The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 291 Who Is the Best Sword Master of Tang Dynasty, Pei Min or Sword Master of Shu Mountain?

Under the canopy of the grandstand of the Forbidden Army Academy.

Li Dan, Emperor Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty, who was sitting on the throne, couldn't hide the agitation in his chest. The number one scholar in the Jinshi department, and now he has such achievements in the martial arts department. This is a hero and Xiangzhao of the Tang Dynasty. The son of the Bai family is so brave, he should be rewarded, I want to reward ten thousand gold, but I don't know what Taiping thinks?"

He looked at Princess Taiping who was sitting on the left side of the throne, and asked.

"In the past martial arts exams, the former emperor repeatedly rewarded those who were amazing in martial arts..."

"The number one scholar in the new division has such courage, His Majesty should reward him."

Wearing a flowing bun, with all kinds of pearls and emeralds in her hair, pink plum blossoms on her brows, half-covered breasts, and dressed like a lady, the half-old Princess Taiping covered her mouth and smiled lightly, and replied: .

In the past, when taking the martial arts test in the school, the emperor would routinely reward some candidates who were amazing in martial arts.What's more, a person with the status of Xinke Zhuangyuan Lang, who has shown his talents in martial arts, can't justify not rewarding him.

"What do you think of Saburo?"

Li Dan looked at Prince Li Longji on the right again and asked.

"Every time the prime minister plays something, he asks: 'Have you tried to discuss with Taiping?' Then ask: 'Should you discuss with Saburo', and then it can be done." - "Zi Zhi Tong Jian"

Li Longji is not the eldest son, he is the third son of Li Dan, so he is called Sanlang.

It stands to reason that it is only a reward for a candidate, and Li Dan would not make such a gesture, but whoever makes this candidate get too close to Princess Jinxian, and too close to Princess Jinxian, means that he is too close to Prince Li Longji .

But encountering such an amazing scene of martial arts...,
If there is no routine reward.

It is inevitable that the officials and examinees will slander, thinking that the emperor Bo En is a miser.

Although thunder, rain and dew are all the favor of the king, but this is just a sentence, if you really do this, there will be resentment from the ministers.

"Father and emperor make his own decisions, sons and ministers dare not speak too much."

Li Longji replied.

Seeing that the two people in power had no objections, Li Dan nodded and asked the eunuch next to him to come forward and announce the edict.

Immediately, some eunuchs got off the stands, followed by the little eunuch, the eunuch held the wooden case in his hand, and Wanjin was on the wooden saddle.

Ten thousand freshly minted, brand new, yellow-orange copper coins.

"Thank you, Your Majesty Ron."

"I'm wearing armor, so it's inconvenient to salute, so please don't blame me, Your Majesty."

Bai Gui rode on the horse, bowed his hands to the eunuch delivering the decree, and said.

"It's a trivial matter, Zhuangyuan Lang doesn't need to be too polite."

"Since the champion has received the reward, the miscellaneous family will leave and go to reply to the saint."

The eunuch also responded politely.

He was proclaiming the imperial edict on behalf of the emperor, so Bai Gui's words just now were addressed to the emperor Li Dan, not to him.Although he had a good status in the palace, the emperor was weak, and even the eunuchs were not very honored, so he didn't dare to offend Bai Gui, who was very popular now.

It is impossible for such a person to be the first in the Jinshi department and win the martial arts department, not to be ignored by the dignitaries of the dynasty.

"Thank you, Eunuch."

Bai Gui nodded and continued to sit on the horse.

He said he was receiving the reward, but he couldn't get the ten thousand gold in person now, it was just the emperor's gesture to encourage them, these martial arts candidates, to continue to achieve good results in the competition.

After the eunuch left, the chief examiner of the Yulin Military Academy held the command flag in his hand.

Swipe hard.

Soldiers blow their horns.

A team of martial arts candidates galloped to shoot arrows.

This is horse shooting!

collapse!
Bai Gui took off the riding bow and the feather arrows in the quiver from his back, pulled it like a full moon, tightened his legs on the saddle to prevent it from falling, and charged forward with his horse.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Feathered arrows shot out of his hand and hit the target.

"Fan Ziyi of Qingzhou, ten-breathing archery and eight horse-riding arrows, four hit the target, unqualified!"

"Dingzhou Palace, thirteen arrows shot with ten breaths, six hit the target, and the grades are mid-to-low, you can enter the next exam."

"..."

"Huazhou Baigui, with 21 ten-breath archery arrows, all of them hit the target, his grades are top-notch, his archery skills are superb, and both competitions are top-notch, so he can be included in the martial arts examination."

"..."

"Yanzhou Peimin, 27 ten-breathing archery, all of them hit the target, the grades are top-notch, and the archery skill is divine archery, you can enter the next exam."

"..."

The examiners were thinking about the results of the riding and archery competition just now.

In ten breaths, when the horse is moving, archery is carried out.

For those who are not proficient in horsemanship, let alone archery, it is good not to fall off the horse.In this competition, only those who are proficient in horsemanship and archery can get good results.

If you are proficient in horsemanship, you can shoot arrows without interruption within ten breaths.

But if the equestrian skills are a bit poor, if you keep adjusting your posture, you will delay the chance of archery, and if you miss the time, even if you shoot a lot of arrows, the results will not be excellent.

"The Great Tang Sword Master Pei Min?"

"Unexpectedly, this martial arts exam, he is also..."

Originally, Bai Gui believed in the reins, rested his mind after shooting the arrows, and prepared for the next exam, but he didn't expect to hear a familiar name, Yanzhou Pei Min.

Pei's surname is not considered a common surname in the population, but in aristocratic families, it is a big family.

Ninety percent of those who can be surnamed Pei and have money to practice martial arts are Wenxi Pei's family, and Yanzhou is Pei Min's hometown, so Bai Gui can roughly guess it from "Yanzhou Pei Min".

This is the Sword Master Pei Min!
In this era, the big families all have genealogy, and their Huazhou Xiagui Bai family will go to Jinyang to repair the family tree every once in a while. If there are children, they must be ranked in the family.

For example, his... juniors Bai Juyi and Bai Xingjian.

In "The Tomb of Bai Xingjian, the doctor of the Ministry of Food and Drug Administration", there is "22 elder brother Juyi, please drink the funeral of shame, and pay homage to the spirit of Lang Zhong 23 who knows how to retreat".

Bai Juyi claimed to be the 22nd brother, and Bai Xingjian was the 23rd Lang.It doesn't mean that his father Bai Jigeng really gave birth to so many sons, but this is the ranking of the Bai clan in Jinyang, the two of them are ranked 22nd and 23rd in this generation.

"I don't know if it's the sword master Pei Min, or the sword master from Shushan?"

"In "Duyi Zhi" it is said that Pei Min'throwing a sword into the clouds, tens of feet high, if it is shot down by lightning, Min Yin holds the sheath to hold it, and the sword enters through the air. Thousands of people watching are shocked. '."

"Shoot 31 tigers in one day..."

"It's no wonder that I'm beaten in riding and archery. Although I practice archery for a long time, I also spend some time practicing spear skills. How can I be better than Pei Min, who was born and bred in the Tang Dynasty?"

he thought.

But now he is standing side by side with Pei Min in the martial arts exam. Although he wants to meet this sword master of the Tang Dynasty, unless he is placed in the stands and overlooks the entire imperial army academy, everyone is wearing bright armor, so it is really hard to tell. Who is Pei Min.

In the next few exams, such as Changduo, Qiaoguan, etc., Bai Gui passed them one by one without exception.

In the martial arts exam, there is nothing to hide your skills. The more powerful you are, the more benefits you get, and there is almost no danger. Don't worry.

The one-day competition ended in such a short and hasty way.

In this martial arts competition, only less than [-] martial arts jinshi were selected, which was about the same as the number of Jinshi candidates.

Not surprisingly, Bai Gui was listed as the No. 1 martial arts Jinshi.

Although people like Pei Min accompanied the examination in this martial arts examination, although Pei Min came from a family like the Wenxi Pei family, he was similar to them in the Xiagui Bai family. He was not in his ancestral home, but In Yanzhou, it is considered down and out, so it can be seen that there are no connections, and Bai Gui has the honor of being the number one scholar. Li Dan also wants to make it up. To the elegant things of later generations.

In fact, although Bai Gui was a little inferior to Pei Min in the archery assessment, Pei Min was not as strong as him. In the test of passing the test, Bai Guili was able to win the applause, and he was even better than Pei Min in terms of grades. better.

Therefore, the number one scholar in civil and military affairs fell on Bai Gui so logically.Originally, there was no title of Wu Zhuangyuan in the Tang Dynasty, but whoever made Bai Gui rank first in Jinshi and Wushu, this Wu Zhuangyuan was born out of thin air.

"Cross the pass to carry the tripod, fight to shoot the pot." ——Zuo Si, "Wu Du Fu"

Qiaoguan is a weightlifting event in the martial arts of the Tang Dynasty.

……

In the evening, the palace dinner.

Located in Penglai Palace, Linde Hall.

(That is Daming Palace, which was changed to Penglai Palace during Emperor Gaozong's time.)
There are three major palaces in Tang Chang'an, also known as the Three Great Palaces, namely Daming Palace, Taiji Palace, and Xingqing Palace.

The name of Daming Palace comes from the "Da Ming Pian" in "The Book of Songs Daya", "Wen Wang has Ming virtue, so heaven returns to Wu Wang. King Wen and Wu Wang inherited each other, and their Ming virtue is becoming more and more extensive, so it is called Daming."

Penglai Palace means the palace where immortals live.

Bai Gui, as the number one scholar in both civil and military affairs, was given a special banquet by Li Dan.

The other Jinshi Jinshi and Wushu Jinshi did not have such a good treatment, so they had to pool their own money to have a meal in a restaurant.

The Qujiang banquet was only established during the period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and it was specially given to banquets for new scholars.So now there are no such things as Qujiang Banquet, Qionglin Banquet, and Luming Banquet.

Bai Gui was led by the female officer, and penetrated through layers of pavilions.

He didn't look sideways, walked calmly, and looked leisurely.

Don't dare to look around, the costumes of the court ladies in the early Tang Dynasty were all chest-length skirts, with tube tops on the outside, which was a bit too dazzling.

Walking to the remote end of the banquet, the female officer paused.

"Zhuangyuan Lang, this is your seat."

The female officer bowed profusely and said with a smile.

"Thank you Liu Shangshi."

Bai Gui withdrew his gaze, bowed slightly, and showed courtesy.

Then swing forward.

Sitting on the Hu stool behind the dining table.

There are six bureaus and 24 divisions in the harem of the Tang Dynasty. The six bureaus are all five grades, namely Shanggong, Shangyi, Shangfu, Shangshi, Shangzhu, and Shanggong.

He has not yet passed the official examination, and only after passing the official examination will he be awarded an official to a new Jinshi.Even if an official is awarded, the highest Jinshi awarded an official will not exceed the fifth rank.

Not to mention... the female officials in the palace may not necessarily become the emperor's concubines at any time. Shangguan Wan'er is the concubine of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian.

"Sure enough, it's a special feast, it's really remote..."

After Bai Gui was seated, he took a good look at the layout of Linde Hall in his spare time.

Linde Hall was a place for banquets and opera viewing in the Tang Dynasty.

At this banquet, he was almost among the top five. After all, the bigger the boss, the more late he will be.And those who could be invited to the table, except for him, were all bigwigs in the court, at least not lower than the fifth rank, and there was not a single green-robed official.

Seasonal vegetables and dried fruits on the table.

Tang is a meal-sharing system.

He waited while eating, and after about a quarter of an hour, officials came in one after another from outside the hall.

The last ones to enter are Li Dan and the prime minister of Zhengshitang.

"How can the new top scholar be at the bottom?"

"Come here, give a banquet in front of the palace."

Just when Bai Gui thought the banquet was about to begin, a voice came from the depths of the Linde Hall, and he was brought by a group of female officials and eunuchs to the dining table where the royal dignitaries were on the left side of the hall.

Put another case and let him sit down.

"I am the number one scholar in the new department. In order to show the reputation of favoring the wise men, the emperor often treats the number one scholar in the new department favorably..."

"Well, on the right side of the hall are the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall. It is impossible for me, a junior, to be the head of so many high-ranking officials. If I do this, I will be flattered and killed. Therefore...it seems reasonable to sit next to this group of princesses and princes... ..."

Bai Gui frowned slightly. When he looked to the left, he saw the glamorous and beautiful Princess Yuzhen. When he looked to the right, he saw the petite and lovely Princess Jinxian, all dressed in female crowns, making others envious.

(End of this chapter)