Feng Ziying's academy career began in this way, which seemed a little ordinary, but obviously unpeaceful.

The morning class is only half an hour, and it is generally self-study, and the lack of self-selection is strengthened.

In the morning and afternoon, the professors, teaching assistants and teachers of the college are responsible for the teaching, and the students of the A and B Houses are generally in charge of studying the Four Books and the Five Classics according to the learning progress of the students of the A and B Houses.

In the evening, it is to teach and study with several former scholars, such as the chief of the mountain and the head of the academy, or the seniors of Shilin who come to the academy from the outside world to give lectures, and are responsible for giving some lectures on the current affairs in various places and even the government decisions of the DPRK and China.

Feng Ziying never thought that the academy of the Great Zhou Dynasty would be enlightened, and it would be just a matter of studying the Four Books and the Five Classics, but this study and lecture on current affairs is a bit of a cow.

It is said that the Shuntianfu Academy was relatively cautious and restrained in this regard, and in Jinling and even some academies in the south of the Yangtze River, this aspect was more open.

The students of some academies in Jiangnan are more enthusiastic about participating, and many political articles are often passed on to the local government and even the Jinling Metropolitan Procuratorate and the important members of the Sixth Ministry, and enter their field of vision.

In fact, this is also a disguised way to increase exposure opportunities, and it also helps these students to gain the attention of some North Korean and Chinese bigwigs as soon as possible, and then cultivate them.

Although Jinling, as Nanjing, has much less power than the Jingshi, it is the imperial Nanjing after all, and many important members of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Sixth Ministry, and the General Administration Department may return to the political center of the empire - the Jingshi once they have the opportunity, so they also pay attention to collecting the social conditions and public opinions in the Jiangnan area, and naturally attach more importance to the views of the Jiangnan Shilin.

The candlelight was lit, and the students in the entire Yishewafang class were divided into several groups and listened carefully to Feng Ziying's introduction to her trip to Shandong.

"The younger brother from Tongzhou to the south through Dezhou, the city wall hanging more than ten heads, hideous and terrifying,......, Yu to investigate its internal causes, because of the harsh salt tax, Shandong coastal was originally a salt-producing area, but even so, Shengdou Xiaomin is still suffering from the high price of salt, so the smuggling salt dealers came into being, and according to the younger brother's understanding, the smuggling of salt dealers in Beizhili and Shandong provinces are very rampant, which in a sense, seems to reduce the burden of the people, buy salt from their hands at a low price, but the consequences are particularly serious,......"

Someone present immediately picked up the conversation and echoed Feng Ziying's words: "The students are from Yaozhou, Shaanxi, and this kind of situation is also common in Shaanxi, where smugglers go to the countryside and go from house to house, and they have great influence in the local area, and they are more colluding with the local powerful and inferior gentry,......

It was Song Shixiang who spoke, this can be regarded as a help, and it is also a housemate.

"Yangzhou salt merchants are rich in the world, too extravagant, why did the imperial court not change the salt law, so that such moths profited from it, and the people were poor, but let such merchants wine pond meat forest ,......" This is Xu Qixun.

Qi Yongtai and Guan Yingzhen both attached great importance to this teaching course, Guan Yingzhen presided over it, and even Qi Yongtai made an exception to observe.

"We will not discuss the old rules and ancient laws of the imperial court for the time being, but you can first make an analysis of this phenomenon, that is, the price of salt is inflated, who benefits and who suffers, and what damage does the prevalence of illicit salt bring to the entire imperial court,......

Guan Yingzhen took the initiative to take over the topic and guide the direction.

The academy on the side of Shuntianfu can't be like the academy on the Jiangnan side, which can be criticized at every turn, and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it is better to talk about a little face, and Qi Yongtai and Guan Yingzhen will have to consider re-entering the office in the future.

Unlike the academies in the south of the Yangtze River, many mountain chiefs are simply some scholars who have a great reputation in the local area, but it is always difficult to pass the entrance examination.

In some respects, the Great Zhou Dynasty also had a posture of emulating the former Song Dynasty, and was more tolerant of the remarks of the literati, as long as it was not particularly excessive, there would generally not be too much intervention, at most, the provincial academic administration would admonish and order corrections.

"Yuxuan, what harm do you think this kind of illegal salt will bring to the imperial court and local officials?" Guan Yingzhen attaches great importance to Chen Qiyu and has a warm gaze.

"In charge of the Academy, the students think that first of all, it will bring damage to the imperial court's tax revenue, the salt tax is an important financial income of the imperial court, if this move is allowed to happen, it will definitely reduce the tax ,......."

Chen Qiyu said calmly: "The second is that it may make the power of such illicit salt dealers bigger, most of these illicit salt dealers are local heroes, once the power expands, it will bring challenges to local governance, at the end of the Li Tang Dynasty, the Huangchao Incident, it was this kind of illegal salt dealers who became entangled,......

Guan Yingzhen bowed slightly, it is already very good to be able to say this step, it is worthy of being the three heroes of Shanxi in Dongyuan, and he does have some opinions.

"Ziying, what harm do you think this illegal salt rampant will bring?" Guan Yingzhen turned his head and asked.

He also wanted to see what unique insights this guy had to offer, who was a little different from the students in the school.

"In charge of the courtyard, Brother Yuxuan's opinion is very pertinent, but the student has been in the frontier for a long time, but he knows that the grain in the land of the nine sides is mainly transported by the old method, but in recent years, the enthusiasm of such merchants to transport food is not there, largely due to two factors, one is that the salt in the imperial court caused a panic, resulting in a decline in the value of salt, and the merchants are bound, and the other is the rampant use of private salt, which makes the interests of the salt merchants damaged, and they are unwilling to do this kind of transportation, which will have a great impact on the transportation of military food in the land of the nine sides, and even endanger the defense of the land of the nine sides, and the Tatars are still powerful. And the Jurchens are even more suspicious, once the nine sides are empty, their troops can reach the Beijing division, and the battle of Hulunsai and the tragedy of the orthodox emperor of the former Ming Dynasty may be repeated. ”

Feng Ziying's words almost immediately made the difference and even the gap between him and the other students present.

Chen Qiyu is one of the leading figures, but his vision is still only focused on the harm caused by the sale of illicit salt, but Feng Ziying has already seen the impact and damage brought by the harm of illicit salt to the nine-sided grain transportation model caused by transporting grain for salt, and even mentioned the crisis that may be brought about by the shortage of military food in the nine-side, which may directly endanger the survival of the dynasty.

Of course, this has a lot to do with Feng Ziying's special identity.

He is the son of a border general, and he knows a little about the military affairs of the border area on a daily basis, so of course such things can be connected immediately.

The vast majority of the other students in Qingtan Academy are poor children, at most they are the children of ordinary squires, they don't even know much about the daily government affairs in the local area, let alone the military affairs in the border areas, and their vision angle is naturally not as broad as Feng Ziying's, which can not be made up by reading a few newspapers or the professor's general description of the current affairs of the DPRK and China, this is Feng Ziying's advantage.

Almost at the same time, Qi Yongtai and Guan Yingzhen both frowned slightly and exchanged glances at the same time, both seeing some worry and touch in each other's eyes.

Qingtan Academy is mainly based on poor scholars, although it has its advantages, that is, study hard, have a strong will, have a strong self-motivation, and have strong plasticity, but there are also some defects, such as less knowledge, narrow vision, most people's mentality and mind are generally lacking.

In contrast, the advantages and disadvantages of the children of the eunuchs and gentry, and even the children of these nobles, are obvious, and if one or two of these children can overcome their own shortcomings, then their future is limitless.

In Qi Yongtai's view, Feng Ziying undoubtedly has such potential.

The shortcomings in the scriptures are actually nothing, and according to Zhou Chaozong's introduction, Feng Ziying still has a foundation in the scriptures, but there are some unlawfuls in learning and dealing with scientific examinations, and over time, these shortcomings can be made up.

Qi Yongtai knew Zhou Chaozong's temperament, he said that it would be okay, and if it didn't work, it wouldn't work, which meant that Feng Ziying's biggest problem was that Zhou Chaozong came to help check and fill in the gaps, but it was not a problem.

Guan Yingzhen also realized this, and he had to say that Qiao Yingjia chose a good disciple.

It can't be said that Feng Ziying is Qiao Yingjia's disciple, but if Feng Ziying has a creation in the future, he will definitely inherit Qiao Yingjia's great affection.

This son is indeed very different, at the age of twelve, why does his experience and the city government seem to be a character who has been trained in officialdom for a long time? Even if his father has been a general soldier of Datong for many years, it is not right.

Of course, this kind of problem official Ying Zhen just thinks about it, Feng Ziying is still too young, it is too early to say that, but I have to admit that this son has great potential.

Since this son now belongs to the East Garden, of course Guan Yingzhen will not miss it.