Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 558
Yeluzhen was dumbfounded when he heard this, and thought to himself, idiot, idiot, raising so many fake monks who don't do production, don't work, and only eat idle food. What a fucking wonder. (I know that the word 'wonderful flower' didn't exist in ancient times, but I just want to use it. If you want to spray it, you can spray it!)
Seeing the appearance of Yeluzhen, Li Yu thought he was shocked by the great prosperity of Buddhism in his own country, and smiled quite complacently, and then said: "However, now I have more than 1000 temples in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the 'Great Maitreya Temple' is the first. This is the first time for the emissary to come to the south of the Yangtze River. Come here! I will be a monk who knows guests for a while, and I will accompany the envoy to visit the 'Great Maitreya Temple'."

Yeluzhen has been completely numb to Li Yu's idiots, but he doesn't show the slightest bit on his face, and he is really interested in the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. The scenery of the Great Maitreya Temple is indeed very good, which is rarely seen in the north.

"Great Maitreya Temple" is a place where Li Yu often comes. The monks in the temple are no strangers to it. Everything in the temple is as usual. Lou Yanming just received the news that Ye Chen was successfully tricked and poisoned. The mansion was captured alive, Lou Yanming was mixed with joy and sorrow, he didn't bother to pay attention to Li Yu and Murong Zhen, and left the Great Maitreya Temple in a hurry, trying to rescue Shangguan Bingyun.

The front hall is still receiving tourists and believers who worship the Buddha normally. Li Yu took Yeluzhen to visit various Buddhist temples by himself, wherever he passed along the way.When Li Yu came here, he had something unique about the Buddhist rules and Buddhist scriptures, and he could hear the monks in charge of reception nodding frequently.This made Yeluzhen despise Li Yu even more in his heart, and secretly scolded him for being an idiot.

Bath proverb: On February [-]nd, the dragon raises its head.

After the second day of the second lunar month in the lunar calendar, the winter cold is gradually gone, everything in the world is recovering, and the rain is gradually increasing. It is time for farmers to start preparing for spring plowing. Inside and outside Kaifeng City, you can clearly feel the warmth of the spring river.The buds sloughing off the trees, the flowers gradually blooming, the farmers and vendors who went to the city to buy and sell various things for spring plowing, and the peasant children who followed their parents to the city on the street, are all making the breath of spring come warmer. And get down to earth.

Not counting the major events of the past two years when Ye Chen was stabbed to death and the imperial army was about to go south to attack the Tang Dynasty.At this time of the year, there are two major events in Song Dynasty.One is the annual spring plowing, and the other more lively event in Kaifeng City in February is this year's Chunwei.

The Beijing Examination is a grand event to select scholars for the country. According to the saying, it is held every three years.But the Song Dynasty is different from the Ming and Qing dynasties hundreds of years later. Such rules are not certain. Sometimes the emperor feels that there is a shortage of people, or the literary world is prosperous. Jianguo conquered the Northern Han Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty, and Wuyue successively in just two years, and then attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty. These places needed a large number of civil servants who could do practical things to govern.Therefore, as far as the current situation is concerned, for His Majesty the emperor, there are not too many talents who can really be used anyway. It is very necessary to organize Chunwei temporarily or in advance this year to recruit scholars for the country. In fact, in the next few years, Quests will also become more frequent.

Due to the approaching spring, some candidates who entered Beijing had actually gathered years ago.From the New Year to the present, all kinds of literary meetings have been frequent. The literati have participated in the gatherings, looking for opportunities to make their mark, or sending papers to officials and rich mansions in various places, in order to win the favor of the high officials in the DPRK and China. practice.

In fact, although it is natural for all kinds of important examinations in later generations to prevent the test takers from seeing the names of the examinees in order to avoid favoritism and fraud, in fact, before the Song Dynasty, such examinations were not vague.In the Tang Dynasty, the examinee's name was clearly known to the officials who marked the examination papers. The examination was more about whether the student was famous outside the examination room and whether he had business skills.In a sense, this is also a test of the other party's interpersonal relationship and background.But there are certain reasons for selecting officials in this way.

In the original history, after the Song Dynasty, the examinations began to be obscured.However, the custom of handing in test papers for this type of examinee has not changed much. After all, if the management is good, they may get exam questions and get advice from seniors. Even after passing the exam, these relationships will play a great role.And the uproar of these things also made the Chinese style atmosphere in Kaifeng city more prosperous and enthusiastic.For people who really like this kind of thing, it will be a lot of fun.

It's just that, from the year to the year, and even today, a series of major events have happened around Song State, especially Kaifeng City, which has attracted everyone's attention and led to these events that normally attract people's attention and attention. Candidates are ignored by everyone.

In fact, these few major events also opened the eyes of these scholars who like to talk about the world, talk about the country and discuss affairs, and have their eyes above the top. Wang's demeanor made them feel that their trip was worthwhile.As a result, the most discussed among these scholars these days is not even how long it will take for the Song army to conquer the Southern Tang Dynasty, or which of the two armies of Pan Mei and Zhao Zan will reach Jinling first, but about the legendary county king Ye Chen Various deeds.In particular, I don't know where it came out that last autumn, the three poems "Qinhuai Night Mooring", "Reminiscing Homeland", and "Sapphire Case" became famous among literati. Chen Qing, known as the number one talented scholar, was used by Ye Chen to cover up his identity during the two months of feigning death. There was an uproar among the scholars. Apart from being shocked, they felt quite elated.

After all, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the national power and military strength of the Great Song Dynasty have been firmly on the head of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and even forced the Southern Tang Dynasty to take the initiative to become a vassal last year and become a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty.However, in terms of poetry, poetry, and literary classics, the Southern Tang Dynasty was recognized as the number one at that time. For more than ten years, the Southern Tang Dynasty has often satirized the Song Dynasty in this regard.Now that his legendary county king turned out to be the number one talented scholar in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Ye Chen's name suddenly made a big difference in the hearts of these literati. Invisibly, Ye Chen's status among scholars and literati has been elevated to a certain extent.

And this incident spread among the ordinary people, people know that Ye Chen descended to the world as a martial arts star and transformed into a martial arts and martial arts star at the same time, and descended to the world in one body.Ye Chen's reputation and reputation have been greatly improved again, and he is no different among scholars and ordinary people.This was something that Ye Chen himself had never thought of.

After the cold of winter faded away, the capital city has begun to warm up. The trees beside the street corners have sprouted new green leaves, and a few birds are chirping, occasionally flying across the sky.It was morning, and the sun was hiding behind the stretched clouds, casting its rays warmly.In the Ye Mansion, Kou Zhun, who had eaten breakfast, started to study.

In the middle of the night three days ago, Ye Chen woke up once in the half-dead maze, and Kou Zhun happened to be by his side. Ye Chen remembered that spring was coming, so he asked Kou Zhun to take part in the scientific examination.So Kou Zhun started studying for the exam these days.

Early this morning, Jia Xian, the head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Huaxia Weifu, brought Feng Gang, Zhou Xin, and Wu Zhiyuan, three deputy heads of the Department of Internal Affairs, who hurried back from other places when they learned that Ye Chen was dying of poisoning, to Ye's mansion to see Ye Chen.After the three of them heard the news that Ye Chen was about to die, they rushed back to Kaifeng, and at the same time spent tens of thousands of gold to search for various life-saving and detoxification panacea from various places. The king of ginseng that is more than 5 years old; Zhou Xin spent 3000 yuan to pull three carts of antler; Wu Zhiyuan bought a 20-year-old Polygonum multiflorum from somewhere with 1 taels of gold.Of course, in addition to these three great tonic medicines, the three Huaxia Weifu 'God of Wealth' also found various medicinal materials that can detoxify.

With so many good medicines, regardless of whether they are useful or not, the ghost doctor unceremoniously transported people into the maze of half-death.It was also because of these medicinal materials that the ghost doctor generously gave each of the four a detoxification pill, and was fortunate to be the one who saw Ye Chen whose body was gradually turning black after His Majesty the Emperor, Cao Bin, Li Junhao, Bai Canghai and others.

However, the moment Chi and the others saw Ye Chen, they were taken aback. It wasn't because they were frightened by Ye Chen's dark lips, somewhat darkened body and mental state of depression, but not because they were shocked when they saw Ye Chen. , Ye Chen was placed in a large iron pot with a small fire burning underneath. There was some kind of medicinal juice that was steaming in the iron pot. Although it seemed that it would not be able to scald people, if an ordinary person put it in it, he would surely It would be horrible to lie bruised and bruised, but Ye Chen had an expression of extreme enjoyment.

After learning that in the past ten days, Ye Chen has never left the cauldron, and the fire at the bottom of the cauldron has never been extinguished, the four of them couldn't help feeling sad, because they suddenly remembered that there had been rumors these days , Ye Chen soaked in the boiling medicinal soup every day in order to continue his life, otherwise he would die immediately.Now it seems that the rumors are exaggerated, but obviously the temperature in this medicinal soup is not low.

The eyes of the four were already filled with tears, and they knelt down to Ye Chen: "My lord"

Sitting cross-legged in the iron pot, Ye Chen, who only showed his head, opened his eyes suddenly, his pupils turned blood-colored at that moment, but then returned to normal, but Jia Xian and the other four just lowered their heads at this moment, so they didn't see it. This scene.

Ye Chen glanced at the four of them, smiled and said: "You four old guys are about twice my age, so don't play juniors in front of me. Get up! Don't cry."

The four people's eyes were red, and they slowly stopped crying, but the sadness from the heart in their expressions became more and more obvious.

Ye Chen asked the four of them to briefly report to the Department of Internal Affairs that they were in charge of their work for a period of time, and then arranged several tasks for Zhou Xin, Feng Gang, and Wu Zhiyuan, and finally asked Jia Xian to arrange for Kou Zhun to take the Chunwei exam. After a moment, let the four of them leave.

(End of this chapter)