"Your Majesty, this is the list of students from Mingde Academy this year." Tian Feng handed a stack of lists to Li Xiang with both hands, and his steady voice sounded at the same moment.
Li Xiang glanced at the stack of lists in his hand, but no name he was familiar with appeared. Sure enough, the pie in the sky would not fall twice. He was lucky to be hit on the head by the pie once.
"The way of a university lies in Mingde, being close to the people, and striving for perfection." The name "Mingde" in Mingde Academy comes from the first sentence of this Confucian classic.
After returning to Bingzhou from the last grassland war, Li Xiang did not stay in Bingzhou for long, but quickly returned to Hanoi. After all, as the governor of a county, he could not leave his territory for too long.
Capturing the Hetao area and wiping out the Southern Xiongnu was a monumental achievement. Naturally, the imperial court would not turn a blind eye to it and would always reward him greatly.
However, not many of these rewards fell on Li Xiang himself. Li Xiang was already the governor of a county. If he was promoted further, he could only be the governor. Even if Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was stupid, he would not let him
The Li family controls the two states.
Since the end of the last Yellow Turban Rebellion, Li Xiang's title has been promoted to County Marquis, and it is unrealistic to move up. Therefore, when neither official title nor title can be rewarded, Li Xiang can only be given some money.
rewarded.
But Li Xiang's contribution this time is too great. Just this small reward is not enough, and how can the court convince the public? If the court really does this, there will be a few people who are willing to make contributions to the court in the future!
However, fortunately, many things can be done in a curved manner. Since it was impossible to reward Li Xiang, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty simply took the reward from his son and his father and gave the reward that Li Xiang deserved to Li Xiang's father, Bingzhou Mu Li Yang.
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Therefore, Li Yang's title can be said to have jumped three times in a row, and he was also promoted to the position of County Marquis. In addition, there are three or four important figures of the Li family, this time because of being in Li Xiang's favor
And was more or less rewarded with a title.
Of course, Li Xiang's gains after this war are not limited to this. Li Xiang's skyrocketing reputation is his real gain. After the news about regaining the Hetao land and attacking the Southern Huns was spread, Li Xiang's reputation skyrocketed instantly.
It’s reached the point where no one in the world doesn’t recognize you!
The benefits that Li Xiang's soaring reputation has brought to Li Xiang have begun to take shape during this period! At the very least, Li Xiang's reputation has brought benefits to the teaching staff of Mingde Academy. Many people have been attracted by Li Xiang.
As soon as he was invited over.
After Li Xiang returned to Hanoi, he began to build Mingde Academy. The reason why it was named Mingde Academy was because Li Xiang not only regarded Mingde Academy as a cradle for cultivating talents, but also included Li Xiang.
Xiang has high hopes for the academy.
Li Xiang hopes that every student in the academy can promote upright moral character, apply learning and knowledge to life, and enable people to reach the most perfect state, to study things, gain knowledge, sincerity, be honest, cultivate oneself, manage the family, govern the country, and achieve peace.
The world.
In terms of teaching content at Mingde Academy, Li Xiang still insists on following Confucius’s Six Arts of a Gentleman, which are etiquette, music, calligraphy, mathematics, archery, and charioteering.
Li, as the name suggests, means etiquette; Yu means learning music and mastering some important musical instruments, such as Qin, Se, Xiao, Zheng, etc.; Shu means learning classics, mainly Confucian classics; Number means learning arithmetic and geometry; Shooting means archery; Yu means learning arithmetic and geometry.
Driving a carriage.
But today is an era of great controversies, and Li Xiang has made many changes in the teaching content. First of all, Li Xiang stipulated that the books should include not only Confucian classics, but also Legalist classics, and even the other hundreds of academic schools.
Introduced by Li Xiang.
Perhaps Confucianism does have a great beneficial effect on the rule of rulers, but as a soul of later generations, Li Xiang prefers the academic atmosphere of a hundred schools of thought contending.
In fact, during the Han Dynasty, although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion to depose hundreds of schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone, "heretical theories" such as Legalism, Mohism, Yin and Yang, etc. were still said to be popular, and they were not as thorough as those in subsequent periods.
Towards demise.
For example, Cao Cao once ordered aristocratic families to be buried lightly. His edict before his death also stipulated that after death, he must be buried lightly, which means not to be buried with too many people. A thin burial is a typical Mohist thought. Another example is Cao Cao's famous counselor Cheng
Yu, when Xun Yu recommended him, he said that Cheng Yu was proficient in many classics and had profound knowledge.
Secondly, Li Xiang also made many changes regarding the sources of students in the academy.
In Mingde Academy, students are not limited to their origins. Whether they are from a noble family, a wealthy family, a poor family or a commoner, they are all eligible to join Mingde Academy.
Later, in order to ensure that students from ordinary civilian backgrounds could truly join the academy, Li Xiang stipulated that the academy would not charge or waive part of the tuition fees for those from poor families. He also established a student tuition loan project. Academy students could borrow money from the government, but they must be in
They must pay it back before the end of the study period, or pay it after the study period, and serve the government for a certain period of time to mortgage the loan they borrowed to enter the college.
Of course, Li Xiang's real purpose in establishing this regulation is a bit drunken!
For outstanding students in the academy, Li Xiang established a scholarship program to encourage civilian students from poor families. Scholarships are not limited to money. They can also use food, salt, silk, and stationery supplies.
Good horses, sheep, wine and other equivalents are substituted.
Of course, Mingde Academy's generous entry requirements will naturally impose restrictions, otherwise the academy would not be able to accommodate so many students.
Li Xiang stipulated that in addition to the assessment before admission, the academy will also make assessments several times a year. The assessment will be different according to the students' different basic conditions when they enter. But the same thing is that those who cannot achieve
Students with a certain standard will be forcibly kicked out of the academy.
The opening of Mingde Academy in this way indeed created a different wave in the late Han Dynasty.
After the academy opened, as Li Xiang said, many civilians and students from poor families came to study. Not only students from the northern states, but even students from the southern states were willing to study after receiving news about the academy.
After enduring the pain of traveling long distances, he chose to join Mingde Academy.
However, compared to common people and students from poor families, not many students from aristocratic families choose to join Mingde Academy. In their view, the poor families are still okay, but those common people are not qualified to study with them at all.
Although there are fewer students from aristocratic families, those students from aristocratic families who are really willing to join Mingde Academy are the elite ones in their families, and their vision and thinking are farther ahead than those from other aristocratic families.
