Hexi Province is not a too rich place, compared to Jianghuai Road, Henan Province is far behind. But there is a Longxi County in Hexi Road, and there are several families in Longxi County that can be ranked in the top 15 in the entire court of the Great Sui. The most famous person is none other than the Li family in Xiangcheng.

Among the families in Longxi, the Li family is the most special one. According to the background, this family, which has risen for less than a hundred years, cannot be compared with the Yu family, the Liu family, and even the Cui family. Families like the Yu family and the Liu family were already famous all over the world when the Great Sui was not yet established. And the Li family was able to make a fortune because of the Great Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains, and even when the previous head of the family, Li Chao, really became one of the first-class families.

But there is no doubt that it is precisely because of His Majesty the Emperor's trust in the Li family in Longxi that this family, which is still very young compared to other families, has become the leading family in Xiangcheng, Longxi County, and even Hexi Province.

In the one hundred and forty cities of Hexi Road, when it came to the enrollment of the Yanwu Academy, each of these one hundred and forty cities selected a young talent to participate in the examination, and there was only one place for the city, regardless of whether the city was large or small. The candidates elected by Xiangcheng in the first two examinations of the Performing Arts Academy were all from the Li family, and the person elected six years ago was the current Fan Guya general Li Xiaozong. Li Fubo, who was elected three years ago, is said to be even more brilliant than Li Xiaozong, and he has been able to rank among the top three in every assessment of the Martial Arts Academy in the past three years.

This achievement is enough to make the Li family proud.

You must know that after each class of students of the Academy of Martial Arts graduates, the top three students will be directly pulled out by the military department. The most unfortunate is also directly named the fifth grade.

The slogan of the admissions of the Academy of Performing Arts is that no matter where you come from, as long as you have talent, you can sign up for the election. But this is just a slogan, and those children from poor backgrounds have no chance to become candidates at all. Only one student is selected in each city, the twenty-four worlds of the Great Sui, thousands of cities, and only three hundred people are taken from the Yanwu Academy. With a one-tenth enrollment rate, how can it be the turn of people from poor backgrounds?

Choose only one person from each city, and you still want to be fair?

Fairness has always been preached.

However, it is said that because of this matter, Dean Zhou of the Yanwu Academy and His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui had a very fierce quarrel, according to Dean Zhou's meaning, since the system of one candidate for one city has been formulated, it is necessary to formulate another article, that is, candidates from families and children of poor families must score five or five. Half of the children of the family, half of the children of the poor family. The emperor smiled at the time and said that no matter what the candidate's background is, isn't it enough that you have obtained countless excellent students?

It doesn't matter if you come from a poor family or from a family. The candidates are all excellent in character and learning, and the best ones are selected from them to enter the Academy of Martial Arts. Even if they are all from a family, is there a lack of good students in the martial arts academy?

Hearing the emperor's words, Dean Zhou brushed his sleeves and left. coldly threw away the four words of Ye Obscure, but ignored the emperor and left directly.

His Majesty the Emperor was furious at first when he heard these four words, and he woke up after sitting in silence for half an hour. Immediately, an order was issued to change the rules for admitting candidates to the Martial Arts Academy, adding one article after one person in each city, and selecting outstanding talents from each guard soldier, each provincial soldier and border army, and participating in the examination of the Martial Arts Academy after reporting to the military department. The number of candidates selected by each city is the same, and candidates with military backgrounds may not hold more official positions than school captains.

In this way, it really gave the children of the poor family the opportunity to enter the Yanwu Academy and become a blockbuster.

Dean Zhou, who returned to Qingluan Mountain, heard about the emperor's will, and immediately smiled and said to himself, fortunately, he was not completely confused. In the entire Great Sui court, only two people dared to directly accuse the emperor of his faults. One of them is the Shangshu Huai Qiugong of the Ministry of Rites, the patriarch of the Three Dynasties, and the other is naturally Zhou Banchuan of the Yanwu Academy.

However, Huai Qiugong's accusation of the emperor's faults was limited to etiquette and learning.

Huai Qiugong is the emperor's teacher, and when he was in Taimiao, he didn't beat the emperor's palm.

Zhou Banchuan is different, he is the one who dares to smash the emperor's teacup.

The emperor once joked that the Yanwu Academy was indispensable for the selection of good talents for the Great Sui. But the Yanwu Academy is not mine, but Zhou Banchuan's.

Fang Xie caught up with the good time, just in time for the Yanwu Academy to open its doors to the soldiers at the bottom of the army.

However, the children of the aristocracy have always been hostile to candidates from the military, and the reason is simple. If there are no candidates from the military, then the Academy of Martial Arts is to draw three hundred people from the thousands of students who are referenced. And now, the Yanwu Academy is drawing 300 people from nearly 10,000 people. Pingbai was robbed of half of his place by those low-born ruffians, how could they not be angry?

Li Yuan was even more angry, because this time, Yang Xiuchen, the governor of Hexi Province, was the idiot of the Cui family. How could this make him accept it?

In the first two sessions, talents were selected from his Li family. Li Xiaozong is just a small person who is not in the flow of Li Jiashu, and when he graduated, he was still ranked in the top five of the martial arts academy. Li Fubo is the sister-in-law of the Li family, and he is even more competitive, and now that the graduation is about to be completed, there is no problem in entering the top three.

And Li Yuan is also the sister-in-law of the Li family, and his identity is much higher than that of Li Xiaozong. As long as it is in the Li family, even if Li Xiaozong has a military position from the fifth grade, even if he is his uncle in terms of seniority, as long as it is in the Li family compound, Li Xiaozong will take the initiative to give way and say hello when he sees him.

Why can a concubine be able to? I can't?

This is Li Yuan's biggest anger, even more angry than learning that Cui Liushang has become a candidate of the Martial Arts Academy.

In the dense forests of Twilight Mountain, he knew that as long as he showed a little bit of tone, the sycophants around him would definitely do what he wanted. If Cui Luoshang is crippled, who else in this Xiangcheng is more suitable for entering the Martial Arts Academy than him?

It's just a person who is mutilated, even if it is a person from a family, it's not a big deal...... His dad is also surnamed Li!

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When Fang Xie found Cui Luoshang, this guy was washing his face by the stream at the bottom of the mountain. People from a family are the most important, and his face is cleaner than Fang Jie's ass. But he is washing hard, and if Fang Xie doesn't stop it, it is very likely that he will wash the bald skin.

Fang Xie knew that Cui Luoshang washed his face not because his face was dirty, but because his face was hot.

After he stuffed a piece of broken silver to each of Cui Luoshang's servants, he squatted down beside Cui Luoshang with a smiling face: "Brother Cui...... Don't wash it, it will bleed if you wash it again. ”

Cui Luoshang glanced back and saw that it was Fang Jie, first surprised for a moment, and then said with annoyance: "I don't have the face to go back to Xiangcheng again, it's good to wash out the blood, and no one will know me when the blood comes out." I don't know why I listened to your rotten idea and did such an insulting thing! Alas...... It's not a lady to meet someone! ”

Fang Xie smiled and said, "Brother Cui, you don't have to worry about this. I know where those women are coming from, and they don't plan to enter Xiangcheng. And there were only a few of your servants present at the time, did they dare to tell this about it? ”

"Those women don't enter Xiangcheng?"

Cui Luoshang was stunned, and he didn't know whether to be happy or regretful: "How do you know?" ”

"They are in a hurry to go to Chang'an City, and if you think about it, they are so eye-catching in this remote place, if they enter Xiangcheng, it will inevitably cause a sensation. If you are entangled by those dignitaries again, it will be difficult to get out. So they rest here tonight, go to the mountain town to buy what they need on the way, and Ming'er will leave early in the morning, bypassing Xiangcheng and not going in at all. ”

"That's good......"

Cui Luo smiled wryly: "But the classmates who came with me also saw it, I didn't see them waiting for me when I fled back just now, obviously because I did that dirty thing and was ashamed to go back first." ”

Fang Xie Xin said that your good classmates are discussing how to break your limbs in the forest, so they will naturally have no time to take care of you.

"I saw them go up the hill just now, maybe they were looking for a place to stay."

Fang Xie comforted: "I bet it won't be long before they come back to you, if you are really a good brother, how can you hurt your feelings because of such a trivial matter?" ”

"Also to ......"

Cui Luoshang sighed: "They are all sincere to me, and they are all lifelong friendships." ”

Fang Xie scolded a fool in his heart, and he had a fateful friendship, and now people are thinking about how to let you die.

When he was talking about this, Li Yuan, the son of the Li family, who was dressed in white, with a slender figure and a face like a crown of jade, walked over from a distance with those few followers Shi Shiran. It was still far away, and Li Yuan said loudly: "Slightly discuss, where have you been?" Just now, a few of us went to the Taoist temple in the middle of the mountains to donate incense money, and we stayed there at night, but we waited left and right, but we didn't see you coming. We had to go down the mountain again to find it, and you were so interested in watching the scenery here! ”

Cui Luoshang said in a low voice: "Sure enough, you said it, this is the real good brother." ”

Fang Xie stood up with him and walked slowly towards Li Yuan and them. Although the clothes on his body were scholarly styles, they were not brocade clothes. So compared with the personable Li Yuangongzi, he looks naturally shabby. It's just that he has a beautiful face, although he can't be said to be extremely handsome, but after all, it makes people feel comfortable.

Li Yuan has had the ability to never forget since he was a child, and he remembers that the young man next to Cui Luoshang is the wild boy who peed on the side of the mountain. At this time, I couldn't help but be a little surprised to see him and Cui Luoshang standing together, but after thinking about it, maybe this person and Cui Luoshang were also old acquaintances, otherwise how could they be so familiar? You must know that Cui Liushang is an outlier in Xiangcheng, not only is he friendly with the sons of the family, but also many students from poor families in the city have a lot of dealings with him.

The stupidest sentence of this fool is that there are more heroes than dog slaughterers, and Li Yuan almost laughed off his big teeth when they first heard it.

"Who is this?"

Li Yuan arched his hand slightly to Fang Xie as a courtesy, although he couldn't find anything wrong, but the undisguised contempt on his face was unpleasant to look at. Fang Xie was already unhappy with the surname Li, and he felt even more disgusted when he saw Li Yuan's high-minded appearance. People from a family are like this, obviously looking down on those who are not as good as them, but in order to show their manners, even if they are peddlers and pawns, they have to pretend to be polite and polite.

This kind of artificiality is particularly disgusting in Fang Jie's view.

"The surname is Shang, who comes from the border city of Fangu, and is a small businessman."

When it comes to acting, Fang Xie naturally won't lose to others. He returned the salute with a fist, and his waist was bent wide. The expression on his face is also humble, and there is even a kind of trepidation in his eyes that makes people absolutely not doubt. It felt as if he really felt inferior.

"I've heard that Fangu City is full of big business."

Li Yuan smiled and said, "I heard that the Shu brocade trafficked to Fangu from the land of Xichuan can sell twice as much silver than in the Central Plains?" That's really not a minority, can you earn 500 wen for a trip? Looking at the gentleman's bearing, I think that the annual income is dozens of yuan, even if it is dozens of yuan a year in Xiangcheng, it can be regarded as a wealthy family. ”

Fang Xie said with a smile: "Don't call me a son, I have no fame." ”

"Haha"

Li Yuan smiled and said, "You yourself are interesting and interesting." ”

Although there is no clear hierarchy for the common people in the Great Sui, since ancient times, people who do business are the most despised, and the status of merchants is the lowest. Even the poor farmer who can't open the pot meets the merchant on the narrow road, and he can proudly raise his head and wait for the other party to give way.

Fang Xie laughed a few times, and then said cautiously: "I hit it off with Cui Gongzi at first sight, and I wanted to invite him to have a drink together in the evening just now." It just so happened that I hunted a few wild animals in the mountains before, if a few sons don't dislike it, enjoy the face and drink a drink? ”

The short man scolded: "Wherever there is spare time to drink with you, you can do whatever you have to do!" After a little discussion, we have set a good table in the Taoist temple, let's go. ”

Cui Luoshang looked at Fang Xie in embarrassment, and was just about to apologize to him when he heard Li Yuan say with a smile: "The food of the Taoist temple on the mountain can often be eaten, but the game of this Shang brother can't." Liu Yineng, you are so cheesy. Brother Shang kindly invited, aren't you afraid of chilling Brother Shang's heart if you refuse? ”

He hugged the other party and said politely: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, and I'll bother Brother Shang tonight." ”

The rapid change in his attitude before and after is admirable. Fang Xie sneered in his heart, but there was a sincere and frightened expression on his face: "Please, please, my servant wants to have cleaned up the game, and I will personally roast the meat for your guests tonight...... Luckily, there were a few jugs of good wine in the car. ”

Li Yuan said a few more polite words, and when Fang Xie turned around, he lowered his voice and said to the short and thin man named Liu Yineng: "I almost ran away by you when I ran into a black pot with a black pot, and I won't pick it up...... Stupid! ”

Liu Yineng was stunned for a moment before he understood, and couldn't help but pick his thumb and praise: "High!" It's really high! ”