Are you willing to enter Imperial College?

After hearing these words, Chen Mu's expression remained unchanged, but he was slightly angry in his heart.

I'm not angry with Yang Ci, but I feel a little uncomfortable.

He could have gone to Taixue to study.

Just quietly get a diploma, transfer to the local government to be a filial and honest person, and wait for the world to change.

Quan Huan waved his hand, and he transferred from Taixue to Hongdu School.

Originally, this was alright. This is how the world is governed. Under the feudal system, no power means no human rights. No one will care about your opinion.

But now people are coming to ask you again, do you want to go back to Imperial College?

Are you a commodity?

Being pushed around?

certainly.

At least Yang Ci would ask him for his opinion. From this point of view, it was much better than Zhang asking Zhao Zhong to change his place without even saying hello.

However, Chen Mu still had some resistance and calmly replied: "Bo Xiangong, the Hongdu School has countless books, and you can study calligraphy and painting diligently. I think it is good to be in the Hongdu Pavilion."

Hearing his words, Zhang let Zhao Zhong breathe a sigh of relief. It was not easy to find a talented person who could govern the country and was highly appreciated by the emperor. He could not be abducted by the scholars.

Yang Ci was not disappointed, and just said softly: "Everyone has his own ambitions. You can stay in Hongdu Hall if you like. But in the future, if you don't understand anything when reading the scriptures, you can come to my house and ask."

If you don't understand something, you can go to him directly?

Chen Mu's heart moved, he bowed his hands and said, "Thank you so much, Mr. Bo Xiang."

This is to recruit named disciples.

There are two types of disciples accepted by teachers in the Eastern Han Dynasty. One is the disciple who transfers all the knowledge to him and passes it on as a mantle. For example, Yang Ci and Zhang Ji had this kind of relationship with Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. There were also three thousand disciples of Confucius.

There are only seventy-two sages who can actually enter the palace.

The second type is the disciples of Dake, also known as disciples. The great Confucian scholar Ma Rong accepted thousands of disciples, including Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi. These disciples are the disciples of Dake. People such as Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan, etc. also fall into this category.

Later, Gongsun Zan also worshiped Liu Kuan as his teacher, unlike his disciples who only worshiped one person as their teacher. This was a manifestation of the impermanence of teachers in the late Han Dynasty.

If we use a metaphor, it is equivalent to the current relationship between master and apprentice, teacher and student.

One represents inheritance, and the other represents the popularization of knowledge.

So what Yang Ci said was actually equivalent to being a registered disciple who allowed Chen Mu to listen when he was giving lectures.

However, even though he was just an ordinary disciple of Da Ke, Yang Ci's reputation was so great that after receiving his praise, he soon became famous all over the world and established a reputation among scholars.

This shows that Yang Ci admires him very much.

The laying of floor heating pipes took two full days. The first day was used to install the pipes. The installation was completed in the morning of the second day, and the flooring had to be laid in the afternoon. Hundreds of experienced craftsmen were busy working to complete the project.

On the fourth day, the floor heating equipment was operating normally, and the entire Yutang Hall was as warm as spring, because the iron pipes were not directly buried in the wooden boards, but were also covered with a layer of fine sand. In this way, after the 100-degree boiling water flows through the iron pipes, the heat is transferred

When it is transferred to the fine sand, then transferred to the wooden board, and evaporates into the room, the temperature will be much lower, about fifty or sixty degrees.

The floor temperature is fifty or sixty degrees. When the heat is radiated into the house, the temperature will drop further, keeping the whole house at a normal temperature of twenty or thirty degrees. In this way, as long as the doors and windows are closed, even if it is several degrees below zero outside, the house will still be very warm.

Extremely comfortable.

On this day, it snowed in Luoyang. The rustling snowflakes were covered with snow, and the city of Luoyang seemed to turn into white. Of course, the people in the city were not affected. It was just a little colder. It was still the same as in previous years.

However, the victims in countless temporary wooden shacks outside the city had a very difficult time. Many people were wearing single clothes and shivering in drafty houses.

Parents with their children hugged their children tightly in their arms, trying to warm their children with their own body temperature. However, after an unknown amount of time, their bodies gradually became cold, and they froze to death in this winter.

Life is sometimes so fragile, but it is always so tenacious.

Everyone lives like weeds. They wither and die in winter, and new life takes their place. When spring comes next year, the young grass sprouts new shoots, and they continue to live hard and hard.

On this day, all the officials in Luoyang, large and small, should have been hiding in their warm homes, waiting for the winter to pass, but suddenly they heard the emperor's edict.

The emperor is going to hold a court meeting!

What is a court meeting?

There were two types of court meetings in the Eastern Han Dynasty: one was regular meetings, which were held at fixed times; the other was temporary meetings, called court meetings.

It is somewhat similar to other dynasties in the feudal period, but the difference is that whether it is a regular meeting or a temporary meeting, only dozens of top officials in Luoyang City are usually summoned.

Such as the Sangong and Jiuqing, the great general, the prince and Taifu, Zhi Jinwu, the prince and young tutor, the general master, the censor Zhongcheng, the minister and other important department leaders.

Other middle-level officials, such as officials from various departments of the Sangong and Jiuqing, are unlikely to appear at court meetings unless they are specially summoned.

Because the three ministers and the nine ministers have their own responsibilities, they will also hold meetings themselves, which are called Sino-Korean official meetings.

Most matters were resolved through official discussions between China and the DPRK. For example, the court officials in various states and counties sent the documents that sentenced prisoners in the states and counties to Luoyang and handed them over to the court officials for handling. Only cases that could not be handled would be judged by the emperor.

But this time is different. This time the emperor is going to hold a grand meeting. Not only senior officials are going, but all middle-level officials are also going. Except for some officials who need to be on duty, such as officials at the city gates and department officials on duty who have tasks.

When going out on business, almost everyone except officials in Luoyang go there.

There are many kinds of people, ranging from six hundred stones to ten thousand stones, and there are hundreds of people.

This still only counts the officials of various departments of the Sangong and Jiuqing as well as some idle officials. If all the officials in Luoyang are included, there will be thousands of people. However, ordinary palaces cannot accommodate so many people.

Only those with high authority can appear, so only officials with real power in important departments will go.

The location of the court meeting in the Eastern Han Dynasty is not fixed. It depends on where the emperor lives today. For example, if the emperor lives in the North Palace today, it will be in Chongde Hall or Deyang Hall in the North Palace. If he lives in the South Palace today, it will usually be in Quefei Hall or Chongde Hall.

temple.

Yes, you read that right, there are Chongde Halls in the North and South Palaces in Luoyang.

However, the venue of today's meeting is very strange. The emperor actually held a grand meeting in the Yutang Hall of the West Palace, which is puzzling.

The square outside Jiade Gate was covered with snow. Hundreds of officials were notified and arrived here.

"Brother Yongnian, long time no see."

"Brother Zi Qiao, I wanted to visit your home last month, but I heard that you went to Yuzhou for business. When did you come back?"

"In these few days, after only two days of rest, the emperor issued an edict to start a court meeting."

"Yes, I don't know what happened this time. There was such a big commotion. Could it be a call from the west?"

"Hey, brother Hongqing, I heard that you have taken in two more concubines recently?"

"Alas, the victims outside the city are so pitiful. When I saw them selling themselves to bury their fathers, I felt pity for them."

"Brother Bo Xing, how many slaves have you bought this time? You bought so many fields in Yangzhou this year, you should need a lot of farm slaves."

"Not many, just a few hundred people. Although people are as cheap as animals nowadays, my family's financial resources are limited and we can only buy so many. Unlike Brother Xiuyuan, who is from a wealthy family in Nanyang, he has a huge wealth and can buy countless slaves."

After the officials arrived outside the square, they all chatted. Some were asking why there was a sudden meeting today, and some were talking about how many people had been bought this year.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families had already taken shape, and it can even be said that they have evolved like this since the Western Han Dynasty. They just lacked a nine-level Zhongzheng system to rectify their names.

Human trafficking and land trading have long been open secrets, and even in such a public place, they dare to speak openly.

"Edict from the Emperor, enter the palace and attend court!"

When it was time to go to court, the saluting officer raised his voice and almost all the officials lined up in order.

The three gongs and nine ministers stood at the front, followed by the prince and Taifu, Zhi Jinwu, the prince's young master, the general craftsman, the censor Zhongcheng, the minister, and other senior officials who were second only to the three gongs and nine ministers.

Behind them was a crowd of middle-level officials from various departments.

General Shi, General Sima, Taifu Zhangshi, Sangong Zhangshi, Yushi Zhongcheng, Shangshu Lingting Weizheng, Tingwei Zuojian, Taizhong doctor, Prince Lingengling, Prince family order, Prince servant, Taichang Yu,

Taipusheng, Tingweicheng, Weiweicheng, Gongmen Sima, Yemen Sima, Zongzhengcheng, Shaofucheng, Dasinongcheng, Dahonglucheng, Guanglucheng, Yezhepushe, Zhijinwucheng, etc.

wait.

These are middle-level officials, whose rank is between Qianshi and Qianshi. Although they do not often go to court on weekdays, they occasionally receive orders to meet the emperor. But today, there are not only these people, but also many lower-level officials. Since these middle-level officials

The officials' subordinates each stand behind their superiors and line up in order according to the official's rank.

General He Jin stood at the front of the procession. Hearing the shouts of the salute officer, he was the first to walk into the palace gate with small steps. In the history of the Han Dynasty, there were only two people who could enter the court without following, go to the palace with swords and shoes, and pay tribute without being named.

One is Xiao He, the other is Liang Ji, and Cao Cao will be added when the Han Dynasty presents the emperor in the future.

He Jin is a hundred times inferior to Xiao He in terms of ability, and a hundred times inferior to Liang Ji and Cao Cao in terms of power. Of course, he does not have this privilege. Like the three gongs, nine ministers and hundreds of officials, they have to move forward in a hurry, which is equivalent to trotting all the way.

The wind was so cold that my nose ran out of water.

It used to be that when we were in the Quefei Hall, we only needed to enter the Quefei Gate to enter the palace. Now that we suddenly moved to the Yutang Hall, we had to walk two more palaces, a distance of almost three to four hundred meters, and many officials were choked by the cold.

Fortunately, after passing Jiade Hall and Lantai, Yutang Hall was within easy reach, but the officials found it strange that the gate of Yutang Hall was closed and not opened.

"Strange, why is the door closed? Isn't it in Yutang Hall?"

"There are left and right officials and palace guards guarding the door. It should be right here."

"Then why?"

"Look, this Jade Hall is a little strange."

"What's weird?"

"Other palaces are covered with snow, but the area around Yutang Hall and the top of the palace are very dry and there is no snow. Isn't this strange?"
To be continued...