Chapter 51 Section VII

After the first day of the Baishuitan Academy's first skill competition, everyone knew that it must be a successful event. The residents of Bianjing at that time, although their literary and artistic life could not be compared with later generations, it could not be said that it was not rich. Xiangguo Temple's "Wan surname meeting" was often held, but the unique charm of competitive sports, and the "Wan surname meeting" are two completely different things.In front of thousands or tens of thousands of people defeating their opponents, the sense of accomplishment makes young people feel as happy as being on the gold list.

Whether it was falling off the horse in an equestrian competition, or the bow being pulled down in an archery competition, or almost half of the players in the 25-mile (less than 10,000-meter) long-distance race failed to persist, it was a success. It has become a topic that the streets and alleys of Bianjing are fond of talking about.What surprised Sang Chongguo the most was that many scholars who went to Beijing for the examination that afternoon asked to be able to participate in the competition and compete with the students in Baishuitan.No matter on which occasion, if they can defeat the world-renowned Baishuitan Academy, it will be a kind of fun for these young scholars, right?

Sang Chongguo is not particularly surprised that the "Baishuitan School Games" has transformed into a "University Games". , not forgetting to keep fit - but this proposition has not convinced Cheng Yi from the beginning to the end. Regarding Mr. Yichuan's view that the way to maintain health lies in meditation, this view cannot be said to be completely wrong, but according to Shi Yue, it is two correct views at the same time. Existence is possible.Of course, Mr. Yi Chuan can continue to meditate, but there is nothing wrong with letting Baishuitan's students who don't want to meditate practice swordsmanship and run.

The first skill conference happened just before the provincial examination, and Sang Chongguo didn't deliberately arrange it, but no one else knew whether Shi Yue had thought about it.Anyway, it is always good to improve the reputation of Baishuitan College. Whether it is Sang Chongguo, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Shao Yong, or Sun Jue, everyone agrees on this point.A while ago, the "Baishuitan Lecture of the Four Great Colleges" was hailed as the most important event since the founding of the Song Dynasty, so the leaders of Baishuitan College are very open-minded about communicating with other colleges.Therefore, the joint meeting of professors held by Sang Chongguo that day easily passed a resolution that within the next three days, scholars outside Baishuitan were allowed to form teams or sign up for the competition individually.This resolution is only a pain for the students who are responsible for organizing this competition. If the schedule is not made quite flexible, it is impossible to adapt to this new resolution.

So the game became more confrontational and exciting from the second day onwards.Even the citizens of Bianjing are divided into two factions, one faction supports the local Baishuitan College, and the other supports foreign scholars. There are two restaurants that openly gamble. up. What made Shi Yue dumbfounded the most was that a censor actually impeached Shi Yue for this, saying that he connived and ordered Baishuitan College to hold a skill competition, so that scholars all over the world could not worry about studying for exams, playing with things and losing their ambitions, which was an act of destroying the national talent ceremony. It became the number one joke in Xining in five years, and the emperor Zhao Xu, who couldn't help laughing, wrote on the stamp with a royal pen: "If you wrinkle a pool of spring water, what's the matter with dry stones?"