The grand scene of anticipation that Fang Xiaoru was looking forward to came, in Yingtian City, as long as he was literate, almost all of them crowded to the gate of the Guozijian, and kept Fang Xiaoru and the remaining members of the Guozijian busy. Fang Xiaoru's hands trembled when he recorded the list, and he only felt that all the words he had written in his life were not as many as the names of the people he recorded this morning.

The popularity of Enke's registration gave birth to the emergence of a profession in Yingtian City, that is, the second-tier dealer who is responsible for buying on behalf of him, which is called "Xiaop" at this time. Enke is to recruit tax envoys, and the holy decree also clearly states that the content of this scientific expedition will account for a large proportion. So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and hug the Buddha's feet, and make up for the evil!

Among the many bookstores in the city, all kinds of classics related to arithmetic, such as "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" and "Zhou Ji Sutra", were all swept away by the literati. In the past, some literati were poor and knew nothing about arithmetic, but they could not buy books, so they had to buy them at a high price from second-hand dealers. And most of those second-way dealers do not know how to write and ink, and only know how to hoard books that seem to be related to arithmetic, so that a joke was made, and some irrelevant books were also swept away because they had the word "art" on them, such as "The Thirty-six Hands in the Room of Dong Xuanzi".

Lao Zhu made a holy decree, and the trouble was expensive, and the dealers and booksellers made a lot of money.

In the meantime, there was also a small episode, some students who dropped out of the Guozijian after looking through all the arithmetic classics on the market, were stunned to find that none of these obscure arithmetic books were more concise and clear than those of the gentleman in the Guozijian.

In the past, they felt that Zhu Su was insulting them by asking Li Jinglong and Xu Yungong, the second ancestors of the noble family, to teach the students, and that they were not worthy to teach them these reading seeds after Wu Xun. Now they have the opportunity to reach the sky, they could be one step ahead of the others, but they have cut themselves off. So they all regretted it, and they all gathered in front of the gate of the Guozi Prison, praying that Zhu Su would regain their access to the door wall.

In their opinion, the Guozijian is now extremely lacking, as long as he lowers his posture and gives enough to the young Highness, the young Fifth Highness will have no reason to refuse them.

Zhu Su didn't say anything about this, but sent a boy and told these people that as long as they could defeat this child in the scriptures, Guozijian could bring them back into the gate.

The scholars only thought that Zhu Su couldn't pull his face, so he deliberately put down this somewhat humiliating step for them to go down. But now that the scientific expedition is imminent, they don't care. This child doesn't look amazing, his skin is rough, and he has calluses on his hands, and at first glance he is not a child of a scholarly family.

Unexpectedly, although this child seems to be ordinary, he is really scary in his chest, and often in a few words, he reveals the mistakes and omissions in these students' opinions, and refutes everyone as incomplete.

This group of students all looked like dirt, and after contributing another folk joke after Mei Ziyi and Qi De, they hid their faces and left.

This child is Tie Xuan, the younger brother of Tie Zhong and the future famous minister of the Ming Dynasty. Watching these literati and scholars retreat, he was still quite puzzled, and privately found Zhu Su, who was rarely busy, and asked: "Master, since you don't want to take them back to the door wall, why didn't you explicitly refuse at the beginning, but asked the disciples to humiliate them?" ”

"After all, they have also learned arithmetic in prison, and compared with those Confucian students outside who have never been exposed to arithmetic, the chances of getting into the academy are undoubtedly greater."

"You told me that now that the Ming Dynasty is in the time of revolution and innovation, we should twist into a rope and unite all the forces that can be united, so as to achieve the great cause that our ancestors and sages have not achieved."

"But why do you want to keep them out, so that these literati who may be in the court in the future will have a grudge against you and make enemies out of thin air? Aren't you afraid that they will hate Xinxue and pull us back in the future? ”

Zhu Su was reviewing Song Lian's freshly released article at the time, and when he heard this, he put down the article in his hand and looked back at this disciple who had not been with him for a long time, but was extremely studious and devoted to the sake of Xinxue. He opened his mouth and said to Tie Xuan: "Xiao Xuan, there is a cloud in the "Analects of Taber", "The people can make it, but they can't know it." What do you think of this sentence? ”

was suddenly asked by Shizun, Tie Xuan was obviously stunned for a moment. He lowered his head and thought for a while before replying: "The disciple thinks that Cheng Zhu's explanation of this statement is very appropriate, Cheng Zi Zengyun: 'The sage sets up a teaching, not because he doesn't want people to be known and known, but he can't make it known, but he can make it come by. If it is said that the saint does not make the people known, it is the art of the future generations, how can the heart of the saint be? ’； Zhu Zi also once said: "The people can make it a matter of course, but they cannot make it know why it is." ’”

Cheng Zhu's interpretation of this sentence criticized the "foolish people's theory" that had been popular in the Han and Tang dynasties, arguing that Confucius did not think that the people were stupid and unteachable. Rather, he believed that the original intention of the saint was that "it is possible for everyone to follow the avenue, but it is impossible for everyone to know that the avenue is impossible." ”

Although Zhu Su's new school opposes Cheng Zhu, the academic dispute is not a party dispute, and it is not a life-and-death struggle. As a new scholar, Tie Xuan can calmly admit the merits of Cheng Zhu's learning, which makes Zhu Su quite gratified.

"You're right." Zhu Su touched Tie Xuan's slightly yellowed forehead. "You have to remember what Confucius said, to do something, you don't have to wait for everyone to understand and agree with your proposition."

"If you want to accomplish something, you should make more friends and fewer enemies. But you can't pursue this so-called friend, everyone is of the same mind as you, and they all agree with your ideals and ideas. How to get a lot of friends, the 'quantity' of these friends is obviously more important than the 'quality'. ”

Tie Hyun was thoughtful, but after all, his experience was still shallow, and there were still doubts in his eyes. Zhu Su smiled and continued to point at him:

"As a teacher, I have never advocated excessive worship of sages and saints, and I have counted merry people, and I still look at the present day! However, we must also selectively absorb the valuable experience of the sages, and we must not be arrogant and think about tearing down and starting over. ”

"Even in the court, many people, even the vast majority of people, can't actually see too far, even if they teach him the principles of sages and sages, etiquette and righteousness, for them, it is only used as a step into the body."

"Confucius knew thousands of years ago that the people were 'unknowable', not 'difficult to know', but 'unknowable'. It shows that the saints also have a denial attitude towards whether they can educate everyone. ”

"So the vast majority of people, do they have to ignore it? Is it necessary to exclude them from the great cause of national rejuvenation? Think about it, what should we do to these people? "Zhu Su is seductive.

(End of chapter)