Feudal scholar-bureaucrats reborn: marrying a husband and marrying a virtuous

The next day, the three of Lin Fangxu got up very early, and when they arrived at the Zhejiang Guild Hall, the courtyard of the Lun Dao Hall was already surrounded by scholars in Confucian shirts, three layers in and three layers out, and it was airtight.

The three of Lin Fangxu approached, patted the outermost scholar on the shoulder and asked, "Excuse me, can you go inside, brother, and don't block the door."

"I think so too. It's not that we can't squeeze in. Today, the five talents from Hangzhou competed with the four great talents from the capital. People from other guild halls rushed over, and there was no place to stand inside." The scholar replied.

The three of Lin Fangxu looked at each other, and Shang Tan stepped forward and said politely: "That..., please move on, brother, let us go in."

The scholar said vigilantly: "I rushed over without having breakfast, you don't want to jump in line just because there are too many people."

"That's right, if you come late, obediently wait in the back!" The others said in unison.

Xu Zhongkang said speechlessly: "If you want to watch the competition, you must first let the people who compete for the competition enter. If the three of us don't go in, the Hangzhou five sons will not be complete."

"You are..." Everyone looked at them carefully, and finally someone pointed at Lin Fangxu and suddenly shouted: "Xie Yuanlang! Hangzhou Jie Yuanlang is here!"

Caught off guard, the three of Lin Fangxu were surrounded by excited scholars. Fortunately, the three of them have made a high-profile journey to the present, and they are not so nervous. Lin Fangxu, who is the calmest, said with a smile: "Everyone, let us in first. I guess Brother Shen and the others are waiting impatiently... get to the point earlier, so that everyone can go back earlier and pay homage to the Temple of the Five Viscera."

The scholars must have been heartbroken by Lin Fangxu's words. Hearing the words, they all gave up a small path and let the three of them walk in one file at a time.

The six doors of the Lun Dao Hall were opened, and the people in the guild hall were also ingenious. They removed all the previous decorations and re-arranged them. At this time, it was like a scene of two armies confronting each other.

There are only three vacant seats in the first row on the left, and the other places are already full of people. The first three rows are probably full of Zhejiang scholars, so there is a little preferential treatment, and one person can make one stool, and one stool in the back rows is at least crowded. There were three people, many of them had more than half of their buttocks hanging in the air, and some even sat on other people's laps.

The four great talents on the right have all arrived, except that there are three vacancies less than those on the left, there is no difference in other places.

At this time, the left and right sides had already set up battles and were engaged in a spiritual contest. Seeing Lin Fangxu and the three of them came in, thousands of pairs of eyes looked at them in unison.

Shen Mao was the first to react, and greeted the three to sit down quickly. According to the rankings in the provincial examination, Lin Fangxu naturally sat at the top of the first row, followed by Shang Tan and Xu Zhongkang.

As soon as the three of them sat down, they saw another commotion among the crowd outside. After the commotion, a much wider road was opened between the crowd. A young man dressed in black casual clothes, with a solemn face and a noble temperament The man walked in.

Next to him, one step behind him, was a young man in lake blue casual clothes with a smile in the corner of his eyes, who was probably just around the age of a weak crown.

After the young master, there are three officials of the Hanlin Academy of different ages and grades. Among them, the older one is a formal Hanlin bachelor who wears a fifth-rank official uniform, and the other two are only officials. From the perspective of service, I only know that it is a sixth-rank official, but I don't know whether it is a lecturer, a reader, or a historian.

Kong Zhao, Dong Kun and the others showed shock when the young man in Xuanyi entered the door. They instinctively wanted to stand up and salute, but after realizing it, they sat back to their original positions and pretended to be calm.

Others may not know, but Lin Fangxu naturally understands why they are like this, because the young man in black is the present prince, and the other is His Royal Highness the Third Prince.

I thought it was just an ordinary literary meeting, but I didn't expect it to reach such a point. Lin Fangxu was somewhat surprised no matter how indifferent he was. He seemed to have never heard of these in his previous life. It is estimated that the Hangzhou five sons lost three people and could not fight.

It seems that the two dragon sons really just came to be ordinary listeners. They sat down on the two highest seats in the middle without saying a word, and let the academicians of the Imperial Academy speak: "Today is only for the exchange of ideas.

, I hope you will treat it normally, and don't let this affect your performance in the next month's test. "

After finishing speaking, he took a page of paper from the prince respectfully with both hands, opened it and read: "The previous dynasty, from the prosperity of Kaiyuan, to the rule of ZTE, and then to the fall of the emperor, had a total of 28 emperors who lived for 320 years. The sages said 'Using history as a mirror, we can know the ups and downs.' Today, the lords will come to discuss why the previous dynasty fell."

After the academicians of the Imperial Academy finished reading the questions, some of the scholars present here looked like Kong Jie and Shang Tan, with sad faces, some like Xu Zhongkang and Su Zhao, with suddenly enlightened faces, and some like Shen Jing and Dong Kun, with written words all over their faces. eager to try.

Lin Fangxu can roughly guess why they have different expressions. Xu Zhongkang and others are best to understand their thoughts. After interpreting it, it is "This question is really bold. No one would dare to make such a question. The prince probably would not dare, oh..., I know." , it must be from the Qianqing Palace. '

Shen Jing, Dong Kun and others must have already guessed the person who proposed the question, and even thought about where to start, and they are waiting to perform well later.

Kong Jie, Shang Tan and the others must be complaining in their hearts at this time. Now this country is taken from the hand of Emperor Shuai by your old Zhu family. Now that you ask such a question, how do people answer it? If this answer violates any taboo, I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the examination room.

Lin Fangxu has several kinds of mentality at this time. In his opinion, if the first emperor did not ascend the throne in Beijing, and still served as the emperor, the broken ship of the previous dynasty might still be able to sail for a while. All the family property, and then say 'you to sum up, why are you poor? '

Why else!I was robbed by you... From this, it can be seen that those who can sit firmly in the Golden Palace should not be thin-skinned, and those with thin skins have been robbed.

Xueshi Wang didn't intend to join in the fun today. A group of scholars' cultural gatherings are not that attractive yet, but the crown prince came to the Imperial Academy with the handwriting of the Holy Majesty. How dare they send someone casually.

After reading the question given by the majesty, Wang Xueshi sweated for all the scholars sitting here. To be honest, he himself did not dare to answer such a question casually.

Wang Xueshi was full of sympathy for everyone present, and said: "Everyone takes a stick of incense as a measure, and after thinking about it, stand up by yourself and express your own opinions."

After finishing speaking, he ordered people to place an incense burner on the table in the middle, with thick and thin red incense sticks inserted in it. It had just been lit at this time, and wisps of blue smoke were still floating from the top.

Everyone bowed their heads in deep thought. Nearly [-] people gathered together. It was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop for a while, and occasionally you could hear a sigh or two.

Shang Tan leaned in front of Lin Fangxu: "Dong Sheng, I'm afraid I'm going to rely on you this time, brother, I really don't know how to answer."

Lin Fangxu knew it well. From the last debate in Hangzhou, it can be seen that this heir of the businessman may not have any talent for debate. Right and wrong are self-contained in their hearts, and they often say what they think, and they don't argue for the sake of debate.

For a while, Lin Fangxu didn't know whether to encourage him to speak out his thoughts, after all, there is still trouble coming out of his mouth.

Just when he was in a difficult situation, Shen Jing stood up, bowed his hands to the crown prince and others who were sitting above him, bowed his hands, bowed his hands, and then bowed his hands to the surrounding scholars, and said: "Mencius Yun, there are people in the world. Dao, if you have the people, you will have the world. If you have the people, you have the Tao, if you have the heart, you will have the people. If you have the heart, you will gather with them, and you will not do anything that is evil.”

People have different personalities both internally and externally. Dong Kun has always shown a gentle and gentle appearance externally. In order not to appear eager for quick success, he wanted to wait a little longer, but Shen Jing took the lead.

The elders of the Shen family seem to respect the Dong family on the surface, but they have taught their descendants to be so arrogant.

In fact, he didn't know that Shen Jing's arrogance was not taught by his grandfather, he was probably born with it, and he continued: "The previous dynasty began with Emperor Xizong, and the ability to govern the country was inferior to each generation. He is even more debauched, extravagant and brutal. He doesn't care about the corruption of the government; he doesn't care about the peeping of powerful enemies;

At the time of Emperor Shuai, although he wanted to rectify, he was cowardly, timid and fearful. What's more, when Mengnu came to attack, he left all the people and fled alone, causing the people to renounce. How could this kind of court not perish. "

Among the two audience members who sat at the highest position, Prince Zhu Xianzong didn't show any expression after he finished speaking, but just ordered the clerk who came with him to write down the speaker's point of view verbatim.

The third prince Zhu Xianwen rolled his eyes in his heart, and leaned on the back of his chair bored, "Who wants to hear this kind of opinion that most people can say." '

It may be that most people can say it, so most people agree. After Shen Jing finished speaking, many scholars nodded in agreement.

Shen Jing bowed his hands to everyone again, and then sat down slowly. At this time, a small section of burnt incense ash on the top of the incense stick finally overwhelmed and fell onto the table.

Dong Kun was no longer modest at this time, he stood up straight, saluted his superiors first, then bowed his hands to the surroundings, and then smiled and said: "Before expressing my point of view, I have to say something to Shen Tongnian, you The point of view mentioned is too general, too insincere..., counting the reasons for the subjugation of all dynasties in history, it seems that it can be attributed to the loss of popular support, so I think that why we lost popular support in our discussion today? Doesn't make more sense."

Most of the people who nodded before were shaken again at this time, thinking, "The number one talented person in the capital is really extraordinary, and he refuted the other party with one sentence. It is really too perfunctory to talk about losing the hearts of the people." '