Fang Yun read the letters for a long time, replied to the important ones one by one, and did not go to bed until late at night.
The next morning, after Fang Yun had breakfast, he played for another half an hour, just as if he was giving himself a long vacation.
Afterwards, Fang Yun entered the literary battlefield of the academy, practiced poetry and verbal battles, and pondered combat methods. When only one third of his talent was left, he walked back home.
Along the way, all the passers-by bowed and greeted him, most of them calling him "Fang Xusheng".
Many people even bowed deeply.
As he approached his home, Fang Yun frowned. There was a lot of traffic in front of his house, and a large number of people were standing at the door, queuing up to send invitations or visiting cards. There were hundreds of people in total.
Fang Yun had no choice but to use the power of the military book "Ocean's Eleven" to conceal his appearance and squeeze through the door.
The people in the queue were furious and kept cursing.
Fang Daniu's eyes widened with anger, and just as he was about to curse, Fang Yun whispered, "It's me!"
"Oh? Oh! Please come in, the master is waiting for you in the study." After Fang Daniu said this, he cautiously took Fang Yun to the study, and then winked at Ao Huang behind him.
Ao Huang rolled his eyes at Fang Daniu and said, "Idiot!" Then he continued to play with Nu Nu and Yangui.
Nunu recognized Fang Yun and ignored Ao Huang, throwing herself into Fang Yun's arms and acting coquettishly.
"What a heartless little ungrateful fox!" Ao Huang muttered in a low voice.
Fang Yun scolded him, "Go back and study. You are not here to play. Today you should write three poems, a scripture, and a policy paper on Dinghai and Anjiang."
Ao Huang almost exploded, and said: "Are you crazy? You want me to write Dinghai's strategy? Why don't you let me write the dragon-slaying method?"
"Do you have a method to slay dragons? Then write it down tomorrow." Fang Yun said.
"You... I'll go write the Dinghai Strategy..." Ao Huang went back to his room in shame.
Nunu held his stomach and laughed, even Yangui, who had insisted on escaping, grinned, looking extremely relieved.
At this time, three women came out.
Yang Yuhuan, Su Xiaoxiao and Zhao Hongzhuang stood at the door of Yang Yuhuan's room.
Su Xiaoxiao knelt down and saluted, saying, "Greetings, Master."
Yang Yuhuan smiled slightly, and Zhao Hongzhuang's eyes turned red but she then suppressed them.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. Fang, you are still as charming and elegant as ever." Zhao Hongzhuang said with a smile.
"Young Master Zhao has become effeminate." Fang Yun said half-jokingly.
"Stop talking nonsense. The results will be announced at noon. We are waiting for your good news."
After they chatted for half a minute, Fang Yun put Nunu down and returned to the study.
Fang Yun continued to study as usual.
Without the imperial examination, poetry, classics and policy essays should not only not be abandoned, but should be studied more in depth.
If you want to be an official, you must write good policy essays, because policy essays involve all aspects. Every year, officials from all regions must write a policy essay to be evaluated by the six ministries or the cabinet, which is included in the official evaluation.
If one is devoted to pursuing literary attainments, then one should focus on the meaning of the sutras, because the meaning of the sutras involves the holy way.
Take Fang Yun's "abolishing the system of burying people alive with the dead" as an example. If he did not mention "evil rituals", it would be inferior, because rituals are one of the holy ways, and the system of burying people alive with the dead is not. If he specifically elaborated in the scriptures on how to solve the system of burying people alive with the dead, it would be a deviation from the scriptures.
How to deal with it specifically is within the scope of policy discussion.
The holy way can be transformed into a powerful force. It may not have the killing power like war poems, but it has many wonderful uses. On that day, Confucius entered the demon world and casually threw out the holy book "Zhou Li". All the demons and barbarians below the half-saints were pressed to half kneel on the ground by the great gift of the holy way, because Confucius stole the "gift" of the demon world. The demon world stipulates that half-saints cannot attack great saints. Confucius is a sub-saint, and his status is equal to that of a great saint, so all half-saints cannot take the initiative to attack him.
This is why the demons and barbarians respect and fear Confucius. Confucius has long stopped "playing with his brain" and has long been "playing with the rules".
The palace examination focuses on real talent and knowledge and the ability to govern a place, so Fang Yun naturally focuses on policy essays. However, Fang Yun's goal is a higher literary position, and he is not too attached to secular power, so he should focus more on the classics.
Fang Yun had no choice but to split his study time in half.
Fang Yunxue studied for two quarters of an hour when the official seal suddenly vibrated violently, indicating an urgent letter.
Fang Yun held the official seal and found that it was a letter from Zeng Yuan.
"The head of the Meng family entered the ancient land of the deserted city last night and died in a fierce battle with the monsters. Zong Ji of the Zong family and Sima He of the Sima family went to help and died together. The new head of the Meng family will take over and put an end to the enemies of your family."
Fang Yun read it twice and finally confirmed that this was the explanation given to him by the saints.
After all, humans are not as direct as monsters. For Fang Yun's sake, those involved must be severely punished, but they cannot be charged with real crimes. So, let those who deserve to die on the battlefield, which is considered to be a contribution to the human race and also gives them the punishment they deserve.
It is not uncommon for people from noble families to die suddenly in battle, and Zeng Yuan obviously guessed the cause and effect.
Fang Yun was quite satisfied with this way of handling the matter. It would not only deter certain people with ill intentions, but also prevent him from leaving behind a stigma of being vindictive, harsh and bloodthirsty in his internal affairs.
As for those who could not see that the three people were forced to death by Fang Yun, they had no right to embarrass Fang Yun and did not need to be intimidated at all.
Fang Yun only spent a few days in jail, but the three major families lost two top scholars and a family head, and lost everything from their wealth to their reputation. He became the chicken to be killed, and the other "monkeys" gave up targeting Fang Yun.
"I see. I will send a letter of condolence."
After replying to the letter, Fang Yun continued to study and went out to eat at lunch. After lunch, he took Zhao Hongzhuang's carriage to the Shengmiao Square to wait for the announcement of the results.
Not long after, Fang Yun arrived near the square in a carriage. He pulled aside the curtain and looked out. There were people jostling each other and the noise was deafening. There were almost 100,000 people. After thinking it over, he decided not to go down.
The carriage used by Zhao Hongzhuang was very large. Not only could it seat Fang Yun, Yang Yuhuan, Su Xiaoxiao and Zhao Hongzhuang, but even the ten-foot-long Ao Huang could fit inside the carriage.
Just as noon arrived, a huge translucent light curtain appeared above the holy temple.
All the examiners came out of the marking room and stood in front of the gate of the holy temple.
The great scholars Jiang Hechuan and Tang Shoude looked at the crowd quietly. The voices of the crowd became smaller and smaller, and finally there was complete silence.
Jiang Hechuan nodded and said, "Announce the results!"
Although Yang Yuhuan, Zhao Hongzhuang and Su Xiaoxiao knew that Fang Yun had a good chance of winning the imperial examination, they still looked at the huge list of successful candidates excitedly.
At the beginning of the list of Jinshi, the four words "name", "poetry", "classics" and "strategy essays" appear together.
Then, under the name, the two words "Fang Yun" appeared in golden color.
Afterwards, a golden character "甲" appeared under each of the poems, scriptures and policy essays.
Golden-lettered articles and holy pen comments!
The whole city cheered.
After Fang Yun's results were announced, a large area of black words suddenly appeared on the screen. The two hundred and ninety-nine new scholars all appeared at the same time, and their treatment was far different from Fang Yun's.
However, before they could feel regret or joy, three rainbows came from the Holy Temple and took away the original texts of three articles including "Fu on Afang Palace".
Fang Yun was originally happy, but he couldn't laugh anymore after hearing what Minister of Culture Jiang Hechuan said.
"Today at the Snow Plum Festival, you must write a poem about plum blossoms! It must be better than the farewell poem for Li Wenying!" (To be continued...)