About fifteen miles west of Diaoyu City is the city of Tongtong.

Yitong City is divided into two cities: inner and outer cities. The outer cities are residential houses, markets, shops, clinics, and military camps. Even the county government of the county is located on the east side of the outer city, completely giving up the inner city to Yitong Academy.

In other words, the inner city itself is Yitong Academy.

There are eight extremely conspicuous five-story simple buildings in the college, which are arranged evenly around the center according to the Bagua formation. This is the main teaching building, named Huijiang, Corridor Bridge, Meditation, Love Lotus, Qiushui, Bodhi, Camphor, and Fishing. On weekdays, students stay in these eight high-rise buildings for class.

Around these eight teaching buildings, there are countless large and small houses, some of which are student dormitories, and the rest are basically shops.

On weekdays, Yitong Academy is closed to the outside world. Except for students who can enter and exit with the teacher's order, all idle people are prohibited from entering and leaving. In this huge campus, only Song Kai and Bai Junru, who are the chief and vice president, can enter and exit at will.

However, as the days of the Baijia Forum approached, the ban was temporarily cancelled under Song Kai's order, allowing people from various universities to visit.

With seven days left before the official start of the Baijia Forum, nearly 70,000 outsiders had gathered in Yitong City.

This is far beyond the capacity of the city itself in the past, and the inns in the city have long been overcrowded. As a last resort, many people who cannot rent rooms can only go to the adjacent Sanjiang, Hezhou and Diaoyu Sancheng every night to stay.

Among these people, including law, Taoism, Confucianism, military affairs, Zongheng, etc., 80% of them are either poor people without factions or simply come to join in the fun.

Although most of them are well-read cultural people, literati kill people more ruthless than martial artists. In just half a month, there have been several cases of throwing corpses one after another.

Fortunately, the shadows of the Anbu have already spread all over the city. With the powerful force of Xi Shi and the Anbu Dragon Knight, the real murderer can be caught less than three hours after each case. After a long time, everyone also knew the rules here and dared not do anything randomly.

However, killing cannot be killed, and the debate cannot be stopped.

Every day, just to stop the group fights that caused the fierce debate, Yao Shan and other Dark Night Dragon Cavalry were exhausted and could not be locked up in the prison of Tongtongcheng, so they were escorted to the prison of Diaoyu, Hezhou and Sanjiang.

Seeing that Bai Junru had only a few left, even Song Kaizhi was still a little reluctant, so he simply gave the vice president a leave and asked him to find his former classmates to reminisce about the past and deal with the situation in the city alone.

Just as the entire Yitong City was about to burst into more than 70,000 people suddenly poured in, the day, the scholars chatting and wandering around the streets near Ximen suddenly heard a neat sound of stepping on the ground, and the ground was trembling slightly, as if the earth dragon was about to turn over.

A few scholars who had participated in the war knew that an army was coming, so they quickly ran to the nearby street to look out. Sure enough, they saw a large army riding in the city gate, galloping along the horse path, heading straight towards the inner city.

In this army, there are several luxuriously decorated chariots, all of which are pulled by four horses. Although they can't see who is sitting inside through the curtain, just by looking at this scene, you can know that the visitor must be of extraordinary identity.

On the second floor of a tavern next to the west of the city, Xu Yanli was watching the cavalry team below rushing past with interest, and suddenly someone slapped her shoulders. When she looked back, she saw two equally graceful women standing side by side behind her.

"Why did you come back?" The three of them were obviously fellow travelers. When they saw the two girls, Xu Yanli smiled slightly, signaled the two girls to sit down, and asked, "You just went to the inner city, right? How about this Yitong Academy?"

The woman in blue in the two girls smiled slightly and replied, "There are good and bad things. This Yitong Academy is indeed as King Wen said, with no distinction between teaching and no distinction. She will not care about the students' family background, and she will also treat knowledge equally and regardless of the high or low."

Seeing that the woman in blue paused, another woman in white curled her lips disdainfully: "So the bad thing is that I'm telling me?"

Seeing Xu Yanli and the woman in blue laughing without saying a word, the woman in white sneered: "The teaching ability is average and not very good. Compared with such a famous college, the lack of teachers' strength is the biggest disadvantage."

Xu Yanli nodded slightly when she heard this and said softly: "Why, as it is rumored, not only can the academy teach Confucianism, but also the Mo, agriculture, commerce, military, and law have corresponding subjects?"

"This is true, and this is also the place where I admire that King Wen," the woman in blue smiled softly, "I have followed the order of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce for more than a thousand years. He is the first person to dare to set a precedent and openly teach these."

The second floor of this tavern is mostly served by the schooners who come to attend the grand event. The three girls are pretty and have attracted a lot of attention.

At this moment, hearing them talking about Yitong Academy, a student finally couldn't help but pretend to say to his companions: "If you want me, this King Wen really doesn't know that the world is high. My Confucianism created so many prosperous dynasties, which is the theory of governing the world with the right way of heaven. But King Wen dared to say that he wanted to revive the other schools. Wouldn't it be a disaster for China?"

"That's to say!" The student at the same table understood and nodded, "What does the Mohist family pay attention to? Now the Dajin, Mongolian, and southern barbarians are eyeing each other. Do I want to use this kind of love to influence them?"

When I saw the three girls looking over, the student's voice was immediately raised: "There is also the Taoist saying that quietness and inaction is even more ridiculous. If we say that, we all go to the mountains to be Taoist priests and allow these barbarians to occupy the land of our Han family. Alas? In this way, we can really prevent the people from being disturbed by the war! Haha!"

The two of them smiled dryly for a while, and when they saw the three girls turn their heads and stop looking, they suddenly felt depressed, and they didn't realize the contemptuous gaze in the eyes of the three girls.

After eating the side dish, the woman in white said disdainfully: "Hyitress, it's a trouble for you to hook up with me again. If you have nothing to do, don't fiddle with your fox smell. Then two idiots who are making a fuss. Count on how many people have been harmed by you like this?"

The woman in blue smiled sweetly and said softly: "This is a bad thing, how can I blame me? It is obviously because of your own beauty that you have caused so many unrestrained disciples. If Qiaojun talks about it, you have to blame you for this."

Seeing the two women competing against each other, Xu Yanli sighed secretly and suddenly asked, "Tell me, what courses are taught in the college?"

The woman in blue recalled a little and replied: "Practice, mathematics, sinology, economy, geography, history, agriculture, craftsmanship, these are the eight main courses, and there are some elective courses."

"There are many electives, including military strategy, politics, city planning, and Cuju. In short, there are many different kinds of activities," Lu Chenghuan curled his lips and snorted, "I really don't understand what King Wen thought. The main course of the eight subjects is that they can't study thoroughly for a lifetime. Why do they still create these messy subjects?"

When Xu Yanli heard the introduction of the two women, she couldn't help but frown. The woman in blue saw this and said curiously: "Yanli, what are you thinking?"

"Maybe King Wen's move is useful, but we haven't thought of it for the time being." Xu Yanli replied thoughtfully.

The woman in blue and the woman in white both thought to herself when she heard this. They were not ordinary women, and they were smart and quick-witted. They just thought hard for a long time, but it was difficult to guess why Yao Ruoyu set up these subjects.

Just as the three girls were thinking hard, two scholars walked upstairs and happened to sit on the table next to the three girls.

"Did you see this time? That's the Tiance army stationed at the Wen Palace! It's indeed a lion who has been fighting for hundreds of battles. It's amazing that I can't stand the power of a chicken. Otherwise, I really wanted to sign up for the army and kill those golden dogs on the battlefield like them."

As soon as he sat down, a scholar said to another person with great excitement.

The other man nodded with a wry smile and sighed: "I didn't believe what you said about Wenbang back then, but this time I came here, it was indeed amazing. Officials were fair and law-abiding, the people lived and worked in peace, had something to learn from their children, and had something to support them in their old age. It is worthy of being a great Wenbang city-state that has dominated the northwest for several years."

"To be honest, come with me to apply for a job in Chengdu?" Seeing that his companion finally agreed with his point of view, the scholar was quite excited and hurriedly said.

"Apply for a job?" When he heard this word, his companion was slightly stunned. Fortunately, the other party quickly explained to him that he would just go to register. If he could pass the interview, he would become a minor official in Wenbang.

When Xu Yanli heard their words, her eyes lit up. After thinking for a while, she suddenly stood up and walked to the tables of the two men, and bowed: "You two have disturbed me. I just heard what you said. Do you want to go to Chengdu Prefecture? Regardless of your identity and gender, you can sign up for the job application?"

The scholar, who was obviously a great scholar, saw the beauty inquiring, quickly smiled and said, "That's right, King Wen is talented and has the grace of tolerance. He has issued orders to recruit talents all year round. Regardless of gender, age, and background, as long as he signs up for the interview, he can become a minor official. If he performs outstandingly, he can also be promoted higher than the level."

Xu Yanli nodded slightly when she heard this, thanked the man, and then turned around and returned to the table.

Seeing her sitting down, the woman in white asked nervously: "You really plan to stay in Dawen to become an official? After all, these things are heard and cannot be counted as accurate. If you really want to become an official, go to Xiuzhou Prefecture with me and leave my official room to you in charge."

The woman in blue also frowned slightly, then smiled and said with a smile: "If you don't like Xiuzhou Prefecture, what if you go to my Qingyuan Prefecture? The chief clerk, Gongcao will be your choice."

"The surname is Chen, are you snatching me again?" The woman in white glared at the fury when she heard this.

The woman in blue was not timid at all and said with a gentle smile: "The number one beauty in Jiangnan should have made an appointment to go to my Qingyuan Mansion, but she was intercepted by Cheng Huan. Why? Isn't Qiaojun learning it once this time?"

If Yao Ruoyu saw the two girls here, he would definitely be stunned, because they were the prefect of the Xiuzhou Prefecture of the Song Dynasty and Chen Qiaojun, the prefect of the Qingyuan Prefecture.

Xiuzhou Prefecture and Qingyuan Prefecture are both top prefectures on Liangzhe Road. They are busy with affairs and don’t know what the two women do. They can leave their affairs behind and come to Dawen to attend the Baijia Forum.

At the same time, seeing the two women being nervous, Xu Yanli rubbed her eyebrows with a headache and sighed: "Don't argue anymore, I don't plan to stay yet, but this time, King Wen will definitely attend the Baijia Forum. I also want to take the opportunity to see if this King Wen is a good master worth following, and make plans at that time."

"Besides, Dawen City-State has only been rising for a few years and its foundation is unstable. It is still unknown whether the current system can be persisted. If there are signs of giving up halfway, Yanli will definitely not stay."

Xu Yanli is from Shouzhou, Huainan Road. She has been famous in the countryside for her erudition since she was a child. Unfortunately, her family is conservative and unwilling to continue her studies since she was seven years old. Fortunately, the academy teacher was kind at that time. Seeing that she was pitiful, she made an exception to accept her as a disciple.

Unfortunately, a series of changes occurred later, which led to Xu Yanli living in Shaoxing Prefecture alone after she was seventeen years old.

Lu Chenghuan and Chen Qiaojun met Xu Yanli when they were invited by the Shaoxing prefect Zhang Yi to the party two years ago. At that time, the two girls were moved by her talent and spoke out to attract them at the same time, but unfortunately they were rejected by Xu Yanli.

Over the years, the two women never gave up recruiting her. Until this time, when they heard that Xu Yanli was coming to attend the Baijia Forum, Lu Chenghuan and Chen Qiaojun followed her over regardless of their identity, just because they were afraid that the female wise man would stay in Wenbang.
Chapter completed!