427 Chapter 427 Wang Shuwen's Reflections
At ten o'clock in the evening, it was already the time of the people of Datang, and the welcome banquet in the palace square ended. Xiao Yan led two deputy envoys to bid farewell to the king and queen, and said to the king before leaving: "Tomorrow morning, Yan will have the honor to meet the chief priest and ask for advice?" β
She said, "Ask for advice, practice", this is not as an envoy, but as a cultivator, the Cave True Realm Grandmaster meets the Innate Grandmaster, which is normal.
The king smiled and replied to her: "The chief priest has known of your coming, and said: See you after the feast of Gaia." β
β¦β¦ After Gaia?
Xiao Yan was a little puzzled, she didn't know that the High Priest had changed her mind temporarily, but she was sure that the High Priest had been watching her, so why did she see her after the Earth Festival? What's the meaning of this?
Thinking of the identity of the high priest, Xiao Yan felt that he had to think about it more, and it was impossible for him to say goodbye after the festival to be meaningless. While thinking in his heart, he smiled and responded, "So, Yan will wait for the festival." β
The king added, "The mission has been the journey, so you can rest well tomorrow morning." "Invite Xiao Yan and the two deputy envoys to have lunch at the Larnier Palace at 11 o'clock tomorrow," just a family banquet. The king smiled.
Xiao Yan and the two deputy envoys understood and smiled happily.
When the Tang Dynasty delegation left the square in a neat procession, many citizens had not yet left, and together with the palace attendants, they sorted the garbage, sorted out the chairs, and utensils, and cleaned the square, which was quiet and orderly.
Xiao Yan asked the crown prince who saw him off: "Is this an explanation?" The crown prince said, "This is a palace banquet, and cleaning is the duty of the palace attendants, and the palace banquet hall has no right to order other citizens to do it." The citizens who stayed behind were of their own free will, or from the streets near the palace, or who did not have to get up early tomorrow. The Cretan Code stipulates that the royal square belongs to all citizens, so the citizens consider it their own business to keep the square tidy. β
Of course it is one's own thing to love.
The mission official thought to himself.
But there are many owners, and they are not their own, and they may not be cared for.
The streets of Chang'an, the imperial capital, are also convenient for the people of Chang'an, but after national carnivals such as Shangyuan Night, not many people automatically stay to clean the streets.
The palace square and Chang'an street also belong to many people, but why is there such a difference between the people of the two countries? Could it be that the people of the Tang Imperial Capital are not as good as the people of a small kingdom?
The officials of the mission were thinking about it in their hearts, and some smart people had already gained something, but then they frowned slightly and shook their heads in their hearts, thinking that they had encountered difficulties again.
The stables were under the square, and the envoys all mounted their horses and went to the welcoming embassy with the envoy headed by the crown prince. Along the way, you can see that the departing citizens are carrying garbage cans of different colors and shapes, and when they pass through the street garbage bins, they are placed according to the paint color, and the garbage cans are clean inside and outside, and the garbage cans are placed neatly, and there is no littering. I also saw that there were people cleaning the streets, only a few people were wearing the clothes of sweepers, and most of them were citizens who had finished singing, and when they saw the mission coming, they stopped and waved enthusiastically.
The members of the mission all smiled and nodded in response.
Someone was surprised and asked, "This is also spontaneous?" β
The members who had been to Crete nodded their heads as they were accustomed to, "This is the case at festivals and gatherings. β
Everyone was amazed and amazed, which was very rare.
The official of the Cretan welcome mission said: Cretans have been receiving such civic education since childhood, and it has become a habit.
Wang Shuwen, the deputy envoy of the left, sighed: "It is the habit that is more rare. β
When a behavior becomes a human habit, just like the Tang people's habit of eating with a chopstick, they don't feel that this is a rule, and they don't need to be restrained by moral laws, so it's natural. This is the highest pursuit of governing the country, "ruling by vertical arches", and ruling without governance. Wang Shuwen sighed in his heart and praised: "Your country's civic education is very effective. β
The crown prince responded: "The education of the people and the people of the Tang Dynasty and the national education are also very good. β
The crown prince did not say polite words.
When he was still a prince, he also went to the Tang Dynasty to study and study like his father, and studied in Chang'an's official school for two years and private school for two years. The government school is divided into the first class and the second class, the first class implements the "scholar education", and the second class implements the "national education", and those who can be admitted to the first class government school are excellent students, and the students who graduate from the first class government school, whether they are officials or do technical research, do academic work or do other industries, are the elite class of this empire. According to Arestoler's understanding, this is the elite education of the Tang Dynasty, which is broader and deeper than the general pedagogy of national education, and of course the requirements are higher.
Arestol also spent one year each at the Confucius Institute and the Mozi Academy, two well-known private schools in the Tang Dynasty. Datang's private schools, like government schools, must implement national education at a minimum, while qualified private schools will apply for the qualification of Shimin education, and will be divided into classes according to the qualifications of students.
Arestole studied in Datang for four years and has considerable insights into the education of this empire, and he believes that the education of scholars and people in Datang is to cultivate the pillars and leading talents of various industries in the empire; And the outstanding students of national education will be the middle force of this empire; The ordinary students who have received the national education are the huge grassroots force of the empire, they have the basic national qualities, cultivate loyalty, glory and responsibility to the empire from an early age, have knowledge and the enterprising spirit to change their destiny, and they are more able to learn to think and be more creative than the people who have not received the national education. If there are tens of millions of such citizens, Arestol believes that the explosive power of the Tang Empire must be shocking to the world.
But he also believes that the national education of the Tang Empire is still inferior to their Cretan civic education, and only the elite education of the people can be compared, but the Civic Education of Crete is for all citizens of the kingdom, not the elite education of a few, and in this respect, the education of the people of the Tang Dynasty is not as good as the civic education. The crown prince was very proud of Crete's civic education, which lasted for 1,600 years.
Wang Shuwen said with a smile: "The education of the two countries has its own merits. "He is also comparing in his heart,
Wang Shuwen used to be a Lang official in the Department of Culture and Education, and he knew more about the two kinds of education in the Tang Dynasty than other officials in the mission, and his comparative thinking was also more in-depth. He believes that the education of the scholars and the people of the Tang Dynasty does not need to be compared with the civic education of the Cretan Kingdom, and that the elite education of the empire is not comparable to the national education of a kingdom.
Wang Shuwen compares the national education of the Tang Dynasty.
Datang's national education is also for all the people of Datang, which has a common basis with Crete's civic education, and is therefore more comparative.
But all the people of the Tang Dynasty and all the people are not the same thing, and the definition of Emperor Gaozong's "National Edict" is very clear:
"The people enjoy the right of the empire to shelter its existence and development, and at the same time bear the responsibility for the rise and fall of the empire......"
In other words, the people are the people who give priority to the right to subsistence and development in the empire, and soldiers, officials, scholars, students, tax-paying farmers, businesses, and other workers are all citizens. Those who are not within the scope of the empire's tax exemption and do not engage in occupation to pay taxes to the empire are only Tang Dynasty people, not nationals.
The people enjoy more rights, and correspondingly, they must also bear more responsibilities, and this requires a unified and standardized education, and it is not possible to teach people who are not familiar with world affairs and cannot do practical things by teaching them arbitrarily or only doing "imperial examinations" education.
This "unified standard" is the Ministry of Rites formulated, the government hall to review and promulgate the "Shimin Education Program" and "National Education Program", all government and private schools must be taught in accordance with the "program" of the corresponding subject courses of the school level, all textbooks are compiled by the Ministry of Rites unified printing and distribution by the Ministry of Rites, Guozijian, Taixue under the jurisdiction of the printing bureau, to ensure the unity, accuracy and authority of the textbooks, not allowed to all academies, schools, scriptures, and doctrines to teach their own interpretation of the textbooks.
This is the idea of unity.
However, unlike the Great Qin Shi Huang's book-burning pit Confucian unification thought and the Great Han Wu Emperor's abolition of the hundred schools of thought and the unification of Confucianism, the "Compendium" lists a wide variety of subject entries, far more than the subset of scripture and history, including the hundred schools of thought and the encyclopedia of science and technology, but the content of each textbook, the annotation of the subset of the scripture and history must be unique, the "Book of Changes" can only be the official annotation of the Book of Changes, the "Analects" can only be the official annotated Analects, and so on, and so on, and the subsets of other annotated versions of the scriptures and histories will be included in the "wild book", and I can't help but read it privately. However, they were not allowed to teach in the academy, and the imperial examinations would not adopt the annotations of these "wild books". If they are not included in the imperial examination, there will be no attention from students, except for scholars to do comparative research on learning, these annotations will disappear from circulation in a few years, no matter how famous they once were, they will become a pile of old papers.
Therefore, after the promulgation of the "Outline" by the Political Affairs Hall of that year, various schools of thought and scholars of the scriptures and scholars broke their heads in order to compete for the compilation of the Outline textbooks, and the literary and historical records said "Outline Contention", which was the second time that a hundred schools of thought contended, but the intensity and scope of participation far exceeded the first Hundred Schools of Thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period...... The final teaching materials are the culmination of a hundred schools, removing the chaff and eliminating the stale.
Each school of thought also re-examines and interprets its own scriptures and meanings in this hundred schools of thought, returning more to the background and original purpose of the times when the founder of Jingyi created Jingyi, deeply excavating the meaning and connotation hidden behind the words, and more deeply "knowing why it is true" instead of taking chapters and sentences as the solution, combining the changes of the times, the national conditions of the Tang Dynasty, and the needs of the empire.
From the 42nd year of Gaozong to the 15th year of Sejong, lasting 23 years, the 100 schools of thought led by Confucianism and Famo have undergone great changes, strengthening the country and enriching the people, civilization and morality, prosperity and stability, harmony and harmony, which is the common concept of different schools. In response to Emperor Sejong's "Edict on Xingxue", hundreds of schools of thought enthusiastically rushed to be the first to invest in Xingxue, or entered the government school to teach, or funded the school, which led to the upsurge of private schooling, and all kinds of night school schools and technical schools were raised, and national education was fully launched, which was the "great era of national education" in the Sejong period.
Wang Shuwen was full of affection for national education, and likewise for Gojong, who founded national education, and Sejong, who comprehensively implemented national education, and considered it a greater initiative than the imperial examination. Without national education, there would be no foundation for the Tang Dynasty to take off, and there would be no opportunity for many of them, the children of ordinary people, to "carp jump into the dragon gate".
If the imperial examination is to build a bridge to heaven for the children of the poor family, then national education is a platform, it is not a road to heaven, but it is broader, and the starting point is much lower, and the children of the common people do not need to go through thousands of troops to be able to climb the platform, obtain knowledge and change the fate of poverty and ignorance.
Wang Shuwen is one of the millions of civilians who changed their fate.
His surname is Wang, but he has nothing to do with the Langya Wang family of the Gaomen scholars, he is a real humble background, and his ancestors are three generations up, all of whom are ordinary scholars educated by the people; Counting up to the fourth generation, the Wang family is still an inferior peasant in Shanyin County, Yuezhou, because benefiting from the national education popularized to the pavilion during the Zhaozong period, the children of the Wang family can complete the five-year Tingxue, and the next generation is also the third generation, Wang Shuwen's great-grandfather was admitted to the county school in Shanyin County, and the Wang family has the first scholar.
Without the three-, five-year, and seven-year free education education and the subsidy for the lower households, their royal family would not have been able to provide so many scholars; Without the teaching resources and quality of national education, with the qualifications of his grandfather and father, according to the teaching of the previous private school, even if he has the money to pay for it, that is, to study for a few more years, it is difficult to say whether he can be admitted to the state school, let alone achieve a doctor of state studies and a division; It is impossible for him Wang Shuwen to be admitted to Taixue because of the national education system, and he has been a first-class academic examination officer of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and his career has progressed in 20 years, so that he can be from the fourth grade to the religious department Shaoqing, and he is only forty years old, and he has a more brilliant future.
Like Wang Shuwen's family, it is just a silhouette of the national education that lasted for more than 200 years in the Tang Empire. Countless silhouettes merge into the surging blood vessels and arteries of Datang.
However, the Empire must have invested heavily in maintaining such a national education, and the accumulation of national wealth could not be achieved overnight. Wang Shuwen once served as a Langguan in the Ministry of Households, and when he came into contact with the imperial budget and expenditures, he knew very well that the annual education expenditure was a huge and astonishing amount, of which free education funds and student subsidies accounted for a large share, and if these expenditures were invested in the Ordnance Supervision and Research Institute, which caused the locality, the empire's military and technology might rise several floors.
Wang Shuwen saw clearly that before him, the top level of the empire had long seen clearly, which made the implementation of national education below the county level, the increase in the number of years of free education, and the increase of national education rights have been hindered by many things. These reasons are indeed sufficient, and they are not all based on selfish interests, but the imperial court still persists, which is the reason why Wang Shuwen is even more grateful after learning these details: such an empire is worth their lifelong struggle.
Wang Shuwen has a strong sense of mission and enterprising spirit in his heart, and integrates the strength of the empire with his own future. And this is also the common characteristic of scholars who have experienced the imperial scholar education and national education, Wang Shuwen thought to himself, this is the biggest difference between the national education of the Tang Dynasty and the civic education of Crete.
"The empire is prosperous, the nation is prosperous; The empire is weak, and the people are ashamed. "Although the country is safe, it will be dangerous to forget the war!" ββThis is Datang's education, which is based on a sense of honor and disgrace, a sense of mission and a sense of distress; With "loyalty, glory, diligence, enterprising, and creation" as the ideological core, supplemented by etiquette and moral education, compared with Cretan civic education, Datang's scholars are more diligent and enterprising.
Wang Shuwen took out the bag and glanced at it, it was already two minutes, these citizens who cleaned the streets were still not in a hurry, and there was a sense of casualness when they started their work, if it was a Tang person, they must be neat, and it only took three or five people and a half hour to sweep this street, but there were about thirty citizens gathered on this street, and it was estimated that it would take an hour to do it.
Wang Shuwen firmly believes that only hard-working people can be enterprising, how can lazy and casual people be aggressive? It will only make the days go by leisurely. In his heart, he did not agree that a little wealth is peace, and thought that these citizens of the royal city of Crete had a mentality of "wealth and peace"; If the people of Datang had this mentality, it would be impossible for them to become a pioneering and enterprising empire, let alone lead the world.
However, Crete is different from the Tang Dynasty, it is a small maritime country, sandwiched between two empires, too "aggressive" has long since died, and can only be rich and stable. It is not surprising that long-term stability has cultivated a loose civic character.
From the character of the citizen, Wang Shuwen thought of the national character of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang people are also kind and enthusiastic, and they also consciously abide by ethics and morals, but other morals must be cultivated. If the Tang people take the initiative to stay and clean the streets, they will be praised for being virtuous, but they will also be ridiculed by some people for being "showy"; In Crete, however, it is commonplace, and everyone thinks that it is what citizens should do.
This is where the civic education of Crete is better than the national education of the Tang Dynasty.
Moral character is not shared by everyone, but civic morality is a group norm, and when the norm becomes a habit, it is a conscious behavior. Moral character is not easy to cultivate, but habits can be forcibly formed. Wang Shuwen thought that the "etiquette people" mentioned by Emperor Gaozong should be a combination of the German people and the standardized people, and the latter is easier to cultivate. This kind of "civic morality" education may be introduced into the national education of the Tang Dynasty.
Wang Shuwen thought slowly as he walked. The streets were wide, but the mission was not fast, firstly, there were citizens to sweep, and secondly, citizens were constantly greeting. Xiao Yan and the crown prince talked as they went, from the civic education in Crete to the education of the Tang Dynasty, from civic morality to customs, etiquette, laws, etc., and when they arrived at the embassy in the east of the palace to welcome the Tang Dynasty, it was already late at night.
Some of the officials of the Ying Mission stayed behind to facilitate their contacts with the officials of the Datang Mission and deepen their understanding. After everyone washed and settled, the lights in many rooms were still bright, and most of the mission officials were writing notes to sort out what they had seen and thought about the day. Xiao Yan washed up after punching his body, finished writing his notes under the lamp, and thought about the intention of the chief priest to say goodbye after the festival.
The focus is on the "post-festival" - there are still four days from tomorrow to the Earth Festival, will these four days be done? Or what's going to happen?
Xiao Yan thought about it for a few points, but he couldn't be sure, so he didn't force it and put it aside. took out the letterhead, calmed down, and continued to write to Shen Qingyi, writing that when the singer praised the song, she smiled on her lips, her eyes were soft, the ink color of the pen was beautiful, and she was as beautiful as the clear and clear water of the Qujiang River:
"I think you are the gods in the sky......"
In Xiao Yan's heart, the immortals are not domineering and powerful, nor are they cold and ruthless, but indifferent and restrained, just like Shen Qingyi.
You are my immortal.
She said to herself.
***
The sky is full of stars, the snow is white under the starry sky, and the snow light reflects the galaxy cold.
The searchlights on the guard tower of the barracks strafed back and forth, and the bright lights instantly blinded the snow white, adding to the chill. Groups of tightly wrapped patrolmen wearing goggles walked through the snow, making a crunching sound, occasionally stepping on a dead branch, and breaking with a creak, adding a bit of awe to the cold night.
"What do I think...... Not too cold tonight? β
A patrol soldier suddenly whispered.
After patrolling around, his body was still warm, and there was a hot air in the soles of his feet, which made him feel that it would not be cold when he stepped into three feet of deep snow. Unlike before, my feet began to get cold after a round out of the tent, and my snow boots were not used, and my whole body was cold after a night of patrolling. They were selected into the patrol team and were all bright or dark warriors, strong and cold-resistant, if they were ordinary soldiers, they would have to freeze into popsicles for two hours on patrol in the middle of the night in this cold and windy snowfield, and they would not be able to wear eiderdown jackets.
The patrolman walking in front of him whispered, "The temperature tonight is minus fifty degrees, which is one degree colder than last night." Not too cold? You ate gunpowder, right? β
The patrol soldier who spoke before frowned, and seemed to have something in his heart when he spoke, and was about to answer, when he saw the cold gaze of the officer sweeping over, the words were suppressed, but his heart was tumbling and he couldn't calm down, and even his blood was hot.
In the center of the barracks, patrols are more frequent and strict, several teams cross back and forth, but the sound of patrols is quiet, especially when patrolling to the south of the central barracks, when approaching a tent camp separated by a fence with spurs, the patrol team served by the guards has lightened their steps, carefully paying attention to their feet, and avoiding stepping on the dead branches in the snow to make a sound.
In the "fence" camp, in a large tent in the middle, the lights in the outer rooms were still on.
Shen Qingyi untied her bun, her long hair was scattered, her cold eyebrows were slightly soft, but she was more calm because of her concentration, her hair was put aside, her slender waist was straight under her robe, she sat cross-legged in front of the fence foot case and held a pen with her wrist in front of the case, and the pen swept the paper without pause, because she wrote quickly, the handwriting was very sloppy, perhaps only she herself recognized, the problem of thinking for a few days finally broke through, and her thoughts erupted like a spring, and she could not be slowed down for half a minute. When the hour hand of the table clock gradually pointed to the child, her pen was slightly paused, her cold eyebrows were slightly frowned, and she pondered for a while, and suddenly put down her pen and got up, and walked to the Dantai in the center of the tent.
Bright and stable battery lights for the army, they hung above the tents, illuminating the white stone platform below. There are all kinds of utensils on the huge Dan platform with three zhang length and width, there are bronze and copper Danding engraved with formation patterns, all connected with rune thermometers, there are pure and transparent glass bottles and opaque metal round belly bottles, some are connected to Danding, some are shelved in the formation, there are rows of hardwood tube racks, there are different labels of glass test tubes and different thermometers with high temperature and low temperature resistance, there are also sagger bowls of various material specifications, timers, etc., things are complicated but not messy, and they are placed on the stone platform in an orderly manner.
Shen Qingyi took out a pill as red as red from a jade box, flicked his fingers and fell into a glass round bottle, took out the test tube labeled "Jiasi Blood" from the tube rack, pulled out the sealed tube stopper, poured the blood in the tube into the glass round bottle, and pressed the timer.
The light was bright and steady, and her eyes were bright and steady, watching the changes in her blood for a moment.
The red pill gradually melted in the blood, the thermometer was heating up, and after two quarters of an hour, the pill was completely dissolved, the blood in the bottle boiled, and the temperature continued to increase, increase, and suddenly "crackle"!
The glass bottle shattered.
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