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Chapter 745 Polarized Scholars (One More)
There are already many scholars in the store drinking to their heart's content, reciting poems and composing Fu, and hiring fireworks girls as companions, doing all the romantic things.The waiter in the shop shuttled between the tables with wine jugs and dishes.

"Guest officer, this is the steamed white fish you ordered." The waiter carefully served Chu Yun and the others.Just from Chu Yun and the others' clothes, the waiter knew that they were from a wealthy family.

"Hmm... The little sister I met on the boat cooked delicious food..." Goya said after taking a sip.

"Shh!" Yu Cheng glared at Goya. Isn't it just looking for trouble? Chu Yun just forgot the argument with Chen Zilong just now, but Goya wanted to bring it up again.

"Hmph." Goya snorted dissatisfied.

Chu Yun was casually listening to the discussions of the scholars in the restaurant.Most of them were discussing the upcoming Huqiu Conference, and the topic was more or less inseparable from the Kyushu Army that abolished stereotyped essays.If they knew that Chu Yun, the commander of the Kyushu Army, was in this store, they would probably be collectively fried.

"Brother Zhongqing, I heard that two or three years ago you went to Nanjing to take the Yingtian Township Examination. It happened that the Kyushu Army attacked Nanjing City, which caused you to miss the township exam."

Suddenly Chu Yun heard the conversation of three or four students behind him.

"Well, this is also a trick of good fortune. Who would have thought that after ten years of hard study, the Ming Dynasty would disappear at the most critical moment." The person called Zhongqing said.

"The Kyushu Army ruined your rural examination. Your ancestor Shangguan went to the right servant of the Nanjing Military Department, and the 800 mu of land was confiscated by the Kyushu Army at a low price. Do you have any hatred?" one of the scholars asked.

"There is no hatred! At the beginning, the Kyushu Army confiscated the fields and distributed them to the tenant farmers. They just compensated our Gu family with a few silver coins, which caused our Gu family to split up and each branch to fall apart. Our branch had to find ways to operate some other Only by doing the work can we survive." Gu Zhongqing said.

The Gu family... Gu Zhongqing?Chu Yun seemed to have seen this name in some book before.The ancients liked to call each other's name, so Zhongqing is the name of the other party.What is your real name?
I only heard a student ask Gu Zhongqing: "Since Brother Zhongqing has hatred for the Kyushu Army, why did I hear that Brother Zhongqing will go to Nanjing City to participate in the 'Science Academy Entrance Examination' of the Kyushu Army at the beginning of autumn?"

"At first, I was also in a slump, but then I accidentally turned to the "Tianxia Junguo Tuzhi" published by the Kyushu Army, and found that there are such vast lands and oceans in the world besides China, which really overturned my previous concepts. You may not know that a year and a half ago in Suzhou Prefecture, "Jiuzhou Daily" was published. It was published every half month. In the past two or three years, in order to improve the situation of my family, I did business from Kunshan to Suzhou Prefecture. It took half a year for the newspaper to arrive. The "Kyushu Daily" recorded which places the Kyushu Army has conquered recently, what progress has been made in the research of the Academy of Sciences in various fields, which section of the railway is being built, and where the telegraph line has been laid. It is simply unimaginable " Gu Zhongqing said.

"We have also read the "Kyushu Daily", and the description on it is simply Liaozhai. They said that there is an iron car that can move by itself, but I have never seen it. And the electric lights that illuminate the night and the day are as bright. I haven’t seen it either. Everyone watched it as a pastime.” The other scholars said.

"Seeing is believing, but I think it's not that there are such things in the world, but they haven't appeared in our Jiangnan. I heard that building these things is very complicated, such as iron wagons, and railways must be built first, and this railway We also need to set up mines and iron smelting plants, and the tin wagons will not be able to run until everything is done, and it will take a few years." Gu Zhongqing said.

Chu Yun nodded secretly.The Jianghuai Chief Secretary and Jiangsu-Zhejiang Chief Secretary are indeed quietly opening smelters to manufacture railroad tracks, and telegraph lines are also being laid.However, the important achievements of the industrial revolution can only be popularized on a year-by-year basis. How could it be possible for trains and telegraphs to be released directly without the foreshadowing in the early stage.It is estimated that in two or three years, there will be steam trains galloping with black smoke in the Jiangnan area.

I hope that these scholars will not make any troubles about dragon veins and ancestral graves to hinder the progress of the train.

"I think that the Kyushu Army is drawing cakes for us to satisfy our hunger, pretending to be ghosts. Brother Gu, it's better to read less newspapers from the Kyushu Army, so as not to be poisoned by them. Also, the Academy of Sciences is not a good place, and what you learn is all at the bottom. I heard It is ridiculous and ridiculous to say that the gentleman in it will teach how to build a house and how to farm in the school. I have never seen such a gentleman or such a private school." A scholar said.

"That is, the private school does not study the Four Books and Five Classics, but learns about Wa people and tenant farmers. In my opinion, even if Brother Zhongqing successfully enters the Academy of Sciences, you may be in charge of a few fields and dozens of Wa people after you come out. "Another student also sneered.

"Brothers, agriculture is the foundation of the country, why is the status of farmers low? The Wa people build houses for us, why is the status of the Wa people low? After managing hundreds of millions of acres of land in the world, the people in the world can have enough food. If you can manage millions of people in the world, and all the people in the world can have a stable place to live, isn't that a good official?" Gu Zhongqing said.

"Brother Zhongqing is really pedantic. Why do you need to learn how to farm the fields? Just leave these things to the servants. We scholars only care about self-cultivation, governing the family, and running the country. How can we do everything ourselves." Many students laughed dumbly.

Gu Zhongqing still wanted to say more, but he stopped talking, he knew that even if he said more, it would be useless, now there was a gap between him and the group of like-minded classmates in the past.

Gu... Zhongqing?Chu Yun always felt very familiar.This person is obviously a relatively civilized young scholar.

Among the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, polarization began.Most of the scholars who opposed the abolition of stereotyped essays by the Kyushu Army belonged to the old school.There are also a very small number of new school students who were influenced by the Kyushu Army, but they were mixed with a large number of old school students. They were afraid of being regarded as aliens so they dared not speak out. They were only secretly preparing for the entrance examination of the Academy of Sciences.This Gu Zhongqing is one of them.

"Gu Zhongqing." Chu Yun said the name again, suddenly a flash of inspiration came.

Gu Yanwu, whose name is Zhongqing!Because the word happened to be related to the Qing Dynasty, after the Qing people entered the customs, they changed Zhongqing to "Ningren".

Chu Yun still clearly remembers one of his famous sayings "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world"!
His idea of ​​applying the world and limiting the monarchy has great enlightenment significance for later generations, but he did not expect that such a famous historical figure would appear here at this time, and he was a Confucian scholar in his 20s.

(End of this chapter)