A horse-drawn carriage passed in front of the small temple gate and slowly drove into the town.

The town is particularly lively, today, the famous school in Jiangnan Province, Beiyue Academy, will open a branch in the town, the site is located in the ancestral house of the Ma family, at the opening ceremony, the town guard Guo You did not appear, but entrusted the county lord Bo Liu Hanzhi to attend on his behalf.

Xie Puyan, the former vice president of Beiyue Academy and now the president of the Panlong Town Branch of Beiyue Academy, announced at the ceremony that all young people born and raised in the town, aged between seven and fifteen and who have the talent for cultivation, can enter the school for free, and the people of the town rejoice.

Beiyue Academy was established in the Taizu period, which has a history of more than 100 years, and has cultivated three prime ministers, six generals, and countless pillars.

Especially seeing that the vice president of the academy personally led the proud protégés to the town to open courses, many parents of children studying in Panlong Academy, in the case of the opening ceremony of Beiyue Academy has not yet ended, they are already considering changing schools for their children, after all, compared to Xie Puyan, who has impeccable manners and posture, and looks like a master, Zhou Zhe's face is too young, and his qualifications are shallow and unreliable, especially this Mr. Zhou often takes students to do some out-of-the-ordinary behavior, such as flying kites outdoors in winter and so on。

When the carriage passed by the ceremony, Xie Puyan had already finished his speech, and Ma Maocai, the head of the Ma family, was communicating with the townspeople about the admission matters, and from his face, it was obvious that he was proud and proud of Beiyue Academy to settle in his ancestral home. Over the years, whether in the town or in the north-south trade route, the Ma family has always been suppressed by the Gu family, and this time they finally raised their eyebrows.

Just when Xie Puyan held back his impatience and stood aside and watched Ma Maocai greet everyone, the cultivator's instinctive reaction to the crisis made him notice a carriage slowly passing by.

On the carriage, the curtain was slightly lifted, and a girl of eleven or twelve years old was looking at him with wide eyes, curious and scrutinizing. After a few moments, the curtains were lowered.

The sense of crisis in Xie Puyan's heart was also lifted. Then he remembered the face he had just seen, and if there was really such a thing as perfection in the world, then it must have meant the face he had just seen. is obviously just a child, but he has initially revealed the capital of turning sentient beings upside down.

However, for practitioners, this is not important, what is important is why they have such a strong sense of crisis for a young girl, which is really incomprehensible.

In the carriage, the little girl lowered the curtain, closed her eyes and fell back, pillowed on the soft velvet pillow in the car, and said a sentence that Zhen Xingqing also said when she first met Xie Puyan: "Jiangnan Road, I have grown a little over the years, but it is not enough." ”

The voice is as beautiful as the yellow oriole singing green willows, but the content of what is said is old-fashioned, just like a teacher commenting on a junior who has not seen for many years.

The old man who was driving the car listened to the voice coming from the carriage, and said with a kind smile: "Jiangbei is barbarian, Jiangnan is soft, those clans who are soaked in honey pots, where do they know what the real struggle is all about? It is indeed not impossible to take advantage of Zhou Zhe to go south and come to the town to fish in troubled waters, but the best way is to recruit a few talented seedlings, and then return to Jiangnan Province immediately. Staying here and starting a school? Is it true that Li Chunhao's old fox is a vegetarian? Although the Zhao family's country is now surging with undercurrents and storms, it is still okay to free up his hands to clean up so many clowns who jump off the beam, and when the young lady has a slightly stable foothold in this place and collects the spiritual veins here, the nerds of Beiyue Academy will only end up in an embarrassing situation of being empty of both personal and land. ”

The girl was noncommittal, closed her eyes and said, "Let's go, go see Guo Zhenshou and Mr. Zheng, they should be in a hurry." ”

The old man nodded, stopped talking, and drove away.

Xie Puyan saw that the carriage was getting farther and farther away, and withdrew his gaze, seeing Liu Hanzhi and Ma Maocai surrounded by Liu Hanzhi and Ma Maocai on the third and outer three floors of the crowd, obviously there was still a long time before the ceremony ended, so he waited a little longer, bowed his head and explained a few words to the former before retreating into the backyard.

Half an hour later, Liu Hanzhi walked into the house wiping his sweat, carefully saluted Xie Puyan, and sat down at Xie Puyan's lower position. As the deputy of a town, he gave Xie Puyan, who was still white on the bright side, enough face. He knew in his heart that he had promised Xie Puyan to preside over the opening ceremony three days ago. His political career has been completely linked to Beiyue Academy or the Jiangnan clan surname behind him. He will become the pawn of the Jiangnan clan in the official line of Panlong Town.

Xie Puyan saw Liu Hanzhi sitting down, nodded and asked, "Lord Liu has been here for some years, right?"

"It's been more than ten years," Liu Hanzhi put his hands in his sleeves, and replied carelessly: "I was originally Hongxiu's eleventh year Jinshi and first, and after two years of filling the vacancy, I was stationed in Panlong Town in Hongxiu's thirteenth year, and I have made no achievements in eleven or twelve years. ”

Xie Puyan shook his head: "In the officialdom, there are many people who have been dormant for ten years and have become a blockbuster. When I came, I looked through it, and in the past ten years, the evaluation of Liu Zhubo by the Ministry of Officials has been in the middle of the year, and the position of Master Bo is really condescending. ”

Liu Hanzhi clasped his hands into fists: "I hope Mr. will carry you." ”

Xie Puyan said with a smile: "Lord Liu's words are serious, Xie is not an official, how can he mention it? It's just that now, I believe that Lord Liu has also heard about the Jiayuan Student Movement in the DPRK, and the Great Zhou Dynasty is ushering in a change unseen in a century. I am very fortunate that in this student movement, my Beiyue Academy is the main force to vigorously promote innovation, and the dean also had a private meeting with Pei Xiang, Pei Xiang asserted that within a few years, the political situation of the dynasty will usher in a earth-shaking change, and in this change, whether Lord Liu rises in the wind or is willing to sink, it depends on the adults themselves. ”

Liu Hanzhi said in a deep voice: "I am willing to go to the soup for Pei Xiang and the academy." ”

Xie Puyan nodded in approval, and then said: "It's not necessary to go to the soup to fight the fire, but in my opinion and the dean, there are two major drawbacks in the current Panlong Town, which urgently need to be reformed, and I need to ask Lord Liu Bo Duoduo to cooperate." One is the school system in this town, since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It has built various schools in various prefectures and towns. At best, there are some talented people. Therefore, it benefited and became the mainstay of our dynasty later, but in this way, the world's talents, nine times out of ten, were wiped out by the imperial court, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are no talents in the wilderness. In the long run, the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been the Zhou Dynasty of the Zhao family, which is far from the civil affairs advocated by the student movement. How to break the situation that the emperor's family is a word to decide the world, Pei Xiang and the dean both believe that the most fundamental thing is to run a school, so I came to Panlong Town this time, the main purpose is to use Panlong Town as a window and use the signboard of Beiyue Academy to represent the private and government schools to have a competition. ”

Liu Hanzhi was submissive, nodding yes, but he thought in his heart, if the Great Zhou Dynasty really collected all the talents from all over the world into the official school office, then how did your Beiyue Academy survive in the past hundred years?

I only heard Xie Puyan continue: "This second drawback is the current town guard Guo You, Guo You was born in a family of eunuchs in the capital, and is inextricably linked with the Zhou Hou clan, and he is a person from the Guozi Prison, which can be said to be the descendant of the royal family. Therefore, the old man came this time, and another important thing was to ask Lord Liu to come forward and take over the post of town guard. ”

At this point, Xie Puyan had already explained all the intentions of the Jiangnan clan and Beiyue Academy, and looked at Liu Hanzhi with a smile, waiting for a reply.

Liu Hanzhi thought quietly for a moment and said, "Mr. Pu Yan, don't blame, the student is timid, before I promise you, I have a few questions, and I hope you will give me advice." ”

Xie Puyan nodded in agreement: "Please." ”

"Dare to ask sir, since Li Chunhao, the cabinet master of the Tianqing Division, lived here for a long time many years ago, he was exchanged for his closed disciple Zhou Zhe last year. On the surface, the Panlong Academy is still an ordinary institution of the Great Zhou Rite Department, but in fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it has been completely taken over by the cabinet of the Tianqing Division, and when the Tianqing Division intervenes so strongly, what is the chance of victory on the academy's side?"

"Now that Lord Liu has entered the game, you must understand one thing. Xie Puyan said, "The key to the battle for victory or defeat in Panlong Town has never been in the town itself, has Lord Liu ever thought about why Zhou Zhe, who originally simply returned to Beijing to report on his work, has not returned to the town so far? Therefore, Li Chunhao's master and apprentice are not something you and I need to consider. ”

Liu Hanzhi nodded in satisfaction with her and continued to ask, "Come again, Master Kuhai has been cultivating outside the town for many years. It can be said that over the years, he is the key to the fact that no one dares to start the incident lightly in Panlong Town, and he is the sky on everyone's top, if he is still here, the students really dare not make a slight move. ”

Xie Puyan smiled and said: "This is not to worry about Lord Liu, as early as half a year ago, someone on our side invited Lord Kuhai's enemies to lay out here, not to mention what can be done to him, at least let him have no spare energy to take care of him, it can still be done." ”

At this point, all the worries in Liu Hanzhi's heart were solved, and there was no longer the slightest hesitation. He stood up from his seat and clasped his fists at Xie Puyan: "Since that's the case, then Liu Mou is on the orders of Mr. Dare I ask you, sir, how will the students cooperate with you in the future?"

Xie Puyan picked up Liu Hanzhi with both hands, and said with a smile: "Since it is all for the great cause of the reform of the student movement, you and I are fellow travelers, Lord Liu does not have to be polite, and next, it is naturally to rob the students, as for the specific matters, I will explain it to you." ”

The two leaned over their heads and whispered.

It's really strange that how many conspiracies in the world are believed in in the name of reform, but if the conspirators themselves really believe in that set of rhetoric, how can they consciously lower their voices every time they plan?

Like a sneaky thief.