As soon as she stepped into the room, which was not spacious, Feng Ziying bowed deeply, and then handed over the letter of recommendation: "Feng Keng greets the mountain chief." ”

"You are the Feng family who jumped up in the Linqing Min's change?" After a long time, the man on the seat seemed to put down the letter of recommendation, and a deep and honest voice sounded: "Brother Ru Jun has written to me before, and he is full of praise for you, I have read this letter of recommendation, and it is also highly evaluated, I don't know if you think you deserve such praise?" ”

Feng Ziying's heart tightened slightly, and she was a guy who didn't play cards according to common sense, and she was also silently thinking in her heart.

Qi Yongtai, the word Chengfeng, the number Baishi Jushi, a native of Baoding Mansion in the north of Zhili, and a Jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Yuanxi.

This person has a resolute and stoic personality, and the atmosphere is outstanding, but his career is quite unsmooth, he has served as a member of the military department, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jiangxi Xuezheng, and the right waiter of the household department, and Yuan Xi was dismissed from office in 40 years and became the head of Qingtan Academy.

He was the most famous when he was in office in the military department, and successively refuted the suggestions of the then military department secretary and the military department Zuo Shilang, which caused the military department Shangshu and the military department Zuo Shilang to resign and resist.

In the end, the emperor, who is now the emperor, had to issue an edict asking Qi Yongtai to withdraw the refutation, but was refused, and Qi Yongtai resigned.

Three years later, Qi Yongtai was reinstated as a member of the Ministry of Officials, and later transferred to Jiangxi Xuezheng and the right servant of the Ministry of Households.

Feng Ziying never fights unprepared battles.

If you want to come to Qingtan Academy to study, you naturally have to figure out the details of this academy.

At present, there are two core figures in Qingtan Academy, one is Qi Yongtai, the head of the mountain, and the other is Ying Zhen, the official in charge of the academy.

Qi Yongtai is a northerner, while Guan Yingzhen is a southerner.

Guan Yingzhen is a native of Huguang Huangzhou Prefecture, a branch of Jinshi later than Qi Yongtai, once served as the governor of Nanyang County and the right of the household department, and later served as the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise the imperial history, Shaanxi Buzheng Secretary right senator.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Don't look at Qingtan Academy, which claims to have the best discipline, but there are also factions inside.

Like Qi Yongtai is the head of the mountain, and he is a typical northerner, a jinshi from Baoding Mansion in the north, and the head of the academy, that is, the role of being responsible for the daily affairs of the academy, and Guan Yingzhen is a typical southerner, representing the Jinshi from Huguang.

Qingtan Academy was originally based on scholars from the North, but with the purpose of education and classlessness, if you can't even break the regional view, how can you serve the public?

Therefore, after Qi Yongtai took charge of Qingtan Academy, he began to consciously break the geographical boundaries and welcome scholars from all over the north and south to study in Qingtan Academy, and Guan Yingzhen's appointment as the head of Qingtan Academy is also the result of this trend strengthening.

Although a few years ago, the academy began to vigorously recruit scholars from the south to study at Qingtan Academy, but in general, the academy still has a majority of scholars from the north, but this trend is slowly changing and becoming more balanced.

Of course, there is Guan Yingzhen, a native of Huguang, and when the academy recruited scholars from the south to study, it was not limited to Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, where the style of study was most prosperous, but more balanced to include scholars from Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.

It took Feng Ziying a lot of effort to find out these situations from various channels.

Jia Yucun provided some channels and information for Feng Ziying in this regard.

He is a Jinshi of the thirty-fifth year of Yuanxi, three subjects later than Qiao Yingjia and Qi Yongtai, and two subjects later than Guan Yingzhen.

Although he is down now, he still has some connections, but most of his peers in this department have treated him coldly because of his accident.

Fortunately, he was still able to find one or two acquaintances in the same year, and there was also a news spirit that informed him that he had climbed the line of Jia Wang's second family and might be about to recover, and he was willing to take the initiative to befriend him, so Feng Ziying entrusted him to inquire about the news, and he was still looking for the right person.

In addition to Jia Yucun, Feng Ziying also entrusted Wei Ruolan to help him inquire about some of the situation in this regard.

After all, Wei Ruolan's mother is the eldest princess, although her father only has an idle title now, but he is especially fond of vassal elegance, and there are many Qing customers under him, and there is even no shortage of old literati who are talented but can't stand the hard life in other cities and would rather nest in Beijing.

These people have nothing to do on weekdays, so they take gossip and gossip inside and outside the court for fun, Feng Ziying also found one or two Qingke through Wei Ruolan, and one meal of wine and two letters of silver can know a lot of secrets in the field.

Qi Yongtai's words made Feng Ziying have to think about it, how to answer in order to enter Qi Yongtai's eyes, but not too out of line.

"The mountain chief's question is difficult for students to answer, but His Holiness asked, and he didn't dare not answer." Feng Ziying thought for a moment, and then replied: "It doesn't matter whether you deserve this praise or not, if this matter is put on someone else, it may not be worth mentioning, and the court may think that Feng Keng is young and can do this, or he may have ulterior motives." ”

"Oh?" Qi Yongtai became interested, and bowed slightly, "Have ulterior motives?" So what do you think is the intention of the imperial court? ”

"In the humble opinion of the boy, perhaps it is used by the imperial court to encourage local officials to be enterprising and brave in their work, rather than looking ahead and being tired and prevaricating."

Feng Ziying knew that although Qiao Yingjia gave him such a letter of recommendation, he could only be regarded as sending himself into the door, but whether he could gain a firm foothold in the academy depended on several aspects.

And Qi Yongtai is the most critical link.

Then the answer to this question must satisfy Qi Yongtai, and it must also have new ideas and deep meanings.

A decent answer is very easy, Qi Yongtai may also see Qiao Yingjia's letter of recommendation to let him pass, but this is not what Feng Ziying wants, he needs to make a deep impression on the other party.

Qi Yongtai's eyes flashed with a glint of appreciation, no wonder Qiao Yingjia praised this son in his previous letter for not only being bold, but also having a super ability to observe the situation between the DPRK and China.

This also made him a little puzzled.

A twelve-year-old boy, and he is from an ordinary noble background, if it is reasonable to say that he is bold, but what does it mean to watch the wind and debate?

It refers to the view of the pattern and atmosphere inside and outside the court, and even more deeply it is the speculation on the future direction of the court.

How dare you use this on a twelve-year-old boy?

Therefore, Qi Yongtai was very disapprehensive of the words he used on Feng Ziying, and even very dissatisfied, feeling that Qiao Yingjia was dizzy.

But just such a question is enough to make Qi Yongtai look at Feng Ziying with admiration.

How can such a martial artist have such a level? Or did someone point the other finger at each other before?

The question is who knows he'll ask him this question? Is there anyone who does not know the prophet?

Obviously neither.

That is, this young man may have some understanding after the Linqing Min Revolution, and there may be someone who pointed him out, so he has some guesses, so he can be like this in front of him, and it is not even ruled out that it is Qiao Yingjia's own arrangement.

But what can make Qiao Yingjia work so hard is definitely not easy to match, Qi Yongtai still knows a little about himself, who is the same year, not the kind of person who flies and dogs.

This can only show that Qiao Yingjia is indeed very optimistic about this son.

Feng Ziying's two sentences almost point out some of the dilemmas faced by the current imperial court.

Emperor Taishang has left a "rich" "political legacy" for many years, especially in the later period, when the slackness of government affairs was very prominent.

Lazy government has become a major problem in the imperial court, and many courtiers have also experienced some of the emperor's thoughts, so in political affairs are all a voice of praise and praise.

This kind of atmosphere has slowly been left behind, and even become a kind of natural peace of mind.

Qi Yongtai was very unaccustomed to the performance of some yamen and principals in the DPRK and China when he was in charge of affairs.

Now one of the children of Wu Xun actually came out to study, and he pointed out the dilemma faced by many current problems, Qiao Yingjia recommended it, it should be a bit of a good investigation and cultivation.

In particular, the influence of the Emperor will gradually fade, and the current emperor is the first to advocate loyalty and filial piety to govern the country, basically following the style of governance of the emperor, and the emperor's mind is not very visible.

But Qi Yongtai has always firmly believed that such a situation cannot continue, otherwise once the Great Zhou Dynasty encounters another major event like Renchen's rebellion, it will really collapse.

It's just that now the Emperor Taishang is still there, and the emperor advocates loyalty and filial piety, it is impossible to suddenly overthrow many things of the original Emperor, but Qi Yongtai has been observing, and this Feng Ziying recommended by Qiao Yingjia is undoubtedly a weather vane.

The emperor specially praised Li Sancai, Qiao Yingjia and Chen Jingxuan's decisive actions, and also praised Feng Ziying's brave performance, Qi Yongtai naturally had channels to know about this situation, and he had been pondering.