Zhao Mingcheng is famous for marrying a talented woman, Li Qingzhao. The love story between him and Li Qingzhao has also spread to this day. But you know what? The year Zhao Mingcheng married Li Qingzhao, he was just in his twenties, and he was still a business student and didn't graduate.

Imperial academy, the highest government-run institution of higher learning in the Song Dynasty.

Imperial College has a high admission threshold. If the children of junior officials and ordinary people want to go to imperial academy, they must be recommended by the prefect and magistrate of a county before going to imperial academy to take the entrance examination. Moreover, only students with excellent test scores can become students.

The children and grandchildren of middle and senior officials can enter the business school by their status without examination at all. Zhao Mingcheng's father, Tingzhi Zhao, is a very important official in North Korea, so Zhao Mingcheng became a senior three student without passing the exam.

Imperial academy in Song Dynasty was different from the present universities. Now the undergraduate course is generally four years, while imperial academy in Song Dynasty has no fixed number of years. As long as it is not because of poor grades or serious violations of discipline, you can study as long as you want. Nowadays, universities generally charge tuition fees. Imperial academy in Song Dynasty didn't charge tuition. Not only does it not charge tuition fees, but it also gives some students scholarships and living allowances.

After Wang Anshi's political reform, Thai students were divided into three classes, and a class of "colonel students" with particularly excellent grades was added besides those from internal schools and external schools. In addition to a monthly meal allowance of 300 copper coins, students in Shanghai also have a scholarship of 700 copper coins.

In other words, if you get good grades, you will not only be free of tuition and room and board, but also earn money, which is equivalent to getting paid while studying.

The main function of imperial academy in Song Dynasty was to train officials. If students have excellent grades, they can become officials directly without taking the imperial examinations, juren examinations, Jinshi examinations and official selection examinations.

No tuition, living allowance, no time limit, and the opportunity to be an official. Imperial academy in the Song Dynasty is very attractive, and many students will come here to study.

How many students are there in all? In Song Shenzong's later years, there were 80 classrooms in imperial academy, each with more than 30 students, 3,824 students and more than 2,400 students. When Song Huizong was in office, the scale of Imperial College London was further expanded, reaching 100 classrooms and more than 3,000 students.

More than 3000 students gathered together, all young and energetic, many of whom were children of senior officials. No matter what you teach them, you can't fall out? So imperial academy is very strict with their management.

The first is the exam, a quiz every month, a big exam every year, and a final exam every two years. Do well in the exam and add credits; If you don't do well in the exam, you will be deducted credits; When the credits are added to a certain extent, they will change from exogenous to endogenous, and from endogenous to top students; Credits are deducted to a certain extent, and the last one is eliminated. Sorry, you can pack up and go home.

The second is discipline. In imperial academy, there are special trainers named "imperial academy Zheng Zheng" and "imperial academy Record".

Imperial academy is the director of discipline, and imperial academy is the deputy director of discipline. There are too many students and the subject director is too busy, so I find a teaching assistant from too many students, who is responsible for both teaching and subject. Li Qingzhao's father, Li, is both a "imperial academy Record" and a "imperial academy Zhengzheng".

Fortunately, during Li's tenure, Zhao Mingcheng, as a son-in-law, has not yet entered the school, otherwise he will be cleaned up by his father-in-law with his stubbornness.

Why is Zhao Mingcheng stubborn? Because he is talented and has a good tutor, for him, every subject in imperial academy is a cinch, so don't worry about failing the end-of-month exam and the annual exam. Therefore, he is very interested in playing and has no patience for learning. He really can't handle staying in business school every day.

In11kloc-0/year, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao just got married, and they didn't want to stay in business school. There were very few holidays in imperial academy in the Song Dynasty, and unlike the current summer and winter vacations in universities, there were three days off for major festivals and one day off for ordinary festivals.

This can hold back Zhao Mingcheng, who goes home once every half a month and has a good reunion with Li Qingzhao. Holidays are simply not enough, and I have to ask for leave almost every time I go back.

Leave must be justified. Zhao Mingcheng can't say "I want to go home to see my wife", he can only find other reasons. For example, if you are unwell, your relatives are seriously ill, an elder dies, and a funeral is held. But his family has so many relatives. On his leave note, almost all his relatives were seriously ill. If the subject director is confused again, he will find the problem and give Zhao Mingcheng a punishment.

Zhao Mingcheng's father is a senior official, and his administrative level is much higher than that recorded by Zheng He and imperial academy in imperial academy. Therefore, school leaders dare not lose face to Zhao Mingcheng, and such a big punishment of expelling Zhao Mingcheng will definitely not happen. But there is no problem in punishing him a little.

According to the management method of imperial academy in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the lightest punishment was a fine, and the teaching assistants of imperial academy students and classmates were invited to have a big meal. If the punishment is heavier, I will not only invite you to dinner, but also kowtow to everyone to make amends; The heaviest punishment is expulsion, packing up and leaving business school.

In order to visit Li Qingzhao, Zhao Mingcheng frequently fabricated reasons for taking time off, and imperial academy and imperial academy Zheng must punish him. Zhao Mingcheng was fined out of his own pocket and invited all his classmates to have a big meal. Of course. This meal is not as grand as the new Jinshi party, but it is a big meal for so many people to eat together.

Then, after being punished and dealt with, does Zhao Mingcheng have the temperament of restraint and abide by the rules? The answer is, no.

Because at this time, Zhao Mingcheng was obsessed with the study of epigraphy, that is, collecting cultural relics and calligraphy. After marrying Li Qingzhao, I became more interested. It turned out that he was collecting and enjoying it alone. Now, with Li Qingzhao, Zhao Mingcheng has another like-minded partner.

Whenever he gets a new antique calligraphy and painting, he will go home and enjoy it with Li Qingzhao, and the two will have a chat by making tea.

Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng is really difficult to learn in business school. Later, with the help of Li Qingzhao, Zhao Mingcheng completed the collaboration of Jin Shilu. This is a larger and more valuable monograph on epigraphy after Ouyang Xiu's Collection of Historical Records. Recorded the collected epigraphy rubbings, from the three generations to the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, totaling 2000.

Let's look back at Imperial College. In fact, life in imperial academy is not boring. Although he doesn't have many holidays, he has many recreational activities. In imperial academy, parties are often held, and students can drink and chat after studying, which can not only enhance their feelings, but also be a great pleasure to adjust their studies.

In addition, business schools often have "throwing pots". Because Renzong sympathized with the students of Imperial College, Imperial College had a public canteen, which was famous for its special steamed bread. Digest food after meals, so too many students are keen to play "throwing pots". Everyone got together, scrambling to throw arrows into the pot, and the scene of gathering people to play with the pot was very lively.

Time passed quickly, and soon Zhao Mingcheng got an official position from imperial academy and entered the officialdom. However, Zhao Mingcheng was only a magistrate in Jiangning for one year, and was dismissed for dereliction of duty. Why?

In February of three years, Wang Yi, the ruler of the royal camp, rebelled. It was noticed by Zhao Mingcheng's subordinates in time, and they reported it, but Zhao Mingcheng didn't seem to take it to heart. As a result, at night, Wang rebelled, and his prepared men successfully defeated the rebels.

At dawn, the subordinates went to Zhao Mingcheng to report, only to find that he had escaped from the wall by using ropes. After the rebellion was suppressed, Zhao Mingcheng was dismissed by the court. Li Qingzhao is also ashamed of her husband's abandonment. The first crack in the harmonious relationship between the two people probably started from this incident.

The most important educational time of Zhao Mingcheng's life was completed in imperial academy. Life in imperial academy only cultivated him into an outstanding antique collector, not a political elite. It can be seen from imperial academy's career that Zhao Mingcheng is too busy to have fun and can't stand boring study. Therefore, after he entered the officialdom, he also lacked administrative ability and was not good at dealing with complicated government affairs.

On the other hand, his cowardice can also be seen from his escape from the cold war. Once you encounter chaos, you really lack the courage and ability to put down the rebellion.

Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng is known to later generations more for his Stone than for his outstanding achievements. On the literary attainments of poems and songs, Zhao Mingcheng can't compare with his wife, Li Qingzhao. Not surprisingly, later generations called Zhao Qingzhao's husband.