Chapter 39: The Transaction Before the Apprenticeship
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Before the Han Dynasty, learning was a private commodity of various families, and few people taught it openly, so the Confucian saint who accepted disciples at that time was so respected. But even so, Confucius said that he only accepted seventy-two people, and it is recorded that "there are five or six people with crowns, and six or seven boys" add up to exactly seventy-two, but according to research, Confucius should have about 2,000-3,000 disciples in his life, but there are not many famous ones, just a few.
In history, Confucianism's contribution to education was indeed one step ahead of its hundreds of schools, and the idea of equality of "education without class" was no less than the gospel from heaven for people at that time.
In the fifth year of Yuan Shuo (124 B.C.), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who overthrew the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, adopted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion of "May Your Majesty prosper Taixue, place famous teachers, and raise the people of the world", founded Taixue in Chang'an, and taught Confucian classics such as "Poems", "Books", "Rites", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn".
Although the Taixue suggested by Dong Zhongshu was mixed with his own private goods, and was not as eclectic and inclusive as the universities of later generations, for the ancients in BC, it was already a blessing to have a place to learn knowledge.
At that time, most of the knowledge was treasured by the major families, and it was easy not to show it to others, let alone pass it on to people who were not their own families, so the establishment of Taixue was no less than a hurricane in the academic world, which further established the status of Confucianism.
"The Book of Rites: The Royal System" records: "The prince lives to teach, and then learns." The primary school is on the left of the south of the Gonggong, the university is in the suburbs, the Son of Heaven is called Biyong, and the princes are called Pan Palace. The "Biyong" here is the prototype of the national university, and the "Pan Palace" set up by the princely states is a local university established in imitation of Taixue.
After the continuous increase of the emperors of the Han Dynasty, Taixue from the beginning of the Han Wu Emperor small scale of 50 students, to the Han Zhao Emperor reached 100 people, the Han Xuan Emperor increased to 200 people, the Han Yuan Emperor exceeded 1000 people, the Han Cheng Emperor 3000 people, Wang Mang was even more skyrocketing to 10000 people, to the Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor was already "study tours, to more than 30,000 lives".
What is the concept of 30,000 students? The number of students at a later university is basically the same.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the boarding dormitories of Taixue students alone had "240 rooms and 1,850 rooms", not to mention others.
When the students gather together, they are all enthusiastic young people, and it is inevitable that they will have some small opinions and opinions about the national policy, and they will all think that if one day I become an official in such and such an aspect, what will happen......
It's okay to talk about it, but it can't help but be encouraged by people with a heart, Taixue students have participated in national politics several times, and when the Western Han Dynasty mourned the emperor, Wang Xian, a doctoral disciple, had gathered more than 1,000 Taixue students in order to rescue Bao Xuan, the captain of the school who did not enforce the law. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Chen Fan, Li Ying and others opposed the arrogance of the eunuchs, and they also gathered a group of students to respond, so these students also became the targets of the eunuchs, and many people who were implicated in the party were imprisoned. It is recorded that more than 1,000 students were arrested and imprisoned by eunuchs, and Taixue was even shut down for a time.
In the later period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the people who were the scourge of the party were rehabilitated, and of course they reopened Taixue and began to recruit students.
It stands to reason that Fei Qian is already a Lang official, so he doesn't need to take the road of Taixue, but Cai Yong is an important doctor of Taixue, and Cai Yong alone teaches classes such as "Poems", "Books", "Spring and Autumn", "Erya" and special piano music classes, and these classes are not students who want to take that class can take that class, it depends on Cai Yong's mood, there are only two days a month to attend classes, and the specific content of the class is decided by Cai Yong himself, just tell the Taixue steward a few days in advance to announce it.
Therefore, every time a new student of Taixue is enrolled, Cai Yong is invited as a doctoral representative to participate in the entrance ceremony of Taixue students. Cai Yong asked Fei Qianyi to make up for the apprenticeship ceremony when the new students of Taixue were enrolled, on the one hand, because the most solemn ceremony of the apprenticeship was the entrance apprenticeship ceremony of Taixue; On the other hand, it also shows the importance of Fidun.
Therefore, Fei Qian prepared the cultivation ceremony needed for apprenticeship early, and stood behind the students in this year's autumn class, waiting for Cai Yong's call.
However, Cai Yong's private apprentices naturally could not hold a group student apprenticeship ceremony for the Taixue Autumn Class before official business.
Today's new students in the autumn class are all wearing green clothes, that is, blue collared deep clothes, wearing student crowns, forming a phalanx, standing neatly.
And after the phalanx of students, Fei Qian was wearing a long crown suit, the outside was a silk jacket under the cyanosis, and the inside was a silkworm dress under the blue top, wearing a long crown.
Fei Qian felt that everyone's eyes were always looking at him at every turn, and he felt a little uncomfortable, but after all, he had been cultivating in the workplace in the later world for a long time, although he felt a little awkward in his heart, but you definitely couldn't see it on his face, the standard toothless smile was hanging, standing steadily, motionless.
Fei Qian felt awkward herself, but she didn't know that many others were about to spew little stars in their eyes - Cai Yong's new disciples, tsk...... It's still a new official, tsk tsk...... He's still so handsome, huh...... I heard that I haven't married yet, oh oh oh......
Unlike Fei Qian, who endured the gaze in the crowd, Cai Yong was a little depressed when he saw Liu Hong on the side - I asked you to come to watch the ceremony, but you are well, wearing the same doctor's uniform as me, what do you want to make trouble......
In fact, Liu Hong is also the teacher of the "Sutra Calculation" class specially invited by Taixue, and naturally he also has a set of doctor's uniforms, but Liu Hong has not told Cai Yong, and Cai Yong has not asked Taixue's steward......
Taking advantage of the sound of the Taixue students' apprenticeship ceremony, Cai Yong secretly asked Liu Hong in a low voice: "What do you want to do?" ”
Liu Hong said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "I think the bundle of cultivation brought by Ziyuan is good, how about sharing half of me?" ”
Cai Yong glared, it turned out that you were coming to rob the disciple with me, and snorted: "Break it!" ”
Liu Hong didn't care about Cai Yong's attitude, after all, he wanted to rob other people's disciples, and if someone else wanted to rob his disciples, it was estimated that his attitude would be worse than Cai Yong's.
However, Liu Hong had already prepared, and leaned closer slightly and said: "I accidentally got a volume of the Yellow Emperor's "Daoyuan Sutra" when I was in Huiji County before, if you, uh-huh......
Cai Yong was taken aback: "The Original Book of the Dao? Do you mean the "Tao Yuan Sutra", one of the four classics of the Yellow Emperor? Isn't it lost? ”
"I've read it, it's undoubtedly the "Tao Yuan Sutra", and it is estimated that this is the only one in the world......"
Cai Yong pondered for a long time, and replied reluctantly: "It's not possible, it's just a book, I have a collection of thousands of books at home, and it's not bad for that volume." Although he said this, the twitching flesh on his face told Liu Hong that Cai Yong was actually very reluctant.
"Ahem, how about adding another 'green qi'? If you don't want to do it again, I'll have to take it back and be my Liu family's heirloom......"
"Sima Xiangru's 'Luqi'? Don't you want to blame me? Cai Yong glared at Liu Hong and said.
"A peerless book and a peerless piano are just for half of your disciples, hurry up, just one sentence! That's the "Dao Yuan Sutra", the 'Green Qiqin'......"
Cai Yong closed his eyes and gritted his teeth for a while, and finally said weakly in a low voice: "You can only take half of it, you can't ...... more"