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Chapter 508: Millennium School - Yuelu Academy
A well-trained cavalry walked slowly on the official road. In the middle of the team was Ou Zanghua's carriage.

At this moment, he was sitting in the car, looking at the information in his hands, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Emperor Zhengde ordered the Embroidered Uniform Guard to escort Prince Ning, Prince Yichun and Prince Ruichang to Beijing for trial.

However, Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao hanged himself in front of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. After Prince Yichun Zhu Gongluo learned the news, he did not want to go to Beijing to be humiliated, so he also chose to hang himself.

As a result, only Ruichang Prince Zhu Gongzhu was left alive. The Jinyiwei did not dare to let him die, so they took turns to watch over him for twelve hours and managed to send the prince to the capital.

Ou Zanghua knew that after hearing the news that Concubine Lou had committed suicide by jumping into the river, Prince Ning no longer wanted to live.

But I didn't expect that this person would disgust Emperor Zhengde even in his death. I guess Emperor Zhengde is smashing the table in the capital again now!
At this moment, a scout rode his horse quickly to the front of the carriage, dismounted quickly, clasped his hands together and saluted, saying, "Your Excellency, Governor, while patrolling ahead, we encountered suspicious people. After arresting and interrogating them, they confessed that they had secretly buried gunpowder in a rocky mountain fifteen miles ahead, intending to use the force of the explosion to collapse the mountain and bury you. They were plotting something bad!"

After hearing this, Ou Zanghua calmly asked, "Can you find out who is behind this?"

Ever since he started to survey the land, every few days some ignorant people from the martial arts world would come to assassinate him, and then they would be defeated by him in one or two moves, causing their faith in Taoism to collapse.

He had experienced this kind of thing so many times that it was just like that and it no longer caused any ripples in his heart.

The scout replied, "Your Excellency, they confessed that it was the landlord Zhou of Huarong and the bandit Li Shutong of Shi Niu Village in Liuyang who planned everything."

"Shiniu Village?"

Ou Zanghua frowned slightly. He had never heard of this place, but since they were bandits, they were lawless people. "Send a message to Li Xiaowu to find out the specific situation and internal layout of Shiniu Village and destroy it!"

"Yes!"

As the order was passed down, Li Xiaowu brought a group of people to meet Liu Mazi, Wang Tieshou, Zhou the landlord and others.

Before he could even open his mouth, Landlord Zhou tremblingly confessed everything he knew, only asking for a way to survive.

Li Xiaowu sneered, looked at the silent Liu Mazi and Wang Tieshou and asked, "I'm sure you two will be generous in telling me the details of the layout of Shiniuzhai, right?"

Liu Mazi slowly raised his head and, in a leisurely tone, elaborated on the various layout details of Shiniuzhai, even revealing a secret hiking trail.

"Very good, if what you said is true, I can plead with Lord Ou to spare your life." Li Xiaowu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

"No need for that. The rules of the underworld are that those who betray their brothers shall be punished with three cuts and six eyes." Liu Mazi grinned, clasped his fists towards Li Xiaowu and said, "General, please let my brother go. I forced him to come here!"

Wang Tieshou, who was standing by, lowered his head and said nothing.

Li Xiaowu couldn't understand Liu Mazi, so he frowned slightly and said, "It's up to you!"

After the soldiers left, Wang Tieshou turned to look at Liu Mazi and asked sincerely, "Second brother, are you satisfied now?"

"As expected"

"Are you happy?"

"I'm not happy, but if I had to choose, I would still do it!" Liu Mazi shed tears and said slowly: "My eldest brother killed the fifth brother, he must pay with his life. I killed my eldest brother, so I must pay with my life too."

On the other side, Li Xiaowu sent several agile soldiers to explore the way, and they actually found the secret path up the mountain.

Li Xiaowu became even more confused and stopped thinking about it since he couldn't figure it out.

He took advantage of the night and led 250 elite soldiers from the camp, armed with bows and crossbows, and quietly climbed the mountain.

By the time Li Shutong realized it, it was already too late. Dozens of bows and crossbows were aimed at him outside his bedroom.

Although Li Shutong was alert and took precautions, he was still shot to death on the spot. Sixty of the more than seventy bandits in Shiniuzhai were captured alive.

After the battle, Li Xiaowu counted the number of people and was surprised to find that one of them, Chen Guaizi, was missing. He had found an excuse to go down the mountain the day before and never came back.
Li Xiaowu rushed back to Changsha Prefecture and informed Ou Zanghua of the news, asking whether to issue a wanted order for this person.

Ou Zanghua asked back: "Has he ever robbed anyone?"

Li Xiaowu replied: "Yes, according to the confessions of the bandits, Chen Guaizi once led them to rob several wealthy families in Liuyang County."

"Then I'll issue a wanted notice."

"Yes!"

As the conversation between the two ended, the carriage stopped.

On Yuelu Mountain, there is a gurgling stream, lush forests and bamboos, and densely packed green-tiled houses. This is the Yuelu Academy, which was founded by Zhu Dong, the prefect of Tanzhou, in the ninth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty based on the foundation of monks' education.

In the eighth year of Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhenzong of Song personally summoned Zhou Shi, the principal of Yuelu Academy, to meet him and personally wrote the four characters "Yuelu Academy" as a plaque on the door.

People in the Ming Dynasty probably would not have expected that this academy would outlast the Ming Dynasty itself.

Yuelu Academy has gone through the Southern Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and its tradition has continued to be passed down.

It was not until the 29th year of Emperor Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty that Yuelu Academy merged with Hunan Provincial University and was restructured into Hunan Higher School, while the old site of the academy was still used for teaching.

In the 15th year of the Republic of China, Hunan Higher School was officially named Hunan University, and on this basis, it continued to expand based on the old site of the academy.

Today, Yuelu Academy has two first-level disciplines, philosophy and history. It has more than 400 undergraduate, master and doctoral students, and holds academic lectures all year round.

At this moment, the headmaster Ye Xing, the prefect of Changsha Liu Jie, the magistrate of Changsha Yu Shouguan and others, along with the gentry and students of Changsha Prefecture, had been waiting here for a long time. When they saw Ou Zanghua coming down, they all bowed and saluted, saying, "Greetings to Lord Ou, long live the Lord!"

"My dear lords, please don't be polite!" Ou Zanghua returned the greeting, cupping his hands lightly, with a warm smile on his face: "It is my honor to come to Yuelu Academy at this time of the year when the spring breeze is the best."

The headmaster Ye Xing and the prefect of Changsha, Liu Jie, stepped forward. Ye Xing smiled and said earnestly, "It is a great honor for the academy that Lord Ou has come to the academy in person."

This is true. Ou Zanghua is the Minister of Rites, who is mainly responsible for the central government's official school and the imperial examination. For local academies, this is called the big daddy of Party A.

Led by a group of Changsha government officials, Ou Zanghua entered Yuelu Academy.

The main gate of the academy was first built in the Song Dynasty. The current gate was rebuilt in the fourth year of Zhengde. Right above the gate hangs the imperial plaque "Yuelu Academy" by Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty.

Go further in and you will reach the front gate.

The couplet on the door says: If you can accomplish something, it is a career; if you can’t push it away, it is fate.

Ou Zanghua paused, looked at the couplet and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this is the original work of Mr. Wang Yangming!"

"Lord Ou really has a keen eye." Ye Xing smiled and said, "In early February, despite my repeated entanglements, Lord Wang came to Yuelu Academy to give lectures and left this calligraphy."

Ou Zanghua looked across and said slowly: "As long as you work hard, you will succeed in the end."

"Since things have come to pass and there is no escape, we should cherish them and work hard to do things well. Don't waste every opportunity that comes our way."

"Mr. Wang is giving guidance to the younger generation on how to do business!"

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After a while of chatting and laughing, everyone continued to walk inside, which led to the ceremonial hall. Hanging on the front of the door was a plaque with the words "Famous Mountain Altar Seat", but it is unknown who wrote it.

Further in is the lecture hall, which is now full of Hunan students. The couplets on both sides of the lecture hall are very interesting:
The one who attains knowledge regardless of age is called a teacher, and the one who is wise regardless of age is called a sage.

The students from Hunan and Xiang had long heard of Ou Zanghua's reputation. He was the first place winner in Huguang in the fifth year of Zhengde and the third place winner in the sixth year of Zhengde. In the same year, he led the troops in the first battle to quell the rebellion in Jiangxi, risking his life to sneak into the enemy's camp to fight.

In the second battle, he directly educated the rebels and put down the Yao Yuan Rebellion without spending a single soldier.

In the seventh year of Zhengde, he joined forces with Qiu Yue and Peng Ze to suppress the Liu Liu and Liu Qi Rebellion, which had been raging in the north for three years.

He then took charge of the Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites, and worked hard to balance the relationship between His Majesty and the Cabinet. During this period, he also presided over the joint examinations and palace examinations in the ninth and twelfth years of Zhengde.

Then he led his army out of the border and won a historic victory!

After doing all this, looking back, she was only 28 years old.

Among the many students present, there were many who were older than Ou Zanghua.

But the gap between the two sides is like the bright moon and fireflies, how can we compete with them?

As Ou Zanghua walked onto the podium, all the students stood up, bowed and said, "Students greet Mr. Ou!"

"Excuse me, gentlemen!"

After Ou Zanghua returned the greeting with a bow, he said gently, "My surname is Ou and my name is Zanghua, which is taken from the 21st chapter of the outer chapter of Baopuzi, Jia Dun, which means "hibernating in midsummer and hiding in spring."

"This name was given by my master. He is a businessman and a knight-errant. From him, I learned many things that are not in books."

At this point, Ou Zanghua looked at the students below and asked with a smile: "What do you think, gentlemen, how do the people of the three rivers and four lakes survive?"

The students were stunned, and then some of them raised their hands to answer the questions. Some said diligence, some said hard work, and some said frugality.

Ou Zanghua nodded and continued, "Everyone's answers make sense. This is also what I learned from my master. I call it the three qi: spiritual qi, bandit qi, and domineering qi!"

"Strength is the core, perseverance is the soul, and spirit is the temperament. Brutalism and spirit complement each other. The spirit of the tiger and the spirit of the monkey are combined in one."

"We have the tenacious determination of Qu Yuan, 'The road ahead is long and arduous, but I will continue to explore'!"

"There is also the heroic sentiment of 'Even if there are only three households in Chu, Chu will be the one to destroy Qin'!"

"My master relied on these three energies to travel the southwest for business and support the family, so that I could learn about etiquette and achieve what I have today."

The students below nodded thoughtfully. These were things they could see in their daily lives, but no one summarized and explained them like Ou Zanghua did.

Ou Zanghua continued, "The land and water nurture the people. The Three Rivers and Four Rivers were once a barbarian land with a bad reputation. But on the other hand, isn't this also the spirit of Xiaoxiang?"

"In the first year of Deyou, when the Yuan army besieged Changsha, Li Fei of Hengyang, who served as both the prefect of Tanzhou and the pacification commissioner of Hunan, led the army and civilians of Changsha to bravely resist the enemy and repeatedly frustrated the Yuan army's spirit. When they were isolated and exhausted, with no way to retreat, Li Gong resolutely ordered his troops to sacrifice his entire family, young and old, and himself, fulfilling his oath to sacrifice his family."

"During this battle, hundreds of students from Yuelu Academy and other schools gave up their pens in anger and joined the army, shedding their blood on the battlefield. On the day the city fell, almost all of them died. Their heroic and tragic deeds are witnessed by heaven and earth."

"This is the patriotic sentiment of the people of Hunan, who care about the world and serve the country and the people!"

"it is good!"

"Great!"

As Ou Zanghua delivered his brilliant speech, not only the students below, but even the professors who were listening and the gentry who were watching could not help but nod their heads frequently.

In the crowd, Mr. Huang, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li and others looked at each other in confusion, sweating profusely.

Just by looking at the atmosphere on the scene, you can tell how much the students like Ou Zanghua’s speech.

This is different from what they had planned before!

The original plan was to intensify the indignation of these scholars and let them take the lead in confronting Ou Zanghua.

By then, whether Ou Zanghua chooses to keep things quiet or remain stubborn, it will be a good thing for them. They can make a big fuss about it and use public opinion to force Ou Zanghua to make concessions.

Looking at these students now, their admiration is beyond words. How could they be fooled by the people they arranged?
(End of this chapter)