The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 917 Food prices soar

As time passed, Shen Ming's voice became dryer and drier, and the faces of the officials from the Left Prime Minister's Party became more and more ugly.

Fang Yun did not make any mistakes.

The following questions can be answered by everyone present, but it is difficult to write them in a short time, so you can judge right from wrong even without using the answers from the Holy Court.

When Shen Ming finished reciting the last question, there was silence.

Ao Huang chuckled and said: "A bunch of rotten fish and shrimps, think that if more than ten people can defeat one person, they can beat Fang Yun on a certain question? It's simply a fool's dream! Half an hour, it's perfect, what else do you have? What can I say?”

Yu Bachi sneered and said: "Thank you Master Shen for helping Fang Xusheng become famous and solidifying Fang Quanjia's literary reputation!"

"He is Fang Quanjia. It would be strange if he couldn't do it." Shen Ming said firmly.

Shen Ming said this on the surface, but he kept cursing in his heart. If Fang Yun answered a question wrong today, everyone would be able to continue to build momentum. When something big happens on March 17, the effect would be doubled!

Ao Huang looked at Shen Ming with disdain and said, "Master Shen, do you want to compete again? After the competition, it's time to compare poems."

Shen Ming said: "County Magistrate Fang is the ancestor of poetry, so his poetry is not comparable."

"You know the truth! Bah!" Ao Huang spat at Shen Ming.

Everyone was stunned, this Ao Huang was too bold. If a human scholar did this at the county examination site, he would definitely be punished by the Hall of Ceremony.

Shen Ming hurriedly avoided, glared at Ao Huang and said, "What are you doing?"

"Oh, I accidentally sneezed." Ao Huang turned his head and looked at the sky.

Shen Ming said angrily: "Prince Huang, after the county examination, I will definitely take your exam!"

"Whatever! Fang Yun wants face, but Ben Long doesn't." As he said that, Ao Huang hummed a tune and swung his little tail happily.

All the officials felt a headache. If Fang Yun did such a thing, they would have countless ways to damage Fang Yun's literary name. But facing Ao Huang, they were powerless to use it. The real dragon didn't need a literary name, even if Li was sued. The palace couldn't do anything to him. The most they could do was issue a document and reprimand him, but nothing would happen.

Shen Ming turned to look at Fang Yun and said loudly: "County Magistrate Fang, he did such a disrespectful thing. You are the one who is not strict with your subordinates. You cannot absolve yourself of the blame!"

Fang Yun glanced at Shen Ming indifferently and said: "Master Shen seems to have forgotten that I am just a small county magistrate now. I can't even use the power of a town official. How can I manage a prince? As a county magistrate He didn't know how to communicate with Ao Huang calmly, but he yelled when he was slightly insulted, so politely that he even read the book into the dog's belly! "

"you……"

Tao Dingnian said hurriedly: "Master Shen, please calm down. It's the county examination now. We'll talk about other things later."

Shen Ming then shut up in anger. As a relative of the left prime minister, he was used to being domineering in Ning'an County. Since Fang Yun arrived, he wanted to attack Fang Yun by executing Ji Zhibai's plan. If it succeeded, then he would You can take credit, take another step forward as a scholar, and be awarded a low-level title.

Unfortunately, he failed every time, and even harmed Ji Zhibai once, making Ji Zhibai rise from the laughing stock of the whole country to the laughing stock of the entire human race.

Fang Yun stood up and said, "I'm going to inspect the examination room."

After speaking, Fang Yun left with Ao Huang and several officials from the Academy of Arts.

Time passed slowly, and at noon, Fang Yun and the officials had a simple lunch and then continued to invigilate the exam.

In the morning, most candidates were answering the Holy Words, while in the afternoon they were answering poems and songs.

At first, the ancient well in the liberal arts college was quiet, but from four o'clock in the afternoon, the atmosphere of talent continued to appear.

Before the display ended, five talents appeared, and the fluctuations of each talent were at the county level.

Fang Yun secretly sighed in his heart, Ning'an County is indeed a big county, a very ordinary Tongsheng test had five poems out of the county. On the other hand, in Ji County, my hometown, I may not be able to leave the county once every two or three years in the county examination.

When the time comes, the bell rings, and a strange force is released from outside the temple, preventing the candidates from answering their papers.

"Wow……"

There were bursts of crying from all over the examination room. Fang Yun shook his head gently. Many candidates were not even ten years old. It was not easy to persevere to finish the exam. If you feel that you did not answer well at the end, it is normal to cry.

Tens of thousands of candidates got up from the examination room, appeared from all directions, and rushed to the main entrance.

Most of the people who passed the examination had ugly faces, a few had tears on their faces, and only a few had calm faces or even smiles.

After the candidates left, the guards began to collect the papers.

After dinner, everyone, led by Fang Yun, headed to the marking room.

Walking to the door, Fang Yun took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

The marking room is very spacious, inlaid with luminous pearls, with multiple tables arranged neatly, and thick test papers stacked on them.

Smelling the rich fragrance of ink, Fang Yun led people to the statue of Saint Confucius in the marking room, paused for a moment, and bent down to bow to the statue of Saint Confucius.

"Respectfully invite the Holy Judge!" Fang Yun said.

"I respectfully invite the Holy Judge!" Everyone else also bowed.

Invisible power passed by, and orange talents of different levels appeared on all the test papers.

Fang Yun glanced quickly and found that there were as many as five papers with talents up to one foot, and the highest one was one foot three inches. There are many test papers with talents ranging from five inches to one foot, more than a thousand.

Fang Yun nodded, this is the weather of a large county, far from what Ji County can match.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew out of thin air, and a large number of test papers were blown away. Only a few test papers remained motionless in the wind.

Soon, a thousand test papers were left on the desk.

Fang Yun and these examiners will rank a thousand test papers and admit the top 230 people.

Select people based on their talents and sort them based on their writing.

The 1,000 test papers were determined by the talent of the poems, but the ranking was determined by the rank of the candidates.

If a person's poems were acceptable, but his candidate's rank was D, he would be ranked outside the top 230 and would not be eligible for the Tongsheng.

Since it was his first time as an examiner, Fang Yun was particularly careful, repeatedly reviewed the papers, and stayed up all night.

On the morning of March 16, the county exam results were announced, and the whole county was jubilant.

At night, Fang Yun hosted a banquet for the top 20 Tongshengs and local scholars. Not only did everyone not dare to act rashly, but they were cautious, so the Tongsheng banquet was safely passed.

At the banquet, the Tongshengs asked many questions, and Fang Yun answered them one by one.

On the morning of March 17, Fang Yun got up as usual.

However, Ao Huang was very excited and kept nagging Fang Yun since he got up.

Because Fang Yun was going to give a lecture at the County Academy of Literature today to guide the scholars in Ning'an County.

Fang Yun washed up, ate, and rested as usual.

Just as Fang Yun was about to leave the county government office and head to the county academy, he received an urgent letter from Fang Yingwu.

"Something bad is happening! All grain shops in Ning'an County suddenly raised their prices today, two and a half times the normal price!"

Fang Yun was stunned. Just yesterday, the grain price was only 1.7 times the normal price, which was a very reasonable range. He didn't expect it to suddenly rise so high this morning.

Fang Yun looked towards the direction of the capital.

"So that's it. You have been preparing for this day for a long time! However, I don't believe there are no loopholes!"

Fang Yun thought to himself and shouted: "Come on, prepare the car, this county must go to the grain depot as quickly as possible!"