Thousands of white lotus shine on the corridor, and a sound of the chant of the Ya Song of the Declaration;

Just as the third candle was finished, the landscape painting of Nangong was difficult to complete.

——Xue Neng, the Jinshi and the rank of the sixth year of Huichang (846)

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The mourning officials in front of Ma Lin's mansion avoided them, as if they were very afraid. The hood was taken off. An old man with white hair and majestic hair was sitting upright on it. Then two servants carried them on the steps of Ma Lin's mansion. Many of the envoys and generals from Ma Lin's mansion walked out and came to meet them one by one. However, the prime minister named Yang Wan pushed them away one by one. His legs were not convenient, so he walked down with a clutch and crooked himself, and his face was unnatural and seemed to have been hit by the wind.

It is obvious that Yang Wan is not the old courtier he met on a snowy night.

Only then did Gao Yue notice that Yang Xiangguo had only two servants beside him, even far less than other fifth-rank sixth-rank officials who came to pay their respects.

Then the general Anxi and Ma Lin's three sons received by the front hall came out to greet him. Yang Wan was not in a hurry to express his condolences, but instead paused a rattan pole and cried in front of many military generals: "The prince Fufeng was the western border of the country for many years, and the emperor's kindness was only heavy, but he spent 200,000 yuan to build this central hall. It is not a good way to protect his descendants. Since the national crisis, General Fang Yue has been giving endless gifts and has been competing to build a mansion in the capital. The people call it "wood demon", but the students of the official school cannot eat, and the people call it "cracker spirit". Now I am ordered by Fu Shuo, so I need to reverse this trend."

Yang Wan said that none of the Anxi generals, who were originally as powerful as tigers, dared to refute anything, and they all bowed their heads and listened. The other officials waved their hands quietly and drove away the guards and servants (the servants who were assigned by the Tang officials by the court, and the guards above the fifth rank and above, and the following were called guards). It seemed that the prestige of the Yang Prime Minister was very famous.

Gao Yue also understood why people say that there is a dry firewood spirit in the ghost market in Wubenfang? It turns out that they describe all the students of the Imperial College, who are thin and thin!

Yang Xiangguo is not bad. It seems that he is really considering poor students. Liu Deshi said that he was excluded by Yuan Zai before and served as the Imperial College Priest, so he knew that the students suffered a lot.

After coming out of Jing'anfang, Liu De's room was almost impossible. It was Gao Yue who helped him all the way and walked back to Wubenfang slowly.

During dinner, Liu Deshi looked like he was desperate. He took the chopsticks in vain and his face completely lost its color.

Gao Yue knew that his original hope was broken halfway with seeing Chang Gun. After finally Chang Gun praised his literary talent, he did not know that this year's tribute was going to be a subordinate minister. This behavior of pulling a straw for the drowning man and then kicking him back into the deep water was terrible.

But Chang Gun's words of praise for the scriptures were probably just polite: God knows whether he had read the scriptures of Liu De's room; he refused to give Liu De's room a list, but he knew whether he had given other scholars a list in private.

If he really appreciates Liu De’s literary talent, he had been the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites for three years, so why was he not admitted to Liu De’s office?

Gao Yue couldn't help but sigh. The spring exam would be held in five days. In addition, during this period, he realized that the Tang Dynasty's scientific examination was much darker than the Tian Dynasty's college entrance examination. The civil service exam was so dark! If you want to get lucky, you can no longer walk like Liu Deshi until you die, and you have to take some wild paths.

However, now the wild path is too late, and the exam is only five days left. The one who succeeds as the Minister of Rites is Pan Yan, the right concubine of the crown prince. Unless he and Liu Deshi can be appreciated by the crown prince, dream!

"I can only sharpen my guns in the face of battle." Gao Yue finished thinking, and then said to Liu Deshi, "Brother Fangzhai, tell me the details of the Ministry of Rites' trial. I'm ready for the next five days."

But Liu Deshi still insists on his own opinion. He believes that the poetry and prose links in the current scientific examination are still the most important, and his basis is the "redemption" action of the owner of the imperial examination.

The so-called redemption means that many scholars do not understand the scriptures at all and perform poorly when posting the scriptures. Therefore, the master allows these scholars to show their strengths in poetry and essays. If the poems and essays are excellent, they can offset or even ignore the bad achievements of posting the scriptures. This is "redemption".

But Gao Ying clearly said that since the Anshi Rebellion, the court has paid more attention to the "theory of the country" and has begun to despise the flashy poems and essays. The implication is that "the skills are neglected and the content is emphasized". You must work hard on scriptures and policy discussions.

That's good. Anyway, my poetry and essays are simply nonsense. This year's exam is not as embarrassing as writing scriptures and policy theories, so I won't be as embarrassed as submitting blank papers.

Seeing that Liu Deshi could not convince and stubbornly, Gao Yue simply made up his mind to leave alone, and he said to Liu Deshi, do you have any scriptures or books?

I didn’t expect that Liu De’s room was not available at all!

He has been studying poetry and essays for half his life, and has no concern for scriptures at all.

"It seems that it's not entirely because the chief officer doesn't know the talent after so many years." Gao Yue sighed in his heart.

So after the dinner at the Taixue Pavilion was over, Gao Yue had to find all the things himself.

The Duke of the Vast happened to be expelled from the Taixue Pavilion for a big fuss. Although Wang Jiansi and Xiahou Zhiguan were tough, they were considered from the perspective of loving talent (after all, the Duke of the Vast is one of the few seed players). They did not disqualify him as a student, but just gave him a long "spring vacation": spring is here, and you go home to "get clothes", and you will not be upset when you see this angry young man.

Gao Yue asked Duke Wei for help. Duke Wei said that I have a complete set of nine classics here, and I am already familiar with them, so it doesn’t matter if I lend them to you.

The so-called Nine Classics means that the Tang people divided the original "Li" into "Zhou Li", "Yi Li" and "Li Jing", and will also examine the three "Spring and Autumn" (Zuo Zhuan, Gongyang Zhuan, and Guliang Zhuan). In this way, the original "Book of Songs", "Book of Changes" and "Shangshu", are called the Nine Classics.

After Gao Yue thanked him, Duke of the Vatic left angrily. Before leaving, he even scolded the Imperial College for being completely unconventional and actually used a gourd to pretend to be a prison.

This angry young man has to talk about this for at least ten years.

Then Gao Yue passed through the ridges on the east and west sides, and found Dr. Su's house in the northwest corner of Wubenfang under the night.

In the past, Dr. Su did not come to the host for the drinking ceremony in the village because of his family's livelihood, but went to Kunming Pond to catch fish.

After pushing open the simple door of Dr. Su's house, Gao Yue really understood why he didn't teach and went fishing: the whole house was similar to his room, with a silence. The only decoration was two or three salted fish hanging on the wall. Several children in adults' worn clothes were sitting and crawling on the ground. Dr. Su's wife was lying on the bed in rags, probably because she was hungry and wanted to save energy.

In the short kitchen next to it, the pot was empty and there was no fireworks.

Dr. Su Yanben is in his forties, but he looks much older than his actual age. Chang'an Mi Gui's words are not false. When Gao Yue stood outside the door to ask for a meeting, he was sitting behind the desk with his legs shaking, next to him was his wife's spinning machine.

When Dr. Su saw Gao Yue, he called him in enthusiastically. The doctor's wife hurriedly pulled a broken curtain up to avoid it.

"Yi Song, the crucian carp and water chestnuts you sent last time are really delicious, and the children are still talking about it!"
Chapter completed!