Bachelor

Chapter 359 The Second Game Begins

In Kunning Palace, Huang Jin was still muttering: "Your Majesty, Sun Dan's poems are naturally good, but he has lost His Majesty's face by being so reckless in the examination room, and please punish him."

He was still a little reconciled, and naturally he didn't want to let Sun Dan pass the test easily.

Huang Jin is a person who doesn't rub the sand in his eyes, and is also famously narrow-minded. In addition, he secretly hates Sun Dan who has been against him before, and he will not let go when he seizes an opportunity.

When Huang Jin said this, Empress Chen next to her was very anxious. If she had a temper before, she might jump up and refute Huang Jin loudly.In fact, she was also clenching her teeth in anger at this moment, her eyes were full of anger, and she wanted to bite Huang Jin to pieces.

Sun Dan is very important to her. With Mr. Sun's wisdom, Empress Chen has gone smoothly recently, and finally saved the emperor's drifting away heart, and stabilized her position as empress.The situation began to develop in a direction that was beneficial to him, and the situation was very good.

But if Huang Jin takes this opportunity to overthrow Sun Dan, the previous good situation will be lost.

At the moment when it was erupting, Empress Chen suddenly remembered what Sun Dan had said to her: "On the surface, our Long Live God seems to be cultivating immortals all day long, ignoring common things, but in fact, his heart is like a bright mirror, and all the big and small things in the world are in his heart." However, his memory is still very good, and he will remember you for the rest of his life. Moreover, he has a strong personality and has his own opinions. He doesn't like others to point fingers in front of him. Sometimes it may be better to follow him.

Empress Chen said in her heart: Regarding Sun Dan, the emperor must have his opinion, and he can't allow others to say more.But if I don't speak up about this, what will happen to Sun Dan if Huang Jin is broken.

However, in the midst of the flashes of light, Empress Chen's heart brightened. Just now the emperor called the troupe to sing the poems written by Sun Dan in the examination room. Didn't he make it clear that he acquiesced in Sun Dan's actions? Think about it.

However, to Queen Chen's surprise, the emperor turned around and asked Queen Chen with a smile, "Queen, what do you think?"

When he asked, Huang Jin also became nervous, fearing that Empress Chen would intercede for Sun Dan, she stared at Empress Chen with piercing eyes.

Empress Chen didn't know what the emperor was thinking, she was a little nervous, she just whispered: "The imperial examination is to select scholars for the country. I don't dare to talk nonsense, so I ask Your Majesty to make a decision."

The emperor was very satisfied with the attitude of the empress, and said gently: "You and Huang Ban are both my own people, so let's chat as ordinary people, but it doesn't matter."

Empress Chen then said: "Sun Dan's matter is a bit overdone, he is extremely talented, and sometimes he is a bit of a celebrity." Her heart skipped a beat, Mr. Sun, you must be fine!

Huang Jin was a little surprised that Empress Chen didn't speak well of Sun Dan.However, he suddenly felt something was wrong, and he always felt that something was wrong.

The emperor took a deep look at the empress, then at Huang Jin, and suddenly said, "You all agree with one another. Could it be that the sun is coming out from the west today?"

Neither of them dared to speak anymore, but Emperor Jiajing sat silently on the chair for a long time before saying, "Famous scholars, most of them have eccentricities like Sun Dan, let alone him, such as Yang Shen's staunchness, Yang Yiqing's generosity, Tang Bohu's Is there any one who is not a maverick? Don’t be surprised if you don’t see it, and the blame will defeat itself.”

As soon as he finished speaking, another old eunuch walked into the hall without saying a word. He saluted and presented a roll of paper in his hand.

Jiajing was a little surprised, and raised his eyebrows: "This Sun Dan has a new work, so fast, won't it be shoddy?" After finishing speaking, he handed it to Yue Guan: "Sing it and listen."

Yueguan hurriedly took over the manuscript, and only glanced at it, but his heart was trembling violently, and his body was trembling non-stop.

The emperor noticed her abnormality and asked, "What's the matter, can't sing?"

"Back to Lord Long Live, this is a tune of "Qin Yuan Chun", which is easy to sing."

"Oh, why don't you sing?"

"Mr. Sun's words have a lofty artistic conception. Xiaomin is afraid that if she sings badly, it will tarnish the words of Mr. Yueguan." Tears suddenly flickered in Yueguan's eyes. His tasting ability is much higher than that of ordinary scholars.She only glanced at Sun Dan's lyrics, and was immediately overwhelmed by the majestic momentum in it, and felt that no matter how she sang it, she couldn't sing the true meaning.

The emperor was very surprised, and said lightly: "So good?" After hearing Sun Dan's words and poems just now, he was also very surprised.If you really talk about the words of the poem just now, in terms of its level, it is the first in the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years.Jiajing didn't think that anyone could surpass Sun Dan in poetry, even in the next 150 years, it might not be possible.

In fact, after the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was impossible to surpass the predecessors in poetry. Even if they could write the charm of the ancients, it would be a great thing.Counting it carefully, Yang Shen's "Linjiang Fairy", "Rolling down the Yangtze River to the east, and the waves scour the heroes" still has some taste.

A person's creative life is only a few short years, or even a moment.From Jiajing's point of view, the poems and words written by Sun Dan in the examination room just now have reached the pinnacle of poetry achievements in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention being surpassed by others, I am afraid that he will not be able to surpass himself.

The emperor knew Yueguan's artistic accomplishment. Even she said that the poem in her hand has a lofty artistic conception. Is it better than the previous two poems?

This... shouldn't be possible, right?

Huang Jin also took advantage of the situation and scolded: "You are a female actress who bullies others. From our point of view, Sun Dan must have written some forbidden words in this poem, so that you are too scared to sing. Humph, I knew it." , your class leader is familiar with Sun Dan, you must have a close relationship with Sun Dan and want to protect him."

As soon as the words were finished, Yueguan suddenly pulled the huqin from the luthier's hand and gave a long sound.The tune was high and straight, like a white crane soaring into the sky, and it didn't fall down for a long time, everyone's hearts were suspended in the air like this.

At this moment, Yueguan suddenly opened his mouth and sang:

"Independence cold autumn, the Xiangjiang River goes north, at the head of Juzizhou.
Look at Wanshan red all over, and the forests are all dyed;
The eagle hits the sky, the fish is shallow, and the tens of thousands of frosts are free.
怅寥 ,, ask the vast land, who is up and down?
Bringing hundreds of couples to travel, recalling the past years and years. "

……

The voice was long and exciting, and with just one sentence, the hearts of everyone in the hall were sucked away.

Until the last sentence: "Did you ever remember that when the current hits the water, the waves hold back the flying boat!", Yueguan was still pulling the huqin in his hand for a long time, but it didn't finish, but it tended to become more and more intense, until...

Until "啪!", the string broke.

Yueguan: "Plop!" Kneeling on the ground, kowtowed with tears streaming down his face, hissed: "Your Majesty, the pariah deserves to die, the pariah deserves to die. Mr. Sun is a generation of poets, although there are wild behaviors in the examination room. But Since he didn't act out of line, please forgive him once, and leave this eternal song for the people!"

The emperor stood up abruptly, his body swaying like he was drunk: "Pointing to the country, stimulating the writing, the dung was once thousands of households. Good sentence, good sentence." He walked up to the moon official and shouted: "Only in the prosperous age can we be so calm and majestic." Broad and generous Xiongwen, my Ming Dynasty produced such a talented person, isn't it a prosperous age?"

He threw off his Taoist robe with a "huh!" and a gust of wind blew up in the hall: "Sun Dan is my subject. He can write such poems in my examination room. I am so honored. How can I feel that?" Shame, how could you lose my face?"

It is undeniable that the poems plagiarized by Sun Dan have their own powerful charm, and even a cold-faced and unfeeling person like Jiajing is also moved by it.

Moreover, he is very concerned about face, and he is afraid of being said otherwise.Speaking of which, both Sun Dan and Huang Jin should be his old people when he was in Longqian, and every move of these two people is related to his face and dignity as an emperor.If something goes wrong, I naturally don't want the two to have any troubles, so as not to make the foreign ministers laugh and say, look at this emperor, the people around him are so unsatisfactory, it can be seen that he is not qualified as an emperor. .When deliberating whether the emperor's throne was obtained in accordance with the procedures, and then deliberating about the imperial examination questions, things will be troublesome.

But the current problem is that Huang Jin and Sun Dan are fighting non-stop first. As an emperor, he naturally doesn't want his courtiers to be harmonious. It is beneficial for me to mediate and balance the two sides.

It's just that these two are his close ministers, and if they pinch too much, he doesn't look good as a master.

Therefore, the emperor saw that Sun Dan was able to write such a poem in the examination room, which greatly made him look good, and he was also happy in his heart, so he naturally didn't want to pursue Sun Dan any more.

Empress Chen breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the emperor was in a good mood, and immediately stepped forward to pay homage: "My Ming Dynasty is naturally a prosperous age, and your majesty is also a famous emperor through the ages, and my concubines congratulate you."

Yueguan and the members of the Zhan family class also knelt on the ground.

The emperor laughed triumphantly: "Get up, get up!"

Although Huang Jin was reluctant, he could only kneel down: "Your Majesty is naturally a famous monarch comparable to Yao and Shun. The so-called prosperous age produces articles. Yichen read it, and today's Ming Dynasty is the rule of Wenjing and the prosperity of Kaiyuan. "

The queen looked at Huang Jin with a smile: "What Huang Ban means is that Sun Dan is Li Bai, a poetic fairy."

Huang Jin felt helpless: "Indeed."

The emperor's complexion changed somewhat.

The queen immediately smiled and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, is Huang Banzhuo going around cursing Concubine Zhang?"

Jiajing's face was livid: "I'm not Xuanzong, Zhang Concubine is not Yang Yuhuan, I think you, Huang Jin, look a bit like Gao Lishi." After speaking, the emperor walked away, leaving the aggrieved Huang Jin here.

Huang Jin was bitter: "Gao Lishi is also a loyal minister." In fact, in real history, Gao Lishi was not a bad person, he was also loyal to the emperor, and his evaluation in history books was not bad.It's just that because he offended Li Bai, he was written into a mess by literati, and he couldn't turn himself over for more than 1000 years.

It can be seen that you can offend anyone, but you must not offend scholars who have mastered the direction of public opinion.

Naturally, the party broke up unhappy.

……

It is only three o'clock in the afternoon Beijing time of later generations. According to the rules of the examination room, the papers will be handed in at five o'clock, and the first round will be over.Then hand out the papers for the second round and start the next round.

Sun Dan copied a poem or two words on the wall all afternoon. Because the writing is small, it doesn’t take up much space. There are still many blank spaces on the wall, and some opportunities for graffiti.

He was not in a hurry to copy the next poem, and he was about to hand in the test paper, so he should sort out the test paper first, calm down, and prepare for new challenges.

Sun Dan was still very proud of being watched silently by the examiners just now.These poems were placed in the Ming Dynasty, which naturally caught the attention of a large number of people. Perhaps, after the nine-day exam, when these poems are sorted out, a generation of literary giants will be born.In this way, I, Sun Dan, had the encyclopedia "Rizhilu" in the past, and poetry and songs later, plus a few playbooks and novels, which can be regarded as a solid position as a leader of scholars.

People want to be famous while they are still young, and once they win the Jinshi, or even the number one scholar, they will naturally become famous all over the world in one fell swoop.

In fact, there is nothing to organize on the paper.Once the examination paper is written, it is a bit like playing chess without regret.If you go to revise it again, or even smudge it, the transcription officer will be in trouble if he accidentally makes a mistake when transcribing the paper.Not to mention accidentally copying anti-prohibition words and sentences, even if you write a wrong word, it will change the meaning of the article in a different way.

Ancient Chinese is a highly condensed text, and things like historical theory pay attention to allusions and sources.The test is the comprehensive quality of the candidates.If you are not careful, you will make a big joke, and don't even think about getting a high score.

Sun Dan also checked the paper to see if he wrote his name, and then to see if there were any typos.In this way, more than an hour has passed since the five papers were checked one by one.

He just closed the paper and let out a long breath of satisfaction: "This round is over. According to the current situation, I should be able to get a high score. The stereotyped essay in the third round is a piece of cake for me, Sun Dan. The key is to see the second game, which is about to start, and this is the real challenge."

Putting down the paper, Sun Dan couldn't help but look up at Zhang Cong, only to see Zhang Cong still sitting there in a daze.

In fact, he has been in a daze all afternoon like this.

When Sun Dan was writing poems on the wall earlier, although there were many examiners standing outside, although none of them spoke, it also seriously affected Zhang Cong's competitive state.

Zhang Cong saw figures constantly swaying in front of him, and his heart was already disturbed by Zhao Shangshu and Sun Yingkui.In addition, he has been holding his breath to write these few historical theories into flowers.But the more I wanted to write well, the more confused my heart became. In the end, my head was buzzing and I didn't know how to write.

Because he didn't sleep well last night, his face was terribly blue, the corners of his eyes were full of gum, the eyeballs were covered with red threads, and he looked depressed.

Sun Dan felt sympathetic. Although it was chaotic just now, he had been paying attention to Zhang Cong who was opposite him and made the final calculations for him.Up to now, out of five historical essays, Zhang Cong has only written four, and one has not been written yet.

That part of the test paper is now placed in front of Zhang Cong without writing a single word, and Lao Zhang is still sitting there in a daze.

Although Sun Dan sympathized with Zhang Cong, he felt a burst of joy in his heart: Old Zhang, old Zhang, time is running out, you'd better hand in a blank paper.In this way, I'm afraid you won't even win a fellow Jinshi, and I, Sun Dan, will lose a political enemy.

Sun Dan was happy, and after finishing the papers, he sat on the chair and stared at Zhang Cong with a smile, as if Zhang Cong had a flower on his face.

At the beginning, Zhang Cong's eyes were still numb, but when Sun Dan's eyes made contact with him, he woke up suddenly.

Zhang Cong's eyes slowly lit up, and his eyes met Sun Dan's, as if sparks were about to splash out.

He clenched his teeth tightly, and there were two tendons pulsating on his cheeks, and his long beard, which was already filthy and knotted, moved without wind.

Sun Danxin yelled "Oops!", Zhang Cong seemed to have recovered.

Sure enough, Zhang Cong laughed suddenly, showing his white teeth, reached out and poured some water into the inkstone, rolled up his sleeves and quickly rubbed the ink.

His movements of grinding ink are neither fast nor slow, neither light nor heavy, very rhythmic, like a machine with a fixed speed.

In just a moment, a thick inkstone inkstone had been polished, shining black and oily light.

Sun Dan raised his heart in his throat: Is Zhang Cong in time?There is still an hour, and he has to think and write again. Can he drive out these two thousand words?
After grinding the ink, Zhang Cong stood up suddenly, pulled back the sleeve of his right hand, and clipped it directly to his belt, revealing a bare arm.

He stretched out his hand to grab the brush, stuck some ink on it, and started to write quickly on the paper.

In just a moment, this article is finished.

Zhang Cong put his pen to the person next to him, stroked his long beard, and laughed.

Sun Dan shook his head again and again: Zhang Cong still broke out at this critical moment. He was indeed the most important political figure in the early years of the Jiajing Dynasty, and he was quite capable.

However, although Zhang Cong's talent is outstanding, can such a hastily written article get a high score?

Sun Dan disagreed.

Examinations are a test of a person's overall quality. Sometimes it is better to be clumsy than to be clever, and what you write when you are inspired may not be in line with the appetite of the examiner.Trying to figure out the test questions and the examiner's psychology is a systematic project, and you Zhang Cong still can't understand it.

The sky gradually darkened, and before dark, the Gong Yuan was busy again.The yamen servants and the book office went to the examination room to collect the papers, while the examinees stood in front of the fence and handed over the papers in their hands anxiously, and then received the second exam questions.

From now on, the second exam finally begins.

Sun Dan's heart couldn't help but jump violently. He also took a deep breath and sat in front of the table for a long time. After calming down, he calmly opened the paper with his hands.

As soon as the question was opened, Sun Dan whispered: "Damn...this question is too fucked up, whoever came up with the question, who came up with the question..."

(End of this chapter)