Chang Lu was in disbelief. He didn't expect Ren Baqian to ban Wangjing Academy.
Wangjing Academy had a history of hundreds of years. Even though it wasn't as powerful as it used to be, it still had a huge influence in the Yun Nation.
Furthermore, it affected the literati.
Since ancient times, literati had been the group that the imperial court cared about the most.
Literati could enter the imperial court and enlighten the common people. They also had the prestige and ability to influence the people.
Wangjing Academy naturally played an important role in this regard.
Because of this and the huge influence and value of Wangjing Academy, Chang Lu had always believed that as long as he explained his intentions, he would definitely receive support.
At that time, the Chang family would be able to take charge of this influential academy with hundreds of years of history. As one of the five great academies, publicly supporting the Dayao imperial court was presumably what the other party needed.
However, he didn't expect that the other party would only say, "It's time to wipe out history" and not say anything else.
If Wangjing Academy was banned, wouldn't the other party know how much turmoil it would cause and how many literati would denounce it?
However, this was only the opinion of him and the Chang family.
If it were in the previous dynasties, this would indeed be the case.
However, in Ren Baqian's opinion, it was a different matter.
Although Wangjing Academy could indeed set off some waves, it would only cause some waves and wouldn't affect the overall situation.
Although literati were influential, there was another group of people with equally great influence in the Yun Nation — the merchants, or rather, the chambers of commerce.
These people were the ones who could truly influence the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of the common people and thus affect everything in the Yun Nation.
The Yun Nation was different from Dayao. Dayao didn't have merchants and the people bartered because Dayao was already backward. As long as the imperial court could guarantee the supply of salt and iron to the people, it would be fine.
The Yun Nation was a prosperous commercial society.
For farmers, they had to rely on merchants to buy and sell food, clothes, and groceries. As for the commoners in the city, they were hired by the Chamber of Commerce to work for them. Many people had been working for the same Chamber of Commerce for generations.
Everyone could live without contact with words, poems, and essays, but it was impossible not to come into contact with merchants, a group that extended their reach in all aspects.
His influence on the merchants was naturally needless to say.
Knives, policies, and transportation.
It could be said that he could kill any merchant or chamber of commerce if he wanted them to. With his knowledge from the modern world and his identity, it was a piece of cake for him to kill a merchant or chamber of commerce.
In modern society, it was easy for a highly centralized government to target an enterprise, let alone in this feudal society.
In such a situation, he did not even need a knife. He only needed to give a signal, and through the Chamber of Commerce and his family, he could control the life and death of those literati who jumped out.
For example, they couldn't even buy a grain of rice or a grain of salt.
Of course, he wouldn't do that. He would be criticized by others.
At the end of the day, Wangjing Academy was only one of the five great academies. So what if it was banned? Although there would be some disturbance, it wouldn't affect the overall situation.
As for what the other party was thinking — they were thinking too much!
The next morning, many academies found that one of the courtyards was empty.
The people from Wangjing Academy were gone!
Many people were shocked. Their first reaction was to wonder if they had offended someone and the people from Wangjing College were killed.
In Dayao, this was perfectly normal.
In an instant, everyone quivered.
Fortunately, someone quickly informed them that the people from Wangjing Academy had been sent back. As for the reason, no one said.
Everyone was bewildered and didn't know what had happened. They could only suppress their emotions for now.
The first thing to do was to respond to Zhao Prince Consort's summons.
Now that the test papers had been answered, the Black Bamboo Academy had been visited, and the lecture was over, it was time to get down to business.
Although the process wasn't quite the same as what they had imagined, everyone imagined that this trip would be to showcase the students of each academy, surpass the other academies, and gain the greatest honor to enter the eyes of the imperial court.
However, they weren't given much of a chance to showcase themselves. Even though it was a three-day lecture, only Zhao Prince Consort attended.
On the contrary, they were the ones who gave the unknown Black Bamboo Academy a fright.
Until now, everyone was still guessing what was going on with the "demons and monsters" in Black Bamboo Academy.
However, after receiving the summons, everyone knew that the final moment was coming.
However, to their surprise, what awaited them wasn't a summons. Instead, they were transported out of the city by trucks.
"Cousin Cheng, do you think they're going to kill all of us?" Someone whispered.
"I don't think so?" The person who was questioned immediately turned pale.
Everyone else also tensed up.
If it was someone else, they definitely wouldn't do that. However, if it was the aboriginal barbarians, it would be hard to say.
"Don't worry. I asked them earlier, and from what I heard, they are going to the new city," a student who was resting opened his eyes and said.
"New city?" Everyone was puzzled.
The construction of the new city wasn't a secret in Lan City, and many of the merchants from the Yun Nation had heard about it.
However, these scholars had never heard of it before.
"Why are they going there?" What followed was a deep sense of doubt.
"You will know when you get there." That student closed his eyes and rested again.
At this moment, Ren Baqian was sitting in a car with a gratified look on his face.
He didn't expect to sit in a car in this world so soon.
This was a handmade product of the laboratory. There were a total of five cars, two of which were kept in the laboratory as reference, and the other three were sent to the palace.
Sitting in this car was at least much more comfortable than sitting in the crow general.
Tong Lan, Zhu Hua, and Two Flowers were squeezed in the back seat.
"Yagui, why are you bringing them to the new city?" Tong Lan took out a few candies and threw them to Two Flowers and Zhu Hua with a playful look on her face.
She didn't have a good impression of the people from the Yun Nation.
"Have you been to the new city?" Ren Baqian asked.
"I went there a few years ago!" Tong Lan complained. "I would like to see it if you gave me less homework."
"Heh!" Ren Baqian chuckled.
It's impossible to give you less homework. You are lucky that you don't have more homework.
If you didn't have that homework, how could you guys, who only have muscles for brains, get to where you are today?
"You will know how spectacular and shocking the new city is when you go there," Ren Baqian said casually.
"And then?"
"Although these students from the Yun Nation don't have much ability in science and technology, they are still capable as grassroots and even middle-level officials. If there aren't enough aboriginal officials, they will have to make up for it. "
"What does this have to do with letting them go to the new city?"
"It's to let them see a whole new world so that they don't put in the effort or have other schemes," Ren Baqian said concisely.
In fact, this was only part of the reason.
This was a unique city, and he needed to spread the news of this city to the entire Yun Nation through the mouths of these people.
These students from the Yun Nation were only the first batch.
Next, there would be chambers of commerce and various families from the Yun Nation.
Not only did he want to use this city to change people's impression of Dayao, but he also needed people to enrich this new city.
It couldn't be that this city would be empty when the capital was moved, right?
As for Lan City, it would be the transportation hub of Dayao in the future. Not only could it not be emptied, but it would also need to be filled in in the future.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my readers.
Something unexpected happened, and the original two-day trip became five days.
This is the update, and there will be more updates starting today.
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