Xia Yunyi and Chen Zilong looked at each other, and then said at the same time: "I have thought clearly about it. I will use my body to pay for China, the ancestral temple, and the country. Even if I die a hundred times, I will have no regrets."
"Okay, let's join the queue." Chongzhen nodded happily.
Xia Yunyi and Chen Zilong walked proudly towards the scholars lined up behind the flag gate.
Including Xia Wanchun, who entered the queue first, the soldiers in the formation once again clasped their fists and bowed to express their welcome to Xia Yunyi and Chen Zilong. Xia Yunyi also bowed in return.
The etiquette, coupled with the robes and figures, have an indescribable elegance.
I have to say that the ancient Chinese etiquette is much better than shaking hands and the like.
At this time, two more scholars stood in front of Chongzhen and said, "The common people are also willing to enter this gate."
As usual, Chongzhen asked the two scholars again: "Listen carefully, once you enter this door, you will no longer be free. I will treat you scholars with military regulations and laws. Have you thought about it?"
Military regulations and military laws? The two soldiers hesitated a little.
Chongzhen was not angry either. He waved his hand and said, "Since I haven't thought about it well, let's go aside and think about it for now."
The two scholars walked to the side dejectedly and looked at the scholars lined up behind the flag gate. They were a little envious, but they were also hesitant and fell into a huge struggle in their hearts.
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Among the scholars in the distance, a group of officials and officials were also hesitating.
Fang Yizhi frowned and said, "You guys should give me an accurate answer. Should we enter this door of life and death?"
"If you ask me, you must not enter this door." Hou Fangyu said, "I am a noble scholar, how can the Holy One treat us with the same military rules as Qiu Basi's soldiers? This is really insulting to the gentlemen."
"Brother Chaozong, this is a big fallacy." Gu Gao waved his hand and said, "Mencius said that when Heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to this person, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body, so that his behavior will be chaotic.
What he did was to move his heart and forbearance, and it was beneficial to what he could not do. I think the Holy Spirit did this to temper us, rather than really treating our scholars as Qiu Ba Si's soldiers and driving them away."
"Brother Zifang's words are very much in line with my wishes." Wu Yingji patted his folding fan and said, "I will follow him."
Hou Fangyu's face instantly became embarrassed, because all the time, the young master in Fushe always followed his lead, but now Gu Gao openly questioned his opinion.
What made him even more angry was that Wu Yingji actually supported Gu Gao.
Chen Zhenhui frowned and said, "I thought what Brother Chao Zong said was reasonable. After all, we are also highly regarded by Mr. Ma, the deputy director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even if we don't enter the gate of life and death, and don't follow the Holy Spirit to the north, we can still stay here."
They are all calling for wind and rain, so why should they enter this door and put themselves under a dangerous wall?"
Well, the young master brother who has always been close to each other finally has a crack.
This was also the first serious disagreement among the leaders of the society.
It is foreseeable that Fushe, a group with special influence in the Jiangnan literary world, is on the verge of splitting and is expected to fall apart today.
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In fact, Chongzhen had already noticed this.
However, Hou Fangyu, Chen Zhenhui and other young men from aristocratic families regarded it as the revival society of Jiangnan literary circles, but it was not in Chongzhen's field of vision at all.
From the beginning to the end, Chongzhen never took the restoration of society seriously.
The general trend of history is so majestic that it cannot be reversed by a mere sprout of a community or a group of young men from aristocratic families who have never experienced life or death.
The restoration of society is still far from becoming a real political society.
No, before the real critical moment of life and death has come, the group of Gongzige, the leader of Fushe, has begun to split.
As for those poor scholars who had joined the Fushe before, they almost never mentioned their membership in the Fushe in front of others since they came to Nanjing. These scholars had actually left the Fushe.
Chongzhen and Ma Mingluan once had an in-depth discussion about the children of aristocratic families and the scholars of poor families.
Ma Mingluan was more optimistic about the officials' children such as Gu Gao, Wu Yingji, Hou Fangyu, Chen Zhenhui, Fang Yizhi and Zheng Sen. He believed that these officials' children not only had connections, but also had been influenced by their fathers since childhood, so they had the ability to deal with things and see problems.
His vision is better than that of a poor scholar.
Most scholars from poor families have never seen much of the world, so their vision of looking at problems is inevitably narrow, even paranoid, and their ability to deal with various practical problems is often unsatisfactory.
Therefore, the value of training children from official families is obviously greater than that of children from poor families.
But Chongzhen didn't see it that way. He believed that things like vision and ability to deal with things can be acquired through experience, but things like willpower and quality are difficult to acquire through experience.
Among the children of official families, there are also those with outstanding will and quality, such as Zheng Sen.
But in general, the will quality of children from official families is very worrying.
On the other hand, the scholars of poor families have to endure the training of suffering since childhood. This kind of suffering has left an indelible and profound imprint on their lives. It is this deep-rooted mark that makes the scholars of poor families have a deep understanding of
The endurance of hardships and hardships is far better than that of children from aristocratic families.
For example, when it comes to reading, children from aristocratic families also have outstanding talents, but most of them can't stand the tedium of sage books and eight-legged essays, so they use their talents in prose, poetry and even music compositions. This is also because they have no worries about food and clothing.
So there is no need to pass scientific examinations to change your life.
But the poor scholars are different, because they can only change their lives by passing the scientific examination, so they can only grit their teeth and immerse themselves in reading the books of sages, and then develop a perseverance and perseverance in the ten years of hard study.
The price of studying hard in Hanchuang is that he is not good at dancing and socializing, and he is not good at composing poems and lyrics on the Qinhuai River to make beautiful people smile. However, in the future, most of the people in the officialdom will be these children from poor families.
As long as these children from poor families are given a chance, they will seize it tightly and will not give up easily until death.
It is precisely this point that is crucial to the new army and the new group of clean and honest civil servants envisaged by Chongzhen. As for the rest, it is not a problem.
Don't look at the fact that these poor people are far less sophisticated than the people from the aristocratic family.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But Chongzhen is convinced that when these poor scholars have withstood the test of blood and fire in Xuzhou and survived the cruel battlefield, from then on they will emerge in terms of their thinking and ability to do things.
Huge sublimation.
At that time, the shortcomings brought by these poor scholars from their original families will be perfectly made up for.
When these poor people return to Nanjing, facing those children from aristocratic families who are greedy for pleasure and stay in Nanjing, it will be a kind of dimensionality-reducing crushing! Both sides are in terms of the height of their thoughts, the quality of their will, or their ability to deal with various affairs.
Ability is no longer on the same level at all.
By that time, societies like Fushe will no longer have a place to survive.
Therefore, Chongzhen really didn't care about restoring the society. In the more than a month since he came to Nanjing, he didn't even bother to intervene, but just waited quietly for these young men to go their separate ways, even if they didn't split, and then none of them would
If you are willing to go north, that's nothing. They are just a group of children from a noble family.
This month, more than 8,000 poor scholars have gathered in Nanjing.
Including the more than 2,000 students in the Imperial College, the total number has exceeded 10,000.
The two banners of "promotion and wealth" and "greed for life and fear of death" erected today will definitely dissuade or frighten most of the scholars, but according to Chongzhen's estimate, almost four thousand people will be left!
Chongzhen's psychological bottom line is to keep three thousand!
As long as there are three thousand scholars left, that's about it.
Because when the Northern Expeditionary Army was formed, there were only more than 2,000 Huangpu students.
As long as there were three thousand scholars left, Chongzhen had the confidence to turn these three thousand people into three thousand seeds, and then use these three thousand seeds to hatch a new army and a new team of clean and self-disciplined civilian officials.
When this new army is fully trained and formed, and when this new civil service team is formed, the Ming Dynasty will truly be revived.
The whole ceremony lasted until noon the next day. During this period, Chongzhen never rested except eating and relieving himself. He just wanted to take responsibility for this part personally and was not willing to pretend to others.
The final result was far better than Chongzhen expected.
Chongzhen's bottom line was 3,000 people, but in the end more than 6,000 scholars resolutely crossed the gate of life and death.
For those scholars who chose to stay, Chongzhen did not have any harsh words. Instead, he encouraged those who had already obtained the qualifications to be elected as scholars to seize the time to review their lessons and strive to be named on the Enke Gold List.
After some encouragement, Chongzhen headed north with more than 6,000 soldiers.
Zhu Cixiang took the remaining scholars and sent Chongzhen and Beishang scholars all the way to Yanziji Pier, where they said goodbye reluctantly.
It wasn't until the ferry that Chongzhen and the Northern Scholars boarded had sailed towards the north bank and disappeared in the mist and rain that Zhu Cixiang returned to Nanjing with a somewhat disappointed mood.
Among the scholars who returned to Nanjing were Hou Fangyu and Chen Zhenhui.
Looking at the ferry boat and the scholars going away, the two of them had very complicated emotions.
The four young masters of Fushe finally broke up. Fang Yizhi, Maoxiang and Gu Gao followed Chongzhen, but Hou Fangyu, Chen Zhenhui and others chose to stay in the gentle hometown of Nanjing.
As soon as Hou Fangyu returned to the city, he immediately came to Meixiang Tower.
Because Mr. Qin and Wang Shizi have been staying together these days and are not allowed to leave without permission, Hou Fangyu has not seen Li Xiangjun for several days. He is very worried that Li Xiangjun will not listen to his advice and insist on joining the National Disaster Troupe. In this case, he will be very embarrassed.
, I don’t even have a place to live in Nanjing.
Without Li Xiangjun, Li Zhenli would not be able to raise him.
Hou Fangyu hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly and finally arrived at Meixiang Tower.
As a result, he saw the madam Li Zhenli directing her servants to move furniture out.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Hou Fangyu asked in shock, "Are you selling furniture?"
"What kind of furniture should I sell?" Li Zhenli said angrily, "I have already sold Meixiang Building."
"Ah?" Hou Fangyu was shocked when he heard this, "Mom has actually sold Meixiang Building?"
"Otherwise?" Li Zhenli said angrily, "All the fragrant girls have gone north to Xuzhou with the National Disaster Troupe. Without the fragrant girls, can my Meixiang Building still be Meixiang Building? It's better to sell it."
