After the late autumn, although there is no snow, the cold is getting heavier and heavier day by day.

This long line under the eaves of every household in the Jade Capital City is as thick as a child's arm, glittering and translucent.The sharp edge of ice like a sword is enough to feel the harshness of winter.

Yujing was the capital of the Dagan Dynasty.

The Dagan Dynasty was prosperous, vast in territory and abundant in resources, vast and broad, with a population of tens of millions, and was a state of the Celestial Empire.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Set the world for 60 years!

In the past sixty years, the four emperors of the Dagan Dynasty have made great efforts to make the country prosperous, and have reached a flourishing age of flowers and cooking oil.

"Wu Wen Hou" Mansion is located in the southeast of Yujing City, covering an area of 100 mu, with an open terrain.A pair of three-man-high red lacquer stone unicorns, vermilion gates, shining copper nails, copper rings, and bright clothes at the gate.Full of gas, sharp eyes of the servants and so on, can show the status of Wu Wenhou.

"Marquis Wu Wen" was a prominent figure in the Dagan Dynasty. His surname was Hong and his given name was Xuanji.

This person is not only a grand title, but also a great minister, an official in the cabinet Grand Maester, Prince Taibao.Both civil and military. When he was young, he was able to open a nine-stone strong bow and shoot continuously. He rode a big horse to kill hundreds of people. If the enemy took a leisurely walk in the courtyard.In the Dagan Dynasty, one stone was one hundred catties, and nine stones were nine hundred catties.

At the age of 22, after making great military exploits, he gave up martial arts to practice literature, passed the exam, and became a flower in high school. Confer official positions and participate in government.He once received four emperors of the Dagan Dynasty, saying that "mounting a horse can govern the army, and dismounting a horse can pacify the people." Cross the highest evaluation.

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"The sky sees me and the people see me, the sky listens to me and the people listen to me."

Early in the morning, the sound of reading came from the remote courtyard in the northwest corner of the mansion of the Marquis of Wu Wen.

Hong Yi opened half of the window, lit a charcoal fire in the room, and was reading at the table, preparing for the scientific examination.Try to figure out the meaning of the Sutra.

He was wearing a green shirt, with beautiful features. He was between fifteen and sixteen years old, and his body was a little thin.

The room was very simple, the fire basin was an iron basin, the charcoal was ordinary charcoal, and it was not a delicate tripod copper basin used by Hou's big family to make a fire."Animal Charcoal" carved in the shape of various wild animals.

When he was reading, there was no bookboy around him, and the maidservant grinded ink and laid paper.All this shows that Hong Yi's position in Hou Fu is not high, but he still has time to study, not the kind of servant.

"Whether we can rectify the status of the dead mother depends on the Enke in the spring and the general examination in the autumn.".Take an examination of Zhongjuren first, pass a successful candidate in the imperial examinations again, win the imperial examinations, and seal three generations.. The court will decree that my mother be conferred the title of lady.Mother's grave can be brought into the ancestral grave of the Hong family, and the spirit tablets can also be worshipped in the ancestral hall.

Hong Yi opened a book and read two sentences, but in his heart he remembered his mother who died at the age of seven.

Before Hong Yi's mother married "Wu Wenhou", she was a famous talented woman in Yujing City, who was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.Poems and songs are full of literary grace, busking does not sell themselves, and Wu Wenhou in a hall meeting, singing poems and understanding.Later, she married into Hou Men.

Said to be a talented woman, in fact, is a brothel "cheap". After joining the rich and powerful family, the status is very low.

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What's more, when Hong Yi's mother married into the Hou family, Wu Wen Hou already had a wife, and she was a concubine.

Dagan Dynasty law, one wife, two wives, four concubines.The status of concubines was very low, and some rich and powerful families, nobles, and scholar-officials gave concubines to each other for fun.

Concubines were not allowed to sit down when they were eating, but had to stand like maidservants.

As the son of a concubine, Hong Yi had no right to inherit the title and property at all. The only way out is to pass the imperial examination.

Hong Yi also knew very well in his heart that if he could pass the Jinshi examination, he could not only break away from the Hou Fu and become an official.The most important thing is to add a "lady" status to the mother.

The Dagan Dynasty attached great importance to the imperial examination, and once it passed the imperial examination, it was possible to add three generations of titles.

The title of "Madam" is not simple. Now there are three ladies in Hou Fu.Hong Xuanji, the Marquis of Wenwu, made many great contributions, which was a special gift from the imperial court.

In general, among the rich and powerful nobles, only the first wife is the "lady".

Among the high officials and dignitaries, the court rewarded his wife as his wife, but the great honor was more benevolent than the promotion of rank.

"If I win the Jinshi, if I win the Jinshi, the court will give my mother the title of wife.".When the time comes, I don't know what kind of expression Mrs. Zhao will have in the main room?

Hong Yi murmured two sentences, "Mrs. Zhao, Mrs. Zhao.." There was a twinkle of hatred in his eyes.

Hong Yi will never forget the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet held in Hou Fu when he was just seven years old.When they were gathering together, their father and the guests read poems, and because their mother had spoken to each other, they were immediately scolded by Mrs. Zheng in public."They behave frivolously, do not observe women's morality, and do not change their brothel habits."

After returning that night, his mother was so angry that her blood stagnated, she vomited blood and hurt her body, and died of illness two months later.When she died of anger, her mother was only twenty-five years old.

"I'm almost ready for the exam after the spring, but I still have to figure it out."

Hong Yi thought in his heart, closed the theory of Jing Yi Ce, and opened a copy of Notes on the Thatched Cottage.

The cover of this book is very new, but the paper is very old. It is obviously an old book that no one reads.Because "Caotang Notes" is not the meaning of the classics, etiquette and law, policy theory of the scholar's scientific examination, but belongs to the absurd and uninhibited notes of gods and spirits.

Scholars do not say strange, force, chaos, God. This kind of book is not read by people who are preparing for the scientific examination.

But Hong Yi looked at it just to prepare for the scientific examination.

Because this book is a notebook of Li Yan, the former prime minister, which is about demons and ghosts, Taoists and immortals, gifted scholars and beauties, female immortals and fox immortals.

"Although this book is full of stories about gods, foxes, ghosts, gifted scholars, beauties, fairies and foxes, each of them is actually a fable."He was the prime minister of the last Dynasty and the founder of Li's school.

"Although Li Yan is now an ancient man, most of the officials born in the imperial examination are his students."The chief examiner who presided over the examination this time must also be a member of Li's school.Try to figure out the fable thought expressed by Li Yan with the help of foxes and ghosts, and cater to the taste of his disciples, it is bound to be high school.

"Those Zongxue scholars, even if they are excellent, only know how to study hard, but do not know that human feelings are sophisticated, that is, articles."Even if your paper is brilliant and out of step with the school of the examiner, it will certainly brush you down.

Before the examination, it is extremely important to try to figure out the school, ideas and preferences of the examiner.Although Hong Yi is young, his heart is bright.

"A good providence is the will of the people, so there is such an explanation."

Hong Yi suddenly saw a story, read it carefully, and was surprised.

The story goes like this:

When a daughter-in-law and mother-in-law were sleeping at night, the wall suddenly collapsed and the daughter-in-law slept inside.She supported the collapsed wall and let her mother-in-law escape, and she was crushed to death. After the daughter-in-law died, the mother-in-law was very sad.So the people in the village comforted her, saying that she had a dream that her daughter-in-law was named the city God by heaven.

At that time, Li Yan and a group of scholar-officials discussed this matter, and a group of scholar-officials thought that the filial piety of the daughter-in-law was good, but the language of the gods.It's all village talk.

However, Li Yan tried his best to overcome the public opinion, saying that the daughter-in-law was a deity, because in the book of sages and sages, there is a saying that "Heaven sees itself as the people see it."The people think that the daughter-in-law has become a God, that is, the will of heaven, so she has become a God.

The literati and officialdom all laughed at Li Yan for reading too much, but Li Yan said a great truth: "In fact, God is only the idea of human beings."The reason why the gods and Buddhas in the temple can appear repeatedly is that they have received people's incense offerings and beliefs.Originally, there were no gods in this world, but when more people believed in them, people's thoughts gathered together, and gods and Buddhas were born.It is also very simple to destroy the gods and Buddhas, as long as its temples are demolished so that people no longer believe in it and worship it with incense.It will disappear naturally.

One of the scholar-officials nodded his head and asked, "Destroy the temple of the gods and Buddhas so that people will no longer believe in it."What if the gods and Buddhas come down with retribution?

Li Yan added, "The sages and sages say that integrity and intelligence are gods, and that a scholar should be upright and strict in heart."Thoughts are naturally as powerful as gods. How can gods and Buddhas repay you?

"The scholar is upright and strict, and his thoughts are strong and pure, and he is close to the God of Yang in Taoism.".It is much more powerful than those Yin gods who can not appear, but can only rely on dreams and retribution.

When the literati and officialdom heard Li Yan speak with fervor and assurance, they all admired him, so they asked him about the Taoist practice of Tianxian Yangshen.

Li Yan said, "The spirit of Yin can shed its shell and travel. People can't see it. It's invisible and has no quality. It's a mass of souls. It can only rely on external objects to show the supernatural."Yang Shen, on the other hand, is no different from a living person. He manifests all kinds of Dharma forms, flies to heaven and escapes from the earth, and lives forever.

When the scholar-officials were about to ask further questions, Li Yan said with a straight face, "Scholars only talk about people's livelihood and government, benevolence, righteousness, propriety and law."The matter of gods and ghosts has been completely abandoned, and today has gone too far.

"There are no gods and Buddhas, but they are born out of people's thoughts and beliefs."?The book says, 'Heaven sees the people, Heaven listens to the people, and Heaven's will is the people's will.' Is there such an explanation?Upright and wise for God? Yin Shen and Yang Shen?

Hong Yi felt refreshed, and the story seemed to open a mysterious door for him.

Bang, bang, bang!

While Hong Yi was meditating, suddenly there was a knocking sound outside the door.

There was a knock on the door, but it was very loud, and it was kicking.

Hong Yi frowned and got up to open the door.