Zeng Bu frowned, held his beard without saying a word, and obviously fell into deep thought.

Lu Dian's method...is available, but it still makes people worry.

This is because this method can temporarily circle Guanluo's learning and empirical learning in the Great Way of Heaven and the Small Way of All Things. However, this cannot stop the spread of empirical learning. Now many students in the Imperial College have been bewitched by empirical learning. As for how many Confucian scholars outside the Imperial College are poisoned by empirical learning, it is even less known.

Some of these people will become the power of empirical studies in the officialdom after entering the imperial examination and high school in the future.

At that time, the Yuntai Academy, Jiehe Shang City, and the empirical officials may be connected together. In addition, Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an, and Gao Qiu, these treacherous slander may even bring together Han Zhongyan and combine them into one. That means you need money, power, and knowledge!

Moreover, the officials, businessmen, led by Wu Haogu, have strong abilities to do things, which is completely different from those Yuanyou treacherous parties who "don't cause trouble and do things". At that time, the empirical party may be spread throughout the court and the public, and the end of a new learning and new party will inevitably come.

It was obviously not Zeng Bu who had this idea alone. The atmosphere in the flower hall was still low, and everyone didn't speak, as if they were all in deep thought.

There was a dead silence in the huge flower hall.

I don’t know how long it took to hear someone speaking in Fujian Mandarin: “Oh, isn’t it just a group of craftsmen yelling? Do we still have to worry about those craftsmen when we are a wise man?”

After hearing this, Zeng Bu suddenly thought of something. He quickly turned his head and found that the person who was talking was Cai Jing.

Although Cai Jing has a great conflict with Zeng Bu and is very close to Wu Haogu, he is a new school school after all, and his younger brother Cai Bian is Wang Anshi's son-in-law!

So he also attended the secret meeting of the school held at the Zeng Buzhou Mansion tonight.

"Chief Yuan, you said the savage officer is..."

"Isn't the so-called path of nature and all things the wise and wise and wise and wise and wise, I heard that a wise and wise school was opened in the Yuntai Academy. Isn't this all the knowledge of wise and wise and wise? Wu Haogu himself is actually a wise and wise and wise."

The new party bosses present nodded one after another. Although the wise officials are also officials, they are the lowest-ranking existence in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty. They cannot be compared with noble civil officials from the imperial examinations at all. If civil officials are asked to be sent to the wise officials, it is an insult. For example, if the emperor thinks that an official has written well and asks him to write something, people will think that the emperor treats his own family as a "suspended order" and will most likely refuse. Of course, it is the case that the civil officials of the Song Dynasty dare to stand up like this. If it is my Qing Dynasty, it would definitely not dare.

Cai Jing paused, glanced at Zeng Bu with the corner of his eyes, and said with a smile: "Yuntai Academy is also half an official school, and his status is second only to the Imperial College, but the students have no serious way out, as if something is wrong."

"What Yuan Chang meant was to let the students of Yuntai Academy become craftsmen?" Zeng Bu's eyes lit up, and he had already understood Cai Jing's plan.

"Yes, let them be wise officials." Cai Jing smiled, "If anyone in the Imperial College has a high opinion of empirical theory, let them go to Yuntai Academy, and someone will do wise officials, right?"

"This is a solution." Zeng Bu nodded slightly, "Is it just that the official can agree?"

Cai Jing smiled, "Zihou, this matter is for me. I will find an opportunity to submit a memorial to the official family. Let's start with the craft officials of the Hanlin Fourth Bureau. In the future, all the craft officials of the Hanlin Academy will be born in the Yuntai Academy. In this way, the Yuntai Academy will not only become a craft academic college?"

The fourth bureau of Hanlin is the fourth bureau of astronomy, calligraphy, painting and medical officer under the Hanlin Academy. This Hanlin Academy is not the Hanlin Academy of Bachelor's Academy, but the Hanlin Academy of unworthy arts officials.

Zeng Bu nodded slightly. The philosophical officials are worthless. If the Yuntai Academy can be packaged into a school that specializes in training philosophical officials, then the empirical theories from the Yuntai Academy will be reduced together and become "the study of philosophical officials", and it will not be possible to become a prominent school...

Cai Jing laughed. He knew that this memorial would not offend the villain Wu Haogu too much, because the students in Yuntai Academy now have no way out and they don’t even have to be a wise official!

He thought to himself: If all the craftsmen from the fourth Hanlin Bureau in the future have to come out of the Yuntai Academy, it will actually greatly broaden the channels for students from the Yuntai Academy to enter the officialdom. He has helped Wu Haogu a lot!

Moreover, the Fourth Hanlin Bureau is just the beginning. In the future, there will be wise officials from the yamen offices such as military equipment supervisors, Shaofu supervisors, Dushui supervisors, and other wise officials in charge of mining and iron smelting can be handed over to the Yuntai Academy for training... If so many wise officials are from the Yuntai Academy, it will be so good at martial arts and Su Dongpo is busy.

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At noon on December 28, the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo of the Song Dynasty, on the official road leading to Qushan County, thirty or forty riders were riding on the official road to Qushan County on the Song Dynasty. These people were dressed as dusty officers and soldiers, wearing thick clothes and jackets, and their faces were thick. At a glance, you could tell that when you were walking in winter, you had oil on your face in order to prevent your skin from getting frozen, and as a result, a lot of dust was stuck.

In addition to their own mounts, these thirty or forty horses also brought another thirty or forty horses. The Song Dynasty could be very short of horses, especially after the Xining period, the supply of horses became a difficult problem. Originally, the cost of horses was too high, but now it was insufficient horses! Although in the past two years, because of the harmonious relationship with the Western Xia and the Liao Dynasty, a Jiehe Market was jointly established with the Liao Kingdom, and there was a lot of horses. However, in the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, a good horse was still worth hundreds of cranes, and it was still worthless.

The officers who can travel in one person and two horses are probably not seen in the heart of the Song Dynasty for a century!

So when everyone saw these officers and soldiers who were driving their horses with green robes and red jackets, and they couldn't help but look at them a few more times, and they were even more puzzled: This is the elite soldier of the general? Why are they so elite? One man and two horses. Looking at their bodies covered in dust, they were afraid they were very anxious, and they didn't know why they were doing the important business?

It seems that it is still hard to join the army!

However, although joining the army is hard, its income is still very rich. The court has never been vague about raising soldiers. The income of an imperial guard and a horse soldier is not much lower than that of a ninth-rank civil servant. Looking at these knights who are rushing to the road, most of them have emergency official duties. What else can Shangguan deduct them from money?

More than thirty miles west of Qushan County, the merchants in the Caoshi Wujia store, which was newly opened on the official road, saw the thirty or forty cavalry teams from afar. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and there are few people walking outside at this time. If they are still running outside, especially the official soldiers, they will not treat themselves too badly. I believe they will spend money to catch one by one.

So before these dozens of riders approached the Wujia store, a few guys wearing scarves came up with a smile on their faces.

"Dear officials, please invite us. We are a newly opened Wujia store. We hired the best master from Luoyang City, Xijing. We made good fish sashimi. We cut them into pieces and transform them at the entrance. Please take care of our store for a few big officials!"

"Dear officials, a buffalo has just died here. The government has already sold the beef, and the flower cake is good, cut white and roasted with sauce, all of which have been prepared. The officials must be in a hurry to go and leave when it is delicious."

The first person walking in front of this group of people was a white-faced young man. He looked handsome under the dust and looked gentle and elegant. He was dressed as a military officer, carrying a long sword bow bag, and a kind of heroic look that seemed a bit deliberate. Looking back, he smiled and said, "Haha, I actually arrived at the Wujia Store. Uncle Thirteen, is the place you are talking about??"

"Yes! It's here! The tens of thousands of acres of land around us belong to our family... This Wujia store is also our family's property. Last time, you didn't take this road when you left, so this time you might as well stay in the Wujia store for a day, look around, and meet your brothers and uncles."

"Haha, isn't we just going here just to meet everyone? We ran around for a long distance, but we suffered a lot. Why not just take a day off at the Wujia store... Shop, take out any delicious food and drinks you have."

The three or four horses and horses who were stopped were Wu Haogu and his party. He and Pan Qiaolian made an appointment to return to Haizhou before New Year's Eve, so they braved the cold and took Wu Chenglan, Zhou Yunqing, Luohan Maid and more than 30 guards to go south. The journey of more than a thousand miles took less than eight days.

The small Wujia store they arrived at today is actually not a territory for outsiders, but an industry of the Wujia family in Haizhou. The so-called "store" also means a city and a town in the Song Dynasty.

Although most of the Wu family members who moved from Baibo in Luoyang lived in Tianya Town, there were also some Wu family members who were good at managing all learned the way of Wu Chengchang, borrowed capital from Ximen Qing, and contracted a large area of ​​land, becoming farmers. There were about 30,000 acres of paddy fields, which were consigned to less than 20 Wu family members. The remaining ones were rented to more than 500 farmers who could attract men to participate in the Wujiazhuang Metropolitan Protection under very preferential conditions.

This Wujia store was also run by an uncle from Wu Haogu. He chose a territory close to the official road, and borrowed thousands of capital from Ximen Qing to open such a grass market.

To be honest, after these old farmers of the Baibowu family broke free from the shackles of the "Yimen Sect", they also showed unexpected production and operation skills.
Chapter completed!