Looking at modern China, students are the main force driving the change of the times. They are enthusiastic and accept the influence of advanced Western ideas. He has a very new perspective on the world, and he also has a strong creativity, vitality and combat effectiveness.
Just as on the eve of the Penghu ReformAtion, it was precisely because Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao joined forces with a thousand people to write on the bus that the reformists entered the political arena. Then there was the vigorous "May Fourth Movement," which directly forced the Chinese delegation to refuse to sign the humiliating peace treaty at the Paris Peace Conference. Coupled with the students from the Whampoa Military Academy, most of them have become the main talent force in China's modern and contemporary wars, and the students shine with moving brilliance on the stage of modern China.
However, the ancients always said that "a hundred useless is a student", which is nothing more than a satire on the literati who do not understand the important affairs of the soldiers, and can only chant poems and talk about soldiers on paper. And the literati in the history of our country are indeed mostly like this. But there are also some exceptions, such as Xin Qijie, as a famous lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty, he and Su Shi were called "Su Xin", and together with Li Qingzhao, he was also called "Jinan Er'an". The most powerful thing is that he was still a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty against the Jin Dynasty, and he was unambiguous in his fighting.
Therefore, the ancient literati were not militarily useless. What's more, there is also such a college, in which the students are all warm-blooded men who are good at literature and martial arts.
This academy is Yuelu Academy. Also at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Genghis Khan in the north was eager to move the Central Plains. Not long after, they broke the agreement of alliance with the Southern Song Dynasty and began to send troops to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty. Knowing that the mongol khanate's army was approaching, the imperial court ordered a complete blockade along the Yangtze River and dispatched heavy troops to deploy. The Southern Song Dynasty was a culturally prosperous and militarily weak dynasty, and it wasn't long before the defensive line was crushed by the Mongols. They went all the way south and fought all the way to Changsha.
Perhaps due to the weakness of Wensheng Wu, the southern Song Dynasty national soul and flesh and blood fang steel were complemented by the literati. Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty never lacked literati who were full of family and country feelings and determined to fight for the country. No, after the Yuanmeng army arrived in Changsha, the students who were still attending classes at Yuelu Academy at that time immediately boiled over.
There was Xin Abandoning Disease as an example, and the motto of Yuelu Academy for thousands of years was loyalty and patriotism. The students were eager to try it out and kill the enemy.
At that time, the Taishou of Changsha was called Li Fu, although he knew that the front line would be tight, and the army was in urgent need of replenishment. But students are the pillars and hopes of the country's future, and they must not die on the battlefield in vain. Therefore, he resolutely refused the request of the students of Yuelu Academy.
After three months of hard work, Changsha was about to be destroyed, but the reinforcements of the imperial court were delayed, and Li Fu fell into despair. Finally, Changsha fell and the city gates opened widely, and the students of Yuelu Academy could not bear it any longer, so they threw down their pens one after another, wielded all the weapons they could use, and fought with the people in the city against the Mongolian army. Everyone fought to the last moment, and none surrendered. The whole city of Changsha was in a state of common hatred, and the cries of battle shook the whole city.
Although they were unable to save Changsha in the end, these students proved with their lives that the literati also had a backbone. The national soul and blood are rooted in the hearts of every Chinese, regardless of identity or status.