Listening to Zhou Xian's talk, Gao Hongtu felt like he was fooled. Zhou Xian's purpose was not to use his talents to cultivate Confucian scholars, but more like buying horse bones for a thousand gold coins. He used his reputation to attract scholars to this academy and then trained them in Zhou Xian's own way.

This feeling is very bad. As for Confucianism, Gao Hongtu is a master of the world. But Zhou Xian did this, which was equivalent to almost completely denying the value of what he had learned and what he valued before. Fortunately, Zhou Xian had already told him that all disciplines were still led by Confucianism. Otherwise, he really didn't have to stay here. He didn't like this model, but he finally decided to stay. Because Zhou Xian painted a vision to him, he also wanted to see what effect this would eventually achieve.

The news that Gao Hongtu entered the academy to teach spread throughout the Denglai area, like thunder echoing around the world. Countless students worked tirelessly and came to study from surrounding counties and even the next prefectures. In less than a month, nearly 300 students came to Laizhou City. Although they were dissatisfied with the many requirements of the college, no one dared to say anything due to Gao Hongtu's reputation.

Zhou Xian asked Wen Zhitong to take charge of everything, not only set up residences for them, but also provided some food intake for some poor family conditions. As for the gentleman, he recruited some teachers from the countryside, transferred a group of calculations from the government office, found a few outstanding medical practitioners in the local area, and also transferred a few veterans from the army, and gathered together in a variety of different ways. The screening and other things can only be done slowly. Now the most important thing is to build the academy first.

Gao Hongtu has always been a matter of life. Zhou Xian took out three or two thousand silver to set up a house for him. Although it was far inferior to his Taikoo Hall in Laoshan, it was also extremely exquisite. There were all kinds of gardens, rockery, and pavilions. After seeing it, Gao Hongtu didn't say anything and moved in calmly. However, for most of the time later, he stayed in the academy and taught to scholars, which was more passionate than before.

Soon, Zhou Xian introduced a new policy in Laizhou, where more than three acres of land transactions must be passed through the government to prevent land annexation. Moreover, he began to focus on the investigation of the land transaction cases in the past year, and ordered the rich gentry and wealthy gentry to seize all the land of the tenants to return them. Otherwise, he would be severely punished. This move caused dissatisfaction among many gentry, but it completely won the hearts of ordinary people. Zhou Xian's reputation in Laizhou was no one to resist.

On that day, Zhou Xian hurried back to the government office, picked up the letter Wen Zhitong handed over and looked at it. His brows were tightened, and he handed it to Wang Yi next to him, and said, "Mr. Wang, you can also see. How many troops are there in the four guards of Dengzhou at present? Can they block them?"

After seeing it, Wang Yi said to Zhou Xian: "The magistrate Zhou, although the number of soldiers in the garrison is large, it is arranged everywhere, and the military discipline is corrupt, which is only a little stronger than ordinary people. At present, the only one who can take the lead in Dengzhou is nearly 4,000 soldiers led by General Huang Fei. If it is really as Governor Zeng said, the Manchu fleet has connected nearly 10,000 pirates to attack, I am afraid that something will happen in Dengzhou."

Zhou Xian lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said, "Actually, I have always had some doubts in my heart. Why did Manlu choose to attack Dengzhou at this time? In theory, shouldn't they be preparing for the Battle of Songjin at this moment?"

Wen Zhitong said, "Master Zhou, I can explain this a little. Liaodong is bitter and cold, and the productivity of the Manchus is extremely low. At this time, more than 100,000 Manchus army gathered on the Songjin front line, and their situation is probably not much better than our army. Most of the military rations and other supplies are imported to the front line, and the life of the Manchus soldiers reserved in the rear is probably not easy, especially those Han people who surrendered to the Manchus. Among the Manchus, the people with fleets were Kong Youde's tribes, who were familiar with the terrain of the Denglai area. In order to survive, they came to Dengzhou to rob, which is not difficult to understand."

"But can Kong Youde's subordinates have more than 10,000?"

"When Kong Youde surrendered to the Manchus, he had more than 10,000 rebels and his family. He was now crowned as king and had more soldiers under his command. However, the Battle of Songjin was a national war between the two sides, so Kong Youde could not lead his troops to go. Master Zhou, is it possible? This is only some of the Manchus who incited pirates to attack Dengzhou, and most of them were pirates."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "It is indeed possible. Jimu, you will lead all your cavalry to Dengzhou first. On the one hand, you will investigate the enemy situation, and on the other hand, you will do your best to help Governor Zeng stabilize the situation. I will lead the subsequent army to arrive soon. The enemy went ashore from Yantai. According to what the letter said, the enemy may have already broken through Fushan County at this moment. The next step is likely to divide the troops to attack Ninghai and Qixia. After you go, you will first find General Huang and let him guard Yashan strictly. Ning lost Ninghai Prefecture, so they could not enter the hinterland of Dengzhou."

Ji Mu nodded, bowed to Zhou Xian, and said, "I'll go to reorganize the troops now, and you can set off in two minutes." After that, he quickly withdrew from the hall and walked towards the Laizhou barracks.

Zhou Xian turned to Talk and said, "Mr. Tan Qian, please send someone to Jiaozhou immediately. Tongzhi your father asked him to bring in a thousand elite troops of Mo camp and go straight to Laiyang along the southern line to assist Governor Zeng to ensure the city is worry-free. In addition, your Thousand-man team is also ready to go to Dengzhou with me if you have a little bit of it."

Tan Shimai was full of excitement and quickly bowed, "Subsidiary obeys the order."

Gao Yi hurriedly said, "Sir, where is me!"

Zhou Xian pondered for a moment and said, "During this period, I always feel that Laizhou is a little uneasy. You, a thousand-man team, should stay in Laizhou City!"

Gao Yi said "ah" with a look of disappointment.

Zhou Xian looked at him, pondered for a moment, and said, "This is how you pick out two hundred soldiers who are familiar with water from your Thousand People Team, and you personally take them to Furong Island to find Han Kuo, and hand over the command of your Thousand People Team to Wang Qianshi."

Gao Yi looked at Zhou Xian in confusion, his eyes full of confusion: "Master Zhou, you all want to go to Dengzhou, why am I going to Furong Island?"

Zhou Xian said: "The enemy comes from the sea, and if they want to leave, they must pass through the sea. Let Han Kuo lead the fleet to Penglai Port first to see if it is possible to cooperate with the Dengzhou navy and directly cut off their way back. That way, it can completely disrupt their morale. The bandits take advantage of the situation. Once they are defeated, it will only be a matter of time before they can be wiped out. It is necessary to teach them a lesson and let them know that it is easy to come to Dengzhou. If they want to leave, they must leave a piece of corpse."

Gao Yi laughed and said, "General Zhou Shen, don't worry! There is no way, Lao Han and I will come up with a solution, and we will definitely let these dogs come and go."
Chapter completed!