The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

The students wanted to continue the discussion, but the judge raised his voice and said: "After Fang Yun passed the election, Duke Jianmei suddenly descended from the blue clouds and asked Fang Yun how to deal with Lord Weiyuan. Lord Weiyuan refused to recruit him. Fang Yun believed that Lord Weiyuan deserved to be executed, so Duke Jianmei killed Lord Weiyuan with words and words! "

"Keiyuan-kun is dead?"

No one in the cafeteria dared to speak anymore. The Lord of Weiyuan was the Lord of Fuwenyuan with the title of Jinshi. As long as he did not betray the human race, the King of Lianjing Kingdom could not be killed, but Duke Jianmei could kill him whenever he wanted. This was what he had in the Holy Court. The benefits of power and position.

These people didn't see the scene at that time, so they didn't know what to say. The lecturer continued: "Everyone applauded after the death of Lord Weiyuan. Fang Yun was right. He harmed Fang Yun again during the Holy Selection. This time If people don’t die, Jingguo will be helpless, and the human race will not be upright!”

Many people imagined that scene, and then most people nodded slightly. Harming people in the process of asking for the Holy Selection is no different from killing people.

Zhuang Wei's face turned blue and white.

Li Yuncong next to Fang Yun put down his chopsticks and said: "With all due respect, Mr. Weiyuan is a member of the Zuoxiang clan and a lackey of the Liu family. Liu Zicheng was also present, which makes people suspicious. However, Liu Zicheng finally asked Fang Yun admitted his mistake and admitted that he wanted to murder Fang Yun. This is an indisputable fact. "

Fang Yun didn't expect that Li Yuncong, who usually didn't talk much, was so powerful. He said "murder" instead of "murder the name". Those who knew took it seriously, but those who didn't knew thought Liu Zicheng had truly admitted that he wanted to kill Fang Yun. .

Zhuang Wei said in a much softer voice than before: "Fang Yun, no matter what happens, you and your child bride will be fine. Since you just said you had forgiven him, you might as well look at my face and formally shake hands with him to make peace. Let’s hold a poetry party and invite celebrities from Dayuan Mansion, what do you think?”

Fang Yun showed a faint smile and said: "Brother Zhuang's words are wrong. I have already forgiven him in the Fuwen Academy. Naturally, there is no need to shake hands and make peace. You are too worried. As for the poetry meeting and so on, I really I don’t have time to attend, and the invitations at home can already be used for cooking.”

Zhuang Wei immediately said with a long face: "I don't know the process of the Holy Selection. If there is any offense, I will apologize to you. I really want you two to make peace. Don't you even have the dignity to attend the literary meeting?" Give it to me?”

"Brother Zhuang, I misunderstood. I'm preparing for the government examination in June. I can't go. I hope you can forgive me." Fang Yun said.

Zhuang Wei was furious, but he immediately suppressed his anger and said: "I thought you were a gentleman and invited you personally in public. I didn't expect you to despise me so much! The government examination? You just passed the Tongsheng examination, and you don't even know the classics." If you don’t know how to do it, you still want to take the examination for the scholar? Why don’t you just say that you not only want to take the examination for the scholar of the same year, but also the examination for the examination of the scholar in the same year?”

Fang Yun smiled and said: "Brother Zhuang has good eyesight. I just want to take the imperial examination in the same year! If I pass the imperial examination this year, I will also try to take the Jinshi examination. Maybe you and I will go to Beijing together."

"You..." Zhuang Wei knew that he couldn't get too entangled with the emperor as he would be embarrassed no matter he won or lost, so he walked away.

Zhuang Wei and others walked out of the cafeteria, and someone on the side said: "Brother Zhuang, although this Fang Yun has a reputation for talent, he is too crazy. You are a scholar. Even if he refuses, he should find other excuses and take the exam to be a scholar of the same year? Laughter Losing big teeth.”

"He has great talent, but he doesn't know how to behave. He will definitely suffer in the future! Brother Zhuang's good intentions have all turned into a donkey's liver and lungs."

Zhuang Wei's face softened and he said: "I didn't want to argue with him, but he doesn't know how to praise him! Help me find someone to keep an eye on him. Next time he publishes another poem, let me know as soon as possible. If he can do it I won’t even mention a word about Chu Zhenguo’s poems and essays. If he does anything below the Dafu level, I will definitely let him know what ‘Juren’s Commentary’ is!”

The other people smiled knowingly, and one person said: "He is still a little boy after all, unlike us who have experienced so many literary meetings. It can almost be said that he came out of the poetry battle. Maybe he is not as good as him in writing poetry, but as for commenting , he must be inferior to you and me!"

As a few people were walking, they saw a middle-aged man wearing a red robe arriving with a smile.

Zhuang Wei recognized that this was a young official in the liberal arts academy. He didn't even have a rank. He had never had any status in the provincial liberal arts academy. At this moment, the man was happily holding a volume of documents in his hand.

The Juren on the side smiled and the little official asked: "What's the big happy event today?"

The little official said happily: "Of course there is a good thing. Fang Yun won face for Dajing Kingdom by passing the holy election that no one passed. The Prime Minister Zuo personally petitioned for Fang Yun, and the Queen Mother appointed Fang Yun to serve as the prince's attendant and walk in the palace. . Order the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel to issue documents, and the rewards from the palace will arrive in a few days."

"Oh, then go ahead."

Several people looked surprised.

"This is wrong. It's just a walk in the palace. This is the same level of treatment as the Six Ministers. What's the matter with the monarch being three years old and being granted the title of Prince Fang Yun's attendant? Although the prince's attendant has no rank, generally speaking It must be at least a sixth-grade official or noble, and it must be of clean character, but not just anyone can do it.”

Zhuang Wei smiled and said: "Zuo Xiang is very good! This time Fang Yun passed the Holy Selection, which is a rare event in hundreds of years. If he doesn't reward him, it would be too unfair. If he does, how can Fang Yun be so arrogant? He got benefits, so he was given a useless but pleasant sinecure. It seems that the left prime minister really doesn't like Fang's luck."

“What if this is a sign of goodwill from the left prime minister?”

Zhuang Wei sneered and said: "Fang Yun is from a humble family and has strong bones. Since he wrote "The End of the Year", he has stopped being a left prime minister. I won't hit him like Liu Zicheng did, I just let him He just suffered a little. This is a state liberal arts college, not a small county!"

Everyone knew that he was disgraced by Fang Yun and was unhappy, so they all agreed.

Fang Yun was eating in the cafeteria when he heard someone shouting at the door of the cafeteria: "Is Fang Yun in Ji County here?"

Fang Yun suddenly felt helpless, thinking that this would not allow anyone to eat.

Many people in the canteen looked at the clerk and then at Fang Yun. Many of them also had helpless smiles, thinking the same as Fang Yun.

Fang Yun stood up and said, "I am Fang Yun from Ji County. What do you do for me?"

The little official came over with a smile and said: "Congratulations to Mr. Fang, congratulations to Mr. Fang. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites have issued a document together. They just sent it in a Hongyan pass, saying that you will be appointed as the prince's attendant and walker in the palace. This is a great honor!”

Many officials showed envy. It was not a big deal for the prince to attend his studies, but walking in the palace was extraordinary. Without this additional title, even third-grade officials would not be able to enter the palace casually. In addition to status, walking in the palace also shows the relationship with the royal family.

However, some people thought deeply and realized that this title was far less important than the title.

Fang Yun took out a piece of broken silver and handed it to the clerk.

"I can't do it, I can't do it." The clerk pretended to shirk.

"It's just a little bit of happiness for you, but you can't take it too little." Fang Yun now basically understands some of the rules here.

"Thank you, Mr. Fang!" The young official smiled and took the money.

Fang Yun's result document, when he unfolded it, it said that Zuo Xiang asked the Queen Mother to do something like this.

Lu Yu came over to take a look, and Fang Yun pushed the document over with a smile.

Lu Yu said displeasedly: "Inviting the Holy Selection is a strange thing for the Ten Kingdoms. How can you just dismiss a rankless idle official?"

"Fang Yun is still young, so don't be anxious."

Li Yuncong asked: "Fang Yun, since the left prime minister recommended you to serve as the prince's attendant, you should write a letter to express your gratitude."

Fang Yun smiled and said: "Of course I want to thank Zuo Xiang, but there is no need to write a letter. As a child, I should spend my time studying instead of making friends with the ministers. What's more, walking in the palace is not something Zuo Xiang can do. What you are asking for must be a reward from the Queen Mother, so I can’t send a letter to the Queen Mother.”

The people at the table laughed at this, and Li Yuncong nodded.

Ning Zhiyuan said: "Fang Yun, I think you should find a way to get a title, and then ask Duke Jianmei or someone to borrow two private soldiers. Now that you have become famous all over the world, I am afraid that those unfaithful scholars have already set their sights on you."

Fang Yun was a little unfamiliar with the idea of ​​being a literary person of different races. After all, this word was rarely mentioned. The reverse race literati are obviously human beings, but they believe that monsters and barbarians are the most noble beings, or they have simply committed a serious crime and betrayed humans, and are willing to be the monsters' thugs, helping them to massacre humans. Almost all the monster and barbarian tribes have reverse races. The literati worked for it.

"Isn't that enough?" Fang Yun said.

"Not necessarily. I heard that little Tao Yuanming from Mizhou was assassinated during the election ceremony. Although you are not even a scholar, your reputation is no worse than him, and you are more likely to be killed."

Fang Yun said: "There are changes in the literary palace of the reverse literati, which will be discovered within the power of the temple. Local officials can easily crush their literary palace as long as they have official seals. They will not risk death by coming around the city. Kill me. After all, there are not many reverse scholars.”

"So you can't stay too far away from Dayuanfu City in the future."

"They won't be waiting for me forever. It doesn't matter even if they are farther away from Dayuanfu City." Fang Yun said.

Lu Yu said with a solemn expression: "The reverse literati are not scary. The scary thing is that they bribe others to be their eyes and ears. Those ordinary ears and eyes are nothing, it is the ears and eyes of the scholars that are scary. Especially those child-born scholars who have no hope of promotion to literary positions. They There is no need to gather literary courage, as long as it is not completely reversed, the power of the Holy Temple cannot be detected. "

"Thank you for reminding me, I will be careful in the future. But I heard that some people with high academic status will also trade with them?"

"Some people from the Zajia family and the military strategists know how to value profits and the military strategists to use strategies without violating literary courage. Of course, they are only a minority, or they are in the minority. Those upright Zajia families are the masters behind a country's capable ministers or big businessmen. , and those accomplished military strategists would rather take what is straight than seek what is wrong. Jianmei Gong is an example. He minored in the military strategist's "Sun Tzu's Art of War", so his "Wind and Rain Sword Poetry" is so sharp. "

Fang Yun asked curiously: "Those high-ranking people don't need anything, so why do they still work for the anti-literate people?"

"I don't know that either." Lu Yu said.

Li Yuncong whispered: "Eat quickly, we will tell you when we return to the classroom."