"It's getting hotter and hotter."

The folding fan in Fang Xing's hand shook for a while, and there was no sweat on his forehead.

"It's really rare to listen to the rain." With curiosity, You Alcohol looked up and down.

The ten-foot square hut had only one table. The furnishings are very simple, with rammed earth as the wall and blue brick as the ground, and unpainted beams and rafters can be seen overhead. There are no lacquered tables and chairs, no ornaments, only two bookshelves full of books, which add a little bookish fragrance to the humble cottage.

If you only look at the room, it is difficult for anyone to imagine that this is the most distinctive new store in Tokyo in the past two years, with only a separate private room, and a fixed number of guests are received every day. Even if it's booked, it usually waits until seven or eight days later.

But the most rare thing is that when the sun is hot, there is a rain curtain in front of the house, and only listening to the sound of water falling, my heart is cool.

Through the bamboo curtain on the door, you can see the corner of the waterwheel outside. The water drawn from afar by the bamboo and wood waterway was lifted to the roof by the waterwheel and flowed down the tiles.

The waterwheel rotated silently, and the well water brought up by the wooden bucket was poured on the roof, and it sounded very rhythmically one after another.

The roof is running with water, and the water curtain in front of the window hits the bluestone slab in front of the eaves, and the water falls out, like a clear sound in the hollow valley.

Fang Xing gently shook the folding fan and listened to the rain Xiaozhu, this name sounds vulgar at first glance, and only when you see it with your own eyes can you know how rare it is.

Enjoying the flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, listening to the rain in summer, and watching the snow in winter, the four courtyards open and close on time, no matter which season, only a quarter of the territory receives guests. And no matter which courtyard, each wing room is built with great attention to privacy, or bamboo hedges, or tree walls, or poolside rockeries, to cover the box, unless you deliberately look for it, even if you go out of the box, it is difficult to see other guests.

"Okay, let's drink and see. Things can't run away here. ”

Fang Xing put down the fan and invited his old friend who had not seen him for a long time to sit down. On the table are some light dishes, and even the drinks are crisp fruit wine.

Lifting the plain porcelain pot with no pattern and pouring wine for Youol, Fang Xing smiled: "In summer, I only listen to the rain and build a small building." When you come back in autumn, it's Mochizuki. ”

"The one with a glass roof?"

"Jiefu, you've heard about it too?"

"I asked in the museum today, and I was dragged and talked about for a long time, which is quite enviable."

Fang Xing Ha said with a smile: "That's the one!" It has the same glass roof as the newly renovated greenhouse in the palace. On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is clear, looking up at the moon in the house, I don't know what the poetry is, but thinking that since the ages, only today's people can enjoy such fun, and my heart is very happy. ”

You Yu smiled and didn't speak. To be content with ease and pleasure, at this time, it is inevitably out of place. But too much of my mind is on enjoyment,

"In fact, the most interesting thing about Mochizuki is that when it rains, you can clearly see the rain overhead, and you can sit and drink peacefully. Fang Xing raised his glass.

You mellow raised his glass and responded: "It is said that the present is not as good as the ancient." In fact, there are places that are not in the past. ”

"Because people's hearts are not ancient."

Putting down the wine glass, You Yu asked, "What's the news in Beijing recently?" ”

"Does Zheng Dali count?"

You Yu shook his head: "I've heard a lot, but if the court doesn't decide on the head coach one day, it's empty talk." ”

"But there's a lot of it in the newspapers."

The candidate for the coach of the southwest side has not yet come out. The Tang newspaper of the imperial court and the newspapers outside were all criticizing Gao's rebellion.

"If the name is not right, it is not good." You Mellow sighed softly.

The imperial court wants a name, of course, it can only do this.

In fact, if you exclude the article of mastering national politics, Gao Zhisheng and Gao Shengtai can actually be regarded as loyal ministers of Dali who put things right. In the third year of Yuanfeng, the rebel minister Yang Yizhen killed the lord Duan Lianyi and established himself as the king, Gao Zhisheng set up Duan Shouhui as the lord of the country, and ordered his son Gao Shengtai to kill Yang Yizhen. As long as he does not usurp the throne one day, he will be a loyal minister who will set things right.

If their reputation is not ruined, the imperial court will not have the face to send troops directly into battle. Although the side of Emperor Taizu's couch is good, the jade axe demarcation is thrown aside, and then borrowing Taizu's original words, it is useless to make people laugh.

“…… What about the atmospheric pressure copper ball experiment? ”

"Is it the experiment that Xiang Gong wrote about in Nature last September?" You Yu groaned, "Halfway to Beijing, I have heard that someone has successfully verified it. ”

"It was indeed a success, and it was in front of the gate of the country."

This is an experiment proposed by Hangang in the journal Nature to verify the existence of atmospheric pressure. Hengqu Academy was the first to verify it, and then a group of good deeds repeated it again in front of the main gate of Guozijian,

Two hemispherical brass bowls of the same size, together form a tightly knit copper ball, with only a small hole for air extraction. The vacuum pump was used to pump out the air in the copper ball, and eight horses were used, but the copper ball could not be pulled apart.

"At the beginning, the prime minister confirmed the existence of atmospheric pressure with a mercury column, but some people still did not admit it. And there are the most fallacies in the Guozi prison, saying that if the atmospheric pressure really exists, the little moth has to carry several times the weight, how can it survive? There are also prisoners who said in prison that they can't lift their hands and shoulders, and they are not as good as the peasants who can carry heavy burdens. ”

You Yu shook his head, this is his own death, to put it tactfully, he can defend himself in the future. To put it so clearly, didn't you pack yourself up and give it away to others to please the prime minister?

"I'm in Xijing, and I've heard people say that the heavens will descend on the Si people, and if you don't do it, you can't be a heavy load."

Fang Xing laughed: "This is quite good at talking. ”

"In fact, it has become a habit, but I can't feel it anymore."

"Setsuo is right. Now that the copper ball experiment has come out, Guozijian has lost face again, and he will get used to it after a few more times. ”

You Alcohol shook his head secretly, Guozijian is a nest of new learning, although most of the students are just for Jinshi, but there are still many die-hard members of the New Party. In the eyes of Han Gang's henchmen like Fang Xing, it is the lair of sworn enemies. However, in the eyes of outsiders, he is also Han Gang's pro-party, and he can't stand by and watch the excitement like a person who has nothing to do.

"Hengqu Academy is becoming more and more powerful now, and the academy in the world should be the first."

"With the Queen Mother's green eyes and Han Xianggong's care, how can Jinling and Songyang compare?"

Jinling Academy and Songyang Academy, the two academies have the same strong political color as Hengqu Academy. After Wang Anshi became a scholar, he went to Jinling Academy every two days to give lectures. And Songyang Academy has always been the nest of the old party.

In this way, Hengqu Academy, together with Jinling Academy and Songyang Academy, has become one of the three major academies in Shilin.

In comparison, the time-honored Bailu Cave, Yuelu and other academies have declined. In the recent Yingtian Academy, Renzong changed the school to the school and became the Yingtianfu Academy, and then the Yingtianfu was promoted to Nanjing, and then changed to the Nanjing Guozijian, which also lost its academic status while becoming an official school.

You Yu came from Luoyang, and he knew the situation of Songyang Academy very well.

With Hengqu Academy in front, Songyang Academy offered a book to the imperial court earlier and asked the Queen Mother to get the same treatment. And Jinling Academy doesn't seem to be willing to be left behind.

"But it's not as simple as the word poor construction......" You Alcohol couldn't help but sigh in his heart, in Songyang Academy, the impetuousness became heavier and heavier. Da Cheng and Xiao Cheng couldn't forcibly restrain the students in the academy.

"It's a lot worse. If nothing else, it's far behind in terms of money. ”

Fang Xing was in high spirits, but You Alcohol didn't like the smell of copper mixed with the academy.

After casually coping with two sentences, he changed the topic: "Speaking of which, what is that vacuum pump?" Vacuum is easy to understand, but what can be done with the pump? ”

You Alcohol has always admired Han Gang. In his opinion, Han Gang's talent is all-encompassing, and the way of nature is in Han Gang, which can implicate all things, and nothing can be taken off. It's only not good for the ancients, thinking that the present is better than the ancient, and even the word can be created, and the word pump has never been seen in ancient times, so I can't figure it out.

"Jiefu can't figure it out? …… Actually, it's all the same. The pump is different from the cannon of the artillery, and at the same time, it is made by the public, and the cannon word is easy to understand, but the pump word is difficult to understand. It's obviously a matter of water, and I don't know why it has become a pumping machine. But it is not as clear as the artillery 'artillery'. ”

"Have you ever asked the prime minister?"

"Where do you dare to trouble each other with such a trivial matter?" Fang Xing shook his head, he was a staff member for Han Gang back then, but it was just the distance between the guests and the magistrate, but now it is the gap between ordinary courtiers and prime ministers. After thinking about it, he smiled again, "Actually, it's a little incomprehensible, why is it still the 'gun', it hasn't been changed to the fire!" ”

You Alcohol could only shake his head, also not understanding.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Fang Xing dipped his fingers in the wine and drew a few strokes on the table: "Speaking of life, this 'concrete', the husband still knows the way." ”

"Cement bar."

"It's a stone made of cement. The artificial stone is a mixture of all things, so it is called concrete. ”

You Alcohol nodded. Tong Tong Tong Tong, the word concrete, can be regarded as the best in the production of words.

I don't know when it started, but the cement gradually increased. Originally, it was said that it was only the wealthy people in Jiangnan who were afraid of the theft of the masonry in the tomb wall, so they switched to cement to build the wall instead of masonry. But now. The cement fired from the kiln, mixed with yellow sand and stones, and solidified in the pouring mold, became a solid thing like a stone.

"If it weren't for the fact that cement was too expensive, it could have been used directly to build a city wall."

"But who's going to pay for that?" Fang Xing said with a smile, "Cement is much more expensive than loess. ”

"If you build a bridge foundation, you can't save this money."

"Nature."

The rammed earth wall is to add loess to the middle of two plywoods and tamp it with a hammer. The cement wall is also built with several plywood, and then the mixed cement is poured in the middle, and it is formed after solidification, which is stronger than the rammed earth wall. If the city wall is built entirely of cement, it is a whole body, which is equivalent to a huge stone. It's artillery, which can smash rammed earth and brick-clad walls, but how to destroy a stone wall that has become a whole block and several feet thick?

But the price of cement is too expensive, and the biggest use of cement now is still used to paint walls and plaster floors. Another way to use it is to glue a pile of broken porcelain pieces or even iron nails with cement on the wall. And concrete, only used to build piers and foundations, the biggest advantage of cement is that it is easier to solidify when encountering water, the stone arch bridge is erected on both banks, and the piers and foundations of the stone arch are undertaken, and the cement is the most reassuring.

The two drank and talked, and the strangeness that they hadn't seen for several years gradually bridged in the staggering.

Waiting until the moon was on the willow tops, Fang Xing and You Alcohol set foot outside the house.

When he came out and looked up, he saw the huge waterwheel and the water curtain in front of the house, and you sighed, "It's really changing with each passing day." ”

"If you look back at it in 10 years, it may have become commonplace."

"In less than ten years, two or three years will be a big change."

……………………

"Am I mistaken?"

"Probably not."

"But that's Han Xianggong, right?"

"And the Privy Seal."

"They went in?"

"It's in!"

Downstairs in Xuande, in front of the hospital, the voices of hundreds of court officials were like dozens of wasps gathering together to flap their wings.

After Wang Anshi left office, the court became very peaceful. There was no fierce power struggle, except for the competition for new seats in the two provinces, and there were some discords, other times, they were all at peace.

New Party officials, when they should have been promoted, were still promoted, and the government did not interfere because of their status and inclinations.

In the past few years, there have been many complaints in the New Party about Wang Anshi's strong promotion of Lu Huiqing at the beginning, so that he broke with Han Gang, and Zhang Dan's position in the New Party has become more stable.

However, the scene of the two bigwigs in the East Mansion and the West Mansion sitting together and talking has been almost invisible in the past two years. Unless it was in the small hall of the inner east gate or the Chongzheng Hall and other places where the discussion was held, there was no communication between the two at all.

But today, Han Gang and Zhang Dian rushed in front of the early court, one after the other, and entered the courtyard to be leaked. made many court officials drop their glasses.

However, the reason for Han Gang and Zhang Dian was that it was too hot in the morning, and there was ice in the courtyard of Zai Fu to cool down.

After a little greeting, the two had no topic for a while. There was silence in the hall. Han Gang drank tea quietly, and Zhang Dian also lowered his head and drank tea. If someone comes in at this time and sees this scene, there will be a burst of chickens and dogs jumping in the middle of the court.

After a moment, Zhang Duan coughed, breaking the embarrassment.

"I heard that Yukun, do you plan to change the imperial examination?"

Han Gang nodded: "It's this idea." ”

"How are you going to change it?"

"If someone else asked, I would have thought it was for the children of the family. Brother Zihou came to ask, but there would be no misunderstanding. However, Brother Zihou really wants to know the Tao? ”

Zhang Tun's two sons, Zhang Zhi and Zhang Yuan, will participate in the imperial examination in the next subject. With their talents, although it is not easy for the first and second first, there is still hope for the third. As Zhang Dan, it is also not difficult to get some of the content of the exam questions in advance, but Zhang Dan's character will never reach out for his son.

"Is it to abolish the new meaning of the Three Classics?"

Han Gang shook his head: "In terms of acting bravely, Han Gang is not as good as Jiayue, and this matter will have to be talked about later." ”

"Could it be that the subjects have changed?"

"It is a taboo for the court to change the order at night, and the Ministry of Rites and the Palace Test have been changed. As for the subjects, they have already been agreed, so why should they be changed? ”

"Then what's not to hear?"

"It's a test!" Hangang Road.

"Do you want to change it to a 100-point system?" Zhang Dian also asked with a smile.

"Yes." Han Gang nodded in acknowledgement.

"It's nothing." Zhang Dan said.

The Ministry of Rites tried to change the 100-point system, which was Han Gang's initiative.

That is to say, when it comes to the most critical ritual test, even if there are many errors and omissions in the scripture and meaning part, the candidates will not be brushed off. As long as the subsequent policy is well written, you can still get high marks and get the opportunity to become a jinshi.

This gives all the scholars who are not part of the new school a chance to become a jinshi without learning the new school.

In this regard, there are many criticisms in Guozijian, but not only the disciples of other schools, but also the tribute students of other Luzhou, but most of them welcome it with both hands.

Compared with the long-term edification of Xinxue in Guozijian, the local scholars are extremely lacking in excellent teachers, and many people do not understand the interpretation of Xinxue, which makes many of them directly in the Jingyi part, and they are brushed off. If the scriptures are converted into a part of the scores, there are quite a few tributes who are confident that they can recover the scores in terms of strategy.

The most critical point is that after the 100-point system, the proportion of the score of the question has become the key, if the part of the scriptures and meanings is only converted into 20 points, and the question part is 80 points, what is the use of learning the "New Meaning of the Three Classics", the examiner's tendency determines everything. If each accounts for half of it, then no one dares to let go of Jingyi without saying it.

However, Han Gang did not do this, and instead adopted sixty against three five. Thirty-five points for scripture and righteousness, sixty points for strategy, and a volume score in addition to five points for font and neatness. The new school did not rebound too much against this, and the scholars of other schools also felt that they were a little more advanced than before.

The Ministry of Rites and the Temple Examination have been changed, and then the interpretation test is actually nothing.

The content and syllabus of the examination remain unchanged, and the examination method adopts a 100-point system. Even if it is no longer limited to one of the three major exams of Jinshike, but starts with the local examination, it is not surprising news. Since the Ministry of Rites Examination and the Temple Examination have used a 100-point system to judge the superiority, the scholars have also known that there will be such a day.

"If only that's all there is." Zhang's eyes deepened, "That's nothing. ”

"In the next exam, I plan to take a general knowledge test in addition to the scriptures and theories."

"What common sense?!" Zhang Duan asked in a deep voice.

"Common sense in "Kindergarten Qionglin".