CHAPTER XXXI

Since it was still the time when the Seven Kingdoms were competing for power, the Qin State changed the law and opened the imperial examination, and Great Qin has sighed: The world's talents are used by me. The Qin State established the country by force and occupied the cultural movement, so it was able to strengthen itself first in a short period of 50 years, and then strongly annex the four countries, so that the world could be ruled steadily for more than 100 years, and the national strength was thriving.

The subjects of the imperial examination were extremely simple at the beginning, because they were still mainly recommended, supplemented by examination screening, and began to strive for excellence after the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty. It's all from the Master's handwriting.

In the promotion of the imperial examination in the past 200 years, there have been waves of "the struggle between the rich and the poor" and "the dispute between the north and the south", but under the mediation and improvement of the three generations of Ming monarchs of the Great Qin Dynasty and the master and son who came out once in a thousand years, it is now in order.

Therefore, most of the living people attribute the great prosperity of the imperial examination system to the master, so that most scholars think that the imperial examination system was made by the master, especially the children of the poor family because the master completely erased the recommendation system, giving the poor scholars a relatively fair situation, and even more enshrined this concept with ironclad certainty.

By the time he was in power today, the rise of the poor children was unstoppable, especially the poor children from the academy had some meaning of huddling together for warmth, and even more, he was born in a poor family, and he was more willing to appreciate the poor scholars who had no roots, and he would be able to help in the future.

Of course, the well-being of the imperial examination is far more than that, under the strict imperial examination system, some well-educated people also have to stumble or be born at the wrong time, at this time there is another way to attract attention in the capital , is to write in the academy, literary celebrities, officialdom nobles, etc., pray to be appreciated, from now on in the capital to have a place to live, to avoid the hardship and fatigue of traveling thousands of miles to Beijing to catch the exam two years later is a purpose, closer to the center of political power is more important, compared to the state and county, the capital is as expensive as a cloud, undoubtedly the probability of climbing the dragon and the phoenix to jump out of the predicament in one fell swoop.

Therefore, although the big exam is in September, a large number of scholars from all over the country poured into Chang'an City in early August, throwing names everywhere, and the inside is also divided into two camps, one is Han Meiling, the representative of the capital's magnates, and the other is the representative of the academy in the province.

There are many rules in the capital, what steps to go up, what bridge to take, that is all exquisite, the threshold is too high, it is easy to fall to death, the threshold is too low, and can not maximize their own interests, these two official positions can just be uploaded and issued, and it is a position that can only be filled by well-educated people, so this threshold is the most suitable, it is not easy to live in the capital, and the effort is naturally the experience of the predecessors.

Whether it is the wisdom tank required by the nobles or the help sought by the dignitaries of the Hanmen after the Leaping Dragon, there must be fresh blood to enter to fill the vacancies left after the further transformation of the bird into a phoenix, so the number of scholars who are fortunate enough to stay in the Jingshi Hanmen far exceeds the number of people who remain on the list.

Compared with Fang Shanxi's pride, Han Meiling, who was born in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, is actually more strict, one is the temperament of everyone's children, and the other is that the so-called magnates actually need talents who can do things, not just a vase that can only do splendid articles, and Fang Shanxi is a pure literati background, and suddenly gained power, and accidentally became a person who selects talents in the cold family, and will inevitably be involved by waves of exaggerated flattery and articles on flowers, and it is inevitable that the hands and mouths will be looser。

The last place to go independent of the court hall is the seowon. The academy has ended enrollment, but it does not affect some people to submit books inside, but this year's submission is far lower than in previous years, naturally because of the master's travel, although the master was also in white clothes in the past, but the Great Qin Dynasty and all the scholars will not see it this way, because the master can enter the palace at any time, and face the saint at any time, and most of the master's suggestions have been adopted by the emperors of the three dynasties without reservation. The little master has been in office for more than half a year, and he has never even been to the palace, so what foundation can he have above the court. The warmth and coldness of people are often the same sentence: how affectionate the market is, Wenlin's heart is difficult to reflect. It's not an exaggeration.

Of course, Li Jinglan doesn't care about this, but a few old teachers have some complaints, and the world is declining.

"Everyone is unhappy, because in the past, the master was a big tree, which could shelter the world's scholars from the wind and the sun, and the master was still an immortal in their eyes, after all, he could reach the heavens, and he could count them with a slap in Daqin, and the master was still the proper thumb, so those people outside are very disappointed now, but as a teacher in the academy, what do the old gentlemen care about?"

"I always feel that people take tea and cool, and it is not the work of scholars!"

Instructed the little girl to pour tea for a few old gentlemen, Li Jinglan and a few old teachers sat around the stone table in the pavilion, and tapped the middle finger of the right index finger on the stone table for a long time before asking softly: "A few old gentlemen, I have a few questions I want to ask." ”

"The little master is polite!"

"I don't understand why the teacher quietly went down the mountain, and I don't understand the senior brother's push boat, and I don't think everyone understands, what does it mean that the teacher and the senior brother handed over the academy to me?"

Seeing several old men looking at each other, Li Jinglan continued to speak.

"Since the gentlemen refuse to teach, shall I give my opinion?"

"In the past, I was not so much chasing ducks to the shelves as being coaxed up the mountain by my senior brother, but until today, I vaguely thought of something. ”

Seeing that a few old masters didn't say anything, Li Jinglan continued to talk to himself.

"Nowadays, the officials of the three provinces and six ministries of the court, whether they are noble or poor, are actually from my academy, which is what my academy has always been proud of, and it is also the reason why scholars in the world favor my academy. In the past, the master sat in the academy, and the purple and noble rivers in the court flowed endlessly, and whenever there was a major event, he always asked for advice, but he actually came to beat the teacher's side drum, so as not to step on the wrong step and say the wrong thing in the court, and once he lost his hoof, he would never recover. In fact, no matter how obscure the teacher is, he always doesn't want the disciples to make mistakes, and it is inevitable that there will be a little flaw at the beginning and end of the words, so the academy disciples in the court will have more stability. ”

"But this is still the teacher's idea, Daqin's court has become a family of the academy, and the disciples of the academy have turned this stability into a party and a private business without thinking of making progress, and the so-called gentlemanly demeanor of the ten-year cold window has become a gentleman's demeanor like Fang Shanxi, who was once ambitious, arrogant, regarded the common people as dung, and regarded fame and fortune as a delicious nouveau riche to let go of his hands and feet, and look at this year's wind comments to know that in this way, it has deviated from the original intention of the teacher to establish Daqin Academy. ”

"Even the old gentlemen who don't care about their fame are disappointed that the academy is full of people, not that the old gentlemen have arrogance, it is really a century-old academy, the hundred-year-old master's tree is too big, and unconsciously, the academy has the habit of leaning against the big tree to enjoy the shade. ”

"And the master will leave one day, after the master is gone? Some people will naturally say that there is still a prince? But what about the future? When this big tree falls down with a bang, will our academy and our master become a big joke?"

"So when the master found out, he threw down the stall and ran away, so the prince who was close to the saint was unwilling to take the stall, so they irresponsibly asked me to carry the pot. ”

Li Jinglan thought about it while saying his inference in one breath.

Several old men frowned, and they couldn't speak for a long time.

No one asks for ten years, just like the scholar Bai Ding outside the courtyard gate, how many people's original intention is to seek stability, how many people seek a wealth, and how many people seek an ambition? The once poor scholars had no hope and no future, so they didn't dare to complain, there was nowhere to complain, and later, the imperial examination system gave them hope, gave them a dream to chase, so that they no longer died depressed, no longer learned to be rich and no one cared about, they learned to straighten their backs, and then, the academy gave them a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and became famous all over the world in one fell swoop. They thought that this was their own efforts, and that they should be rewarded for their hard work. They raised their jaws too high and opened their big mouths.

Just like the excitement outside the academy at this time, they believe that we should be appreciated, and the master should take care of the scholars, which is justified.

Just like a few old teachers feel that compared with the seven or eight baskets of books in the past, this is looking down on the academy and the world is cold.

Therefore, the master felt that he was wrong, so the prince refused to take this burden, because they were all wise men, so the master quietly left Li Jinglan twenty-two words: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the common people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations!"

The academy is the academy of Daqin, the academy is the academy of scholars, the academy is not only the past, the present, but also the academy of the future, the master speaks clearly, and the prince understands it. And Li Jinglan finally lived up to the two of them, and he also realized this truth.

A few old teachers were also pondering, a few days ago, the disciples who visited the teacher in the name of the city were not going around in circles to find out where the master was going and what the master's plan was to do? Now that the master is gone, how can anyone in the court have ever been here?

The so-called complaint by posting today's post is not a manifestation of the grievances accumulated in the past six months. The old gentlemen who thought that they were already familiar with moral articles asked themselves, thinking that what the little master said was indeed reasonable, and they also untied the knot at the moment, and only then did they truly agree that the master and the prince handed over a huge share of the property to the young man in front of them, far more than just being close, but more about having absolute confidence in him.

Several people stood up and gave Li Jinglan a deep salute in unison: "Master!"

This time, there is no "small" word in front of it.

Pei Xiaohuan, who was holding a teapot on the side, looked at a few old gentlemen who usually muttered about their brother in private, bent down to salute, smiled, and thought: This is about the same, I won't pull your beard anymore in the future, this girl knows that people respect me a foot, I respect people, if there is revenge, there will be revenge, and if there is kindness, this truth.

After the old gentlemen said goodbye and left, Li Jinglan was left alone and muttered:

I don't know, only I know,

I know that I can't do it, or I don't know,

If you really know, you can enjoy it.

Teacher, can you get away?

Teacher, where are you?

Teacher, are you good from afar?