Chapter 37: Autumn is coming
The result of this political struggle was quickly told to Pan Long by Cangyuan.
Cangyuan was full of interest and energy when he spoke, obviously elated because of this big victory. But when Pan Long heard this, he only smiled slightly.
Cangyuan and Di Luonan won, what does it matter to him Pan Long?
Although from his point of view, the outcome of this struggle is satisfactory to him, but the reform of the law is a long-term process, and now it is ...... This is just the beginning.
Now that we have won this game, it is nothing more than that the next work can be carried out. In the end, it is not certain who will win and who will lose!
After saying this, Cang Yuan said again: "Brother Pan, it's now the end of July. Tomorrow is the autumn festival, and then from the first day of August to the tenth day of August, the Beijing Normal University Examination of the ten subjects of the world will be held in turn, the list will be released on August 13, and the last Golden Palace selection will begin on the morning of August 15, and the evening will be the Qionglin banquet, and the moon appreciation conference on August 16 will be held...... The next half month will be the busiest time in Gyeonggi, are you interested in joining in the fun?"
"Join in the fun?" Pan Long was a little puzzled, "How can I join in the fun?"
"There are ten subjects in the world, and there are places to recommend exams. Is Brother Pan interested in participating in the 'Art of War and Martial Arts Subject' exam on the tenth day of junior high school?" Cang Yuan said with a smile, "With your skills, if you rush to take the exam, even if you are not the champion, you will not fall out of the top rank." ”
Pan Long didn't feel that he was underestimated - the Art of War and Martial Arts Department not only tested martial arts, but also the art of war. In terms of martial arts, he is confident that no one in the world can beat him, but in terms of the art of war, he probably doesn't think he is very good.
For an obviously biased person like him, if it weren't for his martial arts being too high, he might not even be able to get a jinshi.
The Beijing Normal University Examination, however, stipulates a maximum of one out of ten places - in fact, it is often far less than this ratio, a big exam, ten subjects add up to 10,000 people, but in the end the various Jinshi who can be admitted, the sum will not exceed 500.
Because many subjects are known for being "difficult to examine".
For example, the "Art of War and Martial Arts Section", which is the first of the ten departments, only recruits 30 people, and rarely makes exceptions.
It is the "Operations Research and Arithmetic Department" and the "Law and Litigation Department", which admit a relatively large number of people, and often admit more than 100 people, which is the limit.
After all, in the Golden Palace, in the final selection of materials, only the top three were appointed by the imperial pen as the first class, called "Jinshi and the first", the third to ten were the second class, called "Jinshi Dengke", and the eleventh to fifty were the third class, called "Jinshi origin".
As for the ...... after fifty The selection of materials in the Golden Palace is a matter of the top 50 in the big exam, and it is generally just a process, and it is rarely different from the ranking of the big exam. The people after fifty are not qualified to participate in the selection of materials in the Golden Palace, so naturally there is no need to be rigid about the quantity. These people are regarded as "B lists", and they are collectively called "Jinshi Relics".
From "and the first" to "Dengke" to "origin" to "gleaning", the ranking gap in this big examination almost determines the fortune of an official in the first ten years of officialdom.
Those who can be admitted to the first class, unless they are unlucky, are generally smooth, and after ten years, they will at least be a member of one party, and the future important ministers of the imperial court and the town guard of Kyushu, if they are from the imperial examination, they are basically selected from these people.
Those who can be admitted to the second and third grades can generally progress smoothly, and after more than ten years, they can also become members of the imperial court. But it often encounters an invisible ceiling, and it is basically difficult to further become the chief official of the three provinces and six ministries, or a key official position such as the Marquis of Kyushu.
As for those who "collect the relics of Jinshi", if they are lucky, they can also be promoted to high-ranking officials, but most people basically go from the county seat to the county government, and become the prefect of a county, which is almost the limit.
Therefore, the ranking in the imperial examination is really a major event related to the rise and fall of honor and disgrace for the candidates, especially the difference between the first and second and the first and second lists, which is simply related to the life of the family.
In the past years, there have been more than one person who is well-known but failed to pass the first class, or because of his conceited talent and finally got a second grade, and fell ill or even died in a fit of anger.
Cang Yuan thought that Pan Long could be admitted to the top three in the "Art of War and Martial Arts Subject", and as far as Pan Long's feeling was concerned, it was already a pure compliment.
He didn't think at all that he could be admitted to the top of the class with such a biased subject.
Generally speaking, the most candidates who participate in the imperial examination are the cultivation of the congenital peak, and occasionally there is an innate subtle half-step real person, which is already an extremely rare exception. A real real master like him will probably not be able to win against him even if other candidates take it together.
However, if you test the art of war...... Pan Long was very skeptical, could he pass the exam?
Don't be embarrassed to get a 200 or 30 points in the 100-point paper......
He is still very self-aware of his talent.
Of course, if he really has the heart to take the exam, he may be able to participate in the imperial examination of "Bogu Tongjinke", collect a large number of books and store them in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and then enter the Classic of Mountains and Seas to turn over the books when the exam comes.
In this way, the first class may not be, but the second and third class must be available.
In fact, the "Poetry and Literature Subject" can probably also be tested in this way, didn't Dad Pan Lei use this method, relying on the mountains and seas to find chapters and sentences and slowly scrutinize, in order to be able to write a masterpiece, and then be admitted to the people, in the name of the famous Yizhou.
But Pan Long gave up these plans after a little consideration.
Although Wen Chao's remnant helped him do things on the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he was not afraid of being exposed, but it was not safe enough to use the Classic of Mountains and Seas in this land of Gyeonggi and in the imperial examination.
I'm living a good life now, why do I want to die this big death?
Not necessarily!
Thinking of this, he smiled and politely rejected Cangyuan's suggestion.
"Brother Cang, forget it. He smiled and said, "I was originally a generation of idle clouds and wild cranes, and I like to wander everywhere and wander the world." Even if you are tired in the future and stop to rest, you will only return to your roots and return to live in the Northland. This Gyeonggi land is indeed prosperous, but it is not a place where I will stay for a long time. ”
Cangyuan was not surprised or angry, but sighed regretfully.
"I guessed before I even said that, but I had some hope and wanted to try for it. He said, "You can't participate in the imperial examination, it's a loss to the imperial court!
He walked away with such a sigh.
Pan Long also felt a little regretful in his heart, he knew that his opening was the way to the future imperial examination - the manly husband said that he didn't want to participate in the imperial examination, he would not participate.
What happens in the future, let's talk about it in the future!
But when he thought about it, he couldn't help but laugh again.
If you are a thief, what kind of imperial examination will you take? What kind of official should you be?
Is there a disease!
Is this not enough trouble, and you have to send it to the door yourself?
"Hehe, it's stupid!"
Thinking about it this way, he himself thought it was funny, shook his head, and continued shopping.
Probably because the autumn festival is about to be held, the Nanxia City has been particularly lively these days. In addition to the people who already lived here, there were many more people who came to buy or to see the world.
There are many small stalls and vendors on the streets, and the goods sold are also of good quality, and some of them are shoddy or fraudulent.
Every time Pan Long saw the kind of guy who deceived people by setting up a stall, he used his skills to secretly attack and expose them.
As for whether they were beaten by an old fist after their deception was exposed, or whether they were sent to the government to bring them to justice? That depends on their luck.
Anyway, he would never sympathize with the liar!
On this day, he was walking on the road when his heart suddenly moved, and he looked at a vendor selling dolls on the side of the road.
The peddler looked old with white hair, but his hands were so dexterous that he could quickly make whatever kind of doll the customer wanted to buy.
In his hands, rags, needlework, and wood seemed to be given life, and they flew up and down, and in just a moment's time, he made a smiling fat pig, and handed it to the little boy next to him.
"Oh, this is the little pig you wanted. ”
The little boy grabbed the piggy doll and was so elated that he almost jumped up, and the adults who took him shopping were also smiling, and after paying the money, the family went away happily.
The peddler went on to the next business - his stall was surrounded by a crowd of people, and the business was in full swing!
Pan Long noticed him, naturally not because of his craft or business, but because he knew this person.
Isn't this person the master of the Mo family, the one who can turn the box into all kinds of weapons and even living people, so ingenious that it is unbelievable!
He recalled it for a while, and remembered that this person should be called Gu Wen, and the strange box he used was called the "Heavenly Machine Treasure Box", which was one of the most important treasures of the Mo family.
Since the Battle of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mo family giant died under the dying counterattack of the emperor's firmament, this Gu Wen should be one of the most powerful masters of the Mo family.
His cultivation is probably the unity of heaven and man, but there is still a long way to go before he is estimated to be immortal - but this may also be the last stream of the hundred schools of thought, and several seniors in the sect still have the ability to survive for thousands of years, until after the Great War Emperor firmament, he ran out of oil and passed away with a smile. The Mo family is one of the leaders of the hundred schools of thought, and Gu Wen, as the top master of the Mo family, may not have the means to extend his life.
Today's Pan Long has long known that the method of immortality has never been only a way for immortals, Buddhas, and demon gods.
It's just that the immortal Buddha is just that, the path of the demon god is the easiest one among all the methods of immortality.
This road doesn't work, and the other way is even more difficult!
Thinking of this, he thought of Ren Changsheng, the ancestor on Suitao Mountain.
Ren Changsheng's cultivation has already reached the extreme of the unity of heaven and man, even if he fights with immortals, Buddhas and demon gods, he will not necessarily be inferior. With his cultivation, if he wants to cultivate into a demon god, there is actually not too much difficulty.
But he is very stubborn in cultivating into an immortal Buddha, and resolutely refuses to be a demon god. Even if he walked to the road of immortality three times, he found that the road had been occupied by people three times, and he would rather die of old age than give in on this issue.
Now, he has obtained his own secret method of prolonging life by combining the Holy Grail and the Blood Firmament, and he can continue to live a life. Maybe if you live for a few hundred years, you will be able to find a path that is not occupied by people, and thus become an immortal Buddha?
If that's the case, great!
Thinking of this, he thought of his grandfather Pan Shou again.
Pan Shou obviously had a chance to live forever, but he resolutely refused to live forever. Instead, he had to return to the manor of the Pan family in Jizhou, live in the small garden where his grandmother was buried, and just grow old and die, waiting for the couple to be buried in this garden together.
He really felt that he had lived enough, and he really didn't want to live any longer.
Although at his age, he may be able to live for another hundred years, but if he can't find a reason to live, he may die in a few years.
Thinking of this, Pan Long suddenly felt upset and unhappy.
He respects his grandfather's choice, but ...... Even if you want to accompany your grandmother, you can keep that garden for a long time, why do you have to die and be buried in the garden with her?
This is a little too stubborn!
But Pan Long also knows that there is no reason to talk about this kind of stubborn person.
They have already gotten into the horns, and they only have their own thoughts in their heads, and they can't hold more truths.
It is almost impossible to convince them.
He had met such people in his previous life, they were either good or bad, but they were unswervingly on the path they chose, whether it was the persuasion of others or the blow of fate, they could not be shaken.
They can die, but they won't give up.
For this kind of person, even if the human race in the previous life has stepped into the society of the sea of stars, it can only be guided by hypnotherapy - it may not be successful.
In this Kyushu world, Pan Long really has no good way.
(Perhaps...... I can also ask the teacher for help and hypnotize Grandpa?)
His heart suddenly moved, and a very unfilial thought arose.
(As long as grandpa is not so attached to grandma, it should be able to solve the problem that he wants to die, right?)
(even...... Maybe it can also allow him to let go of this long-past relationship and rejuvenate himself?)
(Calculating age, he is actually a young man among the innate masters.) It should be no problem to continue the strings, or even have a few more children...... )
Although he knew that these thoughts were very problematic, once the thought rose in his heart, it suddenly went on and on like a marquee, and after a while, it turned to an unknown place.
After a while, he was already thinking about what his grandfather should call if he married and had children.
Oops, that's a bit of a headache......
Pan Long shook his head, pushed all these messy thoughts aside, looked left and right, and made sure that there were no masters nearby, so he walked to Gu Wen's stall, pretending to watch his puppet-making skills.
After looking at it for a while, he asked using the method of sound transmission: "This senior, isn't it the Mo family's 'Heavenly Machine' Mr. Gu Wengu? Now that the imperial court is hunting down the master of the Mo family, why did you come to this land of Gyeonggi by yourself?"
"Could it be that the Mo family plans to counterattack the Jedi and make a big move at the Autumn Festival or the Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Appreciation Conference?"