The first phase of the new campus is not large, but the highlight of the building is an auditorium with a capacity of 1,200 spectators. The combination of traditional architectural techniques and the use of new materials such as cement and glass allows the auditorium to not only reduce the setting of internal columns, but also have a sound transmission effect that exceeds the standard.

After inspecting the new campus, Zhu Youzhen delivered his speech to the teachers and students of Yenching University in the new auditorium. Originally, this was just a very common reprimand.

But as he spoke, looking at the students who were crowded in the audience and listening to the speech attentively, Zhu Youzhen on the stage quickly got out of the manuscript in his hand and said freely: "... Today is the day of the completion ceremony of the first phase of the new teaching area of Yenching University, and it is a day worth celebrating.

Although the scale of the first phase of the project is not large, it has not been able to solve the problem of insufficient teaching space in today's universities. However, you can be patient, and after the second and third phases of follow-up projects are launched one after another, the crowded teaching space of Yenching University will finally be able to be completely solved.

However, the material needs are easy to solve, but it does not mean that Yenching University can be called a real university with a new campus. You are all readers, and you should know that the word "university" comes from the article "The Book of Rites and Universities".

The way of the university is in Mingmingde, in being close to the people, and in stopping at perfection. I will no longer explain the meaning of this passage, because everyone understands it. What I want to say is that the university is a place for teaching and educating people, so the most important thing at Yenching University is not the buildings on the campus, but the people here. It is your future that determines the status of Yenching University in my Ming Dynasty, not these exquisite buildings.

Therefore, what I want to say to you is that the so-called university does not mean that there is a building, but that there is a master. The reason why I changed the name of Guozijian to a university is that I hope that this university can educate not only a group of elites who are officials, but real talents who can build this country...

Most of the students here are young people of the same age as me, and although they are all about the same age, before the end of the speech, I would like to say a few words to you in my capacity as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Presumably everyone should know that a new club called the Youth Society has recently been established in Beijing, and the organizers of this club should be familiar to everyone, that is, Xia Yunyi and Niu Jinxing, students of Yenching University.

I have seen some of the ideas of the Youth Society, and I think it is very good, and today, while everyone is here, I will let Niu Jinxing of the Youth Society tell you what the constitution of the Youth Society is. ”

After being named by Zhu Youzhen, Niu Jinxing, who was sitting in the second row, paused for a moment, then suppressed the excitement in his heart and stood up, and after saluting Chongzhen, he said to everyone with a red face.

"The purpose of the establishment of my youth society is to help His Majesty govern the Ming Dynasty... Based on the suggestions of our members, we have established 12 constitutions.

The first is that all scholars who participate in this society must swear allegiance to His Majesty, to the Ming Dynasty, and to the Chinese civilization..."

Zhu Youzhen, like everyone in the auditorium, quietly listened to Niu Jinxing's brief introduction to the Youth Society. In fact, this is also the second purpose of his participation in this ceremony today, to officially stand up for the Youth Society, so that the Youth Society can obtain a semi-official status.

No matter how good Xia Yunyi's reputation is, he is just a promising young scholar at this time, although he has a certain appeal among young people, he cannot convince those scholars from famous families.

Although, with the passage of time, with the development momentum of the Youth Society, the Society will eventually become the most appealing group among the young scholars of the Ming Dynasty. But for Chongzhen, this development speed is still a little slower.

He hoped to accelerate the growth and development of the Youth Society, and take advantage of the period when Donglin was weak and the Fushe had just been suppressed, and use the Youth Society to spread the new ideas of Yenching University among young people.

Zhu Youzhen, who has a soul from later generations, knows better than anyone in this era what is called ideological struggle. For the ideological position, if you don't occupy it, it will be occupied by the enemy.

The reason why although the political group headed by Wei Zhongxian controlled the government during the Apocalypse, the public opinion of Shilin was biased towards the Donglin Party, which is nothing more than that the Donglin Party firmly occupied the ideological control power of the Ming Dynasty, so they always held the control power of public opinion.

Although the Wei Zhongxian group beat the Donglin party in the court, it was beaten into the so-called eunuch group by the Donglin party with public opinion, which is a vicious party composed of villains and treacherous people around the Son of Heaven.

Because of this, even if the policies introduced by the Wei Zhongxian group were beneficial to the Ming Dynasty and the people, they would be boycotted by the gentry in the local area.

In the previous reform of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen was involved in the interests of some gentry and wealthy merchants involved in maritime trade smuggling in the southeast, the nobles and generals in the army, the children of the clans in Gyeonggi and the disaster-stricken areas, and the local tyrants and inferior gentry.

These people were already ostracized by the orthodox gentry, so when the emperor touched their interests, the backlash was not so intense. After all, the co-opted pirates and the reorganized new army had allowed the emperor to suppress them to the death.

However, the subsequent deepening of reform has begun to infringe on the real interests of the Ming gentry class. If there is no ability to control ideology, the possibility of failure in deepening reform will greatly increase.

Although the Ming gentry class can be called a category in general, it does not mean that this class is an indestructible whole. As a matter of fact, there are all kinds of contradictions between the gentry in the north and the gentry in the south, between the famous and the poor, between the newly promoted gentry and the declining gentry, between the good gentry and the inferior gentry, and between the gentry in the disaster-stricken areas and the gentry in the grain-producing areas.

As long as Chongzhen did not go crazy and wanted to get rid of all the gentry and landlords in one go, then dealing with these gentry was undoubtedly the most appropriate and feasible strategy. It was also an effective way to call on some of the gentry to change their thinking and turn their attention from the land to the new industry and commerce, thereby weakening the power of the traditional gentry.

The establishment of the Youth Society is to entrust Chongzhen's good wishes for the next generation of gentry to change their ideological concepts. This is why he attaches so much importance to the Youth Society, and before leaving the capital to go to Jizhou to preside over military exercises, he has to come over to support the Youth Society in Yenching University.

After listening to Niu Jinxing's words, the students and teachers in the auditorium couldn't help but whisper. The teachers and students here are naturally no strangers to the name of the Youth Society, after all, the founding backbone of the Society are all students of this school.

However, although the students thought that the idea of the Youth Society was good, they still thought that it was just a literati society that had no effect. Although it attracts some enthusiastic young people, it does not attract those students who just want to use Yenching University to study and step into the professional career.

Today, the emperor personally came forward to support the Youth Society at the ceremony, which naturally greatly shocked these teachers and students. Let them finally understand that the gossip about the Youth Society in the past is actually not a rumor.

Although Niu Jinxing's introduction to the Youth Society had been checked by Chongzhen in advance, when Chongzhen, who was standing on the stage, listened to Niu Jinxing's introduction, he still felt a little unsatisfied.

So in the following closing speech, Zhu Youzhen commented on Niu Jinxing's introduction: "Niu Jinxing, a student of the Youth Society, has told us about the purpose and constitution of the establishment of the Youth Society.

I think the intention of this society is very good, but it is still too conservative in thinking. I think that we might as well raise the idea of the establishment of the society and set up the constitution of the society more openly.

I believe that the purpose of the establishment of the Youth Society should be changed to work hard to build Daming into a Datong society, which is more appropriate.

And young people who want to participate in the society, as long as they have the will to love the Ming Dynasty and love and maintain the Chinese civilization, whether they want to be loyal to me or not, there is no need to delve too deeply.

Why do I say this, because in my opinion, whether it is the Son of Heaven or the common people, we should put love for the motherland and Chinese civilization in the first place. If there is no country for people, just like the skin of hair, if there is no country, where will there be any monarch and father?

In addition, I hope that the constitution of the Youth Society will be more open, and I also hope that the young people of Daming can have more open minds.

Because I have always believed that the future of the Ming Dynasty will depend on you and the young people of the Ming Dynasty, not on the Gungun princes who rule the court today.

A philosopher once said: The world is yours and ours, but in the end it is yours. Young people are full of vigor and prosperity, like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. The hope of the Ming Dynasty is pinned on you, the world belongs to you, and the future of China also belongs to you. I am convinced of this.

Therefore, the young people of the Ming Dynasty should have two points, one is to be vigorous; The second is to be modest and prudent.

Why do we say this, because what we want to build is a Datong society that no one has ever seen before, and what we want to create is an unprecedented achievement, so naturally it is impossible to have a smooth and smooth road, and we cannot continue to walk on the old road that our predecessors could not follow.

Therefore, we must be full of vigor and vigor, not afraid of the difficulties and difficulties of the road ahead, and not afraid of failure again and again, because I believe that even if the road under our feet is tortuous, our future is full of brightness.

Of course, not being afraid of failure and hardship does not mean that we should deliberately look for difficult and dangerous ways to walk. It is also necessary and necessary to learn from the experience of our predecessors and use it to guide our progress, so we must also maintain a modest and cautious style..."

When Chongzhen's car left Chengxian Street, the students at Yenching University suddenly became boiling. Chongzhen's demands and evaluations of young people have taken away their attention from the university's new campus.

For a long time, whether it is the Donglin Party or the leader of the Fushe Society, although he has a slogan of caring about national affairs, he calls on young scholars to work with him to change the political status quo of the Ming Dynasty. However, they all demanded that the young men follow themselves and do what they were told.

Today, the emperor thinks that they are the protagonists of the future of the Ming Dynasty, rather than those who are powerful ministers and leaders of the Shilin, which undoubtedly greatly stimulates their sense of pride and responsibility, and they begin to re-examine their own existence value.