The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

There were not many sounds of literary gall bladders breaking in other places in the capital, but the dense sounds of literary gall bladders breaking or slightly cracking sounded like firecrackers in the Jingguo Academy, the imperial palace, and the residential areas of officials, which shocked many people and made them think that the New Year had suddenly come.

Minister of Literature Jiang Hechuan stood in front of the holy temple and sighed.

"Ten thousand people mourned and sent Fang Yun away. One person broke the courage of a hundred people. He is truly an unparalleled national talent."

The other examiners stood quietly in their original places, all sighing for Fang Yun.

In the examination room, Fang Yun closed his eyes to rest after finishing "Fu of Afang Palace".

"Fu of Afang Palace" slowly fell after floating for a long time.

After writing the cifu, it was the classics.

The classics first focused on solving the topic, but the problem was that there was only the word "Qin" now, and there was no topic to solve, so he had to make up his own topic.

Fang Yun thought carefully, and countless holy classics involving "Qin" emerged in his mind. There is "Qin Feng" in the "Book of Songs", which are all poems from the Qin State. Even if there is no word "Qin" in them, any sentence can be a test question.

"Spring and Autumn Annals" involves the history of the Qin State. Any sentence can be a question. As for other sentences in the holy classics, there are countless sentences that can be used as questions.

Fang Yun only saw countless words and sentences flying around in front of him. He had no idea in his mind and became more and more confused. He always felt that this sentence was good and that sentence was also good. But after thinking about it carefully, none of them was good. There must be better ones.

Fang Yun then understood the terribleness of the one-word question. The meaning of the classics is the content of the holy classics, which are all real holy ways. Even if the candidates in the examination room have low literary status and cannot touch the core of the holy way, they are still connected to the holy way in essence.

If there is a fixed question on the meaning of the classics, then the candidates only need to think about one truth, which involves only one holy way. But now it is a one-word question, involving all the holy ways related to "Qin", and they have to think about them one by one. The energy consumed is simply terrifying.

"If someone with difficulty in making choices participates in this joint examination, I'm afraid he will shed tears in the examination room."

Fang Yun was thinking when he saw a scholar in front of him, lowering his head in frustration and slowly walking out of the examination room.

Fang Yun took a closer look and found that the man's official uniform was very new. It seemed that he was a new scholar last year. His literary courage was not solid. It must be because there were too many topics to choose from, which made his mind confused, causing his heart to waver in pursuing the holy way, causing his literary courage to be shaken, and he had to leave the examination room.

Fang Yun was alert in his heart and no longer thought deeply about the test questions related to "Qin". Instead, he used the methods in the tutoring books for the examination to list the questions that suited him one by one with a pen, and converted them into words. He used his eyes instead of his brain to think, and tried his best to avoid confusion in thinking.

The joint examination was the first test of the Jinshi test, and it might be the last test. Fang Yun did not slack off at all. He listed the questions that suited him one by one from books such as "The Book of Songs", "The Book of History", and "The Analects of Confucius", and listed a total of 233 questions.

"Weiyang."

"Morning breeze."

"Yellow bird."

"Che Neighbor."

"In autumn, a platform was built in Qin."

"The Duke of Jin and the Duke of Qin fought in Han."

"Qin's oath."

"Four meals missed and went to Qin."

...

After finishing the 233 questions, Fang Yun showed a helpless look. It was too difficult to choose a suitable question that he was confident of getting a first-class grade.

At noon, a soft bell sounded. Fang Yun looked up and saw a large porcelain plate coming down from the sky. There was hot food in the porcelain plate. This was one of the differences between the Jinshi test and the Juren test.

After lunch, Fang Yun took a short break and began to slowly recall the classics tutoring books he had seen before, and then began to slowly recall the history from the founding of the Qin State to the end of the Qin Dynasty.

The examination lasted for three days. After finishing "Fu on Afang Palace", there was still a lot of time. Fang Yun was not in a hurry and slowly reviewed the history of Qin.

Until late at night, Fang Yun had not decided what to write, so he simply went to bed.

Before going to bed, Fang Yun was still hesitating. When he was half asleep and half awake, Fang Yun suddenly figured out something.

"Since I am taking the test myself, why should I care about the examiner's intention? Just write the meaning of the classics that I should write!"

Fang Yun figured it out and fell asleep peacefully.

The next morning, after Fang Yun had breakfast, he read the 233 questions again, holding a brush and crossing them out one by one, but there were still more than 30 questions left.

Fang Yun started the second round of screening. When he saw the word "yellow bird", he couldn't help but think of the sentence in "The Book of Songs Xuanniao" that was tested in the classics during the Juren test.

The poem "Xuanniao" praises the atmosphere of the Shang Dynasty, while the poem "Yellow Bird" satirizes the Qin State.

The "Book of Songs Huangniao" involves an allusion. Before Qin Mu Gong died, he drank with his ministers. When he drank to his heart's content, he said that he would live and die with his ministers. At that time, three ministers of Qin State named "Zi Che" agreed to live and die with Qin Mu Gong.

These three ministers were famous good ministers. It was with their assistance that Duke Mu of Qin gave up the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains and expanded the territory of Qin to the west, laying a solid foundation for the future Qin.

After Duke Mu of Qin died, the three good ministers, together with 174 people, were buried with Duke Mu of Qin.

This was not a simple burial. Whether it was Duke Mu of Qin playing the trick of killing the running dog after the rabbit died, or because the next Duke Kang of Qin was afraid that the important ministers would seize power, it led to the death of the three good ministers. So a Qin person wrote a poem "Yellow Bird" to mourn the three good ministers of Zi Che and criticize the cruelty of Duke Mu of Qin.

However, as a modern person, Fang Yun thought not only of the three good ministers who were buried with him, but also of the 174 people.

Although the Shengyuan Continent is no longer a slave system, there are still things like selling body contracts, and there is still a system of burial with him. When the husband dies, the wife is buried with him, and when the master dies, the servants are buried with him. Except for the scholars who have the right not to be buried with him, almost no one can resist the system of burial with him.

In the history of Shengyuan Continent, many people opposed the system of sacrificial burial, and many enlightened scholars no longer practiced sacrificial burial. However, sacrificial burial occurred from time to time, especially for the purpose of seizing family property.

Fang Yun's heart trembled when he thought of this.

Once he dies, he will definitely be named Xusheng, and the Fang family will be the Xusheng family. Even if he has no heirs, the Jingguo royal family will choose one of his nephews to inherit the Xusheng family.

Now that a large amount of treasures and property are in Yang Yuhuan's hands, the Fang family does not dare to harm Yang Yuhuan openly, but if someone takes advantage of the wealth and secretly uses means to force or stimulate Yang Yuhuan to commit suicide and be buried, this is not what Fang Yun wants to see.

However, the funeral system is a "ritual", and burial is also a part of the "ritual". Although many enlightened scholars no longer practice sacrificial burial, no one with a high status calls for the abolition of the burial system. At most, they express their opinions privately. Form an article.

"Even if it is to help Yuhuan for the last time, I should call for the abolition of the inhumane burial system. What's more, I hate this 'evil ceremony'! How can a person be timid when he is about to die! I see the general trend of the human race and abolish the burial system This is the trend of the times. If no one takes action against this inhumane 'ritual', then I will personally crush it!"

However, at the moment when he picked up the pen, Fang Yun hesitated, because Fang Yun thought of a famous saying by Confucius, and this famous saying was dictated by the Yasheng Mencius.

The one who first made the figurines has no descendants.

This sentence has always been ambiguous. Whether those who support sacrificial burial or those who oppose sacrificial burial can use Confucius's words to prove that they are right.