Looking up at the broken sword hanging on the archway, Du Rui got off his horse.

Nie Yuan naturally took the reins from Du Rui's hand, pulled the mount away, and under the archway, Ding Sanshi trotted all the way with bananas to meet him.

In the future, the two of them will be Du Rui's companions in the Sword Palace, Ding Sanshi is responsible for handling some trivial matters related to interpersonal exchanges, and Banana is inseparable from Du Rui, helping him run errands, as long as the official document of the Internal Affairs Office comes down, he can also leave the Sword Palace with Du Rui. Now, there are more and more people on the grass hall, Wei Yue is in charge of the overall situation, it is impossible to follow Du Rui every day, he really needs a personal attendant by his side.

After the establishment of the annex, the palace will send some chamberlains and maids to come.

Among those chamberlains and palace maids, I don't know how many people have been bought by those power groups with ulterior motives, although Du Rui believes in his eyes, and if he gets along for a long time, he will definitely be able to see that he is tired, but sometimes he doesn't need to be so tired. In the Sword Palace, after seeing the banana, he felt a kind of déjà vu in this child.

In the previous life, in the orphanage, he had a little friend.

That guy looked very much like a banana, and did the same thing, trembling, cautious, for fear of making a mistake, and later, he was adopted by a family, and after a few years he escaped from that adoptive family, I don't know where he went, and there was no more news. Perhaps, this is to make up for the regrets of the previous life? Of course, Du Rui does not think so, the reason why he chose bananas, in addition to this factor, the most important thing is safety.

No one could have expected him to do this!

This kind of sudden decision, even he didn't think about it in advance, and it was impossible for others to guess it, that is to say, bananas could not be a pawn planted by any force, and it was not a simple matter to plot against him during the period when the Ministry of Internal Affairs was going through the formalities, and it was not a simple matter to treat him as a dark line, and if he used too much force, it might even be self-defeating.

"Your Highness, this way?"

Ding Sanshi stopped, a smile on his face.

At this time, the three of them stood on a path, flanked by flower beds, in which unknown flowers were planted, purple and red, swaying slightly in the morning breeze, and the weeping willows on one side of the courtyard wall, the branches were also swaying gently in the wind, rustling. There was a blue bird parked at the head of the wall, with a body of green feathers, a red crown on the top of its head, its eyes were smart, and its eyes were back and forth between Du Rui and the others, and from time to time, it made a chirp.

The trail forks in the road, one to the left and one to the right.

Ding Sanshi stood on the path to the left, while Du Rui stepped on the path to the right.

The Sword Palace is similar to the ancient Taixue where Du Rui is located, and Taixue also paid attention to the six arts of gentlemen at the beginning, that is to say, scholars must be both civil and military, just like the propaganda slogans of later generations, with all-round development of morality, intellect and physique. Later, Confucianism became the so-called truth, and scholars became powerless Confucians, and there was a saying that scholars were useless.

The teaching methods here are similar to those of Durry's previous university.

There are also basic courses and elective courses, the so-called basic courses, which are courses that students must study, and there are special exams at the end of each year, and the top ones will be rewarded, and those who lag behind will be punished. One year, the chief instructor of the Sword Palace was a very strict grandmaster, and the laggards of that year were even ordered by him to be whipped in public in the courtyard where they first entered.

The Sword Palace is divided into three grades.

The first class of students is mostly under the age of nine; Kindergarten is between the ages of nine and thirteen; The graduating class is from thirteen to sixteen years old, and once you reach the age of sixteen, you can only graduate. After that, they will be shunted to other schools to study, such as Taixue, which focuses on literature, or Tiancetang, which focuses on martial arts, and of course, it is also possible to go home to inherit the family business.

Although Du Rui is already ten years old, it stands to reason that he should enter the middle class to study.

However, his situation is special, so he was placed in the beginner school, and he was in the company of those six or seven-year-old children, and his height was similar to those children, and it was not at all obtrusive to sit together.

There are not too many students in the Sword Palace, this is mainly for the study of the prince, there are not many disciples of the family who can enter here to accompany the study, most of the family's valued children will not be sent here, and the children of the gate valve who appear here are in a rather embarrassing situation in their own family, for various reasons, they can neither become the geniuses valued by the elders, nor will they be reduced to the type of abandonment.

Coming to the Sword Palace, this is the way.

Since they can't dominate the power of the family, then it is not a good way to enter the court to grasp some authority, here, if they can get out of a world, if the prince who follows can be crowned with a great treasure, they can also rise to the top, and really become a member of the authority, and the family does not dare to despise it, as the family's signboard, they will definitely get a lot of resource support from the family.

Of course, this is also a dangerous path.

Once the prince he supports loses in the political struggle, the unlucky one will even lose his life, even if he is lucky enough to survive, this life is considered useless, and he can only go away from home and self-exile, so that he will not have anything to do with the family, and his family or something can be saved. Under normal circumstances, if it were not for the fact that he offended the later successful ones during this period, and the latter was not careful, it would basically be this kind of ending.

Among the disciples of the gate valve who entered the Sword Palace, there was not even one of the ten people who could stand behind the true victor.

Yingzong Du Zhen had seventeen sons, and now, there are thirteen who are still alive, and some of those four sons died young, some died unexpectedly, and some were assassinated, and among the thirteen sons, there were eight minors.

That is to say, in the Sword Palace, including Du Rui, there are a total of eight princes.

The descendants of the princes and nobles are about eighty, and basically, a prince can be divided into about ten companions, however, in fact, of course, this is not the case.

Like Yan King Du Yun's side, there are at least thirty companions, these people are around Du Yun, and there are only two or three people who can really be accepted by Du Yun, even so, they will not abandon Du Yun and choose other princes. This is because these disciples or descendants of high-ranking officials are basically involved with the Guo family, and they are members of the Guo family's gate valve group, they can only follow Du Yun, and have no other choice.

In the Sword Palace, Du Yun has the most companions, and in second place is Du Xu, the king of Zhongnan, his mother is the daughter of the Jingzhao Gu family, although she is not the queen, but she is a concubine, even if she is not as good as Guo Yuqi, in the harem, she also has a lot of power.

There are also about 20 people who follow the fifteen-year-old Zhongnan Jun Du Xu, who are basically part of the Gu Family Gate Valve Group, and here, the relationship between the families can be described as distinct, and there is no room for confusion.

More than half of the eighty or so children of the Xuegong followed these two people, and there were more than a dozen Kanto children who followed Fan Yangjun Du Hu, and the rest followed the five princes, the youngest seventeenth prince Du Yu, who was only followed by two companions, who were similar in age to him, and were also six or seven years old.

As for Du Rui, he had just entered the Sword Palace, and no one followed him for the time being.

Among these students, there are also some guys who have not yet chosen the prince, some have been observing, and some are unable to stick to Du Yun or Du Xu, if possible, they will also choose some reliable princes to defect.

As for Du Rui, these guys basically stay away from him.

Now, Du Rui should go to the beginner school to take classes, the morning class is a literature class, there are great Confucians to explain the meaning of the scriptures for them, from the quotations of the sage Mr. Dongguo, called the Rongyuan Night Talk, this scripture is Mr. Dongguo's Q&A record between his own Banyan Garden and his disciples, because most of them are at night, so it is called the Rongyuan Night Talk.

The book's place in this world is similar to the Analects of Du Rui's previous life.

Explaining the night talk of Rongyuan is Chen Fuzi, from the Hengqu family in Guanzhong, when Yingzong was still the prince, he was Yingzong's companion, and now he is serving in Zhongshu Province, and occasionally writes edicts for Yingzong Du Zhen.

His knowledge of the scriptures comes from the Hengqu lineage in Guanzhong.

Now, there are differences in the interpretation of the scriptures, Hengqu represents the Guanzhong school, they are retro schools, pay attention to the ancients, and think that the sage's subtle words can solve all problems, but this subtle words must be studied thoroughly, can not be misled, every word and every sentence has a deep meaning, once the understanding is wrong, it will go astray.

How to interpret the meaning of the scriptures, Hengqu Yimai thinks that he is self-sacred.

The Kanto School, on the other hand, disapproves of blindly worshipping the ancients, believing that the world is changing, so it is necessary to keep pace with the times, and the sage's subtle words are naturally very reasonable, but they cannot be regarded as wise sayings, blindly obeyed, and must be selectively accepted.

Both sides regard each other as hereticals, whether they are rivers and lakes or temples, attacking each other, you live and die, and never compromise, and in private, the scholars of the two factions are almost never in contact with each other. In this world, most of those great Confucians have family backgrounds and strong martial arts, so they not only fight, sometimes they are hot-blooded, but they will also sign life and death certificates and conduct martial arts.

As the lieutenant commander of Zhongshu Province, Chen Fuzi is usually busy with work, and he still has to teach in the Sword Palace, which is nothing more than trying to snatch the right to interpret and speak the scriptures, and for this reason, even if he dies of overwork, he is not afraid. If he hadn't been the companion of Yingzong Du Zhen, he wouldn't have gotten such an opportunity, and it was with this friendship that he defeated the efforts of the Kanto School and successfully obtained the position of teacher in the Academy.

However, the Kanto School also has its own way, and it is not a thousand miles away, and in the Sword Palace, there are also masters of the Kanto School, and even as a teacher in the intermediate class.

These two people secretly competed and refused to give in to each other.

Chen Fuzi also treats students very strictly, even if he is a prince, he does not lie.

The time for Master Chen's first class was already very tight, and Ding Sanshi was a little anxious, because the princes made mistakes, although they would also be punished, but the objects of punishment were those companions and servants like him.