"... Speaking of which today, I want to tell you something. Yesterday, I watched a beheading in the east of the city and met an old man named Qian Xiwen. I know his
News, it was because of what Ru You told me the day before yesterday that I decided to go over and have a look. I was not very familiar with Qian Xiwen before, of course I had met him several times. He is a
He is a man who understands tactics and human nature very well. In the early years of Hangzhou, if something happened, his words could have a decisive effect. Today, I want to tell everyone about this old man."
The shadows of the trees were swaying, and amidst the leisurely chirping of insects, the voice of the young teacher was ringing in the classroom of the academy. Of course, it was said to be giving a lecture, but by this time, it had actually turned into storytelling as usual.
At this time, there were dozens of students of various sizes in the classroom, and behind the window outside the classroom, there were actually five or six students gathered there. Some were lying on the window sill, and some were squatting on the ground counting stones, but
They were all listening to what was said inside.
Ever since there have been several conflicts in the academy because of Mr. Ning Liheng, the students have split into several factions. Some of them want to kill this gentleman, some are close to him and want to keep him, and some even want to keep him.
Most of them are naturally indifferent neutrals. Regardless of their likes and dislikes, once the news that Mr. Ning's lectures were interesting spread, many people were willing to come to Class C to listen to a "Historical Records" class.
If it were a traditional school in the past, if students wanted to run around freely like this, they would probably be beaten and scolded to death by their teachers. However, in Wenlie Academy nowadays, there are not many teachers who really dare to control students. At this time,
, every day during the "Historical Records" class in Class C, there are about forty students from the Boryeong faction and the neutral faction gathered in the class. As for those squatting outside the window looking malicious, they are probably those who want to find trouble.
The Ning faction, they say, are based on the idea of knowing yourself and the enemy and you can fight a hundred battles without danger. But after all, they are all children from ** to fifteen or sixteen years old. Listening to Ning Yi's stories is interesting, and they often listen to it with relish. After listening to it,
Only then did he show a look of disdain.
However, the story I told today made the atmosphere inside and outside the classroom slightly weird.
"The Qian family was originally a prominent family in Hangzhou. Their family originally produced many high-ranking officials. There is an interesting little story about Qian Xiwen... I just came to Hangzhou a few months ago, and Qian received a letter from his elder.
I went to visit him at home, met two young men who were chasing him, and then picked up a red coral pen... I got ten coins for this, but it was not a flying ticket, but copper plates strung one by one, a full ten coins.
Guanqian, I had a hard time moving it. I asked later and found out that this coral pen grid is one of Qian Xiwen's favorite utensils..."
There were things about Qian Xiwen, starting with the coral pen grid thing, and then gradually talking about the famine a few years ago, the Beginning of Autumn Poetry Festival, etc. There was a slight commotion in the class. Everyone in the class was
Children, but they could probably hear the side of this story. They protected Ning Yi because they felt that Ning Yi had already joined the rebels. At this time, talking about Qian Xiwen made some of the children start to waver.
The story goes that at some point two gentlemen from the academy came over in the corridor outside. They probably felt that the atmosphere inside was strange. They stood there and listened for a few words before a look of surprise appeared on their faces: "This man is crazy.
Already?"
"I don't think I'm... confident..."
The two listened in surprise for a while, and then another gentleman came over. After listening to a few words, he looked at each other in surprise with his two companions. They were both Confucian scholars originally from Hangzhou, so they naturally knew Qian Xiwen's name. But at this time,
If you say this kind of thing in Fang La's territory, isn't it just asking for death?
In the midst of surprise, on one side of the corridor, a young man wearing a black short shirt walked towards this side, looking left and right as if he was wandering around. Although it was a new face that he had never seen before, outside the academy at this time
There are also guards. Those who can come in at this time, look at this spiritual energy, and roughly know that the man in front of them is a warrior, most likely a lieutenant general of Fang La Army, because as soon as he appears, one of the several children playing outside the classroom will
Ming was clearly frightened and took a few steps back, then seemed to be discussing with his companions whether to leave.
The three Confucian students looked at each other, lowered their heads and left. The young man glanced at the backs of several people, and then glanced sideways at Ning Yi's classroom. He thought for a moment, and then walked in the corridor about a foot away from the classroom.
He sat down on the railing, pulled out a piece of thatch and held it in his mouth, and seemed to rest here. From this distance, he could not see the movement in the classroom, but he could always hear the words on both sides clearly. Soon after, the young man also
I understood what the other person was saying.
"The so-called defense means to die for you at the right time. That's what the old man said. There are many smart people in this world. As for me, I also feel that if he wants to do more things, he doesn't have to die.
Here, there is no need to come back. This old man is also a smart man. However, what he is afraid of is that when everyone treats him as a smart man, when others talk about justice and death, they cannot give a suitable example. Everyone will say, although
You gentlemen are always talking about integrity and loyalty, filial piety and justice. Why do everyone run away when the other party comes and if he stays, everyone will say, Qian Xiwen did this here.
Things, what he has done in learning throughout his life, are not fake."
"He and his family died yesterday." Mr. Ning Yi paused: "I hope everyone can remember such a story and remember that there was such a person. I have finished what I want to tell you today.
If you have any ideas, you can tell me now."
He had hardly finished speaking when a child raised his hands and stood up indignantly: "Mr. Ning, when you say this, do you mean to say that the court is the good guy? Are you going to say that we are the bad guys?" Then someone echoed.
Ning Yi, who was in front of him, watched calmly and waited until the noise in the classroom was over before he spoke.
"Good people and bad people are not that simple. I have no way to tell you who is a good person and who is a bad person. I only tell you how to be a good person. Today your parents asked you to come to this school to study the Four Books and Five Classics, read books, and read history. Why?
Those people in the imperial court have spent a lifetime reading this. You are standing in different places, but you are learning the same thing. I want to tell you that what you want to learn is all in what this old man does.
I am your husband, and I think you should not miss him if you really want to learn well."
"As for what is good and what is wrong, it does not mean that if one person stands in a good place, another person will stand in a bad place. Corrupt officials are extorting excessive taxes and exorbitant taxes, and Hua Shi Gang is making trouble for the people. You get up and kill them. This is a good thing. You read, and you read
What I want to teach you, at least what I want to teach you, is something like this. What the old man did is also a good thing. I tell you what he did to make you remember that there was an old man who studied Confucianism and had
In your own way, he has done such a thing and achieved it to such an extent. In the future, you must also have your own persistence and don't lose to him...will you lose to him?"
After all, children and young people are quite passionate. When Ning Yi asked this question, everyone immediately shouted: "Of course not!" The voices came and went one after another, and even the children outside the window were infected. But naturally there are still people who want to
Asking simple questions about right and wrong, Ning Yi paused for a while and looked at everyone.
"If you are children born in peacetime, I shouldn't tell you this, Tian Yuchang, Chen Qiu... some of you are still too young, I shouldn't teach you too complicated things too early, right or wrong, you might
I don’t understand. But you are not children born in peacetime. Most of you should have experienced war. Your father was fighting. Just like Yu Sihe, you have already been on the battlefield, right?"
One of the boys, about fifteen or sixteen years old, raised his head.
"Then you should know that the war is far from over. I hope you will not go to the battlefield again, but you are the generals' children, so you must be prepared. There are many corrupt officials in the court, and many of them only care about fighting for power and profit.
There are hopeless people who don't care about the life and death of the people, but there are also some people, they are the same as this old man, and I don't want you to become those people, even just a part of them, who are corrupt officials and only care about plundering the people's wealth."
"Since you are studying here, please call me sir. I hope you will all become like that old man. You must have faith in your life. When you pick up a knife, you must remember why you picked it up. Corrupt officials are shameless.
Tao, so you killed officials and rebelled, and the world was corrupt, and you brought order to the chaos. You must remember that you picked up the sword to make what you see around you better."
"Those who grew up in peacetime, they went to school to learn how to be an official, or to learn how to read and write, so that they would be good at copying and writing in the future. When you go to school, your parents say that you will have a future, but your future is not.
I don’t want to just learn to scheming and working as an official. If you learn faith, then it will be meaningful, and you will truly learn what is said in this collection of classics and history.”
After saying this, there was some silence in the class. Naturally, some children vaguely understood it, but they were too young and could only memorize it in a confused way. Many years later, they may remember that someone said such a thing.
, but now, I can only look at my companions around me, feeling slightly confused. One of the nine-year-old children raised his hand and timidly said: "Then... Sir, did we kill the old man by mistake?
"
"That's right." Ning Yi shook his head, "You must learn to respect and learn from the enemy in the future, but don't try to sympathize with them, especially like this. He will never surrender, so you can only kill him. On the battlefield
There is an enemy who is very skilled in martial arts. Everyone thinks that he is powerful. You also say that he is really powerful. When it comes time to fight, if you also think that he is really good and you cannot bear to kill him, then you will die.
You have to be persistent. The more powerful and tall the enemy is, the more effort you should put into killing them. However... if you are free, you can bury the old man's body and put incense on it.
Something like that.”
After all, children cannot understand such a complicated concept of good and evil. The young children now basically feel that the old man was a good man and it was a pity that he died. Only when they heard Ning Yi talk about burial and incense, they nodded.
On the railing of the corridor outside, the young man in black who was sitting spit out the grass stems in his mouth, frowned, and left at a leisurely pace...
There was no major incident in the academy. Ning Yi's lecture about Qian Xiwen shocked the entire academy in the next day or two. On the one hand, everyone marveled at Qian Xiwen's tragedy, and on the other hand, it also aroused various questions about Ning Yi.
During the discussion, some people admired his courage, while others felt that he was impatient. However, regarding the second half of what he said, they were somewhat surprised as to which side he was on.
In such an atmosphere, apart from some interactions with a group of students, Ning Yi became the most isolated person in the academy. Some people admired him, but did not dare to interact with him. Some people were unhappy with him and just looked at him quietly.
What will happen to him? As for outside the academy, his lectures on this day also had a certain impact.
The remains of the Qian family were subsequently enshrined in a relatively formal manner. The person who handled the matter was a general named Yu Kaitai, who was the father of Yu Sihe. He did not know Ning Yi's background, but he just felt that "
That gentleman taught my son very well." Some people who heard those words felt that the gentleman had a bad intention, but after that, he did not make any random moves. It seemed that someone was secretly stopping him.
their behavior.
Then starting from the sixth day of August, there was a series of auspicious days, and the city of Hangzhou was agitated, including the Green Forest Conference composed of a large group of green forest heroes, preparing to elect Fang La as the leader of the Tiannan Wulin, and by the way, a deputy leader.
And so on, due to the official support, it became quite popular. Then there were parades, carnivals, "tributes from all over the world" sent from various uprising places and cottages, etc., and in the end, Fang La proclaimed himself emperor.
ceremony.
In fact, all this had been decided half a month ago, the court team was almost formed, and the news had already been publicized. It was only at this time that the establishment of the Yongle Dynasty was officially announced to the world.
Well, this chapter is number four, it’s not too late...