Three Kingdoms

Taixue is the earliest institution of higher learning in China.

Before the Han Dynasty, knowledge was a private property of various schools, and few people taught it publicly. That's why Confucius, who had many disciples at that time, was so respected. But even so, there is a saying that Confucius only accepted seventy-two disciples. There is a record that "there are five or six crowned ones and six or seven boys." The total number is exactly seventy-two. However, according to research, Confucius should have accepted 2000-2000 disciples in his lifetime. There are about 3,000 people, but not many are famous, just those few.

Historically, Confucianism's contribution to education was indeed one step ahead of other schools of thought. The idea of ​​equality, "There is no distinction between education and education" was no less than a blessing from heaven to the people at that time.

In the fifth year of Yuanshuo (124 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism, adopted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion that "Your Majesty would establish Taixue and appoint famous teachers to educate scholars in the world", and founded Taixue in Chang'an and taught it. Confucian classics such as "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn".

Although the Taixue proposed by Dong Zhongshu was mixed with his own private goods and was not as inclusive and inclusive as later universities, for the ancients in BC, it was lucky to have a place where they could learn knowledge.

At that time, most of the knowledge was treasured by major aristocratic families and could not be easily revealed to others, let alone taught to people who were not members of the family. Therefore, the establishment of Taixue was no less than a hurricane in the academic world, further Established the status of Confucianism.

"Book of Rites: Kingship" records: "The prince ordered teaching, and then learning. The elementary school is on the left of the south of the palace, and the university is on the outskirts. The emperor is called Piyong, and the princes are called Pangong." The "Piyong" here means national education. The prototype of the university, the "Pan Palace" established in the capitals of the princely states, was the local university established in imitation of the Imperial College.

After the emperors of the Han Dynasty continued to increase their numbers, Taixue started with a small number of 50 students under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and reached 100 students under the Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty. It increased to 200 students under the Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and exceeded 1,000 students under the Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty There were 3,000 people at that time, and the number increased sharply to 10,000 under Wang Mang. By the time of Emperor Zhi of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "study tours increased to more than 30,000 lives."

What does 30,000 students mean? There is basically no difference between the number of students in a university in later generations.

So many students naturally formed a series of industrial chains in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the boarding dormitories for Guang Taixue students had "a total of 240 rooms and 1,850 rooms," not to mention other dormitories. Yes.

When students gather together, they are all enthusiastic young people. It is inevitable that they will have some opinions and opinions about national policies. They will all think that if one day I become an official in a certain field, what will happen...

It's okay to talk about it in ordinary times, but it can't be helped by the instigation of caring people. Taixue students have participated in national politics several times. During the reign of Emperor Ai of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Xian, a doctoral student, gathered more than a thousand Taixue students in an attempt to rescue Bao Xuan, the Sili captain who was not enforcing the law. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Chen Fan, Li Ying and others opposed the eunuchs' arrogance and gathered a group of imperial students to respond. Therefore, these imperial students also became the targets of the eunuchs' attacks, and many people who were involved with the party members were imprisoned. It is recorded that more than a thousand students from Zhongtai University were arrested and imprisoned by eunuchs, and Taixue was even closed down for a time.

In the later period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he rehabilitated those who had been imprisoned by the party. Of course, he reopened the Imperial College and started recruiting students.

Logically speaking, Fei Qian is already a Langguan, so there is no need to take the path of Taixue. However, Cai Yong is an important doctor of Taixue. The courses taught by Cai Yong alone include "Poetry" and "Shu". ", "Spring and Autumn", and "Erya" also have special piano music classes, and these classes are not just for students to take. Depending on Cai Yong's mood, there are only There will be two days of classes. The specific content of the class is decided by Cai Yong himself. He just tells the Taixue steward a few days in advance to announce it.

Therefore, every time a new student of Taipei University enters the university, Cai Yong is invited as a doctoral representative to attend the entrance ceremony of Taixue students. This time, Cai Yong asked Fei Qian to make up for the apprenticeship ceremony when the new students of Taixue were admitted. On the one hand, it was because the most solemn apprenticeship ceremony was that of Taixue. On the other hand, it also showed his respect for Fei. potential attention.

Therefore, Fei Qian had prepared the rituals needed to become a disciple early, and stood behind the Tai students in this autumn class, waiting for Cai Yong's call.

However, it is naturally impossible for Cai Yong to recruit a private disciple. Before the official business, the group apprenticeship ceremony of Taixue's autumn classes was held first.

Today's new autumn class students are all wearing Qingjin, which is a deep blue coat with an interlocking collar, and a student crown on their head. They form a square formation and stand neatly.

And behind the square formation of students, Fei Qian was wearing a long crown suit. On the outside was a cyan top and a soap bottom, and inside was a green top and bottom silkworm suit. He wore a long crown. In comparison with this group of students, he looked simply He just stands out from the crowd.

Fei Qian himself feels that everyone's eyes are always glancing at him, and he feels quite uncomfortable. However, after all, he has been practicing in the workplace for a long time. Although he feels a little awkward in his heart, you can never tell it on his face. It's standard. With a toothless smile hanging on his face, he stood firm and motionless.

Fei Qian felt awkward himself, but he didn't know that most of the others had stars in their eyes - Cai Yong has just accepted a new disciple, tsk tsk tsk... He's also a new disciple, tsk tsk tsk... He's still so handsome. , uh uh uh...I heard that I'm not married yet, oh oh oh...

Unlike Fei Qian, who endured the stares in the crowd, Cai Yong felt a little depressed when he saw Liu Hong standing aside - I asked you to come to the ceremony, but you arrived and came wearing the same doctor's uniform as me. What do you want to do? What kind of...

In fact, Liu Hong was also specially invited by Taixue to teach the "Summary Classics" class. Naturally, he also had a doctoral uniform. However, Liu Hong did not tell Cai Yong, and Cai Yong did not ask Taixue's steward...

While the Taixue students' apprenticeship ceremony was playing, Cai Yong secretly asked Liu Hong in a low voice: "What do you want to do?"

Liu Hong said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "I think the Shuxiu brought by Ziyuan is pretty good, how about giving me half of it?"

Cai Yong glared, it turned out that you are coming to steal my disciples, and he snorted: "You can't stop it!"

Liu Hong didn't care about Cai Yong's attitude. After all, he wanted to steal his disciples. If someone else wanted to steal his disciples, his attitude would probably be even worse than Cai Yong's.

However, Liu Hong was already prepared. He leaned slightly closer and said, "When I was in Kuaiji County, I accidentally got a volume of Huangdi's "Tao Yuan Jing". If you, um..."

Cai Yong was surprised: "The Dao Yuan Jing? You mean the Dao Yuan Jing, one of the Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor? Isn't it already lost?"

"I've read it. It's undoubtedly the Daoyuan Jing. It's probably the only one in the world..."

Cai Yong thought about it for a long time, gritted his teeth and replied reluctantly: "No, it's just a book. I have thousands of books at home, including that one." Although he said this, the flesh on his face twitched. Tell Liu Hong that Cai Yong is actually very reluctant to part with him.

"Ahem, how about adding another handful of 'Green Qi'? If you still refuse, I will have to take it back and make it an heirloom of my Liu family..."

"Sima Xiangru's 'Green Qi'? Don't you want to deceive me?" Cai Yong glared at Liu Hong and said.

"A peerless book and a peerless piano are just half of your disciples. Come on, just one sentence! That's the "Dao Yuan Jing", the 'Green Qi Qin'..."

Cai Yong closed his eyes and gritted his teeth for a while, and finally whispered weakly: "You can only take half, no more..."