288, Who is the Great Tang Sword Saint Pei Min and Shushan Sword Saint
The stands of the Forbidden Military Academy, under the canopy.
Li Dan, Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty, who was sitting on the throne, could not hide the excitement in his chest. He was the number one scholar in Jinshi and now had such achievements in martial arts. He was regarded as a hero of the Tang Dynasty. It was an auspicious sign. He took a deep breath and said: "Xia Gui"
Bai's son is so brave and brave, so he deserves to be rewarded. I want to reward him with ten thousand gold, but I don't know what Taiping thinks?"
He looked at Princess Taiping, who was sitting on the left side of the throne, and asked.
"In the past martial arts examinations, the late emperor often rewarded people with amazing martial arts skills..."
"The new number one scholar has such courage, Your Majesty should reward him."
Wearing a flowing bun, various kinds of pearls in her hair, light pink plum blossoms on her eyebrows, her pink breasts half-covered, dressed like a noble lady, the half-aged Princess Taiping covered her mouth and chuckled, and replied
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In the past, when taking martial arts exams at the school, the emperor would routinely reward candidates who met with amazing martial arts skills. What's more, for a person with the status of the new champion, who has shown great skills in martial arts, it would be unreasonable not to reward them.
"What do you think of Saburo?"
Li Dan looked at Prince Li Longji on the right and asked.
"Whenever the prime minister plays an important role, he always asks: 'Do you want to discuss it with Taiping?' He also asks: 'Do you want to discuss it with Sanlang?', and then he can do it." - "Zizhi Tongjian"
Li Longji was not the eldest son, but the third among Li Dan's descendants, so he was called Sanlang.
It stands to reason that it is only a reward for a candidate, and Li Dan would not make such a gesture, but whoever allows this candidate to get too close to Princess Jinxian, and to get too close to Princess Jinxian means that he will get very close to Prince Li Longji
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But encountering such an amazing scene of martial arts...,
If there are no regular rewards.
It is inevitable that the ministers and candidates will slander him and think that the emperor is a miser because of his kindness.
Although it is said that thunder, rain and dew are all the kindness of the king, this is just a sentence. If you really do this, there will definitely be resentment among the ministers.
"My father has made his own decision, and my sons and ministers dare not say anything."
Li Longji replied.
Seeing that the two people in power had no objections, Li Dan nodded and asked the eunuch beside him to step forward and pronounce the edict.
Immediately, the eunuch came down from the stand, followed by the young eunuch. The eunuch held a wooden case and a wooden saddle filled with thousands of gold.
Ten thousand newly minted, brand new, yellow-orange copper coins.
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."
"I am wearing armor and it is inconvenient for me to salute. Please don't blame me, Your Majesty."
Bai Gui rode on his horse, bowed his hands to the eunuch who was delivering the order, and said.
"This is a trivial matter. The champion doesn't need to be polite."
"Now that the No. 1 scholar has received his reward, the Za family will leave now and go to reply to the saint."
The eunuch returned the favor and said politely.
He was issuing an edict on behalf of the emperor, so what Bai Gui just said was to the emperor Li Dan, not to him. Although he had a good status in the palace, the emperor was weak and not even the eunuchs were there.
Why did Rong Gui become so famous, so he didn't dare to offend Bai Gui, a very popular figure now?
It is impossible for such a person to not be valued by the powerful people in the dynasty if he is ranked first in the Jinshi department and in the martial arts department.
"Thank you very much, father-in-law."
Bai Gui nodded and continued to sit on the horse.
It was said that he was receiving a reward, but it was impossible for him to collect the ten thousand gold in person now. It was just a gesture from the emperor to encourage these martial arts candidates to continue to achieve good results in the competition.
After the eunuch left, the chief examiner of the Yulin Military Academy held an order flag in his hand.
Swing hard.
The soldiers blew their horns.
A group of martial arts candidates gallop and shoot arrows.
This is horse shooting!
collapse!
Bai Gui took off the riding bow and the arrows from the quiver from his back, stretched them like a full moon, tightened his legs on the saddle to prevent it from falling off, charged forward with force, showing off his riding and archery skills, and fired the bow continuously.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
One after another, feathered arrows came out of his hand and hit the target.
"Qingzhou Fan Ziyi, he shot eight arrows in ten breaths, and four of them hit the target, so he failed!"
"Dingzhou Palace, I shot thirteen arrows in ten breaths, and six of them hit the target. Their scores are average and they can enter the next exam."
"..."
"Huazhou Baigui, he shot twenty-one arrows in ten breaths, and all of them hit the target. His results are top-notch. His archery skills are excellent. He scored well in both competitions. He can be included in the selection of the martial arts examination."
"..."
"Pei Min from Yanzhou shot twenty-seven arrows in ten breaths. All of them hit the target. His grades are above average. His archery skills are excellent and he can enter the next exam."
"..."
The examiners were thinking about the results of the riding and shooting competition just now.
Use ten breaths to record and shoot arrows while riding a horse.
If a person is not proficient in equestrian skills, let alone archery, it is considered good if he does not fall off the horse. In this competition, only those who are proficient in equestrian skills and good at riding can achieve good results.
If you are proficient in equestrian skills, you can shoot arrows continuously within ten breaths.
However, if your equestrian skills are a little poor and you constantly adjust your posture, you will delay the opportunity to shoot and waste time. Even if the arrows you shoot hit a lot of targets, your results will not be excellent.
"Pei Min, the Sword Saint of the Tang Dynasty?"
"I didn't expect that he would also be in this martial arts exam..."
Bai Gui originally trusted the reins, and after shooting the arrows, he rested his mind and prepared for the next exam, but unexpectedly he heard a familiar name, Yanzhou Pei Min.
The surname Pei is not considered a common surname among the population, but among aristocratic families, it is a well-known one.
Ninety percent of those with the surname Pei and the money to practice martial arts are Wenxi Pei, and Yanzhou is Pei Min's hometown, so Bai Gui can roughly guess it just from "Yanzhou Pei Min".
This is Sword Master Pei Min!
In this era, aristocratic families all had genealogies. Every once in a while, the Guibai family in Huazhou would go to Jinyang to compile their family trees. If they had any heirs, they would be ranked in the family.
For example, his descendants Bai Juyi and Bai Xingjian.
In "The Tomb Slips of Bai Xing, the Doctor of the Shanbu Department", it is said that "The twenty-second brother Juyi asked the common people to pay tribute to the spirit of the twenty-third brother of the doctor who knew he had retired."
Bai Juyi claimed to be the twenty-second brother, and Bai Xingjian was the twenty-third brother. It does not mean that his father Bai Jigeng really gave birth to so many sons, but this is the ranking of the Bai clan in Jinyang. The two of them are in this
They are ranked twenty-second and twenty-third respectively in their generation.
"I wonder which sword master is more powerful, Pei Min, or the sword master from Shushan?"
"It is said in "Duyi Zhi" that Pei Min threw his sword into the clouds, which was dozens of feet high. If the electric light was shot down, Min held the sheath in his hand, and the sword came into the air. Thousands of people watching were all shocked.
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"Shoot thirty-one tigers in one day..."
"No wonder he beat me in mounted archery. Although I practice archery all the time, some of my time is also spent on practicing spear skills. How could a native of the Tang Dynasty like Pei Min have better shooting skills?"
He thought.
But now he is in the martial arts examination, side by side with Pei Min. Although he really wants to meet the swordsman of the Tang Dynasty, unless he is placed in the stands and overlooks the entire Forbidden Army campus, everyone is wearing bright light armor, and it is really difficult to tell them apart.
Who is Pei Min?
In the next few exams, including long stacks, high passes, etc., Bai Gui passed them one by one without exception.
In the martial arts examination, there is nothing to hide your skills. The more powerful you are, the more benefits you have, and there is almost no danger. This is different from the Jinshi examination. In the Jinshi examination, you can easily offend people by showing your sharp words, but this is not the case in the martial arts examination.
Don't worry anymore.
The one-day competition ended in a short and hasty manner.
In this martial arts competition, less than thirty martial arts scholars were selected, which was about the same number as the number admitted to the Jinshi program.
Not surprisingly, Bai Gui ranked first among the martial arts scholars.
Although there were people like Pei Min accompanying him in this martial arts examination, even though Pei Min came from a wealthy family like the Wenxi Pei family, he was similar to the Gui Bai family. He was not in his ancestral place, but In Yanzhou, he was considered a poor man and had no connections. However, Bai Gui had the honor of being the top scholar in Wen and Li Dan. Li Dan also wanted to get it together. If the top scholar in Wen and Wu appeared when he was emperor, he would also think it would be a pleasure. Elegant deeds passed down to later generations.
In fact, although Bai Gui was slightly inferior to Pei Min in the archery test, Pei Min was not as strong as him. In the high-level test, Bai Gui was able to carry the cauldron and directly won the applause of the whole house. His performance was even higher than that of Pei Min. Better.
Therefore, the title of No. 1 Scholar in Civil and Military Sciences naturally fell to Bai Gui. Originally, there was no such title as No. 1 Scholar in Military Affairs in the Tang Dynasty, but when Bai Gui was admitted to the Shishi Department, he was ranked No. 1 in both martial arts subjects. born,
"Carrying the cauldron at high altitude, shooting pots with skill." - Zuo Si's "Wu Du Fu"
Qiaoguan is a weightlifting event in martial arts in the Tang Dynasty.
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In the evening, dinner at the palace.
Located in Penglai Palace and Linde Palace.
(That is, Daming Palace, which was changed to Daming Palace and Penglai Palace during Emperor Gaozong's reign.)
There were three major palaces in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, also known as the Three Great Inner Palaces, namely Daming Palace, Taiji Palace, and Xingqing Palace.
The name of the Daming Palace comes from the "Da Ming Chapter" in "The Book of Songs·Daya", "King Wen had a bright virtue, so Heaven restored King Wu. King Wen and King Wu succeeded each other, and their bright virtues became more and more extensive, so it is called Daming."
Penglai Palace means the palace where immortals live.
Bai Gui, as the number one scholar in both civil and military affairs, was given a special banquet by Li Dan.
As for other Jinshi subjects and martial arts candidates, they did not have such good treatment and could only raise their own money to eat in restaurants.
The Qujiang Banquet was only established during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, specifically to give banquets to new scholars. Therefore, there are no such things as the Qujiang Banquet, Qionglin Banquet, and Luming Banquet.
Bai Gui was led by the female official and walked through the various pavilions.
He had no squinting eyes, walked calmly, and looked leisurely and leisurely.
Don't dare to look around. In the early Tang Dynasty, the attire of the court ladies was all chest-length skirts and tube tops, which were a bit too dazzling.
When she reached the remote seat at the banquet, the female officer paused.
"No. 1 Scholar, this is your seat."
The female officer Yingying bowed and said with a smile.
"Thank you Liu Shangshi."
Bai Gui withdrew his gaze, bowed slightly and showed courtesy.
Then lift the front swing.
He sat on the stool behind the dining table.
There were six bureaus and twelve departments in the harem of the Tang Dynasty, and the six bureaus were all of the fifth rank, namely Shang Gong, Shang Yi, Shang Fu, Shang Food, Shang Bed, and Shang Gong.
He has not yet passed the civil service examination. Only after passing the civil service examination can he be conferred an official title to the new Jinshi. In the past, many people who passed the examination failed to pass the civil service examination. Even if they are awarded an official, the highest award for a Jinshi is It will not exceed the fifth level.
Not to mention... female officials in the palace may not necessarily become the emperor's concubines at any time. Shangguan Wan'er was the concubine of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian.
"Sure enough, this is a special banquet. It's so remote..."
After Bai Gui sat down, he took time to look at the layout of Linde Hall.
Linde Hall was a place dedicated to holding banquets and watching performances in the Tang Dynasty.
At this banquet, he was almost among the top five people who attended the banquet. After all, the bigger the boss, the more likely he would be late. And those who could be invited to the banquet, except him, were all big bosses in the court, at least not lower than the fifth rank, and no one was invited to the banquet. Meet an official in green robe.
Seasonal vegetables and dried fruits on the dining table.
Tang Dynasty has a meal-sharing system.
He ate and waited. About a quarter of an hour later, officials came in one after another from outside the palace.
The last ones to enter were Li Dan and the prime minister of Zhengshitang.
"How can we let the new top scholar to be ranked last?"
"Come, give me a banquet in front of the palace."
Just when Bai Gui thought the banquet was about to start, a voice came from the depths of Linde Hall, and then he was taken by a group of female officials and eunuchs to the dining table where the royal dignitaries were sitting on the left side of the hall.
Set up another case and ask him to sit down.
"I am the number one scholar in a new subject. In order to show his reputation for treating wise men favorably, the emperor often treats the number one scholar in a new subject favorably..."
"Well, on the right side of the palace are the prime ministers of the Political Hall. It is impossible for a junior like me to be at the head of so many high-ranking officials. If I do this, I will be flattered and killed. Therefore... it seems reasonable to sit next to this group of princesses and princes...
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Bai Gui frowned slightly. He looked to the left and saw the stunningly beautiful Princess Yuzhen. When he looked to the right, he saw the petite and lovely Princess Jinxian. They were both dressed in female crowns, making others envious.