Fang Yun gave lectures and Xiaoxingtan was established.
The news spread like a raging fire on the grassland. All major forces including the Kong family and the ten countries immediately sent special envoys to Xiangzhou.
A holy place of education is enough to determine the rise and fall of a family or a country.
Many great scholars had been looking at the interior of the Academy of Literature in Baling City. They could hear nothing and could only watch the two branches of apricot trees grow taller, their trunks thicker, and their crowns more luxuriant.
Outside the Academy of Literature, stood many scholars and some officials in the city.
Anyone outside the wall can see the two towering apricot trees.
Many officials had unconcealable regret on their faces, and even a dignified Hanlin had to grit his teeth to avoid losing his composure.
These regretful officials either arrived too late or were expelled from the Academy of Literature by Fang Yun.
These officials have different identities. Some are connected with the Qing Kingdom, some are spies of the Qi Kingdom, some are in other factions, and there are even latent members of the Zuo Xiang party.
When they walked out of the Academy of Literature before, they didn't care and even thought that Fang Yun was about to leave and that the next era would be their time to show their talents.
However, when the two huge apricot trees rose up, their faces kept changing and became uglier and uglier.
Except for a few people, the reason why most people are not determined to join Fang Yun is that they think Fang Yun cannot give them what they need and that they can get greater benefits from other forces.
However, compared with the benefits of both themselves and their offspring being able to enter Xiaoxingtan, what others can give them is nothing at all.
This is a holy place for education. Ordinary scholars will never be able to enter it in their lifetime.
The Nine-Rank System has never appeared in the Shengyuan Continent, so there are families but they have not formed a true family, and cannot monopolize the power of the Holy Academy and the country.
Aristocratic families, wealthy families, famous families and prominent families are the four levels of the gentry, and below them are all humble families.
The poor families consider themselves to be a kind of family, after all, they have family power. But in the eyes of the gentry, they are just a family of commoners, not worthy of being a family of gentry, so they are simply called "commoners".
Commoners often fall into ruin, and civilians are often promoted to commoners. Now, the ancestors of the big surnames in various places are almost all commoners. Over time, the poor families and commoners are mixed together, with no distinction between high and low, and they often even join forces to fight against the gentry.
Among humans, there are many invisible standards, like an invisible wall that keeps others out.
There is also an invisible standard for entering the holy land of enlightenment, that is, only the children of noble families and wealthy families can enter.
As for those below them, no matter they were from famous, prominent or humble families, they either had to exchange their military exploits in the Holy Academy for qualifications, or use some trickery to gain a place from an aristocratic family, or become disciples of the Lord of the Holy Land.
Too many military merits are required to enter the holy land of enlightenment. Generally speaking, only a Grand Secretary can accumulate them, and they must be good at fighting or have made great contributions. An ordinary Grand Secretary may have to wait a long time after being promoted to accumulate so many military merits.
As for exchanging a quota from an aristocratic family, it is equally difficult. Either one must be young and promising and marry into an aristocratic family to bring enough benefits to the family, or one must have done a great favor to the family. This is probably a little easier than being promoted to a Grand Secretary.
For all officials in the state, the third way is the only way.
Those who were specifically expelled by Fang Yun missed the only chance to enter the holy land of enlightenment.
Officials outside the Academy of Literature all have some talent. They will remain at the Jinshi or Hanlin stage throughout their lives, and the possibility of being promoted to Grand Secretary is very slim. But if they can personally listen to Fang Yun’s lectures and experience the formation process of Xiaoxingtan firsthand, their chances of being promoted to Grand Secretary will increase by at least 50%!
A Grand Secretary is a big shot who can influence a state and a high-ranking member of the human race who can talk directly with the monarch. Even in Kongcheng, where scholars are everywhere, he has a superior status.
These people, instead of taking the path to become Grand Secretary, chose a worse path.
When these officials first came out, they didn't care. Some even said that Fang Yun had made a mistake. Some Jinshi sarcastically said that they were not worthy of entering the Academy of Literature to attend lectures. But now, irony has become reality.
The rest of the scholars looked at the officials at the gate of the Academy with pity. These people could have listened to lectures in the Little Apricot Altar, had the honor of eating the Little Holy Apricots, and could have been promoted to Grand Secretaries, but now they could only stand at the gate and regret.
He could only be secretly laughed at by everyone.
Snap…
Then, a sound of a cracking penis was heard from the head of a sixth-rank Jinshi official. The sound was so clear and melodious that it spread throughout the city.
"I'm not willing to accept this... Phew..."
The fifty-year-old scholar suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, fell to the ground with his back to the sky, fell heavily and fell into a coma.
The officials nearby all knew this old scholar. He worked hard when Qing occupied Xiangzhou. When Xiangzhou returned to Jing, he never resisted and was not considered a Qing official. He never disobeyed Fang Yun's orders, but he always kept a certain distance from Fang Yun and Jing. His attitude was more negative than before. He was an object of Jing's wooing and also an object of Qing's bribery.
However, this Jinshi and his ancestors have always been people of Jing.
Some people think that his approach is very wise, but others think that since he is a Jing citizen and still does this, it is obvious that he is loyal to Qing. He is just learning the methods of Lu Buwei, the ancestor of the Miscellaneous School, waiting for the right price and hoarding goods.
Now that everyone has seen his end, they have understood that this eclectic scholar has finally realized that he has made the wrong choice. It is no longer possible for him to maintain his composure or to stabilize his heart for the holy way, which led to the breakdown of his literary courage.
Qing Kingdom could not give him the qualification to enter the holy land of enlightenment, but Fang Yun could.
Originally, he did not need to kowtow to Fang Yun. As long as he maintained basic respect in front of Fang Yun a few hours ago, and as long as he wanted to be a Jing citizen and did not dream of getting benefits from Qing, then he would be in the holy land of education now.
Tens of thousands of scholars in front of the Academy of Literature silently looked at the person falling to the ground, watching this vivid and bloody lesson.
At this moment, almost everyone had the same thought.
Be sure to follow Fang Yun, no matter when and where.
In the holy land of education, almost all officials listened attentively like students. Even though some officials of lower literary rank would never forget what they heard from Fang Yun, they still took out their pens, ink and paper early to record the key points of Fang Yun's lectures, for fear that they would forget them.
It also shows more humility and piety in one's heart.
The more these officials listened, the more joyful the Holy Heart became.
Officials with higher literary ranks like Dong Wencong not only remembered what was said immediately, but also organized and summarized it in between the lectures. They were shocked to find that what Fang Yun said today involved all aspects of political affairs, from governing the country to writing documents. He was simply teaching people step by step how to be better officials.
For those scholars who choose to work in officialdom, the better they are at being an official, the faster their own literary status will grow, because whether it is the eclectic, Confucian, Legalist, Military or Mohist classics, they all have a considerable amount of content on politics and being an official.
Even if some people only regard officialdom as a training and want to transcend it to pursue the holy path in the future, Fang Yun's lectures will also be of great help.
Being able to see the big picture from the details and draw inferences from similar situations are abilities that every scholar should possess.
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