Yu Ning'er is the woman of the jade family in Suzhou, the jade family is the scholarly family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, although no one in the jade family has entered the official office, but the status of the jade family in Confucianism is not small, the jade family has produced three emperors, seven Confucians, twelve champions, more than 20 Bangyan and Tanhua, so it is called "the Confucian family" by Confucianism. ”

It is precisely because of Yu Ning'er's extraordinary background that He Qingming, who is the son of the prefect, did not dare to do anything to her, seeing that Chu Minghui fainted from illness, Liu Fan had to ask Yu Ning'er for help, and with the help of Yu Ning'er, they came to a medical hall called "Hanging Pot Hall", and the doctor who visited the clinic was an old man with white hair, known as Doctor Yang.

After Dr. Yang Shen diagnosed and treated, Chu Minghui was finally out of danger, because it was late at night, seeing that Chu Minghui had escaped, Yu Ning'er offered to leave, Liu Fan said goodbye to Yu Ning'er, and then returned to the hospital to take care of Chu Minghui, after some treatment by Dr. Yang, at dawn, Chu Minghui slowly opened his eyes.

Seeing that Chu Minghui regained consciousness, Liu Fan breathed a long sigh of relief, this night really made him anxious, seeing Liu Fan's tired expression, Chu Minghui knew that he must have taken care of himself all night, although his heart was full of gratitude, but Chu Minghui didn't say a word of thanks, sometimes, the kindness in his heart is more weighty than verbal.

After breakfast, boiling herbs for Chu Minghui, Doctor Yang slowly came in and helped Chu Minghui check the pulse, he told the two that Chu Minghui had injured his lungs this time and had to recuperate for a period of time before he could get out of bed, hearing this, Chu Minghui hesitated, and then he wrote a handwritten letter and asked Liu Fan to send the letter to the governor's yamen.

The two of them were originally going to go to Wanbaolou to toss around, and after alarming Shen Wansan, they asked Shen Wansan to send someone to escort them out of Suzhou, but Chu Minghui's illness disrupted Liu Fan's previous plan, and now Chu Minghui should not get out of bed and go out, without him, the governor's son, Liu Fan himself can't toss the waves at all.

Seeing that the previous idea was invalid, Liu Fan had to think of other ways to leave Suzhou, he wanted to learn from Chu Minghui to send a letter to his family and ask the family to send someone to pick him up, but first, he forgot the specific address of his home, and secondly, he was worried that the nursing homes sent by his family would not be able to beat those people from the Hongru Society, so he didn't do it.

Seeing Liu Fan's worried face, Chu Minghui couldn't help but ask him why he was worried? After Liu Fan told Chu Minghui his thoughts, he immediately asked, where can I find a bodyguard? After hearing Liu Fan's question, Chu Minghui was immediately stumped, and he told Liu Fan that today is more important than martial arts, so there are very few people who practice martial arts.

In the Tianqing Dynasty, the status of scholars was much higher than that of martial artists, and when many people called warriors behind their backs, most of them were referred to as reckless men, and some people even described warriors as having developed limbs and simple minds. In this environment, the children of many families are sent to private schools as soon as they grow up, and very few people send their children to practice martial arts.

Nowadays, only the imperial forest army of the imperial court, as well as the god hunting houses of the yamen in various places, allow the recruitment of warriors, the former because of the need to guard the frontier, the latter needs to arrest bandits, so they can train and recruit warriors, in addition, the rest are not allowed to openly recruit warriors, even if they recruit the nursing courtyard, the number must be strictly controlled.

However, there are exceptions to everything, although ordinary people are not allowed to recruit warriors, but the court officials are qualified to configure guards, in addition to the court officials, there are also some people who can recruit warriors as bodyguards, that is, scholars with meritorious reputations, because the court pays attention to literati, so scholars are allowed to recruit warriors to protect safety.

In the Tianming Dynasty, there were nine grades of scholars, from low to high: Tongsheng, Xiucai, Juren, Gongsheng, Jinshi, Tanhua, Bangyan, Zhuangyuan, and Confucianism, which are collectively called scholars, implying that these scholars make a living from books for life.

Once a scholar has obtained a meritorious service, then he is eligible to obtain an official position, and the Ministry of Officials will evaluate the knowledge, talent, and character of these scholars every year.

However, not all scholars with fame can be officials, if the Ministry of Officials assessment, think that a certain scholar is not of good character, shallow in learning, and mediocre ability, then this person is no matter how high the knowledge is, the Ministry will not be hired, even if the fame is in the body.

There was a scholar who won the top prize in the imperial examination, but when the official department was assessed, the scholar was drinking with relatives and friends to celebrate, and he was drunk and despised the official in charge of the examination.

Afterwards, the Ministry of Officials announced that they would not be awarded the post on the grounds that the candidate was "greedy for cups and cups, and he was not able to do it", and in this way, the candidate had the title of "champion", but he did not get any official position, so whether he could be an official or not depends half on knowledge and half on luck.

Although some scholars are keen on politics, there are also some scholars who are bookish, they participate in the imperial examination purely to prove their knowledge, and after the title of the gold list, they will send letters to the officials, and take the initiative to cancel their qualifications.

Considering that most of the scholars are weak, they are powerless and upright, and they are easy to offend the powerful. Therefore, there is a clear decree under the imperial court, regardless of whether a scholar has become an official or not, as long as he has a meritorious reputation, he can recruit martial artists to protect his safety.

Tongsheng can recruit three guards, Xiucai can recruit seven guards, Juren is allowed to recruit ten guards, Gongsheng can recruit fifteen bodyguards, and Jinshi can recruit twenty guards...... The higher the rank of a scholar, the more guards are allowed to be recruited.

Although the imperial court allowed scholars to recruit guards, but recruiting guards is a large expense, if it is from the court as officials, it is good to say, they recruit guards to bear the money of the court, but those scholars who do not have official positions are in trouble, they simply cannot afford to hire guards.

Many scholars study all year round, and do not participate in labor, so they do not have any income at all, even if some scholars have won the meritorious examination, but if they do not enter the official office, then they are still poor, even if the great Confucianism is helpless, these scholars are poor and even can't afford to support themselves, how can there be spare money to recruit martial artists to protect themselves.

It is precisely because of this that many important ministers in the court secretly created a society, in the name of exploring knowledge to recruit scholars with meritorious reputation, when the scholar joined the society, the society will use the scholar's reputation to recruit guards, if it is not because of this loophole, those big people will not pay out of their own pockets to establish the society.

It's not that those people are academic, it's that some people are suspicious. Because if you want to openly and reasonably recruit a large number of martial artists, you only need to gather a group of scholars with meritorious reputations, take the Hongruhui as an example, they only need to recruit ten meritorious scholars, and they can blatantly recruit 200 guards.

Of course, not all societies have selfish intentions, and there are still some societies in China that sincerely cultivate literati. And the imperial court is not stupid, every five years in the name of selection and ranking of those pseudo societies to investigate, all the societies that can not pass the competition, will be removed from the imperial court, and its members are not allowed to join any societies for life.

Because the establishment of the society and the recruitment of members need to be reported to the local yamen, so when those societies that are not knowledgeable or have the lowest strength are banned, the yamen will send the arresters of the god hunting house to quickly check the identities of those people, which not only solves the hidden danger of the society's private hoarding of martial arts, but also screens out those scholars who are extremely ideological and restless.

However, everything has disadvantages and advantages, although the school will be banned if it is not qualified, but if it passes the assessment of the imperial court, and obtains a good ranking in the competition, the court's reward is also very attractive, one of them, where it can enter the top 1,000 of the Hanlin Academy, the court will reward one of its guards, and the expenses will be borne by the household department.

Don't underestimate the guards rewarded by the imperial court, you must know that the warriors trained by the imperial court are not comparable to the following characters, those guards are trained by masters, and they are responsible for protecting safety, which is an honor in itself.

Introduced here, Chu Minghui winked at Liu Fan and said jokingly: "I heard your conversation before I fainted, didn't that Miss Ning'er invite you to join the Red Sleeve Building to participate in the society competition?" I think you can promise to come down, and with your strength, you are enough to lead the Red Sleeves Building into the top 1,000.

At that time, you will give the rest of the rewards to the group of girls in the Red Sleeve Building, and you can only leave the guards rewarded by the imperial court, besides, those girls are all the ladies of various scholarly families, and they don't need the guard nurses, as long as you have the guards rewarded by the imperial court, you don't have to be afraid of those people in the Hongru Society anymore. ”

"It's a good solution, but I need to recruit a master to protect me right now." After listening to Chu Minghui's introduction, although Liu Fan was a little tempted by his suggestion, it was far away from water and could not quench his thirst, and the society Dabi was only opened for half a year, and he had to find someone to protect his safety now, because the people of the Hongru Society were still guarding outside the city.

Liu Fan squatted on the ground and pondered for a while, and asked casually: "Big brother, is there a shop in Suzhou Mansion that specializes in protecting the safety of people and property?" You have the governor's yamen to escort home, I don't have this kind of treatment, and when you go back, I also have to think about returning to Yangzhou, so I have to find someone to protect it. ”

"Brother, I'm really sorry, my father and the prefect of Suzhou do not agree, if I send the governor of the yamen to escort you back to Yangzhou, once this matter is known by the prefect of Suzhou, he will definitely take the opportunity to participate in the father's performance, after all, neither of us has a reputation at this time, and we have no right to privately transfer the officials of the yamen." Chu Minghui lowered his head in shame.

Looking at Chu Minghui's guilty expression, Liu Fan comforted: "Big brother doesn't have to feel guilty, it's because the younger brother knows this, so he didn't plan to let you send someone from the governor's yamen to send me home, and it is precisely because I understand the eldest brother's distress that I plan to temporarily recruit a master to protect myself, but it really can't be done, I hired two strong men to accompany me." ”

Hearing Liu Fan say this, Chu Minghui was moved and felt even more ashamed, and after a moment of silence, he seemed to remember something, and said excitedly: "By the way, I remembered, I seem to have heard my father mention that there is a master with superb skills in Hanshan Temple, if you have the ability, you can ask that person to go down the mountain to accompany you." ”