Chapter 25: I Came First

Although everyone has been inspected and can enter the court, there is no first martial arts and no second, and the three of them have to be divided into champions and sub-seasons, and there are four places, so there is even more difference between high and low.

The new dynasty, like the Han Dynasty, ruled the world with filial piety and virtue, and was undoubtedly the first of the four branches, which was equivalent to filial piety in the past.

In Xiao Yan's opinion, Zhang Zhan did this, just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty hired people, and the latecomers came first!

Whether it's the internal decision or the number, it's obvious that he came first! After the Xiao family and the Yangling County Marquis, the Zhang family made an appointment, and the two families took turns to recommend their children, Xiao Yan waited for an extra year for this, and this time it should have been smooth and smooth, but it was squeezed out of the first place for no reason.

Of course he wasn't convinced! Ning was the head of the chicken and was unwilling to be the cow, Xiao Yan was deeply ashamed.

Regardless of family background, valve reading, and scripture...... By the way, there is also Wencai, which point is not better than the fifth Lun? As for what filial piety and virtue, in Xiao Yan's eyes, it is always purposeful fraud and fame.

Isn't it just a pear and a resignation? Who wouldn't! I'm quitting now!

So Xiao Yan was impulsive, and he got up directly to ask for his resignation, this inspection, don't go!

Unexpectedly, as soon as he spoke, Zhang Zhan's face, which had always been serious, became even more solemn, and he actually slapped the case and reprimanded sharply: "Xiao Yishi, the four subjects of the edict of the Son of Heaven, what a solemn event this is, if you don't want to go, don't you go?" ”

The four people present were shocked, although Zhang Zhan had a solemn appearance, he was actually soft in politics, even if he was in the Jingshui disaster, he rarely blushed with Hao You, but today he reprimanded Xiao Yan for the first time.

However, Zhang Zhan quickly regained his composure, reasoned with Xiao Yan, and said bitterly: "Can you know the famous people of this county, Xuan Bing?" ”

Fifth Lun didn't know this person, but Wang Long was very familiar with him, his father was a cousin of Qiong Chenghou, and the family was no longer in Changping Pavilion, but moved to Yunyang County in the north of the county to live, and Xuan Bing was a native of Yunyang.

"Xuan Bing's character is a giant duke, less cultivation of high festivals, and three famous auxiliaries."

This person's original fame was probably greater than the current Fifth Lun. As early as the former dynasty mourning and Pingji, Xuan Bing saw that the Wang family was dictatorship, invaded the clan, and had a tendency to rebel, so he resigned from his position.

After Wang Mang built a new Han dynasty, he heard about Xuanbing's fame, and ordered the envoy to levy him for filial piety, and Xuanbing was sick again. This is an obvious attitude of non-cooperation, Wang Mang sent someone to summon again, but it turned out that Xuan Bing had already run away, took his wife and children, and hid in the deep mountains of Yunyang.

After listening to Wang Long's introduction, Wulun realized that in this era, there are really many scholars who have Han families in their hearts and refuse to be new.

I just don't know if there are any people who have jumped into the water and died for their country.

"There is also Li Ye, a native of Dudu County (Guanghan County)."

Zhang Zhan began to give examples of the seriousness of refusing to investigate: "Li Ye cited the Ming Jing in the beginning of the previous dynasty, except for Weilang, and later resigned and returned to his hometown. ”

Du Lian led him to summon him, but Li Ye was unwilling, so he was imprisoned and almost killed. It was still His Majesty's benevolence, who pardoned Li Ye, and promoted him as virtuous and square, and went to Chang'an to be a Yuanshi. But Li Ye still refused to be an official because of his illness, and even took his family to hide in the valley and disappeared. ”

The next words, Zhang Zhan stared at Wu Lun, who had not had time to express his position.

"Ping Suru and the others let a place for Taixue, refuse a village official, fight food, and the official can still tolerate it. However, the four branches of the inspection were issued by the Son of Heaven himself, and the four assistants and three princes determined the list, and the list was reported, and if you still refused to resign, it would inevitably alarm the imperial court. The ministers will think, could it be that they want to emulate Xuan Bing and Li Ye, cherish the previous dynasty, and do not want to be new? ”

This is serious, Xiao Yan, who is fighting for a while, is stunned, as a descendant of Xiao He, his identity is already sensitive, and he is most afraid of being labeled as a "missing Han family". is usually cautious, but this time he is in a hurry to take the charge!

The fifth Lun secretly stuck out his tongue, fortunately, someone surnamed Xiao stepped forward to go to thunder, otherwise he would have been reprimanded by Zhang Zhan.

It seems that he wants to make up three concessions and three resignations, so he can only talk about it later.

In a word, this is different from the past, and it is politically responsible to make concessions in such matters. If you dare to refuse, you may be blacklisted by the imperial court, and if you meet a county magistrate who wants to mess with you, you may even be imprisoned, affecting the clan, otherwise Xuan Bing and Li Ye would not have hurriedly run away and live in seclusion in the mountains.

Thinking of the family behind him, Xiao Yan was still cowardly, and confessed to Zhang Zhan sneeringly, pinching his nose and answering the quota for the inspection of this "common language", under the fifth Lun, and obediently being his queen of the cow.

But the disgust for Fifth Lun in his heart deepened a little, and Xiao Yan only said secretly: "Zhang Zhan must be thinking that Fifth Lun is young and poor, and he can be grateful to him." ”

After this experience, their relationship with Zhang Zhan is already that of the master and the lifted. Xiao Yan and Wang Long have their own clan lords, and the inspection is a matter of course. But Fifth Lun and Jing Dan were selected only by Zhang Zhan's strong recommendation, and according to the rules of this era, Zhang Zixiao should be regarded as the king.

From then on, they are closely related, and the condemned are guilty of breaking the law, and the perpetrator will be implicated, and vice versa.

After Zhang Zhan finished speaking, he was used to being honest, and he didn't even leave four people for dinner, Jing Dan, Xiao Yan, and Wang Long walked out of the hall, and Wu Lun's pace slowed down, and he looked back at Zhang Zhan.

"What, does Boyu also want to resign?" Zhang Zhan had a straight face, he had already made the seriousness of the matter very clear, if Wu Lun dared to resign again, it would not be to praise his noble virtues, but to reprimand him.

"Lun doesn't dare."

Fifth Lun said: "It's just that I have doubts, I have never seen the county monarch before, and I don't even know how to raise it, so I refused your expulsion." But the county gentleman didn't think it was wrong, and recommended me to the court, and regarded me as the first ...... of the four subjects."

Zhang Zhan shook his head: "The two thousand stone officials Ji Gang are human, and the Zuo Shengtian Son persuades Yuan Yuan, Li Steaming, and Chongxiang Party." Isn't it the duty to recommend the talents of the county? What's so strange? ”

He's just doing what he should do in this distorted and abnormal world, and that's it.

Seeing that the fifth Lun still hadn't given up, Zhang Zhan knew that he wouldn't give up without asking clearly, so he said: "The reason why I recommend you is because you are filial piety and virtue and the youngest generation in the county. ”

"And because of what you did in the fifth mile, you are rejuvenating righteousness and making up for shortcomings, which is deeply in line with the meaning of the saint."

"It's also because of your sentence in Changping Pavilion, 'The rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible', it has reached the heart of the old man!"

Zhang Zhan said with emotion: "The Xuan Bing and Li Ye I mentioned just now, the world has a lot of praise for them, taking not being a high festival and seclusion as a solitary line. Some people even compare the two to the ancient Boyi Shuqi, but in my opinion, although they seek benevolence, they are not enough for scholars to emulate. ”

He also served as an official of the Han Dynasty and ate the Lu of the Liu family. But in the new dynasty, he continued to serve, and he did not choose not to eat Xinsu, of course, he had his own struggles and opinions.

"When Confucius traveled around the world, he once met two hermits in the land of Chu, named Chang Fu and Ji Ji, who were pulling a plough to plough the land."

Confucius asked Zilu to ask for directions, and the two knew that it was Confucius, so they said to Zilu, this world is chaotic like a surging flood, chaos and evil deeds flow everywhere, who do you want to change with them? It's better to follow us and cultivate the world. ”

After Zilu told Confucius what the two said, Confucius sighed: How can people live like birds and beasts? If there is a way in the world, Qiu doesn't have to work so hard to seek change! ”

Zhang Zhan said: "Boyu, I hope you learn from Confucius, don't be frustrated and drowning." Although this world is not satisfactory, it is still far from the rule of three generations. But it is precisely because of this that it is easier for those who have aspirations to do so, rather than to live in seclusion and watch the moral degradation of the world. ”

Fifth Lun understands that Zhang Zhan is also an idealist struggling in the Ji Shi, no wonder he will approve of Wang Mang's government.

He readily agreed, but he knew in his heart that his ideals were different from Wang Mang and Zhang Zhan.

But when it comes to this, there is no way to quit this time, can he still leave the fifth clan and go to seclusion in the mountains by himself, or go directly to join the rebel army?

What's more, Wu Lun has also figured out the logic of this era: in an official-based society, if you want to turn fame into real profit, you must first have an official position.

At his level, if he works hard to climb the science and technology tree and farm for a year, the increase in yield per mu may not be as much as the money and grain he earns as an official.

The iron obtained by petty theft may be far less abundant than the channels opened up after becoming an official.

The students have to be poor and desperately kneel and lick those old fellows in order to take the exam. Thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge, and 40 of the best A people can become "Langzhong" every year.

And the four branches of the scholar and filial piety, as the right way, can directly enter the court as a lang, after a few years of decent, when the outside is 600 stones, 400 stones, holding real power, isn't it beautiful?

What's more, Fifth Lun is really looking forward to Chang'an City, which is about to go, to be precise, he is interested in the two people there.

One is Wang Mang, the emperor of the new dynasty in the Shoucheng room.

and the national teacher "Liu Xiu" who made him suspect that he had misremembered history!

"It's all here, wouldn't it be a pity if you don't go to meet these two people?"

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Fifth Lun and Jing Dan walked out of the county mansion together, and he was about to lead the horse home, but found that there was a large circle of people outside the main gate, both men and women, young and old, all of whom were standing on their feet to watch the excitement.

Seeing the fifth Lun come out, everyone was very excited and shouted: "The fifth Boyu has come out!" ”

This made the fifth Lun unexpected, and the news came out? Isn't it just filial piety, as for being so excited, do you have to be the same as in the TV series, praising horses and parading the streets?

Fifth Lun looked at Jing Dan and wanted to ask, but found that he was also stunned.

Wrong!

When I looked again, I saw a sword ranger sitting on his knees in a place surrounded by a crowd. He had a hat behind his back, revealing his face, in his thirties, with a square mouth and a thin face, a beard, and a scar on his eyebrows, or from a fight.

Could it be that he came to the county government to petition and make trouble? What's his business?

When the man saw that the fifth man was out of the door, he bowed to him, and then began to speak slowly.

"Gentleman, we'll meet again."

Fifth Lun was stunned, he couldn't be wrong, he would never forget the warm words and the thick Maoling dialect, it was the ranger who assassinated him!

"A few days ago, my master was entrusted by the Seventh Leopard to send me to rob and kill the gentleman on the county road."

After saying this, Qingxia paused, and waited for the onlookers' exclamation and scolding of the Seventh Clan to subside a little before continuing: "But after some searching, I was impressed by the name of the gentleman's filial piety, and thought that I should not hurt the virtuous, so I broke my bow and returned. ”

"Good knight!" More and more people from Changling County began to praise this man for his chivalrous manners, and the fifth lun was so virtuous that he could make the assassin put down the knife in his hand.

Jing Dan didn't know about this, and he also looked at Wu Lun in surprise, and only said secretly: "Sure enough, he is virtuous and virtuous, and he can obey others." ”

At the end, the light man said again: "Abandon the king's life, don't believe it, I returned to Maoling to state the story, and the master knew what happened, so I rushed to Changling again, hoping to clear up the misunderstanding." ”

"That's right."

After saying a lot, he seemed to remember that he didn't report his name, and bowed to the fifth Lun again: "I am a light man under the gate of Maoling Yuanjuxian, ten thousand (xiū)!" ”

The name of Maoling Daxia Yuan Shi once again caused the onlookers to exclaim, but Wu Lun didn't have much feeling about what Yuan Shi and Wan Yu did, and only looked at the scene in front of him in amazement.

He relied on inviting fame to raise hope and get filial piety, but today he met an opponent in chess, this original and Wan Xuan were simply caught and brushed directly, and there was no foreplay!

The other party will also mobilize the masses, so there is no need to work hard to publicize it.

Although he knew that this matter was also beneficial to him, a thought still popped up in Wu Lun's heart.

"Why are you so skilled?"

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