In August, the weather gets cooler.

Outside the Kaiyang Gate in the southeast of Luoyang, it is the place where the Great Han Taixue is located.

Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, because he had studied in the former Han Dynasty, attached great importance to the construction of Taixue after the Later Han Dynasty. In addition, after the classics became the post-Han Xianxue, the importance of scholarship reached a certain peak, so by the time of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Luoyang University had been expanded into a super university with more than 240 classrooms and more than 1,800 dormitories.

In his heyday, the emperor himself often came to Taixue to listen to lectures and lectures, and there were more than 30,000 Taixue students studying here!

However, this situation has disappeared without a trace in the last ten years, and the status of Tai students has also collapsed...... Why? Quite simply, students naturally like to pay attention to politics and then die from it!

This is an unbreakable truth throughout the ages.

In other words, in the two disasters of the party, the students followed the party Confucianism to charge into battle. However, it has only been a few years since the last disaster of the party, but the people of the world only remember Zhang Jian, who surrendered, and Li Yuanli, who is a model in the world, and who remembers the thousands of students who were imprisoned four years ago?

Did any of these students die in prison?

How much did it cost their families to get them out?

What is the future after it is fished out?

No one really knows.

However, no matter what, after tossing so twice, coupled with the flood of private learning after the party's repression, the status of this Taixue has basically plummeted.

This is not to say that no one comes to Taixue, after all, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, but that no one regards Taixue as a serious step into the body anymore.

Nowadays, the people who come to Taixue are roughly as follows:

If the son of the minister of the court, anyway, the family has his own family inheritance, so it is better to respond to the call and put a name here; There are also some people from other places who have made meritorious contributions, and can be favored by the underage children in the family as 'Tong Zilang', and then enter Taixue to study, which can be regarded as booking a future; and further down, that is, there are really no people in the family, such as the low-level rural heroes who have just risen to the momentum, and they are looked down upon at all in their hometowns, and they don't even accept private studies, so it is better to come here to find a way out; of course, there are also some local single families in Henan who don't come here, and don't even have a place to read books...... That's very little.

Anyway, the grand occasion of 30,000 people studying here is basically gone. Now, there is a group of people of unknown origin, openly occupying the magpie's nest, and living in this empty place in Taixue, and the students in Taixue still circulate around these people all day regardless of their identity.

"Good word!"

When a middle-aged man wrapped in a green scarf leaned over a huge white cloth to write a paragraph, the surrounding people suddenly burst into cheers.

"It's really worthy of Cai Langzhong!"

"The font is natural, and if you can write such a standard subordinate, I'm afraid there is only one Cai Lang in the world!"

"Cai Langzhong's calligraphy can be sent and received freely, not only can be chic as flying white, but also can be solemn like this, I'm afraid that I have already reached the realm of the grandmaster!"

Cai Langzhong, who had just finished writing a paragraph, was naturally Cai Yong and Cai Bojiao, and he was inevitably a little self-conscious when he heard the words. And after looking around, he opened his mouth to a few young scholars standing on the side with a little smugness: "What do you think of the young monarchs, I don't know if this "Guan Ju" is to your liking?" ”

Several scholars looked at each other a few times, but suddenly shook their heads neatly, causing the hall to be surprised.

"What do you mean?" Cai Yong frowned and asked. "Do you think my handwriting isn't neat?"

"The words are very neat." One of the young gentlemen replied very neatly.

"Is that something wrong?" Cai Yong continued to ask.

"Guan Ju" is the first chapter of the "Book of Songs", and everyone in the world can read it, so how can there be any mistakes or omissions?"

"Then why are you shaking your head?" Cai Yong was finally dissatisfied.

"Lack of hook knowledge!" This young scholar who is like a pole spirit is naturally Gongsun Xun, and he said his reasons without hurrying.

The so-called hook recognition is actually punctuation.

That's right, there is punctuation in these years, Zheng Xuan specially explained the distinction and meaning of hook recognition to his disciples when he lectured, and also specifically discussed the difference between the use of full stop and comma. However, what is interesting is that there are only four kinds of punctuation that have been popularized in recent years: period, comma, emphas, and proper name, but there are no question marks and colons...... It's also weird!

"Hook this kind of thing," Cai Yong couldn't help but be embarrassed after hearing this. It stands to reason that it should indeed be added, after all, the teachings of the Great Confucian Sect have been marked now. But this kind of thing is not a book, and there is no conclusive conclusion, how to add it, and where to add it? ”

"Don't hide it from Cai Zhonglang." Gongsun Xun smiled at each other when he heard this, but took out a cloth from his arms. "I can't wait for other scriptures, but the Book of Songs, whether it is "Han Poems" or "Mao Poems", has already been decided! Because before coming, Master Lu and Master Liu presided over the meeting, and I and several other disciples participated in the discussion, and together they agreed on several kinds of hook punctuation and set the standards for use. As...... Take this opportunity to let our senior brother Cai Zhonglang explain it with all the talented people? ”

Cai Yong's face darkened, and he wanted to scold when he opened his mouth.

That's right, Cai Zhonglang actually wants to ask the Gongsun brothers in front of him, since your two top authoritative teachers have joined forces to formulate this so-called 'hook punctuation' standard, why didn't you take it out earlier?

I would have written it earlier, but I had to wait for me to finish it with a sweat on my head, and then shake my head and say that I didn't write it right? You can't step on me if you want to get out of the position, right?

Of course, Cai Yong didn't say this after all...... Without him, he Cai Bojiao has been famous for a long time, although he will not care about these young people in front of him, but who let these young people have two true gods behind them?

Liu Kuan is Guangluxun, impartial, and happens to be the chief officer of the position he holds in Langzhong, and he is his current boss. And Lu Zhi ...... According to the arrangement of the imperial court, after writing the stone scripture, he was going to go to Dongguan to study history as his deputy, in other words, Lu Zigan was his direct boss for the next two years!

And whether it's Liu Kuan or Lu Zhi, I don't know why, they all attach great importance to these border county boys with the surname Gongsun, and even handed over the work of supervising the stele to these hairless boys before!

That's right, a few days ago, the preparatory work of the Stone Scripture was officially settled, and Lu Zhi was also ordered to enter the Dongguan to 'repair the book'. However, Mr. Lu, who had expected this, finally did another eye-catching thing. When he came to Taixue to choose a site for Taixue with all the great Confucians and doctors, he suddenly appointed his disciples Gongsun Xun and Gongsun Yue to supervise the inscription of "Mao's Poems...... It is said that these two people are bold and careful, and they have already passed on the scriptures, which is enough to take on this heavy responsibility. And Liu Kuan and Granny Liu, who were on the side, smiled, and simply shouted Gongsun Chan and Wang Yi out from behind them, and said something similar.

For a time, everyone looked sideways.

It's not that no one thinks these two are too eager to push the next forward, and it's not that no one wants to stand up and say a few words. However, the person in charge of this project, that is, Yang Ci, the patriarch of the dynasty, took the lead in smiling and expressing his agreement, and even specially called the brothers Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Xun, who had heard the names, to come forward and encourage them carefully...... It's not good for other people to say anything more.

Of course, what these people don't know is that Yang Ci was simply frightened by Lu Zhi's various suffocating operations before, so seeing that the other party's entry into the Eastern View and cultivation history is a foregone conclusion, so why bother to make more trouble for this kind of? And besides, putting aside the dispute between ancient and modern literature, this Lu Zhi is a model for scholars after all, and everyone will still be one with the eunuchs in the future, in this case, his disciple can be regarded as half of his own. Not to mention, there is also the relationship between Liu Kuan!

As a result, the Gongsun brothers openly intervened in the stone scripture project, which made them rise to a higher level in terms of popularity and identity!

Now, it is even more popular to talk and laugh with characters like Cai Bojiao.

In other words, Cai Yong is a person with goods in his stomach after all, and he also thinks it is wonderful to listen carefully to this brother who takes turns to stand up and explain punctuation to Taixuezhong...... Can it not be good? I think that in the late Qing Dynasty, when a minister went abroad, and when he saw so many punctuation marks abroad, his first reaction was to write them down, and then bring them back to criticize them. Whoever wanted to introduce this thing was immediately widely used.

No way, good things are good things, and after using these things in the article, the concept and meaning are indeed expressed more clearly...... Later people have always wondered why China's civilization is so developed and has been continuous, but the punctuation has always been so rough?

"Don't say anything else for the time being," after some explanation, Cai Yong was the first to speak in agreement. This question mark and exclamation mark are still very appropriate, and some words in the "Book of Songs" are rich in emotion and natural, even the head of the gang also understands that they are questions and exclamations. As for colons and quotation marks, the Analects is the first indispensable, Liu Gong and Lu Gong are worthy of being great Confucians in the sea, and I will set these marks as the norm ...... when the imperial court is the table."

"Ahem!" Gongsun Chan suddenly couldn't help but interrupt the other party with his loud voice. "Don't dare to be Cai Langzhong's false praise, these question marks and exclamation marks are exactly what the two division commanders obtained, and these colons and quotation marks are our three brothers...... Well, there is also Senior Brother Wang Yi, who thought about it day and night, and finally thought about it after a long time! ”

Cai Yong was like eating a fly, but in the end he was helpless: "The merits of Xian Kunzhong and this Taiyuan Wang family naturally also exist, and I, Cai Yong, will definitely report it truthfully, and I will definitely not hide anything." ”

As soon as these words came out, Mo said that it was the Gongsun brothers, and even Wang Yi Wang Wen, who had been quite awkward these days because he stayed with the three brothers, couldn't help but dance with his eyebrows...... No one expects this kind of thing to bring them any substantial benefits, such as a knighthood or something, but Cai Yong is a famous person in the world, and his official listing is undoubtedly a kind of certification! When I meet everyone in the future, I will take this matter out and brag about it, and it is estimated that no one will be able to refute it.

In this way, after tossing blindly for a while, as the owner who is not short of money, Gongsun Xun, who is in a good mood, naturally wants to express something. So soon a bunch of fresh vegetables and fruits at the turn of summer and autumn were sent up, and watermelons, grapes and anything else were not popular in these years, but there was no shortage of hawthorn, papaya, sour dates, water chestnuts and the like.

And Gongsun Xun also said that this is arranged according to the "Book of Songs" and allusions in ancient texts, such as the papaya that "votes for me with papaya, and repays it with Qiongju"; There is also the water chestnut of "hibiscus cover and Linghua car, purple shell que and jade hall"; and the chestnut of "the hazel chestnut of the tree, the lacquer of the chair......

Others are okay, that is, eat fresh, and recite two sentences of "Book of Songs" by the way, but Cai Yong, who is angry with these aggressive young scholars, holds the idea of eating a little more, and gnaws two big papayas alone...... So, after dinner, together with the cold wind in summer and autumn, Cai Yong only felt uncomfortable, and he didn't get up after running to the toilet for half a day, and he didn't know whether he lost or earned this time.

That's not all!

It was in this latrine that Cai Yong and Cai Bojiao suffered the most tragic blow in their lives.

Anyway, the sky has darkened, and Cai Langzhong is squatting in the innermost wooden compartment, when he suddenly heard noisy footsteps, and then several familiar voices sounded from nearby, it was the Gongsun brother who came here to relieve himself. So he immediately held his breath, for fear that these people would notice his ugliness.

However, I never expected that these people would take the initiative to mention themselves.

"Brother, that Cai Langzhong is also a famous person in the world," the first to speak was the youngest in that grade named Gongsun Yue, and it was a little more true to hear what he said. "Why do you keep using him as a raft?"

"Hey," replied to this person, who was the most annoying one called Gongsun Xun. "You don't know, this Cai Bojiao is a rare real honest person in the court, and this honest person is really rare now, since he has met it, he naturally has to make the best use of it."

Cai Yong sneered in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't want to argue anything...... After all, what do young people know about this moral gentleman's business?

"Brother Xun is right." Another voice sounded, and it was extremely loud, and you didn't have to guess that it was Gongsun Chan with a loud voice. "Nowadays, it is more and more difficult to find an honest person, and there is another advantage of an honest person, that is, no matter how you use him as a raft, he will not hold a grudge...... As Xu You said, this Cai Bojiao is indeed rare, and there is no need to use it in vain. ”

Cai Yong is already a little angry at this time, is it not that honest people owe you? But years of qi cultivation kung fu still made him endure it...... The way of a gentleman, why bother with these young people? It's a big deal to have less contact with that in the future.

However, after a while, this Gongsun Zhan suddenly smiled again: "By the way, when Brother Xun hadn't seen this Cai Bojiao before, he asked someone more than once and asked if this Cai Bojiao had a daughter?" Although I didn't see this Cai Bojiao himself when I came to his house before, I also knew that he did have a daughter...... Why, didn't you think that you were about to be crowned, and you were going to find a marriage for yourself behind your aunt's back? ”

As soon as these words came out, Cai Yong immediately became vigilant.

"Ahem!" That Gongsun Xun immediately coughed dryly. "The eldest brother said cautiously, although the age of the daughter is not very clear, but roughly speaking, it is still between the main corners, a young child...... Is this kind of joke okay? ”

Cai Yong immediately put his mind at ease, this Gongsun Xun finally knows a little face and shame, but he doesn't know why he inquired about his daughter before......

"Hey, it's said that it's a young child, but in fact, a woman is fifteen and married." On the other side, that Gongsun Chan was still joking, as if he was from a border area, and he was rude. "Ah Yue, you are only sixteen or seventeen this year...... Why don't we ask Master Liu to come forward and make an appointment with this Cai family girl for you, and then you wait for another eight or nine years, and then marry her at twenty-five or six, wouldn't it be quite appropriate? ”

"If you wait for eight or nine years, why won't the eldest brother marry?" That Gongsun Yue was a little angry in his tone.

"Haven't I already married?" Gongsun Chan said disapprovingly. "How can this Cai Bojiao's daughter be a concubine?"

"Then let the second brother wait for eight or nine years before marrying!" Gongsun Yue still said angrily.

"I have been lost since I was a child, and I must marry a wife early to continue the incense." Gongsun Xun immediately refuted when he heard this. "It's better for Ah Yue to marry."

"I won't marry!" Gongsun Yue's tone became more and more angry, and he almost shouted out here.

Is my Cai Bojiao's daughter you want to marry? Cai Yong listened over there, and he became more and more angry.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking." Gongsun Yue continued to yell loudly at the two elder brothers. "Just Cai Bojiao's appearance, small eyes, a nose facing the sky, thick lips, and short eyebrows...... Don't have too much, as long as his daughter has a two-point or three-point portrait of him, it can only be a middle-aged person, if there is a four-five point similar, then can you still see it? Marry yourselves, and don't take me!" ”

At one point, I only heard the two boys of the Gongsun family laughing together, and then the laughter was mixed with the footsteps of the Gongsun Yue indignantly...... From near to far, it turned out to be a direct departure.

Cai Bojiao was holding a toilet chip for cleaning his hands with both hands, and his face was flushed...... In a fit of rage, he actually broke the toilet chip into two ends, and threw it angrily into the dark twilight: "The children are too deceitful, how can my daughter ever be like me?!" ”

"(Gongsun) Yue Yu Luozhong revised the stone scriptures from Langzhong Cai Yong, and tried to formulate hook recognition specifications with Taizu, Zhan, Wang Yi, etc., which was quite talented. Yong loved him very much, and sighed in secret: 'It's a pity that the age is not compatible, otherwise, wouldn't it be happy to recruit him as a beloved son-in-law and always accompany him?' —The Book of Old Swallows. Volume III. Biography of the Princes and Grandchildren

PS: Embarrassing, the timing is wrong...... I'm sorry everyone.

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