Fang Jun and his troops rode to Mingde Gate, opened the city gate, and went directly to the academy.
A group of people knocked on the mountain gate of the academy with a rumble. The night watchman hurriedly opened the door and welcomed Fang Jun in with nods and bows. However, they secretly wondered: Why did this person come out of the city in the middle of the night?
The noise woke up Xu Jingzong, who had already fallen asleep. The chief secretary, who devoted all his energy to the academy, was sleepy-eyed. He opened the door with a piece of clothes on, and saw the official taking off his cloak and striding towards the office.
Fang Jun came over.
Xu Jingzong rubbed his face, stood at the door and asked in surprise: "Where did Erlang go in the middle of the night?"
Fang Jun answered casually: "It's okay, I just thought I have some things to deal with tomorrow morning, so I might as well come over here to have a rest tonight."
When he walked to the door, Xu Jingzong noticed the wound on his forehead. He opened his mouth in surprise and said in shock: "Who was injured by this...?"
Fang Jun stopped, raised his hand to touch his forehead, sighed, and said, "I just entered the palace to see His Majesty and was beaten up."
Xu Jingzong: "..."
Mother!
Are you showing off to me?
Fang Jun looked at Xu Jingzong's speechless expression and asked curiously: "What is Master Xu's expression like?"
Xu Jingzong said: "I am envious!"
He is really envious. There are billions of subjects in the world. I don’t know how many people want to see Tianyan but can’t, let alone enter the palace casually in the middle of the night. So what if I get beaten? Your Majesty is ninety-five.
Your Majesty, how many people, even if they commit the crime of treason, cannot be beaten by the emperor himself? This is the holy family!
Who can make the emperor angry and then just beat him up, then show off his nonsense?
He has followed His Majesty Li Er for many years, serving him in front of and behind the horse, but he definitely does not have this kind of holy family...
Seeing Fang Jun enter his own check-in room, Xu Jingzong followed him in and asked, "What on earth happened to make His Majesty so angry?"
Fang Jun casually threw his cloak aside, sat on the chair, glanced at the clerk who followed him to clean the bed, then looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "You really want to know?"
Xu Jingzong was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head: "I don't want to know."
To be able to make the emperor so angry and to deal such a heavy blow was obviously something extraordinary. Some things, for a favored minister like Fang Jun, would just mean a beating, but for others, it is very likely that
It's a fatal disaster.
If you want to live a long life and advance quickly in an official career, the most important thing is to suppress your curiosity.
Xu Jingzong raised his hand to salute and quickly retreated.
Sometimes, the more you know, the more dangerous you are...
The clerk made the bed clean, and there were spare clean beddings in the cupboard, and the boards were neatly laid out. He also brought hot water to Fang Jun and waited for him to wash himself before he left.
Fang Jun took off his coat, lay on the bed, pulled the thin quilt over his body, stretched out his hand to open the window, and the watery moonlight slanted in, illuminating the window and bed in front of the window, which was silvery white, like frost and snow.
Looking up at the bright moon, looking down at my hometown...
It has been a few years since I came to the Tang Dynasty. For some reason, the memory of my previous life has not become faded and blurred with the passage of time, but is as clear and profound as ever.
People are animals that love home, especially for Chinese people who are deeply educated in Chinese culture. Sometimes "home" is equal to everything, and a lifetime of hard work is just to make that "home" warmer and more spacious.
Nothing is more fulfilling than being recognized by your family.
He is now in the Tang Dynasty, with a beautiful wife, beautiful concubines and high-ranking officials, and his social status is far different from that in his previous life. However, every time in the dead of night, he still inadvertently thinks of all the things in his previous life.
At this moment, loneliness would drown him like a tide, and gnaw at his heart like a bug...
So he, who was originally a happy-go-lucky character, gradually began to become extremely ambitious and extremely ambitious.
It's not that he wants to prove to the world how talented and strategist Fang Jun is, but he wants to work hard to transform the world closer to his ideal appearance so that he can have more sense of identity.
Without this sense of identity, no matter how prosperous the Tang Dynasty was, it would not feel like a home.
Therefore, he worked hard to keep Li Chengqian's position as prince, worked hard to restrict the expansion of the family, and worked hard to change this era.
If the wheel of history is allowed to roll forward without any delay or change in direction due to his arrival, then what is the significance of his existence?
*****
The next morning, Fang Jun woke up early.
I got up and washed myself, then ran around the academy in the morning light. I stretched my muscles and felt energetic. Then I returned to the check-in room, got dressed, and went to the cafeteria with Xu Jingzong for a simple meal.
breakfast.
Xu Jingzong was drinking the porridge, holding a bit of steamed bun in his hand. Suddenly he remembered something and raised his head and asked: "Erlang seems to have forgotten something. Gao Zhenxing and others came to the academy to cause trouble that day. Later, Erlang held a banquet with
They turned their hostility into friendship, but I still paid a hundred gu in advance for the food and drinks."
Fang Junzheng took a piece of vinegar and put it in his mouth and chewed it loudly. He raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise: "So?"
"So?" Xu Jingzong was immediately dissatisfied. He put down the steamed buns, looked at Fang Jun and said, "The hundred guans haven't been given to me yet!"
Fang Jun picked up the bowl and took a sip of the porridge, and said, "Can't you? This has been a long time. Gao Zhenxing has already sacrificed his life for the country in the Western Regions. Why haven't I given you this hundred strings yet?"
Xu Jingzong was furious and said dissatisfiedly: "Every time I ask for something from you, you either do it perfunctorily or you get sidetracked. That's a hundred dollars!"
He was very unhappy. He was obviously a rich man with a fortune of hundreds of millions. Why did he refuse to give him this hundred yuan? He was obviously deliberately going against himself...
Fang Jun disagreed, and while eating, he said casually: "There are still hundreds of thousands of dollars left in the academy's accounts. Can't you just go and withdraw it?"
The construction of the academy was entirely funded by His Majesty Li Er's internal funds. Fang Jun would not save money for His Majesty Li Er. All materials and craftsmanship were kept improving. He wanted to build the academy into a legend that still stands after thousands of years and become a symbol of China.
A symbol in cultural history, it is naturally very expensive.
Xu Jingzong said angrily: "You set the rules of the academy. No one can withdraw half a penny without your signature. Have you forgotten it or are you deliberately cheating?"
Fang Jun was speechless: "It's only a hundred guan. The horses raised in the stables of Lishan Farm have more than 100 guan of food for a month! How dare you cheat?"
"Haha!" Xu Jingzong laughed angrily, put his chopsticks on the table, stretched out his hand, and said with his neck: "Since you are not cheating, then give me the money quickly!"
Fang Jun glanced behind Xu Jingzong and said, "We'll talk about it later."
Xu Jingzong said angrily: "It's the same thing again. It's just a hundred guan. Can someone who drags me here and there still become a prostitute?"
Fang Jun didn't say anything. Someone behind Xu Jingzong asked curiously: "What's dragging it around?"
Xu Jingzong was stunned, and when he looked back, it was Chu Suiliang...
"It turns out that this is Chu Siye. You live in the city. You get up early every day and rush to the academy every day, traveling dozens of miles back and forth. It's really hard for you. After all, you are a little old and your body can't withstand such a torment. Why don't you spend more time in the house?
Take a nap and get to the academy before classes start?"
Classes at the academy start at three quarters of the hour, and it is only the beginning of the hour now. There is an hour difference, and it will take at least an hour to get to the academy from Chang'an City. For a person like Chu Suiliang who is usually not in good health, then
Having to leave the house at Yinshi is indeed a torture.
But Chu Suiliang smiled and put the tray with breakfast in his hand on the table, moved a stool to sit on one side, and said with a smile: "I asked the servants in the house to prepare the meal so early in the morning. This man eats horse chews."
It costs a lot of money, so it’s better to get up early and come to the academy for a free breakfast. Master Xu has room and board in the academy, but he has saved a lot of money. We have to learn to save a little to live a life, right? It’s a public house.
It’s cheap, don’t take advantage of it.”
Xu Jingzong rolled his eyes in anger.
Damn! Fang Jun, that bastard, laughed at me and said that spending money is worth more than money. You have learned the lesson, right?
Chu Suiliang no longer looked at Xu Jingzong, but picked up the chopsticks, glanced at Fang Jun and said with a smile: "I heard that Erlang entered the palace late at night yesterday?"
Fang Jun grunted, chewed something in his mouth, pointed to the scar on his forehead, and said: "I wanted to advise His Majesty on something, but His Majesty was displeased. He threw a teacup on his head and blood flowed all over the floor.
"Your Majesty taught me a lesson: Don't worry about things that you shouldn't care about. Some people don't know whether to live or die and run all the way on the road to death, so just let them go. Why should you care whether you live or die?"
Chu Suiliang's expression suddenly changed, and he forced a smile and said: "I just don't know... what is it that Erlang is admonishing, and who is your Majesty referring to?"
Fang Jun raised his head and said with a smile on his face, "Chu Siye, why do you ask even though you already know?"