The second major event also started because of a book

The book is called Nine Talks about Wei University, but the author is Zhang Yansheng!!

Zhang Yansheng himself is among the countless young talents of the Chu Dynasty, and his prestige status is only below Xiao Mo, and he is the person who is most likely to win the first place in this palace examination in addition to Xiao Mo, and his every move is the attention of the world. 【Reading.com】

And when the palace exam was approaching, when all the candidates were trying to make a name for themselves, Zhang Yansheng and Xiao Mo were very low-key from beginning to end.

Xiao Mo's current prestige is already in the ascendant in the literary world, and it is normal to be low-key, but Zhang Yansheng's reputation is not as good as Xiao Mo's, and he is also so low-key, which is equivalent to giving Xiao Mo the position of champion, but it makes people curious.

After all, at the time of the palace examination, when His Majesty is now ranked, the impact of a person's fame and prestige is too great.

Now, Zhang Yansheng has finally made a move, and he has attracted the attention of countless people.

And Zhang Yansheng did not disappoint. Although the book of Nine Talks on Yong of Ai University is only more than ten thousand Yu, it only describes some of its understanding of the book of Fork University, but the novelty and incisiveness of the views have attracted the appreciation of countless literati, especially the influence of Confucianism and Taoism when commenting on the book of Xia Yishu of the General University. For a time, in the land of the capital, there were literati and Confucian scholars everywhere discussing for the nine talks of the Fork University.

Then, Shan Zuotang, Xu Fengming, Liu Shan and other people in the literary world personally applauded this nine talks about slacking off the university

Of course, most of these literary people are friends with Yongxiang Zhang Qian.

But it is undeniable that the Nine Talks of Ai University itself is a masterpiece with great influence, and it was quickly affirmed by Shilin.

With this Nine Talks of the University, Zhang Yansheng's prestige and fame have been greatly improved again, although it has not yet reached the level that can be compared with Xiao Mo, but because the palace examination is approaching, he chose to publish the book at this time, and the momentum was great in a short period of time, but the benefits to him were obvious.

On the one hand, seeing through this is just Zhang Yansheng's politeness, and secondly, he disdains to use the merits of others to make a name for himself, Xiao Mo finally rejected Zhang Yansheng's suggestion to add his name to the writers.

However, looking at this article of Nine Talks about the University, Xiao Mo admired Zhang Yansheng's talent and learning, but also secretly smiled bitterly, knowing that the reason why Zhang Yansheng chose this time to come out was precisely to offset Xiao Mo's excessive prestige in the literary world as much as possible on the occasion of the palace examination, and the various adverse effects and pressures brought to him.

In fact, Zhang Yansheng has indeed done it, although no one has yet called him a master of Confucianism because of this Nine Talks of Fork University, but Zhang Yansheng's knowledge and intelligence, as well as his talent, have once again been affirmed by the world.

If Xiao Mo let the book of Confession Science come out at this time, it would certainly be able to quickly dissipate Zhang Yansheng's momentum, but unfortunately, although Xiao Mo and Emperor Chu Ling have been working hard in the past two months, the book "Fork Science" is still only half completed, far from reaching the point where it can be published.

Although it's a pity, Xiao Mo doesn't care, although the Nine Talks of Fork University makes Zhang Yansheng's reputation and fame for a while, but it is far from threatening Xiao Mo, at most the two cancel each other, not to mention, Xiao Mo himself also has the idea of competing with Zhang Yansheng with his true strength.

In this way, when the entire capital was discussing the two books of Fork Changshengwei and Jiu Tan Yong of Miao University, when everyone was guessing the true identity of the Huangshan monks and praising Zhang Yansheng's talent and knowledge, when countless people were arguing about who would finally win the championship after the palace examination, the long-awaited palace examination of countless people finally began.

In the Chu Dynasty, the palace examination was divided into two parts, which were the preliminary examination and the real palace examination.

The pre-examination is the same as the written test in the state examination, and it is also to assess the candidates' abilities such as lunce, jingyi, fulu, miscellaneous studies, and coping, and it is still a total of three days before and after, but the difficulty is much greater than that of the state test.

After passing the preliminary examination, the name of the Jinshi is generally nine out of ten, but it is necessary to line up in the ranking, go to the Xuanzheng Hall in the palace, accept the emperor's personal assessment, and finally determine the ranking by the emperor himself.

Because the pre-examination is not only related to the fame of the Jinshi, but also related to the relationship between the positions before and after the queue during the real palace examination, but no one dares to take it lightly.

On this day, the initial pre-test finally began.

Xiao Mo, under the send-off of Deng Shangquan and others, together with Xiao Huan and Fan Guan, came to the school in the capital and waited

The schools in the capital occupy a very wide area, and they have their own examination rooms, which are more than enough to accommodate thousands of candidates.

This day can be called one of the most lively days in the capital, thousands of candidates, all famous talents from all over the state, have gathered here, plus the scholars and servants of these candidates, as well as passers-by who came to see the excitement, dense, noisy, crowded.

Xiao Mo didn't want to be crowded with people, so he just stood outside the crowd with Xiao Huan and Fan Guan and waited silently. At the same time, he turned his head and looked around, trying to find a few acquaintances, but the crowd in front of him was dense, and he could only see a piece of black oppression.

In the face of such a scene where countless talents gathered, even Xiao Huan and Fan Guan were nervous, they were very nervous, and the countless candidates in front of them were all young talents from all over the state, and compared with them, the two of them had no advantage.

In fact, few people know that this article is not original to Zhang Yansheng, and it also has Xiao Mo's credit.

Back then, Zhang Yansheng and Xiao Mo talked about literature and Taoism in Shanxian County for many days, and they were quite similar. When it comes to tasting the book of university shock, there are many exchanges between the two, and they have benefited each other a lot. And the reason why Zhang Yansheng wrote this Nine Talks on Miao University was inspired by the conversation between the two at that time.

It can be said that there are a lot of Xiao Mo's views in Luozhong.

Before the advent of the Nine Talks of Jun University, Zhang Yansheng had brought the original manuscript of the Nine Talks of the University to visit Xiao Mo, firstly, to let Xiao Mo help revise it, and secondly, to include Xiao Mo's name in the writer of the Nine Talks of Fork University with him.

Of course, whether this is Zhang Yansheng's true thoughts is unknown.

And after Xiao Mo carefully read this article of Nine Talks about Love, he found that he had nothing to revise, after all, this book was written by Zhang Yansheng after a year of poverty, and all the arguments and circumstantial evidence were already very perfect.

Tong Ran, in this Nine Talks on Loving University, although there are views put forward by Xiao Mo, they have all been thought and extended by Zhang Yansheng, and they are very different. In addition, Zhang Yansheng's own views in this article also account for a larger share.

It can be said that although this Nine Talks on Loving the University carries some views of Xiao Mo from later generations, it is full of traces of Zhang Yansheng.

"Zirou, you have to remember what you said! If Fan Guan and I fall off the list, it will depend on you for food and accommodation in the capital for the next three years

Xiao Frame's face was faintly pale, in order to ease the tension in his heart, he forced Xiao Mo to joke.

On the other side, Fan Guan snorted coldly: "I have no ambition, but I have already been defeated before I fight." I am different from a stupid person like you, but I have been studying hard all these days, and I have asked Zirou and Mr. Nada for advice, and I have made a lot of improvements, I don't believe that I will not even be able to pass a mere preliminary examination. ”

Having said that, the nervousness on Fan Guan's face was not much less than that of Xiao Yuan.

Hearing Fan Guan's ridicule, Xiao Huan said angrily: "Don't be arrogant now, when the preliminary test results come out, you will be on the list, and it will be up to you to see what you say!"

Fan Guan fought back: "You are treating others with yourself again."

"You......

In fact, the mutual sarcasm and arguments between the two are also a means they use to relieve the tension in their hearts.

Seeing that the nervousness on the faces of the two of them during the argument was slightly relieved, Xiao Mo shook his head and smiled.

Speaking of which, don't look at Xiao Huan and Fan Guan, who are constantly bickering all day long, but the tacit understanding between the two is excellent, and they have been sneering and arguing with each other for so many years.

When the two of them were arguing to the same extent, Xiao Mo decided to give them a little more confidence, and said, "A few days ago, Senior Tian gave you questions, can you do those questions?" ”

Hearing Xiao Mo ask, both of them nodded.

Xiao Mo smiled slightly, and said: "It's good to do it, if my expectations are good, the questions in this year's palace examination will be somewhat similar to those questions that Senior Tian came up with for you."

After a pause, Xiao Mo said again: "Moreover, as long as the two of you can pass the initial preliminary examination, then I am sure that your final ranking will not be bad."

Xiao Frame and Fan Guan were both stunned, not understanding why Xiao Mo was so sure.

Just as he was about to ask, there was a sudden commotion on the other end of the crowd, and a commotion sounded.

"The Holy Prince of Zhang Yan is here.

"That is Zhang Xian Shenggongzi!!

"It turns out that he is the son of Zhang Yansheng, hey, with him, the fate of the top champion in this palace examination has been determined early."

"Nonsense, in my opinion, everyone Xiao deserves to win the first place.

"I also think it's Xiao everyone."

At this moment, with the appearance of Zhang Yansheng, for a while, there were countless discussions, and they were in their ears.

Unlike Xiao Mo, who has always been low-key and almost stays at home, Zhang Yansheng is good at dancing with long sleeves and is good at communicating, in the capital, there are countless people who know him, unlike Xiao Mo, although his fame is still above Zhang Yansheng, but standing here at the moment, no one knows him.

Xiao Mo and the others all turned their heads to look in the direction of the commotion, but saw that Zhang Yansheng was under the escort of several strong men, standing quietly outside the crowd like them, different from the cordial and casual when he got along with Xiao Mo and the others before, Zhang Yansheng at this moment was even more handsome, faintly with a bit of self-appreciating arrogance, although it attracted the attention of countless people, but no one dared to approach.

Everyone knows that this temple exam is just a competition between Xiao Mo and Zhang Yansheng, and others can only work hard for the third place Tanhua at most, so as soon as Zhang Yansheng appeared, thousands of candidates in the audience gathered their eyes on Zhang Yansheng's identity, or envy, or jealousy, or admiration.

However, Zhang Yansheng didn't care about the audience's gaze, with a hint of unpredictable smile on the corner of his mouth, he looked around the people in front of him lightly, and then turned his head to look south.

That's the direction of the Royal Palace.

Obviously, although he came to participate in the preliminary examination, Zhang Yansheng's heart was already waiting for the day when the real palace examination began.

"Or, this is the real Zhang Xusheng Bar"

Looking at the faint arrogance on Zhang Xusheng's face, Xiao Mo secretly thought.

Zhang Yansheng's time was very accurate, not long after he came to the outside of the school, the door of the school slowly opened, and the preliminary examination finally began.