The icy wind blew in from outside the open door, blowing Sima Fang's beard fluttering, and Sima Fang at this moment, as if he was ten years old in this short period of time, squinted his eyes and looked at the moonlight outside the door.
"Father is late at night, go back to the house and rest."
The youngest son, Sima Min, is the only son who is now left in Chang'an, looking at Sima Fang's somewhat dull gaze, he said sluggishly while closing the door.
"Youngdamo is going to close the door."
Sima Fang raised his head, looked at his young son's puzzled gaze, shook his head and said, "It's too hot in the house." ” Facing the cold wind blowing in from outside the door, he shivered, and Sima Min looked at Sima Fang with a blank expression, where is this hot "Sit down and talk to your father."
Sima Fang beckoned to his young son and motioned for him to sit beside him.
"Oh" Sima Min nodded silently, sat beside Sima Fang obediently, looked at Sima Fang suspiciously, and said: "Why doesn't my father think about it in recent days, whether he has a cold or the child should go to the imperial doctor to treat his father?"
chuckling and shaking his head, Sima Fang didn't reply, but turned his head to look at Sima Min and said, "My son is studying in that county school now, how do I feel about that county school?"
When Sima Min heard this, his eyes lit up, and he nodded: "The county school is quite different from what children have learned in the past. ” "Oh" Sima Fang raised his eyebrows, his eight sons are smarter than the other, this is not what others are boasting about, plus the Sima family is a big family in the world, and the eight sons have been educated since childhood.
"What's the difference," Sima Fang said with interest.
"In the county school, it is not dedicated to teaching poetry, but mainly mathematics, the first three years, in addition to some basic literacy and literacy, most of the time, it is taught mathematics, with nine chapters of arithmetic as the benchmark, children have also read it in the past, only to feel obscure, many contents, do not understand its meaning."
A gleam flashed in Sima Min's eyes.
"The nine chapters of arithmetic are written by the sages all their lives, because my father couldn't imagine that the county would learn to use this arithmetic as the basis, I'm afraid that few people can learn it," Sima Fang couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
Nine chapters of arithmetic, is a collection of mathematics in the completion of a book, except for those who specialize in the study of mathematics, even he, do not dare to say that he understands everything, the Son of Heaven teaches the people with this book, it is inevitable that some assumptions, do not say that those students, is those teachers, and a few people can understand "What my father said was not true."
Sima Min said a little excitedly: "The nine chapters of arithmetic have been compiled by Liu Hong, Zhao Shuang, Cai Yan and many other gentlemen, a total of nine volumes, which are more new characters instead of numbers, just the first volume, quite simple, most students will learn, and the second volume began to be profound, but with the foundation of the first volume, even if it is not too understood, after the teaching of Mr., it is not difficult, the child is now already reviewing the third volume, the third volume, mostly practical, many children in many places are not very clear, is waiting for this year's county school after the opening of the class, Go and ask your husband. ” "Practical" Sima Fang was puzzled: "Apply what you have learned, and use people to teach you such things" "It's not quite the same."
Sima Min said with a smile: "Father doesn't know, although this number of arts, although it seems to be independent, but it has a lot in common with many knowledge, for example, taking the march and fighting as an example, a 10,000-person army, how many people need to carry, how much food is consumed every day, how long can it be used, and then how to carry grain and grass so that this army will not be short of food, put it on top of the art of war, how to arrange troops, in order to mobilize all the strength of the soldiers, and use it to govern the place, how much tax is paid in a year, aside from the court, How to use these taxes to make the people rich and the country is exquisite. ” Looking at Sima Fang's stunned look, Sima Min smiled proudly: "Not only that, if you use it in the Ministry of Industry, these things are more useful, for example, a bed crossbow, how to build, in order to make its range reach the farthest, the more accurate each part of the bed crossbow, the more accurate the skeleton, the more ideal the power, and the less materials and manpower will be lost. ” Sima Fang frowned slightly when he heard this, he is a great Confucian in the world, a number of arts, although not refined, but also quite attained, scholars of this era, can be called a great Confucian, although proficient in different fields, but generally most of the knowledge has been involved, although Sima Min failed to explain all the problems clearly, but Sima Fang has already heard a little deep meaning, and what he has learned confirmed, although he can't understand everything, especially in the Ministry of Engineering on the manufacture of equipment, but what he said before, even if it is simple, but it also makes Sima Fang have a sense of openness.
After pondering for a long time, Sima Fang looked at Sima Min: "What my son said, there are other people in the county school who can compare with my son."
"But it's a lot."
Sima Min nodded and said: "In the county school, there are many children of the poor, since the rule of Guanzhong, the people are rich, many people are willing to send a son in the family to the township school, and the tuition fee charged by the township school is not high, the child has nothing to do, a family of five, in addition to the parents, if there are three children, with the current tax under the rule of my court, it can support a student to complete the county school." ” "What a deep calculation" Sima Fang looked out of the door a little distracted and muttered.
"What did father say" Sima Min looked at Sima Fang suspiciously, puzzled.
"Nothing."
Sima Fang shook his head, looked at his young son and said with a smile: "My son will go to the Tingwei Mansion, find Captain Zhuang Zhong, send this letter to him, and ask him to forward it to Your Majesty on behalf of his father." ” "Hmm" Sima Min looked at Sima Fang puzzled, looked at the night outside the door and said: "If it's late today, why don't you go again tomorrow?"
"It's a big deal, go immediately, I don't have to ask more."
Sima Fang touched Sima Min's head lovingly, with a faint reluctance in his eyes, and smiled.
"Oh" Sima Min suddenly had an indescribable sourness in his heart, looking at Sima Fang's loving eyes, for some reason, there was a sudden urge to cry in his heart, he didn't dare to disobey, took the letter, bowed to Sima Fang, and left in a hurry.
Looking at Sima Min's back, Sima Fang sighed, walked to the door, looked at the night outside the door, but his heart was not calm.
For a long time, whether it is him or Yang Xiu, or the dead Zhong Xuan, Xu You and others, they can't figure out the focus of what Liu Xie has been doing, suppressing the family, Sima Fang can understand that the Son of Heaven wants to rebuild the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, and these great families that have been formed in the past have become a boulder that presses the backbone of the Han Dynasty, if they don't move away, the backbone of the Han Dynasty will be broken sooner or later, so the family must be suppressed.
But Liu Xie runs a township school, a county school, and develops industry and commerce, although it is beneficial to the country, but no one has done it in the past, but there is a degree, not as crazy as Liu Xie, all along, Sima Fang feels that Liu Xie is young and vigorous, so he is desperate to develop these, and wants to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and Liu Xie does rely on these to do this, but if it continues, the emerging clan will inevitably be dissatisfied because of the excessive weakening of rights, if Liu Xie can unify the world before this, but if not, it will inevitably be counterattacked, Almost unbridled suppression of scholars, such a practice will only end up being a lose-lose situation.
But tonight, after a conversation with his young son, Sima Fang faintly sensed Liu Xie's intentions, his ambition was greater than that of the previous emperors, and even faintly, some like the first emperor, he wanted to reformulate the rules, and Liu Xie did more obscure than the first emperor, and did not use the tip of the knife to open the way for his own rules as domineering as the first emperor, but gradually reversed people's concepts in a way that moisturized things silently.
For example, his young son, maybe Sima Min didn't find it, but Sima Fang was keenly aware that his young son had changed a lot in his way of thinking about problems and concepts after entering the county school.
The most important thing is the account calculated by Sima Min, a family of five can easily support a scholar, in other words, reading is no longer as unattainable as before, this is the real result of Liu Xie, the scholar has lost the sacredness of the past, the existence of the family, maybe in the future, at most it is like a strong man, rich, rich, but it is difficult to be the same as before.
The era of scholars and doctors ruling the world together seems to be about to pass in the past, if someone tells him such a thing, Sima Fang will only feel ridiculous, but now, this conclusion is his own conclusion, and what is even more terrifying is that although Liu Xie has not done any radical actions, he has unconsciously crushed and reorganized the old concepts of the past from the hearts of the people.
Since when Maybe it's because of the huge financial resources, but it's not right, at the beginning, the imperial treasury was empty, and even after the death of Li Guo and the others, they couldn't even afford to raise the Xiliang army, but Liu Xie made this court rich little by little through various means, and it was not only the imperial court that became rich, but also the tens of millions of Li people under the rule of the imperial court.
Shinong Gonggong, this young son of heaven, used his not strong hands to weave a big net little by little, completely enveloping the world.
It's just that as a family of oneself, where should I go?
The cold night wind blew, and there was a faint sound of weapons colliding in the city, as well as the sound of fighting and screaming, others could betray, and even his son could betray the grassroots of the scholars, but since Yang Biao, Sima Fang, who had faintly become the leader of the scholars, could not rebel, but for the continuation of the family, he finally chose to betray.
"Your Majesty" Sima Fang closed his eyes and whimpered astringently: "The minister has been loyal to His Majesty, but at this time, it is time to give an explanation to the family." ” The night wind became more rapid, and in the air, there was a faint smell of blood, and under the night of Chang'an City, a cluster of firelight gradually illuminated a large area with this wind t1706231537: