Confucian and Taoist scholar

With the controversy of "Bamboo and Stone", Du Ning gradually became famous and began to show his prominence in the literary world.

But after all, he is still a high-quality child, and his popularity only lasted a few days, and was quickly replaced by other things.

Many days later, few people mentioned Du Ning, as if Du Ning had never appeared in newspapers.

After the storm passed, many scholars continued to live their daily lives as usual.

Du Ning bought a lot of books and stayed at home all day long to read and prepare for studying in the Fufu Academy of Liberal Arts next year.

Students from the Hanyi Club often came to Du Ning for drinks, but Du Ning declined them all.

The more Du Ning read, the more he learned, and over time he became addicted to it and found it difficult to extricate himself.

Emperor Jingwen forty-one years.

The tenth day of the first lunar month.

The Fuwen Academy was recruiting students, and many people who did not have imperial examination status came to apply.

As a local liberal arts college, as well as an institution that controls student status and imperial examinations, not everyone who applies can be admitted, and must pass a test.

Only by passing the test of the Fuwen College can you register as a student.

Scholars who have obtained academic status can take the imperial examination to strive for fame, and in the future they can embark on an official career and honor their ancestors.

There are also teachers in the liberal arts academy, all of whom are famous local Hanlin teachers. As long as you pay the tuition, you can take classes in the liberal arts academy.

But only children from aristocratic families can qualify. For ordinary children from poor families, it is already very good to obtain the imperial examination status, let alone pay tuition for classes.

Early in the morning, many students paid their registration fees and registered their identity documents at Fuwen Academy, and then slowly entered the examination room.

"Everyone, line up, don't be anxious, come one by one, please obey the order."

"Give way, give way to me."

"What are you doing? Cutting in line? Get out!"

"Presumptuous! You bitch, do you know who I am! How dare you talk to me like this, just a clerk in a liberal arts college? How brave you are!"

"I don't care who you are, if you dare to jump in line, don't blame us for being rude to you, just stand back!"

"Bold! My uncle is the local prefect. If you dare to offend me, you will be severely punished!"

"I don't care what bullshit you are, prefect. This is the Academy of Arts, and you won't be tolerated for misbehaving. Come on, this guy is openly causing trouble in the Academy, so I kicked him out!"

"No! You can't do this! My uncle is the prefect! What are you going to do? Do you really dare to attack me? Don't come here! How presumptuous! You are so presumptuous!"

Du Ning looked forward and saw a scholar who forcibly cut in line and was loudly scolded by the officials of the Academy of Arts who were maintaining order.

The scholar immediately used the magistrate as a shield, his eyes full of contempt, thinking that these officials did not dare to touch him.

As a result, several officials surrounded him and drove him away with strong force.

This makes people nearby very happy when they see it. This kind of person is a pampered person who thinks he can do whatever he wants if he has some backing.

However, this is the Wenyuan, let alone the local prefect. Even if Emperor Jingwen came in person, he would not dare to make trouble in the Wenyuan.

Who is a prefect? ​​Ridiculous!

"What age are we in? There are still people who dare to jump in line in the liberal arts college."

"This is a liberal arts college. It's really funny that you want to bully others in this place."

"That's right, that's right."

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.

This is just a small episode.

Soon it was Du Ning's turn to register. After paying ten taels of silver and filling in his identity information, he received a test number from the Academy of Arts.

According to the test number, Du Ning came to the test site of Fuwen Yuan.

In the testing site, many students have already taken their seats, one person per table, with pens, ink, paper and inkstones placed on the table.

Du Ning glanced at them and saw that most people were wearing coarse cloth clothes like himself, with few wearing fine clothes.

Several bachelors and Hanlin officials headed by Yan Song were standing in the center. They were the examiners of this test.

Other officials are standing in other places to supervise to prevent cheating.

"But Du Ning, Mr. Du?" a soldier asked.

"That's right."

Du Ning was surprised why soldiers from the Academy of Arts would ask such questions.

The soldier walked back and reported to Yan Song.

After a moment, Yan Song looked at Du Ning, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, showing a sneer.

"Dear students, before the test begins, I have something to announce in front of you."

Yan Song suddenly raised his hands to the students and spoke in a loud voice.

Everyone soon became quiet.

Du Ning's heart skipped a beat, feeling that something bad was going to happen.

Yan Song said loudly: "After careful consideration, we have decided to cancel student Du Ning's test qualification and refund three times the registration fee."

As soon as he finished speaking, Du Ning's face darkened.

"What's going on? It's so good, how could a student be disqualified for no reason?"

"What mistake did Du Ning make? He was actually disqualified by Mr. Yan Yuan himself?"

"This is truly unprecedented. The Fuwen Academy has been established for hundreds of thousands of years, and there has never been a situation where a student's qualifications have been canceled before the student status test has even started!"

Many students looked at each other in confusion.

Du Ning was about to question, but saw many soldiers next to him looking at him like wolves and tigers.

So he took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

This is a trap set by Yan Song. Once Du Ning makes a scene in anger, he will be kicked out by the soldiers for disturbing the test site.

A Hanlin Xuezheng said: "Mr. Yan, this is really ridiculous. The Fuwen Academy is a place of education. How can there be any cancellation of students' qualifications for the academic status test?"

Yan Song said very seriously: "The dispute over literary names is a normal way for scholars to promote literary names. Zhao Dongcheng criticized Du Ning with "Tongsheng Arrogance", but Du Ning attacked his literary palace and caused a rift. It is unkind."
"I wrote the Mingzhou Liandan poem without knowing it and turned it over to the court to donate to the country. I didn't contribute to the human race, but borrowed it from the Guoxue Palace for one thousand taels of silver for one year. This is greed for profit!"

"At the Wangjiang Tower banquet, I openly slapped the table and challenged the king of our court. I was disrespectful and arrogant. This is unethical."

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"The Academy of Literature is a place of enlightenment for the human race, and the saints and saints are enshrined in it. If a person as unkind, greedy for profit, and unscrupulous as Du Ning is allowed to enter the Academy, it would be an insult to all the saints!"

Yan Song said solemnly: "Based on the above, we have decided to cancel Du Ning's qualification for the academic status test!"

After the words fell, many students from poor families looked extremely ugly.

Yan Song actually attacked Du Ning from the three aspects of "benevolence", "greed" and "morality". It was reasonable and well-founded. Even if he made the matter bigger, Yan Song would still occupy the word "reason".

In front of the public, if Yan Song successfully disqualifies Du Ning from the academic qualification test, scholars all over the world will think that Du Ning is a scholar without moral character. Even if Du Ning has a merit in "Bamboo and Stone", his reputation will be ruined.

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If Du Ning becomes mentally depressed and sluggish due to this, not only will his Confucianism and Taoism be destroyed, but he will also never be able to raise his head in this life.

Yan Song wants to nail Du Ning's reputation to the pillar of shame and suffer everyone's scolding.

This move is really insidious and powerful.

All the students present were talking a lot and pointing fingers at Du Ning.

"Du Ning, our liberal arts college will not welcome people like you, please leave!"

Yan Song's tone left no room for doubt, and the look he looked at Du Ning was full of contempt.

When Ye Jinghong beheaded Cai Shi, Yan Song almost suffered humiliation. Today, he expelled Du Ning from the Academy of Arts to vent his anger on Cai Shi.

Du Ning said slowly: "It is true that this is a liberal arts academy, but it is not a liberal arts academy for you, Yan Song, but a liberal arts academy for the whole world. You have no right to cancel my qualifications for the student status test."

Yan Song immediately sneered and disdained to refute.

Du Ning continued: "Confucius proposed that there should be education without distinction, regardless of high or low, virtuous or foolish, anyone can be educated. This is the way of enlightenment by saints. Since the Academy of Literature adheres to the will of the sages, it cannot cancel my education for any reason.

Student status tests qualifications, otherwise it means disrespecting the teachings of Confucius and using power for personal gain."

"Well said!"

"Well-founded!"

Many people couldn't help but applaud. Du Ning's thinking was clear and seemed reasonable, but Du Ning was even more reasonable.

The four words "education without discrimination" alone are enough to refute Yan Song's various reasons for disqualifying Du Ning from the academic status test.

"Presumptuous!"

Yan Song was furious, but there was a little fear in his eyes.

Du Ning's accusation is too serious. As the king of Fuwen Academy, if he is accused of not respecting the teachings of Confucius, the Guoxue Palace will take off his hat immediately, even if it is the Eight Sages himself.

It's useless to plead for mercy.

"Du is indeed unruly, but so what? Is there any express provision in the court laws and Chinese studies palace rules that prohibits me, Du Ning, from being unruly? If Mr. Yan Yuan can say one thing, Du will leave Fu Wenyuan immediately.

Never say too much."

Du Ning responded tit for tat without showing any weakness.

"You are arrogant!" Yan Song shouted coldly.

"Originally, there were some things I didn't want to say, but now that Mr. Yan Yuan has spoken for this reason, there are some things that Du will not be happy to say."

Du Ning said loudly: "As the president of the Academy of Arts, you confuse right and wrong, distort facts, and fail to distinguish right from wrong. This is negligence."

"It is a violation of the law to cancel Du's academic qualifications in the name of the emperor, to despise the teachings of Confucius and to avenge private hatred."

"On the surface, you are fair and honest, but in fact, you are sanctimonious and high-sounding. This is hypocrisy."

"How can a person like you who is careless, perverts the law, and hypocritical have the qualifications to serve as the president of the Nanping Prefecture Literary Academy? This is simply a provocation to the saints and a shame to us Nanping Prefecture literati!"

These words made everyone stunned.

Du Ning used his youth as a child to criticize the dean of the Academy of Arts, a dignified bachelor!

"You are slanderous! You are slanderous! How dare you, a thief, slander me like this!"

Yan Song was so angry that he didn't expect that as a court master, he would be so miserable in Du Ning's eyes.

This is simply a shame!

If Du Ning's words spread, it will have a great impact on Yan Song's literary reputation.

If someone adds more fuel and jealousy, Yan Song's literary reputation accumulated in Nanping Prefecture is in danger of being destroyed.