Chapter 161: Monthly Academy

After receiving the official uniform of serving as the seal ribbon of the prefect of Zhejiang, Runzhi took his new wife Qing'er to live in a place called "shallow lake" near the West Lake in Hangzhou.

The shores of this shallow lake are truly beautiful, and countless birds fly from one side of the branches, and then line up in various shapes, and fly slowly in the vast blue, leaving a series of clear and beautiful calls.

The West Lake and Yangzhou are naturally not ordinary, but there are also many similarities, such as pavilions, all kinds of rockeries everywhere, and countless people are quietly walking along the road by the West Lake with six or seven-year-old children, looking like a good and wandering look.

After Runzhi arrived at the West Lake, many officials in the West Lake naturally had a thunderous ear for Runzhi.

Before Runzhi arrived, a large-scale and extremely luxurious mansion in West Lake, Hangzhou had been vacated by Runzhi, and there were plenty of various kinds of family slaves and maids for Runzhi in advance, so Runzhi directly moved in, which was very fast.

In the land of outstanding people, the most beautiful nature is the landscape, and the most important thing is the talent.

After Runzhi arrived in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, he immediately gathered everyone to assess the various prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the prefect's yamen, that is, according to the different characteristics of each heat, he asked some special questions in a targeted manner, and at the same time, according to the situation of each heat, the people with the worst comprehensive ability of intellectual knowledge were removed, but they were given sufficient silver.

At the same time, after Runzhi reached this Zhejiang mansion, he deliberately opened a special school in the mansion, so that many magistrates and counties could share their experiences in reading "Analects", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and so on every month.

In most cases, it is Runzhi who is talking, and other magistrates are listening, and sometimes some of the talented people in these magistrates will also have various academic discussions with Runzhi.

Under such a relaxed and witty class, everyone has learned something, and naturally with the help of such a class, they can quickly discover the buried rare and valuable real talents.

Runzhi also gathered many village sages in the curtain area, most of these people are more respected people in various places, generally have a relatively superior economic status, cultural literacy is generally relatively high, most of them have won the show, and they are often important figures with great influence in all aspects.

These people are in the place, but they want the wind to get the wind, the rain to get the rain, and the art of calling the wind and calling the rain is rare for ordinary people to imagine.

Runzhi asked these people to come to Runzhi's huge mansion every other month, and also held a special school for them, which was originally Runzhi himself to read many famous books, such as reading "Water Margin", "Stone Records", "Book of Songs", etc., and then shared some of his reading insights with everyone.

After each sharing, Runzhi will deliberately ask some questions, let the people who come to listen to the lecture raise their hands to answer, and secretly let people record the people who answered and the content of the answers.

At the same time, Runzhi also tried to let the people who came to listen to the lecture ask some questions after listening to Runzhi's sharing, naturally these questions are not limited, and then Runzhi will answer them in a series of ways.

Through such back-and-forth, Runzhi will answer questions or ask the best of the best, privately in the name of chatting and tasting tea, to the house, for a detailed conversation, and then gradually try to hold some large-scale public debates, so that these Rao best people to win fame, under Runzhi's arrangement, give special local academic and political positions, and let them replace Runzhi in the school to share knowledge.

At the same time, Runzhi did not give up on some low-level people, and after Runzhi deliberately inspected these local governors and village sages one by one, he began to run various monthly private schools in various places.

This kind of reading private school is generally open to the public in a square every month, surrounded by official guards, and then placed in the middle of countless benches, so that willing participants, after signing, enter the venue, listen to the village sages selected by Runzhi to share all kinds of knowledge.

Naturally, the sages who are qualified to share their knowledge with everyone on the square, under the escort of many officials, are all Runzhi, one in a thousand, and after being very knowledgeable, they are the kind of people who can be trusted.

This monthly private school is open to all men, women, and children, and tea is provided free of charge to those who wish to enter.

In this way, Hangzhou, Zhejiang began to be called the "capital of classical Chinese studies" praised by everyone in Kyushu, in the scope of this Zhejiang province, everyone is backwards to the hundreds of schools, so that everyone began to abide by the law, the road is not closed at night, the road is not forgotten, everyone is proud of their knowledge, and they are ashamed of not knowing the way of Confucius and Mencius, and the way of Mo Zhai.

In this way, everyone in Kyushu was impressed by the people of Zhejiang, and residents from all over the world went to Zhejiang to see for themselves what kind of private school it was.

On top of Runzhi's regular academy dedicated to officials, Runzhi got acquainted with three local Confucian and two Mohist leaders in Zhejiang.

Among these five people, Tian Keqin, the president of Baorong Academy, which inherits the Confucian school, and Zheng Chuanghua, the president of Amway College, which inherits the Mohist school, are the most appreciated by Runzhi.

It turned out that this Tian Keqin was a very erudite person, since he studied hard, from a poor family, passed the imperial examination, and finally became a jinshi, was named the local magistrate of Hangzhou by the imperial court, on the day of his appointment, always for the sake of the people, for the hundred letters to do a lot of practical things, but also two sleeves of the breeze, won a very good reputation in the local area, praised by the locals.

After the year of Tian Keqin's sixtieth year, he took the initiative to ask for his resignation and retirement, and the state officials saw that he had done a lot of good things for the people in his life, and he was highly respected in the local area, so he wanted to recommend it to the imperial court.

Because the state officials thought that he was old and had the intention of resigning and going into hiding, and knew that his family was very poor.

Therefore, the state government officials specially took out 5,000 taels of silver from the state government treasury to fund his life after resigning from the government and returning to seclusion, and sent his subordinates to play gongs and drums, carrying the signboard of "two sleeves of fresh breeze, fine clothes to return to the hometown" all the way, and purchased a special mansion for him in his hometown for his retirement residence.

Naturally, this Tian Keqin returned to his hometown with the five thousand taels of silver, and it was a large number of officials who returned to their hometown with the plaque of "two sleeves and a clean breeze, and returned to their hometowns in fine clothes", which naturally caused a sensation in their hometowns for a while, and the men, women and children in their hometowns vied with each other to come out for the purpose of this good official who had served as the county governor all his life and had done countless good things for the people.