Chapter 51: Outer Disciples
Ye Xianggao and Chen Wencai are very clear about the details of the academy.
The college is divided into outer house, upper house and inner house. There are 30 people in the outer dormitory, and there are 20 students in the inner dormitory, and there are only 10 students in the upper dormitory. The students in the class and the students in the internal class are the most outstanding disciples of the academy, and many of them are children who have passed the county examination and the government examination.
As for the foreign students, most of them still haven't taken the county exam, the government exam, and most of the ones who have taken the exam are named Sun Shan.
Outside students, class students, and internal class students are ranked according to their test scores, and those who are excellent are promoted and those who are deficient are dismissed.
This system of fast and slow classes has been criticized a lot in modern times. But at that time, it was a regular system, and the inventor was the famous Wang Anshi.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi divided the Tai Credits into three classes: the outer house, the inner house, and the upper house, and the monthly examination was supplemented and promoted, and the imperial examination was abolished, as a way for the country to take scholars. Although the law was abolished with the failure of the reform, it was adopted by local government schools and academies.
In the Song and Ming dynasties, the academy mainly focused on scientific research, and the three-rounding method was mostly adopted.
After a stick of incense, the three of them came to the ground with their books.
On the plaque on the door of a courtyard, the word "outer house" is hung, and there is a large house in the courtyard with windows on all sides and facing north from the south.
The big room faces three rooms in the south, the center is the lecture hall, the left and right sides are the wings, surrounded on three sides, and there are ring corridors outside the study hall wings. There are two plum trees planted in front of the patio, and the four words of Ermei Book House are written on the door of the house, which is said to be the plum tree planted on the patio, and the door is written very appropriately.
In the Ermei study room, all the students sitting in the academy were talking, and they were all reading seriously. When the three of them saw this scene, they also relaxed their hands and feet, and each walked to the empty desk and sat down.
There were no chairs in the study room, and the disciples were all sitting on the ground, and after sitting on the ground, Lin Yanchao raised his head and looked at the beams, which made the hall even more open but large. There are no pillars on all sides, and not only can you see the lecture at a glance, but also the shoulders and backs of the surrounding disciples.
Because this book house is a single house, the lighting on all sides shines directly in, and the windows are bright and clean, which feels very good. Compared with the dimly lit and humid Hongtang Sociology Lecture Hall, the conditions are really better.
However, it may be that there are 30 people in a classroom, and the table is much smaller than that of Hongtang Social Studies, only half a person wide. The books that Lin Yanchao brought with him were not enough to spread on the desk, so they could only be placed under and on both sides of the desk, so he couldn't sit with his legs stretched, so he had to sit cross-legged on the table.
The front and back were very close to each other, and the disciples around him were all immersed in reading books, and the lecture hall was quiet, only the rustle of turning books was heard.
Even if it is a foreign house, the disciple's attitude of focusing on learning is better than Hongtang Social Studies.
Lin Yanchao lightly took out a bamboo tube from his bookbag and put it on the shore, the bamboo tube was covered with a lid, and it was filled with water, which could be drunk when he was thirsty. Lin Yanchao found that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of drinking water in class, probably because they were afraid that the water would easily wet the precious books.
They all prefer to go outside to the water tank to scoop water to drink after class. Lin Yanchao opened the bamboo tube, drank a sip of water, wiped his hands dry, and then sat down.
He glanced left and right, and the disciples on the side were all co-authoring the book "Mencius" and reading the "Commentary on Mencius".
Mencius is the most difficult book among the four books, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang did not like Mencius, and as an exam-taking book, Mencius was deleted a lot of words that were not conducive to imperial power, such as punishing a husband.
Lin Yanchao thought that he was probably going to talk about Mencius later, so he talked about "Mencius's Collected Notes" from the book bag and spread it out on the case. As soon as Lin Yanchao entered the school, the academy gave him a set of annotations on the collection of chapters and sentences in four books engraved in a private workshop.
This is Lianjiang Academy's own version of the book, made of yellowed bamboo paper, although it is not very good, but the line binding, engraving are very fine, and there are few errors and omissions in the book, and there are few fallacies.
Although it is a new book, no one has ever used it, which makes Lin Yanchao, who likes to read other people's notes, a little disappointed. However, in the two months since his rebirth, after reading a lot of ancient documents, Lin Yanchao has also begun to get used to it.
Open the book, the page with the fragrance of rue, rue can be used to dispel beetles, the so-called scholarly door, the fragrance of books is the fragrance of rue.
The pages of the book were turned over, the paper was crisp, and Lin Yanchao immediately read with great concentration.
After being reborn, he can enter this realm of selfless reading at any time. The feeling of having no distractions and forgetting time is as if an old monk is sitting still, and the whole person is immersed in a sea of books, which is really wonderful.
I read and studied by myself for an hour in the morning, and I came in only after talking about Lang Linliao.
Speaking of Lang Lin Liao, he was born as a prince and a tribute supervisor.
You must know that the prison students are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, like Zhang Xiang, who entered the prison with his father's shadow, even if the boy who has no fame knows his origin, he will be respectful on the surface, but he will laugh twice behind his back. Tribute eunuchs like Lin Liao are different, only the students in the government school and the county school are eligible to pay tribute.
Lin Liao, as a tribute supervisor, in terms of academic qualifications, crushed the people below one qiē. Lin Yanchao heard that after Lin Liao left his school, he was appointed as a professor of county studies, focusing on the Five Classics and teaching students.
Lin Liao worked for two years, and because of his political voice, he was promoted to judge of the Imperial Court. Lin Liao said very willfully, Wu An can give up Qingjin to the horse club. This sentence is to the effect that I would rather teach students in the county school than deal with the merchants of the city. So Lin Liao resigned and went home to teach.
The level of the tribute supervisor is already like this, if the mountain is long and the forest is the fifth, and the township test in Jiajing's ten years is fifth, what kind of course has his knowledge reached!
After Lin Liao checked his coursework, he started to lecture directly, and he talked about the first half of the seven articles of "Mencius", the first half of Liang Hui Wang. Lin Yanchao has not yet learned Mencius, but he is no stranger to this one, there is a chapter in it, and the widow is also in the country.
The widow is also devoted to the country. If Hanoi is fierce, its people will be moved to the east of the river, and its millet will be moved to Hanoi; The same is true of Hedong. It is said that King Liang Hui said that he was very dedicated to the governance of the country, and when there was a famine in Hanoi, he moved the people there to Hedong and transferred the grain from Hedong to Hanoi; This was also done in the face of famine in Hedong.
Lin Yanchao took this article to talk about things, and wrote that King Hui was a prince of a small country, and in the time of famine, he could still move the people of Hanoi, so as to take advantage of the millet in the east of the river. This large passage of words to Zhou Zhixian relieved his urgent need and did something for the people of his hometown.
Facts have proved that reading books is still very beneficial, and especially quoting scriptures can add a lot of color to one's words.
As a lecturer in the academy, Lin Liao did not blindly teach everyone how to take the imperial examination. When he preached to his students, he often said, "When I preach to the students, you should be considerate of yourself, and this sentence has nothing to do with you, whether you can learn this chapter of the book, whether it is lawful or not, and whether it is possible to prescribe it, and say that it is with two things, and make it clear, and if he violates it in the future, he will be responsible for the book he has spoken."
Remember, I want you to learn the ancient sages' method of reading and establishing oneself, and fame is the use of the last stream. Zhu Zi said that there is no obstacle to doing business, but there is no obstacle to ambition, so you must be cautious.
Lin Yanchao couldn't help but approve when he heard it, these two sentences are the true bearing of a scholar, pursuing fame, but not being burdened by fame, so he will not worship under this person's door in vain.
Lin Yanchao was reading the book, and on the other hand, he pondered the meaning of it step by step, but he came in a hurry today, and he didn't study enough. Therefore, Lin Liao couldn't understand Lin Yanchao's speech, which was like a junior high school student who suddenly went to a university lecture hall to listen to calculus, and his eyes were black.
But if you don't understand it yourself, others can understand it, which shows that the gap between Lin Yanchao and her classmates in the outer house is still a bit big.
Lin Yanchao simply picked up the pen, picked up the pen to dip it in ink, and wrote down Lin Liao's words in the blank space in the book. In the past, he had the habit of memorizing lecture notes when he was studying, but now that he can't understand it, he decisively writes it down and keeps it for after class to figure it out slowly.
When the classmates on the side saw Lin Yanchao's strange behavior, they didn't understand it, because they all had the foundation of the four books, and Mencius had read them at least two or three times, not like Lin Yanchao who read it for the first time.
Seeing that Lin Yanchao was struggling to write, Lin Liao glanced at it, so he slowed down his speech speed by three points.
After talking for more than an hour, Lin Liao closed the volume and asked the disciples to read the book, Lin Liao's rule is to finish the book before the evening, and then teach "Mencius" after tomorrow King Liang Hui.
After a while, the leisurely bell rang and it was time for lunch. After retreating, Lin Yanchao attached the handouts to the book, cleaned up the table, and picked up the bamboo tube. Go and scoop water in the water tank next to the ear room, where the water porter of the academy fills it every day.
All the disciples walked out of the lecture hall to let off steam, and no matter how diligent they were, they were tired after sitting for so long. Lin Yanchao looked at the past, although there were thirty disciples in the outer house, they were not very old, most of them were about the same as themselves, the oldest was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest was ten years old.
Then the chef took the burden of lunch and came to the book house.
There was no canteen in the outer house, so the disciples of the academy took the food box from the chef, Lin Yanchao looked at two large meat buns, a fist-sized steamed bun, and a small plate of pickles with side dishes.