Chapter 158: Jinglun Exam
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In fact, the Qingyunbang Jinglun Examination is similar to the "Ming Jing" University of Science and Technology in the imperial examination. It's just that the content is mostly on the spiritual side.
The exam was held in two sessions, one on the same day and the other the next day. Each session lasts for two hours.
The first session mainly assesses students' mastery and proficiency in scriptural works, and the questions are all from classic Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist works.
In the second session, students were asked to answer questions about their spiritual practice and their understanding of the mysteries of kendo, martial arts, and heavenly ways.
It is worth mentioning that if the candidate performs well in the Jinglun exam and has excellent results, he will be admitted to the imperial court exceptionally. As with the Ming Jing exam, if you enter the official career with Jinglun, you can still go all the way to the purple-robed minister.
In fact, among so many cultivators, not all of them have the ambition to live in the smoke and travel the world, and more people cherish the rolling red dust, hoping to leave a name in history and be an official that everyone admires and shines through.
Therefore, some people's ten-year cultivation path is similar to the ten-year cold window of a scholar, and they are moving towards this tempting goal.
There is an immortal mountain outside the square, and the mountain is in the void, and how many cultivators have white hair like frost, and they still can't step into that realm of immortality.
Comparatively speaking, seeing all the Chang'an flowers in one day, so as to be a very popular minister, this is much more realistic.
Moreover, entering the office from the Qingyun List can be exempted from the bottom-up exam, saving a lot of unnecessary homework, which can be regarded as a clever method.
Zhuo Zangfeng looked at the refreshed candidates one by one, watching them line up in an orderly manner, waiting for the officials to verify their identities before entering the Tai Academy in turn.
He followed the crowd and was not panicking. Those Buddhist scriptures and Taoist books have been copied since he was a child, and his memory is excellent, so he still has a lot of confidence in this exam.
Many candidates recognized him as the candidate who couldn't pass the Yuan Qi test, and looked at him again, and he seemed confident, and they really couldn't guess what this guy relied on to get up to now.
Their gaze at Zhuo Zangfeng was very complicated. There's too much emotion mixed in.
The surprise is not enough to express, and the shock seems to be somewhat serious.
There is jealousy, doubt, shock, and even a hint of inexplicable admiration.
This guy is so tenacious!
In this Jinglun exam, with the waist card certification with the words "Qingyun Zhi Lingyuntian" issued after passing the Qingyun List test, after entering the Tai Academy, the second identification will be confirmed by the information recorded in the roster.
The age, gender, place of origin, sect, and physical characteristics of the candidates recorded in the roster are extremely strict in order to prevent the examination from being taken in the modern era.
Since this is a literary examination, there is no need for a military realm evaluation, and this time the chief examiner is Wu Delu, an important minister of the Ministry of Rites.
He was the champion of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he was old-fashioned and rigorous, and he looked down on cultivators the most, thinking that these people were vain and misleading the country, and they were not worth mentioning.
Every time the Qingyun List was held, or before the Longmen Test was held, he would write to His Majesty the Emperor on time, bitterly stating that the cultivators violated the laws of heaven and earth, pursued their personal aspirations, and could not cultivate themselves to level the world.
At that time, after reading the words of persuasion of this pedantic and arrogant old minister, the young emperor who was on the dragon couch smiled slightly, and made a meaningful will, and specially appointed Wu Delu to be in charge of the Qingyun Bang Jinglun examination.
At this time, seeing that the candidates were entering one by one under the strict inspection, Wu Delu scratched his meticulously combed white hair, straightened out the official uniform that he was usually reluctant to wear, and carefully looked at the students to be inspected with his hands behind his back, comparing their characteristics with the roster one by one.
This Confucian disciple is as meticulous as the gray hair on his head.
His gaze was like a grate, and he had to go through each student to see if any lice had fallen out.
Of course, the lice here are a metaphor for the person who takes the exam, and Udelu has been standing for most of the day, and he can't bother to wipe the sweat oozing from his sideburns.
The student standing in front of Zhuo Zangfeng was not very respectful, with a hip-hop look on his face, and finally gave this old man a chance.
Udelu personally took the roster from the inspector and read the student's name and physical characteristics to identify it.
Guo Songzhi has a white face and a slight beard. Then he looked at the other party suspiciously, and asked, "I see that you have a gray beard on your face, why does the roster say 'micro beard', you must be an impostor." β
Guo Songzhi laughed a few times unbridledly, and kept checking the joke to the female disciple not far away, which may violate the Confucian principle of "don't look at incivility, don't say anything incivility", which caused the powerful Confucian disciple to be strongly dissatisfied, so he was pulled out.
Kill the chicken and show it to the monkey.
Guo Songzhi was a little caught off guard and explained: "My lord, the student's beard is not thick, and it is consistent with the 'micro beard' written in the roster. β
Wu Delu said disapprerovingly: "Let me ask you, Bai Gong ran to the mountain and hanged, and he was in vain, 'What is the meaning of micro words?'"
Guo Songzhi knew what the examiner meant, and replied seriously: "Micro characters mean hidden, hidden?"
Udelu nodded and said, "Hide, can you see the concealment?"
Guo Songzhi: "Can't!"
Wu Delu's face was full of color, and he asked again: "Those who are hungry don't eat the food that comes from it, Zeng Zi said: Wei Yu." What is the meaning of the word 'micro' here?"
Guo Songzhi saw that the first sentence was from "Left Turn", and the second sentence was from "The Book of Rites", and he was already familiar with it, thinking that it was too simple, and replied loudly: "There is nothing referred to here." β
Wu Delu nodded and said, "That's good!" Suddenly turned his head to the guards and said, "Come on, drive this impostor out of the examination room, and never be hired!"
The two soldiers couldn't help but say, and immediately clenched Guo Songzhi's arms behind his back and held them down.
Guo Songzhi struggled: "Why did you arrest the students for no reason?"
Wu Delu said: "Your commentaries have been said, why bother to ask? The second micro-character is the meaning of 'none', according to this meaning, you have a white face and a slight beard, and the white face is in line with the characteristics, and the micro-beard means that you have no beard, but you obviously have two beards, how to say that you have no beard, it is naturally an impostor. β
Wu Delu suddenly realized that playing Confucian classics with the old Confucian is simply an axe. Seeing that the examiner surnamed Wu had a deep prejudice against himself, he said angrily: "According to what the adults said, in the "Analects", 'Confucius served the Song Dynasty', does it mean that Mr. Kong was not wearing clothes and passed by the Song Kingdom naked?"
This answer was so ingenious that Zhuo Zangfeng couldn't help but laugh. Those exams were originally afraid of Wu Delu, but when they heard Zhuo Zangfeng take the lead in laughing, they couldn't help but laugh along.
Wu Delu's face changed, and he said angrily: "Quickly beat this arrogant man with no monarch out of the examination room!"
The two soldiers ignored Guo Songzhi's struggle and pushed him out of the room.
Wu Delu was still angry, looked at Zhuo Zangfeng, who was standing in front of him waiting for inspection, and asked loudly, "Why are you laughing for no reason!?"
Zhuo Zangfeng thought to himself, I am not as weak as Guo Songzhi, if I am unfair to me, I will definitely pluck off your beard and turn you into a real 'white face and micro beard'. (To be continued.) )