Chapter 436 New Trend of Thought

Author: sole red

Chapter 436 New Trend of Thought

The new session of examination will start in early March.

So in mid-February, Song Qingyue once again lived with Li Zhao in the small courtyard next to the cabinet.

The little boy must be worried about leaving him alone at home.

No matter how many servants took care of him, he could not feel safe under his nose, so Song Qingyue took A Fang, Zai'er, Mo Zhu, Mo Mei, and a milking cow to the small yard this time.

The amount of milk produced by oxen is not as much as that of cows, but it is enough to supply the cubs.

In fact, goat's milk is more nutritious, but the little kid is picky and can't get used to drinking goat's milk. Even the little kid was a little bit repelled by the milk at first. If his belly wasn't so hungry that he couldn't bear it, he would have to choose to accept it.

And now I'm used to it.

As a child, you just can't be spoiled. You have to be ruthless when you need to be ruthless.

Although Aunt Bai can understand Song Qingyue's parenting philosophy of "a loving mother often loses her son", she is just like the little prince's grandma. The little boy's little brow furrows slightly, and he feels so distressed that he really can't harden his heart.

.Now that she has Afang, Song Qingyue simply won’t let Aunt Bai take care of the little boy.

This time, the chief examiners of the "Three Traditional Schools" are Song Jianming and Zhang Guangjian, and the other deputy examiners are composed of 18 people including officials from the Six Ministries, the Minister of Dali Temple, the Imperial Academy Jijiu, the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, and two Hanlin Academy officials.

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The most troublesome thing is that the emperor stated in the imperial list that this scientific examination will continue the examination format of Enke last year. In addition to the traditional third subject, there will still be a fourth arithmetic examination. In addition, current affairs

In it, there will be twenty multiple-choice questions and three question and answer questions about agriculture, and the answers are based on "The Essentials of Agriculture in the Great Zhou Dynasty".

Now people are going crazy again!

Although ancient literati paid attention to the "Six Arts of the Gentleman", this was already the standard set in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, the scholars were basically the upper-class nobility.

Royal skills are simply not something ordinary people can afford to practice, and the imperial examinations of the Zhou Dynasty limited their scope to the Four Books and Five Classics. Basically, very few literati were proficient in all six arts.

Most of the scholars or scholars who aspired to take the scientific examination only started learning mathematics last year. After coming to the capital, many people started frantically looking for arithmetic teachers to tutor them in arithmetic.

In fact, since the second half of last year, a number of private schools specializing in arithmetic similar to cram schools have emerged in the capital.

Most of these gentlemen were accountants who changed careers. After studying the book "Equations, Functions and Linear Programming" to a close, they began to teach apprentices at home.

However, the quality of these teachers varies greatly. Many people look at those people who are stupid and know nothing about mathematics. They think that even if they are not good enough, they are more than enough to teach those people. Anyway, as long as they speak in a way that people cannot understand, they can make people feel powerful.

Make people willing to become disciples and offer generous gifts with both hands.

The existence of this kind of big scam actually has benefits, at least it promotes people's enthusiasm for research and learning mathematics.

As for those Juren who were deceived, they can only blame themselves for not knowing anything about arithmetic. If they knew a little more, they wouldn't have been deceived.

Tutoring math is already a pain in the ass, but now you have to learn about agriculture!?

Many candidates almost fainted when they saw the announcement of the imperial list!

Do you know how thick "Dazhou Agricultural Science" is? Northeast, North China, Central China, Jiangnan, South China, Sichuan, Northwest... Each region has its own copy, adding up to eight copies. Even from now on

I started to burn the midnight oil and watched it from beginning to end, but it wasn’t enough time.

Some people wanted to gather a crowd to protest, but they hesitated after thinking about the fate of those who participated in the protest last year.

The few aspiring scholars who really wanted to make a career were enlightened by the emperor's bold moves in reforming the imperial examination system.

Because some scholars and scholars among the people supported the emperor's idea of ​​"paying equal attention to scripture and practice", a trend of thought similar to the "unity of knowledge and action" proposed by Duke Yangming in the late Ming Dynasty has emerged.

Although the "unity of knowledge and action" described by these scholars is far from the "mind theory" that actually appeared in history, they actively engaged in the world and advocated the use of practice to transform "knowledge" into "cultivation, governing the country and bringing peace to the world".

, the idea of ​​using practice to verify "knowledge" is in the same vein as Mingyang Gongsuo's creative thinking.

To know is to understand the truth; to act is to practice.

Ever since the old man Zhu Xi proposed that "it is easy to know but difficult to do", that is to say, it is easy to understand the truth but difficult to put it into action. Many literati have used this as an excuse to study hard for the scriptures and spend all day doing nothing but learning and enlightenment. They are not diligent and do not know the grain.

, people who talk loudly all day long, but in fact they are just empty talkers who waste time.

After all, the sage Zhu Xi once said, "Easier to know than to do."

But now the emperor takes the lead in saying "no!" to this theory. Knowing and doing are integrated. We must not only understand the moral knowledge, but also put it into action and make a difference.

And if you want to do something practical, you need to be a knowledgeable person who knows everything from mathematics, agriculture, astronomy, and geography.

This is a good phenomenon. When scholars no longer stick to the Four Books and Five Classics, it can be said to be a certain degree of "ideological liberation."
Chapter completed!