When Li Yu returned to his residence in Dongchang Hutong, Fengling immediately said to him, "Sir, the heroine came here this morning."
"Woman?" Li Yu asked.
"That's the Bicheng heroine," Fengling said,
"I am also well-informed, but it is rare to see such a handsome and beautiful girl." Zhao Qian rushed out and said, "Sir, Fengling also lent her your horse. I can't persuade you! It's so precious." How could you just lend a three-hemp horse to a strange woman casually!" Fengling wanted to drive him away: "What do you know? His head is like a lump of elm wood!" When Li Yu looked at the stable, the famous horse was gone. .
Li Yu asked: "Why did Miss Bicheng borrow the horse?" Zhao Qian rushed to say: "That little lady actually said that you don't know how to ride a horse, sir, and it would be a waste to leave it here. It would be too troublesome for her to run back and forth. She said she would ride it back in the afternoon. "Feng Ling slapped her over: "You called me, little lady?! Go wash the car!" Zhao Qian stuck out his tongue and was very unconvinced: "It's not okay to slander Mr.! In my opinion, Mr. horse riding is at least as good as He's also at the level of a general! Why do you say that sir can't ride a horse?" Li Yu coughed lightly: "Is this equestrian skill? I still need to practice more..." Fengling came over and said: "The female hero is very good at riding a horse. , let her teach you." How can Li Yu pull off this old face? He was also able to drive in his previous life. Now riding a horse can be compared to driving a car. At that time, female drivers were always ridiculed.
Now you want a female driver to teach you? It’s so shameless! Li Yu said awkwardly, "We'll talk about this later." In the afternoon, Lu Bicheng actually rode the Sanhe horse over.
"I finally met you. I heard from Master Yan that you made Mr. Gu very angry!" Lu Bicheng said,
"You can't just get your diploma and not deal with him. If things go wrong, I'm afraid your certificate will be taken away."
"It turns out it was for this matter," Li Yu said with a smile,
"He is not the principal, so he won't be like this." Lu Bicheng was very worried: "As the first graduate of the university, you must know how to respect teachers. Even if you disagree with Mr. Gu, you shouldn't be so angry with him. . If he really sues you to the court, he won’t be able to get away with it by laughing and joking.” Li Yu could see that Lu Bicheng was just very worried, so he said, “I don’t think Mr. Gu will be so petty. He is a well-educated person, how can he do it for I get angry over little things." Lu Bicheng sighed: "I really don't know why you are so optimistic every time." Of course she didn't know that Li Yu was a time traveler, and he had this mentality after seeing through the times.
After Li Yu returned to Beijing, he really wanted to visit the university hall, but the campus was too small, and he was really afraid that if he met Gu Hongming, another exchange of words would inevitably happen.
Li Yu said: "Come in and sit down. I bought a newspaper from Shanghai. According to the Times, the last two parts of Star Wars are quite popular now." The newspaper was in English, but Lu Bicheng could also understand it.
Nowadays, Collins Publishing House is making a lot of money, and the sales volume is really amazing. No one would have thought that a science fiction book written by a scientist from China could be so popular in Europe and the United States.
Lu Bicheng asked: "Did the foreign readers say anything? What's wrong with the choice of words and sentences?" Li Yu said: "Well, it's still a science fiction theme, so you don't need to care too much about it. As long as you have enough imagination, it's perfect if you can read it fluently. Besides, English literature is actually much less difficult than ours."
"That's fine, I'm always afraid readers will complain," Lu Bicheng said,
"I have always been wondering why your Chinese studies are so poor. Have you never attended a private school since you were a child?" Li Yu could only say: "Human energy is always limited. I studied completely according to the model of the Western School, so there is less content in Chinese studies." Some." Lu Bicheng still found it hard to believe: "Even so, you have memorized ancient classics, but you failed in Confucian classics." Li Yu often buys newspapers now. After all, there is no Internet, so he can only rely on this. In front of him, there is "Ta Kung Pao" and Lu Bicheng Several of his lyrics, such as "Introduction to Plum Blossoms in Jiangcheng" and "Ding Fengbo".
Li Yu pointed at them and said: "Although I can't write poetry, when I studied Western learning, I learned how to write foreign poems." Lu Bicheng wondered: "Foreign poems?"
"If translated, it would be like vernacular poetry." Li Yu actually wanted to talk about modern poetry, but it seemed a bit out of date.
Lu Bicheng asked: "What kind of genre is this?" Li Yu scrawled a small poem on the paper: "I traveled south of the Yangtze River and walked through the faces waiting for the seasons like the blooming and falling of lotus flowers... My dada's horse hooves It's a beautiful mistake. I'm not a returnee, I'm a passerby." This is Zheng Chouyu's "Mistake".
In fact, Li Yu thought about this poem when he just traveled through time. A time traveler seems to be like a passer-by.
Lu Bicheng savored it for a while and said: "Although it is very straightforward, the artistic conception is very long." Li Yu said: "Our culture is too long and it is difficult to explain to foreigners. But in terms of art, I think the most difficult thing to explain is What is best explained to foreigners is the artistic conception we advocate when we create art. Just like Chinese landscape paintings and foreign oil paintings, although there is a big difference, we can never be said to be inferior in art. It is just that the art of words involves There is too much background, and it is indeed a bit difficult for foreigners to truly understand." Lu Bicheng nodded: "What you said makes sense to me. Although your level of Chinese studies is poor, your insights are so high, it is really unpredictable." Li Yu almost stumbled, pointing out that he was poor in Chinese studies so bluntly...
"In fact, vernacular poetry is also very good." Li Yu said.
"As far as the song in front of me is concerned, it is indeed quite good," Lu Bicheng said,
"Do you want to publish it in Ta Kung Pao?" Li Yu quickly shook his head: "Forget it, how many people can accept this form? If it is really published, I'm afraid that Mr. Gu will use it to accuse me again. Criticize him severely." Lu Bicheng chuckled: "Didn't you say that you are a tortoise biting a tortoise?" Li Yu said, "That's why we should avoid it as much as possible and not add unnecessary complications. If you think it is good, give this poem to You." Lu Bicheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Give it to me?" Li Yu said carelessly, "Yes, don't you like it?"
"I..." Lu Bicheng paused again before saying,
"Okay, I'll accept it then." While the two were talking, someone came to visit.
"Brother Shucai, I didn't disturb you, did I?" It was Yan Fansun who came. Li Yu came out and said, "Mr. Yan is here to bring glory to the humble house." Yan Fansun also knew Lu Bicheng. After seeing her, he said: "It turns out that she is a famous talented woman from Beijing and Tianjin. She is really a talented woman." Lu Bicheng Blushing: "Mr. Yan, I am also a guest." Yan Fansun said quickly: "Sorry, sorry! But what I said is correct. She is indeed a scientific giant and a talented woman in the literary world." Li Yu said: " Please come in quickly, Mr. Yan." After Yan Fansun sat down, Li Yu asked Uncle Wang to give him more tea, and then said: "Mr. Yan, I'm sorry, I don't have any good tea, only ordinary green tea." Yan Fan Sun said: "It doesn't matter. If I was here to drink tea, I wouldn't come to you. I'm here to talk about the enke that the court will hold soon." Li Yu asked: "Enke? Imperial examination?"
"Exactly," Yan Fansun said,
"The imperial court has decreed that a special economic subject will be held soon. There is no limit to the number of candidates, and they can also be people who have already achieved fame. However, they need to be recommended by courtiers to participate." Li Yu asked: "Special economic subject? What is this? ?" Yan Fansun said: "Six years ago, when I was studying politics in Guizhou, I hoped that the imperial court could reform the imperial examination system, so I proposed to set up a special economic subject in addition to the traditional imperial examination to recruit people who know diplomacy, style, and law. People who study law, manufacturing, and arithmetic. The imperial court did adopt it, but it was delayed until this year to start the subject."
"So, it's still an imperial examination. I'm afraid it has no use in selection, right?" Li Yu said. As early as decades ago, Wei Yuan had already pointed out that the imperial examination method for selecting talents was extremely useless, and even said
The words "All the talents in the world are used for useless purposes, which is unprecedented in previous generations" criticizes the shortcomings of stereotyped writing in recruiting scholars.
After the Opium War, even Feng Guifen, who had won the third prize before, believed that the imperial examination system was the ruler's
It was established "with the intention of destroying the talents of the world, not with the intention of building up the talents of the world." Western missionaries understood that the imperial examination was useless. Ding Weiliang, Timothy Richard and others had suggested to the Qing court several times to adopt a Western education model, but the Qing court did not adopt it.
In 1888, there was only one rural examination in arithmetic, but only one candidate was admitted. This was not only the first Western scholar in modern China, but also the only practical result of the imperial examination reform during the entire Westernization Movement.
This person Li Yu had met before was Hu Weide, the ambassador to Russia. However, after just one term, the arithmetic discipline quickly declined.
Since then, in all the township examinations, because there were too few candidates for the math subject, they had to take the Shuntian Township Examination instead, and the math subject existed in name only.
Therefore, Western learning, or the modern education system, and the imperial examination can be said to be completely incompatible. The special economic science proposed by Yan Fansun was a compromise strategy.
Enke opened it once each during the Kangxi and Qianlong years, when it was the Bo Xue Hong Ci Department. The imperial court also adopted Yan Fansun's suggestion, but the imperial court's idea was to hold the exam only once every ten or twenty years. After all, it was called Enke, and it was not a permanent exam every three years like the imperial examination.
It took ten years to think about recruiting a few people who knew Western learning. It is completely obvious that the Qing government's thinking still did not break away from the shackles of the imperial examination. I don't understand it at all!
I thought that just recruiting a few people with Western knowledge would be enough to cope with today's era. Even if it was an Enko that happened only once every ten years, as the reform movement failed and the Economic Special Branch had not yet been implemented, the Empress Dowager Cixi launched a coup. In the process of abolishing the new law, she used the Economic Special Branch to
It was stopped on the grounds that it was "easy to cheat". Including the decision to abolish the eight-part essay during the Reform Movement of 1898 was also rejected, and the eight-legged essay was revived again.
Of course, this is a reflection.
