Gu Yuanbai was playing with the homemade crossbow that he had barely put together. Looking at this exquisite and lightweight handicraft product, he couldn't help but sighed how lucky he was.
As soon as I went out, I met a research-oriented talent, and this talent is still in the process of self-exploration, and has already reached some theoretical and practical conclusions.
Xu Ning sat shyly beside him, and beside him sat an imperial doctor and a small eunuch. They were applying medicine for his wounds. This extravagant treatment made Xu Ning restless.
The carriage looked huge from the outside, but after entering, I realized that it was bigger than it looked from the outside. Even if there were two people sitting next to him, it was not crowded. The floor was covered with a soft blanket like water, and the color was very beautiful. Xu Ning had never touched such a good thing, and such a luxurious thing was actually trampled on. the sole of the foot.
Xu Ning lowered his head and did not dare to glance at Gu Yuanbai. He was uneasy and vaguely expecting. Watching the adult play with his self-made crossbow, he couldn't help but worry that the adult would also look down on these things.
After playing around for a while, Gu Yuanbai put down the crossbow that had been destroyed by the group of people, took the handkerchief handed by Tian Fusheng and wiped his hands, and asked the imperial doctor, "How?"
"Little Young Master's body is already healthy," the imperial doctor came one after another. "Now it's just the flesh wound, not the lungs. It's just that there are some irregularities in the diet, and there should be some stomach pain."
Xu Ning's eyes widened in surprise, staring at his hand holding the clothes. This doctor is very powerful, and he knows so much in just a while.
Gu Yuanbai nodded lightly, then looked at Xu Ning with a smile, and said warmly, "How did you make this crossbow?"
"There are six out of thirty weapons, but the bow is the head; there are eight out of ten in martial arts, and the bow is the first." This is what Huayue wrote in the "Cuiwei Northern Expedition" in the Southern Song Dynasty. Ma Yuan of the Daheng Dynasty Scarcity, but the frontier nomads are strong equestrians, in order to defend against this group of people, bows and arrows have become the first choice of infantry.
The founding emperor of the Daheng Dynasty paid special attention to the military, and firmly controlled the crossbow, especially the drawings of the improved crossbow, on the military and political level. Forget about making it.
But the crossbow made by Xu Ning, although broken, it can still be seen that it is not a single shooting hole, which means that the crossbow made by this scholar has caught up with the weapons used by the military.
It's awesome, it's awesome.
Gu Yuanbai's eyes showed appreciation, and Xu Ning stammered about where he got his inspiration and how he made it. At the end, he clenched his fists excitedly, looked up at Gu Yuanbai and said, "Young Master! This is useful, the workmanship is very useful, whether it is farming or military, the existence of craftsmen is essential! This is not Shameful things are not just doing business!"
As soon as Xu Ning raised his head, he could see the appreciation in Gu Yuanbai's eyes. After he finished his words with inertia, his expression became stunned.
Carriage, escort, doctor, attendant.
This gentleman has an extraordinary bearing, and his appearance is as elegant as a man in the sky. He is pampered and pampered in every move. Such a big man is actually admiring him? Do you admire him as a poor scholar who is a carpenter
"You're right," Gu Yuanbai nodded in agreement and said, "Guan Zhong, who proposed 'Scholar, Farmer, Industry and Commerce' in the past, was originally from a merchant, and he used the method of a merchant to prosper Qi. There is no distinction between upper and lower, these four actions are all in parallel. The scholars, farmers, craftsmen and merchants, Guan Zhong believes that they are all stone people of the country, and they can prosper the country by performing their own functions. However, after the demise of Yin and Shang, Zhou believed that the way of industry and commerce would waste agriculture and lead to the subjugation of the country, so in the Zhou system, he despised industry and commerce, which is the reason why industry and commerce were the last.
Xu Ning opened his mouth and looked straight at Gu Yuanbai, his lips parted a few times but he didn't know what to say.
Gu Yuanbai asked Tian Fusheng to return the damaged crossbow to Xu Ning. Xu Ning held the crossbow helplessly, glanced at the window, and asked carefully, "Sir, where are you taking Xiaosheng?"
Tian Fusheng rolled up the curtains of the carriage, Xu Ning looked out subconsciously, and the next moment his eyes widened.
The tall and majestic gate of the palace is in front of you, and the tiles are shining in the sunlight, which is beautiful.
Gu Yuanbai didn't care about his expression, he asked with a smile, "Apart from crossbows, what else would you do?"
"I...Xiaosheng, boy..." Xu Ning was in a trance, at a loss as to how to describe himself, "Xiaosheng is not only very interested in these things, but also tried to improve some farm tools."
He looked very flustered, too, can anyone enter the palace
The sound of every step of the horses kicked Xu Ning's soul out, and when the carriage stopped, the white-faced scholar with a face full of injuries was so uneasy that no one could see it.
The imperial doctor and the palace attendant took Xu Ning out of the carriage, and the guards on the outside stood up straight. The captain of the guard reached out and lifted the curtain of the car, stretched out his hand and said, "Sage, slow down."
Xu Ning: "!"
He sucked in a breath of cold air, his head buzzing, dizzy as if he was about to faint in the next moment.
Gu Yuanbai stretched out his hand from the carriage and lightly placed it on the head of the guard. The head guard lowered his head and carefully pulled Gu Yuanbai out of the car. The sage was in poor health, and the people who served around the sage would always be overly careful with the sage, for fear that the sage would bump into each other, what could happen to him? .
Only holding the hand of the saint, the captain of the guard must be very careful. The sage's skin is delicate, but the palm of the guard is extremely rough, with a hard callus and a rough touch. Every time he holds the hand of the sage, the guard feels like a stone.
With his feet on the ground, Xu Ning glanced at it subconsciously, only to realize that the bricks on the ground had exquisite carvings. This time, he finally regained some intelligence and fell to the ground with a plop.
The dragon boots appeared in front of him, and the saint said, "Come with me."
The side hall of Xuanzheng Hall is generally the place where the emperor summoned his ministers to discuss political affairs. Gu Yuanbai gave Xu Ning a seat. Xu Ning moved half of his buttocks and sat on the chair tremblingly, with his feet on the ground, as if stepping on the clouds.
Gu Yuanbai talked with Xu Ning very gently, Xu Ning gradually recovered from his nervous state of being unable to think, talking about his favorite carpenter, and this man's eyes lit up.
Xu Ning has many bold ideas in this era. What is even more rare is that Xu Ning's ideas can be realized in the contemporary environment, which is closer to the development of Daheng's national conditions.
Gu Yuanbai took the time to ask Tian Fusheng to find the books about craftsmen in the Danai library and give it to Xu Ning, and finally arranged for Xu Ning to go to the engineering department in the outer suburbs of the capital.
This is a department set up by Gu Yuanbai and managed by the Supervision Office. The candidates are all skilled craftsmen who are found and found by the Supervision Office. Gu Yuanbai said that as long as any of them can study abroad Beneficial things, no matter what they are, are rewarded heavily.
However, the final results are always painless, and the research expenses of the Engineering Department are extremely huge. People from the Supervision Office have complained to Gu Yuanbai many times, thinking that the Engineering Department is a useless existence.
But Gu Yuanbai insisted and gave full support to the engineering department. Now that Xu Ning was in front of him, it was really a pleasant surprise. Gu Yuanbai believed that what the engineering department lacked was just a thought with spiritual energy, and now, the thought has arrived.
Xu Ning took over the collection and appointment in a trance. He touched these books and listened to the words of encouragement from the saint, and his eyes turned red unconsciously.
These books have been listed as banned books by Daheng, all dynasties and generations of industry and commerce are the last, and these despised books about craftsmen are more rare than the only books of great Confucianism, Xu Ning's voice was unstable: "Sacred Lord, boy will not let you down. !"
His eyes gradually firmed.
Having said so much with the sage, the sage not only does not despise craftsmen, but also has a lot of understanding and ideas. Xu Ning was surprised by things such as the "improvement of the Zhuge Nuo", "the oxen with ropes, and the plow body shortened", "a columbine that combines seeding and fertilization", and some "textiles" and "water wheels" mentioned by the sage. Again it makes sense.
He now feels that his hands are extremely itchy, and his spirits are excited. Even now, it is like going to the engineering department as mentioned by the saint, and completing the idea of the saint with those colleagues who are also familiar with the work of craftsmen.
You can do what you love, and you can contribute to the world, and solve problems for the Holy One. What could be better than this
Xu Ning felt that the wounds on his entire body were no longer painful.
*
Gu Yuanbai was overjoyed to have recruited a highly talented scientific researcher, and his excitement lasted until the day of the palace exam.
Candidates entered the Golden Throne Hall at dawn. People from the Ministry of Rites were in charge of the entire palace examination process. When the process before the official examination was over, it was already bright outside.
The invigilation of the palace exam can be done by the emperor himself, or the emperor can send a courtier to replace him. Gu Yuanbai naturally invigilated the exam by himself, and all the candidates who sat down sat quietly in their seats, bowing their heads and not saying a word.
The atmosphere in the entire Golden Throne Hall was solemn and silent, and there was a bit of a tense atmosphere that gradually pervaded. All the candidates noticed the strong guards standing on the two roads, tall and straight-faced, and the sage was sitting on the high position, and no one dared to make a taboo at this time.
The seats during the palace exam were allocated according to the exams, so the person closest to Gu Yuanbai was the Huiyuan Chuwei.
Gu Yuanbai looked around, and there were quite a few familiar people in the first and second rows, besides Chu Wei, Chang Yuyan, and Tang Mian, the son of the minister of households. In the exam, he got the seventh place in the exam, and the Minister of the Ministry of Housing is quite proud of this.
Gu Yuanbai also took a special look at Kong Yilin, who was ranked third. Kong Yilin's ancestral home is Qingzhou, Shandong, and Shandong is the hometown of Confucius, where Zhongling Yuxiu is beautiful and talented people are born in large numbers. It can be said that the competition for scholars is quite fierce. And this time, Kong Yilin was the top ranked student among Shandong students.
Kong Yilin was born extremely tall, such a big man huddled behind a small table, making people feel uncomfortable looking at him. This person is extremely silent, sitting quietly with his head down, he can't tell how he looks, and he has a calm temperament like an old farmer who is steadily planting rice. His presence is weak and ordinary, but he is very stable.
At this point, Gu Yuanbai's impression of Kong Yilin was even better.
The palace exam begins, and the test paper is issued. There is only one strategy topic above, and candidates need to write at least 2,000 words. The palace exam will last for one day, and it will end when the sun sets in the evening.
For a while, there was only the sound of a pen swiping across a piece of paper in the hall. Gu Yuanbai sat for a while and then began to deal with government affairs.
The people sitting in the front heard the sound of the saint opening the memorial paper, and many people listened to the movement above while thinking about the policy article.
Chu Wei is the first name and attracts the most attention. He is extremely magnanimous. If he can't look directly at Shengyan, he simply considers the saint to be absent and concentrates on this strategy.
He wants to get the champion from the sage.
After all the candidates entered the state, Gu Yuanbai put down the memorial and walked slowly into the candidates.
Some people caught a glimpse of the dragon robe on his body with a flick of the wrist, and the ink smeared the draft; some people even trembled with their legs and feet, and Gu Yuanbai could hear the sound of teeth bumping.
Wherever he walked slowly, the people were extremely nervous, the bad ones lost people on the spot, and the good ones were stretched up and stiff enough to write.
Sheng Shangming's yellow dragon robe gradually moved towards the front row, and Chang Yuyan caught a glimpse of the shadow behind him, shaking his hand, and calmed down again.
His heart was beating wildly, and in a trance, Chang Yuyan felt that the Sage had been by his side for a long time, but when he regained his senses, the Sage had already walked over to Kong Yilin, and finally stood there.
Gu Yuanbai looked down at Kong Yilin's draft, which was neatly written, as clean as a formal paper. At first he just wanted to take a rough look, but gradually, his expression became serious.
When Kong Yilin made the last stroke, Gu Yuanbai regained his senses. He took a deep look at Kong Yilin with his head lowered, and stopped walking among the students, but strode up the steps.
This move of the sage was seen by the people around him, and many people secretly looked at Kong Yilin. Facing so many gazes, Kong Yilin continued to transcribe the answer without moving like a mountain.
Chu Wei, who also glanced in the direction of Kong Yilin, withdrew his gaze lightly, dipped the tip of his pen with ink, and continued to write.