Divine Book Era

Chapter 41
"In the world, there are only dead saints, not living saints!"

The Heavenly Snake King sneered and said, "Silly scholar, don't go to extremes. Back then, I was fortunate to listen to Sheng Wa's preaching. Sheng Wa said that there are countless overseas islands, and all of them are wild lands. In the wild, life is born. The natives are in decline and are invaded by foreigners, and there is a place to escape. If you fail the imperial examination and have nowhere to go, you can go overseas and open up a new paradise overseas.”

"Forget it, if you fail the imperial examination or the rebellion, why not go overseas!" Liu Xiu said calmly.

The imperial examination is not only a way to select talents, but also a way to restrict talents.

Fame is a kind of restraint that the imperial court places on talents.

Scholars, Juren, Jinshi, Hanlin, etc., all of them are the credentials of being an official.
In reality, if ordinary people want to be promoted, they must take the imperial examination, from the lowest child student, to the scholar, to the scholar, to the Jinshi.

And a high official position can only be held by Hanlin.

Ordinary people will never be able to become officials if they do not pass the imperial examination and gain fame.Unless it's... a rebellion.

It is impossible for ordinary civilians to test their merits, and to be an official is to be a prime minister or a prince. It is impossible to be an emperor. This is a matter determined by the imperial court system.

But once they rebel, the so-called bondage of fame and fame will no longer exist.

Liu Bang was just a punk. If he was ruling the world, he would be just a petty official without any fame, and he would be like this all his life. But once he came to troubled times, and once the rebellion was successful, he would become the emperor. The so-called bondage of fame and fame did not exist at all.

Zhu Chongba is just a monk, without fame, seems destined to be a small person, but when the troubled times came, he turned into a dragon in one fell swoop and became an emperor. The so-called bondage of fame does not exist.

Boom boom boom!
With the realization of the way of fame and fame, it is not only a ladder to heaven, but also a way of restraint.

Liu Xiu only felt that a bottleneck in her heart was gradually breaking open, the bookishness all over her body was condensed, changing, undergoing a drastic transformation, the invisible bookishness seemed to have undergone a qualitative change, breaking the way of heaven The shackles became condensed.

Click it!

The cultivation base of the Confucian scholars in the third realm has taken half a step forward and achieved a half-step great Confucianism.

Half-step great Confucianism, between Confucian scholars and great Confucians,

This is only half a step, but it is a big step for Wen Dao cultivation.

"Not bad, not bad!" the Heavenly Snake King laughed, "At only 13 years old, he has achieved a half-step Confucianism. This kind of achievement is extremely rare even in the middle ages when saints were born in large numbers and literature was at its peak. If you Speed, may achieve the realm of great Confucianism before the weak crown!"

Liu Xiu didn't have a trace of joy, on the contrary, she showed a strong look of sadness.

"I vaguely felt what the way of a saint is?"

"The way of a sage is a path of sorrow, a path of despair. The stronger the literary cultivation, the more I feel the sorrow of a saint! The way of a sage is to constantly understand the changes in human nature. From the changes in human nature, we can understand When it comes to power. The deeper the understanding, the stronger the fighting power, and the more advanced it is!"

"The king thinks of a ten-year plan, and the famous minister only thinks of a hundred years. Only a sage thinks of a thousand years. A sage is powerful because they are far ahead of the times; it is sad because if he is too far ahead, Then you cannot be understood by everyone, and you are destined to be a lonely person!"

"It takes 500 years for a saint to be born. Just because every 500 years, the luck of the human race will decline to the extreme, and a saint needs to be born to enlighten all living beings and rekindle the fire of luck! The way of a saint is to use the body as a candle to illuminate To brighten the troubled world and open up the wisdom of the common people; the way of the sage is to use oneself as a sacrifice to sacrifice to the way of heaven and make up for the insufficiency of the sky."

"I wish there would never be a saint in the world!"

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Time is passing, and in the blink of an eye, July is here.

The time for the scientific examination is gradually approaching.

In today's era, scientific examinations are divided into six major examinations, county examinations, state examinations, hospital examinations, township examinations, general examinations, palace examinations, etc.Among them, only those who pass the county exam, the state exam, and the college exam, and all three exams, are eligible to be called scholars.

The gold content of a scholar is still very high.

Among the three subjects, only those who pass the first two subjects are eligible to be called Tongsheng.

If you fail any one, you are not worthy of being a scholar.

And these first three exams just wiped out a large number of people.

Only after passing the three exams can he be called a scholar.Scholars are divided into three grades, and the students are divided into three levels: Linsheng, Zengsheng, and Epiphysis.

Lin students are top students, with living allowances and a certain amount of money and food;

Hyperplasia, a middle-level student, no living allowance;

Epiphytes come in through the back door, most of them are the second generation with backgrounds, or the children of wealthy businessmen.

The status of a scholar is very high, don't look down on a scholar, there are privileges such as exempting from poor corvee, not kneeling when meeting magistrates, and not being able to use torture casually.These privileges, seemingly inconspicuous, are actually extremely important, which means that scholars have the qualifications to be human beings.

Common people, to put it bluntly, are pigs and sheep raised by the imperial court, ready to be slaughtered at any time.

As the saying goes, he is the county magistrate who broke the door, and Ling Yin who killed the door.Not to mention these high-ranking officials, it is some low-ranking officials who use some privileges to easily manipulate corvee and taxation, which can kill a family and wipe out the family.

Before, Wang Shuli was just a low-level official, but he almost killed his mother-in-law.

And becoming a scholar means transforming from a pig and sheep into a human being, with the qualifications to be a human being,

The so-called county magistrate may love the common people, but this kind of love is more like how farmers love their cattle and sheep, and their fields and crops.The magistrate of the county will not talk about human rights, equality, and reason with grassroots people, just like pig farmers who raise pigs will not talk about reason with pigs.

But after becoming a scholar, he was in the same class as the county magistrate, able to reason and have the right to speak.

This world will deceive you, but only fame and fame will never deceive you.As long as you become a scholar, the elders dare not torture you, the squires dare not torture you, the petty officials dare not torture you, and the yamen servants dare not torture you, even the county magistrate will give face.

If you are not a scholar, you are just a commoner, like weeds on the side of the road, anyone can step forward and step on it a few times; but after you become a scholar, the elders will give you face, and the small officials will not exploit you, and the government officials will not dare to do whatever you want If the charges are laid, the county magistrate will also talk on an equal footing.

To put it simply, if you become a scholar, you have the qualifications to be a human being and have the right to speak; if you are not a scholar, you are just cattle and sheep, and you are just destined to be slaughtered.

With the fame of a scholar, one has the power to resist the bureaucracy.

Bureaucrats can oppress common people; but they seldom oppress scholars and scholars.

When the county magistrate sees someone getting rich, he will immediately place a certain crime and imprison him in prison. The cost is too high.Even if they want to collect donations, they come to negotiate with each other and compromise with each other. They seldom go forward and kill them with a single knife.

In short, with the fame of a scholar, you have the qualifications to be a man.

Of course, the fame of a scholar is not enough to be an official.Many scholars failed to make further progress in their fame and could only return to their hometowns to make a living by teaching and other methods.These scholars who are not rich economically but have a slightly higher social status than ordinary people are called poor scholars.It seems that to be a scholar is very hard work.

In fact, in Liu Xiu's view, the scholar is still very happy.

As a scholar, but not happy, it can only be said to be too wasteful.

A scholar is not enough to be an official, that is to say, he cannot be a high-ranking official, but he can be a low-ranking official, a historian, a secretary, and other small officials.These small officials have no rank and are not registered in the official roster of the imperial court, but they can only be listed. They are equivalent to the secretary of the county magistrate, the deputy director of the county public security bureau, etc., and they are also the top of the county.

Scholars have all kinds of privileges. As long as they can manage the industry carefully and build good relationships, they can at least mix with a rich peasant class, or even be upgraded to a landlord class.

If the mix is ​​too bad, mixed into the middle peasant class, the poor peasant class, it can only be said to be too useless.

"I want to be a scholar!"

Liu Xiu said firmly to herself.

(End of this chapter)