In the Confucian Temple, all the people who were lifted in this year's township examination were almost there, and Ji Ning, Xie Tai, and Song Rui entered it, and someone immediately came to salute.

Many people were a little disdainful of Ji Ning before, but now Ji Ning's position has been very stable, and many people have heard that Princess Wenren is trying to rein in Ji Ning, which is the best opportunity for some people to befriend Ji Ning.

Some of the children of the powerful who are already above the top naturally disdain to be with Ji Ning, but some children who are relatively poor and want to befriend the powerful but can't, like to come over and get acquainted with Ji Ning, also so that after Ji Ning soars to the top, he can help them in the officialdom or the Temple of Literature in the future.

Whether it is in the Confucian Temple system, or in the imperial court system, it is very common to form gangs, if there is no strong network in a system, it can be said that it is difficult to move an inch, even if there are really talented and capable people, there must be a strong promoter behind it, otherwise you can only be willing to be mediocre, and always wait for a Bole who can be a thousand miles away.

"Yongning, seeing that so many people came to greet you just now, it seems that there are many more people than when Luming feasted two days ago, do you just know why?" Xie Tai suddenly asked with a smile.

Ji Ning shook his head honestly and said, "I don't know." ”

"Let's put it this way, I also just heard from a few scholars, they said that someone is spreading the news that Yongning was received by Princess Wenren, this matter is very strange, has Princess Wenren really met you?" Xie Tai asked.

"Indeed, I have seen Princess Wenren try to persuade me to let me work for her, but I refused." Ji Ning said.

Xie Tai was stunned: "No wonder other people's attitudes towards Yongning have changed so much, it turns out that they learned about it, but the matter of you seeing Princess Wenren should have been met in private, how could it spread among the scholars?" ”

Song Rui was also a little puzzled, Ji Ning thought about it, shook his head and said he didn't know.

But Ji Ning actually guessed a possibility in his heart, that is, this news was probably leaked by Princess Wenren, in order to give Ji Ning a step that he couldn't get down. Ji Ning thought to himself: "Princess Wenren wanted to mark me as her advisor so early, but in fact, she wanted people from other forces to know that it was impossible for me to work for others, this is a kind of kidnapping for me!" ”

It is true that if Ji Ning is known to meet Princess Wenren in private, it is unlikely that people from other forces will come to woo him, regardless of how highly accomplished he is, others will first think of whether he will be two-faced and do things for one side, but in fact, he is serving Princess Wenren in his heart.

Even Ji Ning has to admire Princess Wenren's trick very cleverly, it can be regarded as a kind of moral kidnapping for him, others think that he will become Princess Wenren's adviser, and will come to have a relationship with him, so that he can enjoy the feeling of the stars holding the moon, and he must strictly abide by the previous agreement, or enter the Confucian Temple to do things, if he enters the court or is a staff member, he can only do things for Zhao Yuanrong.

"Here we go! Let's go in. Xie Tai said, and several people got up from their chairs and walked in the direction of the apse of the Temple of Literature.

This time, there are a lot of people who come to determine the name of the text and watch the ceremony, this is also a triennial event in the local capital Confucian Temple, although Ji Ning is Xie Yuan, but it is also very inconspicuous among so many people.

The apse of the Temple of Literature is dedicated to Confucius and other sages, as well as some ancestors, including the sages who were enshrined in the Temple of Literature because of their outstanding contributions in the Confucian world. All dynasties will elect one or two people to enter the Temple of Literature and become sages, but not every sage can become a teacher, to become a teacher, you must have a very high attainment in a certain knowledge, such as mind or science, or those disciples of Confucius, or a generation of Confucian scholars under the command of the Ming Emperor.

Ji Ning calculated, there are very few people who really overlap with the seventy-two ancestors on the earth, and he almost doesn't know them, but it is these people who have formed the Confucianism that has been circulating in this time and space for thousands of years, and many people even take it as their responsibility to enter the Temple of Literature.

Xie Tai said: "Yongning's master Shen is a scholar, and he will also have the opportunity to become a sage in the future and enter the Yonghei incense of the Temple of Literature." It's enviable to think about! Yongning doesn't know when to meet Shen University? ”

"In two days." Ji Ning said, "Because of the bribery test, I didn't dare to see Master Tai, for fear of damaging his face, but after the name of the document was determined today, I always had to bring a thank you gift to thank him for his teaching and cultivation over the years." Are you going with me? ”

Song Rui said with great interest: "If you can go with you, it is naturally the best, I am afraid that I will not have the opportunity to meet Scholar Shen!" ”

As Shen Kang's junior, Ji Ning didn't dare to make any promises, he just promised to take Song Rui and others to visit Shen Kang, as for whether he could see Shen Kang's face, it was another matter, because Shen Kang's status in the Temple of Literature was very high, and now it happened that Shen Kang was about to step down, Ji Ning actually wanted to know whether Shen Kang would raise flowers and birds in the future, or help the Temple of Literature to do something and continue to promote Confucianism.

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The name of the Confucian Temple is a ritual similar to the release of vegetables.

The difference from the Feast is that instead of simply offering seasonal vegetables to the saints and the ancestors, they have to go up and bow down, and everyone has to bow down to each of them, while on the sages' side, they don't have to worship everyone, just after the bow.

Even so, it is very troublesome to raise more than 300 people to worship each person in the sacrificial platform in the apse of the Confucian Temple, and it takes about an hour before and after.

In the next hour, it is officially asked to determine the name of the text, and each person will leave his own mark on the Dan book according to the strength of his spiritual power, but it does not mean that people with deep imprints will have high attainments in the future, and spiritual power is only a manifestation of a person's level of Confucianism, and cannot be used as a standard for judging high or low.

However, there is a very popular saying, that is, the deeper the person who can leave a mark on the Dan book, the more small seals he can write, and the more opportunities he has to come into contact with the study of large seals.

Ji Ning only knew that he could write almost all the big seals and small seals, and as for whether his spiritual power was very strong, he never had an accurate understanding.

He just felt that he was an ordinary person, and he would not have more talented conditions to talk to people, and even getting along with Xie Tai and others would seem very natural.

"Several people, since they have worshiped the saint and the ancestor first, they will go to the main hall of the Temple of Literature and give the following name, and since then they have entered the position of lifting people, becoming the master of lifting people, and being admired by the world!" A deacon of the Temple of Literature walked over, said a word respectfully, and guided several people to the main hall of the Temple of Literature.

There is only one bronze statue in the main hall, which is the statue of Confucius, and under the statue of Confucius, it is the Dan book used to determine the name of the text.