"Brother, brother?"

Shen Chen's call brought Zhuge Liang back to his senses.

He smiled embarrassedly, and just said, "Uncle Liu Huang also came to Jingzhou?" ”

"Yes, he's in Nanyang now."

Shen Chen said: "Back then, I was favored by the emperor's uncle, so I escaped with my life, and luckily took my clan to leave Xuzhou and migrate to Nanyang. During the crusade against Cao Cao, Uncle Liu went south to gather the old Yuan clan and jointly attack Xu Du with me, and I also greatly admired Uncle Huang's benevolence and righteousness. ”

"Uncle Huang can go to Xuzhou alone to save the disaster, it is indeed worthy of the name of benevolence and righteousness."

Zhuge Liang didn't say much, but echoed noncommittally, and then said: "So you plan to build a school in the township in the future?" ”

Shen Chen nodded: "Not only to build a school, but also to improve the system." ”

"Improve the system?"

Zhuge Liang didn't quite understand what this word meant, and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

Shen Chen explained: "The so-called system is to rearrange the chaotic things and arrange them into order. Nowadays, the teaching of the Han Dynasty is often fragmented and incomplete. A lot of people take a book and study in the East and the West when they travel, which is not a good thing. ”

"And how are you going to improve the system?"

Zhuge Liang said: "If you want to do such a big thing, I'm afraid it will not be easy." ”

"It's not easy."

Shen Chen sighed and said: "I think that in order to build a school, the first thing is to teach students to read and write more easily, so it is necessary to build a new Mongolian learning system, which I have drafts, but what is more difficult is how to put forward the essence of each classic, and it takes a lot of time to get rid of the dross." ”

In this era of extremely high barriers to entry, it is very difficult to acquire knowledge, and when you first enter the threshold, you have to learn classical Chinese, understand the meaning of each word, and then interpret the words and sentences.

Moreover, in the Seven Classics of the Han Dynasty, there are still a large number of rare characters and traditional characters, which also lack punctuation and conformity, and the pronunciation is different in different places, which makes it difficult for civilians to go to school.

The entrance threshold is high, the starting point is high, and the upper limit is also higher, without that kind of top talent and perseverance, it is difficult for the people at the bottom to have a bright future.

This is why home studies are popular.

Because family learning is essentially a kind of experience transfer, the family elders have already helped you complete the accumulation of knowledge in the early stage, you can learn from the elders for a long time, and the difficulty of acquiring knowledge is greatly reduced.

In this way, if there is knowledge from generation to generation, and if you can be an official from generation to generation, you can establish a family of gate valves.

The common people and the people at the bottom did not have this kind of condition, resulting in a large number of talents above the poor family in the Han Dynasty, and the talents below the poor family were extremely withered.

Shen Chen's current plan is to establish a complete system of Mongolian learning, such as developing pinyin and punctuation marks by himself, simplifying rare characters and traditional Chinese characters as much as possible, and creating a culture that is more conducive to the people at the bottom to grab knowledge.

But that's just the beginning.

The Seven Classics can be regarded as being organized, but the system is not comprehensive. If Shen Chen wants to establish a perfect learning system, he must treat traditional culture as mentioned in the high school political book in the nine-year compulsory education in later generations, "take its essence and remove its dross." Push through the old and bring forth the new, reform the old and bring forth the new".

Zhuge Liang was very curious about how Shen Chen planned to extract the essence and get rid of the dross, so he asked, "I can help you with this matter, but Ah Chen, you have to tell me what to do." ”

"The first thing to build a school is to teach students to read and write, and the second is to cultivate their spirit." The sage observes the appropriateness of yin and yang, distinguishes the benefits of all things, so as to live, so that the spirit is at peace. "A person's morality lies in its spiritual embodiment, and to cultivate its spirit, it is necessary to cultivate its benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, filial piety, honesty, shame and bravery, sincerity, diligence and elegance."

Shen Chen said: "It's just one education by one, and it is no longer appropriate to interpret it according to the Seven Classics. Therefore, we must summarize and summarize the disciples, such as teaching the disciples to love the country and the people, cultivating their sense of national identity, and shaping their moral spirit of loyalty and filial piety, so as to complete the moral establishment of the disciples. ”

To put it simply, it's a bit like high school politics, teaching you to have the right outlook on life, values, and worldview.

Don't think that high school politics is a product of the new era, in fact, its cultural core is the traditional virtues that we have had in China since ancient times.

For example, benevolence and filial piety, humility and courtesy, honesty and knowledge, loyalty to the country, self-denial and public service, self-cultivation and prudence, seeing the righteousness of the truth, diligence and thrift, honesty and generosity, courage and perseverance, etc.

These virtues are the essence of traditional Chinese Confucian culture, and based on this, the 5,000-year history of China has shaped the national identity of the Chinese nation and the strong cohesion of the Han people.

Moreover, in the Han Dynasty, the talk of national identity was not a new thing, and it existed from the beginning of the Shang and Zhou dynasties until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Huayi's debate, Zhuxia's relatives.

There is also the Zhou Dynasty's sub-feudal system, ritual and music culture, and finally to Qin Shi Huang's domination of the world, the same track, the same book, the same line, the same region, the same weight, and the same shape of the currency, which together formed the foundation of the national identity of the Chinese nation.

It's just that the previous situation of national identity existed objectively, not subjectively. There is no clear ideological dominance to strengthen people's sense of cohesion.

This makes those scholars who have read the book have a sense of superiority over the people at the bottom, and in the case that everyone is also a "person", the family oppresses the people at the bottom a lot, and they don't treat the people as people at all.

Therefore, Shen Chen had to extract a large amount of the essence of Confucianism, annotate it himself, and subjectively teach this ideology to his students, so that they would be more patriotic and love the people.

When these students are successful in their studies in the future and can replace those gate valve families and become the new official base, it will be the time when the gate valve family will be destroyed.

In a sense, what Shen Chen wants to establish can be called a party, or a certain school valve!

It's a pity that it's easier said than done.

At present, he has not even taken the first step to establish Mengxue, many things are just an idea, and have not yet been practiced, and he needs to step by step, become bigger and stronger, and create brilliance.

But the good news is that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are now both defeated, and their two sides will buy Shen Chen enough time to win the title.

At least within ten years, he should be able to complete the cultivation of this system.

So for now, although it is only the beginning, there is still plenty of time, even ten years later, he is only twenty-five years old, and there is still a lot of time in the future.

Zhuge Liang was very interested in this constructive idea put forward by Shen Chen, so the two discussed the details.

The more they talked, the more excited they became, as if two entrepreneurial collaborators had come up with a new entrepreneurial idea together, working all night to supplement details, improve the plan, and contribute to the cause.

The day after tomorrow, on the 21st day of December in the fifth year of Jian'an, Shen Chen left Zhuge Liang's house, set off for Weiting, reopened the school, and prepared to teach.

Now his reputation cannot be said to be a household name, at least it is famous all over the world.

In October, the fire burned Xudu, and in two months, it spread all over the north and south of the river, and even Han Sui Ma Teng of Xiliang knew that there was a young man in Nanyang who burned Xudu with soldiers and horses, and the people of Jingzhou naturally heard of his name.

Therefore, when the news of Shen Chen's reopening of school was brewing for a day, not to mention the sensation in the surrounding countryside, they brought their children to study, and said that those poor families and powerful people in Xiangyang City couldn't help but want to visit.

After all, Liu Xian really values Shen Chen very much, and he already plans to recruit him as an official after he is promoted to the next year, and he is already a Yunfeng figure in Jingzhou.

The most important thing is that he is not very old, he is only fifteen years old this year, the future is promising, and the investment space is also very large, so there are countless people who want to cling.

This caused a large number of people outside the school on the first day of school, and there were as many as thousands of people who wanted to seek scholars on the first day, so Shen Chen had to conduct a certain degree of assessment, no longer accepting all students, and there must be a certain talent and age limit.

But even if it is screened, this work has lasted for several days, and the daily applicants are like crucian carp crossing the river, and it is almost the end of the year, I am afraid that at least this year may not be able to officially start school and take a class.

And just when Shen Chen was busy teaching, north of Fancheng in Nanyang, there were several knights coming at this time, all the way south, heading towards Fancheng.

Liu Bei rode on horseback, far away from the city at the end of the distant horizon, wiped the dust on his forehead, and said: "Second brother and third brother, that should be Fancheng, I heard that Fancheng and Xiangyang are only separated by water, and after Fancheng, you will arrive at Xiangyang." ”

"I didn't expect Nanyang to be so big, from north to south, it took three days to arrive, if you come here from Youzhou, I'm afraid it will take a month or two."

Zhang Fei took off the water bladder from the horse's waist and poured two sips.

He followed Liu Bei to the north and south when he was about twenty years old, and after more than ten years, he traveled all over the Central Plains, this was his first time in the south, compared to the dryness of the northern winter, the humidity of the southern winter made him a little uncomfortable.

"Big brother, someone is coming."

Guan Yu looked into the distance and saw that there was an army in the direction of Fancheng that seemed to be coming this way.

When they got closer, they saw that it was a guard of honor.

In the front are more than a dozen horses carrying knights to open the way, and in the rear are left and right attendants, samurai, axe carts, chariots, slaves, servants, chariots, and so on.

The one in the middle has a huge umbrella cover that covers the entire car.

The scientific name of this thing is called Huacani, Liu Bei said when he was a child, "Yubao covers the car", in fact, it refers to this thing.

Many people read this paragraph of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and thought that Liu Bei had dreamed of becoming an emperor and rebelling since he was a child.

But in fact, the "Yubao cover car" is not exclusive to the emperor, and the three dukes and generals are also eligible to use it, but the size will be relatively smaller than the canopy used by the emperor.

Now Liu Biao is worshiped as a hussar general, in terms of political status, the position is the same as the level of Cao Cao, only a little worse than Yuan Shao's general, and he is currently one of the highest-level officials in the entire Han Dynasty, and he is naturally qualified to cover the car with Yubao.

It's just that what makes Liu Bei frown a little is that the Yubao covered car used by Liu Biao is similar to that used by Liu Xie in terms of shape, and his carriage is actually the sixth car of the Son of Heaven.

In other words, he is actually using the specifications of the Son of Heaven to take advantage of the public opinion.

"Big brother, the Son of Heaven rides the public opinion."

Guan Yu also noticed this.

At the beginning, Liu Bei went to Xudu to defect to Liu Xie, and often followed Liu Xie in his early years, so he naturally knew what Liu Xie's Son of Heaven honor guard was like.

Now seeing Liu Biao's public opinion, Liu Bei and Guan Yu, the two people who understand, sighed in their hearts.

It seems that this Jingzhou Mu does not seem to be a good courtier who is loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

"Could it be that Liu Biao wants to rebel?"

Zhang Fei is not a fool, and he can guess the reason.

After years of training, Liu Bei already had a heroic spirit, and immediately said: "Second brother and third brother, don't be impulsive, we will treat it as if we don't know anything, and we must obey Liu Biao before he openly rebels." ”

Forbear!

This is the best ability Liu Bei learned after going to Xu Du.

People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.

If he didn't forbear, I'm afraid that when he was in Xu Du, he would have already had his head cut off by Cao Cao.

Guan Zhang naturally knew this, so he hurriedly adjusted his face to prevent others from seeing anything unusual, and turned over and dismounted with Liu Bei, and walked towards Liu Biao.

The two sides quickly approached, and when they got closer, the main horsemen on both sides moved out of the way, and Liu Bei walked into the honor guard.

At this time, Liu Biao got off the car and laughed: "Xuande! ”

"Jingsheng Gong!"

Liu Bei hurriedly took two steps to him, bent down and arched his hand: "Bei, meet the clan elder." ”

In the patriarchal law at that time, there were sayings such as the eldest descendant, the second Yong, the three xi, the four qi, and the five wu, such as the eldest son of Chen Wang Liu Chong was the eldest descendant, and the rest were the first line of the second Yong.

Liu Chong's eldest son inherited the position of King Chen, and the rest of the sons will get some county marquis and township marquis and other titles, and the sons they gave birth to became Sanxi, and then gave birth to Sixi, and then gave birth to Siwu, and when they reached Wuwu, they basically belonged to the clan bloodline, but no clan title.

For example, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty belongs to the four emperors, but he is only the lowest level in the clan, if he does not inherit the throne, except for the eldest son, the rest of the people are Wuwu, no different from the common people, and they are no longer considered powerful.

And Liu Bei and Liu Biao are both Wuwu, and their bloodlines are already relatively far away, and they are regarded as side branches of the side branches, and they are not eligible to inherit in the case of the continuation of the Eastern Han Dynasty regime.

But Liu Biao is not what he used to be, he is now a hussar general, or a marquis of Chengwu Jingzhou Mu, and his status is extremely high.

Therefore, Liu Bei called him the head of the clan, firstly, to show respect. Second, as a junior of the clan, he visited the elders of the clan, so as to shorten the relationship and distance between the two sides.

Liu Biao was very happy when he heard that he worshiped himself as the head of the clan, and took Liu Bei's hand affectionately and said, "Xuande is talented, and his name is well deserved." Our clan is of the same origin, and now the country is declining, and only by relying on the descendants of the clan like Xuande can we take advantage of the distance and protect the world. ”

"Praise it."

Liu Bei sighed and said: "I don't want my ancestors to collapse and the people of Sheji and Li to be robbed, so I am willing to do my best." Only the people in the open sea want to add to themselves, embrace the south of the river, between the five lakes, and the world can be powerful, so as to support the universe and set the tide. ”

"Hahahaha."

Liu Biao took Liu Bei's hand and walked to the carriage, laughing as he walked, and said, "Xuande and I will take this car to Xiangyang together." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare."

Liu Bei hurriedly withdrew his hand, bent down and saluted: "Gongzhang is righteous in the world, and it is already a great fortune to be taken in by the kindness of the public, how can I ride with the public?" Please be fair and prepared to ride with you, and protect the public. ”

"Hmm."

Liu Biao showed a satisfied look in his eyes, and seeing Liu Bei's respect, he was even more comfortable, so he said: "Xuande is a guest from afar, how can you let Xuande protect him?" He will not ride with me, but he will ride in a carriage. ”

After that, he pulled Liu Bei to the carriage next to him and asked him to go up.

In fact, Liu Bei in history was more important than Liu Biao, when Liu Bei was the left general Yuzhou Mu, and Liu Biao was just the Zhennan general Jingzhou Mu, and the status of the two sides was Liu Bei high and Liu Biao was low.

Therefore, when Liu Bei came to Jingzhou, Liu Biao personally went out of Fancheng ten miles to greet him, gave him a grand welcome ceremony, and also prepared a higher standard reception etiquette for him.

But at this time, Liu Biao's status was higher and Liu Bei's status was low, so although the specifications were also very high, it was actually his own travel specifications that were pompous, not to prepare a high-level ceremony to welcome Liu Bei.

Liu Bei refused to ride with him, and the internal reason was that he refused the invitation to sit on an equal footing with Liu Biao, and secretly expressed his willingness to attach the tail wing.

Obviously, Liu Bei also saw that Liu Biao was testing him, so naturally it was impossible to be fooled.

And Liu Biao was also very satisfied when he saw Liu Bei's humble attitude.

Although it is their own territory, who wants to have a higher official position than themselves in their own territory, and they are not willing to follow them?

So this performance between the two is actually playing with each other's hearts.

If Liu Bei was really stupid to follow Liu Biao into the car, then Liu Biao would probably have to kill him when he turned his head.

Therefore, to a certain extent, Xu Du's experience has indeed made Liu Bei already proficient in the way of power and strategy, and the city government has grown a lot, and he is no longer the stunned young man who dared to take thousands of people to fight hard when he was in Xuzhou.

At that moment, Liu Bei took Liu Biao's entourage carriage, took Guan Zhang and more than a dozen other knights to follow Liu Biao's team, entered Fancheng, and then took a boat to Xiangyang.

(End of chapter)