Chapter 37: The Academy
"Parents call, don't delay. Parents, don't be lazy. Parents must listen to what they teach. Parental responsibility must be accepted.
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If you have a disease, you should try the medicine first. Waiter day and night, never leave the bed. After three years of mourning, he often mourns. The place of residence has changed, and the wine and meat are extinct. The funeral is complete, and the sacrifice is sincere. The dead are ...... as they are"
The sound of the students reading in the school was loud and ear-catching, which made Zhu Houwei, a guy with a psychological age of more than thirty-five, feel a vigorous vitality.
The school in Yongwangfu takes in 380 children between the ages of 8 and 10, 90% of whom are boys, but dozens of girls are also enrolled.
Fortunately, Zhu Houwei is the prince and the younger brother of today's saint, otherwise just letting male and female classmates make the so-called Confucian scholars squirt to death.
It's not that girls in this era don't study, that's, as long as the big families can invite Xixi, there are more children in the family to read, otherwise how can there be so many well-read women who can still be called talented women.
It can even be said that if a woman from a big family doesn't even know a word, it is a dream to find someone who is the right person.
Moreover, Yongwangfu School is completely closed education, and students only have one chance to go home once a year, as for orphans, the palace is directly home, and outsiders can't touch it, and they still have a beak.
All students received enlightenment education during this year, and they were required to memorize and be able to write the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" silently, as well as the "Disciple Rules" plagiarized by Zhu Houwei.
Now is not the era when the material conditions of the later generations are at their peak, and external factors can infinitely interfere with learning, in this era, the scholars are the privileged class, and the children of the poor only can't afford to read, and there is no one who doesn't want to read.
Zhu Houwei can be said to have given hope to children, and also gave hope to hundreds of families.
Zhu Houwei used these books to enlighten students, not to let them follow the old path of Confucianism, let alone think that they would go to the imperial examination in the future and then enter the official career.
Confucianism can indeed cultivate sentiment and cultivate the idea of loyalty to the monarch, so it has always been accepted and vigorously respected by the rulers, but the ridiculous thing is that the political dynasty under the rule of Confucianism cannot escape the end of the cycle of chaos in the end.
In the final analysis, it is because Confucianism can cultivate a moral gentleman, even if this moral gentleman will sink and degenerate after entering the officialdom, but at least when they read the books of sages, they think about applying them to the world, thinking about being loyal to the monarch and patriotism.
But how useful is it to write a Confucian moral essay no matter how well it is written? The more sage books I read, the more poems and articles come at my fingertips, and the mouth cannons are more fierce than the other, but is this a dynasty that the country needs?
What the country needs is talents who can govern the real herdsmen, not even the waste that has to rely on the master to deal with government affairs.
Build guns, cannons, and warships, you let a Confucian scholar manage it, he understands? And then point fingers if you don't understand?
If you let a scholar who has never been in the field in his life manage farming, does he know how to fertilize or how to increase the yield per mu?
What's even more ridiculous is that the civil servants lead the troops, of course, there are indeed Confucian generals among the literati who are familiar with military books and then apply what they have learned, but that is a rare exception, and there are more examples of people who don't know soldiers at all but like to command indiscriminately, which eventually leads to a rout.
There are countless examples of this kind in the Great Song and Ming Dynasty.
Of course, it is certainly not the fault of the civilian officials that the battle was defeated, but the generals who led the troops failed to understand the strategic intentions of the civilian officials.
Every student in this school is the seed of new learning, and they will pry the foundation of Confucianism, so that this tree, which has been inherited in the land of China for thousands of years, has long been decayed, will collapse with a bang, thus opening the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.
It's hard, but it's challenging, and where there is hope, there will be light!
"The slave and maid pay homage to the king."
When they arrived at the school hall in the Yongwang Mansion, the three serving eunuchs who learned the news immediately greeted them at the door.
"Get up." Zhu Houwei smiled on his face, swept over the faces of the three eunuchs, and nodded with satisfaction.
These three eunuchs are also specialized in the Yongwang Palace, but not to the extent that Ren Xing and Hong Ji are close.
However, even Ren Xing and Hong Ji didn't dare to despise the three of them, because these three people could be regarded as Yongwang's students, and now they seemed to be teaching in the academy.
In addition to the three of them, there are also several masters in the school, and let the pure Confucian scholars and eunuchs teach together, the master is definitely unhappy, but he is not happy and does not leave.
Because the treatment given to them by King Yong is five stone grains a month, and all food and lodging are included!
This treatment is almost catching up with the county......
For the sake of personal interests and to support their families, several masters could only put down their bodies, hide the superiority of the scholars, and become teachers together with several eunuchs.
However, the masters taught literacy and endorsement, and the three eunuchs had not yet begun to teach, and once they were officially taught, mathematics, physics, and chemistry would be taught.
There is a saying in later generations, learning mathematics, physics and chemistry all over the world, if Confucian scholars can't pass the test in this life, they are a rice worm, because they don't have the means to make a living at all, but after learning mathematics, physics and chemistry, they don't have to worry about the way out, even if they are a bookkeeper, they can feed the whole family.
In order to plant these seeds of Confucianism, Zhu Houwei is fully worthy of the four words of taking precautions, and after a few years of his travel, when he can pick up the pen, he will rely on his super memory to silently write down the mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge that has been warm in his mind.
I don't dare to say how deep it is, and it's nonsense to talk about calculus, this language, and that language, but it's not a problem at all to let a few textbooks cover the knowledge of elementary school, junior high school, and some high schools.
However, these knowledge are too advanced, many of them don't even say that they have seen, or they have never heard of them, such as the most common equations, which are actually no different from the Book of Heaven in today's era.
Zhu Houwei still remembered the expressions of these three guys when they were selected by themselves and then studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, of course they didn't dare to ask why their master knew this, even if Zhu Houwei had already had a reason to prevaricate, they only summarized these as the master's natural talents.
The only thing the three eunuchs need to do in the Yongwang Mansion is to study, but if they don't understand something, they will ask the master, and they will not dare to say that they will not be a teacher in the junior high school of the next generation.
The reason why three eunuchs were chosen to come to the school as teachers is also a matter of no choice, Zhu Houwei, as a prince, can't be idle and be a teacher every day, right, it's possible to make a cameo, full-time?
That's it......