The Tai students of the late Han Dynasty were not all people who buried their heads in books.

Everyone comes from all over the world, and they all come together for the common purpose of being an official, so the political circles, especially the imperial court, are a little troubled, and everyone is very concerned.

The teachers are all teachers of modern literature and scriptures, and they also hold important positions, and when they expound the "small words and great meanings" of modern literature and classics, they are closely linked with theory and practice. Of course, the imperial court also attached great importance to Taixue, and was willing to invest in it, and rapidly expanded the school building; Attaching importance to the allocation of teachers, the emperor personally set standards for the selection of teachers, constantly improved salaries, issued clothing, and often rewarded wine and meat; The imperial court also paid attention to the selection of textbooks according to its own needs, and even the emperor (Emperor Xuan) personally convened a meeting to examine and approve the unified textbooks for the whole country.

It can be said that the practice of having the highest authorities of a country formally examine and approve the unified textbooks of the whole country appeared in the period of Emperor Xuan of the former Han Dynasty, which was the earliest and extremely rare in the history of education in the world.

In this way, the realpolitik atmosphere of Taixue is as strong as the academic atmosphere.

While reading and studying, the students kept their eyes open and stared at the movements of officialdom.

As early as one day more than ten years ago, Emperor Mourning's prime minister Kong Guang had a small conflict with Bao Xuan, the captain of Sili.

As everyone knows, Kong Guang is not only a supreme minister, he is also Wang Mang's confidant.

Bao Xuan's duty was to supervise the middle-level and below-level cadres of the organs under the Central Committee, the cadres of the Beijing Division, and all the cadres who violated the law and discipline in the Beijing Division.

For example, not long before the conflict between him and Kong, he publicly exposed that his relatives controlled the government and engaged in unhealthy practices in employing people, and some incompetent and shameless guys climbed to important posts, and rose step by step, filling the imperial court; And some people with both ability and political integrity have no way to serve the country and have no way out.

Of course, this is very wrong for Wang Mang's appetite.

For a good cadre like Bao Xuan, who has both ability and political integrity, is honest and practical, but is not good at slapping horses, Wang Mang has long wanted to find an opportunity to flatten him.

Once, Bao Xuan stopped Kong Guang from violating traffic rules, which was actually Bao Xuan's normal performance of duties.

But soon, Bao Xuan was accused of insulting the prime minister and was sentenced to death.

Wang Mang and Kong Guang planned to take this opportunity to kill him:

Everyone knows what we do, why don't others say it, and you Bao Xuan want to shout it? We also know that you are virtuous, talented, capable, and prestigious, and because of this, we will destroy you too!

I'm sorry, but I can't help it, because our hearts are too dark.

Whoever Wang Mang wants to destroy, whether it is an important minister of the court or a close relative, it will be difficult to escape.

But this time, the students quit, because Bao Xuan is their idol and their spokesperson.

The words that Lao Bao shouted out are related to the way out for the students: let us study here, the good positions in the officialdom are occupied by those bad boys, what will we do with employment in the future?

So everyone collectively petitioned to rescue Lao Bao.

More than 1,000 Tai students, under the leadership of Wang Xian, have been petitioning the emperor.

Anyway, they are all in the capital, from Taixue to the emperor's office, just lift your feet.

Emperor Wai is not very interested in Wang's relatives, and Wang Mang is in obscurity, and he doesn't want to ruin people on the surface, nor does he want to make things out of control.

As a result, Lao Bao was exempted from the death penalty and changed to a tongs, that is, he tied his neck with an iron ring and shaved his head.

This kind of punishment is not fatal, but insulting.

The students won a small victory.

This is the earliest record of college students' intervention in politics in the history of our country.

Actively asking about politics was the tradition of Tai students in the late Han Dynasty.

Liu Xiu was born in Taixue, benefited from this, and later ascended the throne, he also attached great importance to the construction of Taixue.

At present, Liu Xiu has shown his intelligence, diligence and outstanding political insight.

During his study here, he got acquainted with a wide range of Nanyang people who worked in the capital, and at the same time, he also had frequent contact with the fellow villagers who Nanyang brought to the capital to do business. Of course, as a descendant of the royal family, he also valued kinship interactions.

During this period, some relatives, friends, and classmates who were close to him gradually became his iron buddies. Later, they played an extremely important and irreplaceable role in Liu Xiujun's journey to the world.

For example, his cousin Liu Jia, his cousin Lai She, who was studying in Taixue at about the same time as Liu Xiu, and his little fellow Deng Yu and so on.

Whenever there is an important officialdom change or a major policy, Liu Xiu is always the first to know about it, and returns to the dormitory to explain it to the students.

(It is a commentary on the same house.) ）

As you know, in the university dormitory, whether it is a "sitting meeting" or a "sleeping meeting", the topics that students talk about are all-encompassing. And if a student has the right to speak in a certain aspect, he must be an enthusiast in this area.

Obviously, Liu Xiu is a political enthusiast, and his political acumen and political insight are recognized by his classmates.

Don't think he's just a young farmer!

Liu Xiu is not only a competent cropper and a hard-working college student, but also very good at business.

A while ago, when he was farming in his hometown, he often took out his surplus grain in exchange for a few change. He was a teenager at the time.

Now, when he goes to school, his family is not wealthy, and he is a special student who takes care of his own food and lodging, so it is inevitable that he will be short of money and must work and study.

The official students among the Tai students we mentioned earlier are the children of official eunuchs who are selected by Taichang, and there is a limit on the number of places, and they can enjoy official salaries.

And Liu Xiu belongs to the special students selected by the local government to "be good, respect the elders, suppress politics and religion, follow the township, and go in and out", and he is not limited by the quota and pays for his own expenses.

is also a student who goes to school together, and the gap is so big.

Many of the special students from local areas are from relatively poor families, and they must find ways to solve their tuition fees and living expenses.

For example, Ni Kuan, who makes a living by cooking for others.

Zhai Fangjin's classmate's family was not well-off, so his mother had to follow him to the capital, and he made a few dollars by weaving cloth and making shoes to make a few dollars for him to study.

Liu Xiu wanted to support himself and started a tertiary industry: he bought a donkey in a joint venture with Han Zi, a classmate in the same dormitory, and rented it to others for transportation, collecting a few rents.

Speaking of this, I can't help but sigh in my heart, we say that Liu Xiu is great, not only because he built a prosperous country, there are several such founding kings in history.

He can stretch and flex, and has a strong ability to survive.

As a farmer, he planted his crops better than others and often had surplus food at hand.

When he entered the city, he would do business, not delay his studies, and cultivate his political hobbies.

No matter where you are, you can't go hungry, and you can still do what you like.

No matter what the conditions, he can have a good understanding of the environment, adapt to the environment, and do everything possible to survive and seek development.

It's actually a great quality, a quality that can survive tenaciously no matter what the environment.

The reason why Liu Xiu was able to get up at the lowest level of society and finally become a big thing after going through ups and downs is because of this quality.

In the future, everyone will continue to find that this quality has helped Liu Xiu achieve one life goal after another, so that he has reached a height that is difficult for ordinary people to reach, whether he is a person or a worker, whether he is governing the country or his family!

At that time, Liu Xiu was not the only one who came to Taixue to study. For example, Deng Yu, Zhu You and other classmates, they closely followed Liu Xiu in the following years, made great contributions to the establishment of the Later Han Dynasty, and were made marquis by Liu Xiu.

Making friends, accumulating contacts, and dealing with all kinds of people made Liu Xiu quickly train into an expert in dealing with interpersonal relationships.

At this time, Liu Xiu was smart, diligent, active, courageous, good at business management, and quite politically minded.

He's in his 20s, which isn't too old, but it's not too young either.

By this age, many young men have already started a family, married and had children.

Liu Xiu also has her own ideas!