The arrangement of the daily lectures was much simpler than that of the imperial lectures. There was just a throne and a lecture desk set up in the hall behind the Wenhua Hall, with several lecturers and attendants serving at the lectures.
Ryan Cui was a successor to the Imperial Academy because of the grace of the previous emperor. He could be considered a half-official. However, he was a top scholar and an editor, so he was a most legitimate civil servant. No one would criticize him for this. Now he has been in the countryside for five years and has come back with both experience and reputation. It is only natural for Emperor Hongzhi to bring him back to the Imperial Academy.
However, he was in too much of a hurry to get on duty and had no time to prepare his sermons, so several lecturers discussed it and decided that he would lead the emperor to read and recite the book ten times, and the others would lecture according to the progress.
This arrangement saves trouble for everyone.
Ryan Cui knew very well that the emperor summoned him not to listen to Mencius but to Mendel's hybridization theory, so before entering the palace he only read the lectures of Zhang Yuanzhen and others once, and took out his own essay and re-remembered the key data.
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