Chapter 25: The Royal Academy
The Royal Academy was founded by Pei Xiaorui, the first champion of the founding of the country.
As soon as the personable Pei Xiaorui won the top prize, he was robbed of the youngest daughter Xia Wanyue by Xia Zuhui, the youngest daughter of Yonggaozong Xia Zuhui, that is, the princess of Furen at that time.
The people who worked as horses in this dynasty, like the previous and later dynasties, could not hold important positions in the court.
This is mainly because in the early years of the previous dynasty, there was a princess who participated in the succession and almost succeeded in inheriting the throne. Therefore, this dynasty decisively borrowed the lessons of the previous dynasty and abolished the policy of holding real power as a horse.
Of course, according to the actual ability of the horse master, a title will be given as a consolation prize. Among them, those who have meritorious deeds will be given a high-grade knighthood, and those who have no merits will be sorry, and can only be given the title of a five-grade horse captain.
Pei Xiaorui, who was married to Princess Furen and has ambitions, will be completely frozen in his future career.
After marriage, the sad Pei Juma not only needs to live in the princess's mansion, but also does not allow concubines. He used to be a merry and talented man who was famous in the capital. This change made his life feel like falling into the abyss.
The depressed Pei Juma once had a muddy life. Fortunately, there was a master who pointed out the maze later: Aren't you good at learning? If you go to the study and the country, you don't want to get involved. Won't you open your own academy and enlighten the children of some famous families? In addition to cultivating students, you can also make friends with these famous families by the way. You must know that the Heaven and Earth Monarch is a teacher, and the status of the teacher is extremely high. You may not be able to fulfill your ambitions in the court, but your students can fulfill your unfulfilled wishes for you.
This is like an initiation, pouring out the road of preaching and solving doubts and even starting a business for Pei Juma, who is a good teacher.
The upper study is where the royal children go to school and study.
Guozijian was the highest institution of learning in the Dayong Dynasty, equivalent to the current university educational institution. The teachers in it are all high-ranking court officials.
The students of Guozijian are called prisoners. Most of them are selected by students from provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties, and some are received by donations. However, the students are mainly children from famous families. The duration of study is three years. Three years later, he participated in the big examination organized by the imperial court. The list of those who pass the examination is reported to the Ministry of Officials, which can be used to elect officials, and can also be equivalent to participating in the examination as a person to gain fame.
Since the previous dynasties, students from poor families and concubines of aristocratic families mostly went to the official career through the imperial examination.
The folk customs of the Dayong Dynasty were relatively open. For women, especially the daughters of famous families, it is not in line with the so-called principle of "women are virtuous if they are not talented", and they are restricted from studying. On the contrary, although the daughters of such families do not rely on reading to become the foundation of their future lives like men, they can understand things through reading and use the knowledge they have learned to take charge of the back house.
In the previous dynasties, although the difference between men and women was not so serious, men and women were never educated in different schools.
The academy founded by Pei Xiaorui broke the rules of the past years and created a precedent for coeducation. (Wang Jibao privately believes that this buddy may have made this move because of a setback in his marriage.) )
At the beginning, the students enrolled in the academy were all children of famous families under the age of ten, and the number was not very large, just to enlighten them. Later, because Pei Juma was really talented, these students, who were just trying to enlighten him at first, relied more and more on this teacher. His lectures are no longer limited to enlightenment, but also more and more in-depth.
In the end, the students who went out of the academy directly participated in the examination of Guozijian, and most of them passed successfully. You must know that the number of students who enter the Guozijian every year is only a few dozen in the whole country.
At this time, the academy made a name. There are more and more students who are coming to Pei Yuma, and they are getting older and older.
As a result, the college has expanded again and again, and the number of courses offered has increased year by year.
In the end, he simply integrated with Guozijian and formulated the curriculum according to the subjects that participated in the Guozijian assessment. Similarly, the teachers were hired according to the slightly worse standard of the Guozijian, and Pei Yuma himself served as the dean of the college.
Because Pei Xiaorui himself is the royal concubine, and because the academy he founded can attract more famous families for the royal family, and finally at the invitation of Pei Yuma, when the academy was named, Yonggaozong Xia Zuhui directly wrote the four characters of "Royal Academy".
According to the different ages and knowledge, the Royal Academy is divided into four levels from top to bottom: heaven, earth, xuan, and huang.
The yellow level is the lowest level, which is the education stage of the enlightenment stage, and is divided into five classes, with 40 students in each class.
The Xuan level is equivalent to modern primary education, with four classes of 30 students in each class.
The prefecture level is equivalent to modern junior high school education, which is divided into three classes of 20 students each.
At the heaven level, which is equivalent to a modern high school, there are only two classes left, and there are only ten students in each class.
Why is it that when you reach the heaven level, there are only twenty people in total, and you have to divide them into two classes? It is said that it is for the two classes to form a competition. With competition, students can be more motivated to learn. With competition, we can be more motivated.
I have to say that Pei Juma, who founded the school at the beginning, was very avant-garde and thought quite comprehensively.
The shifts of each level are sorted by A, B, C, D, and E. It is arranged according to the results of the assessment. The better you do in the exam, the better you will be placed in the previous class.
Each level lasts for three years, which means that the Royal Academy only admits students once every three years.
During this process, if there are students who have left the college, transfer students can be arranged to come in.
Since the opening of the Royal Academy, the campus facilities have become more and more perfect, and the teaching quality has become higher and higher, and it has become the best academy under the Guozijian of the Dayong Dynasty. It is also the only co-educational college to date.
Because more and more people want to enter the Royal Academy, the school has restrictions on the number of students enrolled, so the admission conditions are also rising.
Of course, all this is difficult for Wang Jibao, the concubine of the Hou Mansion, the second-grade county lord of the imperial seal, such an authentic little noblewoman.
Wang chose to go to school after her fifth birthday, which is close to mid-June. Now that the Yellow Class of the Royal Academy has been in operation for two and a half years, if Wang Xibao wants to start from scratch, the best arrangement should be at the beginning of next year. And with Wang Jibao's current learning progress, it is tantamount to wasting three years of time in vain.
Besides, she goes to school not to study, but to make friends. Therefore, the whole family unanimously decided that we would transfer to the class and be directly promoted to the Xuan level at the end of the year.
In this way, if Wang Xibao wants to enroll, he needs to wait until the students in the yellow class drop out.
The wait lasted until the beginning of July. One student was selected to be the princess's companion in the study, so he poured out a place.
It is not difficult to see from the time of occurrence that there must be the operation of Empress Dowager Jiang behind this. Otherwise, how could he be so good that he would choose a companion for Princess Yiping, who is less than four years old, at this time?
No matter what the process is, anyway, Wang Jibao ushered in the second chance to go to school in her two lives.
Like all children who have just started school, Wang Jibao is also excited and apprehensive.
I'm excited to have new playmates. I am worried that as a transfer student, I will definitely be rejected by others when I arrive in an unfamiliar environment. I don't know how long it will take me to blend in with those people.
Fortunately, I have met a lot of noble girls with the Jiang family over the years, and fortunately, those princes and princesses have classes in the study room in the palace. His status is relatively nobler than other students in the academy, so he will not be bullied.
There are also people in the Hou Mansion who are also apprehensive, and they are all worried about whether their little baby will adapt to the new life there when they arrive at the academy. After all, if you go to school in the academy, there are many things that Wang Jibao needs to do by herself. Unlike when I was in the Hou Mansion, there were maids waiting for everything.
The day after receiving the admission notice, Wang Jibao went to the academy under the leadership of his father, Prince Yi Shizi, to go through the relevant admission procedures.
The Royal Academy was built in a secluded place near the east gate of Yongdu, which was renovated from a separate courtyard of Princess Furen. The reason why it is secluded here is mainly due to the fact that all the places here were gradually purchased by the seowon for the expansion of the seowon.
It took about half an hour to drive before the carriage finally stopped. The father and daughter got out of the carriage.
The Royal Academy is large in scale and stretches for five miles.
The two sides of the main entrance are also like the government office, and there is a tall stone lion on each. During class, the tall red door is closed, except for one corner door next to it.
Not long after Wang Ziyi's servant stepped forward to hand over the name of the Hou Mansion, Bai Hongxin, the vice president of the academy, came with his entourage to greet their father and daughter in person.
Bai Hongxin is in his forties, with fair skin, a delicate face, and a gentle demeanor. Just looking at him, he is also a middle-aged beautiful uncle, but if he wants to stand with Wang Ziyi, he is only ashamed of himself.
"Brother Wang, I haven't seen you for many days, but your demeanor is still the same!" When Bai Hongxin saw their father and daughter, he took the lead in smiling and saying hello.
"Where! Where! Brother Bai Xian, is the demeanor that has not diminished back then! Wang Ziyi also greeted him very warmly.
Apparently the two knew each other well.
Brother Wang smiled. This is Brother Wang's youngest daughter, Lord Bao, right? Bai Hongxin looked at Wang Jibao, who was looking up at the two of them greeting each other, and asked kindly.
Wang Jibao stepped forward from his father's side, respectfully gave a junior salute, and said loudly: "Hello uncle!" My name is Wang Jibao and I am five years old. In the future, I will come here to study, and I will trouble my uncle to teach me more in the future. ”
Bai Hongxin was startled at first, and then laughed. "Yo, this little guy is really not simple. Brother Wang is really enviable, he has such a cute, beautiful, polite, and generous daughter. ”