Chapter 156: Contempt
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Regarding Ying Ning's automatic request, Chen Jianchen rejected it after pondering for a while, the current situation is unknown, it is not suitable to let the little fox spirit go to find out the news, maybe there will be danger.
There is nothing to do at night, the next day pedestrians get up early, after breakfast they start to hurry, according to the distance and speed calculation, if it goes well, it is estimated that they will be able to enter the city of Zhejiang at dusk. Thinking that the long journey had finally come to an end, everyone's mood was cheerful, and there was talk and laughter.
Gotta get it!
The sound of horses' hooves was loud, and when I looked to the side, I saw another fork in the road, and a large group of men and horses came from the north, at least twenty or thirty horsemen, eight carts, and the lineup was very large. The carriages were very standard two-horsepower carts, long and wide, richly decorated, and each with a flag on it.
The flag is clear and red, with black edges, and the face is embroidered with the appearance of respecting evil spirits; on the other side, it is embroidered with big characters in apricot yellow -- three big characters: "Guozijian"!
This is the team of Guozijian, no wonder the lineup is so large, no less than the imperial court members on patrol.
Guozijian is the largest and most prestigious academy of the Tiantong Dynasty, the history of the establishment of the academy is almost as long as the history of the dynasty, and I don't know how many great Confucians and court officials have been cultivated in the past thousand years, which can be said to be pivotal and have extraordinary influence. It seems to be the heart of the dynasty, dedicated to delivering fresh blood to the world.
Guozijian was established in Kyoto, but not in the city government, but in the eastern suburbs of Kyoto, and the courtyard was established by the mountains and rivers -- the founder of Guozijian was the famous Dong Shengren, and the reason why he chose the address of the academy outside the city instead of inside the city is that it has a different meaning, in his words: "The two ears do not hear what is going on outside the window, and the heart only reads the books of the sages." If the academy is built in the bustling capital, where can the students concentrate on studying? I am afraid that if they want to go out to play every day, they will definitely be stained with red dust and luxury.
The environment creates people, and it has always been the most reasonable.
After nearly 1,000 years of development, Guozijian has long become the most desirable dream place for scholars all over the world. It's just that the opportunity to enter the house to study is extremely rare, except for the children of the powerful who have a way, if ordinary poor disciples want to enter the Guozijian, they can only achieve it through special enrollment, annual tribute students, and advanced students.
The key is not only to be old, but also to have a certain reputation in the local area, so that they are eligible to be selected as the old tribute students;
As for the students who have passed the township examination, they are considered to be in the middle of the lift. In this way, you can apply for admission to Guozijian, and the acceptance rate is very high, and there are almost no people who are not admitted. The problem is that when the students pass the township examination and obtain the meritorious name of the Jinshi, the average person will directly participate in the general examination, and after the palace examination, where is they willing to give up halfway and go to the Guozijian again? Only a small number of Jinshi will temporarily give up the general examination and the palace examination for the sake of gilding, and transfer to the Guozijian halfway.
Aside from the above two paths, the door to special enrollment is a big convenience, but the threshold is also very high.
Guozijian will start recruiting students in February every spring, regardless of age, as long as there are talented and famous students can register for the exam. It's just that the content of the annual exam is very difficult and profound, and it is not even too strange to say that it is strange, it is even more difficult than the imperial examination.
In this way, there are almost very few students who can pass the exam.
Therefore, as the largest academy in the world, the number of students in the Guozijian did not exceed 300 even at its peak.
This time, Kaitai Academy held the "World's First Talent Competition", and basically sent invitations to all famous academies in the world, and Guozijian was no exception. The team of carriages and horses in front of him must also be representatives of the event in Zhejiang. However, the lineup is many times stronger than Jiangzhou's.
"Bell!"
The people of Guozijian were in the forefront, and there was even a special person who sounded the gong to open the way, so as to signal others to retreat and let them go first. This is an extraordinary privilege, and the truth is like Chen Jianchen's siren in his previous life to open the way.
The gong sounded, and the three carriages on Chen Jianchen's side suddenly stopped peacefully and stopped on the side of the road.
"Hey, isn't this Brother Gu?"
Suddenly, when the very magnetic baritarian voice was turned on, I saw a carriage in the Guozijian team, the curtain of the car was opened, and a white and pure face of the Chinese character was poked out.
The owner of this face is burly, wearing a black gauze hat, thick eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, a high nose, and well-defined lips, as if carved out of a knife.
He probed out, and when he saw Gu Xuezheng, who was also lifting the curtain on the other side, he shouted. He called Gu Xuezheng as a brother, but there was no respect in his tone, but there was a faint mockery, revealing a kind of fake surprise and surprise!
Sure enough, when Gu Xuezheng saw him, his face suddenly became a little unnatural, but because of etiquette, he had to give his hand and say, "It turned out to be Brother Feng...... Unexpectedly, Brother Feng also led the team in person. ”
Brother Feng ordered the carriage to stop first, and laughed: "There is no way, as a scholar in the capital, since Guozijian has sent a representative, of course I will accompany him to suppress the formation." ”
Gu Xuezheng sighed lightly, and had no interest in continuing.
However, Nafeng Xuezheng still couldn't say that it was enjoyable, and asked again: "Brother Gu, how many student representatives did Jiangzhou Minghua Academy send this time?"
Gu Xuezheng replied: "It's just two!"
Feng Xuezheng feigned surprise: "Why are there so few? Could it be that Brother Gu has great confidence in these two students?"
When Gu Xuezheng heard this, he couldn't help but scold in his heart, and wanted to scold the other party for deliberately pretending to be garlic and exposing his own shortcomings. You must know that Jiangzhou has always been a place with backward education, not to mention any famous talents, even if there are few ordinary jinshi, this time I came to participate in the event, I am completely here to join in the scene, there is no expectation for the competition, where will there be any bullshit confidence?
This Feng Xuezheng, with the single name "Yi" and the word "Nian Ge", was also appointed as a Beijing Xuezheng last year, and Gu Xuezheng took office as a new official in the same year. Having said that, at the beginning, Gu Xichao also wanted to compete for the political position in the capital, but he was not enough to read the song and sing two feet, and the election failed, and in the end he could only go to Jiangzhou to be an official.
Although they are both academics and politicians, they are of the same rank. But one is in the capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the other is in the remote Jiangzhou, which is better and which is bad, it is clear at a glance, and the contrast is clear.
When the two ran for election at the same time and became opponents, they inevitably formed some grievances. At present, the two sides meet halfway, but Feng Xuezheng refuses to let go of the posture of showing that he is a winner.
Gu Xuezheng endured his breath and said, "Brother Feng said that he laughed, I, the representative of Jiangzhou, have no intention of participating in the competition, but just come to observe and learn." As he spoke, he asked Chen Jianchen and Xiao Hanfeng to get off the carriage to see each other, and introduced them again.
At this time, there were people in the carriage in the Guozijian team who came out to look around, but they basically only glanced at it and sat back down. In those glances, there is obviously a certain sense of arrogance, condescension, and even contempt.
-- As the student representative of Guozijian, it is really normal to despise the student representative of Minghua Academy. It's normal, just like famous college students will always habitually look down on students from third-rate universities.
For these contempts, Xiao Hanfeng's face turned a little red, but Chen Jianchen stood there "Yushu in the wind" without the slightest impulsive reaction.
Seeing them, especially looking at Chen Jianchen, who hadn't even grown a beard yet, Feng Xuezheng couldn't help but laugh dumbly: Calling such two students who are not more important and have been studying for a short time to come to Zhezhou, then Gu Xichao made it clear that he was advancing by retreating, but he was a smart person, self-aware, and knew how to advance and retreat.
After glancing at Chen Jianchen a few more times, he smiled and stroked his beard and said to Gu Xuezheng: "This son was admitted at the age of sixteen, and he was still the first in the third test, and he looks like a talent, I have to congratulate Brother Gu, there are such characters under his rule, and the future is limitless." ”
What he said was obviously a backword, at least to Gu Xuezheng's ears, it was a backword.
Gu Xuezheng swept Chen Jianchen's eyes angrily and did not make a sound. In fact, since he took office, he has conducted a series of inspections on the students of Minghua Academy, and there is no doubt that Chen Jianchen, who was the first in the third examination of the boys' examination, is his key object of investigation. Unfortunately, he was very dissatisfied with the final result.
In other words, Chen Jianchen's performance in the rest of his school year can only be said to be decent at best, and there is nothing outstanding at all. And on top of the important current subjects, even unqualified. Such a performance undoubtedly cannot satisfy Gu Xuezheng.
However, there is no way to be dissatisfied, as long as the living and learning status of the students does not violate the rules of the hospital, others cannot force themselves. The ox does not bow its head, and cannot force it down to drink. In addition, Gu Xuezheng didn't want to press too hard, otherwise it would be counterproductive. Since ancient times, I don't know how many prodigy-level people have grown up to be unknown to everyone, and there are many reasons, but too strict discipline is undoubtedly a big reason.
Besides, the boy test is only a boy test after all, and in the eyes of figures like Gu Xuezheng, the boy test cannot accurately test an individual's true talent. In the long history of the imperial examination, I don't know how many people have been in the boy's examination, and in the formal imperial examination, they have been defeated.
For example, Zhuge Wolong, he is a representative. His boy test is like Chen Jianchen, and the sample is the third test, and it is still in Zhezhou. But later, when he couldn't get into the old exam, he was extremely angry and depressed, so he became disheartened and began to wander the world, writing colorful and erotic novels, and chatting to express his mind.
Therefore, if the wind sings the song, Gu Xuezheng listens to it, it is the opposite.
"Okay, it's important to hurry, after entering the Zhezhou City Mansion, I'll talk to Brother Gu again. ”
After speaking, Feng Niange instructed the coachman to start driving his horse and galloping, and he went away.
"Why are you standing stupidly, get in the car. ”
Gu Xuezheng was ridiculed by his former competitors, and he was in a bad mood, and he felt more and more that Xiao Hanfeng and Chen Jianchen were very unpleasant, and between his words, he immediately took a tone of reprimand.
(To be continued)
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