Pawn Crossing the River

The immortals act without personally participating in the game. They manage the world's situation like laying out chess pieces, and the deity is calm and composed.

For the characters in the book world, isn't the game between Qi Xuansu and Qin Lingge the action of an immortal?

Since Qi Xuansu has guessed that Qin Lingge might use the "chess game of the world", he is prepared.

However, this preparation is just a review of the game between Xuansheng and Song Zheng, which is of little reference value.

First, the story is different, and second, it is a long time ago. The official historical materials of Taoism only mentioned the result of this incident, and there is definitely no specific process. Many Taoist ancestors mentioned it in their notes and memories, but each person mentioned it in a different way, with different angles, and even self-contradictory places, and no one knows who is lying. After all, memoirs are the easiest to beautify oneself and distort the facts. If you only read Yao Zu's memoirs, you might think that Yao Zu is the most loyal.

As for more records, there are none. So there is no such thing as experience and lessons, not to mention why Qin Lingge didn't learn from Song Zheng's failure, or why Confucianism didn't learn from it. There has been only one example for more than 200 years. What kind of lessons can be learned?

Because of a failure, this fairy item is no longer needed? Then Zulong also failed, so Zulong's fairy item is no longer needed?

In addition, when Song Zheng invited Xuansheng to fight, Song Zheng had been an immortal for a long time, Xuansheng had just achieved enlightenment, Song Zheng's realm was high and Xuansheng's realm was low, now Qi Xuansu's realm is high and Qin Lingge's realm is low, so why should Qin Lingge substitute Song Zheng? Why can't he be Xuansheng?

It's really unreasonable to say that Qin Lingge didn't learn from it.

After the drop, it's actually a choice of role.

When Xuansheng dropped the chess piece, he chose Xuansheng's wife as his incarnation in the book world, and the husband and wife were one. Qi Xuansu wanted to imitate Xuansheng and directly choose Zhang Yuelu, but Zhang Yuelu didn't exist in this story.

Because Xuansheng died unexpectedly at the hands of Xu Zu, the subsequent direction has changed greatly. Without Xuansheng, naturally no one would suppress the Wasted Heavenly Master, so the Wasted Heavenly Master would not be the Wasted Heavenly Master, but the genuine Heavenly Master. After that, the Zhang family's main lineage was transferred to the Wasted Heavenly Master. As a result, not only did Zhang Wushou and Zhang Wuhen disappear, but even Zhang Jucheng, Zhang Juqi and others did not exist.

Qi Xuansu could not find Zhang Yuelu's existence in this world, nor could he find his own existence, nor even the existence of Qinniang and Xiaoyin.

Because Xuansheng was the key figure connecting all the major events, Xuansheng died, and the story lines of Taoism and the Great Witch all changed.

Without Taoism, there would be no Yao Zu.

Without Yao Zu, not only would there be no Yao family, but no one would refine the Emperor Willow Seed, and naturally there would be no Qinniang and Xiaoyin.

There were also some other reasons, which finally made Qi Xuansu choose from many ordinary characters.

Farmers, woodcutters, fishermen, poor monks, wandering Taoist priests, beggars, street vendors, grave robbers, frontier soldiers, Qingluan Guard flags, poor scholars, popular courtesans, acupuncturists, Jianghu knights, and even eunuchs, yamen clerks, palace servants, cold palace concubines, useless sons, marquis' daughters, demon cult demons, etc.

This choice has a certain degree of randomness. First, it depends on your own ties with this world. Unfortunately, there are no Zhang Yuelu, Xiao Yin, Qin Niang and others. Second, you can't choose big figures like the emperor who have good luck, so you have to start from a small person.

Qi Xuansu first ruled out the popular courtesan, cold palace concubines, marquis' daughters, demon cult demons and other roles. In the Confucian world, etiquette is strict, and it is not easy for women to stand out.

Then exclude roles such as farmers, woodcutters, fishermen, street vendors, impoverished monks, and wandering Taoist priests. It's not that these people can't achieve great things, but it's too difficult to seize the world as a commoner. There has only been one in history. Qi Xuansu knows himself well and is afraid that he won't be able to do it well. Don't try to be strong.

Qi Xuansu's life is so long. He has been in the martial arts world for a while, and then most of the time he has been in the Taoist system. He is better at climbing up in the system, not starting from scratch.

So there are the martial arts knights, tomb robbers, frontier soldiers, Qingluan Guards, apricot masters, poor scholars, and useless young men.

Qi Xuansu thought about it and ruled out the option of martial arts, because he took a rough look and found that the court of this world was still there. At most, it was the eve of the chaos, not the real chaos. People in the martial arts world might not be able to make big waves.

In the end, Qi Xuansu decided to take a more familiar path, so he chose the role of a poor scholar.

Poor scholars are just one category.

The first one is a white-bearded old man who has never passed the imperial examinations for his whole life. No matter how old he is, I will ask if you are a scholar. This year, he is planning to prepare for the boy's exam with his grandson. Although he usually teaches, he has a large family and has failed the exams many times, so his life is very tight, which can be considered poor.

Of course, this one is not acceptable. Qi Xuansu is afraid that this old man will die halfway.

The second one is a middle-aged man who is down and out and complains about everything. Because he has failed the exams many times, he has now developed the habit of drinking and beating his wife. Not only has he pawned most of his family's things, but he has also ruined his reputation.

It is not acceptable either. This man is more suitable to set off a good woman who suffers and puts on a sad drama, rather than a drama of dominating the world.

The third one is more reliable. He is a handsome boy. Although his parents died early and his family fell into decline, his life is relatively hard and his money is relatively tight, but his foundation is relatively solid and he is considered to be a little talented.

That's it.

Of course, it was not Qi Xuansu himself who ended up. I have said that I sat still, stayed out of the matter, and was calm and composed. Instead, the "chess piece" fell into the body of this young man.

Although the two players could not see the other's layout clearly, as if they were shrouded in fog, and could only see a few points after the middle of the game, the spectators could see it very clearly.

However, there is no need to worry about the tricks outside the board. The two players have entered the world of books, separating the inside and the outside.

Everyone saw clearly that Qi Xuansu chose a poor scholar, and Qin Lingge chose a useless young man, the kind that was looked down upon by others. From the material basis alone, Qin Lingge's starting point was a little higher. These are actually two routes. Qi Xuansu took the route of a poor family, and Qin Lingge took the route of a noble family, which corresponded to the origins of the two people.

Coincidentally, this useless young man's surname is Li.

But it is not the Li of Xuansheng, after all, Xuansheng is dead, but the Li of Xuansheng's brother. At that time, Xuansheng was the second of the three brothers of the Li family. He was not the same as Xuansheng who was determined to overthrow Confucianism. With the failure of the struggle, he was completely marginalized. After Donghuang came to power, he deleted a lot of information about this elder brother, almost as if he did not exist.

In the timeline of the story in this book, Xuansheng died unexpectedly, so naturally this elder brother succeeded in taking the position, because he was pro-Confucian, so he jumped to a high position.

Even if the world is different, the Li family is still in its heyday.

This is the wisdom of Li Zu, not putting all the eggs in one basket. It is good for Xuansheng to win, and the Li family will become the first family. If Xuansheng loses, the Li family will not be liquidated.

As for the Qin family, they are not doing well. Although they did not enter the Central Plains to seize the world, they have a very high value of unity. In the end, they reached a compromise and were named the King of Liao, and they ruled Liaodong for generations.

This world was suppressed by the Confucian school with dragon energy, closed the country and closed the door, and banned all kinds of magical powers. All living beings have their own roots, and they are ranked by superiority and inferiority, and they cannot mess around. Therefore, the big figures of the Li family and the Qin family cannot be selected, and only some marginal figures can be selected, such as this useless young man.

The speed of time in the world of the book is also different from that in the human world. If Qi Xuansu and Qin Lingge play chess for decades, the people outside can't watch for decades, at most only dozens of days.

One day in heaven is one year on earth.

And they specially chose the Fanzhen Hall because the speed of time here is different from that outside, so that so many people will not waste dozens of days without doing their business, and strive to finish it within one day.

The scholar chosen by Qi Xuansu is not surnamed Li, nor is he surnamed Qin, but surnamed Yin.

This is really a coincidence. Now it is not Xiao Yin and Qi Xuansu who have the surname Qi, but Qi Xuansu follows Xiao Yin with the surname Yin, which is the opposite of Tiangang.

Qi Xuansu's disadvantage is that his family is poor, and his advantage is that he is talented, but his vision is somewhat limited. After all, he is young and has never been to other places. This is inevitable.

However, with Qi Xuansu, it can be compensated. Qi Xuansu has seen the world. He has been to all the states in the Central Plains, all the overseas states, the Imperial Capital, the Northern Continent and the Southern Continent. Except for the Western Continent, he has basically traveled to all of them, and even made a lot of changes in these places.

On the contrary, Qin Lingge is far inferior to Qi Xuansu in this regard.

The reason why Qi Xuansu chose this little scholar is mainly because he has some talent. This is not a general concept, but is reflected in his achievements. Specifically, he has passed the prefectural examination in the Tongshi.

The Tongzi Examination is also called the Tongshi, which includes three stages of examinations: the county examination, the prefectural examination and the academy examination.

The county examination is generally presided over by the county magistrate. The county tongsheng must have five co-examinees and be guaranteed by the county's stipend students before they can take the examination. The examination period is mostly in February, with four to five examinations, including eight-part essays, poems, essays, etc., and only after passing the examination can you take the prefectural examination.

The prefectural examination is presided over by the prefecture magistrate. The examination content and venue are the same as the county examination, and the examination period is mostly in April.

Only those who passed the prefectural examination could participate in the academy examination.

The academy examination was presided over by the academician who was in charge of the affairs of all Confucian scholars in a state. After passing the academy examination, one was called a scholar, and only then could he enter the official school and formally participate in the imperial examination.

The so-called "taking a boy's job" means that he did not obtain the qualification of a scholar and had no fame.

In other words, Qi Xuansu had passed the county examination and the prefectural examination at this time, and only the final academy examination was missing. He was considered a quasi-scholar, which was much better than the first old man in the selection.

This was the end of the dynasty, when scholars were not valuable. If it was the beginning or middle of the dynasty, such a young quasi-scholar would have been rushed to make friends and marry, and there would be no such thing as poverty.

However, there were some privileges, at least there was no need for a road permit, and he could move around freely.

Qi Xuansu thought that he could not stay in one place and study hard, and he had to find some shortcuts to Zhongnan, so he should move around.