Chapter 12 The Four Talents
Since the Yanmeng Khan was taken to the heavenly prison, the palace didn't care much. Anyway, you are in my hands. I will shut you down for a few days. When you can't stand it, I will negotiate with you slowly. At that time, you yearned for freedom and longed for the life before. What did I ask for? Don't you have to send it obediently?
Anyway, the Yanmeng army has been defeated by us. You don't have the capital to be arrogant at all, and you don't have the bargaining chip with us. To put it bluntly, you are just meat on the cutting board and slaughtered by me.
I don't negotiate now, just to give those civilian generals a free time to discuss how much they should ask for. After all, there must be a limit to claim compensation. You can't make this sweat so angry that you can roll your eyes and fart directly. At that time, the rewards of the soldiers will still be given, and the court will outweigh the losses.
So, although Tuo Bucha repeatedly "protested" with Su Yong, Su Yong was too lazy to pay attention to her and said, "Your Khan is not in the heavenly prison. He is on vacation in our palace." Anyway, no one will say anything to this red-eyed woman, and she can't break into the Grand Inner Palace to find out.
There is a golden armored imperial forest army stationed by fierce people such as Wu Lecheng, but it is much more fierce than her original "Mudan Army".
What's more, the imperial army is only a forbidden army on the surface. Who knows how many fierce people are guarding in the palace?
After deliberately using official channels in Beijing to spread the news, the cultural and martial arts competition finally came in the expectation of everyone ten days later.
I heard that this time, not only in Beijing, but also in the nearby counties and counties, and even in the rich places in the south of the Yangtze River, there are coquettish Moke who come to participate in the competition by fast horses.
Jiangnan has been rich in literati since ancient times, but it is a little far from Kyoto. Fortunately, the economy there is developed and the air mail channels are also extremely smooth. In these ten days, it was just enough to take a horse back and forth.
However, Jiangnan has always attached great importance to cultural events. Unexpectedly, it was prepared by the official fast horse driving team, and even sent all the famous "four talents" in Jiangnan.
It can be seen that it is planned to compete for the first place in this century-old event and make a great difference.
In this way, the children of Kyoto who feel superior everywhere in Kyoto are nervous. At the foot of the imperial city in ancient times, how can outsiders take the first place? What's more, Kyoto covers a very wide area, which is not much worse than the vast whole south of the Yangtze River. In addition, at the feet of the emperor, whether it is a college or a teacher, it is naturally second to none.
If you lose to another place under such innate conditions, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the children of Kyoto to raise their heads when they travel to the south of the Yangtze River in the future.
"This is your opportunity." The old master said seriously to his son Yun Xiaomeng, "Although this is a civil and martial arts competition, martial arts is just a decoration, and liberal arts is the focus. If you can make a name for your name in this century-old event, it is not impossible for all the literati in the world to be led by you in the next few years.
"Do you know? How important is it to master the literati in the world? Those martial artists, who look majestic, are actually just pawns in the hands of literati. The most powerful place is not fists and feet, but here. The master clicked his head and finally said:
"Take the first one back and suppress the four great talents in Jiangnan. In the future, you will be the leader in both Kyoto and Jiangnan. Liu Guanyu is a liberal arts judge and will help you.
This civil and martial arts competition is under the banner of selecting talents from the people with the people. Naturally, people with official positions such as the champion, will not participate and cannot participate.
And the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River also have no official rank. However, they are not frustrated in the imperial examination, but because of their free temperament. However, although they do not have official positions, they are deeply loved by the people in Jiangnan and highly valued by the Jiangnan government.
This time, they did not come for themselves, but for the appeal of the local people and their fame.
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The four great talents, namely, Baihutang, Manchuzhi, Wen Zhengming and Xu Shaoqing, are all talented and famous for their poems, lyrics and paintings. Among them, the women's paintings of Baihutang are said to be the peak, and ten thousand gold is rare.
At this moment, the liberal arts scene was selected on the tall and magnificent "Mingyue Building" in Kyoto.
Mingyue Building is one of the three buildings in Kyoto, which is as famous as the Rising Sun Pavilion and the Stars. The Mingyue Building is a very special building.
It is a building outside the building. In the middle of the huge lobby, there is another three-story building, which is pyramid-like.
And the outside of this small building is the outer building. The outer building is supported by sixty-four huge high columns around the pointed top cover, and under the top cover is the lobby with wind from eight sides.
This lobby is already high, and you have to go up. And the lobby covers a very large area and can accommodate thousands of spectators. There is still a huge square outside the lobby. People who can't squeeze into the lobby can also watch it on the periphery. Because the small building inside and the size of the lobby are extremely reasonable, it can accommodate tens of thousands of spectators to see the scene clearly.
The rules are also very simple. The small building has three floors. At this moment, all the contestants are on the first floor. The eliminated will leave, and the winner will go up to the second floor. The third layer is naturally the last three.
The first thing is the poetry competition.
At this moment, tens of thousands of people are crowded, and they are scrambling to witness the century-old event.
Su Yong walked into the lobby passage isolated by officers and soldiers, looked at the surging heads below, and couldn't see the edge at a glance. I couldn't help but feel a little nervous. The people's enthusiastic pursuit of literati really surprised him, which reminded him of the scene of going to the Tianwang concert in his previous life.
In comparison, the Wuke held in the Rising Sun Pavilion on the other side seems a little deserted.
Su Yong looked up at the Rising Sun Pavilion in the east on the small building, sighed secretly, and walked to his own judge position.
There were all the literati waiting for the competition. After the sound of the drum, the host began to come up with a loudspeaker made of Xiangzhu.
Su Yongning looked at the hundreds of well-dressed literati upstairs with a kind smile on her face. These are also their own colleagues in the previous life. They have all experienced the cold window for ten years, which is not easy.
However, the hundreds of literati in the small building did not know who was the only smiling person among the seven judges. They just looked at the iron-blooded breath that was completely different from other judges, but they were guessing.
Some people even think that he is a high-level son. Some "iron-bone" literati can't help rolling their eyes and a little disdainful.
A hundred-year-old event, what are you doing? Are all the famous scholars and senior officials here?
Several other judges and these scholars can naturally see clearly. They are Lord Mo Fanmo, the minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies, Lord Liu Guanyu, Lord Shu, the minister of the Ministry of War, Lord Liang Wenquan, the imperial historian, and Mr. Chen Dechen, the two prestigious vice presidents of Tsinghua College in Kyoto, and Mr. Tang Xiongtang.
These six people, except for Wang Shu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who are still a little strange, the other five people have long been known to scholars all over the world, and naturally they can see them clearly.
No matter what the people below think, Su Yong also saw a few interesting people among the scholars.
On the right side, there are four scholars who are nearly 30 years old, and their temperament is very different from that of everyone around them. The four people came up to the small building, but they were all hooligans, standing posture, but also lazy. Together with those serious and straight companions around them, there was a feeling that "the mud can't hold the wall".
Even if there are several famous judges standing in front of them, these four people don't seem to be conscious at all. Even the leading guy had a few holes in his clothes. Looking at the eyes, he didn't know whether he was squinting to sleep or squinting at himself.
But the strange thing is that they stood like that, not to mention that the other judges beside them had no objection, and even Su Yong felt that they did not look out of the eye, and even very eye-catching. It seems that they are born like this, and they should stand like this.
Liu Guanyu next to him quietly stretched out his head and whispered in his ear, "They are the four talents in the south of the Yangtze River. I once had a relationship with them in the south of the Yangtze River."
Su Yong nodded with a smile, and also felt that they were very demeanor of the "Four Talents" they knew in their previous lives.
Although the two of them just made a small communication quietly, it turned into a surprise in the eyes of those scholars. When they saw that their idol Liu Zhuangyuan respected this person who didn't have much bookishness, they couldn't help frowning and guessing. However, this person is really too face-to-face, but he is not impressed.
After that, after the judges sat down, Su Yong paid attention to another person.
This man is dressed in white and has an unparalleled appearance. He is a little more beautiful than Liu Guanyu beside him, but a pair of peach blossom eyes are extremely bright, simply a living Pan An's reincarnation.
The eyes are the window of the soul. This person's eyes are so bright and bright, and his eyes are handsome and extraordinary, but he is a natural combination of idols and power.
At this moment, another drum sounded. The host began to hold the Xiangzhu loudspeaker and began to introduce the judges of the competition to the contestants and all the on-site audience.
"This is Lord Mo Yanmo, the minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies." The students applauded enthusiastically, with enthusiasm in their eyes, and many onlookers cheered. Mo Yan stood up and waved to everyone. He wanted to say something, but he was wide and fat. Even if he was asked to hold a loudspeaker, he couldn't make a big call, so he had to give up.
"Lord Wang, Minister of War." The expression of the scholar below remains unchanged, but it is just perfunctory. After all, Lord Wang has nothing to do with him. But the people below shouted. After all, I heard that this competition was to celebrate Yanlong's capture of Yan Meng's sweat. Although this military boss did not come to the battlefield in person, he was more or less a general secretary-general and also had credit. Naturally, he had to give face.
"The champion - Lord Liu Guanyu Liu." The host already has the potential to control the initial variety show.
"Oh~he~" The people reacted enthusiastically, and the scholars were even more red, and even the four lazy talents clapped their hands gently. Zhuangyuan, that is Wenquxing's down to the earth, and the people naturally have great support.
Liu Guanyu stood up, bowed slightly, and then nodded with a smile.
This time caused many boudoir girls in the lobby to scream. It turned out that the audience in the lobby was more or less old, and many of them were the masters or young ladies of famous families. They have already sent the family to book the "VIP seat" of the Mingyue Building early in the morning. Some noble families even regard this competition draft as their own girl's secret son-in-law selection meeting.
Then Yushi and two scholars from Kyoto Academy naturally received a lot of cheers.
At this moment, the supporter came over and stretched out his palms to himself. Su Yong also stood up, his body was straight, but there was a harmless smile on his face.