Chapter 537

At dusk, the drums of the Imperial Academy sounded. Groups of Imperial Academy students walked out of the Library, leaving only three people inside. Gao Wencan held a brass seal three fingers wide, with the characters "Library Collection" carved in seal script on the base. To his right was Wei Shao'an from the God-Slaughtering Department, and to his left was Meng Boqian, a Rank Three vice-lecturer at the Imperial Academy. Meng Boqian specialized in Confucianist studies and had chosen the Historian School as his secondary discipline at the Seventh Rank: Self-Cultivation. Therefore, instead of entering official government service, he had remained at the Master's Academy to lecture, and this time he had been dispatched by Li Kegong. The reason they chose this time to enter was that Zhang Shizhong had emerged from the Ministry of People and paid a visit to the Empress at Pingzhang Palace, successfully negotiating the terms for the exchange of items within the Imperial Academy Library.