Zeng Bu frowned, stroked his beard, and said nothing, obviously lost in thought.

Lu Dian's method...... Available, but still worrying.

It can be used because this method can temporarily encircle the study of Guan Luo and the study of empirical evidence in the Dao of Heavenly Principles and the Path of All Things. However, this could not stop the spread of empirical learning, and now there are already many students in the Guozi Prison who have been bewitched by the empirical learning, and it is even less clear how many Confucian students outside the Guozi Prison have been poisoned by the way of empirical evidence.

Some of these people, after entering the imperial examination high school and entering the officialdom, will become the force of empirical learning in the officialdom.

At that time, Yuntai Xue Palace, Jiehe Business City, and Positivist officials may all be strung together, plus Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an, and Gao Yu, these traitors, maybe they will also pull Han Zhongyan and Yuanyou traitors to become one. That's just to have money, power, and knowledge!

Moreover, the officials and businessmen led by Wu Haogu have a very strong ability to do things, which is completely different from those Yuanyou traitors who "don't make trouble and don't do things". At that time, the positivist party will probably spread all over the government and the opposition, and the end of the new party will inevitably come.

The person who had this idea was obviously not Zeng Bu alone, and the atmosphere in the flower hall was still gloomy, and everyone didn't speak, as if they were all in deep thought.

In the flower hall of Nuoda, there was a dead silence.

I don't know how long it took before I heard someone speak in Fujian official dialect: "Alas, isn't it just a group of tricksters shouting blindly?" I'm waiting for a doctor, so do I have to worry about those tricksters? ”

When Zeng Bu heard this, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly turned his head to look and found that the person who spoke was Cai Jing.

Although Cai Jing has a lot of contradictions with Zeng Bu and is very close to Wu Haogu, he is a new school after all, and his younger brother Cai Bian is Wang Anshi's son-in-law!

Therefore, he was also present at the secret meeting of the school held in the Zeng Bu Xiang Mansion tonight.

"Yuan Chief, you said that the sorcerer is ......"

"Isn't the so-called path of all things in nature the knowledge of a sorcerer?" Cai Jing smiled, "Zihou, take a look at the courses offered by the Yuntai Academy, arithmetic, gewu nature, music, painting, law, geography, overseas customs, etc., I heard that there is also a ship master school." Isn't this all the knowledge of a sorcerer? Wu Haogu himself is actually a trick officer. ”

The New Party bigwigs present nodded one after another, although the trick official was also an official, but he was the lowest existence in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty. It can't be compared with the noble civil officials from the imperial examination, if you want to let the civil officials do the dispatch of the trick officials, it is an insult - this kind of thing is not unprecedented, for example, the emperor thinks that a certain official writes well, let him write something, people will think that the emperor treats his own family as a "waiting edict", and most of them will refuse. Of course, that is, the civil officials of the Song Dynasty dared to their tails like this, and they would never dare to replace it with my Qing Dynasty.

Cai Jing paused, glanced at Zeng Bu out of the corner of his eye, and said with a smile: "Yuntai Academy Palace is also half an official school, and its status is only second to that of Guozijian, but there is no serious way out for the students, it seems that something is wrong." ”

"Yuan Chang means to let the students of the Yuntai Academy be the trick officer?" Zeng Bu's eyes lit up, and he already understood Cai Jing's calculations.

"Yes, let them be sorcerers." Cai Jing smiled, "If there is anyone in the Guozi Prison who thinks highly of the empirical theory, let them go to the Yuntai Academy Palace as well, and someone else will do it, right?" ”

"That's a way to go." Zeng Bu nodded lightly, "It's just that the official family can agree?" ”

Cai Jing smiled, "Zihou, this matter is on me, I will find an opportunity to relieve the official family." Let's start with the trick officers of the Hanlin Fourth Bureau, and in the future, the trick officers of the Hanlin Academy will all be from the Yuntai Academy, so that the Yuntai School Palace will not only become the Trick Palace? ”

The four bureaus of the Hanlin Academy are the four bureaus of astronomy, calligraphy, painting and medical officers under the Hanlin Academy. This Hanlin Academy is not a Hallym Academy, it is a Hallym Academy for worthless magicians.

Zeng Bu nodded lightly, the trick officer is worthless, if the Yuntai School Palace can be packaged as a school specializing in training trick officers, then the empirical theory from the Yuntai School Palace will also drop the price and become the "study of tricks", then it will not be possible to become a manifest school......

Cai Jing laughed, he knew that this Shangshu would not offend the villain of Wu Haogu too much, because now the students of the Yuntai Academy Palace have no way out, and they don't even have to be a trick officer!

He thought in his heart: If all the trick officers of the four bureaus of Hanlin have to come out of the Yuntai Academy Palace in the future, it will actually greatly broaden the channels for the students of the Yuntai Academy. I have done Wu Haogu a great favor!

Moreover, the Fourth Bureau of Hanlin is just the beginning, and in the future, there will be tricks from the Supervisor, Ordnance Supervisor, Shaofu Supervisor, Dushui Supervisor, etc., as well as the tricksters who are responsible for mining and smelting iron, which can be handed over to the Yuntai Academy Palace for training...... If so many trick officials were all from the Yuntai Academy, it would be enough for Wu Haogu and Su Dongpo to be busy.

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At noon on December 28, the first year of the Great Song Dynasty, in Haizhou, Huainan East Road, the Great Song Dynasty, on the official road leading to Qushan County, galloped through thirty or forty horsemen, all of whom were dressed as officers and soldiers who were dusty and dusty, and they were also wearing thick jackets, and the dust on their faces was quite thick.

In addition to their own mounts, these thirty or forty horsemen also carried thirty or forty other horses. The Great Song Dynasty can be very short of horses, especially after tossing back and forth back and forth in the Xining period, the supply of horses has become a big problem - the cost of horse administration is too high, and now there is a shortage of horses! Although in the past two years, because of the harmonious relations with the Western Xia and the Great Liao, it also cooperated with the Liao State to set up a Jiehe commercial market, and there was a lot of horse supply. But in the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, a good horse is still worth hundreds of dollars, and it is still priceless.

An officer who can travel with one person and two horses has not appeared in the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years!

Therefore, when everyone saw these officers and soldiers in green robes and red jackets, with bows and arrows driving their horses, they couldn't help but look at them a few more times, and they were even more puzzled: This is the elite soldier of the general? How can you be so elite? One person and two horses, looking at the way they are covered with wind and dust, I am afraid that they are in a hurry, and I don't know what important business it is for?

In the army, it seems that it is still bitter!

However, although it is hard to serve in the army, the income is still very rich, and the imperial court has never been ambiguous on the issue of raising soldiers, and the income of a forbidden army horse soldier is not much lower than that of a small civil official from Jiupin. Looking at these knights who were hurrying away, most of them had some urgent official business, and what else could Shangguan deduct from them in terms of money?

More than 30 miles west of the county seat of Qishan, the merchants in the newly opened grass market martial arts store near the official road saw these thirty or forty cavalry brigades from afar. Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, at this time there are few people walking outside, if they are still running outside, especially the officers and soldiers, it will not be too bad for themselves, presumably they will spend money to grab a handful and scatter a handful.

So before these dozens of horses approached the samurai shop, a few guys wearing scarves greeted them with a smile on their faces.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are here is a newly opened martial arts shop, we have invited the best master from Luoyang City, Xijing, to make a good hand of fish belly, cut pieces of light, and melt into the entrance, a few big officials, please take care of our small shop!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have just died of a buffalo here, the government has sold the cattle register, and the good beef like the flower cake, the white cut, and the sauce roast have been ready, and the officials must be in a hurry to leave."

Walking in front of the head of this team, the first person was a white-faced young man, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes under the dust, a gentle and elegant appearance, but he was dressed as a military attaché, and carried a long sword and bow bag, and there was a kind of deliberate heroism. Looking back left and right, he smiled at the moment: "Haha, I actually arrived at the samurai store." Uncle Thirteen, this is the place you are talking about, right? ”

"That's right! This is it! The surrounding tens of thousands of acres of land are our family's ...... This samurai shop is also our family's property. Last time, eldest brother, you didn't take this road when you left, this time it's better to spend a day in the samurai shop, take a look around, and meet your brothers and uncles. ”

"Haha, isn't it just to meet the big guys? We traveled a long way, but we suffered a lot. Why don't you just take a day off at the samurai shop...... Shopkeeper, bring out all the delicious food and drink you have. ”

The three or four horsemen who were stopped were none other than Wu Haogu and his party. He and Pan Qiaolian made an appointment to return to Haizhou before Chinese New Year's Eve, so seven or eight days ago, he braved the bitter cold to take Wu Chenglan, Zhou Yunqing, Luo Hanwen and more than thirty escorts south. The journey of more than 1,000 miles took less than eight days to complete.

And the small samurai shop they arrived at today is actually not an outsider's territory, but an industry of the Haizhou samurai. The so-called "shop" also had the meaning of city and town in the Song Dynasty.

Although most of the Wu family who moved from Luoyang Baibo lived in Tianya Town, there were also some Wu family members who were good at management, all of whom learned Wu Chengchang's way, borrowed capital from Ximenqing, contracted a large piece of land, and became farmers. There are about more than 30,000 acres of paddy fields, which have been contracted to less than 20 Wu family members. The rest were leased to more than 500 farmers who could pull out strong men to participate in the Wujiazhuang capital protection on very favorable terms.

And this martial arts shop is also run by an uncle of Wu Haogu, who chose a site close to the official road, and borrowed thousands of dollars from Ximen Qing to open such a grass market.

To be honest, after these old farmers of the Baibo martial arts family got rid of the shackles of "Yimen", they also showed surprising skills in production and operation.

It seems that emancipating the mind can really unleash huge productivity!