"Of course I am willing! What I like most is to go against my father, oh... no, this is deviant!"
Although he suddenly heard his name again that he really didn't want others to pronounce, Lu Sanlang immediately forgot the slightest bit of discomfort, and instead showed an expression of interest. Seeing Zhang Shou looking at him up and down, he was afraid that
Zhang Shou thought that he was just talking nonsense, so he hurriedly vowed: "Little sir, I hate those fake Taoists the most. If you want to fight against them, you must count me among them!"
"Haha, it's not as serious as you think. It's just an initial idea."
Zhang Shou shrugged slightly, then glanced at the empty room, and said nonchalantly: "Ah Liu can't get away these two days, let's go out for lunch."
Lu Sanlang was suddenly a little surprised. Duke Zhao's mansion really didn't send anyone to deliver food? This engaged fiancé is worse than a wild man without a marriage certificate... Ahem, the word wild man is a bit unpleasant, but like this
Is the differential treatment a little obvious? However, when he followed Zhang Shou out of the university archway of the Imperial College, he did not see the common Zhu family members, and he became even more puzzled.
Zhang Shou was not surprised. Without Ah Liu, others could not sneak into the Imperial Academy like that kid, and he felt that there was no need to let the Zhu family show off at the gate - lest Zhu Jing become the father.
He was in a delicate mood, so he told Zhu Ying in advance to ask the Zhu family not to continue delivering lunch and dinner.
After all, if there is no Ah Liu watching, his dormitory in the Imperial College has always been open, and anyone can enter. If there is food on the table, he will not dare to eat it - leaving aside the most extreme thing like poisoning.
Situation, if someone adds some messy ingredients to the food, or even spits on it, it makes people feel sick to think about it. As for whether someone will put things randomly in his dormitory, he is really looking forward to it.
When Zhang Shou took Lu Sanlang out to look for food and have a long chat, Zhu Er hurried back to Banshan Hall happily, and then stared at the empty place dumbfounded. Fortunately, he knew very well the various things that the Guijie disciples had to do for lunch.
He rushed to find a restaurant or wine shop. But when he arrived at the door of the highest-end wine shop nearby, he heard a loud noise.
"I thought that when Duke Zhao came back yesterday, Zhu Tingjie would be taught such a lesson that he would never get off the ground. I didn't expect that he could come to the Imperial Academy intact. I really misjudged Duke Zhao!"
Zhu Erdeng was furious. His best friend in the past was Lu Sanlang. Naturally, he also had a few good friends among others. But later, it turned out that he was taught a lot about Zhu Ying's marriage and was banned for a time. These are not loyal.
Naturally, the people did not dare to visit him, so they cut off all contact with him. It was not until he later returned to the Banshan Hall that they saw that he, the Second Young Master Zhu, seemed to be doing well, so they got together again.
However, now that both of them have understood their respective personalities through Zhu Ying's incident, the bad rapport in the past naturally no longer exists.
Zhu Er took a deep breath, suppressed his anger and strode into the wine shop. He saw that the lobby on the first floor looked quite deserted, as if there were no guests, but the sounds of talking and laughing could be heard from the second floor, laughing and cursing, but there was nothing.
He was afraid. He knew that these supervisors who were born in noble families liked to show off their extravagance, and they often stayed in groups in their own private rooms. He stood there and took a deep breath.
"Why, after my father returned to Beijing, he didn't get angry and go on a killing spree, so you all think it's not a good time? Do you think my son will be unlucky when my father comes back? I'm blinding you!"
Following his sudden roar, the sounds of people drinking, laughing, and chatting upstairs suddenly stopped. Faced with this complete silence, Zhu Er thought that he used to be the kind of person who relied on his family background to guide people in the country.
He was one of the second-generation ancestors who immediately became intimidated when he saw important people. He couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.
"I'm too lazy to come up and expose your true colors, just listen to me! Since Banshan Hall is going to be divided into three halls, we won't need such a big place in the future. Dr. Yang of Suixing Hall just complained that his place is too small, and Dr. Zhang
I mentioned it to Da Sicheng to swap Banshan Hall and Suixing Hall, and move the first hall of Banshan Hall to them in the future. Okay, I have passed on what Dr. Zhang said."
When there was no sound downstairs, Ji Jiu stood up and leaned out of the window to confirm that Zhu Er had really mounted his horse and left. He had to criticize Zhao Guogong and Zhu Er and his son in the lofty speech just now, but he was caught on the spot and was unlucky.
The guy smiled, and then his eyes lit up.
"Shuixing Hall, how many scholars think that it is the first hall of the Imperial College, and Da Sicheng is actually willing to change it with our teacher's Banshan Hall? This Imperial College is going to be a big deal, right?"
"In today's world, there are county schools, state schools, government schools, and then the Imperial College in Nanjing and Beijing. Suixing Hall ranks first among all the official schools. However, our Banshan Hall was built because of Taizu's care for the children of meritorious officials and officials.
It is extraordinarily large, so there are usually only a hundred or so people, but it is larger than Suixingtang, which can easily accommodate two, three, four, or five hundred people. In fact, they are not at a loss if they compare with Suixingtang."
"Whether it's a loss or not depends on the size of the house! Haven't you seen the map of the Imperial College? The seats in the six halls on the left and right are symmetrical. As for our Banshan Hall and Jiuzhang Hall, they are scattered around the periphery. So, according to those old
What the old-fashioned people mean is that they are raised by the eldest wife, and we are raised by the concubines!"
Ji Jiu said these extremely vulgar words, and when he saw other people, he suddenly became a little embarrassed, but he, who was born as a bastard, knocked his rice bowl with his chopsticks angrily: "Why, you still feel uncomfortable? That's the way it is! Too much.
Although Emperor Zu said a lot of good things back then, the essence was just throwing people into a mountain hall, climbing out if they had the ability, and just hanging around if they didn't, that's all."
"So, although I don't know if Zhou Da Sicheng will agree to exchange Banshan Hall for Shuxing Hall, or in other words, he will make a gesture of agreement and then think of other ways. But I know that the bosses in the court will
I will definitely not agree to it. This thing is shocking!"
Hearing this, several supervisors in the box were immediately horrified. At this moment, the curtain of the box was lifted, and other people from next door also swarmed in. In an instant, the originally small place was filled with people.
"Ji Xiaojiu, what you said makes perfect sense, so tell me, what should we do about this matter? Today Zhang... ahem, the teacher said so ruthlessly, if we are really swept into the army and embarrassed, we might as well
Taking advantage of the public anger he has committed this time, try to lift this huge mountain above your head! I have had enough of studying every day!"
Ji Jiuyi raised his neck and drank the strong wine in the glass, and then sneered at the big man who broke in at the head of the mountain: "Tear down this mountain above your head? You said it lightly, first ask the other people next to you if they are willing.
!”
Seeing the big man looking around and finding that no one answered, his expression gradually turned gloomy, Ji Jiu laughed.
"Our teacher is not only the son-in-law of the Duke of Zhao, but also a popular person in front of the emperor. When the emperor was choosing his son-in-law, he sat aside, and I don't know what method he used. Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu were the consorts and the guests of honor.
, plus the boy named Feng, the three of them have wives and a bright future!"
"After the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue changed his surname to Chen, the people from Jiuzhangtang were divided into several groups. They went to the Ministry of Revenue for three days of internship at a time. Otherwise, you would think that when Wang Datou became the governor of Xuanda, he would easily accept the people sent by Jiuzhangtang to follow him to assist him.
'?What kind of assistance? It's just experience! And those people in our Banshan Hall who are at the top of the annual exam, do you think they spent the New Year comfortably at home?"
Ji Jiu smashed a cup on the ground and said drunkenly: "Zhu Ying, on behalf of the Zhu family, gave resources to help those few people start their own businesses... Don't ask me what starting a business means. If I understood, I wouldn't be messing around here.
It’s messed up!”
The big man's complexion suddenly turned green and white.
Wealthy families have the inside story of wealthy families. The first class is those who are heirs and have good literary and military talents. Those people will all receive the best resources and connections in the family, and some will be in the Imperial Academy Suixingtang.
Get a qualification, and then fight your way out of the examination hall. Some people enter the military and are promoted step by step, rising to extremely high official positions in a few years.
The second class is the direct descendants who are talented but not the heirs. They will also be carefully cultivated by the family and will branch out in the future. Among them, there will occasionally be outstanding talents who surpass the heirs.
As for those who are mediocre and have little training value, they will just hang around in the mid-level hall, get the title of prison student, and then rely on the shadow of their fathers and ancestors to get a good-sounding but no real power official title. As for those who cannot get an official position, then
It's also everywhere.
So in the capital, if you meet a poor man in his forties or fifties who tells you that his grandfather is the prime minister, or that his uncle is the Duke of such and such a country, there is a high chance that he is not lying but telling the truth!
And the big man with vulgar behavior in front of him came from the Zhang family, which was called the first family in the Manchu Dynasty.
However, his father was not Zhang Rui, the Duke of Chu, but Zhang Qiong, the Bo of Xiangyang. He was the third son in the family. The eldest brother above him had joined the army early, and the second brother was good at dancing. However, when it was his turn, he accomplished nothing, and then
He is a bastard, so naturally he is quite unpopular.
At this time, he sat down with a sullen face, and then said angrily: "Ask yourselves, how many people can enter the first class?"
This sentence caused silence in the box. However, Ji Jiu, who was a bit drunk, laughed and said: "Can you blame others for not being able to enter the first hall? I believe that the third prince and the fourth prince are talented, but they are talented.
To be able to outperform most of us is simply nonsense! Just what we have learned, as long as we put a little effort into it, how can we learn it well? Haha! How many people are paying attention?"
The big guy then remembered that Ji Jiu seemed to be a bohemian and a father who didn't care for his mother, but he was indeed among the best in the monthly and annual exams these days - if this guy hadn't been the master of skipping classes in Banshan Hall, he would have been suspicious.
It used to be all pretense.
In anger, he slammed the table and said sternly: "So what? Ji Jiu, do you think you are Zhang Chen, Lu Sanlang, Zhang Wu, Zhang Lu, or Zhu Er, who is my second uncle? Even if you learn from it,
So what if you do well? Duke Zhao's government didn't sponsor you to start... any business, right?"
"No." Ji Jiu chuckled, and then poured himself a glass. But when he raised the glass to his lips, he suddenly stopped, and then a glass of wine was poured directly on the big man's face.
Seeing that the other party was so angry that his eyes were like bells, he sneered: "Do you believe that if we fight here, you will be punished when you get home and will be kicked out of Banshan Hall tomorrow? Big man?
, have you not seen that those who have received support from the Zhu family are all guys who are willing to rely on them, and they are all guys who have stayed in Cuiyun Room?"
"I bet that they must have made a promise, maybe even signed a contract! If you don't want to stand on their side, why should they support you? As for me, the father in my family even scolded Zhao Guogong along with others.
Defeating the army and humiliating the country will make his butt crooked. Unless Lu Sanpang and I confront our own fathers, why should others help me?"
The big man's raging anger was gradually extinguished by Ji Jiu's words. But he was really unwilling to be outdone. After taking a deep breath, he said angrily: "If you want to get ahead, you have to join the Zhu family. How many people do you have in Banshan Hall?"
Have the opportunity?"
"That's right, at least you, who comes from a feuding Zhu family, have absolutely no chance." Ji Jiu saw the big man suppressing his anger and wiping his face full of wine with his sleeve, and he chuckled, "But Dr. Zhang
As a person, you should have seen that he has many ideas, and he can even get places like King Lu's Courtyard. It is certain that he will establish his own business in the future, how can he be a vassal of the Zhu family?"
Seeing the big guy and the others suddenly realizing it, Ji Jiu said with a smile: "If you can't get into the first class, then let's go to the second class. Anyway, the so-called talents other than civil and military skills, you can always think of something if you rack your brains, isn't it?
Or? If it doesn’t work, if you work harder, you shouldn’t be able to get into the third hall, right? If we can get through it in the military, we don’t need to hang around in the mid-level hall?”
Ji Jiu has always been known as a clever and cunning person. Next, he presented the facts and reasoned, fully showing the prospects to everyone - dudes like them were running errands for the big bosses, which was just the icing on the cake. Something went wrong.
He might also be thrown out as a scapegoat. On the contrary, siding with Zhang Shou might help him in times of need.
So when the lunch finally ended, although the cups and plates in the private room were in a mess, everyone was a little lost when they left. Especially the two of them who had received benefits to help others find out the news, they regretted it.
If the impression with Zhang Shou is already bad, will they still have a chance to change it?
On the way back to the Imperial College, Ji Jiu made an excuse to go to another alley and went to a Xiaonan store to buy some things. Then, seeing no one around, he turned into a dark alley again.
When he came out from the other end, he saw a carriage stopped at the intersection. He stepped forward without even looking at the driver, and got into the carriage familiarly. He saw a middle-aged man sitting inside with his hands folded.
There, he said hello with a big smile.
"Eunuch Chu, Dr. Zhang said today that he wants to divide Banshan Hall..."
He explained the whole story in a few words. Seeing that Chu Kuan was listening thoughtfully, he repeated what he had said to the big man and other supervisors at noon, and finally said with a smile: "Most of the people in Banshan Hall who bully the weak and fear the strong are
In the end, I had to follow Dr. Zhang all the way to the dark side."
Chu Kuan laughed and said: "That is a good road leading to the sky, of course you should follow it. Don't worry, I won't lose you!"