Xun You bowed and looked at the soldiers who were raising their heads and chests behind Zhou Yu, and chuckled softly, "The general is strong and everything is ready, this is ready to go to war."

Zhou Yu raised his sword eyebrows slightly. "I've been prepared almost all, but I can't think everything is ready."

"oh?"

"Is there a chief minister missing? I wonder if Gongda is willing to surrender?"

Xun You frowned slightly and pondered for a while. "Are you not afraid of making taboos when the general uses me as the chief minister? My Xun family is a party member. My uncle Xun Youyou is in Jizhou, Xun Wen is in Chang'an, and Xun Zhongyu lives in seclusion in the village, but refuses to become an official."

Zhou Yu didn't say a word, but just looked at Xun You quietly with a gentle smile on his face.

Xun You paused and said, "Actually... I want to go to Yizhou."

"Then I can't let you go." Zhou Yu laughed and reached out to hold Xun You's arm. "After taking Jingzhou, I will take Yizhou and let you go, wouldn't I have created a strong enemy for myself? Xun Gongda, since you have been seen by me, please accept your fate. I dare not to be wronged you for too long. As soon as the war in Jingzhou is over, I will recommend you to General Sun. If you go or stay, you will be obeyed, what about?"

Xun You also smiled and nodded. "Okay, then I'll be bothering you here for a few days. When will you get tired of seeing each other, it's not too late for me to leave."

"A word is determined." Zhou Yu extended his hand to invite him. "Shi Shi Xun, please."

"Please, General."

Back in the city, Zhou Yu settled the soldiers back to the camp, and led Yin Duan and the teenagers from the martial arts hall back home. She had already arranged someone to come back to notify Cai Yan. Cai Yan prepared a banquet and stood at the door to greet Yin Duan. Wei Yan and others immediately surrounded him when they saw Cai Yan. The gentleman kept shouting and was as happy as a bird. Cai Yan responded one by one and said a few words to the other teenagers. When she saw Xun You, she was a little surprised, but her eyes flashed, and then she returned to normal and greeted Xun You with a polite greeting.

Because of Xun You's unexpected visit, Cai Yan made some adjustments and sent someone to the county school general Hu Zhao to invite him. Xun You was very grateful for Cai Yan's consideration. When he returned to Nanyang, he felt at ease. When he returned to Wancheng, he became free. When he saw Hu Zhao again, he felt like he had returned home.

It was not long before Hu Zhao arrived. When he saw Xun You, he held Xun You's hand and said, "Gongda, you should have come long ago. Looking at the world, how can you be more stable than Nanyang? It's better to come, and you'll just move your home and don't leave in the future. By the way, where is Zhongyu now? Let him come to Nanyang too. We have to make a big book now, and there is a shortage of people."

"What big book do you want to do?"

Hu Zhao was excited and pulled Xun You to the west courtyard. "Mr. Cai, please lend it to your study."

Cai Yan nodded with a smile, "Sir, I have guests here. I won't greet you anymore."

"It's okay, it's not the first time I've been here."

Xun You was surprised and looked at Hu Zhao suspiciously. "Do you often come to Mr. Cai's study?"

While walking forward, Hu Zhao looked back at Xun You and sneered, "Look at you, you have lived in Wancheng for a few months, why do you still have so many old ideas? Is Mr. Cai an ordinary woman? Even many men with bad knowledge are beyond the reach of her. She opened lectures at home to teach and solve problems for those adult women. When we have any problems that cannot be solved, we often come to ask her for advice."

As they said that, the two entered the west courtyard. There were a very simple courtyard in front of them. There were many desks in the corridors around them. Several young women were reviewing the book. They were not surprised to see Hu Zhao and Xun You coming in, but just bowed to him.

Hu Zhao went to the hall, pointed to the bookshelf full of bamboo slips, and smiled and said, "Did you see, these are all lonely ancient books collected by Cai Boyi, with nearly a thousand volumes, and they can be copied casually, but they can't be taken out of this yard."

Xun You was stunned and couldn't say a word. On the spacious lecture hall, there were bookshelves on three walls, and it was filled with bamboo slips filled with green nectars. Each green nectar was hung with bone marks, and the title of the book was written in silk-showed fonts. The whole hall exuded a faint fragrance of ink.

Hu Zhao pulled Xun You away from a small room next to him. The walls of the room were also full of bookshelf. There was a wide desk in the middle, with bamboo mats around it and seat cushions. There were pens, ink, paper, ink, mortar, and some paper with words written on it. The handwriting was messy, as if it was a draft. Hu Zhao sat down on the desk, looked at it, and pushed the paper in front of Xun You.

"What is this?" Xun You took the paper, but couldn't quite understand it. He almost didn't recognize any of the words on it.

"What are the words we copied from ancient steles? Guess what are they writing?"

Xun You shook his head. He had read books, but he was not familiar with ancient Chinese.

"The ancient version of "The Book of Changes". "Hu Zhao smiled and said, "It is very different from the current version of "The Book of Changes". Now that it is still being interpreted, it is estimated that half of the people who study "The Book of Changes" will hit the wall. Your Xun family has the Yi number. After Xun Ciming left, Xun Zhongyu could be regarded as the seed of reading. Why don't he come to such a big thing?"

Xun You didn't say anything. He slowly put down the paper in his hand and was silent for a moment. "Is this the big book you mentioned?"

"No. The big book I mentioned is to proofread the Chu family in the historical records with the ancient steles I discovered. If possible, I might write a separate history of Chu."

Xun You was shocked. "General Zhou was about to march south, and Cai Boyi was preparing to write history again. Can you write such a big book at this time? Can you afford to support your wealth?"

"It's indeed a little nervous, but General Zhou is very supportive of our affairs. He decided to allocate 500 gold a year as expenses for ten years."

"Five hundred gold is not enough, there are so many of you."

Hu Zhaoyang raised his hand. "We are not very large, just seven or eight people. They all want to be scholars who are knowledgeable. They can ensure food and clothing. They don't need too much expense. The main expense is paper, pen and ink. Fortunately, Nanyang paper workshops are all very smooth and will become cheaper in the future. By the way, I heard that Jizhou has also opened many paper workshops, Gongda. Did you propose it?"

When he met Xun You, Hu Zhao was in a good mood. When he talked about this, his face turned gloomy and he was very unhappy. "The people in Jizhou imitated the carriage in Nanyang and imitated the paper workshop in Nanyang. That would be fine, why did he send people to steal skills? In the past two months, eight of the ten paper workshops have caught the details and hurt people. This is what Yuan Shao, who was the third master of the fourth generation, did?"

"Is there such a thing?" Xun You was also surprised. He knew that Yuan Shao built a paper shop in Jizhou, but the quality of the paper produced in Jizhou was not as good as Nanyang paper, and the cost was relatively high, so the price could not be reduced. Because the person who opened the paper shop was Yuan Shao's subordinates, Yuan Shao forced all counties in Jizhou to use Jizhou paper, which aroused a lot of opposition. Some counties used Jizhou paper when writing official documents to Yuan Shao, and Nanyang paper when writing other official documents. The business of the paper shop has always been not very good. Now they are coming to Nanyang to steal technology?

Seeing that Xun You was not a fake, Hu Zhao did not ask again, but sneered twice. "Hehe, according to my opinion, the head of the Yuan family in Ruyang will return to the Yuan Highway lineage sooner or later."
Chapter completed!