(Writing this chapter almost exhausted me to death. I’m not suitable for writing these things. I’m better at writing flirting and flirting. You can just make do with it. ps: Another big chapter with all kinds of shameless requests!)
Su Jin walked a few steps and followed the officials to the "Zhizhi Hall" where a bustling room of people with one or two hundred pairs of eyes looked at them, feeling a little embarrassed.
Cao Min bowed and said: "My lords, the table in the front row is filled with fragrant tea and a fruit plate. You can eat as you like."
Qi Shunbin frowned and said: "Professor Cao, who asked you to put out these fruit plates and tea? Don't you know that when Master Yan is lecturing, he dislikes people in the audience who are not attentive? Besides, how can you, sir, eat and drink without regard for dignity while listening to Master Yan's lectures?"
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Cao Min looked embarrassed and said hurriedly: "Yes, I didn't think carefully and so I withdrew."
Tang Jie waved his hand and said: "If you don't eat it, Master Cao is sincere in his hospitality. Speaking of which, I will disturb your academy by waiting for Master Suiyan to come."
Qi Shunbin said: "Just let it go as Master Tang said."
Cao Min looked at Tang Jie gratefully. Tang Jie smiled slightly and took his seat. Cao Min thought to himself: "The old guy is showing off the power of the mountain leader in front of everyone. This old and immortal man can't tell that he can still play this trick and wait."
We'll see."
Su Jin looked around to find a seat. The hall was too full. Not only the students from the academy, but also many celebrities and scholars from Yingtian Mansion were here. The whole hall was packed to the brim, and even the aisles were full of people sitting on the floor.
Su Jin scratched his head and was feeling worried when he suddenly saw a little crescent-like snow-white hand in the distance in the last row. He raised it and shook it. He looked at it and saw that it was Xia Silin. Xia Silin was waving her little hand to signal him to come over.
Without saying a word, Su Jin hurriedly squeezed through the aisle and said: "Excuse me, let me step on my hand."
The crowd in the aisle was so dense that there was almost no place to stand. Su Jin was careful and stepped on the flesh of many people along the way. Suddenly, everyone turned on their backs. Fortunately, there were all the officials gathered, and the people who were stepped on did not dare to say anything and cursed. They just sucked in the air-conditioning and gouged out their eyes.
Su Jin's stomach was full of curses.
After finally squeezing into the last row, Su Jin was sweating all over his forehead. Xia Silin stood up and moved a little bit. He patted the seat with his small hand and motioned for Su Jin to sit down. Su Jin was dumbfounded that such a small space was not available unless he had a pointed butt.
Otherwise, how can I sit down? This girl is so inconsiderate that she has no place to call. Do you think this section of the road is easy? It is comparable to climbing a snow-capped mountain and crossing a grassland.
But no matter what, she couldn't squeeze out any more. Su Jin raised her buttocks in aggrieved manner and sat down in the palm-sized gap. It was filled with people on both sides, and people on both sides squirmed and stared sideways.
Su Jin smiled apologetically and said softly: "Squeeze, it's not easy for you all."
A fair-faced scholar beside him shrank Su Jin's butt to the side in disdain, and then he sat down firmly. However, it was painful for Xia Silin that when Su Jin sat down, she forcibly moved her whole body several inches sideways, directly to the side.
Next to a dark and fat student; that student seemed to think Xia Silin smelled good and kept moving closer to her. Xia Silin finally had to sit half-ass on Su Jin's thigh.
Su Jin wanted to stop the man, but as soon as Xia Silin's soft ass touched her thigh, she immediately made a muffled sound and prayed in her heart that the fat black man would squeeze harder.
After finally settling down, I saw Qi Shunbin standing on the stone platform in front of me and starting to speak: "Dear students, today is the day when my academy will shine brightly. In response to the appointment of the old man, the three ministers of the Song Dynasty, the poet and poet Zhang Jujia and the backbone of the imperial court, Mr. Yan Tongshu
It is a great honor to come to our Yingtian Academy to give lectures and encourage you who are underachieving. We also have Lord Yin Tang of Yingtian Mansion, Lord Zhao, Deputy Envoy of the West Beijing Transport, Lord Yingtian Ti, Lord Luo, Minister of Ceremony, Lord Wai Lang Gou, Lord Judge of the Third Division, Lord Zheng, and others.
The presence of your lords is the icing on the cake; all students should remember that your lords are here today to give lectures, and you need to listen carefully to the teachings without your tireless efforts and support."
Everyone applauded enthusiastically. Su Jin stretched out his hand and slapped his elbow a few times, always hitting Xia Silin's body, making Xia Silin blush with embarrassment. Su Jin didn't dare to make any mistakes here, so he had to stop.
"Without further ado, Master Yan is now on stage to give a lecture. Everyone is listening attentively. Qi Shunbin cupped his fists and raised his palms towards the bamboo curtain on the side of the stage. When loud clapping broke out, the bamboo curtain was lifted, and Yan Shu, a chubby man in black robe and black beard, came to the stage with a happy face.
After the two of them saluted each other on the stage, Qi Shunbin walked off the stage and sat on a chair beside the stage. The hall was completely silent. Everyone stared at Yan Shu's every move. Yan Shu smiled slightly. He had seen too many such scenes and was not even the least bit nervous. He lifted his robe and sat at the table.
The chair behind him coughed lightly and said:
"You all, the future pillar of the Great Song Dynasty, I am Yan Shu. I believe that few of you here who have seen me imagined that I, Yan Shu, must be a majestic, tall, and handsome man. But today, when I saw you, you didn't expect that I, Yan Shu, was a fat man with an ordinary appearance.
I’m sorry to disappoint you all.”
Everyone burst into laughter, and all the nervousness in their hearts disappeared. Master Yan Shu couldn't help but look so friendly and talk so funny. Everyone couldn't help but get closer to him.
Su Jin secretly admired Yan Shu for not putting on airs in front of the students. Instead, he made fun of himself, which invisibly narrowed the distance between him and everyone. He was quite capable of giving a speech. It must have seen a lot of big scenes, so he was able to handle it with ease. Su Jin thought about it and saw it again.
Looking at Yan Shu's calm, kind and natural demeanor, I couldn't help but feel ashamed.
b When I was young, I never cared about the passage of time. One day, I will be in this old situation today. It is really a young man who doesn’t know what it is like to be sad. I sometimes think about the things I did when I was young, and I sigh to myself. "There is nothing I can do. The flowers have fallen and it seems like we have seen each other before. The swallows have returned." I can only be here.
The poem laments that time is fleeting and I am so envious when I see all of you being so energetic."
There was silence in the hall. Everyone listened to Yan Shu's analysis. Although they were overwhelmed with his mentality, they could vaguely feel Yan Shu's sigh from the heart, and they felt that Yan Shu was a human being and not the unattainable person as rumored.
"Today, at the invitation of Qi Weng, I came all the way from Bianliang. I don't have anything to teach you. I just want to talk to you as an old student. Since you can enter Yingtian Academy, you should be carefully selected from all over the country.
More than ten years ago, I took up the post of Yin Tianfu, and saw the academy develop and prosper under my eyes, and its reputation has risen to this day. Among them, several generations of famous teachers are indispensable, and countless students have worked hard to serve the imperial court as their duty.
His heart also contributed a lot.”
"Today, the country is governed by benevolence and righteousness. Although the affairs of the country are hard and complicated, how can we, the subjects, not share the worries of the court? An official must be diligent and love the people. A businessman must be light on profits and value righteousness. A worker must be attentive and careful. A farmer must return grains of rice to the warehouse.
Naturally, we who are scholars must obtain the books of the sages who have suffered, so that we can understand the principles and respect the way of Confucius and Mencius, and have a clear will and concentrate on it. No matter whether we stand in the court or go out in the mountains and fields, we must never forget the teachings of the sages. We should serve as a model for ourselves and others to benefit the common people.
A wise merchant who knows justice will be a great success."
Su Jin heard clearly that Yan Shu could put forward such a point of view. It was not easy for the scholar-bureaucrat class in the Song Dynasty, where being an official was the mainstream, to put forward the point of view that "after studying, using one's actions to radiate and educate others can be regarded as a success in life."
This needs to be awakened. Although it is not ruled out that Yan Shu, as a member of the ruling class, used such words to unite the scholars to consolidate imperial rule, the positive significance of this view is obvious.
It's a pity that few people in the hall understood it. Some even thought: "Master Yan, what's going on? Actually, he didn't mean to encourage us to strive for the first place in the gold list. He actually said that it doesn't matter whether we win or not. What's going on?"
Everyone in the audience had different expressions. Yan Shu naturally saw it clearly. It was enough to say these words to people who could understand. Yan Shu did not intend for everyone to accept them all, so he changed the subject and said with a smile:,
"These are just some of my humble opinions that I have been thinking about all day long. You can just listen to them without going into details. I would like to discuss with you some other topics that are relevant to you, such as the wind. This is related to the imperial examination, so I think you should be interested."
Everyone nodded repeatedly and were so anxious that they actually urged Yan Shu. This was considered to be the answer in their hearts. Yan Shu's attitude naturally represented the court's attitude in recruiting scholars. What kind of style is in line with the court's wishes is the key. Of course, he knows the best test questions.
But that's just a delusion.
Yan Shu reached out and took out a letter from his arms, raised his hand and said: "I have a letter here. The person who wrote the letter is your senior and was a student of Yingtian Academy. He also came to Yingtian Academy to give lectures. This person
This is Mr. Fan Xifan, who is currently recruiting for the post of deputy envoy for Shaanxi Economic Strategy of the Great Song Dynasty. This letter is the content of the letter he sent to me from the northwest border, not to mention the accompanying poem.
I want to tell you all."
After that, he opened the letter and took out the letter inside and read:
"Autumn comes and the scenery is different. The wild geese are leaving Hengyang without paying attention. There are sounds from all sides. The smoke is long and the sun is falling for thousands of miles. The lonely city is closed."
Earth. When people don’t sleep, the general’s hair turns gray and his husband sheds tears.”
It was Fan Zhongyan who wrote "The Proud Fisherman" in the northwest battlefield. Yan Shu smiled after finishing the poem and said: "Do you have any feelings when you listen to this poem? Do you feel that the style of lyrics is completely different from the lyrics written and sung by Ri Chang and others like me?"
different."
Everyone nodded and said it was Yan Shu and said with a smile: "After reading this poem, I have quite a realization. In this peaceful and prosperous world, the luxury style has gradually become more and more flashy. Most of the hundreds of poems I have written in my life are flashy works, which are similar to Master Fan's poems."
It is like a self-inflicted mutilation. The soldiers on the northwest frontier are dining in the wind, drinking in the snow, fighting in battle, and their armor is covered with frost. It is precisely because of this that Mr. Fan was able to write such powerful works and create a new style of poetry."
"After this poem was circulated among my colleagues, some people said that it was a poem about the poor leader. It means that as a military commander, instead of expressing the heroic and generous feelings, he writes about the desolate and melancholy scenes and the longing for home outside the Great Wall. This is inappropriate.
But in my opinion, this poem is just a piece of patriotism and concern for the people. Is this profound and powerful meaning something ordinary people can understand? Because of this, I once reported to the imperial examination that I should use this style of poetry as a reference.
Don't be deliberately thin and tough, but seek to have something to say, and abandon flashy things; the style of writing is naturally not limited to graceful, bold, fresh, elegant, vigorous, or tragic, but it must not be empty or boastful.
Even more so."
In Su Jin's impression, this Lord Yan Shu is a representative of the Huajian Graceful Leisure Sect, but he has never heard of this Lord admiring the pragmatic style so much. This is actually a denial of one's own self, which requires courage and is also a kind of
Progress is actually in Su Jin's heart. Yan Shu is one of the ancient poets who likes to think about life the most. This is probably why he dared to say these words so openly.
Yan Shu used this to give full play to his work, from words to poems to chapters, quoting scriptures and talking and laughing freely, from style to content, from content to national principles, and exhorted the students who were looking forward to it. The students were fascinated by it and sometimes interacted with each other, and the atmosphere was warm.
This lecture lasted for a full hour until the end. The students did not feel that the time was long at all, but felt a sense of dependence when it ended.
Su Jin was also deeply immersed in it. He was convinced but could not do it. Yan Shu is not a wasted name. He has profound thoughts, profound knowledge and unique views. What is rare is that he can explain the profound things in simple terms and rarely use exaggerated words. He is really the best in the world.dd