Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 344: Growth and Development! (5.4k ha)
Why are they called the Six Sons of Su's School? On the one hand, it is naturally because they actively promoted Su's school of thought, but more importantly, the six of them were influential figures in the Imperial College.

They are the most outstanding students in both moral character and academic performance, and therefore they are qualified to be called the Six Sons of Su's School.

In fact, surrounding the Six Masters of Su's School, there were dozens of Tai students. Although those people were not as good as them, they were also very outstanding students.

Some of them have always been ranked at the top of the Imperial College and are also very outstanding.

For the six disciples of Su Shi, the imperial examination was not difficult. Obtaining the status of Jinshi was a piece of cake for them. The main difficulty lay in the ranking.

After all, no one dares to underestimate the heroes of the world, and Taixue students only account for a part of the students in the world.

Now that the Su Society had been established, the Six Masters of Su's School had a direction and were able to do things in a more organized manner.

Next, they sorted out the program of the Su Society and, after revising it dozens of times, formed a fairly complete society program.

With this program, the six disciples of Sumen took practical steps and subsequently revised the first confidentiality regulations, the first member recommendation system, the first member training system, and the first member discipline.

These things are naturally still crude, so Su Yun made some modifications. Although they are still a bit crude, he will slowly correct them later.

However, these several systems were enough to make the Su Society the most combat-effective team in the Song Dynasty. Its rigor, organization, and advancement were incomparable to those loose groups such as the Qingli Party and the Xifeng Party.

The six disciples of Sumen were naturally aware of this, and therefore they devoted themselves to this matter as their lifelong career.

The next step is to further refine Su's studies.

Su's school of thought is all-encompassing. During the period when Su Yun taught at the Imperial College, he covered a wide range of fields, giving the feeling that his works were voluminous.

This is not friendly to the development of the Su Society, so it needs to be refined to extract the core parts that are suitable for dissemination.

They planned to print this part into a booklet and distribute it among students, so as to quickly expand Su Xue's knowledge.

Then, we will select the determined, talented and ambitious young people who have the ambition to change the Song Dynasty from the supporters of Su Xue, and invite them to join the Su Xue Society to change the Song Dynasty together!

This stage is the so-called ideological enlightenment stage guided by Su Yun.

Su Yun believed that, in the current Song Dynasty, although the people were living in poverty, the officialdom was corrupt, land annexation was serious, the bureaucratic landlord groups monopolized all resources and exploited the people, and there were bandits everywhere and frequent uprisings among the people, it was still not yet at the stage where a rebellion could be successful.

This is because the people at that time were still in a state of ignorance and numbness, with their minds full of patriarchal ideas, clan concepts, religious superstitions, and small peasant thinking... If you want to mobilize them and get them to overthrow the Song Dynasty together, it would be impossible without a long process.

So Su Yun then took them to the countryside to conduct research, going deep into the rural households and the market to observe and investigate. Su Yun led them to observe and explain to them at the same time. After several months, they returned to Bianjing in the golden autumn of October.

After this trip, their perspectives have become completely different.

They found that their way of looking at things was intuitive and empirical.

Su Yun's explanation to them was scientific, rigorous, in-depth, and gentle in a cold yet gentle manner.

This was refreshing and shocking to them at the same time.

We both went to conduct research and saw the miserable lives of farmers and workers, but you were able to see and summarize such a detailed analysis, truly getting to the essence of the matter!

You sir are truly a god!

Despite their tiredness after the exam, they devoted themselves to analyzing Su Yun without sleep or food, and gained a deeper understanding of the chronic diseases of the Song Dynasty.

Su Yun did not miss such an opportunity. He came to the Imperial College every day to discuss and research with them, and both of them benefited greatly.

Especially the six Sumen disciples, they grew rapidly, absorbing the dragon-slaying skills taught by Su Yun like a sponge absorbs water.

During this process, they tried to use the recommendation system to examine the students who followed them at the Imperial College, and then conducted several rounds of trials through conversations, tests, preparations, etc., and selected twelve people from the dozens of students who followed them to join the Su Society.

Naturally, these twelve people were all people of firm conviction and outstanding talent, and most of them came from small landlords, rich peasants, etc., and there were basically no children from large families.

In fact, the situation of the Six Sons of Su was similar. Except for Bi Taihua who was born into a wealthy family, the other five were mostly from small landlords or rich peasants, especially Wang Baopu, who was born into a poor peasant family.

The development of twelve new members immediately greatly increased the strength of the Su Society, and eighteen members could do a lot more.

What they need to do now is to vigorously promote Su Xue, let Su Xue take root in people's hearts, and cultivate more supporters!
So they reorganized the theories of Su Shi and refined them to form a more inspiring theory.

The theories written by Su Yun before, such as "Collected Commentaries on the Four Books", are more academic.

It is definitely inappropriate to use academic things for promotion. After all, they are too difficult. Not to mention ordinary people, even those with less academic attainments may not understand what they are. Naturally, there is no way to attract more like-minded members.

After the first draft was completed through sorting, the eighteen people took it to student gatherings to give lectures in order to promote Su learning.

During this period, the examination results came out. All eighteen members were on the list, especially the Six Sons of Su, who were all ranked at the top. Han Youan got third place, Ping Zicheng got ninth place, and Wang Baopu was the top scorer. The rest were mostly around 30th place.

This immediately caused a sensation in the Imperial College.

Naturally, there were many students from the Imperial College who passed the examination, but the nickname of the Six Sumen was used more often. They were often together every day and asked Su Yun for advice every day, so everyone regarded them as one. Now that they all passed the examination, it naturally attracted special attention.

A good teacher will produce good students, but good students will also make the teacher more famous.

All six of his disciples passed high school, which naturally made many people think that Su Yun was excellent in teaching.

Therefore, students from all over the country who came to take the examination came to listen to Su Yun's open class at the Imperial College.

When Su Yun saw this situation, he naturally understood that this was a great opportunity for promotion, so not only did he bring out the most popular things to teach in class, but the Su Studies Society also gave away a set of introductory reading materials on Su Studies that they had compiled for free through various means.

This introductory reading contains the most popular and inspiring arguments in Su Shi's theory, which will shock people when they read it for the first time.

Once you develop an interest, the probability of being attracted to Soviet studies is very high.

As long as they are attracted by Su's learning, they will become promoters of Su's learning. Once they are exposed to Su's learning, they will naturally show off to their fellow villagers as a kind of knowledge, and Su's learning will naturally spread.

In this way, the scope of Su's learning will become wider and wider, and more and more people will identify with Su's learning, and then more like-minded people will emerge.

In the two or three months before the Spring Examination, Su Yun took the initiative to increase the number of lectures he gave at the Imperial College. Each open class would basically attract thousands of students who came to take the exam to attend.

Students preparing for examinations also consider discussing Su Shi's philosophy as a fashion. Every time they get together, there are always many people discussing Su Shi's philosophy.

The Su Society continues to participate in and even host various gatherings.

It is called a gathering, but in fact it is a Su studies seminar. People are invited to come, and then they get together to discuss these things.

Under the guidance of the Su Xue Society, in-depth discussions will naturally be carried out, allowing these students to involuntarily gain a deeper understanding of the subtleties of Su Xue.

With their promotion, Suxue became completely popular this time!

Before, some people were discussing theories such as Cheng's School and Wang's School, but after two or three months of brewing, whenever students talked about theories, they all talked about Su's School.

Everyone in Bianjing City is proud to talk about Su Shi's philosophy. If you don't understand Su Shi's philosophy, you can't even get a word in at various gatherings!

The candidates for the imperial examinations are a group that the whole society pays attention to and they are also a group that leads the fashion. They collectively pay attention to Su Shi's learning and will naturally bring it to all classes.

Teachers and students in various private schools all knew about Su's teachings.

The merchants in the market have always been the most pretentious people, and they also have to find ways to buy some information.

I originally wanted to bring it back to my study to show off, but when I took it back and flipped through it, I found it to be simple and easy to understand.

The above principles are easy to understand after reading them once, and once you understand them, they will make you think. Many principles that were confusing in the past are now mostly understandable.

How could these businessmen not be overjoyed? It was not that they did not read, but that they were either dull in talent or did not have the capital to study when they were young.

But it doesn’t mean that they don’t have a desire for knowledge, it’s just that the threshold was too high before and they couldn’t reach it.

Nowadays, there are theories that explain various principles in a way that people can understand, so naturally we should understand and learn them well.

Of course, they were not going to take the imperial examinations, but they also had a yearning for knowledge.

Of course, the most important thing is that this is good for their business!

A successful businessman in a feudal society must communicate with the ruling class of that society.

There were few people in the ruling class who were uneducated. Even the clerks had some education.

If you don't know how to be elegant when communicating with them, hehe, not only will others not do business with you, they will even look down on you!
There is a real need for this.

Driven by practical needs, they naturally read works about Su Shi's philosophy eagerly.

Start by reading specially compiled, easy-to-understand introductory textbooks. After you have finished reading these, you can start reading works such as "Collected Commentaries on the Four Books".

Hey, now that I have the foundation of introductory reading materials, I actually found that I can read. That’s interesting!

This would make it easier to create a trend. When the Spring Examination approached, people in Bianliang City, as long as they could read a few words, would try to read Su Shi's teachings. As for whether they could persist, that depended on the individual.

After all, not everyone is willing to read even novels. Even though academic materials are easy to understand, not everyone is willing to read them.

On the day before the Spring Examination, the number of members of the Su Society exceeded 100!
This speed is actually not fast. Most of the members developed here are students of Taixue. We have basically been in contact with them for two or three years. We have basically a good understanding of their backgrounds, personalities and pursuits.

Moreover, for each person to join the club, it is a very cautious matter. They have to be recommended by several people at the same time, and then go through investigations, conversations, and tests before they can enter.

After they enter, their initial authority is not high, and they have to go through a period of preparatory observation before they are allowed to join.

However, even so, Su Yun and the six disciples of the Su family were still prepared for someone to leak the information. Once they found anyone making unusual movements, or if there were signs of a government search, they would immediately move the organization underground.

As a time traveler, Su Yun naturally knew that it would be difficult for an organization like the Su Society to develop smoothly.

The scale is still small now, but once it becomes larger, it will naturally arouse the vigilance of the court, which is impossible to avoid.

Now the Su Xuehui only promotes the spread of Su learning, and its other political ideas are basically not exposed. Therefore, the court does not interfere, because this is within the normal range.

Once the Su Society began to promote its political ideas, it would naturally arouse the court's vigilance and even crackdown.

At that time, the Su Xuehui would have no choice but to go underground, and would then face direct confrontation with the imperial court.

And then, that is when you will be truly tested.

By then, many people will be arrested by the court, many people will rebel, many people will leave, and some people will even betray their comrades in order to gain merit.

However, Su Yun and Liuzi had explained this and were prepared for it.

Liuzi was even optimistic about this, and believed that this was a real test of whether the members of the Su Society had true faith. Only after such bloodshed could the true members of the Su Society stand out, and those who intended to speculate would be completely eliminated!

Amid the hustle and bustle, the spring examination of the second year of Yuanyou began.

The six disciples of the Su family and the members of the Su Society temporarily put down their work and walked into the examination room together. After three days of examinations, they came out and went back to work again.

Before the announcement of the Spring Examination results, all students would be in Bian Jing. This was the best time to publicize. If they waited until after the announcement, most of the failed students would return to their hometowns, leaving only a few successful students.

Therefore, we must take advantage of this period of time to carry out large-scale publicity. It would be best to take advantage of this time to recruit students from various places and let them go back to spread Su learning.

In order to meet this demand, the Su Xue Society absorbed a large number of test takers as preparatory members. After these people returned to their hometowns, they could organize Su Xue Society in their hometowns. In this way, Su Xue was thoroughly spread!
(End of this chapter)