The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Fang Yun sighed softly.

In the past, Fang Yun's memory was very average. In addition, he only went to private school to study in the morning and started working as a waiter in a restaurant at noon. He learned very little and recited very little. If nothing unexpected happened, it would be difficult for Fang Yun to pass the entrance examination.

Fang Yun learned a lot of things on Earth, but he didn't learn these at all.

Fang Yun thought about his thoughts, hoping that the extra memories could help him, and then put pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other items on the table.

Everything else is quite satisfactory, except for the two paperweights used to press the paper. Others' paperweights are made of specially carved jade, metal, and exotic wood, but his paperweight is just a stone that Yang Yuhuan picked up from the river, and then slowly Polish it into a blue stoneware that is two fingers wide and as long as a chopstick.

That Fang Yun was a little embarrassed every time he used a paperweight and felt embarrassed, but Fang Yun liked this simple paperweight very much because it was Yang Yuhuan's intention.

Fang Yun laid out the first test paper, pressed it on the top of the page with a paperweight, glanced at the first question, poured water into the inkstone, and slowly ground the long ink stick in his hand.

Fang Yun was thinking and studying ink, but he had no clue about the first question.

"Where was Confucius born in the 27th year of Duke Zhao? How do I know? This question is the first question. According to the experience of the previous life, it should be the easiest." Fang Yun was full of curses in his heart, and he couldn't figure it out even if he thought about it.

After polishing the ink, Fang Yun chose a small regular script pen, dipped it in thick ink, put the pen back, and put a piece of wool felt under the test paper. With the wool felt absorbing the ink, the ink would not seep down and affect the paper. noodle.

Fang Yun picked up the pen and glanced at the first question reluctantly, convinced that he didn't know how to do it. Just as he was about to read the second question, the cover of an ancient book suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Historical Records".

Then, the "Historical Records" automatically turned the page to "The Seventeenth Confucius Family". Fang Yun was overjoyed, but the entire page suddenly blurred.

Fang Yun's heart skipped a beat, feeling that something was going to happen. Suddenly, some memory fragments appeared in his mind. He flew into "Historical Records" and saw that "the seventeenth of the Confucius family" quickly changed into "the fifth in the Anthropology of Confucius". The content is much more than that of Confucius Family.

Fang Yun was stunned, but quickly figured it out.

"Historical Records" has twelve chronicles, eight books, ten lists, thirty families and seventy biographies, with different contents.

Among them, "Benji" ranks first, which is the outline of the whole book and records the most important emperors and dynasties, such as Xia Benji and Qin Benji.

The "Aristocratic Family" records the deeds of princes and feudal lords and the deeds of particularly important figures, and its status is second to this chronicle.

In the "Historical Records" on earth, Confucius only lives in aristocratic families.

However, the Confucius of Shengyuan Continent is not the Confucius of Earth. His status and actual role exceed that of any emperor in "this era". Therefore, there is no Confucius family in the "Historical Records" here, only the Confucius of Kong Sheng, which is ranked in Zhou Dynasty in chronological order. Between Benji and Qin Benji.

In the Shengyuan Continent, Sima Qian, the author of "Historical Records", is a semi-saint and has been granted the title of "Historical Sage". He is a representative figure of historians, and the words written in his book are also regarded as holy words.

The text on the fifth chapter of Confucius' Book of Saints became clear, with dense black text on it. In the blink of an eye, some of the text turned from black to gold.

Fang Yun breathed a long sigh of relief after reading these golden words. The golden words were sentences related to the topic.

Fang Yun read it carefully again and thought that the questioner was really tricky. There was a little trap in the first question. The question asked where Confucius was this year. In fact, Confucius was not in the same place when he returned to Lu from Qi that year. .

This is not over yet. One book after another appears in Fang Yun's mind. The first one is "Zuo Zhuan". Turning to the 27th year of Zhaogong, there is a golden letter written in gold letters about a Wu man named Ji Zha who was sent to Jin Dynasty as an envoy. country.

The second book is "Book of Rites", open to "Under the Tan Gong", it says that when Ji Zha was in Qi State, his eldest son died, and he was buried among the Ying Bo of Wu State. Confucius attended the funeral. But the "Book of Rites" does not mention the time of this funeral.

Fang Yun was stunned. Since these two books popped up one after another, they must be related to this question. But on the surface, it is impossible to determine whether the funeral occurred in the 27th year of Zhaogong, and it is also impossible to determine whether Confucius went to Wu State that year. .

Just when Fang Yun was hesitant, various books such as "Xiang Dang Tu Kao", "Zhu Si Kao Letters", "Confucius Returned to Lu Kao", "Confucius' Family Sayings" and other books appeared one by one, with golden fonts emerging.

Fang Yun read these books carefully, and the gold characters on them proved that this person named Ji Zha went to Jin State as an envoy and returned later, and his eldest son died when he returned and passed by Qi State. In this way, it was confirmed that his eldest son died. time.

Since Confucius attended this funeral, it means that in the 27th year of Duke Zhao, he was not only in Qi and Lu, but also in Wu.

Fang Yun was almost confused even though he had various books to refer to. At first he thought this question had no practical meaning, but when he thought about it carefully, he found that this question was a comprehensive liberal arts question, including history, geography and other classics, let alone It is difficult for ordinary people, even extremely talented people, to answer correctly.

Fang Yun picked up the pen and excerpted the contents of the gold characters.

"Lu was in chaos, and Confucius was suitable for Qi. In the 27th year of Duke Zhao, the Qi officials wanted to harm Confucius, but Confucius did it and rebelled against Lu. The youngest son of Yanling was suitable for Qi, and his eldest son died and was buried between Yingbo. Confucius said: The third son of Yanling, Wu Zhi is accustomed to etiquette. Go and watch his funeral."

Qi, Lu and Wu have it.

After answering the first question, Fang Yun looked at the not particularly neat handwriting and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"This child test is too difficult!"

After Fang Yun finished complaining in his heart, he realized that the books in his mind had disappeared, and he couldn't help but guess the origin of these books.

"I vaguely remember that when the library caught fire and I jumped off the building, the dragon-shaped jade pendant I was wearing broke, and then I remembered nothing. These books couldn't have entered my mind out of thin air, they must be from the Dongjiang Library. My mother said that this jade pendant was left by my father and I must wear it, saying that it would protect me. Could it be that my rebirth was really due to the jade pendant?"

Fang Yun thought for a moment, and immediately put away his thoughts and answered the second question carefully.

The second question asked when King Xuan of Qi said "I am ashamed of Mencius". This time, books appeared immediately, and Fang Yun quickly wrote: The third year of King Nan of Zhou.

Fang Yun used his pen to fly and answered several questions in a row. He found that except for the first question, these questions were not difficult, so he was relieved.

Fang Yun adjusted his mood, slowed down, and began to write slowly, stroke by stroke. He knew that there was also a "paper score" at this time. If the handwriting was too bad, even if the answer was correct, it would be downgraded.

The calligraphy of the two Fang Yuns was not very good, but it was too late to practice calligraphy now, so he could only pass the Tongsheng test first.

When answering the fourteenth question, Fang Yun looked at the test paper and did not write immediately. The thing he was most worried about happened!

This is Shengyuan Continent after all, not Earth.

In addition to the saints with the same name as Earth, there are also semi-saints who have never appeared in ancient China. It is impossible for the Dongjiang Library to have the works of these people.

There is an unwritten rule between the Tongsheng test and the Xiucai test.

The Xiucai test has a lot of test papers for asking for the words of the saints, which can ensure that the works of every saint are tested, but the Tongsheng test is different.

Although there are thirty test papers for the Tongsheng test, the brush characters are relatively large, and the actual content is less than expected. Only a limited number of test questions can be tested, but there are many saints.

Confucius and the six sub-saints have a transcendent status, and they must account for at least half of the test questions, and the works of several semi-saints who led the Hundred Schools of Thought are also required to be tested, otherwise it cannot reflect the return of the Hundred Schools of Thought to Confucianism, which is the "united front" or "political correctness" in the words of Earth.

The works of several semi-saints with extremely high historical status must also be tested, such as Dong Zhongshu's Great Unification, Zhuge Liang's Devotion to the Country, Tao Yuanming's Poetry and Fu, etc.

In this way, there are very few pieces left, and the remaining semi-saints cannot be divided at all.

So, a rule was formed, and the words of the saints in the Tongsheng test were divided into three parts.

The first part is the famous saints who must be tested every year.

The second part is the famous works of the three examiners this year.

The third part is to select three to five works from the remaining semi-saints every year and take turns to test.

Fang Yun is lucky, because except for the three semi-saint examiners, the works of the saints tested in this year's Tongsheng test have appeared on Earth and are collected by Dongjiang Library.

Before the Tongsheng test, once the names of the semi-saint examiners are determined, candidates from all over the country will spend a lot of time memorizing the examiner's famous works.

The questions of other saints are difficult and simple, but the questions of the semi-saint examiners are particularly simple.

Because the living semi-saints are all new saints, their foundation is unstable, and they are in urgent need of literary fame, so they must want the world to know their masterpieces.

"In the words of the previous life, it is a free point question. Scholars and students are grateful, and the literary fame of the new saint can be spread, which is the best of both worlds."

Fang Yun thought carefully and felt relieved, because he started to recite the famous works of the three semi-saint examiners last month.

The fourteenth question is very simple. It tests the time and place of canonization of a semi-saint named Mi Fengdian. Although Fang Yun can't remember it for a while, he feels that he must remember it.

Mi Fengdian is one of the three semi-saint examiners of this Tongsheng exam, and it has been known all over the world before the exam.

Fang Yun thought for a moment, picked up the pen and wrote: Autumn of the 145th year of the new calendar, Shu Kingdom, Shudu.

After Fang Yun answered, he suddenly found a blue-gray blank ancient book in his mind, and then a small piece of memory fragment flew into it.

The blank ancient book immediately turned into "Fengdian Five Classics Annotation" (Volume 1), the author is Mi Fengdian, a semi-saint, canonized for 56 years.

Then, new blank ancient books appeared one after another, extracting Fang Yun's memory fragments, forming a collection of Mi Fengdian's essays and poems. There are five books in total, none of which are complete, either only one volume or fragments.

Fang Yun showed a happy expression, he didn't expect it to turn out like this.

"I don't know what it is. Since there are a lot of books and new books can be absorbed, let's call it 'Strange Book World'."

The next question was also about the half-saint of Shu, Zhuge Liang, but he had passed away at this time.

Zhuge Liang's experience in different worlds is different. Fang Yun spent some time thinking to avoid wrong answers.

The name of the country founded by Liu Bei was "Han", and he regarded himself as the orthodox of the Han Dynasty. There has never been a Shu Kingdom, but others did not recognize it and only called it Shu Kingdom, which was contemptuous and continued by later generations.

In Shengyuan Continent, Liu Bei also founded the country "Han", aiming to inherit the Han Dynasty and unify Shengyuan Continent, but was opposed by the Eastern Wu and Wei Kingdoms. Finally, he had to change the country's name to "Shu". In the end, he relied on the semi-saint Zhuge Liang to maintain it until now it has become one of the ten countries.

Fang Yun has the strange book Tiandi, and he knows Zhuge Liang on Earth better.