The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Dayuan Liu Family, Liu Zicheng's study.

Liu Zicheng's hands have been shaking since he saw this eighth-rank official, and they were still shaking when he entered the study.

"Do you know why Cao Wei was usurped by the Sima family?"

"Cao Zhi is extremely talented and has the potential to be a half-saint. Cao Pi was afraid that Cao Zhi would become a great scholar and threaten his throne, so he ordered Cao Zhi to go and kill the monster, causing Cao Zhi to die at the hands of the monster clan. Later, the half-saint killed Cao Pi with a word. Since then, the Cao family has been doomed, and the Sima family has seized the country decades later." Liu Zicheng said honestly.

"Fang Yun's talent has surpassed Cao Zhi, who is the same age as him. You have repeatedly harmed him, and he is trying to find out today. The Holy Court Criminal Hall will definitely intervene. Once it is determined that you are guilty, the left prime minister will only suffer reputation, but your brother Liu Zizhi and the family will inevitably be implicated and will no longer have the possibility of taking the imperial examination."

"That was before he became famous! He is taking revenge on me!"

"What would you do if he kills you twice?"

Liu Zicheng remained silent.

The eighth-rank official slowly pulled out a piece of white silk from his sleeve and threw it at Liu Zicheng's feet.

"Write a suicide note, admit all your crimes, apologize to him, and take responsibility for your own actions. I hope he will let the rest of the Liu family go."

"I..." Liu Zicheng's arms were shaking, and his legs were also shaking slightly.

"Do you want to die by yourself, or do you want to drag down dozens of Liu family members with you?"

"But... Lord Zuo Xiang, can't he really save me?" Liu Zicheng asked.

"If he could save you, I wouldn't have come." The man said calmly.

"What if I don't want to die?" Liu Zicheng asked guiltily.

The man looked out the window and said, "I'll only give you half an hour."

Liu Zicheng suddenly smiled bitterly and said, "Of course, if I don't die, you will kill me. I just can't accept it! He is obviously a poor boy who knows nothing, how can he know everything after not seeing him for a few days! He is very likely a bastard from the demon clan lurking in our human race! He will definitely harm the human race."

The man smiled coldly and said, "That day in front of the Wenyuan, Shi Jun personally talked to him and said that he was waiting for him in the Saint Academy. Can't you guess it?"

Liu Zicheng was stunned and said in surprise: "Shi Jun is the disciple of Nan...that person, and that person who plays the human world, are you saying that Fang Yun is actually the disciple of that person?"

"It's good for you to know. The cultural treasure he is in charge of, you I know why Fang Yun has achieved so much in such a short time, and everything makes sense. You dared to harm Fang Yun's life and literary reputation repeatedly, once you force him to speak, not to mention your brother, even the position of the left prime minister will be lost. "

Liu Zicheng was stunned for a long time, his eyes dim, and he said slowly: "Since that person taught me, I will give up this idea. You must tell my brother that if there is a chance, I will personally find Fang Yun to apologize and resolve the feud between the two families! No wonder that person values ​​him. In fact, I have already convinced and regretted it, but... I just don't want to accept it. "

"I said, you write."

"Yes." Liu Zicheng grabbed his shaking right forearm with his shaking left hand, and then held the pen with his right hand.

"Whatever I say, you write, start. Everything is my fault, and it has nothing to do with the rest of the Liu family..."

Not long after, Liu Zicheng finished writing the last word, threw the pen on the ground, stumbled to pick up the white silk, and his hands shook even more.

The man took the chair, snatched the white silk, and then threw it over the beam and tied it up.

Liu Zicheng's legs trembled even more, tears flowed out involuntarily, and he cried and muttered to himself.

"I regret it so much, I can't hurt anyone else, but I have to hurt the semi-saint disciple, I have to hurt Fang Yun! Why am I so stupid, why am I so stupid..." Liu Zicheng grumbled as he stepped on the chair, grabbed the white silk with both hands, and slowly put his neck into the white silk sleeve.

"Why am I so stupid..." Liu Zicheng completely changed his appearance, no longer looking like the young man of the famous family, but like a resentful woman.

The eighth-rank official suddenly kicked the chair away, and Liu Zicheng's body was suspended in the air, panicking, grabbing his arms and kicking his legs, but in the end he suddenly stopped struggling, quietly hanging in the white silk sleeve waiting to die, while looking at the man, as if he wanted to say something.

Seeing that Liu Zicheng was about to die, the man smiled coldly and said, "Your brother doesn't know what happened today, and I won't stop your brother from avenging you."

"Well..." Endless hatred burst out of Liu Zicheng's eyes, and then he died.

"Hmph, your Dayuan Liu family let Zuo Xiang bear the stigma, so you naturally have to clean it up yourself!"

The next morning, Fang Yun was reading, and the official seal of the sixth-rank county earl in the study suddenly formed a strange wave and spread.

"Is there a wild goose delivering a letter?" Fang Yun walked over, stretched out his hand to hold the official seal, and saw a wild goose with words flying out, and finally disintegrated in front of Fang Yun, spreading into a black text suspended in the air.

Fang Yun's expression did not change, and he slowly read the whole text.

This was a letter sent by Sun Zhifu of Dayuan Prefecture, which detailed the death of Liu Zicheng and finally warned Fang Yun to be vigilant.

Fang Yun waved his hand, the text disappeared, and then turned his head to look out the window.

"As expected of the Left Prime Minister, this preemptive move is very well used. However, Fang Yun is not afraid of the infamy of forcing Liu Zicheng to death, but Liu Shan forcing the Liu family to death will make his subordinates alert. The Left Prime Minister of a country will never be so careless, and there must be a follow-up move next. Unfortunately, even though I am a role model of literati, I can't do anything to the head of the officials. But the day I become a Jinshi and enter the court will be the day when you, Liu Shan, will be on the decline."

"Liu Shan, aren't you going to turn my current merits into literary merits? Then you continue, and I will continue to make merits. I'm just curious, what rank will I be when I wear the official robe for the first time!"

Fang Yun made some calculations in his mind. If he could pass the Jinshi examination, he would at least get an eighth-grade editor or lecturer position in the academy. In addition, the accumulated literary skills can now be upgraded to three levels, from the seventh grade, to the seventh grade, to the sixth grade, which has exceeded the county magistrate.

"And the number one scholar can reach the seventh rank in one step, and the rank is even higher! The Jinshi examination is divided into two parts, the tribute examination and the palace examination. However, the palace examinations of the Ten Kingdoms are very different. It is not the king who takes the examination in the Jinluan Palace, but the semi-saint sitting in the temples to personally assess and In the end, the semi-sage determines the ranking of Jinshi from each country. The content of the imperial examination is even more unusual."

"Thanks to the illusion of Shushan, the poems, classics and strategies for the Juren and Jinshi examinations are no longer a problem. The next step is to accumulate more and more free time. For the future palace examination, I must start practicing in a few days. If I serve in the academy of arts, the government, or the military for a period of time, there will be no basis for what I will do in the future! Whether it is books on the art of war, agriculture, industry, and commerce, there must be a reasonable excuse."

Fang Yun thought in his heart and wrote the rest of "The Legend of White Snake" with great speed. Fang Yun liked the happy ending, so in the end he asked Cai He, who "played Fa Hai", to repent and go to the border army to protect the country, while Xu Xian He lived in seclusion with White Snake, and his son Xu Shilin eventually became a great scholar.

After the book was completed, Fang used his official seal to send Hongyan's biography to the shopkeeper of Tang Dynasty, asking him to publish "The Legend of White Snake" as soon as possible.

As long as they are around the holy temple, people with official seals can receive or send Hongyan's messages. However, after they are far away from the holy temple, the official seal loses all kinds of magical effects. If the official seal is a cultural treasure, it will still be useful. For a title like Fang Yun, which is not a cultural treasure, The official seal is of no use at all away from the holy temple.

Then Fang Yun called Nunu over. Nunu carefully watched the ending of "The Legend of White Snake", and then happily threw herself into Fang Yun's arms to express her gratitude.

"You like this ending very much?" Fang Yun asked.

"嘤嘤!嘤嘤!" Nunu waved her little paws and shouted happily.

"That's good." Fang Yun read "The Legend of White Snake" again carefully, revised a few places, and officially finalized it.

Romance between humans and demons happens from time to time in Shengyuan Continent. As long as the demons don’t eat humans, the human race will sympathize with them.

But if it is a human-eating monster, it will be hated by the human race no matter what. Therefore, even if there is opposition to "The Legend of White Snake", there will not be too much opposition. After all, this book still promotes the idea of ​​supremacy of the human race and does not deviate from the prototype An Chengcai's belief in protecting the human race.

Putting the manuscript aside, Fang Yun couldn't help but think of the incomplete manuscript of "Peach Blossom Spring", and always wanted to improve it.

"The Holy Ruins not only contain the holy blood, holy jade or cultural treasures left by the seven semi-saints, but there should also be other great Confucian obscenities and true texts. After all, the elites of the human race and demon barbarians will enter it every ten years. If we can make up for it, Throughout "Peach Blossom Spring", the power of the great scholar's true text will be even more powerful. It is said that there will be Bi Lao, Mo Nu and other weird things in the ancient land where all the saints died. Will there be any?"

Not long after, Tang Da, the shopkeeper of Xuanting Bookstore, sent a letter saying that he would arrive at Yuhai City tomorrow.

After Fang Yun read the letter from shopkeeper Tang, there was another swan goose. Fang Yun opened it and smiled helplessly.

The letter was written by Hu Moyuan, a famous painting master in Yuhai Mansion. He had been in the second level of Danqing for many years and had almost no chance of breaking through. However, since Fang Yun said the "Three Sides of Yin and Yang" theory, his painting skills have continued to improve. Hu Moyuan went to the Wudao River half a month ago, and just two-quarters of an hour ago, he realized Taoism by the Wudao River, and his painting level improved further, entering the three realms of painting that are rare in the Ten Kingdoms.

Hu Moyuan finally said that around August, he would use the power of the Three Realms of Danqing to paint a battle painting of a demon general and present it to Fang Yun to express his gratitude.

Fang Yun shook his head and chuckled. With Feng Yuanjun and Hu Moyuan enlightened, they would no longer be able to live peacefully by the river.

After a while, Cai He, the magistrate of Ji County, sent a letter from Hongyan. The content was thousands of words long. The core content was to let Fang Yun continue to build momentum for Wudao River, and he planned to build a new building based on Wudao River and supplemented by Fang Yun's cultural archway. A scenic spot famous in ten countries. The letter also said that it was mainly for the sake of Fang Yun's literary name and the development of Ji County.

"This Magistrate Cai is obviously trying to gain political achievements. However, is it too much to sell the well water in my old house for money and name it 'Shengqian Water'? Close the section of the river where I usually stay. Change it to 'Enlightenment City' and charge a fee to enter. This will be a great way to make money. . Although I get my dividends, my reputation for selling books is much better than this. I still can’t spend all the money I made from "The Romance of the West Chamber". No, I can’t be cheated by him. He can charge a fee, but the dividends he gives me should be used to establish an academy, which is free. Recruit children from poor families to enroll!”

"Establishing a free academy is not only a meritorious service, but also an act of 'morality', which is pursued by scholars all over the world. Many great scholars have their own free academies. Since I set an example among scholars, I used the silver from the Wudao River to establish a free academy. It’s the best move.”

Fang Yun thought about everything and continued reading. Near noon, Li Wenying sent a letter from Hongyan.

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