Chief Hong Shan, who had been eager to follow the Confucian scholar and the large number of literary people and join the palace of Wenhua, who did not need to be a literate chamberlain, was completely speechless at this time.
I originally thought that Zhang Shou was returning to the old Spring and Autumn Period when the ministers and princes studied together, Yue Shanchang, but he was hesitant and speechless. Xiao Shanchang, Xu Shanchang, originally thought about whether to do something about the ancient and modern eunuchs who were good at power.
At this moment, I was very glad that I didn't get dizzy for a moment. However, everyone was chewing on the words Zhang Shou said about the "attendant of the East Palace".
In fact, during the Han and Tang dynasties, there were often sons and daughters of heroes in the East Palace. However, in the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system was complete. Even the officials of the East Palace were only those with merit and fame. There was no friendship between them and more.
It's just an official position.
Therefore, the so-called Eastern Palace Scholars in this dynasty, before Zhang Shou and his group of students were selected, had always been a part-time job for noble literary officials of the Hanlin Academy, and the name was greater than the substance!
Only the people in Jiuzhangtang can be regarded as the real students of the East Palace for many years - studying with the prince... No, it should be said that they read with the prince!
But now, many people in the Wenhua Palace have to carefully figure out what Zhang Shou means by the attendants of the East Palace. If it is really about the officials and disciples obeying each other, even if it is really a sweep and a broom, it is probably
People will fight for him until his head is broken! Who doesn’t want his son to fall into the eyes of the prince when he is young? And judging from the emperor’s love for the third prince, he must be the future emperor!
Under the gazes of countless people, especially the curious and inquiring gazes of the emperor, the third prince and the fourth prince, Zhang Shou said slowly: "Since this dynasty, Ciqing Palace and Wenhua Palace have been used as the living quarters of the East Palace.
However, because Wenhua Palace is often used for Buddhist banquets and court meetings, people often regard Ciqing Palace as the east palace, but they don’t know that Ciqing Palace is a place for reading.”
"Since it is a place of study, there is no need to have internal attendants permanently. For example, in the past, when the third and fourth princes were studying in the Imperial College, why did they bring people to accompany them?"
The emperor's heart suddenly moved. Ciqing Palace is in the southeast of the palace city, and Qianqing Palace is in the north of the palace city. Although they are not as far apart as mountains and roads, they are still a long way away. Historically, once the distance between the emperor and the prince is widened, it is easy to
All kinds of problems arise, especially since the third prince is still young. He used to take him by his side to teach him by words and deeds, but now he suddenly lets him go to Ciqing Palace. Isn't it too hasty?
Thinking of this, he nodded slightly and said, "Sanlang is still young. I really don't want him to live in Ciqing Palace and just study."
Well, although the furnishings and bedding have been prepared a long time ago, they don’t need to be used once they are ready. As for the third prince, it is certainly not appropriate to continue to live in the Concubine Palace. He can just move to Zhaoren Hall of Qianqing Palace. Anyway, it is already there.
It's just a library!
Seeing that the emperor gave a very positive response and obviously planned to keep the third prince by his side, Zhang Shou continued calmly: "Since the prince does not live in Ciqing Palace, why are the Confucius Institute and all of you so worried?
Isn’t it unreasonable to worry? Cleaning the Ciqing Palace and daily affairs only need to be done in the morning, dusk and noon, and you don’t even need to meet in person, so how can you confuse people’s hearts?”
Zhu Ying first gave a righteous fallacy, and Zhang Shou then gave a new and different approach to the truth - but Zhang Shou seemed to have forgotten the word "servant" at the beginning and did not mention it at all. So although the emperor laughed heartily, the others couldn't wait to hear it.
But Zhang Shou was pushed to the ground and stepped on ten thousand feet. He said half-heartedly, this kind of person is the most disgusting!
Scholar Confucius didn't bother to care whether the word "servant" mentioned by Zhang Shougang was in order to sell himself to many civil and military officials. Instead, he took the initiative and completely punctured the window paper that he had just punctured.
"With the strictness of the Qianqing Palace, there are even rebellious and unpredictable people like Liu Feng in charge, let alone other places! The prince is about to be enthroned. Is it possible that there will be no palace attendants around him in the future? This is to prevent the slightest change and is not limited to kindness. In the Qing Palace, please ask your Majesty to be aware of everything and be considerate of the painstaking efforts of the ministers and others for the sake of the prince!"
Zhu Ying had just seen Zhang Shou speaking casually, but now the question came back, and her eyebrows suddenly stood up. But when she was about to reiterate what she had just said, the emperor had already beaten her to it: "Yingying just said that a scholar needs a maid with red sleeves who can read, and a servant who can raise children needs to be literate and able to read poems, but a dignified prince needs a vulgar person?"
"Is it best for me to learn the lesson of Liu Feng in the Qianqing Palace? From now on, it's best for the servants around me to be illiterate, so as not to confuse me?"
The emperor borrowed his own words to ridicule everyone. Zhu Ying suddenly laughed brightly, but then, Academician Confucius took an extremely tough stance: "If the emperor insists on using someone who can read and decipher, it is not a bad idea. , but you must have both loyalty and filial piety, and memorize the "Book of Filial Piety" backwards and forwards! There is an old saying, seek loyalty from a filial son, this is a wise saying!"
"I have already said that Liu Feng is stirring up trouble in front of Shiro. It is pure nonsense that the Chief of Ceremonies abandons family affection and nostalgia! Previously, I still remember that a censor impeached Tengda, a member of the Chief of Ceremonies, for spending money outside. When we bought a big house, brought our relatives to Beijing, and built ancestral temples and tombs in the countryside, no one at that time said that it was hard to let go of family ties and hard to let go of nostalgia. They only said that the other generation was extravagant!"
"So much so that the ceremonial supervisor who had only entered the small house twice was immediately dismissed from his post. At that time, no one praised him for his filial piety!"
At this point, the emperor was finally impatient to continue the topic. He glanced sideways and signaled a chamberlain to ring the golden bell, and then said in a deep voice: "In short, we will put this matter on hold until the prince canonize it." Let’s talk about it later! But since the lectures in the East Palace have been recommended by the ministers one by one, tomorrow I will select ten people from them, two of them every day, to give lectures in the East Palace every five days.”
"Okay, it's late, let's give a lecture!"
The emperor was determined to shelve the proposal. Even though Academician Confucius was particularly unwilling, his energy was repeatedly frustrated by Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou today. Seeing that no one behind him dared to support the proposal, he couldn't help but feel shocked. for depression.
At this time, he couldn't help but deeply hate the yes-men like Mr. Wu Ge, and even more despised Zhang Yu, a newcomer who was obviously junior but refused to obey him, a senior man. If the three cabinet members could work together, why would he have to do it in a hurry? In the meantime, rely on these literary attendants and Confucian scholars who participated in today's sutra banquet to achieve success?
Zhang Shou completed the task of "helping" Zhu Ying. At this time, when he saw Academician Confucius returning to his original position in despair, he whispered to Zhu Ying and was about to return to his original queue. , but unexpectedly the fourth prince above him suddenly rushed over and grabbed his sleeve without saying a word.
"Teacher, my father asked you to come over and talk." After saying these words, the fourth prince looked at Zhu Ying again, "Sister Yingying, too."
Zhu Ying had regarded the emperor as half a father in the past, so of course it didn't matter at this time, and he went forward without hesitation. Zhang Shou glanced at the fourth prince's left hand that was holding on to his sleeve, and suddenly took it.
When he turned his thin wrist over and looked at the palm of his hand, he saw that the redness and swelling had receded somewhat, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
When the fourth prince saw this, he immediately retracted his hand, but looked at Zhang Shou's left hand with some sarcasm, only to receive a laugh from Zhang Shou.
"You have survived twice as much as me, let alone me. Bring me the copy of "Shi Shuo" later and show it to me. I want to test you on whether you just copied it or whether you have integrated it and understood it all."
"After reading it a hundred times, the meaning will be obvious, let alone copying it." The fourth prince was confident. It was not until he followed Zhang Shou to the emperor that he whispered, "I copied "Shi Shuo" voluntarily...Teacher, this
My hands are almost swollen for a few days!"
Seeing that the fourth prince was pitifully complaining to Zhang Shou, and knowing that he had no hesitation when he just spoke out to defend Zhang Shou, the emperor couldn't help but glance at the pleased third prince, and suddenly felt that he, the true father of the emperor, was really a little bit.
desolate.
Who has been protecting you two little guys all this time, and then raised one of you to be lawless, and the other to be coquettish and shy? Well, now, one and two of you have grown up, but they all keep saying that they are only teachers, forgetting
His father!
After eating, the emperor adjusted his mentality quite quickly. At this time, he was already giving lectures. He softly affirmed Zhu Ying's action of standing up for the third prince just now, and then looked at Zhang Shou and said: "Jiuzhang, Zui
Weng is not interested in wine, what did you mean by what you just said about the attendant of the East Palace?"
"You must know that from those Lang officials in the Han Dynasty to the Three Guards and Qian Niu in the Tang Dynasty, they all relied on being closest to the imperial palace, so they could get closer to the water, the tower, and the moon, soaring up to 90,000 miles. However, the Lang Guan in the Han Dynasty became more important, and thereafter
Almost all the high-ranking officials with two thousand stones were among them, but in the Tang Dynasty, the three guards and the thousand cattle became lighter and lighter, so that they existed in name only. What kind of person are you, the attendant of the East Palace?"
"Furthermore, you need to know that if the attendants of the East Palace are selected from the children of officials, it will undoubtedly undermine the fairness of the imperial examination. In the future, the children of officials will already be famous in the East Palace before entering the official career. How can those poor families with so-called scholarly families be willing to accept it?
Not to mention the talented people in the market and farmers!"
Zhu Ying did not expect that the emperor summoned Zhang Shou to ask about business matters. Even though the lecturer at the moment was quite talented and learned, and his lecture was indeed very good, she was still unknowingly distracted.
He got up, fearing that the emperor would blame Zhang Shou.
"The emperor is right." Zhang Shou's answer to the emperor's sharp question was very straightforward, "So, the emperor said before that he would choose ten people to give lectures and take turns to attend the East Palace. And the Jiuzhangtang exam selected
After that, the selection of merit-based attendants is also done on a rotating basis. So, can this attendant be selected in the same way? If you feel that it would be unfair to only select the children of officials, why not choose from the Imperial College?"
"Shuixing Hall is the first among the six halls. Then select a few or even a dozen people from Suixing Hall, and then wait in the East Palace for half a month or even a month, and listen to the lectures of the officials in the East Palace. Once you come, there will be people together.
Listen, the third prince and the fourth prince must not be tired in public, otherwise they will be humiliated and thrown out of the palace. Secondly, isn't this an opportunity to promote their character and talents?"
"The most important thing is that maybe in this way, the Imperial College can be revitalized, and the world may not regard the Imperial College as useless anymore. As long as the emperor sets the questions, selects a person with strong skills to personally supervise the exams, and sends people to patrol, there is no need to worry
Are other people playing tricks?"
"If you are afraid that there will be leftover talents in the other five halls, then there is no harm in giving one or two places to the other five halls. But if that is the case, and you don't want to favor one or the other, it is not a bad idea to give one or two places in the Banshan Hall. After all, they are all officials' children.
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If it weren't for the famous Confucian who was lecturing at this moment, who was speaking impassionedly, the emperor would have to smile and nod from time to time, acting like a wise king who listens carefully (in this regard, compared to when he was in power, he even refused to do so)
By that time, the emperor had made great progress), and he could almost laugh at Zhang Shou's understatement.
However, he had to admit that when the Imperial College was already so bad, this idea might still be feasible.
Even when Lu Wan and Lu Wan started a new public school and planned to educate more common people, why couldn't Ciqing Palace do this? Selecting the outstanding talents from the Imperial College and teaching them in another way, not to mention what kind of team is prepared for the third prince, at least allows him to be able to
Isn’t it appropriate to get in touch with as many outstanding people as possible so that you can understand your own depth?
If someone can stand out in this rotation, how can he not stand out in the exam hall in the future?
Thinking of this, the emperor nodded with a smile and said: "Jiuzhang's ideas are often eccentric, but if you look carefully, I can only say one word - good!"
Seeing Zhu Ying standing beside the emperor, her beautiful eyes were wandering, looking forward to Shen Fei. Under the light, the Shu brocade dress complemented the pearls and jade around her body, it was the brilliance of gold and jade. Seeing Zhang Shou wearing a green robe, as elegant as bamboo, standing leisurely,
Occasionally, he chatted and laughed with the emperor, calmly and without any embarrassment; even though countless people had long thought that this pair was indeed a match made in heaven, they still couldn't help but secretly take a look.
Even the third prince and the fourth prince were standing together and couldn't help but look at them frequently. But the fourth prince suddenly felt a pain in his stomach, and his expression suddenly changed. He wanted to hold on, but he felt this pain in his stomach.
Waves of waves came over him, and he had no choice but to say something to the third prince, asking him to confess his crime to his father, and then he ran toward the small door at the back as if he was running away.
After scurrying to the clean room like a rabbit, it only took him a short while to relieve the overwhelming burden and came out refreshed. As a result, he bumped into someone as soon as he reached the door.
The guy with the dark face was none other than Zhang Chen. He remembered what he had heard the third prince say before and quickly reached out to stop him.
"Zhang Chen, I heard that you secretly released Lu Gaoyuan and others from the Imperial Academy that day, but why were you so sneaky and disappeared afterward?"
Zhang Chen stared at the fourth prince's left hand for a few more times, until he seemed to be angry with embarrassment, and then he said listlessly: "Does this need to be said? It is said that Zhu Ying blocked the door of the ceremonial supervisor and was locked up by her family.
When we got to the ancestral hall, I helped her find the head of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, but of course my father kept him at home and grounded him. I also secretly ran to the Imperial College that day, hoping to find the teacher to plead with my father."
"Who knew we would encounter such a thing! After I broke the door lock to release the person, I was carried back by the guards who were chasing me from home!"
Speaking of this, the eldest son of the Duke of Qin sighed deeply, and for a moment he became even more dejected: "In the end, this matter was brought to my father. My father never cared about me, but this time he was furious and said that you
The noble prince has been punished, so he has to take good care of me, a traitor! He did it himself, and I couldn't get out of bed for several days, so I can only leave today!"