Chapter 38 Section VIII

In some people's eyes, the release of "Xinyibao" is like opening Pandora's box.When the lecture groups of Songyang Academy and Hengqu Academy finished their speeches and returned to the academy, they were all envious of Bianjing's humanistic atmosphere. Needless to say, the "Baishuitan Academic Journal" has a well-designed lecture hall and debate hall , teaching buildings hidden in the woods and flowers, and unheard of laboratories, fields and gardens, campuses and markets, are perfectly combined, and even the peddlers speak more elegantly than other places. ...they felt ashamed when they went to Baishuitan.

In addition to these, what impressed them most was the active thinking of the students in Baishuitan. They had many viewpoints that they had never heard of. Yin, while a student in Baishuitan talked about the relationship between "Information" and logic and famous scholars that they had never heard of.The students of Baishuitan are also very eye-catching when it comes to the debates of various schools of thought and Wang Ba's interests and righteousness.During the five days in the middle, Baishuitan's propaganda to itself even made some students have the urge to stay in Baishuitan and not want to go back.

Comparing with this is "Bianjing News".This thing called "newspaper" gave them a huge impact.People can use it to discuss the gains and losses of the government, to discuss knowledge, and to understand the sentiments of the people. The most dazzling feeling is the feeling that all people and events reported by newspapers are watched by thousands of people at the same time... Their hearts were touched. When the people of Hengqu Academy returned to Guanzhong and passed through Luoyang, Xijing, something even more shocking happened: the imperial court's "Xinyibao" came out!This is an overly obvious signal: we want to run our own academic journals, we want to run our own newspapers, we want to be the same as Baishuitan... Such thoughts are filled in the hearts of the students of Hengqu College. Pride, envy of advanced regions, inspires everyone.Although the irresistible decline of Guanzhong due to various reasons made them unable to compare with Baishuitan in terms of economic strength and technical strength, only one year later, the "Hengqu Academic Journal" finally came out. Although the Song Dynasty at that time, Almost all major academies have their own academic journals, but with the financial strength of Hengqu College, it is already a huge effort to be able to do this.

The conditions of Songyang Academy are much better than those of Hengqu Academy.Songyang Academy was first built in the eighth year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and has a history of more than 600 years. There were people giving lectures here in the Later Tang Dynasty. It can be called a long history.The name of their academy was inscribed by Emperor Renzong himself. The scale of the academy is a bit more simple than that of Baishuitan. Fan Zhongyan, a famous official of a generation, also gave lectures here. Cheng Yi, who is now at Baishuitan, also Learned here.Songyang Academy and Xijing Guozijian have a close relationship and often communicate with each other.Seeing the prosperity of Baishuitan Academy now, apart from envy and admiration, the scholars of Songyang Academy are unwilling to lower their proud heads no matter what.In the second month after returning to Songyang Academy, after Baishuitan and Guozijian, Songyang Academy founded its own "Songyang Academic Journal", and established Gewuyuan without hesitation. I have sent people to Baishuitan College several times, hoping that Baishuitan College can select outstanding students and even professors to give lectures and help them establish a comprehensive education system.

But only one month after the publication of "Xinyibao", almost at the same time as "Songyang Academic Journal", in Luoyang, Xijing, Fu Bi, who retired to Xijing, and other veteran ministers who retired to Xijing, relying on Xijing Guozijian and the nearby Songyang Academy, Luoyang founded the third newspaper of the Song Dynasty - "Xijing Review".In the hundreds of years since then, "Xijing Review" has firmly occupied the position of one of the five major newspapers in the Song Dynasty, and is known for its conservative and steady stance. The conservatives in the Song Dynasty finally found a platform to speak after being expelled from Yushitai by Wang Anshi.This is something that Lu Huiqing never thought of when he founded the "Xinyibao"-the old party does not stick to the old ways in everything.As the spiritual leader of the old party, Sima Guang, although he remained silent and devoted himself to writing, protested against the new law by not talking about politics, but he expressed his unique support for the publication of "Xijing Review". The content of Zi Zhi Tong Jian Kao Yi was sent to the "Xijing Review" newspaper one after another, silently expressing his attitude.