"Lord, this is the list of students from Mingde Academy this year." Tian Feng handed a stack of lists to Li Xiang with both hands, and his steady voice sounded at the same moment.
Li Xiang glanced at the stack of lists in his hand, but no names he was familiar with appeared. Sure enough, the pie in the sky would not fall twice. He was lucky to be hit on the head by the pie once.
"The way of a university lies in Mingde, being close to the people, and striving for perfection." The name "Mingde" in Mingde Academy comes from the first sentence of this Confucian classic.
Since returning to Bingzhou from the last grassland war, Li Xiang did not stay in Bingzhou for long, but quickly returned to Hanoi. After all, as the governor of a county, he cannot leave his own territory for too long.
Capturing the Hetao land and annihilating the Southern Huns was a tremendous achievement. Naturally, the court would not turn a blind eye to it and would always reward them greatly.
However, not many of these rewards fell on Li Xiang himself. Li Xiang was already the governor of a county. If he was promoted further, he could only be the governor. Even if Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was stupid, he would not let the Li family control the two states.
Since the end of the last Yellow Turban Rebellion, Li Xiang's title has been promoted to County Marquis, and it is unrealistic to rise further. Therefore, when neither official title nor title can be rewarded, Li Xiang can only be rewarded with some money.
But Li Xiang's contribution this time is too great. Just this small reward is not enough, and how can the court convince the public? If the imperial court really does this, how many people will be willing to make contributions to the imperial court in the future!
Fortunately, many things can be done in a curved manner. Since there was no way to reward Li Xiang, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty simply accepted the reward from his son and his father and gave the reward that Li Xiang deserved to Li Xiang's father, Bingzhou Mu Li Yang.
Therefore, Li Yang's title can be said to have jumped three times in a row, and he was also promoted to the position of County Marquis. In addition, there are three or four important figures of the Li family who were more or less rewarded with a title this time because they were in Li Xiang's favor.
Of course, Li Xiang's gains after this war are not limited to this. Li Xiang's soaring reputation is his real gain. After the news about regaining the Hetao land and attacking the Southern Xiongnu spread, Li Xiang's reputation instantly skyrocketed to the point where no one in the world knew him!
And the benefits that Li Xiang's soaring reputation has brought to Li Xiang have begun to take shape during this period! At the very least, Li Xiang's reputation has brought benefits to the teaching staff of Mingde Academy, and many people have been invited by Li Xiang one by one.
After Li Xiang returned to Hanoi, he began to build Mingde Academy. The reason why the name Mingde Academy was given is because Li Xiang not only regards Mingde Academy as a cradle for cultivating talents, but also contains Li Xiang’s high hopes for the academy.
Li Xiang hopes that every student in the academy can carry forward upright moral character, apply learning and knowledge to life, and enable people to reach the most perfect state and achieve the goal of studying things, gaining knowledge, sincerity, righteousness, self-cultivation, ordering the family, governing the country, and peace. The world.
In terms of teaching content at Mingde Academy, Li Xiang still insists on following Confucius’s Six Arts of the Gentleman, which are etiquette, music, calligraphy, arithmetic, archery, and charioteering.
Li, as the name suggests, means etiquette; Yu means learning music and mastering some important musical instruments, such as qin, harp, Xiao, Zheng, etc.; Shu means learning classics, mainly Confucian classics; Number means learning arithmetic and geometry; Shooting means archery; Yu means learning arithmetic and geometry. Drive a carriage.
But now is a time of great strife, so Li Xiang has made many changes in the teaching content. First of all, Li Xiang stipulated that the book should include not only Confucian classics, but also Legalist classics, and even the other hundreds of academic schools were also introduced by Li Xiang.
Perhaps Confucianism does have a great beneficial effect on the rule of rulers, but as a soul of later generations, Li Xiang prefers the academic atmosphere of a hundred schools of thought contending.
In fact, during the Han Dynasty, although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion to depose hundreds of schools of thought and only respect Confucianism, "heretical doctrines" such as Legalism, Mohism, and Yin-Yang were still popular, and they were not as thorough as those in subsequent periods. Towards demise.
For example, Cao Cao once ordered aristocratic families to be buried lightly. His edict before his death also stipulated that after death, they must be buried lightly, which means not to be buried with too many people. A thin burial is a typical Mohist thought. Another example is Cao Cao's famous counselor Cheng Yu. When Xun Yu recommended him, he said that Cheng Yu was proficient in many classics and had profound knowledge.
Secondly, Li Xiang also made many changes regarding the source of the academy's students.
In Mingde Academy, students are not limited to their origins. Whether they are from aristocrats, aristocratic families, poor families or common people, they are all eligible to join Mingde Academy.
Later, in order to ensure that students from ordinary civilian backgrounds could actually join the academy, Li Xiang stipulated that the academy would not charge or waive part of the tuition fees for those from poor families. A student tuition loan project is also established. College students can borrow money from the government, but they must repay it before the end of the study period, or they can serve the government for a certain period of time after the study period to mortgage the loan they borrowed to enter the college.
Of course, Li Xiang's real purpose in establishing this regulation is a bit drunken!
For outstanding students in the academy, Li Xiang established a scholarship program to encourage civilian students from poor families. Scholarships are not limited to money, but can also be replaced by equivalents such as grain, salt, silk, stationery supplies, good horses, sheep, and wine.
Of course, Mingde Academy's generous entry requirements will naturally impose restrictions, otherwise the academy would not be able to accommodate so many students.
Li Xiang stipulated that in addition to the assessment before admission, the academy will also make assessments several times a year, and the assessment will be different according to the students' different basic conditions when they enter. But the similarity is that any student who cannot meet certain standards will be forcibly kicked out of the academy.
The opening of Mingde Academy in this way indeed created a different wave in the late Han Dynasty.
After the academy was opened, as Li Xiang said, many civilians and students from poor families came to study. Not only students from the northern states, but also students from the southern states were willing to endure the pain of long journeys and chose to join Mingde Academy after receiving news about the academy.
However, compared to common people and students from poor families, not many students from aristocratic families choose to join Mingde Academy. In their view, a poor family is still okay, but those commoners are not qualified to study and study with them at all.
Although there are fewer students from aristocratic families, those students from aristocratic families who are really willing to join Mingde Academy are the elite ones in their families, and their vision and thinking are farther ahead than those from other aristocratic families.
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