Chapter Seventy-One: The Taizhou School

"The land under our feet is a very small part of a vast country, and some of your fathers and brothers have joined the army, they may have been to Liaodong and Beizhili, but that is still only a small part. It is a rich and vast country that nurtures many people like you. They use the same language and wear the same clothes as you.

Our country, with the snow flying in the north, the roaring Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the Jiangnan with small bridges and flowing waters, and the boundless sea frontier, our ancestors created a glorious civilization, and the writing we learn is only a small part of it, but it is the basis for us to identify with each other, so the first thing you go to is the literacy class.

These territories were not obtained for nothing, our ancestors fought hard to obtain this land, so that we could take root here and pass it on from generation to generation, and create the most glorious civilization with our hands.

The reason why we have to fight the Tartars in Dengzhou Town, and everyone says that we want to kill the Tartars, is that we do not have a civilized identification with them. In addition to the difference in clothing and braids, there is also a difference in purpose, and we create a wealth of objects and beautiful art, through guò hard cultivation and technological progress to benefit life. At this time, they came out of the mountains and forests, trying to use their brute force to enslave us, looking at Jiannu's actions in Liaodong, they can only bring barbaric slaughter and enslavement, no matter how long the society develops, butchers like Nuer Hachi cannot escape the judgment of morality, this is my standard for the perception of good and evil, and it is also the reason why I can't identify with Jiannu.

What they want to deprive us of is the rights we are born with. This is a natural right that no one has the right to take away. This is the meaning of our battle against Jiannu in Golden State, no matter how ferocious Jiannu is, we must take up arms and fight them. Civilization cannot lack words and books, nor can it lack spears and muskets, so that we have the purpose of education, civilize its spirit, and barbarize its body. The fact that we are able to live and study peacefully in Denglai today is thanks to the soldiers who fought in the previous battles, and it is they who have brought us such peace. And our future depends on you to continue to fight. ”

In addition to the more than 30 people who were about to go to the university hall, there were also hundreds of new students, all of whom were teenagers. Under the long-term influence of military newspapers, storytellers, and instructors, these teenagers are the most passionate group in Dengzhou, and their feelings are far warmer than those who have families and rooms, and they are very malleable, and they accept the concept of the country very quickly.

Chen Xin took a few officers in the corridor outside the door, quietly listening to the situation inside, the enthusiasm of the students infected these officers, they are the best source of soldiers in the future, and even Chen Xin showed a smile on his face.

After the students were quiet, Liu Minyou's voice continued to sound: "How to resist such a butcher." We need enough force to protect ourselves. It takes all of us to work hard, but it doesn't mean that everyone needs to join the army, soldiers need armor, baggage, food, muskets and artillery, then there are craftsmen who make and farmers who farm, and craftsmen who want to live. There will be other materials, and all walks of life are indispensable aspects of society, and they are inseparable from them for victory.

Victory in war always comes from the struggle of every ordinary person. There is no heroic group without individual heroes, and all of us in Dengzhou Town contributed to the victory, including those tunhu, tailors, merchants, and civil affairs personnel who did not go to war. Your entry into Wenden University today is only the beginning of your studies, and it does not mean that you have a superior background, but only that you have a higher talent in reading, or that you have put in more effort. You will still join the army, you will join the workshop, and even do business, and you will not be different from those tun households, but you will have a different division of labor, just like me, and you are the same individual as you.

Therefore, I hope that you will treat your classmates as equals in the university hall, and you are also an equal individual in front of the teacher, and in the university hall, there is no saint's word, and you can doubt what the teacher teaches, and you can argue for yourself, including what I am talking about today. Everyone can be a philosopher and draw their own conclusions about the world, and the university hall is such a place, which I began to dream of when I came to Weihai, and today it is finally built, and you are the first batch of students, where you have free food and drink, so that you can specialize in various disciplines without distractions, and there, all the flowers of your ideas will be allowed to bloom freely......"

Chen Xin listened to the speech in the big classroom outside the door, and couldn't help but touch his nose and whispered, "Won't it be too advanced?" ”

"What did you just say, my lord?" Huang Side leaned over.

"It's okay, I just listened, what do you think?"

"My subordinates don't understand what it means that everyone can be a philosopher?"

Chen Xin touched his nose, "That means that everyone can be a sage." ”

Huang Side's eyes rolled, he didn't quite understand what Chen Xin thought, and he didn't have a direction to follow for a while, but he still said after thinking for a while: "The subordinates think that Mr. Liu said very well about killing the Tartars in the front, and the subordinates have a slight objection in the back, according to what Mr. Liu said, everyone is an equal individual, and then the soldiers in the army will not listen to the officers, he can doubt the officers' orders, just like a military order, most of them may die, so do these soldiers refuse to carry out on the grounds of equality......"

Chen Xin smiled and said, "He said that inside the university hall." ”

"Well, this, my lord, the students who came out of the university hall may also become soldiers and craftsmen or enter the civil department, and the subordinates think that the academy should be based on your teachings, so that they can be united, how can they come up with a set of people, in that case, everyone is willing to farm and do business at home, why bother to run to fight tartars."

Chen Xin looked at the ground and pondered for a while, then smiled at Huang Side and said, "You think very thoroughly, so the discipline officer in the school is indispensable. ”

Huang Side was pleasantly surprised: "What do you mean that you can send instructors in the university hall?" That Lord Liu has been resisting, and his subordinates have not arranged for him to go in. ”

Chen Xin shook his head, "Except for the University Hall." ”

Huang Side was stunned, and Chen Xin smiled. "I need the seeds of these ideas, to give them freedom, and no one is allowed to set up an institution in the university hall."

Huang Side didn't understand what Chen Xin meant at all, he said worriedly: "This, my lord, those teachers hired by Lord Liu include craftsmen, boatmen, and even the Taizhou school, and even a few Francois rescued in Dengzhou are hired as teachers. If you don't care about it at all, your subordinates are worried that they will not be loyal to our Dengzhou Town, and the students they teach don't know what they are like. ”

Chen Xin was a little helpless, in order to compete with Liu Min for funds at that time. In exchange for not placing a propaganda officer in the university hall, he was still a little worried, and after thinking about it, he whispered to Huang Side: "As I said just now, anyone who has a company is not allowed to be in the university

The establishment of the hall is what the official promised Mr. Liu, but you can think of other methods. ”

"Anything else?" Huang Side had a feeling of wanting to scratch his head.

"Since Master Liu can recruit those teachers in, and there are so many people in the Discipline Department who can speak well, can't he find a few who can apply to be teachers? If some people are selected, the official can also hire professors. ”

"This ...... Do you mean that the instructor also goes in and gives lectures? Fight those crooked ways? ”

Chen Xin said as a matter of course: "Of course, the instructor can also form new ideas. Our army is prestigious. Naturally, there are many ways to sum up. In addition, those who are extremely ideological in the university hall, we can not recruit them into the army in the future, let them go to those places that are not so important, or simply let them out. There are always other local magistrates to clean them up. ”

Huang Side thought for a moment before nodding.

Chen Xin saw that Huang Side understood, smiled gloomily, and then called Li Donghua and Zhu Daichun, who were bored listening to it later. "Lord Liu still has a long story to say, let's stop reading it and go to inspect the reserves. Here is a reminder to you that what was just mentioned at the meeting is only a standing combat army, and the reserve army system still needs to rely on the community method of Tunpu, and it can only be mobilized urgently to have combat effectiveness. ”

As soon as Chen Xin turned around, he saw Chen Tingdong striding over, blocked by two guards under the corridor, he looked angry and was about to get angry with the guards.

After returning from Jiangnan last time, Chen Tingdong has been doing supervision work in civil affairs, and also doing some copywriting and the like, often posting some poems on the military newspaper with dried tofu. However, Chen Xin has indeed not seen him for a long time, and he is quite cordial at this time.

Chen Xin greeted Chen Tingdong with a smile and asked, "Where are Chen Juren going so busy?" ”

The two guards let Chen Tingdong come over, and he said anxiously without saluting: "My lord, Mr. Liu has always been a shrewd person, and he admires him, but this time the university hall does not set up the study of saints, but introduces mathematics, machinery, iron smelting, or even some unheard of chemistry and physics, and many kinds of tools, which is a big mistake." Vocational schools are a bit of putting the cart before the horse, but most of the vocational schools originally had to train some craftsmen into the workshop, and they also felt that it didn't hurt, but the university hall was the essence of Denglai, and there were only a few hundred students among them. I came here today to find Mr. Liu to understand. ”

Chen Tingdong didn't wait for Chen Xin to speak, and after taking a big breath, he continued: "I just heard at the door that there is still a Franco machine teaching in the university hall, and Yi Di will be Chinese when he enters China, how can he let them teach my Chinese students, I don't know what they want to teach and these students, is it tolerable or unbearable......"

Chen Xin saw that his face was flushed with anger, and he was worried that he would go to the teacher to make trouble, so he hurriedly pulled Chen Tingdong back a few steps, and whispered to Chen Tingdong: "Mr. Chen, don't be angry, a few Furlong machine instructors are teaching the science of making iron and cannons, not Hongyi's speculative learning." ”

Huang Side suddenly added: "Yes, Mr. Chen, there is also a sage in the university hall, I heard that Lord Liu has hired several masters of the Taizhou school......

Chen Tingdong shouted, shook off Chen Xin's hand suddenly, and grabbed Huang Side's collar, "What kind of sage is the Taizhou School, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, the Taizhou School is a school of nonsense, demagoguery, and you don't have to insult the four words of the sage." ”

Huang Side was caught off guard, almost being lifted up by this tall lifter, his eyes were bulging with fright, and some of the surrounding guards even put their hands on the hilt of the knife, Chen Xin hurriedly went over and pulled it away.

Huang Side was shocked for a moment, and said to Chen Tingdong: "What Mr. Liu said just now, everyone can be a sage, and everyone can have their own conclusions about the world, isn't it the same as the Taizhou School's 'The people's daily use is the way, the streets are full of saints, and the way of the saints is tantamount to the people's daily use', Lord Liu may believe in this Taizhou school." ”

"Shut up." Chen Xin whispered to Huang Side, he saw that Huang Side was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and he was bent on stimulating this Chen Tingdong to go to the classroom to make trouble, and he was quite unhappy in his heart, "If there is anything to go back to Dengzhou for a meeting to decide, don't say more." ”

Chen Xin opened his mouth, Huang Side immediately died down, stupidly retreated to the side, Chen Tingdong listened to the Taizhou school of a few words and was even more annoyed, this doctrine comes from Yang Ming Xinxue, advocating that the people's daily use is the Tao, ordinary people and saints are also equal, even "the prince is not superior, the common man is not inferior" such a point of view has been put forward, it is not too much to call it a great rebellion, the creator Wang Gen loves to use straightforward language to narrate, so that many people can understand, this enlightenment of civilian thought in the late Ming Dynasty spread widely, the influence is huge, It has had a great impact on the traditional Confucian viewpoint.

By the time of the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's control over the bottom of the society was gradually lost, coupled with the high development of the commercial society, the values of traditional Confucianism had been shaken, all kinds of strange theories emerged in endlessly, and the ideological science was collapsing.

The radicals in the Taizhou school embodied a strong spirit of resistance and rebellion, not only criticizing the government and government, but also writing books and writing books to satirize Confucianism, especially He Xinyin and Li Zhen, who were both born in the right way of the imperial examination.

The Ming court did not crack down on it, although it cleaned up the most "rebellious" He Xinyin, Li Zhen and others, but the Taizhou school was still spread, and it can be seen that the thought of the late Ming Dynasty was generally very loose.

Chen Tingdong happened to be a believer in science, he desperately wanted to rush to the classroom, and several officers behind understood Chen Xin's meaning, and stopped Chen Tingdong from allowing him to pass, although Chen Tingdong was tall and mighty, but he was not an opponent of a professional rough man, so he had to roar loudly under the corridor.

A few heads poked out of the teacher's window in front of him to look around, Chen Xin saw that it was not a matter, and turned his eyes to Chen Tingdong and said: "Mr. Chen, if this is not the case, this official will hire you a teaching position, and you can also teach in the university hall, I believe that with Mr. Chen, you can compare with those schools." ”

When Chen Tingdong heard this, he stopped rushing over, turned his head and asked, "Is what the adults said true?" ”

"Naturally, in fact, Lord Liu also means this, to provide a place for all kinds of theories to be debated, and I support Mr. Chen."

"Okay, see if Lao Tzu doesn't clean them up, I'll go back to Dengzhou to pack up and go to Wendeng University Hall." Chen Tingdong laughed and turned away.

Chen Xin hurriedly shouted: "Mr. Chen, as long as Wen Dou is not fighting, don't fight." ”

Chen Tingdong walked like the wind, and he didn't know if he heard it.

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