When Chongzhen talked for the first time in front of everyone about why he changed Guozijian to Yenching University, more than 200 students from Yenching University listened very carefully.

Although they were just outside the left gate of Chang'an, the emperor called them the pillars of the future of the Ming Dynasty as soon as they came out, but these students only took the emperor's words as spiritual encouragement to them.

Although Guozijian was renamed Yenching University, it was much stricter in recruiting students and adopted a fixed semester and repetition system, but most students did not think that their future was bright.

For more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the art of the imperial examination system has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Officials who have entered the public career in other ways will always be regarded as sideways, and even if they are outstanding, they will be rejected by the mainstream of officials. Not only can these officials who are not from the right path be promoted faster than those who came from the imperial examination, but even the room for advancement will encounter an invisible ceiling.

Therefore, although the students of Yenching University were the absolute main force in this incident, the leaders gave it to Zhang, Xia, Wang, Yang and others of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance. This is because the alliance of the ten sons of Yantai not only produced a few jinshi in this examination, but the remaining scholars were not selected for a while, but the article making art was not worse than that of the scholars, and they just lacked a little luck.

In front of these future Jinshi, whether it was the Henan scholars who went to Beijing to file a complaint, or these students of Yenching University, they naturally could only retreat for a while and shout for it.

But now when the emperor talks to them about his desire to establish Yenching University, the closeness that comes from the heart finally makes many Yenching University students understand that the emperor's attitude towards them is different from that towards other people.

Although, now everyone thinks that the Jinshi who have passed the imperial examination and are titled on the gold list are the emperor's courtiers and the future Ming elite.

But obviously Chongzhen didn't think so, he just wanted to let these students of Yenching University know that sooner or later Yenching University would return to the grand situation of Emperor Chengzu, and only the talents cultivated by the university were the officials of the country he needed.

The keen students were overjoyed, and the sluggish students became much closer to the emperor. After Chongzhen's words, these students, who originally admired the talents of the members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance, unconsciously turned their admiration for the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance into a sense of reverence for the emperor.

Under Chongzhen's praise and expectations, these students finally had a little bit in their hearts, how to make themselves the goal of becoming the kind of young talent who takes the world as their own responsibility as described by the emperor.

And the original fear of the students who thought that they wanted to be inferior to the members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance has now disappeared. Since the emperor was so optimistic about them, they could no longer put themselves under certain scholars who were not even among the scholars, and they should be on an equal footing in the matter of writing to the emperor.

If there is the emperor's praise, they still have to be submissive to the members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance, then wouldn't they be slapping Chongzhen in the face in person. If they were remembered by the emperor because of this, it would be difficult for them to step into the official career in the future.

Zhang Pu and Yang Tingshu roughly understood Chongzhen's meaning, and also felt the emotional fluctuations of the students around them.

They knew that they had lost most of their control over the students. The next thing can only be hoped for is that these students will continue to be on their side because of their dissatisfaction with the eunuchs.

However, they vaguely felt that their optimistic estimation before the book was that the idea of these students joining them today was unlikely to come true.

Zhang Pu and Yang Tingshu could only sigh in their hearts, and today's action to write is estimated to end in a tiger's end. The two of them didn't think that the plan was wrong, but they felt that it was completely the emperor who didn't give them a chance to speak.

Zhang Pu is actually very confident, as long as the emperor can give him a chance to speak when they meet, he will definitely be able to impress onlookers with his tongue. Even if the emperor is dissatisfied with them again, today's book will have a happy ending.

But now a strange thing has happened, since the emperor walked out of the left gate of Chang'an, he has not let him, the leader elected by the scholars, speak, and has been disrupting the rhythm of the expected response of these scholars.

First, it eased the antagonism of the scholars outside the left gate of Chang'an, and then led away the Henan scholars who had the most fierce protests, and now they are trying to encircle the students of Yenching University who have the largest number and the fastest emotional changes.

While Zhang Pu was silently watching Chongzhen play, such a sentence also flashed in his mind, and he attacked it separately.

Not to mention the loss of Zhang Pu and others, Zhu Youzhen's communication with these students finally came to an end, and he concluded it.

“… You should have studied pragmatism in college, so you should understand that without investigation, there is no right to speak.

I feel like I have to add that if you don't do the right research, you don't have a say. You are the pillars of the future of the Ming Dynasty, and sooner or later you will embark on a career and become officials who govern the people.

So how can you make a correct judgment and solve the problems encountered in the local area when you are governing the local area?

I believe that only by honestly following the principle of seeking truth from facts, personally investigating the causes and processes of the problem, and then brainstorming, can we find a correct solution to the problem.

Don't blindly follow the sentences in the book to solve the problem, that is dogmatism. Don't judge by past experience, that's empiricism. To do things with these two doctrines is to make a mistake.

Only by clarifying the objectively existing facts and understanding the internal and external relations of things can we find out how to solve problems and meet practical needs. Without investigation, there is no voice, and without investigation, there is no decision-making.

This is the reason I wish to share with you. ”

Ouyang Binyuan, a student at Yenching University, rolled his eyes, and couldn't help but say, "What Your Majesty just said really benefited me a lot.

However, the fact that Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu violated the gentry in Henan was personally proved by Li Xin, Zheng Lian and other Henan scholars, is this an objective fact?

Wei Zhongxian, the lieutenant guard of Fengyang Town, transferred about 6,000 officers and soldiers to guard the mausoleum and ran out of the scope of the imperial mausoleum, which is probably also a fact, right? Students think..."

Ouyang Bin Yuanyang said it freely, Chongzhen always listened to what he said with a smile on his face, and then replied: "Su Shi used to write "The Story of Shizhong Mountain", and I remember that there is a sentence in it: I don't see and hear things, but I guess whether they exist or not

What is the one you just said that you saw with your own eyes? What you say is just a rumor heard from someone else.

The ancients all knew that accumulation and destruction become a mountain, and three people become a tiger. Am I not as good as the ancients? ”

Ouyang Binyuan was stunned for a moment, and then said solemnly: "What Your Majesty said is naturally correct, but the student Guan Li Xin and others are sincere gentlemen, and they should not make up lies to deceive Your Majesty and the court." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, and said, "Yes, it is precisely because I think they are credible that I will ask them to write down the factual evidence, and then send someone to investigate." Otherwise, why would I do anything else? ”

Ouyang Binyuan was finally silent, and several Yenching University students around him couldn't help but nod their heads, seemingly agreeing with Chongzhen's statement.

On the other side, the members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance also seemed to have some differences when they heard this, such as Wang Chongjian and other scholars in the capital, who saw that today's book seemed to be impossible, and they couldn't help but retreat.

Originally, they wanted to hijack the students of Yenching University and confront the eunuchs in the court, and whether they succeeded or not, their reputation would spread all over the world. And with the participation of these students from Yenching University, even if the emperor is angered, he will not be punished very severely in the end.

But now it seems that these students are young after all, and they have been fooled by Chongzhen in just a few words. There is no momentum at all when they gathered yesterday and claimed to fight to the death with the eunuchs.

If it weren't for the flag-waving and shouting of these students, and let them challenge the eunuchs who were in charge of the government, it would be like their own death.

It is not easy for a cabinet chief assistant like Huang Liji to deal with the momentary indignation of hundreds of scholars, but he will not have any scruples about dealing with a literati association of 2 or 30 people.

But before they could come to a conclusion in private, Xia Yunyi couldn't help but interject and said, "How does Your Majesty know that the people sent to investigate will not be in the same boat as Xu Xianchun, Yang Suoxiu and others?"

Aren't the officials in power in the DPRK and China now the same officials who welcomed Wei Zhongxian at the beginning? If they cover each other, what kind of investigation report can Your Majesty hear?

Your Majesty is surrounded by villains who are not talkative, how can the voices of the subjects of the world really reach Your Majesty's ears?

The students also asked His Majesty to be a gentleman and a villain, and to expel all the former Wei Zhongxian and his party from the court, so that the people of the world would be peaceful. ”

Seeing Xia Yunyi suddenly stand up, regardless of the direct advice to the emperor, completely ignoring the limelight, the members of the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance suddenly changed their faces.

Xia Yunyi has always been upright in the company on weekdays, although some people don't like it, but looking at his background from a famous family in Jiangnan, no one will come forward to warn him, but will praise him twice.

But in this situation, he suddenly jumped out and said this, which is a bit of a dilemma.

First of all, the morale of the students of Yenching University has fallen, and even if they attack the eunuchs in the court, they may not be able to get much strong support, but will make the alliance of the ten sons of Yantai jealous of the eunuchs.

However, if they don't stand up to support Xia Yunyi now, wouldn't this arrogant remark made by the Yantai Ten Sons Alliance when it was formed in the past. All of a sudden, these members were in a dilemma.