An attack, which began well but ended badly, came to an end. The gifted scholar of Yanling Confucian Temple kept out of harm’s way while Zhou Xuance was not injured seriously. In this way, the Confucian Temple actually lost nothing in the attack. However, two things would spread through the world.
Needless to say, the reappearance of Lin Hongzhu, the principal of the demonic sect, would bring fear into all major Confucian academies in Yanling. After the fall of the demonic sect, learned Confucian scholars in many academies had issued papers to blame Lin Hongzhu betraying the Confucianism and a lost soul of the Confucianism But the papers were issued only after the Confucian scholars learned the news that the principal had died. The timing was subtle, and it made people clapping their hands and applauding. It was to add brilliance to the splendor of the Yanling Confucian Temple. However, when these old masters got the news that Lin Hongzhu was still alive, they ne
Autumn had been around for some time.These days, it rained several times in this autumn in Huaiyang City, the capital of the Chen Kingdom. The life inside the city was comparatively stable.Although there was no substantial progress as the Chen Kingdom sent army to suppress the Zhou Kingdom, they had put all their military strength on the boundaries and it seemed that the Emperor of the Chen Kingdom got nothing else to do, apart from continuously sending money and provisions in national treasury to the boundary.The Emperor of the Chen Kingdom was puzzled in the continuous autumn rains. It was true that the national power of the Chen Kingdom was limited, but it was compared with the Yanling Empire which towered over the world. But compared with the Zhou Kingdom, the Chen Kingdom was a huge monster. But the huge monster had sent armed forces to suppress the Zhou Kingdom twice. The first time, they had obviously got the worst of it even t
The sword ray was intangible. Li Fuyao didn’t really make a sword move. When he stopped walking and looked inside his vital, he saw a teenager in black sat cross-legged and there was a half sheathed sword on his lap.The teenager looked the same as Li Fuyao and his sword was the same as Green Strand.When Li Fuyao looked at the mini boy, he happened to raise his head and looked at him.When their eyes met, they could see the sword ray.“The world is big, and is it sufficient to take a sword move?”The mini boy stood up, hung the sword at his waist and asked smilingly, “If there is another road and you can choose, will you choose it or not?”Li Fuyao knitted his eyebrows. He looked at the mini boy and replied softly, “Since I am already here, I will go on along this road. If I give up halfway, I’m afraid I will be unable to lift a sword later.”The mini boy burst into laughter and said,
It rained heavily in Huaiyang City and lots of things had happened in the rain.For instance, in the heavy autumn rain, Prime Minister Luan had a talk with the Emperor of the Chen Kingdom and he decided to leave.When the conversation was done, people in the mansion of Prime Minister Luan got busy.There was no major accident happened inside the mansion of Prime Minister Luan in Huaiyang City dozens of years since its establishment. What Luan Ping told the teacher was true, and he has experienced it in person. Luan Ping managed the people around him quite well. Thus, in the past decades, his family members and relatives had never done anything that exceeded what was proper.That was why Luan Ping could stand erect in the imperial court of the Chen Kingdom for years without a fall.But now Luan Ping had decided to leave the Chen Kingdom now and he had reached an agreement with the Emperor.The entire
Li Fuyao and Luan Ping went into the city with a one-hour interval.The heavy rain still went on.With the sword case on his back, Li Fuyao went into the city and he directly found an unimpressive and isolated inn to stay. He went into his room and closed the door. The teenager, who had broken through in the heavy rain, lay on the bed and soon fell into sleep.He was unwilling to sleep at such a condition, but anyway, it was not easy for him to break through in the heavy rain. Besides, he had boosted his spirits to confront the old man at an unknown stage, and he was really exhausted. Thus, he didn’t go to see Huaiyang City in the rain, he didn’t come up with an idea to help the Zhou Kingdom, but he went to have a good sleep.As a matter of fact, Huaiyang City got a different flavor in the rain. ...Luan Ping held an umbrella and stopped by the gate of his mansion. He didn’t go in immediately. He r
“What on earth does my brother think?”At the same time, after the heavy rain stopped, a middle-aged man in embroidered robe furrowed his eyebrows in the study of Prince Qi’s mansion.He was Prince Qi who didn’t care for power and influence all his life. In the years when the current emperor ascended the throne, he had never done anything improper. Truth to be told, he didn’t pretend to be unaccomplished because he was afraid that the emperor would guard against him, which was the suspicion of outsiders.Prince Qi really didn’t put the throne in his mind.He didn’t want to fight for it.The orientation of his study was not well, so it needed to light up in daytime when the weather outside was not well. In the past, it was the servant of the mansion who lighted up the study for him. There was a maid in the mansion, and Prince Qi called her Light Maid. The maid took care of the light in the study.Tod
Perhaps many things were doomed. But naturally, there were many things full of variables.The Emperor of the Chen Kingdom thought that nobody knew the departure of Prime Minister Luan except him. But who would have thought it had been circulated before Prime Minister Luan left Huaiyang City?As for how the news spread, the Emperor knew that, without doubt, it was his good brother, the Prince Liang, that had done it.Even if it was a done deal and the news could not be concealed, the Emperor still expressed his fury and smashed several antiques of the former dynasty in the Imperial Study that day.If this had been seen by those merchants in Huaiyang city who liked to collect antiques, they might not be able to sleep for a whole night.His Majesty’s had a large fortune, so it might not be painful to see these smashed antiques, but for ordinary people like them, they could even hardly get an item from the forbidden
But soon the dismayed scholar figured out one thing, “The copy that you let me make by imitating Prime Minister Luan’s calligraphy was not for collection?”In surprise, Li Fuyao looked at the scholar, who could barely afford to eat, and then shook his head.He wouldn’t say more.It was already a boring thing, no matter how much he talked about it.The scholar looked in silence at the silver ingots in front of him, lost in thought.He would have liked to ask for clarification, but would the money still belong to him after he got the answer?People had to give to get.Walking out of the not-so-large painting and calligraphy shop and looking at the sky with not-so-good weather, Li Fuyao looked odd, with his sword case on his back.Walking through the crowd, he came to a lane called Vegetation Lane. Li Fuyao did not stop, just murmuring, “This is just a gamble.”Th
Indeed, in all the stories about coups and treason, money was indispensable.Whether it was used to reward the soldiers who sacrificed their lives or to bribe the generals, money was the most effective and useful thing.Therefore, in those stories, once people wanted to stage a coup, for the start, the first thing they do was find someone with a lot of money.There were many wealthy people in Huaiyang City.But their wealth was all a far cry from that in the national treasury.The only person who could draw silver ingots from the treasury in a short period was the old His Excellency Xun Fang, the Minister of Revenue.Therefore, if Prince of Liang wanted to stage a coup, for a start, he needed His Excellency Xun to draw some money from the treasury.In the year of Chenghua, one vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue did so by chance. He embezzled 300,000 taels of silver ingots from tho