.Chapter 830 Famous Master and High Pupil (Part 2)

Zhuangyuan Building is famous for its high-end catering in Beijing. From the street to the end of the street, it is all high-end restaurants with unique characteristics. Most of the high-end officials and nobles here drink and pay for guests, and the price is naturally admirable.

In Miaoyou Street, even if it is a high-end top prize building, it is naturally popular among the students who want to get the prize and are not short of money. The table of table has increased from the usual three taels of silver to ten taels. But don’t think it’s expensive. Since last year, the students who took the exam arrived in Beijing one after another, there have been a lot of seats here every day, and it’s hard to get a table. In order to get what they want, it’s not uncommon for the students to bid for a hundred taels per table. However, it’s the first time in many years to buy the entire top prize building!

How much does it cost to book a large restaurant on the third floor per day? The boss did not disclose it, but based on the number of tables in the Zhuangyuan Building, it would cost about 6,000 taels to open two seats in the morning and evening. Even if there is a discount, it would not be less than 5,000 taels. The amount of money that the scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is not short of money, which shocked the people in the capital.

Upstairs and downstairs, there are more than 30 tables of food, and more than 330 students or tribute students are not from the same province, including from the Southern Zhi, from Zhejiang, from Fujian, or even from Jiangxi. But they all have one thing in common, all from Suzhou Prefecture School, which is why they can gather together today.

Sitting in the main seat like stars holding the moon, looking upstairs and downstairs with a silent smile, drinking, chatting, toasting, and toasting, and punishing them with ears. Finally, I realized the passion and pride of Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin saying the words "The heroes of the world are all in my hub."

It is said that when he was the magistrate of Suzhou, he advocated education reform, broke the four chronic diseases of the Ming Dynasty's official school system, responded to official affairs, regional portals, and weak teachers, increased capital investment, and invited famous teachers and scholars to assess and eliminate students, and opened school admissions to non-Suzhou students and treated them equally. Unexpectedly, after just ten years, he ushered in a season of fruitful harvest. How could people not be overjoyed and turned aside?

However, he was not proud, knowing that he had a first-mover advantage to gather the Southeast elites. But he knew very well that this could not be copied, because at that time, there was only Suzhou Prefecture School in the country, which was dedicated to cultivating outstanding test-taking talents at all costs. As for the official schools in other provinces, they were just places where students were famous for their food and professors were eating. And those famous academies were deeply influenced by Yangming's efforts, and most of them abandoned the teaching of Neo-Confucianism, talked about the mythical theory that had nothing to do with the people of the country and the people all day long, or became criticizing the government and expressing their opinions, which was to not cure the cause.

Those students who study hard and are eager to enter the official career through imperial examinations are so eager to have a special school that guides them in their studies and helps them take the exam!

On the one hand, there is a strong educational demand, and on the other hand, there is a huge supply and demand contradiction between the official schools and academies that cannot provide qualified education. The huge supply and demand contradiction between Suzhou Prefecture School, which emerged from nowhere, suddenly turned into a huge magnet, attracting students from all over the world to come and worship him.

At that time, the southeastern provinces supported students from the provinces to study abroad... Because scholars did not spend money on studying in official schools, and the government had to give food, which was the so-called "food ration"... In October of the second year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of prefectures and counties across the country to provide food, and the food for teachers and students. Since then, all students who entered prefectures and county schools were borne by the state and were exempted from taxes for students. At that time, the state had started the country and had a shortage of talents, so Emperor Taizu Gao increased the number of students and gave special favors and preferential treatment in recent years. By the third year of Xuande, he felt that the setting of students was too many and too excessive, which had become a burden for each prefecture and county, and the quota was created and the amount of students was reduced for a while. This reform offended many people, and as soon as they had the opportunity, these people would tinker and restore the old system.

In the first year of Jingtai, the new emperor ascended the top. In order to win people's hearts, the student quota was cancelled. Later, in the third year of Chenghua, the student quota was set again. In the tenth year of Zhengde, the student quota was released again, and it was unstoppable. Many people sharpened their heads and went to Fuxue County Schools, because once they entered the school, wearing a silk silk shirt with wide-sleeved soap edges was equivalent to jumping into the gantry. Even if they could not pass the imperial examination for the entire life, as long as they occupied the quota of students, they would still be exempted from classes and enjoy the food entitled by the court.

At present, the huge and bloated team of students has become one of the "three redundant" that plagues the Ming Dynasty's finances... The other two are "redundant officials" and "redundant members of the royal family". In order to reduce the heavy financial burden, the government has stipulated that the rice must be collected by themselves every month and cannot be collected on their behalf, and it will not be received on their behalf. For government officials at all levels who were deeply suffering from the anti-Japanese war and were generally in a tight financial situation, the students of this school were willing to study in Suzhou, which of course they were unlucky.

Silence, however, took advantage of the huge benefits brought by Suzhou's opening port and the only prestige he established after the 'food crisis' and strongly implemented this reform in Suzhou, which made people unwilling to bear the burden on themselves. However, all the local students in Suzhou who failed to meet the assessment were fired. This aroused huge opposition at that time. The expelled students scolded him, saying that he was 'traitor and was not worthy of being the parent official of the government's "Nanzhi School Station also submitted a memorial to him, saying that he was 'reckless and destroyed the ancestral system' and attracted the reprimand of the Ministry of Rites.

If it weren't for his halo of the "Six Top Prizes" at that time, and the emperor and the cabinet would set a model for scholars, and did not pursue this matter, but just let him restrain himself a little, I'm afraid the reform of Suzhou Prefecture School would have been dead.

Now is very different from the situation at that time. As the southeastern provinces regain peace, a large amount of silver poured in, the wealthy households were rich, and the government became rich. After seeing the great success of the replacement of Suzhou Prefecture School, they naturally no longer hope that the students in this province will lose... Although their hometown is still in this province, they are deeply educated by Suzhou, and it is hard to say which side of their relationship will be on the side.

Although the goal of silentness was to build Suzhou Prefecture School into the first real university in the country, he never had the idea of ​​continuing to monopolize it, because the scholars' academic records are bound to their household registration and must return to their original home to take the exam. Therefore, if the provinces do not want to continue to lose students, they will have countless ways to achieve their goals, and even he cannot stop them.

So when he was in Nanjing last year, he took the initiative to ask the masters, hoping that they could all vigorously establish schools, just like cultivating children of their own tribes, and cultivating talents from their hometowns and provinces. Although everyone might not take it seriously at that time, silently speaking before the imperial examination was held, it would not be considered a person who made a fortune by making a fortune alone.

Now, the results of the imperial examination must have spread throughout the southeastern provinces. Suzhou Prefecture School took the exam with 330 people and 97 people ranked first, accounting for two-thirds of the southern ranking. Whether it is the pass rate or the ranking, they are far ahead of the country. It will inevitably make those people jealous like rabbits.

In fact, today, the reason why he no longer avoids this kind of teacher-student relationship is not only to intercept Li Chunfang's Hu, but also an important purpose is to let those guys who do not see the rabbit and do not show off their eagles. There is another kind of more sincere and firm teacher-student relationship in the relationship between the disciple and the head! Thus, he made up his mind to establish a school.

While he was thinking about it, Chen Si heard the students calling him. He came back to his senses and found that it was the waiter who gave him a plate of rock candy turtle. The plate was green and yellow, with the oil tightly wrapped in the fish pieces, and the turtle head was raised high... Chen Si was a person who had experienced it, so he naturally recognized this famous dish in the top scholar's house "the top spot"!

The top scholar is the top scholar. How can scholars resist the temptation of this lottery? But there is only one top scholar in each subject, and if each person has a top scholar, the lottery ticket will be boring. Therefore, the rules of the top scholar building are that no matter how many people there are, as long as they eat together, they will only have a rock candy turtle. The students will use various methods to compete for this "top scholar"!

It is precisely because of the elements of competition that the candidates who are determined to win this lottery will naturally try their best, and they are often wonderful, and some particularly exciting ones will be passed down as good stories and become part of the charm of the top scholar building. So everyone here knows that whenever this plate of turtles is served, the climax of the banquet atmosphere will come.

According to the rules, the most noble person in the meal should decide who the leader belongs to. Of course, this is a difficult question. If the turtle head is given to, no matter who doesn’t give to anyone, it will offend a large number of people. So the final result is a question competition, and the winner will take over!

But the situation this time is quite special. After all, most of the people present are not in the first place... These people will not speak out even if they can think of the answer. After all, they have not even passed the imperial examination, so why do you have the face to take the lead?

It is necessary to take care of the feelings of these people, and it is best to have a higher degree of education, so that he can reflect the character of his teacher... After all, it is better to be together with righteousness than to be together with others with profit. Don't take advantage of these guys who have not yet entered the officialdom and indoctrinate them, and when will they be?

After thinking silently for a moment, a couplet suddenly popped up in my mind. After thinking about it again, it was no longer better, so I shamelessly said: "I have a first couplet here, everyone can check it out."

The students held their breath and focused, and the people above the stairs were all lying on the side of the railing, for fear of missing a word.

"This first couplet is... the sound of wind, rain, reading, and the sound of sounds in my ears." After Chen Si said that, he blushed a little, but fortunately, after drinking some wine, his little face was already flushed.

'The sound of wind and rain sounds, and the sound of reading is heard...' The students began to think about it. This is a so-called duplicate pair, but it is not complicated. It can be said that it is not difficult for those who love this Tao. However, the absolutes that silence in the past have long become a popular legend and are widely circulated in Jiangnan. Therefore, no one thinks that this "Holy Hand of the Confrontation" is a horse, but they all think that he has other profound meanings.

But what exactly does he mean? It's hard to guess. It can't be a mess, so the students threw bricks and attracted the urge to...

What Huiyuan Tian Yijun is right: ‘The mountains, water, smoke and clouds are all empty’.

What Chen Yiguan is right is: ‘Pines ring, bamboo ring, bells ring, chimes ring, and there is a way to ring’.

In addition, there were seven or eight people who came out right, but they were not very happy because they all felt that this was not in line with the teacher's wishes, nor the artistic conception of the first couplet.

At this time, the silent fellow disciple Luo Wanhua came up with another couplet saying, "Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, and everything is concerned." He immediately won applause from the whole house. Everyone said that it was just solved, so there is no need to be right.

But the teacher has the final say, so everyone looked at the silence and listened quietly to him and said slowly: "They are all very good, but our scholars learn the learning of saints and have the heart to save the world. Yin's poems are just small tricks, and they can make entertainment. How can you compare the level of talent and learning?" Then he changed his tone and said: "But I personally think the most is right, the sound of wind and rain sounds, the sound of reading is heard; the country, family affairs, the world affairs, and everything is concerned!" As he said, his eyes swept through the scene and said: "This is also my expectation for you!"

When the teacher became serious, the students also put away their smiles and listened to him attentively: "Everyone here has been studying hard since childhood and has experienced countless hardships. Why is it for such hard study?"

After a brief silence, someone whispered: "Golden List..."

"I can't hear it." Silence said lightly.

"Grade a list!" the student said loudly.

"What is the purpose of the title of the Golden List?" Chen asked, "I want to listen to the truth."

The hall was quiet and no one answered for a while.

"No one says it, then I'll tell you." Silently said: "It's true that there is a golden house in the book! There is a beautiful woman in the book! There are thousands of millets in the book! After passing the Jinshi exam, you can shine your family, make a name for yourself, make a fortune, and go to many small wives. Right?"

Everyone was joking, of course no one dared to say yes, but someone must have thought of this.

"If you have such thoughts, please don't call me 'teacher' again!" Chen Si suddenly raised his tone and said, "I don't recognize such a student!"

The lobby was very quiet, and only he said in a serious voice: "You should all know that now state affairs are as good as the world is in trouble, and it has reached the point where you have to renovate the old and create the new, and turn the tide. In this matter, you must bear extremely difficult responsibilities and endure unprecedented hardships. If you want a beautiful woman in money, I advise you to go to business. If you want a comfortable and comfortable life, I advise you to go home and buy a landlord, and don't expect to get these from the officialdom. As my student, you must have this awareness of "worry first and worry then happiness"!" As he said that, he raised his wine glass and said: "If you are still willing to follow me, you will do this cup! Then we will share the joys and sorrows in the future, and you will drink this cup. If you do not want to follow me, drink this cup, and if you violate the law and neglect your duties in the future, don't expect me to think about the relationship between teachers and students!"

"Cheers!" The students raised their glasses together and drank the wine in the glass. As for whether it was sweet or bitter, only they knew.

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