Chapter 35

Hexi Road is not too rich. It is far worse than Jianghuai road and Henan road. But there is a Longxi County in Hexi Road. There are several aristocratic families in Longxi County that can rank among the top 15 in the whole court of the great Sui Dynasty. The most famous is the Li family in Xiangcheng.

Among the aristocratic families in Longxi, the Li family is the most special one. According to the inside information, this aristocratic family that has risen for less than a century can not be compared with the Yu family, the Liu family and even the Cui family. The Yu family and the Liu family were famous all over the world before the founding of the Sui Dynasty. The Li family became prosperous because the Sui Dynasty occupied the Central Plains. Even when the last leader Li Luan was in power, they really became one of the first-class aristocratic families.

But there is no doubt that it is precisely because of the emperor's trust in the Li family in Longxi that this family, which is still very young compared with other aristocratic families, has become the most prestigious family in Xiangcheng, Longxi County and even Hexi Road.

One hundred and forty cities on Hexi Road. When the martial arts academy recruits students, each of these 140 cities selects a young talent to take the exam. There is only one place, whether the city is large or small. The candidates of Xiangcheng in the previous two martial arts academy examinations were all from the Li family. The person elected six years ago is now fan Guya General Li Xiaozong. Li Fubo, who was elected three years ago, is said to be more brilliant than Li Xiaozong. He has been ranked in the top three in every assessment of the martial arts academy in the past three years.

This achievement is enough to make the Li family proud of it.

You should know that after each student of the Academy graduates, the top three students will be directly pulled out by the military department. The worst is to directly seal it as the five grade general.

The slogan of the martial arts academy's enrollment is that you can sign up for the election as long as you have talent and knowledge, regardless of your family background. But this is just a slogan. Those children from poor families have no chance to become candidates at all. Only one student was selected for each city. In the Sui Dynasty, there were 24 countries in the world, thousands of cities, and only 300 people were selected for the martial arts academy. How can one in ten of the enrollment rate be obtained by people from poor backgrounds?

Choose only one person in each city. Do you want to be fair?

Fairness is always preached.

However, it is said that because of this, President Zhou of the martial arts academy and His Majesty the emperor of the great Sui Dynasty once had a very fierce quarrel. According to President Zhou, since the system of one city and one examinee has been formulated, it is necessary to formulate another one, that is, examinees from noble families and children from poor families must be fifty-five points. Half the children of aristocratic families and half the children of poor families. The emperor said with a smile that no matter what the background of the examinee, it's not enough for you to get countless excellent students?

Poor family background or aristocratic family background. Candidates are excellent in both material selection and learning, and then choose the best to enter the martial arts academy. Even if they are all from noble families, are there fewer good students in the martial arts academy?

Hearing the emperor's words, President Zhou left at that time. Coldly left the four words of a leaf to cover the eyes. Unexpectedly, Li ignored the emperor and left directly.

When his majesty heard these four words, he was angry at the beginning and woke up after sitting for half an hour. Then he made an order to change the rules for the admission of candidates in the martial arts academy, and added one after one person in each city. He selected outstanding talents from the guards, soldiers of Dao County and border forces, and reported to the Ministry of war to participate in the examination of the martial arts academy. The number of candidates is equal to that of candidates selected from various cities. Candidates with military background shall not exceed the rank of school captain.

In this way, it really gives the poor children the opportunity to enter the martial arts academy and become a blockbuster.

President Zhou, who returned to qingluan mountain, heard the emperor's will, then smiled and said to himself that fortunately he was not completely confused. In the whole Sui Dynasty, only two people dared to directly accuse the emperor of his fault. One is the merit of huaiqiu, the Minister of rites of the three dynasties, and the other is Zhou banchuan of the martial arts academy.

However, Huai Qiugong's criticism of the emperor's fault was limited to etiquette and knowledge.

Huaiqiugong was the emperor's teacher. He beat the emperor's palm when he was in the temple.

Zhou banchuan was not. He dared to smash the emperor's tea cup.

The emperor once joked that the martial arts academy was indispensable for selecting talents for the great Sui Dynasty. But the martial arts academy is not mine, but Zhou banchuan's.

Fang Xie caught up with the good time and caught up with the martial arts academy, opening the door to the soldiers at the bottom of the army.

However, the noble children have always been hostile to candidates from the military for a simple reason. If there are no military candidates, the martial arts academy draws 300 people from thousands of students. Now, the martial arts academy draws 300 people from nearly 10000 people. How could they not be angry that Yanbai was robbed of half the quota by those military ruffians of low birth?

Li Yuan was even more angry because Yang Xiuchen, governor of Hexi Road, recommended the idiot of the Cui family. How can he accept this arrogant?

In the first two sessions, talents were selected from his Li family. Li Xiaozong is just a small man from the Li family. When he graduated, he was ranked among the top five in the martial arts academy. Li Fubo is the legitimate son of Li's parents' room. He is more ambitious. Now he is about to graduate and has no problem entering the top three.

Li Yuan is also the legitimate son of the Li family. His identity is much higher than that of Li Xiaozong. As long as he is in the Li family, even if Li Xiaozong has a military position from the fifth grade, even if he is his uncle in terms of seniority, but as long as he is in the Li family courtyard, Li Xiaozong will take the initiative to give way to say hello to him.

Why can a concubine be? I can't?

This is Li Yuan's biggest anger, even more angry than learning that Cui lueshang has become a candidate of the martial arts academy.

In the dense forest of dusk mountain, he knew that as long as he showed some words, the flatterers around him would definitely do what he wanted. If Cui lueshang is disabled, who is more suitable to enter the martial arts academy in Xiangcheng?

It's just crippling a person. Even those who cripple are people from an aristocratic family. It's no big deal... His father's surname is Li!

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When Fang Xie found Cui lueshang, this guy was washing his face by the stream at the foot of the mountain. The person from a noble family is the most important. His face is cleaner than Fang Xie's ass. But he is washing hard. If Fang Xie doesn't stop it, it is very possible to wash bald skin.

Fang Xie knew that Cui lueshang didn't wash his face because it was dirty, but because it was hot.

After he gave Cui lueshang's servants a piece of silver, he squatted down beside Cui lueshang with a smiling face: "brother Cui... Don't wash. If you wash again, you'll bleed."

Cui lueshang looked back and saw that it was the solution. He was surprised at first, and then said with chagrin: "I have no face to go back to Xiangcheng. It's good to wash out the blood. No one knows me when I shed the blood. I don't know why I listened to your bad idea and did such a shameful thing! Alas... It's not fair to meet people!"

Fang Xie smiled and said, "brother Cui, you don't have to worry about it. I know where those women come and go. They don't intend to enter Xiangcheng. Besides, there were only a few of your servants present. Do they dare to tell about it?"

"Those women don't enter Xiangcheng?"

Cui lueshang was stunned. He didn't know whether to be happy or sorry: "how do you know?"

"They are in a hurry to go to Chang'an City, and think about it. They are so eye-catching in this remote place. If they enter Xiangcheng, they will not cause a sensation. If they are entangled by those dignitaries and dignitaries again, it will be difficult to get away. So they rest here tonight, go to the mountain town to buy what they need on the way, and leave early tomorrow morning. Bypassing Xiangcheng will not enter at all Go. "

"That's good..."

Cui lueshang smiled: "but the students who came with me also saw it. Just now I escaped back and didn't see them waiting for me. Obviously, I despised it because I did that dirty thing. I was ashamed to be with me. They all went back first."

Fang Jiexin said that your good classmates are discussing how to break your limbs in the forest. Naturally, they have no time to talk to you.

"Just now I saw that they went up the mountain. Maybe they went to find a place to stay."

Fang Xie comforted: "I bet they will come back to you soon. If they are really good brothers, how can they hurt their feelings because of such small things?"

"That's right..."

Cui lueshang said with emotion: "they are sincere to me, and they are friends who can live their lives."

Fang Xie scolded a fool in his heart. He's still a friend of his life. Now people want to kill you.

When I was talking about this, Li Yuan, the handsome son of the Li family, dressed in white, with a slender figure and a beautiful face, came over from a distance with those followers Shi Shi ran. It was still far away, so Li Yuan said loudly, "Lue Shang, where have you been? Just now we went to the mid mountain Taoist temple and donated incense money. We stayed there at night, waiting left and right, but we didn't see you. We had to go down the mountain again. You were so interested that you were watching the scenery here!"

Cui lueshang whispered to the other side, "you're right. This is the real good brother."

Fang Xie stood up with him and walked slowly towards Li Yuan and them. Although his clothes are scholar style, they are not royal clothes. So compared with the graceful childe Li Yuan, it looks a lot shabby. But he has a beautiful face. Although he is not very handsome, he makes people feel comfortable after all.

Li Yuan had the ability to never forget when he was a child. He remembered that the young man around Cui lueshang was a wild boy peeing on the hillside. At this time, I was surprised to see him standing with Cui lueshang, but on second thought, maybe this person and Cui lueshang were old acquaintances, otherwise how could they be so familiar? You should know that Cui lueshang is an alien in Xiangcheng. He not only makes friends with aristocratic families, but also has many contacts with students from poor families in the city.

The fool's stupidest sentence is that there are more heroes than dog butchers. Li Yuan almost laughed off his big teeth when they heard it.

"Who is this?"

Li Yuan slightly arched each other's solution. It was a gift to bow his hand. Although he couldn't find anything wrong, the slightest disdain on his face was unpleasant. Fang Xie was already unhappy with Li Yuan. Seeing Li Yuan's superior appearance, he felt even more disgusted. People from aristocratic families are like this. They obviously despise those who are not as good as them, but in order to show their etiquette, even to traffickers and pawns, they have to pretend to be polite and polite.

Such affectation is particularly disgusting to Fang Xie.

"My surname is Shang. I come from Fangu, a border town. I'm a small businessman."

Speaking of acting, Fang Xie will not lose to others. He saluted with a fist, and his waist was very bent. The expression on his face was also humble, and there was even a fear in his eyes that would never be doubted. It felt as if he really felt inferior to others.

"I heard that Fangu city is full of big business."

Li Yuan smiled and said, "I heard that Shu Brocade trafficked from Xichuan to Fangu can sell twice as much silver as that in the Central Plains? That's not a few. Can you earn 500 Wen? Looking at the merchant's magnanimity, I think there are dozens of money a year. Even if it's tens of dollars a year in Xiangcheng, it's a rich family."

Fang Xie smiled and said, "don't call me childe. I don't have fame."

"Ha ha"

Li Yuan smiled and said, "you are interesting and interesting yourself."

Although there was no clear hierarchy for the people in the Sui Dynasty, since ancient times - people engaged in business were the most despised, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and businessmen had the lowest status. Even a poor farmer who can't open his pot meets a businessman on a narrow road, he can proudly raise his head and wait for the other party to give way.

Fang Xie smiled a few times with him, and then said cautiously, "childe Cui and I were like old friends at first sight. Just now we wanted to invite him to have wine in the evening. Just before, we had hunted some game in the mountain. If you don't dislike it, would you like to have a drink together?"

The little man scolded, "where you have free time to drink with you, you can do whatever you should do! We have set a good table in the Taoist temple. Let's go."

Cui lueshang was embarrassed to see Fang Xie. As soon as he wanted to apologize to him, he heard Li Yuan say with a smile: "the food of the Taoist temple on the mountain can be eaten from time to time, but the game of the Shang brother can't. Liu Yineng, you are so vulgar. Don't you fear that the Shang brother's heart will be cold if you refuse the kind invitation of the Shang brother?"

He said politely, "it's better to obey orders than to be respectful. I'll bother brother Shang tonight."

It is admirable how quickly his attitude has changed. Fang Jie sneered in his heart, but his face was filled with fear: "please, please, my servant thought he had cleaned up the game. Tonight I personally barbecue for the distinguished guest... Fortunately, there are still some pots of good wine in the car."

Li Yuan politely said a few more words. When Fang Xie turned around, he lowered his voice and said to the short and thin man named Liu Yineng: "you almost drove away when you met a man with a black pot. You can't pick it up... Stupid!"

Liu Yineng was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he couldn't help picking his thumb and praised: "high! It's really high!"