The days have passed day by day, these two years are a rare peaceful year in Hebei Road, although there are some floods, but the border is stable, it is the biggest good news in Hebei, Xu Shande gradually grew up, and the specific academic curriculum was also set by Xu Caizheng.

Of course, with Xu Shande's ingenuity, endorsement or something is simply too pediatric, but in the Great Song Dynasty, if you want to go to the court to worship the prime minister, enter and exit the court, it is not enough to read, in this era, if you want to be an official and enter the official career, you can have nothing else, but you must paste two big characters on your head, gentleman.

No way, who called Ouyang Xiu, a great genius at this time, wrote a discussion on the party, dividing the world so clearly, except that the gentleman is a villain, those who have already become officials are not necessary, but these scholars who want to rush for the exam, who don't want to be a gentleman, they have to be a villain, fame is the future, anyone will be cautious and sanctimonious.

How to be a gentleman, at least like a gentleman on the surface, is indeed a science, this is not only to be able to recite a few articles, from behavior, to describe the appearance, there is a set of special standards, Xu Cai is the person who came over, I think that there are also courses in this area in the country, so Xu Cai is handy, every day with a ring ruler staring at Xu Shande, now Xu Shande is miserable, walking, sitting and lying, neither can run, nor jump, sitting on the stool for a few hours can not bow down, Even sleeping has to be as neat as a dead person lying in a coffin, and so on, in Xu Shande's words, it is a thing that specializes in torturing people.

Xu Shande is okay, he stayed with Xu Caizheng for a few months, and now he goes out, if he walks in Bianliang City, at least he will not let people say that he is from the countryside, Xu Shande is already very satisfied with his current appearance, but Xu Caizheng always looks at Xu Shande a little unpleasantly, and from time to time he is okay to find some problems, and finally Xu Shande is annoyed and asked: "Father, I heard that the ancient sages were unruly, do you want to learn this lesson today." Xu Caizheng suddenly didn't know what to say, Xu Shande said: "A gentleman should still be lustful, I haven't learned this lesson, when will my father teach me." ”

Well, when it comes to this, Xu Caizheng has no way to continue the words, even if Xu Caizheng wants to take it, he doesn't dare to open his mouth when he sees the two ladies next to him, Xu Caizheng can only say vaguely: "You are still a young gentleman, and you haven't learned so much." Xu Shande immediately picked up: "Since I'm still young, don't you have to pretend to be a gentleman every day." ”

The more Xu Caizheng listens to this, the more awkward he becomes, you pretend to be a gentleman, isn't that a villain in the mainland, no wonder the more I look at Xu Shande, the more awkward I become, it turns out that Xu Shande's adopted son is like, but people's minds are not here, their hearts are not right and their bodies are evil, Xu Shande naturally does not look like a gentleman. Xu Caizheng could only comfort himself and said that Xu Shande was still too young and had no experience, and it would be fine when he was a few years older.

The days passed day by day, and then over the years, in the fourth year of Huangyou, Xu Shande was already four years old, for Xu Shande, in addition to the growth of the body day by day, time passed ordinary and fulfilling, but for Xu Caizheng, this year seems a little extraordinary, not because something happened to the Xu family, but because in the distant Yingzhou, there was a person who died, and the death of this person made Xu Caizheng blast Xu Zheng and others out of the study, locked himself in it alone, and sat in a daze all day without speaking. This person is Fan Zhongyan, a generation of famous ministers, admired by people all over the world, in his later years, he was exiled and died in a foreign country, how can he not be embarrassed.

It stands to reason that even if the emperor Lao Tzu died, and when the news reached the remote border town of Fuping Township, I am afraid it would take a few months, but in the Song Dynasty, the emperor was not the most noble, this is the world of scholars, this is the world of Confucianism, and Fan Zhongyan's current status, no matter what his new policy is, the master of the literary world, is enough to be admired and admired by scholars all over the world, so the news of Fan Zhongyan's death was spread by word of mouth, and it only took half a month to spread from the distant Yingzhou to Gaoyang County, a border place.

Why did this news spread so quickly, it is said that someone in the imperial court instructed it, because in it even used a 600-mile fast horse to deliver urgent official documents, so the first to reach this news was the county government of Gaoyang County.

At this time, Gaoyang Zhixian has already been replaced, Peng Deran because of a letter from Xu Caizheng, at this time has already been transferred to Bianliang City, as a small Beijing official, now the reigning county of the county, will make up for Peng Deran's lack, this person is named Wang Quanzao, a genuine Jinshi background, a real reader, compared to those literary masters, Wang Quanzao's writing is a little worse, and there are no acquaintances in the court, so he can only be some petty officials outside, and he has been in three or four terms, and he has always been in some bitter cold places.

In the Song Dynasty, officials do not look at qualifications, only divided into two kinds, one is a foreign official, the other is a Beijing official, no way, who called the official rank of the Song Dynasty does not match the function, you are an official outside, especially some small officials, do what you should do, but in the capital it is different, where the powerful gather, all kinds of princes and generals, even if it is the lowest level of petty officials in it, but in case one day by a big man, you can step up to the sky, one step to the sky, as long as the big man a word, although the official rank can not be promoted immediately, However, they can immediately enter a certain department of real power, and "know" or "power" a fat difference.

Unfortunately, Wang Quan has long belonged to that kind of foreign official, and he has always been in exile, but even so, Fan Zhongyan's name has already been like thunder, and he is like a teacher, Wang Quan got this briefing early, and his reaction was not much stronger than Xu Caizheng, sitting on the stool, unable to speak for a long time.

In the hearts of the people of the world, such as Fan Zhongyan such a sage, even if he was demoted out of Beijing, it was just a temporary disaster, who called this the practice of the Song Dynasty, since the time of Taizu, no one has been able to serve in office for more than three consecutive years, this is Zhao Kuangyin to prevent the prime minister from dictatorship set the rules, most of the prime ministers have to be released in office for a period of time, but wait a few years, after the prime minister reaches the term, most of them are transferred back to continue to be officials, and the worst is to stay in the capital for the elderly, and he will not be called to die of old age.

Therefore, all the scholars in the world thought that Fan Xianggong would always return to the capital one day in the future, but in such an expectation, Fan Zhong drowned, Wang Quanzao took the briefing, expressed deep grief, thought about it and thought, and decided to gather the readers of the whole county to worship Fan Xianggong's spirit in the sky with the principle of disciples.