marquis of jingan

Chapter 28

Seeing Master Lu with a serious face, Shen Yi sighed.

"Sir, Wang Ye is not partial."

Shen Qilang lowered his eyebrows and said: "If you live in a corner of peace, you will end up with a subjugated country in the end. Such a simple truth should be understood by all the princes in the court. Even if our generation can live in a corner of peace, future generations will also accept it because of me." Waiting for today's hesitation and suffering."

In fact, Shen Yi has not been in this world for too long, so he is not an "angry youth" like Lu Anshi, and the affairs of the imperial court are too far away from him now, so he doesn't want to take care of it, and he is not qualified to take care of it.

It's just that in front of Master Lu, there are still things that should be said. After all, the head of Ganquan Academy in front of him is a commoner with no official position on the surface, but his influence in the court is definitely not small. In case...

In case in the future, when Shen Yi goes to the Jiankang Examination Institute or even the provincial examination, the examiner is from the "Oasis School", then with Master Lu's relationship, Shen Yi's road will be much easier.

As for building a relationship, of course you have to follow along, and you can't speak ill of the Northern Expedition in front of Mr. Lu. If this is the case, you might be kicked out of the academy without even taking the exam.

Lu Anshi stared at Shen Yi's article for a long time, then slightly lowered his eyebrows, and sighed: "Wang Ye is not partial, but Da Chen has already been partial, so is Da Chen still Wang Ye?"

Shen Yi didn't answer this sentence.

Master Lu was silent for a while, then turned his attention to Shen Yi's article, reread it from beginning to end, pointed out a few mistakes and omissions, then looked at Shen Yi, and said: "Qilang, your current knowledge, Candidates should have no problem. I will say hello to your teacher later. You don’t have to study in the academy every day. You can go for a walk in your spare time. If you don’t want to take the county test this time, you can wait until the next time. , when the county exam comes, the old man will let the masters from the academy guarantee you."

The exam requires two scholars as guarantors to be eligible to participate in the county examination. If it is an ordinary private school, the teachers are only children or not, so they cannot be guarantors for the students. Some amount of money should be given as guarantee.

In fact, this is also one of the important sources of income for many scholars.

This problem does not exist in Ganquan Academy. Many teachers in Ganquan Academy are scholars, and there are also masters who teach here. Occasionally, some Jinshi from the academy come here to give lectures to the younger students.

Shen Yi quickly nodded in agreement.

Master Lu put away this article, handed it back to Shen Yi, and said in a deep voice: "Acquaintance with the world is also knowledge, the articles by the academic officials of Jiangdu Prefecture, and the articles of the academic officials of Jiangnan Province, you can read more when you have nothing to do." It will be beneficial for you to study."

Mr. Lu was born as a Jinshi, and he also went through Shen Yi's stage when he took the exam in his early years, and what he said were all good words, Shen Yi quickly nodded in agreement, bowed his head and said: "Sir, the students have written down everything. "

"Ah."

Lu Anshi nodded and said, "Go ahead."

Having said that, Master Lu paused, looked up at Shen Yi, and said in a deep voice.

"Then...Fan Dongcheng and the others probably won't come to the academy for a while, and even if they come, they probably won't bother you anymore. If they still dare to mess around in the academy..."

"Don't get entangled with them, get out as soon as possible, and come here to find the old man."

Master Lu sighed slightly: "In the past few days, the old man has read the articles written by Chen Qing, and he is also a seed for reading. It's really a pity."

Mentioning Chen Qing, Lu Anshi snorted again.

"Those people beat and killed the same sect, and hurt the gentleness of our Jiangdu, God will not spare them."

Shen Yi bowed his head and said: "What the master said is that the Lord is watching."

……

With the greeting from the dean, Shen Yi's life in the academy was much more comfortable. He didn't have to go to the academy to study every day, and he could go wandering in Jiangdu City when he was free.

Jiangdu is one of the most important cities in Gyeonggi, and it is also a place where wealthy merchants from the two Huaihe Rivers gather. In the whole of Jiangnan, apart from the current capital of Jiankang, the prosperity of Jiangdu can be ranked in the top three, and it is a famous place for fireworks in the south of the Yangtze River.

In this era, in addition to commercial prosperity, brothels and Chuguan are naturally more prosperous in prosperous places. Jiangdu is a famous gold selling cave in the south of the Yangtze River. .

In Jiangdu City, brothels and Chu houses are mainly gathered in Beicheng. Along the banks of Yudai Lake, there are pavilions everywhere. At night, this place will be very lively. The officials and lords in the village will take off their daytime disguise and come here to enjoy the gentleness of Jiangnan women.

And that night, in the private room on the third floor of Wanghu Tower by the lakeside of Yudai Lake, Chen Yu, the prefect of Jiangdu, dressed in light blue clothes, was treating guests to dinner here.

It is worth noting that the prefect of Jiangdu did not sit in the main seat, but in the second seat.

This shows that the host of today's dinner has a higher status than Prefect Chen.

In the private room, two slender men of the Qing Dynasty held the pipa in their arms, and their voices were melodious and charming, very pleasant.

Chen Zhifu stretched out his hand to pour a glass of wine, respected a young gentleman sitting on the main seat, and said with a smile: "Mr. Send someone to you."

This young man, who looks to be 22 or [-] years old, is wearing a blue robe, with a slightly fat body, and there are sporadic acne marks on his face that have not completely faded away. He glanced at Chen Yu, then picked up the wine glass, After clinking a glass with Chen Yu, he smiled and said, "Master Chen, I'm afraid this is inappropriate?"

"Nothing inappropriate."

Chen Yu said solemnly: "These two people have always sold their skills but not their bodies. Today, they admire the young master's talent, so they are willing to recommend themselves as a pillow mat. This is a good story, and it couldn't be more appropriate."

This "Master Zhao" squinted his eyes and smiled, and then said: "Since it is a good story, thank you for your hospitality."

"It should be, it should be."

Seeing that the "gift" had been sent out, Chen Zhifu was relieved.

Giving gifts in the officialdom is also very particular. Some people are lustful, some people love money, but as long as it is a gift to a young man, it is generally a gift to a woman.

Now that the gift has been sent out, it will be easy to talk next. The prefect Chen filled Mr. Zhao again. After the two had a drink, Chen Fuzun took a look at Mr. Zhao and said, "Mr. Zhao, our Jiangdu Granary There is not much food left this year..."

Mr. Zhao put down his wine glass, glanced at Chen Zhifu, and smiled lightly: "Don't worry, the Ministry of Households has no plan to transfer grain from the official warehouse. This time, the Ministry of Households has allocated money to buy grain in Gyeonggi from the treasury. There are rich businessmen with millions of dollars in their pockets, so it’s possible that they can’t even buy food?”

Mr. Zhao's surname is Zhao Mingyu, and he is a head of the household department. This time, he was ordered to come to Jiangdu and wanted to buy some grain from Jiangdu.

The head of the household department is only a sixth-rank official, and his rank is much lower than that of Chen Yu, who is the magistrate of Jiangdu. And being able to get the fat job of Laijiang Dudu Liang shows that this Mr. Zhao has a lot of energy behind him.

Chen Fuzun lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, and then said: "If this is the case, then there is probably no problem. Chen will call the major grain merchants in Jiangdu tomorrow to discuss this matter."

Mr. Zhao glanced at Chen Yu, smiled and said: "Master Chen, the treasury is not rich now, the price of food in Jiangdu, the master should spend more time on behalf of the court."

Chen Yu lowered his head slightly, and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely fight for the imperial court."

"I'm just saying one thing."

Mr. Zhao lowered his eyebrows and said, "This is military rations, used to defend against the northern barbarians."

(End of this chapter)