Be a reckless man in the martial arts word game

Chapter 228 Home of Hundred Saints
【What are you looking forward to? 】

[I hope that from this small school, a person who has become a scholar will come out]

[You don’t know this expectation, but you naturally become serious when you hold the pen]

[In just one sentence, you wrote like the wind and finished it quickly]

[Pu Mao is steady in his work and bold in his writing]

[At first glance, it’s not much worse than Mr. Da’s handwriting, and even better in terms of artistic conception]

【"Great kindness!"】

【伱won the praise of Mr. Da】

[Wenqi +1]

[Later, Mr. Da simply gave you the words to practice and asked you to write them]

[Then hang it on the wall for other disciples to copy]

[For other disciples, practicing calligraphy is a unpleasant thing. Wait until Mr. Da takes them to practice the calligraphy that they should practice today]

[It’s already noon]

[Half a day has passed. You listened carefully to the lectures at the school and improved your knowledge]

[Wenqi +1]

[At this time, the morning lectures have ended. Some disciples have gone home, while others have stayed in the small courtyard of the school.]

[It’s very cold in the yard, but because of this, they won’t feel sleepy at noon]

[You can review the knowledge taught by Mr. Da this morning]

[This is what Li Liangfei chose, and the same choice was made by the disciple who glanced at you in the morning]

[He came to you with a piece of hard yellow cake and broke half of it for you]

[Excuse me, do you accept his kindness? 】

If you don't eat when you have food, you are a fool.

[You took half the yellow cake and made him a bow]

[But he did not return the favor, just asked: "Does it taste good?"]

【"Can't taste the taste."】

["Is that so..." the man asked again: "When did you come to Wenqu Village?"]

【"Yesterday."】

【"Just one day..."】

[You didn’t speak loudly when you said these words, but you still quickly attracted everyone’s attention]

[On the one hand, you are violating etiquette and law by talking while eating. For those disciples who are reviewing their studies, if you break the tranquility here, you are disturbing their studies.]

[They approach you unkindly, their eyes full of contempt and disgust, as if they are looking at some heinous sinner]

["It doesn't matter." As expected of a person who didn't blink even after being hit by two rulers, the person next to you told you, "They can't possibly do anything."]

[“A gentleman talks but does not use his hands. They talk the most. But these people are used to being mute, so they can’t accomplish anything.”]

[Just as that person said, all the disciples who surrounded you quickly retreated]

[I’m anxious to learn more]

["Brother Ge Xin, what do you call this dear friend?"]

【"Sun Wu'an."】

[In front of many people, you chatted openly]

["Brother Sun is a native of Yangzhou?"]

【"Yes."】

["The filial piety taught by the gentlemen in Yangzhou should not be what you said this morning, right?"] [You remained silent and did not speak]

["I also have a story here. Brother Sun, do you want to hear it?"]

【"Let's talk."】

["To the east of Dayu, there is a very special state called Qizhou, which is called the Hometown of Hundred Saints."]

["The Hundred Saints may be an exaggeration, but among the Eight Saints of the Confucian Temple, five of them really came out of here."]

["A saint of literature and art can prolong the fortune of literature and art for hundreds of years."]

["When the saint is alive, the literati in the world can easily cultivate the aura of awe-inspiring people, and the fortune of the officialdom is much better than that of the martial arts."]

[“Many people pin their hopes on Qizhou for the rise and fall of literature and art, including... the heads of dynasties throughout the ages.”]

["Sometimes they are happy to see the prosperity of civilization and the decline of martial arts, because the end of civilization is the Nine-layered Palace, and martial arts... no one can reach the end yet, and most of them get ambitious halfway."]

["Ambition is like a prairie fire, and the imperial court that controls the world may not be able to extinguish it."]

["The second saint of the Confucian Temple decided on the word Confucianism. Confucianism... is the order of father and son, monarch and ministers, and they are born to serve the person sitting on the throne."]

[“The development of Literary and Confucianism is inseparable from official and royal ways.”]

["So, long before Dayu, Qizhou was a state within a state. They could issue their own decrees and appoint their own prime ministers."]

["Each dynasty is basically not worried about Qizhou threatening its rule, because the Confucian Temple is in Qizhou, and all people who enter Qizhou will be suppressed by the Wenqi and become ordinary people."]

["It is impossible for Qizhou to raise its own army, and people who come out of Qizhou generally pose no threat."]

["Today, Dayu has only two requirements for Qizhou, one is taxation, and the other is talents."]

["They must cultivate a certain number of literati and send them to Dayu to participate in the imperial examination."]

["The more talents are transported, the less taxes will be paid. If [-]% of the students in the palace examination are all from Qizhou, taxes will be exempted for one year."]

["For hundreds of years, in order to achieve this '[-]%' ratio, almost every family in Qizhou has studied literature and everyone has learned calligraphy."]

["In the beginning, they were indeed close to this ratio, because almost all the students in Qizhou got up after hearing the chicken, never slept until the moonlight, could recite any book by heart, and their understanding of the saint's words was deeper than others." 】

["Later, students from other states also followed their example and were cruel to themselves, forgetting to eat and sleep, and devoted themselves to learning."]

["Some people say that the imperial examination is the only way to make a comeback from a poor family. There are many people who believe this. How determined can they be? I'm afraid life and death can't stop it. If the people in Qizhou can do it, so can they!"]

["It has been difficult for Qizhou to reach the '[-] to [-] percent' ratio since then, but there are still [-] to [-] percent, so it is not at the end of its rope."]

["But Qizhou thought of one thing. The poor families will compete with them honestly, but the rich families will not."]

["Students from Qizhou and poor families work hard to learn, but people from aristocratic families cannot bear to have their sons ruined by studying for a small imperial examination."]

["Then what should we do? They can still use their hands and feet in the first few stages, but when it comes to the stage of joint examination and palace examination, the eyes of the Holy Emperor are watching."]

["Seriously, let the children of the clan compete with poor families. Many people really can't compete."]

["The aristocratic families came up with a plan... to start directly from the source of the imperial examination."]

["Isn't Qizhou the hometown of a hundred saints? Then what you learn is the words of the saints."]

["If the imperial examination no longer tests the words of saints, can they still be rampant?"]

["Learn...I can't learn from you, but I can change the question!"]

["Sages are already ancient people. How to interpret what they say depends on the mouths of today's people."]

["The 'filial piety' and 'propriety' you see now are what are tested in today's imperial examinations."]

["In the year when the imperial examination was restructured, none of the students in Qizhou passed the imperial examination. The Holy Emperor was furious and doubled the taxes in Qizhou."]

["In addition, the Mingfa Palace was selling dreams at that time, and students from Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Huizhou suddenly emerged, completely trampling on the students from Qizhou."]

[“The whole Qizhou tightened their belts and waited for 20 years before finally taking the imperial examination road again.”]

"During this period, they overthrew a group of 'corrupt Confucians' who insisted on the old literary ways, burned all the original works of saints enshrined in the Confucian Temple, and only took the later translations for the academic examination."]

["Today's Wenqu Village is a microcosm of the entire Qizhou."]

(End of this chapter)