In August, Li Zhaoxian took the juzi test.
After the three exams, he first thanked the court for caring about the students, and made the Gongyuan so quiet and tidy: "The examination room of the Gongyuan is still well repaired. Sitting in the examination room has good lighting and does not feel too hot. The smell is good, no It's like the Cui family's examination academy has built a latrine next to the examination shed, so I don't know how many times people will be disturbed when people come and go."
The weather in this subject was good, only the second session encountered a slight light rain. During the exam, I used tarpaulin to put it on the ceiling and in front of the door, and the rain did not splash on the paper.
When he was taking the mock exam in the Cui family, the manager of the Xie family and the two Zhang Guoji came to help him, causing him some kind of accident in the examination room: the smooth surface of the paper was soaked in water and stained with ink, and the paper was discarded. It was made several times; it was more common for rain, examiners to patrol the field, and thunder and lightning; the two uncles also bought a smoke incense burner for the stage, and simulated a fire in the test room, forcing him to escape from the test booth—
If it hadn't been for the fact that he had been exercising all these years, his legs were neat, and he had climbed over the wall at a critical moment, he would have been frightened to death by those cigarettes that suddenly appeared.
After these days of torture, before entering the examination room, Li Caizi already had a heart like an ancient well, and could face the blow of failing the exam calmly.
In the examination room with excellent conditions such as Gongyuan, he was like a dragon returning to the sea, and his thoughts gushed out. The opening seven chapters of the scriptures and meanings are written in one breath, with a high artistic conception. The four judgment questions are strictly in accordance with the criminal law.
He went home and silently wrote an article for his father to read, and Li Dongyang breathed a sigh of relief: "My son is only worried, and the only thing to worry about is that he can't express himself in the field. in the bag."
He never hesitated to show off his son. He took these articles to various ministries and colleges to show them, proudly praised his prodigy, and by the way showed off his disciples' mock exams. Back then, Cui Xie used this simulation method before the exam to win the Juren and Jinshi. Later, his two younger brothers entered Pan in the same year, and now he has trained his son Zhaoxian as a juzi.
Mock exams are really good methods. These students have high and low qualifications. They worked hard for a year and a half before the exam. Didn't they all have results
Wang Zhuangyuan also agreed with him, and together with him he advised his children to take a mock test: "My family Shouren went to Cui's house to take the test a few times, and when he came back, he also said that this practice method is very different from the usual essay writing, and it is the best way to sharpen thinking and writing. A few minutes faster than before."
Wang Shouren's psychological quality is much stronger than that of Li Zhaoxian, but he doesn't take the interference in the examination room seriously. The biggest improvement during the mock examination is to write several articles in one day, and he has developed the ability to write quickly.
On the ninth day of the second lunar month of the following year, he was full of articles and a calm mood, accompanied by Li Zhaoxian and other acquaintances outside the Gongyuan, and met Zhu Juren who went to Beijing to take the exam. Several people looked at each other and smiled outside the Longmen, wishing each other to be able to take the test in the same subject, and then they all stripped off their clothes and exposed their bodies under the call of the Jinwu Left Guards, and were searched with their clothes and socks in the cold wind.
Zhu Juren's glasses were not considered contraband, and they were brought into the examination room for him. With these glasses, he can see the text on the whole scroll at a glance, without having to put the scroll in front of his eyes, his eyes will not get tired when reading and writing, and his writing will become more fluent. And after the torture of "Youth Jinyiwei", he really understood how to figure out the mind of the person who asked the question, and what he wrote was no longer an article showing off his talents, but a text that was more suitable for the field.
The examiners of Jinke are Xie Qian and Wang Shuo, two famous eight-guine scholars. Both of their articles, Zhu Zhishan, have been read and can be recited, and they have also bought Xie Qian's "The Imperial Examination Notes Series: The Imperial Master Xie Xueshi Lectures on the University" and Wang He's "Famous Masters of Art-making Essays Lectures and Refinements". The meeting test was just crashing into his hands, and there is no more bad writing!
In the ninth year of Hongzhi, this meeting was actually a time for talents to compete and famous articles to be starred.
Wang Shouren, Li Zhaoxian and other well-known sons of officials in Beijing are all listed on this list, and Zhu Zhishan and Gu Lin, who were selected by Wang He when he was an examiner in Wuzhong, are also on the list. In addition, two talents from Shaanxi and Shandong whose essays and poems can cover up a generation are on the list at the same time—Bian Gong and Wang Jiusi among the first seven sons.
On the 15th day of the third month, when the Golden Palace asked the question, Wang Shouren did not expect his father and elders to expect, and he took the first title of Jinke. Li Zhaoxian and Zhu Zhishan were also in the top two, and together with Wang Jiusi, they chose Shuji Shi. Li Mengyang, who entered the dynasty first, finally made friends with like-minded people. A group of new talents gathered in Li Dongyang's Chaling School to sing poetry and harmony.
But these young people don't know that there are actually two people with impure motives, who are evaluating them with the eyes of an editor...
The two national uncles' "Youth Jinyiwei" has only been published, and they are waiting for someone to write the manuscript.
The two editors, Zhu and Wang, have a very deep cultivation of qi. They do not rush someone to write a manuscript when they see a talented person, but first silently observe each other's style and temperament in the ordinary poetry and prose exchanges.
Once you’ve agreed to send someone an article, you can’t delay it for dozens of days without giving it!
When I write a poem, I am shocked and lose my train of thought, and I can't write the next sentence, and it is not good to give the poem to others to continue writing!
If you write a good poem halfway through, you can stop writing it, and you can't continue it in the future!
It is more selfish to write people's questions and scenes, and it is not good to write according to the truth!
Competitiveness is too strong to be revised according to the editor's request!
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The talented people of the Manchu Dynasty told them to be critical over and over again, and the most qualified to be a good author was actually Li Dongyang. Wang Shouren silently wiped the old man who was writing the main story of Jinyiwei from his heart and comforted Zhu Zhishan: "Anyway, the uncles won't have a big case, so we're not in a hurry to choose someone."
Zhu Zhishan nodded silently and agreed to observe more.
After he was admitted to Jinshi, he had enough time to write manuscripts. It stands to reason that the Zhang brothers had to fill him with many cases to write. But since the end of the palace examination, Brother Zhang Heling also called people to congratulate him several times, and sent a lot of things, but in total, only one Jin Yiwei Commander Chen Yun's dereliction of duty case came, and he could write it all by himself.
He also developed a good friend Tang Bohu in his hometown two years ago, and he has to go to Beijing to take the exam three years later. According to this momentum, they are really not in a hurry to pick the author.
Both of them sighed with emotion that the Zhang brothers had grown up and were not so eager to seek names, but they did not know that their brothers did not urge drafts, but it was actually because there were fewer major cases.
Since they have tasted the sweetness from Li Guang, they are like catching the traitor who is offering bribes. The brothers are too diligent in fishing and law enforcement, and their reputation is so great that they have become two iron-faced censors. When officials inside and outside the imperial court saw them, they all hurriedly put on a good character that was not afraid of power, not flattering, and refused to take the bait.
The two did not catch any major cases that could compare with Li Guang's case. They wanted to make small cases into a comic book, and they thought that these trivial matters had lowered their reputations. There is only one Chen Yun case worth writing.
Fortunately, they have more important things now, and they can't worry about "Youth Jinyiwei"—
Crown Prince crowned.
The prince is leaving.
The crown prince Zhu Houzhao officially performed the crown ceremony after the examination of this subject. Since then, when the memorials of the world's ministers are presented, they will be added to the East Palace. Although the power of the East Palace to look at the memorial is just a decoration, since the prince wants to start to observe politics, he has to choose an old and wise minister with good talent, academic character and character to serve as a counselor and serve the prince to study.
The prince is going to study, can the two uncles not be nervous
The two of them still remembered the day when their father and teacher got drunk and said that they wanted them to be the example of the prince and forced them to learn the Four Books and Five Classics from scratch!
At that time, thanks to their brothers' vigilance, they swore and swore that they would give the prince a test paper and guide the prince to learn, and the two escaped the disaster of the people. Now that the prince has grown up and wants to study, if they can't live up to the words of the day, be a good uncle who can guide the prince to study upwards...
Mr. Cui will be returning to Beijing next fall!
The two remembered Cui Xie's martial arts and the endless sea of Wenshan questions, and shivered secretly, turned to look in the direction of the palace, and looked at the Qingning Palace hidden in the majestic palace.
They have to be a pair of strict masters and uncles, and they will have to be sorry for the prince in the future.
From then on, when they entered the palace, they no longer brought the prince fresh food and toys outside the palace, and no longer brought Jinyiwei comics. They only brought in the two brothers to measure the prince's academic progress and gave him the exam questions.
How to choose words to fill in the blanks, what to judge right or wrong, what to post scriptures and meanings, what to read... How did Teacher Cui test them back then, they used it to deal with their nephew, forcing the little prince to answer the questions in closed books, and the prince was stunned for a moment. stunned.
Uncles have changed!
The uncles are so ruthless and ruthless, forcing him to be more ruthless than the old gentlemen in the East Palace!
The gentlemen of the East Palace even gave him pictures with characters to teach him how to read. It was full of characters, and he still couldn't recognize it completely! Some words can't be written yet!
Zhu Houzhao told them to force them to do the papers several times, and they had a headache doing it. At the beginning, he did it well, but after doing more and more papers, he was so annoyed that he made mistakes on purpose.
The two national uncles also grew up from Xiaoxiong to big. Knowing what he was thinking, they made a ruthless move. After correcting the paper, they asked him to rewrite the wrong answers ten times.
After all, the little prince was too young to make them overwhelmed, and he didn't dare not to write. Even after the uncles left in the evening, he still cried and copied the paper honestly.
Mrs. Wei Sheng, the mother-in-law who raised the prince, wiped his tears and said distressedly, "Young Master can go to the Emperor and the Empress for help, and ask Uncle Guo to reduce your reading and writing a few times."
Eunuch Tan Ji, his wife who served him, also sighed: "Young master is still young, so he can read and write by looking at the pictures posted outside, and listening to the old slave talk about the filial piety scriptures. How could he bear to copy such a large paper? ?"
The prince dropped his pen and cried to the queen to complain.
The uncle of the country bullied the orphan, and the uncle of the country forced the uncle to read and write!
This case was first reported to the Queen. Queen Zhang was not partial to her son at all. Looking at the papers that were neatly copied and full of writing, she only felt that her brother's loyalty was commendable, and he did his best for the prince's studies, which was worthy of praise.
Not only did the queen not care about it, but she also asked people to reward the uncle of the country and praised them for their good questions. The angry prince ran to the Wenhua Palace to meet the emperor, asked the emperor to make the decision, and did not allow the uncle to enter the palace again... Forget it, they are not allowed to give their own questions.
The emperor read the test paper that his brother-in-law gave out, and he felt the same as the empress did, so he was reluctant to ask them to change it, so he comforted the prince gently: "I told my uncles that they wouldn't force you to rewrite those times. It's just a typo. This paper is actually not difficult to come out, but if you don't learn much, it will be difficult to do. The questions that the father did in those days were all written by Guozijian and the Hanlin gentlemen, how many times more than you? When you grow up, it's good to get used to it."
Zhu Houzhao was keenly aware that there was a deeper and bigger shadow hidden in his father's comfort.
The gentlemen will also give him questions in the future! It's going to be more than what he's done!
Impossible, all the gentlemen showed him beautifully painted pictures with only a few large characters on them, and the waiter didn't force him to teach him how to write...
The crown prince didn't give up, and when he was studying the next day, he took the papers from Zhang's brothers to Fei Hong, Jin Gui and others who were serving the book, and quietly complained: "Uncle Guo forced Gu to do so many papers, and also forced Gu to copy wrong words, Solitary finger pain."
Fei Hong used to take the exam with the Prince, and he made it out of the sea of questions. When he saw this paper, he smiled with nostalgia, and said, "The ability of the two uncles to produce the paper is really in harmony with... cough , The uncles of the country are sincerely loyal to the prince, and think for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, so they persuade the prince to study with all their hearts. Those who wholeheartedly lead the prince to play ridiculous games are the behavior of villains."
These school officials and orthodox officials were all good-tempered young people, and they persuaded people gently; so that a serious old official like the lecturer Wang He knew about it, but instead, he taught the prince the truth of commuting and learning.
The prince didn't understand so many great truths, he only knew that he had more homework, and the uncles could rush into the palace at any time to give him the exam.
He resentfully flipped through the "Youth Jinyiwei" that his uncles had given him before, with mixed feelings in his heart. Qingning Palace was silent, no one dared to persuade him, only a middle-aged eunuch who was usually not taken seriously came up and persuaded in a low voice: "Young master, don't worry, after all, uncles can't live in the palace. Isn't it right? They're not around a lot. If there is a time to force the young master to re-copy it several times, the slaves can help the young master to write."
In the East Palace, there is someone who dares to come out to help him!
The prince looked at the unremarkable appearance of the eunuch, and a warmth surged in his heart, and he rarely asked, "What are you calling?"
The eunuch lowered his head and replied, "My servant Liu Jin, who is serving Sasou in the hall, should not have spoken to the young master. However, the ancients said that the master is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the master humiliates the minister's death. .The slaves have learned some interesting things from the bell and drum division people before, and they can solve the troubles best. If the young master can trust me..."
Before he finished speaking, the little prince closed the book of "Jin Yiwei" and looked at him with bright eyes: "Can you really relieve the worries of the orphan? Then next time the two uncles enter the palace, can you stop them? Don't let them give out so many papers?"
Liu Jin's cheeks twitched slightly, and he said in a low voice, "The two uncles are ancient gentlemen, behave properly and cannot be stopped. But after they leave..."
After the uncles are gone...
Then what's the use of you!