Chapter 279 The Emperor's Night Visit
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In the following days, Zhang Chao's daily life was relatively fixed. He woke up in the morning and practiced guns and riding with his father, and then went to Chongwen Hall.
A large number of famous scholars gathered in Chongwenguan. Zhang Chao formulated a detailed plan for compiling primary school textbooks for them. They wrote them according to his requirements. Then Zhang Chao took Ma Zhou and Cen Wenben as his assistants to conduct the final review.
Chinese, mathematics, history
One course, six grades and twelve semesters textbooks, this is a complete set of textbooks. The workload is actually very large, but fortunately there are many people and the progress is smooth. Before the new textbook is completed, students in the sixth grade of elementary school still asked them to read some original books, such as reading the Three-character Classics and Thousand-character Classics in the first grade, and those who are senior primary school asked them to read the Analects of Confucius and the Book of Songs.
In the evening, after Zhang Chao returned home, Lu Deming and Kong Yingda from Fangli Imperial College would come to the Zhang family and compile dictionary with Zhang Chao. Every day, Ma Zhou and Cen Wenben also came over to work overtime.
Zhang Chao later pulled Wei Zheng over, while Kong Yingda and the others also pulled Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui over. These two were Kong Yingda and his colleagues in the Qinwang Mansion Literature Museum, and happened to be next to Zhang Chao.
Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou and Cen Wenben were all very excited about writing this dictionary.
The eight people had to edit books until late every day. The dictionary has a lot of content and the project volume is larger. Fortunately, Kong Yingda and Lu Deming are both doctoral students from Imperial College. They have brought a large group of students from Imperial College, most of whom are children of common people. These people are very active in participating in editing books.
Zhang Chaoba is responsible for the framework, and these students are responsible for the filling.
It was like a professor who led the students to do the topic, divided the students into many groups and then gave each group tasks, and the progress was very fast.
What’s more interesting is that at the beginning, only Zhang Chao and the others were compiling this dictionary with a group of students, but later, the bachelors from Chongwenguan found out and all took the initiative to ask to participate in the compilation.
Kong Yingda and Lu Deming also kidnapped from the Qin King's Bachelor's Mansion from time to time. In the end, the 18th Bachelor's Mansion and the 36th Bachelor's Mansion of Chongwenguan participated in the compilation of Zhang Chao's dictionary.
Although people like Li Gang, Pei Shiju, and Zheng Shanguo are older and have very busy affairs, they only come here once or twice occasionally, this is already a very amazing thing.
At night, in the Zhang Xueshu's Mansion in Wubenfang, there were bright lights. Dozens of famous scholars with bachelor's ranks gathered in the hall, and two or three hundred students followed.
Every night, it's very late.
Fortunately, these bachelors are all officials and have high identities. They will not make things difficult for the Wuhou to come home after work in the middle of the night. Later, Li Jiancheng even issued the crown prince order himself and gave these bachelors a token so that they could pass through the neighborhood at night.
Even the emperor knew about the Zhang family's liveliness.
The prince Li Jiancheng even came here in person one night. Li Jiancheng admired Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Du Yan and other scholars of the Qin Palace, and revealed in the Zhang family that he wanted to recruit them.
Unfortunately, Fang Xuanling and the others just replied.
The 18th Bachelor of Qin Palace and the 36th Bachelor of Chongwen Hall are not all here every day, but basically some people come on both sides every day, and the eight Zhang Chao and the others are even here every day.
Zhang Chao gave this dictionary a name, Wude Dictionary, which was considered a flattery in the court and a gift project to the court. He became the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief himself, and then asked Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Kong Yingda to be the deputy editor-in-chief, and the other bachelors also named editors. As for those students, they were not qualified to be named.
Then one night, Li Yuan actually brought Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Feng Deyi, and Yang Gongren to a group of prime ministers in private visits.
Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, Chai Shao, Qin Qiong and other sons-in-law were also accompanied.
Although there was no emperor's ceremony, there were still a large group of guards.
The emperor suddenly arrived at Zhang Chao's house, which surprised Zhang Chao very much. However, Li Yuan looked very casual. He first looked at the dictionary compiled by Zhang Chao and the others, and then asked Zhang Chao to speak.
Li Yuan was quite kind to Zhang Chao, and even pulled Zhang Chao's hand, patted him on the shoulder, and let him sit next to him. Zhang Chao was a little confused at the time, although he remembered that Li Yuan was actually a relaxed person who was an emperor, and he didn't believe the words Li Shimin made.
However, in the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, heroes competed for hegemony, and Li Mi, Wagang and King Shichong of Luoyang fought hard, and the other places were fighting against each other. Only Li Yuan, who started a war, actually took a very late time to attack Guanzhong and seize Chang'an. Then he came from behind, and the army came out everywhere, and the battle was invincible.
In Zhang Chao's impression, before Li Yuan started the army, he was always a person who knew how to keep a low profile and was very low-key. Even when Yang Guang was about to die, he refused to raise an army immediately. Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were so anxious that he was amazing.
After Li Yuan raised his army, he kept granting titles and gaining titles, flattering Li Mi, borrowing troops from the Turkic alliance, and winning over the officials and nobles of the Sui Dynasty and awarding countless titles of honor.
It feels that Li Yuan is the most relaxing person to be an emperor, but Zhang Chao thinks that Li Yuan is definitely not relying on his own son to become an emperor. It can only be said that Li Yuan is actually the kind of smiling tiger character. He always looks harmless, but he is actually quite smart and capable of calculating, just like his uncle Yang Jian, who Li Yuan has always admired.
Awesome wrists.
Zhang Chao looked at Li Yuan secretly and found that Li Yuan was actually pretty good. Although he was almost sixty years old, he was very energetic and had a little bit of beard.
The dough is a little wrinkled, no wonder Yang Guang once called Grandma Li Yuan's noodles before.
There is a legend that Li Yuan has three breasts, but unfortunately Zhang Chao can't see it.
Li Yuan held Zhang Chao's hand and smiled and said that Qin Qiong was his son-in-law, and Zhang Chao was Qin Qiong's adopted son, so he was his grandson. These words surprised the prime ministers and scholars standing beside him.
Although Li Yuan’s confidant officials like Pei Ji have been following Li Yuan for many years and knowing how Li Yuan acts, they know that his best attitude is to win over high gifts and rewards. But it is still a bit surprising to say such words.
Li Yuan asked Zhang Chao some things and answered honestly. Among them, there were things about printing and editing books. Li Yuan stroked Hu and said, "Young and promising!"
Then suddenly, Wen Daya, the Huangmen Minister, was asked to draft an order.
Zhang Chao was named the founding prince of Wu'an County, and the actual 150 households were added, and the first 100 households were named. Zhang Chao was also appointed as the Grand Secretary of Chongwenguan and the Bachelor of Hanlin Academy.
There was no Hanlin Academy at this time.
Today, Li Yuan set up a new Hanlin Academy, and then awarded the title of Hanlin Academy Bachelor of Chongwenguan in the East Palace and the Bachelor of Literature in the Tiance Palace.
The bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is not a formal official, but is equivalent to a plus-title, and the Hanlin Academy each depends on the rank of the official.
For these bachelors, they can receive an extra salary, and they don’t need to go to the Hanlin Bachelor’s Academy to work as a job. There is no difference. The Hanlin Bachelors say it’s good to be an emperor’s consultant, but in fact they are just a bonus title.
Zhang Chao didn't know why Li Yuan suddenly set up a Hanlin Bachelor's Academy and then brought all the bachelor's students recruited by his two sons.
Bachelor of Hanlin Academy, Grand Secretary of Chongwenguan, Prince Xima, Deputy Director of Chongwenguan, and Zhang Chao, Wu'an Bo.
The name also has a string of titles, and can receive several salary. He also added fiefs of fiefs and a hundred households.
Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin didn't say anything about the emperor's open poaching behavior. Anyway, the emperor only added the title of Hanlin Bachelor's degree to their bachelor's degree, and did not disband their Literature Museum and Chongwen Museum, nor did he transfer people away.
I heard that Zhang Chao and the others had named the Wude Dictionary. Li Yuan was very satisfied and laughed loudly. His face was more wrinkles, and he really looked like an old lady.
After compiling a dictionary, it was compiled into Grand Secretary and Wu Anbo, which made the other scholars in the hall envious. Although the titles of the Tang Dynasty were not very valuable, unless they were the prime ministers and officials of the court, it would be difficult to be granted titles by civil servants. Generally, it is okay for the prime minister to be granted a duke, but if these scholars who were still in the Qin Palace and the East Palace came, most of them did not even have a baron.
However, Zhang Chao suddenly rose from viscount to earl.
Zhang Chao himself was also a little surprised by this sudden promotion.
What surprised Zhang Chao even more was that after Li Yuan asked about the benefits of the carved plate, he did not say that he would ask Zhang Chao to offer it. Instead, he told Pei Ji that the court would withdraw money and then build the Hanlin Academy.
Li Yuan means that the Hanlin Academy will be like the current bachelors in the Zhang family. It is the place where these bachelors organize and annotate the meaning of the scriptures and compile books. Li Yuan asked Zhang Chao and others to go to the Hanlin Academy to edit books. After compiling the dictionary, they can also organize the Nine Classics and compile a set of official annotations for the Tang Dynasty.
"In the future, the task of revising national history will be handed over to the Hanlin Academy, including the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Liang Dynasty, the Southern Chen, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty, and the Northern Dynasty. There are no official history yet, so this task will be handed over to you Hanlin Bachelors."
This is the task Li Yuan gave Zhang Chao and others to compile a set of classics in the official annotation version of the Tang Dynasty, and to compile history for those dynasties that had not yet been reviewed during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The classics used in the Tang Dynasty are the Nine Classics, so they had to compile a set of Nine Classics annotations or the Nine Classics Justice.
The task of compiling history was even heavier. From the Jin to the Sui Dynasty, there were six dynasties that needed to be compiled. In addition, one history was specially compiled for each of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. This was equivalent to having to compile eight historical books. Although it took only a few hundred years from Jin to Sui Dynasty to add up, the more this was the more difficult it was to compile this historical book.
However, all the people who were able to write history for the official dynasty were all civil officials who were famous and had high official positions. It was still very happy that these new Hanlin scholars could get the task of annotating classics and editing national history.
"Wen Yuan, the set of Zizhi Tongjian you compiled is very good. The prince showed me the book, and it was very well written. You have to continue writing it. There are records of the Grand Historian in the Han Dynasty, and my Tang Dynasty has your Zizhi Tongjian! Every time you write a new chapter in the future, you must send me one first."
"I have also heard of the primary school textbook compiled by Chongwenguan now. I have a good idea and compile it well. After it is compiled, I will also send a copy for me to watch. If it is well written, I will publish it all over the country and let students from all over the country use it as a textbook."
Zhang Chao felt that he was going to post it!
Chapter completed!