Chapter 123: Changxin Palace
In addition to being amazed by Jing Buzhi in terms of learning, Xi Siming's martial arts are actually stronger than other students in Bailu Academy.
After all, he is from the land of Wenzong in Hanzhou, and everyone's average is high. Moreover, it is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, where Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and many top sect masters gather, geniuses and ghosts emerge in an endless stream, and even most of the people on the heroic list have lived and traveled there, so he is naturally inconspicuous as a Confucian disciple who is good at learning.
But when he was put in Xizhou, he immediately became extremely conspicuous, and when he stood out from the crowd, he became an unrivaled object in the eyes of students. Therefore, it only took him one day to become famous throughout the academy.
Xi Siming himself is gentle and elegant, and his manners are decent, so that everyone who knows him is like a spring breeze, and he is also an atmospheric person, and he does not refuse the students in Bailu Academy who want to ask him for teaching. Therefore, in just ten years, he has been admired and loved by the young students of the school.
In fact, this is also due to the fact that there are too few local colleges and there is a lack of competition. White Deer Academy gathers the top students in Xizhou, but they have little opportunity to communicate with other senior colleges. In addition to having less knowledge, he is also relatively simple, and now that he has met someone who is smarter than himself, he basically does not have any jealousy or filth, but wants to learn from each other from the bottom of his heart.
This is also a good thing to respect and not disobey the teachings, as the so-called leading by example, Dean Jing himself is an upright and strict person. And what is more precious is that he is very good at training the character of his disciples and teaching them how to behave. Therefore, even if his knowledge is not in the eyes of the Confucian people in Hanzhou at all, under his teaching, most of the disciples of Bailu Academy can be regarded as meeting the character requirements of Confucianism for disciples. At least in this respect, their average is much better than that of the mixed Hanzhou Confucian students.
In general, Xi Siming easily integrated into Bailu Academy. And in terms of his knowledge, he only needs to precipitate and think by himself, and he doesn't need Dean Jing to teach anything. On the contrary, the latest theories and thoughts of Hanzhou brought by him enriched the hearts of the students who were thirsty for knowledge in the academy, and even Jing Buzhi often sat down with him to discuss, and even invited him to give lectures to the young people of the academy.
Confucianism does not use the relationship between master and apprentice to clearly inherit like Buddhism and Taoism, but to teach and solve doubts as teachers and students, a teacher will have many students, and a student will not have only one teacher, which is also the way Confucius left.
But after all, after so many years, everyone has been fighting together for so long, obviously they will consciously or unconsciously absorb the advantages of others, at least in the theory of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, they can also see the traces of each other's reference, and there is no history without the power of integrating the three.
Although the Confucian method can spread one's own teachings on a larger scale than the master-apprentice relationship, there is less intimacy and trust between the teacher and the student, which leads to a certain gap between the two. Therefore, in order to prevent teachers from hiding their secrets without trusting their students or students from turning their backs on their teachers, Confucians would look for students with excellent qualifications to pass on to them. This is actually a disguised master-apprentice relationship, but the name is different. And the core knowledge and skills of Confucianism are basically only passed on to these students who follow their own ideas.
As the dean of the college, Jing is theoretically the teacher of all the students of the college, but there are still some differences between relatives and aliens. As a person, he will not hide his secrets from his students, and he will teach everyone the basic and even more advanced knowledge fairly.
But everyone has different qualifications and different ideas, and he will naturally only pass on his core ideas to those students who truly identify with him and have the ability to learn. And now there are only two relatives who are still by his side, Lan Zuyan and Ning Dehai.
Speaking of which, these two are young but well-qualified, in their early twenties, they are already in the congenital realm, and they also have their own unique views on the understanding of Confucian classics, so they are respected and have high hopes. It's just that because he was born in Xizhou, the teachings he received are not as good as those of the scholars in the Central Plains, otherwise with the talents of the two of them, they should not be lost to everyone when they are thrown into Hanzhou.
Jing Buzhi also understood that staying in Xizhou would not be profitable, so he planned to let the two go to the Central Plains to study. After decades of operation, he also has one or two connections in Hanzhou, and he can recommend them when the time comes, and it is not a disappointing talent. It's just that he thinks that these two disciples are still too young, their temperaments are not completely stable, and there is a matter that needs their assistance recently, so he plans to talk about this matter later.
It just so happened that Xi Siming came to Bailu Academy at this time, so he asked the two disciples to have more contact with him, so that he could understand Confucianism and cultural theories in Hanzhou in advance, which could be regarded as a preparation.
In this way, Xi Siming and Lan Ning quickly became familiar with each other.
In the process of the interaction between the three of them, because of some omissions by Ning Dehai, Xi Siming came into contact with the problem they were studying by chance, which turned out to be the location of the ruins of the Changxin Palace of the former Eighth Princess of Zhou, which surprised him very much.
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The so-called Changxin Palace, although it is only a palace, is not ordinary.
It is a palace built by Emperor Zhou Ming, the emperor of Zhongxing in the Zhou Dynasty, for his eighth daughter, Princess Changxin, which has been two thousand years ago. Moreover, this palace is not in the palace of the Zhou Dynasty, not even in the national capital, but in the fief of Princess Changxin.
Each prince and princess has a fief, but the other princes and princesses basically only rule the fief in name, but in fact they are managed by officials of the imperial court. This eighth princess is the only daughter of Emperor Ming who can manage her own fiefdom, and in her fiefdom, even the imperial order is sometimes not easy to use, and Emperor Ming also let it go, which shows how much he loves this daughter.
And the eighth princess has lived up to high expectations, she has been smart and clever since she was a child. Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, tea art flower arrangement, embroidery female red, even dance and ink, poetry and songs, and statecraft are all understood. Others may not be able to learn in a lifetime, but she can be proficient in a short period of time.
The most powerful thing is that the eighth princess is not only talented in miscellaneous studies, but also has amazing talent in martial arts. At a young age, she traveled all the way unimpeded, and the pass in the eyes of others was equivalent to non-existence for her, not only did she achieve an external god in less than twenty-five, but also modified the martial arts classic "Martial Emperor Amazing Book", which was only suitable for men, and turned it into her fundamental exercise "The Amazing Book of the Empress", and even advanced to heaven and man with this.
Changxin Palace is the palace that Emperor Longyan Dayue spent countless times to build for her after she became an outer god, although the size of the surrounding gardens is only a few hundred acres, but it is only because the eighth princess has to build it on the top of a mountain, which is really not enough place. In order to compensate his daughter, Emperor Ming put a lot of effort into the interior decoration, which is said to be far more luxurious and beautiful than Emperor Ming's palace.
Although Princess Changxin is also proficient in statecraft, on the one hand, she is not recognized by the ministers as a woman, and on the other hand, she is not interested in politics, so she does not show her intelligence in the court, but puts her interest in the rivers and lakes.
After the completion of Changxin Palace, she used this palace as the basis to establish a Jianghu sect - the Empress Palace.
In fact, this name also caused a lot of turmoil in the court at that time, and some ministers thought that this was a great disrespect to the emperor, not to mention that the eighth princess was just a woman, how could she be called "emperor"?
However, Emperor Ming just laughed and said: "I have never heard that people in the rivers and lakes have such a title as the Sword Emperor and the Sword Emperor, and I have never seen you shouting so loudly, why can't my daughter call herself the empress today? I am the emperor of the world, and Xiaoba is the empress of the rivers and lakes, how so?"
The ministers looked at each other, those warriors who could be called "emperor", "emperor", and "king" were basically heavenly powers, how dare they point fingers. In addition, because Emperor Ming was the emperor of Zhongxing in the Zhou Dynasty, he was very authoritative, and he agreed with the self-title of the eighth princess, so the ministers naturally would not be bored with themselves, just as if they didn't see it.
Originally, everyone, including the people in the rivers and lakes, thought that the Empress Palace was just a toy for Princess Changxin, but she didn't expect that she not only improved her own realm rapidly, but also took the Empress Palace, which was only composed of ladies and grandmothers in the palace, to attack the city on the rivers and lakes and win all battles.
By the time the people in the rivers and lakes came to their senses, the Empress Palace had become a behemoth, cooperating with the authority of the eighth princess in her own territory, and all the nearby Jianghu sects were uprooted, including even a first-class faction. They also continued to expand outward, fully occupying the land of Sanzhou, and when Princess Changxin was promoted to a celestial in her early thirties, the other sects completely lost their temper with the Empress Palace, and this sect composed entirely of women also became the latest top sect, standing at the top of the martial arts.
(Ah, it's late again.) Ah, procrastination is so anxious and happy at the same time. )
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