"The two-foot cloud shirt is twelve emblems, and the mixed party rhyme in the past years is absolutely Zheng Hao, and the artillery is all over the hearts of the people. I have been assisted by ghosts and gods from one to earth, and to heaven and heaven. Vertical and horizontal without restraint, will not be greedy for honor and disgrace," This poem is the "Qingtian Song" made by the Quanzhen immortal Qiu Chuji in the late Southern Song Dynasty, Qiu Zhenren was the founder of the Quanzhen Zhangjiao and the Taoist Longmen School in the Song and Yuan dynasties.

And the Longmen sect is one of the largest schools of Taoism in later generations, the Baiyun Temple where the Taoism is located is also the headquarters of the Chinese Taoist Association, the system is very large, the incense is prosperous, the tourists are weaving, it is one of the famous tourist attractions in Beijing.

But at this time, the Baiyun Temple is not big, there are only three or two halls before and after, and seven or eight courtyards.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Qiu Chuji met Genghis Khan from the Great Snow Mountain in the Western Regions, returned to Yanjing in the east, and lived in Taiji Palace. At that time, the palace was desolate and full of rubble. Changchun Zhenren then ordered his disciple Wang Zhijin to lead the construction. After three years, the temple was completely renewed. In May of the 22nd year of Yuan Taizu, Genghis Khan changed the Taiji Palace to "Changqin Temple". In July, Qiu Jixian died in Changchun Temple. In the following year, Yin Zhiping, a real disciple of Changchun, built a Shuntang Wuqiu Zuxian in the lower courtyard on the east side of Changchun Temple. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the battle was fought for many years, and the original temple of Changchun Temple was declining. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the palace was rebuilt with the Shuntang as the center. And changed its name to Baiyun Temple.

From the year of Hongwu to the present, more than 100 years have passed. The Baiyun Temple is still shabby and dilapidated, and it looks lifeless. Compared with Biyun Temple, the royal temple in Xishan, the scale is much smaller. This is also understandable, Emperor Zhengde believed in Buddhism. The royal family has a huge amount of incense money every year, and over the years, the incense of Biyun Temple is naturally very prosperous.

Of course, only Sun Dan knew that the soon-to-be-succeeded Jiajing Emperor was a devout Taoist fanatic. As soon as he ascends the throne, as the largest Taoist temple in the capital and the mantle of Changchun Zhenren, Baiyun Temple will usher in a heyday.

It's just that the Taoist priests in the temple haven't realized this yet.

It is now the beginning of April in the sixteenth year of Zhengde, if nothing else, Zhu Hou's daughter-in-law is still on the way, and needs to take a boat along the Yangtze River to Nanjing, and then go north along the Grand Canal from Nanjing, and should be able to arrive in Beijing by the end of the month. It has never been a simple matter for a new monarch to ascend the throne, not to mention the huge cost, and it takes a lot of time to welcome him along the way.

Lu Bing is Zhu Hou's wife's guard, and Huang Jin is Jiajing's companion, so he naturally wants to return to Hubei with the escort team. Sun Dan already knew that Huang Jin was the golden yellow treasurer, and he deliberately concealed his identity from Huang Gonggong. He didn't take it to heart either. If nothing else. Huang Jin should be the future master of ceremonies palm seal. The future internal minister of the empire can approve the red on behalf of the king. is a hot character who is now a first-class and a red.

As for Lu Bing, because of his age, he should not be able to hold an actual position. The position of Jinyiwei's commander should fall into the hands of his father Lu Song.

Of course, none of this is what Sun Dan needs to worry about. Although he played a huge role in Jiajing's succession, if he is now allowed to become an official with this credit, he is reluctant in his heart.

After all, he is a careless element in Shilin, and his fame is taken from the field. If you take the path of advancement, I am afraid that in the future, I will only be despised by those Qingliu who have a so-called sense of justice. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty were very particular about their origins. In the future, no matter how big an official you are, the first thing the officials will do when they meet is to set up their qualifications: who is the Jinshi of which year, and who is the first person in the exam. If you haven't even entered the science field, you won't want to raise your head in front of your colleagues for the rest of your life. Even when the future Imperial Cabinet Assistant Zhang Soul took the Jinshi exam, because he only took the second and seventy places, his grades were not good, and he was a little unable to raise his head in front of those top students in the academic field.

Although Sun Dan has opportunistic genes in his character, he wants to take shortcuts and struggles for 30 years. But he still has ambitions in his heart and wants to make a difference, so that he can go through it in vain. Being an official and being a big official is his ultimate ideal.

The apex of the minister is to enter the cabinet as a minister, and the official residence is a product.

But there was an unwritten rule in the Ming Dynasty that if you want to enter the cabinet as a minister, you must look at the results of the imperial examination. A first-class jinshi is a condition, and it should be a Jishi if it is not good. If an ordinary scholar wants to be an assistant minister of the cabinet, you first need to get a good score in the imperial examination, and then enter the Hanlin Academy to observe and study. After a certain number of years of study, he will be sent abroad to work as an official, and then he can enter the cabinet. Such. From the center to the local, and then from the local back to the central, a cycle goes down. There is a big picture. Only when you have grassroots work experience can you achieve a high position in a country.

In a sense, the Ming Dynasty's official selection and personnel system still has a certain degree of scientificity. If history does not change significantly, Jiajing and his entourage should arrive in Beijing by the end of this month.

The new monarch ascends the throne, Vientiane is renewed, and the political situation in the capital will also be adjusted accordingly. There should be a major personnel change in all ministries and departments, and a new monarch and a new policy. Just install your own people. It is a difficult test for those who have a vested interest.

For depressed people who have been suppressed for a long time, it is not a good thing.

Of course, if Sun Dan is willing, with his dragon skills, it is common to be a high-ranking official.

It's just that he is still willing to enter the officialdom from the imperial examination according to the normal way. After all, he is now considered to have a certain reputation in Shilin, and he is a talent who is not too big or small, if he relies on the emperor's grace to enter the office, not only will the pattern be too much and his reputation will also be greatly damaged.

When the new monarch ascended the throne, according to the previous rules, the emperor had to open an enke, hold the imperial examination in advance, and the emperor himself would take the exam. The first thing the emperor did when he ascended the throne was to select the talents he needed. Because it is a personal examination, once the candidates are in the jinshi, because there is no so-called protégé in the field of science or anything... relationship, the background is innocent, and it is also easy to be taken seriously, and this person is compared to crying.

With a grade question bank in hand, Sun Dan has nothing to worry about in the future imperial examination. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, it can be said that the topics that should be published have been exhausted, and each sentence of the Four Books and Five Classics has a corresponding model text. Sun Dan only needs to choose one article to transcribe it to complete the task, not to mention. He also knows what topics will arise in the future autumn and spring.

Zhengde's death was a national mourning, but it may not be a good thing for all the people who read the world, at least one more chance to take the exam.

As soon as the news came out, the morale of the entire Beizhili was gearing up to prepare for the township test in the autumn. Come in and covet the meeting examination and the temple examination of next spring.

The three exams are scheduled together, and the time is very tight. However, this also made it possible for Sun Dan to win three yuan in a year, and he was also full of confidence in it.

There should be no suspense in the imperial examination, and what Sun Dan is thinking about now is how to get along with his future boss.

Although he is a dragon hero, but throughout the ages, there are many dragon heroes who have been killed by the emperor. For example, Nian Qianyao of the Qing Dynasty didn't know how to deal with the political art of the boss, so Yongzheng couldn't bear it, and his reputation was ruined.

As far as Sun Dan knows, Jiajing is not a very good person to get along with. This person is shrewd and capable, and his political methods are extremely clever, and he is also a top person among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. But he was also mean and unkind. There is no room for people.

Sun Dan felt that he had to sort out his thoughts. See how you can go all the way down smoothly in the officialdom, mix one, be rich for a hundred years, and Ze and your descendants.

To be honest, although he has a lot of merit in hand, Sun Dan doesn't think that Jiajing will have any good impression of him. First of all, Jiajing is a qualified emperor. The biggest characteristic of a qualified emperor is that he has no normal people's emotions, and he hates others to put his qualifications in front of him the most, so the so-called Conglong identity is better to mention less.

Secondly, Jiajing is a fanatical Taoist. And Sun Dan wrote "Journey to the West" before, and in that book of admiration for Buddha, it is sometimes extreme, and it is impossible not to arouse Jiajing's disgust. And. Zhengde believes in Buddhism, and Sun Dan often talks about Buddhism with Zhengde when he comes into contact with him. He is also a well-known layman in the palace.

Several factors combined, Sun Dan is likely to be regarded by Jiajing as an enemy of faith.

It's a bit of a bad thing, and we have to find a way to reverse it.

After thinking about it, Sun Dan thought. Both Buddhism and Taoism have been completely secularized in China. Moreover, the ancient doctrines of reading the two schools were also dabbled in, and they were studied as a kind of knowledge, but they were not really beliefs. All Sun Dan needed to do now was to get in touch with the Taoist figures in the capital and be accepted by them. In this way, he can change his image in Jiajing's mind.

Anyway, he was idle, so Sun Dan came to Baiyun Temple, where he could see the scenery and have a preliminary understanding of Taoism.

Thinking of this, Sun Dan simply said to Zhiniang, preparing to live in Baiyunguan for a while. One comes. The time has come to the fourth lunar month, and the weather in Beijing is also a little evil, with more than ten days of sun a year. The temperature rises suddenly, and it is estimated to be at least 267 degrees Celsius. Since Sun Dan practiced Feng Zhen's boxing techniques, his body has become stronger and healthier, and he has gained a lot of weight. In addition, it is not heat-tolerant, and it feels even more uncomfortable, so there is no way to stay in the alley.

Moreover, he also intends to sort out the information in his mind and prepare for the township test in a few months.

After the news of Zhengde's death came out, not only did scholars from all over Shuntianfu enter the capital to seek teachers and friends, but even brought people from all provinces to Beijing to prepare for the next year's meeting. Among them, many people were left in the capital after the last imperial examination and waited, and this wait was several years. Staying in the capital for a long time, it is not a way to live in an inn all the time, and the family with a good family background simply bought a house in the capital to live. Those from poor families live in the major monasteries and Taoist temples in the capital.

Therefore, there are also many scholars living in Baiyun Temple. If you can live in it for a while, you can also find the feeling of reading.

This situation reminded Sun Dan of the time of the college entrance examination. I carried a backpack of books to the county seat. The situation when I was reviewing in a relative's spare room. Looking back on it now. It's a shame.

To Sun Dan's surprise, compared with the magnificent momentum of the Baiyun Temple in later generations. Nowadays, this Taoist temple looks very dilapidated and shabby, which is understandable, after all, many of the buildings here are the products of the Yuan Dynasty, and after 160 years of ups and downs, it has long been moss marks and green, and the grass is full of green. Even when he entered the door, grass grew on the four characters "eternal evergreen" written by Zhao Mengwei on the wall.

However, this dilapidated has a quaint charm. This made Sun Dan, who was accustomed to seeing man-made ancient buildings in later generations, quite interested.

Recently, Baiyun Temple seems to have received an offering, the main hall is being repaired, a circle of scaffolding has been erected outside, and more than a dozen workers are singing the "Qingtian Song" of Changchun Zhenren, knocking and beating non-stop.

Just as I was fascinated, I heard a black fat Taoist priest shouting at a Xiucai-looking person: "Chen Xiucai, this matter must be a little difficult to do." You are also a person with meritorious fame, and there is no problem in eating and living in the temple. But you also know that our Taoist temple is very poor, and the murals on the wall are just a few to be painted by craftsmen at random, and the heavenly officials or something should be suitable for the occasion. There's nothing particular about it. Ordinary craftsmen only pay ten dollars a day. If you want to do it. That's the price. ”

"Shiwen, it's really a bad thing" There is less that Chen surnamed Xiucai is a little depressed: "How can Baiyun Temple say that it is also a thousand-year-old temple, solemn and majestic, it is not suitable to draw some heavenly officials at will, it is not suitable for Yi Xunshu to dry the fine concave and say that Xunshan is not the same body clam said, I am the name of the Chen family, may only be known for a long time?"

The black fat Taoist priest asked, "So, how much do you think is appropriate?" I've heard the name of the Chen family in Yuancheng. ”

"Two walls" takes ten days, can you give me two taels? Chen Xiucai was a little embarrassed. The gentleman does not say anything, and brings up the blockage. He was embarrassed.

"Erliang", haha, Erliang can hire ten painters, and he can paint it in one day, and it is only a penny of silver The black fat Taoist smiled sarcastically: "Chen Xiucai, you are just a side child of the Chen family." If you are a famous player in your family, it is worth this "price". It's a pity."

"What a pity?" Xiucai's face began to turn red, and it could be seen that this person had no life experience and was a very simple person.

"It's a pity that you are not Qiu Shizhou, if Qiu Ying comes to paint these two walls, don't say two or two pins. Even if it's twenty taels. Poor Dao didn't frown. ”

The Qiu Ying and Qiu Shizhou in the mouth of the Dao are the first masters in the world's painting world, and Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin are called the "Four Families of the Ming Dynasty and the Four Families of Wumen" by later generations, also known as the "Four Masters of Tianmen, Shen, Wen and Tang Three Families". Not only to win with painting, but also with poetry inscriptions, as far as painting is concerned. Don, the enemy is close.

Among them, Qiu Ying is the best at landscapes, and his most famous masterpiece is "Qingming Riverside Picture". Of course. Different from Zhang Zeduan's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" in the Northern Song Dynasty, Qiu Ying's "Shanghe Picture at Qingming Festival" depicts the scenery of Suzhou. When Bo fled from Beijing to Shenyang, he brought four pairs of "Riverside Pictures at Qingming Festival", among which in addition to Zhang Zeduan's one, there was also Qiu Ben's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival".

Tang Bohu is now in his forties, has been famous for many years, is a famous player in Jiangnan wants to be, according to Sun Dan's knowledge, Tang Yin Jiajing will die in three years. Now he is old, and his creative peak has passed. And Qiu Ying is still a young man in his second year, and he is the leading figure of the Wumen painting school. Even in the northern painting world, his reputation was like thunder, and he was a first-class grandmaster-level figure at that time.

The black fat Taoist priest took Qiu Ying out to talk about things, obviously ridiculing this Chen surnamed Xiucai.

That Chen Xiucai looked like he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, he looked very embarrassed, his shoes were torn to reveal his thumbs, and the green shirt on his body had been washed white. Fortunately, this Tsing Yi is Xiucai's uniform, which is released by the state, and finally maintains a little dignity as a scholar. It is estimated that as long as you take off this coat, you don't know what the underwear inside will look like.

He should be a poor talent, otherwise it would be impossible for him to live in a remote Taoist temple like Baiyun Temple. It is estimated that he will also paint a few danqing, seeing that the Taoist temple hall is being built, and he wants to paint murals on the wall, he is itchy for a while, and wants to earn some pocket money. But I don't want to, the Taoist priests of Baiyun Temple have no requirements for the quality of the murals, and they only want to be cheap and refuse to spend a lot of money

Chen Xiucai is obviously an honest person, but honest people also have some temper. Hearing the black fat Taoist priest's ridicule, he was so angry that his face turned red, and said: "Daoist, what you said is unreasonable, there is only one Qiu Shizhou in the world" You can't invite him from Jiangnan, right? ”

The black fat Taoist priest had already seen that the show surnamed Chen was not pleasing to the eye. Wen Yan sneered: "Hehe, so to speak." Do you think you can draw better than Qiu Ying? As far as this Taoist knows, your Yuancheng Chen family seems to be painting New Year's paintings, and it is estimated that you can draw a few strokes of Guan Gong, Qin Qiong, Zhong Xunian, Wang or something, and the most homogeneous Qiu Ying is compared to the green landscape, flowers and birds, can you compare? . After speaking, he waved his sleeves and raised his length.

Chen surnamed Xiucai was so angry that he gritted his teeth and stayed on the spot.

Listening to Chen Xiucai and the black fat Taoist priest talking for a long time, Sun Dan was amused in his heart, and was about to leave, but his heart moved.

Yuancheng Chen's family, who painted, isn't this the family of Empress Chen, the first queen of Jiajing?

Speaking of Empress Xiaojie Chen, this woman's life is very bitter. She was born into a small family. The Chen family is a small family in Yuancheng. There have been scholars in the clan, and her father has also been a six-grade petty official. However, the Chen family has been a good hand for generations, and the New Year's paintings painted by their own family during the New Year's holidays are very good.

Empress Chen finally became a queen for a few years. But because of his personality, Wang Lie is a character who doesn't rub sand in his eyes, and he has a bad relationship with Jiajing because of his personality. When Jiajing was in the seventh year, one day. She was sitting with Jiajing, and Concubine Zhang and Concubine Fang offered tea. The emperor was tempted to get angry, grabbed the hands of the two concubines and said with a smile: "What a pair of warm little hands like jade!" Empress Chen next to her was jealous, and threw the teacup on the ground in a fit of anger, which made Jiajing unhappy. So, the emperor was furious. The queen was shocked, she was pregnant at the time, failed to keep the child, and fell into her mother's collapse.

Sun Dan didn't expect to meet Empress Chen's clansmen in Baiyun Temple, and he was a little surprised, so he had the heart to make friends. Although the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty did not allow relatives to interfere in politics, it is impossible for this Chen Xiucai to be a big official in the future, but this person's conduct is also good.

Thinking of this, Sun smiled and walked over. Said: "Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second, this Dao Chang is a bit too much to compare you with the ten continents." It seems that he has just heard Qiu Ying's name, but he uses it to bury people, which is hateful. Let's go, I'll take this bad breath for you. ”

Chen Xiucai saw that a Xiucai came, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Under Chen Rong, the word Shuzhi, and also ask my brother Taizun's surname."

Sun Dan grabbed Chen Oak's hand: "Brother Chen, you and I will talk later, let's go for a walk, let's find Wang Li, the master of this Baiyun Temple, to comment, no matter what, we have to be ashamed of this old bull's nose, and let him know that our Beizhili reading seeds are powerful." ”