People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 141 The Essence of Education, Liu Ji admits defeat
On the second day, the imperial palace, Fengtian Hall!

The emperor looked at all the officials, and the eunuchs were on the side, and officially announced to the world that he had entered the imperial examination and the north and south rankings.

Although the officials had been mentally prepared for a long time, when this matter was confirmed, everyone felt as if they were mourning.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished his announcement, he announced a few more things.

First, Guozixue was expanded from its original location to Jiming Mountain.

Second, the original Guozixue was renamed Guozijian, and Xu Cunren continued to hold the post of sacrificial wine. At the same time, in terms of doctorates, two additional doctors of mathematics were added, with the same status as other doctors.

There are also a series of small reforms, which will be explained little by little with the voice of the eunuch.

When the emperor finishes reading, all the officials will thank you.

"Xu Cunren, did you find the math talent I asked you to find?"

Xu Cunren heard the emperor's call and hurried out.

"Report to the emperor, my minister... my minister... is still looking for it!"

The officials looked at Xu Cunren coldly, gloating a little.

It's not that Xu Cunren hasn't tried hard to find a candidate for a Ph.D. in mathematics these days, but no one is willing to go...

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the situation in front of him, but did not blame Xu Cunren.

He asked again:
"Then I asked you to compile the textbooks of mathematics, so you must have not done well?"

Xu Cunren was ashamed, knelt down and said:
"Your Majesty, I have finished this mathematics textbook, and I am about to give it to Your Majesty. Please make up your mind!"

When they heard that Xu Cunren actually took out a mathematics textbook, the others were stunned.

Xu Cunren's current situation in the court, how could these people not know about it?
Alone and helpless, bumping into walls everywhere!
It is the truest portrayal of Mr. Xu at present, even if Liu Bowen has been to Xu Cunren's home, it can't change his current status quo.

No one cursed Xu Cunren, and everyone was polite when they saw him.

But that sense of alienation has almost cut off all of Xu Cunren's popularity in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

If he hadn't been in charge of the Guozijian and had the emperor's trust, these people would have gone too far.

"Bring it up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the eunuch to go over and bring up a small box that Xu Cunren had left.

He opened the box, and there was still a pile of books inside.

Lao Zhu was also slightly surprised. He naturally knew that these books were written by Zhang Yi. This kid produced so many textbooks in ten days?

"His Majesty!"

The emperor was about to say a few words, but Liu Bowen also stood up and said:

"Your Majesty's promotion of mathematics into the imperial examination is a matter of great concern to the imperial court. I have the courage to compile a textbook, please read it..."

Liu Bowen's sudden movement made other people present smell a taste of eating melons.

I saw the censor Zhongcheng take out a book from his cuff.

There are a dozen books on one side and one book on the other.

It seems that Xu Cunren has more textbooks, but everyone is looking at Liu Ji,.

"Bring it up!"

The emperor asked someone to bring Liu Bowen's book and put it in his hand.

He first opened Liu Bowen's book and read it a little.

A feeling of unfriendliness surged into Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

Mathematics is definitely not a good experience for people who don’t know how to read it, but Liu Bowen’s narration is orderly, and after the initial discomfort, Zhu Yuanzhang seems to be enjoying it.

"Not bad!"

Lao Zhu closed Liu Bowen's book, and casually flipped through Zhang Yi's textbook.

"What is this?"

If Liu Bowen's textbooks are elegant, Zhang Yi's textbooks are completely tacky, so tacky that Zhu Yuanzhang even felt a little insulting to his IQ.

He closed the textbook and put it back in the box.

If Zhang Yi hadn't written the textbook, Lao Zhu would have reprimanded Xu Cunren.

"You two come with me!"

"Others, retreat!"

The emperor stood up, turned and went back to the palace.

Liu Bowen and Xu Cunren looked at each other and saw the emperor off.

"Your student's textbook, have you read it?"

Led by the eunuch, Xu Cunren and Liu Bowen were on their way to Dongge, and Liu Bowen asked in a low voice. ,
Xu Cunren nodded:
"Zhang Yi made more than a dozen textbooks, the old man just flipped through them, but they are not as good as you!
However, there are merits! "

This kind of result was within his expectation, he was neither happy nor angry, and had already put this matter aside.

"Brother Xu, it is a foregone conclusion to enter the imperial examination in mathematics, since this is the case, you and I should promote this matter!

Although I don't like this result, but since His Majesty likes it, the courtiers can only share his worries for His Majesty!
After leaving the palace today, if brother Xu is free, you might as well come to my house as a guest!

The family sent me some good wine, as well as special products from our hometown, just to find old friends to try something new! "

Xu Cunren knew that Liu Bowen wanted to ease the relationship between him and other officials, at least not to let the Zhedong faction isolate him.

He was slightly grateful and saluted Liu Bowen.

The two came to the East Pavilion, but the emperor did not let them in.

In the study, today it is not only Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, but also several children, plus an old man!

The old man has a gray beard and thin body, and the official uniform on his body looks slightly loose.

Those children were babbling, but he just gave him a look, and everyone calmed down.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed:

"Mr. Song, apart from me and his elder brother, you are probably the only one who can suppress these brats!"

The old man is the great Confucian Song Lian, the prince's teacher.

At the same time, he is also occasionally responsible for teaching several princes.

"I dare not!"

"You're welcome, sir. I won't say anything else. Liu Bowen and Xu Cunren are still standing outside. I called my husband here in advance today. In addition to these traitors, I want my husband to be a judge for me. Let's see Xu Of the two textbooks sent by Cunren and Liu Bowen, which one is suitable to be used as Da Ming's mathematics textbook!"

"Both of them are from Mr. Song's hometown. I think Mr. Song's evaluation should be fair!"

Song Lian's face changed slightly, and he didn't even dare to speak.

Zhu Yuanzhang set his sights on the children again.

These children are exactly Zhu Xi, Zhu Yu, Zhu Di, and Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son Zhu Yu.

The emperor has given birth to six children. Except for the few in front of him, the sixth son Zhu Zhen was too young, so Zhu Yuanzhang didn't call him over.

"These books, you read them separately, and tell Father after reading them, which one do you like, why?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen's book to be handed over to Song Lian, and other mathematics textbooks were handed over to other children.

He picked up a copy himself and began to read it.

For a moment, the imperial study room was filled with the sound of flipping books.

Song Lian read Liu Bowen's books first. Although he is not proficient in mathematics, for a Confucian like him, Liu Bowen's mathematics textbooks are not difficult to read.

"It's easy to understand, Liu Ji's skills are still very good!"

But when he looked up, he found that Zhu Di, Zhu Xi and others were reading the textbook compiled by Xu Cunren with great interest.

Song Lian laughed and said, "That old fellow Xu Cunren is also capable!"

He gave Liu Bowen's book to the emperor, and got a textbook from other princes.

"First grade?"

Song Lian opened these manuscripts and found that there were pictures inside, no wonder the princes read them with great interest.

"This method is a trick... Xu Cunren really put his heart into it!
Wait, it's interesting..."

Song Lian found something different from the book and looked up at Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said:
"Mr. also found out, let's talk about this matter later, first evaluate the content itself!"

Song Lian said: "The content of this book is thousands of miles away from Liu Bowen's. It seems that there is no need to evaluate it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said:

"Since there are more than a dozen books sent by Xu Cunren, let's finish evaluating everything that needs to be evaluated!"

Hearing this, Song Lian nodded and continued to read the mathematics textbook.

One book won't work, he started cutting the second grade, the third grade...

After finishing the sixth grade, Song Lian's complexion has changed!
When he got the three books in the middle, it said "Secondary Mathematics, Grade One".

After reading middle school mathematics, Song Lian read three more "University Mathematics".

After reading all these, Song Lian took a deep breath.

"You don't need to tell me the answer, wait for Liu Bowen and Xu Cunren to come in, and then tell them..."

Zhu Yuanzhang said that if he wants to give the two fairness, he will not take the initiative to guide everyone's opinions.

After he finished speaking, he asked the eunuch to bring Xu Cunren and Liu Bowen in.

"Minister Liu Ji (Xu Cunren) pays homage to His Majesty, His Royal Highness, Princes!"

"Let's get back together, both of you!"

Liu Ji and Xu Cunren got up, only to find Song Lian smiling at them.

Song Lian is also a good friend of the two, and they hugged each other as a greeting.

"Both of you sent math textbooks today, I have read them, and by coincidence Mr. Song and the princes are here, so I will let them take a look together...

I think these two books are very good, but they should be used as textbooks for Guozixue and published all over the world, so we must choose one as the main one!
Liu Ji, Xu Cunren! "

"Chen is here!"

The two were named by the emperor, and they bowed quickly.

"I don't understand arithmetic. Today I will leave the decision to everyone present. Let's listen to their opinions first, and then let the two of you read each other's textbooks!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he first asked a few children:
"You like a lot of Mr. Xu's textbooks, but they are still Master Liu's!"

"I like Mr. Xu's!"

"I like Mr. Xu too!"

The princes chose Zhang Yi's textbook without hesitation.

Zhu Di shouted: "Mr. Xu's textbook has many illustrations, which are beautiful..."

Liu Bowen's expression did not change, he just looked at Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao said with a smile: "I also think Mr. Xu's textbook is good, of course Mr. Liu's is also very good, but I personally prefer Mr. Xu's...

Of course, I have little talent and learning, and my younger brothers are also childish,

Our likes and dislikes are not important, we still have to listen to the teacher's opinion! "

Everyone's eyes naturally turned to Song Lian, Song Lian lowered his head, thinking.

When Liu Ji saw his movements, his pupils shrank slightly.

Sure enough, Song Lian looked up and said:
"I choose Xu Cunren's textbook..."

"what?"

Liu Ji was not surprised, but Xu Cunren was.

"Mr. Xu, you didn't even expect that?"

Song Lian couldn't laugh or cry when he saw Xu Cunren's appearance.

He is very familiar with Xu Cunren and Liu Ji, so he speaks directly:
"Before I entered the door, the answer in my mind was Mrs. Liu, but after thinking about it, I still chose Mr. Xu's book!

As for the reason, you are also very puzzled when you want to come to Liu Ji, so why don't you read these textbooks? "

Did he lose?
Liu Ji didn't get angry, he took the textbook written by Zhang Yi from the eunuch with doubts, and started to read it from the first grade.

Just like everyone else, at the beginning, Liu Bowen didn't take these things seriously, and then he turned to the second grade, third grade...

Finally turned all the way to university.

Xu Cunren didn't go to read Liu Bowen's book. In the imperial study room, there was only Liu Ji's voice carefully flipping through the textbook.

After waiting for a while, Liu Bowen closed the textbook and said:
"The old man lost, I am convinced!"

There was no anger on his face, only sincere admiration.

"No wonder that kid dared to bet with me. He knew from the very beginning that the old man would go wrong. He really is a treacherous little Taoist priest!"

Liu Bowen laughed happily, but he was not angry at all because he lost the competition with Zhang Yi.

"Little Taoist, isn't this book compiled by Xu Cunren?"

Song Lian, the princes were very surprised when they heard this.

Liu Bowen ignored them, but said to the emperor:
"I am conceited and smart, but I was tricked by a little Taoist priest. He aroused my desire to win and made me try my best in the competition with him!

But the minister alone forgot, as a teacher, what should he do for his students?
Teachers, preaching and teaching, and this math textbook, I just show off my knowledge, but ignore the acceptance of students.

If this kind of textbook for self-entertainment is used to teach my Ming students, it will be misleading! "

Liu Bowen snatched the book he compiled from Xu Cunren's hands, and tore it in half with force!
His decisive action surprised everyone present.

"Liu Ji!"

"Master Liu!"

Seeing Song Lian, Zhu Biao, Xu Cunren and others, Liu Ji smiled:
"You guys think that Liu is the kind of person who has no heart?

The textbook compiled by the little Taoist priest has a total of twelve volumes, from the shallower to the deeper, and is self-contained. It is divided into three stages: primary school, middle school, and university, and each is divided into levels.

I didn't take this novel way at first, but I just savored the content later.

Elementary school is equivalent to elementary school, which is the enlightenment of mathematics, but it starts from the first grade, corresponding to five or six-year-old children, to the sixth grade, and the order is clear!

Later, in middle school and university, every piece of knowledge is linked together!
Compared with Liu showing off his abilities, these dozen or so textbooks can be called teaching materials for preaching and teaching!
The essence of teaching and educating people is to let students understand and understand what they have learned. The textbooks of the little Taoist do this, and they do it very well.
The minister is not as good as the minister, and the minister loses his heart! "

Liu Bowen said Wen and knelt down towards the emperor.

Song Lian and Zhu Yuanzhang looked at each other, and Zhu Yuanzhang said:

"It seems that you have a higher opinion of that child from the Zhang family than I do!"

"Just talking about the content in the textbook, I think it's not bad, but compared to the deep meaning behind Zhang Yi's textbooks, I can't match it!
Among other things, these little things, what are they?
I feel like it's some kind of sentence break! "

Song Lian, Zhu Yuanzhang and others actually discovered some strange punctuation marks when Zhang Yi wrote the textbook this time.

Similar symbols were not popular in the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Bowen is well-informed, and vaguely saw from ancient books that this kind of thing was used before, but it was not handed down after all.

"I also noticed that His Majesty asked the old man not to ask, Xu Cunren, do you know?"

Xu Cunren looked confused, and replied: "Actually, I forgot to ask!"

Song Lian said:
"Your Majesty, Mr. Liu, Mr. Xu, you guys are talking riddles here, but you have to take care of me, an outsider..."

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

Xu Cunren took the initiative to stand up and explain to Song Lian:
"Mr. Song, you don't know that this math textbook is not written by this old man!
You also know that this old man doesn't know anything about math. Recently, I lost my leg trying to find a few math teachers!
This textbook is actually written by Zhang Yi, my student, the second son of Longhushan, so that my husband can know that Zhang Yi also proposed to get into the imperial examination! "

When Song Lian heard this, his face changed drastically.

In fact, he was also a member who opposed the entry of mathematics into the imperial examination, but after the emperor pushed this matter, everything was a foregone conclusion.

Song Lian's acceptance of Xu Cunren's promotion of mathematics into the imperial examination does not mean that he likes a Taoist priest interfering in the imperial examination!
Zhu Yuanzhang also noticed the subtle changes in Song's father and son's complexion.

Although Zhang Yi inevitably gradually appeared on Yingtianfu's stage, the background of Longhushan and the prejudice of those scholar-officials towards Longhushan did not seem to have changed.

Xu Cunren knew that he couldn't hide this matter, so he could only make amends for himself:

"Actually, my disciple didn't think about it at first, but the old man really couldn't come up with a plan that would satisfy His Majesty. His Majesty rejected my memorial. I bit the bullet and handed over the child's things, but I didn't want His Majesty to pass it straight away!

After Master Liu found out, he also had some past with Zhang Yi!

That's why there is this textbook competition! "

Xu Cunren briefly talked about the competition between Liu Bowen and Zhang Yi, and Song Lian suddenly realized.

Therefore, this competition was premeditated.

Zhang Yi and Song Lian have also heard about this child,

When Zhang Normal came to the capital for the first time, the emperor deprived him of the title of celestial master. The child was left in Yingtian Mansion to chant scriptures and pray for the emperor.

At that time, it was rumored in the capital that Zhang Normal had exiled this son, which shows that this son was not welcomed in Longhu Mountain.

There is also a saying that His Majesty left Zhang Yi as a hostage!

Later, Longhushan offered auspiciousness and spread the vaccination method, and His Majesty Longyan was very happy.

In addition to rewarding Zhang Normal, the emperor also gave the child a chance to study. Obviously His Majesty expects the child to be a scholar...

From this point of view, he may not be able to count towards the Taoist gate.

Thinking of this, Song Lian also reluctantly accepted the embarrassing situation that the imperial examination was changed by a Taoist priest.

"In ten days, I can compile this textbook, I really don't believe it!"

Song Lian thought for a while and expressed his opinion.

Xu Cunren and Liu Bowen were silent, but they didn't really believe it either.

After all, it is enough for one person to write one textbook alone, and a dozen of them are a bit too much!

Only Zhu Yuanzhang and his son probably understood what was going on, and Zhang Yi's set of teaching materials probably came from the distant future.

First grade, second grade, this method of education seems to have a lot to learn from.

Zhu Yuanzhang is ready to find a time to meet Zhang Yi.

However, Lao Zhu was also worried.

It's gold that can't be hidden after all, and more and more people go to the Taoist temple of Zhang Yi.

If I want to see him in the future, I'm afraid I have to call him home!

"Your Majesty, don't you want to see that child?"

Liu Bowen asked!
(End of this chapter)