The younger brother of the First Emperor

Chapter 288 Woodblock Printing, Zhangtai Jijiu is not Jijiu, Guozi Jijiu is Jijiu

Zhangtai Academy, Imperial College, and Xuanniao Hall.

The totem of the Qin State is the Xuanniao, and anything related to the Xuanniao is not simple.

Xuanniao Hall is the largest school in the Imperial College and can accommodate 500 people.

In the hall, Ying Chengjiao sat on an ergonomic chair specially made for him by the Imperial Medical Bureau and the Engineering Studio, reading the Book of Songs with his hand supporting his chin.

As one of the Confucian classics, The Book of Songs not only has extremely high literary value today, but also has cultural, philosophical and historical value.

When Ying Chengjiao was at the Jixia Academy, he read it roughly two or three times, then put it aside and read the biographies of various philosophers written by Zou Yan before his death.

Nearly a month ago, the young man picked up the "Book of Songs" again and read it alternately with "Xunzi".

He came to the Imperial College to attend classes every three days. When he arrived, he sat in the classroom and either read "Xunzi" or "The Book of Songs".

The boy laughed and said when he first taught the students of the Imperial Academy:

"This is not a class, it's clearly a self-study session."

A student in the hall asked:
"Sir, what do you mean by watching the self-study?"

Ying Chengjiao pointed two fingers at his own eyes, then pointed at the people below him:

"Watch you learn on your own."

The students in the classroom looked at the teaching materials on the table and laughed.

When you come here, you read the textbooks by yourself. Isn't this self-study?
The textbook, whose full name is Imperial College Entrance Textbook, is divided into ten volumes.

In each volume of the Imperial College's entrance textbook, the new Qin script is written first, and then the Qin script corresponding to the new Qin script is written. The new Qin script is taught to the students of the Imperial College by marking characters with words.

The entrance textbooks for the Imperial College were compiled by the first twenty-one masters of the Zhangtai Academy.

At the beginning of compilation.

Some teachers suggested that pinyin should be marked like in the enlightenment school textbooks, so that people should learn pinyin first and then learn the new Qin language.

Some teachers also suggested that we should write Qin characters first and then new Qin characters. Because most people who came to Qin knew Qin characters, they should first see the characters they knew and then learn the characters they didn't know. This is in line with living habits and helpful for learning.

These two voices had the highest voices, but in the end neither was adopted.

Ying Chengjiao, the chief academician of the Imperial College, made the final decision and finalized the current version.

He invented pinyin to help children recognize words and improve their efficiency. Pinyin notation is very effective for children who cannot read.

But for the literate students of the Imperial College, learning pinyin is putting the cart before the horse and is far inferior to using character marking.

The method of marking characters with words can help one know both the pronunciation and the meaning of the characters, and is more suitable for students at the Imperial College.

Abandoning the original habit and marking the new Qin script first and then the Qin script was not Ying Chengjiao's deliberate attempt to be different. It was the new Qin script that combined many characters in the Qin script into one character.

For example, in Qin script, the "沾" (dirty and messy) and the "沾" (five internal organs) are two characters, while in the new Qin script, they are just one character.

On the bamboo slips, one word extended to several meanings is more concise and clear than combining several words into one meaning, and is more in line with the learning habits of people at that time.

Occasionally, some upright students would question Yingzi in person or discuss in private - How can he be considered our teacher if he has never taught us and just watches us study?

Ying Zi from Zhangtai Academy was modest and humorous. When faced with such questions, he would either smile without saying anything or spread his hands and say innocently:
"That's right."

The students of the Imperial College who had doubts got answers either from their classmates or from other masters of the Zhangtai Academy.

The teaching materials of Zhangtai Academy were agreed upon by the twenty-one Zhangtai gentlemen headed by Yingzi when the academy was first established.

The teaching materials of Zhangtai Academy are mass-customized using a new technology recently developed by the studio, called woodblock printing.

The woodblock printing technique was proposed by Ying Zi not long ago.

All the teaching materials for woodblock printing were written by Yingzi.

The new Qin script that must be learned was invented by Ying Zi.

In short, you thought Yingzi didn't teach you.

In fact, apart from verbal teaching, all the new knowledge you have learned in Zhangtai Academy is related to Yingzi.

Without Yingzi, there might be Zhangtai Academy, but there would definitely be no textbooks, desks and chairs, or new Qin characters...

Some gossipers saw that Yingzi had a good temper and liked to joke, so they gave him a nickname based on his pronunciation - Shadow.

It is said that Yingzi is like a shadow, inconspicuous but everywhere.

At this time, there will be other people who are curious about popular science, such as innate knowledge, Xianyang prodigy, Prime Minister of the Five Kingdoms, young man called Zi, chief priest of Jixia Academy, founder of Zhangtai Academy... Do you call this inconspicuous?

Are you blind?

There is an open rumor in Zhangtai Academy: the Zhangtai Jijiu is not the Jijiu, the Guozijian Jijiu is the Jijiu.

This rumor was originally circulated privately.

Until one day, Qin Wangzheng, the chief academic officer of Zhangtai, came to Zhangtai to test his students' academic performance. He read out the rumor in public with a smile, and nodded repeatedly, saying that it made a lot of sense.

Soon, the rumor about King Zheng of Qin following the ancient custom of King Wei of Qi accepting advice and the two chief priests spread like wildfire and spread in the Zhangtai Academy.

After taking a look at the water carvings in the hall, Yingzi tapped the table twice with two fingers:

"get out of class is over."

"Ah? So fast? I haven't finished reading it yet?" lamented a new student from Zhangtai Academy.

"Haven't you seen enough?" Ying Zi asked as he rolled up the Book of Songs.

"Yes." The new student nodded.

"If you haven't seen enough, go home and watch it. Don't delay me from get out of class." Ying Chengjiao stood up and was about to run away.

If you are not active in get out of class, there is something wrong with your brain.

"But we are not allowed to take the textbooks away!" the new student shouted anxiously.

Ying Chengjiao, who had run out of the school, stepped back and stuck half of his head in!
"newcomer?"

"Ah."

"You're not very popular, are you?"

"This... my family says I'm dull..."

"Liu Bang, don't you love making friends the most? I leave it to you." Ying Zi ran away.

In the classroom, the boy sitting in the front row pounded on the table and shouted angrily at the open door:

"Sir! Be a human being! You can't just throw it to Bang whenever you have a problem!"

"What nonsense!" Yingzi's voice came from afar: "The retainer is here to help the master solve his problems!"

"What kind of retainers are we waiting for... retainers? Retainers!" The young man jumped on the spot, as if his butt was on fire, and ran to the door: "Sir, have you accepted me as a retainer?"

"It depends on your performance!" Yingzi only left the young man with a hurriedly departing back.

The boy looks two years older than Ying Chengjiao, but in fact he is only eleven years old, one year younger than Ying Chengjiao.

He howled to the sky, and his strange cry made many students in the school look unhappy.

The school is a sacred place, how can you roar in the school? Chu Man is Chu Man!

The young man walked back shaking his head, taking steps as if he didn't recognize any relatives, humming a local song of Pei County, and not taking other people's looks seriously at all.

This arrogant look made the students who already disliked him hate him even more.

This fits their stereotype of the Chu barbarians: they are both arrogant and proud, and proud of their arrogance.

The boy walked up to the new student.

Although he was only 10 years old, he looked more than 10 years younger than the new student. However, he hugged the new student's neck in a mature manner, lowered his head and smiled:

"Naigong is Liu Bang! Following the order of the Lord, I am here to help my brother. Go home with Naigong, he has the complete volume of the New Qin Texts!"

[Nai Gong... who is this person... why did Ying Zi appoint such a vulgar person?] The new student was a little timid and wanted to refuse, but he was tempted by the whole volume of new Qinwen mentioned by the young man.

He glanced at the hand on his neck and took it off silently.

He leaned back, clasped his hands together, and said hesitantly:
"I have a question, please help me solve it."

Liu Bang shook off his hand, not embarrassed at all:
"You are so polite, brother, please ask!"

"...The academy strictly prohibits taking textbooks out of the academy. Violators will have their textbooks confiscated and be expelled from the Qin State and will never be employed again. Where did you get the complete volume of New Qin Text?"

"Oh!" Liu Bang waved his hand: "The academy only said that I can't take it away, but it didn't say that I can't copy it!"

The new student's eyes widened:

"Not allowing us to take textbooks outside means not allowing us to read them privately, so how can we be allowed to copy them?"

"Then I don't know." Liu Bang imitated Ying Zi's usual gesture of spreading his hands and said innocently, "Anyway, I copied it. Do you want to see it?"

The new student lowered his head and looked around, half covering his mouth with his hands, deliberately lowering his voice, and said like a thief:

"Does Yingzi know about this?"

"I don't know." Liu Bang imitated the new student's expression and movements, first looked around, then half covered his mouth and lowered his voice: "Yingzi said he didn't know." New student: "..."

No matter how dull the new students are, they know what to do.

He stood up silently and saluted:

"I want to copy it, is it possible?"

"Of course." Liu Bang agreed immediately.

"Excuse me."

"Don't bother, don't bother. Just treat me to a meal of dog meat."

"it is good."

Liu Bang greeted a dozen students and said that he had something to do today and could not get together.

A dozen friends said "Congratulations" and looked at Liu Bang with envy as he led the new students out of the school.

There are always people leaving the school, but a small number of students remain.

They took brushes and copied the teaching materials on the blank bamboo slips.

If the academy doesn't ban it, then it can be done.

The rule prohibiting students from taking textbooks out of the school was formulated by Ying Chengjiao alone. When it was written into the school regulations, it was strongly opposed by the Prime Minister Lu Buwei:

“Woodblock printing can mass-produce teaching materials, so why limit them?

"Although doing so can solidify the reputation of the young master's teacher and increase his influence, it also severely limits the spread of the new Qin language.

"It benefits the individual but harms the country. Have you forgotten your original intention?"

Ying Chengjiao did not explain immediately, but only asked to implement it first to see the effect, and make changes if the effect was not good.

On the third day after the establishment of the Imperial College, Liu Bang became a member of the Imperial College.

The first class went normally.

I copied the textbook during the second class.

When a student reported the incident, Yingzi, the chief academician of the Imperial College, replied that he knew nothing.

In class again, a large number of students copied the textbooks.

When Lu Buwei saw this, he was convinced and changed his words, saying that it would benefit both himself and the country.

Ying Chengjiao gave an explanation at this point:

“Free things are not valued, and learning by oneself is worse than learning by stealing.

"This is human nature, and it has not changed for thousands of years."

That day, Prime Minister Lu kept repeating the word "human nature" and looked much older.

Ying Chengjiao had a residence in the Zhangtai Academy, but he never lived there, not even for a short while.

How could this shabby little house of about 30 square meters be as comfortable as his Cheng Jiao Palace?
Young Master Cheng Jiao pushed open the door of his residence, and dust fell down, choking him and making him sneeze twice.

I quickly went out and asked the servant to clean up, and when I was about to leave, I told the manager to come and clean up every day.

Other people's rooms are private places and are not convenient to clean.

There's nothing in his shabby house, so it's no inconvenience.

In less than a moment, the four servants with nimble hands and feet finished cleaning.

Ying Chengjiao sat on the couch, thinking about the rumors he heard on the road, and muttered to himself:

“Carrying two cranes, so handsome?

“Unfortunately, it’s not Xunzi who came, so we can’t kill them all at once.

“Fuqiu Bo… that’s fine too.

"Let me meet the leader of the six disciples of Xun Sect."

The Six Disciples of Xunzi's School are the six most outstanding disciples of Xunzi, including Li Si, Han Fei and Zhang Cang.

However, Han Fei and Li Si, who were the most famous, were not the leaders.

The chief of the six sons was Fuqiubo.

There are very few records about Fuqiu Bo in history books, and Ying Chengjiao learned more about Fuqiu Bo in his own time.

He felt that this leader of the Six Masters should not learn from Xunzi, but from Zhuangzi.

Too indifferent to fame and fortune!

Learn worldly knowledge and become a person who can make a difference in the world. This is Fu Qiubo.

Zhang Cang, who always wanted to become an immortal, did not become one, but Fuqiubo, who did not want to become an immortal, did become one - later generations said that he became an immortal and attained enlightenment.

Ying Chengjiao spread out the "Book of Songs" and read it silently.

The book that Fuqiubo was best at was The Book of Songs.

It is true that opportunities always come to those who are prepared.

It’s just that some people will know the information about future opportunities before they come and can start preparing in advance.

This is called information asymmetry, also called class.

Thirty meters south of Ying Chengjiao’s house is Li Si’s house.

Ying Chengjiao was a Mr. Zhangtai, and Li Si was also a Mr. Zhangtai. The houses of the Mr. Zhangtai in the imperial academy were all in the same area.

An hour later, in Li Si's house.

Fuqiu Bo looked at the water carvings, stood up and sighed:
"The name Ying Zi is truly worthy of its name.

"Junior brother, I'm leaving now. I can't let Yingzi wait any longer."

Li Si nodded solemnly and said:

"Brother, remember not to hide anything from Yingzi. Being honest and frank is the best way to interact with Yingzi.

"Although Yingzi is young, his understanding of human nature is only inferior to that of his teacher."

Fu Qiubo nodded and laughed:
"Only you and Junior Brother Han like to hide things."

His expression turned serious, and he said in a warning tone:
"Master knows that you are a disciple of Prime Minister Qin, and he is worried about you so much that he can't eat or sleep well.

"You and Junior Brother Han have always had your own opinions, so I can't say much.

“Just if possible, please think more before doing anything.

"The commander is old and can't stand the bad news."

Li Si opened his mouth and wanted to say, "Aren't we now allying ourselves with the King of Qin?"

There was silence for a long while.

Shut up, nod, nod repeatedly.

Fu Qiubo stretched out his hand, wanting to pat his fellow apprentice on the shoulder to show his closeness.

He stretched out his hand, hovered a foot above Li Si's shoulder for two breaths, and gave a slight bitter smile.

My junior fellow student has profound knowledge and a wide reputation.

Now is not the time when he first entered the teacher's tutelage and arrived at the Jixia Academy.

"Here he goes." Fu Qiubo said again, withdrew his hand and pushed open the door.

Walking silently, elegant and ethereal.

Two cranes followed.

He walked to Ying Chengjiao's residence, straightened his clothes, and knocked on the door gently:
"Fuqiu Bo wants to see Ying Zi."

The door opened quickly, and a handsome young man appeared in front of Fu Qiubo.

Fu Qiu Bo was standing very close to the door. Being a head and a half taller than the young man, he could only look down at him.

He hurriedly took two steps back, almost bumping into Bai He, and bowed deeply to the young man:
"Fuqiu Bo has met Ying Zi."

Yingzi clasped his fists in return:

"The graceful Fuqiu Bo came from the East Sea this morning.

"Calling each other and going home with them, they call him a celestial being.

"I have heard of your name for a long time, and I am so lucky to meet you today."

(End of this chapter)