A "The Dignity of the Soldier" is like a summer thunder that stirs the whole world can not be quiet for a while, not to mention ordinary scholars, even some retired soldiers are also stunned by this article, they are even excited about it for a few days, after all, maybe they participate in local affairs with the identity of "martial arts gentry", but in the face of "ploughing and reading gentry", it is inevitable that some confidence is insufficient, after all, in comparison, martial arts are far less noble than scholars, and scholars are all literary stars in the sky.

But now an article of His Majesty also compares them to rivers and stars, what does this mean? It means that in front of the scholars, these "martial arts gentry" will not be a head shorter than those people!

When the "martial arts gentry" all over the world were excited about it, they felt a chill in their hearts because of this article, and they had thought that one day the Xingqian Dynasty would respect the soldiers to such a degree.

As a professor of music and rhythm at Taizhou Academy, Yuan Yuling has been studying the piano for a period of time in the past - this is a kind of borrowing from the Western clavika and Qingbaro guqin, using it as a prototype to make a piano known as "a piano with strong and weak tone changes", and the mechanical device of hitting the strings with a hammer is used on the piano to replace the mechanical device of the animal feather fluctuating string pronunciation used in the past for the clavika and qingbaro guqin. As a result, the sound is more expressive, the sound is richer, and the sound can be directly controlled by touching the keys with your fingers.

For Yuan Yuling, who is proficient in music and has already made a decision, although he will study Western instruments with great interest and the new instruments developed by domestic musicians with Western instruments, it does not mean that he will ignore current affairs.

As a living of Chongzhen, he promised to be full of four books and five classics, since it was not for the love of a prostitute, he would have gone to school for the revolution. Maybe now has already been out of the official, in fact, he also had a career, when the Qing Dynasty went south, he was entrusted by the Suzhou gentry to demote the table, to be appointed as the prefect of Jingzhou, and was later impeached and dismissed, first the overseas Chinese will be judged, until a few years ago, he was invited by a friend to teach music in the academy, of course, for him who is proficient in music, he is more attracted to him is probably the various Western musical instruments and Western music that poured into the Ming Dynasty after the Xingqian, these music and musical instruments from foreign lands, can always give people some surprises.

The original Yuan Yuling has decided to make a name for himself, although in the past few years, he has increased his knowledge of Western music, and in this regard, he can not only compose music and compose music, but he can also write with a pen, but he doesn't know anything about practical learning, many practical knowledge about Western music.

And for those, he was not very interested. What's more, compared to fame and fortune, how can it be compared to music that makes people feel comfortable. However, this "The Dignity of the Soldier" made his mood become excited, and the silence of the past few years was gone, replaced by a full stomach full of depression.

And he didn't have any intention of music, for a whole day, Yuan Yuling was there to read the article, and in the evening, Fang Wen came to visit. Before Yuan Yuling could complain, Fang Wen shared the same distress and discernment. While the two were discussing the article worriedly, the melodious sound of the piano next door kept coming in, which made them even more annoyed.

"I don't know if Gu Ningren has thought about this?"

Fang Zhi asked with a frown.

"Doesn't he know that after this article, it will inevitably cause a shock in the world?"

Fang Wen, who is also Chongzhen Zhusheng, is different from Yuan Yuling, he did not appear when he was in the Qing Dynasty, and he was more famous for his integrity during his seclusion in Nanjing, and his poems were famous, and celebrities all interacted with him.

"Where did he have the heart to think about this, now the army is marching westward, and the captives are fleeing thousands of miles away!"

Yuan Yuling pointed in the northwest direction and said.

"The more west the road is, the more difficult it is, I heard in the academy that after passing through Xi'an, it is thousands of miles of mountain roads, and the army's westward expedition is bound to be difficult, now is to continue the westward expedition, directly discuss the Western Regions, or pause, the imperial court has not yet decided, at this time, as the first assistant, and there are so many questions, besides, our majesty, who can persuade it?"

Yuan Yuling, who is in his sixties this year, couldn't help but sigh when the words fell.

"Even if he persuades him, what's the use?"

"Actually, there is no need for him to do anything, as long as His Majesty insists on going his own way, he can come forward to stop him......"

Fang Wen smiled bitterly, looked at Yuan Yuling and said.

"If you can't persuade you, you have to persuade you! Today, it is Mingjun, but Mingjun, there are times when he makes mistakes, from the first year of Xingqian to the present, His Majesty has suppressed Shilin for seven years, and today he respects the military like this, how can it be a blessing for the country over time? ”

Like almost all the people in Shilin, Fang Wen also believes that His Majesty has always been hostile to Shilin, from the abolition of the imperial examination to the bachelors of the academy, and now to the military men, all because of his dissatisfaction with Shilin.

Yuan Yuling didn't speak, he just paced around the room with his hands behind his back.

Your Majesty is hostile to Shilin!

"The ministers are mistaken, the monarch is dead, and in the world of two hundred and seventy-seven years, once it is abandoned, it will be mistaken by the traitorous ministers, so that it is so."

Turning his head to look at Fang Wen, Yuan Yuling said such a sentence, this is the last words of Emperor Xiaolie.

"Since the martyrdom of Emperor Xiaolie in Coal Mountain, in the heart of Your Majesty, the hostility towards us and other people in the forest has been difficult to eliminate......"

Stopping his steps, Yuan Yuling said with a wry smile.

"Traitor...... In the bottom of His Majesty's heart, there are too many traitors in Shilin, so he will suppress Shilin, and even do not hesitate to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, through the abolition of the imperial examination, completely destroyed the foundation of Shilin, you say, today we still call ourselves Shilin, and in another 20, 30 or even 40 years, when we are all buried in the loess, there will still be Shilin in the bottom of the world? ”

"Isn't there still a academy......?"

"Academy? We have a teacher, a teacher, a classmate, a year, and a protégé, so that we have Shilin, and today's college professors teach several classes, and students have been studying for several years, and there are several teachers or even more than a dozen students, so that the relationship may be as close as in the old days? At most, it's just a mutual support between classmates, as for the teacher? ”

Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, Yuan Yuling looked at Fang Wen and asked rhetorically.

"In the old days, the master could bring his disciples to the officialdom, but today I am equal to the academy, how much help do I have for the students? Is the abolition of the imperial examination a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle? ”

Shaking his head, Yuan Yuling finally sighed again.

"The real bottom of the kettle is that the world's heroes and sages are all from the academy, so a thousand years from the Niu Li Party to fight, we and other scholars take the imperial examination as the door, and form a scholarly relationship with master and apprentice, classmates, and protégés, and then they are torn apart, and since then, there has been no more Shilin......"

Only when he was in the academy did he know how Shilin was going to the "end" after the Xingqian New Year, and Yuan Yuling, as a witness, inevitably looked a little lost when he mentioned the end of Shilin.

Perhaps, in the past few years, he still gathered with friends as in the past, talking about poetry, writing, music and music, but on the other hand, he had already seen the end of Shilin, and this doom was not so much caused by His Majesty, in fact, in the final analysis, Shilin was just his own sin, and His Majesty was just adding fuel to the fire.

"This ......"

His brows were tightly locked, and in the face of such an unwilling fact, Fang Wen was suddenly speechless. Indeed, just as Yuan Keling said, Shilin has come to an end, and in this end, even if they fight, what can they gain?

"Scholars set their hearts for heaven and earth, set up their lives for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations! Shall I just sit back and watch ......"

Without waiting for Fang Wen to finish speaking, Yuan Keling sighed.

"Even if we fight, what do we fight for? Ten years, twenty years, a few decades later, this Shilin will no longer exist, so, stop, after your and my generation pass away, do you say that there is still Shilin in this world? To continue learning for the sake of the saints? Don't forget, when Your Majesty reinterprets my Confucian classics, the Shilin in your and my mouths no longer exists, and I am just a group of old people who are about to die. ”

It's just a group of people who are about to die of old age, what else to talk about for the sake of continuing to learn?

Such a long sigh only shocked Fang Wen for a while, this is the reality that he and many others are unwilling to face, in the past many years, the reason why they are obsessed with landscapes and obsessed with calligraphy and painting articles is not precisely to avoid this reality?

Most of the time, people are not willing to face some realities, even for people like Fang Wen, he is also unwilling to face the reality that he is "old" and dying, but now Yuan Keling directly told him this fact.

"Fight?"

Shaking his head, Yuan Keling asked rhetorically.

"What do we fight for? Even if it is like Gu Ningren and others, how can they not know that although they are from Shilin, they also know that today's Shilin is just dying, even if they fight, fighting back and forth is just fighting for nothing, besides, how can they get it back? Your Majesty, this article, such as today, who doesn't know? If you can't get it back, what else can you fight for? If you are annoyed by Your Majesty, how can Your Majesty give in? ”

Although Yuan Keling was also very surprised when he first saw the article, but after thinking about it for a day, he calmly accepted the reality, after all, he was obsessed with music and knew very well that Shilin no longer existed, in this case. What "martial arts gentry" and "ploughing gentry" naturally lost the meaning of contention.

"However, do we just watch Your Majesty go on the slope of "Chongwu and Suppressing Literature"? In this way, how can it be the blessing of the Ming Dynasty, "Chongwu and suppressing literature" in the end is the common people, and it is the world of my Ming Dynasty! ”

Fang Wen shouted with some excitement.

"If there is no appeasement today, although the Qing captives are defeated and retreated to the Western Regions, but if I blindly "worship martial arts and suppress literature", he will lose the balance day by day, the martial arts will rise, and the country will inevitably fall into turmoil. Daming is in danger! ”

The reason why Fang Wen, who had experienced the Jiashen Heavenly Transformation, was so excited was precisely because he knew the price of alien entry.

"But Your Majesty admires the military, not because of the threat of barbarians, since the Song Dynasty, my Han people were defeated by the Mengyuan first, and then defeated by the Manchu Qing, such a painful lesson, how can Your Majesty ignore it, the reason why the Song Dynasty "Chongwen suppressed the military" is because of the chaos of the warlords from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the world's lives are ruined, but don't forget, even if the lives are ruined, this world is always the world of my Han people, and civilization is always my Chinese civilization, besides, even if the lives are ruined, how can it be compared to the Mengyuan Massacre and the Manchu Qing Massacre? Moreover, they not only intended to kill all our Han people, but also destroyed my civilization, regressed my civilization, changed my clothes, changed my voice, and even changed Xia to Yi, the way of "advocating literature and suppressing martial arts" ......"

Yuan Keling's eyes drooped slightly, he walked to the piano, and his fingers tapped on the keys.

"In any case, Your Majesty will not take ...... again"

Yuan Keling's words did not make Fang Wen feel strange, in fact, from the Qing Dynasty to the customs but everyone with a little conscience is reflecting, and after Xingqian, the Song Dynasty died in Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty died in the Qing Dynasty is even more deeply reflective, although there are such and such reasons, but in any case, "Chongwen and suppress the military" can not be separated from the relationship. It is precisely because of this that everyone can accept His Majesty's previous admiration for soldiers to a certain extent, but emotionally unable to accept the reality of "advocating martial arts and suppressing literature".

"But blindly "advocating martial arts and suppressing literature" will always lead to chaos, Your Majesty is a Ming monarch who can still restrain the generals in the army, but what about the future? In case there are wolf ambitions......"

Fang Wen's tone seemed a little not lost, this loss may be precisely because he saw the end of Shilin, and also saw the inevitability of "advocating martial arts and suppressing literature", at this time, he could even understand why in the Song Dynasty, those prominent generals would be willing to be a foot valley Weng, because they saw the reality clearly.

When the emperor has already determined the determination of "advocating martial arts and suppressing literature", it is impossible for anyone to change His Majesty's mind, His Majesty is not for himself to "worship martial arts and suppress literature", and even he chose to put the Zhu family's country in the second place, he wants to preserve the Chinese civilization.

Just like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, no matter how the rebellious ministers and thieves usurped power, in the end, the country was still Han Chinese, and the Chinese civilization was never lost at the hands of foreign races, which may also be a kind of helplessness!

"You've got to figure out a way, after all, it's not the best option."

Fang Wen's words made Yuan Keling smile helplessly, and then said.

"There's really no way to think about it, there's only one bad idea, don't laugh."

"Come on, it's better to have a bad idea than no idea."

Fang Wen immediately urged.

"Say it, let's discuss it together, maybe we can really discuss an idea......"