Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

"Northern Qing University?" Yan Shu was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

He knows the university, the way of the university lies in Ming Mingde.

But what does Qingbei mean?

Liu En smiled: "Our family doesn't know, Qingbei is the name chosen by His Majesty himself, so there is naturally His Majesty's deep meaning in it."

Yan Shu thought: "Qingbei, could it be..."

Is it the meaning of cleansing the north?

Then the purpose of His Majesty running this school...

That's why he, who used to be the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, was asked to come...

Liu En said: "If Lord Yan is puzzled, why not come with our family into the palace to meet His Majesty."

Yan Shu hurriedly said, "But now I'm under house arrest at home, and I'm not allowed to go out."

Liu En smiled: "Our family can bring Lord Fan to see Lord Yan, so naturally we can also bring Lord Yan to see His Majesty."

At the climax of the moon, Zhao Yiyi still did not fall asleep.

Liu E's eyes and ears are all over the palace, and in his bedroom, from the maid holding the fan to the eunuch on duty at night, are all Liu E's people.Zhao Yiyi couldn't trust anyone except Liu En who was completely loyal to him.

Without Liu En, he didn't even dare to close his eyes.

The ghost knows whether Liu E will suddenly discover his life experience, and then go completely crazy, rushing in and strangling him to death under the quilt.

Although he knows that this possibility is very slim, but if a person bears a life-threatening secret for so long, this secret will start to eat his flesh and blood, making him have nightmares and sweat every dark night .

Only when he could see Liu En as soon as he opened his eyes, could Zhao Yiyi feel safe.

Liu En is an AI produced by the system and will not betray himself.Liu En's martial arts is very high, even if Liu E breaks into the palace with his guards, Liu En can keep him safe.

The big deal is not to be the emperor anymore, pack up and go to the south of the Yangtze River to become a rich man.

Zhao Yiyi also comforted himself over and over again, knowing that there were not many people who knew the truth about the replacement of the civet cat for the prince, only Liu E, Guo Huai, the midwife, Kou Zhu, Chen Lin, the Baxian King, and Princess Di. A concubine Li who had already faked her death and left the palace.

And only Kou Zhu, Chen Lin, Concubine Li, and Baxian Wang and his wife knew about their backgrounds.

Kou Zhu is dead, Chen Lin has a strict mouth, Concubine Li is wandering in the rivers and lakes, and the Baxian Wang couple and herself are grasshoppers tied to the same rope. If Liu E knows the truth, the two of them will definitely die before her.

And even if Liu E knew the truth, she would not dare to act rashly for the time being, at least she would not be able to kill herself decisively.

He is now the emperor, and this identity is his greatest talisman.

If Liu E killed the emperor, who would he find to inherit the throne?

She had no biological son herself, and Song Zhenzong did not leave other heirs.Zhao Yiyi temporarily has the status of Song Zhenzong's adopted son, so he has to regard Liu E as his mother.If another clan son is found to succeed the throne from outside, who will recognize Liu E as the Queen Mother?

But these are not enough to dispel the fear in my heart.

Because fear never comes from the possibility of others hurting you, but from the ability of others to hurt you.

A tiger that has just eaten is scary, even if you know that it will not hunt again for a short time when it is full.The hungry pup makes for a laugh, even as it roars with all its might, revealing a gum that has just erupted in a baby tooth.

It is impossible for Zhao Yiyi to sleep peacefully on the dragon bed before he truly gains power.

The feeling of having a sword hanging over your head is just too bad.

He really didn't want to live another day like this.

Every time Liu En was sent out to work by him, Zhao Yiyi huddled under the quilt alone, stared at the patterns on the ceiling with his eyes wide open, and waited for Liu En to come back.

He even deliberately slowed down his breathing, because if the eunuch on duty at night found that he was not asleep, Liu E would ask him inadvertently the next day: "The emperor hasn't slept well recently, it's because the people in the palace didn't pay attention Do you serve?"

Zhao Yiyi made such a mistake when he first conquered Liu En. He was so smug that Liu E became suspicious, thinking that Liu En wanted to climb high and change himself to a new master.

The result of that time was that Liu E reprimanded Liu En for his ineffectiveness on the grounds that the emperor's clothes did not fit, and took Liu En away for three full days.

For three days, Zhao Yiyi lived his daily life as usual, trying to keep his spirits up during the day so that no one would see the truth about his sleepless nights.Occasionally quarreled with Liu E and asked her to return Eunuch Liu to him.

How natural it is for the young emperor to rely on the eunuchs around him.

He has not received the system's recovery AI reminder, which means that Liu E has not taken Liu En's life for the time being.

Sure enough, three days later, Liu En came back.

Zhao Yiyi didn't ask him what Liu E had done to him in the past three days, but he became more cautious from then on, not daring to let Liu E notice him.

He silently counted the hours in his heart.

Yan Shu's house was very close to the Imperial Palace, so Liu En went there once, plus the time it took for Fan Zhongyan to persuade Yan Shu should not exceed two hours at most.

The palace goes to bed at Xushi, and Liu Enxu leaves the palace at every moment. It should be Zishi now, and Liu Enxu will be back soon.

The bed curtain moved slightly, Liu En lifted the curtain, and walked in with Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan.

Zhao Yiyi let out a long sigh of relief and sat up: "You are finally here."

The eunuch who was watching the night outside the house was fascinated by Liu En's medicine.When I wake up tomorrow morning, I will only think that I couldn't help falling asleep during the night watch.

Zishi is the time when people are most prone to sleepiness, and the night watchman can't help but fall asleep once or twice, it's not a big deal.

Even if Liu E asks what happened tonight tomorrow, they will tell Liu E that the emperor is fine and the night is peaceful.

But this kind of thing can't be done too much. If you do too much, Liu E is not a fool. He will always find out, and it will be bad.

Yan Shu had never seen a little emperor in a nightgown, and was a little at a loss for a while, so he hurriedly saluted, "Yan Shu, the sinful minister, I greet Your Majesty."

Zhao Yiyi lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and helped him up: "Yan Qing, please get up quickly."

Yan Shu said: "The guilty minister has no face to see His Majesty!"

He spoke with sincerity.

Thinking that he was originally a gangster, he followed Lai Guogong's footsteps, and never thought about what he should do for the emperor as a subject of the emperor.

After being squeezed out by the Kou Dang, he couldn't think about it, and beat someone in front of the emperor, and bumped into Luanjia. This crime was even more serious.

The little emperor was able to disregard past suspicions, saw Yan Shu's talent, and entrusted him with the heavy responsibility of setting up the school.

Zhao Yiyi said: "Okay, Yan Qing, I think you can understand the current situation of you and my ministers. You don't need to say such polite words, it's just a waste of time. Fan Qing and Liu Gonggong should tell you Are you doing school work?"

Yan Shu nodded: "Lord Fan told the sinners that the emperor wants to run schools among the people in order to educate the people and promote the style of study."

Zhao Yiyi nodded: "Exactly. But what I want is not another Imperial College."

"What I want is a school that can truly cultivate talents. Instead of being reduced to the back garden of the rich and powerful like the Imperial College."

Zhao Yiyi looked at Yan Shu and said, "Now I am not in charge of the government. If this school is opened in the name of the government, the children of Gaoliang will definitely flock to it. I can't control them, and the school can't control them. These people will definitely use the school just opened. The school is in a mess, which is absolutely not what I want to see. Therefore, I can only ask Yan Qing to resign and run the school for me."

Yan Shu paused: "The guilty minister swears to his death to run a good school for His Majesty!"

Zhao Yiyi said again: "After Yan Qing resigned, she was no longer the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, but a commoner who had been convicted and offended both the Queen Mother and the Duke of Lai. Yan Qing, in her own capacity, To open a school, anyone with an official position in the court will definitely not want to be involved in this school. Generally, merchants and gentry with big families and careers may not be willing to send their children to school. Only scholars who have always admired Yan Qing very much, or They are people who are dedicated to learning and don't care about the disputes between the court and the opposition, and then there are Han Su's children who know nothing about the affairs of the court. Has Yan Qing thought about this?"

To put it bluntly, it is a brain, a fan, a nerd, and a child of a poor family.

Zhao Yiyi was a little worried that Yan Shu would resist these kinds of people.

Brainless fans are better, after all, no matter how stupid they are, they are still fans, and no one will raise eyebrows at their own fans.

But the latter two may not attract Yan Shu's attention.

Although Yan Shu is a great talent, he is also a romantic and wealthy talent, and his career as an official has been going smoothly until recently when he stumbled.

In the face of nerds who don't know how to study hard and are inevitably a bit dull, and poor students from poor families who may be a bit petty, can Yan Shu maintain a normal mind and complete the task of running a school?

The idea of ​​running a school was not a project specially designed by Zhao Yiyi to recruit Yan Shu on a whim, but something he had made up his mind to do from the moment he got the system.

Ever since he got the Eternal One Emperor Cultivation System and began to enter the palace to intrigue with all kinds of people, Zhao Yiyi clearly felt one thing: there is a shortage of talents, a shortage of talents!

I think he is an emperor anyway, and the government is controlled by the Queen Mother and the Duke of Lai, so it is his turn not to intervene in big and small affairs. Why is this?

Isn't it because no one in the court supports him?

People from the two parties of Kou and Liu almost occupied the court, and his royalist party struggled to survive. Up to now, only four and a half members have developed: Fan Zhongyan, Di Qing, Bao Zheng, Liu En, and half of them are in front of us. Yan Shu.

For any big or small matters, it was him, the emperor, who went into battle with Fan Zhongyan, and any trivial matters had to be brought to him and waited for him to deal with.

The travel expenses for Bao Zheng's business trip to Yangzhou were actually borrowed by the emperor from his brother Zhao Yunxi when he went back to the Nanqing Palace - a total of 50 taels was borrowed, which was probably enough for Bao Zheng to hire a boat.

The 50 taels is an amount that Zhao Yiyi can't afford at the moment: Liu E is not his mother, so of course he won't give him pocket money.

Anyway, the palace is in charge of food and drink, so the emperor will not starve to death.

Due to etiquette, Di Niangniang could not send things to the palace to subsidize him.

What's the matter, your son has become the emperor, and you are entangled here again, don't you want to be the queen mother too?

Di Niangniang didn't dare to give it, Liu E didn't think it was necessary, and Zhao Yiyi had no other source of income, Liu E was in charge of the palace treasury, and even the emperor had to clearly record on the account how many dim sum he ate every day.

As for learning from the last emperor Puyi to use the name of the reward to dump things outside the palace...

First of all, he must have a trustworthy accomplice like Pu Jie.

Who do you give this to?There has to be someone to choose, right?

Zhao Yunxi definitely couldn't do it, and Liu E could bear it when he went back to Nanqing Palace to visit occasionally, but it was not good to subsidize his family with things from the palace every day.

And after all, he has adopted Song Zhenzong as his son, and the Baxian King is now his uncle.It is really taboo to subsidize the uncle's son with his father's things.

If Zhao Yunxi can't do it, then the others can't do it either.

No matter whether Zhao Yunxi is his own brother or cousin, he is a relative after all.It is not easy to reward even relatives, and it is even more inexplicable to reward others.

So now Zhao Yiyi is really cash-strapped and doesn't have half a big money.

The pocket money of a son of the Eighth Prince's Mansion is actually more than that of the emperor. One can imagine how difficult it is for him, the emperor.

Like this time too, it was to recruit Yan Shu, a total of four of them from the royalist party in Beijing, except Di Qing, who was trapped in the military camp and isolated from the world, and the remaining three were all dispatched.

If his royalist family had a great career, how could he be in such a mess like he is now!

After all, there is still a shortage of people.

It's not just that he, the royalist party, is short of people, in fact, the entire Song Dynasty is short of people.

Whether it is administrative talents or professional talents in all walks of life, there is a shortage.

Zhao Yiyi couldn't wait for all the talents to come to him like civil and martial arts stars, he had to take the initiative.

If there is a shortage of talents, we must either recruit them or cultivate them.

But at present, the talents that Zhao Yiyi can see all have their own positions-either they stand for the Queen Mother, or they stand for the Duke of Lai, and they don't stand for the Emperor anyway.

People like Fan Zhongyan and Yan Shu are not tolerated by the two parties. To be honest, they are all leaks.

Bao Zheng and Di Qing belonged to those who had a destiny, so it was not counted.

Picking up leaks can live for a while, but not forever.Therefore, Zhao Yiyi planned to establish a comprehensive university in the Song Dynasty from the very beginning.

That's right, what he wants to establish is not a traditional academy that specializes in cultivating literature and history, but a comprehensive university in the true sense.

Literature and history must be taught, arithmetic, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, handicrafts, etc. must be taught.

Yan Shu, the candidate for the first principal, had been optimistic for a while.

A great talent who has left his name through the ages is really suitable for teaching.

However, how to persuade Yan Shu, who is a traditional feudal bureaucrat, to agree to establish a comprehensive university that is inclusive and includes the so-called "gentlemen despise" "witch doctors and musicians with a hundred craftsmen"?

Before he could figure it out, Yan Shu provided him with a new idea.

He didn't need to persuade Yan Shu to establish such a university, he just needed to make Yan Shu have to establish such a university.

So he deliberately squeezed Yan Shu into such a dilemma.

Either resign, or give up the opportunity to run a school for His Majesty.

To resign is to give up all the political capital accumulated in the past, but to give up running a school is to block the only way to get ahead.

After weighing it over and over again, Yan Shu finally chose to resign.

And this choice was deliberately forced by Zhao Yiyi to make him.

He had to let Yan Shu resign and run the school as a commoner.

In fact, it doesn’t matter where to run a school. It may not be that only Bianliang can run a university.

As long as he wanted, Yan Shu could run a school for him while being an official.

Wherever Yan Shu was demoted, the school opened there.

But he didn't want Yan Shu to do this.

People in Bianliang City knew that Yan Shu had angered those in power and that his future was hopeless, but people in other places might not know it.

If Yan Shu went out to other prefectures with the identity of a servant, he would be a dignified official when he arrived at the jurisdiction, and the respect he received might not be much less than that in Bianliang City.

Even if someone knew about Yan Shu's past, so what?The county magistrate is not as good as he is now. Although Yan Shu can't get along in the capital, he is still a local emperor when he gets to the local area.If he runs the school as an official, I am afraid that the local gentry will flock to him, and anyone with a little reputation will have to sharpen their heads to get in.

This is not the situation that Zhao Yiyi wants to see.

He didn't want too many children from wealthy families to enter this newly opened school.

Of course, it was just an excuse that it was not easy to manage. If Yan Shu went out of the state, how could he, as a local governor, not be able to control a group of gentry's sons.

The real reason is - if the students are all from the wealthy class, then their enrollment needs are naturally to study the books of sages, and then make friends with Yan Shu, a former high-level official in the court, so as to prepare for the future imperial examinations and official positions. get ready.

To put it bluntly, this group of people came here with the idea of ​​"study and excellence will lead to official career".

Of course, Yan Shu himself supported this approach.

In his view, it is absolutely correct and normal that one who excels in learning leads to an official position.

If you don't want to be an official, who will study?

What's the point of running a school if it's not for cultivating talents who can succeed in officialdom in the future?

But what Zhao Yiyi needs is not a cadre training institute that can only train officials, but a comprehensive university that can train talents from all walks of life.

So he had to work hard at the source of students.

If the sons of the country gentry want to work hard to make progress, the only pursuit is to be an official through the imperial examination.

But children from poor families are different.

Being a doctor, a carpenter, a farmer, blacksmithing, fishing, shipbuilding, and house building are all good ways out in the eyes of poor people.

If a school only enrolls children from country gentry families, it will gradually evolve into a specialist school dominated by literature and history.

And if a school recruits students from all walks of life, and even children from poor families account for a larger proportion, it will become a comprehensive university with a complete range of disciplines.

After all, students want to learn everything, and schools have to teach everything.

But, might Yan Shu want to recruit children from poor families as his students?

how can that be possible.

So Zhao Yiyi had to force him, force him to resign, stay in the capital where he had nowhere to go, start from scratch, and start his first school.

The rich and powerful disdain to go, the wealthy dare not go, only the children of poor families may be willing to go.

If Yan Shu insisted on only teaching sage books in school, then he might not be able to recruit too many students.

How can there be so many children from poor families who want to study and become officials?

Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't dare.

To learn a craft, the master takes care of food and shelter. Although he suffered a little bit of training when he was an apprentice, he will not starve to death after all. After leaving the teacher, he will be able to support himself immediately.

To read sage books, the master has to charge tuition fees regardless of food, and usually spends a lot of money on pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and there is nowhere to find work to support yourself-after reading, naturally I don’t want to do physical work, but fine work can’t be done either. Just starve.

After studying for a few years, I became a teacher and wanted to take the imperial examination.But the imperial examination is a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops, how can it be so easy to take the exam?

If you pass the exam, you will leap into the dragon's gate, if you fail the exam, you will drink the northwest wind forever.

Therefore, if there is no ability to support an idler who eats rice, few families are willing to let their children study for the imperial examination.

Children from poor families either farm the land, or work in the streets and alleys, or learn a craft, or go to the army - no one goes to school.

In order to run the school and attract the students who were most likely to be recruited, Yan Shu had to agree to add other subjects to the school.

So Zhao Yiyi asked Yan Shu, if he was a child of Han Su, would Yan Qing be willing to recruit into the school and teach him carefully?

Yan Shu replied without hesitation, "Yes."

At this time, he hadn't thought about the twists and turns in the little emperor's heart, but thought that the emperor wanted him to express his determination, so he agreed immediately.

So what about Han Su's children, his good friend Fan Zhongyan is a Han Su's child, when he was young, he was so poor, he only drank a bowl of porridge a day, and he still picks and searches for meat, and he dare not let go of meat, isn't Mr. Yan Had a good time with him too.

Master Yan does not discriminate against the poor.

Zhao Yiyi smiled and nodded.

He could see what Yan Shu was thinking, and it seemed that he still hadn't anticipated what he was about to face.

"Since Yan Qing has made up her mind, I will leave the matter of opening the school to Yan Qing."

Zhao Yiyi patted Yan Shu on the shoulder: "It's late at night, Yan Qing should go back and rest. For more details, I will ask Eunuch Liu to write a booklet and send it to Yan Qing's residence."

Yan Shu thanked him again.

Zhao Yiyi asked Liu En to send Fan Zhongyan and Yan Shu back to the house, and he ran to the bed to lie down again, wrapping himself up with a quilt.

...still a little scared.

The shortage of manpower is uncomfortable, and I really want to be in charge as soon as possible.

...Or let Liu En kill Liu E and Kou Zhun tomorrow.

However, I heard that Kou Zhun had a martial artist beside him, and Liu En said that he had a [-]-[-] chance of winning against him.

Then it won’t work, you can’t do [-]-[-] things, what if it fails.

Kou Zhun can't move, and neither can Liu E. This is too disturbing. When will my royalist party really stand up.

It's so cold, so scary, when will Liu En come back.

Liu En came back immediately, and brought back a piece of news that wasn't too good.

"As soon as this subordinate sent Master Fan home, he received a secret letter from Yangzhou."

Zhao Yiyi hurriedly said, "What secret letter?"

Liu Endao: "It's strange to say that when His Majesty delivered the imperial letter to Bao Zheng before, Lord Tuo Fan's family members went to Yangzhou in person. That person went to Yangzhou and never came back, but judging from Bao Zheng's subsequent actions , this royal letter has still been delivered.”

"Just last night, this family member finally returned to the capital. Master Fan and his subordinates went to Lord Yan's residence, and they didn't see him immediately."

"When my subordinate brought Lord Fan back to the mansion, he was lying in front of the door, his tongue was cut out, he was already dead, and there was still a letter in his hand."

Zhao Yiyi opened the letter and read it, and saw four large characters written on it with a black pen: Wenqu is in danger.