Outside Kaiyang Gate in the southeast of Luoyang is the seat of the Imperial College of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, had studied in Taixue in the former Han Dynasty, so after the revolution of the Later Han Dynasty, he attached great importance to the construction of Taixue. In addition, Confucian classics later became a prominent study in the Later Han Dynasty, and the importance of academics reached a certain peak. Therefore,
By the time of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Luoyang Imperial College had been expanded into a super university with more than 240 classrooms and more than 1,800 dormitories.
In its heyday, the emperor himself often came to Taixue to attend lectures, and the number of Taixue students studying here was once as many as 30,000!
However, this situation has disappeared without a trace in the past ten years, and the status of Tai students has also been in decline... Why? It is very simple. Tai students naturally like to pay attention to politics, and then commit suicide by it!
This is an unbreakable truth throughout the ages.
It is said that during the two calamities of party imprisonment, the students of Taipei University followed the party and the great Confucians into the battle. However, it was only a few years since the last calamity of party imprisonment, but the people of the world only remember Zhang Jian who looked after the door and stayed there, and only remember Zhang Jian who was a model for the world.
Li Yuanli, who remembers the thousands of students who were imprisoned just four years ago?
Did any of these students die in prison?
How much did it cost their families to get them out?
What is the future after fishing it out?
No one really knows.
However, no matter what, after two twists and turns, coupled with the proliferation of private schools after the party's ban, the status of the Imperial College has basically plummeted.
This is not to say that no one comes to study at Taixue, after all, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, but it means that no one regards Taixue as a serious way to enter the world.
Nowadays, people who come to study at Taixue generally fall into the following categories:
For example, if the son of a high official in the court has his own family tradition, it is better to respond to the call and put his name here. There are also some officials from other places who have made meritorious services and can be favored by the underage children of the family as "Tongzilang".
', and then going to Taixue to study can be regarded as booking a future; and counting further down, there are people who really have no connections in the family, such as the low-level rural tyrants who have just risen to power. They are looked down upon by people in their hometown, and even private education
If you don't accept them, then you might as well come here to find a way out; of course, there are also some local Shanjiazis in Henan who wouldn't even have a place to read if they didn't come here... These are very few.
Anyway, the grand occasion of 30,000 people studying here is basically gone forever. Nowadays, there is a group of people with unknown origins who openly occupy the magpie's nest and live in this Taixue, which has many empty spaces.
They came down, and the students from Taixue Middle School still circled around these people all day long regardless of their status.
"Good words!"
When a middle-aged man wrapped in a green scarf leaned over and wrote a paragraph on a huge piece of white cloth, the silent crowd suddenly burst into cheers.
"As expected of Dr. Cai!"
"The handwriting is completely natural, and I am afraid that there is only one person in the world who can write official script in such a standard way, Mr. Cai!"
"Cai Langzhong's calligraphy can be written and received with ease. He can be as cool as Fei Bai, but also as serious as this. I am afraid he has reached the realm of a master!"
Mr. Cai, who had just finished writing a paragraph, was naturally Cai Yong and Cai Bojie. He was inevitably a little proud when he heard this. But after he looked around, he opened his mouth to a few young scholars standing aside, looking a little complacent.
He said: "What do you young gentlemen think? I wonder if this chapter of "Guanyong" is to your liking?"
Several scholars looked at each other for a few times, but suddenly shook their heads in unison, surprising the whole room.
"What do you mean by this?" Cai Yong asked with a frown. "Do you think my handwriting is not neat?"
"The handwriting is very neat." One of the young scholars replied very neatly.
"Is there any mistake?" Cai Yong continued to ask.
"Guanyong is the first chapter of the Book of Songs. Everyone in the world can recite it, so how can there be any mistakes or omissions?"
"Then why are you shaking your heads?" Cai Yong was finally dissatisfied.
"Lack of knowledge!" This young scholar, who was like a master, was naturally Gongsun Xun, and he explained his reason in a leisurely manner.
The so-called hook is actually punctuation.
Yes, there are punctuation marks these days. When Zheng Xuan was teaching scriptures, he specifically explained the distinction and meaning of hooks to his disciples, and also discussed in detail the difference between the use of periods and commas. But what is interesting is that these days,
The only four popular punctuation marks are periods, commas, emphasis marks, and proper names, but there are no question marks or colons... which is also strange!
"There is such a thing as hook knowledge," Cai Yong couldn't help but feel embarrassed after hearing this. "Logically speaking, it should be added. After all, the great Confucian sects' sermons have already been marked. But this kind of thing is not a calligraphy style, and there is no
A conclusion, how to add it, and where to add it?"
"I won't hide it from Cai Zhonglang." Hearing this, Gongsun Xun and Gongsun Zan next to him looked at each other and smiled, but then took out a piece of cloth from his arms. "I can't comment on other scriptures, but the "Book of Songs", whether it is "Han
"Poetry" or "Poetry of Mao", the decision has already been made! Because before coming here, Master Lu and Master Liu presided over the meeting, and several disciples and I discussed it together, and together we agreed on several hook marks and set the standards for their use. How about...
Taking advantage of this opportunity, let us senior fellow apprentices, Cai Zhonglang, explain it together with all the talents from the Imperial Academy?"
Cai Yong's face turned dark and he opened his mouth to curse.
That's right, Cai Zhonglang actually wants to ask the Gongsun brothers in front of him, since your two top authoritative teachers have jointly formulated this so-called "hook mark punctuation" standard, why didn't you come up with it earlier?
If you had taken it out a long time ago, I would have written it down. You have to wait until I finish writing it with sweat and sweat, and then shake your head and say that what I wrote is wrong? You don’t have to step on me if you want to become a master, right?
Of course, Cai Yong did not say this after all... Without him, Cai Bojie has become famous for a long time. Of course, he will not care about the young people in front of him, but there are two young people behind them.
Where is the true God?
Liu Kuan was Guang Luxun, and he was impartial. He happened to be the chief official of the position of doctor he held, and was his immediate boss. And Lu Zhi... According to the arrangement of the court, after writing the Stone Scripture, he was to serve as
His deputy went to Dongguan to study history. In other words, Lu Ziqian will be his direct boss for the next two years!
However, Liu Kuan and Lu Zhi, for some reason, paid special attention to these boys from border counties with the surname Gongsun. They even handed over the task of supervising the stone tablets to these smooth-talking guys before.
Boy!
Yes, the preparations for the Stone Scripture were officially completed a few days ago, and Lu Zhi was also ordered to go to Dongguan to "repair the book." However, Teacher Lu, who had expected this, finally did something surprising.
Things. When all the great scholars and doctors came together to choose the site of Taixue, he suddenly appointed his disciples Gongsun Xun and Gongsun Yue in public to supervise the inscription of "Mao Shi"... He said that these two people were bold and careful.
And he already had a thorough knowledge of the classics, enough to take on this important task. Liu Kuan and Granny Liu on the side laughed, and simply called Gongsun Zan and Wang Yi from behind, saying similar words.
For a moment, everyone looked sideways.
It’s not that no one thinks that these two people are too eager to support the underachievers, and it’s not that no one wants to stand up and say a few words. However, the person in charge of this project, Yang Ci, the veteran of the dynasty, took the lead in smiling and nodding, expressing this
In order to gain approval, he even called the brothers Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Xun, whose names he had heard before, to come forward and give them some careful encouragement... which made it difficult for others to say anything.
Of course, what these people don't know is that Yang Ci was simply frightened by Lu Zhi's various suffocating operations before, so seeing that it was a foregone conclusion that the other party would enter Dongguan to study history, why bother adding to this mess?
What? And besides, regardless of the dispute between ancient and modern literature, Lu Zhi is an example for scholars after all. In the future, everyone will still be one when it comes to eunuchs. In this case, his disciples can be regarded as half of his own people. Not to mention
, and the relationship between Liu Kuan!
As a result, the Gongsun brothers majesticly intervened in the stone scripture project, which made them rise to a new level in terms of popularity and status!
Nowadays, we are even chatting and laughing with people like Cai Bozhe.
By the way, Cai Yong is a man with a lot of money after all. He listened carefully to this brother taking turns to explain punctuation to the people in the Imperial Academy, and he thought it was wonderful... Could it be bad? I thought that in the late Qing Dynasty, there were ministers who went abroad.
When I see so many punctuation marks abroad, my first reaction is to write them down, and then take them back to criticize them, saying that foreign devils only know how to make these flashy things, and it is useless to mess them up! Whoever wants to introduce this thing to others immediately
has been widely used.
No way, good things are good things. After using these things in the article, the concepts and meanings are indeed expressed more clearly... Later people have always wondered why China's civilization is so developed and continues, but punctuation marks
Why has it always been so sketchy?
"Let's not talk about anything else for now." After some explanation, Cai Yong was the first to express his agreement. "The question marks and exclamation marks are still very appropriate. There are some expressions in the "Book of Songs" that are full of emotions and natural, even a gangster can understand them.
They are questions and exclamations. As for colons and quotation marks, "The Analects" is the first and indispensable one. Liu Gong and Lu Gong are worthy of being great Confucian scholars at home. I will go to the imperial court to establish these symbols as norms..."
"Ahem!" Gongsun Zan suddenly couldn't help interrupting the other party with his loud voice. "Don't dare to think that Mr. Cai is making false praises. These question marks and exclamation marks were obtained by the two teachers, and these colons and quotation marks were obtained by our three brothers.
...Well, there is also Senior Brother Wang Yi Wang, who thinks about it day and night, and finally got it by thinking hard!"
Cai Yong felt as if he had eaten a fly, but in the end he had no choice but to say: "Xian Kunzhong and this descendant of the Taiyuan Wang family naturally have their merits. I, Cai Yong, will definitely report the truth and will definitely not hide anything."
As soon as these words came out, not to mention the Gongsun brothers, even Wang Yi, who had always been awkward because of staying with the three brothers these days, couldn't help but beam with joy... No one expected that this kind of thing would bring anything to him
There are substantial benefits, such as a title or something, but Cai Yong is a famous person in the world, and his official listing is undoubtedly a kind of certification! When I meet someone in the future, if I brag about it, I guess no one will
I can refute it.
In this way, after messing around for a while, as a master who was not short of money, Gongsun Xun, who was in a good mood, naturally wanted to show something. So soon a bunch of fresh fruits and vegetables at the turn of summer and autumn were delivered. These days, watermelons, grapes
Nothing is popular, but there is no shortage of things like hawthorn, papaya, wild dates, water chestnuts, and chestnuts.
Moreover, Gongsun Xun also said that these are all arranged according to the allusions in the "Book of Songs" and ancient Chinese, such as the papaya that "gives me a papaya and gives me a jade in return";
, the water chestnut of "Zi Bei Que Er Yu Tang"; and the chestnut of "Tree of Hazelnut, Chair Tung Zi Lacquer"...
The others were just eating something fresh and reciting a few lines from the Book of Songs. Cai Yong was the only one who was angry with these aggressive young scholars and thought that eating more was better.
He gnawed two big papayas alone... So, after dinner, the cold wind in summer and autumn came, and Cai Yong felt so uncomfortable that he ran to the toilet and didn't get up for half a day, not knowing what was going on.
Whether it is a loss or a profit.
That’s not all!
It was in this toilet that Cai Yong and Cai Bojie suffered the most tragic blow in their lives.
By the way, the sky had darkened, and Mr. Cai was squatting in the innermost wooden cubicle. Suddenly he heard noisy footsteps, and then several familiar voices sounded from nearby. It was Brother Gongsun who came here to relieve himself. So he
He immediately held his breath, fearing that these people would notice his ugly appearance.
However, I never expected that these people would actually mention me.
"Brother, Dr. Cai is also a famous person in the world." The first one to speak was the youngest named Gongsun Yue. Hearing his words, there was some truth to it. "Why do you use him as a raft again and again?"
?”
"Hey," the person who replied to this person was the most annoying one named Gongsun Xun. "You don't know, this Cai Bojie is one of the few truly honest people in the court, and such honest people are really rare nowadays.
Now that I have encountered it, I naturally have to make the best use of it."
Cai Yong sneered in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't want to argue anything. After all, what do these young people know about this moral gentleman thing? If it weren't for the sake of the two teachers of you three brothers...
"Xundi is right." Another voice sounded, and it was particularly loud. You didn't have to guess that it was the loud-voiced Gongsun Zan. "It's getting harder and harder to find honest people nowadays, and this honest person has another advantage.
No matter how you use him as a raft, he will never hold a grudge... It seems that, as Xu You said, this Cai Bojie is indeed rare, and it will be in vain if you don't use it."
Cai Yong is already a little angry at this time. Could it be that an honest man owes you? But the years of cultivating his energy have allowed him to endure it... The way of a gentleman is to argue with these young people? The worst thing is to have less contact with Xu You in the future.
That’s it.
However, after a moment of silence, Gongsun Zan suddenly smiled again and said: "By the way, Brother Xun has never seen this Cai Bojie before. When he asked someone more than once, he asked if Cai Bojie had a daughter? When he went to his house before, although
I haven’t seen Uncle Cai in person, but I know that he does have a daughter...Why, could it be that he is thinking that he is about to be crowned and is planning to find a marriage for himself behind his aunt’s back?”
As soon as these words came out, Cai Yong immediately became vigilant.
"Ahem!" Gongsun Xun immediately coughed dryly. "Brother, be careful, although the age of my daughter is not very clear, but from the general sound, she is still a young child among the boss... This kind of joke can be made
Of?"
Cai Yong immediately felt relieved. Gongsun Xun finally had some face and shame, but he just didn't know why he had inquired about his daughter before...
"What's the harm? They say they are young children, but in fact, women get married at fifteen." On the other side, Gongsun Zan was still joking, as if he was from a remote area and was used to being rude. "By the way, Ah Yue,
You are only sixteen or seventeen this year... Why don't we ask Master Liu to come forward and arrange a marriage with this daughter of the Cai family for you, and then you wait for eight or nine years, and then marry her on the twenty-fifth or sixth year, wouldn't it be quite appropriate?
"
"If you wait eight or nine years, why don't you marry me, eldest brother?" Gongsun Yue sounded a little angry.
"Am I not already married?" Gongsun Zan said disapprovingly. "How can this Cai Bojie's daughter be a concubine?"
"Then let the second brother wait for eight or nine years before getting married!" Gongsun Yue still said angrily.
"I have lost my virginity since I was a child, so I must marry early to continue our relationship." Gongsun Xun immediately retorted after hearing this. "It's better for Ah Yue to marry me."
"I won't marry!" Gongsun Yue's tone became more and more angry, almost shouting at this point.
Is my daughter, Cai Bojie, the one you can marry if you want? Cai Yong listened over there and became even more angry.
"Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking." Gongsun Yue continued to shout angrily at his two brothers. "Just Cai Bozhe's appearance, small eyes, upturned nose, thick lips, short eyebrows... not too much, just him
If my daughter has two or three cents of his likeness, she can only look like a middle-aged girl. If there is a daughter who is four or five cents like him, how can I still look at him? If you want to marry him, go and marry him yourself, don’t take me with you!"
As soon as these words were said, I heard the two boys from the Gongsun family laughing loudly together, which was extremely unrestrained. Then the laughter was mixed with the angrier footsteps of the Gongsun... From near to far, they walked directly.
People.
Cai Bozhe held a piece of toilet chip used to clean his hands in both hands, his face flushed... In anger, he actually broke the toilet chip into two ends, and then angrily threw it into the dark twilight: "Children are bullying others.
Too bad, how could my daughter ever be even half like me?!"
"(Gongsun) Yue went to Luozhong to revise the stone scriptures from Cai Yong, the doctor, and tried to formulate hook standards with Taizu, Zan, Wang Yi and others, which showed his talent. Yong loved it very much, and secretly sighed: "I regret my age.
No, otherwise, wouldn’t it be a pleasure to have him as a son-in-law and always be by your side?'" - "Jiu Yan Shu". Volume 3. Biography of Gongsun.
PS: Embarrassing, the timing is wrong... I'm sorry everyone.
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