Chapter 52 Fengxian News
They are playboys, but no one born in a wealthy family is a fool.
The emperor now clearly wants to confront the aristocratic families. I don’t know who gave the emperor this idea, but the emperor is a fool. Naturally, each family has a young man who is unfavored and cold-treated, so just pick one and send it over.
This "benefit" fell on them.
For a while, in the Jixiang Theater, one could always see three or five young men sitting together sighing and groaning. They even lost interest in watching the theater. After all, their lives were not certain to be saved!
The emperor could not do anything to the aristocratic families, but it was too easy to kill these young men from aristocratic families who had no positions and were abandoned by their families.
No one thought that Yan Xuanyu really wanted to set up a military academy/school.
The construction of the Capital School has begun, and Han Yuan’s eldest son Han Shidong stayed in the capital to become the principal of the Capital School.
Not long after, news came from the capital that Han Yuan had retired, and Lin Fu also resigned from his post and left the court, and his whereabouts disappeared.
Han Yuan did have some power and means, and those who wanted to find out the whereabouts of Han Yuan all returned empty-handed. For a time, Han Yuan's whereabouts became a mystery.
In the capital, there is a feeling that a storm is about to come.
...
In the palace, Yan Xuanyu was also busy.
He was in charge of all matters including the school's site selection, internal layout, and personnel positions.
But it is a mixture of pain and happiness, because these young men who were sent here are the new forces of the future family.
Yan Xuanyu smiled. The young men from noble families who were sent to the academy in the capital city, crying and wailing, had no idea that their future lives had already been set in a tragic tone...
Of course he has to treat this group of people well.
"In the morning exercise schedule, to train them, just set a ten-minute lunch break..."
Yan Xuanyu wrote down one inhumane rule after another with an expressionless face.
He would not assume others with the utmost goodwill. Some rebellious teenagers in modern times are full of malice, not to mention the teenagers living in the complex environment of noble families in ancient times. Some of them might have almost become mentally twisted.
Rules must be established first. If you want a more relaxed learning environment, at least wait until they change.
He was busy from morning till night in Chengqian Palace, and finally formulated a set of regulations and sent them out of the palace for implementation.
When Yan Xuanyu stretched in the deserted Chengtian Hall, he looked out the window and found that it had darkened outside.
He specifically told Li Zhongxian and the others to stay in the outer room, intending to use up all the system points he had obtained tonight.
"I'm not saying anything, but your system is a bit too stingy..." Yan Xuanyu complained.
After saving for so long, and even making such a huge sacrifice, he still only had enough system points to draw three more times - one was the leftover points from last time, and the other two were saved from completing tasks during this period.
Yan Xuanyu counted on his fingers the cards he had drawn, only two!
Could it be any more useless? This system is just too underwhelming.
Probably because Yan Xuanyu completed a lot of tasks to restore some energy to the system, Yan Xuanyu found that the system had started to change at some point. The voice was not so rigid anymore, and it even learned to refute him.
[Host, the card I drew last time also helped you! You can draw three times to try your luck.]
Indeed, the Wine Pool and Meat Forest card helped him and Yuan Kang a lot, but that was the wine that Yan Xuanyu had worked so hard to fill barrels of!
"Let's try my luck again." Yan Xuanyu rubbed his hands.
He had played card-drawing games in his previous life, but he was the type of person who would first save up a lot of resources and then draw a lot at once. This strategy was obviously not applicable to the Tyrant's card-drawing system, as could be seen from the fact that it took him so long to save up enough resources to draw twice.
The last time the system urged him to draw a card, he did and got the Wine Pool and Meat Forest card. Yan Xuanyu was a little moved by what the system said.
The system responded by releasing the Tyrant Card Drawing System.
Yan Xuanyu concentrated on imagining what he needed right now, attempting to influence the card drawing system with his powerful will...
Only when drawing a card for the first time did the system let Yan Xuanyu draw a lucky symbol, and after that, he just had to press a button.
Yan Xuanyu was already familiar with this process, and he gently touched the middle button.
In an instant, a familiar white light flowed.
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the R-level card: Pill. This is a 'magic pill' made by a Taoist priest, said to have the effect of immortality.]
Yan Xuanyu leaned back and died peacefully.
100 points were spent just like that!
[Host, there are still two times left. Maybe next time it will be an S card!]
Yan Xuanyu ignored the system, still holding a glimmer of hope in his heart. The elixir produced by the system must be extraordinary, surely it must be extraordinary! Perhaps it really had some effect?
He silently recited the card, and the next second a round, black pill appeared out of thin air on the table.
Yan Xuanyu: ...
"System, is it true that your card pool becomes much cleaner after I draw a card?" Yan Xuanyu asked with a pleasant expression.
After all, the garbage has been taken out.
He opened the card pool preview and found that he had lit up two R cards and one A card, and the others were currently gray.
The system didn't speak again, probably starting to play dead.
Yan Xuanyu said, "Come out, don't play dead, I'll whip you again."
The system immediately responded happily.
This time, Yan Xuanyu didn't think about anything and pressed the button calmly.
In an instant, a familiar white light flowed...
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the C-rank card: Taoist Detector. Using this card will help the host find a deceitful Taoist priest~]
You call this a C-level card?! Yan Xuanyu roared in his heart.
Such a random name, such a useless function...
Can you ask him if he's okay with the R-level pill in his hand?
Is he crazy or stupid? Why would he want a cheating Taoist priest...
Yan Xuanyu suddenly realized that it’s too early to speak. He once thought that Longxhu Meng was already very bad, but he didn’t expect that he got an even worse card through his own efforts.
Yan Xuanyu breathed a sigh of relief. He still had one chance to draw a card. He had saved up for so long and only managed three times, but ended up drawing two pieces of garbage in one go!
"Draw again!"
Maybe next time...
"Huh?" Yan Xuanyu widened his eyes.
Suddenly, the turntable was covered with golden light!
The next second, the system voice sounded——
[Congratulations to the host for drawing an S-rank card: A Golden House to Keep a Beauty. If I could marry Ah Jiao, I would keep her in a golden house.]
A beautiful woman in a golden house? !
For Yan Xuanyu, is the key point "Jiao"? The key point is "Golden House"!
"But this guy isn't some tyrant," Yan Xuanyu muttered to himself. "It seems this system is about dealing with things, not people."
No matter what, for Yan Xuanyu this was tantamount to a windfall.
No, Yan Xuanyu thought again, what windfall, this was clearly the result of his hard work!
Yan Xuanyu put the system back in. After an S card came out, he felt much more satisfied with the first two cards.
Well, the "Taoist Detector"...
This card is indeed a bit useless. Even without this card, Yan Xuanyu can send people to find the Taoist priest who cheated people!
...
At this moment, Lin Fu was accompanying his teacher in a carriage heading south.
Although Han Yuan is old, he is in good spirits now.
"I don't know what Fengxian looks like now." Han Yuan said.
The news of the flood in Fengxian City also reached the capital.
Lin Fu smiled and said, "I think he has recovered."
"I hope so." Han Yuan sighed, but suddenly talked about another thing, "To this day, I find that there are some things that I have never seen clearly."
Luck is indeed mysterious.
A few days later, the group finally arrived in Fengxian City.
The governor of Fengxian City was a man of the emperor, named Feng Guangwei. They knew him because he had been demoted to a county magistrate at the foot of Fengxian City due to a mistake, and later he made great efforts to become the governor of Fengxian City.
This play is really wonderful. But at that time, they were just characters in the play.
As soon as they arrived, they met Feng Guangwei, who had brought people to greet them outside the city early.
"Your servant Feng Guangwei greets Duke Hanguo."
Han Yuan looked up and saw the three words "Fengxian City" on the city wall shining brightly in the sunlight.
...
"I have already arranged a residence for you." Feng Guangwei smiled. "Don't worry, Duke. Fengxian City is very safe. There is no need to worry about spies."
When saying this, Feng Guangwei was faintly proud.
Han Yuan and his group didn't notice anything when they were outside the city, but when they got inside, they found that this place was very different from other cities in Da Zhou... more than very different!
The servants who came with Han Yuan were first settled down under the guidance of Feng Guangwei's men. According to Han Yuan's wishes, Feng Guangwei took Han Yuan and Lin Fu and walked slowly in the city.
"What is this?" Han Yuan saw a carriage that was more than twice the size of an ordinary carriage passing by them.
This carriage is strange, with the words "Twenty-one" pasted on the body.
As they were talking, the carriage stopped not far in front of them. Several people carrying goods got on the carriage, and then the carriage continued to move forward, heading steadily out of the city.
"This is a public carriage," Feng Guangwei introduced with a smile. "It's used by ordinary people. They only need to pay a few coins. The carriage just now was on No. 21, heading south of the city."
As he was speaking, another carriage came towards him, and the words on the carriage were different from the previous ones.
Seeing Han Yuan and Lin Fu were curious, Feng Guangwei suggested, "Would the Duke like to sit down for a while?"
Han Yuan naturally agreed, as he was just wanting to see what the car looked like.
Han Yuan was followed by two guards, plus Lin Fu. The four of them followed Feng Guangwei to a strange-looking wooden sign and waited in front of it. There was a big "Twenty-two" written on it.
Feng Guangwei explained, "This is a road sign. People just need to wait for the carriage below. This carriage is heading to the north of the city."
By evening, there were already people on the carriage.
Han Yuan originally thought that the carriage looked clean on the outside, but since it was for the common people to ride in, the inside must not be very clean. However, when he took a look inside the carriage, he found that the inside was unexpectedly clean!
When the carriage stopped, the driver placed a wooden step outside so that even someone with mobility issues like Han Yuan could easily get on.
The car had partitions, thick cushions underneath, and translucent paper windows.
Naturally, Feng Guangwei paid the bill, and the four of them bowed and found a place to sit down.
Han Yuan discovered that the coachman knew Feng Guangwei, and when he saw Feng Guangwei, he excitedly shouted "Your Excellency the Prefect".
"The prefect?! The prefect is also taking this train!" Han Yuan heard a woman sitting in the back say loudly.
Han Yuan frowned, "How can a woman sit with a man outside her family?"
The atmosphere in the Great Zhou Dynasty was actually quite good, and people were relatively tolerant towards women, but this tolerance was ultimately relative.
The woman, with sharp ears, noticed that it was the old man in front who said this. She immediately raised her eyebrows and put her hands on her hips and said, "What's wrong with me? You are so rude, old man! The governor said that women are no worse than men!"
Feng Guangwei had just finished talking to the driver and was walking back when he heard the confrontation between the lady and Han Yuan.
“You…” Han Yuan glared at him.
He remembered who had said the woman "Women are no worse than men" and glared at Feng Guangwei again.
Feng Guangwei: “…”
He hurried over and said with a smile: "This is my distant relative, who just came to Fengxian City."
The woman lost her temper immediately. "So you just arrived in Fengxian City. No wonder."
Only the pride in his tone came through.
When she heard Feng Taishou say that this was his distant relative, she quickly apologized to the old man in front of her and insisted on giving the old man's son (Lin Fu:?) a handful of sugar-roasted chestnuts she had just bought.
The woman changed her expression and said enthusiastically, "I bought these chestnuts at Fengxian Mall. They are sweet and delicious."
The other people in the car also started talking to Feng Guangwei.
Han Yuan heard them mention the "Xiang Pancreas Factory". These people were people who had just finished working at the Xiang Pancreas Factory, and it was something he didn't know.
He found that these people were dressed very neatly and their hands and faces were clean.
The carriage was protected from bumps, so the journey was quite comfortable.
...
Feng Guangwei secretly groaned when he saw that Han Yuan didn't say a word along the way. He was ordered by the emperor to take Duke Han Guo to see the changes in Fengxian City, but who knew that he didn't even notice it, and Duke Han Guo started quarreling with the people - although it was just a few words.
He wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.
In fact, Han Yuanyuan was not as angry as Feng Guangwei imagined. Firstly, he did not take the woman's words to heart. Secondly, the woman's words "no worse than men" made him look at Feng Guangwei thoughtfully for a few times.
Han Yuan felt that the people in Fengxian City were different from those in other places. They all looked clean.
This also indirectly shows that the people are living well. If they can't even make a living, who would care about whether it is clean?!
But... Han Yuan thought to himself that it was not ruled out that Feng Guangwei and these people were putting on a show for him.
Feng Guangwei was puzzled by Han Yuan's ambiguous gaze.
Several people got off the car not far from the prefectural government's residence, where a welcoming banquet had been prepared.
As Han Yuan walked, he said to Feng Guangwei beside him, "You don't have to follow me tomorrow."
Since the emperor asked him to come to Fengxian City, he would take a good look at what changes had taken place here.
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