The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 338 The Controversy of Schools
A soldier needs to be trained, fed, clothed, given weapons, given a family allowance, and given a pension after he dies. Money is behind all of this.

Therefore, in order to make money, as well as to compensate the big families in Jiangdong and buy people's hearts, Zhang Wu decided to open a printing workshop in Jiangdong, printing books and selling them for money.

Of course, these workshops are handed over to the major families in Jiangdong. Zhang Wu is only responsible for providing white paper and ink, and the tax rate is the same as that of Jingzhou.

However, the printed book this time is different from before.

The books that were printed in the past were classic books such as Four Books and Five Classics, Hundred Schools of Thought, etc. Now the market is basically saturated, and it is purely a matter of small profits but quick turnover.

Thanks to Jingzhou Group's printing and selling of books for many years, ordinary people can basically have a book in every household, because the price is indeed very cheap.

But this only reached the first step in Zhang Wu's popularization of knowledge, because even ordinary people have books, but if they don't have a teacher to explain, they still don't understand what the books mean.

As for literacy, Zhang Wu hadn't expected to be able to eliminate illiteracy in this era. It was not until the founding of New China nearly 2000 years later that the literacy rate of young and middle-aged people was less than 20.00%.

In Zhang Wu's vision, if he wanted to break the monopoly of the aristocratic family on knowledge, he only needed to let those humble scholars from the middle and small landlord class master the knowledge, and then give them an upward channel.

If you want to eliminate illiteracy in this era, it is as difficult as reaching the sky, and if you want to conduct imperial examinations in this era, it is basically the same as courting death.

Therefore, Zhang Wu's selection and appointment of talents also strengthened the assessment link on the basis of the original recommendation.Officials above the prefect can recommend talents, but in the end they have to be assessed by the state pastoral government.If the recommended person is indeed talented, then of course Zhang Wu will use it, no matter where you are from, because there is indeed a shortage of talents now.

However, if the recommended person is a sham or relies on the relationship to go through the back door, then it is still light not to be appointed, and even the recommender should be held accountable.

Now the person in charge of the assessment is Gongcao who is engaged in Zhao Jian. Zhang Wu still trusts his ability and character, but he must prevent problems before they happen.If in the future the key positions responsible for evaluating and selecting talents are occupied by people from aristocratic families, this way they will get through the two key links of recommendation and evaluation, and they may secretly suppress the children of poor families.

Zhang Wu now knows the response of those wealthy families to popularizing knowledge, which is to monopolize teacher resources.It's no use just having a book. If no one explains it to you, you still don't understand what it means.

What Zhang Wu has to do now is to disintegrate their monopoly on teacher resources, how to disintegrate?
That is to continue printing books, but the books to be printed this time are different from the previous ones, and the books printed this time are annotated!

That is to say, with explanations, it is like the tutoring materials with classical Chinese translation when we were in school.

This time there are both textbooks and handouts, so I can study by myself.

As soon as the news came out, the world was shaken. The aristocratic families finally understood Zhang Wu's determination, and finally knew that they could not resist this trend. The only thing they could do was to find a way to gain some benefits for themselves in this matter. .

What are the benefits here?

There are big benefits, even more important benefits than money, that is reputation, and it will leave a name through the ages.

Although Confucianism occupies the main position in this era, Confucianism is not a single iron bucket, and it is divided into many different schools.The main reason is that people have different understandings of Confucian classics. For the same sentence, I understand it this way, but you understand it that way, and often different people understand things that are quite different.

This creates disputes, and if no one agrees with the other, then factions arise.

If there is a dispute between two ordinary scholars, it's okay to say, but at worst, go to the teacher and ask.

But if there is a dispute between two influential people in society, it will cause a lot of noise.I have a group of students who support me, and you also have a group of students who support you. In the end, there was no consensus after arguing. In the end, I taught mine and you taught you.

For example, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, there were four schools of thought that taught the Book of Songs, Yuan Gusheng of Qi, Shenpei of Lu, Han Ying of Yan, and Maochang of Zhao, referred to as the Four Schools of Qi, Lu, and Han Mao.The first three are Jinwen Confucianism, and the last one is Guwen Confucianism, reflecting the struggle between Jinwen Confucianism and Guwen Confucianism within Sinology.

The poems of Qi, Lu, and Han were established as doctors in the Western Han Dynasty and became official studies. Although the "Mao Poetry" school came out late and was not established as an official school in the Western Han Dynasty, it was widely taught among the people, and eventually overwhelmed the three schools of poetry and prevailed in the world.Later, the poems of the three schools died one after another, and the "Book of Songs" seen in modern times is the biography of the "Mao Shi" school.

It can be said that school disputes have existed since ancient times and have existed in modern society, and they are not limited to the field of literature, but also in fields such as physics, mathematics, and even law.

The dispute of schools is sometimes a debate, and sometimes it is life and death.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius opened private schools to recruit students and teach his own theories.At the same time, a doctor from the State of Lu named Shaozheng Mao also opened a private school to recruit students.However, this Shaozhengmao gave good lectures, and he can probably be rated as an excellent teacher, so many people, including some students of Confucius at that time, were attracted to him.

Later, Confucius became the chief minister of the state of Lu and acted as prime minister. He killed Shaozhengmao seven days after he took office, and exposed his body for three days.

In the final analysis, this is still a struggle between schools, a struggle of ideology, if you can't say it, I will kill you!

In the eyes of those great Confucians, personal honor and disgrace or family prosperity are actually not as important as the continuation of the school.Especially after Zhang Wu said the "Four Sentences of Lumen", it has become their lifelong pursuit to continue their unique learning for the saints.

Now that Zhang Wu is going to print books with annotations, which theory will he use to annotate various classics?

It is foreseeable that which school of thought Zhang Wu chooses will become the mainstream school, because Zhang Wu controls the channels for printing and selling books and the most important platform.

Therefore, this is also a secret weapon for Zhang Wu to conquer the world's scholars.Although I can't achieve political and military unity for the time being, I can first unify ideologically and culturally.If you agree with what I said, then we can be friends happily. If you oppose me and keep nagging, then I’m sorry, and I will let you disappear.

Although I can't do anything to you for the time being, what about decades or even hundreds of years from now?Scholars all over the world accept the theories of other schools, and you will be completely forgotten.

(End of this chapter)