The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

After Fang Yun finished speaking, the carriage fell into silence again.

Fang Yun's current status is so high that even the eldest grandson of the Kong Sheng family has to take the initiative to greet Fang Yun when they see him, not to mention the rest of his peers.

These Jinshi all wanted to make friends with Fang Yun, but none of them were from Jiangzhou. They had only promoted people before and had no intersection with Fang Yun. Fang Yun's light was too bright for them to speak randomly.

Gao Yong was older and noticed the awkwardness of the scene. He smiled and said, "Brother Fang, I see you and the others are meeting for the first time. Why don't I introduce you one by one and get to know each other? Don't wait until the spring hunting to get to know each other." ”

Fang Yun has been in the imperial examination many times and has a photographic memory for a long time. Not to mention the top ten Jinshi, even the three hundred Jinshi places have been memorized in his mind, and the other nine people are all outstanding candidates from all over the country, and they have all been in the academy. Having read the book, Fang Yun could recall things about them as soon as he saw their names, and knew all of these people.

However, Fang Yun did not stop Gao Yong, but smiled and said: "You are all outstanding scholars in the Academy and pillars of Jingguo. I have heard about them, but I am not very familiar with them. Please help me introduce them one by one, Brother Gao. "

Gao Yong was even more happy when he heard Fang Yun call him brother Gao. Among scholars, "brother" has nothing to do with age. As long as they have the same literary rank, they can call each other. It is a respectful title, but seniority must be strictly observed among relatives.

Gao Yong pointed his hand to his side and said with a smile: "This is Fan Chenghao, the third person in the examination. He was born in a famous family in the capital and married the granddaughter of the head of the famous Song family. Brother Fan is better than me in poetry and articles. He once wrote a song The state shakes Beijing."

"Brother Fan." Fang Yun said with a smile and cupped his hands.

Fan Chenghao hurriedly returned the gift, and then said with a helpless smile: "Brother Gao misled me. Mentioning poems in front of Fang Zhenguo is tantamount to playing tricks on others, so it's okay not to say it."

"That's a bad statement. If I had to compete with Brother Fang, I would have crashed to death long ago! This is..." Gao Yong continued to introduce the others.

Fang Yun met one by one and found to his surprise that among these people, there were people from semi-saint families and sons of rich and famous families, but none of them came from poor families.

Fang Yun secretly sighed in his heart. The imperial examination system and the examination system of later generations were already relatively fair, but the educational resources received by wealthy families were dozens or hundreds of times that of ordinary people. This was difficult to change. If there were no imperial examinations, whether it was the imperial examination system or the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, it would be even more difficult for children from poor families to get ahead.

There was a recommendation system in the Ten Kingdoms at the beginning, in which wealthy families recommended talents who were outstanding in certain fields and granted additional admission quotas. This system was not wrong in itself, but after all, each family had selfish motives and only recommended people close to them. In the end, the saints discovered Something is wrong. Once the recommendation system continues to develop, it will block most of the promotion channels for children from poor families. Stop it decisively.

Later, some people said that it was fortunate that the human race was in crisis with the demon race, and the saints did not dare to interrupt the promotion path of the poor disciples. If there were no external worries, this recommendation system would have become popular long ago, and it would eventually allow a very small number of outstanding children from poor families and a large number of children from noble families to become Jinshi.

Now there is no recommendation system, which can guarantee that at least half of the Jinshi come from poor families.

The imperial examination was not a perfect system, but it was the fairest.

After the introduction, everyone became familiar with each other. They first talked about the test questions for this exam, and then focused the conversation on today's court meeting.

"According to the usual practice, the imperial meeting will first commend us and others as Jinshi, and then the Ministry of Civil Affairs will announce the list of Jinshi in the palace examination, and announce which county will be in charge. Let us do our homework well so that we will not be in trouble before taking office. I am afraid that the Holy Council of the Holy Academy has already At the end, Chen Sheng must have issued an edict and will discuss strategies against the barbarians. Except for Fang Zhenguo, we can only listen outside the door." Gao Yong said.

Shi Chongzhi, who was seventh in the examination, said in a low voice: "Chen Sheng has not yet issued an edict, but the head of the family has passed down a message. It probably means that Chen Sheng will do his best to heal his wounds, and military affairs will be decided by the court. He only stopped the Demon Saint Wolf from killing."

Shi Chongzhi is the son-in-law of the Chen Sheng family.

Fang Yun looked at the other two Jinshi who were related to the aristocratic family, and they all nodded slightly.

Gao Yong reacted very quickly and said: "Chen Sheng has always been upright and upright, and rarely interferes in military affairs. It is normal for him to not come forward now. In the end, he will definitely turn the tide."

"Even if Chen Shengke intercepts the wolf slaughter, what will happen to the hundreds of millions of grass barbarians?"

"We can only place our hopes on the other nine countries."

"It's a pity that when the royal families of the ten countries were in conflict, there was an agreement that those who were defeated by the barbarians should join the neighboring countries. Otherwise, if Dong Sheng gave an order, the other nine countries would definitely help with all their strength."

Shi Chongzhi said softly: "So it will be very exciting in the court today."

Fang Yun's heart moved, and he vaguely guessed a possibility.

"Brother Shi, what do you think?" asked another Jinshi.

Shi Chongzhi shook his head and stopped talking.

Fang Yun took a closer look at Shi Chongzhi. He was worthy of being valued by the Chen Sheng family. His words seemed unspoken, but in fact he was reminding the Jinshis present to be careful. It was considered as a sign of friendship between Jinshis in the same year. But without saying the specific content, He is tight-lipped and doesn't say a word that he shouldn't say.

A Jinshi immediately laughed and said: "Brother Shi only said half a sentence, it's really inappropriate."

Fang Yun glanced at it and found that there were three Jinshi who did not like Shi Chongzhi's words, while the expressions of the other Jinshi did not change at all.

Fang Yun secretly praised in his heart that although most of those who passed the Jinshi exam were studying hard, and it was true that some were ignorant of the world, most of them had better minds. Even if those unsophisticated people have more contact with the outside world in the future, they will change in a short period of time, unless they really don't like to interact with others.

Recognizing and learning the strengths of others is the best way to progress and grow, while denying them is the opposite.

Fang Yun found that he seemed to have thought too much, and then he realized that these details seemed insignificant, but they proved that he was growing and that he had not wasted his talent.

Fang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. Knowing oneself was more difficult than pursuing the holy way.

Gao Yong coughed lightly and said, "We are still Jinshi. We must take such military and political affairs seriously."

The other Jinshi restrained their dissatisfaction. Even if they didn't know exactly what went wrong, their minds would instinctively stop themselves from talking.

"Are we almost at the palace?" Fang Yun asked.

"It should be soon."

Not long after, the carriage stopped.

Fang Yun got off the carriage and looked forward.

A touch of red wall stood in front.

There was a gate in the east, west, south and north of the palace, but officials could only go through the south gate when they met the emperor. The south gate was the main gate of the palace.

There were two side gates next to the main gate, also called side gates.

The carriage stopped outside the moat of the palace. There were three bridges in front of Fang Yun. The bridge in front led to the left side gate.

The original rule was that civil officials went through the left side gate, and military officials went through the right side gate, but because there were too many civil officials, all countries changed it to civil officials going through the left side gate, and military officers and officials from the Academy of Literature going through the right side gate.

The car stopped in front of the moat gate, and the Jinshi chose it himself.

In front of the two side gates, all the officials stood.

The morning court on the fourth day of December was a grand court meeting, and yesterday the cabinet had ordered officials from all over the country to come to the court to discuss the strategy against the barbarians, so the top officials of Jingguo gathered here.

These people tried their best to restrain their own strength, but there were too many people around them, Jinshi, Hanlin, university scholars and great Confucian scholars, etc., and their talents were agitated, causing the heaven and earth energy in the sky to roll gently, and strong winds kept blowing in all directions.

The wind was whistling, and the dragons and horses were restless.