I want to be a good minister

Chapter 185 The Lord's Sudden Provocation

Seeing that there was no response to the boy's voice, all eyes in the room fell on the lecturer.

"Wei Qiao, if you have any questions, wait until the debate is over." A lecturer ordered in a tone of voice. Wei Qiao is his favorite student and a member of the same clan. If you stand up at this time and be the first bird, you will not, and others will not. No, why are you in a hurry?
And can their Wei Clan compete with the Shen Clan? At this time, the disturbance is for the face of the Shen Clan, so how can the people of the Shen Clan be provoked.

"That's right, Wei Qiao, it's not too late to bring it up after the debate is over. I can't afford to delay the debate." Another lecturer followed suit.

Cen Xi's eyes fell on the young man who was in the debate position. Shu Zhan looked similar to them in age, but the brilliance in his eyes shone like stars. Cen Xi had seen this kind of brilliance a lot. There is no shortage of such academic masters in China, who have profound knowledge and thoughts, and will always be a few steps ahead of you, and a few points faster.

Shu Zhan belonged to such a person, and it was only at this moment that Cen Xi looked at the young man seriously. Under such circumstances, the young man's expression was still stable, a bit colder than Shu Yicheng's gentle and elegant, so he looked a little older.

The young man's clothes are as old-fashioned as his demeanor. He is wearing a black brocade robe with two silver trims. Cen Xi and Lu Lianhe have been hanging out for a few days. He also knows that today's young masters in Beichang have a fashionable dress called Inlaid with silver thread, the silver thread becomes the size of embroidery thread, mixed with the embroidery thread of the same color as the brocade, the pattern of auspicious clouds embroidered glistens in the sun, but it doesn't show at all when you get close.

The euphemistic name is: low-key luxury.

But the young man in front of him was different, even though he was wearing a simple robe, the dark satin only made his complexion whiter, extremely white, Cen Xi insisted on finding a trace of flaws on that extremely fair face.

Cen Xi obviously failed, but he felt resentful in his heart. The young man looks mature and inactive when he grows up like this, just like the ceramic dolls he looks at, without any characteristics.

Cen Xi was still in a daze, but someone pulled his sleeves.

"Why, are you sure about these debate topics?" A soft voice came from the side of the ear, and the warm breath entered Cen Xi's neck.

"It's okay—" Cen Xi replied slightly. Although these are very unpopular, when he was on the boat, Ge Lao had a lot of unpopular books in his hands. Shu Yicheng, Lingyi, Wen Sheng and others also came from Sitian Academy. stand out.

"So sure?" The man sneered slightly, "However, I feel that this debate may not go so smoothly."

Cen Xi frowned, and looked at the man beside him, what do you mean?
"Sir, the student dares to tell you what exactly is the Sifang Lightning Method that you mentioned just now, and the student has never heard of such a method in Sitian Academy for several years."

"Yes, yes, yes—" followed by echoing voices from below.

The man in the first place also frowned, and looked at the lecturer beside him. Gu Yuxing had always been from the Su clan, and Shu Zhan's aunt was married to the head of the Gu clan.

Gu Yuxing, the eldest son of the second family of the Gu family, is over forty years old, and is also a very important lecturer in Sitian College. He glanced at Wei Qiao in the audience with a calm expression. Naturally, Wei Qiao would not stand up for no reason, and Wei Qiao Compared with his uncle Wei Zhihe, he is much more dexterous.

There are so many people in Sitian Academy who have died of studying, Wei Zhihe is one of them, pedantic.

And there is another kind, which is the same as Master Shu Yicheng Shu, that Shu Zhan and his cousin Master Shu Yicheng Shu have the same temperament, a real family, that is noble, and disdains these factional disputes.

Moreover, in such a situation, if no one stands up again, is it possible to allow this obviously unfair debate to continue?
Even if you don't look at it, in this Sitian Pavilion, not all the people who infiltrated silently are from the Shen family.

"Wei Qiao, the topics for this debate are all written by Mr. Shen himself, and all the questions are about meteorology, astronomy, and engraved knowledge. You have never seen it before. It is a world of learning. Most of the questions are because you have never heard of it. Yes, the knowledge you have learned, and you feel resentful because of this, doesn’t it violate your original intention of enrolling?”

The man on the debate table looked upright, and his words were very serious. The flames of anger before were extinguished like a gust of wind at this moment.

But at this moment, there was another noise outside the debating room, and everyone was puzzled. It turned out that the question was not limited to the sixth debating room where Cen Xi was.

Seeing this, the suppressed flames in the room immediately rekindled.

"Sir, sir, you see, we are not the only ones who have doubts." More and more Wen Sheng began to echo.

"Sir, Mr. Shen is an official in the capital. He doesn't know the situation of our Sitian College. He doesn't even know how good he is on the test." Lu Lianhe shouted loudly, and Wei Chunfeng couldn't help it.

"We are outsiders, why—" Wei Chunfeng grabbed Lu Lianhe who was about to speak.

"That's right, that's right, those who can answer these questions must have known the answers before—" A Wen Sheng said among the crowd.

"Haha, Brother Chunfeng, listen, this kid is so talkative—" Lu Lianhe was in high spirits, he didn't do this business, and he was the best at rolling around.

The voice outside gave everyone confidence.

Seeing this, Shen Qingtang was about to stand up, but was stopped by Lord Chengyang beside him.

"Second Master Shen, you are sure about this matter that even Shu Zhan can't handle?" Chengyang Jun's voice was very calm, and he glanced at Shen Qingtang with a dark face.

The situation at this moment is not clear, the people of the Shen family underestimated the people of the Shu family, and that Shu Zhan doesn't care about these things doesn't mean that no one cares about them, besides, whether Shu Zhan doesn't care if it's true or not is another matter.

"Dangdangdang——" Immediately after a bell rang, two or three students rushed over.

"The debate is suspended, all the literary students have a short rest, please go to the Gewu Hall immediately—" the six gentlemen got up immediately, and walked towards the Gewu Hall without stopping for a moment.

"Gu Ting, it's too early." Shu Zhan frowned slightly, and while everyone got up to leave, he turned around and said to Gu Yuxing who was following up.

"Your Excellency does not know that Shen Guangqi was originally ordered by His Royal Highness to go to the three counties and counties in the western border to provide disaster relief, but now he rushed to Sitian Academy in a hurry. The king has been seriously ill for a long time, why did he think of sending him here?"

Shu Zhan's face darkened. Of course he knew what Gu Ting said, the imperial decree must be true, but as the teacher of the emperor, the Shen family would have no difficulty in deceiving an imperial decree from the king.

But the urgency was beyond his expectation. According to his guess, there are still three years left in this class of Wensheng, and the Shen family can do it without anyone noticing. Now this kind of eating is too ugly .

Then Gu Ting took another step forward.

"My lord, there has been no news from the Great Jing Kingdom for a long time. My two nephews, Wen Sheng and Wen Tian, ​​have our Gu family's proprietary business methods. It is reasonable that there has been no news for half a month."

Shu Zhan was silent, the Kong family had not received any news, the Gu family had not received any news, even Shu Yicheng seemed to have cut off the news, and even the people who went to Dajing have not heard back until today.

The imperial court also kept a secret about this, and there was no trace of it.

Immediately afterwards, the boy paused, and looked meaningfully at Gu Ting beside him.

Could it be that the Shen family's urgency to occupy the share of Sitian Academy has something to do with His Highness the Crown Prince?

Although he was asking, the young man's eyes had gradually turned into affirmation. Although he didn't know what happened to His Royal Highness in Dajing, it was a great event to make Shen Guangqi make such a big move.

(End of this chapter)