This Zhongyuan world is very strange, starting from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, then the Xia, Shang and Yin Zhou, until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the unification of Qin Shi Huang, and the Three Kingdoms Wei and Jin, the historical trajectory is not much different from the earth, but in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, after Sima Yi proclaimed himself King Xuan, history has undergone tremendous changes.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there has been a hostile atmosphere against the literati in the Zhongyuan world, and after Qin Shi Huang unified China, he abolished the alien culture on a large scale and made the tragic decision of burning books and pit Confucianism.

Qin Shi Huang killed countless literati, destroyed countless classic masterpieces, and a large number of Qin king's soldiers swept up the people, any bamboo slips, grass leather, silk paper, and almost everything that could record words were all looted and burned by fire.

When it came to the dispute between Chu and Han, it seems to have followed the style of Qin Shi Huang, the king of Chu destroyed the belief in the gods, destroyed the temple, cut down the totem, the king of the Han broke the cultural inheritance, banned children from reading and writing, the people of the world were purged in turn, the cultural inheritance became more and more declining, and the far-sighted literati organizations could only search for troubadours and pass on the precious culture by word of mouth.

When history came to the Three Kingdoms Wei and Jin Dynasties, Sima Yi finally won the world, and then he made a decision that amazed the world, and continued to kill a large number of literati dissidents, destroy faith and culture, and focus on killing troubadours, which is simply going to cut off the roots of culture!

Perhaps it was the anger of heaven and the resentment of the people, causing divine punishment to come, the vision of the Zhongyuan world was rampant, the mountain peaks were destroyed, the sea water was filled, the forest became hills and ravines, the desert became the ocean, the alien stars hung in the night sky, the alien race invaded frequently, and the human world was confined in a small area, divided into ten countries, seven mountains and six islands, and the rest of the place was full of misty forests and demon beast mountain ranges, full of dangers.

This year is known as the first year of divine punishment, and the biggest task of the human world since then is to fight against all kinds of monsters, resist foreign invasion, build dangerous roads to defend the city, fight with the army, and defend the country.

After the first year of divine punishment, the most important, populous and in-demand profession - martial arts appeared.

Martial artists practice external forces, pursue the limit of human muscles, can skillfully control all kinds of weapons, fight on the front line of the battlefield, and most directly cause damage to all kinds of demon beasts, and martial artists are easy to fight, hundreds of years have given birth to many martial arts and martial saints, they are the most important core defense force of human beings.

Because of the existence of the Demon Beast Mountain Range and the Misty Forest, human beings have obtained more and more rare herbs and minerals, spiritual grass can strengthen the body, stimulate the limits of the body, minerals can forge all kinds of weapons, strengthen the divine weapons, those descendants of the Shennong clan and the descendants of the craftsmen of the Spring and Autumn Yue Kingdom, gradually exerted their racial talents, and contributed their own strength to the human war.

In addition, the largest output is the beast soul of the demon beast that died in battle, and there are great wisdom people who have found a way to use the beast soul, so the profession of craftsman was also born.

Craftsmen they also worship the Emperor Fuxi, but they are more inclined to study the Gongyi class and Mozi skills, for hundreds of years skilled craftsmen emerge in an endless stream, craftsmen develop hundreds of schools of thought, ordinary daily machinery can be activated with the beast soul, and complex equipment such as the beast soul carriage is not uncommon, and there have been many high-end puppet masters and god control masters for hundreds of years, even the control of siege giant machines is not a problem.

In this kind of environment where everything is aimed at fighting monsters, literati have become a burden, even if they are a monster beast warrior who can't win martial arts, their skills can't compare to the lowest level of first-class craftsman apprentices, they can't carry them on their shoulders, they can't carry them, they can't run, they can't do it, they even help the spirit master plant herbs, pull the bellows for the blacksmith, and people are in the way.

In addition, before the divine punishment, the people of the world were almost slaughtered, and once the articles and classics were destroyed, after the divine punishment, human beings had to use violence to fight violence in order to survive, and more respected force, resulting in the status of the literati gradually declining within two hundred years after the divine punishment, and finally only higher than the low-ranking subordinates and prisoners, becoming a low-level profession that many people look down on.

"The literati are really unlucky, they are so lowly that they have few resources, they are simply surviving in the cracks! It seems that Lu Changyuan and others are really unable to recite "Green Clothes" and "Ge Sheng" to my 'corpse', in fact, they also want to understand the 'immersive' and 'heart', I'm afraid it's really difficult!"

Yue Heng figured this out, he finally untied a knot in his heart, and the resentment in his heart disappeared, and he forgave Lu Changyuan, who was also a poor student.

He raised his wine glass, touched it with Min Xuhuai again, drank it himself, and then asked, "When did the situation of the literati start to improve?"

"The rare literati genius Shi Ji is said to be a descendant of Emperor Fuxi. It is recorded in the documents and classics that Shi Ji brought the Fuxi Code, turned the text into a dragon, recited the strange book of heaven and earth, and attracted the divine power of the stars. The Divine Palace gave birth to dozens of runes, which easily punished the Beast King, destroyed the Demon Mountain, burned the evil forest, drowned the Ghost Valley, saved mankind from the sea of fire, and finally achieved Wenzong! Since then, the literati who believed in the Emperor Fuxi began to rise, and the literati could give birth to all kinds of runes after opening up the Divine Palace, and strengthen the body of the literati, borrowing the power of the Emperor of the Gods, the means were diverse, and the changes were flexible, and the literati gradually entered the battlefield of the military department, and then participated in the governance of the country and the government, rising for three hundred years!

After Min Xuhuai finished this paragraph, he looked at Yue Heng with interest, these stories he said are recorded in the classics of the sect, as spiritual masters, like this kind of common sense and major events in the world, they must read and study thoroughly, otherwise how can they walk independently in the world?

Min Xuhuai took the opportunity to pick up the wine glass, and naturally covered his eyes, he was observing Yue Heng's expression.

It seems that Yue Heng should be the kind of poor student who has never received the opportunity to learn systematically, and he can't read many classics, so it's normal to not know these situations.

But it is such a poor student who can give birth to a restorative rune, and it was conceived by himself before the spring exam, which makes Min Xuhuai feel incomprehensible, there must be some secret in this.

He knew very well that the combat power of high-level literati was also quite terrifying, as a second-level spiritual doctor that everyone was fighting for, he was fortunate to have participated in some demon beast mountain range explorations and wars, even those fourth- and fifth-level literati did not dare to run away from his sight, once they were injured, they had to seek treatment from him, a low-level spiritual master.

If the literati mastered a large number of restorative runes, the rise of the literati was certain, as for the other scenes, Min Xuhuai was just a low-level spirit master, and he didn't dare to think too deeply.

Yue Heng's hand stopped, the wine glass swirled around his lips, and he was slowly interpreting the words just now.

"Shiji, this name is really special enough. He is the strongest literati who appeared after the first year of divine punishment, according to the literati level evaluation standards on the "Wenzong Collection", the first-level child is one rune, the second-level student is two, the third-level bachelor is four, and between the fifth and eighth levels, it is divided into small and large advancements, and if you want to become a ninth-level Wenzong, at least sixty-four runes must be bred in the body of the master. ”

Thinking about giving birth to sixty-four runes, Yue Heng felt his scalp tingle: "In addition, it is inferred in the 'Wenzong Collection' that only a literati who have given birth to one hundred and twenty-eight runes in the Divine Palace can be respected by the human race as a tenth-level literary saint. I'm afraid that in this heaven and earth, only the Emperor Fuxi, who created the oracle bone inscription, could know so much, and I have never heard of anyone who has reached the tenth level in the past five hundred years!"

But Yue Heng paid attention to another question, which was also something he had doubts about before, the printing and distribution of books is not complicated, but why is there so few literati in this world?

So he asked: "Haven't the tenth-level martial saints of martial artists and the tenth-level spirit gods of spirit masters all appeared in the documents and classics? I have heard that there are also ninth-level master craftsmen among the craftsmen who are attacking the tenth-level divine craftsmen, why is it that the most powerful genius in the history of our literati, Shi Ji, has only reached the ninth level of the Wenzong, but there is no Wen Sheng? It can't be because Shi Ji is ugly!"

Min Xuhuai smiled and said something that Yue Heng couldn't understand: "Because you are literati! Don't talk about this, drink!"

Because he is a literati, he can't reach the peak of the tenth level?

How does that sound so strange!

But Min didn't explain, Yue Heng couldn't ask any more questions, so he could only give up for the time being.

Beast Soul carriage pick-up, free food and drink, free treatment, free chat, and no requests, Min was too generous, so generous that Yue Heng felt that he was sick.

Min Xuhuai is a spirit master, and a stupid person cannot become a spirit master, as soon as he thought of this, Yue Heng had spontaneous resistance in his heart.

"I hate dealing with smart people, it will make it seem that my IQ is not high enough!" Yue Heng thought in his heart.

Since Min Xuhuai is playing tricks, he simply pretends to be stupid, there is only one purpose, interests can be shared, but information must not be shared.

An hour later, Yue Heng was a little drunk by his full stamina, but he didn't take the initiative to say anything related to him, and Min Xuhuai didn't ask any questions about the "Sheng" rune from beginning to end, so he didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

After Yue Heng was drunk, Min smiled and asked people to carry him into the car, and personally sent Yue Heng back to the Drunken Immortal Tower.

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After the day of grading, there are still a lot of tedious chores to do, appease other officials, communicate with the higher level of the Ministry of Culture, sort out the spring examination policy, transcribe the list of lists, and so on.

After the banquet and the inspection of the Su and the settlement of many supervisors from Qi County, Wenzhang Yuan was finally busy, he left the county government and returned to his mansion in a carriage.

He was greeted by Kuang Qing and Kuang Yun brothers, who had been waiting anxiously for an afternoon in the Wenfu meeting room, and now they had waited for half a night, and finally saw the teacher come back and respectfully greeted him.

"Wenshi ......" Kuang Qing had just bent down to salute when he was interrupted by Wenzhang Yuan.

"Go back, and prepare for the retake the exam the day after tomorrow!"

Kuang Qing and Kuang Yun glanced at each other, their joy flashed, and they responded in unison: "Thank you, Master Wen......!"

The two of them stepped back respectfully, noticing that Wen Zhangyuan was different from the previous calm, and they looked a little anxious at this time.

Before they could completely exit the hall, they saw Wen Zhangyuan hurriedly enter the inner room and shouted, "Xiao Yue!"