Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 58 Appreciation and Suppression
Jia Qiong's article on controlling Japanese pirates uses a forward-looking strategic vision to point out the reasons why Japanese pirates are becoming increasingly rampant today, and gives feasible suggestions for suppressing Japanese pirates.

As Li Yun said, this article is not only magnificent, but also full of insights.

It is a rare and heroic article that combines logic, speech and energy.

Several professors were amazed after hearing this. Baili Xuan asked: "Li Xuetai, I wonder which student is the one who made this policy statement?"

Li Yun praised: "This student has the same name as the little poet Jia Qiong. He must be a leader in the academy, and his knowledge is so extraordinary.

I didn't seem to have seen him when I came last year. He must be a new student this year. I wonder how old he is? "

Everyone burst out laughing when they heard this, and Li Yun asked in confusion: "Why are you laughing?"

Zhao Pu said: "Master Xuetai doesn't know that this Jia Qiong is the little poetry immortal. He is currently studying in our academy."

Li Yun was shocked when he heard this, "The little Shixian is actually studying in Wansong Academy. Why is there no news at all?"

Tang Lun said: "Jia Qiong came here to study. If everyone knew about it, the academy might not be peaceful, so the academy hid the news."

Li Yun nodded and said, "That makes sense.

There is no news about Jia Qiong's stay in the academy.

The strictness and trustworthiness of the academy students can be seen, and this is also the merit of the academy's teaching.

I thought Jia Qiong was just talented in literature, but I didn't expect to have such knowledge at such a young age. He is truly a genius.

Since there is such a fate, I must meet him and ask the mountain chief to arrange it. "

Tang Lun smiled and said: "What's wrong with this? I'll have someone bring him after he's ranked."

Li Yun nodded and said: "With this theory of "controlling barbarians", Jia Qiong should be ranked first."

Shen Yan said at this time: "I just read Jia Qiong's article, and compared to Chen Menglong, Gongsun Yue is still much inferior.

I think we should rank him third. "

Li Yun was surprised and said: "Is it possible that Jia Qiong is good at strategy and theory, but not good at craftsmanship?

This is normal. Talented people often feel constrained when writing eight-legged essays.

Senior Shen, where is Jia Qiong's Shiwen? Please bring it to me for a look. "

Shen Yan took out Jia Qiong's essay and handed it to Li Yun. After reading it, he said curiously: "This article is fluent in logic and has meaningful words. It is a rare work.

Compared to Chen Menglong, Gongsun Yue’s works are so many, so why not?
Where are their articles? Please bring them to me for a look. "

Li Yun read the two people's articles again, frowned and said, "With all due respect.

The writings by Chen Menglong and Gongsun Yue are indeed more refined and sophisticated, but they can only be said to be slightly better than those written by Jia Qiong.

I have read their strategies, but they are far inferior to Jia Qiong.

Overall, Jia Qiong should be ranked first. Why should Professor Shen lower his ranking? "

Tang Lun smiled and explained for Shen Yan: "Li Tixue didn't know something, Jia Qiong is Shen Hengfeng's grandson.

Presumably he was also afraid that Jia Qiong would be proud and complacent, so he deliberately lowered his ranking. "

Li Yun was stunned when he heard this: "I see, I didn't know that Senior Shen actually had such a great grandson, I really envy others.

Then according to the seniors’ words, let’s rank Jia Qiong in third place. "

The exam is over and everyone's rankings are posted on the bulletin board.

The top ten are Gongsun Yue, Chen Menglong, Jia Qiong, Guan Shanyue, Zhang Jin, Zhang Zhaoyang, Xu Fengnian, Song Mian, Li Wei and Zhou Xi.

Among them, Jia Qiong, Song Mian and Zhou Xi are all freshmen this year.

Guan Shanyue, Zhang Zhaoyang, and Xu Fengnian also just entered school last year.

Among the ten to twenty students, there are four freshmen who have been admitted within two years, namely Yan Bin, Zhao Lingfeng, Zhang Zhikun, and Yu Guangshi.

Among these people who have entered school within two years, the oldest Guan Shanyue is less than 20 years old, the youngest except Jia Qiong has just turned 14, and Zhao Lingfeng and Zhou Xi are only 15 years old.

They will be the academy's key training targets. Based on their qualifications, they should all be promoted to upper level in a few years.

After the exam, the mountain chief hosted a banquet for Li Yun at Wangjiang Pavilion on the top of the mountain.The top ten students were all allowed to sit down. During the dinner, Li Yun also gave everyone a test, so there is no need to elaborate.

Li Yun admired Jia Qiong's theory of controlling barbarians very much. After returning home, he immediately made a statement and submitted this article to the court.

He originally thought that this very insightful policy would attract the attention of the court, but unexpectedly, it was like a stone sinking into the sea without causing any splash.

Li Yun sent letters in the same year and inquired from many sources, only to find out that his memorial was withheld by the General Secretary and could not be delivered to the imperial court.

After a moment's thought, he understood what was going on. Now the General Affairs Secretary was Guo Feng, a protégé of Zhang Chunyang, the chief minister of the cabinet. This must have been done under his instruction.

Li Yun was very disdainful that Zhang Chunyang was so defensive even against a young man, but he did not continue to discount.

After all, the Fujian Party represented by Zhang Chunyang is now very powerful. He, a small fourth-rank official, has no guts to go against such big bosses.

After the annual exam, the academy has a holiday for half a month.

This is the only long holiday that the college has in the whole year so that students can have a good New Year and relax.

Of course, due to the inconvenient transportation in ancient times, most students would not go home to celebrate the New Year except those whose homes were near Hangzhou.

During the holidays, I usually study in the mountains or go to the nearby areas to relax.

Jia Qiong's home is at the foot of the mountain, so he naturally wants to go home to celebrate the New Year.

But he also has one more winter vacation homework, which is to teach his classmates to ride horses.

Among the classmates selected to attend the academy gathering this time, Gongsun Yue, Guan Shanyue, Song Mian, Yan Bin and Zhou Xi could not ride a horse.

They are going to Yueyang next year, and they will definitely have to ride horses to travel the long distance.

There has always been a shortage of horses in the south, and it would take two months for the healthy horses purchased by the academy to be delivered.

In order to travel around the nine borders, Jia Qiong and the three of them each brought two horses.

Later, they won a great victory in the Hetao battle and captured more than 10,000 war horses.

As they continued to travel, Yang Zhenye chose three more fine horses and gave them to the three of them.

Therefore, there are many horses at home, and even four foals were born last year.

In order to tame these fine horses, Jia Qiong specially bought a valley near Phoenix Mountain as a pasture.

Tian Li usually takes care of the horses here, and Jia Qiong comes here every time he takes a vacation to practice riding and shooting.

With this condition, Jia Qiong thought that he could take advantage of the New Year holiday to teach these classmates how to ride.

When Jia Qiong expressed his idea, everyone agreed.

As a result, on the second day, a full 30 people wanted to follow, and the majority of them were members of the "Xia Club".

Under the organization of Lu Yu, these people said they would come to learn riding and shooting. Jia Qiong had no choice but to take everyone with them.

Riding a horse is actually not difficult to learn. As long as you are brave enough and remember the essentials, you can learn it quickly. Of course, if you want to ride well, you need to practice more.

Horse riding and archery are two different things. It requires high horse control skills and archery abilities. Hard work and talent are both important.

Xu Shan, a martial arts genius, practiced every day, and it took him two years to reach a very high level.

Jia Qiong is still a dabbler, barely able to do [-] out of [-], let alone his classmates.

However, it is much better for everyone to get together and practice riding and shooting than to go out to drink wine and visit brothels.

About seven or eight miles east of Wutong Town, there is a large valley next to the river. There are two wooden houses and a large field at the mouth of the valley.

Because the land here is sandy and the geology is not good, the harvest from farming is not good.

The valley is full of weeds and cannot be cultivated at all. It is an ownerless land.

So Jia Qiong spent a small amount of money to buy dozens of acres of land around the valley, built two wooden houses, and let Tian Li raise horses here.

Tian Li sprinkled these dozens of acres of thin fields with the best forage seeds they brought back from the grasslands when they traveled to Jiubian. Now it is a lush pasture.

(End of this chapter)