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Zhao Shou repeatedly went down the mountain to invite him to Yunlu Academy, hoping to place his hopes on the latter.

"It's more like...some personal opinions."

Su Nan said calmly.

Zhao Shou was overjoyed upon hearing this.

I'm not afraid of having many opinions, otherwise I'll have no opinions at all!

Even if Su Nan can come up with a preliminary idea, it would be a huge success!

"Good good!"

Dean Zhao Shou was extremely excited.

"This trip down the mountain was totally worth it!"

Su Nan ignored Zhao Shou's excitement and instead looked towards the entrance of the academy.

There were quite a few people gathered there, and it was very noisy.

"What is this?" Su Nan asked curiously.

Zhao Shouxuan looked over as well, then smiled and said, "Oh."

"It is Yang Gong who has taken up the post of Director of the Court of State Affairs in Qingzhou today."

"The teachers and students at the academy are seeing him off."

"Come on, let's go over and take a look."

Zhao Shou wasn't in a hurry to take Su Nan to the back mountain.

Since everyone else has already come to Qingyun Mountain, why rush things?

……

Several luxurious carriages stopped beside a pavilion halfway up Qingyun Mountain.

Today is an auspicious day for Ziyang Jushi of Yunlu Academy to take up his official post.

This is a great joy for Yunlu Academy, which is gradually losing ground in officialdom.

The teachers of the academy sang with great enthusiasm, and the students were overjoyed, feeling proud and elated.

Perhaps, the day when Yunlu Academy will rise to prominence is just around the corner!

Inside the pavilion, three elderly men sat facing each other, drinking tea.

One of them was wearing a purple robe, and his temples were frosted with white.

This person is the main character who saw them off!

Yang Gong, courtesy name Ziqian, sobriquet Ziyang Jushi, was the top scholar in the imperial examination of the fourteenth year of the Yuanjing era.

The following year, he retired from his official post and returned to Yunlu Academy to teach. Over the past twenty-two years, he has nurtured countless students and is a renowned Confucian scholar.

Twenty-two years later, the hermit Ziyang finally emerged from seclusion and went to Qingzhou to serve as the provincial governor.

This is a true regional governor.

The other two are also of high status. Not to mention their position in Yunlu Academy, their reputation outside is no less than that of Ziyang Jushi.

The man in the gray robe with a goatee is Li Mubai, a master chess player who was once known as the number one chess master.

Just five years ago, he played three rounds of Go with Wei Yuan, the Duke of Wei!

Lost all three games!

He then angrily smashed the chessboard and never played chess again.

The man in the blue robe is Zhang Shen, a master of military strategy. His early work, "Six Treatises on Military Strategy," is still essential reading for military officers and strategists in the Great Feng Dynasty.

Within the Great Feng Dynasty, he was also the only military strategist who could be compared to Wei Yuan.

A group of students, all promising students from Yunlu Academy, stood outside the pavilion to see them off.

Xu Xinnian was among these students.

"Mr. Ziyang has finally appeared. If we can gain his favor, we will surely have a smooth career in the officialdom in the future."

Have you all prepared farewell poems?

"It's too difficult. I shouldn't show my poem and make a fool of myself."

"..."

Xu Xinnian, standing in the crowd, also looked troubled and said, "I did prepare a poem hastily, but... it's really not presentable."

I wonder if it's because we haven't reached a desperate situation yet.

He couldn't even compose such generous lines as "If Heaven hadn't given birth to me for the New Year, the Great Feng Dynasty would have remained in eternal darkness!"

Inside the pavilion.

The three old men sighed deeply.

The great master Li Mubai sighed softly, "Back then, Brother Yang was ostracized from officialdom by the Imperial Academy, and twenty years have passed since then. What a waste of time."

Fortunately, he has now returned to officialdom.

"You must set an example for the students of Yunlu Academy in the officialdom!"

Ziyang Jushi sighed, "Those people from the Imperial Academy won't let our Yunlu Academy turn things around. The journey to Qingzhou will be fraught with difficulties."

"But in any case, I will definitely establish myself in the officialdom."

"To pave a path for my academy's students in the officialdom!"

The faces of the Confucian scholars turned sour when the topic of the Imperial Academy came up.

"A bunch of petty people who only know how to bully the weak and flatter the strong, and play power games, have ruined the Great Feng Dynasty in less than two hundred years!"

This involves a very interesting piece of history.

Confucianism originated from the sage, and Yunlu Academy, founded by the sage's chief disciple, is undoubtedly the orthodox Confucian school!

However, two hundred years ago, a dispute over the succession to the throne occurred, which caused Yunlu Academy to be thoroughly disliked by the emperor at the time.

A traitor has emerged from Yunlu Academy.

This person was originally a teacher at Yunlu Academy, but he defected from the academy and started his own school during that incident.

He pleased the emperor with a set of ideas that "preserve heavenly principles and eliminate human desires".

With the emperor's support, he eventually established the Imperial Academy and became a master of his generation!

Since then, the Imperial College has replaced the Yunlu Academy as the main institution for sending officials to the imperial court.

The debate over Confucian orthodoxy thus lasted for two hundred years.

"My trip here will surely expand the territory of Yunlu Academy and lay the foundation for its official career."

"However, this matter cannot be accomplished by my own efforts alone. It requires the concerted efforts of all of us, and even more so, the outstanding young people in the academy."

Li Mubai and Zhang Shen exchanged a smile.

The two immediately turned their heads and looked at the young students outside the pavilion.

"Is there anyone willing to compose a poem to bid farewell to the Hermit of Ziyang?"

Ziyang Jushi pondered and said, "Poetry must have a catchy theme, otherwise it's meaningless."

He took the purple jade from his waist.

"The one who wins first place will receive a jade pendant."

The students outside the pavilion immediately brightened up.

This is a jade pendant that belonged to a great Confucian scholar. It has been imbued with the wisdom of his talent and contains magical properties. If they could obtain it, it would definitely be of great benefit!

Xu Xinnian looked at the jade pendant, a hint of excitement welling up in his eyes.

Ziyang Jushi had another purpose in doing this.

Elders only give their personal belongings to younger generations and students.

Whoever takes this jade pendant will become a student of the Hermit of Ziyang!

"The students wish to compose a poem to bid farewell to the Hermit of Ziyang!"

A tall, upright student dressed in a scholar's robe and with a jade pendant around his waist stepped out first.

He bowed to the three Confucian scholars inside the pavilion.

"This is my student, quite talented in poetry," Li Mubai said with a smile, stroking his beard.

After the student recited the farewell poem, the Hermit of Ziyang smiled, clearly very satisfied.

"good."

Zhang Shen silently admired.

I thought this was a good start, but the next few farewell poems were barely passable.

Li Mubai couldn't help but sigh: "Ever since the Imperial Academy re-established the foundation and collected annotations of the sages, preserving heavenly principles and eliminating human desires, students across the land have been confined to the classics, their heads covered with literary verses."

"Over time, they become trapped in a state of 'constrained writing, fragmented and cumbersome' from which they cannot extricate themselves!"

"Articles and poems have lost their spirit!"

Li Mubai was referring to the current state of the literary scene in the Great Feng Dynasty.

Both Ziyang Jushi and Zhang Shen nodded deeply and sighed.

"If we're talking about poetic talent, Su Nan, the banished immortal, is indeed one of a kind in the world."

"His poems are truly full of inspiration, making them captivating!"

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Chapter 25 Invites Su Nan to Compose a Poem, Ziyang Jushi is Shocked [Seeking Flowers and Monthly Tickets]

Despite the gradual decline of Confucianism in recent years.

But if we go back two hundred years, Confucianism was truly at its zenith.