Journey Through the Plane of the Lord God

Time flies and it is more than a month.

The ancient feudal imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty and the subsequent Daqing Dynasty was criticized in various ways in the new era by the Taiping Society led by Lin Pingzhi's original body, Hong Tiangui, the great savior of human civilization, seven hundred years later.

But what has to be said is that this system of recruiting talents based on achievements has indeed strengthened class circulation in classical society to a certain extent.

At least, when the results of Lin Pingzhi's first major exam after entering the academy came out, the entire student circle of Guangfu Academy had a different perception of this very handsome young man.

Lin Pingzhi's name began to spread among the officials' children. After inquiring about the Lin family of Fuwei Escort Agency, they found that Lin Pingzhi was self-taught because they had not hired any famous teachers in the past.

Immediately they were greatly impressed by this man's genius, and began to send people to invite Lin Pingzhi to attend some gatherings in their own circles.

In the eyes of these people, Lin Pingzhi, who showed talent for the imperial examination and was knowledgeable and talented, would sooner or later become one of them.

The poor students in the academy were also shocked by Lin Pingzhi's sudden success.

Young people who can possess scholarly knowledge at such a young age are worthy of these scholars to put down their airs.

Among the poor children, those who are good at sociability have begun to frequent the small courtyard where Lin Pingzhi lives, and Lin Pingzhi also welcomes everyone who comes. In addition to the time to increase his knowledge, he often brings his classmates from the rich business circle to entertain these poor families.

Children.

For a time, with Lin Pingzhi as the center, the three student circles of Guangfu Academy, including officials, wealthy families, and wealthy businessmen, achieved unprecedented integration.

The changes brought about by Lin Pingzhi spread to the upper echelons of the academy and caused an uproar.

Gu Dazhang, who is known as one of the seventeen gentlemen of the Donglin Party and once served as a fourth-rank official such as the Yushi of Qiandu, is the mountain chief of Guangfu Academy.

After he learned from the academy's supervisor's office about Lin Pingzhi's deeds, which had become a sensation during this period, Fu Xu said.

"This boy is young and popular."

“Socialize with classmates without forgetting to consolidate your own knowledge.”

"Not bad, not bad!"

Opposite the mountain chief, three middle-aged men wearing scholar's robes were sitting. They were all senior masters of Guangfu Academy, and each of them had the honor of being a civil servant.

At this time, the hospital supervisor who heard the words of the mountain chief spoke first.

"It is also a blessing for this son to receive a compliment from the mountain chief."

The eunuch's surname was Li, and he had a good reputation. His wife was from a large grain merchant in Fuzhou City. She almost always had to be escorted by the escorts from the Fuwei Escort Bureau when transporting and selling grain.

Therefore, Superintendent Li had a close relationship with the Lin family in Fuzhou City, and it was because of this relationship that Lin Pingzhi was able to successfully enter Guangfu Academy.

“What blessing is not blessing?”

"Being born in a martial arts family, but being able to get into the top five in the college entrance examination, Lin Pingzhi is a scholar of literature!"

Gu Dazhang was full of praises, naturally not only because of Lin Pingzhi's good results in the college entrance examination. Although the college entrance examination was strict, it was only at the level of a scholar, and was not in the eyes of a second-class Jinshi like him, a gentleman from Donglin.

The reason why I admire Lin Pingzhi so much is because of several articles that Lin Pingzhi had circulated at gatherings with his college classmates in the past few months.

Although the writing style of those articles was young and not very polished, the connotations expressed in them, especially Lin Pingzhi's words, "talk lightly about empty talk and talk about mystery, but emphasize seeking truth and pragmatism" were written directly in the summary paragraph of the article.

, which greatly impressed Gu Dazhang.

In this time and space, the Donglin Party is still under strong suppression by the Eunuch Party led by the eunuch Wei Zhongxian.

Several leading first-generation Donglin gentlemen, including Gu Dazhang, were demoted from the capital to Nanjing because they wrote against the eunuch party, and then each returned to their hometown to teach.

Most of the first generation of Donglin gentlemen were great Confucian scholars with truly noble morals and open-minded ideas. They advocated concepts such as honesty and integrity, revitalizing officialdom, building water conservancy projects, and introducing southern species. These concepts were very in line with the times, and

It has a positive effect on the entire country.

The current Donglin Party is far from the second generation and the third generation of Donglin Party members who came to power after Emperor Chongzhen of the late Ming Dynasty came to the throne. During the period when the "all the people were upright and prosperous" came to power, they were good at internal strife and bad at governing the country and governing the country.

military, and even abolished commercial taxes, leading to a degenerate state in which the imperial court completely collapsed due to lack of money and food.

These ideas expressed by Lin Pingzhi were themselves advocated by the Donglin Party at this time.

It's just that most of the current Donglin Party members don't have a clear program and ideas in this regard. Lin Pingzhi will naturally easily gain Gu Dazhang's appreciation and recognition.

"Mr. Shanchang, it is precisely because Lin Pingzhi comes from a martial arts family that he has never had a literary teacher..."

Supervisor Li Yuan saw the chief's face full of admiration for Lin Pingzhi, stood up, took a few steps closer, and whispered beside Gu Dazhang.

Since when he received generous money and food from the Lin family of Fuwei Escort Company, he accidentally learned about Lin Pingzhi's wish to become Gu Dazhang's disciple. Now that he has the opportunity, Director Li doesn't mind helping Lin Pingzhi with a few words of kindness, but he won't bring him any trouble if he fails.

There is no loss, and if it happens, it will just make the Lin family owe him another big favor.

The words of the hospital supervisor made the mountain chief Gu Dazhang hesitate for a moment.

The relationship between teachers and students in this era is very close. In the eyes of outsiders, including Gu Dazhang himself, there is no benefit in worshiping himself as a teacher when the eunuch party is at its peak.

For example, four of Gu Dazhang's six former disciples entered the officialdom, but because their teacher was one of the seventeen gentlemen of the Donglin Party, they not only failed to show their ambitions, but were severely suppressed by the Eunuch Party.

, currently he can only be transferred to Nanjing, far away from the capital, as an official, and he has no real power.

Lin Pingzhi entered the academy through the relationship of Superintendent Li, which could not be concealed from the headmaster Gu Dazhang.

This era is a typical humane society, and Gu Dazhang has nothing to blame.

Since Director Li mentioned Lin Pingzhi's lack of a master in front of him, the meaning behind it was that Lin Pingzhi really didn't care about his future and wanted to worship him as his master because of his knowledge and character. This made Gu Dazhang feel very happy.

At the same time, it is not easy to refuse directly.

After a while, he sat on the chair, took a sip of the strong tea on the desk, and spoke slowly.

"If such talented people are really serious about becoming my disciples."

"Let him perform well in the poetry meeting!"

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In the evening of the same day, after Lin Pingzhi learned the news from Supervisor Li from the mouth of the book boy Sijiu, he couldn't help but sigh at the impermanence of the world.

I think at the beginning, although he had set his ultimate goal of becoming a disciple of Gu Dazhang and the other scholars who participated in the Guangfu Poetry Society, the specific choice of whom to worship was not based on his will.

After all, Lin Pingzhi is just an ordinary academy student who is not even a boy.

His goal at first was just to become a disciple of any Donglin Party member, so that he could smoothly blend into this Donglin circle, and then use the knowledge of later generations to transform the Donglin Party into a political machine that can truly "fight" in the future.

This will help him completely change this era and gain a huge amount of deflection points.

But he never expected that the opportunity to become his disciple to the Seventeenth Gentleman of Donglin, Gu Dazhang, the leader of Donglin, would be placed in front of him before he had the strength to do so.

"Others discard them like worn-out shoes, but I pick them up like jewels."

"In that case, there will be a poetry meeting in three days."

Lin Pingzhi stood in the small courtyard, with his hands behind his back, looking at the bright moon gradually appearing in the clouds in the sky, with a confident smile on his lips.

"I'll show off well!"

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