Chapter 903 Xu Fengnian is visiting the academy and discusses changes in Li Yang Dynasty
After Xu Fengnian took off the cool knife from his waist, he gently hung it on a jade hook on the left edge of the shelf.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but in this way, all the six generations of the Xu family’s battle knives were gathered together.
The young scholar was a little frightened and quickly bowed, “Dai Yuanjie, Fengtang County, see the prince.”
Xu Fengnian said in surprise: “Who is Mr. Jiao’an, Fengtang County, Jizhou, you are you, you are the descendants of the Dai Jiayuan,”
Dai Yuanjie was even more surprised, and he did not expect that the dignified vassal king would hear about his grandfather. The Dai family was once a wealthy family that was born in the old Northern Han Dynasty for generations. In the past three hundred years, the descendants of the family have ranked in the eight characters of “indifferent and clear ambitions, quiet and far-reaching”. When it came to Dai Yuanjie’s generation, it was just the turn of “yuan”. However, like many wealthy families in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Dai family fell into ruin with the “unrighteous” war between success and defeat of the king and the enemy, and the Dai family fell into decline. The family’s children abide by the rules set by Mr. Jiao’an and study but not the officials. The Dai family’s library, “Eight Hundred Iron Sword Tower”, was once one of the six major library buildings in the Spring and Autumn Period. It especially treasures more than 100 rare editions, and countless finely engraved and manuscripted school books. After the old Northern Han Dynasty was defeated by Xu Xiao, the Dai Family Library, which had never minded that people climbed the tower, was no longer open to the public, and even the children of the family could not easily climb the tower to read books.
This young scholar with a deep family background looked up and said seriously, “It’s the ancestor of the family!”
Xu Fengnian’s face was a little embarrassed: “Half of the rare editions of Chaoge were blackmailed by our Xu family from your 800 Iron Sword Tower in the early years. If you come to Beiliang this time, I will ask someone to sort out the books and try to return them as much as possible.”
Dai Yuanjie heard this secret for the first time, and his grandfather never mentioned this to him, which was even more embarrassing than Xu Fengnian for a while.
He was a weak scholar, how many courage could he have come to Beiliang to settle accounts with the Northwest vassal king Qiuhou
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “The books are also dusty in Tingchao Pavilion, so it is better to return them to your Dai family. But it is agreed in advance that you can return them, but the premise is that your Dai family’s library should not be treasured by yourself, and you need to open them to other surnames and scholars from other places. You can discuss this with Mr. Jiao’an first. Of course, this is a heartless invitation, and Mr. Jiao’an may not agree, but it will not affect your study at Baima Academy. You Dai Yuanjie will relax. If it really doesn’t work, I will give those editions of books to Baima Academy in the name of your Dai family. You can also tell Mr. Jiao’an clearly in your letter.”
After weighing the pros and conscientiously, Dai Yuanjie felt relieved and bowed again, and said with sincerity: “The prince is so full!”
Xu Fengnian laughed silently, and he still held back some of the words to his mouth. In fact, Xu Xiao borrowed books by relying on a knife. Now it is just because the hundreds of thousands of cold swords from the Xu family are still there, and the matter of returning books has become “massive”. In fact, in the final analysis, the Xu family is unreasonable. It’s just Xu FengnianI don’t want to tell this to a descendant of the Dai family.
No matter how good a book is, it looks valuable if no one reads it, but in fact it is the least valuable.
But Xu Fengnian also heard a lot of strange words from Miss Hehe. Huang Sanjia said that future scholars would have read too easily and did not pay attention to the hard work of their ancestors, so they would sigh that “the ancients have already explained the truth.”
Xu Fengnian followed the young scholar into Baima Academy.
The young scholar looked back for no reason and looked at the wooden frame.
After the Spring and Autumn Period.
Xu’s six swords.
Array here.
Baima Academy was built according to the old system of the left and right vegetarian houses of Zhongkai Lecture Hall. Three hundred scholars lived in the sixty vegetarian houses in that place. There were only nineteen men who had been teaching in the academy all year round. Yao Baifeng and Xu Beizhi were all here, and the deputy director Bai Yu still needed to preside over the affairs of the official residence in Qingliang Mountain. However, the academy plans to invite more than 20 temporary lecturers this autumn and winter, and a large number of names, which is a spectacular lineup. There is Huang Shang, the mountain master of Qinglu Cave Academy, Song Yan, the new governor of Youzhou who praised the Legalists, Wang Xihua, the great scholar of Huang Nan County, who was praised by Yao Baifeng as the “three governors” and Chang Sui, the senior brother who once studied under Han Guzi of Shangyin Academy with Xu Weixiong, Xu Huang and others. It is said that there is Yu Youwei, the music master who is now serving as Mr. Jishang in Shangyin Academy.
Xu Fengnian followed Dai Yuanjie to walk slowly and finally stopped in the open space in front of the library. Yao Baifeng, Liu Yuanji and Wei Tieshan, were sitting around and basking in the sun, while Xu Beizhi led a group of young scholars in the academy to post books.
Yao Baifeng, who retreated from the position of the Imperial College in Beijing, looked energetic, not as old as the rumor of the Liyang court, resigned due to illness. In fact, even Xu Fengnian didn’t know why Yao Baifeng took the initiative to leave Tai’an City, and why he didn’t live a life in the capital, but returned to Beiliang. You should know that Yao’s family studies are hailed as being able to compete with the entire Shangyin Academy. Although it is suspected of exaggeration, no one questioned Yao Baifeng’s high reputation in the Liyang literary world. In fact, in Tai’an City in recent years, Yao Baifeng was almost the only Qingliu civil servant who was willing to say a few fair words to the military and political affairs of the Northern Liang in the court. Xu Fengnian believed that if it were not for “disobedience” to the Zhao family emperor, with Yao Baifeng’s clear hope and knowledge, he would have long been able to enter the Liyang Center and stand side by side with Huan Wen, Zhao Youling, Yin Maochun and others, rather than staying in the Imperial College where he has reputation but no real power. What’s more, after Yao Baifeng followed Yan Jiexi to become an official, many Yao family members took office. Yao Baifeng chose to move into Beiliang Baima Academy at this time. Even Xu Fengnian felt a little worried for the old man, so he had discussed matters with Song Dongming in Qingliang Mountain before. Xu Fengnian proposed whether he could only let Yao Baifeng be the lecturer and not be the head of the institution, so as to help the old man minimize the rumors and rumors in Liyang Temple. As the prime minister selected by Yuan Benxi in the past,Song Dongming, a deputy commander who was well aware of the deep and shallow waters in the officialdom of Liyang, also supported this matter, but in the end, Yao Baifeng still politely refused, saying that he had “I am not young and has a great official addiction. I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail.” He insisted on being the top leader of the academy himself. Qingliang Mountain or Xu Fengnian could not resist this respected elderly scholar, so he had to let Yao Baifeng take charge of Baima Academy.
Seeing Xu Fengnian arrive, Liu Yuanji and Wei Tieshan, two early deputy commanders of the Northern Liang border army, did not dare to rely on their seniority, and immediately stood up to greet them. Especially Liu Yuanji, whose family members were rampant in the village but did not know that they were self-aware, seemed a little guilty. On the eve of Xu Fengnian’s inheritance, when he was performing martial arts outside the pass, Liu Yuanji was scolded by his old colleague Lin Doufang, who was so angry that he rushed back to the mansion. The first thing he did was to call all the unworthy descendants who were respectful and respectful in front of him to the ancestral hall. With a attitude of not being afraid of being wrongly killed but only missing, he made more than twenty juniors named Liu knelt on the ground and personally whipped a hundred whips with their whip. On the spot, seven or eight people fainted, and blood was poured out. The women in the Liu family outside the ancestral hall were so scared that they didn’t even dare to cry. On that day, three of them were beaten to death by seven officials in the mansion. The companions of the young Liu family members were all covered and got out of bed. Since then, the family style of the Liu family has been solemn, and Liu Yuanji even closed the door to thank the guests. It was not until the commander of the Left Cavalry, He Zhonghu, sent him a message saying that they would return to the border army to serve. Liu Yuanji then showed up to meet others in a hell. Otherwise, the veteran would probably not have planned to deal with the robes of the past in his life.
These military generals in Beiliang who have experienced the Spring and Autumn Wars are of great achievements and great deeds, and they are unruly and unruly, and they do not obey constraints. This is naturally true. But there is one thing that is different from many of the heroes of Liyang’s “founding the country”, that is, they have an indescribable and deeply rooted complex for the Xu family or Xu Xiao. If the Liyang generals such as Yan Zhenchun, Yang Shenxing, and Ma Lulang helped the old emperor to conquer the Zhaoshi country, then the powerful generals such as Yan Wenluan, Wei Tieshan and Liu Yuanji followed Xu Xiao to conquer the Xu family country. The difference between one word is a world of difference. It’s very simple. Xu Xiao shared the joys and sorrows with them and fought together. This not only has the kind of “the friendship between the king and the minister” and the meaning of changing your lives. On the temple, it is difficult to understand the obscureness and the most difficult to see the true heart; on the battlefield, life and death are the easiest to see the nature.
Before and after the infamous Xu Fengnian inherited the King of Northern Liang, undercurrents surged, the former commander of the cavalry, Zhong Hongwu, was killed. He was privately called “It’s not just killing a chicken to warn the monkey, but killing a tiger to warn the wolf.” This shows how fierce the atmosphere of Northern Liang is. When Xu Fengnian led the general of Lingzhou as the prince, even though Xu Xiao was still alive, the generals who controlled the Lingzhou officialdom were different, the storm still caused.
After Xu Fengnian greeted everyone, he saw Lin Doufang, an old soldier from Lianzi Camp, and suddenly realized that the first sword of the Xu family must be the treasure of this one-armed old man. I remember that Xu Xiao thought about it many times in his early years, saying that if there was still the first generation of Xu Dao in today, it would probably have given it to Lin Doufang personally and treated it as a baby from two families.The one who has married the token of relatives. However, Lin Dou’s house had no children later. The first chief general of the Lotus Seed Camp disappeared in Beiliang after being disheartened, so the marriage had to be abandoned. The current Baiyu Light Cavalry leader Yuan Nanting came from the Lianzi Camp. That time, the six hundred soldiers came to see the prince’s death in Beijing. Lin Doufang, Yuan Nanting, and Jin Queqiao Zhou Kang, who is currently the commander of the Right Cavalry, all appeared.
Dai Yuanjie brought two chairs to Xu Fengnian and Song Yu. After Xu Fengnian took the chair, he did not take the middle main seat of Yao Baifeng in a legitimate manner, but just placed it next to Lin Dou’s room to sit down. As for the Qingliang Mountain butler Song Yu, he simply did not take the chair, shook his head and refused, holding his breath and standing in the distance.