On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, on the day of learning political teachings, Han Jingtang, the state school, was a little strangely quiet. The students looked out the window without blinking.

It was originally a Hangeul ancestral hall built by the gentry, and it has been almost 200 years since it was built. Later, it was changed to a private school academy, and this dynasty became Yuanzhou State School. In the Tang Dynasty, Han Wengong was the assassin of Yuanzhou, so that the literary style of this place was greatly invigorated, and there was a Tang Dynasty, known as "Jiangxi Jinshi Half Yuanzhou". Hanjingtang is the main hall of the state school, the building is tall and wide, enough to place dozens of desks, and accommodate 200 people to sit and deliberate. The incense case on the front is dedicated to Confucius and Mencius, and the walls on both sides are hung with the handwriting of famous masters of the state. Six pitch-black pillars support the corridor, the bamboo forest outside, the green cypress forest, a few plantains are planted in the corner, several poles are repaired bamboo, the atrium is shaded by flowers and trees, and the grass is green. The houses on all sides form a patio, and a few golden crucian carp swim gracefully in a large tank. The neat four drainage pits around the water tank form a rectangle, which is exactly the rain that has been moistened drop by drop over the past hundred years. When it rains, the rain slides down the corners of the upturned eaves, dripping in small puddles. The bluestone road is covered with moss marks of different shades, which cannot be cleaned no matter what, and it is easy for people to slip.

In the drizzle, Lu Xuan, a scholar in Yuanzhou, held a black oilcloth umbrella and cautiously walked along the bluestone road into the state school. In general, Lu Juan is still highly respected in Yuanzhou, otherwise he would not have been elected as a scholar by the public discussion. The discussion of the Great Rites Law is becoming more and more intense, the students are becoming more and more lawless, and the order of the school is becoming more and more difficult to maintain. Recently, posters have been posted everywhere in Yuanzhou City, alleging that Li Juan's nephew forcibly occupied Guantian, subleased it to others, and was a traitor for being rich and unkind. As the patriarch of Lu Juan, he is also a state student and politician, so he is to blame. After Lu Juan learned the news, he immediately called his brothers and nephews to his home, reprimanded them in a loud voice, and asked them to go back and clean up their heads and tails. If it is difficult to return the occupied official land, simply give it to the temple. At this juncture, the world's clear discussion is like boiling water in a pot, and Lu Juan doesn't want to become a fish at the bottom of the kettle like Shuzhou Xuezheng. Lu Juan plans to take this opportunity today to inform these students of the situation of restraining their family members by the way, so that they will not take the opportunity to make trouble again.

When the scholar came to the outside of the hall, the teachers and students all stood up, everything was as usual, Lu Juan nodded slightly to the people in the hall, walked through the standing crowd with his head high, and walked to the main seat before turning around, facing the students and teachers.

Lu Xuan's face was solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Sit down." ”

Unexpectedly, dozens of students still stood upright, only a small half of them sat down, seeing that the opportunity was wrong, they stood up with puzzled faces, and several teachers looked at each other, looking at the full hall of students in disbelief. At this time, Lu Juan also realized that something was wrong, among the students, many people were not standing with their heads down, and there were several people with aggressive eyes.

"Sit down, do you still have this academic politics in your eyes? Not a spark of decency! ”

Xuezheng reprimanded sharply, and instead of sitting down, many of them showed disdain in their eyes. "Old Puff!" A man named Ruan Xu scolded: "The person who deceives the world and steals his name still has the face to tell us the rules? "You...... How dare you talk to this official like this? Before Lu Juan could say the second sentence, another student named Zeng Xiao said loudly: "Studying politics and studying politics, your own body is not right, how to be a righteous person!" As soon as he finished speaking, the other students immediately began to shout. has lived for decades, and Lu Juan has never been humiliated in person like this.

“...... If your own body is not right, how can you be righteous! ”

"If according to Mr. Wu's 'Song Rite Law', the officials connive at their family members to be evil, sit together, and those who are greedy for ink will flow for a thousand miles!"

"The facts are all there, everything is conclusive, this person still wants to discuss the Great Rites Law?"

“...... It's a ridiculous joke! ”

"You, you?" Lu Juan pointed at the student, opened his mouth, and shouted, "Where is the teaching!" Get these madmen out! ”

At this moment, something even worse happened, a young man crumpled the post into a paper ball, threw it in Lu Juan's face, and scolded: "Old horseman, you still dare to stand in front of the saint and pretend, why don't you die without chewing your tongue?" Lu Juan couldn't dodge, and was hit by the paper ball in the middle of the door, although it was just a ball of paper, but Lu Juan was still very strong, and it hurt Lu Juan's face. This move was like a signal, and more than a dozen or twenty students threw out paper balls one after another, and for a while, the paper balls flew sideways in Han Jingtang. Some people took the lead, and many students casually pinched up paper balls to join the ranks of smashing Xuezheng, and more students watched the battle with excitement on their faces. A small number of students are Lu Xuan's protégés, and when they see this group of excited people, they are also weak and timid, and several teachers also look at each other, not daring to rashly dissuade them.

"Do you still have a royal law?" Lu Juan was short to dodge, and at the same time jumped to his feet and shouted: "Quickly drive these crazy creatures out!" ”

At this time, a paper ball was castrated very urgently, Lu Juan couldn't dodge, he was hit on the forehead, his intuition hurt to the bone marrow, and his head smashed out of a bag, and the paper ball "snapped" and fell to the ground, and it was actually wrapped with stones. "Crazy, crazy, if you stay any longer, the old man is only afraid that he will die here!" At this time, several protégés rushed up to save people, and Lu Juan took the opportunity to cover his head with both hands and rushed out of the door in one breath! A state of study and politics, panicked like a lost dog, several teachers looked at his back, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Zeng Xiao, Ruan Xu and other people who took the lead in making trouble laughed and clapped their hands. The Great Rites Discussion is imminent, and they have been planning for a long time to expel the bad academic government. The council has secretly arranged for the garrison monitoring regiment to train the township bravery, so that the local heroes will not interfere in the abolition of the state school. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, most of the state soldiers were sent home early to reunite with their families, and the young and strong officials and errand officers were thinking about dating after dusk, so the students of several states and counties chose this day to act. At the beginning of the world's turmoil, the crowd in the council began to expel the mediocre state and county officials, and at this time, the expulsion of Xuezheng was very familiar. There are only twenty or thirty people who really take the lead in stirring up trouble, which is not much more than the number of people who support Lu. But most of the other students, whether they are academically excellent or donate, have a herd mentality. Therefore, after receiving Wu Zilong's letter, Zeng Xiao and the others planned to drive Xuezheng away first, gain the upper hand, and then take advantage of the situation to nominate qualified people to serve as the new Xuezheng.

"Okay, okay," Zeng Xiao raised his hands, pressed them down, and said loudly, "Lu Pifu has run away, the school can't be without Xuezheng for a day, now nominate everyone to learn politics." Mr. Zhang Dongming is rich in learning and five cars, and his virtue is noble, and Zeng is willing to recommend Mr. Dongming as a scholar and politician. As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Qin, who was standing on the side, and Zhang Qin, who called himself Mr. Dongming, suddenly panicked.

"I can't do it, I can't help it," Zhang Qin waved his hand again and again, "Qin Cai is shallow in learning, and he can't study politics!" He was so anxious that the beads of sweat the size of soybeans came out, the two trembled, sweating like pulp, everyone could see that Mr. Dongming was not humble, but really afraid. Confucius said: "Do not give in." Mencius also said: "The will and the people are from it; Don't go it alone. The rich and noble cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent, which is called a big husband. "Elevating the position of academic administration in a state's etiquette and law education is enough for people to display their ambitions, help the world and the people, and even enter the center. Zhang Qin actually backed down, and some of the students suddenly showed disdain in their eyes.

"Since Mr. Dongming is unwilling," Zeng Xiao said regretfully, his smile disappeared, he shook his head, and said, "What about Mr. Kangle?" ”

Deng Jiaoxi called himself Mr. Kang Le, and when he saw that the students actually recommended him as a scholar and politician, he also rejected him like Zhang Jiaoxi, but he had more decent reasons, concentrated on his studies, and had no intention of being an official. Zeng Xiao pushed several teachers in a row, but no one was willing to serve as a student administrator. This scholar Lu Juan is modest on the surface, but in fact, he is wide on the outside and taboo on the inside, and the teachings retained in the school are either devoted to learning or have no quarrel with the world, and there is no one who can fight with him at all. But as soon as Lu Juan was expelled, the position of Xuezheng was a grill, if he didn't have the ability, maybe he did Xuezheng today, and tomorrow he was blown away.

"Zeng Fengquan, don't push around," Ruan Xu shouted, "For the position of academic politics, I have elected you!" ”

"Yes, Zeng Fengquan, I also recommended you!" The other student said loudly.

"Thank you, brother!" Zeng Xiao smiled slightly, did not agree, did not disagree, looked at the many classmates in the school, quite a look of self-pride, but said, "Zeng Mou is just a student, and he has a friendship with you, how can he suddenly be offside as your teacher?" ”

"That's not right, Fengquan is just the same as me, if he becomes a student and politician, wouldn't he grow a generation out of thin air?" Someone suddenly realized.

"No, Zi said, be benevolent, don't let the teacher. Compared with the old puppet Yuan who lost his morality, Zeng Fengquan was enough to participate in the 'Great Rites Discussion' on behalf of Yuan Zhou. What's more, which article in the constitution of the Ministry of Rites pointed out that the students could not be elected as state scholars? If you don't want to be a generation younger than Zeng Fengquan, our state school is a big deal to discuss a ritual law, and the school administration is the position of supervising the etiquette and education. ”

Ruan Xu said eloquently, and there was no opposition to the teaching, many people in the society echoed and added fuel to the fire, and the other Lisheng positions were not very firm, and there were no indispensable people, and they also nodded yes, so, after the public discussion and election of the Lisheng students, Zeng Xiao became the first person in the Great Song Dynasty Zhou School to be directly served by the Lisheng as the state school and the first person to be commensurate with the students as brothers, and the first to be commensurate with the teachers and students of the school. More than ten days later, the Ministry of Rites sent an official document officially confirming the position. The matter did not cause any major controversy. Because, before the Great Rites Discussion, the changes in state schools in various places can be described as surging, some of the students actually instigated the bitter master, blocked the door of the school administration with a coffin, and some people rashly assassinated the court officials and were killed on the spot, and some state schools dismissed more than a dozen students in one go, and there were also students on both sides of the state school who could not hold each other, and developed into a big fight that insulted Sven, paper balls and books flew together, and the ring ruler danced with a short stick. Eventually, more than a dozen states had their academic policies replaced. But relying on his strong power and the Shuzhou Xuezheng who was the first to provoke the incident, he still sat in his seat, and he did not go to Ezhou to participate in the big ceremony meeting due to illness.

The day of the "Great Rites Discussion" is getting closer and closer, and suddenly the news of the Liao army's large-scale attack on Jingdong Road came, and the excitement of the street talk and alley discussion also returned to the war between the two countries from the small fights in the state school, some people were indignant, and some people were worried about whether the imperial court would increase taxes again. The Prime Minister's Mansion was busy deploying troops to deal with the Liao, the Ministry of Rites was still preparing for the Great Rites Conference, and the scholars and politicians of various states rushed to Ezhou one after another. On this day, Yue Yun escorted Zhao Xingde to Ezhou, which was like a pot of boiling porridge.