When Sun Chengzong and others rushed to the school grounds, they happened to see this scene like a landslide and a sea crack. Tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, and even the clouds that originally shaded the sun seemed to be frightened, and a ray of sunlight suddenly shone on Chongzhen's body from the clouds, and the martial arts uniform on the emperor's body suddenly looked like a fire.

"Morale is available, Your Majesty's personal expedition this time should be no big problem." Sun Chengzong said with some excitement.

However, several other officials were not as Sun Chengzong thought, and some people couldn't help but say: "This is not in line with etiquette, the army is a solemn move, and tens of thousands of people shouted, what kind of system is this?"

Your Majesty is so frivolous, will these warriors still be able to obey our generation's dispatch in the future? There may not be Qian Ning, Jiang Bin and the like in this generation, so we should continue to advise Your Majesty that we can't take risks in person..."

When the three armies of the northern suburbs shouted, Xia Yunyi seemed to hear something, and couldn't help but get up and open the window to look out. The place where he stood was in the Xinghua Pavilion on the north side of the second floor of the Xiyu Building.

Xiyulou is a newly built teahouse at the entrance of Chengxian Street in the southeast corner of Beijing, this three-storey building has an elegant and simple interior, and it is not far from Yenching University, so it has become the base of Kodansha where Xia Yunyi is located.

Since Guozijian was changed to Yenching University, in addition to the name being changed, even many of the rules of Guozijian have also changed. The Guozijian, which was originally heavily guarded and difficult for ordinary people to enter and exit, has now become a university campus where people can enter and exit freely.

Originally, the building of Guozijian covered an area of less than 30,000 square meters, deducting the area occupied by professors and scholars, as well as the library building and the Confucian Temple, as long as there were more than 800 prisoners, it was already extremely cramped. However, in the early days of the country, the high-status Guozijian has become a group of gentlemen and merchants' children in modern times.

In the year of the Apocalypse, although there were 5 or 600 people on the roster, there were only about 2 or 300 people who were actually injailed and studied. When Guozijian was changed to Yenching University, Chongzhen required the number of students at Yenching University to be no less than 3,000. In this way, the expansion of Guozijian is also logical.

The original inmates' quarters were converted into school buildings, and the students' accommodations were relocated to a block other than Chengxian Street. If it weren't for the fact that Guozijian was surrounded by residential houses, Chongzhen would have wanted to build a playground in the university for these students to exercise.

It is also strange to say that when the gate of Guozijian was strictly guarded, the students in the prison always wanted to skip class, and they wanted to leave Guozijian and Chengxian Street, which were like prisons.

However, after the change to Yenching University, the newly enrolled students felt that the dormitory was too far away from the school, and the wealthy students spent their own money to rent houses around the school. Although the number of students at Yenching University has not yet reached 3,000, there are certainly more than 1,000.

In addition, there are some people who are not qualified to enter the school and choose to observe the school, and 1 to 2,000 people enter and exit here every day, and Chengxian Street is lively for a while. The Qinlou Chu Pavilion, which was originally the favorite gathering of scholars in the capital, finally declined after the rectification of the city hall.

The newly opened teahouse chess club on Chengxian Street has gradually become a place for scholars to gather and chat in Beijing. The theme debate or speech held every three days in Yenching University has also become a publicity conference for new ideas and new knowledge in Beijing. The new terms of science, philosophy, and logic are constantly spreading out from the teahouse chess club on Chengxian Street.

Yenching University's establishment of the Hall of Truth on campus, where students and scholars can debate and give speeches, was just a little new at first. But gradually, some people heard the taste, and they were not even satisfied with just being a bystander, hoping to be able to participate in the field themselves.

But there are so many applicants that it is rare for the vast majority of readers who want to promote and defend their views to get their turn. As a result, in the teahouse chess club on Chengxian Street, and even on the streets of Chengxian Street, there are often people who give their own private speeches.

As a result, some people were invited by the Truth Hall of Yenching University to directly enter the Hall of Truth to express their academic opinions, and some became famous and even hired by Yenching University. Because of the deeds of these lucky people, many teahouses were opened on Chengxian Street for scholars from the capital or other places to make speeches.

In the past, if scholars wanted to become famous, they either had to take a serious career in the imperial examination. Once the title of the gold list was named, it was immediately known to the whole world. Otherwise, it is to take the road of celebrities, and there are real celebrities and pseudo-celebrities. True celebrities such as Liu Zongzhou, who read books for 2 or 30 years, and then wrote books and works, are famous all over the world.

However, the requirements for talent and learning are too high, and the initial investment is too large, which is not something that ordinary people can imitate. So in modern times, the pseudo-celebrity came into being. The Ming Dynasty was a market society, and from top to bottom, they were very keen on *. Yangzhou thin horses, Datong aunts, and West Lake boat girls have even become local characteristics.

Under the influence of this social atmosphere, the famous prostitutes in Qinlou Chu Pavilions all over the country, their every move has become the hot spot that the people in the market are most concerned about. And the noble bureaucrats were the ardent suitors of these famous prostitutes. When you meet these famous prostitutes and drink a cup of coarse tea, you need to start with at least 10 taels of silver.

These famous prostitutes have become courtesans, and they are completely incomparable to the prostitutes in ordinary brothels. The biggest dream of many women in the dust is to become a famous prostitute and gain some freedom. And if you want to become a famous prostitute, you don't look at your face and figure, the most important thing is to be touted by a celebrity.

An ordinary prostitute may have ascended to the throne of Oiran because of a word from a celebrity, and an ordinary scholar may become famous because of his association with a prostitute of the same name. The interdependent special existence of famous prostitutes and celebrities has become a unique landscape of the Ming Dynasty.

If a scholar from other places wants to spread his reputation in the capital as soon as possible, so as to be appreciated by the powerful, the best way is to mingle in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion and get the favor of a famous prostitute in the capital.

However, in the autumn of the second year of Chongzhen, this road of celebrities and scholars was impassable in the capital. If you want to be famous in the capital today, you need to make a name for yourself on Chengxian Street first. Those scholars who have been messing around in the Chu Pavilion of Qinlou all day long, they don't even know the latest speech words of Yenching University, and they want to convince the readers in the capital with a few sour words and bad songs, so as to make a name for themselves, they are all sour and rotten literati who can't keep up with the situation.

Some famous prostitutes in the capital watched the changes in the atmosphere of the capital, and either went south to Jinling, or simply washed their hands in a golden basin, opened a teahouse on Chengxian Street, and presided over some gatherings of literati talking. In this way, Chengxian Street in the capital has become a holy place for people who come to Beijing to study.

Relying on the students and non-local scholars of Chengxian Street, dozens of small groups have gradually formed. These small groups combined in the name of the literary society not only became the spiritual leaders of the scholars in the north, but also suppressed the Fusha established in the south at the beginning of the year.

Since the beginning of the country, the literary style of the Ming Dynasty has been better than the south, and even Zhu Yuanzhang had to come up with a north-south list to balance the power of the north and south scholars. In modern times, the economic development of Jiangnan has made the literacy rate of ordinary people in the south far exceed that in the north.

Moreover, the transportation in the south of the Yangtze River is convenient, the land is narrow and densely populated, and it is more convenient for scholars to study and communicate. This also makes the academic achievements of Jiangnan scholars much higher than those of northern scholars who work behind closed doors.

After the rise of the Donglin Party, the literati associations in Jiangnan all had a certain political significance, and they were no longer literary societies for ordinary literati to exchange poems, so the prestige of the Jiangnan Literary Society was more familiar to ordinary people.

At the beginning of the year, Zhang Pu entangled dozens of literary societies in the south of the Yangtze River to form a Fushe with more than 1,000 people, and clearly put forward the political purpose of establishing the Fushe, "to promote retro learning, and to make people who are different from Japan useful." In a sense, this is already the embryonic form of a political group.

In the history that Su Changqing did not cross, the young scholars in the north did not form a similar political group at all in the late Ming Dynasty, so they could not compete with the Fushe for the right to speak in public opinion. This also made it so that after the fall of the north, these Fushe literati united with the Jiangnan gentry to exclude the northern gentry bureaucrats who fled south, and in order to control the power of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty alone, they raised up counter-cases to crack down on dissidents.

Of course, the scattered northern scholars could not fight the literati who occupied the main field, and the people in the south did not know anything about these northern scholars, so they were biased towards the Fushe group in public opinion. The end result was that the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty completely lost the hearts and minds of the northern gentry, allowing the Manchus to stabilize their rule in the north.

But now, the dozens of literati groups gathered on Chengxian Street are more closely connected, more organized, and more politically connected than the Zhifu Society. These groups, which relied on the establishment of Yenching University, did not agree with the political ideas of the Restoration Society, and even more disagreed with the retro ideas put forward by Zhang Pu.

The members of these societies learned enough new ideas in Yenching University, and also had a preliminary understanding of the geography and humanities of overseas countries, and the development of natural sciences made them begin to shift from the virtual world constructed by Confucianism to the exploration of the real material world.

The three-day speech and debate meeting has become the source of the creation of various new ideas, and the fierce collision of different ideas and different views has made the students of Yenching University the most staunch supporters of the reformers. Under such circumstances, the impact of the establishment of the Restoration Society on the northern scholars became minimal.

Some of the Northern Literary Society, which was originally invited by Zhang Pu to participate in the establishment of the Restoration Society, did not make the trip in the end. However, the establishment of the Restoration Society has also stimulated the students of Yenching University, who also want to form a unified organization to sort out the various clubs that are now too chaotic.

Last year, after knocking on the palace gate, Xia Yunyi was praised by Chongzhen, and suddenly became the leader of the new generation of young scholars in the capital.

After visiting the disaster-stricken areas of Shaanxi, Xia Yunyi, who returned to the capital, began to lean towards the reform of the imperial government. Although he still criticized the way the imperial court implemented the policy of unified purchase and marketing of grain, he gave up opposing this policy itself.

Although he believes that this policy harms the interests of the gentry, for a disaster-stricken area like Shaanxi, without this policy it would really be a hell on earth. Xia Yunyi obviously couldn't do it yet, putting the interests of the gentry above the lives of the victims.