Chapter 75: Conflict Arose and Storm Is Coming
“Your humble servant Jia Hua pays respect to the Marquis!”

Seeing Jia Yucun coming forward to greet her, Baochai wanted to retreat and leave, but was gently held back by Jia Cong.

The Xue family has many businesses in Jinling.

The position of Yingtian Prefecture Governor is nothing compared to Jia Cong, but it can still be of some use.

It also saves you from unnecessary greed.

Baochai didn’t say anything.

But he couldn’t understand what Jia Cong meant.

There was a touch of emotion in his eyes.

However, when Jia Yucun bowed, a hint of horror flashed across his eyes.

The Xue family is on the verge of decline, and this is something that all the major families in Jinling are well aware of.

Just waiting for it to collapse one day so that they can come up and divide it up.

Who can imagine.

The killer Jia Cong is actually behind the Xue family.

“Jia Yucun…”

“If I remember correctly, I was a second-class Jinshi in the 39th year of Kaiyuan.”

“He later became the prefect, but was dismissed for corruption and favoritism!”

“I resumed my post as the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture a month ago.”

……

“I was confused for a moment, and was framed by a traitor. I hope you will understand me, my Lord!”

“I got my position as the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture thanks to the Jia family.”

“You should serve the Marquis!”

Jia Yucun’s heart trembled, and he quickly expressed his opinion.

Of course, Jia Cong just listened to this.

In the original novel, the Jia family was raided by Prince Zhongshun and the ungrateful Jia Yucun together.

“You heard that you are a Confucianist of the second level of Confucianism.”

“What do you mean by ‘benevolence is love, justice is understanding?'”

“If I am not mistaken, the literary talent has been buried in the dust now, right?”

Jia Cong’s eyes flashed with a divine light, and he spoke lightly.

“If you want to enter the third realm of great scholar, you must integrate knowledge and practice.”

“Understand the words of the sages and practice them. Otherwise, not only will you have no hope of becoming a great scholar, but it is also possible that you will fall from grace after your literary talent is covered in dust.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jia Yucun could no longer hold back.

“Plop” he knelt on the ground.

On weekdays, Jia Yucun always disguised himself well and was well-mannered.

In addition, he is quite talented.

In the eyes of many people, there is a high chance that he will become a great scholar in the future.

Jia Zheng was deceived by his appearance.

He had no idea that his literary talent had long been lost.

At this moment, when Jia Cong revealed the truth, one can imagine how shocked he was.

“Please give me a chance, sir!”

“I am willing to follow your orders, Lord!”

At this time, Jia Yucun no longer called himself “your humble official”, but directly called himself “villain”.

Begging for mercy again and again.

“My second uncle is a loyal and honest person, but I am not.”

“How about this……”

“I heard there is a Qushui Academy in Jinling City?”

After a brief warning, Jia Cong assigned Jia Yucun an errand.

“Students in the academy do not study, but criticize government affairs and the emperor all day long.”

“Sometimes, outrageous words are spread out to incite the people.”

“Isn’t this matter under the jurisdiction of you, the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture?”

“Let’s seal up this academy today.”

Jia Yucun’s breathing paused when he heard this.

Qushui Academy is one of the forces of Bailu Academy.

One of the mottos of the academy is “to care about everything, including family affairs, national affairs and world affairs”.

It is normal to discuss state affairs.

But is the Bailu Academy easy to mess with?
He subconsciously raised his head and met Jia Cong’s cold eyes.

Jia Yucun’s heart trembled, and he thought of Jia Cong’s style of doing things.

I knew I had hit a wall today.

If he disagrees, not to mention that he won’t be able to stay in office as the prefect of Yingtian for long.

It is still unclear whether one can even save his life.

“My Lord is teaching you a lesson. It was I who was negligent.”

“I will go back and take people to seal up Qushui Academy.”

“It’s just that there are great scholars in that academy… with my ability.”

“I will let my mount go with you.”

“Thank you, Lord Marquis!”

After coming to his senses, Jia Yucun knew that he had no way out, so he simply went all the way.

He took the order and left immediately.

……

Baochai saw it clearly from the side.

Jia Yucun is the official of Jinling City and a fourth-rank official.

But Jia Cong easily conquered him with just a few words.

There was a flash of admiration in her beautiful eyes.

“Brother Cong, this Jia Yucun seems to be a sinister and cunning person. Don’t trust him easily.”

Half dragon body.

He has an inexplicable intuition that is far beyond that of ordinary people.

Baochai immediately sensed Jia Yucun’s sinister and cunning nature.

“A modest gentleman has his own way of using modest gentlemen, and a cunning villain has his own way of using cunning villains.”

“If used properly, it can still hurt people.”

“One Jia Yucun cannot turn the world upside down.”

A Confucian scholar who has taken the wrong path and has no hope of reaching the third realm.

It can’t pose any threat to Jia Cong at all.

“I’ve heard of the Qushui Academy before. There’s a great scholar named Zhou Anping giving lectures there.”

“Otherwise, let me go secretly to prevent Jia Yucun from ruining Cong’s plan.”

Baochai said with concern.

“It’s not a big deal. I just want to cause trouble for the people in Bailu Academy and let Jia Yucun submit a letter of surrender.”

“I can just ride my mount. There’s no need to trouble Sister Bao to go there.”

Jia Cong gently touched the dragon horn on Baochai’s head.

In the eyes of gods, there is no difference whether there is a sleight of hand or not.

“It’s all up to Congge.”

Baochai blushed and lowered her head.

……

Qushui Academy
“How can this be absurd? Brother Wang is also a scholar with a good reputation.”

“Even if he is an imperial envoy, how can he be executed at will?”

“A great scholar of the time?”

“Does a gentleman who is magnanimous and upright mean being so reckless and killing people at will?”

“My fellow students, this matter cannot be left to this simple matter.”

The body of the scholar killed by Jia Cong was placed in the front yard of the academy.

More than 200 students from Qushui Academy gathered together, filled with indignation.

They all began to denounce Jia Cong.

“That’s it, surround them!”

“No one is allowed to escape.”

“Move quickly!”

At this time, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside.

A group of yamen runners dressed in yamen uniforms rushed in.

Jinling was a companion student, and the government office had more staff than other government offices.

Plus various non-staff assistants who run errands.

In order to prevent any accidents, Jia Yucun directly ordered five hundred policemen to come over this time.

Wait until the yamen runners surrounded a group of scholars.

Jia Yucun then walked into the academy.

“What are you going to do, what is this place?”

“How dare you! Where are you from? How dare you come to Qushui Academy and act wildly!”

“This is outrageous, a mere lowly servant!”

The scholars of Qushui Academy were already angry, and when they saw this, they started shouting and cursing.

“Qushui Academy, illegal association!”

“To speak ill of His Majesty is sometimes extremely treasonous.”

“Today, I will temporarily seal off Qushui Academy according to the law!”

Jia Yucun ignored the scholars’ scolding.

Instead, he spoke loudly with a majestic literary spirit.

“Jia Yucun, you are so brave!”

As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful voice came from the back hall of the academy.

A majestic literary aura several times more terrifying than that of Jia Yucun rose into the sky.

It was the great scholar from Jiangnan named Zhou Anping who was giving lectures here.

He was wearing a scholar’s robe, was over seventy years old, and had white hair and beard.

With his feet on the literary spirit, he came from the sky.

The noble literary spirit surged throughout his body, forcing the yamen runners to unable to even stand steadily.

“You are just a fourth-rank official of Yingtian Prefecture. Who gave you the courage to seal off Qushui Academy?”

Zhou Anping had a hot temper and his hair and beard were flying at this moment.

……

“Great scholar, who offended Mr. Zhou?”

“The last time Zhou Anping got angry was because a wealthy businessman had his guards beat up students from Qushui Academy without authorization.” “In the end, all 43 members of that wealthy businessman’s family were killed overnight!”

“When it comes to hot temper, Zhou Anping considers himself second among the great scholars in Jiangnan, and no one dares to claim to be first.”

“Go and investigate what happened at Qushui Academy!”

The majestic literary spirit that arose could be seen clearly by most of Jinling City.

It attracted the attention of countless people in an instant.

If you look down from the air.

You can see that in the mansions of major families in Jinling City, all the servants are disguised as ordinary people and leave the house.

Go straight to Qushui Academy to find out the news.

……

Qushui Academy
“I am following the orders of the Imperial Envoy, Purple-Robed Marquis Jia Cong, who is here to inspect Jiangnan.”

“Search according to the law!”

Jia Yucun said with all his might.

“Jia Cong, you are bullying me too much!”

“Who gave you the guts to talk about my master?”

At this time, a low voice came from outside the academy wall.

The evil spirit rose up, its color was deep red.

With waves of terrifying and unsettling aura.

This is not the main thing.

Wrapped within the evil spirit was a white tiger about ten feet tall, as tall as two men.

It is said that clouds follow dragons and wind follows tigers.

There were gusts of wind and flying sand.

Rushed straight towards Zhou Anping.

It was Jia Cong’s mount, Dabai.

Since breaking into the great demon realm.

The size of Dabai’s demon body increased rapidly, but fortunately, as a demon in the third realm, he had the instinct to slightly control his body size.

Otherwise, you won’t be able to enter the city at all.

“Roar!”

What followed was a lifelong tiger roar.

There is a soul-stirring power in the voice.

Zhou Ping’an was in a hurry and completely unprepared.

He was directly frightened by the tiger’s roar and stood still for a moment.

For the big monster.

A moment of time is enough to do so many things.

By the time he reacted, Dabai had already come close to Zhou Anping.

Open your bloody mouth!

The blood-colored evil spirit lingering around his body turned into an even larger tiger’s mouth.

“what!”

After a shrill scream, half of Zhou Anping’s body, including his right arm, was torn off by Dabai.

Then he was knocked to the ground by the tiger’s claws.

The huge tiger head lowered.

A fishy smell filled the air.

“You are so arrogant as to say something about my master?”

After Dabai finished speaking, the demon turned into a blade.

Zhou Anping’s head was chopped off directly.

Zhou Anping, the most hot-tempered scholar in Jiangnan, was invited to lecture at Qushui Academy for more than ten years.

He was suppressed and killed!

……

“Zhou Anping was killed!”

“Where…where did this monster come from?”

“I remember now. I heard that when Marquis Zi Yi was in Yangzhou, his mount was this white tiger.”

“Just a mount can kill a great scholar. The power of Marquis Purple Robe…”

“This kind of great demon can definitely become the foundation of a first-class powerful family.”

Zhou Anping’s death was not as conspicuous as Haoran’s literary spirit.

But he was killed in public by Dabai in mid-air at Qushui Academy.

Half of Jinling City could be seen clearly.

The servants and slaves sent by the families to gather information were at a loss as to what to do when they saw this.

Zhou Anping died before the people arrived.

How to check this?
……

“This this……”

Jia Yucun could see the situation more clearly than people outside.

Know that the big monster has amazing fighting power.

But no matter what, I didn’t expect the famous Zhou Anping.

He couldn’t even hold out for one round and was killed directly.

Who would believe it if they didn’t see it with their own eyes?

At this moment, my awe for Jia Cong reached its peak!

Can you believe that such a powerful monster is just the opponent’s mount? ? ?

“I have been ordered to close down Qushui Academy. Who else dares to stand up and oppose it?”

Taking advantage of Dabai’s power, Jia Yucun spoke again.

The scholar who had just been cursing fiercely was now like an eggplant hit by frost.

I didn’t dare to say even a word of no.

“Come on, take all these scholars back to jail.”

“I will investigate each of you one by one before handling the case!”

Jia Yucun wanted to surrender to Jia Cong at this time. Since he wanted to show his loyalty, he might as well do it right away!

He directly ordered the bailiffs to arrest all the scholars and put them in jail.

……

Central Jinling City

The tall palace walls stand tall.

Jinling is the ancient capital of Six Dynasties!

There was originally a palace complex here, and Daqian established its capital here when it was first established.

A lot of manpower and material resources were also used for repairs.

In terms of splendor and luxury, it is not inferior to the capital city.

“This… this Purple Robe Marquis is truly worthy of his reputation!”

“It’s just a mount, but it has such fighting power…”

At this time, on top of the palace wall.

Zheng Hong, the eunuch guarding Jinling, was horrified.

In the Jinling Imperial Palace, there are twelve prisons, four departments, and eight bureaus.

The twenty-four government offices in the inner court may be small, but they have all the necessary facilities.

The only thing is that the number of people is not as large as that of Shenjing City.

Compared with the six ministries in Jinling City that were gradually becoming mere decorations.

The twenty-four government offices in the imperial city have enormous power.

Not only is he one of the royal family’s important spies.

Responsible for monitoring the movements in Jiangnan.

He also holds military power.

In the past, Emperor Taizong moved the capital to Shenjing.

Not only a set of inner court team was left in Jinling.

There were also seventeen guards of the emperor’s personal soldiers left.

This is for the sake of preventing foreign invasions in the future and losing the north.

The capital can also be moved back to Nanjing, keeping half of the country including the prosperous area south of the Yangtze River.

Including the Jinyiwei and Daqian’s first-class elite Xiaolingwei.

Among them, the Jinyiwei was responsible for intelligence work, and the Xiaolingwei was responsible for guarding the imperial tombs.

The Jianghuai Guard and the Jichuan Guard were naval forces that patrolled the rivers.

The remaining thirteen guards had a total of thirty thousand people.

Divided into two shifts to defend the gates of Nanjing, these guards were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Central Military Governor’s Office.

In fact, the royal family does not trust the powerful.

The real power lies in the hands of the garrison in Nanjing.

It can be said that Zheng Hongcai is the real local emperor in Jinling City.

The most powerful person in secret.

“Marquis Zi Yi was ordered by the Emperor to leave the capital and inspect Jiangnan with the Emperor’s Qian Yuan Sword!”

“As the garrison commander of Jinling, we cannot just turn a blind eye!”

“Come here, prepare a generous gift for our family and send it to the Xue family where the Purple Robe Marquis is tomorrow.”

“Then we will mix the White Deer Academy’s influence in Jinling that the Royal Guards have investigated into among the gifts.”

After thinking for a while, Zheng Hong spoke.

“I obey, little one!”

The eunuch behind him immediately went forward to prepare as instructed.

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Xue Family
study
“My Lord, I have already sealed off the Qushui Academy, and all the students in the academy have been imprisoned.”

“Many of these students come from wealthy families. Now that they are involved in this matter, their families must be extremely anxious.”

“Please tell me how to do it, Lord.”

Now Jia Yucun has no choice but to follow Jia Cong till the end.

The Qushui Academy was closed down in order to change its status, and the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River had no place to stay.

In order to show his loyalty, he even thought of a way for Jia Cong to make money.

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Everyone, I have a fever every day, but it is getting better in the early morning…

The next chapter will start with a plot of revenge, but I’m afraid that I won’t be in good condition to write it effectively.

Today I will start with a big chapter…

Give me some time.

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(End of this chapter)