Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 132 Taixue is awesome!
I just arrived today and just handled some formalities. I took this opportunity to go out and buy some bedding and other supplies, and then went back to explain everything to Ah Hui.

He asked Ah Hui to go to the Imperial College to find him if he had anything to do, and then he returned to his dormitory in the Imperial College.

Su Yun had just finished cleaning when he heard voices of talking and laughing coming from downstairs.

Su Yun looked up and saw three or four young men at the door. When they saw Su Yun, they were also startled, and then they realized: these are the new students.

They were not too surprised, as there were quite a lot of transfer students at the Imperial College. After all, there were many children of officials, and officials were transferred frequently, coming and going.

Officials usually attach great importance to the education of their children. They take care of them when they come and take them away when they leave, and keep them by their side to watch over them.

Therefore, the number of students in the Imperial Academy has remained at more than 2,000 all year round, but not many people can study steadily in the Imperial Academy for four or five years.

Su Yun quickly introduced himself: "Hello, I'm Su Yun, a new student. We'll be classmates from now on. Please take care of me. Yes, my name is Ju Zheng, so you can all call me Ju Zheng Zheng."

The three young men also introduced themselves. One was called Feng Qian, with the courtesy name Chongzhi, one was called Xu Ning, with the courtesy name Zi'an, and the last one was called Zhou Deng, with the courtesy name Zikui.

After listening to everyone's names, Su Yun understood that Feng Qian's courtesy name was Chongzhi, which means humble and polite; Xu Ning's courtesy name means peace; Zhou Dengzhi's courtesy name means passing the imperial examination; and Zikui's courtesy name means hoping to pass the imperial examination as the first place. They all held many hopes.

Judging from their names and demeanor, these people are probably children of officials.

Su Yun had come into contact with some children of officials, such as Su Shi's sons Su Mai and Su Guo, and Zhang Dun's son Zhang Ze. They had different personalities, but overall, their basic qualities were very good.

The same was true for these three people. When they met for the first time, they were all polite. However, they then asked Su Yun indirectly about his hometown, just to find out who was behind Su Yun.

When they heard Su Yun say that he was from Meishan, they immediately thought of the Meishan Su family and the Su Shi brothers, and also of last year's Wudai Poetry Case. The faces of the three of them suddenly turned dull from their initial enthusiasm.

Su Yun was with others, so he could naturally understand the expressions of these three people, but he didn't care much.

We are just in the same dormitory. When I was in college in my previous life, I didn't have a good relationship with everyone. They were wary of me, so from now on we should just mind our own business. It's just right, I think I need to study in seclusion for a while, so it's just right for me to have some peace and quiet.

Since they were not willing to deal with him, Su Yun would not get close to them. He made his bed, picked up a bag of things and went to the Academic Affairs Office.

Su Yun found Li Liang and gave the bag to him. It was dinner time and Li Liang was the only one in the government office.

Li Liang opened it and immediately said, "How can this be so embarrassing? How can this be so embarrassing?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "They are just some local specialties brought from my hometown. They are not worth much."

Li Liang asked in surprise: "Does Meishan have dried seafood?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "I brought it from Huangzhou."

Li Liang was confused again: "Is it the Huangzhou on the Yangtze River that I know?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "Huangzhou has cargo ships traveling north and south, and Huangzhou has also built many warehouses. These things are transported from the seaside and will also be stored in Huangzhou. The inventory is quite large.

So, it’s okay to call it a specialty, right? "

Li Liang smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, but this is too expensive. I can't accept it."

Su Yun smiled and said, "You have helped me so much, and I still have something to ask you. How can I come here empty-handed?"

Li Liang said: "I am the Imperial College's academician. It is my job to guide you into school. There is no need to do this. There is no need to do this."

Li Liang pushed the bag to Su Yun, but Su Yun took it and put it under the table in Li Liang's office. Li Liang smiled helplessly and said, "You said you have something to ask me?"

Su Yun nodded and smiled, "Mr. Li, do you have the class schedule for my class?"

Li Liang was surprised and asked, "Didn't you ask your classmates?"

Su Yun smiled, and Li Liang immediately understood and comforted him: "Don't worry about it. Although you are from the prefecture and county, as long as you are talented and knowledgeable, they will look up to you in the future."

He thought that Su Yun was looked down upon by the local students of Bian Jing because he came from a county. This kind of thing happened quite often. Every year, students from counties would quarrel or fight with the native students of Bian Jing.

Su Yun didn't explain and smiled, "Thank you for troubling Mr. Li."

Li Liang waved his hand, searched the table for a while, took out a booklet and handed it to Su Yun, saying with a smile: "Here, take this."

Su Yun took it and looked at it. He saw the words "Taixuegui" written on the cover. He thought it was probably the school rules of the Imperial College, but when he opened it, it was an explanation about the credits of Imperial College students.

Su Yun was a little surprised: Are there so-called credits in the Song Dynasty?
This is too advanced.

Su Yun looked at the details carefully and found that it was indeed credits.

As mentioned before, there are outer dormitories, inner dormitories and upper dormitories in the Imperial College, and one must have good grades to be promoted step by step, and these grades are credits.

Credits naturally require passing examinations, and these examinations are divided into different types. One is a private examination, which is an examination within the Imperial College, and the other is a public examination, which is presided over by officials from the Ministry of Rites.

Both of these exams will determine whether you can be promoted to a higher dormitory, and neither can be missed.

It is roughly similar to the daily scores and exam scores in later generations.

Su Yun quickly flipped through it. The Imperial College's point system was quite complicated, a composite point system.

The entire points system is composed of monthly exam credits (i.e. private exams), quarterly calibrations, annual calibrations, and annual exam credits (public exams or upper dormitory exams).

Different scores determine different outcomes for students: direct promotion to a new dormitory, permission to retake the exam, retention, or dropping out.

Yes, if the points are not enough, you will have to repeat the year and drop out. This credit is a bit complicated, and it will take a while to finish reading it, so Su Yun put it away.

At this moment, Li Liang handed a class schedule to Su Yun and said with a smile: "Here is a copy, you can copy it, I have to keep this one too."

Su Yun quickly copied it down, and while copying he also knew what courses he was going to take.

The main courses here include classics, policy essays, poetry and prose, law, and even physical education, namely archery.

The course schedule is not very tight, but it is not easy either. At least it is impossible to go out every day.

If one adds on the preparation for monthly, quarterly, and annual examinations, the huge amount of money the court spends every year is not so easy to come by.

Since the Xining period, the food and lodging of all Taixue students, including those living outside the dormitory, have been subsidized by the court. However, what followed was a comprehensive tightening of the system. The date on the Taixue regulations that Su Yun read was the second year of Xining.

Su Yun nodded. It seemed that the teaching quality of this Imperial College should be quite good.

I think it should be so. I heard that the academicians of the Imperial College are all well-educated scholars. Even officials of the imperial court and Hanlin scholars are sometimes invited to give lectures here.

Sometimes some schools would come to the Imperial College to teach, for example, Wang Anshi had come here to talk about his new learning.

"Hmm? Mr. Li, what does the Jingyi Zhai written here mean? Is there any other Zhai?"

Su Yun pointed to what was written on the schedule: Jingyi Zhai Waishe No. 38 Zhai.

Li Liang smiled and said: "The Imperial College has two halls: "Classics" and "Governance".

The Jingyi Hall where you are studying mainly teaches classics, history and academics. The students you accept must be of good character, capable of handling important matters.
As for the students in the Zhishizhai, they focused on practical affairs. Each person was in charge of one thing and also took charge of one thing at the same time, such as governing the people to ensure their safety, training in military affairs to resist invaders, damming the fields to benefit the fields, and calculating the calendar to understand numbers.

This method of teaching was created by Mr. Anding, one of the three great masters in the early Song Dynasty, when he was a professor at Huzhou Provincial School.

During the Qingli period, Emperor Renzu ordered that it be introduced into the Imperial College, which is why the two halls of Jingyi and Zhishi were established.

Su Yun felt his eyes were opened. If he had not entered the Imperial College, he would not have known that the education in the Song Dynasty was so advanced.

Jingyi Zhai is fine, but Zhishi Zhai is a professional technical course. It is said that people did not pay much attention to technology in ancient times, but this does not seem to be the case.

After knowing this, Su Yun felt the same excitement as when he first entered college in his previous life.

However, the excitement at that time mostly came from the anticipation for my college senior, but now it is simply a sense of excitement of walking into and witnessing history.

The Jingyi Hall is fine, but Su Yun is much more interested in the Zhishi Hall.

It seems I have to find time to go to Zhishizhai to attend classes and see what they are talking about.

Su Yun and Li Liang said, "Mr. Li, do you have the class schedule for other halls?"

Li Liang laughed and said, "Do you want to attend the class for free? Ha, when I first entered the Imperial College, I also wanted to attend the class for free to learn more.

I wanted to learn martial arts, medicine, calligraphy, mathematics, and painting, but after failing several exams, I just took the courses at Jingyizhai, hehe.

Of course, if you have enough time to study, you can also pick a few things that interest you. Look at them yourself and copy the ones that interest you. "

Li Liang handed over a stack of course schedules, which indeed contained all kinds of courses from martial arts to medicine, mathematics and literature.

Wow, these things are very professional to be honest. There are several teachers for each course. Wouldn’t that mean there must be hundreds or even thousands of teachers in total?

If the Imperial College were to support so many teachers, it would cost a huge amount of money every year.

Su Yun asked this question, and Li Liang laughed and said, "How can we afford to support so many people? Apart from some fixed academic officials and professors, most of the lecturers are part-time, and most of them work in the court.

For example, many lecturers of medical courses were hired part-time from the Imperial Medical Service, and the Imperial Society provided some subsidies.

For example, martial arts were invited from the Privy Council, the Three Yamen, and the Ministry of War, and they also just needed to be given some subsidies.

Most of the mathematics comes from the three ministries, and there are many more in calligraphy. The officials invited are all famous for their calligraphy, not limited to those government offices or something like that. "

After listening to Li Liang's story, Su Yun had a basic understanding of the Imperial College. This Imperial College received much more support than Tsinghua University and Peking University in later generations.

There may be some officials from Tsinghua University and Peking University who give lectures there, but it is not a normal practice.

But this Imperial Academy has almost all the officials in the imperial court as their teaching staff. As long as they start a course, they can find the right people to teach. Isn’t that awesome?
It is no wonder that many children of officials who were Jinshi graduates came here to study. Besides being another way to become an official besides being Jinshi graduates, there is also the resource of classmates.

Another attractive thing is that here you can meet many officials from the court as teachers. Where can you find such an opportunity to expand your network?

interesting.

The more Su Yun learned about the Imperial Academy, the more interested he became.

If I were to sum up Taixue in two words, it would be “awesome!”
From Li Liang’s introduction and the courses, we can see that the Imperial Academy may not have trained many prime ministers, but it definitely trained many technical talents that the Song Dynasty urgently needed.

For example, military talents, medical talents, water conservancy experts, agricultural experts, etc. These talents are the backbone of promoting social progress!

These water conservancy experts, agricultural experts, etc. are the talents most needed in each state and county. They are the backbone of the Song Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)