Chapter 2 Liu Song

The office is a seven-room tiled house. Outside there is a large yard planted with locust trees.

The locust tree has many symbolic meanings. In the Tang Dynasty, Huai was often used instead of the imperial examination. Therefore, in such occasions as Guozijian, the most planted locust tree is the locust tree.

Liu Song and He Xi sat down in the office. Liu Song said: "It's messy here, Lord He will just take a look, in fact, I'm also very strange, it stands to reason that Guozijian has enough business." Why do you ask for this position? ”

He Xi said politely: "Lord Liu, just call me to save it." He paused slightly and said, "If someone asks this question, I will never say it." But Lord Liu asked, I can only tell the truth. ”

"I'm here because Your Majesty meant it."

Liu Song's face suddenly became serious. said: "Please also ask Lord He to solve my doubts." ”

Before He Xi came, he had analyzed who could win over these people and who could not. He felt that Liu Song could be wooed. Because although Liu Song is a scholar, he is also a master of the literary world, and he has an important influence in Jiangxi. What's more important is that Liu Song was able to retreat from the ups and downs of the sea, which proves that Liu Song knows people's hearts and understands the overall situation, and is not an ordinary Confucian minister.

If Song Ne's ordinary Confucian minister, He Xi knew that it would not make sense at all, but a person like Liu Song could explain it.

He Xi smiled slightly and said, "Master Liu, do you still remember that Old Master Song played on his deathbed before. ”

Liu Song said: "You mean opening the imperial examination? ”

He Xi said: "Exactly. His Majesty has been pondering this matter. So. Let me take a look at the country. ”

This sentence is very meaningful. Implicit but not revealing.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked He Xi to go to Guozijian, naturally he had a mission. As for whether it is a matter of examining the imperial examination. But it's something else.

He Xi wants to implant the scholarship of later generations into the education of this era. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang just gave a big goal. did not give He Xi detailed rules, and did not even say what to let He Xi do.

Very simple. If anything, Zhu Yuanzhang has to teach him by hand. Then He Xi's value in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes is greatly discounted.

He Xi also figured out the personnel arrangements of Guozijian before he came. In the Guozi Prison, Song Ne covered the sky with one hand. Of course, this is also a rule of the imperial court system, if in a yamen, a Zhengyin official has no power, it is a strange thing.

It can be said that all the power of Guozijian is in the hands of Song Ne.

It's just that Guozijian is different from other yamen.

The other most important things in the yamen are people, money, personnel rights, and financial rights. With these two things, everything else is unfavorable.

But Guozijian is essentially a school. It is not the officials who are in charge, but the students.

Money and power are important, but ideas are the most important. Or learn what is most important. The reason why Song Ne was able to control the field was certainly related to Song Ne's authority, but Song Ne himself was also a master of science. Biography of Zhu Ziyan. is honest and square, although the teaching is a little stricter, but in this era, pay attention to strict teachers and high apprentices.

If there were no these, Song Ne would also be unable to sit firmly in the position of the national eunuch.

He Xi also thought about how to break the situation, and in general, it was difficult to support a lonely tree. Always find a helper from within the Guozijian, if you have to ask for a request, let Zhu Yuanzhang help you do it. It seems that He Xi is incompetent.

Liu Song is someone who can be wooed.

But how to win over is learned.

He Xi's sentence seems to be unclear. After all, if Your Majesty wants to open the imperial examination or not, why should you let people inspect the Guozijian?

But Liu Song understood.

Without him, in the past ten years, although there have been various ways to take scholars, Guozijian is still the largest. After the Northern Expedition, there were several occasions when hundreds of prisoners were transferred north to serve as officials. After the imperial examination, it is difficult to say whether Guozijian can remain the same as before.

However, Song Ne supported the opening of the imperial examination.

This is somewhat contradictory.

Of course, if we do not simply regard the imperial examination as a method of selecting scholars, it is a kind of stability maintenance, and the ruling policy of the scholars and doctors, there is no contradiction.

But Liu Song understands that His Majesty's suspicion of many scholars and doctors is very clear.

Is it suspicious of Song Ne's intentions? Is it to look at the teaching quality of Guozijian? Is it to examine whether Guozijian can replace the imperial examination? And so on and so forth.

The more vague he said, the more Liu Song thought about it.

However, Liu Song made a decision easily, he coughed twice, and said: "Since it is what Your Majesty meant, if you want to know, just ask me." ”

Liu Song is not a person from Guozijian in essence, he just came to Guozijian to retire, you must know that after the Ming officials retire, there is no money. As for the later retirement and half-food, it was also added by later generations.

And people in their sixties, who have been outside for most of their lives, have much affection for Guozijian.

He knows better what kind of person His Majesty is today? So this option is easy to follow.

He Xi smiled slightly and said, "Then thank you Lord Liu." But there's no rush at this time. It's the first time I've arrived today. The situation inside the Guozi Prison has to ask Lord Liu for some advice. ”

Liu Song said: "It's okay, in fact, Guozijian is very simple. It's nothing more than the officials of the Guozijian, some officials of the Guozijian, and the students. Although Song Ne is square, as long as he doesn't commit crimes, he won't do anything to people. Most of the teachers in Guozijian are also knowledgeable and have good cultivation. Can't do anything too out of the ordinary. As for the students, they all came to study from the local tribute, to the good. In addition, there are a lot of subsidies from the imperial court, including grain, sesame oil, eggs, and the queen also subsidizes the families of the students. Naturally, there is nothing wrong. But the sons of the Xungui family are not easy to do, and fortunately, His Majesty ordered Cao Guogong to raise the title of national eunuch. Cao Guogong came several times, and he was beaten and wailed all over the ground. And they were much more settled. ”

"Only those officials are not very honest."

"Song Ne has taught all his life, and he doesn't know too much about some things that are flying and doggy. Got by the villain. But it's not serious. Otherwise, the students will really make trouble, and it will not end well. Naturally, no one overstepped the bounds. Go and remind Song Ne. ”

He Xi pondered the internal affairs of the Guozijian in his heart. It's not much like what he'd investigated before. said: "Lord Liu, what should I do in this business?" ”

Liu Song smiled lightly and said, "It depends on it, what do you want to do, Master He?" ”

He Xi said; "What do you mean by that?"

Liu Song said: "Guozijian is in business. In fact, it is the second of the sacrificial wine. Responsible for the teaching of Confucianism. However, Song Ne is a sacrificial wine, and I am here to support the elderly. However, there are also a few classes to be taken occasionally. Lord Ho should be careful. ”

He Xi immediately understood what Liu Song meant.

The discipline of Confucianism, this responsibility is both big and small. If it is only the responsibility of teaching, it is probably the director of teaching, or at most the director of education with the title of vice principal. But if the headmaster above had put his heart into this, there would have been nothing to do with the dean.

It must be known that although Guozijian claims to be huge, it is essentially just a school with more than 2,000 people.

Not much of a thing.

But in general, Guozijian, as the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty, has a lot of additional powers, such as the right to interpret Confucian classics, although this power is not exclusive to Guozijian. The Hanlin Academy can also speak on this. But as long as it doesn't make too much trouble, Guozijian is authoritative in some respects.

As a scholar, Song Ne will not give up this power.

Liu Song is old, so naturally he didn't think about fighting.

And He Xi paid special attention to Liu Song's reminder.

That is, generally speaking, although the school officials at all levels of Guozijian do not directly manage students, it is Guozijian assistant teachers who are directly responsible for managing students. However, there are some teaching tasks that are tasked with by academic officials at all levels. This is also inevitable. After all, there are not too many officers in the school. But a few dozen people. You can't let the clerks teach the students.

For people like Liu Song, it is not a problem at all, and it is even easy to come by, four books and five classics, history, calligraphy, and so on. I can't talk about that. But here in He Xi, it may be a problem.

Teaching is not good, but it will be punished.

If Song Ne asked Liu Song to take it, it would be to let He Xi live in Guozijian. Liu Song didn't say it at all, he saw that it was impossible for He Xi to live in Guozijian. In this way, the matter of teaching is likely to be a difficult place for Song Ne.