Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 103 Murderous Ling Ran

The significance of the school opened by Shen Chen actually lies in the process of making a statement.

You work behind closed doors at home, no matter how good your knowledge is, it doesn't make any sense if you don't spread it.

That's why Confucius accepted three thousand disciples and spread his Confucianism, so that Confucianism spread in China for 2000 years.

Now the Xianshan Academy in Jingzhou and the famous scholar Yingrong with more than 1000 disciples are doing the same thing.

Song Zhong annotated the "Five Classics Chapters and Sentences" and publicized his theories. Later in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, his theories became very popular and were once the mainstream academics at that time.

Ying Rong wrote [-] words of "Spring and Autumn Zuo Shi Tiao Lie", and the major schools of "Zuo Zhuan" were gradually merged by his "Ying Shi Zuo Zhuan".

There is also the great Confucian Zheng Xuan who gave lectures in Qingzhou, had countless disciples, and spread ideas. The ancient texts and classics he focused on were one of the two mainstream students alongside Song Zhong in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

His influence ran through the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was listed as one of the 22 "ancestors" and deserved to enjoy the Confucius Temple.

It can be seen that if he wanted to make a statement at that time, he had to rely on students to spread his thoughts and carry forward his theories.

Besides, Shen Chen has another purpose.

That is to cultivate talents for ourselves, find like-minded people, and work together for the cause of future struggle.

Therefore, teaching is an inevitable process.

As for Shen Chen's own theory, it is actually very simple. During this time, he and Zhuge Liang often commented on Confucian classics, discarding the dross and admiring the essence.

As far as basic education is concerned, students don't need to learn so advancedly. They need to be literate first, and then learn some numeracy and basic principles of life.

Therefore, the current teaching knowledge may not be too profound. When the student reaches a certain level in the future, his understanding and annotation of Confucianism will be more advanced, and he can also support the academic level.

Soon everyone registered one by one, there were 33 students in total, the youngest was only four years old, and the oldest was 17 years old. The age difference was huge, and it was not easy to unify the teaching.

However, in ancient times, this is the way of learning, the learning conditions are very limited, and whether you can comprehend it often depends on individual talent, so there is no way to make a big difference.

To a certain extent, all the teaching at that time belonged to the elite teaching method. The kind of universal education of the big class may exist, but it is only limited to a few cases of superficial recognition of characters. If you want to learn more deeply, you still need a couple. [-]. Special counseling.

This is also one of the fundamental reasons why aristocratic families can control the right to interpret culture.

After registration, Shen Chen summoned everyone to the classroom in the vestibule. At this moment, many parents outside the door, the scholars who came to see the excitement and the scholars who came to find fault had already entered and stood in the vestibule to watch.

I saw Shen Chen ordering everyone to sit at their respective desks, while he himself sat cross-legged on the stage, looked down at everyone, and said with a smile: "Many people know me, and I have traveled all over the surrounding villages and pavilions these days. You often follow me and call me sir, today is officially your husband."

"Sir, sir."

The ignorant children in the audience thought they were still playing around behind Shen Chen in Xiangting, and several five or six-year-old children shouted loudly, causing the scholars outside to frown.

"quiet!"

On the side, a middle-aged man held a ruler in his hand and slammed on the table case, his gaze scanned the many children majesticly.

He is a gentleman hired by Shen Chen. He is not a celebrity, but an ordinary Confucian scholar. His family is poor. He used to teach people in the surrounding villages to barely survive.

Shen Chen came over to teach for free and robbed him of his job, so he hired him at a high price as a legal trainer to maintain order.

After quieting down, Shen Chen said again: "There are many immature children in the hall. They don't understand "Huang Zhongtong's theory" and don't know the value of reading. Do you know how old you are?"

He pointed to the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys in the hall and asked.

Among them, a boy who didn't even wear a shirt and his pants were full of patches hesitated: "Father said, if I can study, I may make my family a little richer in the future, and my younger sister will not starve to death a few years ago."

It was a tragic event that was said very plainly, but at the time, it was indeed not a tragedy. During the great famine, it was not one starving to death, but hundreds of thousands of people starving to death.

So Shen Chen nodded, pointed to the scholars outside the door and said: "Yes, if you don't study, you may make your family rich because of opportunities, but if you study, it will make this opportunity even bigger. Look at those people outside, Are they wearing silk and satin because they are studying?"

"Shen Chen, what does this mean?"

"Why, what does it matter to him if we wear silk and satin?"

"Are you going to use us as a metaphor?"

Many scholars outside the door suddenly became puzzled, but hearing what he said, it seemed that he had to take himself as a positive example of success in studying, so they all held their heads up.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "Some of them may have changed themselves because of reading, but most of them are actually born in a good family background. They are not rich because of reading, but because they are rich. I hope my students can see the truth."

"What, isn't this scolding us for our family background?"

"This guy, isn't he also from a rich family? If it wasn't for the fact that his mother's family is the Deng family of Nanyang, it would be as if he could afford to read?"

"Keep your voice down and see what he says."

Scholars outside, especially those who came from rich and powerful families in the county, were immediately annoyed, because it seemed that they could study because they had a good reincarnation. Although this is true, it is also very annoying.

Shen Chen continued: "Of course, I never think that the son of a poor family will end up in poverty all his life. People need to work hard to change themselves. Reading is not the only way out, but it is the best way out. Their ancestors It is not that there are no poor people, but most of them rely on hard study, becoming an official, blessing their children and grandchildren, and making their families prosperous. So as long as you work hard to study, you can achieve something. I hope everyone can get rid of their own poverty. But if you study hard, you don’t want everyone to leave after reading for a few days and find that reading is boring. Silk and satin, big fish and meat for meals, but I live a life of poverty."

After speaking, the audience was silent.

After a while, Shen Chen said again: "Then are there any people here who don't want to study or change their lives? If there are, you can leave now."

There are four or five-year-old children who are not yet sensible, looking around in a daze. They wanted to leave, but when they saw the stern eyes of their parents, they shrank their heads.

In fact, these words are not only for these children in the audience, but also for their parents.

How old children don't know how to know what knowledge can change fate.

But their parents understand, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed to study. Wouldn't it be good to let them cut pigs and herd cattle and sheep at home as half of the labor force?

Therefore, these words are actually what Shen Chen is telling their parents, telling them the truth of studying hard, letting them hope that their children will become successful, and hope that their children will be successful in studying in the future.

These words seem to disgust the people of later generations. In the new era, there are too many wolf parents and wolf mothers who ignore their children's psychology because they hope their children will become a success.

But in the Han Dynasty, it was thankful to have books to read, let alone ignore children's psychology.

So these words were definitely wise words at the time!

What's more important is that children from poor families take charge of their families early. Although they don't understand the principles, they listen to their parents very much.

They start doing housework as half of the labor force at a young age, so if they can get the support of their parents, then probably these children will work hard to study and will not be stubborn.

After some words, many parents really nodded secretly, deciding in their hearts to support their children's education even if they were trying to sell iron.

After waiting for a while, Shen Chen saw that no one left, so he said: "It seems that everyone wants to study hard. This is a good thing, and it shows that everyone wants to make progress. There is nothing wrong with being motivated, and there is nothing wrong with studying, so today you will officially enter the school." , but apart from telling everyone that studying hard can change your life in the future, I have no plans to give the first class today."

The 17-year-old boy has grown up, and he was not able to study before, but now he can read with difficulty, so he asked quickly, "Why don't you teach, sir?"

Shen Chen said with a smile: "One is that everyone just came here, so we should get used to the classroom environment first, get to know each other, and I will give a formal lecture tomorrow, teaching everyone to read and write. Second, I want everyone to see the strength of being a teacher. Many people question whether being a teacher can teach students, today, I will let you see why being a teacher can teach you knowledge."

After finishing speaking, he lifted up his robe, stood up from the table, stood on the stage, looked down at the many scholars standing at the door, and said loudly: "I know that the Jingzhou scholars are worried that I will offend Cao Cao and disobey the court. But in fact, I have never disobeyed the imperial court. It is just that someone with a heart slandered me. However, it is an indisputable fact that I said that Cao Cao was a traitor, and he also led the army to kill his generals and soldiers. The Cao family is a minister of Zhongxing, and I have nothing to do with currying favor with the Cao family and seeking their own crown. But if you want to bully me and flatter Cao Cao, then don’t blame me for being rude. Just today I want to tell you what Cao Cao is I know this kind of person better than you. If you think Cao Cao is good, then you think it is good. But I don’t agree, and no one can force me to agree. I will continue to argue with my mouth and discuss my sword. Are you going to Come one by one, or together? Discussion on scriptures is literature, discussion on swords is martial arts, civil and martial arts are superior, and life and death are determined by fate!"

Shen Chenling stood upright, with his right hand resting on the sword at his waist.

He is not like the protagonist in a certain Three Kingdoms novel that he has read before, who is greedy for life and afraid of death. He does not practice martial arts diligently, resulting in low combat effectiveness, and hides behind Liu Guanzhang every day.

As a person who has a blood feud with Cao Cao, Shen Chen is a passionate man who practices martial arts every day and has extraordinary swordsmanship.

Moreover, his martial arts teacher was Gan Ning, and his kung fu was also honed in the battle with Cao Cao's army. When fighting Cao Ren, he shot and killed several Cao soldiers with his own hands, daring to kill the enemy in front of the battle.

Having seen hundreds of thousands of corpses in Xuzhou, and fighting on the battlefield, his eyes were very sharp, and he had a murderous look.

Even a 12-year-old body is as majestic as a mountain, his robe flutters in the wind, and his eyes are fierce, which makes those children from so-called aristocratic families feel terrible for a moment, and they unconsciously take a few steps back, their momentum weakened more than one cent.

Only Xu Shu narrowed his eyes slightly.

this kid.

I'm afraid I have killed someone!

(End of this chapter)