"I didn't expect that Marquis Chen would come in person." Sima Hui stopped from a distance and saluted Chen Xi, smiling like a Confucian scholar.
"Is there anything I haven't thought about?" Chen Xi waved his hand and said, "Since Mr. Sima left Yecheng and never came back, we haven't seen each other for several years."
"Hahaha, I'm not a fool. Others don't know what happened to the Lu Ji family back then. How can I not know? The Ji family's chief priest has always been ruthless and desireless. He regards himself as an ant and all things as an ant. I don't know where to start. The evil knowledge he learned fell into the hands of moral people like Zheng Kangcheng and Wang Yanfang, but it fell into the hands of the chief priest of the Ji family?" Sima Hui laughed and cursed, Chen Xi's words were really unreasonable.
"But when you discovered the problem, not only did you not help, you actually stole lessons from Mrs. Lu and ran away after learning. This is too much." Chen Xi crossed his arms and said with dissatisfaction.
"How good this is. This kind of extremely evil knowledge after thorough study is obviously not prepared for ordinary people. At least I don't think I can get it. Are you right? Now that I have encountered it, learning it is not just seeking the Tao. "You, do you want to have the grace that a scholar should have?" Sima Hui smiled very kindly.
"Then you ran away after studying?" Chen Xi said angrily, "If you hadn't left something behind, I would have captured you back from the north."
"But with such an opportunity, if you don't learn, won't you know the future?" Sima Hui said with a smile, "I think Sima Hui was born in a poor family, and all I want in my life is the wisdom of the world, the pursuit of fame and fortune, the wisdom mentioned by Lu Ji , I have not heard of it, but it contains infinite content. How could I miss it? Besides, I can be considered a moral person and will not act as recklessly as Lu Ji."
"You also know that Mrs. Lu is reckless in her feelings." Chen Xi said angrily, "Also, why are you pretending to be a poor family? Is your family called a poor family?"
The biggest difference after Chen Xi became Shang Shu Pu She was that many background stories that he didn't know were revealed to him one by one. Officials in the Han Dynasty really all had a backstage. At most, the difference was the size of the backstage. There was no The officials backstage really don’t exist.
"My family has only four walls and only books." Sima Hui sighed. He had no choice but to sell everything at home to buy books. Of course he was poor.
"You would have been beaten to death if you said this before." Chen Xi laughed and scolded. In this era of the Han Dynasty, it was said that all the poor families had was books. That is no different from later generations who said that all the poor families had was money.
Sima Hui's Sima is actually not the same Sima as Sima Yi's Sima. The latter is a descendant of Tian Chen's line and can be regarded as a descendant of Sima Ranju. However, Sima Hui's Sima is actually a line of Cheng Boxiu's father and can be regarded as a descendant of the Cheng family. Department, the surname was changed to Sima also because the official name was Sima.
The Cheng family was actually in decline during the Three Kingdoms era, and basically fell to the level of a poor family. The most famous person of the Cheng family during the Three Kingdoms period was actually Cheng Yu, but Cheng Yu's lineage was not a direct branch, and it was not considered a restoration. On the contrary, the Sima family, whether it is good or bad, is still the same family.
"But now it's no problem to say no." Sima Hui said with a smile, "It is indeed my problem to leave in the first place. You may not be familiar with the Lu Ji family, but I have traveled to the south of the Yangtze River, and my ancestors also have information about this matter. There are records of events, so I keep a respectful distance from the chief priest."
"Actually, after going through it, most of us know what it is." Chen Xi nodded and said, "Priest Xuanyuan has completely stripped away human passions, and there is nothing and no self, right?"
"Well, so apart from the officiant's own mission of worshiping Xuanyuan Huangdi, the rest of it is actually no different from an innocent child. After all, human morality is actually cultivated, and the officiant's moral values, worldview, and outlook on life are different from ours. The gap is very big." Sima Hui sighed, "Our general approach to the chief priest of Xuanyuan is to stay away from ghosts and gods."
"You don't treat him as a human being, do you?" Chen Xi said calmly.
"Well, this is the so-called life sacrifice. The closer you are to the Tao, the farther you are from people." Sima Hui said with some emotion, "People who are trained according to this will no longer be human in the end."
"We still know this, but I want to ask something." Chen Xi said with some thought.
"You want to know what the meaning of a person trained like this is?" Sima Hui replied casually.
"Yes." Chen Xi did not have other ideas because his mind was read.
"I don't know, anyway, it has been like this since thousands of years ago." Sima Hui spread his hands with a helpless expression, "Actually, there is a saying that the chief priest of Xuanyuan is actually for when some big dangers appear. , as a mark of inheritance, to guide certain people and events.”
"This statement?" Chen Xi frowned and said.
"There are records in some simple books at home, but I don't know where they come from." Sima Hui said casually, "So if you ask me, I can't answer."
"Okay, that's it. Can I ask something specific?" Chen Xi changed the question again. Since he couldn't ask it, he didn't force it.
"Please tell me." Sima Hui nodded.
"How many people are there now?" Chen Xi asked curiously as he looked at the spacious road. There were almost no people walking on it.
"Except for those research-oriented families, most of the other families only have old, weak, women and children left. Even the young people you can see here often don't actually belong here." Sima Hui pointed to the occasional young people who appeared here. The person said, "These people actually came from nearby villages to do some small business here. Now all they have here are seeds."
"You don't need so many old men to teach you." Chen Xi walked along the street to the private school on the side and looked inside. The teacher-student ratio was only one to three, and many old men Chen Xi had the impression that these were Among the older generations of major families, Chen Xi even met Chen Guang and Chen Shang, the elders of the Chen family who used to come to him.
"Why not? Everyone has their own areas of expertise. Wouldn't it be better to teach them?" Sima Hui said with a smile, "There was no such situation in the past four hundred years. The last time there were so many different factions, it was possible for them to communicate with each other. The older generation who still has Qiu took out the things they kept at the bottom of the box and told them about it, it was back in the days of Jixia Academy."
Of course, what Sima Hui said was a bit exaggerated. In fact, in addition to Jixia Academy, there was actually a Hongdu sect. However, the Hongdu sect was created by Emperor Huan Ling, and it was far inferior to that of Jixia Academy. The opinions of hundreds of schools of thought can only be said to be professional in nature, and coupled with a bunch of dark history such as party supervision, Sima Hui didn't bother to mention this matter at all.
"I just feel it's unfair." Chen Xi looked at the group of 13 or 14-year-old children from aristocratic families below, and then thought about the education he could provide. He couldn't help but sigh. The difference between teachers and education investment costs was too big. .
"Is it fair?" Sima Hui moved his mouth, then smiled, "Chen Hou, sometimes fairness and impartiality cannot be taken into consideration at the same time. Just like you, me, and civilians, when we are officials at the same time, we don't rely on The forces behind them are all trying their best to protect the side. Five years later, you may be sitting in your current position. I may be slightly promoted, but civilians may have been dismissed due to ability issues. This result is in terms of ability. That’s justice.”
Sima Hui did not say what fairness should be like, because it is impossible. Some things cannot be fair, only justice. People cannot be fair from the moment they are born, and all they can ask for is society. Overall justice.
"You don't need to instill such words into me. You really think I'm stupid. I just think it's too much." Chen Xi said angrily, "Do you really think I will pursue absolute fairness?"
"If Chen Hou is stupid, then there are no smart people." Sima Hui shook his head repeatedly, "As for what you said? Come on, look here!"
Sima Hui took Chen Xi to the side of the school building, where there was a sign saying that auditors were allowed and outstanding students could become disciples.
"Hey, you would actually agree to this kind of thing. I remember that you are all taught at home and are not allowed to pass on to others. The things of your ancestors are all treasures!" Chen Xi clicked his tongue in surprise.
"That was before. Now, we have already taught each other's children from other families, and we don't mind teaching others." Sima Hui said calmly. If he still only taught his own children and grandchildren, it would certainly not be like now. It has been turned into a debate platform, and since it no longer cares about other families hearing it, will it still care about the common people?
I don’t even care about my enemies listening to my family’s teachings, so why should I care about ordinary people listening? I can even withstand my enemies studying my family's family education and criticizing my family. I'm still afraid that you little people will listen to my family's family education and imitate my family's family education? Afraid of ghosts!
This is why we don’t ban outsiders from attending classes. At this point, we can go as we please, just like in the Jixia Academy. The teacher brought the disciples together, and the teacher debated with the other party’s boss. If he failed miserably, Maybe my disciple would have gone to another school on the spot, and then went to learn other people's theories.
Nowadays, these old men don't have such tough ideas, but after the venue is set up, they will inevitably get angry, and then they will start fighting, just like in the Jixia Academy.
You must know that the Jixia Academy was not actually a place where hundreds of schools could fight against each other or even fight to resolve academic disputes. This place was created just because the Tian family wanted to find someone to defend their Dai Qi issue and protect their own family. rule.
As a result, the scene got out of control after it was set up. Defend? To maintain dominance? Okay, okay, I'll help you solve this problem. Just clear the place for me first, and I'll spray the fool on the other side to death.
Then Jixia Academy became a place to solve hundreds of academic problems. To put it bluntly, the ideas above are always being misinterpreted, while those below can always have fun!
