The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2094 Outside the Wenyuan

Fang Yun lectured, and the small apricot altar was established.

The news spread like a raging fire on the grassland. All the major forces including the Kong family and the ten countries sent envoys to Xiangzhou at the first time.

The holy land of education is enough to determine the rise and fall of a family or a country.

Many great scholars have been looking at the Wenyuan in Baling City. They can't hear anything. They can only watch the two apricot trees grow taller, the trunks are getting thicker, and the crowns are getting more luxuriant.

Outside the Wenyuan, there are many scholars and some officials in the city.

People outside the wall can see the two towering apricot trees.

Many officials showed unconcealable regret on their faces, and even some Hanlin had to grit their teeth to avoid losing their composure.

These regretful officials either came a step late or were named and expelled from the Wenyuan by Fang Yun.

These officials have different identities. Some are connected with Qingguo, some are spies of Qiguo, some are in other factions, and there are even lurking members of the Zuo Xiang party.

When they walked out of the Academy of Literature before, they didn't care, and even thought that Fang Yun was about to leave, and the next era would be theirs to show their strength.

However, when the two huge apricot trees rose, their faces kept changing and became more and more ugly.

Except for a few people, most people did not make up their minds to join Fang Yun's school because they thought that Fang Yun could not give them what they needed, and they could get more benefits from other forces.

However, compared with the benefits of both themselves and a descendant being able to enter the Little Apricot Altar, what others could give them was nothing at all.

This is a holy place for education, and ordinary scholars can never think of entering it in their lifetime.

The Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System has not appeared in the Shengyuan Continent, so there are families but they have not formed a real family, and they cannot monopolize the power of the Holy Academy and the country.

Aristocratic families, wealthy families, famous families and prominent families have become the four levels of the gentry, and below them are all poor families.

The poor family thinks of themselves as a kind of family, after all, they have family power, but in the eyes of the gentry, they are just the families of the common people, not worthy of being the families of the gentry, and they are only called "common families".

Commoners often fall into ruin, and commoners can often be promoted to commoners. Now the ancestors of the big families in various places are almost all commoners. Over time, the poor and the common people are mixed together, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior. They even often join forces to fight against the nobles.

In the human race, there are many invisible standards, like an invisible wall, blocking others out.

There is also an invisible standard for entering the Holy Land of Education, that is, only the children of the noble families and the wealthy families can enter.

As for the lower ones, whether they are famous, prominent or poor, they either use the military exploits of the Holy Academy to exchange for qualifications, or use means to exchange a quota from the noble families, or become the disciples of the Lord of the Holy Land.

There are too many military exploits required to enter the Holy Land of Education. Generally speaking, only the university scholars can accumulate and complete them, and they are the kind of people who are good at fighting or have made great contributions. Ordinary university scholars may be promoted for a long time before they can accumulate so many military exploits.

As for exchanging quotas from aristocratic families, it is equally difficult. Either a young and promising man can marry into an aristocratic family to bring enough benefits to the family, or he has done a great favor to the family, which is probably a little easier than being promoted to a university scholar.

For all officials in the target state, the third way is the only way.

Those who were expelled by Fang Yun missed the only chance to enter the holy land of education.

Officials outside the Academy of Literature are all talented. They will stay at the stage of Jinshi or Hanlin for their whole lives. The possibility of being promoted to a university scholar is very small. However, if they can personally listen to Fang Yun’s lectures and personally experience the formation process of Xiaoxingtan, the chance of being promoted to a university scholar will increase by at least 50%!

A university scholar is a big man who can influence a state, a high-level human who can directly talk to the monarch, and a superior status even in Kongcheng where scholars are everywhere.

These people have the road to becoming a university scholar but choose a worse road instead.

When these officials first came out, they didn't care. Some even said that Fang Yun made a mistake, and some Jinshi sarcastically said that they were not worthy of entering the Wenyuan to listen to lectures, but now, the irony has become reality.

The rest of the scholars looked at the officials at the door of the Wenyuan with pity. These people could have listened to lectures in the Xiaoxingtan, had the honor of eating the Xiaoshengxing, and could have been promoted to the Grand Secretary, but now they can only stand at the door and regret.

They can only be secretly laughed at by everyone.

Crack...

Then a sound of a cracking Wendan came from the head of a sixth-rank Jinshi official, which was crisp and melodious and spread throughout the city.

"I am not willing... puff..."

The fifty-year-old Jinshi suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, fell to the ground with his back to the sky, and fell heavily, unconscious.

The officials nearby all knew this old Jinshi. He worked hard when Qing occupied Xiangzhou. When Xiangzhou returned to Jing, he never resisted, nor was he a Qing official. He never violated Fang Yun's orders, but he always kept a certain distance from Fang Yun and Jing. His attitude was more negative than before. He was the object of Jing's wooing and the object of Qing's bribery.

However, this Jinshi and his ancestors have always been Jing people.

Some people think that his approach is very wise, but others think that since he is a Jing person and still does this, it is obvious that he is loyal to Qing. He is just learning the methods of Lu Buwei, the ancestor of the Miscellaneous School, waiting for the price to sell and hoarding.

Now everyone sees his end, and they have understood that this Jinshi of the Miscellaneous School finally realized that he made a wrong choice. It is difficult to maintain his state of mind and consolidate his heart of the Holy Way, so the literary courage is cracked.

Qing cannot give him the qualification to enter the holy land of education, but Fang Yun can.

Originally, he didn't need to kowtow to Fang Yun. If he had maintained basic respect in front of Fang Yun a few hours ago, and if he had only wanted to be a Jing countryman and didn't want to get benefits from Qing country, then now he would have been in the Holy Land of Education.

Tens of thousands of scholars in front of the Academy of Literature silently looked at the fallen man, watching this bloody lesson.

At this moment, almost everyone had the same idea.

We must follow Fang Yun closely, no matter when and where.

In the Holy Land of Education, almost all officials listened carefully like students. Some officials with lower literary positions, even if they heard Fang Yun's words, would never forget them, but they still took out their pens, ink and paper to record the key points of Fang Yun's lectures early, for fear that they would forget them.

It also showed their inner humility and piety.

The more these officials listened, the more joyful their hearts of the Holy Way became.

Officials with higher literary status, such as Dong Wencong, not only remembered it immediately, but also summarized it in the intervals between listening. They suddenly found that what Fang Yun said today involved all aspects of political affairs, from governing the country to writing documents. He was simply teaching people how to be better officials.

For these scholars who choose to be officials, the better they are at being officials, the faster their literary status will grow, because whether it is the classics of the various schools of eclecticism, Confucianism, Legalism, Military Science or Mohism, politics and officialdom occupy a considerable space.

Even if some people only regard officialdom as a training, and want to transcend officialdom and pursue the holy way in the future, Fang Yun's lectures will also have a great effect.

Seeing the big picture from the small details and drawing inferences from the similarities are the abilities that every scholar should have.

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