"Senior Brother Fei, is this the first student to leave the academy on his own initiative?" Qin Feng asked with a frown.
"This is the fourteenth time. Since the first student left seven days ago, almost one or two students will leave every day." Fei Xun shook his head.
Qin Feng was greatly puzzled. These students used to be very thirsty for knowledge. Why are they leaving now? Could it be that something happened at home?
But it’s only like one or two people. How could so many people have trouble at home all at once?
"Did Senior Brother Yang say anything?"
Senior Brother Yang naturally refers to Yang Qian. He will come here to teach whenever he has nothing to do.
As Yang Qian is a fourth-grade Taoist of the Literary Sage, his divination ability is naturally far superior to that of Qin Feng and the other two.
Fei Xun replied: "Senior Brother Yang once mentioned to me that everyone has their own ambitions, so don't force them. Let them go."
Qin Feng fell into deep thought. These words showed that Senior Brother Yang must know something, but he was unable to stop it.
Time flies by, and every day that follows, students from the Poor Academy will leave.
At first there were only one or two, but later on there were more and more students. Sometimes, more than ten students would leave in a day.
Qin Feng also tried to ask them the reason, but no one answered.
However, he also saw from the reluctant expressions and eyes of those students that it was not their original wish for these people to leave the academy.
The humble academy, which was once full of classes, is now filled with not even half of the classes when classes begin.
Today, Senior Brother Yang came to the college to teach. After teaching, some students stayed behind to express their intention to leave.
Yang Qian didn't ask any more questions, he just sighed and said "Okay".
After all the students had left, Qin Feng asked aloud: "Senior Brother Yang, do you know why these people left?"
Yang Qian glanced away and replied softly: "I know you want to keep them, but there are some things you can't change.
After all, they are children from poor families. Although they like to study and study, they also have to bear the burden of life.
For them, living well and letting their families live well are the most important things. How can they spend all their attention on studying and studying?
Just like Fei Xun and I, if we hadn't been alone at the beginning, we wouldn't have been able to make up our minds to study at Haowen Academy."
"Senior Brother Yang, you mean that they left because of the pressure of life?
But no one left because of this before, why are there so many recently?" Qin Feng was still puzzled.
Yang Qian shook his head and said: "This problem will inevitably arise, it's just a matter of sooner or later.
Junior Brother Qin, let me ask you, if there is a scholar who is very hungry, and there is a book and a piece of solid food in front of him, and the scholar can only choose one between the two, what would he choose?"
Yang Qian did not wait for Qin Feng to reply, but directly said: "It must be that piece of dry food. Has Junior Brother Qin ever thought about it, the population of Daqian is not large, why is the worship of martial arts prevalent, but there are so few scholars?"
When Qin Feng heard this, his thoughts suddenly returned to Jinyang City, and back to the time before the Questioning Platform. Naturally, he knew the reason very well. After all, he had analyzed it with Lan Ningshuang at the beginning, and that was - "There is no way to study."
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"Yes, Da Gan are mostly ordinary people, children from poor families. For them, studying has no way out.
If you want to step into the holy path of literature, you need to memorize tens of thousands of books. Even a very talented person will need at least several years.
With these few years of hard work, what will happen even if he reaches the ninth level of Literary Saint?
He still has no power to resist in the face of monsters and ghosts, and he cannot improve his life.
But if we spend these few years practicing divine martial arts or hundred ghosts, no matter how bad things get, we can still have a certain ability to protect ourselves in this troubled world."
Yang Qian turned sideways and said again: "If you can use your studies to enter the court and benefit the people, it would be a good idea.
But you should also know that the only people who can enter the court through studying are those in the Imperial College.
In the Imperial College, there are basically all the children of the rich and powerful, and it is no more than a dream for a poor student to get ahead in it.
No matter how powerful you are and how knowledgeable you are, you still have no chance to express your ambitions with the place.
In this case, how many children from poor families will insist on continuing to study, knowing that there is no way out in studying and coupled with the burden of life?"
Qin Feng took a breath and then replied: "Very few."
"Yes, there are very few of them. In these poor students, I seem to see myself in the past, so I can also understand their difficulties and understand what they are thinking.
In life, many things are beyond your control.
It is extremely common to ask for something but not get it, and to get something that does not go your way.
In this regard, let alone us, even teachers are powerless to change it.
That’s why the teacher founded Haowen Academy to preserve a holy place for scholars for Da Qian. Unfortunately, this holy place for reading was also infiltrated by the Imperial College and became no longer as pure as it was before."
Qin Feng left Hanmen Academy with a heavy heart.
His original intention of establishing the Poor Family Academy was to provide a place for ordinary people and children from poor families to study and study.
But he forgot that if Daqian's situation of being unable to study was not broken, the establishment of the Poor Academy itself would be a joke.
The sky has darkened, night has fallen, and the stars have dimmed, just like Qin Feng's mood at the moment.
He did not go back to the Qin Mansion directly, but walked in the streets and alleys of Fengtian City.
Many people are still shouting and hawking on the cold streets in order to make a living. Everything is forced by life.
He saw the low-level officials taking food from the vendors. Not only did they not give them any money, but the stall owners also came forward to please them with a smile on their faces, and then sighed in distress after the officials left.
He saw an official going out. Not only were the four men carrying the sedan chair, but they also chased away the people who were blocking the way and even trampled on the vendors' goods. The official did not feel any guilt. Instead, he opened the curtain of the carriage and showed off his power and gave a contemptuous smile.
He saw the confidence of the officials and the helplessness and desolation of the people.
Think about it, officials in Daqian are basically appointed by the powerful or selected from the Imperial College.
And most of the students in the Imperial College are children of powerful people. They grew up in fine clothes and fine food. Even if they become officials, how can they know the sufferings of the people?
It is precisely because of this that the large number of officials are useless and the people have no life.
He thought of the conversation he had with Luo Yu in the restaurant. Although monsters are like knives hanging over people's heads, sometimes people are more terrifying than monsters.
If you want to change this situation, you must change the official selection system of Daqian.
But this is easier said than done?
Allowing a child from a poor family to enter the officialdom will affect the interests of a lot of people and will inevitably encounter opposition from many people.
Qin Feng recalled the oath of Wenxintai and felt it was extremely ridiculous.