Chapter 170: Lifting the Crown, Competing for the Crown, Winning the Crown
In the next few days, as Su Lin expected, Confucian scholars from all over the Nine Kingdoms rushed to Jian'an Mansion to raise people and enter the rank of scholars. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info They all hope to become guests in Surin's mansion, but these people basically don't pass Surin's harsh selection conditions.
Even if one or two were lucky enough to pass, they were discovered by the keen Su Lin, and these people were all spies sent by the Ran family or the Zhao family in the capital.
It's easy to recruit a doorman, but it's not easy for Surin to recruit a good doorman. Especially these admiring doormen, the quality is basically worrying. Therefore, Su Lin simply asked the Qian family not to pass on the news of soliciting customers for him anymore.
Su Lin didn't bother to deal with these doormen, so he handed them over to Ye Hongye and Jia Lao for selection. Only after passing through the two of them will Su Lin personally check it.
Therefore, in the past few days, Su Lin still went to the Jian'an Mansion as a normal to learn the scriptures and righteous thoughts from the masters and gentlemen of the Mansion. Now that he is a legitimate Xiucai, naturally, the head of the Xiucai class is no longer Lu Tong, but is replaced by Su Lin.
Lu Tong and Liu Shimin, because of the last government trial collusion with Ran Shichang to assassinate Su Lin, were found out by the prefect Yuan Tianzhang and sentenced, fined 10,000 taels of silver, and imprisoned for two years. Ran Shichang was also escorted back to the Guozijian in the capital and was punished by the Guozijian for sacrificial wine.
The students in the Xiucai class are now only looking forward to Su Linma. Even the lifters in the lifting class did not dare to underestimate Su Lin in the slightest, and even some lifters even took the opportunity to come over to ask Su Lin about the scriptures and righteousness from time to time, and wanted to make friends with Su Lin.
And when the students of these prefectures knew that Surin had already registered for the state exam more than two months later, they were not surprised at all this time. Because the ideological strength that Su Lin has shown now is far beyond their ordinary level.
Even the head of the courtyard and Mr. Cai in the palace did not persuade Su Lin again, but Mr. Cai often pulled Su Lin to discuss the meaning of the thought scriptures, in fact, he was seizing the time to open a small stove for Su Lin. It is precisely because of Mr. Cai's explanation and professor that Su Lin has a deeper understanding of the "strategy" of the state test.
The "Moyi" of the Xiucai Fu test is to answer the questions shortly, and list your own views and opinions according to the meaning of the specified questions. The depth of thought in the answer determines how many tripods can be lifted by this Moyi remark. The most powerful thing is naturally the Moyi of Su Lin's "one word" last time.
The state test is further simplified, abandoning the paste, poetry and ink meaning of the previous county test and the government test, which is very simple, only the test has always been "policy questioning". Because the talent who has passed the county examination and the government examination has become a well-read Confucian scholar, there is no need to take another test for the scriptures. It can also be said that poetry and Moyi have been integrated into the scope of "inquiry".
In short, the "question" of the state tester is the debate question. The specific form of the government test Moyi is "lifting the Ding", and the specific form of the state trial is "competing for the Ding". In response to a debate topic, the candidates expounded their own views through poems, Moyi and other forms, refuted the other party's theories, and competed for the support of Jiuding for their own thoughts and theories.
"The holy weapon Jiuding turned out to not only appear in the government test. The prefectural test is 'lifting the top', and the state test is 'competing for the top', so ...... Mr. Cai, it seems that the 'national examination' only examines 'Jingyi', what kind of role does the holy weapon Jiuding play?"
After listening to Mr. Cai's introduction to the state examination, Su Lin became interested in the national examination again, so he asked.
"Surin, you should already know. The county test opens up the Zhihai, the government tries to think about the source, the state tries to compete for the heart of the Tao, and the national test is to win the foundation of the road!"
Mr. Cai said with a smile, "The scriptures of the national test are to make the scriptures and meanings that explain their own ways. In fact, this sutra is not for others to see, but a summary of one's own thoughts. Only by truly summing up the Dao heart can we make the Holy Weapon Jiuding resonate, and even use such a Dao foundation to ask questions about one of the Nine Divine Weapons suppressed in the country!"
"Won't you be able to see with your own eyes the artifact Jiuding that existed in the Dayu era?"
Speaking of the artifact Jiuding, Su Lin suddenly thought of the artifact Qiankun Ding, which was very likely to be hidden under his hundred acres of sea fields, and asked again, "Mr. Cai, what is the difference between this artifact and the holy weapon? How many artifacts are there in our Tianren Continent now?"
Regarding the artifact, the old man examined many historical records, and was only able to get a few words of explanation. According to legend, before the sage Confucius founded the Holy Power and the Scholarly Position, the Tianren Continent had many methods of cultivating thoughts. Including the other sons and hundreds of schools, they all have their own ways. It is not the unified Zhihai Shengli model today. It's just that the holy power and literary position created by Confucius are the easiest methods to practice thoughts, and at that time, Confucius was the only saint and compatible with the hundred schools, so the hundred schools gradually learned the Confucian method of literary and literary power, and used the holy power to nurture and accommodate the ...... of thought."
Mr. Cai said slowly, starting from before and after the sage Confucius established the civil system, when talking about holy weapons and artifacts, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "I don't know much about the delicacy of holy weapons and artifacts, but I only know that artifacts were cast by ancient saints with great merit, and holy artifacts were imitated by the temple on the shape and function of the artifact with holy power." And, the most crucial difference is that artifacts are spiritual, while artifacts are non-spiritual, and artifacts are only alive when they are connected to the temple, otherwise they are dead. ”
Listening to Mr. Cai's eloquent words, the more Su Lin understood, the more he didn't understand. Regarding the evolution of the entire Tianren Continent's ideological cultivation system, so far, he can only trace it back to the sage Confucius, and it came to an abrupt end. After Confucius was the Divine Power Zhihai cultivation system, while before Confucius was ambiguous.
This is also because Mr. Cai himself is a scholar of the historian Hallym University, so he can know so in detail. If you change to other Hanlin or even Confucianism, you may not be able to know these ancient secrets.
"That'...... Mr. Cai, it is said that once you set foot on the holy path and become a semi-saint, your lifespan will be almost eternal and immortal. Where have all the sons and hundreds of saints since Confucius gone?" Su Lin wondered again.
"When you embark on the holy path, the saints will seek the higher path. The old man guessed that even the sage Confucius was like this. There is no end to the Tao, and perhaps above the saints, there is a deeper Tao. Moreover, the old man faintly felt that the vast Tianren Continent was not the only world, the vast wilderness and the endless ocean might contain a completely new world. It may even be that above the sky that you look up, there will be unexpected extraterrestrial worlds......"
Mr. Cai pondered for a while, then came back to his senses after a while, and said to Su Lin with a smile, "Su Lin, it's too early for you to think about this now. But I believe that one day, you too will embark on the holy path and follow the same path as the saints. ”
"Thank you, sir, for your doubts, Surin knows. ”
For concepts like the outer worlds, other worlds, and so on. I'm afraid that Mr. Cai doesn't know as well as Su Lin, because Su Lin is from the world outside the Tianren Continent.
When he came back from the mansion, lying on the gazebo by the lake of the mansion, looking up at the stars in the sky, Su Lin was thinking in his heart. If there really is a world outside the heavens, if this Tianren Continent world is also a planet, then the earth where he lived and existed in the past could it be one of these stars?
"Oh, maybe it's true, the saints travel to the outer worlds in search of new worlds. Maybe you go to another planet and become the creator god of that planet, or maybe you are treated as an alien and then beaten into a sieve by all kinds of ultra-modern technological weapons?"
Some strange ideas surged through his mind, and Su Lin laughed when he thought about it.
"Brother Su, I said that I couldn't find you in your room or study, so it turned out that you ran to this lake to enjoy the night alone!"
Su Lin was thinking about it, Hong Liyu walked over, sat down next to Su Lin, looked down at him, smiled at the corner of his mouth, smiled at the charming appearance of the city, and asked Su Lin, "Brother Su has something to do, come and listen to me?"
"I didn't ...... It's nothing!" Su Lin was stunned, and felt more and more that Hong Liyu was charming, but it was a man, and there was a strange feeling in his heart, in order to hide this feeling, Su Lin quickly changed the topic and said, "Liyu, I was thinking about the problem of the hundred acres of sea fields assigned to me by the Su family......
Hong Liyu had moved into Su Lin's mansion with Yuan Du a few days earlier, and each of them asked for a separate small attic, all with a very elegant courtyard. For Hong Liyu, Su Lin had nothing to hide, and directly told Hong Liyu the reason for the 100 acres of sea fields from beginning to end, including the secret that the sea field may be hiding the artifact "Qiankun Ding" used by the half-saint Zhang Yu to cook the sea.
"Oh, that's an amazing artifact. Since Brother Su suspects that there is a Qiankun Ding hidden in Haitian, why not find an opportunity to dive into the bottom of the sea to investigate?" Hong Liyu suggested after listening.
"I want to too! But how deep is the sea that I can only penetrate now as a showman? ”
Su Lin sighed bitterly, "But I have been to the pawnshops and treasure buildings of Jian'an Mansion in the past few days to see, although I have also seen a few treasures that avoid water, the highest is only the treasure of the people." It's okay to use these treasures to escape into some rivers and lakes, but in the face of the mighty East China Sea, at least you need scholar-level treasures!"
"Why do you bother looking for it everywhere, Brother Su, you have a demon treasure on your body that can be comparable to the Great Confucian Wenbao. Why do you have to go so far as to find other water-sheltering treasures?"
"What? I have such a powerful demon treasure on my body to avoid water? Why don't I know? Liyu, tell me what it is?" Su Lin really couldn't think of it for a while, and hurriedly asked Hong Liyu.
"Brother Su, the last time we went to the Misty and Rainy Forest, you completely interpreted the love between Meng Jiangnu and Fan Qiliang with a song "Yanqiu Ci" of Zhenguo. Didn't you get a thousand teardrops of demon treasure turned into countless tears of Meng Jiangnu?"
Hong Liyu smiled and reminded Su Lindao.