There are five Doctors of the Five Classics in the Imperial College, and fifteen assistant teachers in charge of six halls. On this day, the Chengyi Hall will be taught by Xie Jing, an assistant teacher who was newly assigned to the academy after passing the imperial examination this year.
Unlike Zhengyi, Chongzhi, and Guangyi Halls, where young nobles studied and learned etiquette, Chengyi Hall was filled with students who were familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics and could write essays. Therefore, Assistant Professor Xie did not take special care of the six new students, but only taught the "Great Learning" at his own pace.
He was talking about "So a gentleman should first be careful about virtue. With virtue, there will be people; with people, there will be land; with land, there will be wealth; with wealth, there will be use."
However, when he lectured on the book, he did not follow the chapters and sentences, but started with "First be careful about virtue, and follow the previous text carefully." Ryan Cui was very familiar with this sentence, which was exactly the sentence in the "Imperial Collection of Four Books" that Master Liu gave him.
The Imperial College was a school established by the emperor, so the textbooks used there were naturally the "Complete Collection" compiled by Taizu in the past. This was reasonable.
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