Before Fang Jie went to the Martial Arts Academy, he first went to Sanjinhou Mansion. He asked Mu Xiaoyao and Qilin to live in the Sanjinhou Mansion with Shen Qingfan and Dagou who had not recovered from their injuries. The scarlet horse was brought out, and after getting on the horse, he waved his hands to Mu Xiaoyao and the others and said, "I went to the Martial Arts Academy to beat someone else in the face. Don't you have anything to wish for?"
Shen Qingshan smiled and said don't be slapped in the face.
The big dog said I wish you a swollen hand.
Fang Jie shook his head and smiled, concealing the lingering uneasiness in his heart. To be honest, whether such a major life turning point can be completely controlled is definitely a great test for Fang Jie. He is confident, but self-confidence does not mean that he is not worried at all.
There are only two kinds of people who are blindly confident but not worried. First, they are so powerful that they ignore all enemies. Second, idiot.
Obviously, Fang Jie does not belong to either of the two.
Mu Xiaoyao pointed to the horse on which Fang Jie was sitting, hesitated for a while and asked, "Are you planning to just ride this red horse to the Martial Arts Academy?"
Fang Jie nodded.
Mu Xiaoyao asked again: "Aren't you afraid of being too conspicuous?"
Fang Jie said with a smile: "Maybe today is a day for me to be high-key, but I want to keep a low profile. But I'm afraid that if I slip into people's crevices today, I will be picked out by others, so I might as well ride a tall horse. Let those who want to watch me watch it to their heart's content, and originally planned to hang a plaque on their heart saying that I am Fang Jie, but then I thought it was a bit like prostitution, so I didn't do it."
After saying this, Fang Jie turned and left. Mu Xiaoyao and others watched him until he disappeared before turning back. Qilin couldn't help but asked the big dog worriedly: "Fang Jie really doesn't need us to follow?"
"Can we follow along?"
Big Dog asked with a smile.
After thinking for a long time, Qilin seriously replied: "Except for anyone who doesn't like Fang Jie, what the hell are we going to do, why can't we help..."
Big Dog also said seriously: "This is physical labor."
Qilin didn't understand, but Shen Qingfan and Mu Xiaoyao glanced at Da Quan at the same time, cursed shamelessly, then turned and left, never before. Qilin didn't understand the meaning of Dagou's words, and asked persistently: "Brother Gou, what do you mean? Why are the two of them leaving? Why are they still working hard?"
Da Quan patiently explained: "Now there are too many people in Chang'an City who don't like Xiao Fang Jie, too many to count. You said just now that whoever finds Fang Jie not pleasing to the eye, let's fuck it. The two of us can do things, the two of them can't do it. Think again, there are so many people, fuck it... This is not physical work, I guess if you do it from beginning to end, tomorrow you will be me This is the body."
Qilin thought for a while, and suddenly realized.
He gave Da Quan a hard look: "The rascal is shameless!"
Da Quan curled his lips and said, "Just kidding, you call me a hooligan. When Fang Jie was in Fan Gu, he often went to peek at Widow Sun taking a bath. Why didn't you call him a hooligan?"
Qilin replied: "Although I was not in Fangu City with you, I can be sure that you must have encouraged Fang Jie to peek at that widow grandson taking a bath. Besides, you told him to step on you most of the time." over the shoulder."
The big dog said sternly: "How is it possible, every time I climbed up the wall first and then dragged Fang Jie up..."
Fan Gu.
When he said this, the big dog suddenly stopped, and his face became a little ugly. He thought of that small town, and the people in that small town. Although he hides in Fang Jie's room with Mu Xiaoyao most of the time and rarely goes out, he also likes the simplicity and kindness of Fan Gu's people. He likes Fan Gu's wine and meat, and Widow Sun's white breasts, but all of these are gone.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing that he suddenly fell silent, Qilin asked.
"Nothing."
Big Dog smiled and shook his head: "Qilin, can you do me a favor?"
"What's up?"
"Help me out and buy some paper money."
"ah?!"
Qilin was shocked and said, "Fang Jie has an exam today, and you actually want to burn paper?"
The big dog was stunned, and then laughed and cursed: "If you let Xiao Fang Jie know that you have to work hard with me, I want to burn the paper for some old people. They all died after Fang Jie and I left Fan Gu. Thinking about it. I wanted to burn some paper money for them a while ago, but Fang Jie was silent for a while and said that it’s better, because it’s so far away, they can’t receive it even if they burned the paper money. But I know, Fang Jie feels worse than me.”
"Then why did you suddenly think of burning paper for your old friends today?"
Kirin asked.
Big Dog said word by word: "Bai Fang Jie burned it to them, I hope they can receive... the spirit in heaven, bless Fang Jie."
Qilin was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously: "I'll go buy it, buy a carload of paper money and come back!"
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The Academy of Martial Arts is located in Nancheng, to be exact the southwest corner of Chang'an City. It is not far from Ganzhaomen, and thirty miles after leaving the city from Qianzhaomen is the Martial Arts Field. When Emperor Taizu established the Yanwu Academy, the scale was much smaller than it is now. As the national strength of the Sui Dynasty became stronger and stronger, the number of students in the Academy of Martial Arts also increased. The original Yanwu Academy was too small to accommodate so many people. Since Emperor Taizong, the Yanwu Academy has been expanded five times.
When the first emperor was in power, because of the needs of the Martial Arts Institute to deduce the formation, he began to build a martial arts field outside the city, which lasted for five years. The Martial arts field occupies a huge area, and there are earth mountains, dense forests, rivers, small lakes, and earthen cities piled up by manpower. Many courtiers once wrote letters, asking the emperor to order the entire Yanwu Academy to be moved to the Yanwu Field, so that the students would not have to travel back and forth. But the first emperor did not agree, and neither does the current emperor.
The two emperors replied to their courtiers in exactly the same way, but they were a little incomprehensible.
"The Martial Arts Academy in Chang'an City is the Martial Arts Academy, and the Martial Arts Academy outside of Chang'an City is not the Martial Arts Academy."
This is so unreasonable.
No matter where the Yanwu Academy is, it is the Yanwu Academy of the Sui Dynasty. But the emperor refused to allow it, and the courtiers had no choice. Later, someone speculated that maybe because the thousands of students in the Academy of Martial Arts were all young talents of the Sui Dynasty, the emperor was worried that if something unexpected happened, the Academy of Martial Arts was not located in Chang'an, the strongest city in the world, so he couldn't afford to lose it.
But this view was quickly overturned.
Not to mention that it is as difficult for foreign enemies to invade the Sui Dynasty, and it is even more difficult for foreign enemies to get close to Chang'an City. Even if foreign enemies invaded, wouldn't there be news from the martial arts field outside the city? Can't the students be withdrawn to the city
There were many discussions, but no one could change the emperor's decision.
It has become an unchangeable insistence of successive emperors that the Martial Arts Academy must stay in the city.
On the contrary, there is a darker speculation, which people think is the most realistic. This speculation suggests that what the emperor was worried about was actually an accident in the city. The students in the Yanwu Academy are all the elites of the Sui Dynasty, and these people are loyal to the emperor. Once something happened in the city of Chang'an, the students in the Martial Arts Academy would be a very powerful force to protect the emperor. If these thousands of students gather together, their explosive fighting power should not be underestimated.
When Fang Jie got to the street where the Martial Arts Academy was located, the place was already overcrowded. All kinds of carriages stayed outside the main street and were not allowed to approach. Candidates had to walk to the Martial Arts Academy on foot. The imperial army set up defenses on both sides of the street, with their knives out of their sheaths and their arrows on their strings, so that any disturbances would be stopped immediately.
And at this time, Chang'an Mansion will dispatch a large number of officials to join forces with the City Defense Army and the Forbidden Army to maintain order. Because most of the people came on foot, Fang Xie, who was riding a red horse, was particularly conspicuous. When he came from a distance on a horse, he immediately attracted many people's ideas.
"Who is that person? Why is he so arrogant? Most of the examinees came here on foot, and even those of noble birth got off the carriage after a long distance. This person actually came all the way on a horse. It’s like riding a horse into Xuanwu Street.”
"It doesn't seem like a son of some famous family, look at that shabby frontier uniform!"
"In the frontier army, there are some famous people this year. Mo Xidao from Phoenix Terrace, Zhang Kuang from Anyuan City, Wang Wei from Baishui City, and Fang Jie who is said to be from Fangu in the northwest. Mo Xidao and the three of them are at least He should be twenty-seven or eight years old, maybe thirty or forty years old, judging by the appearance of this young man, could it be that Fang Jie who was summoned by His Majesty in Changchun Garden?"
"Even if you are summoned by His Majesty, so what? You came here on horseback with an arrogant attitude, and you don't expect to have any real talents. Look at Cui Pingzhou from the Cui family, Pei Chuxing from the Pei family, and Xie, the famous son of the Xie family in the south of the Yangtze River." Fuyao, which one didn't come here on foot?"
"That's right, it's too crazy!"
In any case, Fang Jie was really high-profile this time. He rode that tall red horse slowly among the crowd. Although he was smiling, he had a condescending attitude no matter how he looked at it. And the frontier uniform on his body is too humble, and this strong contrast makes many people uncomfortable.
Just when Fang Jie was approaching the intersection of Xuanwu Street, he was suddenly stopped by someone.
"Fang Jie!"
Fang Jie looked back, and saw that Zhang Kuang of An Yuancheng was chasing after him quickly.
He hurriedly dismounted, clasped his fists at Zhang Kuang and said, "I've met Brother Zhang."
"You are really eye-catching. I watched you come all the way on this tall horse from afar. I called you several times, but you didn't hear it. How are you feeling better?"
Zhang Kuang asked with a smile.
"Thanks to Brother Zhang's concern, it's already healed. I passed out forcibly in Keshengjuli that day, which made everyone laugh."
"What a joke!"
Zhang Kuang punched him on the shoulder and said: "After that day, who will mention your name without giving a thumbs up? To be able to not be tied up in the prison of Mr. Zhuo's famous painting ground at the Ouchi guards, such a means I don’t think many people can be found in the entire city of Chang’an. You have given our frontier army a lot of face, and all the brothers admire you when they mention you!”
Fang Jie blushed slightly, and smiled a little shyly: "It's too reckless, I don't know the heights of heaven and earth."
"By the way, I heard that Brother Mo was directly selected into the Martial Arts Academy, so he doesn't need to take the exam?"
Fang asked.
Zhang Kuang looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "That's what the court owes him. His Majesty also said that day that it would not be an exaggeration for Brother Mo to be named another general in terms of military merit. In addition to the Dongchu matter, if the court does not give an explanation, I am afraid that many people will be chilled."
"Anyway, congratulations."
Just as he was talking, Fang Jie saw Mo Xidao striding towards him.
"Brother Fang, Brother Zhang, I'm here to cheer you on!"
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"Brother Mo, what happened to that Wang Ding?"
Fang Jie and Mo Xidao Zhang Kuang walked side by side, ignoring others pointing at him.
"I heard that His Majesty decreed that Wang Ding was deprived of his title, and even Wang Ding's father's official position was also taken away, and his title was also removed. Wang Ding tried to murder the meritorious officials of the Sui Dynasty because of his disrespect for the relics of the Taizu. It was taken down by Dali Temple, and it is said that the imperial envoys to the south of the Yangtze River have already set off, so it is estimated that this time the Wang family will not have a better life."
Mo Xidao touched his scarred face and said with a smile, "It's really a damn relief!"
"Where's Wang Wei?"
Fang Jie asked again.
Hearing this name, a strong disgust flashed across Mo Xidao's brows: "Don't mention that guy, I don't know why he was not severely punished, but he was disqualified from taking the Yanwu Academy exam. From brigade rate to Captain, you should be returning to White Water City."
"He deserves it!"
Zhang Kuang scolded: "This kind of thing that is ungrateful for profit is not worthy of wearing our frontier uniform!"
Fang Jie smiled and said, "Your Majesty should be thinking of his achievements."
When he said this, Fang Jie couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the Jiangnan Wang family must be in trouble this time. Although the Wang family has not produced any dignitaries in recent years, the foundation of the family for hundreds of years is still there. Although he can no longer occupy a place in the court, but the family is very rich. Seeing that it was about to launch troops to the northwest, it was the time when the imperial court needed a lot of money. His Majesty just took advantage of this excuse to confiscate all the wealth of the Wang family. Although it is impossible to estimate how much wealth it is, it should also play a certain role in the war.
From this, it can be seen how much His Majesty thinks about this Western Expedition.
In order to subsidize the national treasury, he did not hesitate to attack a family like the Wang family that has gradually declined.
While thinking about these things, suddenly a woman in the crowd screamed like a nympho: "Look, look, Mr. Jiangnan Xie Fuyao is over there! So handsome, so graceful!"
"Thank you, young master, look over here."
Immediately, several women shouted a few words.
Fang Jie followed the eyes of those nympho women, and saw a young man in a white gown standing not far away, talking with some companions, when he heard those women shouting, Mr. Xie turned his head this way, and then He clasped his fists together, looking graceful.
"Oh shit."
Zhang Kuang looked at Xie Fuyao, patted Fang Jie's shoulder and cursed in a low voice: "An embroidered pillow, no matter how I look at it, I'm not as handsome as you!"
Although the voice was low, it was still heard by those nympho girls. Immediately, several pairs of angry eyes looked towards Zhang Kuang and Fang Jie. Fang Jie looked at the hateful expressions of those women, and couldn't help sighing: "Brother Zhang, don't help me sow hatred, okay?"