Chapter 12: The Return of the Pope
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(Today is Xu Yourong's birthday, and it's also the birthday of a friend of mine.) The two chapters of the hand-cutting chapter written the day before www.biquge.info yesterday are dedicated to them and you. )
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Kokyo College is one of the six institutes of the Ivy League, with a very long history, and it was once very prosperous in Kyoto.
More than 20 years ago, after a bloody murder and the tragic deaths of countless teachers and students, the Ankyoka College has become a cemetery that has gradually been forgotten and the people of Kyoto who still remember it dare not mention it.
After Chen Changsheng came to Kyoto from Xining Town, the National Education College reappeared in front of the world.
Then there was the change of the Heavenly Book Tomb.
Now the status of the Anglican College is very special.
Whether it is the imperial court or the palace, the National Religious Academy is extremely important.
All kinds of resources are constantly entering the depths of Baihua Lane.
In just three years, the National Education Academy has returned to its original grandeur, and its status is faintly higher than that of the rest of the Qingteng Academy, and it is about to compete with the Heavenly Dao Academy, otherwise why would those teachers and students who had escaped spend so much effort to come back?
History has always been written by the victors, and glory will only belong to the person who stands at the highest place of the Tianshu Mausoleum.
The National Education College was reborn and regained its glory because of the appearance of Chen Changsheng. He is still the dean of the Anglican Academy. But in the eyes of many people, the National Education College is still the National Education College of Shang Xingzhou.
The scenery of the National Education College in the Great Dynasty Examination and the Tianshu Mausoleum has also been attributed to Shang Xingzhou by many people.
Because Shang Xingzhou is the most important and influential dean in the history of the National Education Academy.
And Chen Changsheng is his student.
He came to Kyoto from Xining and then entered the National Education College, all of which were arranged by Shang Xingzhou.
This is a very clear legacy.
Those royal literati in the imperial court don't know how many beautiful essays they have written.
The Religious Council had prepared to erect a monument outside the courtyard gate to record this history.
For the old school of the state church, this is nothing more than a clean-up of the roots.
But for the Anglican Academy, this is undoubtedly an erosion.
If it weren't for Su Moyu's constant insistence, if it weren't for the constant vigilance of the palace leavers, if it weren't for Mao Qiuyu's suppression of the cardinal office before the retreat, maybe the traces that Chen Changsheng left in the National Religious Academy would have been cleaned up long ago.
At this time, Chen Changsheng returned to Kyoto.
The hand stretched out by the Cardinal Office to the National Religious Academy was calmly cut off by Xu Yourong.
Tang Thirty-six issued a proclamation to the entire Kyoto and even the entire continent.
This proclamation was extremely powerful, like a thunderclap that exploded in the wind and snow, and quickly spread to every corner of Kyoto.
The current Anglican College has made the most decisive break with the former Anglican College.
Hearing this news, those moderates who hoped that Shang Xingzhou and Chen Changsheng could ease their relationship were very disappointed. The careerists who wanted their master and apprentice to continue the confrontation, and even hoped to profit from it, were also shocked.
Because the attitude shown by the Anglican Academy is too decisive.
This can be accused of not knowing how to respect teachers, or more seriously, it can even be accused of deceiving teachers and destroying ancestors.
But who is Tang Thirty-Six?
In the ancestral hall for a few months, he made a vicious and cold-blooded plan very seriously, that is, to overthrow the entire Tang family.
He didn't care about that at all.
As for whether he can make decisions for the National Education College and whether he can make decisions for Chen Changsheng, it is another question.
More people think that this is what Chen Changsheng meant.
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Chen Changsheng didn't know that after he left the National Education Academy, Tang Thirty-six would say this. He didn't mean that either, because he didn't think about the impact of the Anglican Academy, whether he was a teacher or a teacher, on the current situation.
But after knowing this, he was not surprised, let alone objected.
He and Tang Thirty-six had not communicated beforehand, but in the past few years, they had communicated too many times on the lakeside and on the big banyan tree, and discussed too much about the future, and there would always be a National Education College in those pictures of the future.
And he knew that Tang Thirty-six was helping him make a choice.
Xu Yourong killed the Bishop Meichuan in the National Education Academy, in fact, he was also helping him make a choice.
Making choices is the most difficult, and sometimes painful, thing in the world.
Xu Yourong and Tang Thirty-six were the closest people he was to under this starry sky.
They knew what he was thinking and wanted to share the pain for him.
Just thinking of what Mo Yu said last night, Chen Changsheng was not only moved, but also a little melancholy.
Melancholy tends to affect appetite.
The dishes on the plate look full of color and aroma, but they seem to have no taste.
He put down his chopsticks.
"Isn't this mushroom delicious?"
A beautiful woman looked at him nervously and asked, "There is also a green jade ball soup in the back kitchen, do you want to try it?"
Xue Yejin's expression was also a little nervous.
That woman was Xue Xingchuan's eldest daughter, that is, Xue Yejin's sister.
After Xue Xingchuan's death, she was beaten by Wei Shilang, the prime minister who was greedy for glory and wealth, and then returned to Xue's mansion.
Then on the day of the long street in the wind and snow, that Wei Shilang was beheaded by Wang Po and Chen Changsheng.
She has been living in Xue Mansion for the past few years, and her original squeamishness has long been gone-you can see it from the cloth shirt on her body and the thin calluses on her fingers.
This kind of change fell in the eyes of some people, and it may not cause a lot of emotion and sadness, but it made Chen Changsheng a little happy.
He likes people who live seriously, and he likes this kind of person who will not be depressed no matter what the situation is.
"It was delicious. He said seriously: "The soup tastes good, but there are a lot of things going on today, and I tend to get distracted." ”
Hearing this, Miss Xue and Xue Yejin both laughed.
Mrs. Xue didn't smile, she knew what happened to the National Education Academy, and she also knew that Chen Changsheng would inevitably face a lot of trouble after returning to Beijing, and said with some anxiety: "You don't know how many important things to deal with, you really don't have to come to see us, this is really a shame." ”
"It's a lot of things. ”
Chen Changsheng glanced at the sky and got up to say goodbye.
The three members of the Xue family didn't dare to keep it, so they hurried to send each other.
The old butler and a servant woman waited respectfully at the gate of the house.
This is the only subordinate of the Xue Mansion now, plus the three members of the Xue family, who now only live in the smallest courtyard in the east of the Xue Mansion.
The imperial court has not explicitly ordered to take back the Xue family's mansion, but several princes have been staring at this side.
Chen Changsheng looked at the more than ten palaces on both sides of the street, thinking about these things.
As night fell, the doors of those palaces were still open for some reason.
The light spilled out from the inside and fell on the dancing snow, like a rolling golden spark, which was very beautiful.
Chen Changsheng walked towards the wind and snow.
He heard Folded Sleeves and Mo Yu say that Zhou Tong climbed over from here in the first place.
That night, no matter how miserable Zhou Tong screamed and pleaded, no one in these palaces came out to save him.
Even if he was no longer the dog of the Holy Queen of Tianhai at that time, he was already the dog of Shang Xingzhou.
Now the whole of Kyoto should already know that he has entered the Xue Mansion, and those princes naturally know about it.
Will those princes do anything?
No one came out, and there was no sound.
The streets in the snow were quiet and peaceful.
Walking through the brightly lit palace, there are ordinary streets and alleys.
Both sides of the streets and alleys were full of people, and they were black.
The people of Kyoto are all followers of the state religion, and when they saw him, they quickly knelt down like a tide.
There were no priests, no cathars, no attendants, no priests.
He walked forward alone.
Wherever he went, people would kneel down and pray prayers for blessings.
The black tide kept beating towards the front of the street until it submerged the famous stone pillars.
Chen Changsheng stood in front of the stone pillar, looking at the majestic, sacred and solemn palace complex, not knowing what to think.
Suddenly a bell rang in the depths of the palace.
Because the Pope has returned. (To be continued.) )