On the same night, Mr. Shen came out of Canglang Pavilion Lin Mansion and returned to Shen Mansion. His brother-in-law Li Hong was still waiting here.
Second Master Shen frowned and pondered for a while, and then said slowly: "I now feel that what Lin Tai said actually makes sense.
Before you transferred your student status to a provincial school, you did not say hello to Lin Tailai. Before you enrolled in school, you did not say anything to Lin Tailai in advance.
From this point of view, it is indeed rude and lacks respect for Lin Tailai.
It's just like when a person from this church goes to do business on another church's territory, he should say hello in advance, otherwise it will be offensive."
"But this is a school, not a classroom." Li Hong argued.
Second Master Shen replied: "It doesn't matter where it is. What's important is that Lin Tailai thinks that there is his territory, so you'd better think so too."
Now, in the direct line of the Shen family, only Mr. Shen is in Suzhou and can speak on behalf of the Shen family, while the other two are far away in the capital, so their thirst cannot be quenched by water far away.
So after hearing Mr. Shen's statement like this, Li Hong immediately became anxious and said without hesitation: "Whose side are you talking about?
Just because you can always get benefits from Lin Tailai, you can't even stop helping your own family!"
Mr. Shen's face turned cold and he said again: "I am more sure now that Lin Tailai is indeed very reasonable."
Li Hongye said angrily: "I am Prime Minister Shen's son-in-law and your brother-in-law, and Lin Tailai is just your future in-law.
Can't you tell the difference between closeness and distance here?"
Mr. Shen responded unceremoniously: "If we only talk about distance and distance, the relationship between my father and Lin Tailai may be closer than yours.
No wonder Lin Tailai refuses to accept you. If you face Lin Tailai with this attitude, it is normal."
Vision determines knowledge. If you don't have a deep understanding of the internal affairs of the court in the past two years, it will be difficult to understand why the relationship between Lin Tailai and the chief minister is closer than that of Weng's son-in-law.
Li Hong stood up angrily and said: "After all, the government school is a school of the imperial court, not Lin Tailai's private school!
From tomorrow onwards, I will continue to go to the government school to listen to lectures and learn literary skills. Is it possible that Lin Tailai can beat me out?"
Second Master Shen said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter, I don't know what will happen. You can experience it for yourself tomorrow."
The next day, Li Hong arrived at Fuxue and saw dozens of people gathering at the gate of Fuxue from a distance.
There are only so many people who can come to Fu Xue every day, so it can be understood that all the students who came to Fu Xue today are blocked at the gate.
I saw a table next to the door, and there was a document on the table.
Lin Daguan stood there and said calmly to everyone: "Before the scientific examination, two people suddenly transferred to the government school from outside to compete for the original quota for the provincial examination.
This behavior is illegal and I would like to lodge a protest with the Grand Master. I would like to ask my colleagues to sign here."
Just these few words blocked all the students who arrived at the school today at the gate.
In fact, Mr. Lin did not physically stop others from forcing them to sign, nor did he draw a line on the ground to prevent others from passing by.
But everyone is thinking, if he enters the school without signing his name today, will Lin Tailai regard him as disrespectful and cause trouble in the future?
Therefore, the most difficult thing for a person is to overcome his inner fear.
But the signature is not so easy to sign. After all, the ones who want to protest are the son-in-law of the chief minister and the son of the bachelor!
Lin Tailai can ignore him, but others can't.
As a result, in a dilemma, everyone hesitated outside the gate, watching the situation.
Although Li Honglai came with great momentum, he was a little timid at this time. He looked around and found Wang Heng standing outside.
So Li Hong quickly approached and asked, "What do you think?"
Wang Heng said with a sullen face, "It's nothing, this method is just to manipulate the issue and create antagonistic emotions!
The purpose is to incite the students to stand against us."
Li Hong quickly asked: "What should we do?"
Next Wang Heng said only four words: "Just wait and see what happens."
At this time, someone suddenly walked out of the crowd, picked up a pen and signed the document.
Everyone looked at it and couldn't help being surprised. This person turned out to be Lin Tailai's old enemy Wang Yusheng, Wang Yusheng, the noble son of the Wang family in Dongshan!
During the county and government examinations, the two of them competed for the top spot! The year before last, Lin Daguan's men built a new city gate and demolished half of the Wang family's Yi Lao Garden!
Lin Tailai was also surprised. He didn't expect that the first person to sign was Wang Yusheng.
After being shocked, Lin Daguan couldn't help but joked: "Are you worried that after Wang Heng and Li Hong enter the school, your status as the most noble son in the imperial school will not be guaranteed?"
Wang Yu replied coldly: "First of all, it's inappropriate for them to jump in and transfer to a government school like this. It's unfair to others and I don't agree with it.
Second, you, Lin Tailai, are very strong now, and our Wang family will not deliberately antagonize the strong."
Lin Tailai can only say that the Dongshan Wang family is indeed a century-old half-Confucian and half-business family, and its principles are indeed relatively flexible.
After finishing speaking, Wang Yusheng walked into the mansion without looking back.
Then the young man Feng Menglong moved over, and after struggling for a while, he also signed his name, and then wanted to chase Wang Yusheng.
Senior Officer Lin couldn't gain any popularity, so he lifted Xiao Feng Menglong up and shouted:
"I know you earlier, right? I have a better relationship with your father, right?
Even your fame was obtained by me! How many people can enroll in school at the age of thirteen?
But you only follow Wang Yusheng all day long, and you also check Wang Yusheng’s movements before signing, which really disappoints me!"
Xiao Feng Menglong kicked his legs randomly and shouted: "My father is afraid that I will learn bad things from you!"
"Bah!" Lin Daguan said in disdain, "Last time I invited your dad to have a drink with us after he was discharged from the hospital. Your dad was having more fun than anyone else!"
Behind Xiao Feng Menglong, Jin Shiheng and Chen Yunjian, two classmates who were usually close to Lin Daguan, also came forward to sign in support.
There is nothing we can do about it. It can be said that the two of them must sign today.
Maybe it doesn't matter if others don't sign. After all, I don't know Lin Daguan well, so I have no obligation to support Lin Daguan.
But two friends, Jin Shiheng and Chen Yunjian, have no choice but to sign. If they don't sign today, they will become enemies, so they have no choice.
Several people who were close to Lin Daguan came up one after another to sign their names. They probably had the same mentality as Jin Shiheng and Chen Yunjian.
In fact, these people were expected. Lin Daguan wanted to see who else would sign.
Then I saw a young scholar who I didn't pay much attention to, slowly walked to the table, read the document slowly, and then signed his name.
Official Lin glanced at it and saw that the name written on it was Shen Jue, so he subconsciously said: "That's almost it. The last piece of the puzzle is complete!"
Shen Jue felt baffled, what are these words?
Official Lin asked with a smile: "Aren't you afraid of offending the current government by participating in protests like this?"
Shen Jue replied sincerely: "I have a clan brother who is an official in the capital and has a good relationship with Shen. I believe Prime Minister Shen will not blame me for this trivial matter."
Lin Daguan was speechless. In fact, this was the confidence of a wealthy family. This Shen Jue should come from the Songling Shen family, a prominent family in Wujiang County. In recent years, there have been many talented people.
The most important thing is that the Wusong River originates from Taihu Lake and then flows through Wujiang County. If you want to connect to the sea from the Wusong River, you cannot bypass Wujiang County.
After waiting for a while, Lin Daguan asked loudly: "Is there anyone else willing to sign?"
No one responded, and most of the remaining people still stood there and watched, definitely not trying to stand out.
Then Officer Lin stopped waiting and put away the documents neatly.
Some people saw Mr. Lin put away the documents and vaguely felt that some opportunity had been lost.
At this time, I heard Lin Daguan announce again: "That's it!"
This surprised everyone present again. Is this the end?
Prefectural schools are no better than county schools, and the number of students is not that large. Currently, the total number of students is only a hundred or so.
If you, Mr. Lin, wanted to launch a joint protest and build momentum, you would have to organize dozens of people to sign, right?
But the number of people who signed just now, starting from Wang Yusheng and including you, Lin Tailai, is only nine in total.
It can be said that this is not widely representative at all, and it looks like a few people running amok.
Are you, Mr. Lin, planning to go to the Grand Master to protest with a document signed by nine people?
But Officer Lin didn't seem to care. He was talking to a few people around him with a smile on his face.
"Thank you for supporting me, Lin Tailai. Within this year, I will visit your father one by one and look forward to the future together!"
Everyone: "???"
Lin Tailai, what do you mean? You have nothing to say to us, so you can only go to your parents?
We are all young scholars, why are you pretending to be a senior here?
At this moment, they didn't know how big the blueprint Lin Tailai had in mind, and they were all selected by Lin Tailai as future partners.
"Lin Tailai, you bastard bastard!" Someone suddenly shouted, alarming everyone.
Before everyone could see clearly who was so brave and dared to insult Lin Tailai in public, a figure rushed in front of Lin Tailai.
At this time, an even more shocking scene happened. This figure actually punched Lin Tailai again!
Lin Daguan, who had experienced many battles, would naturally not be hit by such a punch, so he swayed and dodged like muscle memory.
However, Lin Daguanren did not fight back with a fist, and asked with a half-smile: "Why are you angry now?"
Only then did everyone see clearly that the person who insulted and punched him turned out to be Wang Heng, the son of the academician Wang Xijue, and one of the targets of Lin Tailai's joint protest.
Then everyone had the same question as Lin Daguan, why are you angry now?
If he wanted to be angry, Wang Heng should have been angry in the first place. But now that Lin Tailai is about to close his stall, and his signature has been unsuccessful, why is Wang Heng getting angry instead?
Wang Heng said nothing, stood up and left.
He couldn't explain to people that he was angry because he felt like he was being used as a pawn, right?
He dared to say that he was the only one present who had seen the truth!
Lin Tailai just regarded "being an enemy of the chief minister's son-in-law and the bachelor's son" as a test, and effectively screened his classmates and refined his circle of friends!
If you can not be afraid of the chief assistant and the grand bachelor, even if you pass the test, you will naturally become your allies in the future.
Therefore, Wang Heng and his family background were all used as chess pieces by Lin Tailai.
What made him even more embarrassed and angry was that at first he thought Lin Tailai was deliberately creating antagonism against him and treating himself as an opponent.
As a result, the arrogant Lin Tailai did not regard himself as an opponent at all, but only as a pawn playing the role of touchstone.
This was what made Wang Heng, who was arrogant and arrogant, feel angry and lost his composure repeatedly, but he couldn't say it openly.
But Mr. Lin was very satisfied with today's results. Besides him, eight people signed, which was much better than expected.
Moreover, most of them have good family backgrounds, and they are all very potential partners for cooperation.
Opening up the Wusong River outlet for Suzhou is a super project nowadays.
Spanning several counties in Songjiang, Suzhou, the imperial court has a conservative attitude. Risks in all aspects, from policy to funding and technology, are very high. Only by finding more partners can we increase our ability to resist risks.
Lin Tailai alone cannot eat such a big super item. Even if he eats it hard, he will easily suffer from indigestion.
When I got home, I found Feng Shike and Master Feng already waiting.
Lin Daguan, who was in a good mood, asked: "Feng Gong has figured it out?"
Feng Shike sighed deeply and said something meaningless: "If I go by your standards, I might still be a person who doesn't understand."
Official Lin said again: "Don't worry about Wang Heng! We have many things we can do together!"
Feng Shike said: "You may not know that Wang Heng studied with Duke Yanzhou in Taicang, and he is considered a student of Duke Yanzhou."
Official Lin asked in surprise: "Why didn't you tell me before?"
Mr. Feng told the truth: "In view of the relationship between you and Duke Yanzhou, I was afraid of causing complications, so I skipped it."
Lin Daguan explained against his will: "The dispute between me and Duke Yanzhou is a moral dispute! It does not involve other interests!"
Feng Shi didn't care what Lin Tailai said, he only said his own: "In addition to the relationship with Duke Yanzhou, there is also the fact that my brother passed away before, and he entrusted me to take care of my niece before he died.
Therefore, as an elder, I do have a responsibility towards my niece-in-law Wang Heng, and I cannot ignore it."
Lin Tailai said disapprovingly: "But human abilities are limited after all, and it is impossible to do everything. Don't always worry about Wang Heng!
Your Feng family is a very influential family in Songjiang Mansion, and I will have a big plan in Songjiang Mansion in the future, and I will just partner with you. This is a major event that you should pay attention to!"
Feng Shike shook his head and said: "If my ability is limited and I can't take care of Wang Heng, then that's it.
You, Lin Tailai, are a very determined person, and I have no ability to change your mind.
But when I couldn't help Wang Heng, I turned around and cooperated with you. How will others see me?
So I can only accept your kindness."
Official Lin was astonished. Over the years, he had been trying to win over others with his advantage, but unexpectedly it failed with Mr. Feng.
Today he actually saw the so-called "style of the ancients" from Mr. Feng.
Obviously the Feng family had recently been separated, and Feng Shike had given up most of his family property to his brothers, so he didn't have much money at this time.
Should I say he is transparent or not?
This section was such a failure and I didn’t have time to revise it again... I had to end it quickly and start a new game.