Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 1010 This person is my mortal enemy!

Chapter 1010 This person is my mortal enemy!

After hearing what Fan Julun said, Li Jili suddenly became alert. He thought about it and asked, "That's true."

"But, a few days ago, Ruan had prepared a generous gift and went to meet King Zhou. Judging from the time, I think Ruan has already contacted King Zhou by now."

"They may have already reached a cooperation agreement. If I wait until now to try to please them, will I be left behind?"

Fan Julun smiled very confidently and said, "No."

"The Ming Dynasty calls itself the supreme country and has always been proud and arrogant. The King of Zhou is of noble status and is not like an ordinary person."

"With such a position, even if the Ming Dynasty wanted to win over and support the nobles of Great Yue, it would certainly have to be a little bit coy to show the nobility of the Celestial Empire."

"I don't think the Ming and the Nguyen family will reach an agreement in one go. It's the perfect time for you to send someone to find King Zhou."

"As long as Ming knows that we and the Nguyen family are both interested in joining Ming, then Ming will surely be tempted to wait for a good price and not directly join forces with the Nguyen family."

Li Jiyi thought for a moment again, and his fear of the Nguyen family came to his mind. He nodded and said, "In this case, you should return to Thang Long City as soon as possible and take care of this matter."

"You can find some generous gifts from the Li family's treasury and send them to Wuqu Port... You must not let the Ruan family unite with the Ming Dynasty!"

"Yes!" Fan Julun took the order and rode back to Thang Long City, the capital of Annan, on the same day and began to prepare gifts to be sent to Wu Qu Port.

This first strategist under Le Qui Ly was indeed quite capable. When he personally arrived at Wu Qu Port with gifts, Nguyen, who had arrived earlier, had not yet delivered the gifts. Zhu Su, the Prince of Zhou, who was born in the Ming Dynasty, a country of etiquette, was playing the trick of "three refusal and three concessions" with Nguyen's retainers. Nguyen was so anxious that the car delivering the gifts could not even enter the gate of the house where the Prince of Zhou was staying.

When Li's people arrived, the Ming side became even more controlling, and just as Fan Julun had expected, they acted as if they were waiting for a good price and disappeared from both sides.

The Nguyen family servant who came to give gifts angrily said something harsh and left. On the other hand, Fan Julun was calm and composed, thinking that everything was within his expectations.

"Now that the situation has been stabilized, it's time to see the truth from another perspective." Fan Julun thought. He wrote a letter overnight and asked someone to make sure it was delivered to the two brothers Li Cheng and Li Cang in the Jiaoyuan.

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On the other side, in the teaching garden, outside the dark room.

The confinement period of Li Cang and Fan Huai has come, and many students from both the general and elite courses have come to greet them. The reason for the elite course is that Li Cang is a descendant of the Li family. In Annan, there are still many noble families who need to curry favor with the Li family to make a living.

These sons of the aristocratic families may not be good at other things, but they are good at reading people's expressions and flattering the powerful and bullying the weak. Naturally, they would not miss such an opportunity to show their concern for the Li family, and quite a few of them came to show their presence.

On the other hand, there were more people in the general department. First, the number of people in the general department was larger than that of the elite department, and the base numbers of the two were different. Second, Fan Huai's top score in the exam and his victory over the elite department's dandies had really increased his reputation. The general department students, who had long been fed up with the humiliation, mostly regarded Fan Huai as the representative of their general department. When Fan Huai was "released from prison", they spontaneously came to greet him.

Outside the confinement room, there were many people crowded together. However, just like before, these people were still clearly divided, with a wide gap between them, like the Chu River and the Han River, but everyone would rather squeeze together than get even a little closer to each other.

"Tsk, a bunch of peasants, I don't know how long they haven't washed their clothes... The stench is so unbearable, it really kills me." A student from the elite department looked at the simple clothes worn by the ordinary department students and said sarcastically.

"Even if the clothes are really smelly, they are not as smelly as the mouths of some people... I don't know who is spewing feces in broad daylight, tut tut tut, it is really stinky."

There are some differences from before. In the past, ordinary scientists would often remain silent in the face of the sarcasm and ridicule of elite scientists.

But now, perhaps it was because Fan Huai, who came from their ordinary science department, had defeated all the elite science students with family backgrounds and won the first place in the monthly exam, which made these ordinary science students who originally did not dare to defy the elite science department more confident. Facing the sarcasm of the elite science students, someone actually hid in the crowd and retorted.

"Huh? Who is it! How dare you be so rude to me! Stand up!" The elite scientist who was ridiculed immediately became furious. However, the ordinary scientists were already numerous and powerful, and the person who ridiculed him was hidden in the crowd, so he couldn't find out who had spoken at all.

Perhaps some ordinary science students heard who was making the sarcastic remarks, but they all tacitly chose to remain silent in order to protect their classmates.

"A bunch of peasants..." The furious elite scholar had his eyes wide open, and wanted to turn this group of ordinary peasants upside down. However, at this moment, Li Jinglong, the most difficult instructor in the academy, made a brilliant appearance.

The former number one playboy, accompanied by a large group of his personal soldiers, snapped the fan in his hand and said to the student leisurely, "Oh, is there anyone who wants to start a fight in this school?"

"I want to see who dares to act wildly in front of me."

The elite scholar was speechless on the spot, not even daring to fart.

Li Jinglong's father was the Duke of Cao and the nephew of King Zhou. He was of noble birth and led a large number of troops. When this group of elite scholars came, they were warned not to disobey King Zhou Zhu Su and the naval commander-in-chief Li Jinglong.

Moreover, unlike the gentle and elegant Prince Zhou and the erudite Instructor Huang Guanhuang, the Prince of Cao of the Ming Dynasty is a real dandy. The tricks they played behind the scenes were all left over from the Prince of Cao's past. No elite scholar could escape the eyes of Instructor Li when they did evil.

Moreover, this great instructor Li was extremely greedy for money. Several elite scholars had secretly left the academy and used the private money they brought with them to drink. Others had secretly looked at pornographic pictures and read miscellaneous books, and all these "worldly things" were confiscated by this great instructor Li.

All the silver he brought from home was confiscated, even the silk and satin he was wearing and the erotic picture albums he brought from home were taken away, with the excuse that "one must concentrate on studying."

Li Jinglong had no concerns about dealing with these so-called "high and mighty" nobles in Annan. In his opinion, the so-called nobles in Annan were just like the local rich people in the Ming Dynasty. And these nobles were just the stupid sons of the landlords in the countryside, so how could they be considered as figures?

Under his "education", the students really could focus on their studies, and Li Da Jiaoyu also made a fortune. Even the elders of these students' families praised Li Da Jiaoyu after hearing about it, thinking that the Ming Dynasty's education method was indeed effective, and told Li Da Jiaoyu to increase his efforts and make persistent efforts to teach these ignorant kids well.

As time went by, Li Jinglong's reputation spread. The students in the elite subjects, who were usually arrogant and domineering, were all afraid of Li Jinglong like a tiger.

Li Jinglong glanced at the students in the elite department and saw that they were no longer angry. It seemed that they would not be able to make a fortune today... ahem, they could not "confiscate" those worldly things that would affect their studies. So he stared at the cowardly student fiercely, waved his fan and said, "Make way, make way."

"What are you doing here? Get out of the way. I'm going to open the door."

The small dark room was under the charge of Li Jinglong, so the key was naturally in his hands.

In full view of the crowd, Li Jinglong separated the crowd and used the key to open the door of the small dark room where Li Cang was locked up. As the door creaked open, the group of elite science students no longer paid attention to the ordinary students and instead looked into the dark room intently.

"Why hasn't Master Cang come out yet... Hey? Who is this?"

There was silence in the dark room for a moment. Suddenly, a dishevelled man crawled out, startling everyone outside.

Li Cheng, who was crowded in the front, recognized his brother's figure and quickly stepped forward to pick up Li Cang, who was crawling on the ground in the dark. He asked in surprise: "Brother Cang, brother Cang, how did you become like this?"

"Brother, brother, I finally got out, brother... wuwuwu..." Li Cang, with a disheveled face, looked up and saw the familiar face. Suddenly, a feeling of grievance and fear surged in his heart, and he actually started to cry. A large group of elite students were shocked and they were all stunned, looking at Li Cang who seemed to have escaped from death and was crying like a pear blossom in the rain.

...Looking at his body, there doesn't seem to be any wounds. Didn't he just sleep in this dark room for a night? Could it be that the second son of the Li family... is afraid of the dark?

The looks of the crowd became increasingly strange.

As if he could sense everyone's gazes, Li Cang slowly raised his eyes, and met a large group of intriguing gazes. He was startled and quickly pushed his brother Li Cheng away, explaining in a panic: "I...this, is not..."

He couldn't help himself and cried... When Li Cang came to his senses, he felt deeply ashamed. He was a person who cared about his reputation, and now his face turned pale, and he felt that he had lost all face.

"Listen to me, everyone. It's not that I'm a coward. It's really this dark room..."

This black room was not designed to cause physical pain, but to cause the prisoners to have a mental breakdown. Even the black room in the teaching garden has been upgraded to a certain extent.

Different from the usual dark room where everything is silent, this dark room specially used for punishing people is not only pitch dark inside, but also has a slope inside, making it impossible for people to sit or lie down in it.

There were even people who took turns to monitor the people in the house. If they found anyone showing signs of falling asleep, they would pour water inside to wake them up.

Long periods of darkness, silence and having nothing to do will make people lose their sense of time and make time seem unusually slow. This is something that can extremely destroy a person's will. If you deprive them of sleep, the destruction of their willpower will be even more serious.

This place was not just a place for teaching students. Zhu Su ordered its construction in order to pry open the mouths of the Annan diehards and destroy their rebellious will when he fell out with Annan in the future.

However, this kind of "punishment" without wounds was obviously too advanced for Annan.

"..." No matter how he explained, the elite students still looked at him strangely. No matter what he said, it seemed that they couldn't make him understand, and he couldn't help but get angry.

He glanced to the side and suddenly thought of something, and immediately said: "If you don't believe it, just look at what Fan Huai is like... He must have lost all his manners at this moment."

"The terror in this dark room is really unbearable for ordinary people. Don't think that there is nothing to be afraid of just because there are no wounds. This dark room is no less terrifying than torture!" said Li Cang.

Everyone looked at Li Cang suspiciously, and then turned their eyes to Fan Huai. Indeed, one person is not very convincing, but if two people are like this, then it can be said that there is indeed something fishy in this dark room.

Is the Ming Empire really so magical that a dark room can make a tall Tibetan man cry bitterly?

With this curiosity, everyone looked to the other side.

Li Jinglong had found another key, separated the crowd from the general department, and inserted the key into the keyhole. With a "click" sound, the iron door opened, and everyone looked forward to seeing Fan Huai's situation inside.

At this moment, Li Cang hoped very much that Fan Huai would be as disheveled as him, and it would be best if he could cry and crawl out miserably, so that it would prove that he, Li Cang, was not a coward.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement in the dark room. Li Cang even suspected that Fan Huai was dead in there.

Until Li Jinglong, who was getting tired of waiting, shouted into the room impatiently: "Hey, get up."

"I don't provide food here, are you still relying on me?"

"Um, oh, excuse me..." A voice that seemed to be still confused came from inside, and then the figure of "Fan Huai" appeared in front of everyone from the dark room.

"Fan Huai" seemed to have just woken up, with his hair a little messy, but his face was handsome, his clothes were neat, and he did not look embarrassed at all, which formed a very sharp contrast with Li Cang's ugly appearance before.

He seemed to have just realized that there were so many people waiting outside the door. He was surprised and asked in surprise, "Why are you all here?"

"Of course we are here to greet Brother Fan!" someone said, and then laughed, "However, seeing how relaxed Brother Fan looks, it seems that we have disturbed his sweet dreams."

"Hahahahaha, Brother Fan is so magnanimous, no wonder he can take the top spot, we really admire him!"

"Brother Fan is so handsome that he has left someone far behind. Hahahaha!"

Compared with the cheers and joy from the general department, over in the elite department, a group of people could only stare blankly at the still elegant "Fan Huai". Li Cang's eyes changed from astonishment to resentment as he stared at "Fan Huai" intently.

"This person must be my mortal enemy!" He thought in his heart with gritted teeth.

(End of this chapter)