When Ji Ning went to Beijing to take the exam a year ago, he basically didn't participate in any literary meetings, and even if he did, he came out with Tang Xie and Han Yu and others, and now Tang Xie and Han Yu are local officials, and he is already like a lonely person in the capital, and he doesn't know many friends around him, so naturally he won't come out to participate in the literary meeting.

And as a trainee bachelor, when he comes out to participate in a literary meeting, it will make people think that he is a scholarly oppression, in this era, the literary meeting is basically attended by people with similar literary names, unless he is invited as an invited guest like today, otherwise it is really inconvenient for him to come to this kind of place.

The second floor is brightly lit, and there are several tables in front of it, on which are pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, which should be a place to test poetry and articles.

However, this literary meeting mainly discusses not poetry and songs, but schools and learning, which is also something that students often like to discuss with people who have a literary name.

Since it is not comparable to learning, it is more than partial things, such as psychology, science, or miscellaneous, anyway, a hundred schools of thought contend, even if a person is highly accomplished in poetry and articles, it is impossible to be proficient in the knowledge of all disciplines, especially some miscellaneous studies, Ji Ning believes that he has a good ability to learn talents, but in some miscellaneous studies, he still has some deficiencies.

To put it bluntly, readers in this era are also trying to find ways to find a sense of existence for themselves.

As for the dozens of students standing next to him, after Ji Ning and Song Shanqian went upstairs, there were some people from the school who were invited to come to see them, these people may not even be a lifter, but because of their relatively respected status in the Western character school, they may have cultivated a jinshi, so that they can be in a high position, and even wait for Song Shanqian and Ji Ning to salute first, and then they will return the salute.

Taking advantage of the time to wait for a seat, Song Shanqian came over and said to Ji Ning: "Yongning, the occasion here may not be very suitable for you, but for the sake of face, you can deal with it a little, you don't have to think about many things, after you go back, you can treat it as nothing!" ”

This is actually to persuade Ji Ning to be calm, to put it bluntly, it is to let Ji Ning ignore the arrogance of the people here, since he is taking money as a scene, Ji Ning naturally knows that it is the uncle who pays the money, he belongs to someone who has been invited to be an actor, and his position must be set up.

After a while, the downstairs had already begun to send refreshments upstairs, and the fat man before, named Zhou Cheng, came over and said: "Bachelor Song, Bachelor Ji, in order to prepare for today's literary meeting, especially from the ancient Zhai to order the best refreshments, as for even the pen and ink are sent from there, this is a good place in the capital, you can also go over to taste it if you have time......"

Song Shanqian said with a smile: "Zhou Dang's eternal ancient Zhai is very famous in the capital, and of course I will ......visit it when I have the opportunity."

Only then did Ji Ning know that Zhou Cheng also had his own shop in the capital, and Zhou Cheng himself was like a big housekeeper in the Western-style school, his knowledge was very ordinary, but he was quite old-fashioned, and he also opened a temple that seemed to discuss literature, which was also a very rare thing in Ji Ning's opinion.

When Ji Ning and Song Shanqian were about to sit down, Song Shanqian said: "Don't listen to him, Gengu Zhai is the largest underground casino in the capital, and the underground bank, in black and white, his status is not shallow, don't offend him!" ”

Ji Ning frowned and said, "Eternal Ancient Zhai is Wenyun Zhai?" ”

"Yes!" Song Shan's move back.

Ji Ning made a relieved look, he himself has not been in the capital for a long time, he has heard more people talk about Wen Yunzhai, they all say that it is the largest underground money bank in the capital, and now Song Shanqian has classified Gu Zhai as the largest underground casino and underground bank, Ji Ning will naturally think that Wen Yun Zhai and Gu Zhai are the same thing.

Zhou Cheng sat down next to him, he was also the main starter of the event, even if he was not good at learning, but in the scene, he was very good at pretending, and it seemed that he was a great Confucian, because many people present gave him face.

"Everyone!" After Zhou Cheng and others were seated, he stood up and waved his hand to signal that the audience was quiet, and began to say loudly, "Today is the time when my Xizi school has launched a literary meeting...... It's Bachelor Song and Bachelor Ji, they are full of poetry and books, and they can make a comment on your knowledge, you all have to be humble and ...... to learning."

All the students present stood up and saluted respectfully: "Remember Mr. Zhou's teachings!" ”

Zhou Cheng is not even a lifter, but many lifters and talents present call him "Mr.", which also shows Zhou Cheng's status in the Western-style school, a person is rich and powerful, everyone will slap him, and he seems to be very pious.

If it were usual, Ji Ning would not pay attention to people like Zhou Cheng, but now that Ji Ning wants to design to deal with the Four Princes, he naturally has to pay attention to people like Zhou Cheng who does not have much officialdom status, but can rise to the top, Ji Ning also knows that if he can make good use of this Zhou Cheng, maybe the plan to send a beauty to assassinate the Four Princes is much better than the several strategies he designed before.

This will Ji Ning no longer just look at the lively and perfunctory attitude, he decided to test Zhou Cheng, and by the way, see if he can take advantage of this person.

But he also knows that people like Zhou Cheng are not highly educated, they are from the bottom of the society, and they must be very treacherous and cunning in dealing with people, and it is not easy to use such an old fox.

Zhou Cheng finally looked at Song Shanqian and Ji Ning, and said, "Two bachelors, at the beginning of the literary meeting, you might as well come out and say a few words to cheer up the students, how about it?" ”

Song Shanqian participated in the capital's literary meeting not once or twice, this time he was in front of Ji Ning, as if he intended to show his ability, he stood up and said with a smile: "You students of the Western character school, in the cold window for decades, in order to be known to the world for one day, but reading is not necessarily the case, if you can't enter the dragon gate, if you don't have a down-to-earth mind to study, you can educate the people, and the people are safe, and it is also the noblest character for scholars." Today, I will take this as the topic below, and I will start a discussion first, I don't know who has any opinions? ”

This opening remark is the same as the pattern of the emperor who took the Hanlin and Jinshi exams at the Feng Chan ceremony, and came out with a direction as the content of the discussion, allowing students to express their opinions.

Only this time the scope is a little broader, and it doesn't have to be as restrained as speaking in front of the emperor.

(End of chapter)