In the days that followed, Zhu Zhen experienced the academic life of an ordinary Imperial College student.
He never dreamed that he could easily escape the early morning reading at Dabentang, but would fall into the torture of the early reading at Guozixue.
As soon as they were polished every day, Ma Junze, the head of the dormitory, immediately called everyone to get up. After washing their faces with cold water to stimulate their spirits, everyone would tidy up the beds and read loudly in the morning.
In fact, the official morning reading time has not yet come, so this section is an optional activity.
Moreover, their dormitory is not particularly special. The dormitory next door gets up before the fourth watch and lights up the light to read. Ma Junze allows them to sleep until dawn, and he is already taking good care of the three brothers.
It is time to read breakfast in the dormitory in the morning. After breakfast, the students will go to the Yilun Hall in the main courtyard to hold the daily ascending ceremony.
At Maozheng time, the Song Dynasty priests went to the hall to take their seats, and officials such as the Siye, Dean, Doctors, and Assistant Professors came to the hall in order to salute.
Then, all the academic officials stood on both sides of the hall and saluted each other across from each other.
After the ceremony, all the students in the six halls of the Imperial Academy saluted all the academic officials above and below the hall. If there was something wrong with the priests or priests, they would give lectures at this time. If nothing happened, they would be taken back to their respective classrooms by the teaching assistants.
According to Article 2 of the school rules, during the entire process, students must dress solemnly, walk in mid-step, and are not allowed to skip their shifts or make noises or be disrespectful. Otherwise, they will be sent to the Roof Hall to be punished.
When entering the teaching building, students must place a sign at the door to check the gate...that is, hand their bamboo sign to the teaching assistant for counting to ensure that all students are in attendance and there are no absences.
Each class has an attendance book, which is actually an attendance book. Every day, the lecturer will draw a red circle under his name; if he does not arrive, he will draw a black circle. If you are absent without an excuse, you will be severely punished. The black circles accumulate to ten
One, fired...
The rules are so perfect that even the sixth child can't find any faults.
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After taking attendance, students will begin to sit in class for morning reading.
According to Article 3 of the school rules, 'All students and staff sitting in the hall must be polite and strict, read diligently, teach relatives and friends, explain moral principles, and encourage each other to do good deeds. They are not allowed to be lazy, take off their turbans and clothes, make noises and laugh, and go to and fro.
Class, discuss right and wrong, and those who violate the rules will be severely punished...'
Teaching assistants are responsible for supervising students' compliance with academic rules. Specific teaching tasks are handled by doctors in each subject.
After morning reading, doctors would come to attend classes. Occasionally, priests and priests would also hold large classes in Yilun Hall. There were also strict etiquette regulations in class.
During class, students must be respectful to the lecturer, bow to the instructor, be serious and listen carefully, and raise their hands to ask for advice if they have any questions.
As for the content of the class, of course the main focus was on Confucian classics. But what Lao Liu didn't expect was that there were also courses on arithmetic, calligraphy, laws, etiquette, riding and archery, music, etc.
The richness of the courses is beyond imagination.
And it is not just a formality, all courses are real.
For example, in the arithmetic class, there is a dedicated doctor of arithmetic who uses "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" as the textbook to teach students the calculation of plane geometry.
Then there is the algorithm of proportion, finding the side length and diameter through area and volume, and even methods of square root and cube root...
Of course, that is all the knowledge that comes later. At the beginning, it is mainly about application questions such as calculation methods of various areas and volumes.
This is obviously the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's initiative. Otherwise, when Liu Lian and Zhu Zhen created the Yellow Book in Jiangxi, there would be no manpower available to calculate the irregular fields.
I heard from Ma Junze that he will study "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", "Island Suan Jing" and so on in the future. Senior students even need to be proficient in the "Tian Yuan Technique" of higher-order equations.
This surprised Zhu Zhen. His teacher Liu Bowen was the top mathematician in the world. So he didn't know that our country's mathematics had developed to a very high level. But he never expected that these were taught seriously in Guozixue.
thing……
Then why did mathematics not only have no development in the future, but also cease to be passed down? So that later scholars could not understand the mathematics books handed down from the Song and Yuan Dynasties?
Zhu Zhen wrote down this question in his notebook.
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In addition, there are courses such as calligraphy, music, horseback riding and archery, all of which are taught by dedicated doctors. If you just take classes, it is quite enjoyable.
But when homework and assessments are added, the pressure comes.
But everyone knows that teaching without homework is like herding sheep, and teaching without assessment is like playing hooligans.
Guozixue is obviously not a place for shepherding sheep and hooligans, so the homework load and assessment are extremely heavy.
There are three types of homework for Lao Liu and others.
The first type is endorsement, which is usually checked every three days. Each time, one must recite one hundred words of the law, one hundred words of the sutra, and one hundred words of the four books. Just like in the main hall, not only must the words be memorized, but also the principles must be understood
.Those who fail to understand the recitation and explanation will be slapped with a slap in the face by the teacher.
The second type is daily homework. Lao Liu and the others have to practice one piece of calligraphy every day. The standard for one piece is sixteen characters per line. There are sixteen lines in total, totaling two hundred and fifty-six characters. No matter what the family style is. But it must be in regular script.
It has style and is suitable for calligraphy.
In addition, there are ten arithmetic problems to be done every day. These must be completed on the same day and submitted to the teaching assistant for review in person. If the writing is improper or there are errors in the questions, you will be punished to write them multiple times.
The third type is monthly homework. It is mainly composition, and you write six articles every month. Among them, two are the meaning of the classics and two are the meanings of the four books. These are all given to the doctor for review, and they must be completed at the highest level and meticulously.
In addition, there are two edicts, chapters, policies, judgments, and internal medicine each month. They must also be completed and revised before the end of the month, so as to make progress according to the category. Violators will be severely punished.
Then there is an exam at the end of each month, and the results are directly related to whether you can be promoted smoothly. And if you do poorly in the exam, you will be kicked out early...
Lao Liu doesn't want to lose this person.
He is a man of great dignity, he can act as cheap as he wants, and he can be very happy even if he is a beggar.
But you can't be embarrassed by others.
It would be so embarrassing if you were kicked out of school after only a few days of schooling.
Although it is Hong Qi who is embarrassed, what does it have to do with Zhu Liu?
But he gathered a group of young talents into a school, and it was not just a simple matter of satisfying his eyes. He also planned to take these young people for his own use.
You’ve come here, you can’t go back empty-handed, right?
Besides, with the expansion of his business, there is not only a shortage of manpower, but also a lack of top talents. The Prime Minister's Maritime Affairs Office has been established for many years, and Han Yike alone cannot support it there, and it is completely out of date.
So he is bound to win these young people.
Then he can't lose his face to his grandma's house in front of these future famous ministers, otherwise he will be embarrassed to see them again...
So Zhu Zhen gritted his teeth and didn't want to let go. He got up early every day and memorized homework every day. He had never worked so hard in his life.
Fortunately, he has the foundation of Dabentang... he has been taught by the top famous teachers in the country for many years. He is not good at anything else, but he can still hold his own against the Four Books and Five Classics.
So it seems to be something like that.
At least in the eyes of the roommates who are top academics, Hong Qi, although he has a poor foundation due to his family background, is diligent and studious, and has a bright mind, so he might still be able to graduate in the future...
And this person is a comparison. Compared with the other two scumbags in the same dormitory who can't learn, the sixth brother and Hong Qi can be called a role model, right?
