Xu Lide really started to buy a boat and go north.
Because he had heard for a long time that there were many great scholars in the imperial prison, and there were many thought-provoking opinions, and he himself was very curious to go to the imperial prison and experience it. Therefore, when Xu Guo made such a request, he really regarded his father's orders as inviolable. He left his hometown by saying goodbye to relatives and friends.
In the midwinter of the sixteenth year of Wanli, Xu Lide arrived in the capital.
With heavy snow falling, he braved the severe cold and took the initiative to come to Beizhen Fusi with the surrender letter.
"What are you here for?"
When he came to the gate of Fusi in Beizhen, Wang Ping, the flag officer of Jinyiwei who was guarding Fusi in Beizhen, looked him up and down and then asked.
Xu Lide straightened his chest, his eyes wandered, and he replied casually: "Of course I'm here to surrender!"
"Another one came to surrender."
Wang Ping said impatiently, and then ordered the Jin Yiwei subordinates behind him: "Try his muscles and bones."
As a result, a strong-looking military captain in golden robes walked up behind Xu Lide.
Xu Lide was asking: "What are you doing to test your muscles and bones?"
"ah!"
Suddenly, there was a bang, and Xu Lide was thrown over his shoulder by the imperial guard.
Then, his whole body crashed into the snow, snowflakes flying, and the surrender letter in his arms flew up, and Wang Ping caught it in his hand.
Wang Ping then helped Xu Lide up.
Xu Lide didn't appreciate it, so he didn't thank Wang Ping. Instead, he held his waist on the ground with an angry face and asked: "What are you doing?! I surrendered voluntarily. I will confess truthfully when I am charged with the crime. Why should I give a confession first?" Stop your majesty?!"
"Have you ever humiliated Sven like this?!"
"Do you know who my father is?!"
Xu Lide was really angry.
Therefore, he, who had always been unwilling to use his father's position as a tyrant, couldn't help but want to use his father to suppress these royal guards.
Of course, he was also afraid that these royal guards would really go too far towards him.
"No matter who your father is, all Confucian scholars who come to surrender must first have their muscles and bones tested. This is not to give you Confucian scholars a warning, but to prevent you from being unable to survive due to poor health when you go to prison. .”
"This is the rule that has been in place for more than ten years since the prison began to teach, and it is not up to you!"
"After all, you scholars, once you have a dispute over your opinions, once there is a day off or exempted from work, you will be eager to kill each other. You are more ruthless than us royal guards. If you don't test your muscles first, if you are beaten by a martial artist, What to do if you die?”
"Besides, you still have to accept labor. If your body is too weak and you will die if you are exposed to wind and sun, you will naturally have to make other arrangements."
Wang Ping replied at this time.
After hearing this, Xu Lide sneered: "Then this place is really vulgar and barbaric, what's the point!"
Jinyiwei Wang Pingping was not angry at all. The main reason was that almost every scholar who came here for the first time would scold the teaching environment in the imperial prison and was very prejudiced against Jinyiwei. They were already used to it, so it was difficult for them to be emotional. Even now, when I hear these scholars scolding me like this, I just feel like I am watching an ignorant child scold me, and I don't bother to care about it.
After Xu Lide scolded him, he asked, "Can I be arrested now and listen to the lecture?"
"cannot!"
"You have to make an appointment before studying in class."
Wang Ping said.
After hearing this, Xu Lide felt very ridiculous. He spread his hands and asked, "I still have to make an appointment to study. If I want to go to prison, do I have to make an appointment to study?"
"Then, do you think anyone can come in?"
Wang Ping asked with a smile and said:
"For officials like you, there are not a hundred but dozens of people who come here every day to listen to lectures. Therefore, those who need to be examined for admission to the imperial prison have been booked for a month. You cannot surrender on the first day. Then you can be inspected on the same day.”
"As for studying, because it is the responsibility of the imperial court to educate the people, your Majesty has decreed that the Jin Yiwei will give you classes while you are waiting to be inspected after making an appointment, so as to prevent you from being judged as unqualified and therefore unable to enter the imperial edict. He went to jail, but he came to surrender in vain, and he stayed in the capital for so long."
After hearing this, Xu Lide said: "Okay, I'll make an appointment! So what are we going to learn?"
"Common sense, logic and math."
Wang Ping replied.
After hearing this, Xu Lide looked puzzled: "What kind of knowledge are these and why do we need to learn them?"
"I don't know. Anyway, it will help you not to make things difficult or laugh at you when you quarrel, and it will also allow you to express yourself better. There used to be a Confucian scholar who didn't even know Polo River Guard except the Four Books and Five Classics, but he was laughed at. He forgot his ancestors and committed suicide."
Wang Ping replied.
After hearing this, Xu Lide murmured to himself: "Bolo River Guard, is there such a guard in the world?"
…
"Ezo is just south of Polo River Wei (Sakhalin Island). How can you abandon it? Why don't you even know this? You are so proud of yourself that you have learned so much."
Six Section Gallery.
Lu Xia, a soldier from the military department who was originally a student of the Military Science Department of Xingmei Academy, became opposed to Magi's idea of conquering the Ezo Islands after Huang Yuntai advocated against him after he joined the Liuke Gallery. He also asked Huang Yuntai a question.
Because Huang Yuntai objected to the strategy that Ezo was too far away from the Ming Dynasty, he also voluntarily admitted that he did not know that the Ezo Islands were south of Polo River Wei.
It is true that most civil servants who came from reading Four Books and Five Classics lacked the ability to take the initiative to learn, and many even began to believe that as long as they understood Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, they would be invincible in the world because Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism had brought a lot of value to them. , can govern the world well.
As a famous saying goes, "Half of the Analects rules the world."
For many civil servants, they have mastered more than half of the Analects, and naturally there is no need to study.
Therefore, many civil servants lack a lot of common sense.
This also makes the military officials who graduated from Xingming Academy and other places and joined various civilian bureaucracies very speechless. They lamented that they lacked basic common sense and felt that they were too high-minded.
It's true that the eyes are higher than the top.
Although all of them are not very capable, they all have great tempers and strong self-esteem.
Huang Yuntai was so angry when Lu Xia retorted him. He acted as easily as a child and threw a cup of tea at Lu Xia:
"You are just a low-income soldier. You only know some general knowledge. How qualified are you to teach me a lesson!"
Bang!
Lu Xia turned his head and hid, and when the tea cup fell to the ground and broke into pieces, he said:
"Why is National Geography a miscellaneous subject?"
"You don't even understand this. It shows that you don't have this country in your heart. You have the nerve to serve as a court official here, and you have the nerve to give advice on the country's border expansion. Aren't you afraid that your ignorant suggestions will harm the country and the people in the future? !”
When Huang Yuntai saw that Lu Xia was still attacking him, he became so angry that he rushed towards Lu Xia and waved a bastard fist at Lu Xia:
"You are a treacherous traitor and you dare to speak nonsense here. I will beat you to death!"
"ah!"
Lu Xia's single kick prevented Huang Yuntai from completing his eight punches. Instead, he flew onto the table and screamed in pain.
(End of chapter)
