Wanli Youming

Chapter 531 Compiling teaching materials and making the prince a powerful king!

Chapter 531 Compiling teaching materials and making the prince a powerful king!

Prince Zhu Changzhen who was sitting in front of Qian Menggao heard what he said, and said, "Master Qian, what you said is wrong!"

Qian Menggao was slightly taken aback.

"If the king dares to ignore the life and dignity of a small person today, he will dare to ignore the life and dignity of a hundred thousand people tomorrow, and he will even ignore the people of the world in the future."

At this time, Zhu Changzhen continued to explain his views.

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

Qian Menggao had no choice but to say yes, and then honestly told Zhu Changxuan about the Four Books.

When the lecture was over, Qian Menggao came to the mansion of Shoufu, and met Shen Shixing: "Yuanfu."

"How about it, you are ordered to test His Highness, can you tell whether His Highness is wise?"

Shen Shixing asked.

Qian Menggao said with a smile: "Hui and take the initiative to think!"

Shen Shixing nodded: "Your Majesty has guided you well."

Qian Menggao echoed and said, "Yuan Fu said so."

Then, Shen Shixing walked into the study room and gave Qian Menggao the newly printed books that still had the smell of ink: "This is a new textbook compiled by the Hanlin Academy on the basis of the original textbook used for Xingming Academy. Now only three subjects have been re-edited, namely Chinese Literature, Mathematics, and National History; Chinese Literature selects various representative opinions of various schools of thought and the articles, poems, songs, and Fu of great literati in the past. The teaching materials do not praise or criticize the opinions and works, but only explain The meaning, and then let people understand it by themselves; the same is true for arithmetic. In addition, history has selected the most exciting historical feats in history, such as Wei Huoping the Huns, Pharmacists destroying Turks, and Wu Mu resisting the Golden Horse; and the most heartbreaking historical tragedy, Such as the chaos of the Five Dynasties, the chaos of the Five Dynasties, the shame of Jingkang, etc."

"According to the imperial decree, this will be the teaching material for the prince to study next. All of 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 after hearing this, and then took the textbook.

"This textbook does not teach, but only allows His Highness to perceive the greatness of China and the shortcomings of China from the context and hero stories. This is to cultivate His Highness in a new way. It seems to have no purpose, but in fact there is a purpose. The purpose is to let His Highness Thinking is produced, and then knowledge is produced, once this is the case, even if it is not the master of the human being, it will be holy in the future!"

"This way Shenwu County teaches the prince, it is simply to make the prince a powerful king again, and it is still difficult to separate the master and the saint!"

Gu Xiancheng also received a letter from Qian Menggao when he met Du Ruoqi, Ying Tianxun's official, and he knew from Qian Menggao's letter that Zhu Yijun and Shen Shixing directly compiled new textbooks to prevent the prince from being taught badly. Let the East Palace tell the official to teach the prince according to the textbook, and because of this, he complained to Du Ruo.

Du Ruoqi also angrily slapped the table and got up and said: "The sage has already written clearly the truth of the world. How can we be able to compile our own textbooks and replace the classics? And it's not written by the sage's words. , is only displaying the stories, not making criticisms, which is tantamount to letting His Highness grow freely, and if His Highness grows crooked because of this, will they be worthy of my emperor, ancestors, and the world?!"

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

"The matter has come to this, there is nothing to do!"

After Gu Xiancheng said something with a wry smile, he said, "But you don't have to worry too much about this matter. Although Your Highness is smart, it is a general trend that people in the world want to protect the old rituals and orthodoxy. Even if the prince is like this, it is difficult to reverse the general trend." .”

As Gu Xiancheng spoke, he pointed to the scholars who were already standing outside the courtyard and said to Du Ruoqi, "Let's see, these are all from Donglin in the name of Mr. Mu, which shows that they, like Mr. The etiquette is orthodox, and they are the bureaucrats who will form the entire temple in the future. No matter how powerful Your Highness is, he cannot completely deviate from them. Officials are also members of our official ranks, and it’s okay for ordinary people to jump over the dragon’s gate, but who would really let most of them become dignitaries?”

"So, in the future, the master will not know the old and new rituals!"

Du Ruojia nodded: "Then start lecturing. The new party teaches the prince, and we teach the sons of the scholars. All the situation 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 clasped their hands together: "Mr. Donglin, Mr. Introspection!"

After Gu Xiancheng founded Donglintang, many scholar-bureaucrats living in the countryside gradually came here to find their own kind, so that they could complain and complain.

Therefore, Gu Xiancheng soon got the title of "Mr. Donglin".

"Thanks to Mr. Donglin's invitation, I am here today to show off to you talented people. In my opinion, morality is the first thing to be learned. If morality is not correct, nothing can be done..."

Du Ruojia also said the same at this time, and began to explain her views to these scholars.

Time flies, and before you know it, it is August of the 16th year of Wanli, and the provincial examinations in all provinces of Ming Dynasty have just ended.

Ying Tianzhu examiner Zuo Zhongyun and Min Shouzheng have been locked in the Gongyuan to review the recommendation papers of each room.

However, he did not read the content of the article when he reviewed the file, 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 courtyard:

"Many articles by the children of officials are really difficult to be elegant. I cruelly dismissed some more to give them a memory, so as not to be too unsightly in time. Most of the splendid articles of the children of poor families can't make it to the list. As a result, the articles of the children of officials are too much. , I really hope that the sons and daughters of officials can study more diligently."

"My last book, I ask the emperor to issue an order to make the world's academic and political supervisors stricter, and we can't let the children of officials and eunuchs sloppy and degenerate, blindly ignoring their careers."

Yang Yingkui responded accordingly.

But in October, when the Yingtianfu Township Examination released the rankings, as Gu Xiancheng expected, most of the Chinese-style students were still the children of famous official families.

"Fall again."

"The family has raised me for nothing again."

"How come Mr. Pan, who often visits brothels in school and doesn't even know that Tang Yin has won Xie Yuan, won Ya Yuan?!"

And many poor students were still extremely disappointed when they saw the announcements, and complained one after another.

Bo Chen Tongwen, the former clerk of the ceremonial house in Yingtian Mansion and now the recorder in charge of collecting and processing the manuscripts in the Tribute Court, saw that his son was not selected, so he was too careful and took advantage of his position not to dispose of the manuscripts but to He took it home and read it all night, and then he discovered the clues, and told his son about it.

However, Chen Tongwen did not intend to report this matter to the informer box of the post station. Instead, he approached Min Shouzheng and said, "I have discovered your secret. If you don't include my son in the supplementary recording, you will be punished." Don't think about it!"

It turned out that after Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he repeatedly issued edicts to add more candidates, so the situation was formed after each imperial examination was released, so as to avoid wasting time for scholars because it was said that the next increase in the number of places would be one or three years later. , just make it up after a period of time, but there are not many places to make up, but the gold content is the same.

Chen Tongwen just wanted 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 of his discovery.

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

But that night, Chen Tongwen's house was caught in a fire.

As soon as Chen Tongwen ran out, he stabbed a man in the chest who rushed over suddenly, and the man whispered to him: "Our master told me to tell you, you lowly subordinates, according to the instructions of the ancestors, You are not worthy of being an official or an imperial examination! How dare you threaten officials, you are simply not worthy of being a human being!"

(End of this chapter)