Every year after the beginning of spring, the college recruits protégés, and all the scholars in the world are proud to be able to enter the academy to cultivate, and every late March, there will be a sea of people around the academy, and the excitement is comparable to the Shangyuan Festival that has just passed.

In addition to the academy, there is also Tai'an Dongcheng, which is still being renovated and rebuilt this year, and the power under Ning Xiaoyao's sword is also a place worth watching in the hearts of many people.

Compared to those scholars who were nervous because they had to take the academy's exams, Tang Qing was much more relaxed, while Cao Shuanglu and Tongzang, who were following him, were more excited than nervous.

Yuelu Academy is built on the mountainside in the suburbs, and at the bottom of the mountain is the magnificent jade archway of the academy, and it is said that the inscription on it is still from the hand of an emperor of the old Tang Dynasty.

From the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, all the way up there were people who came from all over the world to take the academy exams, among them were vigorous young men, calm and introverted middle-aged people, and even some gray-haired old men-

They got together in twos and threes, either talking about current affairs, or introducing each other to each other, and some of them got together to recite poems and talk about the past and the present, which was a lively scene.

Although Cao Shuanglu couldn't see, her ears and eyes were filled with noisy sounds, and Tongzang walked all the way to occasionally listen to a few words from the audit, but after listening to them, she seemed to be extremely disdainful, and seemed to look down on those who read.

Tang Qing didn't say anything in his eyes, but quietly grinned while the two of them were not paying attention.

"Sir, this Yuelu Academy is really worthy of its name? Looking at these people who came to participate in the test, is it true that the academy has the ability to turn a black chicken into a phoenix?"

Tongzang asked, following behind Tang Qing.

"Do you know the origin of this Yuelu Academy?"

Everyone in the world knows the reputation of the academy, but the origin of the academy and Cao Shuanglu may not know.

"I don't know, scholars like to talk about their masters, and they want to talk about their masters at every turn, isn't this academy built by their masters?"

Cao Shuanglu also thought so, and nodded on the side when she heard Tongzang's answer.

"During the Spring and Autumn Seven Kingdoms, King Qi Wei of Qi changed the law and reformed, and founded the state-run school Jixia School Palace, which was formed with the School Palace as the center when it flourished

The magnificent situation of a hundred schools of thought, the school palace accommodated almost all the schools of thought at that time, bringing together the world's scholars, Xun Fuzi was three times as the school palace sacrificial wine, all the literati and scholars who came to the school palace, regardless of academic faction, ideology, political tendency, and national age, can express their academic opinions. ”

"Isn't this the same as the current Yuelu Academy?"

Hearing this, Tongzang couldn't help but interject.

"Listen to the gentleman. ”

Cao Shuanglu knocked Tongzang on the head and warned him not to interrupt him.

"The current academy can be regarded as inheriting the free and open atmosphere of the Jixia Academy. ”

Tang Qing smiled and continued.

"After the unification of the Great Qin, the Jixia School Palace naturally ceased to exist, and in the Han Dynasty, the state-run school based on the Jixia School Palace was founded, Taixue, all the way down to our Qiyuan, which is the Guozijian. ”

"Guozijian has nothing to do with the academy, right?"

This time, Cao Shuanglu couldn't help but ask.

"After the Jixia School Palace, whether it is Taixue, or Guoxue, or the current Guozijian, have not been able to restore the free academic atmosphere of the past, after the two Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains for a long time was chaotic, and it was then that there was a genius who studied the ancient and modern, that person had no name and no surname, just regarded himself as a master, and then followed many followers, so he settled down in Taoshan outside Tai'an City, and established this Yuelu Academy. And the head of the academy in the past dynasties is the master. The existence of the academy can be regarded as inheriting the mantle of the Jixia Academy, and it is naturally deeply respected by scholars all over the world. ”

The academy was built on top of Peach Mountain, which is naturally full of peach trees as its name suggests, and the three of them went up from the bottom of the mountain, watching the flowers on the branches turn into flowers that have not yet bloomed.

"In this way, the master is not a person, but a code name, just like the owner of the village, the head of the teaching?"

When Tongzang heard this, he realized that the master who he had always thought was often on his lips was not a person, but a code name.

This is true now, but sometimes the master will also refer to Confucius specifically, after all, he is the sage who created a school of doctrine. ”

After listening to Tang Qing's detailed explanation, Tongzang and Cao Shuanglu suddenly realized.

"No wonder, listen to people all day long

Speaking of Master, Master, I thought that there were really people in this world who could live for thousands of years without dying, and this time I came to take the exam, I thought I could meet this long-lived thousand-year-old man. ”

"Don't talk nonsense. ”

Tang Qing felt helpless for a while, who would have thought that this kid would have such an elf and eccentric mind.

But when I think about it, the current academy master seems to have been in charge of the academy since the old Tang Dynasty, and the current emperor of Qiyuan has been passed down for three generations, and this master is still sitting firmly in the position of the head of the academy, pinching his fingers to say that it will take two or three hundred years, who can really live so long?

On the mountainside of Mt. Momoyama, the academy is revealed.

Outside the vermilion gate of the academy stood a billboard, and next to the billboard was a large bronze bell one person high.

At this moment, two little scholars with pigtails came out of the academy, and after the two went out, they first stood at the door and looked around, and then the two walked down, one to the billboard, and the other to the bronze bell.

The scholar took out a yellowed piece of rice paper from his bosom and pasted it on the billboard, and then the two of them rang the heavy bronze bell with a wooden mallet.

The dull but thick bell rang and reverberated throughout Momoyama.

Ten bells had passed, and the two scholars had returned to the front of the college.

"This year's first introductory question, has been posted on the billboard, if there is still at the bottom of the mountain did not go up the mountain, please communicate to each other, before today's time, please write the answer on the paper, there will be someone at the door to check, tomorrow morning will be announced the first introductory question of the list of candidates, please don't miss the time. ”

The boy, who was still milky, cleared his throat, and the surroundings soon fell silent.

After the two of them finished saying and went back, the people waiting outside the door couldn't wait to squeeze towards the billboard, and at this time, any gentleman's etiquette had long been forgotten.

Tongzang happened to be standing relatively close to the billboard, and was squeezed in by the crowd when he was caught off guard, Tang Qing saw that Tongzang was directly overwhelmed by the crowd, and simply pulled Cao Shuanglu to hide aside.

After reading the question, the crowd should always disperse.

Cao Shuanglu's ears moved slightly, and she seemed to hear Tongzang's scolding in the noise.

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