Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 120 Chapter 123
After leaving the Daming Palace, Zuo Ming let out a long breath, got rid of the depression in his heart a little, and walked towards the Guozijian.

Now that it has been decided to temporarily borrow the Imperial Academy as a temporary teaching office, Zuo Ming naturally wants to go for a field trip.

Guozijian is located in Wubenfang, Chang'an, and there is a solemn Confucian Temple at the entrance.

Zuo Ming respected Confucius very much.Although in the eyes of later generations, Confucianism also has many disadvantages and loopholes, but the flaws are not hidden. Confucianism's etiquette, integrity, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness still have a decisive impact on China after all!

It can even be said that Confucianism is a school that established the soul of China!Without it, China would lose a lot of its color.

So when passing the Confucian Temple, Zuo Ming didn't just pass by, but took a stick of incense from the side, lit it and inserted it into the incense burner, and bowed three times.After paying homage, Zuo Mingcai walked into the Imperial College with vigor and vigor.

Because the Gewu College is about to settle in, the Imperial College is now empty, and the three hundred students and 24 teachers have also gone home for vacation.It was Kong Yingda, the first dean of Gewu College, who greeted Zuo Ming!

That's right, it's Kong Yingda!The successor of Kong's idealist school finally couldn't help asking for an order to come to Gewu College.

Others can only see Zuo Ming's power in the officialdom, but Kong Yingda knows how good Zuo Ming is in terms of knowledge.

He can be sure that once Gewu Academy is on the right track, it will inevitably become a behemoth capable of controlling the development of the entire Tang Dynasty!
If he does not intervene at this time, he worries that Confucianism will be reduced in the near future.

Zuo Ming is also well aware of Kong Yingda's thoughts.In fact, it's not that he didn't think about getting Kong Yingda to teach Chinese in the college, but he was a prince and concubine, and also served as the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine.

But now everything is fine.Guozijian was stuffed into the academy by Li Shimin, so Kong Yingda's Guozijian sacrificial wine would naturally fail.As for the prince's right concubine, the prince is now working hard to do practical things, how can he have time to listen to his lectures?It just so happens that I can come to Gewu College to be a teacher.

However, Kong Yingda seemed dissatisfied with the position of "Chinese teacher". This is probably why Zuo Ming always emphasized that "Chinese class" must first learn Zuo's fairy tales.After all, he is a descendant of Confucius, how can he go to the school to teach theories of other schools?Isn't this blatantly deceiving teachers and destroying ancestors?

There was no other way, Zuo Ming had no choice but to give him the position of "Dean of Teaching", responsible for regulating the behavior of all the students.

After getting this position, Kong Yingda felt much better.This old guy's sense of crisis is not generally high, and he used "The Analects of Confucius" as an introduction when he first took office, and compiled a long school rules and regulations!It is clear that he wants to use his power to spread his Confucianism.

For this kind of behavior, Zuo Ming naturally hated it, and Dang even had a three-day-long heated argument with him as the principal.

However, in the end Zuo Ming still lost to this stubborn old man.But Zuo Ming didn't lose completely, and some school rules that violated the principles of his future generations were forcibly eliminated by him.

For example, one of them is to let all the students keep in mind "telling without writing, trusting and loving the ancients", which means that all college students should study the thoughts and theories of the ancients more, and don't always aim too high to create by themselves.

It may not be a big problem to put this school rule elsewhere, but it has touched the bottom line of Zuo Ming.

What his Gewu Academy has to do is to innovate. If you say "tell but don't write, believe but love the old", then my college is still doing something?Just go back and study the Four Books and Five Classics.

There is also a rule that girls are not allowed to enter the school, which was also firmly denied by Zuo Ming.He had made up his mind to have a coeducational school, how could Kong Yingda spoil his good deeds.

Kong Yingda couldn't understand Zuo Ming's practice of letting girls go to school, not only him, but most people in Datang didn't understand.

In the eyes of almost all Tang people, women should be used by husbands and children by birth, and it is not impossible to read and write, but at most it can only be used to cultivate sentiment, add some temperament and self-cultivation.If you enter the academy to study, it is a waste of resources.After all, no matter how well they study, they can't be officials, so what's the use?

Even Li Shimin felt that Zuo Ming was messing around, so he called Zuo Ming into the palace at that time, scolded him with a straight face, and told him to give up the idea of ​​letting the girl go to school.

However, Zuo Ming's attitude was also very tough. He asked Li Shimin to give him three years, and after three years, he let Li Shimin experience the power of women in the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing what Zuo Ming said with certainty, and thinking that he had never let himself down in these years, Li Shimin's face calmed down, but he still told him to "think about everything before acting, not to be reckless."

Since then, it has been finalized that women can go to school.

After the dispute over school regulations, the relationship between Zuo Ming and Kong Yingda eased a lot.After all, the differences have been properly resolved, and everyone has made concessions, so there is no need to fight each other again.

There was no reason to confront each other, and Kong Yingda was naturally extremely enthusiastic about Zuo Ming's visit this time.Afterwards, he handed his revised Chinese textbook to Zuo Ming for him to have a look.

This Chinese textbook is different from "Zuo Shi's Fairy Tales" and is used for advanced teaching, so there are many teachings of Confucius and Mencius in it.Zuo Ming naturally felt a little headache watching these things, but in order not to make mistakes, he still bite the bullet and read on.

Generally speaking, this Chinese textbook is not bad, but the teaching of vernacular Chinese is really pitiful.The whole article is nothing more than various poems.

These things are flashy, and they must be pleasing to the eye, but if the students in his college write their experimental reports in ancient Chinese, he must go crazy.

So, after thinking about it, he forced Kong Yingda to add an article on the usage of punctuation marks and the essentials of vernacular grammar at the end of this textbook.After it was over, he was still worried, so he swiped a pen and wrote the four big characters "Exam Key Points" on it.

Seeing that Zuo Ming paid so much attention to the vernacular, how could Kong Yingda not feel uncomfortable?He only thought that Zuo Ming wanted all the students in the world to be like him because he was not good at ancient prose.

But Zuo Ming is the principal after all, although he doesn't understand and is very unhappy about such an arrangement, but there is really nothing he can do.The only thing he can do now is to pray to those Chinese lecturers not to focus on the content of the vernacular in the future.

After finalizing the matter of Chinese textbooks, Zuo Ming wandered around the Imperial College, then left Wubenfang and walked towards the Anle Grand Theater.

Wang Siyan recently went to Jiangnan to work on her clothing store, and Hu Ke and Lianer must be in the theater now. Even if he returns home, it is very deserted. It is better to come to the theater directly to see the two Great performance by Mrs.

It is said that the reputation of Hu Ke and Lian'er is getting bigger and bigger nowadays, there are few people in Tang Dynasty who don't know them, so there is an endless stream of people who come to watch the play.

When Zuo Ming arrived, the guard unfortunately told him that the theater was full, and even the VIP suite he reserved for Li Shimin was taken by Li Zhi.

Moreover, it is said that Li Zhi also brought a lot of brothers and sisters from the palace, including the legendary little overlord of Chang'an - Li Yin.

A little overlord in Chang'an and a great devil in the world finally joined forces, and Zuo Ming naturally wanted to hide as far away as possible.

The loss of the bet last time had made him unable to hold his head up for a long time. If he was tricked by Li Zhi again at this time, wouldn't his reputation be ruined?
However, not long after he left here, something suddenly hit his back, and then a buzzing voice rang in his ears, "Don't move! Or I'll stab you to death!"

After hearing this, Zuo Ming realized that he was being targeted again.This time, he was really tired to the extreme.

"Why is everyone here to catch me? Does I look so much like a piglet? I don't need to say anything, let's eat Ben Houye first! Look at the trick—monkey picking peaches."

In addition to being annoyed, Zuo Ming didn't hesitate at the moment, turned around without any scruples, and then used the trick of the three tricks Shen Ding taught him to control the enemy - monkey picking peaches!
However, the trick was hit, but the peach didn't seem to be picked.

He couldn't help but looked up in astonishment, his mind and thoughts were messed up in a gust of breeze.

And when Zuo Ming was stunned and confused, the person behind him also froze there.She really didn't expect that a dignified Marquis of Zuo Ming would learn this kind of indiscriminate martial arts.

However, what made her even more depressed was yet to come.

"What a powerful master! He actually knows how to shrink the sheep into the belly! Powerful! Powerful!! But Master Ben is not in vain, so give me a catch again—bah! Heart-piercing dragon claw!"

Zuo Ming's smile gradually changed, and at the same time as he suddenly withdrew, the two claws attacked the opposite side in an extremely exaggerated manner.

But this time, his target was the opponent's chest!
(End of this chapter)