At night, the Sage Academy was somewhat quiet, and there were not many lights, and groups of literati gathered together, either looking up at the starry sky outside the academy in contemplation, or telling their ambitions and ideals with their companions.

After coming to the Sage Academy for more than half a month, now these literati have not made a breakthrough in the repair of the Confucian Temple, some people have begun to become anxious and impatient, and even some people have begun to discuss Zhu Xi and others in private.

Zhang Yan, who followed Zhu Xi to the north, and his disciple Lin Zhizhi walked in the Sage Academy, and from time to time there would be some dim lanterns in their ears, and the literati would either be sad and sad, or heroic and enthusiastic recitations, of course, there would be some dissatisfaction with their inability to start repairing the Confucian Temple.

However, these literati in the Sage Academy, when they got together, discussed the most news, or the news that the Qufu government ordered the blockade of the Confucian Temple today, which made them puzzled, and at the same time, they were naturally dissatisfied with the government, and they were all gearing up and indignant, shouting that they must have a good theory with the government tomorrow.

Zhu Xi in the study was reading by candlelight, Zhang Yan and Lin Zhizhi slowed down, and after signaling to the scholar, they gently sat down on the chair not far from him, and Zhu Xi just raised his eyelids, and then put his attention on the scroll in his hand again.

Quietly in the study, as Zhu Xi's long sigh was broken, the scroll in his hand was slowly put on the table, looking at Zhang Yan and Lin Zhizhi and asking, "Ye Qing didn't come to the Sage Academy today?" ”

"Didn't come. The students waited at the door for almost a day today, and they didn't see Ye Qing's shadow. Lin Zhizhi said softly.

"Sir, now it seems that this Ye Qing is really hard-hearted, and he is about to grab this first place. Today, the temple is blocked, and now the scholars outside are even more indignant, Ye Qing's move, isn't he afraid of provoking the dissatisfaction of so many people? Zhang Yan looked at the thoughtful Zhu Xi, and asked with some worry in his heart.

A few years ago, Zhu Xi suffered a lot in Lin'an, and there were a lot of grievances between him and this Ye Qing, and even that Ye Qing once arrested Zhu Xi in the prison of the Imperial City Division, and today the two met again in Qufu, but it was just one night, Ye Qing immediately mobilized the people to blockade the Confucian Temple, which was obviously aimed at Zhu Xi.

And what worries him even more is that Ye Qing can be said to be the lord of the entire northern land, and the few of them are already risking their lives when they come here together, which is equivalent to running to Ye Qing's territory to spread wild, if this is not a good trouble, it will never be Ye Qing who can cover the sky with one hand in the north.

Zhu Xi glanced at Zhang Yan lightly, and Zhang Yan quietly turned his concern for his own safety into the dissatisfaction of the scholars with Ye Qing, so that he must also consider the personal safety of the many scholars who are now gathered in the Sage Academy.

"Ye Qing will not act rashly, let alone suppress the scholars gathered here now, since he wants to win the hearts of the people by repairing the Confucian Temple, it is enough to show that he knows very well that if he suppresses us at the moment, it will definitely not be conducive to him gaining a foothold in the north." Zhu Xi picked up the tea sent by the scholar, looked at the steaming tea, and after thinking about it, he still comforted Zhang Yan and said: "Anyway, now the northern land is the territory of my Great Song Dynasty, no matter whether the rumors outside are true or not, but Ye Qing is an official of my Song court after all, and he has to care about the attitude and position of the Lin'an court, so ...... It's up to us and him who can consume whom. ”

"Ye Qing's move is to go north to Jinan Mansion, it is said that the Jin envoys want to win him over, and some people say that it is to negotiate peace with him, so that there will be no more war between the two places." Lin Zhizhi glanced at Zhang Yan and Zhu Xi's calm face, and then continued confidently and boldly: "But no matter what, Ye Qing probably doesn't have much time to spend with us here, presumably as long as we have enough patience, Ye Qing will be in the end, whether it is due to the pressure of the imperial court, or the urgency of negotiating peace with the Jin people, or being co-opted, the student wants to ...... In the end, it will inevitably be Ye Qing who can't hold his breath first. ”

"The choice is good, the old man is not out of the academy today, he is waiting for Ye Qing's arrival. Now it seems that Ye Qing should also be waiting for me to come over at the post house today, so ah, it is already consumed now. But we have a lot more time than him, and in the end, if we can't hold our breath, it will be him. Zhu Xi nodded in agreement with the words of student Lin Zezhi.

Zhang Yan listened to the analysis of Zhu Xi and Lin Zezhi's master and apprentice, and couldn't help but nod his head, but he was still a little worried in his heart: "But sir...... More than 1,000 people gathered in Qufu, and the daily expenses were also a lot of expenses, and now the people of Qufu are ....... ”

When he said this, Zhang Yan's expression immediately became a little resentful: "As the saying goes: Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people. For thousands of years, the saints have not made the people here ....... ”

"Mr. Zhang......." Lin Zhizhi didn't wait for Zhang Yan to finish speaking, then shook his head and interrupted Zhang Yan's words, and then looked at Zhu Xi and said, "It's okay, the student has already written to his home two days ago, asking them to send more silver taels to the student." And today, the students have also been ventilated with several scholars from well-to-do families, and it will not be a problem to continue to maintain it for half a month. ”

"But now the people and traders of Qufu, as long as they trade with these scholars of ours, they will unconsciously raise prices, and when we first came, how much was a meal, but now? As long as the merchants in Qufu see the scholars dressed as literati, they must be much more expensive than when they are sold to others, how can we just be cheated all the time without theorizing? Zhang Yan said with a headache.

Among the many literati, he is already considered to have a relatively solid pocket, but the prices in Qufu have risen sharply in the past few days, but even he is a little unbearable, not to mention, the gentleman does not eat the food that comes to him, if he allows others to give alms at will, wouldn't this be a loss of the arrogance of a scholar!

Zhu Xi sighed silently, it is indeed a big problem for so many literati to get together, the gap between these people's family backgrounds is too big, and even in the past few days, there are already some people, because they are shy and unwilling to accept the help of others, have already left Qufu with their scholars, if they are so consumed by Ye Qing, I am afraid that they will ...... It's a lose-lose situation.

"Let's see in two days, and tomorrow we'll gather those who are of great repute to discuss it again. If it continues like this, it is not a way, let's see if Ye Qing will be the first to lose his breath in the next two days. Zhu Xi frowned a little displeased and said.

In his opinion, money is outside the gods, and it was even taken here by Zhang Yan as a matter of life and death.

What's more, even if the people of Qufu ask for a higher price, as a literati and care about the people of the world, can't they regard this as a good deed to help the world?

At this time, in the post house where Ye Qing was, whether it was a soldier who could write or a soldier who could not read, he was assigned a very important assignment, that is, according to the eight big characters written by Lord Ye, whether you write or draw, in short, before dawn tomorrow, you must hand in ten copies, otherwise the military law will be engaged.

So there was a wail in the whole post house, and let them go to the battlefield to kill people and fight, and now let them learn to write, which is even more uncomfortable than killing them.

Therefore, the soldiers of the flower planting family began to rely on the relationship layer by layer, from the head to the general, and then to Zhong Silkworm, the commander of the flower planting army, including Jia She, everyone has unconsciously helped their subordinates to take over the dispatch, and then wrote down: starvation is small, and when the festival is big, I was suddenly surprised:! How many people did I promise to help write?

So after breaking their fingers, Zhong Silkworm and the others found that even if they kept writing until tomorrow morning, they might not be able to finish writing.

But no matter what, when the second day was just dawning, a basket of eight-character proverbs were placed in front of Ye Qing.

A few copies were randomly taken from the basket, some of which could be recognized at a glance as a small matter of starvation or a big loss of moderation, but some of them did not know what they were drawing, whether you were looking at them openly, backwards, obliquely, or crookedly.

But fortunately, there are not many ghost drawings drawn under the guidance of God, most of them are still carefully recognized, thinking of the words small and big, and then looking at the word "unknotted", it should be easy to understand that this eight-character proverb is: starvation is small, and loss of festival is big.

"Find some clever and skillful ones, and let them distribute this basket of eight-character proverbs to the Sage Academy and the Confucian Temple, without handing them to those literati, even if they are thrown on the ground or hung on the tree, they will pick them up and read them curiously because of the words they recognize." Ye Qing looked at the baskets of hadiths in front of him with considerable satisfaction, and the obscene smugness on his face couldn't hide his smile and said.

"Okay, don't worry, my lord, this kind of thing will be guaranteed in the end, and it will definitely be done quietly." Zhong Silkworm rubbed his wrist that was sore after writing the Hadith of Proverbs all night.

"Go quickly, it's almost dawn, and if it's late, it's not easy to disperse." Ye Qing waved his hand with satisfaction and motioned for Zhong Silkworm to hurry up.

After everyone left, Ye Qing looked at Jia She, who was rubbing his wrists, and said, "Why, I didn't sleep all night last night?" Helped your subordinates copy a lot, right? ”

"Is this okay, sir?" Jia Shi nodded, he didn't think that these eight words could instantly turn passive into active.

"Okay, you'll find out after noon." Ye Qing was confident, he was already a little impatient, and he really wanted to see what Zhu Xi's face would look like when he saw these eight words.

What's more, this is just his foreshadowing, and the real killing move may be able to be used tomorrow.

"By the way, how did you explain Xiao Zhen's affairs?" Ye Qing asked.

He smiled treacherously and agreed, saying that it should be no problem tonight, after all, there are too many people asked by adults, and he has to run around the neighborhood, and he also took away the magistrate of Qufu. Jia Shi said truthfully.

"That's good, it should be more convenient to take the magistrate, but before that, it must not be discovered. Also, you immediately go to the Qufu County Ya and tell them to prepare the necessary items they need tomorrow, if tomorrow's business goes wrong, I will specially let Xin Qijian spare their dispatch, and send them to Lin'an one by one on the charge of Tongjin. Ye Qing was already a little impatient, eager to see how those literati and Zhu Xi and others would deal with it tomorrow.