In the courtyard in the northeast corner of the prison.

"Time flies so fast, I didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, the 'year-end reward package' mentioned by Mr. Jiang in the first class was about to be distributed."

"Recalling that when Your Majesty mentioned this sentence to Commander Ji, we were still worried about our lives in fear." Chai Che laughed.

Guo Jin asked casually: "Who said it wasn't, how much do you think we can send this year?" ”

Chai Che speculated and guessed: "Why is there a dozen?" ”

Guo Jin and Chai Che were sitting on the couch, and the two were chatting while pulling fried watermelon seeds.

Guo Jin sighed with some envy: "Those clan kings and county kings, I'm afraid that there will be more this year, and we can't imagine more." ”

"Whatever he does." Chai Che only said: "I heard that the Ministry of Household has approved the money, and the shipbuilding plan is much faster than expected, and the first voyage to the West will start next year. His Majesty pushed it hard, and many of the clan's disciples participated. ”

"Is it all about mixing qualifications and getting credit?" Guo Jin asked curiously.

"That's not all, there are always people who really want to make meritorious contributions. Besides, whatever title you have on board, you will suffer the same sins, how good can it be? And the most important thing is that the number of people produced by each vassal is counted in the contribution rate. Chaicha said.

"Now the various vassal countries have no side branches, but these ointments are suffering."

Seeing that Guo Jin's words were quite envious of his background, Chai Che just smiled and didn't speak.

Guo Jin was also shrewd, knowing that his family was a little childish, so he let his companions see the joke, and then said: "Actually, we don't have to envy others." ”

"Our road was originally to the sky." The chai cart simply nodded.

Guo Jin started again: "Mr. Jiang will be released from prison in more than two months, guess how His Majesty will be of great use when the time comes?" ”

This issue is actually more concerned about the two of them than Jiang Xinghuo himself.

Jiang Xinghuo himself hasn't even thought about what he will do after he is released from prison, but without him knowing, many people are already planning for him.

"Jane is in the emperor's heart, and it's not up to me to use it."

Chai Che wanted to avoid talking about it, but in the end he couldn't help but say: "Actually, according to my opinion, I don't know anything else, Mr. Jiang is really suitable to go to Guozijian to be a doctor." ”

"These things taught by Mr. Jiang are not suitable for going to the Guozijian, right? Moreover, how could His Majesty be willing to let Mr. Jiang be an ordinary doctor? Guo Jin was a little puzzled.

Guozijian was established at the foot of Jiming Mountain when Zhu Yuanzhang set the capital of Nanjing.

By the 26th year of Hongwu, the number had reached more than 8,000 people, including students from Korea, Ryukyu, Siam, Champa and other countries who "taught to Mu Wenjiao".

During the Jianwen period, the number of people has reached tens of thousands.

It can be said that Nanjing's Guozijian is the world's No. 1 institution of higher learning at this time.

At the same time, Guozijian was also the largest printing house in the world at this time, with a special printing office to engrave and print books such as the subset of scriptures and histories, which were requested and given by the imperial court and sold by the eunuch. Zhu Yuanzhang, who established the Guozijian, definitely doesn't raise idlers, but wants to make money.

The books printed by the Guozijian are called "prison books", and they are generally beautifully engraved and rank first in the country.

At the same time, Guozijian will also ask doctors and teaching assistants to compile relevant tutorial books for the imperial examination, which are updated every year.

And to understand it from another angle, that is, it has the exclusive monopoly right to compile and print the annual "five-year college entrance examination, three-year simulation".

Coupled with the tens of thousands of students who came to study in Guozijian, the relevant food, clothing, housing and transportation must be settled, right? It is also a stable source of finance, so the financial resources of Guozijian are quite abundant.

Sometimes people praise: the scale is grand, the stretch is ten miles, the lights are shining, and the pomp and circumstance are unprecedented.

Chai Che explained: "A doctor is not the same thing as a doctor. ”

Guo Jin asked rhetorically: "Why isn't it the same thing, isn't it all from the eighth grade?" ”

This is to say that Guozijian is from the four-grade yamen.

In terms of administrative department, there is one person from the four products of sacrificial wine (principal), one person from the sixth product of the business (executive vice president), one person from the eight products of the Rope Hall (director of the Academic Affairs Office), one person from the Eight Grades of Classics Hall (director of the printing office), one person from the Nine Grades of Classics (library director) from the Guozijian Classics Hall, and one person from the Guozijian Cuisine Hall (director of the canteen).

In terms of teaching department, there are five doctors (deans) from the eight grades of the Guozijian Doctoral Hall, 15 assistant professors (professors/associate professors) from the six halls of Guozijian Frankness, Cultivation, Sincerity, Justice, Chongzhi and Guangye, 10 people from the 9th Grade Xuezheng (lecturers), and 7 people from the 9th Grade Xuelu (teaching assistants).

"Why is Guozijian called Guozijian?"

Guo Jin said as a matter of course: "Naturally, it's because of the most important Guozi Studies." ”

"When the dynasty first set up the Guozijian, it was not like this." Chai Che said, "In fact, the original Guozijian of the Tang Dynasty was under the jurisdiction of six schools, that is, Guozixue, Taixue, Simenxue, Law, Calligraphy, and Arithmetic. ”

Guo Jin had an understanding.

"What do you mean?"

Chai Daodao: "Mr. Jiang has talked about so many new knowledge, turning decay into magical learning, learning from the world to help the people, and learning from geography. Which one can't stand alone? ”

"When the time comes, you and I will follow to be a scholar and a learner, which is an excellent future. The student a year ago has become a gentleman. The status and fortune are very different, and it is not in vain that we are guided by Mr. Jiang. ”

"You have a point." Guo Jin nodded, "But I always feel that this is overkill for Mr. Jiang." ”

The chai cart wanted to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he suddenly heard a "bang", and the locked door was directly unscrewed, and the obscene figure of the jailer Lao Wang disappeared in a flash.

Suddenly, the two officials sat cross-legged on the couch and wanted to go down to put on their shoes, but before they could act, a tower-like figure with a head higher than the door frame broke in.

This big man has a thick beard on his chin, and his whole body exudes a rich and extremely fierce aura, as if he will choose someone to devour at any time, so frightened that the two little officials suddenly shrank into a ball and did not dare to move.

It was not someone else, it was Zhu Gaoxu who coerced the jailer Lao Wang to open the door.

But Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about the two timid little officials here at all, so he walked to the two of them, one in each hand, this guy actually dragged people out of the door like chickens and dogs, and then threw them on the ground in the courtyard.

Xiucai met Bing, and he couldn't explain it clearly.

The two little officials, who were still talking just now, sat down on the ground in fright, and kept shrinking back, hoping that they could hide somewhere.

Guo Jin instinctively wanted to shout.

"Don't shout, provoke Jinyiwei, you have to die!"

Guo Jin covered his mouth, but at this time, Zhu Gaoxu had already approached and reached out to pull Guo Jin up from the ground.

"Second, His Royal Highness the Second Prince," Guo Jin whispered.

Outside this courtyard, the Jinyi guard who touched the fish gave the token of the handover to Lao Wang, and the Jinyi guard of the next shift had not yet arrived at the post, taking advantage of this time, after a long time of dealing with Lao Wang, the jailer who had already become the second prince's dog's legs, helped Zhu Gaoxu bypass the guards and open the door.

"I asked, you answered, you couldn't answer or lied, twisted your head, you know?"

Guo Jin had seen how the brave and incomparable Zhu Gaoxu pulled out trees with his bare hands and killed dozens of rebels, of course, he knew that the other party was not lying, and the chicken nodded as if pecking rice.

What secrecy is not kept secret, all are left behind at this time.

"You two, are you responsible for recording the content of Mr. Jiang's lectures?"

Although the jailer Lao Wang had a guess on this point, he was not sure.

After all, Lao Wang is only responsible for guarding the two, and sometimes he releases the two of them when he receives a notice from Jinyiwei, and no one dares to say what he does.

Guo Jin, who was not possessed by his soul, said repeatedly: "Yes! Be! ”

"And how do you usually record it?" Zhu Gaoxu continued to ask.

Seeing that Guo Jin hesitated for a while, Zhu Gaoxu's big hand directly pressed on the top of his skull.

At this time, no matter how much the chai cart made a gesture, it couldn't withstand Guo Jin's fear of death.

"I say! I say! ”

Guo Jin hurriedly said: "There is a secret room behind the wall!" That's where we record on weekdays! ”

Zhu Gaoxu frowned slightly: "Then why is there no movement at all?" You don't make footsteps? ”

"The secret room is closed, and the door does not go directly to the courtyard opposite the wall, but there is a long passage leading to another courtyard, so that there is no sound when people move things inside!"

Zhu Gaoxu asked again: "Then how do you usually hear it?" Stick your ears to the wall? Can you hear clearly? ”

"It's not." Guo Jin glanced at the chariot, and Zhu Gaoxu's big hand pressed his scalp tightly.

Guo Jin instantly poured a bamboo slip like a bean: "The secret room is specially made, and the wall inside uses the method of Hongwu Dynasty Jinyi Wei partition wall with ears, which can amplify the sound outside the wall and transmit it to the secret room, without sticking it on the wall to listen." ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, which was reasonable.

Back to the present.

It is difficult to describe Zhu Gaoxu's mood at this moment with specific emotions.

Anger after learning about the deception?

Shame after privacy exposed?

Mania who wants to kill people to vent his anger?

It's both, but in the end, there is only one kind of emotion left.

Ridiculous.

Yes, ridiculous.

Zhu Gaoxu felt ridiculous, not because his father instructed Ji Gang to spy on him.

It's heavenly!

It's just too normal for a prince to be watched by the emperor.

As I said before, if my father didn't monitor him and didn't pay attention to himself, Zhu Gaoxu would feel that something was wrong.

The problem is that it makes him feel ridiculous, and he feels that he can't cry or laugh.

——In order to understand Jiang Xinghuo's knowledge at the same time, the father actually resorted to the inappropriate means of "eavesdropping".

What is this?

Listen to the corner?

Isn't my father ashamed to say it?

Zhu Gaoxu was speechless for a while.

But after thinking about it, thinking of the value of Jiang Xinghuo's knowledge, I understood it a little.

The only one in the world!

It's no wonder that even a figure like Yingwu Guoyi and his father used unsightly small means in order to obtain Jiang Xinghuo's knowledge.

Now, Zhu Gaoxu, who knows this secret, is stuck in some kind of dilemma.

What should he do?

He went to the courtyard of the two officials to verify this matter, which he did quietly, and at the moment he had two options.

Option 1: Tear your face with your father and ask your father why he is eavesdropping.

The most likely result is that Zhu Di gave him a kick, then recognized his position and went back to the Imperial Prison to play the role of Li Jinglong.

Option two, pretend you don't know, and take the opportunity to increase your chips for your savings.

He needs to behave well and build himself into a "good student" character, so that his father can feel that he is not directing the knife and gun.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu had a new understanding of the third brother's hint from his father.

He really didn't need to rely on the obliteration of the Jurchens to get that new military feat.

What is there to be proud of in fighting a war with a wild man in a tribal state?

Then, Zhu Gaoxu has to plan his attitude towards these two little officials.

Because although these two officials have a lowly status, they have the power to record the content of Mr. Jiang's lectures.

If the two officials can record their performance in the lecture a little better, it will definitely increase their father's appreciation and fancy for themselves!

Here, Zhu Gaoxu's brain is still not bright enough.

In other words, Zhu Gaoxu underestimated the lower limit of his father, Zhu Di.

Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously thought that it was impossible for his father, who had a lot of opportunities, to come to listen to the lectures in person every day, and could only let the two officials record them, review them in the discipline outline, and then submit them to him.

This is also what Zhu Gaoxu understands, why Ji Gang has come to him recently to offer less courtesy.

Because Ji Gang must have been instructed by his father to spy on him, he was afraid of revealing flaws!

Looking at the two cowering readers, Zhu Gaoxu asked a little angrily and funny.

"You guys are eavesdropping on my conversation with Mr. Jiang every day through a wall?"

The two officials nodded honestly.

In fact, just now when Zhu Gaoxu was contemplating with his back to them.

Guo Jin's crooked thoughts from Long Zhigong moved again, and he wanted to say something, but he was pinched by the firewood cart and squeezed hard.

Now it can be said that he was coerced by the second prince, but if he told the fact that His Majesty also attended the class, the nature would change!

Although in the eyes of the diesel car, it seems to have been discovered, and there is a high probability that it is a death.

But being coerced and taking the initiative to take refuge are still two natures!

The firewood car wants to cry without tears, it is really happy and sad, one moment is still looking forward to the year-end reward package, and the next moment it has already considered the problem of his head falling to the ground.

But Guo Jin pinched the firewood cart in turn, shook his head, stared at Zhu Gaoxu's direction, and then made a crooked neck movement.

What does Guo Jin mean is that no matter whether they say it or not, Zhu Gaoxu will kill them?

Understanding Guo Jin's meaning, the chai car also widened his eyes in surprise and cast an inquiring look.

Guo Jin nodded.

The chai car is also cold in his heart, and the more he thinks about it, the more likely it is.

When Zhu Gaoxu turned around to ask, the chai car took the lead in speaking.

"His Royal Highness the Second Prince!"

"Oh?"

Zhu Gaoxu looked back at this little official who was counted as a two-sided relationship today, but saw that the other party's face was full of perseverance, but he was also a courageous person.

"Don't do it yet, we have something to tell you."

Zhu Gaoxu said casually: "Needless to say, I already know." ”

"Huh?"

The two of them looked at each other, and they were a little surprised in their hearts, Zhu Gaoxu was much smarter than they thought, and he actually guessed that the emperor and others were eavesdropping.

"I know what you want to say, your position is very important, and every day you are responsible for recording the content of Mr. Jiang's lectures and submitting them. Don't worry, I won't kill you. ”

The two servants froze for a moment.

You haven't realized the most critical problem yet.

We're a piece of!

Is it okay for the emperor to eavesdrop on himself?

"That's it." Zhu Gaoxu said confidently: "I don't embarrass you, from now on, in the content of your records, give me a little more prominence, and when I get out of prison, whether it is an official or a beautiful gold and silver mansion, you are all indispensable, and what I give must be something that others can't give." ”

The simple and straightforward radish was finished, and Zhu Gaoxu put on the stick.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the two officials and warned: "Of course, if you reveal today's events, I believe that nothing will happen to me, but you will definitely not survive, for the sake of your own net worth and your own future, keep your mouth shut, understand?" ”

The two officials had done a good job of telling the secret in order to save their lives for now, so they were greatly relieved.

You don't have to reveal secrets, you can act as if nothing happened.

As for the role they can play, it is basically equivalent to no effect.

This matter can only be concealed for one day.

What else to do?

Expose it to Ji Gang, or to expose it to the emperor?

Just like Zhu Gaoxu said, once the emperor knew that they had leaked secrets to Zhu Gaoxu, would the emperor kill his second son, or kill them?

The answer is obvious!

Therefore, these two hard-working people can only think hard about how to survive now looking at the backs of Zhu Gaoxu and the jailer Lao Wang.

The anticipation of the year-end reward package just now has disappeared without a trace.

Zhu Gaoxu learned the secret of being eavesdropped, and in order to increase his weight in the reserve, he naturally wanted to build his own "good student" character, so Zhu Gaoxu did not plan to tell Jiang Xinghuo this secret for the time being.

However, sometimes things just like that.

A peck and a drink, it is not predetermined.

Although Zhu Gaoxu did not reveal the secret of being wiretapped, Jiang Xinghuo also accidentally noticed that something was wrong at the same time.

Everything seems to be starting to deviate from the track he envisioned.

Imperial prison, duty room.

Jiang Xuan, a cousin who is as thin as a wheat straw, is holding a pile of "paper" tightly at this time, wanting to cry without tears.

Because the money is relatively in place on weekdays, and Mr. Jiang, who knows that he can pick up a life from under the hands of Lord Yama and get amnesty, is somewhat unusual, so the jailer did not embarrass Jiang Xuan.

Money can make ghosts grind, and the same is true for whether or not you can visit this matter.

Jiang Xinghuo, who received a request for visitation, also came to the duty room and had a brief conversation with his cousin.

"Jiang Xuan? Didn't you return to Tingshan? ”

Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly, looking at the peasant girl in front of him.

Jiang Xuan didn't speak, tears left big drops from her eyes, fell to the ground, and scattered into countless petals.

"Is it Auntie, what's wrong?"

Jiang Xinghuo continued to ask.

Jiang Xuan still didn't speak, Jiang Xinghuo simply got up and wanted to leave.

Jiang Xuan grabbed the corner of his clothes and sobbed: "Cousin, cousin, I was killed. Liared. ”

"Who lied to you, and how?" Jiang Xinghuo was not too surprised by this kind of thing.

The rivers and lakes are so sinister, a peasant girl who has never been far away, it seems abnormal not to be deceived, right?

But when Jiang Xinghuo saw the "Great Sun and Moon Treasury Bonds" that Jiang Xuan was holding in his hand, he suddenly felt it.

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