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Chapter 735 Progressive Youth Zhu Youjian (Third)

"Your Majesty, what do you think? The Kyushu Army behaved strangely, did not follow the precepts of the ancestors, did not set up imperial examinations, and fought everywhere. The people are in dire straits. As long as you give an order, all the officials, generals, and soldiers in the field will rise up. The Great Tomorrow of five years ago."

Flies buzzed around Zhu Youjian's head, and a man's hoarse voice came from the next door.

Zhu Youjian's face was like a pig's liver: "I said Qu Shiqi, I know that you are an upright person with backbone and talent, but... now I am squatting in the toilet, do you need to talk to me here?"

The voice on the other side was also very awkward: "Ahem, isn't this because the spies from the Kyushu Army's intelligence department are guarding it strictly? I had no choice but to come up with a way to talk to Your Majesty."

"Hey, you guys have some talents, but you are too rigid. How difficult is it to integrate into the bureaucratic system of the Kyushu Army with your talents? Now there are no serious disasters in China, the lives of the people are stable, and the external territory has doubled Yu Yu, occupying all of Nanyang today is a feat that even Cheng Zu failed to achieve, so what are you dissatisfied with?" Zhu Youjian sighed.

The hut next door was silent for a while, and then said unwillingly: "The actions of the Kyushu Army are really against the precepts of the ancestors. The Four Books and the Five Classics are not the contents that must be assessed when selecting officials. There is no scholarly spirit at all, and all I see is the pursuit of fame and wealth and the smell of copper. Or as Cheng Yi of the Song Dynasty said, "starving to death is a small thing, but injustice is a big thing", but the Kyushu Army is ashamed of martyrs and blatantly overthrows them. Chastity memorial archway, burning books such as "The Commandments for Women", "Internal Training", "The Analects of Women", prohibiting foot binding, men with short hair, etc., it seems that the world is peaceful, but in fact it is full of smog, and the country will be ruined."

"Furthermore, the Kyushu army is aggressive and does not pay attention to the distinction between suzerains and vassals. It covets the barren land of the vassal states and arrests their princes and relatives arbitrarily, which makes our great country lose face. These vassal states are dissatisfied, and there will inevitably be endless troubles in the future. "

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Zhu Youjian squatted on the latrine and was forced to listen patiently to the other side's endless complaints about the inappropriateness of the Kyushu Army.

"What you said doesn't make sense. The purpose of setting up stereotyped essays at the beginning was not to expect you to comprehend any practical skills from the Four Books and Five Classics. It was just to be able to select the most willing to work hard in a relatively fair way. People who are good at work should be cultivated when they go to work in the future. However, time has changed, and what is in short supply now is not people who can talk freely, but professionals. Some people need to understand economics, some need to understand engineering, some need to understand hydrology, and some need to understand arithmetic .These professionals cannot be cultivated after learning the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics, but they have to go through the accumulation and training of a large amount of knowledge in the early stage, so there is an Academy of Sciences."

"Furthermore, officials trained only by studying the Four Books and Five Classics may not necessarily lead to fewer corrupt officials. If everyone can be a sage, why did the court fight against corruption in the past? Moral education is an auxiliary means, and the most important thing is to use power. Put it in a cage."

"As for what Cheng Yi of the Song Dynasty said, "starving to death is a small matter, but injustice is a major issue", it is actually not the case. From the Song Dynasty to the present, folk widows remarried everywhere. The sage cannot forbid it, so it can be seen that women's remarriage is in line with the people's will."

"Foot binding is a bad habit, and it is not conducive to women's work. The prohibition of foot binding is to liberate productivity. Men keep short hair for hygiene, and second, to avoid danger caused by long hair getting caught in machinery when operating machinery. Third, it is not convenient for military drills. You don’t even understand these things.”

Zhu Youjian refuted Qu Shixu's point of view impatiently, but he knew it was useless to say so.

Sure enough, the person on the opposite side said: "Your Majesty, how did you learn the sophistry of the Kyushu Army? If even your Majesty is bewitched by them, then our China is in danger."

Zhu Youjian couldn't help rolling his eyes, and his emotions were wasted again: "Mr. Zhou recently came to the Academy of Sciences. This person's understanding of things is many times better than those of you who can only read sage books rigidly. I advise you If you have time, go and communicate with him more, many of the vernacular articles he wrote are thought-provoking. But with your current thinking, I am afraid that if you go, you will only be scolded by him as a feudal remnant.”

"What Mr. Zhou? Zhou Yanru? What is the vernacular?" Qu Shixu was puzzled, thinking that Zhu Youjian was talking about Zhou Yanru, his political enemy during the Chongzhen Dynasty and the chief assistant of the cabinet at that time.

"Of course not." Zhu Youjian stood up and pushed open the door of the hut.

"Your Majesty, you haven't agreed to Wei Chen. Wei Chen and others have been secretly accumulating power for a long time, and they are waiting for you to speak!" Qu Shixu said anxiously.

"Just ask for good luck." Zhu Youjian left here.

Qu Shixu hurriedly opened the door and came out, but he saw that Zhu Youjian had already left, and there were several big men in plain clothes waiting for him.

"Mr. Qu, will you come with us?" one of the big men said.

"Who are you?" The restless Qu Shixu wanted to escape from here, but several plainclothes men had blocked all the places where he could escape.

"The intelligence department is on a mission. You have been arrested. You have the right to remain silent, but every word you say will become evidence in court." Two plainclothes men personally restrained him, a frail scholar.

"I won't say anything, I did it alone!" Qu Shixu hurriedly shouted knowing that he was in the hands of the Intelligence Department and that he was probably going to die.

"We have identified your cronies, and you will meet soon. Take him away, and be careful not to cause influence in the Academy of Sciences." The plainclothes man from the Intelligence Department caught Qu Shixu in the hut of the Liaodong Academy of Sciences, afraid of this incident Known by the students of the Academy of Sciences, the influence is not good.

Zhu Youjian, who was hiding in the dark on the other side, looked at Qu Shixu who was taken away, and shook his head helplessly. He had persuaded them several times, but what could he do if they wanted to kill themselves.

Now Zhu Youjian is only in his early twenties, and his thinking has not yet been finalized. After staying in the Academy of Sciences for the past few years, he met masters of various disciplines who have gathered together for hundreds of years, and his thinking inevitably suffered a huge impact.In addition to scientific giants such as Newton and Tesla, the Academy of Sciences also has some modern literary giants, who covered hundreds of subjects and accumulated tens of thousands of volumes of works in just a few years, which fascinated him.

"Little Zhu, what are you doing here? If you have time, accompany me to play cards with Lao Xu, and study how to promote vernacular Chinese." A middle-aged man wearing a plain Chinese gown and smoking a pipe walked over and saw Zhu You The inspector stood under the eaves in a daze, so he said.

"Okay, Mr. Zhou." Zhu Youjian stopped thinking about the Donglin Party.

　The third watch did its best.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)