On November 21, snowflakes fell from the sky like goose feathers.

The whole world is wrapped in a layer of silver white, which looks incomparably pure and beautiful.

It was also on this day that Zhang Zai sent the fifty-three orphans selected from Linzhou to the capital, of course, Zhang Zai himself did not come, and it was the Shadow Guards who were responsible for transporting these orphans.

But even though the Shadow Guards were responsible for transporting them, instead of going through the traffickers' channels, the orphans died seven on the way, compared to sixty.

Most of the seven people who died died of illness due to water and soil adaptation, and coupled with the cold weather of winter, it was not very unexpected.

Fifty-three orphans, ranging in age from 10 to 14 years old, although there are still many orphans under the age of 10 in Linzhou, because they are too young to travel long distances, Zhang Zai did not send them over.

But even at the age of ten, Xin Xi still dislikes being too young, why is this not the establishment of a children's league, what are so many children doing here?!

But no matter how disliked Xin Xi was, this group of people was the only student in his Gewu Academy today.

The students at Gewu Elementary School, not only have they not yet reached the time when they can go to university, but the parents of those students may not be willing to let them come to this Gewu Academy, unless, Zhao Hao, who is also studying at Gewu Elementary School, comes to this Gewu Academy at Zhao Shu's suggestion......

But the problem is that Zhao Shu obviously wants to use this to beat Xin Xi.

With a slight sigh, Gewu College, the earliest university established in Chinese history, was opened in such a hurry and humble with only three professors and fifty-three students!

Sima Yun, Xin Yi and Mo Dun, who were professors, lined up the fifty-three orphans in front of the main teaching building, and then stood in front.

Xin Xi slowly walked up to the high platform, looked at the group of yellow-faced and thin-skinned 'students' under the stage, he cleared his throat with some embarrassment, and said, "Then, Gewu Academy is officially opened today!" ”

After saying this sentence hastily, Xin Xi wanted to withdraw, he really couldn't play the routine of bullying people.

On the side, Mo Dun, Xin Yi and Sima Yun all looked at Xin Xi with strange expressions.

Sima Yun even opened his mouth and said, "Eleven Lang, this is the end of it?!" ”

Xin Xi nodded awkwardly: "Yes, it's over!" ”

Sima Yun rolled his eyes slightly: "Isn't our academy the same status as Guozijian, I remember when Guozijian was opened, Emperor Taizu said a lot, like what is the concept of running a school, Guozixun, etc.!" ”

Xin Zhen's face was speechless, then he thought about it, too, and then, he looked at the fifty-three 'students' in the audience, and said: "I know you are very confused, but, just as Governor Zhang told you, you are here to learn the art of war, and even to learn other knowledge of Gewu, and when you finish your studies, you will have the opportunity to lead the official army of the Great Song Dynasty and take revenge!" ”

"However, revenge is not the belief you should have, your belief must be to protect the Great Song Dynasty, so that in the future, there will no longer be any orphans who appear because of the war!"

“…………”

After talking for a quarter of an hour, Xin Xi couldn't help but admire the school leaders of later generations, those guys are people who can talk for hours casually!

"Well, the motto of my Gewu Academy is, Discover, Try, Change!" Xin Yi said this, and then looked at Xin Yiyi: "Xin Yi, this year, you will take them to start practicing martial arts and practicing some of the art of war!" ”

"Whoa!" Xin Yi nodded solemnly.

Xin Zhen smiled, turned around and walked off the high platform, then looked at Mo Dun and said, "Mr. Mo, we have to speed up the building casting of this academy!" ”

"Speed up?!" Mo Dun said that he didn't quite understand, judging from the current situation, the academy that had planned an area of 8,000 acres early was not needed at all, and even at most, ten acres of land was enough......

Xin Xi smiled slightly and said, "No matter how few students there are, the school can't be too small!" ”

After saying this with a smile, Xin Xi took Sima Yun and left.

After all, these fifty-three students were planning to train them as military talents from the beginning, so it was unnecessary to let Sima Yun teach qin, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Therefore, just leave Xin Yi to be responsible, and when there are more students and professors in the coming year, Xin Yi will arrange the things that each professor is good at into different courses, and even provide some elective courses!

Thinking like this, Xin Xi left here and continued to take Sima Yun everywhere to be corrupt, anyway, there are no officials and no officials, there are Xin Qi and Thirty-six in the Western Regions, and he doesn't need him in the past, at least, when he doesn't reach the last and most critical moment, he doesn't have to ask too much.

Back at home, Xin Xi and Sima Yun sat around the fire, playing chess, Eve was studying math problems, and Adam was holding his chin in his hands and watching Xin Xi and Sima Yun play chess.

Xiang'er warmed the wine with a wine bottle next to him.

Inside the wine bottle, the liquor began to tumble, and Xiang'er took out a chopstick from the side and stirred it into the tumbling liquor.

The boiling liquor slowly subsided.

At this moment, in the palace, Zhao Shu sat in the living hall with a serious face, leaning his feet on the bamboo cage while wearing a fold, and in this bamboo cage, there were a little sparks flickering.

After a while, an old eunuch quickly rushed over, with a panicked face: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not a good thing!" ”

"Panic, what kind of system?!" Zhao Shu looked at the panicked eunuch coldly, and was very unhappy in his heart.

The eunuch didn't care about this, but said directly: "Your Majesty, the Annan Army is defeated!" Wang Shiyue fought with the Dali people in Kunming, lost 80,000 teachers, and now, Wang Shiyue is trapped in Ning'an City, south of Kunming, and can only defend the city! ”

The Annam Army, defeated?!

An army of 100,000 attacked the small country of Dali, but you were defeated?

Not only was he defeated, but he also lost 80,000 teachers?!

"Bastard!" Zhao Shu gritted his teeth and stood up, pushed away the pen, ink, and paper on the table, and even grabbed the paperweight and smashed it on the ground.

"Defeated?! Defeated?! What is this Wang Shiyue for?! 80,000 lost teachers?! Ah, the bastard! Zhao Shu scolded angrily, and the anger in his heart rolled.

The loss of 80,000 and the defeat, in fact, Zhao Shu can not care, and the reason why he cares so much is because he appointed Wang Shiyue before, but did not appoint Xin Xi as the commander of the Annan Army.

I remember that after that, there were many people in Bianliang City who were upset with Xin Xi, and now that Wang Shi's appointment has been defeated, doesn't that mean that he Zhao Shu is really confused? !

"Someone!" After venting, after the anger in his heart subsided, Zhao Shu's eyes flickered.

"Your Majesty!" The eunuch shrank on the ground and slowly approached.

Zhao Shu's face was gloomy, and he said, "Please invite the privy envoy, the deputy envoy and the four ministers to enter the palace!" ”

"Whoa!" The eunuch hurriedly agreed, quickly got up, turned around, and trotted away.

A moment later, the privy envoy, the privy deputy envoy, and the four ministers all arrived at the living hall.

"See Your Majesty!" Six salutes.

Zhao Shu smiled faintly and asked everyone to excuse themselves and give them a seat, and then said: "The Annan Army, defeated, you must have all gotten some news, right?!" ”

The six were silent.

Zhao Shu grabbed a piece of the fold on the table and slowly handed it to Han Qi, after Han Qi finished reading it, he passed it to Ouyang Xiu, and then passed it one by one, and it didn't take long for the six of them to finish reading it, and the fold returned to Zhao Shu's hand.

"You Aiqing think that at this moment, what should we do?!" Zhao Shu asked slowly.

Han Qi was silent for a moment and said, "Send reinforcements again!" ”

Zhou Tong, the deputy privy envoy, shook his head and said: "Since we have been defeated and lost 80,000 teachers, let Wang Shiyue withdraw it, and the matter of attacking Dali will be talked about next year!" ”

Zhao Shu glanced at the privy deputy envoy carefully, and his eyes flashed with appreciation.

After all, if they directly let Wang Shiyue withdraw, they can say why they lost, but if they send reinforcements again, when the time comes, the defeat of Wang Shiyue will not be a 'non-war crime', but that he is incompetent.

Since Wang Shiyue is incompetent, then Zhao Shu, who handpicked Wang Shiyue, is blind!

Zhao Shu turned his head to look at the other people again, Zeng Gongliang smiled and said, "The old man thinks that these two methods are feasible!" ”

Wang Si frowned: "Withdraw!" ”

Ouyang Xiu shook his head: "It's up to Your Majesty to decide!" ”

The privy envoy laughed: "The old man thinks that he should send reinforcements again, cover up the wrongdoing, after all, it is the next step, just like Xin Xi once said, the people's eyes are bright and bright!" ”

Anyway, he is already old, and he should resign after a few years of being a privy envoy, and from the point of view of the privy envoy's deliberate curry favor with His Majesty, the next privy envoy is probably him, and let such a person sit in the position of the privy envoy, from now on, the privy envoy is probably just a dog raised in the palace!

In this case, it is necessary for him to bring up a person with sufficient weight for the military department and the general.

For example, Xin Shiyi is very good!

"Confused! In the middle of winter, wouldn't sending reinforcements lead to the loss of another 80,000 troops, or even more?! The Privy Counsellor opened his mouth and directly accused the Privy Envoy.

Han Qi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what the privy envoy said is reasonable, at this moment, covering up the wrongs will not have much effect, it is better to put it another way, if Your Majesty is the current Bianjing people, when you learn about this matter, do you admire an official who knows that he can change, or an official who can only cover up his wrongs?!" ”

As soon as Han Qi said this, Zhao Shu was stunned.

And when Han Qi opened his mouth, even the privy deputy didn't dare to accuse, and even at this time, he remembered that Han Qi was also supporting 'sending reinforcements again', and he didn't know if he offended Han Qi by what he said just now......

Zhao Shu frowned slightly, thinking quietly, he didn't say that he didn't mean to cover up, after all, these six people are all old officials who have been in the officialdom for at least 20 years, and their ability to see the subtleties is not simple.

Indeed, it is true that he only needs to empathize with him, and he knows that only by admitting the mistake of hand-picking this time and winning this war back will he quell the rumors among the people.

Otherwise, the rumor that he is an incompetent faint king will only spread more and more true!

After being silent for a long time, Zhao Shu spoke: "Come on, please Xin Shiyi!" ”

The eunuch walked over quickly, and left after agreeing.

At this moment, in the courtyard of the Xin family's house, Xin Xi was slowly drinking warm wine.

Sima Yun laughed and said: "Since April, I haven't heard Eleven Lang compose poems, Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Zizhan is surprised by the bright moon when will he have skills, do Eleven Lang want to improvise a song at this time?!" ”

Xin Xi was slightly stunned, thinking about it carefully, it is true that he has not 'composed poetry' for a long, long time, or directly admit that he Jiang Lang is all over?

But after hesitating for a moment, when he saw the look of expectation in Sima Yun's eyes, he couldn't bear to disappoint her, the so-called writing poems for you!

Xin Xi slowly put down the wine bottle and said, "Then I'll start with a song describing snowflakes!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Sima Yun's original name is Zhao Xueyu, with a snow character in his name, Shiyi Lang wants to write a poem describing snowflakes, she is naturally happy.

Under the expectant gaze of everyone, Xin Xi looked at the snowflakes floating in the courtyard, and said indifferently: "One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces." ”

……！

A few people were a little embarrassed, but looking back, maybe it was a turning sentence, first suppressed and then raised?!

But then, Xin Zhen spoke: "Five, six, seven, eight." ”

“……！” Several people were dumbfounded.

"Thousands of pieces, thousands of pieces, countless pieces!"

Sima Yun's little face fell: "Eleven Lang ......"

'You're too perfunctory, don't you love me anymore' and other similar words before they could be spoken, when they heard Xin Xi suddenly say: "Flying into the reed, I don't see it." ”

This......!

Not to mention what kind of expression Sima Yun has, Adam and Eve, who don't understand poetry on the side, both feel their scalps tingle, and they have a creepy but original feeling.

Now that he has opened his mouth wide, his face is full of incredulity.

"Eleven Lang, you're amazing!" Sima Yun was sincerely admired, his eyes flashed with a certain look of adoration, and Xin Yi, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but look at Xin Yi with a look of adoration.

Around, Eve, Adam, Ringing, explained the eyes full of little stars.

Xin Xi smiled slightly, but suddenly thought of thirty-six, if that guy was there, he would probably glance at him with a cold face, and scolded in his heart, he was a pretending to be forced again!

Hahaha!

Thinking about it, Xin Xi laughed.

It was at this time that there was a knock at the door.

Xin Zhen turned his head and signaled, Xin Yi's body flashed, appeared behind the door, and opened the door.

Outside the door, there was an old eunuch.

The old eunuch was slightly stunned, looked at this side, and quickly bowed: "The old slave has seen the county lord of Shuguo, and he has seen the envoy of Commander Xin!" ”

"Get up!" Sima Yun spoke indifferently.

Xin Xi asked, "I don't know if my father-in-law is here, what's the matter?!" ”

The eunuch got up and chuckled: "Commander Xin, Your Majesty summons, and please also ask the commander to enter the palace with our family!" ”

"Oh?" Xin Zhen frowned, his eyes flickered, he didn't quite understand what Zhao Shu was looking for him at this time!