Chapter 333 – Full Rack of Swords

Beiliang Pass outside there is that sound of hoofbeats, as if the sound of the old chick, stretches endlessly, has resounded for twenty years.

Inside the pass, there is the sound of reading, as if the young phoenix is clearer than the sound of the old phoenix.

These reading voices come from a brand new academy.

Liangzhou city and the newly created White Horse Academy, unlike the previous Qinglu Cave Academy are located in the mountains and forests, this academy was built in the downtown area of Liangzhou city, just from the capital to return to his hometown of science master Yao Baifeng served as the first head of the academy, not only the Royal House of Qingliang Mountain to give 6,000 volumes of books, the king of Beiliang Xu Fengnian is personally given a plaque, the Beiliang Road, the strategic ambassador of the Li Gongde, the new assassin Lu Dongjiang, the assassin of the State of Youzhou, Huang Yan, all have a private gift of books, for a time! Beiliang officials and dignitaries and the gentry followed, all of them took pride in donating rare books to the White Horse Academy.

This allowed the White Horse Academy to accomplish a feat that no one had done before or since, that is, on the first day of the Academy’s founding, the book collection reached 10,000 volumes, so the Academy’s book collection was also named after 10,000 volumes. At the same time, yao baifeng pioneered, in the academy set up a hall of sages, shaping the Confucian sages as well as ten philosophers 36 sages statue, at the same time yao baifeng monument and wrote an article to start, emphasizing that baima academy enrollment of scholars to preach the way to seek benevolence as the most important, and therefore do not teach the general government school academy cited as the basis of the science and technology, “system of art”, which is obviously the opposite of the science and technology of profit and fortune. This is obviously contrary to the science of the imperial examinations. In addition to Yao Baifeng as the head of the academy, Mr. Bai Yu, the renowned Longhu Mountain White Lotus from Jiangnan, and Xu Beihao, the former assassin of Lingzhou, served as the deputy head of the academy at the same time, and Huang Shang, the head of Green Deer Cave Academy, and other great Confucian scholars of the Central Plains who had rushed to the northern Liang to set down their roots, also promised that they would come to the Baima academy to give lectures on a regular basis, and it was even rumored that the priest Wang who led thousands of scholars to the Liang in the past had also promised to contact with the Shangyin Palace of Learning and guaranteed that every year, the academy would receive a lecture from the scholarly scholar who was known as It was even rumored that the priest Wang, who led thousands of scholars to Liang, also promised to contact the Shangyin Academy to ensure that every year a Mr. Jik Shang would be introduced from the Shangyin Academy, which was called “the source of the world’s reading seeds”, to teach in Liang for a period of one year.

As a result, the White Horse Academy, which originally accepted only eighty students, was overwhelmed and had to admit more than two hundred young scholars, roughly equaling the number of local and foreign scholars in Northern Liang. This is the Qingliu famous scholar of Liangzhou parents Lu Dongjiang is incomparable warm, will support the white horse academy as the first fire after taking office, the academy of all matters to facilitate the door, a look hate to the academy lecture hall as the assassin’s mansion of the frame, three days on the white horse academy to run, and more from the name of the Lu family to set aside 600 acres of good land in the name of the Liangzhou official to give the academy, which makes the original Lu family quite grumbling of the Beiliang The official circle was impressed, and even Song Dongming, the Deputy Secretary of Strategy, who had been estranged from the Lu family, once again hosted a private banquet for the Lu Breakers, who had once reached the heavens with their calligraphy.

Early fall, Liangzhou city a carriage slowly driving to the downtown area, the carriage is very ordinary, also no escort ride to follow, the horseman is a middle-aged man who does not look like a horseman, the car curtains have been lifted up a corner, the carriages in the person so quietly looking at the street picture, walk around the general.

Some stores have changed signboards, some stalls have disappeared, some restaurants are still selling the green ant wine, some inns have inherited their father’s business.

Passing by a newly opened store, the carriage slowly stopped, the horseman quietly waiting for the master’s command, do not dare to speak without authorization, to remind that the academy of the people are patiently waiting for his arrival.

The young man who carried a corner of the curtain looked at that store, remembered that in the past, every time the fresh clothes of the return trip, will go there to buy a large oil paper package of soy sauce beef, he is also precisely there to recognize the huh girl, at that time, never thought that the old owner of that store is Huang Sanjia.

At that time, the girl’s weird big cat, still alive.

Remember that year is also in this neighborhood, and something girl long goodbye reunion, but also for the first time to see the small monk who wants to become a buddha burned out the north and south, but also a rotting mountain monks must go to the West, so that he and that later in the entrance of the city of Xiangfan amazing white bodhisattva double cultivation, at that time he also think it is her old cow eat young grass to come, she is too shameless, he is too lose, so did not agree. After a period of time almost did not regret green intestines feet and chest to come, but now think of this pile of things, but also nothing more than a laugh. I don’t know why give birth to a full head of green silk female bodhisattva, and when traveling the rivers and lakes in the water at first sight mistakenly thought that she was banished immortal people, these moving women, wait until there is really close to the opportunity of the water tower, but did not have that kind of love mind, see still feel good-looking, but do not have to have, do not see even more will not miss.

He put down the curtain, softly said: “Steward Song, go to the White Horse Academy.”

Steward Song, Northern Liang Qingliang Mountain King’s Mansion Grand Steward Song Yu. It could be said to be unique in the Northern Liang Road, there was no other place.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the White Horse Academy, and as Xu Fengyen stepped off the carriage, he suddenly asked, “Is it true that there aren’t many assassins who broke into Qingliang Mountain in these years?”

Song Yu stood respectfully beside the young vassal king, bowed slightly and said in a calm voice, “Your Highness, probably that gang of foolish jianghu recklessness finally got the hang of it, this year’s Qingliang Mountain, there hasn’t been a single assassination yet, it’s peaceful as hell, and a lot of the people in the house are a bit uncomfortable with it.”

Xu Fenian laughed, “Indeed there is a lot less fishing, right, it seems that there are a lot fewer ranger’s children throwing their weight around?”

Song Yu laughed softly, “Nowadays, when the experts of the rivers and lakes want to shake their skills in front of the king’s eyes, it’s a bit too difficult for them.”

The White Horse Academy side did not have a large crowd to greet them, Xu Fengyen stood on the street side, looked up at the plaque of the White Horse Academy, and sighed, “I never thought that we could have a academy opening in Liangzhou.”

Song Yu said, “It’s all thanks to the king, not everyone under the sky is blind or smothered in lard, justice lies in the hearts of the people.”

Xu Fengyen nodded in a serious manner, “Song Yu your ass-kissing efforts over the years have not fallen off at all ah, other people say good things to your face, it is always not as good as you go back to the basics.”

Xu Fengyen has been the son of the emperor for many years, Song Yu, who has been following him closely for many years, smiled brightly, seemingly remembering the ridiculous times of bullying men and women for the emperor in the early years.

Song Yu’s skill of flattering the horse has not decreased, but in recent years, his qi cultivation is even higher, coupled with familiar with the young feudal king’s temperament, for the White Horse Academy’s lack of movement, there is no dissatisfaction, naturally, he will not make the kind of uninteresting behavior of asking for punishment. What’s more, he knows better than anyone around this Northern Liang iron horseman co-owner, these years to the readers has been extremely generous, otherwise this does not sound like an amazing white horse academy can not be up. There are not many rich and powerful feudal kings in the Liyang Dynasty, but there are quite a few, just like the bold King Zhao Bing of Yanzhi, or King Zhao Yi of Guangling, who used to be as powerful as ever, who can let those learned scholars gather together to preach and teach within their jurisdiction? Jing’an Road also has a green party in the court, but also close to the hinterland of the Central Plains of the Shangyin Palace of Learning, but it is not the same as not able to set up a worthy academy?

Song Yu did not show glances at the scene near the carriage, in fact, in addition to their this, there are four or five carriages, the same does not show the power and luxury to cover the extravagance of the people’s appearance, Song Yu know that today, in addition to the king’s presence, in fact, there are six or seven generals at the same time to come to the academy, is not a coincidence, but the White Horse Academy in the deputy director of the proposal of the Hovenia Xu Bei Hoan, every once in a while will be invited to military generals for the readers to talk about the sands, not to say that it is not in the other academy is never had. Other academies have never had such a thing, I’m afraid that in that old ancestor of the world’s academies, the Shangyin Academy, there has never been such a strange thing. The readers in the eyes of a reckless man, but also for the readers can not reason? Although these carriages do not look amazing, but those horses are not full-bodied expensive horses, accurately speaking, in the Northern Liang border army, non-A that is B, because this is from the Northern Liang fiber away from the Tianjing two pastures, only to go through a special channel into the Guannei and did not supply the border army, for this kind of thing, the old Liang King Xu Snapdragon or, Song Yu around the new Liang King, also, have turned a blind eye, and never! The old Liang King Xu Snapu or Song Yu around the new Liang King also, all turn a blind eye, never pursue.

Those old generals, one by one, have spent most of their lives in the military, and after they are discharged from the army and return to the field, what is wrong with having a dozen good horses at home?

It is said that today’s visit to the White Horse Academy of the Northern Liang meritorious old man, there is a short time ago to return to the border army but temporarily did not have the actual power of Wei Tieshan, Liu Yuanji two senior vice marshals.

The seven or eight generals, all of whom had been smoked by the smoke of spring and autumn, were the first group of old soldiers that Xu Beihao had graciously invited to the White Horse Academy.

Not to mention, the current Beiliang officialdom, especially the civil officials, I’m afraid that only Xu Beihao Chen Xiliang two young officials, can invite these old guys, even if the strategic ambassador Li Gongde can not do, the nominal deputy strategic ambassador, the de facto leader of the Beiliang civil officials song dongming can not do.

Even the nominal Deputy Secretary, the de facto leader of the civil officials in Northern Liang, Song Dongming, couldn’t do it, and Lu Dongjiang, the Assassin of Liangzhou, who is a “royal relative”, couldn’t do it even more.

Because if you say a heartbreaking words, in fact, today’s Northern Liang civil and military, only these two young people are the real ministers of the dragon.

Iron Floating Tutu main general Ning Emei, Youzhou general Huangfu Ping, infantry vice marshal Gu Dazu and others, compared to these two, is still to be a step behind.

The backbone of the White Horse Academy was actually not Yao Baifeng, the patriarch of the Liyang literary world, but Xu Beihao, who had retired from his position as the assassin of Lingzhou.

Song fishery as a former wutong courtyard steward, now is the whole Qingliang mountain big housekeeper, of course, is the young feudal lord deservedly body person, the most important thing is that Song fishery age is not too big, the early forties years old, if not unexpected, later not to say that there is no opportunity to do that Beiliang Xu family of the three dynasties, the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight, it can be imagined, this and the man has no official dress wear yellow purple uniforms have no relationship. The prime minister’s concierge is still a third-rate official, not to mention the number one butler of a feudal king’s residence. So Song Yu was very content and even more grateful to the Xu family’s father and son.

Song Yu slightly slowed down his pace and followed Xu Fenian towards the White Horse Academy.

White Horse Academy gate hurriedly walked out of a young green shirt scholar, looking around, saw Xu Fengyen and Song Yu slightly froze, he is a newly enrolled in the academy of a Huainan foreigner scholar, is not one of the year to follow the Wang priest along with the determination to go to the cool, ancestor and Yao Baifeng is the same classmate, once worshiped together with Mr. Zheng Yuan in Shangluo County, because of this incense, his grandfather after hearing that Yao Baifeng presided over the White Horse Academy re After hearing that Yao Baifeng presided over the White Horse College to resume lecturing, he let the first eldest grandson rush to Liangzhou, because of the character of the generous and gentle, deep family learning, the older Yao Baifeng let this young man to help with some of the trivial matters of ushering in and out of today’s gang of bigwigs of the military world of Beiliang grand entrance, more than he led into the academy. White Horse Academy is also temporarily get the news from the Qingliang Mountain side, said that the king is coming, which in the young scholar’s view is naturally a great thing, but Yao Baifeng and Xu Beihuan the attitude of the two Mr. let him some puzzled, not salty, and said that let him see the people lead the way on the line, but the young scholar inevitably difficult, and he can’t recognize the young feudal king, but soon released, must be a powerful Liyang But the young scholar had a hard time, he didn’t recognize the young feudal lord, but he quickly got over it. To be honest, he was very curious about the young feudal lord full of legend, but also have a few admiration, the Central Plains rumors “South Song and North Xu”, the West Chu Song Yushu’s colorful articles and North Liang Xu Fengnian’s poise and elegance, and called the world’s two best, quite like the Spring and Autumn period in the year, “South Xie and North Li” rhyme. “The young scholar looked at the young scholar.

The young scholar looked at the white-robed, sword-wearing man with only one escort, and his intuition told him that the man in front of him was most likely Xu Fengyen, but with such a light vehicle and simple escort, how could it be that the Lord of the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, who had succeeded in stirring up the momentum of the world?

Xu Fengyen ascended the steps and saw a simple wooden rack placed at the entrance, with a string of delicate jade hooks tied to the crossbar for hanging swords.

Xu Fengyen had once promised Huang Shang, the mountain master, at the early stage of the founding of Qinglu Cave Academy, that whichever Beiliang martial artist, regardless of rank, who wanted to enter Beiliang Academy would have to take off their swords.

At this time there are seven Northern Liang swords hanging on the wooden frame.

The wooden rack jade hooks hanging war swords.

Xu Fengyen walked in front of the wooden rack, looked at the handle of the sword, most of the old, none of the latest Xu six sword, one of the sheath wear and tear of the sword, and even perhaps can be called the first generation of the Xu family sword!

To know even in Qingliang Mountain, there is not a handle of the first generation of Xu knife, even if Xu Snapdragon in his lifetime had sent people in the Central Plains to buy such a sword, still no results, because the first generation of Xu knife casting is not much, a total of only 7,000, and secondly, the conditions at that time are harsh, casting process is very crude, resulting in the sword is not good, in the battlefield damage is very much, can not afford to stand a few battles, and Xu Snapdragon at that time, leading soldiers around the war, fighting Xu Snapdragon was leading his troops around the world, fighting a lot of bitter battles and losing battles, worse than a lost dog, honestly at that time, where to remember to keep a few swords as a souvenir? People can not live do not know, used to the life of war, as for the sword is not their own casting, really does not matter, to know that the war, even Xu Snapdragon himself have done in the battlefield directly peeled off the enemy armor draped over the body of the hook.

Xu Snapdragon, only like with Xu Fengyen bragged about his great achievements, said he fought how many great victories, defeated how many famous generals in the Spring and Autumn in the eight countries.

But never told Xu Fenian how much pain he suffered in those years, never mentioned a word.

A lot of things, is Xu Fenian a long time later, with Chu Lushan, Yuan Zuozong these people in the gossip heard.

Some times, Xu Fengyen will also think, if he has a child in the future, also have the opportunity to wait until they grow up, probably like Xu Snapdragon, will only tell them that dad has defeated a martial arts master in his life, and will not tell them how many injuries and how much blood has been shed in the life and death battle.

The world of father and son, roughly so.

I have never been a father, I do not know the hardship of my father.

Xu Fengyen slowly took off his belt knife, turned his head to look at Song Yu and asked with a smile, “Supervisor Song, your family’s twins who have just turned ten years old, will they get tired of your rambling?”

Hearing such a question out of the blue, Song Yu, who was extremely clever and eloquent, was still a bit caught off guard, but quickly smiled and said, “Naturally, every time I talk to those two children about how many big names their father has seen, they will always be scoffed at, and can’t wait to cover their ears, but when I talk to them about the king’s feats, the children will find it fascinating even if they have heard about it too many times. ”

Xu Fengyen in Qingliang Mountain has seen a few times that pair of powdered jade siblings, unlike the eldest brother who has already been crowned as an official and the second sister who married in Lingzhou, the temperament of the jumpy, mischievous, like to run around in the mountains, I heard that nowadays with Chen Xiliang from the south of the road to bring that young lady sister, Huyan Daguan’s daughter and Yu Xinlang stayed in the royal residence of the little green robes, are good, and often play together, and play, and once Xu Fengyen early in the morning alone Once Xu Fengyen was walking on the long embankment in the center of the lake alone in the early morning, a group of children sneakily squatted by the lake, using their homemade rough fishing rods to fish for carp, the small wooden pots were already crowded with four or five fat Koi carp. As a result, he bumped into them and deliberately coughed from afar, Song fisherman’s youngest son immediately overturned the wooden basin, letting all of them throw their fishing rods into the lake, and then ran away in a puff of smoke. Xu Fengnian, who was in tears and laughter, had to help this group of troublemakers to retrieve the fishing rods and wooden pots from the lake, and stayed in the same place.

The origin of the koi carp of Hearing Tide Lake is not bad, it comes from a large natural pool on top of a lofty mountain in Liaodong, this kind of Tianchi carp is not a common thing in the eyes of Qi Practitioners, it is born with golden scales and is burdened with earthly qi luck. Listening to the tide of the lake carp is known as a tail of ten gold, these years has been the Northern Liang civil officials dream of rare things, the early years of following Xu Snapdragon’s military generals are big old man, these things are not interested in the elegance, then not yet rebelled out of the Northern Liang to go to the city of Tai’an of Yan Jiexi, and do not care to ask for, only Li Gongde that year, cheeky with the primrose Xu begged for a few, Xu Snapdragon waved his hand and said that they grabbed to go, how many can grab up on the all carry! Home to go, at that time has been official in Fengzhou Governor Li Gongde really personally ran to catch, and finally caught seven or eight to go back to raise in their own pond, it is said that there has been a pond of a hundred carp of the weather, of course, Xu Fengyen and Li Hanlin know that Li Gongde every time the pond smiled from ear to ear, not from the bottom of the heart how much I like those born with a vision of the koi carp, but those carp, they are living silver ah!

That young scholar was shocked after hearing this conversation, he couldn’t believe that the young man in front of him was really that Beiliang King, the very one who led the Beiliang Iron Cavalry to hold back the millions of North Mang’s army.

After Xu Fengyen took off the cool sword at his waist, he gently hung it on a jade hook on the left most edge of the shelf.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but in this way, the six generations of Xu family’s war swords, all came together.

The young scholar was a bit terrified and hurriedly bowed, “Fengtang County Dai Yuanjie, see Your Majesty.”

Xu Fengnian was surprised, “Fengtang County of Jizhou? Who is Mr. Bananaan to you? Are you the grandson of the Dai family’s distant character?”

Dai Yuanjie was even more surprised, he did not expect that the feudal king would hear about his grandfather, their Dai family used to be a powerful family in the old Northern Han Dynasty, and in the past three hundred years, the descendants of the family have been ranked according to the eight-character lineage of “Temperance, tranquility, and distance”, and in Dai Yuanjie’s generation, it just happened to be the turn of the character “Yuan”, only that Dai’s family, like many other powerful families in the Spring and Autumn period, became a success or failure as a result of the “unrighteousness” and the “injustice”. The “unjust” war came to an end, the Dai family sank, the family children adhere to the rules set down by Mr. Bananaan, learning not to serve. Dai family library “eight hundred iron sword building” was once one of the six major bookstores in the Spring and Autumn period, especially the collection of more than a hundred kinds of Feng version of the good books, fine engraving, copy of the book is countless, the old Northern Han Dynasty was Xu Snapdragon with troops after the destruction of the country, the original has always been do not mind outsiders to climb Dai family library is no longer open to the outside world, that is, the family children may not be easily climbed to look at the books. The Dai family library is no longer open to the public.

The young scholar with a rich family background looked up and said, “It is the family ancestor!”

Xu Fengyen’s face was a bit embarrassed, “Half of the rare books in Listening Tide Pavilion’s Bong edition were extorted from your 800 Iron Swords Building by our Xu family in the early years, if you came to Beiliang to ask for those books, I will have someone organize them and try to return the original number.”

Dai Yuanjie heard this secret story for the first time, his grandfather had never mentioned this to him, and for a while he was even more embarrassed than Xu Fenian.

He was a weak scholar, how many guts could he have to come to Beilang to settle scores with this Northwest Vassal King?

Xu Fengyen smiled and said: ”The book is also eating dust at the Listening Tide Pavilion, it is better to return it to your Dai family, but in advance, the book can be returned, but the premise is that your Dai family book building must not be treasured, and needs to be open to the sons of other family names and foreign scholars. You can discuss this matter with Mr. Bananaan first. Of course, this is an ungrateful request, Mr. Banana may not agree to it, but it will not affect your studies at the White Horse Academy, so you, Dai Yuanjie, can relax. If it’s really not possible, I’ll give the books to the White Horse Academy in the name of your Dai family, and you can also make this clear to Mr. Bananaan in your family letter.”

After weighing his options, Dai Yuanjie was relieved and bowed again, heartily saying, “Your Majesty is magnanimous!”

Xu Fenian was dumbfounded, some of the words on his lips were still held back, in fact, Xu Snapdragon was relying on the knife to “borrow” the book, now it is only because of his Xu family’s hundreds of thousands of cool knives are still there, the matter of returning the book will become “huge”, in fact, this matter! In the final analysis, the Xu family is not in the right. Only Xu Fengnian did not want to talk to a descendant of the Dai family about this.

The best book, no one reads it, it looks very valuable, in fact, it is also the least valuable.

But Xu Fengyen also heard many strange words of Huang Longshi from Miss Oh, this Huang Sanjia said that the future readers, reading is too easy, to the blood of the sages, but do not pay attention to it, so there will be “the ancients have said all the reason” helpless sigh.

Xu Fengyen followed the young scholar into the White Horse Academy.

The young scholar had no reason to look back at the wooden frame.

After Spring and Autumn.

Xu family six swords.

Arrayed here.