"If that's all you're here to say, then just say it. It's none of my business."
Ji Jiu was dumbfounded when he saw Zhang Shou yawning and looking like he was not interested. After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said, "The tiger has no intention of hurting people, but people have the intention of hurting the tiger. Teacher, you are a gentleman, so you don't know the activities of those folk academies. In order to compete for students and become famous, they intrigue and suppress each other, and do everything they can."
"The principals and teachers of those academies have been slandering each other for years, attacking each other's character just because of their different schools of thought, hoping to become an official school. Fortunately, starting from Emperor Taizu, they didn't buy into this. Moreover, if someone was proud of his knowledge and refused to be recruited, then according to Taizu's system, his students would never be allowed to enter the government. Therefore, there are no real hermits in this dynasty."
"So, those who opened private academies and gave lectures, even if they themselves were not successful in their official careers, all wanted their students to be successful. This has indeed been the case for many years. So don't look at these four so-called great scholars who were recruited. There was only one Jinshi who served as a county magistrate for one term and then stayed at home idle. The other three were all Juren. But their students..."
“That’s a lot of Jinshi!”
Ji Jiu raised his voice again to emphasize. Seeing that Zhang Shou only showed an interested expression, he didn't know whether he really took his words seriously. He could only say with an extremely sincere attitude: "Teacher, these people don't even buy into Master Ge's words, let alone you who are young but famous? Moreover, you have been the teacher of the third and fourth princes. I am afraid that they have bad intentions!"
Zhang Shou was just pretending to be ignorant. Academic disputes have been the same since ancient times, otherwise how could there be academic cliques? And sometimes, this thing really turns into a life-and-death struggle. Not to mention the debates among the various schools of thought, and the later Confucianism's suppression of Huang-Lao and other schools, wishing to trample on them a thousand times... Anyway, in short, academic disputes in every dynasty and generation will not end in bloodshed, right
Of course, he could not and would not blame the emperor for thinking of recruiting four people from four academies to come to Beijing. If he were the emperor, he would not rely on him alone to develop various subjects. Not to mention him, even Ge Yong, the imperial teacher, was the same. If the academic cliques hoped to unify the academic world, then the higher-ups all hoped for a hundred flowers to bloom.
In this case, he should indeed be vigilant, because the phenomenon that the better the education, the worse the character is is really very common.
However, Ji Jiu only introduced three people just now, and one of them was even described as being proficient in several Western languages. Could he understand that he was a person who was proficient in multiple languages
In this world, English is still a minority language, French is not even that popular, and Spanish... Because Spain is currently being unified, but it is still a long way from achieving the achievement of the first empire on which the sun never sets, so the most popular language among the European upper class so far is probably still Latin. So the question is, what languages did that guy learn
In the Haidong Continent, Chinese has been popularized by the descendants of Taizu's fleet who drifted overseas. How could there be great scholars who are proficient in classics and learn foreign languages? This is really progressive! Are you sure it's not worn by a language genius from the Foreign Languages College