Chapter 641: Economic Science and History

The next day, Lin Yanchao asked Sun Chengzong and Chen Jichuan to go to Zhen's mansion with anchovies and a few gifts to discuss relatives. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But Sun Chengzong and Chen Jichuan came back to tell the Zhen family that they did not agree to advance the marriage.

Sun Chengzong's reply seemed to say that the Zhen family had other plans.

Lin Yanchao didn't listen to it anymore, so he put the matter aside for the time being, and waited for Lin Yanshou County to discuss it after the trial release list.

After dissecting his heart with the Son of Heaven, Lin Yanchao also let go of his hands and feet when he was doing things.

Lin Yanchao is 'in the opposition' anyway, and he is not idle for a moment, of course, he focuses on lecturing.

Every morning, Lin Yanchao would go to the school hall to give lectures and teach his disciples homework.

In the morning, the scholars will give lectures, and in the afternoon, the scholars will do their own thing, but the scholars who have nothing to do will still stay there to study and study.

Tao Wangling and Xu Huobo, as Lin Yanchao's 'personal disciples', are also very prestigious among their protégés, and Lin Yanchao also handles academic affairs for him.

In the past month of lecturing, some people have learned things freshly, and some people have mundane things in their bodies, saying goodbye to Lin Yanchao, or saying goodbye without saying goodbye.

But more people choose to stay, and every day outside the school hall, there are people who want to worship Lin Yanchao's door.

After the lecture in January, Lin Yanchao's protégé post has more than 300 people.

The maximum number of scholars attending the class was as high as 200.

From this, it can be seen how the school hall can accommodate so many people.

Therefore, every time Lin Yanchao lectured on the scriptures, the hall was full, and even in front of the lecture hall, many disciples sat on the ground. Even the windows outside the hall were crowded with scholars who came to listen.

Despite the large number of people, when the lecture was held, nearly 200 scholars were silent, both inside and outside.

Sometimes Lin Yanchao was in the hall, looking at the scholars listening to his lectures, the eyes eager to learn, and his heart couldn't help but be touched.

Thousands of years ago, when Confucius gave a lecture at Xingtan, I don't know if this is the case?

When I saw Yan Jun lecturing in Hualin Temple, I was envious in my heart, and I thought that the saint would deal with himself with righteousness and benevolence, and then walk in the world with the way of the teacher!

I may be able to be like Yan Jun one day!

After more than ten days of lectures, Lin Yanchao will divide what he has learned into two categories: classics and history.

Historically, Confucius taught his disciples poetry, calligraphy, etiquette, and music, and divided his disciples into four subjects, namely virtue, speech, political affairs, and literature, which were also called the four branches of Confucius in later generations.

Virtues include Yan Yuan, Min Ziqian, Ran Boniu, and Zhonggong; Words have slaughtered me and Zigong; political affairs have Ran and Ji Lu; Literature has Ziyou and Zixia.

And Lin Yanchao made the credits of merit into classics and history.

Science does not attach so much importance to reading history, Zhu Xi once said that reading history is only like watching people fight each other, and there are very good things about fighting each other. Therefore, the science advocates the two words of the scriptures, and there is a saying that the books of non-five classics and Confucius and Mencius are not read, and the studies of non-Lian, Luo, Guan, and Min are not taught.

In later generations, the Qing Dynasty raised people not to read history books, but asked Taishi Gong which dynasty was a big joke.

Lin Yanchao expressed serious opposition to this.

Reading and studying should also be divided between reason and qi, Tao and instrument.

For example, the scriptures are the Tao, then history is the instrument.

If the Six Classics are the way of the inner sage, then the history books of the past dynasties are the study of the outer kings, recording the methods of the emperors of the past dynasties.

Reasoning is like reading more scriptures, but if it is not combined with historiography, what use can it be? Only by combining the study of scriptures with historiography, using history to make up for the shortcomings of scriptures, and looking for historical laws and historical experiences, is the way to learn and apply the scriptures to the world.

Therefore, Lin Yanchao lectures on the scriptures one day and history on the other day.

The study of the Four Books and the Five Classics is similar to the lectures of Confucian teachers in daily life.

As for the history department, it pays attention to the fit between theory and practice, discusses the gains and losses of the rise and fall of the past dynasties, and focuses on the way to apply it to the world.

After the lecture, Lin Yanchao will answer questions, which is limited to five questions a day, and then assign homework after answering questions.

The economics homework is the current literature, and the history homework is the questioning.

The next day, Lin Yanchao commented on the articles of several people who had written better among his protégés.

These are basically the arrangements for Lin Yanchao's teaching.

After class every day, Tao Wangling, Xu Huobo, and several protégés, they will list a handout of what Lin Yanchao said in class.

The lecture notes are mainly Lin Yanchao's lectures on the study of the scriptures, the discussion of historical books, and the dialogue with his protégés, and the words of solving doubts, similar to the Analects. It's just that in the process of solving doubts, let the students attach their own experiences and discuss and confirm each other.

Lin Yanchao would look at each written handout at first, and then directly handed it over to Tao Wangling and Xu Huobo to do it for his protégés to copy.

This handout is called "Xuegongtang Miscellaneous Treatises", and what the disciples didn't understand during the day can be borrowed and copied, and the scholars who have no chance to worship under Lin Yanchao's door are also vying to study it.

"Xuegongtang Miscellaneous Treatises" comes out about every two days.

This handout, which combines Lin Yanchao's views on scripture and historiography, from Lin Yanchao's disciples, to scholars who are interested in forestry, and finally even the scholars in the capital are vying to read it.

A handout turned out to be expensive in Luoyang paper.

Even many traders heard the business opportunity and hired someone to copy a copy of the "Xuegongtang Miscellaneous Treatises" in the Xuegongtang, and then immediately copied it by hand, or went to the bookstore to engrave it, and then went to the bookstore in the capital, and sold it to the scholars in the bookstore, making a lot of money from it!

Tao Wangling and Xu Huobo heard about this, so the two of them made an idea to make "Xuegongtang Miscellaneous Treatises" a school journal.

So the two came to Lin Yanchao together to discuss.

Xu Huobo said: "Teacher, I estimate that I can collect daily lecture notes, which are published every half month, and many academies in Beijing also print and sell academic journal anthologies in this way. It's like the idle grass collection of Lianjiang Academy back then. ”

Lin Yanchao asked, "How much can it be sold?" ”

Xu Huobo said: "For now, the scholars like to read the miscellaneous treatises we compiled. If we print a school journal and sell at least 500 copies a day, this is still because many poor students cannot afford to spend money, so they have to copy it by hand. ”

"How many articles does that journal need to sell?"

Xu Huobo said: "We have found a familiar bookstore, the boss said that counting the number of papers, printing work, ink money, we should be counted as two cents and a half cents per word of ICBC, and now we are as cheap as two cents." Five crosses are one tael, and a journal with 5,000 words or more is worth 100 taels. ”

"If we sell 500 copies, that one copy is worth two cents, which is quite cheap. For students, they can afford to pay for it. ”

Lin Yanchao frowned when he heard this: "Your account is not right." ”

Xu Huobo scratched his head and said, "Teacher, I can't be wrong with Wangling for this account repeatedly." ”

Lin Yanchao said: "You only have the share of the bookstore, but you don't count it, a piece of two dollars of silver, so aren't you working in vain?" ”

Xu Huobo smiled and said: "Teacher, where is it, this is what our disciple is willing to do, so do you serve Mr." ”

Lin Yanchao shook his head and said, "How can something that is not profitable be done. ”

Lin Yanchao thought to himself at this moment that it was time to introduce the concept of newspapers.