Chapter 240 Taboo
Su Shi could not come to Hangzhou. Even if he came, he didn’t know it was the year of the monkey and the month of the horse. However, the construction of Su Dike was an urgent task in Wang Jinghui’s mind. In addition to being able to dredge the West Lake to make it more beautiful, the most important thing is that this lake dike is no longer named after "Su Dike", but named "Princess Dike"!
Just as Wang Jinghui and his wife were wandering among the beautiful scenery of West Lake, Li Shen wandered around Hangzhou for several days, and finally returned to Hangzhou City to officially transfer power and officially took office as the prefect of Hangzhou. What a pity Wang Jinghui is that Li Shen did not serve as the prefect of the prefecture like he was in Chuzhou, and he also had the seal of the Xiangjun. This best way to build water conservancy is to use the Xiangjun to do it, or hire local farmers to do it during the slack farming period.
However, it is obviously impossible to hire local farmers to build the lake embankment at this time. If the double-season rice is promoted here, you can have free time now. Now the local rice in Hangzhou is facing harvesting, and even if you have money, it will be useless. Wang Jinghui had no choice but to turn his attention to Kaifeng, the capital of Bian. The Song Dynasty was the most strict in mobilizing the army, and it would be a dead end if he had no orders. If Li Shen had hung the seal of the Xiang army, it would be fine to mobilize it, but at this time he wanted to seek help from Kaifeng, Bian.
In order to enable the "Princess Dike" to start construction as soon as possible, Wang Jinghui also specially used the pigeon system and used thirteen pigeons to transmit the letter "Begging for the West Lake in Hangzhou" and also raised funds to use the power of Hangzhou merchants to make preparations in advance. When the Hangzhou merchants heard that the prince consort wanted to repair the lake embankment, the name was "Princess Dike", they knew that it was built by the prince consort for the prince consort, and they were not good at water consortium and scenery, but they only knew that this lake embankment was very important in the heart of the prince consortium. They originally wanted to donate it, but Wang Jinghui did not accept it - this was what he dedicated to Qianyu, so where could others intervene in the middle?!
Wang Jinghui didn't have so many concerns about the construction of West Lake Academy. Because it was difficult to carry out construction during the busy farming period, he simply decorated the two large courtyards not far from his house. He settled the students he brought from Kaifeng Huaying Academy in Biandu first.
Then Wang Jinghui used his reputation in the Shilin to gather some famous famous scholars on the Zhejiang road to Hangzhou by sending invitations and letters. In this era, the school should be based on Confucianism. Without these great scholars to strengthen their careers, I am afraid that the college would not be very smooth. As for the academy to slowly transform, it would require long-term operation.
The news that Xiao Wang's son-in-law opened academy in West Lake, Hangzhou spread very quickly. Most famous scholars on Liangzhe Road were happy to interact after receiving the invitation letter from Wang Jinghui. Huaying Academy, Kaifeng, Biandu, was the most famous academy in the Song Dynasty. Although it was opened for a short time, it gathered the most famous scholars from the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu, a master in the literary world, even lived in Huaying Academy. Obviously, Xiao Wang's son-in-law opened academy in Hangzhou, which was actually the southern version of Huaying Academy.
However, what made Jiangnan Shilin welcomed his son-in-law Wang Jinghui also opened a medical major. For scholars who wanted to go to Kaifeng, Biandu to study medicine, this was indeed much more convenient.
Although there are many people studying medical science at Huaying Academy, it is still very insignificant compared to the number of Shilin in this era. However, even so, this provides scholars in the institute with a way to live besides taking the imperial examination.
On one side are many scholars who have no hope of imperial examinations, and on the other side are the huge demand for military doctors from the Privy Council. In Wang Jinghui's view, the best way is to open a medical school to specialize in cultivating medical talents. Although the inheritance of Chinese traditional medicine has followed the method of taking apprentices, even in China a thousand years later, at least most of Wang Jinghui's own medical skills come from family inheritance. This situation was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China that a specialized Chinese medicine college appeared and made a great improvement. However, Western medicine had long been unified by the world at that time.
Wang Jinghui naturally would not sit and watch all this happen. Compared with Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine pays more attention to overall systemicity, which has brought great trouble to the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine. Fortunately, the practical problems faced by traditional Chinese medicine that the Privy Council needs are mainly the trauma caused by battlefield fighting. Then, while cultivating military medical talents for the Privy Council, he is also imitating the operating model of the later Chinese medicine college to improve the current medical science college. If he can really embark on a better path to inherit traditional Chinese medicine knowledge, then traditional Chinese medicine will definitely be a different way with the development of time.
Wang Jinghui's visit to open a medical school can attract many people to register for study. In addition to this is a good way out, Wang Jinghui himself is one of the several doctors in the Song Dynasty. Although he has rarely taken action in recent years, he is recognized as the number one national player in the Xinglin. His apprentices Hu Quanhan and others are very famous in Kaifeng, Biandu. With such a master in charge, he is a sign himself. Therefore, once the news that Hangzhou West Lake Academy was going to open a medical college was released, scholars from all over the country who were unwilling to take the imperial examination gathered here, and within a few days he recruited more than 200 people.
While opening West Lake Academy, Wang Jinghui also did something that made everyone fall off - the first women's academy in the Song Dynasty was also born by the West Lake! Wang Jinghui's initial motive was very simple - to relieve his wife's boredom, otherwise Qian Yu could still run to Mrs. Cao when she was in Biandu, but in Hangzhou, there was no one who could talk.
It would be fine if Wang Jinghui was busy, but he would never see his wife being wronged with him. After thinking about it, he would simply build a girl's college. Qianyu grew up with her brother. Emperor Zhao Xu's teacher and colleague were Qianyu's teachers. Those people were real experts in learning. If Wang Jinghui had not come to this time and space, his memory became so perverted and crazy to study, otherwise he would feel ashamed when he saw Qianyu. It would be a pity that Qianyu could not be able to develop such a good knowledge. Just let Qianyu teach students, first, so that his wife could have something to do and not be too bored to become a "Lin Daiyu"-like character; second, Wang Jinghui was worried after he was worried.
Women in the world have become popular, and it is inevitable that their daughters or granddaughters will suffer as well. Fortunately, the "foot binding" in this era has just begun, and it is not impossible to kill them in the cradle. Start with his "West Lake Women's College" and he still has to kill them later; of course, there is a more important reason - to change the social status of women, think about even the work of pharmaceuticals is done by men. It is a bit strange in his eyes, but it is far from meeting the requirements just by introducing female workers in his industry. Only by fundamentally gradually improving the social status of women. Letting women participate in social production is the solution. He chose the social "taboos"
Letting women come to school to learn knowledge is a good start.
However, Wang Jinghui's "good start" was a bit too advanced in this era. As soon as the admission notice was released, the local stern land immediately attracted attacks. Later, the Jiangnan stern also heard about it. However, those who opposed Wang Jinghui were somewhat concerned that they were the son-in-law. Although the celebrity in front of the son today was "deposed" outside, he was the emperor's brother-in-law. It is difficult to guarantee that one day it will make a comeback. With this concern, the opposition was somewhat "good" and the voices of opposition were somewhat "good".
It wasn't as good as yelling at each other by name, but even so, Wang Jinghui felt a little pressure.
Although Wang Jinghui treated people gently, he was very persistent in his heart. In order to achieve his goal, he didn't care about fighting against Sima Guang. What's more, it was a small matter of running a "women's college"?! After encountering the opposition of Jiangnan Shilin, he simply instructed Manager Li to "borrow" the newspaper printing workshop in the branch of Hangzhou Commercial Press, and added a supplement to the "Jiangnan Edition" "Da Song Ming Mirror Newspaper" (the Jiangnan Edition is not close to Kaifeng, the content of the "Jiangnan Edition" "Da Song Ming Mirror Newspaper" is no different from the Northern Edition, and it is also a number of the same period, but there are slight differences in time), and specially published his own defense, and attached it to the "Da Song Ming Mirror Newspaper" at the "Jiangnan Edition"!
The "provocative" move of the son-in-law offended Jiangnan Shilin very much. The West Lake Academy, which had just started to run, began to get involved. The great scholars in the teachings no longer visited them in person, but instead talked in newspapers. However, their flag was naturally opposed to Wang Jinghui's establishment of the "Women's College", which made outsiders look more like "rebels in the nest", which made Wang Jinghui feel a little amused.
The counterattack of West Lake College really made Wang Jinghui feel helpless. He runs West Lake College, which almost concentrated everyone on Liangzhe Road who can count the numbers. Jiangnan has a strong style of studying, especially two of them. It can be said that West Lake College has just started to operate, but the teachers in it are the essence of Jiangnan Shilin. He was under great psychological pressure at his doorstep.
His wife Qianyu naturally knew her husband's thoughts. She knew that the biggest motivation for the son-in-law to run this women's academy was to regulate her life. Although she was very moved, she also knew that this matter was indeed a bit too out of line, so she advised her, hoping that Wang Jinghui could give in. It doesn't matter whether she could run this women's academy or not, and there was no need to offend Shilin for this.
After hearing this, Wang Jinghui smiled "hehe" and comforted his wife and said, "What is this difficulty?! If you can't even do this, you can still become the prince consort?"
Zhao Qianyu and Wang Jinghui have lived together for so long. Although they have been separated for a long time, they know their husbands very well. They know that Wang Jinghui has too many thoughts in his heart. Maybe it will make Jiangnan Shilin and Wen Yanbo unable to come to Taiwan on the issue of Dangxiang prisoners. It is difficult to turn back on what her husband decided. He smiled calmly and wanted to see what her husband had.
The next day, in the supplement to the Jiangnan edition of the Song Ming Mirror News, people not only saw opposing articles written by some celebrities in the Jiangnan Shilin, but also saw an article by Xiao Wang's son-in-law - "Filial piety for all virtues is the first"! The great scholars in West Lake Academy couldn't speak for a long time after seeing this article - the son-in-law explained from the perspective of filial piety that parents should be filial and respectful, and it is impossible to be filial to their fathers only without their mothers - why is only fathers able to receive education but mothers cannot?!
This article was written by Wang Jinghui when he began to build a Women's College and thought that he would definitely be criticized by Shilin, so he fabricated this article to refute his opponent. In the Song Dynasty, the most prosperous era of Confucianism, but Confucianism respects filial piety the most, and even the emperor is no exception. In the political circle of this era, both the Song Dynasty and its enemy countries, Liao and Xixia, had outstanding female politicians who made men very ashamed.
Wang Jinghui took advantage of the most respected filial piety of Confucianism to attack another weakness - discrimination against human nature. No one in the scholar-in-law has the courage to stand up unless he dares to say that he is not.
"This is really a bit nonsense!" Emperor Zhao Xu said in the palace, but he said this with a smile, and there were ministers next to him, so he naturally knew that the emperor was not really angry.
"Has the 'West Lake Women's College' recruited students?!" Emperor Zhao Xu asked casually.
Everyone around the emperor knew that this was not asking ministers such as Wang Anshi and Sima Guang. An eunuch beside him bowed and said, "The women's academy built by the son-in-law on the edge of the West Lake has also recruited many people. They are all the daughters of local wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou, but..."
"This son-in-law is really capable and really let him build a girl's academy. You were halfway through the words, but what?" Emperor Zhao Xu said with a smile.
The eunuch continued, "But the teacher responsible for teaching these women is the eldest princess of Shu!"
After hearing this, Emperor Zhao Xu's expression became very strange. Even after he picked up the tea cup and was about to drink a sip of tea to moisten his throat, he forgot to drink it, "There are too many things in these censors!"
As soon as these words were said, several ministers and eunuchs in the Funing Hall held back their smiles. If Emperor Zhao Xu had not been present, they would have been laughing a lot. The fact that the little prince consort favored the eldest princess of Shu Kingdom would have been no secret within the Song Dynasty's rule, and everyone was very sensible to avoid this topic.
To avoid the royal face being bad. In their opinion, Wang Jinghui opened the Women's Academy because he was afraid that the princess would be lonely. It was purely a matter between the couple. After a long time, the prince-consort would still return to Biandu, and the girl's Academy would be left alone. However, the "short eyes" of the Jiangnan Shilin could not see the trick, which made the prince-consort go off. Moreover, the move to run the women's Academy attracted Shilin to oppose the censors who were looking forward to promotion day and night saw the opportunity. He put on the seal without knowing his life and death. This was not a shame for the royal family. How could the emperor not be angry?!
The ministers in the court were the most favored by Emperor Zhao Xu, Wang Anshi and the prince-consort. Sima Guang could barely count one. Even though these three people had different political views, they all had one common characteristic - they only had one wife and didn’t even have a concubine. If Wang Anshi had not been for his son’s romantic and free manner, he would probably be the same as the other two. There would not be a singing girl at home. As for the group of prince-consort’s house with an objective number of princesses, everyone knew that it was Mrs. Cao who forced her into the prince-consort’s mansion.
As a young man, the prince-consort did not indulge in love with him, which made the royal family very satisfied. Those who knew the inside story also admired Wang Jinghui's enthusiasm. A few days ago, he submitted a memorial saying that he would build a lake embankment to dredge the West Lake. He even thought of the name - "Princess Dike". He did all this kind of thing, and setting up a women's academy to relieve the princess's boredom. That's a matter of being called a thing?!
Several officials in the Funing Palace shook their heads with a little "hateful" when they thought of this. They didn't understand whether Wang Jinghui should be smart or a pure fool, but everyone thought that the prince consort could do this. With the prince consort's talent and knowledge, they would avoid even greater disasters.
The battle between the prince-consort and the Jiangnan Shilin started quickly and ended faster. Within two or three rounds, there was no objection in the Shilin. After reading several classic debates from both sides, it made people feel that this was more like a farce. But no matter what, no matter how big the Shilin had, the West Lake Women's Academy was still making a brilliant debut. The eldest princess of Shu Kingdom Zhao Qianyu was the mountain chief and teacher of this academy, and of course there was also "half" teacher Hongyue - because she also had to take care of the little county monarch of the prince-consort and his wife.
With a teacher, there will naturally be students. With the face of the prince-consort, Hangzhou merchants sent their daughter to the West Lake Women's Academy at the first time. They did not have so many taboos. In addition to making friends with the prince-consort, they believed that the teacher was the eldest princess of Shu Kingdom, the current emperor's real sister. If such a teacher teaches his daughter, he will naturally become a lady from a wealthy family. When he gets married, he will be superior - one day as a teacher and a lifelong "mother". Half of his mother's family is the eldest princess of Shu Kingdom. With such a background, even if his husband's family is powerful, there is nothing to show off. His daughter will naturally be less angry after marrying!
In Wang Jinghui's eyes, he naturally knew very well that these Hangzhou businessmen who sent their daughter to the academy to study. However, he never expected that Qianyu would be the chief and teacher, and that there was such a benefit. After Manager Li told him privately, he almost was not choked by the tea in his mouth.
"It's good, anyway, the Women's Academy has finally been established! Recruiting female workers and allowing women to enter the academy for education, all they can do is this. This is also the bottom line that can be tolerated by society in this era. If you continue to make trouble, you may not have any good results!" Wang Jinghui thought silently in his heart.
Chapter completed!