At the end of the year of Ding Si, after a cold wave, Nanjing ushered in the first thin snow. The www.biquge.info of the pen is different from the goose feather snow that blows in the north. Most of the time, the snow in the south melts when it falls to the ground like flying catkins. In the city of Nanjing, the bluestone slabs on the wide long street were wet as if it had just rained. Only the snow on the sporadic forks of the trees lining the streets reminds people of a snowfall here.

A lot to do!

It is very appropriate to use this sentence to describe Nanjing at this time. Although in the past few years, the Taiping army that lived in Nanjing has built a lot of construction in the city. But in fact, what they set up was only the royal palace, and in order to build those royal palaces, they even demolished the private gardens, temples, and official offices inside and outside the city.

So much so that after the rebels regained Nanjing, except for the magnificent palace, the whole Nanjing was in a state of decay, and the dilapidated houses made people believe that this was once the most prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River.

At this time when everything was in ruins, Zhu Yifeng suppressed the construction of the government office, and instead spent his limited financial expenses on two constructions: one was to rebuild the sewers in Nanjing and lay the water pipes, and the other was to build the Jiangnan University Hall. The rebuilding of Nanjing's sewers and laying of water pipes was to make the city clean and ensure the safety of water for the people, and the construction of Jiangnan University Hall was to win the hearts of the scholars of Liangjiang.

It doesn't matter if the construction of sewers, running water, and public toilets is going slowly, because there are only 100,000 residents in and around Nanjing, but the construction of Jiangnan University Hall cannot be slowed down for a moment. Since the end of the second year of Xianfeng, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom set the capital in Nanjing, the township tests in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces were interrupted. Although in the past few years, the new school opened by the Governor's Mansion in Wuchang has never restricted the territory, but only a few Liangjiang scholars have gone there, after all, it was a time of war and chaos.

In this way, the scholars of Anhui and Jiangsu provinces lost the opportunity to "soar" on both sides of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Governor's Office. Almost as soon as the rebels regained Nanjing, Nanjing returned to the hands of the Han people, and demanded in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, the call for the governor's office to immediately open a department and take scholars poured into Zhu Yifeng's ears like thunder.

As for Zhang Liangji, who joined the army with the left, and other officials of Liangjiang also demanded that a university hall be opened in Nanjing, so that they could be recruited from the two rivers; of course, they knew very well that the era of "opening a branch to obtain scholars" had passed, and no one even demanded it; in fact, it was only the scholars of the two rivers who demanded that they "open a branch and take scholars," and as for the officials of the two rivers in the prefecture, they had already adapted to the method of recruiting talents in the prefecture -- they had passed the examination and entered a specialized school, and only after training were they appointed to official posts.

Although the official and non-governmental views of "opening up a science and taking a doctor" are completely different, the kind of anxiety is the same. Not only is this the case, but Zhu Yifeng's own urgency is no less than these scholars and no less than those officials. It is true that in the text that announced to the world on the eve of the Righteous Army's Eastern Expedition, what he tried his best to condemn was the Taiping Army's behavior of "raising thousands of years of Chinese etiquette, righteousness, morality, poetry, books and classics, once the ground is swept away", and his army is to "defend the famous religion of Confucius and Mencius" and "defend the way". In recent years, compared with the Taiping Army's "destruction of human morality", the half-truths and half-truths of the "Weidao" in the palace have more or less won the support and support of most scholars, which is one of the main reasons why he can stand on his feet.

Perhaps, a series of university halls and specialized schools have been built in the Fuzhong to promote new learning in those schools, but these schools have never neglected the education of Chinese culture, in fact, they still need to take the school Chinese culture examination to enter the entrance hall, but compared with the imperial examination, its difficulty is slightly lower, and it is more important to learn.

If there is no Taiping Army's behavior of "destroying famous religions" as a comparison, everything Zhu Yifeng implemented in Wuchang is undoubtedly a "great rebellion", but with the Taiping Army on the side, no one cares about Wuchang's "deviance", after all, his "deviance" is really useful.

Steam ships, steamers, foreign guns, foreign cannons, and ironclad ships are constantly reminding people that the era of relying solely on famous education is over, and after seeing the use of these things, especially after seeing the determination of Han Gong to promote Western practical learning, naturally no one is unhappy to find this.

But now, after the capture of Nanjing, some changes must be made, and in fact, it is time for Zhu Yifeng to reward the scholars. After all, the reason why China is China is precisely because of China's culture, and perhaps Western science is what China must learn from China's prosperity and strength, but if we forget China's traditional culture and the "roots" of culture, is China still China?

What's more, on the other hand, for hundreds of years, Liangjiang has been China's cultural and educational center, and the establishment of a university here can fundamentally change the situation of the monopoly of the two lakes by the officials of Fuzhong, and for those who are superior, this is directly related to the future stability of Fuzhong.

Similarly, Zhu Yifeng can also understand the painstaking efforts of those poor scholars who want to come out, and naturally knows very well that this will help him to win the hearts of the people, although the hearts of the people in the two places have long been convinced by the "righteous army", but after all, there are always some people who are eager for the Manchu Dynasty.

And Jiangnan University Hall will be the root of all this change -- compared with the number of universities in Wuchang that only have a large number of people but only two or three thousand people, the first phase of Jiangnan University Hall has as many as 5,000 students, compared with Wuchang's university hall that focuses on science and engineering, Jiangnan University Hall is more focused on humanities, of course, there are also law, economics, medicine and other majors.

Although a winter snow a year ago made the construction progress of Jiangnan University Hall much slower, Zhu Yifeng still had to visit the construction site of Jiangnan University Hall every few days to supervise, and the engineer chief in charge of the construction even guaranteed that it could be completed by the end of March next year, and would never delay the Jiangnan Entrance Examination scheduled for the eighth day of April. A few days ago, the eighteen red brick buildings of Jiangnan University Hall were finally completed as scheduled, which made the officials in charge of Jiangnan University Hall feel much lighter on their shoulders. The completion of the main projects such as the teaching building and the library means that the university hall will definitely be put into use in April next year.

When the Jiangnan University Hall was rushing to work day and night, nearly 40,000 scholars of different ages from the land of Jianghuai, southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu, Hunan, Hunan and other places poured into Nanjing City in an endless stream, bringing a fresh interest to the thousand-year-old capital that was being rebuilt from ruins. Among these scholars are gray-haired old men, and there are also young people who are not as weak as the crown -- different from the age limit of the various schools in Wuchang, as a reward for the scholars, the age of admission to the Jiangnan University Hall was relaxed to 55 years old, of course, this also has a certain relationship with the emphasis on humanities in the Jiangnan University Hall, which inevitably also has the meaning of rewarding the readers.

Among these scholars, there are not only rich children who are fat and light, and slaves and servants, but also poor and poor people who carry bookcases and old clothes alone. They walked on the streets, went in and out of the anti-travel wine shops, most of them tied their hair into a bun on the top of their heads, and many of them even wore this net scarf named by the Emperor Gao as "the unification of mountains and rivers" to avoid the hair from being scattered. Before the Manchus used butcher knives to "shave their hair and make it easy to wear", the Han people had always regarded the hair as a symbol of barbarism, uncivilized, and no etiquette, and only barbarians would wear their hair or shave their hair and keep braids. Therefore, from the emperor to the common people, men have to tie their hair.

The well-dressed style of the Han family and the poems in their mouths made people suddenly feel like "seeing the prestige of Han officials again"! It also allows people to truly witness the spectacular scene of the city full of Han clothes after an interval of more than 200 years.

Sima Yu, who carried a bamboo bookscase on his back and traveled all the way from Yingzhou to Nanjing, said that the snow had no effect on him at all, and he walked in the snow on the street that was more than ten zhang wide, and his eyes looked at the taverns and inns on the side of the road from time to time, and almost every store was full.

For Nanjing, which is in ruins, tens of thousands of scholars poured in at once, and to a certain extent, for Nanjing, it was undoubtedly a disaster -- after the catastrophe, Nanjing's population was only 15, and there were even tens of thousands of officials, gendarmes, their families, and servants who had moved from Wuchang.

"You need five oceans a month, it's really the most black-hearted!"

When complaining about the black man who was complaining about the innkeeper and the house price, just as Sima Lei was walking quickly through the street, he came to the inn opposite, and was about to ask questions, but he heard someone behind him singing:

"I want to tie my hair and join the army that day, I want to be frosty and on that day, I want to be scared by the sword that day, and I want to be horizontal and Lingyun that day. The flag in front of the tent, the seal behind the waist, the peach blossom horse, the willow leaves, the shock of the Hu array......"

Listening to the song "Nanxian Lu. Dressing table. Sima Lei looked back and saw a young man of his own age, holding a wine glass in his hand, who seemed to be singing peace with his friends.

"I hope to kill the situation of the day, I hope to kill the people of my homeland, I hope to kill my crazy man who laughs in the West, and I hope to kill my lonely minister in the East China Sea......"

The man sang this, but two tears welled up in his drunken eyes.

"Now that my Daming rivers and mountains have finally recovered, Daming Zhengshuo has to be corrected today, and Lingshou Gong can be seen today......"

The man's exclamation made Sima Lei stunned, he didn't seem to be able to understand this emotion, but thinking of Xia Wanchun and his Xia family, he couldn't help but sigh, the Xia family can indeed be seen in Jiuquan.

"The tragic song is generous and bloody, and the literary style is the first generation. I am also twenty-nine years old, and my head is like a hero......"

Just when he sighed like this, the young man with tears on his face listened to Sima Lei's sigh, and suddenly realized that he had already felt it, and hurriedly invited.

"This brother Tai, in Xia Songjiang Xia Lin Yun, the word Yonglin, did not ask for advice!"

Sima Lei hurriedly replied.

"In Xia Yingzhou Sima Lei, the word Huazhi, I have seen Brother Yonglin!"

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