The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

"How is Lei Qingyin?" A Jingguo Hanlin bowed his hands and spoke with a spring thunder.

Veins appeared on Lei Yuanding's forehead. The overly feminine voice annoyed him the most.

"If you dare to fight with me, come. If you don't dare to fight with me, get out. Shame on you Hanlin for being good at talking!"

"Only dogs can bark, but people are not allowed to open their mouths?" The Hanlin smiled. Fang Yun saw that it was Gong Yilang who worked in the cabinet. The cabinet Yilang was a second-rank official position, higher than the assistant minister and lower than the minister. He was responsible for handling various matters of the cabinet. He was considered the chief steward of the cabinet. It was difficult to take on the position if he had a bad temper.

This person was promoted by the left prime minister, but at this moment, he stood up and took the initiative to help Fang Yun even though he knew that Fang Yun was going to die, which made many people admire him.

Lei Yuanding raised his chin towards the holy temple and said, "Have you ever been to Xuehai?"

The whole audience was silent, and Gong Yilang's smile froze on his face.

Gong Yilang was a Tong Jinshi. To put it bluntly, it was because Jingguo or the human race needed it that some people who were not ranked were admitted.

Regular Jinshi were divided into three grades according to their grades, that is, three levels, and the academic name was Kejia. People with Kejia were qualified to enter Xuehai from the Holy Temple. Tong Jinshi in Shengyuan Continent did not belong to the top three, but were Jinshi outside the Jia. Not only could they not enter Xuehai, but unless they could become a great scholar, their identity would always be a stain, and they would not be able to raise their heads in front of people who were born in Kejia.

Lei Yuanding humiliated "people outside the Jia" in front of tens of thousands of people, and also scolded many Tong Jinshi people.

Fang Yun smiled and said, "The highest person in the Holy Temple has never been to Xuehai." In other words, Confucius was not a Kejia, after all, the imperial examination appeared after Confucius was canonized.

This time it was Lei Yuanding's turn to freeze up and be speechless. If he dared to continue, it would be tantamount to humiliating Confucius. Even if he was a hundred times more arrogant, he would not dare to refute. Once someone found a loophole, his literary reputation would be ruined.

The fellow Jinshi present secretly breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Fang Yun with gratitude.

"I have seen you, Fang Yun who indirectly killed my Lei Jiu!" Lei Yuanding squinted at Fang Yun, and suddenly the wind blew around him, and a trace of sharp breath flew in all directions, but the next moment, the power of the Holy Temple descended and sealed all his power.

"I just couldn't save him." Fang Yun said calmly.

"If you hadn't robbed his dragon energy, he might have escaped!" Lei Yuanding's voice became even sharper.

"Let alone that I didn't take the initiative to snatch the dragon energy, I just want to ask you, is Denglongtai a dangerous place or a school for children? That is a place where everyone competes for dragon energy with their own abilities, not a place to play house in open-crotch pants! Lei Jiu was poisoned to death by the evil king, but you didn't go to the Meng family to find out the real murderer, but came here to find irrelevant people, which is a disgrace to the gentleman!" Fang Yun accused without any politeness.

"The evil king was controlled by the evil demon at that time, how could I find him!"

Fang Yun smiled indifferently and said, "Do you dare to swear to Wen Dan?" After that, Fang Yun turned around and ignored Lei Yuanding.

Lei Yuanding stood there in a daze. Even a fool knew that the evil king might not be completely controlled by the evil dragon, but this matter could not be said.

Many Jing people looked at Lei Yuanding with a smile.

"The examination begins, irrelevant people step back!" Tang Shoude, the national examiner of the Holy Academy, waved his hand, and a great force emerged, slowly pushing the non-examinees and examiners back.

Lei Yuanding yelled, "Then I will wait outside the academy for three days to see you off!"

The people of Jingguo were furious. This was cursing Fang Yun to death in front of the people of Jingguo.

"Who gave you the courage to insult my Jingguo Jinshi!" Li Wenying waved his hand and slapped Lei Yuanding from a distance of several hundred feet away.

A crisp sound spread throughout the holy temple, and Lei Yuanding's face swelled up.

Fang Yun was silent, thinking that Li Wenying was indeed not a spoiled child, and he became more domineering as a great scholar.

"You, as a great scholar, actually..."

"Pah!" Li Wenying slapped Lei Yuanding's face again with his backhand, swelled the other side of his face.

Lei Yuanding shut up.

"If you don't accept it, I will tie my own hands and feet, and I won't need to speak eloquently, suppress my talent and other aspects to the level of Hanlin, and only fight you with a life-and-death literary battle with my lips and swords." Li Wenying looked at Lei Yuanding coldly.

Lei Yuanding took a deep breath and was about to agree. He was a member of the Lei family, and his sword-making skills far surpassed Li Wenying's. Li Wenying not only suppressed all his strengths such as verbal sparring and sword-making at the level of Hanlin, but also did not use his famous wind and rain sword poem. With his strength, his chance of winning was more than 60%!

However, Lei Yuanding finally exhaled slowly.

Because he suddenly woke up, theoretically he had a 60% chance of winning, but Li Wenying was in front of him. Even if the other party suppressed his strength, his actual chance of winning was less than 10%, and it could even be said that he would definitely lose.

"Today's revenge, I will remember it in my heart!" Lei Yuanding glared at Fang Yun after saying that, turned around and walked away quickly.

"Waiting for revenge at any time." Li Wenying said calmly.

Then, the examination officially began. The examiners and candidates first offered sacrifices to the saints, and then saw a large number of wooden signs sprayed out from the sky above the holy temple like a fountain, accurately falling on everyone, and the wooden signs marked everyone's examination room.

Like everyone else, Fang Yun bowed to the holy temple to thank him, and then held the wooden sign to find the examination room.

Unlike the previous three examinations for Tongsheng, Xiucai and Juren, when Fang Yun wanted to find the examination room, he seemed to have gained omniscience and omnipotence. His sight suddenly passed through countless people and examination rooms and landed in his own examination room, as if he was suddenly sucked there.

Fang Yun blinked and found that he was still standing there, so he went to his examination room according to the route he saw before.

There was no need for a body search in this examination, because no one could hide from the half-saint, and no one dared to hide.

Most people were silent, except for the young candidates who were participating in the imperial examination for the first time and occasionally whispered.

"The questions in the Jinshi examination are always more difficult than other examinations. After hundreds of years of examination, the three semi-saint examiners must have tried their best to make things difficult for us."

"I have already answered a lot of questions in the academy. Based on the situation of the human race, I can at least win one of the strategies. After all, those are the things that come and go."

Fang Yun nodded. The strategy was to ask ten questions. Unless there was a Holy Pen Evaluator who set an A grade before the exam was over, everyone had to choose three of the ten questions and answer them.

The ten questions cover the ten major categories of military, government, medicine, industry, agriculture, etc. Almost every year, someone wins the question, and it can be used as a test paper with slight modifications.

"I hope there won't be any side questions, I hope there won't be any side questions..."

Fang Yun smiled when he heard many nearby people talking in low voices.

When he walked to the examination room, Fang Yun looked up at the sky.

It was winter at this time, and the sunshine was originally very cold, but under the power of the temple, everyone felt like spring and felt extremely comfortable.

Fang Yun glanced at the examination room. The furnishings inside were very simple, including tables, chairs, a pen wash and a bed, but it was much larger and more comfortable than the previous imperial examination room.

Fang Yun opened the bookcase and slowly took out the four treasures of the study and other items. Finally his eyes fell on two blue paperweights, with tenderness in his eyes.

Back then, her family was too poor to afford a good paperweight, so Yang Yuhuan went to the river to pick up two pieces of bluestone and ground them into chopstick-long paperweights to press the edges of the paper.

Fang Yun would bring this pair of paperweights with him every time he took the imperial examination.

After putting away the things that should be taken out of the book box, Fang Yun sat on the chair and closed his eyes to rest.

In addition to the necessary examiners in the holy temple, all the great Confucians and bachelors in Jingguo actually stepped forward and flew towards the old residence of the Semi-Saint Chen family, even taking Zhao Hongzhuang and the masked woman with them.

The masked woman held the jade seal of the King of Jingguo in her hand.

Fang Yun abandoned his selfish thoughts and continued to meditate with his eyes closed, not even thinking about the scriptures of the saints, but just letting his mind go blank.

A smile appeared at the corner of Fang Yun's mouth. The current situation was that of being in a daze. When he was young, he would often be in a daze, but since he came to Shengyuan Continent, he has even forgotten about being in a daze.

After a moment, a voice roared in Fang Yun's heart.

"How can we be content until the demon clan is exterminated!"

Fang Yun's expression changed rapidly, and finally he took a deep breath and returned to normal.

Not long after, a strange bell rang, sometimes far and sometimes near, and then, a solemn and majestic voice rang in the ears of all the candidates.

"Qin!"

Fang Yun was stunned for a moment, and then heard the exclamations of many people from the nearby examination room, as well as the sound of messy tables and chairs. It was obvious that this question was beyond everyone's predictions, and then all the noise was suppressed by the power of the temple.

Fang Yun looked slightly bitter.

"It turned out to be a one-character question, using the word 'Qin' in the Qin Dynasty as the test question. We were asked to write a poem, a poem, a classic meaning, and three policy essays. It can make people's brains explode!"

Fang Yun immediately recalled the records about the "one-word question" in the imperial examination guidance books. The one-word question only appeared once every thirty or forty years, and every time it would make the candidates wail.

The imperial examination tests students' knowledge, but students have to find out the examiner's intentions. The more words in the question, the more obvious the examiner's intention is. But now there is only one word, and it is too difficult to figure out the examiner's intention.

"Qin" is not just the Qin Dynasty that Qin Shihuang inherited and carried forward, but also the Qin State.

Five hundred years before the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, King Ping of Zhou created a vassal state called "Qin", and the first vassal was Qin Xianggong.

Candidates must first consider whether to write about the first dynasty of the human race founded by Qin Shihuang, or about the Qin State that lasted for more than 500 years, whether to praise the Qin State and Qin Dynasty, or to criticize the Qin State and Qin Dynasty.

The poems are simple, as long as they are consistent, but the meaning of the scriptures is difficult, because you have to look for sentences or articles related to "Qin" in the classics of the saints, and then start to solve the problem.

Generally speaking, the meanings of the classics are selected from the six classics compiled by Confucius, including the Book of Songs, Book of Documents, Book of Rites, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Annals, and The Book of Music. You can choose appropriate topics from the vast sea of ​​books. Instead, be more cautious.

As for the policy essay, you have to choose three topics to explain the military, political, agricultural, industrial, etiquette and other aspects of the Qin State. It seems to have a lot of freedom, but it is even more troublesome, because this kind of one-word question can be answered no matter how you write it, but it can be It’s too difficult to write well.

One piece of poetry, one piece of scripture, and three pieces of strategy require writing about "Qin" from five different perspectives, but there must be no conflict among them. If there is conflict, it will inevitably be downgraded.

Fang Yun looked up at the sky, and for some reason, the sky was clearly clear, but Fang Yun felt that there were transparent dark clouds in the sky.

That dark cloud is pressing above your head, pressing on Jingguo, and pressing on the human race!

Pressing on Fang Yun's heart.