Chapter 39 Wang Zuo (Part 2)
After sending off these students, Chen Zuo began to ponder the college's educational rules again.
In addition to literacy and mathematics, Deng Ming also planned to offer physical education classes. This idea was also briefly proposed by Deng Ming and threw it to Liu Jinge. Deng Ming forgot or felt that there was no need to establish the Ministry of Education for the time being. According to tradition, culture and education are of course one of the tasks responsible by the prefect's yamen. Liu Jinge did not have the energy or interest to assume the responsibility of the Minister of Education, so the teaching arrangements including physical education classes are all the work of Chengdu Academy.
Specifically speaking of physical education classes, other professors believe that scholars should study hard, not to cultivate farmers, why should they distract themselves from this kind of thing? The general view is to be perfunctory and not let the whimsical Deng come to Taiwan, and this bizarre idea will naturally disappear in the future.
Before Chen Zuocai arrived in Chengdu, no professor paid attention to the physical education class that Deng Ming told him, and he didn't know how to teach it. It would be good to take students out for a walk. It was a good idea to talk about poetry during the walk. The professors often cancel physical education classes at will, so that students can read in the classroom without delaying their youth. Liu Jinge has always been unrelated to these things. Anyway, as long as the academy claims to give physical education classes, it's fine.
After Chen Zuocai took office, he inspected several physical education classes. The founder's courses were basically in name only. The professor smiled bitterly at the wine-smile with Deng Ming's casual "running" and "long jump" and other items, saying that the Yangtze River Admiral used reading seeds as a training for combat soldiers. What's more, in a physical education class where Chen Zuocai also saw a professor sitting in front of flowers and plants with twenty children closed his eyes to rest, teaching them the way to cultivate one's mind. The professor himself has great skills in qi cultivation. Although he is still a young scholar, he can sit for an hour without moving when he closes his eyes, and just sit down a physical education class like this. Of course, the children are far from comparing with their professors. There are always people who can't sit for a long time and talk nonsense when they can't sit for a long time. Whenever the professor takes a ruler to serve them - using physical education classes to train their minds and nature, it is also promoted in the academy as a successful experience. Time travel novels
As a result, the professor who was satisfied with the idea that he could get the praise of Jijiu was scolded by Chen Zuocai. Chen Zuocai also looked down on Deng Ming's teaching content. Except for running, they were cut off and replaced by archery, riding horses, throwing guns, and throwing stones. After making a mess, everyone guessed that Chen Jijiu had been in charge of the general under Duke Mu for several years.
"The sage said that one should be proficient in the Six Arts. Now the Tartars are pressing forward step by step. Scholars not only need to read the books of sages and cultivate the spirit of greatness, but also need to be skilled in the bow and horses. Only in this way can they serve the emperor and revive the Holy Dynasty." After Chen Zuocai expressed his opinion, he asked Liu Jinge for tools for physical education classes, but bows and arrows and guns were easy to deal with, but the horses could not be provided by the government office. Except for the necessary ones of the army and the government, the rest were sold by Deng Ming. He could not withstand Chen Zuocai's soft and hard work. Later, when Liu Jinge sent troops to send a bunch of stone locks to the academy, he also sent a few donkeys and a Mongolian.
Now the Mongolian named Geriletu is the physical education professor in the academy. As the former Manchu Eight Banners Imperial Guard, Geriletu was very skilled in equestrianism, so riding donkeys was naturally no problem. He could also control several donkeys to fly and perform acrobatics on them at the same time, allowing the students to cheer each other. Bows and arrows were also Geriletu's old master. During the battle of Gaoyou Lake, he was seriously injured and was not assigned to the suicide squad, so he was not treated as a soldier. He was unwilling to work for businessmen and had to come to the academy to make a living. Under the lesson of Geriletu, although the children in the academy were far from being able to penetrate the poplar like the physical education professor, their bows were all sported, and their arms and eyes looked a little bit elite.
In recent days, Geriletu has been talking in Chen Zuocai's ears that he still has a few Mongolian friends, hoping to be a physical education professor in the academy. These Mongolians, like Geriletu, are unwilling to work for businessmen with low status. Fortunately, Deng Ming left before he told me that he could lend money to Mongolians who could not find a job, otherwise they would have a problem with their meals. Despite this, these former Mongolian Eight Banners warriors were still so poor that they could not get rid of the blame. Compared to irons and farming, the professors in the academy seemed to them to be very honorable. The Han people said that if they study well, they were Wenquxing, not to mention that these scholars might become officials in the future. Although Geriletu was a little arrogant, they were not fools.
Geriletu assured Chen Zuocai that his brothers were also famous heroes. When he was in Beijing, the teachers of the rich might not be attracted by them. In a few years, he would definitely help Chen Zuocai train a group of heroes. At that time, the physical education professors will take Wenquxing to kill a few bandits and train their courage, and even the Imperial Guards will be able to do it!
Geriletu's fierce Chen Zuocai also knew what he meant. Although he had been a soldier for several years, he asked himself if he had intersected with this Mongolian man, he would probably have been killed by the other party in the blink of an eye. However, Geriletu's suggestion still made Chen Zuocai hesitate for a moment. He knew that this was very beneficial to the students of the academy. A group of scholars who were loyal to the monarch and ministers and had bravery and martial arts would have great significance to the Yongli Emperor and the Southern Ming court. But now some people have bad intentions towards the academy and are eyeing Chen Zuocai.
Just after Chen Zuocai asked Liu Jinge for bows and arrows and the grass man, Xiong Lan, the traitor who only knew how to please Deng Ming, also came to the academy. Chen Zuocai suppressed his disgust and barely treated the guy raised by this little maid. After Xiong Lan looked inside and out of the academy, she asked Chen Zuocai if she needed a big knife, spear, and even a helmet and armor. If there was such a need, Xiong Lan claimed that she could help.
The academy requires bows, donkeys, javelins and stone locks to strengthen the child's body, and it is not really a training soldier. What do you need to do with armor? Chen Zuocai rejected Xiong Lan's "good intention", but Chen Zuo thought about it afterwards and felt that Xiong Lan's words did not seem to be that simple, and it seemed that there was a sinister evil intention.
Before coming to Chengdu, Chen Zuocai thought about being reluctantly polite and then died bravely. But in the past two months, Chen Zuocai gradually developed feelings for the academy. And if it were a holiday, he would undoubtedly be able to exert greater influence and better cultivate a group of loyal ministers and filial sons who were both wise and brave. If he wanted to achieve this goal, Chen Zuocai would not arouse Deng Ming's suspicion. Although rejecting Xiong Lan's armor that day was an unintentional act, it must have played a role in protecting himself. If Chen Zuocai followed Geriletu's advice to recruit more Mongolian warriors to enter the academy, it would probably give Xiong Lan a chance to attack him.
While hesitating, the order from the prefect's office was delivered to Chen Zuocai's table. After seeing Deng Ming coming to inspect the academy, Chen Zuocai was immediately trapped in ideological struggle again. If he wanted to save himself, he had to say something in the course that could make this powerful minister happy. After he saved his position, Chen Zuocai could use Deng Ming's trust to continue to show off his strength and plant the seeds of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism in the hearts of more professors and children.
"You can bend and stretch, and a real man can bend and stretch." Chen Zuocai repeatedly said this sentence without any intention. Several times he almost convinced himself that he had temporarily thought it was a snake.
"But if I find an excuse for myself, I will surrender for the rest of my life, deceive myself, and I will not be able to extend my life again? Today I think it is for the future. Will I deceive myself again in the future? What kind of magical artifacts are unbearable, and only those with virtue and strength are there?" Chen Zuo sighed, made up his mind, and wrote a letter to the prefect's office, saying that all the classes, including Professor Xiating, would be convened in two days, and the Admiral Changjiang must come and listen.
Two days passed by. When the professors of Chengdu Prefecture saw the order of priests, they heard that the Admiral of the Yangtze River was here in person, and none of them dared to neglect them and rushed over.
Deng Ming had arrived, and all the professors gathered in the academy's lecture hall. Chen Zuocai was still bathing. He combed his long hair in an orderly manner to the point of being smooth. He took out his best clothes and wore them properly in front of the bronze mirror.
"I had thought that I would like to run this academy well and cultivate talents for the country, but I was still delusional after all." Chen Zuo carefully closed the last few letters and carefully sealed them on the desk. One of them was to ask the prefect to pay for another group of physical education professors for the academy according to Geriletu's proposal.
Walking out of the door, Chen Zuo looked at the letters left on the table for the last time, then gently closed the door, held his head up and walked towards the lecture hall without hesitation - he had already had the awareness of no longer having the opportunity to step into the door behind him.
When he walked into the lecture hall, Chen Zuo saw Deng Ming sitting in the middle of the first row at a glance, Admiral Changjiang and other professors sat under the podium, instead of being as high as the lecture.
"Even so, you can't buy me." Although the other party showed great respect for him, Chen Zuocai was already as hard as a stone.
Sitting next to Deng Ming is Xiong Lan, who has visited the academy once. When she met Chen Zuocai's eyes, Xiong Lan showed a malicious smile on her face. Time travel novels
"I have a strong aura in my heart, so what should I add to the axe?" Chen Zuo did not let his eyes stay on Deng Ming or Xiong Lan's face. He bowed slightly to the Yangtze River Admiral politely, then straightened his back and walked to the podium with great strides.
"The Supreme One has established virtue, followed by meritorious service, and then made words..." Chen Zuocai began his lectures with a strong force.
Chen Zuocaibo led the way and spoke with both voice and emotion, but what moved Deng Ming the most was not his words, but the passion conveyed from his language. When Chen Jijiu talked about the emotions, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light, and he waved his arms excitedly - this was rare when speaking among Confucian scholars.
Because he was obsessed with hearing, Deng Ming did not even notice the inquiring eyes that Xiong Lan came from time to time. On the other hand, Liu Jinge became increasingly uneasy because Chen Zuo gradually began to attack Deng Ming's policy. The committee he planned to organize refused to pay tribute to the court. He privately awarded fame and honor in Chengdu... There are many more.
"If Chen Zuocai always teaches like this..." Liu Jinge felt a chill rising. He didn't know that Chen Zuocai had put down all his concerns today, and his words were hundreds of times sharper than before: "Why didn't I come to listen early and seal the academy early?"
Behind Deng Ming, other professors moved their bodies gently in their seats uneasy. Chen Zuocai's righteousness also made many professors feel unhappy. After all, they all came to Sichuan from downstream and were all shaved under the Qing Dynasty. The moral pride that Chen Zuocai showed also made these professors feel stinging. In the past, Chen Zuocai was relatively restrained and the professors could tolerate it, but today Chen Zuocai was really unbearable.
The whole lecture hall was silent. This was a performance by Chen Zuocai alone, and it was a stage that belonged only to him. It took a whole hour for Chen Zuocai to scold Deng Ming for all kinds of unjust actions. But Chen Zuocai was still unsatisfied. He took out the math textbook written by Deng Ming from his arms and threw it heavily on the table.
"Boll the world and steal the reputation!" Chen Zuocai shouted. Deng Ming's math textbook had a lot of knowledge about geometry courses. Chen Zuocai was different from the poor professors of the college. As a prominent gentry in Dali, he had a broader vision and had a dabbling in the geometry translated by Xu Guangqi. He could see through the things Deng Ming had come from at a glance.
Soon, Chen Zuocai began to attack Deng Ming's educational policy again. The specific example is this arithmetic textbook. Chen Zuocai was not against learning geometry. He also admitted that mathology would help officials handle affairs. However, Deng Ming's translation was different from Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua. He widely used Arabic numerals and Greek mathematical symbols in the textbooks, and all addition, subtraction, multiplication and division were all available. The overall westernization did not consider China's national conditions at all.
"China, barbarians, beasts! Tolerance is great. It is not impossible to learn the things of barbarians, but what is the intention of eating them like this and copying them word for word? Is it so good in the admiral's mind? Today, the admiral learns barbarians without discernment and worships barbarians with such a way, will he learn the beasts without discernment tomorrow? Even the Tartars are not so crazy, right?"
Chen Zuocai's questioning echoed in the lecture hall. Deng Ming's face turned pale and his hands clenched into fists without realizing it: "If you don't learn ready-made and easy-to-use symbols, is it appropriate to create a bunch of ghost-making talismans that no one can understand? And I just want to promote calculation. Even if you think it's not good, you can't get it out, and you still make such a heart-killing theory... This is called worshiping barbarians? At least I haven't treated a Jewish dream as truth and forced it to promote the whole country."
Deng Ming was still very attentive to listen, but since Chen Zuo started attacking his math textbook and began to question his intentions, Deng Ming's anger rose uncontrollably.
Liu Jinge was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and even forgot to jump up and scold Chen Zuocai loudly. Xiong Lan did not continue to look at Deng Ming inquiring now. In the early days of Chen Zuocai's speech, Xiong Lan felt that it was time to take the madman down and cross it out, but Deng Ming never paid attention to him. Now Xiong Lan just lowered her head and looked at her knees. Although Deng Ming beside her was still silent, from the other party's face and clenched fists, Xiong Lan knew that the Yangtze River Admiral was in an unprecedented rage. Even when Wanxian surrendered to Deng Ming for the second time, Xiong Lan did not feel the other party's anger to this extent, but one thing was the same. Now Deng Ming once again exuded a murderous aura, which made Xiong Lan feel familiar. When Wanxian knelt in front of Deng Ming's horse, he felt this power.
The guards standing at the door of the lecture hall all glared at Chen Zuocai on the podium. They were all loyal subordinates who had followed Deng Ming for many years. They watched Deng Ming fight bloody times and kill the enemy under the horse. A guard officer was already holding the hilt of the sword in his hand. He didn't understand Chen Zuocai's lecture very well, but since the other party took out the book to learn the book, Chen Zuocai had scolded Deng Ming for half an hour, yelling at the name.
"The admiral even killed the Tartar Emperor, can't he kill you? If you saw the Tartar Emperor, would your knees not be weak?" The officer stared at Chen Zuocai. As long as Deng Ming had a slight hint, he would strode forward and stab Chen Jijiu in the chest with a sword.
Deng Ming's clenched fists slowly relaxed. He knew that as long as he moved his fingers, he could kill Chen Zuo on the spot.
"Maybe I can forgive him and vent my anger with a stick. Even the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also had a court stick?" Deng Ming's mind quickly flashed through his mind. Chen Zuo, who was opposite him, had finished his lecture and was facing him with fearless eyes.
Deng Ming's eyes moved slightly and fell on the math textbook on the podium. This was a book that had devoted his efforts. Deng Ming spent many nights, recalling the courses he had learned in the dim candlelight. Moreover, Deng Ming had no idea what Chen Zuocai said to be a deceiving reputation. He had no idea that Xu Guangqi had translated one, and even explained to the professors that he was not original at all, but was borrowed from the wise man of Taixi.
"Free academics cannot grow on the soil of autocracy. If the authority of Catholicism has not been overthrown, there will be no modern science. If authority is not questioned, there will be no new astronomy, mathematics and physics. Whether the doubt is correct or not, questioning is the most important thing for science. Now China does not have many advanced achievements to learn, and by learning alone, China will never become an advanced scientific power. Today I beat Chen Zuocai. No matter what, no one dares to say a bad thing about this book of study, right?"
Deng Ming stood up, turned his back to Chen Zuocai on the podium, and raised his arms high.
"Chen Jijiu said it well!" Deng Ming said the first sentence with difficulty. After this sentence was expressed, it would be much easier to get below.
Deng Ming applauded vigorously and cheered loudly continuously: "Chen Jijiu spoke well! He spoke well! He spoke so well!" Time travel novel
Under Deng Ming's guidance, the professors first echoed sporadically and applauded, and eventually turned into thunderous applause: "Chen Jijiu spoke so well!"
After the praise was finished, Deng Ming walked to the podium and tried hard to squeeze out a smile to Chen Zuocai: "Chen Jijiu, I will take troops to Xuzhou tomorrow. After returning from Xuzhou, I will come to the academy to listen to the teachings."
The evolution of the matter surprised Chen Zuocai. The overwhelming applause and cheers made him stunned and replied in a daze: "It is very fortunate for the world to correct mistakes and the court."
"But I won't change it." Deng Ming said immediately. He pointed to the math textbook and said hatefully: "These symbols are very useful, I won't change it. I don't agree to the change before the academy comes up with better symbols."
It was not until this time that Deng Ming felt a little frustrated.
"Just as the admiral wishes."
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The next day, Deng Ming left Chengdu and rushed to Xuzhou. In the following days, Chen Zuo discovered that the professor had more respect and respect when he looked at him.
"The priest is really amazing." Today, the prefect sent a reply letter, including recruiting physical education professors. Liu Jinge agreed with the various requirements, and prepared for the academy as quickly as possible. After the assistant submitted these reply letters to Chen Zuocai, he couldn't help but sincerely admire: "The priest really scared me that day."
"It's also a relief for the admiral to be magnanimous." Another professor continued on the side: "It's hard for the admiral to listen to it."
"Well." Chen Zuo was sitting on the chair he thought he would never have a chance to sit on again, and said seriously: "This is nothing. Admiral Changjiang is responsible for the national weight, so it is worth it to have such a little bit of energy. Besides, he didn't listen to it, so he still refused to change the textbook."
Although Deng Ming said that as long as the academy came up with better solutions, Chen Zuocai did not organize anyone to figure out a set of symbols that were more suitable for national conditions and culture.
After a while, Chen Zuo snorted: "I remember when Emperor Xian (Emperor Wanli) was in power, his ministers were so arrogant (called the emperor for being debaucherous and shameless, and scolding the imperial concubine for being charmed). Isn't Emperor Xian not angry? Compared with Emperor Xian, what is the measure of the admiral?"
Chen Zuo paused for a moment, and after a while, he added: "Emperor Xian did not change, and he did not listen to the loyal advice, so the admiral was the same."
After reading the official letter from the prefect's office, Chen Zuocai asked the students waiting outside the door to bring in. He corrected his homework overnight yesterday, and now he should have insufficient guidance to these students.
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"The water and soil of Sichuan are nourishing people," the story of Chen Zuocai and Deng Ming has spread throughout Chengdu. Liu Yao and others are idle in the Senate and scold Liu Jinge all day long. However, the Qingcheng Sect's interest has been turned to this anecdote in the past two days, and Liu Gongfu was less scolded because of this: "Do you think the admiral is like a predecessor?"
"Yes, magnanimity is definitely the style of the first lord. If we say that the water and soil of Sichuan are good," the Qingcheng sects all agreed loudly: "One day, let's go and support Chen Jijiu, which is much better than storytelling."
"But Mr. Storyteller doesn't scold people."
"Hey, the admiral has scolded us, we can be proud of us." Yang Youcai didn't care: "If Chen Jijiu scolds us, we will applaud him."
Chapter completed!