Chapter 92: The Ceremony of Talent Selection (2)
With the noise of one after another and the sound of "long live" bowing, the huge team participating in the talent ceremony walked for nearly half an hour, and finally arrived at the Jinling School Palace. At this time, at the back of the team, the people had already surrounded the back of the forbidden army, and they also moved towards the school palace step by step.
Jiang Wenwei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, who followed the team, signaled to You Jianyan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, who had been waiting at the gate of the Academy for a long time, You Jianyan waved his hand back, and the band that had been waiting for a long time immediately played the song "Cloud Gate". The sound of that music is naturally resounding and reverberating the world.
When the emperor goes out to worship, it is natural that typical music such as sacrificial music, court meeting music, and halogen music are indispensable to show the grandeur of the ceremony and the majesty of the emperor. Here, the court music "Cloud Gate" song that has been used in the Zhou Dynasty has been used to this day.
In the peaceful, elegant and pure music of Zhongzheng, Jiang Wenwei and You Jianyan took the lead and knelt down respectfully, and immediately, the officials, forbidden troops, guards, and ordinary citizens at the scene all knelt down, and the mountain cry of "Long live, long live, long live, long live" shook the audience.
"Excuse me!" Li Jing stood up and said in a loud voice.
After the on-site personnel stood up one after another, Li Jing turned to face Shi Xubai and Lin Feng, who were kneeling beside him, and asked them to get up and go first. But the two of them were not fools, and after getting up, they shrank back in unison, and respectfully bent down to ask His Majesty to go first.
After three salutes and three concessions like this, Li Jing walked down the jade chariot with a helpless face, and Lin Feng followed Shi Xubai down the jade chariot with a smile on his face.
Li Jing pulled Shi Xubai and Lin Feng with both hands, and slowly entered the school palace from the middle gate, and a group of ministers followed, divided into two columns and entered from the small doors on both sides, and walked into the school palace that had been reorganized as new, and stood in front of the majestic Minglun Hall to discuss the official order.
After the team finished entering, two rows of heavily armed forbidden troops immediately moved sideways, forming two human walls, blocking at the gate of the school palace, and forming a hollow defensive phalanx with the forbidden army in front of the door. In the distance, the wall of people was tightly squeezed around the phalanx, trying to look inside. This is also one of the security details that was improved after following Lin Feng's suggestion, in the past, the gate of the school palace would definitely be closed, and the people would be blocked away by layers of forbidden soldiers.
In the continuous sound of music, Li Jing, the king of Qi, stepped forward and stepped into the ranks of ministers, bowing to Li Jing to go forward to incense, to pay tribute to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and to the ancestors of Confucius.
Li Jing took the three pillars of long incense from Li Jingsui's hands, held them respectfully in front of his chest, bowed three times in a row, and then slowly inserted the long incense into a huge square incense tripod. In the curling smoke of Changxiang, Li Jing took three steps back, knelt on top of a yellow **, and respectfully kowtowed three times. The ministers behind Li Jing also pushed the gold mountain, poured the jade pillar, and bowed down together.
At this time, the music also stopped, and the scene was quiet, only the heavy breathing of a group of people could be heard.
"The world is for the public, select the virtuous and capable! The Datang Bao Da Gengxu New Year Talent Ceremony starts now! After everyone knelt down and stood up, Li Jingsui raised his voice and officially opened the main ceremony of the ceremony with a famous sentence in the "Book of Rites".
The process of the ritual is very complicated, but the content is actually very simple, first of all, the Zheng Doctor Shi Xubai read out the "Tang Dynasty Talents", with his own example, to describe the importance and great role of the Southern Tang Dynasty reform, and encourage the world's talents to recognize the Lord, vote for the Mingjun, and participate in the grand event.
"Theory of Talent" is mainly written by Shi Xubai, and Han Xizai has edited it many times, and it is very eloquent. Since then, Liao Jusu's "Talent Sparse", Han Xizai's "Telling the World of Talents" and Shi Xubai's "Theory of Talents" have been called the "Three Theories of Talents" of the Southern Tang Dynasty Reform.
In the atmosphere of attention, Shi Xubai puffed up his breath and recited loudly: "I once heard that there are phoenixes in birds, dragons in fish, zhizhi in grass, liquor in springs, Si Jiejiarui should respond, and Chang Ji Xin."
Xi Lou respects cloth clothes, and speaks to Hanzu; Cao Caoze, Chen Mou Yu Lu Gong; Anomie increases and Xiang's is not prosperous; Lu Wang, and the Zhou Dynasty was overpowered.
The priest knows the truth of the people, which is enough to reward the goodness of the Ming Jun and restore the joy and virtue of the sundae. Make the people from afar qualified, and the truth is good...... It is the talent of the state to control the chaos, and it can practice the position of the auxiliary of the humerus...... The picture of the sages is the same in ancient and modern times...... Treat all countries Xianzhen, the four seas are like a stone, Xie and heaven and earth, and the Tang Dynasty is prosperous......"
The high-spirited oath and the sonorous and powerful voice of Shi Xubai shattered the silence of the scene and the time and space that seemed to have never been seen since eons. The voice passed through the space between the Minglun Hall and the gate of the School Palace, and was sporadically imprinted into the ears of many silent people outside the Jinling School Palace, and the magical power contained in it seemed to be resonating with the power in everyone's heart, trembling together.
In the silence of the scene, the second and third items of the ceremony were carried out, and Jiang Wenwei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, read out the application method of ten questions on the spot, and then Zhou Zong, the chief examiner of the ceremony, read out the order set by the Tang Academy of Sciences.
As they read out, the huge patches on the outer wall of the school palace were removed one by one, revealing a pair of announcements with the same content in front of the crowd. The application method of the ten questions for recruiting talents is not unusual, and the announcement three days ago has basically mentioned it, but the setting of the Academy of Sciences is a fresh addition, which immediately caused a slight commotion among the neighboring crowd.
The ceremony came to the last item, and the most important content came, Li Jing personally preached the "Datang Reform System" on the spot.
This system is written by Jiang Wenwei, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, with five and six classics, quoting scriptures, starting from the tradition of attaching importance to talents in the Southern Tang Dynasty, to the admiration and desire for talents in the world, to the current intention of change, to the expectation of the future prosperity of the country, and then to the expectations and requirements of the chief examiner.
Jiang Wenwei's literary style is obviously not as good as Shi Xubai and Han Xizai, but on the whole, it is also powerful. The sentences that seemed a little awkward, but when Li Jing, who was full of solemnity, read it, it also seemed to be full of righteousness and majesty.
The scene was extremely quiet, there was no noise, only Li Jing's voice stirred among the trees and towering temples in the sky. During this period, the easy-to-understand concepts such as "only the right to move", "eclectic talents", and "all beings treat each other equally and treat everyone equally" proposed by Lin Feng and mixed in the article quickly imprinted into the minds of every minister and people on the scene.
Lin Feng stood in the ranks of the courtiers, listening to Li Jing's suppressed voice, but his heart was a little dazed. At this point, the reform of the Southern Tang Dynasty has officially begun, and the Long March has finally taken an extremely solid first step, but the long road is long, and this change is as short and gorgeous as fireworks, or is it vigorously extended to the breadth and depth? Everything is still unknown!
Is there a better way, a better mechanism, to ensure that these fires of change remain blazing forever? Lin Feng was completely lost in thought.