A large carp that was being carried to the carriage in a net suddenly swung its tail fiercely. With a cry of pain, seven or eight porters were thrown to the ground by the carp's tail. They rolled on the ground in a miserable state.

"Haha, who said they didn't struggle?" Chu Tian laughed dryly and quickly turned around to look at the Rat Lord who was lying on the eaves and gnawing on his tail.

Lord Rat nodded in anger, sneakily jumped down from the eaves, and slipped onto the front carriage. This place was still dozens of miles away from the Jishan Academy, which was enough time for Lord Rat to do something with these golden-scaled carps and make some subtle changes in their height, weight, and size.

You can't really send ten identical golden-scaled carps to your door, right?

The twelve-foot-long golden-scaled carp was quite heavy, and together with the specially made water trough, it weighed ten thousand kilograms. There were no majestic draft horses in the fish market, so they had to rely on those slow horses to pull the carts. It took more than two hours to travel just a few dozen miles, and they were busy from before dawn until bright. Only then did Chu Tian stand in front of the gate of the Jishan Academy with a group of sweaty coachmen and porters.

The Qi Mountain is elegant and beautiful, and Qizhou is named after this Qi Mountain.

The highest mountain, Mount Qi, which is no more than 200 feet high, stands in the southwest corner of Qizhou City. The whole mountain is covered with plum trees that are more than a thousand years old. When it snows in winter, the whole mountain is full of plum blossoms, and the fragrance fills the city of Qizhou. The fragrant plum snow scene can be regarded as the best scenic spot in Qizhou.

Jizhou is a newly established state on the border of the Great Jin Dynasty. In the past, there was only one provincial school established in the provincial capital. The academic performance of the professors and doctors in the school was mediocre, and naturally there were not many outstanding scholars in Jizhou City.

Ten years ago, Xun Yu, a minister of the Jin Dynasty and a famous scholar, resigned from his post and traveled around the world. He came to Jizhou with a group of disciples. He fell in love with the plum blossoms on Jishan Mountain and stayed there. Thus, Jishan Academy was established in Jizhou.

Because of Xun Yu's literary reputation, the Jishan Academy had just been established, and the sons of officials and talented people from the surrounding states flocked to it, all wanting to become Xun Yu's disciples. However, Xun Yu was rigorous in his studies, and the entrance threshold of Jishan Academy was extremely high. In the past ten years, the total number of students in the academy was no more than a thousand.

Chu Tian stood at the main gate of the Jishan Academy and looked around, and suddenly laughed. It was worthy of being the academy that countless scholars in the surrounding states dreamed of. This Jishan Academy was indeed not short of money!

Having worked as a fish stall owner for three years, Chu Tian spent all day hanging out with people from the market and never bothered with those high-brow scholars. This was the first time he saw what the Jishan Academy looked like.

This academy is clearly a small city. The main entrance is composed of two bronze doors that look quite ancient. The courtyard wall is two meters high and six feet thick. It does not look like the wall of an academy. The walls of ordinary small cities are not as good as this academy.

What’s even more domineering is that the wall of this academy extends out from the foot of the mountain, encompassing the entire Ji Mountain.

In other words, the most famous fragrant plum blossom snow scene in Jishan has become exclusive to Jishan Academy because of this courtyard wall. The ordinary people and families in Jizhou City can only smell the fragrance of plum blossoms wafting down from the mountain and look at the plum trees on the mountain from afar in the cold winter.

Standing on the back of the old yellow wolf and tiptoeing as hard as possible, with a line of sight just above the height of the courtyard wall, you can see a large square paved with bluestone behind the gate. The neatly arranged rows of school buildings on the left and right are spacious and bright, with blue bricks and black tiles, and a clean and refreshing look.

At the end of the square is an extremely tall pavilion, which is more than two meters taller than the main hall of the Jizhou Prefecture's Mansion.

The seven-story pavilion has flying eaves with brackets and fist-sized wind chimes hanging on the eaves. From a distance, hundreds of wind chimes appear to be shining golden, and they are all made of pure gold.

When Chu Tian looked into the academy, he didn't know who had such a refined taste. All the doors and windows on the top floor of the pavilion were open, and someone was playing the zither. The sound of "Xianweng Xianweng" came with the wind, mixed with the "ding dong" sound of the wind chimes, which was very pleasant to the ears.

There was also a faint warm fragrance coming with the wind. Chu Tian, ​​Agou and Aque sniffed and grinned at the same time.

"Hundred-year-old ambergris mixed with the heartwood essential oil of the 'Yangshenmu' tree. It's really luxurious!"

Qizhou is located in the wild southwest of Dajin, but ambergris is only produced in the coastal areas east of Dajin. The distance from the southwest to the East China Sea is more than 108,000 miles. The price of a dried fish from there would be at least 100 times higher if it was shipped to Qizhou, not to mention the already extremely expensive ambergris.

As for the sacred tree heart fragrant oil, it is a tribute to the imperial court. Its only special effect is to prolong life. It is said that the best sacred tree heart fragrant oil can add sixty years to a person's lifespan!

Such wonderful items have always been tightly controlled by the Jin Dynasty court and are rarely seen on the market. Even if they are available, they are priced astronomically high.

"This Doctor Xun Yuxun can afford to burn 100-year-old ambergris and nourishing costus oil every day... Damn, if it were me, I wouldn't be a minister of state. I'd find a beautiful place and a few concubines. This would be more comfortable than being an emperor!"

Chu Tian stood on the old yellow wolf's back and muttered to himself. Just look at the domineering style of this academy that uses a courtyard wall to enclose the entire Jishan Mountain to monopolize the scenery, and then look at the extravagance of using red gold to make wind chimes, and the luxury of burning hundred-year-old ambergris and the fragrant oil of the heart of the nourishing spirit tree on a daily basis. This old master Xun Yu is not easy to deal with.

"There are more than just a few concubines." Lord Shu jumped lightly onto Chu Tian's shoulder and whispered in his ear: "I don't know where his wife is. Anyway, there is no wife in the academy. But he has eighteen concubines, all of them are as beautiful as flowers. Concubines are fine, but he has ninety-nine and eighty-one personal maids!"

Grinding his teeth fiercely, Master Rat muttered with jealousy and envy: "There is no chick left! Even so, this old guy sneaks off to the brothels in the city every now and then to have fun!"

Lord Shu rolled on Chu Tian’s shoulder in anger: “Oh my God, please kill this old bastard with a bolt of lightning. He’s over 80 years old, why doesn’t he pass out immediately?”

The two doors of the academy opened silently, and a dozen boy servants dressed in white silk shorts walked out in an orderly line.

Ling Fu followed the servant boy with a smile. He glanced at Chu Tian and laughed, "Oh, Chu Tian? You said you wouldn't come today? Tsk, tsk, it seems that my Ling family's reputation is quite useful. Come, let us see what your ten-foot-long golden carp looks like. Do you have ten of them?"

With his hands behind his back, Ling Fu swaggered to a carriage with his servant boy, climbed up the shaft with difficulty and took a look into the trough.

The sun was shining brightly. The twelve-foot-long golden carp in the water tank had its golden scales sparkling all over its body. Its long whiskers trembled slightly, also shining brightly with golden light, which almost blinded Ling Fu's eyes.

"Oh! What a good thing!" Ling Fu shouted ecstatically: "Quick, quick, send it in quickly, let Master Ling Yue be happy too!"