Looking at Mrs. Wang's smile that hinted at warning, Yan Shikuan cast a vague glance at Xu Da, "Your wife is so arrogant. As the head of the family, you don't care?"
Xu Da skillfully avoided Yan Shikuan's gaze and thought to himself: Go ahead!
Yan Shikuan: "..."
Seeing the strange silence in the room, Wang showed the patience of "two-state diplomacy", took the initiative to start the topic, and warmly invited the master and apprentice to play in the village for a few more days.
Yan Shikuan is also a good person. He was a little fooled by Xu Da and Xu Yue at first, and then he agreed to come to Xujiazhuang out of anger.
But now he also realized that Xu Da's purpose of inviting him here this time was not simple.
But we are all smart people, and some of our attitudes were secretly expressed in casual conversations.
Yan Shikuan meant that because Xu Da worked so hard, he could be polite to Gongsun Zan, but if he wanted to recruit him, Gongsun Zan was not qualified yet.
Unless this general, who has always been famous for his brutality, can change and make some tangible political achievements so that they, the Confucian scholars, can see that he is really getting better, they will not consider the issue of loyalty.
Xu Da expressed his understanding of this. After all, Gongsun Zan had offended those who had political connections and resources too hard before, which led to the current sad situation of disconnection between the upper and lower levels.
Fortunately, it is not too late to react now. As long as Yan Shikuan maintains a neutral attitude and they have middle-level political forces in the middle, they can connect the top leaders and shock the people of the three religions and nine schools.
Then the three counties that have just been acquired will become stronger and stronger, making those who want to backstab their plans fail.
Xu Da also took advantage of the situation and offered many benefits, one of which was that Cui Yuan and Guang Luhai could stay.
The three masters and apprentices simply could not refuse the various secret arts in Xujiazhuang, as well as the unheard-of arithmetic, Chinese, and the natural sciences in the upcoming intermediate classes.
Yan Shikuan readily agreed to let his two proud disciples stay in the village, asking them to listen, watch and learn more, so as not to miss such a good opportunity.
When Xu Yue served such delicious food as hot pot, she was excited and asked a question that surprised Xu Yue's whole family.
"You three brothers and sisters, are you interested in studying in our Yan's College? Although the college does not accept women, if you sisters dress up as men and enroll, with my husband as your guarantee, the dean will not embarrass you about your status."
Although the Yan's Academy and the family academy attended by Gongsun Yi and Gongsun Yun are in the same place, they are two completely different academies.
In other words, one is a fun enlightenment school for their children, while the other is a serious university well-known in Youzhou.
To put it nicely, it means that you will become a disciple of Confucian Yan, become the son of a wealthy family and become your classmate, and you will have a bright future, and you will have the opportunity to become an official.
Of course, this was before the world was in chaos.
Although it is not as powerful as before, it is still a gilded holy place that students from all over the world beg to visit.
Xu Dalian looked at Yan Shikuan twice to make sure that he was not drunk after eating hot pot, but that he really extended an olive branch. So what reason did he have to refuse?
Xu Da called the three Xu Yue brothers and sisters over and asked them to thank Mr. Sir for his kindness.
Regardless of whether you go there or not, it won’t hurt to get your admission tickets first!
Strange to say, Xu Yue had obviously quarreled with Yan Shikuan before, but this little old man found her particularly pleasing to the eye.
Rather than saying that he wanted to do a favor to the three brothers and sisters of the Xu family for the sake of mutual reconciliation, it was more that he wanted to give her a chance to enter the academy for Xu Yue's sake.
The next day, before leaving, Yan Shikuan pointed at Xu Yue and praised: "You should be like Xu Qingyang when you give birth to a child!"
After saying this, he reluctantly left with the tofu recipe and two jars of bean curd sent by Xu Yue.
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If it weren't for his status as a great scholar, he could stay in this village as long as he wanted.
It's a pity that people can't help themselves.
Yes, I can't help myself... Maybe the little girl asked him the multiple-choice question about which general to choose earlier, just to express this helplessness.
I just hope that this troubled time will end soon, and that I can still see the prosperity and prosperity of Daqing in the past during my lifetime. Yan Shikuan hopes for it in his heart.
Yan Daru left, but his words, "You should be like Xu Qingyang when you have a son," stayed and spread throughout Hebei and Youzhou like the raging plague.
People from all over the world have speculated, what does the Yan family really mean?
Could it be that he is preparing to support Gongsun Zan?
For a time, undercurrents surged everywhere, but Gongsun Zan, who was in Yuyang, immediately felt the benefits of not going against the wealthy family.
After the beginning of spring, people from local aristocratic families came one after another. Some small families even took the initiative to show their goodwill by sending cloth and food. The originally empty warehouses were immediately filled.
This feeling can be described in one word, cool!
But he was happy, but Xu Da was miserable. The leisurely annual vacation had passed, and Gongsun Zan had people come over to remind him again and again. He had to leave the comfortable cashmere quilt at home and start preparing for spring plowing.
Before leaving, Xu Da took a "farming operation" copied from Xu Yue and planned to implement it in the three counties to improve agricultural production efficiency.
However, due to years of war and natural disasters, even the wealthy Bohai County is full of barren fields with no one cultivating them.
Xu Da also asked Gongsun Zan to order to appease the refugees, divide the fields, reduce taxes, and pick up all the abandoned fields for planting.
Otherwise, just relying on the surrender and relief from the noble families would not be able to support the soldiers in hand.
However, even if this policy was agreed by Gongsun Zan himself and Zhao Yu, who was in charge of the financial power, also agreed, when it was really about to be implemented, it still encountered many obstacles.
First of all, there is the problem of lack of manpower. Last year's plague killed too many people, and coupled with the hidden households taken over by powerful people from all over the country, there are actually not many farmers left at all.
The aristocratic families had an idea, selling or renting their abandoned fields to them at low prices, and they would send people to plant them.
Gongsun Zan and Xu Da looked at each other and almost said to these people: You are thinking nonsense!
However, these aristocratic families who came to surrender were still unstable and needed to be appeased, so they could only rent part of the wasteland to them for profit.
But Gongsun Zan didn't want to be controlled by these aristocratic families. He still had to find a way to distribute the remaining fields to the people who really needed them.
During that time, Xu Da almost lost his hair by himself in order to find a solution to this problem.
In the end, I had no choice but to go home to find my wife and children!
When Wang and Xu Yue heard this problem that troubled Xu Da, both mother and daughter were a little confused.
Is this problem difficult to solve?
Xu Da asked back: Isn't it difficult?
The mother and daughter were speechless, thinking to themselves, the soldiers of my Great Heavenly Dynasty (Cosmic Alliance) are capable of charging at the top and farming at the bottom, and they are all experts!
Even if you give them a desert, they can still plant an oasis for you!
