Father can be an enemy to the country

The examination will end in two days, and the candidates will not need to wait too long to know whether they have been selected, because the palace examination is held five days after the examination, so the Ministry of Rites will release the results three days later.

On the day when the results were released, Zhu Zhen called all his favorite disciples to his Chuhai Dian Palace, held a grand banquet, and prepared several carts of fireworks, waiting for a celebration banquet for them after the results were released.

Therefore, the college students who come to participate in the royal banquet are all outstanding representatives carefully selected by Guozi University, and they will 100% be on the gold list.

The college students who were selected as representatives were naturally very honored and came to the palace early to pay homage to the emperor. Zhu Zhen was also very happy. He ordered his people to prepare rich tea snacks and fruits, and he had tea with them while chatting and waiting for the banquet to begin.

Since the opening of Guozi University in the 13th year of Hongwu, there have been more than 2,000 graduates in two classes. More than 2,000 college students have all entered official careers. Although most of them are grassroots affairs officers except for the group of college students who went to support Yunnan, Zhu Zhen firmly believes that given time, they will grow into the backbone of the Ming Dynasty. .

But difficulties also exist objectively. Student representatives generally reported to Zhu Zhen that they had been suppressed and even bullied by administrators in the yamen.

"They try every possible way to embarrass us. They just give us the hardest and most tiring jobs, and then they find fault with us and make trouble for us over nothing!" A young man with a Huguang accent angrily told Zhu Zhen The complaint states:

"We also know why they are making things difficult for us. To be honest, we are not afraid of hardships and hardships. But the problem is that the evaluation at the end of the year is a mess, which makes people think that we college students have high ambitions and low abilities, and are useless!"

"That's right!" A group of young people nodded in agreement and said angrily: "No matter how hard we work, the administrator can completely negate us with just a few strokes at the end of the year. It's really discouraging."

"Otherwise, we wouldn't have taken leave to take the exam. Isn't it just to get a Jinshi, so that we can directly become political officers and no longer suffer from this nonsense?!"

"..." After Zhu Zhen patiently listened to the students' complaints, Fang smiled at the young man with a Huguang accent and said, "Are you Xia Yuanji?"

"Returning to Jijiu, the student is none other than Xia Yuanji." The young man quickly stood up and clasped his fists, saying with joy, "I didn't expect Jijiu to still remember the student's name."

"I remember the names of many of you." Zhu Zhen smiled and pointed at a student in his early twenties with a beard and said: "For example, his name is Jian Yi."

"Your name is Lu Zhen." Zhu Zhen pointed at another young man with a Chinese character face.

Jian Yi and Lu Zhen also stood up and clasped their fists in flattery. They really didn't expect that the prince was so busy and could take them into consideration.

Zhu Zhen called the names of more than a dozen young talents one after another, and all of them were wrong. Then he said emotionally: "You are the first batch of students recruited by the king after he founded Guozi University. You have experienced so many things with me." There have been ups and downs. Even though we have been apart for the past two years, our bond with each other will never disappear. You will always be in my heart."

"Yes, Your Majesty will always be our sacrificial wine." The students were so moved that their eyes were red, and many of them shed tears on the spot.

"Then I, the sacrificial wine drinker, will test you. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, in the first lesson I gave you in Piyong, I quoted a line from Heizi. Who still remembers it?"

"Me, me, me!" The students hurriedly raised their hands.

"Xia Yuanji, please tell me." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.

"Return to the sacrificial wine." Xia Yuanji stood up and said loudly: "All great progress in the world often appears as a tragedy for the first time, and a comedy for the second time!"

"Okay, word for word." Zhu Zhen nodded approvingly and said to the bearded young man: "Jian Yi, let me tell you how I interpreted this passage at that time."

"Yes, sacrificial wine." Jian Yi stood up quickly and replied in a slender and gentle voice:

"Jiujiu taught us at that time that although those progressive things are a hundred times better than the old things, the new power is always weak because the time is still short. The old things have existed for a long time, and the accumulated power is far stronger than New things. Just like a newly born tiger cub, it will definitely not be able to defeat an adult wolf."

"So, in the historical process of new forces defeating the old forces, they must first go through the stage of being suppressed by the powerful old forces." Jian Yi continued:

"But the old forces are unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history and use all possible means to suppress the new forces, even without a bottom line. This is where the tragedy is born. If the new forces lack resilience and firm beliefs, they often It will retreat or even dissipate in a series of tragedies.”

"But if the new forces can have a firm belief that they represent the correct direction of history, and fight unyieldingly against the old forces to the end. Then as time goes by, the new forces will become stronger and stronger. And the new forces will continue to grow. As it gets stronger, the old forces will weaken, and the historic moment of reversal of strength will eventually come! By then, any unwilling struggle of the old forces will be reduced to a clown's farce, and it cannot change the fact that the new forces will eventually win. comedy!"

After listening to Jian Yi's words, the students all recalled the prince's sincere teachings to them on the first day of school; they recalled how difficult it was for the birth of Guozi University; they recalled the overwhelming number of open and covert attacks.

"Jian Yi said it very well." Zhu Zhen waved his hand, motioning for Jian to sit down, and then said to the students: "Now we are still under the suppression of the old forces. Confucianism has been passed down for too long and there are too many believers. Even if the emperor After killing batch after batch, they still occupy most of the political officer positions in the imperial court and local governments, and are still your immediate superiors."

"Before, on campus, the school protected you from wind and rain. You just had to study with peace of mind. Now that you are serving as officials all over the world, the school cannot protect you. You have to face the wind and rain by yourself." Zhu Zhen also said emotionally. His students said:

"I will naturally do my best to ask my father and eldest brother to promote you, but you have to strive for your own success and don't be intimidated by temporary difficulties and setbacks. If you back down from this, won't we just let our enemies succeed? ?So we must persist even more. As long as we persist, as more and more students embark on official careers, our foundation will become stronger and stronger, our strength will become stronger, and the enemy's strength will become stronger. It will decline day by day - the moment of reversal from strength to weakness will eventually come!"

"Yes! Students should remember the teachings of offering wine!" The college students stood up together, clasped their fists, and respectfully accepted the instruction. After Zhu Zhen's advice, they were finally no longer confused and became full of fighting spirit again.

Zhu Zhen looked at the enthusiastic young faces and felt the heavy responsibility again.

Alas, with these fetters, how easy is it to leave behind everything in the capital and leave?