Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 443 The top list of mixed flavors

Zhao Shuang, Kan Ze, and Yan Zhen are all still young and have no future knowledge.

However, due to the influence of the General's Mansion and the State of Chu, in recent years Kan Ze and Yan Zhen have increasingly developed their original "side jobs" in history without the "White Rabbit Effect".

After all, the support for the Ministry of Industry, as well as the achievements and status of the Ministry of Industry are obvious, and... if they really want to work as officials to govern and fight on the battlefield, they have second-rate qualifications!
Facts have proved that their choice was correct, and they were able to achieve great success in the first imperial examination and become officials in the C position.

Also pleasantly surprised was Deng Zhi, the second in the Ministry of Rites...

Deng Zhi is only in his twenties this year and was born in Xinye, Jingzhou.

Historically, Deng Zhi's family settled in Shu during the chaos in Jingzhou. Moreover, Deng Zhi was a late bloomer and was only activated after Liu Bei entered Shu. Because he lived to be more than 70 years old, he can be said to be the mainstay of Shu in the later period.

However, now that Jingzhou has returned to Chu, most of the people in Jingzhou who originally moved away have made different choices from those in history, including Deng Zhi's family.

Deng Zhi himself felt that the most reliable one should be military science. Indeed, Deng Zhi in history also focused on military achievements. In his old age, he became a general on horseback and on holidays...

But this time Deng Zhi barely got a "B" in Military Science - after all, Deng Zhi was originally the type of late bloomer, and he was also the kind of late bloomer who "drags all the powerful ones to death", true theory The historical record is also lackluster.

But when it comes to Deng Zhi, another of his deeds is very famous - his mission to Soochow.

And it was not an ordinary mission, after the defeat of the Shu Kingdom in the Battle of Yiling and the death of Liu Bei in Baidi City, Deng Zhi was in charge of this mission with great responsibilities and significance!

What was the situation like at that time?
Guan Yu was stunned by Lü Meng who crossed the river in white clothes and was beaten. After he was defeated in Maicheng and captured, Soochow beheaded him. Zhang Fei was so angry and hungover that he whipped his subordinates. His traitorous general had his head cut off and sent him to Soochow. , Liu Bei poured his troops into Yizhou in an attempt to take revenge, but was burned by Lu Xun until he abandoned his helmet and armor. Not only did Liu Bei himself become ill, he died of the illness...

Not only was Yizhou's power at its most critical, but it was also the time when relations with Soochow were at their most tense.

At this time, Zhuge Liang overcame all opinions, suppressed the internal anger and opposition, and decided to make amends with Soochow in order to point out the way for Shu Han in the future. At the same time, for Deng Zhi, the pressure of this line of work can be imagined.

My lord has just been hammered to death, and I am trying so hard to sue for peace. Under the dual pressure from both inside and outside, it is enough to make people lose their footing.

However, Zhuge Liang was not wrong this time. Deng Zhi went to Soochow as an envoy. Although he was rejected at first, he finally persuaded Sun Quan after explaining the pros and cons to Sun Quan and ordered Shu and Wu to repair it again.

Although there was an element of force from the general trend, after all, Wei was the biggest enemy, but Deng Zhi's eloquence, mentality, and negotiation logic were also extraordinary in being able to make Sun Quan comply with the general trend under the circumstances.

In today's Chu State imperial examination, it was precisely because of Deng Zhi's amazing answers to the questions on a simulated mission that he finally won the second place in the etiquette department!
Deng Zhi was naturally very pleasantly surprised by this result... At most, he felt a little weird. He originally wanted to serve in the army, but ended up being given a higher evaluation in the etiquette department?

Well, then I’d better develop into the Ministry of Rites in the future!
As for Lu Ji, who topped Deng Zhi in the Li Ke, including Bai Tu, as well as the Chu state officials, they are much more familiar.

He was fifteen years old, almost the same age as Lu Xun when he first met Bai Tu.

Moreover, he is Lu Xun's uncle and Lu Kang's youngest son. You can tell by looking at this age difference that it is proof that he is getting stronger with age. In every sense, he is Lu Kang's pride...

Lu Ji in history was also known as a "child prodigy", which was completely opposite to Deng Zhi, a child from a poor family who was a late bloomer.

It's just that Lu Ji's "spiritual" direction was in the areas of moral governance, ritual governance, and the study of classics and meanings that seemed very "retro" at the time.

If it were during the peaceful times of the Han Dynasty, Lu Ji would definitely become the true representative figure of the Lu family in Jiangdong. However, in the Three Kingdoms era... Lu Xun and Lu Kang were the most eye-catching ones who were "able to fight"!

But even so, 15-year-old Lu Ji turned in an astonishing answer in the etiquette department. Lu Kang smiled so much today that his lips almost reached his ears...

Lu Ji was also the youngest person to top the list in the first imperial examination of Chu State among the seven subjects!
Pan Jun, who was originally eyeing this position, felt even more mixed emotions. He not only lost to the 15-year-old boy in the etiquette department, which he was most sure of, but he also didn't even make it into the top three.

Pan Jun was from Wuling, Jingzhou, and studied under Song Zhong - yes, the same one who was dissatisfied with Bai Tu's statement that "killing a person is like killing my father" during the period of the General's Palace. He argued with Kong Rong from a distance, and finally because of Wang Lang's advice , fell into Kong Rong’s trap, the great scholar from Jingzhou who had his reputation ruined by throwing excrement at the door of the people because he slandered Bai Tu...

When Bai Tu went to Jingzhou this time, he paid a special visit to Song Zhong. He never mentioned what happened back then. He just thought that he was an ordinary official due to illness. He not only gave him supplements, but also encouraged Song Zhong in name. Even though he was in poor health, If you are not allowed to serve as an official, you can report any opinions to the court in the future.

Whether it was out of emotion or "awareness of current affairs", Song Zhong was very respectful and even wrote three poems on the spot, praising the King of Chu, praising Chu learning, and praising Chu politics!
Even without this incident, Pan Jun would not refuse to serve as an official because of what happened to his teacher. This is also in line with today's mainstream trends. Originally, Lu Kang died in Sun Ce's attack on the Lujiang River...

Just when he was taking part in the imperial examination, Pan Jun had the idea of ​​"let you see how powerful our Jingzhou Confucian scholars are". As a result... although he got the first grade in Li Ke, he was not among the top three. In his opinion, it was not worth bragging about. .

but!

In the criminal department, Pan Jun actually took the first place!
Firstly, it is naturally due to Pan Jun's careful review, and he memorized "Chu Law" very well. Secondly... Pan Jun's historical evaluation is that he is "intelligent" and "reasonable", which means that this person is good at microscopic inferences, and Strong logical thinking.

Among those weird crime inference questions, Pan Jun is one of the few scholars who can filter his thoughts and correctly assign blame. This is not something that can be done by memorizing the "Law of Chu". In the inference questions, Pan Jun's The performance is also outstanding.

The top spot in the Criminal Department is well deserved...

It's just that after Pan Jun saw the published results, he felt very complicated.

The direct cause of the original "Killing a person is like killing my father" was Baitu's purge of military discipline and insisting on beheading the generals who caused harm to the people. Although there was no "Chu Law" at that time, it was the "Yangzhou Convention" that was the predecessor of "Chu Law" representative events.

Now, as a student of Song Zhong, his performance in the etiquette department was only an average "A", but he took the first place in the punishment department.

Well, I wonder if Song Zhong will write another poem after he finds out about it...

(End of this chapter)