At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Guo Peng turned his head to look at Cao Lan.

"Yes, but I also know that there is nothing you can do."

"Thank you."

Guo Peng took a deep breath: "In order to accomplish this, I have spared no effort, and I must pay back twice as much. I have already let the children down. I can't continue to feel sorry for Wei Guo and the world. common people."

"Is the world more important than your own children?"

Cao Lan propped up her upper body and looked at Guo Peng seriously.

Guo Peng was lying on the bed, motionless.

"Yes."

He gave Cao Lan an accurate answer.

He never lied to Cao Lan.

Cao Lan was silent for a while, and then sighed deeply.

"Peng Lang, I don't know whether it's luck or misfortune to be your child."

"At least they were born without starvation or cold, and they don't have to risk their lives to get rich food and clothing. This is what I gave them. They are already luckier than most people. Do you want more?"

Guo Peng shook his head: "Alan, don't blame me, along the way, I have seen too many life and death, I just want them to live a little better.

I can eat a little bit of good food, I can read, I can read, I can count, I know my age, I can write my name, at least, I can live like a human being. "

Cao Lan lay down and was silent for a while.

Then he turned over and hugged Guo Peng again.

"Go to sleep."

"Ah."

Guo Peng turned all his emotions into motivation to move forward, and was ready to launch a strategic decisive battle against those people.

This day has finally arrived.

On June 23rd of the sixth year of Yande, Guo Peng and Cai Yong met several times, coaxed and deceived, and finally determined the rules for how to punctuate the Five Classics according to their own ideas, and successfully got Cai Yong to endorse for him.

On June 25, the sixth year of Yande, Guo Peng secretly summoned Yuan Si, Xun You, Kong Xian, and Jia Kui, and gave them four "sample" thread-bound books marked with punctuation marks for reading.

Said that this is a new type of [book] made by people who worked overtime to transcribe after he determined the punctuation, and let them watch it first.

Then I watched them touch and fumble the paper-bound book repeatedly, and then opened it to watch bit by bit, amazed.

Until they found that there was something wrong with the classics they held in their hands.

Mr. Guo will not judge sentences exactly according to their way of severing sentences, Mr. Guo will only sentence sentences according to his own way.

In this regard, someone from Guo dispatched Cai Yong to persuade him.

And finally told them that some parts of their punctuation methods dissatisfied the emperor, so the emperor wants to re-sentence sentences in his own way and make it public. Do you have any opinions?

Or, do you have any objections?

It doesn't matter, bring it up, I'm listening.

The four looked at each other.

Xun You was the first to say that he had no opinion.

The remaining three scrambled to express to Guo Peng that they did not have any opinions, and were willing to confirm the sentence segmentation method of classic articles according to Guo Peng's needs.

They will cooperate.

Anyway, their bottom line has long been penetrated. At this moment, the bottom line continues to extend downwards, constantly exploring new possibilities.

This made Guo Peng very satisfied.

As a result, the internal problems that should be resolved have also been resolved, the internal opinions have been thoroughly integrated by Guo Peng, and it is time for the remaining external problems to be completely resolved.

Chapter 1167 One thousand 170 seven emperors want to abolish private schools and promote official schools

On the first day of July in the sixth year of Yande, Emperor Guo Peng issued an imperial decree.

The general meaning of the imperial decree is that after a long time of thinking and discussions with his courtiers, the emperor felt that there was a big problem with the current education model of our Wei State.

That is, the number of talents educated is not enough.

The government of the Wei Empire had a lot of power, so there were a lot of things to do, and there was a lot of demand for officials. With this much, there was a situation of uneven quality of officials.

After careful thinking and on-the-spot investigation, the emperor discovered that the reason for this situation was that there was something wrong with the current model of prosperity of private schools and decline of official schools.

The number of talents that private schools can train is small and cannot keep up with the needs of the government, while the number of people trained by existing government schools is even less, and they cannot keep up with the needs.

This is unacceptable, if things go on like this, there will be problems, and there will be problems with the governing ability of the Wei government.

That does not work.

So the emperor took a brainstorm and decided to make some changes. He wanted to reform, change the existing education model, make the unreasonable status quo reasonable, and make everything look full of vitality.

The method of reform is also easy to understand. The emperor wants to increase the number of students enrolled in Taixue, expand the scope of education in Taixue, and enhance the educational capabilities of Taixue.

After finishing the official speech, the emperor said that because of the help of the virtuous officials from She Xiao’s family, he was able to mark the existing five classics and national laws with punctuation marks, so that the five classics and national laws can be seen at a glance without using Sentence reading can also be easily read.

In this way, the educational efficiency of Taixue can be greatly improved, and the burden on students can be greatly reduced, so that they do not need to spend too much time learning sentence reading.

Instead, more time can be spent on studying the scriptures.

With fixed punctuation, the teacher can concentrate on explaining the meaning of the scriptures, instead of spending time explaining how to punctuate sentences and how to understand them, just repeat the scriptures.

In this way, more and better students can be cultivated.

When there is no paper, students can only listen to the teacher and memorize it with their memory. If they have a good memory, they will have an advantage, and if they have a poor memory, they will be at a disadvantage.

Moreover, most of the time the teacher only talks about it once, not much, and often the students have to figure it out on their own or ask others for advice, which is very inconvenient.

After all, bamboo slips are heavy and expensive, and there are few characters that can be written, so they are not suitable for class notes.

And with enough cheap and light paper, students can make good use of the advantages of paper in class, record the essence of the teacher's lectures, and after class, they can also use the notes recorded in class for self-study.

Learn the new by reviewing the past, you can be a teacher.

That's the truth.

The emperor struggled for many years, and finally he was able to implement Confucius' vision.

The reason why the emperor did this is to consider the study of all scholars, hoping that they can study better and study more efficiently.

There are not many books yet.

The emperor has arranged for urgent transcriptions, and hopes that the Taixue students can independently form study groups of five or ten, and each group will be given a book for collective study.

The meaning of this imperial decree is just that, and it was not released to the Shangshutai alone for the Shangshutai to be responsible for publishing it to the outside world, but directly sent many copies to various court offices, which is equivalent to the emperor directly publishing it to the outside world.

In this regard, many officials were quite surprised and shocked. They didn't know what was going on at all. They asked each other and their superiors, but all they got were answers like "don't know".

All the scholars and officials were panicked for a while.

In contrast, officials from humble backgrounds are much calmer.

After they read the emperor's imperial edict carefully, they suddenly felt that this was a good thing for them.

The emperor wants to abolish private education and promote official education.

Since the late Han Dynasty, the prosperity of private schools and the decline of government schools have been the general trend, and there has been no change in decades.

Now suddenly the official school is about to rise, and aren't they the biggest beneficiaries who rely on the imperial school to live?

Scholars and officials and their children have always looked down on Taixue, and only studied in their private schools, holding high positions. The humble officials hated it deeply, but there was nothing they could do about it.

But now things seem to have changed.

It must be said that Guo Peng did not communicate with any high-level court officials before doing this matter, and the news was strictly blocked from leaking out, so even the closest ministers were completely unclear about it, and they did not understand it at all. what happened.

Cao Cao was blocked by a group of cabinet officials asking questions in the cabinet, and everyone felt that he must know something.

But in fact Cao Cao really didn't know anything.

"My lords, my lords! Calm down! I really don't know what's going on with this matter, and I still find it strange. I'm about to ask His Majesty what's going on! Be safe, gentlemen!"

Cao Cao, sweating profusely, comforted the flustered scholar officials in the cabinet.

However, Xu Shu and a few officials from poor families took a wait-and-see attitude towards this. They soon realized that this matter was good for them, so they decided to wait and see the situation.

Cao Cao actually didn’t care about this matter. His family is not a classic inheritance family. Guo Peng’s abolishing private education and promoting official education will benefit him a lot. At least his children will be able to learn the same things as scholars in the future, and they don’t have to worry about being inferior to scholars. up.

But in the face of so many inquiries from his subordinates, Cao Cao also felt a headache, so he had an excuse to ask Guo Peng what was going on, and left the cabinet quickly.

As a result, on the only way to Fengtian Temple, Cao Cao met Cheng Yu, Tian Feng, Xi Zhong and other high-ranking court officials. They also looked serious and nervous, just like himself.

It seems that everyone has not been notified in advance, and no one knows what His Majesty is going to do. He is definitely not the only one who is unclear.

After figuring this out, he breathed a sigh of relief—he thought that he was excluded from the power center again, or that he had done something to make Guo Peng unhappy.

Now that he even saw Guo Jia among the officials, he felt relieved.

After looking at each other with Cheng Yu, who had a bad complexion, Cao Cao anxiously approached Guo Jia after they both shook their faces.

"Feng Xiao, what's going on? How come I don't know about this at all?"

"I don't know either. It seems that this incident happened suddenly. There was no news before."

Guo Jia looked at a large group of officials hurrying around, and said: "It seems that everyone doesn't know about this matter. His Majesty has never communicated with anyone before doing business. We are all the same, but... I have heard of it. One thing."

"what?"

Cao Cao's complexion changed.

"Those family members, Yuan Si, Xun You, Kong Xian and Jia Kui, seemed to have been summoned by His Majesty some time ago. I don't know what happened, and no one cared at that time.

As a result, today, His Majesty suddenly issued an imperial decree to all the government offices, which shocked everyone. No, we were all forced by our subordinates to ask about the situation. "

Guo Jia sighed for a while: "I don't know what's going on with Your Majesty. Anyway, I really don't know what's going on here. Your Majesty is really strict this time."

"Your Majesty has always been rigorous in handling affairs. It seems that this matter has been planned for a long time."

Cao Cao pursed his lips: "For such a long time, no news has been leaked. It seems that His Majesty really didn't intend to tell anyone before that, but planned to announce it after finishing the matter. Now it seems that this matter It's done."

chapter 1168 one thousand 170 eight to reverse the future

Although he didn't have any worries about Guo Peng's policy itself, Guo Jia still didn't know anything about that punctuation mark.

Such things are rare.

Guo Jia, who was worried about what he did wrong, was a little worried.

"What is punctuation? I've never heard of it."

Guo Jia said, "And now that I think about it, His Majesty may have promoted Zuo Bo's offering of paper in June. After the papermaking technology was perfected, the quantity of paper increased greatly and the price dropped sharply.

I heard that many scholars’ homes complained a lot, because they bought a large amount of high-priced Zuobo paper and stored it at home for later use. It was really much easier to use than gradually, and many people bought it. "

"As a result, Uncle Zuo suddenly said that the papermaking technology is mature, and a large amount of cheap paper can be produced, and the price of paper plummeted. They didn't expect such a thing to happen, so they felt that they had suffered a big loss..."

Cao Cao frowned: "Actually, my family also bought a lot for Fengxiao."

"Me too."

Guo Jia nodded with a grim complexion.

The two were silent for a while.

"Feng Xiao, tell me, how dare a mere Uncle Zuo risk offending so many people by announcing the improvement of papermaking technology?"

Cao Cao suddenly realized the crux of the problem.

Guo Jia panicked, looked around quickly, put his index finger in front of his mouth, and said in a low voice: "Just know, don't say it, and be careful not to cause trouble."

Cao Cao originally thought that this matter was not a big deal, it was just a loss of money, and it was not a big deal, but when Guo Jia said it, he understood.

I am afraid that someone is manipulating the direction of this matter behind the scenes.