Seeing the prisoner trying his best to defend himself, Zhu Youzhen felt a little pity in his heart. Although the scholars of this era have a high status, the scholars who have not passed the imperial examination are not worth a penny like the carp that has not crossed the dragon gate.

During the Zhenguan period, when Tang Taizong saw the new scholars lining up from Duanmen, he once said, "The heroes of the world are all in my place!" In order to become famous in one fell swoop, he entered the ruling class from the ruled class. These scholars, like those carps who dream of crossing the dragon gate, dedicate all their wisdom and talents to the path of the imperial examination.

However, just like the carp that crossed the dragon gate, there are only a few who can become dragons in one fell swoop. There are more than 500,000 students in the world, but there are only more than 300 jinshi places every three years, which means that most people may not be able to step into the official career in their lifetime.

Just one imperial examination imprisons the best minds of the Ming Dynasty in the Four Books and Five Classics, which is a great waste of talent. You must know that in Europe at the same time, even after the influence of the Renaissance, the literate population in Europe did not exceed 20%. Not to mention high-end talents like students.

The reason why the natural sciences of Europe were able to surpass China in the East in one fell swoop during this period. In Zhu Youzhen's view, it is because there are too many people in Europe who are illiterate, and they do not understand what these scientists are studying for.

If you don't know about nature, you don't care, and if you don't care about nature, you give these scientists space to study natural science. In the Ming Dynasty, because the literate population was too high and the Confucian doctrine was raised too high, even if someone wanted to study something, once it was found that it contradicted the Confucian classics, they would be eliminated by these defenders of Confucianism.

For the emperor, the choice of articles was only a matter of personal preference or political necessity. But for these readers, these articles are their dreams and hopes, so Zhu Youzhen abandons the selection criteria of the past, and for these readers, it is like the sky falling.

It is precisely because of this that these prisoners dare to brave the world's condemnation and make a noise to attract Chongzhen's attention and give them justice.

After Sun Boyang finished speaking, he didn't hear His Majesty's voice for a long time. He didn't know if His Majesty listened to his words, whether it was anger or some other emotion. But he knew that His Majesty was definitely not happy if he remained silent like this.

Sun Boyang felt a burst of heat all over his body, beads of sweat kept appearing on his forehead, and the sweat collected and flowed into his eyes, itching and painful. But he never dared to reach out to wipe it, so he could only blink his eyes constantly, trying to shake off the sweat in his eyes.

Zhu Youzhen finally spoke out of silence, "Since you all think that your article is well written, then repeat it in front of me." ”

Sun Boyang finally breathed a sigh of relief, Chongzhen didn't immediately let the guards take them down, which was already a good ending. Next, he put the hope of solving the problem on top of his article.

Zhu You listened to the five prisoners below, stammered and recited his own article, and the original pity was immediately dispelled by the sour and rotten words of these people.

If the scholars of the Ming Dynasty spend their lives in order to write this kind of meaningless eight-strand essay. Then letting them wake up as soon as possible is tantamount to saving them.

"That's what you call a good article? In addition to the generalization of emptiness, it is a pile of flowery words. 5 articles, 3 about studiousness, 2 about virtue, this is your usual hobby? Do you think I'm a three-year-old? Zhu Youzhen pondered, and suddenly broke out.

When several inmates had just finished memorizing the article, they felt that they still had some confidence. Unexpectedly, His Majesty, who was still kind and pleasant just now, suddenly became angry.

A cadre of prisoners suddenly put their heads on the ground in fright, not daring to make the slightest movement, and continued to anger Chongzhen.

"I asked you to write about your hobbies, and you fooled me with this kind of bullshit article? Since you love learning and morality so much, why do you still jump out and ask for justice? Didn't I let you continue to study the scriptures of the saints and cultivate your temperament, just to take advantage of your hearts and do what you wanted? But it's good for you to write about learning and being virtuous, but as a result, you are not happy to continue to study and be virtuous. He is really a hypocrite who is duplicitous and inconsistent in his words and deeds. It is the misfortune of the people of the world to let people like you be lifted..."

Chongzhen's fierce words made several prisoners suddenly paralyzed with fright, and even Sun Boyang lost the courage to make a request to Chongzhen just now.

At this time, there were one or two inmates with flexible brains, and they remembered what they meant by the few words they said before Chongzhen asked them to write the article. "As long as you are sincere and don't fool me with lies, I don't care what genre you use, and I don't depend on the quality of your writing..."

These prisoners found that they had sought justice and had actually taken the great crime of deceiving the king. Thinking of the punishment methods of the Ming court for the crime of bullying the king, a timid prisoner suddenly fainted in fright.

A foul smell suddenly permeated Biyong, and Zhu Youzhen subconsciously held his breath, but he immediately realized that it was useless.

"These bastards who can only talk nonsense, such a little psychological pressure can't bear it, no wonder the Tunguska savages entered the customs in the future, and these scholars succumbed to the hooves of the barbarians one by one." Zhu Youzhen thought with some disgust.

At this time, the supervisor Liu Yourong finally received the news and rushed over. When he heard that the inmate of the Frank Hall took the lead in making trouble, he was immediately shocked and frightened. Even if he is a good gentleman on weekdays, he now wants to give a few prisoners who took the lead in making trouble a little hardship.

When Liu Yourong walked into Biyong, he saw several prisoners kneeling on the ground, and one prisoner had already fainted to the ground. He was anxious, but he didn't smell anything unusual. Seeing that the situation seemed to be under control, Liu Yourong's first reaction was to kneel down to Chongzhen and ask His Majesty to deal with his ineffective management of prison.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, let Liu Yourong get up, and said, "Find someone to carry the fainted person down, and find a doctor to show him." I said a few words to them, but they couldn't bear it, what is the benefit of such a prisoner to the Ming Dynasty? ”

Chongzhen was just a small complaint, but Liu Yourong was shocked when he heard it. In the Guozi Prison, now he is the elder, if Chongzhen really wants to be investigated, he will definitely be the first to be unlucky.

Sun Boyang's face turned pale, and even the few remaining prisoners in him secretly hated in their hearts, why didn't he faint, so that he didn't have to face His Majesty's anger again.

After watching the unconscious prisoner being carried out, Zhu Youzhen softened his tone a little and said, "I have finished my opinion, and if any of you still think that I have handled it unfairly, just continue to talk about it." Since I have called you in, I naturally want to make it clear to you. ”

At this time, the prisoners still have the courage to continue to discuss justice with Chongzhen. What they want to do most now is that Chongzhen had better forget about them, so as not to continue to settle accounts with them in the future.

None of the prisoners dared to take Chongzhen's topic, Liu Yourong observed for a long time, and then stepped forward to ask Chongzhen for instructions: "As a prisoner of the country, the ministers of the palace are so deceiving the monarch's father, and it is the responsibility of the ministers to teach them strictly. The minister implored His Majesty to hand over these prisoners to the minister, and the minister must strictly control the matter of the prince of the country to prevent the scandal like today's occurrence in the eunuch. ”

Zhu Youzhen took a closer look at Liu Yourong and found that his eyes were clear, and it seemed that he did not come out to intercede for the purpose of gaining fame. When Zhu Youzhen was hesitating, Xu Guangqi also stood up and pleaded for several prisoners: "Please calm your anger, after all, these prisoners are young and do not understand the world, and Your Majesty does not need to have the same knowledge as them." Please ask Your Majesty to hand them over to the Guozijian to deal with them himself, so as not to damage His Majesty's sanctity. ”

Zhu Youzhen watched Xu Guangqi come out to plead, and finally made some decisions in his heart. He appeased Xu Guangqi a little before he lectured the prisoners below: "Guozijian is a place where the imperial court reserves and educates talents for the future, but what I see is a group of rotten Confucians with carved words.

"Zhou Li Bao Shi" said: Raising the son of the country with the Tao is the six arts of teaching: one is five rites, two is six music, three is five shots, four is five masters, five is six books, and six is nine numbers. But in the mouths of you rotten Confucians, the Six Arts have become the Six Classics, and I don't know what to do.

After the Guozijian was changed to a university, the inmates who blindly buried themselves in the Six Classics should go home as soon as possible. What I want is a talent to govern the country and level the world, not a group of rotten Confucians who can only write a few sour sentences.

As for the few of you, there are also those prisoners of the Reckless Hall who did not enter Biyong today. I won't punish you for this today, but don't think it's over. In a few days, I will give you a mission. If you do a good job, I will reward you. If you don't do well, don't blame me for settling the old accounts with your new accounts. ”

After reprimanding these prisoners, Zhu Youzhen also lost interest in eating in Guozijian, and beckoned Xu Guangqi and Jin Nige and others to leave.

Sun Boyang and several other prisoners listened to the voices of people in Biyong before they dared to raise their heads and look at the situation around them.

Seeing that there was no one on the side, several prisoners had the feeling of escaping the catastrophe. A prisoner surnamed Huang suddenly pointed at Sun Boyang and scolded: "You are not a human being, you almost killed your grandfather, grandpa was supposed to be out of the prison in two months, but today you dragged him down this muddy water, and he was really angry with grandpa." ”

This Huang Supervisor was also unlucky, he was just a good person and stood in front of him, but he was named a representative by Wang Chengen. If you don't say anything about the appointment of officials, you have to leave it alone, and you may be settled by the emperor.

Huang Jiansheng beat his chest and paused, especially unwilling, and thought about stepping forward to pounce on Sun Boyang. Anyway, a few prisoners next to him knew very well what it was to fight in Biyong, so they quickly stopped him.

However, these prisoners also did not want to see Sun Boyang. Although they started the trouble, but now that they are in trouble, they all want to find someone to be responsible, and Sun Boyang just meets their requirements for shirking responsibility. Several people stopped the scolding Huang Jiansheng and persuaded him to walk out of Biyong, and no one paid attention to Sun Boyang, who was kneeling alone in Biyong.