The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 684 Knowledge Practice
Zhong Jian walked to the east gate of the palace, followed by many students.

As for those failed students, some people have already sadly planned to leave Changsha.Others are running back and forth between various colleges in Changsha, hoping to enter these colleges and fight again in the coming year.

Not everyone is just satisfied with being a scholar. After all, Jinshi is the highest pursuit of students in this era.

"Student Zhong Jian, I have met all your lords."

Zhong Jian saw his own name at the top of the list, and silently recited two lines of comments written by Zhao Dongting Yubi himself.Facing the official who released the list, he bowed and cupped his hands.

He is quite delicate, with a thin figure, wearing a blue gown with a few patches.However, his complexion was neither humble nor overbearing.

Probably this is the real reader.

There is poetry and calligraphy in the chest.

When the officials who released the list heard that he called himself Zhong Jian, they were surprised at first, but then they didn't dare to be negligent, and said with a smile on their faces: "My lord, you are polite, you are polite."

The head official picked up the remaining Zhong Jian's token from the desk next to him, and handed it to Zhong Jian, "Mr. Zhong, this is your token. You must remember that two days later, before the time of the first day of March, Hold this order and go to the palace to meet the Holy Majesty. The Holy Majesty said that if a Jinshi fails to come, his Jinshi status will be revoked. The Emperor dislikes people who are not punctual."

Zhong Jian took the token, politely, bowed his hands and said: "Zhong Jian remember, thank you sir."

"Young Master Zhong is being polite."

The smile on the head official's face was even wider, "Young master is a great talent, and he will definitely be used by the emperor in the future. I will wait, and I will have to ask you to take care of me in the future!"

Although Zhong Jian is talented and learned, he is not pedantic, saying: "Naturally, naturally."

Then he bowed his hands to the surrounding students and onlookers, turned and left.

Immediately afterwards, he even went to the street to yell and copy books.

This has left those who follow him and still want to get close to him speechless.They are already "Xinke No. [-] Scholar", but what else is there to sell?

With Zhong Jian's reputation at this time, as long as he opens his mouth, there will be an endless stream of people willing to give him money.Wanquan can make a lot of money.

No, he didn't need to open his mouth at all.

Not long after, a wealthy businessman came with gold ingots and wanted to invite Zhong Jian to the mansion for a banquet.

This is an invitation, and with so much gold offered, one can imagine how determined these wealthy businessmen are to Zhong Jian.

After the reform of the imperial examination system, the first "Xin Ke champion" may be able to enter the center of the imperial court after the State Council orders Lu Xiufu and others to retire.This is Da Song's biggest potential stock at the moment.

However, Zhong Jian declined one after another.

He obviously also knows his current situation.These wealthy businessmen and officials rushed up to give charcoal in a timely manner. If he wanted to accept it, what he owed was favors.

Wouldn't it be necessary to repay such a favor in the future?
Seeing that he politely refused, everyone dared not use force, and they all felt disappointed at the moment.

Some people did not dare to find another way, so Zhong Jian was asked to write poems and calligraphy for them.

This is the ink treasure of future officials.

Of course, the retouching fee for these word seekers is undoubtedly extremely high.

In this regard, Zhong Jian did not insist on refusing.

In a short time, there were already many gold ingots beside him.

Zhong Jian looked at these gold ingots from time to time, counting them carefully, as if he was trying to get a good deal.

When there were 21 gold ingots, he suddenly put away the stall, and said to everyone around him, "Thank you for your support, Zhong Jian needs to go back to study, goodbye."

Then he put away the stall and left like this, all alone, which seemed very different from those wealthy family members in fresh clothes and angry horses.

Finally, he went outside the city and settled in a dilapidated temple.

These days of the imperial examination, he has no money to stay in the inn, so he lives in this ruined temple every night.

When everyone heard about this, they all just sighed with emotion, Mr. Zhong is really a scholar with a strong character.

As the evening approached, even Zhao Dongting, who was in the deep palace, heard about this and smiled slightly, "This Zhong Jian is an interesting person."

Zhang Shijie, the supervisor who came to report in person, asked softly: "Your Majesty, should we take him into the palace, or to the old minister's mansion? Now that the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty have just started, people like Zhong Jian who are knowledgeable and Students with strength of character are rare."

"inappropriate."

Zhao Dongting shook his head, "Being too special to him will cause dissatisfaction among the other Jinshi. Moreover, Zhong Jian may also be proud of his favor. At that time, our Great Song Dynasty will suffer a great loss."

"Emperor Shengming."

Zhang Shijie saluted and said no more.

Zhao Dongting couldn't laugh or cry.

These old ministers always called him holy.But how could he not understand that Zhang Shijie did it on purpose just now?
With Zhang Shijie's head, maybe he can't even think of such a thing?

But he didn't bother to say anything about Zhang Shijie.

After all these years, he no longer had the extravagant hope to change the bad habit of these old ministers patting horses in front of him.

No way, who made himself the emperor!

In another two days, it will be the day when all Jinshi enter the palace to face the saint.

Zhao Dongting still got up before dawn as usual, meditated, practiced the sword, and tempered the sword intent. After all these were done, it was already close to Chenshi.

Zhang Ru and Ying Er also got up at this time, and then accompanied Zhao Dongting to have breakfast.After the maids dressed up Zhao Dongting, Zhao Dongting took all the eunuchs to the main hall.

Since the abolition of the early dynasty system, he, the emperor, has become much more relaxed than before.There is no need to get up before the fifth watch as in the past.

When he arrived at the main hall, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, Chen Jianghan and other leading officials of the dynasty and the chief officials of various ministries were already waiting outside the hall.

As for those Jinshi who passed the palace examination, although they had to enter the palace gate, they were still waiting for Xuanhou at the second palace gate at this time.This door is the Zhengde Gate.

Seeing Lu Xiufu and the others, Zhao Dongting smiled and said with a chuckle, "Why are you all here so early?"

The ministers were speechless.

They obviously found that the emperor was far from being diligent, and he got up much later than previous emperors.However, with their outstanding political achievements, they naturally wouldn't say anything.

Even the doctors and censors at Yushitai did not dare to touch Zhao Dongting's eyebrows with this.

Zhao Dongting saw the strange faces of the ministers, he laughed twice, "All of you follow me into the palace."

Everyone filed in and walked into the hall.

As soon as he sat down in the hall, Zhao Dongting, who sat on the upper dragon chair, asked again: "I'm afraid, my lords, you already have a favorite student in your heart?"

Hearing this, all the ministers couldn't help showing a little smile.

Apart from Zhong Jian, among the candidates in this year, there are indeed many students with real talents and practical learning.Certain professional knowledge made them shine in the eyes of chief officials.

Chen Jianghan pondered slightly, then bowed and said: "Your Majesty, are you really not going to give these Scholars directly important positions?"

This was what Zhao Dongting told them before the imperial examination.

The palace examination is the way for the imperial court to select top talents, but these individual talents must not be allowed to reach the sky in one step.

As for why, Zhao Dongting did not explain.

At this time, Chen Jianghan and the others obviously had some doubts in their hearts.In their view, with the professional knowledge of these students, each of them is already worthy of a big responsibility.

As everyone knows, in Zhao Dongting's eyes, even the most outstanding Zhong Jian is actually like that.

It hasn't been long since the colleges and universities have opened majors, and even the teachers are still teaching while studying.How could these Jinshi really fall into Zhao Dongting's eyes?

They are far worse than the college students of later generations.

It's a pity that Zhao Dongting is also a mortal, so it is impossible to know everything.It is naturally impossible to compile textbooks for these universities.

Hearing Chen Jianghan's words, he nodded slightly, and said, "No matter how knowledgeable a person is, he has to go through experience. Knowledge and practice have always been two different things!"

All the ministers pondered for a while when they heard the words, and then they all nodded in agreement.

What the emperor said is really reasonable.

Some people can apply their full knowledge in practice, but some people may not be able to do it, they can only talk about it on paper.

At that moment, everyone was ready to bow to Zhao Dongting again.

Seeing this, Zhao Dongting quickly waved his hands and said with a light smile, "There is no need to salute."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and looked at Eunuch Liu beside him, "Let all Jinshi who have passed this palace examination enter the palace!"

"Xuan Xin Ke Scholars have an audience."

Eunuch Liu shouted with a sharp throat.

Then, the shout passed through the mouths of many eunuchs and headed towards Zhengde Gate.

All Jinshi naturally headed towards the main hall led by Zhong Jian.

A total of 140 seven people.

(End of this chapter)