According to historical records, Yangzhai was the capital of Xia Qi and the capital of South Korea during the Warring States Period. Dayu, the man who controlled the floods, has always lived here.
Since it was once the capital, Yangdi should not be a small border county. Perhaps it is related to the long history here. According to current terms, the people are generally highly educated.
Perhaps the ability to read and write is still relatively poor, but the people are wise and people's etiquette, justice and shame are always clearer than in other places. After coming here, you will feel the cultural atmosphere in the streets and alleys that is different from other places.
Unlike the Xun family in Yingchuan, the Guo family is not a well-known family in Yangzhai, and they do not have a good background like Xun Yu. Even the elders in the family have not held any official positions. Therefore, Guo Jia's success is entirely due to his His personal abilities make him even more extraordinary.
Whether Qi Zhen searched for it from past games or asked Liang Sicheng and Zhuge Liang, it was difficult to find any background knowledge about Guo Jia from memory. This person seemed to appear out of thin air in history, streaking across the sky like a meteor. , and then disappeared again.
The Guo family cannot be called a mansion in Yangzhai. The main entrance is just like that of ordinary people. There are no stone lions at the door, no stones to tie horses, and there is not even a wide gate, let alone a plaque on the top of the gate.
This is an ordinary courtyard, no different from the courtyards that can be seen everywhere. The courtyard door faces the main house, and there are side rooms on the east and west. It is neither luxurious nor simple. There is a tank in the middle of the courtyard with water in it and a few goldfish in the water. .
After entering the main house, there is a study on the left and a bedroom on the right. There is a mountain of bamboo slips in the study. Probably because it is impossible to use the entire thatched cottage to stack books like Zhuge Liang, the study looks a bit messy.
At this time, there was a sudden crash on the top of a certain "hill", and a head emerged.
The head first reflected on its current position, then looked outside the window to confirm the time, and then had a look of annoyance on its face.
"Oops, oops!"
With the sound of bamboo slips clattering, he rushed outside as fast as he could, not even caring that his bun had not been tied up yet and his hair was still messy.
"Fengxiao, are you in such a hurry?" A neighbor said with a smile when he saw him running out of the house.
"It's too late, it's too late!" Guo Jiacheng waved his hand behind him.
"Are we going to miss the time again?" an aunt said with a smile.
"Run slowly." An old man advised him.
"It's already too late, so don't worry." A young man about the same age as him said maliciously.
As Guo Jia ran forward, the surrounding neighbors joked. It seemed that this scene was not the first time it had appeared on this street.
"Aunt Li, your hens are going to lay eggs today. Come back and lay one for me."
"Uncle Liu, your son may arrive in Yangzhai today. By then, we cannot let him go to Jizhou to join the army, or he may not be able to come back."
"Bald guy, you might get beaten today. I'll tell you. Just be careful."
Guo Jia was running with his feet and his mouth was not idle, responding to everyone's friendly jokes one by one.
Aunt Li was very happy after hearing Guo Jia's words. It seems that the old hen in her house has laid more than one egg today? Turn around and go back to get the eggs.
Uncle Liu was even more overjoyed when he heard this. He had never heard that his son was returning to his hometown. This was a great event. He had to go home quickly and tell the old lady to prepare some food and wine. We, the father-in-law, had to drink some tonight!
The young man whom Guo Jia called "Two Bald Guys" was Guo Jia's childhood friend. When he heard this, he spat at Guo Jia's back: "A dog can't spit out ivory. I won't go out for a day. Who else will?" Can you hit me?"
One amazing thing is that no matter how much nonsense Guo Jia said sounded like nonsense, no one had any doubts about what he said.
Not far from Guo's house, passing through three streets and alleys, crossing the main road of Yangzhai City, we arrived at Guo Jia's destination.
Guo Jia stopped at the door of the courtyard and tidied up his clothes that were slightly scattered due to sprinting. However, when he touched his hair, he shook his head helplessly and did not tidy it up when he went out. There were already bunches of hair hanging here and there, and only the dark headband still stubbornly tied the last few strands of neat hair, which looked extremely funny.
He simply pulled off the hair tie, and his long hair cascaded down. It didn't have the smooth feeling in the TV commercials. It looked like a Dick cowboy.
Guo Jia's appearance is not ugly, with red lips and white teeth, and he is quite heroic, but compared to Zhuge Liang, he still looks a little ordinary.
He didn't care about his disheveled clothes, coughed twice, and pushed the door open.
The originally noisy courtyard became instantly quiet due to Guo Jia's arrival, and you could hear a needle drop.
But after the half-grown children saw Guo Jia's costume, they burst out laughing again.
"Teacher, you are late again!" A child shouted loudly.
"Teacher, your hair is all down today!" Another child said.
They were all small children, so if someone took the lead, someone would naturally start making noises, so before a few breaths had passed, the atmosphere became noisy again.
Judging from this scene, these students really have no respect for the teacher Guo Jia.
"Ahem!" Guo Jia cleared his throat vigorously. After seeing the students quiet down, he first saluted them and then slowly said, "I was walking on the road today and saw a cat in a tree. He couldn't get up and down, so I helped him, so I'm late, please forgive me, classmates."
If Qi Zhen were here, he would definitely say that you are too blind to tell lies. Are you really going to lie to a child like this?
However, these students seemed to know that Guo Jia was lying, but they did not point it out. Instead, they saluted him and shouted in unison: "Hello, teacher!"
"Sit down quickly and stop making trouble. If you can't finish today's lecture, I'll leave you with homework to take home." Guo Jia said while stroking her hair.
After a while of noise, all the children returned to their seats and sat down, quietly looking at the teacher who was standing there... fixing his hair.
Guo Jia simply tied up his hair with a headband, finally not looking like a Dick cowboy. He looked at these children of different ages and showed a satisfied smile.
He is not exactly an enlightened teacher. Three Hundred Thousand Enlightenment books were only available in the Song Dynasty. In this era, what Meng children learned was still limited to the Four Books and Five Classics.
It's just that those classics didn't have the title of "Four Books and Five Classics" at this time. Teachers gave lectures to students, and they mostly popularized the superficial principles of etiquette, justice, integrity and shame through stories and examples.
The children in front of them are taught by Guo Jia. The younger they are, the better their qualifications are. Looking at them, they are all children under ten years old. The youngest is only five or six years old. I don’t know if it’s Guo Jia who has a good eye for selecting students, or whether it’s because they are from here. There are too many smart kids.
In this era, officials still adopted the method of promoting filial piety and integrity. To put it simply, books and knowledge were still controlled by families or families with high intellectuals. If one generation becomes an official, there is a high probability that one generation will be an official and one generation will be a commoner. Then Unless something unexpected happens, if the younger generation does not have the opportunity to come into contact with the children of officials, then those children and grandchildren will probably just be ordinary people who cannot read or write.
So I have to say that this Yangzhai is really different from other places. Just looking at the clothes of these children, their family may not be considered poor, but they definitely cannot be said to be rich.
"The way of a university is to be virtuous, to be close to the people, and to strive for perfection."
"The way of a university is to be virtuous, to be close to the people, and to strive for perfection."
As Guo Jia recited a sentence, the Meng children also recited a sentence. Perhaps they were afraid that their voices would be too small to make the teacher feel that they were not working hard, so they shouted loudly one after another.
The biggest difference between children and teachers is that they draw long sounds when reciting. This sound radiates flutteringly from the yard, which always reminds people of the state of modern students when they read in the morning.
"In ancient times, people entered elementary school at the age of eight and learned how to deal with advance and retreat, etiquette, music, archery, and calligraphy. At the age of fifteen, they entered university to learn the knowledge of "cultivating oneself and governing others." Some of you already entered elementary school when you were less than eight years old. It proves that you are smarter than the ancients, and you will definitely be the pillars of my Han Dynasty when you grow up."
Hearing these compliments, the children's faces showed joy.
"The original meaning of this sentence is that the way of a university is to reveal our own inherent bright character and virtue, to get close to the people and restore everyone's original bright character and virtue, and to let ourselves and others return to the original bright character and virtue. The perfect nature comes from it." Guo Jia continued.
The children below all nodded, regardless of whether they understood or not, for fear that their orders would be worse than those of the other children.
"Read it again after me. The way to a university is to be virtuous, to be close to the people, and to strive for perfection."
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The school's classes lasted for a long time. After the children went home, Guo Jia also wanted to go home.
In the afternoon, he made an appointment with Xi Zhicai to talk about the past and the present at home. For this reason, he stayed up until midnight last night to read a book, just to use his own theory to refute the other party's argument that Gongsun Zan would invade half of the Han Dynasty. He thought that he could not miss the time again this time.
Even though Gongsun Zan now has many elite soldiers and powerful generals, he not only defeated the foreign tribes in the north, but also the imaginary disagreement between him and Liu Yu's "general" has not happened, but after all, Gongsun Zan is full of heart. How could the ambitious Han officials have the courage to turn their attention to Bing and Jizhou? Could it be that the real emperor of the Han Dynasty has ceased to exist in name only? Or do you really think that Bingzhou Zhangyang and Jizhou Han Fu are both corpse-eaters?
What's more, even if he has such ambitions, doesn't he need to look at the face of Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou?
