Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2578 Heart is like a scale

   Deng Li is in the examination room.

  Deng was originally a common surname in Nanyang, but not all surnames can be stable for generations.

  Natural disasters and man-made disasters made Deng Li's family decline. During the Battle of Jingzhou, Deng Li went to Chang'an with the refugees. Deng Li thought that he would die of illness on the way, but what he didn't expect was that thanks to the doctor under the hussars, a few pastes of appropriate decoctions relieved his illness a lot, and after a period of recuperation, he was considered alive. coming.

  But people are alive, and the money is gone.

  I just recovered from a long illness, and I can't do any heavy work. I can only rely on my early years of studying to work hard in the examination room.

   There are quite a few older candidates like him in the examination room.

Deng Li didn't think about taking the exam before, but he couldn't find anyone if he wanted to recommend him. The money I was carrying was getting less and less day by day, and I still had a wife and son to support, so after thinking about it, I decided to come to take the exam.

  If you can pass, then it is not bad to squat in a pit first.

  Speaking of the pits, the candidates in the examination room are like being in the pits one by one.

  Although there are half-height wooden boards as intervals, when the cool north wind blows, it still makes people not only shiver from the cold, but also tremble a little.

   Answering the test in this environment is simply a double test of the mind and body.

Although there is a fire cage some distance away, the outside is made of copper and iron, and the inside is filled with charcoal for heating, but for the convenience of the invigilator, there are only half walls around it. Fortunately, the floor is covered with thicker catkins. The mat, plus the pure natural log floor, will not directly freeze the chrysanthemums, and it is more or less passable.

  Of course, the most important thing is to protect your hands from freezing.

  This is not for everyone.

  The poor can only rely on their own heat, and rub their hands dryly from time to time. Otherwise, when their fingers freeze into carrots, they really can’t write anything.

   Those who are richer basically use small smoked cages. Please take a piece of charcoal from the inspector in the examination room and add it to the smoking cage so that it can be used to warm your hands.

  In fact, the ancients used many methods to keep warm, like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty’s Golden House Zangjiao, which is the Jiaofang Palace, which originally meant to choose its warmth and fertility. There is also a special "central hot air" fire wall, and the "Xi Xin Division" is set up, which is the earliest heating office. The structure of this fire wall has already appeared in the Qin Dynasty.

   There are also more extravagant ones. After all, in the ancient times when materials were scarce, in the face of the severe and long winter, various heating tools and methods of winter survival emerged in an endless stream, and one of them was the top match, which would be difficult to surpass until later generations. Sun Xun recorded in "Yu Mo Ou Tan": "Tianbao's legacy, Tang Shenwang Dongyue was bitterly cold, so the court ladies sat in close circles, called prostitutes' circle. Also, King Qi of the Tang Dynasty warmed his hands in the arms of a beautiful maidservant every winter and moon, which was called the meat stove. 』

  Of course, this so-called "meat hand stove" is also very likely to be fabricated, after all, Tang Pozi is more convenient.

  Different from most of the students who were in a trance because they were in a trance because they were in the check-in, Deng Li had a calmer aura in comparison.

  For example, take off your clothes or something...

So when he arrived in the examination room, Deng Li folded his hands in his sleeves, hugged a small smoking cage and closed his eyes to keep warm. I just pressed the paperweight on it, and I didn't even read the exam questions in the first place.

  As the answer sheets were issued, there were many slight wailing sounds from the surrounding area.

  Deng Li twitched his eyebrows, but he still didn't open them to read the answer sheet. When his body and mind were in the best state, Deng Li opened his eyes, stretched out his hand, pushed away the paperweight, and looked at the test questions.

  This is a new model of exam questions, which is also printed directly on the answer sheet.

  Candidates only need to write their answers on the answer sheet.

  On the answer sheet, there are two words "making money" printed in the first paragraph, and two words "enough" are printed at the end...

  What the hell?

   No wonder.

  Deng Li couldn't see the other students because half of the wooden plank was covering them, but there was a faint wailing sound in the surrounding area, which also attracted the low-pitched scolding of many inspectors.

  Deng Li shook his head involuntarily, Hussars are really good means. If it weren't for the strict search and inspection before, I'm afraid it would be unavoidable for someone to make a fuss now? As a result, as soon as he got off his horse, even after seeing such an answer sheet, he didn't dare to be presumptuous.

  But this topic...

  If there was Du Niang or something in the Han Dynasty, you can basically search it by typing a few words, but the problem is that there is no such convenient search tool, and you can only search it from your own mind.

  Looking at the answer sheet, Deng Li felt that Huqi's questions should not be too biased.

   After all, everyone is just getting started with this new exam question. If a large number of people can't answer it, wouldn't Hu Qi slap him in the face?

  Deng Li had a vague impression of this topic, and felt that he should have read these words.

With his eyes closed and thinking for a long time, Deng Li suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his head. Thinking of this period of time, most of the time in Qinglong Temple was talking about the three rituals, and then he immediately thought of the four characters in the middle, which are From the Book of Rites!

  From "Book of Rites Forty-two Chapters"!

  The original sentence is "there is a great way to make money, those who make money are many, those who eat it are few, those who eat it are sick, those who use it are comfortable, and there will be enough wealth."

This…

I believe that many candidates have this experience. When they read books and do the questions at home, they seem to be familiar with everything, understand everything, and everything is a small problem. Come on, who am I? where am I? What is this in front of you?

  But the one in front of me is really testing basic skills.

   This sentence in later generations was included in "Great Learning", but before the Song Dynasty, "Great Learning" was always subordinate to "Book of Rites". Although the "Great Learning" in the Han Dynasty was not independent from the "Book of Rites", whether it was Dong Zhongshu, Dai Sheng, or the current Zheng Xuan, they all made considerable contributions and promotions to the "Book of Rites".

  Especially the "Book of Rites of Xiaodai" annotated by Zheng Xuan, it is printed and sold in the major bookstores of Sanfu in Chang'an, and it can be bought in the surrounding counties and counties, even in Shandong. In addition, Zheng Xuan had just talked about the Three Rites in Qinglong Temple, if he really couldn't answer such a question, he could only lament that his book was not solid enough.

"There are many people who live" means that there are many people who create wealth; "There are few people who eat" means that few people consume wealth; slow. So in fact, this sentence is a very simple concept of wealth. It simply expounds the truth of enriching the country and enriching the people, increasing income and reducing expenditure, earning more and spending less.

  Deng Li fill in the first question, and then look at the next question...

   Once the relevant information is retrieved, it is not difficult to simply fill in the blanks, and there is no need to expand and discuss, just fill in the words.

  Different from the ample time for writing policy theories, the answering time for filling in the blanks is only half an hour, and you are not allowed to leave the examination room after handing in the test papers, and you can directly enter the next link of policy theory.

  Following the time-telling sound of the cloud board in the examination room, Qiqi wailed again in the examination room...

  The received test papers will be pasted and sealed by a special person, that is, the name, place of origin and other information will be covered, and then bound into a book and sent to the next step of correction...

In the imperial examinations of later generations, a transcription work was also added to the sealing and correction. The transcription staff used a red pen to transcribe the Zhujuan, and then read it by a special person. After confirming that it was correct, the Zhujuan was sealed, and then together with the Originally, they were sent to the review office together, and after confirming that the red and black volumes corresponded correctly, the vermilion volumes were sent in for correction, while the ink volumes were kept for backup.

At present, the chief examiner and reviewer of the test paper are all temporarily assigned by Fei Qian, such as Sima Yi, Du Ji, Zong Li, etc. Naturally, it is unlikely that there are any codes in the test paper Condition.

   As for whether there will be more advanced cheating methods in the future...

  In the future, even if the mobile phone is blocked, won’t there still be people taking photos and posting exam questions?

  So it can only be improved continuously. The sharper the spear, the stronger the shield will naturally be!

  The sun gradually went down.

  Different from the tense exams of the students, the ordinary people living in Chang'an City are soothing.

  In the Taoist temple of Wufang Catholicism, the lingering green smoke is mixed with the sound of Taoist chanting. The believers are either praying or offering, and it is very lively.

   Qiao and stood at the entrance of the Taoist temple, smiling and distributing the colored rice cakes in his hands to the believers who came to worship. His smile is kind and friendly, regardless of whether the people who come to collect it are male, female, old or young, they are treated equally and impartially.

  Dahan currently has no chemical dyes, so this type of food is basically dyed by plants, which is somewhat similar to the five-color glutinous rice of later generations.

  『Wufang Tianzun! 』

  『Wufang Tianzun…』

  The believers saluted, responded, and distributed a "good food".

This type of miscellaneous grain biscuit is generally divided into five colors, but only one color of biscuit will be distributed every day. It is more convenient to make.

  Distributed every Friday of every month.

This kind of five-color miscellaneous grain cooking cake is called "good food" or "virtue cake", which represents the good deeds and merits of the Five Gods. It is not very big, that is, the size of three fingers, which is larger than the average on the market. The cooking cakes are much smaller, and it is better to use it as a full stomach than nothing, but its important religious significance...

   And appeal to ordinary people.

  This is a fundamental change between the five-party Catholicism and the previous Taoism.

   is also different from Buddhism.

  The religious nature of Buddhism and Taoism in history is from top to bottom, that is, the ruler likes a certain religion, then admires a certain religion, and then a certain religion prevails.

  Buddhism and Taoism have precepts, but sometimes they themselves do not abide by these precepts.

  There are particularities, but not all. There are norms, but not all norms. Inside the house is one way, and serving porridge outside is another way. It is one way to be kind and compassionate, and another way to lend money and invade the fields. Just as there are some officials who shout on the surface to be clean and not to be corrupt, some monks and Taoist priests are also vegetarians on the surface, saying that they want to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, but they are big fish and meat behind their backs, causing harm to the local area.

   Therefore, it is very contradictory.

  The five-party Catholicism is not so cumbersome and does not have these contradictions. The main source of these contradictions is that the five-party Catholicism does not accept land offerings, and it is not allowed to hold land.

  Other materials can be used, such as cloth, food, money, or other utensils.

  This is also in line with the moral concept of the Han Dynasty. After all, the land belongs to the emperor in name, and offering the land to the five gods means despising the emperor?

   And such a knife cut by Fei Qian directly cut off the possibility of the five-party Catholicism becoming a big landlord in another situation...

  Kicking the five-party Catholicism from the ruling class with one kick, it will naturally become closer to the people.

Just like this "good food", which is a very common five-color cooking cake, there are not so many bells and whistles, and there are no rules similar to the diet of the gentry. If you want it, you can line up to get it, and if you don’t want it, just leave. Hanzhu, you don’t need to nod your head, you can eat it on the spot or take it home.

Fei Qian believes that religion should be a kind of spiritual sustenance, a kind of promotion of good behavior, rather than rectifying various norms and imposing them on the people, requiring the people to become unable to think about why, and everything is a sin. lamb.

   In other words, Feiqian does not need the assistance of religion to provide governance at all, but needs to strengthen the spread of religion.

  History has proved that gods and Buddhas cannot save China, only the people of China can save themselves.

   It's just that Fei Qian's attitude towards the religious system made Qiao Bing quite embarrassed at the moment, and he somewhat felt in his heart that "heroes are useless".

  Qiao didn’t take the exam, and he didn’t even take the route of ordinary officials. He took the religious route. He thought it was a shortcut, but now he finds that this road seems to be coming to an end.

Even though Qiao has repeatedly advocated that Fei Qian is a living real person of the five-party Catholic religion, he is still only recognized among the middle and lower class people, and once he goes to the upper class, the influence of the five-party Catholic religion will quickly become weak .

   There is a gap between classes.

  The five-party Catholic religion cannot own land, so how can they get mixed into the landlord class?

   In addition, there is no system similar to that of Wudoumi, so the Wufang Catholicism quickly became popular.

  This is also Fei Qian's original intention.

  Originally, the imperial power and the prime minister’s power are already beaten to death. Adding a third-party religion, wouldn’t it be like Qingliu, relatives, and eunuchs in the political arena of the Han Dynasty, beating people’s heads into dog heads?

  Religion itself is the mystification of some natural phenomena that humans cannot explain. Like laws, morals, customs, etc., religion is just a social phenomenon, not a panacea.

  In ancient society, due to low productivity, people's production and life were largely dominated by nature. People believed that the harvest and the prosperity of the population were all determined by some kind of supernatural existence. Primitive man personified the things in nature and endowed them with the power of "god".

Then, for a long period of time, in the society of the feudal class, ordinary people could not understand how slaves and slave owners, farmers and landlords, rich and poor, and the phenomenon of rich and poor were produced because of lack of knowledge. Class differences, like natural forces, are completely alien and mysterious, and are dominated by natural necessity, so there is religious worship and belief in mystery.

For most of the gentry children, especially the smarter gentry children, they know how the emperor came, what Dong Zhongshu did at the beginning, and how to suppress the people, fool the people, and solidify their own class , to achieve the purpose of passing on from generation to generation, so most of the gentry children do not believe in religion.

   And these things, Qiao did not fully understand...

In the early days of the establishment of the Wufang Catholic Church, Qiao Bing, Wei Duan, and Zhong Jie discussed and discussed the doctrines, canons, and corresponding structures of the Wufang Catholic Church, but now, Wei Duan has become the Senate It is said that Zhong Jie is going to be promoted next year to succeed Linghu Shao as the Grand Priest of the Academy, while Qiao and himself are still the Grand Priest of the Five Gods.

   As for what is Feiqian? Fei Qian is the real person of the Five Gods...

  After the good food was distributed, those who didn’t receive it didn’t make a fuss and dispersed on their own.

  Further around the Wufang God Taoist Temple, there are many pedestrians in the streets and alleys.

There are two or three Lifangs with many residents in the surrounding area, so many believers like to bring their children to the Taoist temple, or visit the five gods, or simply relax and entertain. After all, there are many vendors around the Taoist temple. Buy some Daily necessities, or snacks, are a kind of joy in the family in winter.

  Chang'an is currently prosperous and prosperous, and this kind of prosperity and wealth is even more precious when compared with a few years ago, especially compared with other counties that are still in war.

   Qiao and look up.

After nightfall, the lights of thousands of families reflect the lively atmosphere in the night sky of the city. With Chang'an as the center, spots spread, mausoleums, surrounding military camps, post stations outside the city, large and small villages, and certain villages in the distance. It is the Qinglong Temple that is bright day and night, it seems to have become a sharp blade piercing the darkness, and it is also like the brilliance of Chinese civilization.

   Qiao and looked, thought, and then sighed slightly in my heart.

  Sometimes, opportunities are like this. Once missed, it is like golden sand leaking from the gaps between fingers and mixed into the gravel. It is difficult to find it again.

   Qiao It’s not that he hasn’t thought about changing.

   But he lacks background.

Wei Duan and Zhong Jie are both good at scriptures and have a certain ability to govern the people's livelihood, while Qiao Bing himself is good at "prophecy" and intensively researches "micro-words and righteousness". When he was in Sichuan and Shu, his favorite thing was painting. character...

   After all, Zhang Lu’s Five Dou Sect was still very popular at that time. Liu Yan in Sichuan and Shu was a follower of the Five Dou Sect. Well, maybe it should be said that Liu Yan was just a saint who was obsessed with the Five Dou Sect?

  As for whether those drawn symbols are effective, this is like the behavior of a certain Yin in later generations who said that he is an economic expert, a stock trader, draws a picture following the trend, and makes a lot of money by making a model...

   If the talisman could have a little effect, would Qiao Bing still have to show his face to attract fans and worry about his future?

  Watching others rise step by step, but I have been standing still.

  The children in my family are getting older day by day, so I can’t let my children still follow suit?

what to do?

...

As the sun set, Qiao Bing was smiling, standing with his hands behind his back, with a fluttering Taoist robe and long beard. He looked like a fairy, very extraordinary, but who knew, in fact, his heart was restless, his thoughts were restless, full of contradictions...

  (end of this chapter)