After solving the episode between Tao Dazhi and Chen Jun, Wei Chen turned his head to look at Wang Yaochen again and asked, "How many people will come on the day of the social gathering?" ”

Wang Yaochen hesitated for a moment, a little uncertain, and said: "During today's banquet, there are dozens of people who are interested in participating in the club gathering, and the news will spread for a few days, and by the day of the club gathering, there will be at least two or three hundred people, of course, there may be more." ”

Wei Chen nodded with satisfaction when he heard this.

Three gangs of a hero.

The current Jingxi Society, there are Sheng Changbai, who entered the cabinet twice in the future, and Wang Yaochen, who is not under Sheng Changbai in the slightest, and these two will be Wei Chen's powerful arms and assistants in the future.

In addition, Tao Dazhi, Chen Jun, Weng Dingfan, and Tang Henian are also outstanding in their studies, and they are likely to be admitted to the Jinshi in the coming year.

With these few people, the backbone of Jingxi Society has become a backbone, as long as some new members are absorbed to supplement the branches and leaves, it will soon be able to have a small climate.

Wei Chen set up the Jingxi Society to run a cram school for the imperial examination, using his name to attract those who are interested in the imperial examination, and then select talents from it, recruit talents, expand his small group, and prepare for entering the court in the future.

Maybe in the future, Jingxi Society will not be able to become a giant in the court, but it is not a big problem for members to support each other when it becomes a township party.

Wei Chen was very concerned about the matter of the social gathering, and continued to discuss it with a few friends after he went back.

When everyone was talking about the social rules, Wang Yaochen looked at Wei Chen and asked, "Xingyun, I have always had a question in my heart, why do you have to make the social regulations of Jingxi Society so strict?" ”

The reason why Wang Yaochen asked this question was because at the beginning of the establishment of the society, Wei Chen had set the rule that members were not allowed to discuss current affairs, and then added a series of rules and regulations.

For example, new members must have the fame of talent and above to join the company, and they must be jointly recommended by two old members, and then agreed by the head and vice president.

Such cumbersome and strict social rules are unprecedented in the general literary and poetry societies, so the rest of the people also have the same feeling as Wang Yaochen: "Yes, Xingyun, other poetry societies and literary societies in Jiangning Mansion only need to be recommended by members to join the society, and the rules of our Jingxi Society are so cumbersome and strict, will no one want to join the society?" ”

"If you are willing, you will come, if you are unwilling, you will go, Jiangnan scholars are everywhere, and there is no shortage of so few."

Wei Chen said solemnly: "We founded Jingxi Club in the hope that like-minded people can get together, sharpen their conduct, learn articles, and wait for the day when they become famous, and then support each other to do something for the common people of Limin."

Therefore, the people who join the society must be strictly screened, especially at the beginning of the establishment of the society, the people's hearts are undecided, if a few small people are mixed in, and the atmosphere in the society is ruined, then it will be difficult for the Jingxi Society to last long. ”

"What Xingyun said is reasonable."

Sheng Changbai was the first to nod in agreement: "I heard that the literary societies in southern Jiangsu and other places often gather scholars to discuss political affairs, gather people to storm the government at every turn, and coerce the local chief officials. Jingxi Society must not repeat the mistakes of the past. ”

Wang Yaochen said with a smile: "It's that I'm obsessed, and I just want to make Jingxi Club bigger and stronger, and I forget the original intention of creating the club. ”

The head of the club and the two vice presidents both nodded, and a consensus on the social rules was quickly reached in the Jingxi Society.

……

On the ninth day of September, the Chung Yeung Festival is also the day of the Jingxi Society.

On this day, the seven sons of Jiangning climbed Qixia Mountain outside Jiangning City and came to the Qixia Ancient Temple at the western foothills.

Tao Dazhi had already informed the abbot of the temple and arranged the site of the social gathering, which was on a shady hillside between the peaks.

In addition to the seven elders of the Jingxi Society, there were also many scholars who came here early, and many of them held a copy of the "Xingyun Anthology" in their hands.

This collection of essays was written by Tuo Qiheng for himself before Wei Chen came to Jiangning for the examination, and it not only contains Wei Chen's previous poems and articles, but also more than 100 carefully selected current and ancient texts made in the next two years.

After the township test list was released, the scholars in Jiangning City learned the name of Xinke Xie Yuanlang, and they rushed to the bookstore to buy the new "Xingyun Anthology".

In just half a day, nearly 1,000 books in the store's treasury were snapped up, and many scholars who had not yet bought them beat their chests and hated themselves for coming too late.

Taking advantage of the east wind of Weichen High School's Xie Yuan, the selling price of this "Xingyun Anthology" also rose. For a while, Luoyang paper is expensive.

Today, most of the scholars who can come to participate in the social gathering are supporters of Weichen, everyone can borrow it, and if they can't borrow it, they will copy it from each other.

As soon as Wei Chen's seven people arrived, they were warmly welcomed by the scholars, and after a simple greeting, several leading scholars invited Wei Chen to board the temporary wooden platform and give a speech to everyone.

Wei Chen climbed the high platform and looked down, only to see that the hillside was full of people listening to the lecture, some brought their own futons, and some simply sat on the ground, conservatively estimating, there must be five or six hundred people.

Wei Chen was excited, but he was a little embarrassed in his heart, and he didn't know how many of them could be left in the end.

Wei Chen waved to everyone, and then said a few words of welcome after the opening remarks: "Today is the first gathering of my Jingxi Society, thank you for not giving up, take the time to come, Wei Chen is grateful." However, there are some things that need to be said in advance. ”

Wei Chen's gaze swept over everyone, and he said: "First, my Jingxi Club is specially designed for learning scriptures and articles, not talking about mysteries, regardless of Zen, violators will go to it." ”

When everyone in the audience listened, they all quietly discussed, but there was not too much commotion, but more than a dozen people left sporadically.

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Wei Chen continued: "Second, I Jingxi Society Yaji does not talk about current affairs, regardless of the court situation, and it is not allowed to gather members and disturb the government, and violators will go to it. ”

The crowd below suddenly became in an uproar, and a scholar shouted loudly: "I am here just to listen to Xie Yuanlang's high arguments, if there are so many rules, it is really not the original intention of us to come here!" ”

Wei Chen said: "Today is the Jingxi Society, only like-minded people are selected, what I said before are the rules of the Jingxi Society, if you are willing to stay, if you don't want to, you don't want to force it." ”

After a while, half of the five or six hundred scholars left, and there were many of them who were simply unwilling to leave like this, ready to listen to it again.

"All of you who stayed behind must have agreed with the rules of my Jingxi Society?"

Wei Chen looked at the people below and said in a deep voice: "In this case, as the head of the society, ten social supervisors will be selected later to inspect the venue on their behalf, and if there is any violation of the social rules, they will all go." ”

"Don't listen, don't listen!"

"A broken club set, such a big show!"

"In vain, I will stay in Jiangning for two more days for this."

"Let's go home!"

There was an uproar below, and the audience decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye, but Wei Chen didn't hold back at all, just quietly watched them leave scolding, and silently counted the number of people left in the game.

"And seventy-eight."