Chapter 221: Flame of the Plains

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Winter goes to spring, and everything recovers.

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than two months since the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty, and Xijing Chang'an is in order.

Six ministries and 24 divisions have been established one after another, and all matters are gradually on the right track, and everything is being carried out in an orderly manner.

In February, looking at the mountains and rivers of the northern country, the mountains and rivers are green, and the spring is full of joy, a thriving scene.

More than 300,000 troops who participated in the enthronement ceremony left Chang'an one after another, but there were still as many as 200,000 soldiers and horses defending Gyeonggi, stationed in the suburbs of Chang'an.

In order: stationed in the southern suburbs is the Flying Bear Heavy Cavalry under the Huan Fei Tent, stationed in the northern suburbs is the Longxiang Battalion under the Ma Chao Tent, stationed in the Western Suburbs under the Dian Wei Tent Tiger Camp and stationed in the Eastern Suburbs Gao Shun Tent Sinking Camp. The four battalions of soldiers and horses were stationed outside the city, and the Jin Yiwei Forbidden Army was still stationed in the city, but the forbidden army had been expanded from the previous 30,000 war cavalry to 50,000 horses at this time.

In addition, there are 30,000 city gate guards in Chang'an City, which are served by Li Li's general, Li Zheng, who is under the direct jurisdiction of Jia Xu, the secretary of the military department.

At noon, Li Li drove to the Royal Academy to inspect the three colleges and universities, including the Tai Hospital, the Military Academy and the Tai Academy, accompanied by the great Confucian Cai Yong, Hua Tuo, Zhang Ji, Kong Rong, Li Xuan, Guo Jia and Li Zhi.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in mid-October last year, Chang'an Tai College has been renamed the Royal Academy, with Li Li himself as the president, but does not participate in the day-to-day management. It's just a name. Even so, the old Taishan Cai Yong was also quite dissatisfied. So he used this as an excuse to ask Li Li to increase the school's running funds. Expansion of the house, claiming that this is the only way to be worthy of the title of Royal Academy.

Cai Yong's original intention was to complain and vent his dissatisfaction, but unexpectedly, Li Li agreed with his mouth, and immediately put it into action, planning a new campus on the east bank of Weishui, and officially started construction half a month ago. Cai Yong rushed to the new campus three times to inspect the site, and found that the scale of the new campus was five times larger than the existing Tai College, and it could accommodate more than 30,000 students after completion.

See it here. Cai Yong was skeptical at first, he didn't believe it, and thought that Li Li deliberately perfunctory him, drawing a big cake to satisfy his hunger, in fact, it was just a show, and he would not spend such a huge amount of money on the construction of the academy at all. In fact, the reason why Cai Yong was dissatisfied with Li Li was not because the college's funds were too small, but because he had been loyal to the Han family for most of his life. Unexpectedly, the Han family died after all, and was replaced by his fast son-in-law Li Li, who stepped on the foundation of the Han family and established the Jin Kingdom. For this reason, Cai Yong felt quite lost in his heart, and he never got through this hurdle. So he asked Li Li to vent his dissatisfaction, deliberately found fault, and still opened his mouth. At every turn, tens of millions of funds are demanded for running schools, and the beautiful name is said: "The college should expand its enrollment." It is necessary to improve the living conditions of teachers and improve the accommodation conditions of students. And so on". There are many reasons, but in the final analysis, it comes down to one sentence: his old man is uncomfortable, and Li Li doesn't want to live in peace.

However, Cai Yong never expected that Li Li would do what he said, and now the construction of the new campus has begun. This time, it was Cai Yong's turn to be nervous. He knows his son-in-law too well, and knows that this guy has a purpose for everything he does, and his goals are extremely clear, and he will never do anything that is not beneficial. Therefore, Li Li suddenly expanded the campus with great fanfare, Cai Yong was immediately not calm, and secretly speculated that Li Li must have ulterior motives, otherwise how could he be so refreshing, this is not his style of doing things?

As soon as he thought of this, Cai Yong couldn't sit still anymore, and ran to the palace twice in three days, and when he saw Li Li, he asked: "What is Wenchang's intention?" He has the grace of knowing Li Li, and he is Li Li's father-in-law, so don't look at Li Li as the emperor now, but in front of Cai Yong, Li Li is still the hairy-footed son-in-law who knocked on the widow's door in the middle of the night in the third watch, and he is "Wenchang" when he opens and closes his mouth.

Li Li had long been accustomed to this, and instead of being angry, he felt very kind. Therefore, no one else in his inner mansion can enter at all, even Li Xin's own brother Li Xuan, Ma Yunluo's father Ma Teng and brother Ma Chao and others are not allowed to enter, except Cai Yong. No matter when his old man comes, no one stops him, even if Li Li is hey in the middle of the night, he has to come out to see him, otherwise it is difficult to guarantee that the old man will not break into the dormitory and give him a "catch rape in bed". Therefore, in Li Li's eyes, Old Man Cai is very willful, and the older he gets, the more willful he becomes, and he is developing in the direction of old children. In this regard, Li Li really has no temper, he can only listen to it, and coax it, lest Lao Taishan have a good one under his anger, and then he will regret it.

I really can't stand Cai Yong's chatter all day long, no, just after the Qingming Festival and the worship of the temple, Li Li took the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to inspect the academy, so as to make Cai Yong feel relieved, lest his old man stare at him all day long like a thief. After all, the expansion of the college is not a bad thing, the centennial plan education comes first, for Li Li, who was born in the spring breeze and grew up under the red flag, how can he not understand such a simple truth?

After the inspection and personally experienced the food in the student cafeteria, Li Li came to the "office" of the dean, the highest headquarters of the college.

The house is very large, 200 square meters, but the stack of bamboo slips occupies two-thirds of the whole room, and the room is filled with the special smell of Hanmo books. This made Li Li, who had been immersed in reading and commenting on the Jane all the year round, was surprised, the charm of the books here was much stronger than his imperial study, and he couldn't help but have a little respect for Cai Yong, and secretly admired: "This is a scholar who really devotes himself to study, indifferent to fame and fortune, and devotes himself to teaching, a scholar who loves to learn so much in his seventies, how many people are there throughout the ancient and modern times?" Compared with it, after all, I am too utilitarian and ashamed! ”

This room originally belonged to Li Li, because he was the dean of the Royal Academy, as early as two months ago, Cai Yong had already started to move the house, Li Li immediately stopped it after hearing the news, claiming that he was just an honorary dean and did not occupy any resources of the academy, in fact, the dean of the Royal Academy was still him Cai Yong. To put it mildly, Cai Yongcai reluctantly continued to work here, so Li Li also took three 500-year-old ginseng from the envoy of Goguryeo in Liaodong, as well as five catties of special royal tea. In the face of such a wayward old man. What can I do?

?????? The monarch and the minister took their seats. Li Li and Cai Yong sat side by side, and the entourage on both sides from left to right were: Li Xuan, Hua Tuo, Zhang Ji, Kong Rong and Guo Jia. Li Zhi still stood behind Li Li like a pillar, motionless.

After a cup of tea. Cai Yong, who had endured it for a morning, still couldn't hold back after all, gently put down the teacup, and asked softly, "What does Wenchang want?" The question at the beginning and end made Li Xuan, Kong Rong and others in the hall at a loss, not understanding what Cai Yong was referring to, and not knowing why Li Li provoked the stubborn old man Cai again.

Only Li Li knew what Cai Yong meant by this, he knew very well that the old man was the temper of breaking the casserole and asking the end, and if he didn't figure out the reason for the construction of the Weishui Campus, the old man would never give up. Therefore, Li Li's visit to Tai Academy today was not a temporary idea. Rather, it was deliberate, and its purpose was to make it clear in front of the four deans of the college.

Speaking of which, Tai Academy was originally established in the name of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, and has continued to this day, which has been a full twelve years. In the past 12 years, Li Li has recruited celebrities and elites from various states and counties to come to the academy every year under various names, and thousands of children will be sent to the academy every year, and more than seventy percent of the children are the descendants of warriors who died on the battlefield. The remaining 30% or so children are the sons of local Haoqiang and businessmen who have paid extremely expensive tuition fees to study, and this income is the main source of funding for the college.

What really needed Li Li to pay out of his own pocket was the food and salary of these teaching gentlemen and the thousands of armor soldiers who guarded the academy, as well as the daily expenses of the group of people who were named in the name of the academy but never showed up. These people who never showed up were the princes of the towns and their families who were exterminated by Li Li. Among them were Sun Quan, the younger brother of Sun Ce in Jiangdong, Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou, Liu Bei, who had crippled legs, and those stubborn old ministers of the former dynasty, a total of more than 30 households and more than 500 people, all of whom were confined in the courtyard behind the academy. There are guards all year round, and all the items needed daily are procured by special personnel. Adequate supply.

There were no more than five people in the entire academy who knew about this, and the insiders were limited to the four deans and vice deans who were sitting in the room at the moment. However, even within the four of them in the know. None of them had the right to visit these imprisoned princes and their families, and if they wanted to enter the last row of courtyards, they had to hold an edict signed by Li Li, otherwise no one could go to visit, and those who dared to approach the backyard without permission would be killed without asking the reason. So far, more than 20 students have been killed because of curiosity to sneak into the backyard, so Cai Yong and the other four deans have repeatedly signed a joint admonition, asking Li Li to move all the hundreds of people living in the backyard to other places for resettlement, and not to kill their students in vain. This was an important reason for Lily's decision to rebuild the Royal Academy outside the city.

However, Tai College has been in operation for more than ten years, but few people know what Li Li's original intention was to open the college at any cost of manpower and material resources, and what his intention was.

After Cai Yong finished speaking, he looked at Li Li with burning eyes, but Li Li tasted the tea slowly and leisurely, until a cup of tea bottomed out, he gently put down the tea cup and said with a smile: "My father-in-law has repeatedly asked about the reason for the expansion, and I have explained it many times. There are three reasons for the re-selection of the campus. First, Chang'an, as the imperial capital, is mixed, and the environment and atmosphere are not good, so that the students of the Royal Academy cannot study with peace of mind. Second, the population of the capital is increasing year by year, and as of the end of last year, there were 100,000 permanent residents in the city, and after two months, there are now 20,000 more households in the city. Third, when the Jin Kingdom was first established, the new dynasty should have a new atmosphere, and the Tai Academy has been renamed the Royal Academy, since it is a Royal Academy, it must not be too shabby, and it must not damage the image and reputation of the royal family. Therefore, it was imperative to move the college outside the city and rebuild it. With such an answer, I wonder if you are satisfied? ”

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