A sudden heavy rain washed away the irritability of summer and also washed away the impetuousness of people's hearts.
When the rain stopped and the sky cleared, the Yangzhou people who had been bored all summer suddenly realized that without even realizing it, midsummer had passed and autumn was coming, and even the air was feeling cool.
The academy in Qili Village.
Xiao Shisan, who was wearing a long gown, walked into the academy with a stack of brand new textbooks in his arms. He greeted the concierge, and then he stopped as usual and looked at the words engraved on the screen wall!
"Eh? Thirteen, did you get all the printed books back?" Someone passed by not far away and saw Xiao Shisan standing dumbly, and asked with a smile.
Xiao Shisan suddenly came back to his senses after hearing this, and his young face was suddenly filled with a smile. He bent down and saluted the person who spoke: "Sir, the book has been brought back."
"oh?"
The speaker's surname was Song, and he was one of the first Confucian scholars that Yin Can found. He was over fifty years old, had good knowledge, and was good at studying. If such a person were placed in a prosperous age, he would definitely become an official.
It's just a pity that I was born at the wrong time!
Mr. Song has been studying hard for more than ten years since he was a child. Just when he was preparing to fly into the sky in the examination room, he encountered the collapse of the Sui Dynasty, the abandonment of the imperial examination, and the chaos of the world!
Seeing this, Mr. Song had no choice but to wait at home for the imperial examination to resume.
Who would have known that decades would have passed by this time! When the Tang Dynasty was established, he lost the spirit of his youth and only wanted to stay in his hometown and be an ordinary teacher.
"Then can I take a look?"
Mr. Song walked towards Xiao Shisan and asked sincerely.
In a pair of gentle eyes, there was no joke at all, but a kind of equal treatment.
"Of course!" Upon seeing this, Xiao Shisan nodded with a smile, then squatted down, put a pile of books on his lap, freed one hand, and handed over the top one.
"Thank you!"
Mr. Song looked at the book that was handed over and still smelled of ink. He bowed solemnly first, then took the book with both hands and looked through it carefully.
The book in his hand is not very thick, but a thin one, but the numbers and characters in it make it difficult for Mr. Song to read.
This is the result of him listening to a few classes. If he hadn't listened, reading this book now would be like reading a book from heaven.
"Hey, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead!"
After flipping through a few pages, Mr. Song, whose eyes were spinning, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Then I remembered when Xiao Shisan and the others first arrived, and my heart clenched unconsciously.
Back then, the academy judge who rarely showed up suddenly brought these children and said that they were the arithmetic teachers of the academy!
Upon hearing the news, all the gentlemen, including him, almost went crazy on the spot!
Even if you are a court judge, you can't be such a childish person, right?
Just these little brats? Not even as old as the students in the academy. Want to be a teacher? Why?
Confucian scholars especially remember that they should be the first to jump out and scold and object!
In his heart, knowledge is always sacred and cannot be tarnished, let alone insulted!
Like that court judge, choosing a few random people to be teachers is not only an insult to learning, but also an insult to them as scholars!
A bunch of fingers mixed with spitting stars pointed towards the court judge. The court judge was not angry, but the young men were angry first and insisted on competing with them.
It stands to reason that it is normal to compete in this thing. It is nothing more than a competition. How many young children can a group of grown men be afraid of?
Draw a path on the spot and learn from the calculations!
The teachers had not yet decided who would participate in the battle, but the shameless young man in front of them had already asked a few questions, and then everyone was confused!
Some of them are Confucian disciples, and some are Mohist masters.
It’s not that you don’t know arithmetic. In fact, arithmetic is a must-have knowledge for all scholars! But after staring at the boy's question in front of them for a long time, they found that they couldn't even find the direction to answer it?
At that time, there were still people who did not believe in evil and thought that this was the guidance of an expert behind them! After all, they are just a few baby babies. Even if they start learning from the mother's womb, how much can they learn?
So, the questions that they thought were difficult were thrown away one after another!
But what no one expected was that the answers to the questions were thrown back even faster! And there are no mistakes!
Now, everyone was convinced and convinced!
Knowledge is sacred.
Similarly, knowledge cannot be faked!
After this small test, they found that the arithmetic knowledge of these teenagers far exceeded any of them!
So if people like them can be teachers, why can't young people be so?
"Mr. Song? Mr. Song?" Several calls floating in the air completely broke the Confucian scholar's memory. After being startled, he looked at Xiao Shisan in confusion.
"What's wrong? Thirteen?"
"No...no big deal, I just have a question I want to ask!
"Oh? What's the problem? Tell me!"
Mr. Song readily agreed. When Xiao Shisan saw this, he smiled shyly, touched the screen wall with his chin, and said, "Mr. Song, I heard that the words on the screen wall were engraved by the court magistrate? What about them? What exactly does that mean?"
When the Confucian scholar heard that this was the question, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that it was a question of arithmetic, and he would be completely blind! Now that it’s not a math problem, it’s easy to handle!
"You mean what you said above, right?" Mr. Song asked with a smile, stroking his beard.
"Yes, this sentence is a bit obscure!" Xiao Shisan nodded repeatedly.
Mr. Song smiled again. He had been getting along with these people for a while, and he also knew that although these teenagers are extremely evil in arithmetic, they are not so exaggerated in other aspects. Now they cannot understand that line of writing. It makes sense!
"Everything in the human heart has knowledge, and everything in the world has reason. However, reason is not exhausted, so its knowledge is endless! This sentence has many meanings. Simply, it means that a person has the ability to know. Yes, and everything in the world always has certain principles! It’s just that because these principles have not been fully understood, human knowledge is very limited, and we should explore new principles!"
The Confucian scholar was already familiar with translating the meaning of this sentence for Xiao Shisan, because he had said these words many times.
Almost every new student will have questions about this line of text after getting started.
At the beginning, Confucian scholars would also feel strange why this sentence had to be engraved on the screen wall.
But after reading it a hundred times, he finally realized that their school of science was too different from other schools outside!
Not only the Four Books and Five Classics are taught here, but also arithmetic, mechanics, and even medicine!
It is absolutely impossible to learn so many things well without a heart that actively explores! This line is written here to remind students at all times that there are many truths that have never been discovered in the world! If you want to discover them, it's up to you boys!
