"A bunch of bastards!" Ao Huang slowly descended, cursing softly.
Yu Ba Chi whispered, "Fang Xu Sheng answered so quickly, maybe he is right."
"I don't know about your human semi-saints? If it was so easy to get an A-level in the Holy Words, it wouldn't take several years for the Ten Nations to produce an A-level student. The key is not whether the test paper is difficult or not, but the speed is too fast. A 30-page test paper takes half an hour to complete. Who can get a full A-level? As long as they don't get a full A-level, they will definitely have an excuse to attack Fang Yun!"
"However, with Fang Xusheng's temper, he shouldn't agree to their tricks so easily. He must be confident or have a backup plan."
"Backhand?" Ao Huang seemed to be thinking about something. Could it be that Fang Yun had something to rely on
Every twenty breaths, the test paper was turned a page. When the last page was turned, the chief clerk Shen Ming smiled and said, "Everyone, there is only one hundred breaths left, don't be anxious."
Shen Ming looked at Fang Yun with a smile in his eyes. The more time went on, the more time Fang Yun spent answering questions. In the end, he almost didn't stop. Because there were several questions in the back that required reciting a whole article, which could easily be thousands of words. Even if Fang Yun wrote quickly, it would be impossible for him to finish a page in twenty breaths.
Although he has turned to page 30, Fang Yun has not looked up and is still answering the questions on page 29.
After more than ten breaths, Fang Yun raised his head, glanced at the 30th test paper, and buried his head in answering the questions.
Time passed slowly, Shen Ming just stared at Fang Yun and used the official seal to count the time.
When the time was up, Shen Ming asked the yamen runner to put down the test paper and said loudly: "The time is up, please put down your brush! If you write again, you will be considered a failure!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Yun put down his pen and breathed a sigh of relief.
The bailiff immediately removed the screen.
Several candidates looked at each other and whispered, "It's too fast. There's no time to think about some questions."
"Even if I had time to think, I wouldn't be able to finish answering. I only answered about 25% of it."
"I'm better than you. About 30%."
"I think I'm close to 30 percent. I wonder what you think. Mr. Wen, how many percent did you answer?"
Wen Gu shook his head and said regretfully, "I answered most of the questions in the first half, but I only answered about half of them in the last ten pages. Where's Captain Lu?"
"Almost the same as Brother Wen."
Deng Xuezheng said: "I am not much different from Brother Wen. It's not that I don't know how to answer the last questions, but I just don't have enough time."
Shen Ming smiled and said, "The county exam is not over yet, and the final answers are not in hand yet. We can only get them after entering the examination room. Why don't we use County Magistrate Fang's exam paper as a reference and compare it. How do you think?"
"I think so! Fang Xusheng probably gave the most answers!"
"Well, then, you guys exchange your test papers and cross-check them, and I will read Magistrate Fang's answers." Shen Ming said with a smile.
Fang Yun handed the test paper to Shen Ming and stood up with a smile.
Shen Ming glanced at everyone, coughed lightly, put the test paper on the left, put Fang Yun's answer on the right, and read: "This is the first question. It asks how many years the book "Spring and Autumn" has lasted. Everyone knows this, it is 242 years. Anyone who answers incorrectly will immediately go to the Holy Temple and resign his position as a scholar."
Everyone laughed. Except for Fang Yun, all thirteen people drew a circle behind the answer in front of them to indicate that it was correct.
Shen Ming continued: "Regarding the 'dispute over ritual and punishment', the Palace of Rites and the Palace of Punishment made the final decision. Is there any need to say more?" Wucuo Novel Network does not skip words.
Everyone smiled and continued answering questions. However, a few people's faces changed slightly, and Fang Yun's eyes also moved.
The dispute between ritual and punishment was a dispute over the holy doctrine that swept through hundreds of schools of thought during the Han Dynasty. It lasted for nearly fifty years and ended with the death of Jia Yi. The Criminal Court won a great victory, and it was also the beginning of the coexistence of ritual and punishment in the human race.
The dispute over rites and punishments, just because of one sentence "rites do not apply to common people, and punishments do not apply to officials", led to the premature death of the semi-saint Jia Yi, the shattered literary courage of seven great Confucian scholars, and the collapse of the literary palace of tens of thousands of scholars. It was a catastrophe for the human race.
The explanation of the Palace of Rites for this sentence is: Commoners are poor, they do not have time to master complicated etiquette, and they can hardly afford expensive gifts, so etiquette cannot be used to restrain commoners. If a high-ranking official commits a serious crime, it should be covered up with obscure words, and should not be punished in an indecent way, but let the high-ranking official commit suicide in an dignified manner.
The interpretation of this sentence by the Criminal Hall is completely different from that by the Li Hall.
The Xingdian believed that "superior" and "inferior" corresponded to "respectable" and "humble" respectively, and the whole sentence became "rituals do not humble the common people, and punishments do not respect the officials."
The explanation of the Criminal Hall was: just because the common people's status is not as good as that of scholars and officials, they should not be excluded from etiquette and civilization; just because the criminals are high-ranking officials, they should not be treated differently in punishment.
When Fang Yunlai read "The Controversy over Ritual and Punishment" for the first time in Shengyuan Continent, his first thought was that later generations deliberately misinterpreted this statement in order to frame Confucianism, saying that it meant that common people were not qualified to enjoy rituals, while high-ranking officials and nobles could go unpunished.
Fang Yun later read many books. Whether it was Jia Yi, Zheng Xuan or Kong Yingda, the annotations of these great scholars on this sentence were similar to those in the Ritual Hall of Shengyuan Continent. They were all considerate of the common people and believed that high-ranking officials could be sentenced to death, but it should be more decent and without corporal punishment that would harm the body, rather than saying that high-ranking officials would not be subject to any punishment.
For Fang Yun, who lived in the ancient Chinese nation, the policy of "no punishment for doctors" had long been implemented. This was because, let alone high-ranking officials, even ordinary people who committed crimes would not be punished by having their legs or feet broken. Instead, they would be sentenced to either imprisonment or death. It could be said that "no punishment for criminals" existed.
There is no dispute about the first half of the sentence between the Hall of Ceremonies and the Hall of Punishment. If you don’t look carefully, the second half is not much different. The only difference is that one gives decent punishment and the other treats everyone equally.
However, the essence of the dispute between the two palaces at that time was the power to convict "doctors".
Before the dispute over rites and punishments, the Criminal Court had no right to judge all scholars. Only after the Hall of Rites deprived the criminals of their scholar status did the Criminal Court have the right to judge them. Otherwise, even if the scholars were rebellious, the Criminal Court had no right to intervene without the permission of the Hall of Rites and could only arrest them at most.
To the scholars of the Criminal Hall and the Legalists who believed in Shang Yang's idea that "a prince who breaks the law shall be punished like the common people", the behavior of the Hall of Rites was simply a contempt of the law. If the Hall of Rites' power to judge scholars was not overthrown, the Criminal Hall and the Legalists would never have a chance to rise.
So, after years of preparation, the Criminal Hall launched a dispute over ritual and punishment.
Those who had witnessed the battle between the two holy paths hundreds of years ago had long since died, and all the complete records had been erased by the Ritual Hall. Fang Yun could only understand the collision between the two holy paths through a few words.
"The red clouds rise from the Daofeng Mountain, like blood, like a cloak, like a pennant, like a flag, and they will not dissipate for ten years."
"Above Kongcheng, there were thunderous rumblings for months, and within a radius of ten thousand miles, no insects or animals could make any sounds."
"A strange light spread out, and then condensed in an instant, heading straight for the Moyao Mountain. The thousand-mile mountain range and the monsters all evaporated like water vapor."
"Before the big fight, the men in Kongcheng counted the time by the hour of intercourse; during the big fight, they counted the time by the rest of their breath, and resentment was overwhelming." (To be continued...)