Because most of the students of Jiuzhang Hall were from humble backgrounds and lived together in Xiao Cheng's house near the Imperial College, most of them did not have horses or carriages for transportation, and Zhang Shou could not have found dozens of horses in a hurry. After leaving the Imperial College, he simply let Ah Liu and Yang Hao and Zheng Dang, who came with him today, lead their mounts, while he and the others walked out of the city on foot.
Of course, so many people couldn't walk fast, so seeing such a good opportunity, Lu Sanlang and Ji Jiu, who had hurriedly packed up their things with their followers, led the way and spread the news indignantly. When Zhang Shou finally walked out of Xuanwu Gate, he left behind an inner city that was boiling like a pot of boiling water and rotting like a pot of porridge.
Countless people rushed to tell each other, especially in government offices. It seemed as if even the curfew had been removed - after all, those bigwigs who were qualified enough to hold high ranks had all gone to attend the regular court sessions, and the only ones left were low-ranking officials or even low-ranking clerks. In a time when there are no tigers in the mountains, wouldn't it be the monkeys that are making a fuss and causing chaos
Luo Siye, who was of a higher rank, had also taken advantage of the chaos to sneak into the cabinet because the emperor had previously ordered the rectification of the Imperial College, so he and Zhou Jijiu did not have to go to the regular court to fill in the numbers and make themselves known. Of course, although his rank was half a level higher than Zhang Shou, in the cabinet, a place closest to the emperor, he had to look at the faces of those secretaries and even petty officials.
For example, all the ministers of the cabinet went to Fengtian Hall to attend court, and he could not enter the most central place, so he could only wait in the outer meeting hall where there was no charcoal basin and it was as cold as an ice cave. And this outer meeting hall was only a place where the secretaries occasionally met people. Even if the ministers met people, they would go to the direct room, and at least two secretaries would be present to show that there was no private communication.
But even though Luo Siye was so cold that he kept pacing and rubbing his hands, and wrapped his cloak tightly over his robe, he did not ask for a sip of hot tea to warm his hands and heart. After all, he had spent a lot of time and energy to enter the cabinet to wait for Academician Kong. By now the news had already reached here, and he could hear the unscrupulous discussions of the passing secretaries and clerks outside through the doors and windows.
"This incident at the Imperial College is really a huge commotion. Throughout the history of the country, has there ever been a case where the Grand Secretary and the Junior Secretary gathered a group of academic officials, instigated the students to cause trouble, and directly locked up all the halls and the Rope Penalty Hall, intending to force the students to drive away a certain academic official and a group of students! The most ridiculous thing is that they actually lost in the end!"
"That's right. Even after all the careful planning, they still failed in the end. It's the most ridiculous! You must know that they used the majority to bully the minority, the superior to bully the inferior, and had all the advantages of time, place and people, but in the end they were suddenly counterattacked and suffered a great defeat. They also provoked the black-faced supervisor of the Shengqian Hall to resign and leave. I really don't know what the emperor's reaction will be after he leaves the court!"
"Yesterday, the rumors about the Imperial Household Department spread to everyone, and today, it's the Imperial College... Tsk tsk, that Doctor Zhang probably doesn't want a bunch of eunuchs to take the spotlight from him, so he got so excited, right?"
Hearing the laughter outside the window, Luo Siye's face had already turned the color of liver. Knowing that he was waiting inside for Kong Daxueshi to come back and summon him, these people were still talking and laughing so recklessly outside, which showed that they didn't take him seriously at all.