In Beijing at the beginning of May, the daytime temperature has begun to feel a little hot. It was almost noon, and the streets were thinning out.

The two sergeants in the Guangqu Gate hid in the shadow of the doorway, the spears in their hands, chatting with each other, mostly some short gossip from the parents.

When the two were chatting enthusiastically, several four-wheeled carriages in the distance ran towards Guangqumen without hurry. When Sergeant Yao Laogen heard the voice, he glanced at where the carriage came from, and said to his companions: "It's the car of the post station, go back to your post quickly." If that lord sees us off duty, we're going to be punished. ”

While the two sergeants were talking, they hurried out of the doorway and stood in front of the rejection of the horse, waiting for the carriage to pass by. These four-wheeled carriages, all newly developed by the Wensi Academy, are much more comfortable to sit in than two-wheeled carriages, and are also equipped with glass windows to block the dust, but not to block the sunlight from entering the carriage.

After the carriage passed through the Guangqu Gate and entered the outer city, in the second carriage, a girl with outstanding appearance opened the corner of the curtain curiously, wanting to see what the scenery of the capital looked like.

There was also another slightly younger girl sitting in the carriage, with plain hair, trimmed eyebrows and jade cheeks, red lips and bright teeth, and a pair of big eyes full of aura. Although she looks like she is only thirteen or fourteen years old, she already shows a little bit of a peerless beauty.

The girl sitting in the carriage dignified, although she also had a little yearning for the scenery of the imperial capital, carefully followed the back of her sister's neck, and secretly glanced at the scenery outside the window, but she still persuaded her a little timidly: "Second sister, let's put down the curtain, didn't my mother warn us not to show our heads when we go out, so as not to be seen by the traitor with a bad heart?" ”

Ye Xiaojun looked curiously at the people who were planting street trees and laying floor tiles on the side of the street, and said nonchalantly: "Mother is talking about the road, now that we have entered the capital, there are still some villains at the feet of the Son of Heaven."

I was so stuffy that I could only walk around at night every day to breathe. I don't care, now I'm going to bask in the sun. ”

Ye Xiaoluan's eyes rolled, and he said: "I heard my father say that the most light and thin prodigal son in the capital, if he accidentally saw his sister's appearance, he followed and entangled. Didn't my mother and grandmother know that my sister didn't listen to her teachings on the road? ”

Ye Xiaoluan's words finally frightened Ye Xiaoluan, she couldn't get enough of the curtains, and then turned her head to her sister and said, "If I were a light prodigal, I would snatch you first..."

The two sisters frolicked in the carriage, leaving some faint laughter where the carriage passed.

The convoy passed through the Xuanwu Gate and continued to run in the inner city for a while before stopping in an alley in Anfufang.

When Shen Yixiu helped her mother-in-law get out of the carriage, she found that only the housekeeper Ye Shan came out to greet her and the others, and she couldn't help but ask with some disappointment: "Didn't the master receive the letter I asked Ah Fu to send yesterday?" ”

The housekeeper Ye Shan hurriedly replied: "Back to the old lady, madam, the old man was originally going to ask for leave to wait at home." But early this morning, His Majesty ordered the old man to meet him, so..."

Mother Ye interrupted the housekeeper's words and said, "After all, it is still a matter of business, and it is always a good thing that Zhong Shao can be summoned by the emperor." Wanjun, you accompany me in, the boat is tiring, the old body wants to freshen up, and then rest for a while..."

Ye Shaoyuan, who was worried about his wife and mother, didn't think it was a good thing to be summoned by the emperor at all.

He was transferred from Nanjing Guozijian to the director of the Ministry of Industry in Beijing, which is theoretically promoted, and the director of the Ministry of Industry is still a fat shortage in the eyes of outsiders.

But for Ye Shaoyuan, he missed the life of talking about poetry and literature in Nanjing Guozijian even more, and hated the boring life of the Ministry of Industry dealing with engineering figures.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, the affairs of the Ministry of Industry became more cumbersome. He once wanted to resign and go back to the countryside to be a leisurely gentleman.

However, before he could resign voluntarily, he had been eliminated from the reorganization of officials in the Ministry of Industry and was transferred to Yenching University as the dean of the Faculty of Arts.

As a well-known literati family in Wujiang, Ye Shaoyuan was very famous among Jiangnan scribes, and his appointment as the dean of the Faculty of Arts attracted many scholars to apply for universities. From the director of the Ministry of Engineering to a university professor, it is even more like a fish in water for him.

After Ye Shaoyuan got the new appointment, he temporarily extinguished the idea of resigning, and after Jingzhong began to grow cowpox to prevent smallpox, he immediately remembered his precious daughters.

Smallpox was an incurable disease in these years, and even if some people were in good health and could resist it, they would be ruined by smallpox.

Ye Shaoyuan is very fond of his daughter baby, since there is a cowpox planting technology to prevent smallpox in the capital, he immediately wants his wife to bring his children to the capital, so that he can plant cowpox as soon as possible and not be threatened by smallpox.

However, within two days of Ye Shaoyuan's comfortable days in the university, the emperor came up with a new trick.

A literature museum was established in the university, where vernacular writing was studied, vernacular writing was written, and a new cultural movement was initiated.

Ye Shaoyuan was very supportive of the emperor's idea of establishing a literature museum. But looking at these literati recruited by the emperor, Ye Shaoyuan was really a little speechless.

Feng Menglong, the son of a family who is also in Suzhou Mansion, is just a non-line literati who messes with singers all day long, although he has written a lot of articles and, but he has not been able to win the promotion in his 50s.

Tongcheng Ruan Dacheng, although quite talented, especially good at lyrics and songs, but first entered Donglin and betrayed Donglin's mentors, his character can be described as inferior.

Wu Cheng Ling Meng was just a mere eater, and he fell into the eyes of the emperor just because he wrote a book of surprise at the first moment.

Ye Shaoyuan couldn't help but shake his head when he saw these people, but when he turned his head and saw his brother-in-law Shen Zijin and Shen Zizheng beside him, he felt that the emperor's vision for selecting people didn't seem to be so bad.

When Ye Shaoyuan was thinking wildly, the emperor sitting at the top had already spoken, explaining his intention to establish the Literature Museum to the more than ten literati standing below.

"Since I was enlightened, in addition to the Four Books and Five Classics, I have also read a lot of miscellaneous books and songs. However, I found that there are very few thought-provoking and positive thoughts, but there are many superstitious ideas that preach karma and retribution.

There are many books for emperors and generals, princes and grandchildren, and talented and beautiful women, but there are not many books that describe the joys, sorrows, sorrows, and sorrows of ordinary people and face social problems.

Today, the Ming Dynasty is in internal and external difficulties, with the East captives in the north and the Lu'an Rebellion in the south. The northwest region continued to suffer from famines, and the people pawned their wives and children just to ask for a few full meals. And the same Ming Dynasty, there is still a meal in the southeast that costs hundreds of taels, and there is still no rich merchant with chopsticks.

If a man has no spirit, how is he like an animal? It is because I opened the Literature Museum that I wanted to promote the New Culture Movement, to break down the superstitious ideas that fooled the people, and to expose the true colors of those hypocrites who claim to be sanctimonious, but in fact do male thieves and female prostitutes all day long.

I hope to use the New Culture Movement to awaken the people who live in the Ming Dynasty for unknown reasons. I also hope that the New Culture Movement can sweep away the bad atmosphere of those scholars who are lazy and hardworking, idle talking, and unwilling to do things. Reshape the spiritual outlook of our Da Mingshi people who are positive and take the world as their own responsibility. ”

The emperor's words made the literati below whisper, but Ruan Dacheng stared at the emperor with glowing eyes, as if he saw his hope of making a comeback.

Shen Zijin couldn't help but ask the emperor for advice: "What Your Majesty said is not bad, but dare to ask Your Majesty, what is the new culture?" ”

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a while, and then said: "All cultures have attitudes and positions. The so-called stance is the specific attitude we adopt towards various specific things.

For example, my favorite article "Du Shi Niang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest" is a good article that praises a woman who persistently pursues love and freedom, rather than falling into the cliché of talking about the spring dreams of talented and beautiful women.

In the eyes of the people, Du Siniang is an innocent, kind, witty and cautious, well-informed, resolute and strong woman. But in the eyes of Taoists, this is nothing more than a *.

Is it to praise Du Shi Niang's brave pursuit of love? Or is she criticized for seducing a promising scholar? That's the question of where we stand.

Today's Ming Dynasty, if it can't wake up the broadest masses of the people, it will not be able to restore the fortune of my Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the purpose of the New Culture Movement is to stand on the people's standpoint and praise the truth, goodness, and beauty pursued by the people.

Criticize and expose the hypocrites, corrupt officials, local tyrants and gentry who stand on the opposite side of the people, and traitors who enjoy the supply of the people but try to betray their compatriots to foreigners..."

Chongzhen was shocked by the conversations of these literati recruited from all over the world, especially on the issue of stance and attitude.

Among the literati present, only Feng Menglong, Ling Mengchu, and Ruan Dacheng were the most active in responding to Chongzhen's proposition.

Among them, Feng Menglong was really touched, and when he wrote Du Shi Niang's article, he had the meaning of borrowing the true feelings of men and women to make fake medicines for fame. Therefore, for the position of Chongzhen, the perception is the most profound, and there is an epiphany.

Ling Mengchu agreed that the behavior of corrupt officials should be exposed, so as to rectify public customs and good order, but he did not agree with what the emperor said that he should write articles from the standpoint of the broad masses of the people. In his bones, he is still a member of the gentry.

Ruan Dacheng was untouched, but he supported the emperor most actively, and he regarded this as a shortcut to win the emperor's favor and return to the court.

At the end of the meeting, Chongzhen gave everyone a task, asking them to write an article for the officers and soldiers stationed in Xiping Fort, or a fold of opera.

Luo has always been a defender of Ganzhou. Raised by a widowed mother since childhood, strong and upright, with 3,000 people to guard Xiping Fort, and the main force of the Houjin army fought a bloody battle, the Ming army rebelled Li Yongfang to persuade him to surrender, Luo has always refused awe-inspiringly, saying: "Don't you know that you have always been a righteous man!" ”

In the fierce battle, a arrow flew and shot Luo Yi in one eye, making him unable to command. Finally, when they were exhausted, they bowed to the north again, saying, "The ministers are exhausted." "The horizontal sword kills itself. In this battle, Chen Shangren and Wang Chongxin were also killed.