There were a total of forty-one people who followed Murong Parrot to Beijing, and most of them came to Beijing for the first time, and like many foreign scholars, they were immediately stopped by this magnificent big city as soon as they entered Beijing.

At this time, it is the beginning of the 'spring' season, the first month has not yet gone away, the streets and alleys are full of purple and red 'color' couplets, some of the big 'doors' are upside down on the word "Fu" has not even dried thoroughly, the corners of every alley are piled up with firecrackers and fireworks 'flowers' of the scraps, in the bustling noise, from time to time there is a distant sound of cannonballs. This season is the most leisurely time of the year for Chinese, in addition to the farmers getting a rest, most of the merchants and porters are also nestled at home and do not do business, enjoying this traditional festival with dignity.

The second examination of the Han Dynasty was quietly kicked off at this time. For the traditional Chinese dynasty, this kind of examination is an important event second only to conquest and suburban sacrifices, which is related to the blood circulation of the ruling class, and also shoulders the traditional moral significance, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is "the attention of the world".

The Lin Han Dynasty paid special attention to this examination, because under today's political conditions, this traditional imperial examination has the function of selecting materials, and it also symbolizes the meaning of "Huaxia Zhengshu", the sage said: the inner saint and the outer king, a dynasty is recognized by the whole country, in addition to military success, "cultural and educational merit" is also indispensable, this is the real "people's desire", representing the will of the upper class of the country, no one can ignore it. Just like in the early years of the Kangxi Dynasty, although the Manchu court achieved great military success, it was resisted by the scholar class throughout the country, and the grassroots rule suffered a major setback, so it had to coerce and lure and rack its brains to force others to participate in the "erudite and Confucian" examination, in an attempt to establish its own status as a "Chinese Celestial Empire" in "culture and education".

Lin Feng is obviously luckier than Kangxi in this area, because with Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi, the two great Confucians, the Lin Han Empire re-established its own education system last year, under their supervision, Li Guangdi's special 'gate' allocated a large amount of funds to the local ya'men at or above the county level to repair the Confucian Temple and the State Supervision School, and conducted a number of "study examinations" and "township examinations" in a year, in order to complete a major imperial examination in the shortest possible time.

From a traditional academic point of view, this practice is very criticized, because compared with the rules handed down by Hong Wunian, it is indeed not easy for ordinary people to embark on a career through "lifting the system" - first of all, this person must be a child of a good family, not a untouchable family, nor a craftsman or a military household, etc., with the qualifications to take the examination; Then, in the most basic county school or provincial school examination passed, get the "study" qualification, officially become a "Xiucai", and after obtaining the status of Xiucai, and then go to the provincial political secretary Ya 'door' location, to participate in the annual "township test", to obtain the title of "lifting people", and finally, to carry the title of lifting people into Beijing, to participate in the Ministry of Rites Ya 'door' held examination.

Generally speaking, the process of raising the identity from a child to a person takes at least three or four years, and at the same time, it is necessary to participate in the continuous supervision and 'drawing' examination of the county, province, and province at all levels every year, and it may be brushed down at any time.

In addition to the so-called "quick method of lifting people", the subjects of the Lin Han court's examination this time were also somewhat surprising. In this exam, in addition to the traditional "Ming Sutra", "Ming Law", "Ming Calculation", etc., two categories of "Ming Things" and "Ming Doctors" have also been added.

In the end, the imperial examination is the lifeblood of this class, and it can be regarded as "earth-shattering" regardless of the severity of the casual movement, when Xuezheng sent the so-called "Ming Wu Ke" of the "Shi Yi system" (note: Shi Yi, also known as "Shi Yi" or "Shi Yi" is basically eight strands of model text, expounding the skills of "the ancients and asking today", the effect is similar to the current "mock test paper") after sending it down, everyone understood what this thing was. Strictly speaking, this subject is a bit like "Gewu", but if you look at it according to the textbook, it is too trivial, from agricultural politics to physics, many of the content is almost similar to "craftsmen and the like", so many people think that this practice is really insulting, because for thousands of years, everyone thinks that scholars and these things are incompatible; In addition, some applauded, but they didn't think that this new subject was very good, and most of them were glad that there were a bunch of more jinshi places, and the rest of them were just disgusted with the eight shares.

In fact, there are many people in Shilin in this era who are very opposed to the "dead eight shares", including many celebrities, such as Wu Meicun, who wrote articles and scolded Lin Feng's father-in-law, this person is suave and surging in poetry, according to the level of the literary world, it should not be surprising that he is taking the top spot to explore the 'flower', but what is surprising is that this person's poetry and songs are all 'fine', but only can not write eight shares, when he was young, he was repeatedly frustrated, and then when he was old, he simply made a horizontal hair, and whoever said eight shares in front of him scolded whom. So at this time, seeing the reform of the imperial examination in the Han Dynasty, similar characters don't matter whether they are right or not, they will shout first.

This matter is not a big deal for Lin Feng, when there was a lot of uproar last year, he was fighting Geldan in Shanxi, this kind of thing is really a little insignificant compared to the war, so although Shilin has a great reaction, it is a small matter of sesame seeds that has been passed to him, anyway, this kind of thing is just a hammer deal for him - the quota has been given, and the title of Jinshi has also been promised, whether you can open the subject or not, whether you can take the exam or not, whatever you want.

In this kind of final word, Shilin's opposition gradually disappeared, in fact, the matter of opening new subjects in the imperial court did not violate their interests, and the original eight-strand policy questions and so on are also to be examined, if you look at this kind of thing from the source, the imperial court is not completely unreasonable, at least the Song Dynasty has the idea of taking the doctor's examination, and it is not for nothing that the person who is promoted to the examination is not nothing, and in the end, as soon as the big 'door' of the examination room opens, the voice immediately disappeared without a trace, because even the most arrogant scholar no one dared to pat the 'chest' and say" Lao Tzu must be in the middle", I can't figure out which day I have to go down this road when I am desperate. So according to this line of thinking, the vast majority of the people who participated in the "Mingwu" subject examination this time were originally more unlucky guys, with the mentality of bumping into the game, and when the 'spring' opened, these two subjects were positioned as "other ways" in Shilin - this means that it is not considered a serious way to lift the system, but it is also a way to serve the country and advance, although the evaluation is relatively low, but in the end it still recognizes its status.

However, to the surprise of these lifters, this time the imperial examination actually had a few red 'hair' to participate, the first to find out about this matter was a few Shandong lifters who went to the Ministry of Rites to post a report, at that time, I saw that these people in the same year actually yellow eyebrows 'hair' green eyes were almost choked to death, as soon as the matter was said, it immediately shocked the northern Shilin, and people with a heart followed the source to check that these Fanyi were from the suburbs of Beijing Han Fan co-founded the "Oriental Theological Seminary", So some people immediately wondered if these guys were related to General Yulin, although everyone knew that there was inevitably an examiner in the imperial examination to "carry out the way", but it was too rampant to do it so blatantly, right?!

This incident brought great trouble to General Rick, originally his reputation in the Han Dynasty has always been excellent, basically did not offend anyone, at this time suddenly carried such a big hat of favoritism and fraud is really a bit breathless, to be honest, he himself is angry enough, he himself is Swedes, these "white people" turned out to be Portuguese, the two are not related, and as far as he is concerned, the gap between his own appearance and these guys is really not ordinary, He is a Slav when he counts the race, and he counts Eastern Europe when he counts the region, and he has never heard of these Portuguese eggs before, and no matter how much he talks, he can't get any relatives, so as soon as he heard the news, he immediately went to the Ministry of Rites to refute the rumors.

This thing from the fifteenth day of the first month to the beginning of the exam, the streets and alleys in Beijing are boiling, to the end everyone only knew that these guys are really Zhili people, it turned out to be a guy from a chamber of commerce in Australia, long in China, Chenghan Wang Tianen settled in Baoding Mansion, Zheng'er Bajing from the child all the way up, the news came out immediately poured a piece, many scholars admired the visit, saw a few foreigners carrying a 'hair' pen to write Yan characters, painting ink painting is a little unbelievable, there are people who are also specialized' The door tried eight shares, but the people said that Shiyun was not inferior at all, except for a mouthful of Cantonese that was a little worse than the taste, it was really difficult to find any 'fault'.

Originally, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were a little secretive at the beginning, and they were ready to surprise the beloved Han King, because from a political point of view, this kind of thing is generally a "sign of prosperity", symbolizing the prosperity of the Celestial Empire. Authentic Wa Guo original goods.

Nan Huairen, the head of the seminary, made a big splash this time, although he was very 'exposed' in front of Lin Feng because of the invention of the bullet before, but it was far less sensational than this time, and now the readers in the entire north know that in addition to a very powerful general Rick, there is also a great Confucian, and the final result of this matter for him is that the social 'communication' circle is further expanded, and the poor Belgian immediately received a large number of invitations to the literary meeting and poetry meeting, And from time to time, some people came to his house to ask for advice on their views on a certain chapter or section of the Book of Changes, and at the same time, some Chinese friends who usually came and went suddenly became polite, and often asked Nan Huairen Daru to splash ink and 'make' a few pairs of "ink treasures" or something to give away.

Whenever the atmosphere at this time is undoubtedly extremely embarrassing, when after asking some experts, Nan Huairen has been sure that what "I Ching" and "Bible" are actually two books, so whenever he discusses these things, he feels very ashamed, so he is very frank to express his ignorance, but this precious honesty is usually considered modest by the Chinese - imagine that Nan Huairenshan taught several people in one breath, he is not a Great Confucian, who is a Great Confucian?!

Although it was a strange misunderstanding, many scholars began to take an interest in Europeans, and judging from the business performance of the seminary, this year's enrollment rate has simply increased qualitatively compared to last year. At this moment of historical 'sex', Lin Feng unexpectedly received a letter from a big man.

The priest in charge of delivering the letter is called Doro (note: Mallard de Tournon), from the name of which looks very much like a Manchurian, and it seems to be a special name for the nobility, but things are often unexpected, Doro is an authentic Spaniard, serving as a bishop in the Holy See, this time he is on the orders of His Majesty the current Pope Clement IX, as a papal envoy to convey the Pope's orders to the king or emperor of China.

After entering the territory of the Han Dynasty, Mr. Duo's Spanish nationality immediately caused Wang Shirong to be highly nervous, so at this critical moment, a Spaniard suddenly came, and he was swaggering forward and backward, which was really a bit 'touching' his head, so as soon as Duo Luo came ashore, he was immediately closely monitored by the spies, and dozens of secret agents followed him from Tianjin to Beijing, this guy was very arrogant all the way, and there was nothing hidden at all The meaning of 'private' concealment, the messenger is not like the messenger, and the spy is not like the spy, which is really a little 'confused', and this secret was not revealed until he entered the 'gate' of the Han Rite Department.

When the officials of the Ministry of Rites received this news, they almost fainted, they really couldn't imagine that there was anyone else in this world who could give orders to His Royal Highness the King of Han, so when they figured out the mission of this Duoluo monk, they almost corrected this "great rebellion" guy on the spot, but fortunately, thanks to the special agents of the military commander Ya'men came forward in time, Mr. Duoluo barely saved his life.

Lin Feng is also very inexplicable about this matter, although he is not very familiar with many things in this era, but in the end he still knows that the emperor of China does not want the coronation of European popes, so this Duo Luo's statement of "conveying orders" is really a bit unbelievable, but from a political point of view, the pope is not big or small, and this matter still has to be 'figured' clearly.

"Well, this ...... Bishop Duoluo, do you mean to say that His Majesty the Pope says that we Chinese are heretics? ......" he subconsciously pouted, "Oh...... It is said to worship Confucius and ancestors...... Is this custom heretical? ……”

Duo Luo is very tall, and he is fat, with a 'hairy' face, he looks very strong, Lin Feng really has a sense of professional misalignment, he has this money not to be a knight, but to be a monk, it is really a 'waste' fee.

At this time, hearing Lin Feng's words, he bowed reservedly, "Yes, Your Majesty the King of China, the Holy See has approved the Dominican's accusations, and the above heresy has been established in law!" ”

"Oh...... Law?! Lin Feng lost his voice, and at this time he felt a little struck by lightning, "What does Your Excellency Bishop mean...... What is the law?! ……”

"The law of the Lord," said Dora smiling and bowing again, "God loves the world, and all men must obey God's laws." ”

The demeanor of a professional god stick, there is really a set, Lin Feng sighed secretly in his heart, "Oh, so that's the case, so we Chinese also have to abide by it?!" ”

"Of course!" Dora was clearly in a state of flux, drawing a cross with a cross on his face, "The Lord is everywhere, and all human beings in the world are children of God, regardless of you and me." ”

"Okay," Lin Feng nodded, "Actually, this matter is very difficult, regarding the doctrine of the Catholic Church, our Chinese side had a big trouble some time ago, respected Bishop Duoluo, since you are the Pope's special envoy, then I can't help but tell you about this matter." ”

"Doctrine?! …… What?! Duo Luo was stunned.

"Oh, that's right...... I'm sorry, I haven't been baptized on this, so I don't know much about your Catholic affairs, so if you say something wrong, I hope Mr. Duo Luo doesn't mind......" Lin Feng waved his hand and smiled at Duoluo, "Some time ago, my country's inspection was imperial history...... Oh, this inspection is probably about the same as the highest justice in Europe, this ...... The Lord Chancellor pointed out to me some of the things recorded in the Bible that were contrary to the law and the good customs of tradition......"

Before Lin Feng could finish speaking, Duo Luo shouted, "...... Questioning the Bible...... Oh, my God! ……”

"Hey, don't worry, I'm not done yet, am I?!" Lin Feng smiled slightly, "He pointed out a lot of flaws, and I don't remember all of them, so I'll give a little example here......"

"Oh! ......" Duo said with pain on his face and pressed his chest, "Your Majesty, do you know what you're talking about now?!" ”

"Say what? Of course, it's the Bible, didn't His Excellency the Bishop hear it clearly," Lin Fengqi said, "Hasn't there been 'chaos' in the Bible, and if there is no 'chaos', then how can there be a 'New Testament' and 'Old Testament' sayings?!" ”

Hearing this explanation, Duo Luo's face looked a little better, and he nodded at Lin Feng in apology, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I'm out of shape!" ”

"It's nothing, you don't have to be so polite," Lin Feng said with a grin, "Where did you say just now, oh...... "For example," he said, clearing his throat, "this first example is the unplanned pregnancy of a young 'girl' named Maria, and our justices have scrutinized the Bible and found that there is something very wrong with it!" ”

"What's the problem?!" Duo said in surprise as his mouth widened.

"The Bible says that this 'woman' 'sex' named Maria was a virgin 'woman' who suddenly became pregnant for some reason, and the explanation in the book is God's will—" he looked at Dora and smiled strangely, "but it seems to us Chinese that it is a little inexplicable, and in Chinese's understanding, it is necessary to ...... without the consent of the 'woman' and 'sex' Impregnate ...... 'female' 'sex' is a crime and must be punished! ”

"Oh! …… My God......"

"Well, now let me analyze: firstly, a young 'girl' named Maria is a virgin, and she also has a family of in-laws, of course, the book says that this mother-in-law's family is called 'Joseph';

“……”

"Well, my justice has looked through a lot of cases and found that many criminal cases in my country are the same, probably the method is to first take advantage of a certain 'woman' and 'sexuality' to pay attention to it, knock it unconscious with a stick or use a 'drug' substance to 'stun', and then ...... Let her get pregnant again, of course, there are high and low criminal methods in this, for example, the more indiscriminate victims will find out immediately when they wake up, but some individual masters are very good, and often after committing the crime, the victim is still at a loss......"

Duo Luo's face turned red, and he suddenly stood up, pointing his finger at Lin Feng, and his lips couldn't stop Luo instigating, but he couldn't say a word.

"Well, Mr. Bishop, aren't we negligent in our discussion? Why are you so agitated? - Come, come, come, sit down, sit down and talk! Lin Feng smiled casually.

"What omission?! ......" Duo Luo came to his senses at this time, glaring angrily at Lin Feng, "This is the will of God, and it is the miracle of the Son and the Virgin...... How can you ......"

"You don't need to 'provoke', you don't need to 'provoke'," Lin Feng was innocent, spread his hands and said, "Actually, I also think it's strange, according to my country's "Great Han Law", there are two charges for this kind of behavior, one is 'seduction' and 'rape', and the other is forcible 'rape' - the difference is very big, depending on the circumstances of the crime......"

This is God's will...... It's a miracle......"

"Okay, let's just say that God did it—then this matter is: a certain god made an unknowing young 'girl' innocently pregnant for some reason, of course, we don't know what means this god used, but in terms of this result, it doesn't matter whether it's a stick or a 'fan' incense, anyway, it's either 'seduction' or 'rape' or 'rape'," Lin Feng smiled and looked towards Duo Luo, "I don't know which one Your Excellency Bishop chooses for God?!" ”

Duo Luo gasped heavily, staring at Lin Feng deadly, for a while, what means should be used to fight back.

"Of course I don't believe God would do such a thing, so we think there must be something wrong with the Bible, and if you say that people should think like me, what will people think of you Catholics?" Lin Feng looked at this poor guy with pity, shook his head and sighed, "The impact is extremely bad!" ”

Several samurai standing on the side of the 'attendant' were all red, and their mouths were not coming and going, and they were holding back extremely hard. From the very beginning, they felt that this fool was going to be unlucky, but they didn't expect to hang up so quickly, and they actually came all the way to fight with the King of Han, they didn't know how to write the word "death", these people have followed Lin Feng for so long, but they have never seen anyone who can bargain for a bargain under His Royal Highness the King of Han, to talk about this thing, it may be a little difficult to let the King of Han say the dead alive, but it is not a problem at all to say that the living are dead.

Looking at Duo Luo's sad appearance, Lin Feng suddenly didn't realize it, and continued to take care of himself, "Well, this is the first omission, then I'll talk about the second omission." ”

"You...... You still ......" Duo Luo pointed at Lin Feng hard, his body trembled slightly, at this time he only felt that his throat was blocked and his stomach was sour, he had never met such a blasphemous person in his life.

"Of course, I'm not doing it for your Catholic good, Your Excellency Bishop doesn't need to be too polite," Lin Feng waved his hand magnificently, "The second is the incident about the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, the Bible says that Adam and Eve ate that thing, so they committed a great sin, and were finally expelled from there, and they also want their descendants to atone for their sins for the rest of their lives—oh, usually you Catholics say: 'We are all guilty', probably the origin is here?!" ”

"Yes!!" Duo Luo said angrily, "Is this one also wrong?!" ”

"Of course it's wrong, I won't give you an analysis!" Lin Feng said with a smile, "This matter is like this, God created two people, and loved them very much, so he let them live in the garden, but there are very dangerous things in this garden, and as a god himself, he does not isolate those dangerous things, ignores this danger, and finally orders ......"

"The Lord has warned them!!" Duo felt confident this time, and immediately retorted.

"But the problem is that it doesn't work—you say he's a god, so why doesn't he have the consciousness of a god? If he really loved Adam and Eve, then there would only be two choices in this matter, one was not to let Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden; The other is to 'get' away or isolate the tree of the forbidden fruit, and if he doesn't do it, just talking about it, then this motive is terrible! Lin Feng pinched his chin and said in a deep voice, "Regarding this practice, we also have similar tricks in the Chinese Art of War, which is called ''desire' and 'capture', which is a very clever technique!" ”

"You...... You ......" Dora looked like he was about to faint.

"For example, my son is ignorant, but he likes to run around the zoo, and I know about it, so there are only two things I can do, one is not to let him go to the zoo, and the other is to drive the zoo beasts away, or put them in a sturdy iron cage - do you think so?!" Lin Feng patted the back of the chair lightly, "Of course, I mean the habits of our Chinese, but I believe that your European side is probably not too outrageous, at least no one insists on stuffing their son into a wolf's den, right?!" ”

“……”

"Therefore, the 'sexual' nature of this matter is also very serious, according to the relevant provisions of my country's "Great Han Law", if a certain god caused Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit because of negligence, then in addition to Adam and Eve's bad luck, a certain god is suspected of 'dereliction of duty'; and if he deliberately connived at ignorant boys and 'women' to eat the forbidden fruit, then it must be 'instigation'......" He pursed his lips and sighed, "Your Excellency, which one do you say is better?!" ”

After being stunned for a long time, Duo Luo finally reacted, stood up violently, and said angrily to Lin Feng, "Your Majesty...... You are simply ...... It's just nonsense...... This is blasphemy!! ”

"I don't know if it's blasphemous or not, but as far as I personally feel, this Bible of your religion is problematic, and the problem is not small, so here I formally propose to His Majesty Pope Clement IX as the king of a country," facing the angry eyes of Duoluo, Lin Fengshi stood up and said slowly, "In order to adapt to China's national conditions, and for your religion to spread smoothly in China, I personally suggest that you recycle this Bible and modify the places that should be changed. Breaking the laws of our country at every turn like this is really very difficult for the widows! ÷ Duoluo looked at Lin Feng fixedly and sneered, "Your Majesty, I understand what you mean, you don't want to 'exchange' opinions with me on the issue of sacrificial heresy at all, is that so?" Your Majesty the King of China?! ”

"Nope!" Lin Feng said in surprise, "Didn't I just say no?" ”

"Well, Your Majesty the King of China, I beg your pardon for the offense, my mission in China this time is to convey the Holy See's ruling on the heresy of Chinese believers' sacrifice, not to revise the Bible, then, please tell me, what choice will you make regarding the ruling of the Holy See?!"

"Oh," Lin Feng nodded, "Didn't my choice, Lord Bishop, hear it clearly just now?" He smiled slightly, "When Catholicism changes the Bible to the satisfaction of the widow, when the widow decrees that the sacrifice of Confucius and Mencius ancestors is forbidden!" - Did you hear me clearly this time? Do you want to repeat it again?! ”

"Good!!" Duo Luo's face was full of iron, and he bowed to Lin Feng and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your response!" I will report your answer to His Majesty the Pope!! - Retirement! ”

Lin Feng smiled dumbly, looking at the back of Bishop Duoluo, he shrugged his shoulders at Li Ergou, and said indifferently, "These white-skinned monkeys, who do they think they are?!" ”