Yu Yi asked Wang Xizhi rhetorically: "Young Brother Yi is still in the old hometown, do you still have an impression?" ”

Wang Xizhi's hometown is in Linyi County, Langya County. It is said that Sima Rui came out of the town of Jiankang (still called Jianye at that time) in the first year of Emperor Yongjia of Jin Huai, Wang Dao, Yu Liang and other clans obeyed, Wang Xizhi was just five years old at that time, and Yu Yi was three years old...... Yu Yi means, most of you can't remember the things about your hometown, then I don't have to mention it, for us and others, only Jiangnan, or even only Jiankang is our hometown.

If you use your hometown in China to comfort me, not only will it not work, but it will make me feel even more melancholy!

Wang Xizhi couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. His wish to look at his hometown from afar—although he couldn't see it—was gone, and it was no longer interesting, so he turned around and was about to go down the mountain, when suddenly Yu Yi grabbed his shirt from behind, and asked in a low voice: "What Gong Li said the day before yesterday, what does Young Brother Yi mean?" ”

Although Li Ju was a little lacking in practical ability because of his outstanding learning, he no longer served as a scholar after the establishment of the Hua Dynasty, but went to a relatively leisurely province to serve as a squire, after all, he was also an important minister of the imperial court, and he was often able to meet the Son of Heaven, so the news was still very well-informed. However, not long ago, some of the information he revealed to Wang and Yu was actually Pei Gai's temptation.

What information? That is, the Son of Heaven has the intention of changing his name this autumn and reopening the imperial examination.

Pei should want to open the imperial examination in the entire territory of the Chinese Dynasty, this idea has been consulted by the important ministers many times, but led by Hua Heng and others, repeatedly admonished, extremely inconvenient. In the past, Chang'an Xingtai held two imperial examinations, both of which only looked at learning - because of the first written examination - did not care about the level of the family, as long as the net worth was innocent and had not committed a major crime, they could take the exam, which would naturally be hindered by the family, thinking that the Han Su generation would therefore crowd out the space for the entry and promotion of the big family.

Of course, they are absolutely not able to admit this verbally - they may not even think carefully in their hearts, purely out of subconscious vigilance - but only that if there is no genuine evaluation and local recommendation, who knows what the virtue of those who take the test is? Once virtue is not matched, the more knowledge you have, the more reactionary it becomes!

In the past, it was because the state and county were not upright and there was a shortage of manpower that they were forced to carry out the imperial examination; Nowadays, most of the officials of the late Jin Dynasty are from China, and there is no shortage of talents, even if they want to recruit young scholars, they should be hit hard.

The reason why Chen Qun's creation of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System has made the way of employing people gradually controlled by the wealthy is because it stipulates that all state leaders must be officials in the central government and have high moral and famous reputations. That is, according to Hua Heng, he Hua was originally in Pingyuan County, and even in the entire Jizhou, he belonged to the top Gaomen, plus his officials, names, and virtues (no one dared to say that Hua Jing had no virtues), this Jizhou's great Zongzheng, at least the Zhongzheng officials of the Plains, may not belong to him.

Even if he can't be for a while, when Huaheng tells the old man and returns to his hometown, the court will pay tribute to the old ministers according to the rules, and he will be allowed to be neutral. At that time, the entire Jizhou, at least a county in the plains, the advantages and disadvantages of the scholars, all in the hands of Hua, can be close to the top grade, the sparse to the middle grade, and even the enemy to the lower grade, then the power is bound to be glorious until death. If the generation of bureaucrats in Jizhou or Pingyuan is evaluated and recommended by Hua Heng, most of them will return to the Hua family in the future, and the whole family will benefit from it.

However, Pei Gaiping was most disgusted with the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, and immediately asked Hua Heng with a smile: "Qing Zishi is in the dynasty, how many years have you not returned to your hometown?" ”

Chen Qun created the Jiupin Zhongzheng system on the same day, in order to make up for the lack of the Han Dynasty's inspection system - because of the troubled times, scholars migrated more, and officials also kept changing, resulting in strangers between the two, so how to recommend talents to the imperial court - However, the rebellion at the end of the Jin Dynasty, at least in the Central Plains, its intensity was far greater than that of the Han Dynasty, and people like Hua Heng, who had been out of their hometown for a long time, had much say in the affairs of Pingyuan County and even Jizhou? ordered you to be Zhongzheng, then you must go to consult the clansmen, and the people of the Hua family who stayed in Jizhou said whatever they wanted.

Is this a responsible attitude towards the imperial court? Talent selection is a big deal, how can it be so careless?

Therefore, Pei should defy public opinion and completely abolish the evaluation of the central officials, and temporarily restore to the Han Dynasty's inspection system, where the central ministers and local officials recommend talents to the imperial court as a transition to the imperial examination system. At the same time, he was also forced to take a step back, not directly passing the imperial examination system to the whole country, but temporarily selecting talents from Taixue.

Not only do you not need to be recommended, you don't need to look at the door—because there is an entrance exam, which is checked by Dong Jingdao and other gentlemen—and the room and board are free, so theoretically speaking, as long as you can scrape together the travel expenses to Luoyang or Chang'an (a branch of Taixue), you can get an official through this shortcut. Therefore, Pei should take Taixue's graduation examination as the precursor and stepping stone of the imperial examination, and stipulate that if he can pass the graduation examination, he can have the qualifications to be an official.

By the way, since the talents recommended by the important ministers and various states and counties also need to be assessed, they should simply be put together with the Taixue graduation test to save time and effort.

After repeated running-in, Pei Gai's series of measures were finally recognized and approved by the imperial court, so he had to look at Shu and try to go further.

That is, the enrollment quota of Taixue will be expanded, and scholars from all over the country can take the entrance examination at any time as long as they have an identity document issued by the magistrate. But in this way, with the pacification of the place, Taixue is afraid that it will be overcrowded, not only is there not enough teachers, but the imperial court may not be able to support so many people's accommodation expenses. It doesn't matter, Pei should have added an "outer house" in addition to the upper house, middle house, and lower house of the students, that is, auditors.

The superficial reason is high-sounding, because many families have their own family studies, and their children do not need to go to Taixue, even if they are from a poor family, there are not a few Confucian scholars who have been scattered all over the world to open private schools, and they may not be all educated. Naturally, there is no room and board for the students, and when there is a vacancy, they are allowed to audit the Taixue course only if they register in advance, but if they think they are good at learning, they can take the graduation examination every autumn.

In the same way, students can also skip a grade, even if they are a lower student and have not had time to be promoted, they can still apply for graduation.

Of course, so far, this new system is still soliciting opinions from all sides, and the conclusion has not been reached, but when Pei Gai summoned Li Ju once, he thought of Wang and Yu, and instructed Li Maoyu to test it.

Li Ju immediately called the second son and told them that the Son of Heaven had this intention. As an official from the third grade, I also have a quota to recommend talents to the imperial court, and I can recommend you for the Taixue graduation exam this autumn; If you don't want to, you can directly sign up to go to Taixue, or wait for the new system to be a layman.

The two did not promise on the spot, but said that they would think about it for a while. So today, on Weisu Mountain, Yu Yi asked Wang Xizhi, what do you think about this?

Wang Xizhi shook his head and said, "I want to serve my teacher for a long time and study calligraphy diligently, and I have no intention of being on the road to the eunuchs." After a pause, he said: "With childishness and a certain talent, Taixue does not need to enter." ”

These two can be said to be the origin of family learning, although they are obsessed with calligraphy, but calligraphy is originally associated with the classics, it is impossible to only be able to write without Confucianism, with their knowledge, it is true that they may not be in the eyes of the Taixue students who have not been created for a long time - why should I waste time to go to school?

Yu Yigui advised: "The eldest husband should be the official and the slaughter, and the herdsmen should defend the country, how can they only spend their lives in calligraphy?" With the talent of Young Brother Yi, how can he regard his reputation as dung in a county or even a county? And I am equal to this, after all, I live sojourn, how can I be a guest of Li Gong for a long time? That is, the sages of Confucius also have their own residences, and they are all masters one after another. ”

When Wang Xizhi heard this, he couldn't help but hang his head and mutter. He is indeed obsessed with calligraphy, and has no intention of becoming an official at all - in the original history, it was because of the noble family, and the official hat naturally flew to his head, but he didn't really take care of things, known as the "Wang Right Army", did he really lead the army, and he couldn't fight - but Yu Yi also made sense, unless you sell yourself to the Li family, how can you stay in someone else's house for the rest of your life? Students live in the teacher's house all day long, eat the teacher's, and use the teacher's, which is too cheeky.

Seeing this, Yu Yi leaned a little closer, swept the people on the side of him out of the corner of his eyes, and said in a low voice: "If you are a good person, you can live in your own place, and you don't have to work for others to serve." ”

Some words don't need to be said too clearly, and in this case, they can't be said too clearly, but fortunately, the two have been friends for a long time, and as long as they look at each other, they can convey a lot of meaning. Yu Yi said that we are hostages in Luoyang now, and if we are willing to go out of China, then Emperor Vantage will definitely be relieved - in the same family, divided into two countries, is this road still rare for decades - at least we can live more comfortably, and there is no need to be surrounded by surveillance all day long.

When Wang Xizhi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "The land of Sangzi in the south of the Yangtze River, I don't know when I will return......

He was actually asking Yu Yi: Are you planning to run away from China?

Yu Yi heard the song and knew the meaning of elegance, and immediately shook his head slightly.

In fact, if you want to run away, you can run away a long time ago, although Li Ju sent someone to monitor the second son, but the arrangement was not strict, if the two teenagers wanted to escape from Luoyang City, they actually had a lot of opportunities. But the problem is that even if the road is smooth and thieves are not met, with their age, experience, and even courage, how can they successfully reach Jiangnan? Since the order of the Central Plains has been largely restored, it is natural that the counties will strictly check the "pass", that is, the passage certificate - even if you want to walk a long way after two thousand years, you have to carry your ID card at any time.

But Yu Yi really didn't plan to mix up an official position first, and then he could prepare his identity documents to facilitate his escape. He first shook his head, and then said to Wang Xizhi: "There will be a war between the north and the south...... We may be able to continue the lineage......"

The implication is that in the battle of reunification in the near future, Jiangnan will probably not be able to bear it, and when the time comes, your uncle and my brothers may all become prisoners. And if we are out of China, even if we can't ask for forgiveness on our behalf at that time, we can ensure that the Wang and Yu families will not be killed. Maybe the two families have to rely on you and me to continue the sect.

In fact, Wang Xizhi does not attach much importance to the family and even to the sect, but the reason why he can immerse himself in the art of calligraphy is that he is supported by the family; If the family dies, eating will become a problem - it is impossible to eat the teacher's for the rest of his life, and what if the teacher is immortal - will he have to rely on selling words to survive? Wang Yishao, who has never suffered hardships for more than ten years, can't help but secretly fight a cold war when he thinks of such prospects......

So he sighed: "I don't want Li Gong's recommendation." ”

Officials recommend talents to the imperial court, there are quotas, Li Ju must still have a lot of sects and guests to recommend, so even if he has such good intentions, I have already lost a lot of his family, how can I really climb the pole and bear the favor that I am afraid will not be repaid for a lifetime?

“…… I don't want to go too much, but I hope that the system of giving up my life can be done. ”

If he was born a few hundred years later, Wang Yishao should be chanting a poem at this time, "You look at the wild goose with the sun, and each has its own rice plan" - everything is for eating!

The second son went down to Weisu Mountain, through the Luoshui pontoon bridge, when returning to Luoyang City from the south gate, the red sun fell in the west, and dusk was approaching. Li Ju's mansion is actually in the east of the city, and when the second son came to the east by car, he suddenly saw many people putting out incense cases and waiting for the roadside, as if they were waiting.

Yu Yi felt very strange - I didn't hear that I had just won a big battle and was going to sacrifice my majesty, and looking at this situation, the incense case was scarce, and it didn't look like there was an official organization, who was this waiting for? Immediately ordered the servants to inquire, and after a short time ran back to report: "It is rumored that Buddha Tucheng is coming to Luoyang today, and it is to welcome all the believers in the city to interpret the religion......"

When Wang Xizhi heard this, he immediately frowned: "Isn't it the monk of the Western Regions who was ordered by Shi Leto be the national teacher?" ”

The servant said yes, and then explained, saying that before the siege of the Xiangguo Kingdom that day, this Buddha Tucheng quietly escaped out of the city, lurking in the countryside, and became a fish that slipped through the net. Or this time, when General Wei led his troops to destroy Kong Chang, he remembered him, and immediately ordered to search and arrest in Jizhou and Sibei, and finally caught him not long ago, so he sent him to Luoyang.

Yu Yi didn't have a good impression of the monk, and couldn't help but say to himself: "He really helped to abuse, and since he was bound to Luoyang, most of the ......Son of Heaven wanted to kill him."

Although Buddhism has already been introduced, it is not very popular, scholars and doctors in addition to Confucianism, most of them are worshipping Taoism, especially Langya Wang is the most - such as Wang Xizhi's double name, with the word "zhi" as the knot, his peers still have Wang Xianzhi, Wang Huzhi, Wang Yanzhi, Wang Yunzhi, etc., are all influenced by the Tao of the Heavenly Master. At that time, Chongdao's family still had Chenjun Xie's, Yin's, Gaoping Xi's, Danyang Xu's, Donghai Bao's, Yixing Zhou's and so on, and there were quite a few of them.

However, although Wang Xizhi worships Taoism, he is not disgusted with the teachings of Buddhism-these two sects have not almost beaten out their brains because of grabbing land and robbing believers--Wen Yan shook his head slightly and said: "But a cultivator, although he has been attached to karma, why should he put his beak in military and political affairs?" It is okay to be imprisoned, and it is okay to chase it, so why kill it? The Son of Heaven has always been benevolent, and he should not do this. ”

Yu Yi smiled slightly, then raised his chin, pointed to those incense cases, and lowered his voice and said: "If he is honest and returns to Luo, he can move the hearts of the Son of Heaven and the elder with words, or he may not die." Young Brother Ranyi saw this scene, there are not a few people who have been released in Luoyang City, although they are prisoners, there are also people who welcome them, and this matter is very taboo. I'm afraid that the Buddha's life will not be long in coming! ”