The scholars are very excited, in addition to the Zhongzheng sent by the imperial court to preside over the autumn products this year, there are also the head of Yangzhou Academy, the head of Meihua Academy, Liu Han listened to the meeting, and felt that these scholars seem to be students of Yangzhou Academy, every time the autumn products are also the time of the competition of various academies, this era to study in the academy, but not the university of the previous life, to pay tuition and book fees, this academy does not charge these, the expenses of the academy mainly come from two aspects, one is the appropriation of the imperial court, the other is the donation of the gate valve family, and the latter is the mainstay.

This mode of free reading once aroused his great curiosity, but after walking a few academies with Qiu Ge Rufan, he gradually understood the mystery, to study in the academy, it is not easy, someone must recommend, the recommender must be a local famous or wealthy family, the academy at the same time to examine the student's family background, the more famous the academy, the stricter the inspection.

According to the atmosphere of this era, it may be very difficult for commoners and ordinary people to enter the academy, and besides, they don't need silver to study, but they still need silver for room and board, and a student's annual expenditure is about thirty taels of silver, and ordinary people earn this amount at most a year, so the poor cannot afford to study.

Liu Han soon lost interest in the scholars, and was looking at the other two tables upstairs, one of which was obviously a businessman, Yangzhou is the largest commercial port in the south of the Yangtze River, salt, tea, grain, silk, and cotton cloth in the south of the Yangtze River are mostly traded here, and merchants from all over the country can be seen everywhere on the street, the ships on the wharf are like weaving, there are many wharves in Yangzhou, I am afraid that it is the first in the country, he has been in the city for three or four days, and he has seen no less than ten wharves, and this is only the wharf in the city.

"Get out of the way!

There was a burst of shouting on the street, which alarmed the people upstairs, and the people upstairs all looked out, and Liu Han also looked out, and a horse galloped quickly on the street, and immediately the knight was wearing a light blue military uniform and carrying a red flag on his back.

Pedestrians on the street fled in both directions, knights galloped by, and people upstairs sat down.

"It seems that it is a great victory outside the Saiwai!" someone next to him said excitedly, and a scholar said loudly: "That's natural, as soon as the army of my Celestial Empire arrives, the barbarians outside the Saiwai will be wiped out, everyone, a toast to my Celestial Empire soldiers!"

The people upstairs raised their glasses, Liu Han also had to raise a glass, the deployment of the imperial court for the Baishan Xiongnu finally took effect, after Liu Qu went back, it didn't take long to kill the Zuoxian King Yiriche, several tribes who supported Yiriche rebelled in the support of the Dugu tribe, the Jin army and the Xiongnu royal court that had been prepared quickly sent troops to defeat the rebel tribes in one fell swoop, the Dugu tribe sent troops to meet the rebel tribes and fled into the western Xianbei range, the Jin army and the Xiongnu royal court did not pursue, and the two sides fell into a confrontation.

However, for the imperial court, this was still a big victory, and the emperor issued an order to send the news of the victory to all places, and the red flag of the imperial capital reported the victory and quickly rushed to all places.

The tradition of the Great Jin Dynasty, the red flag reports the victory, and the black flag alerts.

"Outside the Saiwai barbarian, how can you compare with my Great Jin Iron Cavalry, it's really overwhelming!"

"These barbarians from outside the Saiwai want to invade my Dajin in their dreams, and if they don't teach me a lesson, they don't know how powerful. ”

"Yes, for these barbarians, there is only the iron horse, and there is no need to talk about anything else. ”

"I think we should focus on education!"

"Yes, the imperial court should vigorously promote Confucianism, Taoism will rule by inaction, Confucianism is to teach human nature to be good, only with Confucianism can we educate those murderous barbarians!"

"No, Taoism has a long history and is the foundation of everything. ”

..........

A few scholars soon turned to academics, Liu Han listened to boring, and thought a little in his heart, the imperial court sent troops outside the fortress this time, it was a very risky move, if the troops could be withdrawn, the victory could still be saved, if the attack continued, the consequences were unpredictable.

He has very little information about this war, and it is difficult to make further judgments.

"Fortunately, I won. ”

The two middle-aged men in brocade clothes at the other table whispered, but they could hide Liu Han's ears, with his cultivation, any wind and grass within a distance of dozens of meters around him would not escape his ears and eyes.

"I hope the emperor will withdraw his troops. The other person also sighed: "Now is really not the time to send troops, Brother Gu Xian, I estimate that the holy decree of the imperial court has arrived in Yangzhou, hmph, Sheng Huai, this guy can't move for the time being." ”

The middle-aged man in a white brocade robe next to him smiled and shook his head: "On the contrary, the end of Sheng Huai is coming, Brother Ju, dare you make a bet, within half a month, there will be a holy decree." ”

When Liu Han heard this, his eyes flashed, and he understood who these two people were, and secretly said in his heart, these two people were bold enough, and they didn't even bring guards, so they dared to wander around the city, and after thinking about it, they couldn't help but be happy, in this Yangzhou City, I'm afraid that no one dares to touch these two people and assassinate Qincha, I'm afraid that the heads of many people in Yangzhou City will fall off.

"Oh, why?" looked at Gu Wei in confusion, Gu Wei's expression was relaxed, and he didn't seem to feel at all, nearly two months ago, Gu Wei wrote a letter to impeach seven or eight high-ranking officials in Yangzhou under Shi Shenghuai, Yangzhou officialdom was shaken, but after the court was sparse, there was no news from the court, and Yangzhou officialdom slowly calmed down.

In the sentence, Gu Wei is really too reckless, this Sheng Huai is a person of Pan Lian, and he can be said to be the same family, how can he suddenly impeach him with an iron face and selflessness, it is difficult to fight in the nest. Thinking about it, there are already signs here, during the period of Yangzhou salt tax reform, although Sheng Huai did not make it difficult, he did not support it, I am afraid that it is precisely because of this that Gu Wei is dissatisfied, and this impeachment is possible.

But he still felt that Gu Wei was reckless, this was undoubtedly a challenge to Sheng Huai, although Gu Wei had served as the long history of Pan Lian, Sheng Huai was not bad. Yangzhou is an important town, commerce and trade are prosperous, and a little stretch of hand can get a huge amount of silver, and I believe that Sheng Huai must have sent a lot of silver to Pan Lian.

Such a god of wealth, Pan Lian is willing to do it?!

"Young people are still young!" Ju Yi sighed in his heart, this time Yangzhou salt policy innovation, Gu Wei made great contributions, and even made a strange plan to clean up these turtles in Yangzhou, and reluctantly followed their steps.

Gu Wei smiled and didn't answer, frowned slightly, thought about it, but still didn't understand, so he smiled and said: "It seems that the elder brother is Zhizhu in his hands, and he is confident, this Sheng Huai, hehe, brother, then who will be the assassin of Yangzhou?"

"This piece of fat, I'm afraid it's not for you and me to touch. Gu Wei also said with the same smile, but his eyes glanced at Liu Han, Liu Han's heart moved, pretending to drink, avoiding his investigation.

After drinking a few more glasses of wine, Liu Han called Xiao Er to settle the bill, and when he went downstairs, he glanced at Gu Wei, the two of them were still chatting in a low voice, and his heart suddenly moved, why did Gu Wei and Sheng Huai drink here? Maybe this is an opportunity.

At night, on the third watch, outside Gu's house, the knife lay on the opposite roof, looking at Gu's house, the house was very quiet, you can see with his eyes, the house is not so simple.

The knife slowly came down from the roof, looked around, and saw no one, he sighed lowly, and landed lightly on the ground, silently through the alley, directly in the shadows, he didn't jump directly on the wall, so it was too easy to be spotted by the dark whistle.

Slowly swim up the wall along the wall, look around at the head of the wall, take a closer look inside, after a while, he turned over and entered the yard, squatted in the yard for a while, saw the situation clearly, made sure that there was no ambush, no secret whistle, he gently got up and touched the backyard, what made him a little puzzled was that he didn't see anyone patrolling, and he didn't find the secret whistle.

On the edge of the moon gate, he stood again, looked inside carefully, and after recognizing that there was no ambush, he flashed into the courtyard, hid in the bushes, waited for a while, made sure that there was no one, he quietly touched it, suddenly there was a hint of change, he quickly hid in the bushes, and a team of family members came out of the corner with torches, passed through the courtyard, and went out from the moon gate.

After the family went out, the knife was like a wisp of green smoke to the window, squatting under the window to listen, someone was talking inside, he slowly poked his head out, was about to poke the window open with his fingers, his mind moved, retracted, retreated to the corner, slowly climbed up to the roof, slowly moved, and after a while he reached the middle, uncovered a few tiles and looked down.

Under the light, there were two people in the room, on the right was an old man in his fifties, who was writing something with a pen, and next to him was a middle-aged man in his thirties who opened a row of small bamboo tubes on the table one by one, and occasionally whispered a few words.

Just watching, the door was pushed open, and a subordinate brought a small bamboo tube, neither of them looked up, still doing their own thing, the subordinate went to the table and put down the bamboo tube and then withdrew.

"This should be the last one. The old man who was copying said.

"Yes, sir. The middle-aged man replied.

Two sentences made Xiaodao understand that it was Gu Shuo who was copying.

The two stopped talking, and after Gu Shuo finished writing, he read the put together note again, then copied it onto the paper, tore the note into several pieces, and handed it to the middle-aged man.

"The old rules, five bulletins. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The middle-aged man stuffed the notes into the small bamboo tube one by one, and then went out, Gu Shuo stood up, moved down, took a sip of the teacup, and then walked around the house twice, after a while, the middle-aged man came back, looked at the table, the notes were still scattered on the table, he went over to collect the notes, checked them carefully, and then burned them all and collected the ashes.

Middle-aged people do all this very carefully, unhurriedly, obviously for a long time.

After doing all this, the middle-aged man said to Gu Shuo: "Master, it's late at night, let's rest." ”

"Well," Gu Shuo responded, the middle-aged man stood respectfully on the side, Gu Shuo hesitated and said, "What do you think of this sentence?

"Master, this is not what we think, no matter what they want to do, they can't hide it from the eyes of their ancestors. The middle-aged man replied.

"I always feel unsteady," Gu Shuo sighed: "Speaking of which, Gu Wei's wrists are still ruthless enough, and his eyes are poisonous enough, this Sheng Huai thinks that he has taken the path of Pan Lian, and he is Pan Lian's person, but he doesn't know that his real backstage is the Lu family, and he is the old King of Qi." ”

"The slave feels that this Gu Wei is still a little reckless, at this time," the middle-aged man shook his head: "The imperial court sent troops to the outside of the fortress, and it was in need of grain and silver in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

"It's not that simple. Gu Shuo shook his head: "Wu Xiaohuaihou, is there any movement?"

"No, this Hou Ye travels all day long, searching for beauties in the country. The middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his head when he said this.

Gu Shuo couldn't help but shake his head, the Great Jin Dynasty also divided the clan in Jiangnan, in addition to the King of Huainan, there are also several distant Hou Wang Guogongs, the eight hundred years of the Great Jin Dynasty, there are countless descendants of the clan, after several generations of changes, some have fallen into poverty.

"Master, the slave is worried, there is no news about this hundred workshops, we...."The middle-aged man looked at Gu Shuo's expression as he spoke, and said tentatively: "Why did this palace suddenly think of the hundred workshops again?"

Gu Shuo sighed and shook his head, how did he know, the palace had also ordered to check before, and he also found some things, but there was no reaction in the palace, and then he didn't take any action when he saw the Hundred Workshops, so he didn't pay attention to it anymore, why did he suddenly have to check the Hundred Workshops again? Could it be that this Hundred Workshops committed a crime?