Just when Deng Ming and Meng Zhengfa met too late, a man from the prefect hurriedly ran up the city tower and reported to Deng Ming: "Mr. Hui passed away this morning."

It turned out that Liu Jinge was full of anger after returning to the prefect's office just now. He kept complaining that Hui Shiyang and Gong Yong did not show up and did not come to help him. But both of them had much higher qualifications than Liu Jinge, and even his father Liu Tichun had to be respectful when he saw them. So although Liu Jinge was angry, he did not send anyone to ask why.

Without letting Liu Jinge wait for a long time, a follower of Gong Yong rushed to the prefect's office and notified the Chengdu prefect of Hui Shiyang. After hearing the news, Liu Jinge hurried to Hui Shiyang's residence and asked a man to go to the city tower to report Deng Ming.

Liu Jinge came to the place where Hui Shiyang lived and saw Gong Yan in a deep mood.

"Lao Pingzhang practiced etiquette all night yesterday and was very tired. He only took a short rest this morning after everyone persuaded him." Hui Shiyang's entourage reported the whole story to Liu Jinge in detail: "At that time, Lao Pingzhang was already dressed neatly. He refused to change his clothes, but just sat on a chair and closed his eyes to rest. Later, it was almost done. Shangshu went to the house to see it. He saw Lao Pingzhang holding his forehead with one hand and was sleeping soundly, and he couldn't bear to wake him up. He couldn't wait any longer and wanted to shout Lao Pingzhang, but he found that Lao Pingzhang had already gone to the immortal."

According to the entourage, Hui Shiyang walked peacefully with a smile on his face. He found that Hui Shiyang was no longer helpful, Gong Yong did not greet Deng Ming as planned, but instead took care of Hui Shiyang's funeral. Liu Jinge walked to the hall lightly and saw a brand new coffin lying inside and outside the house.

"Jiangshu just now made the Duke Baoguo wait." Liu Jinge sighed lightly. He knew that this was really unexpected, but he still felt a little regretful. He felt that Gong Yong could give these things to the people below and not have to stay here in person all the time.

Although Liu Jinge spoke softly, Gong Yan raised his head and his gray beard trembled. He asked sternly: "Do you blame me for not leaving Lao Pingzhang here alone and going to preside over the welcome ceremony in front of the city gate?"

"Shangshu calms down, how dare I?" Liu Jinge of course said that, but when he saw Gong Yan furious, he quickly apologized.

"Old Pingzhang followed me to Sichuan at the age of 100, hoping to help you all. Now he died in a foreign land. If his body was not cold, I would leave him and just focus on competing for the flames and force, would he be considered a human being?" Gong Yan became more and more angry as he spoke, his voice was as loud as a big bell rumbling in the room: "Old Pingzhang is here to assist Deng Ming this time. If he has a little heart, he should come to pay his respects."

"Shangshu said so." Liu Jinge nodded repeatedly.

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After hearing that Hui Shiyang passed away and Gong Yan was busy with the funeral and could not participate in the celebration, Deng Ming was a little surprised. He had no idea about Gong Yan, and even when he joined the camp. He heard that this person was grateful to Chongzhen, but when Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, he surrendered to the King of Chuang without hesitation, and burned the god-lord card of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. He could do things so well and seemed to be a temptation to be a tyrant.

However, Gong Yan resolutely resisted the Qing Dynasty and persisted until now. Even if Deng Ming had contempt for this person, he would not reveal his contempt for this person. Moreover, Gong Yan and the Kuidong Army had a close relationship. Even for the sake of the Kuidong Army, he would treat Gong Yan politely. The most important thing is that Deng Ming was not a royal family in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention burning the Taimiao of the Ming Dynasty, Gong Yan would even dig out the tombs of the emperors of all dynasties in the Ming Dynasty. In Deng Ming's view, it was just an evil deed of destroying cultural relics.

As soon as he heard the bad news, Deng Ming said to his left and right without thinking: "Mr. Hui has traveled thousands of miles to Chengdu to guide me. It's a pity that I didn't see it. I will go to his spirit to mourn and express my condolences."

Zhu Zhiyu had been hiding aside just now, far away from Deng Ming and Meng Zhengfa. When he heard the people around him discussing Hui Shiyang's sudden death, Zhu Zhiyu was stunned at first, and then walked over. Before, Meng Zhengfa and Zhu Zhiyu planned to attack Hui Shiyang and Gong Yong's character. Now that Deng Ming actually wanted to mourn, Zhu Zhiyu wanted to stop him: If the children of the Ming royal family met the traitor who had defected to the traitor, they might be understandable. It is explained by uniting all the forces that could unite the anti-Qing forces. But it is extremely inappropriate to mourn such people, and it is equivalent to affirming what he did during his lifetime - this kind of traitor who failed Jun'en is more hateful than the traitor.

But when Zhu Zhiyu walked over, Xiong Lan was the first to speak up to support Deng Ming's decision. According to Xiong Lan's knowledge, Deng Ming always showed considerable respect for the dead. Even the enemy of the Ming army could be buried after death. Xiong Lan had never heard of Deng Ming's behavior such as digging graves or whipping corpses.

When Zhu Zhiyu walked to Deng Ming and had no time to speak, Meng Zhengfa once again spoke before his old friend and spoke on behalf of the two: "The Duke of the State said this very well. Mr. Hui is still determined to resist the enemy at the age of 100. With this alone, no matter what is wrong in the past, he should not care about him."

Meng Zhengfa's words blocked Zhu Zhiyu's advice. Today, Meng Zhengfa brought Zhu Zhiyu a lot of "surprise" to Zhu Zhiyu, which surprised Zhu Zhiyu every time. Just this morning, Meng Zhengfa talked about how Hui Shiyang broke into the Qing Dynasty, criticized his bad deeds, and claimed that he would criticize Deng Ming with Zhu Zhiyu, so that Hui Shiyang and Gong Yan could not come to Taiwan in front of everyone. Even if they knelt down and kowtowed to apologize, they would beat the dog to the end.

Now Meng Zhengfa suddenly turned 180 degrees, which made Zhu Zhiyu unable to recover, but the remarks that shocked Zhu Zhiyu were even more shocked were still behind.

"Although Mr. Hui and I have different political views with Brother Zhu Ren, we are very impressed by Mr. Hui's knowledge." Meng Zhengfa had basically figured out some of the things that happened outside the city today through talking to several people. Liu Jinge's prepared ceremony was ruined, and Xiong Lan, who always stood beside Deng Ming, hosted all the celebrations. President Xiong said every word to the point. He was definitely a hidden guy, and he figured out Deng Ming's thoughts. So after hearing Xiong Lan's words, Meng Zhengfa made a quick decision to keep up quickly and sang his motto, which was not to "destroy people by words". Out of respect for Mr. Hui Shiyang, Meng Zhengfa of course wanted to mourn.

Meng Zhengfa pointed at Zhu Zhiyu quickly again: "Brother Zhu Ren is going together too."

Zhu Zhiyu slammed his mouth and said that he would not see off such an old traitor, and when he saw Gong Yan's appearance, he was furious. But before Zhu Zhiyu could say it, Meng Zhengfa glared at him fiercely and said to Deng Ming loudly again: "I wonder if we two brothers and Duke will go with us together?"

"Since you go, let's go together." Deng Ming now has a good impression of Meng Zhengfa. Obviously, this person is very sensible. Zhu Shunshui's name is very important in Deng Ming's mind, but it seems that his mind and energy cannot be compared with this Meng Zhengfa. In the past, Ren Tang actually said bad things about Meng Zhengfa behind his back - he really couldn't believe it completely after hearing.

Deng Ming could also feel from the conversation that Meng Zhengfa's bones were obviously not as hard as Chen Zuocai, and most of them did not have the courage to scold him in front of everyone. However, after a short time of contact, Deng Ming felt that Meng Zhengfa's talent was definitely not inferior to Chen Zuocai, and he had traveled around several southeastern provinces, and his knowledge and experience were among the top scholars among contemporary scholars.

Deng Ming vaguely felt that the academy in Chengdu should divide the title of teachers into a more detailed level, and divide the general professors into several levels: professor, associate professor, lecturer, assistant professor, etc. In Deng Ming's view, Meng Zhengfa is definitely competent for the position of professor in the academy, and even if he is the head of the literature department, there is most likely no problem. If Meng Zhengfa can teach as seriously as Chen Zuocai, it would be a great blessing for the students of the academy. Whether it is to broaden his horizons or improve his literary literacy, Meng Zhengfa is probably even stronger than Chen Zuocai.

Deng Ming also had similar plans for Gong Yan's position. Although Deng Ming did not have time to attend the college, he secretly sent people to collect their debate content. In terms of history and military insights, Gong Yan was much higher than Meng Zhengfa. Deng Ming felt that the director of the history department of the academy must have eased to Gong Yan, but he didn't know whether Mr. Gong was willing to condescend to surrender.

Until now, Deng Ming still thinks that Chen Zuo is the best candidate for the position of priest in Chengdu Academy. Perhaps Chen Zuocai's travels are not as good as Meng Zhengfa and Zhu Zhiyu, and it is even less than Gong Yong. Chen Zuocai's articles and knowledge are probably not as good as those of the other three, but Chen Zuocai dared to directly scold Deng Ming surrounded by guards in front of everyone.

Deng Ming has always believed that as a university president, knowledge and teaching ability are indispensable, but he does not have to be the first in the school. Administrative affairs can be assisted by excellent assistants. The key is the principal's own mind and courage to not fear the powerful. Deng Ming knew that Chen Zuo had enough courage to protect teachers and students and would not bow his head under Deng Ming himself or other powers. Deng Ming had no confidence in Gong Yan and Meng Zhengfa. He had not had much contact with Zhu Zhiyu, and Deng Ming didn't know what his personality was.

Of course, Deng Ming would not say this clearly to outsiders.

When Deng Ming and Meng Zhengfa walked down the city tower, the latter felt that Deng Ming had a good deal with him today, which seemed to be a proper opportunity to cleanse himself, so he took the initiative to mention his past affairs with Deng Ming. As long as he took this opportunity to get Deng Ming's forgiveness, others would no longer be able to attack him with these questions in the future.

The reputation of bullying the master and destroying the ancestor is so ugly. Meng Zhengfa mentioned the past with a flash of thought, and then said to Deng Ming with regret that he was frivolous and ignorant at the time...

"What's there to blame for this?" Before Meng Zheng finished his confession, Deng Ming interrupted his confession.

Deng Ming was not a person from this era, and he did not spend long time with scholars after traveling through time. He never raised the disagreement of teachers and students to the level of deceiving the king and disobeying unfilial - even if he deceived the king and disobeying, Deng Ming actually didn't think anything was wrong; although disobeying and unfilial, he would not be cut into pieces.

What's more, the teacher that Meng Zhengfa betrayed was just his invigilator and he had never really taught him. In this era, this relationship was highly valued and believed that the invigilator was equivalent to the teacher. But Deng Ming did not have the same feeling. He had never talked about his invigilator, but his classmates in his previous life were not satisfied with the invigilator. The fact that Meng Zhengfa is nothing.

Deng Ming smiled and said, "Isn't there a saying that goes, 'I love my teacher, I love the truth more'?"

Of course, Meng Zhengfa had never heard of this sentence and was stunned for a moment. But after savoring the meaning in it carefully, he couldn't help but be ecstatic. Deng Ming did not mean to forgive or to betray the past, but simply excused him, and even had the meaning of applause.

"What the Duke said is." Meng Zhengfa immediately stopped repenting. This is what the words are wonderful. He made up his mind to write this instruction from Duke into a plaque overnight and hang it on his door.
Chapter completed!