Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2578 Hearts are like scales
Deng Li is in the examination room.

The Deng family was originally a common surname in Nanyang, but not all surnames can be stable for generations.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters made Deng Li's family go into decline.During the Battle of Jingzhou, Deng Li went to Chang'an with the refugees.Deng Li thought that he would die of illness on the way, but what he didn't expect was that thanks to the doctor under the hussars, a few pastes of appropriate decoctions relieved his illness a lot, and after a period of recuperation, he was considered alive. coming.

But the people are alive, and the money is gone.

He had just recovered from a long illness, and he couldn't do any heavy work. He could only rely on his early years of studying to work hard in the examination room.

There are quite a few older candidates like him in the examination room.

Deng Li didn't think about taking the exam before, but he couldn't find anyone if he wanted to recommend him. The money I was carrying was getting less and less day by day, and I still had a wife and son to support, so after thinking about it, I decided to come to take the exam.

If it can pass, then it is not bad to squat in a pit first.

When it comes to the pits, the candidates in the examination room are like being in the pits one by one.

Although there are half-height wooden boards as intervals, when the cool north wind blows, it still makes people not only shiver from the cold, but also tremble a little.

Answering the test paper in this environment is simply a double test of the spirit and body.

Although there is a fire cage some distance away, the outside is made of copper and iron, and the inside is filled with charcoal for heating, but for the convenience of the invigilator, there are only half walls around it. Fortunately, the floor is covered with thicker catkins. The mat, plus the pure natural log floor, will not directly freeze the chrysanthemums, and it is more or less passable.

Of course, the most important thing is the antifreeze of the hands.

This is not for everyone.

Poor people can only rely on their own heat and rub their hands dry from time to time, otherwise they will really be unable to write anything when their fingers freeze into carrots.

The wealthier ones basically use small smoked cages.Please take a piece of charcoal from the inspector in the examination room and add it to the smoking cage so that it can be used to warm your hands.

In fact, there are many ways that ancient people used to keep warm, like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty’s Golden House Cangjiao, which is the Jiaofang Palace, which originally meant to choose its warmth and fertility.There is also a special "central hot air" fire wall, and the "Xi Xin Division" is set up, which is the earliest heating office. The structure of this fire wall has already appeared in the Qin Dynasty.

There are also more luxurious ones.After all, in the ancient times when materials were scarce, in the face of the severe and long winter, various heating tools and methods of winter survival emerged in an endless stream, and one of them was the top match, which would be difficult to surpass until later generations.Sun Xun recorded in "Yu Mo Ou Tan": "Tianbao's legacy, Tang Shenwang Dongyue was bitterly cold, so the court ladies sat in close circles, called prostitutes' circle.Also, King Qi of the Tang Dynasty warmed his hands in the arms of a beautiful maidservant every winter and moon, which was called the meat stove. 』

Of course, this so-called "meat hand stove" is also very likely to be fabricated, after all, Tang Pozi is more trouble-free.

Unlike most of the students who were in a trance because they were in a trance due to the check-in, Deng Li had a calmer aura in comparison.

Like undressing or something...

So when he arrived in the examination room, Deng Li folded his hands in his sleeves, hugged a small smoking cage and closed his eyes to keep warm. I just pressed the paperweight on it, and I didn't even read the exam questions in the first place.

As the answer sheet was issued, there were many slight wailing sounds from the surrounding area.

Deng Li twitched his eyebrows, but he still didn't open them to read the answer sheet. When he was in the best state of body and mind, Deng Li opened his eyes, stretched out his hand, pushed away the paperweight, and looked at the test questions.

This is a new format of examination questions, which is also printed directly on the answer sheet.

Candidates only need to write their answers on the answer sheet.

I saw two words "making money" printed on the first paragraph of the answer sheet, and two words "enough" were printed at the end...

What the hell?

No wonder.

Half of the plank covered it, and Deng Li couldn't see the appearance of other students, but there was a faint wailing sound in the surrounding area, which also attracted the low-pitched scolding of many inspectors.

Deng Li couldn't help shaking his head, Hussars are really a good means.If it weren't for the strict search and inspection before, I'm afraid it would be unavoidable for someone to make a fuss now?As a result, as soon as he got off his horse, even after seeing such an answer sheet, he didn't dare to be presumptuous.

But this topic...

If there was Du Niang or something in the Han Dynasty, you can basically search it by typing a few words, but the problem is that there is no such convenient search tool, and you can only search it from your own mind.

Looking at the answer sheet, Deng Li felt that Huqi's questions should not be too biased.

After all, everyone is just getting started with this new test question, if a large group of people can't answer it, wouldn't Hu Qi slap him in the face?
Deng Li had a vague impression of this topic, and felt that he should have read these words.

With his eyes closed and thinking for a long time, Deng Li suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his head. Thinking of this period of time, most of the time in Qinglong Temple was talking about the three rituals, and then he immediately thought of the four characters in the middle, which are From the Book of Rites!
From "Book of Rites 42"!
The original sentence is "There is a way to make money. Those who live are many, those who eat are few, those who eat it are sick, and those who use it are comfortable, then the wealth will always be sufficient."

This……

I believe that many candidates have this experience. When they read books and do the questions at home, they seem to be familiar with everything, understand everything, and everything is a small problem. Come on, who am I?where am I?What is this in front of you?
But the one in front of him is indeed a test of basic skills.

This sentence in later generations was included in "Great Learning", but before the Song Dynasty, "Great Learning" was always subordinate to "Book of Rites".Although the "Great Learning" in the Han Dynasty was not independent from the "Book of Rites", whether it was Dong Zhongshu, Dai Sheng, or the current Zheng Xuan, they all made considerable contributions and promotions to the "Book of Rites".

Especially the "Book of Rites of Xiao Dai" annotated by Zheng Xuan was published and sold in the major bookstores of Sanfu in Chang'an, and it can be bought in surrounding counties and counties, even in Shandong.In addition, Zheng Xuan had just talked about the Three Rites in Qinglong Temple, if he really couldn't answer such a question, he could only lament that his book was not solid enough.

"There are many people who live" means that there are many people who create wealth; "There are few people who eat" means that few people consume wealth; slow.So in fact, this sentence is a very simple concept of wealth. It simply expounds the truth of enriching the country and enriching the people, increasing income and reducing expenditure, earning more and spending less.

Deng Li filled in the first question, and then read the next question...

Once the relevant information is retrieved, it is not difficult to simply fill in the blanks, and there is no need to expand and discuss, just fill in the words.

Different from the ample time for writing policy theory, the answering time for filling in the blanks is only half an hour, and after handing in the test papers, you are not allowed to leave the examination room, and you can directly enter the next link of policy theory.

Following the sound of the cloud board telling the time in the examination room, Qiqi wailed again in the examination room...

The collected test papers will be pasted and sealed by a special person, that is, the name, place of origin and other information will be covered, and then bound into a book and sent to the next step of correction...

In the imperial examinations of later generations, a transcription work was also added to the sealing and correction. The transcription staff used a red pen to transcribe the Zhujuan, and then read it by a special person. After confirming that it was correct, the Zhujuan was sealed, and then together with the Originally, they were sent to the review office together, and after confirming that the red and black volumes corresponded correctly, the vermilion volumes were sent in for correction, while the ink volumes were kept for backup.

At present, the chief examiner and reviewer of the test paper are all temporarily assigned by Fei Qian, such as Sima Yi, Du Ji, Zong Li, etc. Naturally, it is unlikely that there are any codes in the test paper Happening.

As for whether there will be more advanced cheating methods in the future...

Even if the mobile phone is blocked in the future, won't there still be people taking photos and posting exam questions?

So it can only be improved continuously, the more sharp the spear is, the stronger the shield will naturally be!
The sun gradually went down.

Different from the tense exams of the students, the ordinary people living in Chang'an City are soothing.

In the Taoist temple of Wufang Catholicism, the lingering blue smoke is mixed with the sound of Taoist chanting. The believers are either praying or offering, and it is very lively.

Qiao Bing stood at the entrance of the Taoist temple, smiling and distributing the colored rice cakes in his hands to the believers who came to worship.His smile is kind and friendly, regardless of whether the people who come to collect it are male, female, old or young, they are treated equally and impartially.

There is no chemical dyeing agent in Dahan at present, so this kind of food is basically dyed by plants, which is somewhat similar to the five-color glutinous rice of later generations.

"Five Heavenly Venerates! 』

"Five Heavenly Venerate..."

The believers saluted, and responded, and distributed a "good food".

This type of miscellaneous grain biscuit is generally divided into five colors, but only one color of biscuit will be distributed every day. It is more convenient to make.

Distributed every Friday.

This kind of five-color miscellaneous grain cooking cake is called "good food" or "virtue cake", which represents the good deeds and merits of the Five Gods. It is not very big, that is, the size of three fingers, which is larger than the average on the market. The cooking cakes are much smaller, and it is better than nothing to fill the stomach, but the important religious significance...

and appeal to the general public.

This is a fundamental change between the Wufang Catholicism and the previous Taoism.

It is also different from Buddhism.

The religious nature of Buddhism and Taoism in history is from top to bottom, that is, the rulers like a certain religion, then praise a certain religion, and then a certain religion prevails.

Buddhism and Taoism have precepts, but sometimes they themselves do not abide by these precepts.

There are particularities, but not all particularities, there are norms, but not all norms, one way inside the house, another way to serve porridge outside, one way to be kind, and another way to lend money and invade the fields.Just as there are some officials who shout on the surface to be clean and not to be corrupt, some monks and Taoist priests are also vegetarians on the surface, saying that they want to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, but they are big fish and meat behind their backs, causing harm to the local area.

Therefore, it is very contradictory.

The Five-Party Catholic Church is not so complicated and does not have these contradictions, but the main source of these contradictions is that the Five-Party Catholic Church does not accept land offerings, and is not allowed to hold land.

Other materials can be used, such as cloth, food, money, or other utensils.

This is also in line with the moral concept of the great man. After all, the land belongs to the emperor in name, and enshrining the land to the five gods means despising the emperor?
However, such a knife cut by Fei Qian directly cut off the possibility of the Wufang Catholic Church becoming a big landlord in another situation...

Kicking the five-party Catholicism from the ruling class will naturally become closer to the people.

Just like this "good food", which is a very common five-color cooking cake, there are not so many fancy things, and there are no rules similar to the diet of the nobles. Hanzhu, you don’t need to nod your head, you can eat it on the spot or take it home.

Fei Qian believes that religion should be a kind of spiritual sustenance, a kind of promotion of good behavior, rather than rectifying various norms and imposing them on the people, requiring the people to become unable to think about why, and everything is a sin. lamb.

In other words, at present, Feiqian does not need the assistance of religion to provide governance at all, but needs to strengthen the spread of religion.

History has proved that gods and Buddhas cannot save China, only the people of China can save themselves.

It's just that Fei Qian's attitude towards the religious system made Qiao Bing quite embarrassed at the moment, and he somewhat felt in his heart that "heroes are useless".

Qiao didn't take the exam, and he didn't even take the route of ordinary officials. He took the religious route. He thought it was a shortcut, but now he found that this road seemed to come to an end.

Even though Qiao has repeatedly advocated that Fei Qian is a living real person of the five-party Catholic religion, he is still only recognized among the middle and lower class people, and once he goes to the upper class, the influence of the five-party Catholic religion will quickly become weak .

There is a divide between classes.

The five-party Catholic religion cannot own land, so how can they get mixed into the landlord class?

In addition, there is no religious system similar to Wudoumi, so the Wufang Catholicism quickly became popular.

This is also Fei Qian's original intention.

Originally, the imperial power and the prime minister's power were already beaten to death, and with the addition of a third-party religion, wouldn't it be like Qingliu, relatives, and eunuchs in the political arena of the Han Dynasty, beating people's heads into dog heads?
Religion itself is the mystification of some natural phenomena that human beings cannot explain.Like laws, morals, customs, etc., religion is just a social phenomenon, not a panacea.

In ancient society, due to low productivity, people's production and life were dominated by nature to a large extent. People believed that the quality of the harvest and the prosperity of the population were all determined by some kind of supernatural existence.Primitive man personified the things in nature and endowed them with the power of "god".

Then, for a long period of time, in the society of the feudal class, ordinary people could not understand how slaves and slave owners, farmers and landlords, rich and poor, and the phenomenon of rich and poor were produced because of lack of knowledge. Class differences, like natural forces, are completely alien and mysterious, dominated by natural necessity, so there is religious worship and belief in mystery.

For most of the gentry children, especially the smarter gentry children, they know how the emperor came, what Dong Zhongshu did at the beginning, and how to suppress the people, fool the people, and solidify their own class , to achieve the purpose of passing on from generation to generation, so most of the gentry children do not believe in religion.

And these things, Qiao didn't fully understand...

In the early days of the establishment of the Wufang Catholic Church, Qiao Bing, Wei Duan, and Zhong Jie discussed and discussed the doctrines, canons, and corresponding structures of the Wufang Catholic Church, but now, Wei Duan has become the Senate It is said that Zhong Jie is going to be promoted next year to succeed Linghu Shao as the Grand Priest of the Academy, while Qiao and himself are still the Grand Priest of the Five Gods.

As for what is Feiqian?Fei Qian is the real person of the Five Gods...

After the good food was distributed, those who didn't receive it didn't make a fuss and dispersed on their own.

Around the Wufang God Taoist Temple, there are many pedestrians in the streets and alleys.

There are two or three Lifangs with many residents in the surrounding area, so many believers like to bring their children to the Taoist temple, or visit the five gods, or simply relax and entertain. After all, there are many vendors around the Taoist temple. Buy some Daily necessities, or snacks, are a kind of joy in the family in winter.

Chang'an is currently prosperous and prosperous, and this kind of prosperity and prosperity is even more precious when compared with a few years ago, especially compared with other counties that are still in war.

Qiao looked up and looked around.

After nightfall, the lights of thousands of families reflect the lively atmosphere in the night sky of the city. With Chang'an as the center, spots spread, mausoleums, surrounding military camps, post stations outside the city, large and small villages, and certain villages in the distance. It is the Qinglong Temple that is bright day and night, it seems to have become a sharp blade piercing the darkness, and it is also like the brilliance of Chinese civilization.

Qiao Bing watched, thought, and then sighed slightly in his heart.

Sometimes, opportunities are like this. Once missed, it is like golden sand leaking from the gaps between fingers, mixed into the gravel, and it is difficult to find it again.

It's not that Qiao didn't want to change.

But he lacks background.

Wei Duan and Zhong Jie are both good at scriptures and have a certain ability to govern the people's livelihood, while Qiao Bing himself is good at "prophecy" and intensively researches "micro-words and righteousness". When he was in Sichuan and Shu, his favorite thing was painting. character...

After all, Zhang Lu's Five Dou Sect was still very popular at that time, and Liu Yan in Sichuan and Shu was a follower of the Five Dou Sect. Well, maybe it should be said that Liu Yan was just a saint who was obsessed with the Five Dou Sect?
As for whether those drawn symbols are effective, this is like the behavior of a certain Yin in the later generations who said that he is an economic expert, a stock trader, draws a picture following the trend, and makes a lot of money by making a model...

If the talisman could have a little effect, would Qiao Bing still have to show his face to attract fans and worry about his future?

Seeing others rise step by step, but I have been standing still.

The children in my family are getting older day by day, so I can't let my children still follow suit?

How to do?
He is reluctant to part with the authority in his hand, and he doesn't have enough ability to go to the next level...

As the sun set, Qiao Bing was smiling, standing with his hands behind his back, with a fluttering Taoist robe and long beard. He looked like a fairy, very extraordinary, but who knew, in fact, his heart was restless, his thoughts were restless, full of contradictions...

(End of this chapter)