Chapter Seventy-Four: Death in the Sea of Flowers (1)

There is a city, unique, standing three hundred miles south of the river. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There is a academy, noble and holy, which is the totem holy place of the world's scholars.

This city is called the Holy City, and this academy is the Academy of Saints.

The Holy City was established less than ten years, the style imitated the Great Wei Qufu, the Confucian Temple was located in the middle, scattered in turn, and gradually became a city, the Confucian family who moved south was located here, took root and sprouted, just a few decades of time, has flourished, become a view, leading the world to read.

In addition to the Confucian forest, the Confucian Temple in the Holy City is generally the same as the Confucian Temple in Qufu, the walls and clouds are towering, the eaves are winged, the heavy door is opened, and the cloister is restored.

The imperial examinations and ancestor worship in Southern Liang were all conducted in the holy city, but not in the capital, which is enough to see the transcendent status of the Sage Academy.

The folk customs of Southern Liang are weak, and Emperor Chen Jingyan has sought immortality in recent years, intoxicated with the Mo family's mechanical skills, and ignores the government and politics.

On the contrary, it was the Sage Academy that supported the Southern Liang Dynasty and continued to send talents to the Southern Liang court, and now the three cabinet auxiliary ministers of the Southern Liang Cabinet, two of which are from the Sage Academy, regard Kong Mo, the president of the Sage Academy, as the father and teacher of Mr.

The Southern Liang court wanted to invite Kong Mo to come out of the mountain, re-establish the post of prime minister who had been deposed for many years, canonize Kong Mo as the Holy Duke of Yan, and the official worship of the Zhengyi University Scholar, the leader of the court, and among the four auxiliary ministers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Wu Changhe, and Zhuge of the Western Chu State Teacher, were extremely popular ministers, and became a veritable "pillar of great power" supporting the Southern Dynasty.

However, Kong Mo politely refused, accepted the title of Yan Shenggong, established a holy city three hundred miles south of the Great River, faced the Southern Army of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and contained the first person in the world, the former Tai Domain.

The year before last, the river was frozen, and Han Xianba, the former deputy general of the Zhennan Army, pierced the hinterland of Nanliang for 300 miles, and faintly saw the Sage Academy.

With Han Xianba's combat power, it would not be effortless to enter the South Liang for 900 miles, but before the Sage Academy, he was stopped by the sword qi and had no choice but to retreat to the north of the river.

On the basis of Confucianism's "self-cultivation, family harmony, and peace in the world", Confucius established rules and set a square circle for scholars all over the world, and once said: "Scholars are in the world, establish hearts for heaven and earth, establish lives for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations." ”

Kong Mo's knowledge and character are models in the world, and he moved his clothes to Nandu, prevented the leakage of Nanliang's dragon energy, and attracted people from all over the world to enter Nanliang.

Despite this, no one has ever worried that Kong Shenggong's high merits will be disliked by Emperor Nanliang and secretly eliminated.

Because Kong Shenggong is a true and honest gentleman, a gentleman is like jade, and he is upright.

Attached to the Sage Academy, the Holy City continues to expand, extremely prosperous, the streets are straight, the shops on both sides of the surrounding are lined up, everyone is kind, well-dressed, and courteous to each other, even the restaurant can say one or two elegant words, proofread a few allusions and poems, and other children are still reciting the "Three Character Classic" and "Commandment Training" and other children's introductory books, and the children in the Holy City already know the "Teacher Table" and "Song of the Great Wind" Walking on the street, you can often hear bursts of reading, like the sound of flowing water hitting water stones, and the wind chimes sing lightly in the wind, which is a new sign of vitality.

Due to the expansion of the Holy City, there is an extremely interesting phenomenon, the land is unusually expensive, and it continues to climb to this day, becoming a veritable "every inch of land" land, which is not common in the vast Nanliang. According to the name of the Southern Liang Dynasty, Jingsheng three years, the Holy City issued a scale, the land price began to rise, five years, tripled, seven years, the merchants of the rich family of the Southern Liang have been difficult to buy a house in the Holy City, nine years, if there is a small shop in the Holy City, it is already a great thing. The closer it is to the Sage Academy, the higher the land price is, and it is scattered, and to this day, even high-ranking officials at the level of Shangshu in the Southern Liang Dynasty are difficult to gain a foothold in the Holy City.

The Southern Liang court has always been lenient and did not punish officials for corruption and bribery, and the only time an official was dismissed and investigated was because he accepted a small mansion purchased by a local family in the holy city, and was later beheaded. Chen Luoyan, the unborn number one beauty in the world in Nanliang, once profoundly exposed the essence of the land price in the holy city, defining it as a bubble-like "mirage", which will one day be pierced and make many people bankrupt.

Everyone knows this truth, but the price of land in the holy city is still rising instead of falling, and it is rising steadily.

Ordinary day, ordinary time, this is an ordinary day.

A middle-aged man in white hair and green clothes led a horse into the holy city, looking at everything around him with a smile, he had never tied his hair or worn jade, which did not conform to the rules, but he could not eliminate the elegant temperament of this person.

After walking for a while, a juju suddenly flew behind him, coming towards the middle-aged man's back.

"Be careful, be careful!" the reminder of a group of young children sounded.

The middle-aged man turned around leisurely, jumped lightly with his chest straight, stopped in front of his chest, landed on the instep of his feet, gently picked up, and exerted his strength sideways, and in the exclamation of the child, Keju threw a high and far arc, and flew out extremely far.

The children babbled and ran past the middle-aged man, exhaled a breath of heat from their mouths, and chased after him.

Now in late autumn, it is getting cold, the white frost covers the top, and the dew stains the clothes.

The middle-aged man touched the child's head, and said to himself with some regret: "This is a unique skill, my student has never seen it, and he has lost a chance to show off." ”

Seeing the small wine stall next to him, the middle-aged man hesitated slightly, and finally sat down with his mouth smashed.

Before he could speak, the owner of the shop had already stepped forward: "Guest officer, our small shop has Pu Tao Wine, Qianli Wine, Sangluo Wine, Mash Wine, Hedong Wine, Chrysanthemum Wine, Fujian Longyan Shenwan Wine, Shanxi Zhuyeqing, Jiangsu Xifeng Wine, Quanxing Daqu Wine, Zhouzhuang Tuoqu Wine, Shaoxing Zhuangyuan Red ...... and home-brewed spicy girls...... I don't know what the guest likes to drink?"

"There's enough. The middle-aged man smiled, "Have a bowl of home-brewed spicy lady." ”

"Come on. The shopkeeper walked to the wine vat with a smile, lifted the cork, and a strong smell of wine overflowed the stall, "The guest officer has a good eye, the spicy lady in the shop is notoriously spicy, and the old drunkard is only three bowls. ”

The same is true for some people, who come into contact with it, understand it, and then know that it is good.

A bowl of wine was placed in front of the middle-aged man, and the smell of wine was pungent before he could enter his mouth.

The middle-aged man picked up the wine in the bowl, sniffed it with his nose first, then put it to his mouth, and gently snorted, the spicy lady lingered between her mouth and tongue for three weeks, and her throat thumped and fell into her stomach: "It's really good wine!"

"At first glance, the guest officer is a veteran, not one of those reckless men, who just wants to be happy for a while, and he gulps violently, but he hurts his spleen and lungs, and he has not tasted the essence of this wine at all. The shopkeeper said, not deliberately flattering, but genuinely admiring.

The shopkeeper is also a talker, his eyes fall on the seat next to the middle-aged man, not all guest officers like to have people chatting.

The middle-aged man smiled and motioned to the shopkeeper to be casual.

The shopkeeper filled half a bowl of sake and a small plate of peanuts: "Is the guest here to ask relatives, or to study?"

People who come to the Holy City, either to study, or to ask relatives, is not unusual, although the middle-aged people are full of gray hair, but many seventy rickety old men have a great wish in their lives, but they can seek knowledge from the Holy Lord Yan in the Holy City, and the year before last, there was a talented old man, who came to the Holy City thousands of miles away, and bowed down sincerely. Yan Shenggong Kong went out of the academy to meet him, and the old man also made a hand of "Seeing the Holy Father on Crutches", which was sincere and tear-jerking.

"It's a kiss!" replied the middle-aged man, another sip of wine.

"The guest officer has relatives in the Holy City, that is honorable. "The middle-aged man has a good temperament, and he has relatives who have bought a family business in the holy city, so he must be honorable:" Dare to ask the guest official's surname?"

"The surname is Kong Weiting. Kong Weiting replied.

"The guest officer's holy surname, it's really incredible. The person looking for relatives is a relative of the side branch of the Sage Academy?!" the shopkeeper asked.

In Southern Liang, the surname Chen is the imperial surname, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the surname Li is the imperial surname, in Western Chu, the surname Liu is the imperial surname, representing the dignity of the various imperial courts, in the world Kyushu, the surname Kong is the surname of the saint, in the hall of knowledge of the Sage Academy, the genealogy of the surname Confucius in the world is displayed, including the last branch of the side lineage, the surname Kong is more popular than the imperial surnames such as Chen, Li and Liu, even the Xiongnu in the wild land, also know the dignity of the surname Kong.

Kong Weiting smiled and did not answer.

Asking about other people's family history so abruptly, the shopkeeper felt rude and didn't continue to ask, but after looking at Kong Weiting a few more times, he had more doubts in his heart, like, this gentleman's appearance is really similar to that one!

Kong Weiting took a sip of the wine in the bowl.

"Boss, what do you think of this Sage Academy?" he asked.

The shopkeeper was stunned: "The guest officer's question is a bit big, the little talent is shallow, the knowledge is rough, and he can't answer, but he also has a few words in his heart, and he doesn't vomit or feel unhappy." Speaking of the Sage Academy, that is the holy place of the world's scholars, whether it is the Northern Wei Dynasty, Western Chu, or my Daliang, we must respect it, the Sage Academy for the world to establish rules, abandon the ancient bad habits, treat the world equally, so that the children of the common people can also enter the academy to study, it can be described as a great merit, it is a good thing to carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, the ancient sage Confucius once said, 'teach according to aptitude', but never said' Everyone can study', which is worse than Yan Shenggong, and now the Sage Academy is wide open, no matter whether rich or poor, as long as you are sincere, you can enter the academy to study and devote yourself to learning. ”

"For my Daliang, the Sage Academy is located only three hundred miles south of the Great River, which can be said to be the forefront, to protect the people of my Daliang from the Northern Wei Dynasty, let alone from the trampling of the Huns. The villain doesn't understand the meaning of 'holy power and divine acceptance', but for Yan Shenggong himself, although the villain lives in this holy city, he has only seen a few eyes, although only a few eyes, Yan Shenggong should be a saint, is a gentleman and real person who has opened the world through the ages. ”

"A saint and a gentleman?" Kong Weiting turned his head and glanced at the Sage Academy not far away, it was above board, the birds were flying, the sound of books was curling, and the atmosphere was thousands.

At this time, the bowl in front of him, the wine in the bowl, was empty.