In the autumn and August of the fifth year of Tianfeng in the new dynasty (18 AD), Guanzhong, the capital of Liewei County, Changping County Government Hall.

It was clear that it was broad daylight, but the yellow candle on the bronze lamp was lit, the flame jumped slightly on the wick, and wisps of green smoke drifted in the room.

At this time, the two officials on the stage actually forgot about today's business, as if they regarded the official school as a debate forum, pointing to the lamp and candle, and saying a word to me, and speaking energetically.

"When Junshan was traveling with me in the same car, there was a metaphor for the candle flame of the god of form, and you said: The spirit dwells in the body, just like a flame burning on a candle. When the candle burns out, the fire cannot walk alone in the void. ”

"But also, the ashes of the wax torch, the old age of the Jews, the teeth are white, and the muscles are withered. At this time, the spirit can no longer be nourished by the blood, and when the body dies of qi, the spirit is completely gone. ”

"But I have a doubt, can Junshan answer it?"

"Uncle, please speak."

"When the lamp is dry, you can add oil to it, and when the candle is finished, you can change it again, and as long as the fire does not stop, the flame will not be extinguished. So when a person is about to die, can the spirit also change to a body and continue to live forever? ”

In front of them, ten teenagers were sitting in a precarious position, all dumbfounded. The esoteric philosophy about the spiritual body, life and death soul, how can a primary school disciple who has not been deeply involved in the world understand it?

The fifth Lun understood it all.

He has the fifth surname, his single name is Lun, the word Boyu, he is only 17 years old, and he is different from others in terms of dress.

The other students were wearing wide robes, and their backs were drenched with sweat and they still refused to take off their crowns. The fifth Lun only tied a scarf and wore a black safari pattern deep coat, so it was not cool. At this moment, a pair of swarthy eyes were staring at the two people on the stage, not wanting to miss a word.

"Isn't it me who changes the spirit to a body? Could it be that my identity as a traverser has been revealed!? ”

It was difficult for him to say how the crossing happened, but he remembered that when the bus rolled down the mountain, he was listening to Wu Bai's "Last Dance" with his eyes closed.

The pain slowly faded away, and the melody of the music in his ears gradually faded, and when he woke up from the sickbed, he found that he had become a teenager named Wu Lun, and the era was ......

New Dynasty!

The reigning emperor was named ...... Wang Mang!

As a science student, he has limited knowledge of history, and he knows two people about this unpopular dynasty: one is Wang Mang, a "suspected traverser". There is also Liu Xiu, who is known as the "Son of the Plane" and the "Great Magister", and he doesn't know anything else.

Fortunately, he has some physical memories in his mind, and he can understand ancient Chinese, and the information about this era is collected and digested by him little by little.

After the fifth Lun recovered from his illness, he took a photo in the bronze jian, and found that in addition to a short point, he actually had fine skin and tender meat, and when he grinned, he could see a mouthful of white teeth, which was a symbol of worry-free food and clothing.

He is very lucky, the fifth clan is not the heroic and powerful of the arbitrary township, but he is also the landlord of the county, and he can be regarded as the lowest "Li Hao".

Compared with the Yong Li, who hurriedly rushed to serve with the inspection pass, and compared to the descendants of the criminal officials who were exiled to the border guards, the starting point of the fifth Lun is not known to be high, and the family can even provide him with education.

At present, the house where the fifth Lun is located is the Liewei County Official School, which is located under the southern city wall of Changping County, and there are three or five blue-tiled houses in the low wall, with wheat stalks sandwiched between the adobe walls and painted with clam ash on the outside. The school is not large, including the fifth lun, and the ten adult children only kneel on the pook mat.

They are all excellent people who have passed the primary school examination and have been recommended by the county doctor and the three elders. Just wait for the doctor from the court to inspect and ask some questions casually to complete the process, and in October, you can go to Jingshi Taixue for further study, and plunge headlong into the big pit called the Five Classics.

I thought it was a formality, but the two doctors who came today were not very careful. Especially the palm music doctor Huan Tan, who is in his forties and a little bit of hair on his head, left a sentence as soon as he entered the door.

"I talked about it with Dr. Liu on the road, and arrived at the official school before we finished talking, and its interest is not over, anyway, the hour is still early, it is better to let us finish talking first, the county magistrate, the three elders and the living beings please do your own!"

Then he left a room full of people and talked about what he had just said.

"It is worthy of Huanjun Mountain, who dares to say in front of the Son of Heaven that there are no gods in this world, is really crazy, and is not limited by etiquette and law."

Fifth Lun heard someone next to him muttering in a low voice, mentioning the deeds of this unusual doctor, I heard that he had been an official in the former Han Dynasty, erudite and knowledgeable, and studied the Five Classics all over, but he only lectured on righteousness, not chapters and sentences. He is dressed simply, without dignity, with a small crown of coarse linen clothes on his body, shaking a toilet fan, and if it is not for the copper seal ink ribbon tied around his waist, he can't see that he is an official.

On the other hand, the doctor who talked to him, named Liu Gong, the word uncle, I heard that he was the nephew of the new dynasty national master, who wore the clothes of Fengjie and the crown of Zhangfu, and looked serious. But what kind of words like "can you change your body when you die" comes from his mouth.

But I heard Huan Tan respond: "The master said that the candle is exhausted, and you can change it again, so who will change the candle?" ”

Liu Gong said: "Naturally, it is human. ”

"Yes!"

Huan Tan clapped his palm: "If no one takes the initiative to change it, the candle will still burn out, in this case, after people are exhausted and old, who will change our body, and how to change it?" ”

Liu Gong was dumbfounded at this time, and only said after a long time: "Perhaps, you can only rely on the gods ......"

"Where are the gods?" Huan Tan spread his hands and said: "Life has growth, growth has old age, old age has death, this is like the metabolism of the four seasons, and the master wants to change his nature and seek a different way, it is too confused." ”

Huan Tan turned his head to look at everyone, and Wu Lun didn't look away, but looked back at Huan Jun Mountain and listened carefully to every word he said.

"A candle, if a person is good at supporting and turning it often, can burn for a while longer, so as not to die halfway. People are the same, instead of thinking about whether they can change their bodies after death, it is better to seek more ways to nourish their sexuality in order to die properly. ”

Huan Tan's words broke the fifth Lun's superstitious and anti-intellectual impression of scholars and doctors in this era, but unfortunately he knew too little about the new dynasty, and he didn't know if Huan Tan would leave his name in the annals of history.

In the past, Wu Lun, as a staunch materialist, must have been in favor of Huan Tan's words with both hands, but now he is not so sure.

"What is the reason for my crossing? Let's hope it's science. “

Fifth Lun shook his head, not thinking about the problems he couldn't figure out in his life, what he could do now was to cherish the new life as Huan Tan said. Of course, those troubles that may affect his future survival must also be carefully avoided.

Like, today's events!

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Since the private matter is over, it is necessary to do office affairs, Huan Tan is anti-talented and eloquent, and he becomes uninterested, and even yawns, and has to rely on Liu Gong to preside, but he saw that he was humane to everyone:

"It's not easy to study, when the first month of farming has not started, the summer retreats in August, and the inkstone freezes in November, young children and adults have to enter primary school. Xi "The Book of Filial Piety" and "Analects", there are hundreds of people in a county, and after the assessment of the county doctor and the three elders, only ten people present can be selected for Taixue! ”

Everyone straightened their waists, but the fifth Lun was not, the assessment was in the autumn, which was before he crossed over, and there was nothing to be proud of.

Moreover, although the original owner of this body was also familiar with the Confucian scriptures, the education and advancement of this era not only depends on the grades, but also involves the family, wealth, and fame behind each person.

If you don't believe it, look around, but there is a child from a poor family? Those who can get to this point are either the sons of the officials who have connections in the government, or the family heirloom Confucian scriptures can be added by the elders, or the local tyrants in the countryside like the Fifth Clan. His grandfather had given the county a lot of benefits, and after squeezing out a brother of the same clan by adding money, he was able to get the fifth Lun a place.

Liu Gong continued: "Dong Zi has a saying, too scholar, the place of the wise man, and the origin of education. However, when Emperor Wu of the previous dynasty, there were only 50 disciples of Dr. Taixue, which increased to 100 in Zhaoxuan, and 1,000 in Yuancheng, which was still not enough to support the corporal of the world. “

He arched his hand in the direction of Jingshi: "Until now, it is true to ascend to the extreme, and he attaches great importance to education, so he started ten thousand houses in the south of the city, and the number of Taixue disciples has increased to 10,000!" ”

Wang Mang himself was born in Confucianism, and after becoming the emperor, he also attached great importance to education, which can be said to be quite large.

Liu Gong said: "Xing Taixue, put the Master, and ask questions to make the best of his talents, then he should be handsome." After entering the Taixue, all sentient beings should also remember His Majesty's teachings and practice the Five Classics. Taixue Middle School has an exam once a year, 40 people in the first section of the shooting strategy class are Langzhong, 20 people in the second department are the prince's housekeepers, and 40 people in the C department make up for the literature. ”

"The great Confucian Xiahou Sheng of the previous dynasty once said that scholars are sick in the unknown scriptures, and if they can be proficient in the scriptures, obtaining the blue and purple seal ribbon is as simple as leaning over and picking up the grass mustard on the ground, and all beings are reluctant to do it."

The disciples present and the families behind them showed their abilities to compete for the places, so that the children could have a good progress, which was related to the future of the clan.

Next, the two doctors randomly picked people up to ask questions and answers, all of which went through the motions, and only those who were too bad would be brushed off in this round. Liu Gong knew that if Huan Tan came to ask, he would definitely ask some difficult people with out-of-the-ordinary knowledge, so he simply took over the job and made it easy for Huan Tan.

But even the simplest questions can't be answered by Fifth Lun.

After crossing over, he not only suffered from narcolepsy, sleeping for five or six hours a day, but also had a very broken memory, at most he could recognize his relatives. As for the scriptures of filial piety, the Analects, and even the more complex chapters and sentences that they have learned, they have long been completely forgotten.

It is undoubtedly embarrassing to be named by the teacher but not a word pops up, and there is only one way......

As long as I give up fast enough, embarrassment won't catch up with me!

When it was the turn of the fifth Lun, he didn't wait for Liu Gong to ask, so he first made a long gesture to the two of them.

"After learning the fifth boy, I will meet the two doctors, I have one thing, and I hope the doctor will allow it."

Huan Tan raised his eyelids, and Liu Gong also looked at Wu Lun, but he heard this good-looking young man say solemnly: "I am willing to give up my Taixue quota!" ”

I'm not going to go to this school!

……

"Huh?"

The rest of the people in the official school were stunned, and they all looked back at the fifth Lun, and Huan Tan pointed at the fifth Lun with a fan and said: "Son, are you afraid that you won't be able to answer Dr. Liu's question, so you retreat?" ”

What are you telling the truth? Fifth Lun was a little panicked, but he only smiled faintly on his face, others only regarded him as a young man, and he didn't care about Huan Tan's "jokes".

Naturally, someone played a round for the fifth Lun, and Changping County, who had an old relationship with the fifth clan, came forward and said: "Dare to tell Dr. Zhangle, this son is sensitive and studious, literate and literate, and has won the first class in the Analects of filial piety, which is quite praised by the township." ”

Huan Tan looked at Wu Lun's outfit: "Everyone else is dressed in high-crowned Confucian clothes, but you, the widow, are wearing strong casual clothes, is it to save fabric for the weavers?" It can't be that the family is poor and can't go to Beijing, right? ”

This is naturally a joke, for several years of full-time study, and to go to the expensive Beijing Division, ordinary people can't afford it at all, but if you can sit here, how can there be a Chinese home?

Fifth Lun was neither humble nor arrogant, and responded: "Doctor Zhangle is not also coarse and linen, but thinks that my clothes are not right, is this only the doctor allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps?" ”

These words successfully made Huan Tan laugh, summed it up well, isn't this the way of the world?

"Junshan!"

Liu Gong stopped Huan Tan's lack of shape, frowned and asked Wu Lun: "Son, it is not easy to enter Taixue, no matter how many people ask for it, why don't you want to go?" ”

Wu Lun waited for this sentence, and arched his hand: "It's not that I don't want to hear it, but every year, more than 1,000 people are enrolled in Taixue, ranging from a few to dozens of people in each county, and there are no more or no less in Liewei County, exactly ten people, and each county is allocated a quota." ”

"I got the first class in the official school of Changping County, and the second place was the eighth correction of the same brother. I have a friendship with him, and I have always been kind. ”

Huan Tan and Liu Gong are both erudite people, and it is not surprising why the eighth and fifth surnames are relatives, just because they were originally a family, and they both had the surname Tian two hundred years ago, but they were after Tian Guang, the king of Qi during the Chu and Han dynasties.

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, in order to strengthen the weak branches, Liu Bang moved Zhutian from Qi to Lingyi to live. According to the order of migration, 8 surnames were born from the first to the eighth, but the ancestors were still worshiped together, and they did not intermarry with each other.

However, in addition to this, Fifth Lun is all lying, and he and Eighth Jiao are just general friends, not friends at all.

"Brother Zong, I am older, diligent and studious, never absent from cold and summer, and has always been excellent in learning, but I was out of order due to illness during the school examination, and I was in second place, which is a pity."

Fifth Lun's face was full of shame: "As a friend, it is unrighteous to take the first place when he is sick; As a clan brother, he squeezed out the place of his brother, which is unashamed. How can an unrighteous person enter the Tai to study the books of the sages? In addition, I only know the surface of the Book of Filial Piety and the Analects, and I am willing to study for another year to improve my knowledge, and give up the quota for this year to the sect brother! ”

This kind of thing has really never happened, Liu Gong turned his head to look at Huan Tan, wanting to discuss, but Huan Tan was very casual, and waved his fan: "If you don't go, you won't go, since he is not here, why force it?" ”

Maybe it was when Huan Tan shook the fan and yawned on it, and he also saw that the house was solemn, but the fifth Lun didn't think much when he heard Liu Gong talk about Taixue Shijin. Huan Tan likes not to ruin benevolence and morality the most, but in fact, he is a vulgar Confucian who is dedicated to Shilu, and because of this, he has been rejected many times in the court, and he is still a doctor after mixing for so long, and the character of the fifth Lun is quite appetizing to him.

Fifth Lun really didn't take reading as an official, no way, this Five Classics and Six Classics is too boring. He inquired, unless it is a gift, the time cost of learning the Five Classics is amazing, since the former Han Dynasty, there are fifteen or sixteen years old to study the Five Classics, but the result is that the hair is all white, and still can only pass one classic.

Hao's head is poor, is it a lie?

Moreover, Taixue has expanded its recruitment, but the number of jobs has not expanded. Thousands of students are enrolled every year, but only 100 people can shoot as officials, one out of ten, and the competition is getting bigger and bigger. It seems that no matter what era it is, the exam is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops.

Wu Lun didn't want to waste his time by diving headlong into the pile of bamboo slips, and instead of studying those old articles, he should continue to advance his plan at home - how to protect himself in the coming troubled times.

When I walked out of the official school, the heat outside had subsided, and the cool autumn wind blew people very comfortably.

Today's matter, the county magistrate who was in charge of selecting the quota was a little embarrassed, and the other nine disciples whispered about the "solitary walk" of the fifth lun, and the officials outside the house looked at him and laughed, thinking that this kid was too stupid.

Fifth Lun has his own plans: "Not to mention that if you enter Taixue, you may not be able to advance, even if you study hard for a few years, what if you mix in Lang Zhong and literature who have no real power?" Can you have a soldier in your hands? ”

"If I'm not mistaken, Xinmang is a short-lived dynasty, looking at the situation, I'm afraid it is not far from overthrowing, and now I am in a hurry to be the official ...... of the new dynasty."

"Isn't that the 49th year of joining the fruit army!"

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