Taiping Inn

Now that the struggle between Confucianism and Taoism has become a trend, Qingyang Sect and Qingluan Guard appear and disappear from time to time. At this time, Li Xuandu is sitting on Taiping Mountain and begins to mobilize the power of the inn. In addition to investigating Qingyang Sect and dealing with the infiltration of Qingluan Guard, the main task of the inn is to infiltrate Confucianism. Taoism is divided on the surface. Although Confucianism still maintains unity on the surface, there are many factions inside, and internal struggles and internal consumption continue. Otherwise, it would not have been delayed in responding to the peace talks of Taoism, which also gave the "Taiping Inn" an opportunity.

Li Xuandu has two key chess pieces in his hand. The first chess piece is Pei Yu, who he personally arranged, so Pei Yu is the top-ranked clerk of the "shopkeeper" faction. The second chess piece is Qin Su who personally arranged it. He belongs to the top-ranked clerk of the "dongjia" faction. Pei Yu's identity is a disciple of the Sheji Academy, but this person directly settled in the Wanxiang Academy, and he also has the identity of the Wanxiang Academy as a cover. Compared with Pei Yu, this second chess piece is more important, and fewer people know about it. In addition, Li Xuandu will hardly send any tasks unless it is necessary. In other words, this is a temporary idle piece.

Wanxiang Academy, named "Wanxiang", has the meaning of being all-encompassing. The six arts of a gentleman are etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. Music is music, so there are many priests who teach music in Wanxiang Academy. There are many women among these priests who teach music, and Su Lianrong, who was ranked as one of the four great masters of the imperial capital, is also among them.

There are female priests, and naturally there are female students. However, unlike men, there are poor men among the men, but women are all from high-ranking officials. The reason is simple. Poor men can take the imperial examination and become officials, and give back to the family, so it is worth the whole family to support them. Poor women cannot become officials, so naturally they have no idea of ​​studying. When a woman from an aristocratic family gets married, she will be the mistress of a family. She will have to manage a huge mansion, hundreds of children, farm tenants, business partners, and various accounts clearly. She must be literate. Although wealthy families can hire teachers to set up private schools, many families still choose to send their children to the Wanxiang Academy because of its reputation and strict rules. To be utilitarian, the officialdom pays attention to classmates and classmates. There are so many court officials in the Wanxiang Academy. Even if their children can't learn any subtle words and great principles, it is also very good to accumulate some personal connections early. In the future, they will be proud of their classmates who have become frontier officials or central government officials.

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The Wanxiang Academy is divided into ten courtyards according to the ten heavenly stems. Su Lianrong belongs to the Dingzi courtyard. Today is her day to give a class. The not-small zither room is already full of people. The Book of Rites says: Men and women should not sit together, so men and women are clearly separated, sitting on the left and right, with a passage in the middle for two people to walk. Su Lianrong sits in the center, with a painting of "High Mountains and Flowing Waters Meet a Soulmate" hanging behind her, which was created by a master painter in the academy. In front of her is an ancient low table with a zither on it. There is an incense burner next to the zither, and the mist is curling. Because the zither room has a wooden floor and is cleaned every day, everyone kneels or sits cross-legged. This low table is more suitable than a table.

Today, Su Lianrong seemed to have caught a cold. She was wrapped in a cloak and looked sick, but she was in good spirits. She was explaining the "New Book of Temperament" written in the previous dynasty. The book was closely related to the sage of Neo-Confucianism, so it is an orthodox work in the Wanxiang Academy and a must-read book for learning music. Moreover, this book has many advantages. It first proposed the theory of eighteen tempos to solve the problem that the interval relationship after the ancient twelve tempos was different from the Huangzhong palace tune.

At the same time, there was another person standing outside the Qinshe. He was not a student, but a priest.

This person's surname was Wen, and his first name was "Li". He had a good family background. His grandfather was Wen Ren, the chief priest of the academy, and his father also served as a priest in the academy. He had many disciples and was highly respected. With a family background, Wen Li was also well-read and had a lot of strategies. When he was lecturing and discussing politics in the academy, he often made amazing remarks, which attracted applause from the whole room. He was very famous in the academy.

Wen Li's love for Su Lianrong was no secret in the Wanxiang Academy. Both the chief priests and the students were happy to see it happen. The only thing was that the two could be considered a perfect match, but they were definitely not a good match.

The Wen family was not a noble family, and the requirements for family background were not as high as those of the Qin, Li, and Qian families. In many cases, as long as she was a good girl, she would be fine. But Su Lianrong was not a good girl. When she was in the Imperial Capital in her early years, her identity was a female Taoist priest, but in fact she was between an artist and a prostitute. Later, she became the outer residence of the King of Jin. Whether Su Lianrong was willing or not, in the eyes of others, she could not be considered a good person. Of course, the Wen family did not allow Wen Li to marry Su Lianrong, and Wen Li had already married at this age, so if Su Lianrong wanted to marry Wen Li, she could only be a concubine. Su Lianrong would never agree to this. Wen Li also knew that being a concubine was really unfair to the Su family, so he never forced her. He just sighed "I wish we had met before I got married" when he occasionally drank with friends.

After Su Lianrong finished explaining the music theory, she began to play the piano herself and demonstrated it to the students. Wen Li, who was outside the piano house, closed his eyes and listened quietly. Every time Su Lianrong gave a class, Wen Li would stand outside the piano house for a while if he was free. The length of time he stood depended on how much free time Wen Li had.

Recently, Wen Li just finished a long-term delayed poem. He has a lot of free time, so even though it was still drizzling today, Wen Li was still patiently standing outside the piano house with an umbrella, waiting for Su Lianrong to do it. After the music was played, the students also left the piano house, leaving only Su Lianrong walking at the end with Yaoqin.

Wen Li stood at the door with an umbrella and said to Su Lianrong who was about to go out: "It's still raining outside, give me the piano."

Instead of deliberately keeping people from thousands of miles away, Su Lianrong asked with a smile: "Is Wen Jijiu very idle today?"

"Let's just count it." Wen Li smiled, "In this academy, I'm busy, I have endless knowledge, and I'm idle, but I have plenty of time."

While speaking, Wen Li stretched out his hand.

Su Lianrong hesitated for a moment, handed the piano in her arms to Wen Li, and then opened her umbrella.

The two left the piano house and walked on the path paved with pieces of bluestone, with a distance of about one and a half feet. The spring rain fell on the surface of the oil-paper umbrella, and a delicate "slap" sound sounded. Su Lianrong suddenly remembered that she went there. It was also like this rainy day. Two guests came to visit. In a blink of an eye, more than half a year It's over.

At this moment, Wen Li suddenly said, "The world has not been peaceful recently. It is best for Su Jijiu to leave the school casually. If you have to go out, remember to know that I will accompany you out."

Su Lianrong was stunned and turned to look at this friend who loved her, "What's wrong?"

Wen Li sighed, "You are in the school, you are not in conflict with the world and don't know the affairs of the world. Mr. Qingping's peace talks were completed. He promoted the peace talks between the three families of Jiangnan, Jiangbei and Liaodong with his own strength, aiming to unify the Taoist sects, and For some reason, he proposed to choose the meeting place of the three families in Longmen Mansion, and the time was set before and after this year's Peony Flower Conference, and all three families have agreed."

Su Lianrong's face showed a look of shock.

Wen Li didn't find it strange because he was so shocked when he learned the news from his father and grandfather.

Su Lianrong sighed, "So, this year's peony flowers will be out of sight."

"There is no way, Zhang Jingxiu, Li Daoxu, Qin Qing, and Li Xuandu are the protagonists." Wen Li also sighed, "Along with these people, there are countless people from the world, these people from the world. If you don’t study or know how to be polite, you will know how to fight bravely. In the past ten years, many people have died in the city. The school and the government are now powerless and can’t control it, and don’t want to care. The people who die from both sides are all People in the martial arts world, and those who kill people are also people in the martial arts world, let them fight by themselves. So during this period, you should not leave the school, so as not to be affected by these martial arts world disputes.”

Su Lianrong nodded with a worried look on her face.

Wen Li comforted her and said, "Don't worry too much, the high priests are already thinking of ways?"

Su Lianrong asked curiously: "What's the solution? It's impossible for the high priests to come forward to drive people away. Even if they can drive away those people in the martial arts world, can they drive away the four big men who call the wind and rain in the martial arts world?"

Wen Li hesitated for a moment and said, "Those who can't be driven away, of course they can't be driven away. The key is that since the death of the saint, there has been no leader among the Confucian sects, and they are helpless against the top figures of the Taoist sect. They can still do anything about it before. For differentiation, checks and balances, now they are determined to join forces, so head-on conflict is not the best strategy, so several high-ranking priests discussed asking a few Confucian seniors with enough weight to come out."

Su Lianrong just said "oh" and didn't ask in depth.

Seeing that Su Lianrong was not interested, Wen Li's original slight warning was gone and she said without saying anything: "Are you not curious about what senior you are?"

Su Lianrong shook her head, "It's just this mountain man and that lay Buddhist, who are all respected people, let them come out to mediate."

Wen Li smiled and said, "You're just guessing this wrong. I heard that these Confucian seniors were all disciples of saints. Although they had never set up sects or wrote books, they all had the ability to understand the sky and the earth. They were amazing. Very."

Su Lianrong's face was even more worried, "I'm going to fight, the gods fight, and the mortals suffer..."

Wen Li said, "Don't worry, if you can't fight, seniors come forward, it will be difficult for people from Sheji Academy, Tianxin Academy and the four major academies to continue watching. At that time, our seven families will work together, and the people in the Taoist sect will not dare to let go. , this is called a soldier who defeats others without fighting."

Su Lianrong smiled, "I hope so."