Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 46 Wansong Academy
Wansong Academy is located on Fenghuang Mountain in the east of Hangzhou City, more than [-] miles away from Hangzhou City. To the south is the Qiantang River, also called Fuchun River.

There is a small town in the south of Phoenix Mountain called Wutong Town. Food and clothing for Wansong Academy are usually purchased here.

Jia Qiong and the other three have been traveling for more than half a year and it has been very hard. This trip is finally coming to an end and they feel very relaxed.

Chatting and laughing along the way, admiring the beautiful scenery along the way.

When I came to Wutong Town, I found that the town was very large, almost catching up with the average small county town.

Moreover, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with green trees and green brick houses on the roadside.

There are many people on the street, and it looks very prosperous and neat.

Pass through the town and go up the mountain along the gravel road. Along the road are picturesque mountains, pines and cypresses.

After riding on horseback for about ten minutes, they turned a mountain pass and Wansong Academy suddenly appeared in front of the three of them.

The academy is built along the mountain. It covers a large area and is clearly divided into several areas.

There are some old and new buildings inside, and they should have been expanded several times.

In front of the door is a large bluestone square. Standing here, you can see the Qiantang River in the south. The scenery is very beautiful.

The academy as a whole is a building mainly made of wood and stone, with occasional bamboo huts and thatched houses. The outermost part is a circle of white gables.

At the intersection in front of the square, there is an archway with a pattern of a fish leaping over a dragon gate carved on it.

The archway is very old at first glance, but the carvings on it are both old and new.

Jia Qiong looked up and saw the inscription on the right side of the archway: "Hongwu Yihai Year Meng Chun Jidan, Zhejiang Academic Affairs Meng Hetang was established".

There are more than [-] lines of small characters engraved on the middle gate. Jia Qiong looked at them one by one and found that this was a special Jinshi archway.

Tang Lun, Hongwu Bingchenke
Shen Yan, Hongwu Yiweike
Liu Jiayuan, Hongwu Yichou Ke

……

Wei Ting, Longqing Bingzike
Tong Zhuoyao, Longqing Bingzike

Yu Jie, Longqing Bingzike
Hong Jun, Longqing Bingzike
Chen Shouzhen, Longqing Bingzike

Zhang Jin, Longqing Bingzike
Obviously, this is a special Jinshi memorial arch built by a certain Zhejiang academic administrator to commend Wansong Academy for its outstanding contribution to education.

It is estimated that every time the academy has a student who is a Jinshi, their names will be engraved on it.

This is a great honor, an encouragement and a spur to the students of the academy.

You can imagine how excited the new students will be when they see this archway. Even Jia Qiongang felt excited when he saw it.

The three of them dismounted outside the archway and let Tian Li watch from outside. Jia Qiong and Xu Shan walked towards the academy gate.

There is a memorial tablet standing at the entrance of the academy. The front is engraved with the history of the academy, and the back is engraved with the dates of several expansions and the sponsors.

On the gate of the academy hangs the four official script characters of Wansong Academy with gold characters on a black background, and a couplet hangs on both sides.

If you stand up, you must become a white wall, and if you read, you will reach the blue sky.

At this moment, the black oil door of the academy was closed tightly, and it was quiet inside. Jia Qiong and the two men stepped forward and knocked on the door.

Soon the door opened, and an old disciple in his 50s came out and asked: "Are you two here to study?
The academy only recruits new students a few days before Qingming Festival every year, so you came a little early. "

Xu Shan said: "Old man, we are here to find someone. My grandfather's surname is Shen and he is teaching in the college."

Menzi opened his eyes in surprise and asked, "Is this true?

Then you are Xu Shan, who killed the right wise king of Tatar in formation and won the three armies bravely.

Behind you is Jia Qiong, a little poet who is famous all over the world? "

Xu Shan clasped his fists and said: "I don't dare to be the brave champion of the three armies. This is Xu Shan. I would like to ask the old man to help me inform you."

Menzi immediately said enthusiastically: "No need to wait, please come in quickly, I will take you to find Professor Shen."

Jia Qiong and Xu Shan are Shen Yan's grandsons, and everyone in the academy knows about them.

So when the disciple heard about Lian Tong's talent, he didn't care and led them directly into the academy, introducing them to them as they walked.

"In addition to the mountain chief, our Wansong Academy now has eight professors. Professor Shen is responsible for teaching students. In addition, there is one supervisor, one secretary, four deacons, and eight vegetarian servants.

There are currently 260 students in the academy, including 52 students in the inner room and nine students in the upper room.

There should be another thirty or forty more new students enrolling in the next few days.

We students who are outsiders all live in Qingsong Courtyard, students who are inside students live in Qingshan Courtyard, and students who are in the upper room live in Qingyun Courtyard.

Professor Shen and Chang Shan live in Zhuyuan, and the other professors live in Lanyuan.

The professors should all be in class at this time, so don't bother me. I'll take you to Zhuyuan to wait. "

Jia Qiong and Xu Shan followed the door up the stairs for a few minutes and came to a remote courtyard surrounded by bamboo fences.

This place deserves to be called Bamboo Garden, with several small bamboo buildings inside, a bamboo pavilion in the yard, and a large bamboo forest outside the yard.

The two waited for about half an hour. Near evening, Shen Yan came back from get out of class. He was very happy to see his two grandchildren.

Knowing that they had not returned home yet, he immediately led them down the mountain and found the house Shen Biyun rented. Everyone talked about their feelings.

Xu Shan rested at home for a few days and then set off for Ningbo with Shen Yan's letter.

He is going to serve under Yu Wannian, the admiral of the Zhejiang Navy, for a period of time to gain experience.

Nowadays, the problem of Japanese pirates along the coast of Dachu has become increasingly prominent.

In the early days of the Chinese dynasty, the scale of Japanese pirates was very small. There were only one or two invasions per year, and the harm was not great.

But in recent years, with the demise of the Kamakura Shogunate in Japan.

In Jingdong and Yoshino, emperors supported by different samurai groups appeared respectively, and Japan began to enter a period of melee between the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Because of the constant war, a large number of defeated warriors and ordinary people chose to flee Japan, causing the number of Japanese pirates to increase rapidly.

Therefore, in the coastal areas of Dachu, Japanese pirate activities began to become increasingly frequent.

Nowadays, the number of Japanese invasions per year has increased to about seven or eight.

And the scale is getting bigger and bigger, gradually becoming another major hidden danger after the Jurchens in Liaodong.

The places where Japanese pirates were active were all important grain-producing areas and taxing provinces in Dachu.

Half of the grain and tax output of Da Chu are in these provinces, so there must be no loss.

Therefore, the imperial court established four naval forces along the coast to protect the safety of the Dachu coastline.

They are the Dengzhou Navy stationed in Shandong Peninsula and the Ningbo Navy stationed in Zhejiang Province.

The Fuzhou Navy is stationed in Fujian Province, and the Guangzhou Navy is stationed in Guangdong Province.

Admiral Yu Wannian of the Ningbo Navy and Shen Yan were Jinshi in the same field and were formerly the Zuo Shilang of the Nanjing Ministry of War.

Because he is familiar with military affairs and proficient in naval warfare, he was transferred to the Ningbo Navy Admiral last year.

Shen Yan and Yu Wannian were of the same age, so he had the honor to let Xu Shan learn military skills from him and gain experience.

After Xu Shan left, Jia Qiong was also preparing to enter Wansong Academy to study.

Although Shen Yan was his grandfather, he had no intention of opening a back door for him.

He asked Jia Qiong to hide his identity and take part in the college's freshman assessment by himself.

In order to make it easier to interact with others in the future, Jia Qiong and Xu Shan both gave themselves cousin names.

Jia Qiong named himself Yujing, and the sum of Yujing and Qiong happened to be Qiong, and it sounded very pretty.

Bai Yujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor.

Immortals caress my top and endure longevity.

Jia Qiong was very satisfied with this name and planned to register using the name Jia Yujing.

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