Chapter 425: Incapable of
On Liuyuan Street in Fengtian City, where ordinary people live, a man's angry voice came from a simple house: "Why didn't you go to the academy today?"
A young man replied weakly: "I won't study anymore. I want to start a business with my father."
Clear slaps sounded instantly, and the man said, "Who is Master Qin? Being able to study with him is a blessing you have earned over several lifetimes. How dare you skip classes for me?"
I need your help regarding the stall? If you can study hard with Master Qin and step into the Wensheng Dao lineage, you are damn better than anything else!
Go and apologize to Master Qin tomorrow, and then study hard for me. Do you understand? "
"I won't go." The young man replied stubbornly.
When the man heard this, he became very angry. He looked around, picked up the feather duster from the corner of the room, pointed at the young man and shouted: "Tell me again, do you want to go?"
The young man knelt on the ground, lowered his head, pinched his thighs with his hands, and his body was trembling slightly.
It was not because he was afraid of his father's angry punishment, but because he felt wronged and wanted to cry.
"I won't go." The young man's attitude remained firm.
Snapped!
The feather duster fell on the boy, and just by hearing the sound, he knew it must be very painful.
But the young man gritted his teeth and said nothing, just enduring it silently.
When the man saw this, he flicked the feather duster in his hand again and again, and cursed angrily: "It's okay if you don't go well outside, but you still don't live up to expectations when you come back.
When I tried to trick you into trying to learn martial arts, you didn't want to. You said you wanted to study.
Okay, you want to study. I asked you to study. Those bullies in the Imperial College don’t treat the common people as human beings, but you can still bear to go there to study in the middle of the night every day.
Now Master Qin has established the Hanmen Academy to give you a place where you can study with peace of mind. Wouldn't you like to go there? "
Maybe it was because he was resentful, or maybe he was frustrated, but the man didn't take his actions lightly.
The scars and blood stains on the young man's body even penetrated through his clothes.
The woman on the side couldn't bear to watch anymore, and hurriedly stopped the man, and then protected the young man with distress: "Stop fighting, don't fight again!"
"Get out of the way, I have to beat this bastard to death today!" The man was furious.
While protecting the young man with her body, the woman asked with red eyes: "Zhi'er, don't you like Master Qin and Hanmen Academy the most? Why do you suddenly don't want to go? What's the reason?"
This young man was none other than Han Zhi. He was one of the first students to enter the Poor Academy after leaving the Imperial College, and he was also the one with the deepest affection for the academy.
The man gasped and cursed angrily: "What kind of difficulties can this bastard have? He is obviously afraid of hardship. I think he wants to study, so I'm just talking about it."
These words stung Han Zhi's heart. He raised his head with red eyes, as if to vent his inner grievances. He almost shouted: "Because I don't want to see those people go to dad's shop to cause trouble again. They don't want to Do you just don’t want me to go to the Poor Academy?
I know all these things."
The man was stunned when he heard this, and the feather duster slipped from his hand. The anger on his face slowly faded, and his expression became complicated: "Did your mother tell you?"
The woman shook her head and looked at the boy doubtfully.
Han Zhi replied: "Zhu Zhu told me that when he left Hanmen Academy, I asked him why.
Then I went outside my father's stall and saw the officials making things difficult for me.
Zhuzi said that as long as he leaves Hanmen Academy, those officials will not come back. "
When the man heard this, he didn't know what to say. The reason why he hid this was because he hoped that his child would study hard, enter the literary and sage tradition as soon as possible, and have a way to settle down in this world.
But after all, paper cannot cover fire.
"It's useless, dad." The man slammed his right fist against the wall. The wall was fine, but blood was dripping from the skin of the man's right hand.
Han Zhi stood up in a hurry and comforted him: "Dad, in fact, it was not entirely because of this reason that I left Hanmen Academy.
I have also thought about it carefully, even if I can step into the ninth rank of Literary Sage through reading, a low-level Literary Sage is just a weak scholar.
And it is impossible to predict what level of cultivation I will be able to reach in the future.
In this case, why not help you, subsidize your family, and learn a way to make a living earlier. "
"Zhi'er, do you really think so?" the woman asked.
Han Zhi nodded and bit his lips tightly to avoid tears falling.
"Since Senior Brother Yang already knew the reason, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Qin Feng clenched his fists by the window outside the house, suppressing his anger.
Yang Qian on the side replied: "What can I do if I tell you? Solve the officials who are making things difficult? Let the students return to the poor academy?"
"Of course it is!"
Yang Qian denied: "Even if you deal with this group of officials, there will be other officials."
"Then find out the people behind the scenes and solve the problem fundamentally." Qin Feng said solemnly.
Yang Qian shook his head: "I might as well tell you directly that the person who made these officials make things difficult for the students is the county magistrate here, and the magistrate comes from the Imperial College of Haowen Academy.
In the Imperial College, there are many people who don't like the poor academy. Do you still want to fight against the entire Imperial College? "
When Qin Feng heard this, his heart sank. Fighting against the Imperial Academy was equivalent to fighting against most of the officialdom.
After all, most of the officials in today's court came from the Imperial College.
"Taking a step back, even if no one makes things difficult for these students, they will definitely continue to study?
You also heard what Han Zhi said. From this incident, he had already seen the future of scholars from poor families.
I told you last time that as long as the problem of being unable to study is not solved, it will only be a matter of time before the students leave. "
Qin Feng opened his mouth, and his anger was extinguished by a deep sense of powerlessness. Didn't he know this truth?
Allowing ordinary people to have books to read and allowing literati and saints to spread throughout the world are, in the end, just ideals.
But there is an unbridgeable gap between ideal and reality.
For ordinary people, survival is the top priority. If there is no hope in what they are currently working hard for, why is there any need to continue to persevere?
Just a waste of time.
"Senior Brother Yang, is it true that scholars from poor families have no future?" Qin Feng asked his inner question.
Yang Qian sighed: "Junior Brother Fei and I have thought about this issue for a long time, but in the end I became a scholar who sat in the Climbing Tower all day long and only focused on reading books by sages.
Junior Brother Fei also completely looked away and no longer thought about stepping into the court to change the world.
It's not that we are unwilling, but that we are unable to do so.
Unless the official selection system of Daqian is changed, scholars from poor families are doomed to have no future.
However, the idea of nepotism and that all officials are powerful has been deeply ingrained. How easy is it to change this? "
"Official Selection System" Qin Feng fell into deep thinking.