After hearing what he said, the crown prince Zhu Changxun, who was sitting in front of Qian Menggao, said, "Master Qian, what you said is not right!" ”

Qian Menggao was slightly stunned.

"If the king dares to ignore the dignity of a small people today, he will dare to ignore the dignity of the lives of 100,000 small people tomorrow, and even ignore the people of the world in the future."

Zhu Changxun continued to expound his views at this time.

He was deeply taught by Zhu Yijun's words and deeds in the past, and he developed the character of daring to question the teacher.

Qian Menggao had no choice but to say yes, and then honestly told Zhu Changxun about the four books.

At the end of the lecture, Qian Menggao came to the Shoufu Mansion and saw Shen Shixing: "Yuanfu." ”

"How about you, let you be ordered to test Your Highness, can you see whether Your Highness is wise?"

Shen Shixing asked.

Qian Menggao smiled: "Wisdom and take the initiative to think!" ”

Shen Shixing bowed his head: "Your Majesty has guided well." ”

Qian Menggao echoed and said, "What Yuanfu said is true. ”

Then, Shen Shixing walked into the study room and gave Qian Menggao the newly printed books that still had the scent of ink: "This is a new textbook of several Hanlin Academy, which has been recompiled on the basis of the original textbooks used in Xingming Academy, and now only three courses have been recompiled, namely Chinese language, arithmetic, and national history; The selection of the national literature is the proposition of all kinds of representatives of the hundred schools of thought and the articles, poems, songs, and fu of the great literati of the past dynasties, etc., and the textbooks do not praise or disparage the ideas and works, but only explain the meaning, and then let people understand it themselves; The same is true of arithmetic, in addition, history has selected the most powerful historical events in history, such as Wei Huoping Xiongnu, Yaoshi exterminating the Turks, and Wu Mu resisting the Jin Cavalry; and the most hurtful historical tragedies, such as the Five Hu Chaos, the Five Dynasties Rebellion, the Shame of Jingkang, etc. ”

"According to the holy decree, this will be the next teaching material for the prince to study, and you lecturers will follow this teaching, and you will be responsible for the national language."

Shen Shixing said at this time.

Qian Menggao was stunned when he heard this, and then took the textbook.

"This textbook is not preachy, only let His Highness perceive the greatness of China from the context and heroic stories, the shortcomings of China, this is to cultivate His Highness in the way of new rites, it seems to be aimless, but in fact there is a purpose, the purpose is to let His Highness think, and then produce wisdom, once so, even if it is not the Lord in the future, it will be holy!"

"This Shenwu County teaches the prince like this, it is simply to make the prince become another generation of powerful kings, and it is still difficult to separate the human lord and the human saint!"

When Gu Xiancheng met with Ying Tianxun and Du Ruoqi, he also received a letter from Qian Menggao, and he learned from Qian Menggao's letter that Zhu Yijun and Shen Shixing directly compiled new textbooks in order to prevent the prince from being taught badly, and asked the lecturer of the East Palace to teach the prince according to the textbook, so he complained about Du Ruoqi.

Du Ruoqi also slapped the table angrily and got up and said: "The sage has already written the truth of the world clearly, how can I write my own textbooks and study the classics on behalf of my generation?" And it's not written by the words of the saints, it is only to display the story of the proposition, not to do the needle, which is equivalent to letting His Highness grow freely, in case His Highness is crooked because of this, are they worthy of my emperor and ancestors, and are they worthy of the world? ! ”

Du Ruoqi spread his hands and looked at Gu Xiancheng as he spoke.

"It's come to this, there's nothing to be done!"

After Gu Xiancheng said with a wry smile, he said: "But the prince doesn't have to worry too much about this matter, although His Royal Highness will be smart, but it is the trend of the times that people in the world want to protect the orthodoxy of the old rites, and it is difficult to reverse the general trend if Rao is the crown prince." ”

Gu Xiancheng said and pointed to the scholars who were already standing in the courtyard outside and said to Du Ruoqi: "Look, these are all in the name of Mu Gong who came to my Donglin to listen to the lecture, which shows that they are the same as the Gong, they are more interested in keeping the old rites and orthodoxy, and they are the bureaucrats who will make up the entire temple in the future, no matter how powerful Your Highness is, you can't completely deviate from them, the reason for this is that the first person in the field is still mainly our eunuchs, and the officials who test them are also our eunuchs. Who wants to make most of them nobles? ”

"Therefore, in the future, the new and old rites, whose master will not know!"

Du Ruojia bowed: "Then start lecturing, the new party teaches the prince, we priests, and everything will be handed over to the next generation!" ”

Gu Xiancheng said: "Exactly! ”

As soon as Du Ruojia and Gu Xiancheng came out, the scholars who came to listen to the lecture gave up their hands one after another: "Mr. Donglin, Mr. Introspection!" ”

After Gu Xiancheng founded Donglin Hall, many scholars and doctors living in the countryside gradually came here to find their own kind, and it was convenient to complain and complain.

As a result, Gu Xiancheng soon got the name of "Mr. Donglin".

"Thanks to Mr. Donglin's invitation, I will come here today with a shy face to show off to all the talents, in my opinion, as a person to learn the first important virtue, virtue is not right, then everything can not be ......"

Du Ruojia also said so at this time, and began to explain his ideas to these scholars.

Time flies, and before I know it, it has reached August of the sixteenth year of Wanli, and the township test of the Ming provinces has just ended.

In response to God, the examiner Zuo Zhongyun Min Shouzheng has been locked in the Gongyuan to review the recommendation papers of each room.

However, when he reviewed the papers, he did not read the content of the articles, but silently counted the number of "zhi" characters that appeared in each article.

Min Shouzheng nodded after counting, and then read the article seriously, and said to Yang Yingkui after leaving the tribute court:

"Many articles in the children of the eunuchs are really difficult to get to the top, I am ruthless and degraded, give them a long memory, so as not to be too ugly when they get it, most of the splendid articles of the children of the poor family can not be on the list, but the articles of the children of the eunuchs are indiscriminate, I really hope that the children of the eunuchs can study more diligently."

"I last book, please ask the Son of Heaven to make the world's school and political inspectors stricter, and you can't let the children of the eunuchs fall casually and blindly don't take their careers seriously."

Yang Yingkui replied.

And in October, when Tianfu Township tried to release the list, as Gu Xiancheng expected, most of the Chinese-style people were still the children of famous eunuchs.

"It's off the list again."

"My family has raised me for nothing again."

"Why do you often visit the Qinglou in school, and even Tang Yin has been in Xie Yuan, and the servant of Mrs. Pan, who doesn't know that he has been in Xie Yuan, has actually won Yayuan?!"

And many poor students were still extremely disappointed when they saw most of the list articles, and they complained one after another.

Bo Chen Tongwen, the former official of the Tianfu Rite House and the current master of the Gongyuan who is responsible for collecting and processing the scrolls, saw that his son was not successful, and he had an extra heart, so he took advantage of his position not to process the ink scroll but took it home and read it all night, and then he found out the clue and told his son about it.

But Chen Tongwen did not plan to throw this matter into the secret box of the post station in the form of a secret report, but found Min Shouzheng and said: "I found your secret, if you don't make up my son when you make up the record, don't think about it!" ”

It turned out that because Zhu Yijun repeatedly issued edicts to increase the number of people after he ascended the throne, a situation was formed that he would make up the record after the release of the list in each imperial examination, so as to avoid making the scholars waste time because he said that the next increase in the number of places would take one or three years to make the scholars waste, so they simply made up the records after a period of time, but the number of places to make up the records was not much, but the gold content was the same.

Chen Tongwen now wants to use this to threaten Min Shouzheng.

Min Shouzheng smiled slightly after hearing this: "Okay, don't worry, but how did you find out?" ”

Chen Tongwen told Min Shouzheng the reason for his discovery.

Min Shouzheng didn't say anything more after hearing this, and only let him go home.

But that night, Chen Tongwen's house was on fire.

As soon as Chen Tongwen ran out, he stabbed a person who suddenly rushed in the chest, and this person whispered to him: "Our lord asked me to tell you that you lowly officials, according to the teachings of Taizu, are not worthy of being an official or worthy of the imperial examination!" Dare to threaten Shi Eun, he is simply unworthy of being a human being! ”

(End of chapter)