Chapter 1573 , Dao Bing Kungfu Art of Shaking the Sky Sword
However, Fang Xiaoyue's efforts were not in vain. He used soul calculations to develop a set of techniques.
Of course, compared to Wuqu Zhuang and Wuqu Jianjue, this set of exercises is much different.
The difference between this technique and Wuqu Zhuang and Wuqu Jianjue is that their upper limits are relatively low.
But its advantage is that it can be practiced quickly.
Such exercises are basically regarded as Tao-protecting exercises or Taoist exercises in those immortal and spiritual sects.
To put it bluntly, this type of technique is used to form Taoist soldiers to protect the sect. Therefore, its upper limit is low, but its cultivation speed is fast.
Fang Xiaoyue also needs such Taoist skills to build her own strength.
But if you take out Wuqu Zhuang and Wuqu Sword Jue, even if you have a genius who can practice it, the speed of practice will be very slow, which is completely incomparable with this kind of Taoist martial arts.
What's more, one advantage of this type of Taoist martial arts is that the pile skills and sword skills are integrated into one.
Fang Xiaoyue named this technique the Shocking Sword Technique.
Well, a name that will make people complain to the extreme in the Internet age.
But when Fang Xiaoyue taught Zhang Yuanming this Heaven-shaking Knife Technique, just by saying its name, Zhang Yuanming felt that this technique was so powerful that once the sword was struck, it would make the gods cry and ghosts cry.
As mentioned before, this skill is a combination of pile skills and sword skills, so when practicing sword skills, you also practice pile skills.
This is also one of the main reasons why cultivation speed is so fast.
However, Fang Xiaoyue did not bring a knife with her when she went to Beijing this time, so she had to ask Zhang Yuanming to go to the ship's kitchen to borrow a fish-killing knife, and then began to teach Zhang Yuanming this powerful knife technique.
The fish-killing knife is also a knife. At this time, Zhang Yuanming has not yet started, so it will not affect anything if he uses it to do some basic training.
But after getting started, the fish-killing knife is not suitable for practicing.
So when passing through a city, Fang Xiaoyue said hello to the boat owner while the boat owner got off the boat and went to the dock to buy rice, noodles and seasonings, and then got off the boat with Zhang Yuanming to buy knives.
As I said before, private purchase, manufacture and collection of items such as armor, leather armor and even crossbows are prohibited.
However, private trade in weapons such as swords, guns, swords and halberds is not prohibited.
However, since iron itself is relatively expensive here, ordinary people generally cannot buy the weapons carefully crafted by blacksmiths.
Only those wandering knights, relatively wealthy businessmen, landlords, etc. would purchase these weapons privately.
Therefore, in most blacksmith shops, making weapons is a high-end service, and what they sell daily are farm tools such as sickles, hoes, kitchen knives, etc. used by ordinary people.
So when Fang Xiaoyue came to a Zhou's blacksmith shop and asked to see the weapons made by this blacksmith shop, the owner of the blacksmith shop was very enthusiastic and took out a lot of weapons and introduced them.
In the end, Fang Xiaoyue chose a thick-backed long knife for Zhang Yuanming.
This thick-backed long knife is somewhat similar to the Miao knife in Fang Xiaoyue's original world, which is about 1.78 meters long. Since the thickness of the back of the knife reaches one centimeter, it looks a bit like an extended version of the bone chopping knife.
Of course, this is also true. The price of this thick-backed long knife is not cheap, it costs a full twenty taels of silver...
In response, Fang Xiaoyue paid the money directly without any bargaining.
Of course, this is mainly because the quality of the knife is good enough.
This thick-backed long knife is actually very suitable for Zhang Yuanming to use.
Because Zhang Yuanming was born tall and strong-boned, he is now 1.87 meters tall, and he is still growing.
If you use this sword to practice the Sky-shattering Sword Art, its body shape and bones will further accelerate growth, and after practicing the sword art, you will have greater strength when facing heavily armored enemies and larger numbers of miscellaneous soldiers.
Big advantage.
Compared to Fang Xiaoyue who was calm and relaxed when paying, Zhang Yuanming was shaking with pain all the way back to the dock.
You can't blame him for feeling sorry for money.
However, for most people, 20 taels of silver is not a small amount of money. Using it to buy a knife is really a waste in Zhang Yuanming's opinion.
Isn’t it okay to just buy a five-tael piece of silver for practicing swordsmanship? Do you have to buy something so expensive?
Of course, when he returned to the ship and started practicing the sword on the deck, Zhang Yuanming felt that the sword was really fragrant again.
Perhaps Zhang Yuanming was born with a talent for practicing swordsmanship. He mastered the Sky-shattering Sword Technique in just over a day on the boat.
A lot of people were attracted to the sudden appearance of someone on the ship wielding a knife and a gun on the deck.
However, Fang Xiaoyue is not worried at all that someone can secretly learn the Sky-shattering Sword Technique.
After all, the key to the Sky-shattering Sword Technique he has researched does not lie in the few routines displayed on the outside, but in the mental formula for the transformation of Qi and blood.
The power of this set of sword tactics is that it can continuously enhance the qi and blood in the body, and the enhanced qi and blood can strengthen the power of the sword tactics.
By the time the ship docked at Dadong Wharf outside the capital, and Fang Xiaoyue took Zhang Yuanming off the ship, Zhang Yuanming had already begun to master the Sky-shattering Sword Technique.
In just twenty days, you can practice it to the point of initial success. This shows that this Taoist martial arts method is indeed a quick success method.
Of course, there is also a reason why this exercise is particularly suitable for Zhang Yuanming. After all, when he first developed this exercise, Fang Xiaoyue studied it based on Zhang Yuanming's body.
When they arrived in the capital, Zhang Yuanming, who was carrying a thick sword behind him, couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the majestic and prosperous city.
The capital of Daze Kingdom covers an area of more than 50 square kilometers, and has a population of 1.3 million people living in it.
How could Zhang Yuanming, who came from a small county town, not be shocked when he saw such a prosperous city?
The examination will begin in half a month.
At this time, the capital was already crowded with Juren students from all over the Daze Kingdom.
After Fang Xiaoyue and Zhang Yuanming inquired at more than ten inns, they finally found an empty room to stay in.
After all this tossing, even Zhang Yuanming, who had abundant energy and blood after practicing the Sky-shattering Sword Technique, was tired, so he went to bed and fell asleep.
On the contrary, Fang Xiaoyue spread out the paper on the desk and wrote a four-part essay as a daily practice before going to bed.
After getting up and having breakfast the next morning, Fang Xiaoyue went to the Rites Yamen and applied for her qualifications to take the college entrance examination.
Qualifications are also required to participate in the college entrance examination. If you do not apply yourself, then even if you are a candidate, you will not be qualified to participate in the college entrance examination...
After obtaining the qualification for the college entrance examination, Fang Xiaoyue had finished all the important things after coming to Beijing, and the next step was to wait to take the college entrance examination.
This also made Fang Xiaoyue feel slightly relieved.
After all, I was here, and if I failed to take the exam due to qualification issues, I would probably vomit blood.
It should be said that in this capital city, everyone gathered together, which also led to frequent cultural gatherings.
Even Fang Xiaoyue originally planned to use the time before the college entrance examination to improve her skills as much as possible, but in the next few days, people came to visit her every day.
Of course, they may not know that the Fang Juren in front of them is the Fang Mingrui who wrote the famous novel and was going to drink. Therefore, after Fang Xiaoyue declined, they left honestly. However, no one relied on their status as a Juren to show off their power in front of Fang Xiaoyue.
After all, everyone is a noble person, and no one needs to be more noble.
By the time she arrived in the capital, Fang Xiaoyue had already upgraded her various skills to: Level 18 of the Four Books and Five Classics, Level 20 of Poetry, Level 19 of the Four Books, Level 16 of Calligraphy, Level 8 of Wuqu Zhuan, and Level 9 of Wuqu Jianjue.
In this world, skill level 20 is not the peak, and you can still advance to a higher level.
But at this time, Fang Xiaoyue can also feel that after the poetry reaches level 20, if you want to continue to improve, it is like there is a thick film on it.
If she wants to pierce this thin film and advance to poetry level 21, Fang Xiaoyue feels that she can't do it now.
But poetry level 20 is quite high in this world.
draw.
With the support of such a skill level, even if Fang Xiaoyue writes poems and lyrics by herself, her level of performance is definitely not comparable to that of those scholars.
Fang Xiaoyue is planning to try to upgrade the Four Writings to level 20 before the general examination. In that case, there will be basically no surprises during the general examination.
Of course, if the examiner has any objections to him, there is nothing he can do about it.
Because of this, even though some fellow villagers heard that he lived here and invited him to attend certain cultural gatherings several times, he declined them all.
For the next half month, he and Zhang Yuanming squatted in the inn without going out.
Since he had enough money, Fang Xiaoyue did not feel uncomfortable staying in a hotel in the capital, and chose a small courtyard with a Tianzihao.
This famous courtyard is on the first floor of the inn. Not only the guest rooms are spacious, but there is also a small courtyard at the back with stone tables and benches and big trees for shade, where you can play chess and drink tea.
While he was practicing calligraphy and writing Si Shuwen, Zhang Yuanming was setting up a knife rest and standing on a knife pile in the small courtyard behind the guest room, and no one came back to disturb him.
Half a month later, before the college entrance examination started, he finally improved his four calligraphy skills to level 20 and calligraphy to level 19.
As for Wuqu Zhuang, it has reached level 9, while Wuqu Sword Technique has reached level 10.
In the early morning, Fang Xiaoyue got up early, and Zhang Yuanming went to the inn kitchen to pick up the wheat cakes he had ordered in advance.
There is a row of carriages parked outside the inn, which have been reserved by the candidates in advance.
Considering that the inn was far away from the examination center, Fang Xiaoyue had no choice but to order one.
Arriving at the examination center in a carriage, Fang Xiaoyue faintly felt a majestic momentum pressing down on her as soon as she got off the carriage.
Groups of forbidden troops stood outside the examination hall...
These forbidden troops can be called the most elite soldiers in the Daze Kingdom.
The next most elite ones are the border troops stationed in the northwest and other places. The county soldiers are worse than the border troops. The county soldiers are the worst among the regular armed forces of Daze Kingdom.
The Forbidden Army is not like everyone imagines, they only know about training but not actual combat.
All Forbidden Army soldiers are drawn from the elite of the border army, and they need to serve in the Forbidden Army for more than five years.
Compared with other armies, the Imperial Guard is an army directly subordinate to the emperor.
Their main job is to guard the palace and the emperor's guard when he is on tour.
After withdrawing from the Forbidden Army, they will be assigned to serve as grassroots officers in the border army and county soldiers in various places.
In fact, many senior generals in the border army and even the county army were promoted from the Forbidden Army soldiers.
This invisibly strengthened the imperial power's control over military power.
Of course, it can also be seen from this how much the emperor attached importance to the examination.
The chief examiner, deputy examiners and other officials for this session's examination have already entered the examination room and taken their places early.
Candidates also came one after another from all over the capital and lined up outside the examination center, waiting to enter.
Fang Xiaoyue got off the carriage and asked Zhang Yuanming to ride back in the carriage.
After all, compared to the provincial examination, the examination lasts for three days, so there is no need to wait outside.
However, the number of candidates for the general examination is no less than that of the provincial examination.
To put it simply, in addition to candidates from various provinces, candidates who are qualified to take the examination also have supervisors from the Imperial College.
The status of this Imperial College in Daze Country is almost equal to that of Fang Xiaoyue's original university in the world. The professors in it are all famous Confucian students in Daze Country, and there are even several great Confucian scholars.
The graduates of the Imperial College come from several sources.
One is the scholar. On the surface, a scholar can enter the Imperial College through being recommended by a great Confucian scholar, local emperor, or even the government. But in fact, it is a shortcut for rich children to avoid the provincial examination and take the national examination, and they need to pay money.
Of course, this tuition fee is not within the reach of ordinary people.
The minimum is 200 taels a year, and the maximum is over a thousand taels.
It mainly depends on the identity of the recommender.
Of course, there are also those who are not scholars, but their families have donated enough money to enter the Imperial Academy.
Therefore, this kind of prison birth is also called donated prison.
The second type is the Yin Prison. Most of them are favored by their fathers who were officials, and they also received the favor of the court after their fathers died in office. They are called Nanyin. This kind of prison students can take part in the examination without even being admitted as a scholar. In fact,
It's because they took advantage of their parents.
The third type is to be imprisoned.
Anyone who fails the National Examination can apply to study in the Imperial College, wait for the National Examination in three years, and improve themselves at the same time.
Hence it is called Jujian.
Of course, Imperial Examiners are already qualified to participate in the examination, but they also have to pay a certain amount of tuition to enter the Imperial College. However, in order to get better instruction and make some connections, after each examination, many Imperial Examinations will enter.
Studying at the Imperial College.
Daze Kingdom has a total of forty-eight provinces. From these provinces alone, more than 3,000 candidates came to Beijing to take the examination. In addition, there were more than 1,000 candidates from the Imperial College, so the number of candidates for this session reached 5,000.
Fang Xiaoyue stood in the queue and couldn't help but sigh in her heart when she looked at the densely packed lines of candidates in several aisles.
There are more than 5,000 candidates, but because Daze Kingdom has been at peace for more than two hundred years, the official positions at the top and bottom have long been filled, and there are very few official positions that are vacated every year.
Therefore, in these years of examinations, the admission quota for each session has basically fluctuated between 40-50 people.
In some years, the admission quota for the general examination is only about 30 people.
Of course, this is also the main reason why in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, people could be promoted to high-ranking officials of the third rank, but now the upper limit of official promotion is firmly locked at the seventh-rank.