Chapter 457
When Li Linfei entered the academy, all the students froze in their tracks and stood up to salute, many of them were sons of local families.
Li Linfei often appeared in public appearances, so they all knew what Li Linfei looked like, and never expected that the Lord Taishou would come with them to listen to a lesson.
Li Linfei, Li Yun, the Imperial Governor of Huiji, was a myth in the hearts of many families, and his literary skills were ranked among the entire scholarly circle.
If he had not been younger and had not published any books, and the ones that had been circulated in the past were mainly poetry and fiction, he would have become a great scholar no less than Cai Yong.
But even so, Li Linfei became a leader of the younger generation in the literary world.
What is even more terrifying is that not only was Li Linfei's talent top-notch, but his martial arts skills were also very high. That day when the Shan Yue people surrounded Shan Yin County, it was he who single-handedly broke into the midst of ten thousand soldiers and took the enemy general's rank, thus saving the city from a military chaos.
That day, Li Linfei's image as a god had already penetrated the hearts of the people of Huiji, and he had become an idol in the hearts of the young people, a child of other families in the mouths of their parents.
Guo Jia was also studying at the Huaiji Academy, as previously agreed, although he had a post on Li Linfei's side, but in order for this ghostly genius to grow better, Xi Zhicai had arranged for him to have a number of capable deputies, which made Guo Jia's work incredibly easy and gave him time to come to Cai Yong's side to pursue his studies.
Li Linfei saw Guo Jia at a glance, and after asking the students to excuse themselves, he went straight to Guo Jia and sat down to listen. The sons and daughters at the side all looked at Guo Jia with envious eyes.
As Guo Jia's classmates, they naturally knew that he had a "part-time job" in the Imperial Guard's office, which was already a very important official in the area.
Guo Jia was a little too young to be taken seriously by anyone except the few people in the Imperial Household who knew of his talent.
Even the heads of the various families thought that the boy had been lucky and had climbed up the tree of Li Linfei to reach such a big official position, so naturally many people were not convinced and the young handsome men from the local families wanted to compete with Guo Jia and thus get into Li Linfei's eyes.
When word spread that Guo Jia was coming to study at the Huizi Academy, many people were excited, and those who wanted to compete with Guo Jia but had no chance did so with fists in the air.
Guo Jia was still young enough to take on the challenge, and he did not give in to the challenge and took them all on.
After Li Linfei sat down, Cai Yong continued his lecture, and after a quarter of an hour, Li Linfei couldn't take it anymore, because Cai Yong's class was boring.
Although Li Linfei had studied poetry in college and was interested in ancient literature, he was not interested in listening to the Analects of Confucius and Zuo Zhuan, and he even felt the urge to fall asleep while listening.
He even felt the urge to drift off to sleep as he listened. Looking around him, all the students were listening with great interest, so Li Linfei was confused.
It was boring enough to listen to Cai Yong's lectures in ancient times, but he didn't expect the students here to be so interested in listening to them.
The boring lesson didn't last long, and when Cai Yong saw that it was about time, he proposed: "Today, Lord Li has come to listen to the lecture, so I would like to ask you to say some words of encouragement to the students.
Li Linfei was stunned, he had never given a speech before, but everyone was looking at him with hopeful eyes, Li Linfei was silent, this was a complete rush, but looking at the hopeful eyes of the students underneath, he couldn't give in, he had done a lot of bragging and plagiarism anyway, giving a speech with character wasn't particularly difficult for him.
Suddenly he spoke, "In ancient times, a scholar must have a teacher. The teacher is the one who preaches and teaches and solves problems. Who can be free from confusion unless he is born knowing? If one is confused but does not follow a teacher, he will never be able to solve his confusion. If you are born before me, you will have heard of the Way before me, so I can teach you; if you are born after me, you will have heard of the Way before me, so I can teach you. If I am the teacher of the Way, how can I know the order of their births? So there is no nobility, no inferiority, no longevity, no youngness, but what the Way is, the teacher is."
Everyone was stunned, was this a live writing giving them a lecture? This is about teachers! ? It seemed to make sense! The scene was silent as they waited for Li Linfei to continue.
When Li Linfei saw that everyone was listening to him intently, even Cai Yong, he nodded in satisfaction and continued to recite: "In contempt! It has been a long time since the Way of the Teacher has been passed on! It is difficult for people to be free from confusion! In ancient times, the sages were far away from the saints, but they still asked questions from their teachers; today, the people are also far away from the saints, but they are ashamed to learn from their teachers. That is why the saints are more saintly and the fools more foolish. This is what makes a saint a saint and a fool a fool. Love your son, choose a teacher and teach him."
Everyone was dumbfounded! Was this a criticism of present-day education? Many of them were from family backgrounds, and many of these problems had already occurred to them, and now they were embarrassed by Li Linfei's unrelenting disclosure.
Cai Yong looked at Li Linfei with a face full of excitement, Li Linfei had unceremoniously revealed the shortcomings of today's education, a confidant!
"There are no constant teachers of saints; Confucius taught Tanzi, Janghong, Shixiang and Laozi. The disciples of Tanzi were not as virtuous as Confucius.
Confucius said, "When three men walk, there must be a teacher for me. Therefore, a disciple need not be inferior to a teacher, and a teacher need not be more virtuous than a disciple; there is a sequence in hearing the Way, and there is a specialization in the art, as it were."
Li Linfei quickly finished reciting the abridged version of the teacher's sayings and said to the dumbfounded students in the room, "I hope you can walk the ancient path and keep forging ahead with your studies."
Many of the students had already come to their senses and appreciated Li Linfei's good intentions, and they all bowed to Li Linfei to show that they had been taught.
Chapter 458
After school, Cai Yong kept Li Linfei and Guo Jia at his place for dinner. Li Linfei also met Cai Yong's daughter for the first time.
The talented Cai Yan Cai Zhaoji, who would become even more famous than her, and her short-lived fiancé Wei Zhongdao.
When he met Cai Yan, who was not yet ten years old, he fell in love with her at first sight and later, when Cai Yong offended the eunuchs, he took care of them in spite of his family.
Then Wei Zhongdao did not return to his home and took care of Cai Yong and Cai Yan every day.
The two of them had a good deal of affection for each other, and the two of them had a good deal of affection for each other.
Although Li Linfei had a good feeling about her, he would not intentionally steal someone else's wife, and it was not easy for Wei Zhongdao.
It suddenly occurred to him that Wei Zhongdao seemed to be hanging up before long, so he took a closer look at him. Cai Yan's future bitter sorrow was also related to Wei Zhongdao's early death; if Wei Zhongdao hadn't died and she hadn't returned to her mother's house, she wouldn't have been taken captive by the Zuo Xian Wang.
But seeing his condition was a shock, this guy had no illnesses or disasters, his body was twice as good, more than normal.
This made Li Linfei frown, what was going on? He still had confidence in his own medical skills, there were not many people in the whole world who were better than him in medicine, he said he was not sick, then he was not sick, it seems the Wei family had a ghost.
Wei Zhongdao looked at Li Linfei staring at him and was a little embarrassed by the look, so he touched his cheek and asked, "Brother Li, is there something on my face? Why do you keep looking at me?"
Li Linfei grimaced, "It's true that you don't have anything, but I'm curious! He said, "Because I am jealous of what Brother Wei can do to get the attention of such a beautiful woman as Miss Cai."
He did not hear any malice in Li Linfei's words and knew that he was teasing himself. He hastily exclaimed that it was a fluke, and at the same time, he felt very lucky to be able to become Cai Yan's fiancé.
He was very lucky to be Cai Yan's fiancé.
She was a woman who loved talent, but she was already in love with him, otherwise she might have gone crazy, and she was happy to hear him praise her.
Cai Yong was also proud to hear Li Linfei praise his daughter, who was very old and had a daughter.
He had a great future ahead of him, and it was not impossible for him to become the leader of the world's scholars. If Cai Yan had not already been promised, he would have wanted to set them up.
After eating at Cai Yong's side, Li Linfei took Guo Jia and bid farewell to Cai Yong and Cai Yan.
When he was bored, he attended to business matters, occasionally collected some remnants of the Shan Yue people, and flirted with Miao Cicada in his spare time.
Finally, the days of idleness came to an end when the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out! Li Linfei had been waiting for this for a long time, and he needed to seize this opportunity to gain greater benefits for himself.
"My Lord, with Zhang Jiao leading the Yellow Turban Army in rebellion, more and more refugees have been pouring into Huiji over this period of time." As the great chief administrator under Li Linfei, Xi Zhicai was still dutifully reporting on political affairs for Li Linfei.
Li Linfei nodded his head. Originally, the population of Huizhi was not particularly large and was not comparable to that of the surrounding counties, but after the incorporation of a large number of Shan Yue people and the recruitment of a large number of stragglers some time ago, the population of Huizhi had gradually increased and the county town of Huizhi was also expanding in size.
The future of the world will be based on the population, so taking in more people now will give a better foundation for the future.