After He Ruobi left, there were still more than ten days, which was the time when the world-famous examination was launched.

These days, Gao Gong often dangled in Yecheng, paying attention to the customs and people's feelings, taxes, public security, and government decrees of the Qi country, silently thinking about some big issues such as the family and country, and a few words of talk with the right minister Zhao Yanshen gave him a new understanding of the future political direction of the Great Qi court, and he was still in a state of digestion and consideration.

A few days of going around, it can be regarded as seeing a lot of great Qi scenery, and the Jinyang hegemon weather, inclusive of all ethnic groups, inclusive of different differences, Yecheng in Hebei is obviously a little more kingly, and the folk customs are more pure, following the Wei and Jin heritage.

Many regimes have been established here, and many times they have been caught in wars.

After the collapse of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan moved the capital from Luoyang to Yecheng, the original Yecheng was destroyed in the war at the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the original city area was not enough to accommodate the migratory scholars, so Gao Huan demolished all the palaces in Luoyang in one fell swoop, transported the timber to Yecheng, added Yenan City, and built a new palace, levied 100,000 people, it took four years to build such a majestic giant city, the west of the imperial city is the famous Tongque Garden, the highest point of Yecheng here, is the royal garden, Cao's father and son had been here with Kong Rong, Wang Ji, Chen Lin, Xu Gan and other ministers gathered here, the hermit was endowed, talked about the past and the present, and left a lot of masterpieces, and later generations respected it as "Jian'an Feng Gu". Today, this unique temperament still exists in this forest garden, and the place where scholars from all over the world gather for the examination is in the Tongque Garden, and everyone in the world can feel how much importance Daqi attaches to this grand ceremony.

When a group of scholars were either studying hard, or gathering to drink, sing poems, Gao Gong walked alone through Yecheng, like a person in the Shamen who had comprehended the red dust. Gao Gong has discovered a lot of interesting things in the past few days, such as the bookstores scattered all over the secluded corners of Yecheng.

Under the eaves of the store, there is a plaque of "Xinhua Bookstore", marked with "No. 1" and "No. 2" below, and it is full of beautifully printed and bound books. Although most of them are in secluded corners, there is an endless stream of people coming and going. There are almost eighteen such bookstores in Yecheng. Gao Gong is a little strange, are there so many rich people in this world?

In this year, knowledge is mostly monopolized by the family, this is a high-class thing, the value is immeasurable, a book is also a very precious thing, and in Yecheng, it feels like cabbage, you can see it everywhere.

This Wulong Street, close to the east of the imperial city, although the street is wide, there are many shops, but there are few people, and most of the goods are also rare treasures. But there is also a bookstore here, on the left side is to sell medicinal materials, on the right side is to make jewelry equipment, a dazzling array of carved carriage bones, high hesitation for a while, finally stepped in. The servant boy by the door leaned on a low table and fell asleep, Gao Gong took his umbrella under the eaves, leaned over and knocked on the low table, woke up the man, and asked gently, "Can I go in and have a look?" ”

“…… Oh, yes, you don't need money to read here, the guests are at their own convenience. ”

His attitude was quite enthusiastic, and he led Gao Gong into the store, which was simply furnished, with many bookshelves leaning side by side against the wall, and the bookshelves were stuffed with books in the form of threaded paper.

Gao Gong carefully counted the bibliography, and found that such as "Analects", "Spring and Autumn", "Historical Records", these Confucian and historian classics are not lacking, and the books are complete.

Gao Gong was dizzying, feeling that the whole heart was filled with shock and full of happiness, he took out a book casually, turned a few pages, a smell of ink caused people to be restless, fixed eyes to see, only to see that the book is clearly inkprinted, the handwriting is clumsy and exquisite, the rubbing is thought to be from the hands of the famous Confucian, and there are strange symbols that look like tadpoles and small circles on it, after Gao Gong meditated in his heart, he found that this was actually drawn according to the sentence reading painting, Gao Gong looked at it more and more liked, even if it was expensive, he had to buy a few copies.

After picking a few books, he asked the price, but he got a surprising answer.

"A book of twenty texts? So cheap? ”

Gao Gong was shocked, books are very precious things, generally treasured by the family, easy not to outsiders to read, many lonely books are even difficult to buy, books are the heritage of the family, just now Gao Gong was still pondering, what kind of people are so bold, actually put these things everywhere, and they are not afraid of annoying other families, being attacked by the group...... Besides, how can a book with such beautiful workmanship cost a piece or two? Who knew it was so cheap......

"Your hosts...... What is the origin? Is such a precious thing willing to be sold cheaply? ”

The man dressed as a servant boy was stunned for a moment, and said with a kind smile: "It's the first time the guest has come to Yecheng, right?" Do you see the plaque at the door? This is a plaque specially built by the temple, who do you say our owner is? ”

"Yes...... Your Majesty? ”

"Exactly," said the man, "all the bookstores in this Yecheng are all this plaque, and the Son of Heaven ordered the Taifu Temple to print 50,000 books last year and sell them at a reasonable price, regardless of the old and young, women and children, Shinong and industrialists, all can buy books......

"Fifty thousand books...... Gao Gong's eyes were a little glazed, and then he shook his head slightly, "It's incredible......"

"How did you print it?" Gao Gong rubbed the back of the book cover, still feeling a little unbelievable, such a beautifully made book, and the number is so large, how many stencils need to be engraved, how much paper is needed, how much ink is needed, this ...... How is that possible?

"I don't know this, I'm just a small official of Taifu Temple, I got this errand, I record the books sold every day, collect money, and I'm not a craftsman......"

"Okay, wait a minute, I'll buy some more ......"

Gao Gong turned around and hugged it out again, and the guy's eyes narrowed with laughter.

This man's consumption for a while is worth his consumption for a few days, and he said enthusiastically:

"The guest is a scholar who came to Yecheng to take the exam, right?"

"Yes."

"You said earlier, I can recommend some more books related to the examination to you."

The man-like man smiled and led Gao Gong in.

"If the guest wants to take the exam, these books are probably indispensable......"

"It's ......"

"Oh, this is the source of some of last year's exam questions, especially in arithmetic, last year, more than half of the people were from the arithmetic, the arithmetic exam questions are tricky and weird, the learning is not good, you will answer wrong, last year there was only one ancestor...... It's that the current Imperial Doctor has received a full score, and none of the rest have answered all, and the guests may be familiar with those scriptures, but they can't do the math, and they will still be brushed off......"

"The books I selected for the guests are all inferred by the families and the sources of the exam questions that are most likely to come to the exam, so the guests can take a good look at them......

"Ah...... Thank you very much......"

Gao Gong's eyes glanced at his hand, and a smile appeared, he was already ripe for these books.

But...... It doesn't hurt to watch it again.

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Dark clouds dominate the sky, and falcons hover low altitude, their sharp eagle eyes scanning the tall Miyagi. The emperor lightly fur jade belt, looking far away by the railing, his fingers habitually knocked on the railing, opposite is the bare Jinyang Eight Palaces, a Taoist priest in Tsing Yi holds the dust, stands beside the emperor, stands calmly and leisurely, and looks at it There is really a bit of fairy wind, fluttering out of the dust.

"Yuan Dao returned to the north, and he was fortunate all the way......"

"It is the duty of the poor to do what you can for Your Majesty."

"Haha, if everyone thought like that, I wouldn't be so tired."

"That piece of land will be used to build a Taoist temple for you, and I will allocate you some money, which can be regarded as a reward for your merits......"

“…… Thank you, Your Majesty!! The Taoist priest hurriedly thanked.

Gao Wei turned his head to look at this middle-aged Taoist priest, this Taoist priest was Yuan Shoucheng sent by Gao Wei to Mobei to fool people, this is a magic stick, and his apprentice is a future big god stick, named Yuan Tiangang.

Gao Wei sent an envoy to visit the Turks, and by the way, he brought a special product of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the monk Yulin monk, who was proficient in Buddhism. Yulin went to the Turks to preach, which can be said to be a great blessing for the progress of Turkic culture, in fact, it is strange that Gao Wei has such good intentions, Gao Wei just hopes that they can instill the ideas of "putting down the butcher's knife" and "turning evil into good" into the heads of the Turkic people, and cleanse their dirty souls.

Of course, the preaching will not be so feng shui, the strong dragon has to fight with the ground snake if it wants to gain power, the Turks also have a native religion, that is, the long-standing shamanism, in fact, it is claimed to be able to communicate with the ancestors of the gods, and the rulers gang up to deceive the masses, this religion is very primitive, on the logical and powerful system of Buddhism, naturally not an opponent, will be defeated, but this takes time, want to enter the Turkic interior in a short period of time, Yulin monk also needs a god assist, this god assist is Yuan's master and apprentice.

Yuan's master and apprentice's tricks can be said to be endless, Yulin as a Buddhist monk, fooling people is also a set, what strange things make Yulin to break through, the Turks will give birth to "really from the Central Plains from the big country of virtuous monks" and other infinite admiration of the idea, less than three months, Yulin successfully hooked up with Gao Wei's father-in-law Ashina Kutou, that is, the future of the bowl Khan, the dervishes let Yulin to point (flicker) a few times, incarnate into Buddhism's brainless powder, If you don't recite the Buddha several times day and night, you are afraid that the Buddha will blame you, and the negotiations of Daqi can be so successful, it can be said that Yulin has contributed a lot, but what Yulin never expected is that he has laid a big foundation for Buddhism in the front foot of the Turkic development of believers, and the emperor is ready to give Buddhism a hard blow, so Yuan's master and apprentice are back.

The biggest landlord in the world is not a family, but a monk.

The world is very rich, and the Buddha accounts for seven points, which is not an exaggeration at all in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Not only the common people, many families also believe in Buddhism, such as Langya Wang, Wujun Zhang, etc., even the emperor is not immune, the emperor and local officials oppress the people, loot money, believe in Buddhism, in order to pursue bliss and happiness in the next life, the Buddhist temple is greatly expanded, there are magnificent and gorgeous Buddha halls everywhere, and the ordinary people, in order to avoid the heavy servitude, get rid of the sea of suffering, also often "exhaust money to go to the monks, bankruptcy to seek Buddha." ”

How many monks and nuns are there? "There are more than 500 Buddhist temples in the capital, which are extremely poor and magnificent, with more than 100,000 monks and rich assets, and the counties and counties where they are located are unspeakable. There are white disciples in the Taoists, and the nuns all have daughters, and they are all inconsistent. The world's household registration, almost half of them died. "Maybe half of them are monks and nuns, but it is an indisputable fact that Buddhism has grown up and there are many Buddhist disciples.

The situation of the Northern Dynasty is even worse, because Buddhism is a foreign religion, more suitable for the psychological state of the minority rulers of the Central Plains, so it has developed rapidly, the Northern Wei Dynasty used to have Yungang Grottoes, was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty when Emperor Wencheng, there are five grottoes, each cave is carved with a giant Buddha, the small Buddha statue is innumerable, the giant Buddha is seven zhang high, carved by a boulder...... After the Northern Wei Dynasty moved its capital, it built a larger Longmen Grottoes twenty-five miles south of Luoyang City, and a total of more than 800,000 workers were used to build it!

In the Northern Qi Dynasty, the king of the Gao family also worshiped Buddhism, and built Buddhist temples in Yecheng, Gao Yang even forced Taoist priests to shave their heads as monks, there were thousands of Buddhist temples in Yecheng alone, and the hidden population under the Buddhist temples even reached one-tenth of the total population of Northern Qi! Seriously affected the state finances!

The life of the monks is very luxurious, it is difficult to estimate the money that the dignitaries and nobles throw into the Buddhist temple every year, some of the temples that are extremely famous, every autumn, the monks who collect rent in the countryside are as many as thousands of people, the hall is layer by layer, the lantern is never extinguished day and night, the lights are bright all day long, and the monks even run horses in the Buddhist temple to light incense......

Gao Wei looked at the past from the palace city, the Buddhist temple bells in the distance were endless, the incense was prosperous, and the luxury was extreme, but Gao Wei sat in the Xuanzheng Hall every day and counted how to break a penny into two flowers, and the disaster relief and the war in front of him completely emptied Gao Wei's money bag, and poverty and jealousy made Gao Wei, the unscrupulous emperor, murderous and skyrocketing......

Didn't the Buddha say that money is something outside the body? Isn't it said that too much greed can add to people's troubles?

Give me your money, I also want to experience the feeling of trouble......

It is very timely for Yuan's master and apprentice to come back, and in a while, he will have to do it!