This time, when they went to the Xiaxian Lake Cultural Association, the four of them rode an ox cart, which was brought by Yun Jujue.
His family is the proprietor of the Banxian Restaurant in Kuangluo County. His children go to the provincial capital to take exams, so sending an ox cart is not a luxury.
The weather was nice today. While sitting on the bullock cart, a few people started reciting poems and composing poems.
Fang Xiaoyue became slightly calmer.
When he arrived at Zhexian Lake, he got off the bullock cart and couldn't help but take a long breath.
This Zhaxian Lake is truly well-deserved.
It covers an area of more than three hundred miles. The lakeside is covered with rows of willow trees. The water is clear and the surface is like a mirror. Boats and boats are wandering on the lake, adding a bit of beauty.
Qian Laipeng, a wealthy businessman in the provincial capital, was very meticulous in his work. He even sent a servant to greet him at the intersection.
When they saw Fang Xiaoyue and four others getting off the bullock cart, a young servant hurriedly ran over and said, "Several scholars, please come this way. The cultural gathering is held on that big boat."
Fang Xiaoyue thought that the scale of this literary meeting would not be very big.
Because no matter how big the boat is, it is limited. How many people can it accommodate?
But when they turned a corner by the lake and came to a bay, the eyes of Lei Wangcai and others widened.
Even Fang Xiaoyue couldn't help but say: "The boat is so big that it can't be accommodated at a glance."
Indeed, the size of the boat used by Qian Laipeng to hold cultural gatherings simply exceeded everyone's expectations.
It fell on the lakeside and looked larger than the nearby hill.
After everyone boarded the boat under the guidance of the servant, Fang Xiaoyue took a short look around and concluded that the boat could accommodate at least a thousand people to eat, drink, drink and play on it.
It can be said that if this boat is placed here, it is equivalent to a small island on the lake.
There are flowing seats on the boat that look like a buffet. Scholars can sit down at any time and enjoy eating and drinking.
Servants came and went in a hurry, serving dishes constantly.
People have to lament that there is really no place to spend this money from Lai Peng.
I won’t go into detail about this boat. After all, it is a private property and can be used for many years after it is built.
But providing food for three to four hundred scholars, hundreds of servants, drinks, etc. is a huge expense.
Fang Xiaoyue saw many scholars feasting there, as if they were reincarnated by starving ghosts.
Of course, he was not surprised by this.
Regardless of the scholar's high status in society, ordinary businessmen will be respectful to the scholar when they see him.
But most scholars are relatively poor.
The small amount of money and food distributed by the court was just enough for a family of three to maintain their household registration. It was impossible to eat one meal of meat a week.
In fact, according to what Fang Xiaoyue heard, among the scholars in Kuangluo County, there are some who have not eaten a meal of meat for half a year.
Therefore, it is not surprising that these scholars took advantage of the cultural gatherings held by wealthy businessmen to eat and drink in an effort to fill their hungry stomachs.
Fang Xiaoyue was also a little hungry at this time. Together with Lei Wangcai and others, they took the plates, picked up some hard vegetables, and found a small square table to sit around.
After eating for a while, someone appeared on the terrace on the second floor of Huafang and clapped his hands vigorously: "Dear scholars, my boss, Mr. Qian, would like to say a few words."
Lei Wangcai was quite familiar with Qian Laipeng's situation, so he introduced it while chewing on a piece of braised pig's trotters.
That was Qian Laipeng's butler, whose surname was Wang. The big fat man standing next to him was Qian Laipeng.
This is not surprising, there is no such thing as health and fitness these days.
Most wealthy businessmen love to eat and have no shortage of food, so most of them are obese.
On the contrary, those officials and officials pay more attention to health preservation, so they are thinner.
"You are all talented people in the imperial court, so I won't say any more nonsense. In this literary competition, the reward for winning the first place will be doubled! Even if you don't get any reward, I will give you a gift."
Qian Laipeng's words made the atmosphere of the cultural gathering become lively.
Some of the scholars gathered together and whispered, some stared at the lake and thought about something, and some cheered loudly.
To be honest, even if you are a scholar, your image is not very good after drinking alcohol.
Afterwards, the servants gave the scholars papers, pens, ink and inkstones.
Fang Xiaoyue sharpened some ink and tried the pen. She felt that the quality of the ink, paper and inkstone was good, and it was considered a high-quality product even in this provincial capital.
However, when he saw that Lei Wangcai and the others were not moving, he asked curiously.
Lei Wangcai smiled bitterly: "Brother Mingrui, I've seen your "Drinking Alone Under the Moon" before. With you here, I and the others won't be embarrassed."
This made Fang Xiaoyue think of it. After he was admitted as a scholar, he returned to Kuangluo County and was summoned by the county magistrate. At the banquet, he composed... well, he copied Li Bai's "Yue"
Drink alone.
He remembered that Lei Wangcai and the other two were not scholars in the same period as him and did not attend the banquet.
But now it seems that a masterpiece is a masterpiece.
I'm afraid this song "Drinking Alone Under the Moon" has spread among the scholars in the entire Kuangluo County. Otherwise, Lei Wangcai and others would not have said this.
Fang Xiaoyue smiled and shook her head. Anyway, with the poetry level of Lei Wangcai and others, it would be extremely difficult to win the top three in this literary competition. It is not wrong to say that it is not embarrassing.
Then he put pen to paper and wrote a poem about wine by Li Bai.
This is not because he was trying to pluck Li Bai's wool.
But Li Bai's poem is very suitable to be used in this place.
Besides, if a wealthy businessman like Qian can write a poem that will last forever at a literary conference, it will be very beneficial to the spread of his literary name.
Of course, in order to adapt to this world, Fang Xiaoyue will slightly modify some of the contents of the wine to avoid exposing flaws.
After writing this seven-character song, he picked up the teacup, smiled and asked Lei Wangcai and the other three people who were stunned at the sight: "Brother Lei, Brother Tang, and Brother Yun, can you still read this poem?"
"This poem is so good." After Lei Wangcai was asked, he just recovered from the shock of the poem and couldn't help but praise.
"Brother Lei, this poem is not only good, it is simply a quatrain on earth, written by an immortal in heaven."
Tang Wucheng was so excited that he could hardly speak clearly.
"If you don't see it, the Huanghe River comes up from the sky and rushes to the sea never to return. Just this sentence shows how heroic Brother Fang is."
Yun Jujue also looked shocked at this time and praised hurriedly.
This is not surprising. For scholars in this world, Li Bai's drinking wine is too lethal.
Soon, a servant came forward and handed Qian Laipeng a piece of white paper with this song about the wine in his hand.
As I said before, Qian Laipeng was born in Juren, so how could he not see the subtlety of this poem? After seeing this poem, he read it several times and was amazed.
He said: "This song alone will make people drink wine, and my name will be passed down through the ages!"
It's normal for Qian Laipeng to say this, because he organized this conference. If any famous poems come out of this conference, once it spreads, his name will be mentioned frequently.
But the most important thing is that Fang Xiaoyue changed a poem in it.
Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng, is about to drink wine, but don’t stop drinking.
This poem was changed to Qian Laipeng, Yue Yunfei, Ma Simu, the cup never stops.
Just this line of poetry made the three of them one of the greatest songs of all time. Whenever anyone talks about praising this poem in the future, their names will definitely be mentioned.
As Qian Laipeng said, my name will be passed down through the ages!
Then he passed the poem to the two officials next to him.
These two candidates were specially invited by Qian Laipeng to build momentum for the Zhuang Literary Society.
You must know that it is very difficult for ordinary businessmen to invite people to come.
If Qian Laipeng hadn't always been generous and cheerful, plus he was a Juren person and had good relations with these two Juren people, otherwise, it would have been impossible to invite them here.
The two juren next to me saw this song "Jian Jin Jiu", and they were all dumbfounded, feeling shocked and extremely happy.
Like Qian Laipeng, they also want to pursue literary fame.
What's more, Qian Laipeng doesn't want to take the scientific examination at all now, and they still want to be admitted to the Jinshi.
And if this poem spreads, it will definitely improve their literary reputation and even their literary style.
It goes without saying that the benefits are obvious.
Even so, they did not place this song "Jianjinjiu" at the top of the list.
After all, there are still so many talented people who have not yet submitted their poems, so it is decided now that there is suspicion of shady involvement.
Of course, in their hearts, it is impossible for poems like "Jinjinjiujiu" to appear here again, and the scholars below who are shaking their heads are all doing useless work.
They didn't stand a chance at all.
As time passed, more and more scholars sent their poems to the servants to the second floor.
Some scholars exhaust their brains and compose poems on the spot.
Some scholars knew that the cultural conference was going to be held early, and made preparations to become famous in today's cultural conference.
As I said before, in this world, there is not only the dragon spirit gathered by all human beings, but also the cultural spirit.
And if you can become famous in such a literary gathering, you will definitely gather a lot of literary spirit.
As for the benefits of gathering literary spirit, there are the following points.
One is that the more literary spirit you gather, the faster your progress in learning will be.
Fang Xiaoyue has already confirmed this.
In fact, after being admitted as a scholar and gathering a lot of literary talent, the speed at which his skills gain experience also increases.
It's just that after the skill level is upgraded, more experience is required, so the speed of level up is not faster than before.
The second is that Wen Qi can withstand the harm of evil spirits and counterattack evil spirits.
The third is that literati who gather more literary spirit are more likely to win the favor and trust of others.
This is the main reason why candidates with high literary standards are more likely to pass the provincial examination and the general examination.
And this literary spirit cannot be faked. To put it bluntly, literary spirit is the embodiment of knowledge, poetry, talent, etc.
Under such circumstances, the efficiency of appointing officials in Daze Kingdom was actually higher than that in ancient times in Fang Xiaoyue's original world.
Of course, if there is any malpractice for personal gain, that is another matter.
After being reminded by the servants that no scholar would write poetry anymore, Yue Yunfei, an invited scholar, stood at the railing on the second floor: "Gentlemen, after judging by me and others, the top three have come out.
. Now please ask Mr. Qian to announce the list!"
Suddenly all the scholars' eyes were focused on it.
Although not every scholar participated, even those who did not write poems wanted to know who had won the top three.
You know, there are quite a lot of scholars on board this painting boat, nearly four hundred.
You should know that there are only more than 2,000 scholars in Shannan Province who take part in the provincial examination every year, and one-fifth of them gather here.
In such a literary competition, the reputation of the top three is also quite high, no less than the reputation gained by winning the examination, or even higher.
Soon, Qian Laipeng stood up and announced the top three in his slightly deep voice.
Among them, Fang Mingrui from Kuangluo County ranks first!
Especially in order to prevent anyone from saying dirty things, another candidate, Ma Simu, also personally read out all the poems that won the top three places.
At this time, anyone who has some self-awareness or some cultural literacy knows that Fang Mingrui from Kuangluo County deserves the first place.
If the second and third place poems were placed in other literary conferences, they would definitely be considered good poems.
But here, when compared with "Jianjinjiu", anyone can feel how big the gap between them is.
If the second and third place poems can be awarded 80 points, then "About Wine" can be awarded 150 points, or even 200 points.
If the second and third place poems can make people feel good, then after listening to "Will Enter the Wine", it will make people have the urge to drink wine.
Especially the line about the five-flowered horse and the golden fur, the call will be exchanged for fine wine, and the eternal sorrow will be sold with you. What a heroic momentum.
Afterwards, many scholars picked up their writing brushes and copied the poem "I will drink wine" on paper.
For literati, there is nothing more exciting than hearing a good poem that can be said to be an eternal masterpiece.
If anything, it can be compared with an article that can be called an eternal masterpiece.
In fact, from this moment on, Fang Xiaoyue saw traces of white aura from all around, converging towards herself.
After being invited to the second floor and taking a red paper envelope from Qian Laipeng's hand, Fang Xiaoyue opened it and couldn't help but be a little surprised.
This red paper envelope is light and fluffy, and there must be a banknote inside.
Five or six hundred years ago, there was talk of silver notes in Daze Country.
After hundreds of years of development, Daze Country's banks have developed banknotes quite perfectly.
Especially after Daze Kingdom brought the issuance of banknotes under the management of the imperial court more than a hundred years ago, due to the existence of dragon energy, literary energy, Taoism, and demon energy in this world, the various banknotes issued now are kept secret.
The methods, various anti-camouflage methods, are actually no less than the modern banknotes in Fang Xiaoyue's original world, and are even much superior.
It's just that Fang Xiaoyue had no money before, so she didn't have access to high-end products like banknotes.
After all, the lowest denomination of a banknote is one tael of silver, and the highest is one hundred taels of silver.
Ordinary people, even if they have a few taels of silver saved in their hands, it is impossible for them to go to a bank and exchange it for banknotes.
Because you have to deduct the fire cost when converting silver into banknotes, and a banknote is always just a piece of paper. Before your wealth reaches a certain level, you will always feel light and light holding a banknote in your hand, and you are afraid that the banknote will turn into a piece of white paper.