan Guan Ju Dove", and he had to sprinkle more than 30,000 words if he said less.
In Taixue, almost every wise man is the same, and it seems that it is not enough to show his ability without interpreting the scriptures in a cloudy and foggy manner.
As a result, it may be far-fetched, or made up, or forcefully argued, or chiseled into the air. Once you say it, it can be as many as more than a million words.
It is conceivable that if you hold such a textbook and learn it from time to time, wouldn't it become Kong Yiji who can only ponder how to write the word "fennel", and this is what Wang Shu is distressed about.
Especially when he saw all kinds of horses and carts at the gate of Taixue, Wang Shu immediately flashed in his mind a group of rich second generations and a group of nerds who could only whistle to little girls.
It's a real headache to think about going to be classmates with these people.
However, when the three of them entered Taixue, they saw a different scene.
I saw that they were either doing or standing, and their blood was boiling, and they had the posture of pointing out the country and the dung of the ten thousand households.
Looking at their clothes, you can see that they are all doctoral disciples, although they are mainly young people, but there are also uncle-level figures, and even white-haired old men can be seen among them.
However, looking at the things they discussed, they were simply full of ideals and did not avoid interests and disadvantages, and it is not too much to describe it as "what the attendants dare not say, and what they dare not attack when attacking Taiwan."
What is this condition? Wang was completely confused.
As a result, after inquiry, I learned that Taixue's doctoral disciple was engaged in a celebration of the success of rescuing Bao Xuan.
It turned out that last year, the official name had not been changed to Da Situ's prime minister Kong Guang, and one of his jobs was to inspect the cemetery of the first emperor at four o'clock, and in order to facilitate him, he actually approved his subordinates to drive on Chidao, that is, the emperor's special road.
As a result, he was met by Bao Xuan, the commander of the division who was in charge of supervising the Jingshi, and he asked his subordinates to stop the illegal acts of the prime minister's officials and confiscated the chariots and horses.
It stands to reason that Bao Xuan has already given face to the prime minister, after all, it was Kong Guang who approved the subordinates to do this, if it is really more serious, it is the prime minister Kong Guang who knows the law and violates the law first, and only confiscated the carriage and did nothing else.
But Kong Guang quit, thinking that Bao Xuan had offended his authority, and specially sent Zhongcheng Yushi to the Sili Captain's Mansion to search for Bao Xuan's officials, but Bao Xuan closed the gate and refused to allow Zhongcheng Yushi to enter and arrest people.
Then Kong Guang made a small report, and Liu Xin, the son of heaven, arrested Bao Xuan and sentenced him to death for the crime of "deceased courtesy, great disrespect, and injustice" without asking questions.
Who knew that this matter was known to Wang Xian, a doctoral disciple of Taixue, so he tore a piece of cloth and wrote the reason why Bao Xuan was arrested on it, and started the first student movement in the Western Han Dynasty.
Maybe it was because Kong Guang's image of a good old man had long been recognized, or maybe Taixue's study was too boring, so Wang Xian gathered nearly half of the doctoral disciples at once.
Nearly 1,500 doctoral disciples first blocked the road to the prime minister's court, forcing Kong Guang to enter the Weiyang Palace, and then these people went to the book, and finally Liu Xin saw the anger of the crowd, and he couldn't stop, so he had to order Bao Xuan to be exempted from the death penalty, and today Bao Xuan was released again, so the doctoral disciples of Taixue are celebrating the victory.
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