Li Xuan felt that it was necessary to remind Liu Bagou not to go further and further down the crooked road of the Four Books and Five Classics, and finally hit a dead end.
Are the Four Books and Five Classics useful? There are certainly some. For example, quoting scriptures to praise Li Xuan, the eternal sage, is very useful. Occasionally losing your bookishness is also a good strategy to pretend to be stupid and crazy.
But for the Tang Dynasty, what it needed was not scholars who could lose their minds in reading, but just a group of officials.
But officials and literati are two different things!
Being an official does not have any great requirements for poetry, books and articles. Even if the requirements are raised to the height of Mount Everest, knowing a few hundred common words is enough!
You don’t need much advanced literary talent to play tricks and conspiracies to harm the country and the people. As long as you have a dark heart, you can be an official even if you are illiterate, and you can often get along well. It is not impossible to accidentally get into the Taiye Pool.
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The same is true for the Tang Dynasty. It didn't need too many literati with gorgeous literary talents. To boast about how awesome the Tang Dynasty was and how awesome Li Xuan was, Wang Wenhua was enough. It was better for the others to do practical things.
Li Xuan now urgently needs a large number of officials who can understand basic common sense and can read and write basic official documents, rather than a group of literati who are just the same.
Therefore, Li Xuan said: "The classics of the saints contain the principles of heaven and earth. If you want to master the classics, even if you are talented and beautiful, it will take at least more than ten years to carve them. However, the mountain people and warriors are stupid, and I am afraid it will be difficult for them to become talented even if they are given twenty or thirty years!"
When Li Xuan said this, he used more cautious words to save Liu Bagou's face. He knew that Liu Bagou had always regarded himself as a scholar. Even though he wore Taoist robes every day, he still regarded himself as a scholar.
pride.
He attaches great importance to the dignity of a scholar and is always proud of being a scholar. Therefore, if he says in front of Liu Bagou that the Four Books and Five Classics are of no use to his family and country, this will undoubtedly deny all his values and even his entire life.
A man as smart as Li Xuan would naturally not do this. He just said that ordinary people could not learn the Four Books and Five Classics, which are sage classics. This unintentionally raised the status of the Four Books and Five Classics a lot, satisfying people like Liu Bagou.
The sense of vanity in a scholar’s heart.
If possible, Li Xuan planned to continue to raise the status of the Four Books and Five Classics in the Tang Dynasty until ordinary people would feel awe when seeing the names of these scriptures, as if they were reading a book from heaven.
Wow, such profound Four Books and Five Classics can't be learned by ordinary people like us. This has to make those great writers hide in the library and study. We ordinary people should just learn some vernacular, arithmetic, investigation of things and the like.
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After listening to Li Xuan's words, Liu Bagou showed a hint of pride on his face. He nodded slightly and said, "That's right. It took me three years to get enlightenment. I went to university at the age of twelve and was able to study at the age of fourteen.
I read the Analects of Confucius, and I started studying the Five Classics after reading Mencius at the age of sixteen. It took me fifteen years to read through the classics."
But his pride made Li Xuan secretly despise him!
No wonder Liu Bagou resented the imperial examination so deeply in his life. It wasn't that he didn't want to take part in the imperial examination, but that his level of scriptures was really limited. It took him fifteen years to read the Four Books and Five Classics. His qualifications were quite poor.
People who are serious readers of the Eight Classics usually start enlightenment at the age of four or five, start studying the Four Books at the age of seven or eight, study the Five Classics at the age of twelve or thirteen, and start taking the imperial examinations at the age of fifteen or sixteen. The whole process takes about ten years.
The most obvious example here is Li Xuan himself. Why did his mother say that if that dead ghost hadn't rebelled against Liu Bagou, her precious son would have been admitted as a scholar long ago?
Because Li Xuan himself had completed the most basic education in the imperial examination era and knew all the Four Books and Five Classics by heart.
So what Queen Mother Bai really can’t say is wrong!
But how old is Li Xuan? The year before last, he was fifteen years old when he was dismissed for the first time. Then he passed the county examination and failed in the government examination. When Li Erbi became emperor, he was only sixteen years old, and you have to know that he
This age is still false!
If you are not unlucky and willing to continue working, it is not a big problem to spend a few years to become a scholar.
As for Liu Bagou, it took him fifteen years to just read these basic books, and this was far from the level where he could take part in the imperial examination. To take part in the imperial examination, the most basic thing was to be able to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics backwards and forwards.
The annotations are also very familiar, otherwise the examiner will just randomly come up with a question, and you won’t even know where the question comes from, and you will still write a crappy eight-legged essay.
Liu Bagou has been reading all his life, and he is not as good as Li Xuan, a teenager in his teens. This shows that his reading qualifications are really not very good.
Li Xuan sometimes wondered whether Liu Bagou had the idea of rebellion because he could not pass the county examination in recent years.
He remembered that many rebels in history, especially those who were scholars, came from this way. The famous Son of God, Mr. Hong, was the most typical example.
Boss Hong, like Liu Bagou, is a very hard-working scholar. He spent his entire life failing to pass the examination to become a scholar. Boss Hong is a bit better. He can still make it to the college entrance examination, and he is just a short distance away from becoming a scholar.
It was just a tiny bit worse, and Liu Bagou couldn't even pass the county examination.
But when I think about it this way, it seems that I am also a loser.
Damn it, do all the unsuccessful scholars like to rebel so much?
Li Xuan shook his head slightly, throwing away these messy thoughts in his mind, and then said to Liu Bagou: "Talents can only be found but not sought, and it cannot be achieved quickly in just a few months or more. However, we in the Tang Dynasty are in urgent need of books and books.
Operator, I love you, you might as well be flexible and select one or two smart people to focus on teaching. For the rest, you can teach them to recognize a few words and count a few numbers!"
"In this way, my dear, you don't have to spend too much time on this. If you don't need to teach by words and deeds, more people can be taught at the same time!"
After hearing this, Liu Bagou pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, most of the people in the literacy class are mediocre people, so I can only settle for a better place!"
Li Xuan smiled and nodded: "In that case, let's go back to the Enlightenment School of the Ministry of Industry and integrate it into the current literacy class!"
After today's conversation with Liu Bagou, Li Xuan no longer has any hope that Liu Bagou and the others can teach any good students.
But it’s not a good idea to find someone else. Could it be that he has to be a teacher himself like other time travellers?
But he can’t be a teacher!
Forget it, let Liu Bagou and the others do some enlightenment work first, and then think of a way to see if you can compile a textbook for them to learn on their own. If that doesn't work, just become a primary school teacher yourself.
He, Li Xuan, is an undergraduate. Even if he only has three books, it should not be a problem to teach a group of ancient indigenous people common sense such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and basic physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc.!
Well, there should be no problem. If you are as smart as yourself, you will not be able to teach a group of natives how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Just kidding!