But at this moment, Lin Yanchao, who was in Fujian, welcomed a distinguished guest. This distinguished guest was no one else, but Xu Zhenming, who was dismissed from office after Lin Yanchao resigned.

After Lin Yanchao opened the academy, he also invited famous teachers in his hometown in his spirit of "the so-called great people are not called buildings or masters" in his previous life.

The academy speakers must at least be above the juren, such as Xu Xu, Weng Zhengchun, Lin Shen and others are among the invitations of Lin Yanchao.

Of course, just a juren is not enough. Lin Yanchao wants to come forward to write a letter to Xu Zhenming, who was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Longqing.

Xu Zhenming had already returned to Guixi, but after receiving Lin Yanchao's letter, he left his hometown in Jiangxi without saying a word. He arrived in Fuzhou City in just over half a month.

Lin Yanchao was overjoyed when he learned about Xu Zhenming's arrival.

Lin Yanchao personally brought Xu Huobo, Xu Guangqi, Xu Xu Feng, Weng Zhengchun, Lin Shen and others out of the city to greet him, and grandly invited Xu Zhenming to the mansion.

For example, Xu Feng, Weng Zhengchun, Lin Shen and others have never heard of Xu Zhenming's reputation. I don't know why Lin Yanchao attached so much to the other party and was so condescending to welcome the other party to his mansion.

When the Lin Mansion held a banquet to greet Xu Zhenming, Lin Yanchao stood up and toasted Xu Zhenming, and then said to his children: "When he was an official in Beijing, Brother Rudong was always a good teacher in Lin and asked him for advice from time to time. Today, he was able to visit my academy, and in my eyes, it was no less than that in Zhu Zi went to Fujian to give lectures."

Everyone couldn't help but look at Xu Zhenming with admiration. No matter how he did, Xu Zhenming would not dare to compete with Zhu Xi. He stood up and said, "I really don't deserve such praise from my brother."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Brother Rudong doesn't need to be too humble! Come and drink!"

After drinking for three rounds, Lin Yanchao said: "In fact, I have ambitions in running Aofeng Academy. The ancients run academies to teach people how to explain their knowledge and answer questions. After that, the imperial examinations were held, and the academies turned to the pursuit of careers and achievements as a rope, which lacked the way of reading and self-use, which deviated from the original intention of the ancients to run academies."

After hearing Lin Yanchao's words, everyone nodded. This is the current situation of most academies today.

Lin Yanchao said: "But this is not a generalization. A good academies not only talk about how students work for fame, but also foster their sentiments. For example, when the Song Dynasty fell, the students of Yuelu Academy, He Gordon died and defended Changsha. In the end, Changsha fell. Nineteen of the Yuelu Academy died. Most of the names of those who sacrificed their lives for the country were so that most of the names of the people could not be verified."

"Others often say that scholars serve the country are nothing but empty words and skillful in writing. However, with the students of Yuelu Academy, you can see that they are dangerous and rewarding, and we can do things that we can do without considering the benefits. And it is truly worthy of our reputation for being one of the four major academies in the world."

"So, our academy should also learn from the director of Yuelu Academy. Yuelu Academy is based in Huguang. I remember that the plaque of the academy said the words "Only Chu is talented" were written, while our Aofeng Academy should be based in Fujian. We should encourage students to take the imperial examination as a target, but we should also cultivate their local feelings and family and country feelings, and cultivate the pillars who truly serve the country and the people."

After hearing Lin Yanchao's words, everyone said, "This is extremely righteous!"

Hearing this, Lin Yanchao nodded and smiled, "It's great. Since everyone has like-minded people, then we can work together after we are here and start the academy together."

The local feelings, family and country feelings, and students who serve the country and the people are the pillars of the academy to cultivate in the future. The school philosophy of the academy is expressed by Lin Yanchao's words.

Speaking of this, Lin Yanchao asked Xu Zhenming: "When we parted before, Brother Rudong said he wanted to write books in the village. I wonder if the masterpiece has been accomplished?"

Xu Zhenming heard this and said, "Fortunately, I did not humiliate my fate. This time I went back to my hometown and spent many years of hard work to write a book. Now the first draft has been completed. This time I came to Fujian, I was about to ask my brother to correct me."

When everyone heard that Xu Zhenming had compiled a book in a month, they were surprised. Since ancient times, great scholars have worked hard to compile books and read it for several years. Such caution is not only a right thing to do, but also a lack of laughter.

But Xu Zhenming took a month to write a book. Isn’t this too hasty?

Lin Yanchao was happy to hear this, saying, "Brother Rudong, this is really a gratifying event."

"My brother hasn't read it yet, so it's too early to say this."

Lin Yanchao said: "I already know the talent of Brother Rudong."

Both of them laughed at this point.

After drinking a cup of wine, Xu Zhenming ordered his servants to bring a thick stack of paper and offer it: "At that time, on Weishan Lake, my brother repeatedly mentioned how to do his best to achieve his life, and he felt like he was reborn. I think my sages and sages in ancient and modern times were just divided into the knowledge of the sages in ancient and modern times, the court divided into the number of the poor, and the rich."

"It's like the family only has one stone of rice every month. You always worry about how much the elderly eat, how much they eat, and how much children eat, and how much they eat, and put your mind on how to divide it up and down to show fairness. In my opinion, it's better to use this mind on how to work harder and eat more food."

"This is a bit biased, but it is generally the case. The learning of doing things is the learning of doing things. Throughout history, sages have to make the people in the world eat and wear well, and there is no other way to go! Therefore, how to do farming is recorded in my book."

After listening to Xu Zhenming's words, Lin Shen and Xu Huang were all thinking, I think how to learn is just a lesson in agriculture.

Thinking of this, the two looked down on Xu Zhenming a little, and they didn't understand why Lin Yanchao strongly invited this person to the academy to teach.

Lin Yanchao said, "What Brother Rudong said is thought-provoking. Our school of meritorious affairs often proposes business benefits, but business benefits must be the first priority. What is this? Everyone knows that our countryside has markets. On the 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and 1st and

"That's because the people don't have that much agricultural goods in their hands. They go to the market every day to delay farming. But if the people have enough agricultural goods, they will not only eat enough, but also exchange them extra, otherwise they will rot in their hands. In this way, they will definitely go to the market if they have time, and then they will be exchanged without paying attention to production. It would be inconvenient to set up markets in the township and city on the 15th day of the day, and they will change to having markets every day. This is the real business and benefit worker."

"Therefore, farming is unstable for a day, and we are not enough to talk about business and benefit work in one day! Therefore, as Brother Rudong said, this is the best learning in the world."

After hearing Lin Yanchao's words, a bright color rose in Xu Guangqi's eyes.

Lin Shen, Xu Xu, Weng Zhengchun and others were also convinced and understood his intention to invite Xu Zhenming.

Xu Zhenming was silent for a long time before saying, "My brother's knowledge is not as good as if."

"In addition to being ashamed, I remembered that a young man, Zeng Xian, the escort, the scholar joined the army, and once envied Jing Ke, Gao Jianli, and sang wildly through Yan City. Now I am in a twilight year. All I think is to leave something for future generations. I don't want to leave a name in history, I just hope it will benefit my descendants."

Everyone admired Xu Zhenming's words very much.

Lin Yanchao also nodded, from putting agriculture first and then to merchandising business and benefiting labor, his theory has taken a big step.

This seems to be no difference, but it is a solid first step.

Why do you say so?

Confucianism emphasizes that scholars, peasants, industry and commerce ranks should protect the interests of farmers, while Legalism should monopolize all other interests to encourage farming and war.

Therefore, in terms of farming, both the Legalists and Confucians agree unanimously.

Dong Zhongshu proposed New Confucianism back then, and he understood that rashly raising a new doctrine would cause a big debate.

Therefore, Dong Zhongshu first proposed great unification. Great unification is the consensus between Confucianism and Legalism, and first gain consensus and then silently implement his own propositions.

Lin Feng felt relieved when he learned that he had vigorously promoted sweet potatoes.

He may not know the knowledge of the merits and had doubts in his heart. After all, since the Southern Song Dynasty, the merits school has been dying for many years, but Lin Yanchao's first step was to gain his recognition and also won the favor of many scholars and officials.

But what to do next is different?

Lin Yanchao wanted to put agriculture first, in order to develop commercial industries. According to the subdivision of socialized labor as mentioned in the National Wealth Theory, the right way is to improve production efficiency.

However, Confucian and Legalists protect agriculture by suppressing other industries. This is just like the proposals of farmers during the Warring States Period. Farmers advocated that from the emperor to the people, the way of farming together to encourage agriculture. They even mentioned that the market has no divalent prices, so they used a unified price to ensure agricultural production profits.

So this is the fundamental difference between the two sides.

But no matter what the next step is, Lin Yanchao has successfully taken this first step.

But there are also shortcomings.

It is known that Lin Yanchao received information from Beijing that Li Sancai finally picked peaches.

The sweet potatoes were introduced by Lin Yanchao from the foreign countries, and this credit cannot be eliminated, so Lin Yanchao is fine, but Xu Zhenming worked hard all his life and ended up being dismissed from office.

Lin Yanchao did not understand how Shen Shixing operated, and he did not tell him clearly. But Lin Yanchao personally guessed that Shen Shixing thought he was about to retreat, so he used this as a bargaining chip to win over Wang Xijue. At the same time, it was the emperor's decision to sack Xu Zhenming, so this credit was not easy to be distributed to him in the end.

Of course, there are other reasons that I can't guess.

Generally speaking, normal people must think that Lin Yanchao was cheated by Shen Shixing. But Lin Yanchao knew that Shen Shixing had a good skill, so he would have to use him in the future, so he was not in a hurry at all.

The following academy preparations are in progress in an orderly manner.

In terms of personnel, Lin Yanchao himself served as the mountain chief.

Why did the heads of ancient academies call them mountain chiefs? This is also a reason. In the past, famous scholars who lived in seclusion in the mountains were called mountain people.

Shanren has always been the elegant name of hermits. The earliest academies were all run by the private schools, so the heads of the tutors were not designated by the court, but were all hermits, so they were called Shanzhu.

For Lin Yanchao, he was not valued by this identity. For him, it would be a very interesting life experience after resigning from an official position and becoming a mountain captain.

After becoming an official, you can know what it means to think of the common people. After becoming a scholar, you can only feel the desire for you to become a talented person. Whether in the temple or in the world, it is a very meaningful thing for Lin Yanchao.

The academy has also undergone amazing changes compared to two months ago.

Originally, the academy was just a few inconspicuous houses in Sanyuanfang, but now there are black tiles and white walls erected outside.

The words "Aofeng Academy" are written on the gate of the academy. Outside, there is a bustling city and a hut is built in a mirror. After entering the academy gate, it becomes a different world.

The center of the academy is Chongzheng Lecture Hall. Although Lin Yanchao opened the academy, he did not mark the words "Study and merit" on the central building of the academy. His usual proposition was that he hoped that the academic style of the academy could be integrated with both the ink, law, principle, mind, and merit. All schools of thought can be open to the topic here.

Therefore, the names in the college were agreed upon by the speakers below, and Lin Yanchao did not interfere at all.

This Chongzheng Lecture Hall is the place where the academy teaches, lectures, and teaches. On the right side of the Xuegong Lecture Hall is the library. The library is the tallest building of the academy, with a total of two floors, and there are many study rooms in the rest.

Study is used as a student's study. There are four study rooms in the academy: Zhiyong Zhai, Chongde Zhai, Dunfu Zhai, and Duding Zhai.

These four vegetarian houses will be provided for students in the future, one for internal classes, one for external classes, and two for attached students.

As for the lecturer of the mountain chief, he also built a chief education supervisory institute to live in.

This is also the teaching policy of ancient academies where teachers and students spend time together and teach by example.

As for the Lotus River Pond at the foot of the mountain behind the academy, it is a place for students to study and rest. Lin Yanchao built a pavilion and water pavilion here. After the construction, Lin Yanchao went there. It can be called a picturesque and a study destination.

In the future, it will definitely be a place for young couples to take a walk after dinner, but in Aofeng Academy, it will be a place where students will discuss and learn more.

In two months, the academy affairs were unanimously supported by officials and gentry in Fuzhou, and they all donated generously, so the progress of the academy construction was gratifying.

Now the academy is basically completed, but there are only some final things left.

At the same time, due to the enthusiastic donations of officials, gentry and the people, Lin Yanchao also had another happy trouble.

When Lin Yanchao started a college, he did not intend to make a profit, and even donated all his wealth he had accumulated for years as an official to his school land. However, in just the past two months, the money donated by officials and gentry in Fujian had far exceeded the expenses required for running the school. This matter was much beyond Lin Yanchao's expectations. Here he could only say that the elders of his hometown had too high hopes for him.

Lin Yanchao calculated that after deducting the construction and the expenses of teachers and students this year, there were still more than 2,000 taels left in the account.

In theory, Lin Yanchao could spend this money himself, but it would be a big loss to his fellow villagers.

Therefore, Lin Yanchao decided to manage the finances of the academy by his third uncle's money house. Each income and expenditure must be detailed.

On weekdays, Linji Money House will manage the income and interest of the academy. Linji Money House only charges management fees for the funds, and needs to be announced to the villagers in Fujian for income and interest. This practice is somewhat similar to the modern fund system.

As for the expenses of the academy, Lin Yanchao also formed a rule and system.

For example, if the academy director is in charge, the speaker will receive a different bid according to the distance.
To be continued...