That night, the spring rain fell with a sound.
Fu Xiaoguan and others sat in a circle in the tent, and he held two pieces of intelligence from Xiyu Tower in his hands.
At this moment, he was looking at the first one, his brows furrowed, and the middle finger of his right hand tapped the table again and again, making a slight sound, which added a bit of solemnity to the place.
The war on the eastern border is not going well!
The eldest prince and Fei An arrived at the Eastern Border Army on the tenth day of February. The transfer of power went smoothly. Yan Haochu handed over the tiger seal, and the eldest prince took over the Eastern Border Army. He also appointed Fei An as the General of the Heavy Cavalry Corps, commanding a corps of 50,000 heavy cavalry.
The chess piece that the eldest prince had planted in the eastern border army - the powerful military supervisor Jiang Gaoyuan was beheaded by the eldest prince in front of the battlefield as a sacrifice on the second day after the transfer of power!
The eldest prince delivered an impassioned manifesto to attack the Yi Kingdom in front of the three armies, enumerated the crimes of the military supervisor Jiang Gaoyuan, and then issued several orders.
One of them was to send Fei Guo's light cavalry corps to rescue Guanshanji - as a result, Guanshanji fell on February 15, and Fei Guo was killed in the battle!
The second was to order Fei An to lead 50,000 heavy cavalry to station at Shilipo, and order the infantry corps to defend Shilipo to the death.
The Battle of Shilipo has begun. More than 130,000 enemy troops have arrived at Shilipo, and the two sides have engaged in several bloody battles here.
The intelligence did not include the outcome of this battle. Due to the long distance, Fu Xiaoguan had no way of knowing the final result.
The eldest prince did not arrange for the infantry to bypass Huaxi and Linjiapu, but adopted a hard-line approach - in this way, even if he won, he could not completely wipe out the enemy.
The enemy can retreat to Guanshanji!
Then the war will turn into a stalemate, which is definitely not a good thing for the Yu Dynasty!
He put down the information and sighed inwardly, but there was nothing he could do.
Then he picked up the second piece of intelligence.
This information came from Linjiang. He mobilized the spies from Xiyu Tower to keep a close eye on Linjiang because that was where his lair was.
Now that he has offended many people, he pays more attention to the defense of Linjiang Marquis Mansion and Xishan than before.
Looking at this information, he frowned again, but soon his brows relaxed and he smiled calmly.
Some unidentified people appeared near Linjiang City and Xiacun. The spies in Linjiang informed Xishan Express of the news, and Xishan Express sent someone to tell Bai Yulian.
Bai Yulian quietly left Fenglin Mountain with two thousand special forces and made all the necessary arrangements.
On February 22, those people gathered together and launched a surprise attack on Xishan and Linjiang Fu Mansion.
Of course, they failed. The enemy sent out a total of 500 people in this raid. The Divine Sword achieved brilliant results, with only three people killed and six seriously injured.
After Bai Yulian's interrogation, it was found that these people came from Lingnan and were the Black Guards of Prince Hui's Lingnan fiefdom.
Bai Yulian made a request, wanting to lead two thousand special forces to Lingnan!
Bai Yulian also formed a reserve force for this divine sword. He selected two thousand strong men from the people of Xishan and had Chen Po be responsible for training them.
Fu Xiaoguan had no objection to this, but heading to Lingnan... that was a bit nonsense. Okay, Bai Yulian was a little too proud, so this certainly wouldn't work. The team still needed to continue training in Fenglin Mountain.
After returning to Shangjing in July, the team will be transferred to the Pingling Mountains.
To what extent has Qin Chengye tinkered with the flintlock rifle?
Fu Xiaoguan picked up his pen and began to write letters one by one.
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The journey after that was uneventful.
When they stopped to rest, the students would gather around Fu Xiaoguan, who would tell them some basic knowledge about the study of things.
He never wrote poetry again. These students had heard about the things he talked about before, but they had always thought they were eccentric and tricky, not worthy of being presented in a refined setting. But now, when they heard Fu Xiaoguan talk about it again, they felt that it truly contained the beauty of nature.
This is the silent influence of the law. These students began to accept the concept of studying things, and some of them even developed a strong interest in it.
So they asked more questions, and Fu Xiaoguan answered their questions, and then they thought more. In a trance, they seemed to rarely read the sacred books anymore, and became silent along the way, but with charcoal pencils and paper in their hands, they would write down their occasional insights or doubts, and would find Fu Xiaoguan to ask when they had free time.
Of course, Fu Xiaoguan did not answer everything. He mostly let them think, answer the questions themselves, and then comment on the answers.
"If you want to understand the study of things, you must first liberate your mind, make bold assumptions, and carefully seek verification. This is the attitude towards the study of things."
"So-called verification isn't just wishful thinking; it requires experimentation. We don't have the equipment right now, but when we return to the Jixia Academy, I'll push for the establishment of a branch of the Gewu School, which will have a laboratory. If the academy disagrees, that's fine. I have a dedicated R&D center in Xishan, and Qin Chengye is based there. I imagine many of you know him."
Qin Chengye was originally a student at the academy, and he was also the grandson of the great Confucian scholar Qin Bingzhong. Of course they knew each other, but no one expected that he would drop out of school and go to Xishan Research Institute to study the nature of things!
This news set a good example for these students. Chen Shu and several other students who had shown great interest in the study of things made up their minds that when they returned to Shangjing, if the academy did not offer the course, they would use Qin Chengye's example to convince their families!
This was the spark for the development of Dayu's system of studying things. In the years to come, they played a huge role in the prosperity of Dayu!
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On the evening of March 14, the ninth year of the Xuanli period, the convoy arrived at Fanning City and stopped outside the city gate.
When Fu Xiaoguan lifted the curtain of the carriage, he saw Xie Xifeng riding towards him.
"Master Fu, His Majesty has sent Lord Guan Tongguan, the Left Vice Minister of the Ceremony Hall, to greet you. Please wait a moment, Master Fu."
Fanning City is only a hundred miles away from the Wu Dynasty's capital, Guanyun City. Emperor Wen of the Wu Dynasty was very thorough in his etiquette.
Fu Xiaoguan put on the court dress of Taizhong Daifu, and Yu Wenyun thought about it and did not put on the complicated princess dress.
He didn't get out of the car.
Yu Wenjun was curious and asked, "Since it's the Left Vice Minister of the Guanli Hall who's here, it means Emperor Wen values this literary gathering very much. Why don't you get off the carriage, gather the students, and lead your fellow officials from the Ministry of Rites to wait?"
At this time, Xu Huaishu, the Minister of Rites, also came to Fu Xiaoguan's carriage and asked almost the same question.
Fu Xiaoguan smiled calmly, "We are guests here at the Wu Dynasty to attend the literary gathering at the invitation of Emperor Wen. There is no reason for us to get out of the carriage to wait for the Left Minister... Minister Xu should also go back and wait in the carriage."
Xu Huaishu looked at Fu Xiaoguan a few more times, thinking that the emperor had told him before he left that he must not offend the Wu Dynasty. The reason was naturally that there was already unrest in the Yu Dynasty, and now the Yi Kingdom was invading, so he naturally had to be more humble towards the Wu Dynasty.
But Fu Xiaoguan's attitude seems to be different!
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