I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 437 ends! The Imperial College was demoted to a government school, and all the foreign inspectors returned to the capital.
The seventh day of June.

After 12 days, Nanjing city was lifted from the blockade.

at the same time.

A notice was also posted stating that Xu Huizhi, the prime minister of Nanjing Imperial College, violated the new law and implemented private policies without authorization, causing Zhou Yuan to drown himself.

In the announcement, a very derogatory sentence was used to characterize Xu Huizhi's crime.

"It is a disgrace to scholars all over the world to harm the country and harm the people, and to mislead the children!"

As soon as the truth came out, the whole city was in uproar.

No one expected that Xu Huizhi, a great scholar, violated the new law of the imperial examination reform, clung to the limitations and deficiencies, and actually put forward the fallacies that "poor people are not suitable for officials" and "the reform in the Song Dynasty was actually a reform that forgot one's ancestors."

There are more than 3,000 students in Nanjing Imperial College, which can be said to be the best group of scholars in the entire Yingtian Mansion.

But it became a tool for Xu Huizhi's experiment.

In the afternoon, I went to the Yamen of Yingtianfu.

But they were either because of their teachers' teachings, or because of Xu Huizhi's power, or because they were assimilated by Xu Huizhi's ideas.

Xu Huizhi's move.

Yingtianfu Academy was originally a private school.

This kind of official.

The academic style of the entire Nanjing Imperial College has been ruined and is in urgent need of rectification.

Han Chong was stunned and suddenly understood what Wu Yu wanted to do.

Not only did it harm Zhou Yuan, but it also destroyed the future of the students in Nanjing City.

Although he is not greedy or lewd, he has caused more damage than any corrupt official.

……

Officials headed by Han Chong, the magistrate of Yingtian Prefecture, gathered in the lobby, all standing and shaking their heads.

"No need!" Wu Yu's tone was cold.

They all made mistakes in this matter.

Driven by it, no one dared to speak.

The benefits brought by the reforms throughout the Song Dynasty were visible to the naked eye, and they believed in the court's new laws even more.

The masters of the Imperial College were not unaware that Xu Huizhi violated the new law.

No one in Nanjing sympathized with him.

"Prime Minister Wu, the court can severely punish and even dismiss officials, but... Nanjing Imperial College is the glory of the entire Yingtian Mansion. It is hard-earned and cannot be demoted!"

Han Chong cupped his hands and said: "Xiang Wu, as the chief official of Yingtian Mansion, I didn't know that Xu Huizhi violated the new law and took advantage of private policies. This is really my fault. We will make rectifications quickly and restore the academic style and style of Nanjing Imperial College." order!"

present.

None of these people can escape the responsibility for leading thousands of students astray.

Later, he was promoted to an official school because he benefited all living beings and his lectures were very popular.

After that, Fan Zhongyan took charge of Yingtian Academy and trained a series of outstanding students.

Wang Yaochen, the number one scholar in the fifth year of Tiansheng's reign and the third imperial envoy, studied at Yingtianfu Academy.

Later, the Qingli New Deal led by Fan Zhongyan was launched.

Yingtianfu Academy was promoted to the Imperial College in Nanjing. As a pilot project for the reform of the imperial examination system, it became the only academy in the Song Dynasty that was upgraded from a private school to an Imperial College.

Here.

It was supposed to be the vanguard of the imperial examination reform.

Unexpectedly, he was turned into a mess by the corrupt scholar Xu Huizhi.

If the Nanjing Imperial College is downgraded, it will lose the qualification to directly select scholars for the imperial court.

Yingtianfu's provincial examination quota, college funding, number of tutors, etc. will be greatly reduced, and its status in the hearts of scholars will also be reduced.

This will make many famous scholars feel ashamed to come here to give lectures.

If things go on like this, the academy will definitely fail and become a mediocre ordinary university.

As soon as Han Chong opened his mouth, the officials below also began to plead for mercy.

"Prime Minister Wu, you must not demote the Nanjing Imperial College. This would be unfair to the people of Tianfu!"

"Prime Minister Wu, the Nanjing Imperial College just took the wrong path temporarily. The students are innocent!"

"Prime Minister Wu, you cannot be demoted. The Nanjing Imperial College is my pride as a scholar in Yingtian Mansion!"

……

"Shut up!" Wu Yu said loudly, then stood up from the big chair.

"At this moment, do you know that you regret it?"

"In the past three years, if anyone had carefully checked the teaching style of the Imperial College and understood the status of the students, they would not have caused today's disaster!"

"The Prime Minister has made up his mind and will recommend to the officials that the Nanjing Imperial College be demoted to Yingtianfu Academy and returned to the rank of imperial academy. A special supervisor will be appointed to take charge of all affairs of the academy."

According to the current situation in Nanjing Imperial College, the officials would not reject Wu Yu's suggestion at all.

"If you feel embarrassed, then think of another way to promote Yingtianfu Academy to Nanjing Imperial College!" Wu Yu said sternly. "As for you, anyone who fails in your duties will be severely punished. I hope you can speak out and prevent Nanjing City from being downgraded to Yingtian Mansion or even Songzhou!"

These words made these magistrates feel more ashamed and uncomfortable than a slap in the face.

All the local officials in Yingtian Mansion did not dare to argue anymore and bowed their hands to express their acceptance.

……

The eighth day of June, morning.

Wu Yu, Su Liang, Bao Zheng, and Zhang Maoze paid homage to Zhou Yuan again.

His wife Cui and his son Zhou Yao will escort Zhou Yuan's coffin back to his hometown tomorrow.

The officials have already explained it.

Zhou Yuan died in the service of the public, and Zhang Mao sent officials from the Imperial City to escort him.

According to custom, he will be buried according to the regulations of a fifth-grade civil servant, and his wife and children will enjoy special subsidies from the court...

Peng Sheng, the captain of Zhou Yuan's bodyguard and the head of the infantry division of the bodyguard, implored the entire bodyguard to also escort Zhou Yuan's coffin back home and wait until it was buried before returning.

Wu Yu immediately agreed.

……

Bianjing City, in the banzhong, in the hanging arch hall.

When Zhao Zhen and the other ministers saw the truth about Zhou Yuan's drowning, they were all sighing.

They didn't expect the result to be like this.

Unexpectedly, under the general trend of reform throughout the Song Dynasty, there were still such stubborn and corrupt scholars who were against the court and believed that they were right.

Wu Yu, Bao Zheng, Su Liang, and Zhang Maoze reported in great detail.

All of Xu Huizhi's remarks such as "the reform department is a small imperial court, the entire Song Dynasty forgetting its ancestors in reform laws, and sentencing scholar-bureaucrats to death are acts of disobedience to the laws of their ancestors" were reported truthfully.

Zhao Zhen sighed.

"Alas! It has been nearly five years since the reform of the Song Dynasty. It has indeed turned into the national reform of our ideal. But what I never expected is that the people are aware of it, but some officials are not. This is my fault!"

Zhao Zhen always believed that problems with the reform would only arise from the people, either because of misunderstandings or because they did not trust the court.

Unexpectedly, most of them were problems caused by local officials.

Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, Zhang Fangping, Song Xiang and other princes bowed their heads and handed over their hands.

Wen Yanbo said: "Officials, Zhongshu will check the officials again. Those who are not determined to implement the new law or violate the new law will be severely punished!"

Zhao Zhen nodded.

"Zhongshu issued an edict to demote the Nanjing Imperial College to a government school, and appointed Sun Fu, the direct lecturer of the Bianjing Imperial College, to serve as the eunuch of Yingtianfu Academy to reshape the academic order. As for the punishment of Yingtianfu officials, it was all drawn up by Zhongshu... …”

"I obey!" All the ministers held their hands.

……

Early morning on the tenth day of June.

Wu Yu, Su Liang, Bao Zheng and Zhang Mao all returned to Beijing.

Although Han Chong, the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture, has been guilty of dereliction of duty, he will not be dismissed from his post. As for whether he will be demoted, it depends on his subsequent performance.

Late at night on June 11, Su Liang returned to Bianjing.

After returning home, he fell asleep and slept until midnight. Then, after going to the prison to report the situation, he took three days off to spend time with his family.

Since his foreign tour in early February, he has not been with his family for four consecutive months.

Zhao Zhen would naturally not refuse this request.

soon.

The incident of the Imperial College in Nanjing spread to the streets of Bianjing through the Di Newspaper of the Imperial Academy, the Kaifeng Fufu Newspaper, and various folk tabloids.

And spread at an extremely rapid speed.

This incident shocked the scholars in Bianjing City. Some parents whose children were attending private schools even went to investigate the masters of some academies to prevent their children from encountering such stubborn and crazy corrupt scholars as Xu Huizhi. .

These days.

Officials from the foreign inspections also returned to Bianjing one after another, and they found many problems.

However, there were not many issues involving the reform movement throughout the Song Dynasty.

What is more, it is the privileges of officials and gentry, the helplessness of the people at the bottom, and some trivial matters at the bottom of the civil society that pretend to be powerful and bully the poor and weak.

……

June 18th, early morning.

Not long after Su Liang came to Jianyuan, he received a message from the palace servant.

The officials wanted to convene a meeting in the afternoon with the ministers of the two government and three departments, members of the Reform Department, the chief admonishment officer of Taiwan, and the officials on this foreign tour.

And a special confession: In the evening, it is forbidden to take care of the food.

Being in charge of food means that this meeting will definitely take a long time.

Su Liang deduced that the officials were going to make a summary of this foreign tour, and this summary would determine the future development direction of the Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)