Chapter 31: Taixue with only two students

Sima Shao, the current emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, has just completed three years on the throne, at the age of twenty-six, and has just made a bold move to use the Liumin Shuai to quell the rebellion of Wang Dun, the general of the Langya Wang clan, which is the period of strong will. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The use of the Liumin Shuai was a measure to weaken the power of the family, and the division of the four states of Jingxiang became a tight defense line for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to defend against the Hu people on the Yangtze River.

After Sima Shao pacified the Wangdun Rebellion, he was preparing to start using the local scholars in Jiangdong as officials this year to alleviate the contradictions between the northern scholars and the southern scholars.

Now Sima Shao took the four-year-old prince Sima Yan to the Tai Academy at the foot of Jilong Mountain, and Director Wang and Xie An were waiting here.

Jilong Mountain is in the north of Jiankang City, very close to the palace city, adjacent to Xuanwu Lake, and is also the remnant vein of the Purple Mountain.

After all, it is beneficial for metaphysics to talk about self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and it is not practical to govern a country that has fled to Jiangzuo.

Governing the country requires economic development so that the people can be fed, clothed and comfortable, but now a large number of displaced people are still starving.

Governing the country also requires the development of the military to prevent internal strife and invasion by foreign enemies.

These are all things that metaphysics cannot do alone, so it is necessary to build Taixue and cultivate talents.

Thinking back to 50 years ago, Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty also set up Guozixue, which stood side by side with Taixue. Taixue recruits children from poor families, while Guozixue is limited to the children of nobles above the fifth rank official. However, because of the prevalence of Xuanfeng, the Western Jin Dynasty has not yet died, and Guozixue and Taixue have fallen together.

Without students, the school will naturally not be able to open.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty Taixue in Jilong Mountain is also so desolate.

Although it is said that since Wang Dao mentioned it, the country is poor and weak, and it is impossible to make ends meet, and this Taixue is also overgrown with weeds and very barren.

The huge Taixue, backed by the Purple Mountain, is the Xuanwu Lake in the northwest, the Yanque Lake in the southeast, and a road can lead to the north gate of the palace city and the north market.

It is a place that adapts to becoming a university town. Xie An thought.

It is far away from the main city, from Wuyi Lane unless you ride a fast horse, it will still take a while, but it is not remote, if you really build Taixue, it is very suitable to live here to study quietly.

It's a pity, at present, it seems that there are only two Taixue students, him and the little prince.

The crown prince was only crowned in the Spring Festival this year, and the prince also has a younger brother, who is one year younger than him, and he was born to Queen Yu.

So Empress Yu's elder brother, the protector general Yu Liang, also came.

It was Yu Liang, who was thirty-six years old and Uncle Mei, who not only served as the secretary of the first emperor, but also served as a waiter in the East Palace, and the East Palace at that time was naturally his brother-in-law Sima Shao.

However, Sima Shao was not crowned the crown prince at that time, and the relationship between the two was very good, and it could be regarded as a friend of cloth.

This attendant is much higher than Xie An's attendant. The speaker is a teacher, so the current emperor is both Yu Liang's brother-in-law and his student.

Now Xie An has been elected as the prince's attendant, playmate, and scholar, and this news made Xie's father burn incense in the Xie family ancestral hall for one night.

There are not many buildings in the Taixue Garden, and the grass is overgrown, it is really a large piece of good land that no one has cultivated, Xie An and the prince's ox cart followed behind Sima Shao, Yu Liang and Wang Dao ox cart, he sat on the car, looking at this wasteland and using his brain.

It seems that he will have to study here with the little prince in the future.

But this is too barren, such a large piece of land is not planted with rice, tea, and opened some shops, restaurants, and snack streets, what a waste.

was in a reverie, and the little prince, who was sitting in a precarious position on the side, suddenly reached out and tugged at the corner of his sleeve.

The little prince Sima is delicate, cute, smart and clever, especially with a pair of eyes that reveal precocious cleverness. Sima Yan whispered to him: "I got up too early and didn't eat enough, does Xiao Anlang want to eat?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and wrapped it in pastries, and Sima Yan secretly ate a piece.

Xie An waved his hand, "Your Highness just call me Ahri or Ahn." ”

"Ahri, then you call me Ah Yan, my father and uncle both say that you are a little prodigy, let me learn from you, and I must not put the prince on the shelf with you." Sima Yan is so well-behaved that people want to touch their heads, "Ahri, what have you learned in calligraphy?" ”

Xie An also replied sincerely: "When I held the pen, my eldest brother taught me Lishu, and the most practiced was "Cao Quanbei", and then I began to learn Mr. Zhong Xuan's real book and Mr. Zhang Zhi's cursive, but the cursive has not yet stepped into the doorway. ”

"It turns out that Ahri is a double book and learns, I am still in Linli Shu Han Monument, my uncle taught me to get started, and Uncle Yi also carefully guided, but unfortunately they are too busy, so my father asked you to be my companion."

The eldest uncle in Sima Yan's mouth is Yu Liang, and Uncle Yi is Yu Liang's fifth brother, who has just turned 20 this year, the fourth grade of the ink soul list, good at official calligraphy and cursive script, and is the leader of the younger generation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The two whispered again, and after a while, the shrill voice of an old eunuch outside the ox cart came, "Your Highness, Xie Xiaolang, please get off the car." ”

Is it finally here?

After Xie An got out of the car, he looked at the towering nine-story Qingyun Pagoda in the barren grass in front of him, and heard the sound of countless copper bells on the body of the tower being blown by the wind, and suddenly felt calm and cool.

Qingyun Pagoda is a place to collect calligraphy and ink works on the ink soul list. The body of the tower is guarded by Xuanqi, and the body of the tower is a stone transported from Kunlun Mountain, and it is rumored that the Qin and Han dynasties were built by a cultivator who led the disciples.

But the Qin and Han dynasties were all in Chang'an and Luoyang, and Jiankang at that time was called Moling, which was still a small county and belonged to Huiji County.

During the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang praised the topography of Moling to Sun Quan, and said: Zhongshan Longpan, stone tiger, this emperor's house. After that, Sun Wu built the capital in Moling, changed to Jianye, and did not change to Jiankang until the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, it seems that there were prophets who foresaw the king's spirit hundreds of years after Jiankang and built Qingyun Pagoda here.

Nowadays, Qingyun Pagoda is not only a place to store calligraphy and ink works, but also a library of the royal family, and a place for Taishi Ling to observe the heavens. Tai Shi Ling is the Si Tianjian and Qin Tianjian of later generations, in charge of the calendar and celestial phenomena.

Xie An naturally knew that this was a good place, the Zhongshan Mountain on which the Qingyun Pagoda was backed was later called the Purple Mountain because of the purple rocks on the mountain under the sun.

A thousand years later, the Purple Mountain Observatory was built on the mountainside, but now when you look down the mountain, you can only see lush forests and protruding rocks, and the deep mountains are reckless and undeveloped.

Everyone climbed the tower, Xie An and Sima Yan walked slowly on short legs, and when they came to the top of the tower, the emperor and Wang Dao had already talked for a while.

Although there was a gap between the monarchs and ministers, when it came to the ambition of building Taixue and reconciling the contradictions between the northern and southern scholars, Emperor Sima Shao still respected Wang Dao's opinion very much, and even Yu Liang did not dare to interject.

It can be seen from this that Director Wang's prestige and threat are not something that he can avoid by hiding at home to retreat and recuperate, nor is it that his cousin Wang Dun is in turmoil, and he can be easily implicated and convicted.

Sima Shao chatted with Wang Dao again, and saw a middle-aged minister arrive, and after the introduction, Xie An knew that this person was Bian Wangzhi, the secretary of the military department and the leading general.

That is the future teaching teacher of Xie An and the little prince.

Bian Wangzhi's cursive script ranks third on the ink soul list, his words are like people, iron bones, and etiquette are correct, he is a strict teacher who is both civil and military.

Xie An was relieved.

After worshipping the teacher, Bian Wangzhi suddenly said: "Xiao Anlang's poems are good, childish and interesting, for the teacher just came out of the Tibetan Pavilion, and I saw that your picture of the goose and water is also good, and it is really a little prodigy of Jiankang." ”

Jiankang's little prodigy is Xie An's reputation outside recently, and it is the first time he has heard it, Xie at home has not exempted him from pride, and the rumors and praises outside will not let him know.

"The teacher praised it falsely." Xie An saw that his painting was praised, and accepted the praise with peace of mind.

However, it really verified Xie Shang's original complaint, becoming famous at a young age must be troublesome, because people like to let you write poems.

At this moment, Director Wang suddenly took over the conversation, "Xie Xiaomei climbed the Qingyun Tower, why don't you make a poem?" ”

Bian Wang's heart comprehended and echoed: "I don't know if the prince has a poem? ”

The crown prince Sima Yan replied ashamedly: "Yan'er only feels that she has climbed high and looked far away, and her mood is open, so she only has one sentence. ”

Emperor Sima Shao was very happy and asked, "Yan'er speak quickly." ”

Sima Yan pondered for a moment and said, "Qingyun Pagoda looks at the rivers and mountains. ”

Then the little prince turned his face to Xie An, "Why don't you take the next sentence." ”

Xie An nodded, this sentence is simple, he doesn't need to copy the ancients, he can make up a sentence, "Watch the sea on the bank of the Qinhuai River."

After that, he was naturally praised by the adults, of course, mainly to praise the prince.

There is nothing to visit in Tai Academy, except for Qingyun Tower, a few houses, which are full of grass and trees, it is the height of summer, if Xie An can recognize wild vegetables, I am afraid he can pick a basket.

There are rows of orchids planted under the corridor of the academy house, all of which were found by the gardeners in the courtyard from the depths of the Purple Mountain, and they are obviously idle.

The gardener's surname is Du, and he came out of the palace, and he can endure loneliness at a young age.

The emperor guided them to appreciate the orchid grass, and then went to the library of the academy to take a look, and finally everyone went home.

Since then, Xie An and the prince have become the only two students of Tai Academy, and now the people's livelihood is undecided, and the emperor and Wang Dao think that it is not suitable to build Taixue, to put it bluntly, there is no money.

In the future, Xie An will enter the East Palace every three days to study with the prince, and he will live in the Tai Academy for seven consecutive days every month, remembering the bittersweet memories.

And so it was settled.

The Xie family is overjoyed, although the Jiao family is jealous, but there is nothing to be done, after all, this is a great joy, if Xie An is friendly with the prince, it will be of great help to the future of the Xie family in the future.

Xie An vaguely remembered that Ah Yan was a young emperor in history, if he hadn't intervened in history, then now the ambitious emperor Sima Shao who wanted to make the Eastern Jin Dynasty stronger would be about to die.

If Sima Shao dies and the little prince ascends the throne, Uncle Yu Liang will be dominant, then Su Jun's rebellion will not be far away, right?

It's just that every time he enters the palace to accompany him in the future, when he sees Emperor Sima Shao, he thinks that he is fierce and not sick, so isn't he dying of illness?

However, this doubt was quickly forgotten by him, because life has to go on, the future is changeable, and practice is the only criterion for testing the truth.

Even if you are familiar with the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, you may not be able to follow history step by step.

In the third year of Taining in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he passed away in a hurry while he was running to the East Palace and Tai Academy.

There are too many people whose fates have changed because of his presence.

Together with his own fate.

In the winter of that year, he wrote a poem in Wang Xizhi's courtyard.

As a teacher who is stricter than Bian Wangzhi, Wang Xizhi, the saint of Loli Books, gave him a final exam.

The question of the exam is: Write a poem based on what you have learned in this year.