The last large-scale expansion of Taixue was in the sixth year of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, when it was expanded from dozens of houses to 240 houses and 1,850 rooms.
It has been exactly sixty years since that expansion. Many buildings in Taixue were still built sixty years ago. They have only been repaired over the years. Many places are dilapidated and need to be repaired.
So Liu Bei's first task for the new Imperial College was to comprehensively preside over the expansion and reconstruction of the Imperial College.
The plan is to expand to 400 houses and 3,500 rooms to accommodate a larger number of Taipei students and provide them with a wider space for activities and study.
Similarly, under Liu Bei's suggestion, it became a requirement that the imperial court allocate funds to run Taixue schools, and the annual allocations were fixed, and there was a considerable increase from the original basis.
Correspondingly, Liu Bei asked Taixue to introduce the relatively successful examination competition mechanism implemented in Liangzhou Prefecture School.
In the case of increasing the number of recruitment positions, Taixue needs to introduce a system of monthly exams, mid-term exams and final exams. There will be exams every month, a major exam every six months, and at least ten large-scale assessments in a school year. As long as there are three
Those who fail to pass the first assessment will be expelled from school.
Taixue does not want waste, only elites.
And at the end of the three-year period, when you graduate, there will be a final assessment - the graduation examination. The three-day graduation examination will test all the content that the candidates have studied.
Only by passing the graduation examination can Taixue students be officially recognized as Taixue graduates and receive a graduation certificate issued by Taixue. With this diploma, Taixue graduates can further participate in the talent selection and assessment hosted by the imperial court.
All in all, Liu Bei demanded that Taixue be changed from its longstanding bad habits of being overstaffed, that the academic atmosphere was not strong enough, and that it was a gilded place dedicated to dandies, and that Taixue should be turned into the highest institution of learning that could truly cultivate the talents needed by the Han Dynasty.
At the Jiade Hall meeting, Liu Bei delivered a speech on this.
"When Taixue was first established, there were only three doctors and fifty students. However, even with such a scale, a large number of talents continued to emerge, achieving dazzling achievements and helping the Han Dynasty reach its peak. So why now? There are 30,000 students in Taixue, but how many outstanding people can achieve fame?
The fundamental problem is that there is a big problem with Taixue's school-running ideas. Taixue does not really run a school, but has become a transitional place for rich and dandy children to add resumes. No one really takes Taixue seriously. , just asking for a name.
Back then, Tai students were the pillars of the country and were valued by the imperial court. To this day, do Tai students still have any honor to speak of? No more, just countless jokes! This situation makes me deeply saddened. The state allocates funds to Taixue every year, but what we get is this kind of result?
If things go on like this, how can the big man select outstanding talents? Is it possible that so much national money has been spent to cultivate a group of wastes who only know how to eat with chopsticks and dishes? If this is the case, I would rather Taixue not apply for it. Saving the money to build bridges and pave roads can be considered a gain!
Taixue must not become a place to cultivate waste! Taixue must be the highest institution for cultivating the elites of the Han Dynasty! I want to make Taixue a place that students all over the world yearn for and admire! I want to make Taixue a place that people all over the world are fascinated by every time they mention it! Too learned! Must be revived! "
Under Liu Bei's promotion, the Taixue reform plan was put on the agenda and was unanimously recognized by the court.
In terms of the educational content and teaching methods of Taixue, the imperial court gave authority to Liu Bei. Liu Bei and the incoming Taixue Jijiu were fully responsible. The imperial court wanted to see the results, regardless of the process.
So, starting from this day, the good days of the Tai students came to an end.
Liu Bei simply and thoroughly transferred the existing advanced experience in Liangzhou Prefecture to Taixue, and formulated an even more stringent examination plan, striving to make Taixue the first involution school in the Han Dynasty.
Only the king of scrolls can get ahead, and only internal scrolls are the way out. This kind of school is a good school.
The imperial court allocates funds not for you to learn to use bowls and chopsticks to eat, nor for you to come here to socialize and make connections, but for you to study hard. People who do not study hard are not qualified to stay in Taixue. Liu Bei wants to let Taixue The students rolled up vigorously.
As long as you can't die in the exam, you will die in the exam!
Learn from me! Give me the test! Read it to me at night by candlelight! Give me Han Chuang to study hard!
Liu, who had red eyes, poured out all the unbearable emotions in his heart on the heads of the Tai students.
The Taixue students began to live a nightmare hellish life. The rule that they would be expelled if they failed the exam three times became a sharp knife hanging over their heads. Everyone could not help but pay attention to the upcoming new rules of the Taixue.
Because many people are students of classical Chinese classics and have some understanding of them, they think they can still pass the exam.
But what they didn't expect was that Liu Bei not only set up ancient Chinese classics courses for Taixue, but also added many other courses.
For example, in arithmetic courses, Liu Bei introduced "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" and "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic" into Taixue, defined arithmetic as a compulsory subject, and required all Taixue students to study arithmetic.
Then came the agricultural monographs represented by "The Book of Pansheng". Liu Bei repeatedly emphasized that agriculture is the foundation of the country, so he asked Taixue, as the country's highest institution of education, to set agriculture as a required subject. The educated national elites must not It is a waste whose four bodies are not diligent and the five grains are not separated.
In addition to "The Book of Pansheng", Liu Bei also compiled the agricultural textbooks used in Liangzhou Prefecture School and compiled an Eastern Han Dynasty version of "The Complete Book of Agriculture", which was also designated as a teaching material and required to be taught in Taixue.
In addition to agriculture and arithmetic, there is also astronomy and geography.
Liu Bei compiled the calendar monographs and geography monographs from the Eastern Han Dynasty from the corners of the library, combined them with the textbooks used by Liangzhou Prefecture, and compiled two professional textbooks, "The Complete Book of Astronomy" and "The Complete Book of Geography" , used to teach within Taixue.
In this way, in addition to studying Confucian academics represented by ancient Chinese classics, Taixue students must also study arithmetic, agriculture, astronomy and geography. The cultural examination also has these five subjects, and all examination questions are selected from these five subjects. .
In addition, in order to enhance the students' physical fitness, Liu Bei also stipulated physical education courses, set high scores for physical education courses, and also conducted two mid-term and final exams to enhance students' emphasis on physical exercise. .
Every assessment needs to be assessed from two aspects: culture and physical fitness. If you are lame in any one aspect, you will not be able to pass the assessment smoothly.
It is very difficult, but those who can pass these two aspects of the assessment are all people with certain basic abilities. Even if they are not serious elites, they are by no means useless.
There are many people who are skeptical and negative about Liu Bei's series of changes in Taixue.
There are many old scholars of the ancient literature school who believe that it is not appropriate to teach those things publicly in Taixue. It is enough to teach Confucian classics in Taixue, and they will naturally learn other things in their subsequent work.
Liu Bei insisted on his own views and demanded that students should pursue the all-round development within Taixue and let them master as much knowledge as possible.
They are not only disciples of the Ancient Literature School, but also reserve officials of the country.
Liu Bei was aware of the thoughts of some members of the Ancient Literature School. Like the Modern Literature School, they only hoped that Taixue would become a bridgehead for them to spread their ideological teachings and consolidate the ruling foundation of the Ancient Literature School. They did not care what the students could learn there.
Their view of Taixue is that politics is greater than education, and politics is the most important. Cultivating fans of the ancient literature school and eliminating the imprint of the modern literature school are more important than anything else.
Liu Bei really treated Taixue as a school, focusing on education and adding many practical skills to education, which to a certain extent weakened the political significance of Taixue.
This is something that makes some people in the ancient literature school dissatisfied. Another point--
Liu Bei was serious about imparting the knowledge of governance to these people through the public way of Imperial College. In the past, only the students and disciples of each family could truly learn the governance knowledge applicable to high-ranking officials. Generally, even his disciples could not Can't learn.
According to the rules, ordinary students can only learn the knowledge of governing as a minor official, up to the county magistrate level, and there is no way to learn anything above that, because the number of real [officials] in the entire Eastern Han Empire is less than Eight thousand, and the remaining hundreds of thousands are all petty officials.
Therefore, in order to truly control the ownership of high-ranking officials, the governing knowledge applicable to high-ranking officials can only be limited to a small group of people. It is important to pass it down from male to female and not to others. Good things should be kept by ourselves. .
Liu Bei directly expanded this scope to all imperial students.
He even did this in Liangzhou Prefectural Academy and Sili Academy.
Although the governance knowledge he taught did not really involve the scope of application for high-ranking officials, but even though it was the governance knowledge at the level of ordinary petty officials and county magistrates, the number of people learning it increased so much at once. Is it a good thing?
There are so many people who have learned the knowledge of governance, not to mention whether there are so many positions available, but when this group of people grows up, how much impact will it have on the students and disciples of each family?
This is something that seriously affects everyone's interests.
But Liu Bei was extremely strong on this point and insisted on his own opinion.
He must turn Taixue into the most serious institution of higher education and cultivate groups of outstanding talents, instead of cultivating a group of silly fans of the ancient literature school.
"The Jinwen School only focused on controlling Taixue, and then raised a group of trash with high ambitions and low abilities, making Taixue completely a laughing stock in the world, and it did not give any help to the Jinwen School in the struggle, but instead made us successful.
Now that we have the power, if we continue to learn the methods of the Jinwen school as in the past, then it won’t be long before the same group of people will appear and replace us, leaving us with no place to die. Is this right? Is this what you want to see? "
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