When Zhu Youzhen gave a speech to Yanjing teachers and students on the playground stage, the thousands of students in the audience were silent. From the emperor's halo worn by Chongzhen, the students paid more attention to the meaning of the emperor's words.

Since Emperor Taizu, the number of times the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have inspected Guozijian is about less than the number of times Chongzhen inspected Yenching University in a year. Unlike Emperor Taizu, who asked the scholars to discipline the prisoners harshly, Chongzhen was tolerant of the students of Yenching University, and even granted Yenching University several privileges, and no one on the university campus was allowed to bow down; Without the permission of the principal, the military and police are not allowed to enter the campus to arrest students, etc.

Chongzhen's attempt to shape the independent personality and free and open academic style of Yenching University students in this way should be said to be not without rewards. Under this kind of education, the students of Yenching University are far more interested in the pursuit of science and truth than in the imperial examination.

Of course, the fact that the students of Yenching University are able to make such a high profile is inseparable from the fact that they can use their graduation certificates to enter the university, the customs premier's yamen, the industry under the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the overseas territorial government offices without having to take the imperial examination. In the service of these yamen, they also enjoy the treatment of the seniority and resume of Jinshi officials, and even under the mutual recommendation of alumni, their Jinshi officials are more likely to enter the emperor's field of vision.

In such an environment, the students of Yenching University despised the scholars who sat together at every turn and talked about how to take the imperial examination and become officials, just as the scholars despised money in the past, and the students also regarded these old people as the merchants of the scholars, and regarded knowledge as goods to be sold by merchants at a price, trying to sell them at a good price, which was completely detached from the original purpose of the master to educate the world.

This attitude of the students of Yenching University is gradually becoming the mainstream value of the Beijing society. The values of the Southern scholars, famous prostitutes, and the imperial examinations were being despised and subverted by the students of the Northern University. And the poetry and poetry that the southern scholars admired are also changing from the standard of personal knowledge to the way of self-entertainment.

The knowledge that students in the north today advocate is either to teach people what the real world is like in their own lives, or how to use the laws of nature to help people solve some social problems, or to make a machine that reduces people's labor burden to benefit the masses.

All in all, the students of Yenching University have reached a preliminary consensus that the purpose of learning knowledge is to solve most of the problems that arise in this society, and ultimately promote the society to the world of Datong, not to make an official position for themselves to exploit the people or glorify their ancestors.

This change in the atmosphere has made the northern scholars more willing to apply for Yenching University, and some people even think that there is no difference between the honor of taking the Yenching University entrance examination and the imperial examination list. The atmosphere of Yenching University's admiration for practical learning has also made many southern scholars who are disgusted with science come to study abroad.

The students of Yenching University, who grew up under the protection of the emperor, naturally loved the emperor more than those scholars outside the school. What they love is not the crown on Zhu Youzhen's head, but the hot land that Zhu Youzhen gave them to pursue learning freely.

And the emperor's speech to them today inspired these students to be vaguely cultivated by Yenching University, and the sense of ownership of the world as their own responsibility, made them feel surging. The three Wang brothers Wang Jiezhi, Wang Shenzhi, and Wang Fuzhi, who were in Beijing to take the exam, and Gu Yanwu and Guizhuang, members of the Fushe who traveled to the north, heard the emperor's speech, and the thunderous applause around them couldn't help but change slightly.

After leaving Yenching University, on the way back to the apartment, Gu Yanwu couldn't help but sigh and said to his friend Guizhuang: "How can a character like Your Majesty be deceived by the villains around him. It seems that Wei Zhongxian's comeback is not as simple as we imagined. ”

Gui Zhuang also replied with a heavy heart: "From this point of view, Your Majesty may have a great prejudice against the famous family in my Jiangnan." I'd rather risk the world to do nothing, but also use Wei Zhongxian to rectify my Jiangnan gentry, I really don't know how to reverse His Majesty's prejudices..."

Unlike Gu and Gui, who had sad faces, the three Wang brothers who listened to the emperor's speech were extremely excited. The prosperous and full of various theories in the capital, the dull and calm Hengyang really opened the eyes of the three brothers. The unheard of knowledge and experiments in Yenching University made the three of them feel that this time the north was not in vain, and even if they failed to do it this time, the three of them felt that the trip was worthwhile.

In contrast, what they have seen and heard in the capital these days, plus the emperor's speech they heard today, they heard the news of their father and uncle's promotion, and they were even more pleasantly surprised. So in the evening, when Wang Chao and his brother Wang Tingpin returned to the apartment, they heard that their three sons were still discussing the speech of the emperor during the day.

Wang Chaoping couldn't help but say to his brother Wan'er: "Your Majesty's speech at Yenching University today seems to have really touched people's hearts." ”

Wang Tingpin said to his brother with some worry: "The younger brother is worried that the gap between the northern and southern scholars is about to deepen. Although His Majesty asked everyone to put aside their views on the door, the reform policies issued by the imperial court were all favorable to the northerners and not to the southerners. His Majesty's speech today is also biased towards the students of Yenching University rather than scholars from outside the school.

I am very worried that my brother will be appointed to the Board of Education, and I am afraid that he will be on the cusp at this time. The imperial examination system is actually the advancement stage of the world's corporals, and if you want to reform it in this regard, I am afraid that you will be angry. ”

Wang Chaopin gradually put away the smile on his face, and said with a serious expression: "Having said that, but the holy grace is unbearable..."

The controversy in the capital that was originally caused by the teaching problems of Yenching University was suppressed under Chongzhen's timely firefighting. Whether it was the Jesuit missionaries, or Galileo and his disciples, there was still some leeway in this foreign land, after all, they did not have a reliable civil base in the country for them to drive the battle.

The emperor's public statement not only won the support of the students of Yenching University, but also dispelled the other plans of some people who wanted to use the topic to play. When the social atmosphere in the capital of Daming gradually became vigorous, the days in Shenyang were less than a year.

At the beginning of February of the 10th year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji received bad news from the north. At the end of last autumn, he sent to the Heilongjiang valley to sweep the Huerha tribe: his troops were along the north of the Nenjiang River, joined up with the local defenders of the border town of Morgan, and then crossed the Heilongjiang River to capture the Huerha people on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River. However, the Huerha, who had always been poorly armed and poorly equipped, were equipped with powerful arquebuses and spears, and after ambushing the Houjin soldiers at the mouth of the Jieya River, they burned down the villages along the river and retreated to the Jieya River. After paying more than 30 casualties on this road, only more than 100 Huerhardin were captured.

The other line of soldiers went down the Songhua River, swept the three surnamed cities to the mouth of the Songhua River, and then along the area from the Heilongjiang River to the mouth of the Ussuri River, and uprooted the local Huerha villages and the fortresses of the Ming people. Due to the fear of the strength of the Ming people, the number of soldiers on this road was enough to 12 Niu Lu, and nearly 6 or 700 tribal soldiers were recruited from the Songhua River Valley, with a total of 1,400 people, and they also carried two tiger squat cannons.

It should be said that until the mouth of the Ussuri River, which is called Boli by the local Huerha people, the journey was extremely smooth. In addition to the forced landing of 18 villages along the river, 12 Ming outpost guards placed at the mouth of the Songhua River were also captured.

However, when they arrived in Boli, they discovered that the Ming army had built a wooden and stone castle on Mount Tulemi on the right bank of the Ussuri River. The right bank of the Ussuri River, with the exception of a small flat area by the river, is mountainous and primeval forest. The Ming fortress on Mount Tulemi just controlled the flat land at the confluence of the Ussuri River and the Heilongjiang River.

It is also said that with this fortress, the Ming army controlled the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and the lower reaches of the Ussuri River. Murcha, the Houjin general who led the team, observed that although the Ming army had built a fortress here, fortunately it had not been fully completed, and there would be no more than 200 soldiers stationed in the fort.

Although the Houjin army was at a disadvantage in terms of geography, it had an advantage in numbers, and if the Ming army's fortress was not captured and demolished now, it would be even more difficult for the Ming army's fortress to be captured in the coming year.

Murcha's observations and judgments were basically correct, but he never imagined that the Ming army in the fortress would be so tenacious. No matter how he racked his brains and what kind of offensive methods he used, the Houjin army never managed to stand at the head of this Ming fortress.

When the reinforcements of the Ming army appeared in January this year, Murcha had to give up the plan to continue to besiege the fortress, because the long camp in the field made nearly half of the soldiers of the Eight Banners out of Shenyang frostbite and frostbite, and Murcha realized that if he continued to stalemate here, his army was in danger of being counterattacked by the Ming army.

These two successive bad news made Huang Taiji, who was originally in a happy mood, feel bad. Whether it was the assistance of the Huerha people with the weapons of the Ming army, or the courage of the Ming army in the Battle of Boli with fewer enemies, Huang Taiji realized that his impression of the weak Ming army led by incompetent generals was rapidly disappearing, which was by no means a good sign for Hou Jin.

Although Huang Taiji knew that Da Ming was constantly recovering, he also knew that the current Houjin had no other way than to wait.

However, Huang Taiji is not sitting in Shenyang City like this. In March of the tenth year of Tiancong, there was a black dragon in the Liao River, spitting the stone tablet on the bank, and then took off into the air, and the villagers on the shore carried the stone tablet to Shenyang City because it was good.

After the research of a group of Confucian scholars in the museum, it is believed that the four stone drum characters of this stele are the four characters of "the Qing Dynasty is virtuous". Then Gao Hong, Fan Cheng, Ganglin, Xifu and others led the members of the museum to persuade Huang Taiji to enter the book, believing that this was a great task from heaven to Huang Taiji, and the Khan should enter the emperor's throne.

Dai Shan, Yue Tuo and other large and small Baylor also immediately led the Manchurian ministers to follow the persuasion into the book, Huang Taiji resigned three times, sacrificed to heaven and earth in April, and announced that the name of the country would be changed to the Qing Dynasty, and the name of the year should be changed to Chongde. But Huang Taiji thought twice, and finally did not accept the persuasion of the ministers, and still retained his title of Khan.

After the news reached Beijing, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were extremely angry, believing that Huang Taiji had fabricated the Mandate of Heaven and should immediately send someone to Shenyang to investigate the guilt and cut off all contact with Houjin.

Chongzhen did not immediately express his position that day, and after a day of silence, he personally wrote in the Daming Times to criticize Huang Taiji's behavior of covering his ears and stealing the bell. Zhang said: "... This kind of god-like trick, no matter whether people in the world believe it or not, I think Huang Taiji probably believes it.

However, relying on such children's tricks to fool the people of Houjin, the people of Houjin can be said to be poor in donkey skills. Nurhachi was also able to use force to cover up the internal divisions of the Later Jin, and use the flesh and blood of the Han people in Liaodong to deceive the Jurchen clan, who had a bright future.

But by the time Huang Taiji's generation arrived, he had been reduced to the point of using lies to fool the people of his country. As the old saying goes: Hu people have no luck for a hundred years. This is evident from this. For this kind of self-deceptive country, what is there to worry about in the Ming Dynasty..."

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