Chapter 470

In Yong'an City, at this time, a large courtyard was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, and firecrackers were ringing. A huge object stood at the entrance of the large courtyard, covered with silk brocade. Nearby residents flocked here, and soon the nearby streets were packed to the point of not even a drop of water could trickle through.

Many scholars stood in the courtyard, curiously looking at the residents outside the courtyard, and the residents in the city were also curiously looking at them.

At this time, a signal cannon sounded, and the auspicious time had arrived.

Ji Weiwei Yuan accompanied a middle-aged scholar and arrived in the air, landing at the courtyard gate. In the crowd, Li Zhi smiled and said to Zhang Sheng beside him: "Mr. Cai has arrived."

The one Ji Weiwei Yuan accompanied was exactly Cai Shizhi; he had a refined face, looked to be in his thirties, had clear eyes, and had a calm and grand atmosphere in his every gesture.

Ji Weiwei Yuan said: "The auspicious time has arrived, please unveil, sir."

Cai Shizhi stepped aside, stood on one side of the curtain with Ji Weiwei Yuan, and pulled down the silk brocade at the same time, revealing a large stone inside, inscribed with the four large characters 'Qingming Academy'.

These four characters were vigorous and powerful, full of ancient meaning, and looking at them gave a sense of the passage of time; it was truly a rare brushwork in the world, which made Ji Weiwei Yuan have the heart to learn calligraphy again, but unfortunately, there was no shortcut to calligraphy, so he had to give up.

The stone tablet appeared, and thunderous applause instantly broke out.

For such a major event as the establishment of Qingming Academy, the cultivators of the Tai Chu Palace naturally all arrived, and Li Zhi also stood among the crowd. He was tall and handsome, with a gentle and elegant demeanor, but his eyes were like electricity, and he had a kind of domineering air, attracting people's attention no matter where he stood.

At this time, Li Zhi was telling the cultivators of the Tai Chu Palace about Cai Shizhi's life story, and then answering some questions. Compared with others, Li Zhi showed extra respect to Zhang Sheng and always answered Zhang Sheng's questions first.

After the unveiling, Cai Shizhi said loudly: "The Sage said, 'If you can renovate yourself one day, do so from day to day, yea, let there be daily renovation.' Cai brought his disciples here to open the wisdom of the people and to ensure that the Sage's teachings have successors! The Sage also said 'investigate things, extend knowledge, rectify the heart, make the intent sincere, cultivate the self, regulate the family, govern the state, and bring peace to the world.' We should start from investigating things and end at bringing peace to the world. Although this road is long, if we advance one pawn a day, the merit will not be wasted!"

After speaking a few sentences, Cai Shizhi walked into the academy and began to formally screen students.

Besides the academy, three schools were also opened in the city for literacy enlightenment. And the academy taught the Sage's teachings, which required a certain foundation of knowledge.

A roster had already been placed in front of Cai Shizhi, which contained the student candidates screened by other disciples. At this time, more than a dozen disciples were still struggling with the thick roster.

At this time, a disciple said 'eh' and said: "After flipping for so long, why haven't I seen a single scholar, nor anyone from an aristocratic family."

Ji Weiwei Yuan stood in the hall and naturally heard it clearly, saying: "Qingming is newly established, and the domain people are all migrated from various places, basically without scholars or aristocratic families."

He said this implicitly, but Cai Shizhi understood. If they weren't unable to survive, who would be willing to run thousands of miles to this border area filled with the flames of war?

Another disciple said at this time: "There are still some official families; this is not bad."

Cai Shizhi frowned slightly and said: "In teaching, there should be no distinction of classes! Have you forgotten what I usually teach you?"

Those few students were not just nodding and bowing, but said: "Aristocratic scholars, descendants of officials, these are the fastest to teach. If we pick them out and teach them first, they can go and enlighten others. This does not contradict 'in teaching, there should be no distinction of classes'."

Cai Shizhi was topped by his disciples, but he was not angry, nodded slightly, and said: "That also makes sense."

Subsequently, he said to Ji Weiwei Yuan: "The disciples are naughty, making Lord Wei see a joke." Ji Weiwei Yuan smiled and said: "Listening to both sides makes one enlightened. Sir can practice the Sage's law with your own body, truly worthy of the name of a great Confucian."

The two chatted for a while, and Ji Weiwei Yuan took the opportunity to explain to Cai Shizhi the current system of Qingming and the origin of the student candidates. With the opening of Qingming Academy and its subordinate schools, Ji Weiwei Yuan took the opportunity to add a benefit to the civilian class, which was the right to sign up for school. Below civilians, they were not allowed to enroll.

Cai Shizhi had no objection to this, but several students expressed their views, believing that the distinction was not detailed enough, and that a 'scholar' should be added between civilians and registered officials, and then an 'aristocratic family' should be added above the official status, so that it would be complete.

They were just suggestions, and Ji Weiwei Yuan just listened.

Cai Shizhi put down the list in his hand, flew into the sky with Ji Weiwei Yuan, overlooking the entire Yong'an City, and then said: "Just now I followed Lord Wei to look around in the domain, and it is indeed a thousand changes, flourishing everywhere. My learning comes from the Sage, but it is also different from the Sage. Opening the wisdom of the people is an important part of the learning I govern, and I hope to achieve something here with Lord Wei, so as not to fail my life's learning."

He suddenly sighed and said: "It's just that this road is difficult, and I don't know if it can be walked through."

Seeing that he had a desolate mood, Ji Weiwei Yuan asked for the reason.

Cai Shizhi said briefly, and Ji Weiwei Yuan understood. It turned out that the core was still what was the use of opening the wisdom of the people.

The world outside the heavens had long had a conclusion about this matter; the policy of stupid people was the source of all evil.

But it was not so simple in this world. Opening the wisdom of the people required huge consumption, but the prosperity of the human race did not depend on mortals, but was determined by high-level cultivators, or even extremely speaking, determined by immortals.

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The number of immortal lords determined how much territory the human race could occupy and how many people there could be. Below immortals, all are ants.

If calculated from the long term, the overall strength of the human race depends on the number of middle and lower-level cultivators such as Body Forging and Dao Foundation. It is also a fact that the descendants of cultivators are obviously stronger than mortals.

Cultivators and mortals can almost be said to be two species, so the laws of the nine countries of Great Tang all have clear regulations, with the Dao Foundation as the dividing line, and the rights they possess are completely different. To put it simply, if a Dao Foundation cultivator beats a mortal to death for no reason, he only needs to pay money.

Naturally, things in the world change, and there is no fixed rule. If a loose cultivator beats a rich man's stupid son to death, he will be chased to the end of the world, and the government will not be soft when arresting him. After catching him, he is often beheaded first, without the opportunity to apply the law.

Therefore, the prosperity of the human race lies in cultivation; even if a large number of mortals learn to read and write and open their wisdom, it is still useless, and they can only continue to plant those few mu of thin fields.

Precisely because of this, Cai Shizhi traveled all over the world, but it was always difficult to promote his set of claims. In the eyes of many great Confucians in the Four Sages Academy, Cai Shizhi was just a guy who wanted to take another path and was paranoid and strange. That set of opening the wisdom of the people could be seen to the end at a glance, and it was useless at all.

This was also the reason why Cai Shizhi was willing to come to this poor and remote place of war in Qingming to take charge of the academy; if it were any other place in the nine countries, he probably wouldn't even be able to enter the gate of the state governor.

Li Zhi knew that Cai Shizhi's claims had a certain resonance with Ji Weiwei Yuan, so he recommended him, and sure enough, Cai Shizhi came happily.

Cai Shizhi wanted to open the wisdom of the people, while Ji Weiwei Yuan wanted to make mortals have meaning in their birth, so the first thing must be to open the wisdom of the people, and the two happened to coincide in this regard.

(End of chapter)