The little guy pointed to Yu Ren. As soon as the girl saw Yu Ren, her face immediately became very ugly, and she immediately reprimanded the little guy loudly, "In the future, my eyes will be brighter, don't say anything about cats and dogs, you will come in and report!" ”

The little guy nodded again and again after being reprimanded by the girl, but he didn't dare to say a word.

After the girl finished training, she glared at Yu Ren again, and went upstairs.

Seeing that Yu Ren was still looking upstairs, the little maid couldn't help but get angry. "Please! Sister Yun'er's temper is not easy to mess with. If you stay here and let her bump into her for a while, the little one will suffer. ”

Yu Ren was about to explain, but saw that Xu Fatzi had already looked for him.

"Yikes! Boss, why did you come here, it's hard for me to find it for a while. ”

When the little guy saw Xu Fatzi, he stopped making a sound. Xu Fatzi's family is also a Hangzhou gentry, although this little guy doesn't know each other, but he eats in this kind of place, and his eyes are naturally extremely poisonous. Just one glance at what Xu Fatzi was wearing, this little guy knew that he was the young master of a rich family. This kind of person is something they can't mess with.

Yu Ren saw that there was no hope of going upstairs, so he followed Xu Pang to the hall, and casually found a table in front of him and sat down. Then he called Xiao Er and ordered a few dishes. Because there was something in the afternoon, they didn't order wine.

After eating, there were many more people in the teahouse. At this time, there were no more empty tables in the hall, and those who came later had to share tables with others; But the front row of tables was still empty. Yu Ren noticed that on each of the tables, there was a small wooden sign on it, which read: Wansong Academy, four words.

Yu Ren: There were also three young people at their table. The three men clearly did not look like locals, two of them were in their thirties, and only one of them looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, and looked two or three years younger than Yu Ren. But the sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy was clearly the head of the three, and the two men asked him for his opinion on everything.

The young man bowed his hand to Yu Ren and Xu Fatzi, "Lu Xiangsheng in Xiachangzhou, I'm late with a few friends, I don't know if I can sit at the same table with my brother?" ”

The young man was very polite. Yu Ren's first impression of this young man was not bad, so he also stood up and arched his hand in his appearance, "Yu Ren in Xia Quanzhou." Brother Tai doesn't have to be polite, everyone can sit and get out of the way. ”

Lu Xiangsheng took a few people to sit down on the remaining stools.

After Yu Ren exchanged pleasantries with the young people at the same table, he began to search around again. As soon as he entered the teahouse, he began to look around, hoping to see Li Yu or one or two acquaintances around her. But the reality disappointed him. Although there were not many people in the teahouse at this time, Yu Ren did not see a single acquaintance.

Just when Yu Ren thought that it was impossible to meet an acquaintance again today, a familiar figure entered Yu Ren's sight, but this person was not the person Yu Ren hoped to see.

This acquaintance is none other than Li Xianzhong, whom he met in Fujian a few days ago. It's just that today, those followers around him are gone. The brocade robe on his body was also changed to a Confucian shirt, and he walked in with a few young people talking and laughing.

These people were followed by twenty or thirty young men, all of whom were wearing uniform moon-white Confucian shirts with small signs on them. Yu Ren glanced at a person who walked past him, and saw a small sign on their chests that read: Wansong Academy, four words.

Li Xianzhong and a young man beside him walked to the front row of tables and sat down, and the others followed them to sit down at the front tables.

At the end of this group of people, Yu Ren saw two more familiar faces. They were Li Xianzhong's subordinates Li Liu and Li Qi. These two people also wore Confucian clothes at this time, and they both actually wore the small sign that read "Wansong Academy" on their chests.

"What kind of place is this Wansong Academy?" Yu Ren asked Xu Fatzi in a low voice. He couldn't help but be very curious when he saw that this Wansong Academy was quite powerful.

"Boss, are you still not a scholar? Haven't even heard of Wansong Academy? Xu Fatzi whispered, and at the same time turned his head to look at Lu Xiangsheng, the young man at the same table next to him, as if he was afraid that the other party would hear this and be laughed at by them.

"Wansong Academy is the largest and most famous academy in Hangzhou, and its reputation is not only in Hangzhou, but also in the southeast half of the wall. It can be said that even compared with Donglin Academy in Wuxi, it is not much inferior. Back then, Mr. Mingyang had come here to give lectures. Today's Wansong Academy is not only teaching the main course, but also teaching Wang Xue.

Some people say that the world's famous people go out of the southeast, half of which belongs to Donglin and half of Yuehang. This Yuehang refers to Hangzhou, Zhejiang. In the whole of Hangzhou, tens of thousands of Song Academy are the most famous, and the number of famous people in the past dynasties is also the most, including the current cabinet chief assistant Fang Congzhefang Elder Pavilion. ”

"I see!" Yu Ren saw that this Lu Xiangsheng knew so much about this Wansong Academy, and couldn't help but ask. "Are you also a fan of Wansong Academy?"

"What fans?" Lu Xiangsheng didn't understand for a while.

"Oh! I mean, are you also from their Wansong Academy? ”

Lu Xiangsheng was a little funny. "I'm from Wu, how can I be a member of the Zhejiang Party. Although the Zhejiang Party was in power in the DPRK for a while and had the upper hand, the world's scholars still had more hearts to Donglin after all. ”

Yu Ren didn't understand Lu Xiangsheng's words at all, he had heard of the Donglin Party, but he had never heard of the Zhejiang Party. And listening to Lu Xiangsheng's tone, it seems that the Zhejiang Party is now more beneficial than the Donglin Party. It seems that the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party are life and death rivals, which makes Yu Ren very puzzled.

Yu Ren turned his head and looked at the fat man Xu who was sitting beside him suspiciously. Hopefully he can give himself some explanation. But this Xu Fat Man rarely reads, and he doesn't know anything about these officialdoms and the general trend of the court. had to show the boss a helpless expression.

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng looked at Yu Ren's expression, he knew that he didn't know much about these grievances between the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party. So he did it to the end, and gave him a general explanation of the grievances between the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party.

It turned out that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, soon after Wanli came into power, there was a Donglin Party headed by Gu Xiancheng, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, etc., led by a total of seven people, known as the Seven Sons of Donglin; There are also the Zhejiang Party, which is dominated by Zhejiang officials, and the Chu Party, which is dominated by Huguang, and the Qi Party, which is mainly Shandong. Of course, there are far more than a few parties in the DPRK and China. But these factions are the largest and the most powerful.

Among the four major factions, the Donglin Party was not strong, but under the careful cultivation of Gu Xiancheng and others, the Donglin Party gradually won the hearts of most scholars, and its power in the court gradually grew bigger and bigger. In the end, it became the largest faction that overwhelmed the other three parties.

In order to protect themselves, the other three parties began to form an alliance. In the last decade or so, the struggle between the Donglin Party and the three parties has been the most prominent. Originally, the Donglin Party has always had an overwhelming advantage in the struggle in recent years. However, during a Beijing inspection the year before last, many important members of the Donglin Party were unexpectedly demoted or sent abroad. The Donglin Party experienced a major defeat from prosperity to decline.

After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's introduction, Yu Ren knew a little more about the Donglin Party in his heart. He carefully calculated in his heart, obviously, the life and death struggle between the Donglin Party and Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party, which was widely praised by later generations, should not have started yet.

"Then, who is Mr. Qian Qianyi, who came to give us a lecture today?" Yu Ren asked Lu Xiangsheng in a low voice. He knew that he knew too little about these things that readers had to know in this era. Therefore, he had to ask in a whisper, so as not to arouse the eyes of the people around him. Fortunately, the little brother Lu Xiangsheng in front of him didn't think he was shallow.

"This Mr. Qian is a Tanhua in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, although he has not been a scholar for a long time, and the official position he holds is not big, but he is an editor of the Hanlin Academy. But in terms of learning, he has a very good set. The thought of the classics he advocated had a wide influence among many scholars, and it was also an academic outlook that was most respected by scholars in the Donglin Party.

That's why I rushed from Changzhou to Hangzhou, so I came to listen to Mr. Qian's lecture on 'applying the world' lesson. It's been 10 years since I started school at the age of seven, and I've always had this kind of confusion. What else can we do when we study and study, except for taking the high school entrance examination, and becoming an official in the future when we enter the court?

If we only read these four books and five classics, what if we fail the exam in the future? And for some of the more practical knowledge, should we dabble in it? Also, although it seems to be peaceful today, there is chaos in the Northeast. The Jurchen power in Liaodong had long overshadowed the Mongols. Last year, we lost Fushun and Qinghe in a row, although the emperor personally ordered Lord Yang Hao to lead 130,000 troops to clear the Jurchens. However, I look at the Jurchens, and the strength has been achieved.

If you want to achieve complete success in one battle, you are only afraid of all difficulties. If you are in a hurry and make trouble, you will be defeated. As disciples of saints, we should make it our duty to make the world our own. However, at this moment, should we still be determined to seek literature, or should we be merged? If you study both civil and military, it will inevitably be distracted and affect the literary class.

How to choose is really a big problem. ”

Fu Ren was really taken aback when he heard Lu Xiangsheng's discussion. In his impression, the thinking of the ancients was relatively rigid, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because they were selected by the imperial examination. Many scholars only care about the knowledge of the Four Books and the Five Classics, and they have never cared about some practical knowledge. As the saying goes, everything is inferior, only reading is high. However, why doesn't the Lu Xiangsheng in front of him seem to be like this?

Is this Lu Xiangsheng's thinking just an individual image, or a group phenomenon?