"Okay! Well said!" After hearing Lu Chen's words, Li Daozong slapped the armrest of the chair and said with passion in his eyes, "I believe what Brother Lu said! I am waiting to see Lu in Lingzhou. The day that brother mentioned is coming!" Li Daozong's fiery eyes were also cast outside the front hall door.
"Your Majesty, I won't be staying at my house for long. I have to go back to Lujiazhuang to make some preparations for the banquet in two days!" Lu Chen stood up and said to Li Daozong, cupping his hands.
"Since Brother Lu is in a hurry to go back, I won't stay much longer. Please forgive me for not being far away!" Li Daozong stood up and sent Lu Chen to the door of the front hall. He followed the butler Fan Lin to greet him. After giving Lu Chen a gift, he prepared Lead Lu Chen towards the gate of the palace.
Lu Chen, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and looked back at Li Daozong.
"Brother Lu, is there anything else?" Seeing Lu Chen suddenly stop and turn to look at him, Li Daozong asked in confusion.
Lu Chen suddenly remembered something. The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was divided into six subjects, including Xiucai, Jinshi, Mingjing, Mingfa, Mingzi and Mingshu. The Xiucai subject was the most difficult, basically every time It would be good if one or two people can win the exam. Unless students are particularly confident about themselves, they will only apply for the scholar exam. Basically, they take the Ming Jing exam and the Jinshi exam, especially the Ming Jing exam.
The Jinshi subject is second only to the Xiucai subject in difficulty. It is divided into three contents. The first is "Tie Jing", which is somewhat similar to modern dictation and fill-in-the-blank questions. It mainly tests the familiarity with the scriptures; the second is "Miscellaneous essays", which are similar to composition questions. , which mainly examines the writing level of poems, poems and other subjects; the third is "Policy Questions", usually the Five Ways of Current Affairs, which examines the understanding of national policies and countermeasures to current affairs.
The Ming Dynasty Jing Ke mainly examined the meanings of Confucianism and Taoism. In the Tang Dynasty, the classics were divided into serious classics and miscellaneous classics. There were nine serious classics in total. They were divided into three levels: major, medium and minor according to their importance and difficulty. Among them, "Li" "Records" and "Zuoshi Chunqiu" are the major classics, "Mao Shi", "Zhou Li" and "Yili" are the middle classics, "Zhouyi", "Shangshu", "Gongyang Chunqiu" and "Guliang Chunqiu" are Xiao Sutra. In addition to the nine serious classics that must be tested, other miscellaneous classics such as "The Classic of Filial Piety", "The Analects of Confucius", and "Laozi" will occasionally be tested.
The difference from ordinary exams is that Mingjingke is a bit like passing a test. You can only take the next test if you pass the first test. The first level is the interpretation of the scriptures; the second level is the meaning test, with questions set by the examiner and candidates answering orally to test their understanding of the scriptures. There are usually ten questions; the third level is policy theory, usually with three "current policy" questions, which examines the theory. Connect with actual capabilities.
The Ming Jing Ke is further divided into Five Classics, Three Classics, Two Classics, and First Classic. For example, those who have mastery of the Two Classics must have one major classic, one minor classic, or two middle classics; those who have mastery of the three classics must have major, middle, and middle classics. There is one small Sutra each; if you want to understand the Five Classics, you must understand both the Major Sutra and the Small Sutra. It is up to the candidates to decide which type of exam to take. Since the exam is relatively loose, the largest number of students are admitted.
Since Ming Jing Ke has the largest number of students admitted, it is natural that those students also apply the most. At the same time, most of the students chosen by the aristocratic families to submit their papers are also Ming Jing Ke candidates, and the reason why these student candidates submitted their papers to the aristocratic family is just that Because most of the books in these classics and histories are even unique copies and are only owned by aristocratic families. You cannot read these books without submitting them to aristocratic families. This is the real heritage of aristocratic families.
Of course, Lu Chen didn't have these books in his hands. Lu Chen basically had modern books in his hands. There weren't many such ancient books, and Du Yanliang only had a few in his hands. So how could they be enough?
Thinking of these things, Lu Chen turned to look at Li Daozong. Lu Chen wanted to prepare a "rich gift" for those aristocratic families this time. This classic book was indispensable. Li Daozong would definitely be able to get some here, and then he would go to Chai Shao and meet him. Li Xiuning will do a little more, and Li Jiancheng will do a little more, and this "giant gift" will basically be enough.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen stopped and looked at Li Daozong.
"Your Majesty, I have something to ask you!" Lu Chen said to Li Daozong with his hands raised.
"Brother Lu, there is no need to be so polite in the relationship between you and me. If there is anything I can do to help, Brother Lu, just speak up!" Li Daozong was a little confused by Lu Chen's sudden politeness, and rushed forward. Lu Chen waved his hand and said.
"I would like to ask if there are any books on the imperial examination in the prince's house?" Lu Chen looked at Li Daozong and asked.
"Imperial examination?" Li Daozong didn't understand why Lu Chen suddenly mentioned the "imperial examination". You must know that at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan naturally reopened the imperial examination. However, that was only a matter of the new year. Lu Chen suddenly mentioned it. Li Daozong was stunned when he asked about this matter. He then looked at Lu Chen and asked with a smile, "Brother Lu, you don't want to take part in the imperial examination, do you?"
"I'm not that capable!" Lu Chen shook his head and said with a smile. Lu Chen still knew that he had eaten a few taels of rice. Although he had learned a lot of knowledge in modern times, he didn't have the ability to ask him to take part in the imperial examination in this era. ability.
"The school in Zhuangzi is about to start in the new year. I'm going to get some books to show to the students!" Lu Chen has no plans to tell Li Daozong about the movable type printing technology for the time being. For the time being, it is better to keep this matter as confidential as possible , so Lu Chen directly used the children in Zhuangzi as a cover.
"That's it!" Li Daozong nodded, quite agreeing with Lu Chen's excuse. After all, he knew that Lu Chen wanted to set up a school in Zhuangzi, and Lu Chen had been planning this from the very beginning, so Li Daozong didn't doubt it. With him, "I have a lot of books, but some of them are orphans. If I give them to Brother Lu, I would really be reluctant to part with them!" Li Daozong said with some embarrassment.
"I'm borrowing it, not asking for it!" Lu Chen emphasized to Li Daozong, "I will send back all the books I borrowed from the prince in half a month at most!" Lu Chen looked at Li Daozong with determination and said, joking, Lu Chen could directly copy several copies of this book within two days. As long as the book is in Lu Chen's hands, no matter how lonely you are, it will no longer be a lonely copy.
Lu Chen can increase the longevity of your book geometrically!
"Brother Lu, what are you talking about?" Li Daozong said with a smile, "I can't take these books with me. To be honest, I usually drink more than I read, so I only read a few times when I have nothing to do. This time I return to the spirit world." After the state, if Brother Lu needs any books, you can ask Fan Lin to take you to check them out!" Li Daozong took Lu Chen directly to a two-story building behind the palace. There was a plaque hanging on the building, which read: " Three words: "Book Collection Pavilion".
Pushing open the door of the small building, there are racks one after another inside. Each rack has a name tag, which represents the type of books on the rack. Lu Chen took a brief look at this two-story building. There must be at least a few hundred books in the small building.
"Your Highness, are you just throwing away so many books like this? Aren't you afraid of insects and rats?" Lu Chen looked around the bookshelves and asked curiously.
"Can you smell anything here?" Li Daozong did not answer Lu Chen's words, but asked Lu Chen with a smile.
Lu Chen raised his nose and smelled it, and a faint fragrance entered his nasal cavity. With this fragrance, Lu Chen actually felt a sense of peace of mind.
"This is the smell of camphor wood!" Lu Chen distinguished the fragrance and then said.
"My bookshelves are all made of camphor wood, and there are camphor balls on those bookshelves!" Li Daozong pointed at a small bronze round ball on the bookshelf.
Lu Chen followed the direction of Li Daozong's finger and took a closer look. It was a small hollow ball. As soon as he got closer, he could smell the smell of "mothballs".
"Fan Lin, go find some books about Ming Jing Ke and Jin Shi Ke and give them to Brother Lu!" Li Daozong directly ordered the butler Fan Lin, and he followed the order and left. With little effort, Fan Lin came back with a stack of books. , and placed it on the long case in front of Li Daozong and Lu Chen.
"Mr. Lu County, these are books about Ming Jing Ke, and these are about Jin Shi Ke. Do you have enough?" Fan Lin introduced to Lu Chen, pointing to the two piles of books on the left and right on the long desk.
Lu Chen lowered his head and saw that there were at least twenty books in these two piles. Lu Chen thought about it and found that it would be enough to copy these twenty books in two days. Lu Chen didn't expect that Li Daozong would have such books. There are many books. With these books, he doesn't have to go to Chai Shao, Li Xiuning and Li Jiancheng.
"Enough! Enough!" Lu Chen nodded quickly and responded, "These books will be enough for those children to copy for a while!"
In this era, apart from engraving and printing, the main way to obtain books was for students to copy the books themselves.
"Well! If it's not enough, Brother Lu can come to me to look for it at any time!" Hearing Lu Chen's words, Li Daozong nodded, "I said that I cherish the original books, but those classics are really rare. It's not that I can't bear to part with them, but that I hope Brother Lu will keep those children precious after he takes it. If the original copy is damaged, it will be nowhere to be found!" Li Daozong said to Lu Chen solemnly.
"Of course I can save it!" Lu Chen quickly nodded in agreement.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for borrowing the book!" This time, Li Daozong personally sent Lu Chen to the door of the palace. Lu Chen stood next to the white fox and raised his hands to Li Daozong to thank him.
"Brother Lu, there is no need to say thank you between you and me! Just send me a few more bottles of wine!" Li Daozong smiled and said to Lu Chen, "I'm sorry, I sent you so far!"
"My lord, stay here! I'll take my leave!" Lu Chen rolled over on the white fox, raised his hands to Li Daozong again, turned the horse's head, flicked the reins, and left with the large group of people.
It wasn't until he watched Lu Chen's team disappear at the street corner that Li Daozong turned around and took Fan Lin into the palace.
After leaving Chang'an City, Lu Chen shouted "drive" and rushed towards Lujiazhuang with Bei Weiwei!
