"This Imperial College is so big!"

"That's right, it can accommodate five or six thousand tribute students to take the exam at the same time, and it's more than enough. Can it be small?"

"It's still small, so there should be a bigger one. At least 6,000 Tai students, martial students, and various subjects studying in it."

"6,000 people? More than twice as many as now... Dalang, is this what the official family means?"

"Officials naturally want to revive the official school..."

Just when five or six thousand tribute students were busy taking the imperial examination, Wu Haogu rode a horse and circled around the Imperial College with Mi Fu. He was also discussing the expansion of Imperial College. In fact, Wu Haogu was thinking about the demolition of Imperial College.

Well, he was taking the Jinshi exam, but he wanted to remove the examination room and sell it for money... He was really a profitable businessman!

However, there must be a better excuse to demolish the Imperial College. It cannot be said that the Imperial College will be demolished and sold the land for the emperor to use the money to build the palace. Should I say that, Wu Haogu must be ruined.

The reason Wu Haogu could think of was that the Imperial College was too small to accommodate so many students. In his impression, the Imperial College was indeed expanded in the Huizong Dynasty, and a foreign school called Biyong was built on the original basis (Piyong was the official school of the Zhou emperor, a school used to teach the Six Arts). The number of Tai students also increased from the original 2,400 to 3,800. If I would add the Imperial College, martial arts, elementary school, calligraphy, painting, etc., maybe there would be five or six thousand.

So many students can almost be equivalent to a larger university in later generations. It also includes some martial arts students who theoretically want to learn riding and archery. It is indeed a bit unavailable to expand the south wing of Kaifeng Prefecture. It is very ideal to go to the west of the city to find a spacious place and build a large college.

The reason why he told Mi Fu about this was because he knew that Mi Fu would not have to take care of calligraphy (historical) soon, and maybe he would have managed it even more. After all, in this time and space, Mi Fu's son Mi Youren was also the confidant of Song Huizong.

Maybe Song Huizong would promote his confidant father to be an Imperial College (the second-in-command of the Imperial College), or something else. It would be much easier to demolish the Imperial College at that time.

However, Mi Fu was still a little suspicious about Xingxue, "Xingxue is Wang Anshi's way!"

Of course, Wang Anshi's promotion of learning was a sin! People in later generations often ignored this point, but in the late Northern Song Dynasty, many people opposed the promotion of learning.

Among the new policies implemented by Wang Anshi, the worst is "promoting official schools".

Of course, everyone's objection is not because of the poor school management, but because Wang Anshi's line is very bad. Official schools are actually "taking officials as teachers". If you teach practical skills, such as military, engineering, economic, and legal aspects, there is nothing wrong with it. However, Wang Anshixing's official schools do not teach practical studies, but for "one morality", that is, unifying the whole world is thought.

Well, there is nothing wrong with unifying the thinking. In fact, everyone's thoughts are quite unified, they are all Confucian. Can you read Jesus Christ with the Five Confucian classics? But Wang Anshi still has to write about interpreting Confucian classics, completely unifying the standards, and denying the research results of Confucian classics since the Han and Tang Dynasties must be based on his standards.

This is quite annoying... Wang Anshi is not a saint, so who can convince who? Moreover, "one morality" is a very constraining thoughts. Later, Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism and eight-legged articles also had similar ways, and they both had to control the interpretation of Confucian classics.

In this way, Confucianism cannot improve. As a very ancient philosophical idea, Confucianism has Confucian classics as a framework. If we want to make progress in later generations, we must break through this framework. To break through, we can only work hard on explanation.

If the right to explain is relaxed, Wu Haogu can randomly explain the Confucianism of "the republic of the void king"! But Wang Anshi does not allow such a blind explanation.

But once later generations have no right to interpret, Confucianism cannot keep pace with the times, people's thoughts will be imprisoned, and Confucianism will die.

Therefore, Wang Anshi's "promoting official schools" and "one morality" were very disgusted by people in the late Northern Song Dynasty. In later generations, everyone learned the Four Books and Five Classics that were criticized by Zhu and made eight-legged articles, so naturally they didn't think that "one morality" was wrong, so there were not many people criticizing "one morality".

In other words, most of the Song Confucians that Wu Haogu met now have active thinking, far from being corrupt scholars later.

Wu Haogu also knew the future "death of Confucianism". However, now, Confucianism has not yet died, and there is still a rescue. Wu Haogu does not want Confucianism to die.

"There is nothing wrong with promoting academic studies," said Wu Haogu, "It is a morality that is wrong."

"What a good thing?" Mi Fu was stunned and turned his head to look at Wu Haogu, "Do you think there is a bad morality?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Mr. Haiyue, I am also a Confucian scholar who is familiar with the Five Classics. How could I think that one morality is right?

In fact, Wang Jinggong's idea of ​​promoting the Imperial Academy is also worthy. Nowadays, many officials are poor in their abilities. It is good to have more than 500 good men with Jinshi on the list. It is good to have fifty people who can do things. It is actually good to use the Imperial Academy to teach people to be officials and do things... It is just that the Imperial Academy does not teach practical learning at all, and it is still Confucian classics and writing articles, which is a bit bad."

A person who didn’t even pass the Jinshi was actually commenting on the Imperial Academy!

After hearing Wu Haogu's words, Mi Fu could only shake his head, but he couldn't "teach" Wu Haogu, because although Wu Haogu was a different age than him, he was his son Mi Youren's painting teacher.

"Chongdao, who do you think will rank first in this subject?"

When Wu Haogu heard that Mi Fu changed the subject, he knew that even Mi Fu could not accept his thoughts, but this was normal, and he still didn't have enough weight! Fortunately, it's still early, and there's still time.

Wu Haogu thought about it and said, "Li Yuanliang, Jian'an Fan Huishu, Fuqing Linshu, and Pingjiang Ji Yizhi should all be expected to be ranked first."

"Where is brother Ling?" Mi Fu said, "His article is very good. He is also a little famous in the Imperial Academy. And he is your brother. Maybe he will win the world champion, right?"

"Go to the top scorer?"

Mi Fu's words were actually half-joking, but Wu Haogu thought about it seriously and nodded and said, "It's not certain. If he did well in the Ministry of Rites exam, it would be possible that he was named the top scorer in the palace exam."

The first name of the Ministry of Rites Examination is "Shangyuan", which is actually the most valuable. Because "Shangyuan" was taken out when the name was copied and the real skills were more. The top scholar was chosen by the emperor, who was the first, but Zhao Ji was not meant to be the first?

Wu Haowen is not only the emperor's number one confidant Wu Haogu's younger brother, but also the son-in-law of future Prime Minister Han Zhongyan. Isn't everyone happy to be the top scholar for him?

"Chongdao, where are you?" Mi Fu then asked, "Your brother has passed the exam, so you should have some Confucianism, right? You can also get a Jinshi for the next exam."

"Me?" Wu Haogu smiled bitterly, "My knowledge is not good."

Mi Fu shook his head and said, "If you don't have it, just study. Didn't you ask Brother Yin to help you find a teacher? Now there is a good candidate, do you want to learn?"

Wu Haogu has now decided to take the Wu Jinshi exam, but he still asked: "Who is that sir?"

Mi Fu said: "Su Dongpo."

"who?"

Mi Fu glared at him, "Su Dongpo, don't you know who it is? Your Christie's store has sold many copybooks."

"I know..." Wu Haogu was stunned again and again.

"He will be going to Haizhou soon, and it will probably not take long to return to Beijing." Mi Fu said, "I am close friends with Su Dongpo. Why not just recommend you to be a disciple of Dongpo?"

Disciple Dongpo...sounds good!

Wu Haogu planned that those who are linked to Su Dongpo these days are valuable, such as Dongpo pork, Dongpo hat, and Dongpo toothpaste. Now he has become his disciple of Dongpo!

By the way, I plan to run an education!

In terms of running schools, the signatures of the official businessmen, the lucky ones, and the military officers are probably not as good as Su Dongpo? Is it a way to get Su Dongpo named... Dongpo Academy! It sounds very powerful!

"Okay!" Wu Haogu clapped his hands, "Mr. Haiyue, that's a blessing."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Mi Fu smiled, "Speaking of this, Su Dongpo might have returned to Haizhou so early, but you advocated it in front of the official family. He really owe you a favor and will accept you as a student no matter how hard he does."

...

At this time, Wu Haowen has read the test paper he has prepared three times from beginning to end. The thirty sutras were answered in a proper manner, and there was also a "theory" and a "countermeasure", which were also well written, which made people feel refreshed when reading it. In addition, Wu Haowen also confirmed that there were no wrong words or missing words on his test paper, and there were no taboos.

He raised his head and looked at the sky outside the window. It was just afternoon. In just two or three hours, he had already finished all the answers.

He picked up the paper and handed it to a stinger who walked towards him quickly, and replied with a confident smile: "I'm working."

"I dare not, I dare not." Xiao Li is a member of the Imperial Academy, so he recognized Wu and good at writing. He knew that this person must pass the exam today, so he hurriedly put away the paper carefully and turned around and left.

After coming out of the Imperial College, Wu Haowen found that there were already many tribute students who had submitted their papers outside the door. Most of them looked happy and obviously did a good job in the exam.

It is naturally good for those who handed in the paper early. Those who can’t get through the exam are now in a hurry in the exam room!

Ji Yi and Mi Youren have also come out and are bragging with a group of candidates. Mi Youren's eyes are sharp and he suddenly sees Wu Haowen. He then shouted from afar: "Brother Wu, have you come out too? How are you doing in the exam?"

Wu Haowen was full of energy and replied loudly: "I will definitely win the exam today!"
Chapter completed!