"You mean them?" Jin Xuan said, "They are all freshmen recruited by the Imperial College in Beijing this year."
"Are they all students from the Imperial College in Beijing?" Li Yan was a little surprised. "Did the Imperial College resume school so soon? And they enrolled tens of thousands of students at once?"
Jin Xuan hummed, and then said: "Today's Holy Emperor is a promising monarch. He is deeply disgusted with the abuses that have occurred in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years. Therefore, he intends to train a large number of professional officials through the Imperial College in Beijing, and use these professional officials to gradually eliminate today's officials."
Officials in the officialdom, at that time, the atmosphere in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty could definitely be cleaned up."
"Cultivation of professional officials through the Imperial College in Beijing? Eliminate current officials with professional officials?" Li Yan was more and more surprised. Chongzhen was such a big hand. What kind of courage was this?
However, despite being surprised, Li Yan also had some doubts.
"It's easier said than done. Even if today's officials are replaced by students from the Beijing Prison, how can we ensure that these students are honest and self-responsible? A decade or even a few years later, won't they still be the same corrupt people?"
"The Holy One has said that it is impossible to completely eradicate corruption."
"Because it goes against human nature. Corruption cannot be banned as long as there are people."
"But it is still possible to curb corruption as much as possible. Therefore, before these students enter officialdom, they must first experience the sufferings of the people and understand the hardships of ordinary people to make a living."
Jin Xuan's words once again refreshed Li Yan's understanding of Chongzhen.
"So, you want to take these students to experience the sufferings of the people?"
"Yes." Jin Xuan exclaimed, "Wang Jijiu and I are going to take these students to travel across the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. While traveling thousands of miles, they will experience the sufferings of the people. From then on, they will truly pretend to be the people in their hearts. Wait.
In the future, when I enter the officialdom, I can truly pray for the people, instead of just thinking about pleasing the superiors and seeking promotion."
"This..." Li Yan was speechless for a moment. Isn't this the ideal country he dreamed of?
Wasn't the reason why he defected to the Shun Army in the first place so that he could one day build such an ideal country? However, the Dashun Dynasty did not become such an ideal country, and even drifted away from the ideal country.
Nowadays, Li Yan is really disgusted by the fact that he is nothing more than a noble clan member of the Dashun Kingdom.
Instead, the Ming Dynasty unknowingly became the utopia of dreams?
Jin Hyun asked again: "Is there anything else you want to ask? Let's ask them all."
"I have nothing more to ask." Li Yan was a little lost in thought.
"In that case, let's start a war." After Jin Xuan finished speaking, he hit his horse and walked back.
"Wait a minute." Li Yan waved and shouted, "Master Jin, these students are no match for our Dashun Army. You will definitely lose this battle, so you might as well surrender."
After a pause, Li Yan continued: "Dashun also needs such students and officials who can ask for orders for the people."
"Surrender?" Jin Xuan said with a smile, "Li Yan, do you know what the first lesson Wang Jijiu and I taught to the students in the North Prison? Be loyal to the state and have no fear of life or death."
Li Yan was silent. If it were him, he wouldn't surrender, right?
For such an ideal country, I would have no regrets even if I died.
Looking at Jin Xuan beating the horse and running away, Li Yan suddenly felt an indescribable loneliness in his heart.
Looking at his brother with a forlorn expression, Li Nian became even more worried: "Brother, are you going to attack now?"
"No fight, no need to fight." Li Yan shook his head. These students carried the utopia of his dreams on their shoulders, so how could he bear to destroy it with his own hands? Being unable to participate, it was a blessing to just watch silently.
"Go to Beijing!" Li Yan sighed, "Rendezvous with the main force of the rear camp."
"Ah?" Li Nian asked in shock, "Aren't we going to cut off the canal?"
"Second brother, haven't you seen it yet?" Li Yan said, "The Ming Dynasty is no longer what it used to be. We can't win this battle. If we retreat to Shanxi as soon as possible, we may be able to rely on Shanxi's strategic location to try to protect ourselves."
After a pause, he sighed again and said: "If not, the country will be destroyed overnight."
Li Nian was silent. In fact, he also felt that Dashun could not win. He really could not win.
…
Jin Hyun has returned to his home formation.
Wang Jiayan asked: "Which hypocritical army is coming?"
"It's Li Yan." Jin Xuan said, "Sir, you also know him."
"Li Yan?" Wang Jiayan's eyes flashed and he said with a smile, "That's okay."
"What?" Jin Xuan asked in shock, "Sir, do you think Li Yan will let us go?"
"That's right, Li Yan is a scholar with high ambitions and has always been proud of his status as a scholar, so he will never use weapons on the students in Beijian." Wang Jiayan said with great certainty.
Back in Tongzhou, Li Yan never threatened the emperor's heir.
So how could Li Yan add weapons to his kind today?
Sure enough, as soon as Wang Jiayan finished speaking, the Dashun cavalry turned around and headed north.
Not long after Li Yan left with the Dashun cavalry, smoke and dust also rolled up in the south of Jining Prefecture, but Du Yinxi arrived with tens of thousands of soldiers.
Seeing that Wang Jiayan, Jin Xuan and the students from Beijian were fine, Du Yinxi couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
"Brother Kaimei and Brother Bangding, it's a good thing that nothing happened to you. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for me to atone for my sins." Du Yinxi asked with concern, "The hypocritical cavalry hasn't reached Jining Prefecture yet?"
"The hypocritical cavalry arrived early, but they left again," Wang Jiayan said.
"Ah, you arrived and left again?" Du Yinxi was stunned when he heard this.
"That's what happened." Jin Xuan explained the scene that just happened.
Du Yinxi's heart pounded and he said: "In that case, this Li Yan can be fought for."
"Are you trying to win over Li Yan's surrender?" Wang Jiayan said, "I'm afraid it won't be easy. It's not easy for a person like Li Yan to betray him."
"Otherwise." Du Yinxi said, "Brother Kaimei, what you just said is wrong. What Li Yan is loyal to is actually not hypocrisy, but the Tao in his heart. Therefore, his surrender to the Ming Dynasty is not a betrayal, but a compliance with the Tao.
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"What is the way of scholars? It is the way of Confucius and Mencius, which is to put the people first."
"The people are the most important, the country is the second most important, and the ruler is the most important, then this is the way of a true scholar!"
After saying this, Du Yinxi added: "However, it is not easy for Li Yan to complete his ideological change. The top priority is to cut off his return path first!"
Jin Xuan asked: "Brother Muzi already has a comprehensive strategy?"
Du Yinxi said: "Originally, I wanted to concentrate the main force of the Nanzhi army, divide the troops into multiple routes and drive them north, and then cooperate with the cavalry led by King Ding to gather and annihilate them. But now that I know that Li Yan is against the puppet
Shun's loyalty has been shaken, so we have to change our strategy. We can cut off his return route first, and then make an emergency landing after his food supplies are exhausted."
After saying this, he said to Yan Yingyuan, the commander of the accompanying 2nd Division: "Jianheng, this task will be handed over to the 2nd Division. Now you will lead the main force of the 2nd Division to seize Huangyu Pass, Tumen Pass, and
Daomaguan and Zijingguan.”
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Yan Yingyuan was a little worried: "Sir, Liu Zongmin has left Tongguan with a hypocritical army of 100,000 people and is marching day and night to Xuzhou. If the main force of the 2nd Division is not there, Xuzhou may be in danger."
"It doesn't matter." Du Yinxi said, "Today's hypocrisy means that Gao Yigong's rear camp still has some combat effectiveness. Liu Zongmin's middle camp has not recovered since it suffered heavy losses in the Battle of a Stone."
Du Yinxi really didn't take Liu Zongmin's 100,000 troops seriously.
It should be noted that there are 150,000 people in Nanzhi Town, excluding the 2nd Division, there are still 130,000 people.
Even if these 130,000 troops had soldiers and grassroots officers, but did not have the non-commissioned officers as the Nanjian students and the senior generals as the Shiziying soldiers, they would still be able to crush Liu Zongmin's troops.
As for the reason, it is also very simple. The equipment has kept up.
All the 150,000 soldiers in Nanzhi Town have been equipped with flintlock rifles.
There are also cannons. The total number of various artillery pieces in Nanzhi Town exceeds 2,000.
Although there are many old squatting cannons, Folan cannons and Hongyi cannons among them, what does it matter? They can kill people just like loading the shells, but the speed is a little slower and the accuracy is less.
Yan Yingyuan left with the 2nd Division, and Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan also led the students from Beijian to Xuzhou to station temporarily.
Xuzhou is also an important node in the teaching plan. Of course, using Xuzhou as a teaching node is mainly to reflect the huge gap between Xuzhou and Beizhi and Shandong.
Comparing Xuzhou's prosperity and abundant food and clothing with the miserable situation of Beizhi, Shandong and even Henan with bones exposed in the wild and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, the educational significance is immediately apparent. This is more effective than the teacher's 10,000 sentences in class.
A good emperor can determine the rise and fall of a country. A good governor or governor-general can determine the rise or fall of a province or several provinces. In the same way, a good magistrate can also determine the well-being of the people in a county. From this, we can make
These students clearly understand what will be on their shoulders in the future?
…
Let's talk about Zhu Cijiong again. After forcing the main force of Gao Yigong's rear camp to land, he transferred 10,000 town troops from Beizhi Zhentai and was responsible for escorting more than 30,000 puppet surrender troops to Liaodong.
Zhu Cijiong doesn't have time to deal with these surrendered soldiers yet.
After sending away more than 30,000 surrendered soldiers, Zhu Cijiong led the 1st Cavalry Division to continue south along the canal. Why did he go south along the canal? Because Gao Yigong gave information about Li Yan's troops.
At the beginning, Gao Yigong actually didn't want to talk about it.
But he was not the only one who knew the movements of Li Yan's troops.
So in the end, Gao Yigong had to explain everything about pouring beans through a bamboo tube.
It should be noted that it was not only the 1st Cavalry Division that moved south along the canal, but the first experimental train from the Daming Railway Factory was also requisitioned by Zhu Cijiong.
I have to say that trains are addictive.
Zhu Cijiong only used it once and couldn't bear to put it down.
Because this thing can not only transport troops, but also carry a large amount of luggage.
With the train accompanying them south, the marching pressure of the 1st Cavalry Division was greatly reduced.
For example, now, Zhu Cijiong can even drink some wine during the march.
Looking at the slowly receding wilderness outside the car window, Zhu Cijiong thought to himself that he must mention to his father later that after the Beijing-Beijing railway is completed, the Beijing-Chahar railway from Beijing to Chahar will be built immediately.
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