The Saint Academy in the night seemed a little quiet, with not many lights. Groups of literati gathered together, either looking up at the stars outside the academy and thinking, or talking about their ambitions and ideals with their companions.

After more than half a month of visiting the Saint Academy, these scholars have not made any breakthrough in repairing the Confucius Temple. Some have begun to become anxious and impatient, and some have even begun to discuss Zhu Xi and others in private.

Zhang Shi, who followed Zhu Xi to the north and Lin Zezhi, his disciple, walked in the Saint Academy. From time to time, some dim lanterns would be heard in his ears. The literati were either sad about spring and autumn, or the heroic and passionate recitations. Of course, there were also some mixed in it, and they were dissatisfied with their inability to start repairing the Confucius Temple.

However, the literati in the Saint Academy gathered together to discuss the most was the news that the Qufu government ordered the blockade of the Confucius Temple today. While they were puzzled, they were naturally dissatisfied with the government. They were all ready to fight and indignant, and they shouted that they must argue with the government tomorrow.

Zhu Xi was reading at night with the candle in the study. Zhang Shi and Lin Zezhi took a light step and signaled to the book boy. Then he gently sat down on the chair not far away. Zhu Xi just raised his eyelids and then put his attention on the book in his hand again.

In the quiet study, as Zhu Xi sighed and was broken, the book in his hand slowly placed on the table, looking at Zhang Shi and Lin Zezhi and asked, "Didn't Ye Qing come to the Saint Academy today?"

"I didn't come. The students were waiting at the door for almost a day today, but they didn't see Ye Qing's shadow." Lin Zezhi said softly.

"Sir, it seems that Ye Qing is really determined to steal this name. Today, the Holy Temple was blocked, and the scholars outside are even more angry. Isn't Ye Qing's move afraid of provoking so many people's dissatisfaction?" Zhang Shi looked at Zhu Xi who was thinking, and asked with some concern in his heart.

A few years ago, Zhu Xi suffered a lot of losses in Lin'an, and there were many grudges with Ye Qing. Ye Qing even arrested Zhu Xi in the prison of the Imperial City Department. Today, the two met again in Qufu. It was only one night, and Ye Qing immediately mobilized all the troops to block the Confucius Temple. This was obviously for Zhu Xi.

What worries him even more was that Ye Qing was the lord of the entire Northland. They were already taking risks when they came here together, which was equivalent to running to Ye Qing's territory. If this was a bad thing, the one who suffered a loss would never be Ye Qing, who could cover the sky with his hands in the northland.

Zhu Xi glanced at Zhang Shi lightly, and Zhang Shi quietly turned his concerns about his own safety into the dissatisfaction of scholars with Ye Qing, which made him also have to consider the personal safety of many scholars gathered in the Saints Academy.

"Ye Qing will not act rashly, nor will he suppress the scholars who are gathered here by force. Since he wants to use the repair of the Confucius Temple to win the hearts of the people, it is enough to show that he is very clear that the consequences of suppressing us will definitely not help him to gain a foothold in the north." Zhu Xi picked up the tea sent by the Shutong, looked at the steaming tea, and after thinking about it, he still comforted Zhang Shi: "No matter what, the north is now the territory of my Song Dynasty. No matter whether the rumors outside are true, Ye Qing is an official of my Song court after all. He has to care about the attitude and position of the Lin'an court, so... it depends on who we and him can spend the same amount of money."

"Ye Qing's move is to go north to Jinan Prefecture. It is said that the Jin envoys wanted to win him over. Some people said that they were to negotiate peace with him, so that there would be no war between the two places from now on." Lin Zezhi glanced at Zhang Shi and Zhu Xi's calm face, and then continued with confidence and boldness: "But no matter what, Ye Qing probably doesn't have much time to waste with us here. I believe that as long as we have enough patience, Ye Qing in the end, whether it is under the pressure of the court, or the urgency to negotiate peace with the Jin people, or the urgency to be won over, the students think... in the end, Ye Qing will inevitably be the first to be unable to calm down."

"Zezhi is a good idea. If I don't leave the academy today, I am waiting for Ye Qing to arrive. Now it seems that Ye Qing should also be waiting for me to pass in the inn today, so now it's already been considered a waste of time. But we have a lot more time than him, and we can't calm down in the end. As expected, it will be him." Zhu Xi nodded in agreement with the words of student Lin Zezhi and said.

Zhang Shi listened to the analysis of Zhu Xi and Lin Zezhi and his disciples, and nodded involuntarily, but he still felt a little worried: "But sir... these more than a thousand people gathered in Qufu, and the daily expenses are also a considerable amount, and now the people of Qufu..."

When he talked about this, Zhang Shi's expression immediately became a little angry and said, "As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters come from troubled people. The saints have never let the people here become..."

"Mr. Zhang..." Lin Zezhi shook his head and interrupted Zhang Shi's words before he could finish his words, and then looked at Zhu Xi and said, "It's okay, the students had already written to their homes two days ago, asking them to send more silver to the students. And today, the students have already communicated with a few scholars with wealthy families, and it would be no problem to continue to maintain for half a month."

"But nowadays, the people and vendors in Qufu, as long as they trade with our scholars, will unconsciously raise prices. How much does a meal cost when we first came here? But now? As long as the merchants in Qufu see scholars dressed as literati, they will definitely be much more expensive than when they were sold to others. How can we be cheated and not argue?" Zhang Shi said with a headache.

Among the many scholars, he has a relatively wealthy pocket, but the prices in Qufu have soared so far in the past few days, but even he can't stand it. What's more, a gentleman does not eat the food he gives to others. If he lets others give alms at will, wouldn't this lose the pride of a scholar?

Zhu Xi sighed silently. It is indeed a big problem to gather together with so many literati. The family gap between these people is too big. In the past few days, some people have already left Qufu with their own book boy servant because they are short of money and are unwilling to accept help from others. If they are experiencing such a waste of money, they may have been... a situation where both sides suffer.

"Let's take a look in two days. Tomorrow we will gather those famous people to discuss it. It is not a solution to continue like this. Let's see if Ye Qing will be the first to stay calm in the next two days." Zhu Xi frowned with some displeasure.

In his opinion, the money was beyond the gods, and Zhang Shi was taken here, which was regarded as a matter of life and death.

What's more, even if the people of Qufu are asking for a higher price, as a scholar, who cares about the people of the world, can't we regard this as a good deed to help the world?

At this time, in the inn where Ye Qing was located, whether he could write or did not recognize words, the soldiers of the Zhonghua family who were assigned a very important task, that is, according to the eight big characters written by Lord Ye, whether you write or draw, in short, you must submit ten copies before dawn tomorrow, otherwise you will be engaged in military law.

So there was a wailing sound in the entire inn, asking them to go to the battlefield to kill people and fight. Now letting them learn to write is even more uncomfortable than killing them.

So the soldiers of the Hua family began to rely on relationships and favors one after another, from Dutou to Zhengzheng, to Zhong Can, the commander of the Hua family army, including Jia She, everyone had unconsciously taken over the task for their subordinates, and then wrote: "Starting to death is small, and losing the feud is big, then they were surprised: Damn! How many people did I promise to write for?

So after they broke up their fingers, Zhong Can and others found that even if they kept writing until tomorrow morning, they might not be able to finish it.

But no matter what, when the next day was just dawn, baskets of eight-character proverbs were placed in front of Ye Qing.

I took a few copies from the basket at random, and some of them could even recognize that they were starving to death at a glance, but some were not the same as those they were drawing, no matter if you were watching openly, oppositely, slantedly, or slantedly, you didn't know what they were drawing.

Fortunately, there are not many ghost-painted talismans drawn under the guidance of God, and most of them are carefully identified, thinking about the words small and big, and looking at the words missing, you should easily understand that the eight-character proverb is: starvation is small, and loss of integrity is big.

"Find some clever and skillful people, let them spread the baskets of eight-character proverbs to the Saints Academy and the Confucius Temple. You don't have to hand them to the hands of those literati. Even if they throw them on the ground, they will pick them up and read them curiously because of their recognition." Ye Qing looked at the baskets of Hadith in front of him with satisfaction, and said with a smile on his face with a wretched and proud feeling.

"Okay, sir, don't worry, this kind of thing will be guaranteed to be done silently." Zhong Jian clams, rubbing her wrist after writing the Proverbs for a night, and she said in a pack.

"Go quickly, it's almost dawn, and it won't be easy to spread if it's late." Ye Qing waved his hand with satisfaction and signaled Zhong Can to do it quickly.

After everyone left, Ye Qing looked at Jia She who was rubbing his wrists beside him and said, "Why, I didn't sleep all night last night? Did you copy a lot of your subordinates?"

"Sir, is this OK?" Jia She nodded. He didn't think that these eight words could instantly turn passive into activeness.

"I'll know after noon." Ye Qing was confident. He couldn't wait. He wanted to see what Zhu Xi's face would look like when he saw these eight words.

What's more, this is just his preparation, and the real killer moves will probably be used tomorrow.

"By the way, what did you do to explain Xiao Zhen?" Ye Qing asked.

"He agreed treacherously, saying that there should be no problem tonight. After all, the adults asked for too many people, and he had to run around nearby, and took away the magistrate of Qufu." Jia She said truthfully.
Chapter completed!