Confucian and Taoist scholar

The tenth day of the first lunar month.

To this day, there are still a large number of scholars in the literary circles of various countries who publish articles criticizing Du Ning, strongly opposing Du Ning's appointment in Lanzhou, questioning Du Ning's "New Laws of China", and believing that Du Ning's "New Laws of China"

It will endanger the order of the human race and require the Holy Court to take back its life.

Some Lanzhou officials threatened to resign. If Du Ning went to Lanzhou to serve as state pastor, they would resign en masse, making Du Ning a mere commander.

However, what is surprising is that the scholars of the Ke family who originally opposed Du Ning's reform of the law suddenly lost a lot of movement in the literary world. In the literary circle of the Liao Dynasty, several scholars headed by the Qin family were still vigorously criticizing Du.

Ning.

As we all know, the grievances between the Ke family and Du Ning of the Liao Kingdom almost reached the point of incompatibility. When they learned that Du Ning wanted to reform the law and abolish penalties, it was the Ke family who came out to oppose the most fiercely.

When the Holy Academy announced that Du Ning was going to Lanzhou to serve as state pastor, it was the scholars of the Ke family who were the first to stand up and object.

It can be said that as long as there is any suggestion about Du Ning, the Ke family will strongly oppose it and oppose Du Ning.

But within a few days, the Ke family quickly faded out of the Liao literary world and stopped criticizing Du Ning.

This made many scholars in the Liao Kingdom very dissatisfied. Although the Ke family once caused the Liao Kingdom to suffer a lot of humiliation, now, all the saints and families from all over the world are strongly opposed to Du Ning's ideas. This situation suddenly disappeared without a trace.

This abnormal behavior made many readers feel very strange.

Du Ning always pays attention to many news in the literary world. No matter how tough his mind is, he will inevitably feel annoyed when faced with long-term doubts and various negative comments from scholars from all over the world.

But after a second thought, Du Ning strengthened his opinion.

Could it be that across all countries, not many people support Duning?

This is not the case.

Most of the people who opposed Du Ning's proposal were members of the aristocratic family, because Du Ning's proposal seriously affected the interests of the aristocratic family and exploited all the legal privileges of many aristocratic families. This is something that scholars from the Holy Family cannot tolerate.

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Many students from poor families have been bullied and oppressed by children from aristocratic families for a long time, so they naturally support the "New Chinese Code". If the "New Code of China" can be promoted, it can put children from poor families and children from aristocratic families on the same starting line, so that princes who break the law can be compared with common people.

Same crime.

In fact, there are many readers who support Du Ning's "New Laws of China", but those powerful people dominate the headlines in literary newspapers and do not allow articles supporting Du Ning's ideas to be published, so they only listen to them in the literary world.

There are no voices supporting Duning.

To take a step back, even if an article supporting Duning appears in the literary world, many scholars will immediately attack it. In this way, even if there is a blank part for students from poor families to publish, no one will dare to rush forward.

However, in the literary world of Yun Kingdom, a small number of scholars can be seen openly supporting Du Ning's "New Laws of China". They are none other than several scholars from aristocratic families headed by Fan Rulong, as well as Du Ning's friends.

Regarding Du Ning's "New Laws of China", the Semi-Saint family in Yun State chose to support it. The Fan family in Yun State took the lead, so basically no one dared to criticize the dignified Semi-Saint family and could only choose to ignore it.

As for those scholars with relatively ordinary backgrounds, many scholars from aristocratic families in the literary circles of various countries are still angry.

"Master."

At this moment, the housekeeper walked into Du Ning's study and said, "The Kong family has sent an invitation, please take a look."

After saying that, he put it on the desk and then left.

Du Ning picked up the invitation and opened the tour, his face changed slightly.

This is an invitation letter to a cultural gathering, inviting Du Ning to attend the "Yuanxi Cultural Festival" held at the "Chunjiang Tower" on the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival", also known as the Shangyuan Festival.

New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival.

Du Ning fell into deep thought. There are too many people criticizing Du Ning in the literary circles of various countries. Many scholars from aristocratic families wanted to ask Du Ning out under the guise of literary societies, but Du Ning cautiously declined.

Du Ning can still find a way to avoid other people's invitations to cultural gatherings.

However, invitations from the Holy Family are really not so easy to refuse. They might be used and attacked by others. It is said that Du Ning has become more arrogant after becoming Wenjun, and even the Holy Family does not take it seriously.

If it comes, it will add a lot of negative news that is not conducive to Du Ning for no reason, making the literary circles of various countries even more gossipy.

"Since it's an invitation from the Holy Family, let's go there..." Du Ning thought to himself.

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In the blink of an eye, it’s the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Kongcheng held many folk activities, guessing lantern riddles, setting off fireworks, dragon lantern parade, lion dance, etc., which was extremely lively.

It's evening.

Du Ning came to Chunjiang Tower and handed over the invitation.

"It turns out to be Mr. Yunqi, please go to the third floor."

The waiter's attitude was extremely respectful and he hurriedly welcomed Du Ning to the cultural venue on the third floor.

After Du Ning arrived, the waiter beside him immediately shouted: "Jun Yunqi is here."

As the waiter finished speaking, scholars from all over the world cast different looks. Some were enthusiastic, some were sneering, some were angry, and some were ridiculing.

"I met Du Jun."

“I’ve met Mr. Yunqi.”

Scholars from all over the world stood up from their seats to salute, and Du Ning immediately returned the salute to everyone.

"Haha... Mr. Yunqi is here, and the flowers are shining brightly!"

A man came up to him. He was Kong Chengshun, a scholar of the Confucian family. He has now been promoted to a Confucian and Taoist scholar and is also the host of the Yuanxi Literary Club.

"I knew you would definitely come back. We are all looking forward to you."

Kong Chengshun was very happy, but at the same time he showed a little apology, and the word "everyone" was deliberately raised in pitch.

After thinking about it carefully, Du Ning suddenly realized that some scholars from various countries must have strongly recommended that Du Ning attend this literary conference.

When the Kong family originally held a New Year's Eve literary party, considering that Du Ning was in an extremely embarrassing situation in the literary world, they had no intention of inviting Du Ning.

However, scholars from various countries privately strongly requested Kong Chengshun to invite Du Ning, so Kong Chengshun had no choice but to send an invitation to Du Ning.

Du Ning instantly realized that there seemed to be something special about this literary gathering. He guessed that scholars from all over the world knew that he would go to Lanzhou to take up his post tomorrow, but they deliberately asked the Kong family to invite him to attend the Yuanxi literary gathering. Most likely, they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.

Before he went to Lanzhou to take up his post, he used cultural methods to undermine his confidence and influence his implementation of the "New Law of China".

When the other scholars saw Du Ning dazed for a moment, they all looked sarcastic and were about to speak out.

Du Ning took the lead and said: "You don't have to attend other people's cultural gatherings, but Du doesn't dare not come to the cultural gathering held by the Holy Family."

Those who were about to ridicule suddenly froze in place. They wanted to ridicule Du Ning for resigning from the invitation of most people to the cultural gathering, but instead came to attend the New Year's Eve literary gathering held by the Holy Family. As a result, Du Ning took the initiative and took the other people first.

What the person wanted to say was spoken out first, leaving other people with no chance to take advantage of it.

"Please sit down, Mr. Du."

Kong Chengshun warmly greeted Du Ning and took a seat.

After Du Ning took his seat, scholars from all over the world slowly sat down.

Many people whispered to each other, and some people pointed at Du Ning and complained, but they did not dare to speak loudly.

Du Ning glanced at the entire audience and found that the people participating in the Lantern Festival Literary Meeting today were all well-known figures in the literary circles of various countries. While there were many familiar faces, there were also many unfamiliar faces, and all of them were Confucian and Taoist scholars.

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At this moment, a bachelor looked at Du Ning with evil intentions.

This person is none other than Qin Wenxi, a great scholar of the Qin family.

Du Ning took another look at the other seats and found that there were no scholars from the Ke family in this literary gathering, which made Du Ning very surprised.

It stands to reason that the Ke family will definitely participate in today's New Year's Eve Literary Party, trying every means to oppose Du Ning, and do whatever it takes to ruin Du Ning's reputation.

Although the Ke family has been demoted to a famous family, after all, the Ke family is still a semi-sage. It is impossible for the Confucius family to invite scholars from various countries and families to participate in the cultural gathering, but omit the Ke family.

At this time, Du Ning thought that there had indeed been a lack of active scholars from the Ke family in the Liao Dynasty in the literary world recently. Is there any connection between the two? Or is it that the Ke family suddenly faded out of the literary world and disappeared from the world?

Although I don’t know why the Ke family didn’t attend today’s Lantern Festival Literary Party, without the trouble caused by the scholars of the Ke family, Du Ning felt extremely pure.

As night falls, the New Year's Eve literary party officially begins.

Kong Chengshun first introduced the rules of the Lantern Festival Gala.

Today's Lantern Festival literary gathering revolves around the Lantern Festival and writes poems and lyrics. After everyone writes the poems, they submit them to the desk in the center. Kong Chengshun reads the poems first, and then is judged by three highly respected Confucian scholars. The top three will be judged.

You will get a set of great Confucian treasures, and the fourth and tenth places will get great scholar treasures. They are all sponsored by the Confucius family, so you will never be stingy.

Du Ning looked at the three great Confucians at the Confucian table. They were Lu Xionghua, a great Confucian from the Liao Kingdom, and Fan Heshan, a great Confucian from the Yun State. There was another one whom he didn't recognize. After a little inquiry, he found out that it was Wei Boqing, a great Confucian from the Legalist State.

, is Wei Bocheng’s cousin.

The great scholar Wei Boqing also looked at Du Ning, a fierce look flashed in his eyes.

Because Wei Bocheng failed to argue with Du Ning in front of Du Ning's mansion, his literary courage was completely shattered. Wei Bocheng's Confucianism could no longer advance, and the Wei family lost a future Legalist great Confucian.<

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This is simply a great shame and humiliation for the Wei family. If they can't regain their position, where is the face of the Wei family? Where is the dignity of the Legal family?

Du Ning thought in his mind that since he participated in the cultural gathering, he would inevitably write poems and lyrics. If he refused to leave even a poem, it would not only be disrespectful to Wen Jun, but also embarrassing the Kong family.
The competition at the Literary Society is the title of the novel. If Du Ning's poetry is well written, no one will gossip about Du Ning. If it is not satisfactory, Wei Boqing and Lu Xionghua will definitely attack the title of Du Ning's novel.

Let Du Ning hurt Du Ning's morale before heading to Lanzhou.

Du Ning has a good reputation in poetry and is definitely a banner in the literary world. If Du Ning wants to compete for the leadership of the literary society, I am afraid no one can compete with Du Ning.

However, in recent times, scholars from various countries have criticized Du Ning in the literary world. Under the many negative influences, Du Ning may not be able to write any good poems.

When writing poetry and lyrics, the reader's state of mind is most important.

Even if Duning has a strong mind, it is impossible for him to not have any negative emotions in the face of doubts and criticisms from other countries.

Therefore, in the eyes of many scholars, Du Ning may not be able to perform normally tonight, and it is very likely that he will write a poor work.

At that time, many scholars attacked, angered Du Ning, made him look embarrassed, and trampled on Du Ning's reputation mercilessly.

Even if Du Ning did not win the first place, but got second place, scholars from all over the world would find various ways to embarrass Du Ning, and even find many excuses to make Du Ning a laughing stock.

For many scholars from aristocratic families in various countries, as long as they can influence Du Ning to promote "New Laws of China", they will do whatever they can.

Many people were secretly proud, looking at Du Ning with expressions full of contempt and disdain.

Then, Du Ning accidentally met Fan Heshan's eyes.

Fan Heshan smiled at Du Ning and encouraged him.

This made Du Ning feel warm. Fan Heshan must have been worried that he would be targeted by Lu Xionghua and Wei Boqing when he participated in the cultural conference, so he volunteered to be a judge of the cultural conference.

No matter how Lu Xionghua and Wei Boqing target Du Ning, with Fan Heshan here, they can argue with them.

After Kong Chengshun announced the official start of the literary conference, scholars from various countries began to create.

Du Ning was sitting on the table drinking wine, saying nothing.

Not long after, a scholar presented his poems, it was Qin Wenxi.

Kong Chengshun opened the poem and said to everyone: "Next, let us appreciate the works of Mr. Qin Wenxi, a great scholar of the Liao Dynasty."

"Walnuts wrapped in sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing,

Rice is like pearls washed out of a well.

I heard that the Kong family dripping powder is good,

Selling Yuanxiao in the lantern-testing style."

After finishing reading, there were bursts of cheers from everywhere.

"Mr. Qin's poem is very well written and very much in line with the artistic conception and atmosphere of the Lantern Festival."

"If nothing else happens, it is very likely to be among the top three."

"Congratulations Mr. Qin."

Many people congratulated Qin Wenxi.

At this moment, Qin Wenxi was so proud that he bowed his hands to everyone and said modestly, "What the hell, you guys are really over-rewarding me. Qin made a fool of yourself by making a fool of yourself."

Then he subconsciously looked at Du Ning, as if he was showing off to him.

"Haha..." Du Ning couldn't help but chuckle.

Just when Du Ning was smiling, the great Legalist Wei Boqing suddenly turned to look at Du Ning and said with a smile: "Jun Yunqi, why are you laughing? Do you think the poems written by Mr. Qin are mediocre?"
At this moment, Lu Xionghua next to him said angrily: "Mr. Wei's words are wrong. Du Jun is very talented in the literary circles of various countries and has written many famous poems. Naturally, he is qualified not to mention Mr. Qin."

The poems and essays written are taken seriously."