After the academy was inspected and removed, it was given a few days of respite. Xia Yuanlong roughly clarified the situation of the academy in this short period of time, stipulating that the cost of each room should be fixed, and if there was any need to allocate additional silver, it would be notified to the account room and handed over to the dean for decision. He looked through the account books, and paid the handyman's monthly silver in time, and transferred two or three Confucian scholars to take care of the library.

The three Confucian scholars were playthings and lost their minds, and they never even touched the lock of the study building, eating, drinking, and having fun, extremely leisurely. On this day, the wind was warm, they wore a few tattered green turbans, drank hot wine on the water pavilion, sometimes led to songs, raised their sleeves and danced, a noisy scene.

Xia Yuanlong and Song Zhang walked by, glanced at the pavilion a few times, their faces immediately sank, and they walked over.

"Dean Xia is talking to you." Governor Song said coldly.

The group of people understood what was going on, poured the wine in the bowl by themselves, and turned around to fight with Xia Yuanlong.

"You don't care about the library?"

The head smiled and responded: "Isn't this just a drink in your spare time......

"Leisure? Have time to go out to drink," Xia Yuanlong said dissatisfiedly, "See, this is not an ordinary academy, it is the Sihe Academy established by Mr. Wei, can we do this?" ”

"If you break the rules, you should hit the board!" Song Zhang was furious.

Xia Yuanlong waved his hand: "Governor Song, there is no private law here." He sternly rebuked the Confucian scholars: "It must not be like this next time!" Let's go......"

The scholars nodded in panic and walked in the direction of the library.

"The next day, I asked someone to change them." Xia Yuanlong lowered his head and said.

Song Zhang hesitated for a moment, and Fang said a word: "Don't you dare to disobey the dean's order...... But it's really hard to change. ”

"How?" Xia Yuanlong frowned.

"The errands of this academy are all entrusted to them, even if they do it badly, they are embarrassed to drive people down." Song Zhangdao.

"Okay, you don't want to do it because of the situation, I'll personally order it."

Xia Yuanlong turned around and left, Song Zhang hurriedly stepped forward to hold him, he had to stop first, and sighed: "Governor Song, except for me, the dean of this academy, everyone under the academy takes care of their own affairs, and no one can control anyone, so where is the authority of this dean?" If you can't twist a rope up and down, you can talk about reforming national politics! ”

Song Zhang listened to his complaint, but he was ashamed and did not answer.

"Fortunately, I am still from Nanjing, and they are a little afraid; If Li Pheasant was here in the past, I'm afraid the situation would have been even worse......"

"Now that the academy has not yet been extricated from difficulties, it should focus on uniting the overall situation......" Governor Song's face turned red, and he didn't dare to look at him.

"I understand it very well. But this matter is not resolved, and I will never return to Nanjing. Xia Yuanlong left this passage and left Song Zhang standing here alone.

This is still the first step in reform, and the internal problems are so serious. They were a group of scholars, a small group of thousands of people, and although they had won the support of some people, their strength was still too weak. It can't even shake the foundation of Nanjing, let alone the academy system. Xia Yuanlong restrained himself from thinking about this, but sometimes he had to think about it. The main thing is that they lack real power, and can only hope that those big men in purple robes and gold belts will give a little mercy - there is no way out, but the means of resistance are minimal.

He stopped, stunned for a moment. He was disgusted that he had such an odious pessimism in his head, with whom he had always been incompatible; He is at the helm of reform, and he needs to instill in himself the motivation that never needs to be lacking, and he should resolutely discard too much thinking.

He continued towards the lecture hall. But reflection should be sought in this abhorrent pessimism.

Xia Yuanlong summarized the shortcomings he had heard and seen in the academy in the past few days, and there were about the following three types:

One is that some scholars are casual and use the name of the academy to drink and compose poems all day long, corrupting the rules.

The second is that there is no long-standing policy for the academy here, and all the princes have nothing to do, and they all want to be comfortable;

Third, the most urgent task is that more than 40 people in the academy are commensurate with their colleagues, and they entrust everything with affection, and there is no distinction between orders and orders, so they naturally lose their bodies and make a mess.

It's a pity that Vice Alliance Master Xia hasn't come up with a solution yet, so he stepped on the steps of the lecture hall with his hands behind his back.

"Brother Zhu, what are you doing?" He saw Zhu Che holding an official document and asked curiously.

"Dean Xia, sit." Zhu Che smacked his lips and said, "Futai will really figure out a way." ”

Xia Yuanlong leaned over, swept through the entire official document, shook his head and sneered.

"Reinstate Li Pheasant Zhongguan...... The next step is to let that guy frame us. Zhu Che looked at Yuan Long with a sad face.

"Preemptive strike." Xia Yuanlong replied silently.

"I'm afraid that it will be difficult for the people to win over for a while." Zhu Che pinched his fingers and counted, and it was only two or three days after the day the notice was posted.

Xia Yuanlong seemed to feel that the current predicament was not to worry about, and smiled lightly: "You might as well go to the street and take a look, you will know what an advantage we have." ”

Zhu Che still didn't believe it: "Listen to you, I'll take a look." With that, he threw down the official document, picked up his robe and left.

"Please give me an explanation!" Yao Xiaogu dragged many people, lined up in a long line, and shouted outside the yamen, shaking the heavens and the earth.

"What's the noise out there?" Li Pheasant, who was sitting opposite the prefect, was uneasy.

"Report to the prefect, the people of the academy are encouraging Diao Min to ask the teacher for guilt."

"Huh?" The prefect suddenly turned his head to look at Li Pheasant's face.

Li Pheasant Zhong understood his eyes, after all, he had also used such a method, and of course the prefect asked for help.

"This ......," Li Pheasant Zhong nervous, "although he was the dean and knew the method of incitement, the matter has come to an end...... I don't know how to alleviate it, but I still ask the government to make a clear decision. ”

"Under what guise they used to trick many people into following!" Inspect and shoot the case and ask.

"They said, they said that Li Pheasant was originally a criminal, why did he use it again...... He also said that in the name of the academy, he went around defrauding the people of their property and returned ......'"

"Needless to say!" The inspection was like thunder, and knelt in front of the prefect: "Futai, allow the officials to arrest a cadre outside the door, so that they can use this to search the academy!" ”

Li Pheasant Zhong was sweating profusely, his eyes widened, and he almost froze there; The prefect hurriedly asked someone to help him go to the second hall to rest, and Li Pheasant nodded in agreement.

As soon as Ma Shuban closed, the prefect opened his mouth: "Although this Li Gong is a member of my Suzhou Confucian family, he is a man of virtue and has offended too many people." We reinstated Li Gong, there is really no reason, and we can't tell it. If force is used and the whole province is known, it will not be good. ”

The inspection was dull and speechless.

"Ma Shuban, you go out to appease and say that this government is willing to 'make peace' with their dean, Xia Yuanlong."

The inspector looked up suddenly.

"Taking the initiative to make peace is inevitably humiliating." Ma Shuban muttered.

When the prefect was in a hurry, the inspector suddenly stood up and pressed his saber on the table: "Instead of making peace with that group of corrupt Confucians, it is better to make a mess in Suzhou!" ”