Chapter 123 The mouth can also serve the country
The good men who sing the name outside Donghua Gate naturally have the opportunity to serve the country and support the Song Dynasty. But that is one of the few. The entire Song Dynasty was reading the books of sages, and there were always two or three million scholars who wanted to take the imperial examination for the Jinshi. These are the elites and prides of the entire nation - the number of these elites and prides is probably comparable to the total number of Mongolian athletes!
The scholars who were able to go to Lin'an to participate in the imperial examination are even more elites and the proud ones. However, the Jinshi who were only five or six hundred people were selected for one subject, and the vast majority were the vast majority. Even if they participated in the imperial examination throughout their entire lives, they did not necessarily have a high school day. The civil servants who came from the official journey of the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty had only more than 10,000 people, accounting for only one or three hundred scholars! What are the remaining majority doing?
Now in the 13th century, citizens, people's countries, nation-states and other things are all extravagant talks. No matter the strength or weakness of the country in the world, they belong to a small number of elites. It is either kings and scholars sharing the world, or kings and warriors, knights or other scholars sharing the world. And if the country and the world are shared by the people who can share the same people, what else can they expect?
Relying on farmers or small citizens? Do you have to be truly the case as Gu Yanwu said, is it a responsibility for the rise and fall of the world? But if millions of scholars who read the books of Confucius and Mencius in the world fulfill their responsibilities, how could the world be in danger of overthrowing? When the world is in danger of overthrowing and many of the noble scholars and officials surrender to the Tartars as pawns, they would think that it was too late to think about whether it was too late to be a common man?
And for these farmers who do small business, what's the point of being the emperor? It's just a change of individuals to collect taxes...
The scholars in the room were silent, and no one was interested in reciting poems and writing them right. They just turned their complex eyes to Chen Dexing's tall and burly torso.
I don’t know how long it took to hear someone smile lightly and say, “Chen Gongwei, can you ask us scholars to fight with the sword?”
Scholars can't fight with their swords? Chen Dexing turned his head and looked at the man who was talking. He was another handsome young man, about thirty years old, gentle and elegant, with a handsome tree in the wind, and there were five beards under his jaw. He moved lightly with the wind, and was elegant and elegant, and his tone was also neutral and peaceful.
"In the Taiping Zhou Zhenyan," the young master bowed to Chen Dexing with a graceful manner and said with a smile, "I would like to ask Chen Gongwei, we scholars who do not practice martial arts and military skills and cannot go to the battlefield. If we cannot go to high school, how should we serve the country?"
An elite of a country has been in troubled times for more than a hundred years, but he still does not practice martial arts and military techniques...
The scholars below all whispered: "Does our scholars abandon our articles, etiquette and righteousness and learn to arch, horses, swords and guns?"
Chen Dexing sneered in his heart, you are too old and have a hard muscle. Even if you learn martial arts, you are a farmer, just like that of Confucius... You have to start with a baby when you learn martial arts.
Chen Dexing smiled bitterly and looked at Zhou Zhenyan and said, "Brother Zhou thinks there is no other way to serve the country except to go to the battlefield and be an official?"
Chen Dexing stood with his hands behind his back, his expression unspeakable.
"Brothers traveled to Lin'an these days, and everything they saw and heard was a peaceful scene... It seemed that this troubled time ended in Jiangbei, and had nothing to do with the millions of people in Jiangnan. I don't know how many people in Jiangnan knew the suffering of wars in Sichuan, Jinghu, and the two Huaihe Rivers, how the northern barbarians were cruel, how they slaughtered the city, and how they killed us Han people like animals, and knew that the Han people in the northern world lived a life worse than pigs and dogs under the iron hooves of the Tartars... For the Han people in the northern world, it was not the country, but the world! Brothers said that if the heartbreaking words were made, if the Song Dynasty official army was defeated last year, this suffering of the destruction of the world would have fallen on every Han people, including everyone here, no one could be spared!"
There were a few scholars in the room who immediately twisted their eyebrows, wanting to scold him, but they couldn't speak. They were not fools, how could they not understand that this is an extraordinary time, and a warrior like Chen Dexing is really valuable... Even if the censor reports what Chen Dexing said to the officials today, at most he would stay at home and not be sent. Even if the officials wanted to settle the score with him, they would have to wait until they repel the Northern Barbarian Army!
Moreover, what Chen Dexing said is true! If the Northern Heroes won the battle last year, there would be no Spring Examination Competition now, and everyone would not even have the opportunity to become an official.
"Chen Gongwei, what do you mean is that our scholars should go to the official family to write a letter to war?" Wen Tianxiang asked with a frown.
"Send a letter?" Chen Dexing looked at Wen Tianxiang, who was full of righteousness, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Brother Wenshan thought that the official family did not know the difficulties of Jiangbei and the suffering of the northern part, right?"
He paused, and his tone suddenly became stronger, "I think that we need to know that the national crisis is coming, and that the destruction of the country will definitely be destroyed is not the government, but the millions of people in the Song Dynasty, and the millions of people in this prosperous city of Lin'an! We must let the people know how many cities and villages the Mongolian Tatars slaughtered during the war in the north, and nine out of ten of the millions of people in the north were killed by these beasts, and the remaining one was driven to the battlefield to fight and kill our Song Dynasty soldiers... This is actually to destroy the Han people in the north and turn the great rivers and mountains of our Han people into the pasture where the Mongolians release horses and shepherds! If these beasts arrive in Jiangnan, Jiangnan will be bloody!"
"Chen Gongwei, you want to..." Wen Tianxiang held his beard and looked at Chen Dexing with some uncertainty. He knew the cruelty of the Mongolians, but what Chen Dexing said now seemed to be a bit too much. Moreover, the officials knew about this kind of matter, all officials knew, and the scholars in the world knew, so that the people could know...
"Awaken the people and let hundreds of millions of people in the world know that the Mongolian Tartars are going to destroy my race, cut off my bloodline, and kill all the billions of creatures in the south of the Yangtze River!" Chen Dexing glanced at every scholar present with his bright eyes, "Isn't such a thing a scholar who has read the books of sages and can do it?"
Yes, don’t go to the front line to kill the Tartars, right?
Lu Xiufu shook his head and said, "How to say it? You can't let me wait for scholars shout in the streets, right?"
"You can run a tabloid!"
Chen Dexing shouted, "There are so many tabloids in Lin'an City, and you can only know how eye-catching articles are. Why don't we publish more tabloids specifically about how cruel the Northern Barbarians are? Why can't we tell the people that when facing the Northern Barbarians, we can only fight to survive if we fight to the death, and never seek to survive. Even if we bow to the knee, we can't survive for a long time. When the Northern Barbarians pacify Jiangnan, they will massacre all the hundreds of millions of Han people!
We can also tell the people in this way that the Northern Barbarians and the Demons of the Underworld are born to kill hundreds of millions of Han people in our world. And we Han people are protected by the Heavenly Court. As long as we stand up and fight, even if we die in battle, our souls can ascend to the Heavenly Court and be ranked in the Immortal Class. If we sell our country and surrender, we will go to the eighteen levels of hell in the future and will never be reborn!"
Chapter completed!