Rise From the Humble

"Confucius was trapped between Chen and Cai. He had no food for seven days and played the harp in his room. Yan Hui left vegetables outside to show his respect for his teacher and his sincerity." - "Customs".

Since then, serving vegetables has represented respecting the master, and the dish-releasing ceremony has become one of the two major etiquette systems for worshiping Confucius. "Etiquette", but as time goes by, new scholars also have to perform the ceremony of releasing vegetables, thank their ancestor Confucius, and then take off their coarse clothes and straw sandals to express their entry into the official career.

After entering the Confucius Temple, the officials of the Imperial College led Zhu Ping'an and others into the side hall, where they washed and changed. They took off their clothes and put on the coarse cloth clothes and cloth shoes that had been prepared long ago. Under the guidance of the officials of the Imperial College, they followed the palace examination rankings. Line up.

In the Confucius Temple, in addition to officials from the Imperial College, there are also officials from the Ministry of Rites, who serve as Tongzan, Yinzan, Yousi and other ceremonial personnel for the dish release ceremony.

Zhu Ping'an walked at the front. Under the guidance of Yousi, he passed through the Chijing Gate and came to the platform of Dacheng Hall. He walked up to the platform through the steps on the east side of the platform.

"Everyone below, please take your place in the lineup." Tongzan saluted to the Dacheng Hall, then turned around and gave instructions loudly to Zhu Ping'an and others.

Several people from the department came out and led Zhu Ping'an and others to line up and stand on the east side of the platform, and then the rest of the people took their places.

After Zhu Pingan stood firm, he heard a burst of music. At some point, a large-scale band appeared on the stage, wearing red dresses and holding various musical instruments. After listening for a moment, Zhu Pingan could tell that the music was the same as the one when he went to court. The music is the same as "Jiajing Chapter".

After the Jiajing Chapter was played, 36 Yi students were quickly sent by the Jiaofang Division under the Ministry of Rites. Each person held three pheasant tail feathers in his right hand and a piccolo in his left hand. They walked onto the platform in bright red clothes and danced the Liu Yi dance.

At the same time, the Tongzan official began to recite the sacrificial inscription:

An eternal literary sage and a teacher for all generations. The fire is passed down and will last for generations.

Now we, as a generation, see the wise and think of them all. .

Fu Wei is still delicious.

After the memorial inscription was recited, it was time for Zhu Ping'an and the others to serve the dishes. As usual, the top three, the top pick, and the top three came forward to salute Confucius and the Twelve Sages. However, today Ouyang Zishi was also added. After coming in, the four of them performed a dish-releasing ceremony on behalf of all living beings.

There was a new Jinshi in the audience who made a confused sound, but was silenced by the Imperial Academy's offering of wine to reprimand him.

Zhu Ping'an took the lead in going to the vegetable kitchen and took out a stick of cress, a handful of chive flowers, a few red dates and a handful of chestnuts. He put them together on a plate and carried them back to the platform.

Cress represents students, chive flowers represent talent, red dates represent early determination, and chestnuts represent awe of Confucius. These are all established by convention.

"My disciple Zhu Ping'an received the teachings of ritual and music and was fortunate enough to succeed. He dared to offer a dish to the late sage Confucius."

Zhu Pingan walked under the statue of Confucius in Dacheng Hall, knelt down and offered a dish. Then the person next to him gave praise to Zhu Pingan after he got up, poured a bottle of wine and handed it to Zhu Pingan. Zhu Pingan knelt down again and offered wine to the statue of Confucius. In this way, a total of three offerings were made. Bottles of wine and Zhu Ping'an's ceremony of serving dishes is over.

The second-place finisher, the top pick, and Ouyang Zishi each offered their dishes to the twelve sages and saluted.

The other Jinshi on the platform of Dacheng Hall, led by Yousi, performed the dish-releasing ceremony to Confucius and the Twelve Sages on the platform of Dacheng Hall.

By the time the entire dish-releasing ceremony was over, the sun was almost at its peak. After completing the dish-releasing ceremony, Zhu Ping'an and the others would take off their coarse clothes and shoes, and put on the rites and official robes for everyone to distribute according to their respective distributions. Official uniforms are prepared for the official position.

For a time, Zhu Pingan and others all turned into a group of dressed-up beasts.

Zhu Ping'an is wearing a sixth-grade official uniform, a cyan official uniform with a patch painted with an egret on the front.

Except for Zhu Ping'an, everyone else including Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen are all seventh-grade official uniforms, which are also blue, but the patch on the front of their official uniforms is painted with an ewl.

"Master Zhu, please take care of me in the future," Zhang Siwei winked and said with a flattering look on his face.

"Ahem, it depends on how you express this." Zhu Pingan moved his paws and made two serious gestures.

"Dog officer." Wang Shizhen couldn't help but laugh and curse as he watched the two of them messing around.

In fact, except for the three of them, Zhu Ping'an, everyone touched their official uniforms, burst into laughter, and seemed to be excited. In the past, Han Chuang studied hard year after year just for this day.

When everyone put on their official uniforms and smiled happily, officials from the Ministry of Works came again and told them the good news. The monument with the name of the Jinshi in charge of the Ministry of Works had been engraved, and they were invited to take a look.

Leave your name in history.

Everyone was excited and couldn't wait to go to the place where the monument was specially erected in the Imperial College. This official from the Ministry of Industry kept getting close to Ouyang Zishi on the way, which made everyone in Ouyang Zishi pay more attention to the people surrounding Ouyang Zishi. There are more new Jinshi.

The reason why the officials of the Ministry of Industry fawned over Ouyang Zishi was entirely because of Yan Shifan's face. Yan Shifan is now the second-in-command of the Ministry of Industry - the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, which is equivalent to the modern deputy minister. Because Yan Song was the chief minister of the cabinet and had such a high profile in the background, Yan Shifan actually had the final say on all matters of the Ministry of Works.

Ouyang Zishi was Yan Song's nephew and Yan Shifan's relative. How could an official from the Ministry of Works neglect him?

For the rest of the newly promoted Jinshi, the glory of the imperial examination has passed. In the future, whether it is the number one scholar or the last one, it is all a thing of the past. A new journey has begun from this moment, and all the past has been overturned. . To rise in the official career, one has to work hard, but more importantly, there must be people above, to be supported by noble people, and to have the care of big people, so that one can be like a fish in water in the official career.

They were all new to the official career, and it was a unique opportunity for them to get in touch with a big shot like the Chief Minister of the Cabinet through Ouyang Zishi, who was less than one person and more than ten thousand people.

Therefore, everyone firmly grasped this opportunity and gathered around Ouyang Zishi to pave the way for his future career.

Relatively speaking, Zhu Pingan was much more deserted, with only Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen accompanying him.

"Ahem, he won't lift it anymore," Zhu Ping'an pointed at Ouyang Zishi who was surrounded by people in front and said leisurely.

Indeed, Ouyang Zishi, who was surrounded by everyone, no longer held an umbrella.

However, Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen couldn't help laughing when they heard this. Others didn't know what Zhu Pingan meant, but they did. After hearing Zhu Pingan's words, they couldn't help but think of what Zhu Pingan said with a bad smile in the morning: If he doesn't lift it, it will be sunny.

In the place where the Imperial Academy specially erected monuments, there were dense rows of Jinshi stone tablets. Under the guidance of officials from the Ministry of Works, everyone saw the piece that belonged to them.

Seeing their names on the stone tablet, everyone showed their proud expressions of honoring their ancestors and being famous for generations to come.

Only Zhu Pingan was very indifferent.

Although this stone tablet with Jinshi's inscription is brand new and has strong and powerful fonts, many of the words on other stone tablets not far from this stone tablet have been blurred by the wind and sun.

This is not what makes people famous forever.

What is engraved on the stone will weather, but it will last forever only if it is engraved on people's hearts.

Today, as I enter my official career, I will never forget my original intention.

Chapter 2 will be updated around 12pm.