"Is Shiyuan really going to become an official?"

"Yes, the emperor's pursuit is a good opportunity for him to show his ambitions."

"He went to be an official with such a bad temper, and he didn't know how many people he offended... is he still unwilling to accept it?"

"How could Shi Yuan be willing?"

In the study, Liu Xuan was talking to his visiting friend Wang Xiaoji. Wang Xiaoji was from Pingyuan. When he was young, he liked literature, read a lot of books, and studied the Five Classics. He was like-minded friends with Liu Xuan.

He is also a person who is unsatisfied in his career and is depressed and unsuccessful in the officialdom.

At this moment, the topic they talked about was about Liu Zhuo and Liu Shiyuan's enlistment for the emperor. The emperor is now in Xiyang, and the famous scholar of the Enlistment of Confucianism "Two Lius" became an official. Liu Xuan politely declined and Liu Zhuo accepted it.

Liu Zhuo was appointed as the Grand Historian by the emperor and was responsible for compiling the new calendar. As a classmate and friend, Liu Xuan could understand the other party's eagerness to become an official because it was Liu Zhuo's ambition to compile an unprecedentedly accurate calendar.

The Zhou Kingdom has implemented two calendars so far. The first calendar is the "Tianhe Calendar" compiled by Zhen Luan during the Tianhe period, and the second calendar is the "Elephant Calendar" compiled by Ma Xian during the Elephant period.

The "Elephant Calendar" is also known as the "Bingyin Yuan Calendar". It has been ten years since the implementation of the first year of the Elephant. From a purely academic perspective, Liu Zhuo, who is proficient in astronomical calendars, is absolutely sure to formulate a calendar that is more accurate than the "Elephant Calendar".

This is also the new calendar that the emperor wanted to distinguish between the pseudo-emperor and the court in Yecheng. Therefore, in the face of the emperor's personal recruitment, Liu Zhuo did not hesitate to go to office and seize this rare opportunity, because if he missed it, he would really regret it.

For this reason, Liu Zhuo would rather leave Xiyang than do his best for his ambitions. Liu Xuan decided to stay and preside over the provincial school. One of the considerations was to make friends worry-free.

Liu Zhuo made an indelible contribution to the current situation in Huangzhou. He was the founder of academics. It was Liu Xuan who came to Xiyang to settle down at the invitation of Liu Zhuo that changed his embarrassing life.

Wang Xiaoji also came to Xiyang at the invitation of Liu Xuan, and was also like a fish in water. Many well-known scholars came to Xiyang at the invitation of Liu Zhuo. It was these well-educated scholars that made Huangzhou Prefecture School more and more attractive and famous.

Now that Liu Zhuo, the founder, wants to leave Huangzhou, does not mean that he just let go. But after all, he is not in Xiyang and has many inconveniences in his actions, so someone needs to take the empty space above him.

Liu Xuan and Liu Zhuo were called "Two Lius". They debated with others in the academic field they were good at. With a few exceptions, no one in the world was an opponent. No one had any objection to Liu Xuan's position as Liu Zhuo.

Liu Xuan understood Liu Zhuo's choice and knew that Liu Zhuo was determined to make the new calendar he compiled favored and implemented by the court. He was also full of confidence in this new calendar and felt that once it was implemented, it would be the most accurate calendar since ancient times.

The so-called calendar is a method of calculating years, months, and days and making them correspond to related astronomical phenomena. It requires coordination of years, calendar months, calendar days, and year-on-year periods, and the compiler needs to have rich knowledge of astronomy and calendar, and the arithmetic ability must never be weak.

How to weigh the accuracy of a calendar? See how well it matches the actual astronomical phenomena when it runs.

During the Jin Dynasty, the Yongjia Rebellion, the clothes and clothes flew south, and the world was confronted and quarreled for hundreds of years. During the Liu Song Dynasty, the 20th year of Yuanjia, He Chengtian formulated the Yuanjia Calendar, which was fifty months earlier than the actual astronomical phenomena.

In the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty of the Liu Song Dynasty, Zu Chongzhi created the "Da Ming Calendar", also known as the "Jiazi Yuan Calendar", which was twenty-nine minutes behind the actual celestial phenomena. The "Da Ming Calendar" was then used by various dynasties in the Southern Dynasty. Now the calendar used by the State of Chen is the "Da Ming Calendar".

In the Northern Dynasties, in the second year of Zhengguang in the Wei Dynasty, Li Yexing formulated the "Zhengguang Calendar", which was thirteen months earlier than the actual astronomical phenomena.

Nearly twenty years later, in the second year of Xinghe in the Wei Dynasty, Li Yexing produced the "Xinghe Calendar", which was ninety-nine minutes earlier than the actual astronomical phenomena.

During the Tianbao period of Gao Qi, Song Jingye formulated the "Tianbao Li", which was one day and eighty-seven minutes behind the actual celestial phenomena.

At the same time, the "Tianhe Calendar" compiled by Zhen Luan of Zhou State was 40 minutes earlier than the actual celestial phenomena; Ma Xian's "Elephant Calendar" was ten minutes behind the actual celestial phenomena. The calendar implemented by Zhou State is now the "Elephant Calendar".

The calendar compiled by Liu Zhuo cannot be completed on a whim. It was compiled based on more than 20 years of astronomical observation. Liu Xuan repeatedly calculated and came to a conclusion:

This calendar will probably lag behind the actual astronomical phenomena for seven to eight minutes, which is higher than the accuracy of "Elephant Calendar".

This is an amazing precision, so if this calendar can be adopted and implemented by the court, Liu Zhuo's ambition can be realized.

For scholars, it is a great honor to be recognized and announced to the world by their own efforts. Liu Xuan can understand that in order to realize his ambition, Liu Zhuo was recruited by the emperor to leave Huangzhou to be the Grand Historian.

Classmates and friends are about to realize their lifelong ambitions, but what about their own ambitions?

Liu Xuan, Hejian, learned the classics of the North and South, and was well-versed in modern literature and classics. His ambition was to learn and become an official, study history books, and determine the five rituals, so as to remove the false and preserve the truth of the ancient literature and classics.

He wrote books and introduced them to official schools, allowing students all over the world to read his books.

This is Liu Xuan's ambition, but he was crushed by the ruthless reality. He was knowledgeable and could not compete with a noble family. Scholars from powerful families, even if the other party's knowledge is not as high as his, they can still be ranked among the top-notch.

The other party ignored the suggestion he made. He argued with reason, but in return he sneered. In the eyes of the superiors, Liu Xuan was just a corrupt scholar who was an exaggerated person. He was not very useful except to decorate his appearance.

And now, the King of Xiyang has given him a new ambition, which is not his own.

Next to the eternal lamp, Wang Xiaoji took out a thick manuscript with long and long comments written on it. At the same time, Liu Xuan also took out a thick manuscript, which was also full of handwriting.

On the desk in front of Liu Xuan, there was a thick book with clear contents and printed books. Wang Xiaoji also had one of the same book, and the six words "Teaching Outline (Draft)" on the cover were particularly conspicuous.

The two exchanged their own manuscripts, and then started to discuss the "Teaching Outline (Draft)" they were in their hands.

How can an ignorant child become a well-educated person? This is a problem that teachers must face, and the "Teaching Outline" is an outline to guide teachers' teaching.

King Xiyang said this, but this "Teaching Outline" requires great scholars like Liu Xuan to organize scholars to study and discuss, and finally set the items.

The "Teaching Outline" is a teaching outline that guides various subjects, mainly including teaching purposes, requirements, content and the "learning hours" required step by step. It is like a "teaching plan", which stipulates the teaching content of a subject in the form of an outline.

Such a teaching syllabus must include all the textbooks involved. Once it is finalized and implemented in official schools, the content of all textbooks used in official schools in the world will be unified.

Taking the annotation of "Zuo Zhuan" as an example, the annotation version of "Zuo Zhuan" stipulated in the teaching syllabus is regarded as the original in official schools, while other versions are fakes, and the views in the book will never be adopted!

As a teacher, in accordance with the requirements of the "Teaching Outline", he will enlighten a young child, teach and teach him step by step. Fourteen years later, this grown-up child will have the ability to study in the Imperial Academy.

The King of Xiyang wanted to innovate the education system of the official school. The "Teaching Outline" he envisioned initially set a fourteen-year study time, including six years of elementary school to solve the problem of "literacy rate" and four years of "county/county school", allowing students to get started and four years of state school, so that students can have the ability to be admitted to the Imperial Academy.

In other words, students who "graduate" in state schools can get the opportunity to enter the government by taking the exam, and the content of the exam is all "knowledge points" in the "Teaching Syllabus".

This is an unprecedented system of official education and an unprecedented system of talent selection. After listening to the conception of King Xiyang, Liu Xuan was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night. He knew that once this conception became a reality, it would mean the end of an era.

A noble family, known for his family's classics, monopolizes knowledge. Even if the children of a noble family are unsuccessful, they can easily become officials when they were teenagers by relying on the ranks of the ranks. Even if the poor scholars are well-educated, they may have to wait for most of their lives to be recruited and recommended.

If the idea of ​​King Xiyang becomes reality, then scholars who have formulated this "Teaching Outline" and participated in the establishment of the new education system and talent selection system will be recorded in history!
Chapter completed!