The significance of the school opened by Shen Chen is actually that it is a process of establishing a voice.
If you work behind closed doors at home, no matter how good your knowledge is, it will be meaningless if it is not spread.
That's why Confucius recruited three thousand disciples to spread his Confucianism, thus allowing Confucianism to spread throughout China for two thousand years.
Now Xianshan Academy in Jingzhou and Yingrong, a famous scholar with more than a thousand disciples, are doing the same thing.
Song Zhong annotated the "Five Classics Chapters" and promoted his theory. Later in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, his theory became very popular and was once the mainstream academic field at that time.
Ying Rong wrote the 50,000-word "Chun Qiu Zuo Shi Tiao Lie", and the major schools of "Zuo Zhuan" were gradually absorbed by his "Ying Shi Zuo Zhuan".
There was also the great Confucian Zheng Xuan who gave lectures in Qingzhou, had numerous disciples, and spread ideas. The ancient classics he focused on was one of the two mainstream students alongside Song Zhong during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
His influence lasted throughout the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, he was listed among the twenty-two "ancestors" by Li Shimin, worthy of the Confucius Temple.
It can be seen from this that if he wanted to establish his voice at that time, he had to rely on students to spread his ideas and carry forward his doctrines.
In addition, Shen Chen also has another purpose.
That is to cultivate talents for yourself, find like-minded people, and work together for your future career.
Therefore, lecturing is an inevitable process.
As for Shen Chen's own theory, it was actually very simple. During this period, he and Zhuge Liang often commented on Confucian classics, discarding the dross and admiring the essence.
For basic education, students do not need to learn so advancedly. They only need to learn literacy first, and then learn some numeracy and basic principles of life.
Therefore, the current teaching knowledge may not be too profound. When the student reaches a certain level in the future, his understanding and interpretation of Confucianism will be more advanced and able to support his academic level.
Soon everyone registered one by one, and there were thirty-three students in total. The youngest was only four years old, and the oldest was seventeen. The age difference was huge, and it was not easy to teach uniformly.
However, this was how learning was done in ancient times, and the learning conditions were very limited. Whether one can understand or not often depends on one's talent, so there is no way around the big difference.
To a certain extent, all teaching at that time belonged to the elite teaching method. That kind of universal education in the form of large lectures may exist, but it was limited to a few cases of superficial recognition of words. If you want to learn more deeply, you still need a pair of A specialized tutoring.
This is also one of the fundamental reasons why aristocratic families can control the power of cultural interpretation.
After registration, Shen Chen called everyone into the vestibule classroom. At this moment, many parents outside the door, scholars who came to watch the fun and scholars who came to find trouble had already entered and stood in the vestibule to watch.
I saw Shen Chen telling everyone to sit down at their respective tables, while he himself sat cross-legged on the stage, looked down at everyone, and said with a smile: "Many people know me. I have also visited the surrounding villages and pavilions these days. You also If you always follow me and call me sir, today I am officially your husband."
"Sir, sir."
The naive children in the audience thought they were still playing around in the Xiangting Pavilion, following Shen Chen. A few five or six-year-old children started shouting and making noise, causing the scholars outside to frown.
"quiet!"
There was a middle-aged man on the side, holding a ruler in his hand, tapping the table hard, and looking majestically at the many children.
He is a gentleman hired by Shen Chen. He is not a famous person, but an ordinary Confucian scholar. His family is poor. He used to teach people to study in the surrounding countryside and barely survive.
Shen Chen came to teach for free to steal his job, so he hired him at a high price to be a legal trainer to maintain order.
After it calmed down, Shen Chen said again: "There are many young children in the hall. They don't understand "Huang Zhongli" and don't know the value of reading. Do you know how old you are?"
He asked, pointing to the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys in the hall.
Among them was a young man who was not even wearing a shirt and whose trousers were full of patches and hesitantly said: "My father said that if I could study, I might be able to make my family a little richer in the future, and my little sister would not have starved to death in the past few years."
It was a tragic incident that was described very plainly, but at the time, it was indeed not that tragic. During the Great Famine, it was not just one person who starved to death, but hundreds of thousands or millions of people starved to death.
So Shen Chen nodded, pointed to the scholars outside the door and said: "Yes, if you don't study, your family may be rich because of opportunities, but if you study, this opportunity will become even greater. Look at those people outside, Are they wearing silk and satin because they are studying?"
"Shen Chen, what does this mean?"
"Why, what does it have to do with us wearing silk and satin?"
"Are you planning to use us as a metaphor?"
Many scholars outside the door suddenly became puzzled, but after hearing what he said, it seemed that he wanted to use himself as a positive example of success in studying, so they all raised their heads high.
Shen Chen said with a smile: "Some of them may have changed themselves because of studying, but most of them are actually because they were born in a good family. They are not rich because of studying, but they can study because they are wealthy. This aspect, I I hope my students can understand the facts."
"What, aren't you scolding us for our family background, okay?"
"This guy, isn't he also from a rich family? If his mother's family is not the Nanyang Deng family, it sounds like he can afford to study?"
"Please keep your voice down and see what he says."
The scholars outside, especially those who came from powerful families in the county, were immediately angry, because it seemed as if they could study because they had good reincarnations. Although this was true, it was also very unpleasant.
Shen Chen continued: "Of course, I never think that the sons of poor people will be poor all their lives. People need to work hard to change. Studying is not the only way out, but it is the best way out. Their ancestors It is not that there are no poor people, but most of them study hard, become officials, bless their descendants, and make their families prosperous. So as long as you work hard and study hard, you can achieve something. I hope that everyone can get rid of their fate of poverty. As for studying seriously, I don’t want everyone to read for a few days and find that reading is boring, so they will leave. If this is the case, it is better to leave earlier, because you don’t work hard yourself, so don’t complain about why others can wear it. Silks and silks, plenty of meat and fish, but I live a life of poverty and desolation."
After finishing speaking, there was silence in the audience.
After a while, Shen Chen said again: "So are there people here who don't want to study or change their lives? If so, you can leave now."
There were four or five-year-old children who were still ignorant and looked around in confusion. They looked around and wanted to leave, but when they saw the stern eyes of their parents, they shrank their heads.
In fact, these words are not only addressed to the children in the audience, but also to their parents.
How many years old children don't understand how knowledge can change their destiny?
But their parents understand, otherwise they wouldn’t let them study. Wouldn’t it be better to let them chop pigs, herd cattle and sheep as part of the labor force at home?
Therefore, these words are actually what Shen Chen is telling their parents, telling them the principles of studying and progressing, so that they can hope that their children will succeed in their studies, and hope that their children will be successful in studying in the future.
These words seem to disgust future generations. In the new era, there are too many wolf parents and wolf mothers who ignore the psychology of their children because they hope their children will succeed.
But in the Han Dynasty, it was already a blessing to have books to read, let alone ignore the psychology of children.
So this was definitely a wise saying at the time!
What's more important is that children from poor families have become parents early. Although they may not understand any big principles, they obey their parents very much.
They start doing housework at a young age and become part of the labor force. Therefore, if they can get support from their parents, then these children will probably study hard and avoid being naughty.
After these words, many parents secretly nodded and decided to support their children's education even if they were trying to sell the pot.
After waiting for a while, Shen Chen saw that no one was leaving, so he said: "It seems that everyone wants to study hard, which is a good thing. It means that everyone wants to make progress. There is nothing wrong with making progress, and there is nothing wrong with studying, so today we will officially enroll in school. , but apart from telling everyone that studying hard can change your future life, I have no intention of giving the first class today."
The seventeen-year-old boy has grown up. He did not have the conditions to study before, but now he can study with great difficulty. He quickly asked: "Why don't you teach, sir?"
Shen Chen smiled and said: "First, everyone has just arrived. Let's get used to the classroom environment and get to know each other. Tomorrow I will give formal lessons and teach you how to read and practice calligraphy. Second, I also want everyone to see how capable I am as a teacher. Many people question whether being a teacher can teach students. Today, I will let you see why being a teacher can teach you knowledge."
After that, he lifted up his robe, stood up from the table, stood on the stage, looked down at the many scholars standing at the door, and said loudly: "I know that the scholars in Jingzhou are worried that I will offend Cao Cao and disobey the imperial court. But in fact, I have never disobeyed the imperial court. It is just someone who has the intention to slander me. However, it is an indisputable fact that I said that Cao Cao was a traitor and led troops to kill his generals and soldiers. You must obey The Cao family is a minister of Zhongxing. I have no control over trying to please the Cao family to get their own crown. But if you want to bully me and flatter Cao Cao, don't blame me for being rude. I just want to tell you today what kind of person Cao Cao is. I know this kind of people better than you. If you think Cao Cao is good, then you think it is good. But I don’t agree, and no one can force me to agree. I will continue to debate scriptures with my mouth and swords with my hands. Do you want to Come one by one, or together? Discussing the classics is literature, discussing swords is martial arts. Civilization and martial arts are superior and inferior, and life and death are determined by destiny!"
Shen Chen stood quietly, his right hand pressed on the sword at his waist.
He is not like the protagonist who is greedy for life and afraid of death in a certain Three Kingdoms novel that I have read before. He does not practice martial arts diligently, resulting in low combat effectiveness, and hides behind Liu Guan and Zhang every day.
As a person who has a blood feud with Cao Cao, Shen Chen is a passionate man who practices martial arts diligently every day and has extraordinary swordsmanship.
Moreover, his martial arts teacher was Gan Ning, and his skills were honed in battles with Cao Cao's army. When fighting Cao Ren, he even shot and killed several Cao soldiers with his own hands, daring to kill the enemy in battle.
Having witnessed the horror of hundreds of thousands of corpses in Xuzhou and fighting on the battlefield, his eyes were very sharp and filled with murderous intent.
Even at the age of twelve, his body was as majestic as a mountain. His long robes were fluttering in the wind, and his fierce eyes made those so-called children from aristocratic families feel frightened for a moment. They actually took a few steps back unconsciously, their aura weakening. More than one point.