The words of the white-clothed scholar made all the Jiangdong scholars over there feel ashamed.
I said over there that His Royal Highness Shu Wang of Yangzhou is cheating, in order to prevent everyone from entering the official career, but he immediately answered it here, and gave you four solutions to the problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage. People who know a little bit of Neo-Confucianism, although it is impossible to understand all four solutions, at least one or two of them are quite familiar, and naturally they can follow the train of thought to calculate the answer to the problem of chicken and rabbit in the same cage, so it has been verified , it is naturally determined that this is the correct answer.
How can this be good? The person who bet with the white-clothed scholar immediately turned pale. People live for the sake of face. As the saying goes, people want face and bark. How do you live
Originally, it was all out of anger, because of the exam, he came here because he thought he was capable enough to be an official, but here he really came back disappointed, those questions just made him confused.
Comparing the difference before and after, I was naturally angry, you are not funny. That's why he said such nonsense.
Who would have thought that someone would really get serious with him and start a bet with him. This young man is naturally young, and he immediately responded when he was excited.
Kneeling on the street or kowtowing to His Royal Highness the King of Shu is nothing, after all, His Royal Highness the King of Shu is a prince, so it is nothing to kneel down to a prince as a commoner, even the inner minister Xu Shu also kneels to the King of Shu What about Liu Mang, but it will be different if he loses the bet. Also yell that I was wrong. Aren't you embarrassing people
If so called. Immediately, this Jiangdong student named Zhang became famous completely, and he could no longer hold his head up.
Everyone looked at the student surnamed Zhang, making his face flush immediately.
"Brother, forget it, Brother Zhang didn't do it on purpose!" Someone began to plead for Brother Zhang.
"Yeah, yeah, forget it, brother Zhang is just angry for a while. Brother, you have to be forgiving and forgiving." Jiangdong students still don't want to embarrass their companions who came with them, although they are not themselves, but so It is said that there is also a classmate friendship, isn't it
The white-clothed scholar didn't want to embarrass this Jiangdong student too much. Enmity with these Jiangdong students would have an impact on that person's career. After all, that person wanted to catch all capable people in Yangzhou, Jiangdong.
Now Brother Zhang no longer represents him alone, but the entire Jiangdong students. To embarrass him is to embarrass Jiangdong students. If this gets out, Jiangdong students will become a laughing stock.
So the white-clothed scholar had to nod his head and forget about it.
But Brother Zhang over there didn't think so. His face turned red, and he was already aggrieved. Now being squeezed like this again, he immediately turned into a pig liver color. Before the white-clothed scholar could speak, this brother Zhang suddenly became wise in a hurry, "You, you are a student from Yangzhou, you are the king of Shu Liu Mang, you must be that Liu Mang, king of Shu, told you the question in advance, so that you can become officials, and then come and clean us poor children!"
Well! This brother Zhang really has the ability to reverse right and wrong, and he also has a lot of hatred. It was originally a simple bet between two people, but after such a change, it became the Yangzhou student and the Jiangdong student. opposite.
All the Yangzhou students and Jiangdong students over there are a bit disdainful of this brother Zhang. If you say that you don’t admit defeat, it’s fine, and you still turn right and wrong like this. One pimple, that is, will His Royal Highness Shu Wang of Yangzhou really make a small fuss about these Yangzhou students, or go to the backstage, let them be officials first, and not let them Jiangdong students become officials, man , Don’t worry about being poor but about unevenness. If everyone doesn’t become an official, they will naturally live in harmony. Anyway, you are a poor person and I am a poor person, but once you become rich and stand out, why should I be jealous.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Jiangdong Yangzhou is now ruled by His Highness the King of Shu, isn't it all my big man!" The white-clothed scholar simply expressed disdain for this Jiangdong student, but he was still very angry. If you don't admit the bet here, it's fine. Oh, what's the intention of provoking the Jiangdong students and the Yangzhou students to confront each other.
"Why, did I tell you that it hurts? You are from Yangzhou, and you are the students who guard the city. His Royal Highness Shu Wang will naturally treat you better, and it is natural to tell you the topic, but we Jiangdong students are different. , Daddy doesn’t love grandma and doesn’t love her. He used to confront His Highness the King of Shu in Yangzhou. Why would His Highness the King of Shu let us be officials?’ Brother Zhang grasped this reason and didn’t let go. It's just that the white-clothed scholars are getting more and more angry, and the Jiangdong students are becoming more and more suspicious. This is human nature. You must know that before Sun Ce surrendered to Yangzhou, Jiangdong and Yangzhou were enemies. They were almost life and death enemies. You say it's fair , most people really don't believe it.
Even the old man outside the hotel couldn't help frowning in doubt, because he, a great Confucian, doesn't know those questions.
"Skills are not as good as people, it's like slander!" The white-clothed scholar scolded Brother Zhang.
Brother Zhang seemed to have found his breakthrough point and sneered, "Yeah, my Zhang is not as skilled as others, so I was not born in this Yangzhou, yes, blame me, blame me for being a child of Jiangdong's poor family, maybe this brother, Above that official position is your position!" Although Brother Zhang seems to be blaming himself on the surface, the irony in it is beyond words.
"You!" The white-clothed scholar pointed at Brother Zhang who was so angry that he couldn't speak.
"Brother Zhang!" At the moment when Brother Zhang was so upbeat, a calm voice rang out. He was also dressed in white, with a folding fan in his hand, and two strong men followed behind him. One can tell at a glance that this is a young man, and he may be a somewhat powerful person.
"You're here!" The white-clothed scholar immediately laughed when he saw the white-clothed young man.
"You! I'm not here, you're provoking me!" The young man in white seemed to blame the scholar in white and hit his forehead with a folding fan, but the scholar in white stuck out his tongue at the young man in white.
How good is Longyang? ! Everyone thinks like this, it's normal. In this gentry-dominated world. There are really a lot of good Bunny brothers. Some men are more beautiful than that woman.
"Him?" The eyes of the old man outside the hotel widened. However, there was still a look of resentment, and the old man's fists were clenched.
"Another Yangzhou scholar?" Brother Zhang sarcastically.
"Brother Zhang, do you think he will become an official? Hehe, then I tell you that is impossible. His name will never be on top of that official position!" Said the white-clothed boy to that brother Zhang.
"How do you know?" Brother Zhang asked.
"It's easy, the name of the big exam will come out in two days! If you have it, you have it, if you don't, you don't have it!" The white-clothed boy said to the people below. In two days, the invigilators from all over Yangzhou will have to correct those test papers. come out. Then announce the list of admissions.
"Two days later? Haha, where will I find you two days later? Go to the government office? Just kidding, everyone is here today, do you have the ability to say your name? Let's see if there will be one of the big names in two days. Come on." Brother Zhang looked at the two men with a sneer, both of them were Yangzhou gentry, this is the affirmation of this Jiangdong poor student Zhang, because the folding fan and the clothes are all made of silk, and ordinary people don't use them at all. Great. Only the families of dignitaries are willing to use it.
Such two young masters are not young anymore. How could it be possible not to be an official? Even if the gentry's family is a partial house, the children of the branch can get the position of an official.
Brother Zhang thought very well. These two young masters were destined to enter official careers, so they must not dare to name them, because it would have a very bad influence on the family. It is precisely by grasping this handle that the two of them will have nothing to say, so he, Zhang, will win.
As for the revenge of these two gentry children, hehe, if there is no revenge, his brother Zhang will not be happy. As long as the gentry children retaliate, then his brother Zhang will be completely famous.
When the white-clothed scholars got angry, they wanted to step forward to make a profit. It is true that their names cannot be reported.
"You don't deserve to know our names!" Said the white-clothed scholar, they came out of private visits today.
"Hehe, you're just a coward. You don't even dare to report your name. It must be the person who has been appointed on the official list. This is nothing more than that in Yangzhou!" Zhang Cheng, a scholar from Jiangdong, said very proudly.
"I don't know if Yangzhou's selection of scholars is just like this, but what I know is that Yangzhou will never recruit people like you!" The young man in white said to Zhang Cheng very indifferently. Although talent is the main way to get an official, there must also be virtue above the officialdom. This virtue is naturally not about morality, not being corrupt, but about responsibility.
This person dares to do it but dare not admit it. This kind of person is the most hated in Yangzhou, and he will not admit it when he loses.
"Hmph, I don't even bother to come!" Zhang Cheng said angrily.
"Oh, then why did you come to take the big exam in Yangzhou?" the young man in white said.
"I, I, I'm just here to expose the true colors of this Yangzhou scholar!" Zhang Cheng found an excuse and said,
"Hehe, that's right! There are two people who pick up scholars in Yangzhou, one is talent!" The young man in white stood up and said, "The recruiting order said that as long as your talents are worthy of important tasks, there are county magistrates who can be county magistrates and prefects." The talent is the prefect, and the state herdsman is the state herdsman, and he can make the best use of everything to show up! Brother Zhang, you can't even answer those few questions, how can you get it?" The white-clothed boy looked puzzled, It made the crowd on the side laugh out loud, but Zhang Cheng's face turned greener.
Before Zhang Cheng could defend himself, the young man in white over there said again, "There are two virtues, only the virtuous and the virtuous, and those with important positions can be officials. Brother Zhang, if I were you, I would go buy a piece of tofu!"
"Why buy tofu?" Zhang Cheng was taken aback for a moment.
"Buy a piece of tofu and smash yourself to death!" said the brother in white.
"You? Why are you insulting people? It's really hurtful!" Zhang Cheng was speechless, pointing at the elder brother in white.
"Brother Zhang, I have to admire you. It's really rare in this world to be so brazen and feel at ease!" The white-clothed son said with a smile, "You said those topics were the ones His Royal Highness the King of Shu tricked Jiangdong students into , No one can do it, they gave you the answer, and you said that it was made up after giving you the answer, well, they explained it to you again, but you still don’t admit it, let’s not admit it. It is said that there is a problem with Yangzhou's selection of scholars. It even involves the reputation of others, saying that Yangzhou officials are internally appointed." Listening to the brother in white explaining the whole thing, everyone can't help but find that Zhang Cheng seems to be really serious. What he said was just one sentence, kill him and never admit defeat. Thick-skinned to the end of the rhythm ah.
"Isn't it? You don't even dare to report your name. It must be those who have already been appointed on the official list. Then Liu Mang, the king of Shu, must have told you the answer!" Zhang Cheng has already gone all the way to the end. Because if he didn't continue like this, Zhang Chengcheng's reputation would be completely ruined.
"Really! Do you know the qualifications for the Yangzhou University Examination?" the white-clothed boy asked Zhang Cheng.
"Hmph!" Zhang Cheng snorted coldly, expressing his disdain to answer.
"If you don't know. Let me tell you the rules for selecting scholars. You will not be admitted under the age of eighteen, women will not be accepted, and those without virtue will not be accepted!" Liu Mang was afraid of delaying his appointment as an official before the age of eighteen. Women don't take the time for these geniuses to learn knowledge. That's because women are calm when they are officials, but they don't take it seriously and hesitate more, not to mention that this is a society where men are superior to women. Liu Mang established a medical officer, and the use of the women's camp has already been criticized. I don't want this kind of thing to happen again. Although those old masters can't help Liu Mang much, they will also annoy Liu Mang to death.
"Brother Zhang, the official list you mentioned has been pre-determined, and he is the one who will not be selected!" The white-clothed son said, pointing to the white-clothed scholar over there.
"Hmph, even if you don't take it now, you are still under the age. With the connections of your gentry, how can he not be an official in the end? What a joke!" Zhang Cheng was still stubborn. He thought the white-clothed scholar was underage.
"Hey, brother Zhang, why bother! Even if he has a big family matter, he can't take it!" The white-clothed boy said indifferently.
"What do you mean? Could it be, no, it's impossible!" The old man outside the hotel chewed on the words of the young man in white. one.
"Yu'er, come and be by my side!" The young man in white took off the bun on the scholar's head, and his long black hair flowed out.
"Female, female!" Zhang Cheng was stunned. The handsome man in front of him, who made men feel extremely uncomfortable, repelled the same sex. He was so handsome, so he would naturally be hostile, but now the hostility has completely disappeared. , because it has turned into a beautiful woman.
"She, it's her, it's her!" The old man was very excited, "She's not dead, my Yu'er, she's not dead, she's not dead!"
Zhang Cheng's face was completely ashamed. Everyone looked at Zhang Cheng and laughed at him. Zhang Cheng made things difficult for the white-clothed scholar step by step and humiliated Yangzhou to seek scholars. Now it seems that he is completely humiliating himself. Comparable to a weak woman!
"Fake, it must be fake, he is not a woman, no, I don't believe it!" Zhang Cheng has been filled with humiliation, and he is going to grab the white-clothed scholar and tell everyone that he is a man and not a woman. .
Seeing Zhang Cheng rushing forward, the murderous intent flashed in the eyes of the young man in white. He doesn't care about his lack of morality, but if you are rude like this again, don't blame him.
"Bold, you dare to attack the princess!" Before Zhang Cheng rushed forward to grab the white-clothed scholar, one of the two strong men behind the white-clothed young man came out and picked up Zhang Cheng. A scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken is naturally incomparable to a strong man.
"He's not a woman, no, it's all fake, fake!" Zhang Cheng roared loudly, hoping to get everyone's attention, but everyone's attention was completely attracted by the strong man.
"Princess?" Everyone was stunned by this shocking news. There is only one prince in Yangzhou. If this woman in white is the concubine, then the person who can touch the concubine is naturally the one.
There was a quick reaction, and he knelt down immediately, "Jiangdong student, Bu Kai has met His Royal Highness the King of Shu."
"We have seen His Highness the King of Shu!" The crowd finally understood that this young man in white is the King of Shu, Liu Mang.
The boy in white was a little bit crying and laughing. He originally wanted to come out for a private interview, but he didn't expect to be called out by Guan Hai.
"Wait, everyone, get up!" Liu Mang shook his folding fan, now that his identity has been revealed, there is nothing to play.
"Shu, Your Highness the King of Shu!" Zhang Cheng was also shocked, this man in white is His Highness the King of Shu, so what disrespectful words did he say to His Highness the King of Shu? Zhang Cheng was on the verge of crying in fright, if it really counted. Killing him is easy.
"His Royal Highness the King of Shu. I was wrong. I was wrong. I beg His Highness the King of Shu to spare your life, please forgive me!" Zhang Cheng also knew the current affairs, knowing that he had confessed, he immediately knelt down and begged for mercy. Kowtow on the ground.
"Your Highness, although Zhang Cheng has no virtue, he is also a student of my Jiangdong, and he has traveled thousands of miles to come to the big exam. Please forgive him, Your Highness!" Among Jiangdong's students, Bu Kai knelt down and bowed to Liu Mang.
"Your Highness, please spare him!" The other Jiangdong students were also begging for Zhang Cheng, not for anything else, at least they had a fellowship.
Liu Mang is naturally not interested in that Zhang Cheng, he is just a clown, a poor family boy, you should work hard to go to school and get ahead, but this person is complaining, thinking that it is all other people's fault, such a person. Achievement is limited, or it is grief and anger to death. Or he offended some people who were not so lenient and was tortured to death by the wicked.
So Liu Mang also waved his hand, "Although this person's words are rude, but he is not guilty of death, Guan Hai let him go!"
"You're lucky!" Guan Hai snorted coldly, then threw Zhang Cheng on the ground and smashed him up.
"Capital crimes can be avoided, and living crimes cannot be escaped. I will never hire those who are successful in Yangzhou. I hope you will be warned. People must not be without talents, but they must not be without virtue. Those who practice virtue have responsibilities, and those who have no responsibilities are also trash!" Liu Mang decided. Zhang Cheng has been sentenced to death. He is a child from a poor family. Liu Mang should have held him in high regard, because a child from a poor family has studied hard. Blaming others and blaming others for forgiveness will only harm others and oneself.
"We would like to follow His Highness's instructions!" Everyone knelt down on the ground and said to Liu Mang.
Zhang Cheng has been taken away in a daze.
Liu Mang turned his head and looked at the leader of Jiangdong students with interest, "Are you from Jiangdong Bu's family?"
"Exactly!" Bu Kai nodded and said.
"Who are you, Bu Zhi?" Liu Mang looked at the Jiangdong student and asked, Bu Zhi was a talent Liu Mang left in Jiangdong. Xu Jia Wenhe is ordinary, as long as Liu Mang is undefeated, Bu Zhi will be used by Liu Mang forever.
"That's, that's Kai's uncle!" Bu Kai was a little embarrassed. According to his seniority, Bu Zhi is Bu Zhi's nephew, but Bu Zhi has never had a good influence on the Bu family, and even had a relationship with the Bu family. He also turned against each other, and never claimed that he was from the Bu family. He also said that he was from the Huainan Bu family, not the Jiangdong Bu family, but you must know that the Jiangdong Bu family was the former Huainan Bu family.
"That's right!" Liu Mang also knew that the Sanwei's Bu Zhi was a member of the side branch of the Bu family, not to mention born of a marriage, but a maidservant, so this status was very embarrassing in the Bu family. There was a lot of suffering in the Bu family, and even when the Bu family moved to Jiangdong, they were unwilling to take Bu Zhi with them.
At that time, it was the time of the Yellow Turban chaos, which caused Bu Zhi's mother to die in the war, so Bu Zhi was full of resentment towards the Bu family.
Liu Mang didn't want to be involved in it, but Bu Zhi's younger sister wrote a letter to Liu Mang, letting Liu Mang know that the lord helped Bu Zhi improve the relationship with the Bu family. It turned out that Bu Zhi's old mother had long since forgiven the Bu family. , I also want to let Bu Zhi go back to the Bu family. After all, I have to recognize my ancestors, but neither Bu Zhi nor the Bu family can get rid of this face. The Bu family is a big family in Jiangdong. I don't care, but now Bu Zhi has become Jiangdong's number one civil servant. Naturally, if there is a conflict between the two sides, it will not be good for Jiangdong or themselves.
Liu Mang's performance was good, Yi Bukai thought it was His Royal Highness the King of Shu who thought he was good, so he couldn't help but feel happy.
"Did you come to Yangzhou to participate in the big exam?" Liu Mang asked Bu Kai.
"Participated!" Bu Kai nodded.
"How?" Liu Mang asked the topic like an elder in the family.
"In the paper, after the seventh question, I haven't solved a single question except for the bamboo and wood question!" Bu Kai was a little frustrated. He didn't know much about those questions, and he was basically the same as most Jiangdong students.
"Oh?" Liu Mang thinks it's a bit interesting. Although the first six questions are simple, they are all astronomy for the ancients who basically have no science subjects. But this person has hunting, and the bamboo and wood question he mentioned is actually astronomy Also solved, isn't it a bit interesting.
"Can you solve the problem of bamboo and wood?" Getting the problem is the problem of the Pythagorean theorem.
"No!" Bu Kai shook his head directly.
"Then why?" Liu Mang didn't understand anymore.
"It's just a coincidence, it took several battles of bamboo and wood, and then measured it!" Bu Kai was a little ashamed, but it made Liu Mang feel that this person is really a talent.
Although the Pythagorean theorem is simple, if you haven't learned it, you really don't know it.
But this Bukai is using practice to prove the answer to this question. Although Liu Mang needs those knowledgeable talents, he also needs these people who can practice.
If they're all nerds, even if we meet again, it's just a good exam. High scores and low abilities are not what Liu Mang wants.
Bu Kai thought that Liu Mang, the King of Shu, would scold him for tricks, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to nod to Bu Kai, "True knowledge comes from practice! You have three tastes!"
"Ah!" Bu Kai was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Shu Wang Liu Mang to boast about him.
"If it is true as you said, then your name will definitely be on the official list in a few days, and we will meet again then!" Shu Wang Liu Mang smiled at Bu Kai. going back.
Liu Mang walked ahead and immediately gave way.
"We will send you off to His Highness the King of Shu!" Everyone bowed again, and Liu Mang smiled and was about to leave.
"Wait, Yu'er, Yu'er!" Seeing that Liu Mang, King of Shu, was about to leave, the old man immediately came back to his senses, and was going to look for his Yu'er, but he was pushed aside by everyone When he went, there was so much noise that he couldn't hear his call at all. (to be continued..)