Lin Tailai said impatiently: "Don't you just want to be the number one? Once this is done, Ma Xianglan will not be able to retire, and then you will be the number one!"

Zhao Caiji immediately turned around, "But you have been running around all day today, so you must be even more tired. It's getting late, so why not take a rest together earlier."

"Aren't you tired?" Lin Daguan said jokingly.

Zhao Caiji blinked her big watery eyes and said, "Yes, I am tired and you are tired, so we need to rest together."

After Lin Tailai rested for a while, he felt hungry again, so he ordered food to be served.

Only halfway through the meal, the disciple came to report: "A man claiming to be Dong came to visit."

Lin Tailai thought for a while and found that he only knew one person named Dong, so he invited the person in.

Sure enough, it was Dong Qichang, a young man in his mid-20s. Lin Daguan thought for a moment and said, "You came just in time, I have something good to tell you.

But since you came to me, you must have something to do, so I’ll let you talk first.”

When Dong Qichang heard that there were good things to come, he immediately became more motivated and started talking about it without any hesitation.

"There are two things. The first is that there is a rumor among scholars recently that the essence of the poetry collection "Jin Yuefu" lies in the preface.

He also said that the diction and conception of this preface are much higher than those of poetry, and that it contains great meaning and is worthy of careful consideration."

Lin Tailai slapped the case angrily and said: "No one except the Donglin sect can tell such despicable and shameless rumors!

Just a preface by Gu Jingyang, does it still want to overwhelm me?"

This matter should not be ignored. There is a saying that goes as follows: a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.

If three people really become a tiger and "Preface to Today's Yuefu" outshines "Poems of Today's Yuefu", it will be ridiculous, and then it will be a great shame for myself.

After all, Gu Xiancheng's communication ability in Shilin is indeed higher than that of Lin Tailai, and Lin Tailai's "fame" relies more on the popularity of civil society.

Therefore, if we only compare the communication ability of pure Shilin channels, Lin Daguan is obviously far inferior to Gu Xiancheng.

Dong Qichang, who came to report the news, did not comment on this, but continued to talk.

"The second thing is that it took a lot of effort to find out Mr. Gu Jingyang's next move."

"Speak quickly!" Lin Tailai urged impatiently.

Dong Qichang said: "Before every major exam, Nanjing Taixue will open the Dacheng Hall of the Master's Temple for candidates or scholars to worship."

"Puch!" Upon hearing this, Lin Daguan couldn't help but laugh out loud.

In fact, there were two upgrade systems for scholars in the Ming Dynasty, one was the imperial examination upgrade system, and the other was the school upgrade system.

The imperial examination is to select people, one is born as a Jinshi, and one who goes to study in the Imperial College is one who is born as a Jiansheng.

In today's era, the imperial examination system, which is determined by examination, is more valued and regarded as a clean stream.

Those who go to the Imperial College to study are all old people who can't do well in the imperial examination. They go to the Imperial College to study and gain a good background if they can't go on the imperial examination road.

Simply put, going to the Imperial College to study in the Ming Dynasty meant failure in the examination.

So Lin Tailai couldn't understand what exactly those candidates who went to the Imperial College to worship and pray for blessings before the exam five hundred years later were trying to protect themselves from failure in the exam?

Dong Qichang didn't understand what Lin Daguan was laughing at, so he explained: "The candidates all go to worship the saints, not the Imperial Academy!"

Official Lin waved his hand, "You should continue talking about business!"

Dong Qichang added: "Anyway, I heard that since there are so many candidates going to Taixue Xianshi Temple, Mr. Gu Jingyang will also go to show his sage in front of people tomorrow!"

Lin Tailai said in surprise: "How does he want to show his holiness?"

Dong Qichang shook his head and said: "That's not clear. How to do it is the most confidential matter. Only Gu Jingyang and a few friends who are in the same camp know.

If they hadn't formed an alliance with the retro faction, they wouldn't have even revealed the news."

Lin Tailai pondered for a while and decided that there was nothing wrong with going to the scene to take a look anyway.

Fortunately, I had made friends with Zhao Zhigao, the supervisor of the Imperial Academy, and this actually came in handy.

Isn't it just pretentious? Can Gu Xiancheng still pretend to be higher than himself?
Chapter completed!