Xu Guangqi left.
Zhu Youxiao watched Xu Guangqi's receding figure, and the smile on his face slowly faded. Finally, he sat up straight, glanced at Chen Hong beside him, and said, "Have the Jinyiwei already started?"
"Your Majesty, it has already begun." Chen Hong bowed quickly.
Zhu Youxiao nodded, said nothing more, and turned around to rest.
At this moment in Beijing, there is a place that has become lively again. That is the place where Chen Kedao gave a lecture last time. Countless people gathered here again.
What Chen Kedao is talking about today is quite sensitive, that is, about teaching in the world.
Chen Kedao believed that the teaching style should be rectified in order to change social atmosphere. As for how to rectify the teaching style, it was necessary to prohibit private teaching. To put it bluntly, not just anyone was allowed to give lectures, only qualified people were allowed to do so.
Moreover, lectures could not be given anywhere, and not just anyone could open an academy; permission from the imperial court was required.
Only in this way can we get back to the original source and achieve the goal of rectifying the style of study, thereby cleansing people's hearts and clarifying the world.
As soon as Chen Kedao's proposal came out, it naturally caused an uproar, because it was another case of digging up graves.
How did the many political parties in this world come about?
It depends on teaching.
With a superficial master-disciple relationship, they colluded with each other in the officialdom. At the same time, these people were all from the same hometown. Because the academies were built by fellow townsmen, especially the bigwigs in the court, they would use this method to enhance their reputation and cultivate the younger generation.
After these younger generations enter officialdom, they become natural followers of the big bosses.
Under such circumstances, Chen Kedao's argument was bound to affect countless people, so the opposition was quite intense for a while.
Even though Chen Kedao was protected by the Jinyiwei, he still almost caused a riot.
Last time, because of this incident, many people were arrested by the Jinyiwei and are still being held in custody.
This time they were still making noise, with many people shouting slogans.
No one came forward directly. They had also learned their lesson and were afraid of being arrested by the Jinyiwei, so they played the game of not punishing the majority with the law.
In the end, the Jinyiwei could only barely maintain order and disperse the crowd.
I thought this behavior would stop, but no one expected it to continue.
In the next lecture, Chen Kedao will talk about the contributions of women.
Chen Kedao believed that a person's knowledge was determined by their education, not their gender. In other words, women were not necessarily less knowledgeable because they had longer hair, but simply because they had not received the opportunity to receive education.
Therefore, Chen Kedao hoped to give women the opportunity to receive equal education and opened a college that only accepted female students.
This argument caused an uproar, and countless people flocked to the lecture site, but this view was supported by many women.
Because Chen Kedao did not believe that a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent, and his propaganda was very beautiful.
So the capital was in turmoil again, and many people ran to Shuntian Prefecture to file complaints.
The Shuntian Prefecture government was also in a state of panic. Even a fool could see that this matter was bound to become a big deal. So naturally, they couldn't just sit there and take it. The Shuntian Prefecture was usually a punching bag, so they would not take the lead in this matter.
So after these people were turned away in Shuntian Prefecture, they started making a fuss in the capital, and many of them began to cause trouble.
Such a turmoil naturally affected the court.
Countless people submitted impeachment petitions, saying that Chen Kedao was promoting heresy and that people like Chen Kedao should be beaten to the ground. They hoped that His Majesty would punish him and strictly prohibit Chen Kedao from spreading such doctrines again.
However, there were people in the court who supported Chen Kedao. One thing was stirred up, and that was the memorial submitted by the censor Zhu Tongmeng.
In Zhu Tongmeng's view, the cause of the chaos in the world was private teaching and those academies, so he submitted a memorial early on, hoping that the emperor would ban such private teaching and demand that all academies in the world be destroyed.
Under such circumstances, this matter naturally came to the surface.
Of course, if no one pushed this matter forward, Zhu Tongmeng's memorial might have been buried in oblivion, but the Censorate pushed this matter forward.
Because many people in the Censorate saw opportunities in Chen Kedao's lecture, especially Cui Chengxiu and others.
Cui Chengxiu and others did not agree with Chen Kedao's theory, but they felt that Chen Kedao's theory was useful to them.
For example, prohibiting private teaching and destroying academies across the country was what Cui Chengxiu and his group had always wanted to do. The reason why the Donglin Party was so powerful was because they had the academy, a crucial channel to deceive people.
So the Censorate began to impeach Zhu Tongmeng, and the general idea was to write about his theories, but they took a detour and started attacking him directly from the direction of forming a clique for personal gain.
Once they start the attack, there will definitely be people who stand up to oppose them, because these people will not easily let them destroy the academy.
For a while, the court was in turmoil and chaos.
In such an atmosphere of public opinion, Zhu Youxiao leaned on the couch, with various fruit plates placed around him. From time to time, he reached out to pick up a candied fruit and put it into his mouth.
Unlike later times, there are not many fresh fruits to eat now, but candied fruits are still good.
However, I have eaten too much candied fruit these past two days. It seems too sweet and I feel a little sick of it.
So Zhu Youxiao picked up a frozen pear.
The surface of this frozen pear is black because the ice on the outside has been removed with cold water.
Zhu Youxiao reached out and held the frozen pear with a silk handkerchief, gently biting through the skin of the pear, and the cool juice inside instantly rushed into his mouth.
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