On August 27, 843 in the Shenwu calendar, Shang Xia, who had been away from Tongyou City for nearly three months, finally left the two realms of war and returned.
At this time, the vacation at Tongyou Academy had already ended.
After eliminating about one-third of the students and about one-third of the repeaters, all the remaining were promoted to the inner house and became official students of Tongyou Academy.
Originally, this number could reach more than 110 people, but this time they went to Tongyou Peak to practice, and encountered various accidents on the way, despite the care of all parties, they still lost more than twenty people in the end, and finally only ninety people returned to Tongyou Academy safely.
These 90 people, plus about 30 students who repeated the level of the previous inner dormitory, after gathering 120 people, every 20 people were counted as one room, and they were still divided into six rooms.
This is different from usual, although the number of students in the house has changed in the past, it is not too divided into three or four rooms, and each room has at least thirty or forty people.
"Tongyou Academy has accumulated twenty years, and it is finally time to accumulate a lot!" Shang Xi sighed softly.
In the past, there were very few talents available in Tongyou Academy, and the two realms of war also involved a large part of their energy.
After twenty years of training, Tongyou Academy now has enough manpower to act as instructors and teachings, coupled with Siling Mountain's defeat and loss, Tongyou Peak has completely grasped the initiative in the two realms of war, and can also allow the academy to draw out some manpower and energy to promote the development of the academy.
"The more rooms are divided, the more subsidies the college needs to provide for the cultivation materials, and the number of people in each room decreases, which means that the average resource subsidy received by each student will be greatly increased, and the number of students who receive instruction and guidance from instructors will also increase." Shang Xi then analyzed.
Shang Xia looked depressed and said: "I have been absent from class for nearly a month, won't I lose this month's resource subsidy?"
Shang Xi said angrily: "Can you still miss that little thing?"
Shang Xia looked like a miser and said: "Of course I want it, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is meat!"
Shang Xi smiled and said: "Then you can try to explain the reason to the academy and apply for a reissue!"
Shang Xia smiled and then asked: "I wonder if there will be changes in the outer house this year?"
"There were changes back then!"
Peng Lanqing, the teacher of the outer dormitory, came over at some point and said with a smile: "The college originally planned to expand the scale of enrollment of foreign dormitory students this year to a total of 400 people in eight rooms, but later increased to five hundred people in ten rooms."
Shang Xia exclaimed: "So much?"
Peng Lanqing smiled and said: "Don't look at the increase in the number of students, but the number of students who are promoted to the inner dormitory every year will never exceed 150!"
Shang Xia thought for a while and said: "Is this to raise the threshold for entering the inner house?"
Peng Lanqing said: "It is to cultivate better warriors, Yanzhou warriors!"
Shang Xi suddenly said: "The scope of enrollment will also be expanded, right?"
Peng Lanqing said in a deep voice: "Yes, including those old Yan people who settled in other states!"
After saying goodbye to Liu Qinglan, Kang Ci and others, the new Shang family patriarch Shang Ke, led a convoy loaded with various materials from the merchants, and after leaving the academy, they passed through the streets of the city and headed all the way towards the Shang Mansion, attracting the attention of countless people along the way.
Perhaps because he had been away for too long and was homesick, the merchant's convoy was in a hurry, and when Shang Xia was in the academy, he didn't even have time to ask which room he was assigned to in the inner room.
In just three months, Tongyou City has changed greatly.
After coming out of Tongyou Academy, the flow of people on the streets of the city increased significantly.
But from the perspective of dressing, in addition to the locals of Tongyou City, there are still many foreign warriors wandering the streets.
Although the expanded population made Tongyou City look much busier on the surface, compared with before, the city also lost its previous cleanliness, and the order seemed a little scattered.
On the way back to the Shang Mansion, Shang Xia even saw two or three collapsed shops, and several of them also had traces of fire burning, ice erosion, etc., which were obviously left after the warriors fought.
"It's not peaceful in Tongyou City lately!"
Shang Xia, who was riding a red cloud beast at the front of the convoy, suddenly sighed in his voice.
"Young master!"
Shang Xia said "hmm", turned around, and saw Yan Qi stirring the reins, causing the Red Cloud Beast under his crotch to speed up his pace and come to him.
Previously, in the two realms of war, Yan Qi had been following Shang Xi to do business after advancing to the martial arts conception, but Shang Xia hadn't seen him for a long time.
"Seventh Uncle, what's the matter?" Shang Xia asked with a smile.
Yan Qi's expression looked a little solemn at this time, and he said: "Young master, the fifth master did not follow the convoy!"
Shang Xia was startled, and when he looked back, he found that Shang Ke had left at some point.
"The fourth-order warrior is coming and going, has he already returned to the family first?" Shang Xia said a little unimpressed.
Yan Qi shook his head and said, "Even if the fifth master wants to leave, he will not be so quiet, he should always inform everyone, but you see, now, except for Miss Xi, no one seems to have noticed that the fifth master has left, and Miss Xi seems to be a little uneasy now, she obviously doesn't know when the fifth master left!"
Shang Xia looked at Shang Xi, and it happened that her eyes also looked over, and the two aunts and nephews seemed to understand what they were thinking in an instant.
However, Shang Xia still had a disapproving expression and said with a smile: "Why, in broad daylight, is it possible that there are still people in this Tongyou City who dare to openly rob the road, and it is still our merchant?"
When speaking, Shang Xia's eyes gestured slightly in the direction of a carriage not far behind him, and a merchant's warrior understood, opened a birdcage covered with black cloth in the carriage, and a black shadow rushed out of it, flying into the air in the blink of an eye.
Faintly, a "chirping" cry disappeared as the birdcage was covered with black cloth again.
"How many third-order warriors are there in the convoy?" Shang Xia asked in a low voice.
Yan Qi said: "There is only Miss Xi and my seventh, and there was originally one more, but now he is sitting in Tongyou Peak instead of the fifth master."
Shang Xia sighed: "It's a pity that the thief bird is unwilling to leave the two realms of war, otherwise with that thunderbird, it can at least withstand more than half of the third-order warriors!"
As soon as Shang Xia's voice fell, a loud and high-pitched clear sound suddenly came from above his head.
Shang Xia's face changed, and he shouted: "Stop, everyone is on guard!"
After saying that, Shang Xia rode forward, and Yan Qi hurriedly rode his horse behind him.
Suddenly, there was an old Yan man dressed as a warrior on the side of the street, who seemed to be stopping there to watch the fun, and the moment Shang Xia passed by, he took out a short fork from his cuff and stabbed it towards the abdomen of the Red Cloud Beast.
At the same time, a long rope suddenly flew out of the window on the second floor of a restaurant next to the street, and a vendor selling chaos across the street suddenly overturned the hot soup pot, grabbed the pole beside him and jumped up.
This is a carefully choreographed killer!
Once the Red Cloud Beast under Shang Xia's crotch was stabbed in the abdomen by a short fork, he could only jump up from the Red Cloud Beast's back, so that a long rope would be unexpectedly bound from mid-air, while the vendor selling chaos would hold a flat pole to make up for the final blow when he was unable to move!