Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Chapter 48

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Although "Jinghua Daily Copy" has been copied and banned by the imperial court several times, it has always held the top position of the most popular question bank teaching aids. " and other similar teaching ginseng, but the sales and reputation are not comparable to it.

Zhang Shangshu's new work "Encouraging Learning" can be selected by the editor of this book as an introduction, and it is side by side with Han Changli's "Jin Xue Xie", Song Xueshi's "Sending Dongyang Ma Sheng Preface" and other famous works. Ya Shi also took the book privately for colleagues and subordinates to read.

Li Yu, the imperial envoy of Youdu, had some personal friendship with him. He heard that Cui Mou in his article was the son of Cui Ju, a member of the household department, so he persuaded him privately: "Then Cui Ju's son had never heard of a child prodigy when he was in Beijing. He didn't have any talent in the younger generation, how could he be a prodigy when he came out of Beijing? Brother Teng Xiao regards him as a student who lives in a poor country and doesn't care about poetry and books, so he's not afraid that it's their father and son teaming up to falsify , in order to get lucky?"

If a five-year-old child is a prodigy, then a fifteen-year-old Bai Ding is not a prodigy!

Li Yu was in charge of the Supreme Court, and he saw many officials below who fabricated auspicious auspiciousness and fake prodigy for Bo Shengen's sake. Seeing Zhang Shangshu paying so much attention to Cui Xie, he couldn't help but remind him, lest he be deceived by his subordinates. .

Zhang Peng waved the book as a fan and said with a smile: "Brother Gu Dan, don't worry, this schoolboy is definitely not a liar. His book was given to me by Xie Ying, and he is also a righteous person who has obtained the edict and plaque. What's wrong, I won't check it, and Jin Yiwei can't let him go."

Li Yu raised his eyebrows, shook his head and stopped mentioning Cui Xie, and instead asked him, "Then what did Cui Yu say?"

Zhang Peng said: "He still knows things, he didn't say anything, and he didn't hear anything from the Ministry of Household."

Li Yu snorted lightly: "There is a prodigy son who lives in the mountains, and he has given him a lot of brilliance. If he has any more movement, he will not know how to advance or retreat. His son is also interesting, and he has no reputation in Beijing. When you come to Beijing, you become a righteous man and a child prodigy. Is it possible that Qian'an Feng Shui is especially good for people?"

Zhang Peng said with a smile: "Qian'an, where there is no tribute for a few years, is there any feng shui to speak of. 80% is that Cui Ju is not good at teaching children, and none of the children in the family have become talents. "

He is a mediocre official, a sloppy person, and he is not even qualified to be a father. If it is not for the status of the assistant protégé of Wanshou, I am afraid that this age will not be able to make it to the top five.

Although the two ministries and the general constitution came together to talk about his affairs, they really had nothing to say about him, so they simply dropped the matter and talked about Wang Zhishen, who was stationed in Datong recently. Qin and Yang Xiong, the eunuch of the supervisory army, were not well defended, which led to the invasion of the pirates and the looting of the border towns.

Lu Qin has the ability to fight, but the power in the army is in the hands of the eunuchs, and the two guards and the eunuchs of the supervising army are always at odds with him, so how can he not be defeated.

Zhang Peng sighed, and Li Yu comforted: "Looking for the good, in the past, Wang Zhi could take whoever he wanted to be imprisoned and convicted. If we wanted to rescue him, we couldn't do anything. Now, the sage not only listens to his memorial, but also wants people to be punished. Send it to Beijing to investigate, and we will have room to turn around."

After the dismantling of the West Factory, Wang Zhi's holy family gradually became weaker. In addition, he was arrogant and unable to deal with it. As a result, the pirates invaded again and again, and the sage's favor for him became weaker. Both of them have seen the harbinger of the change of the court, and they have not triggered it, waiting for the opportunity to take him and his party with one blow.

Throughout May, the atmosphere in the DPRK and China was tense due to the infighting between the border guard generals and the eunuchs, and the little prince's introspection. The Ministry of Household has to allocate military rations to the border gates, and also to provide relief to the locust drought and natural disasters in Datong. There are also several tax-free grains in Henan and Beizhili. The top and bottom are all working hard in the bureau, and they are too busy to know what will happen today.

Cui Ju slept in the outer courtyard for more than ten days in a row. Mrs. Xu delivered soup and medicine every morning and evening. He didn't have time to go back to see.

The youngest son, Cui He, hadn't gone to school yet, so the nurse brought him over to greet him with a salute; the second son, Cui Heng, had already read, and every time he met, he would ask a few words of books. In the past, he would just read a sentence for his son to memorize, but this time, for some reason, the sentence from the "Four Books" suddenly appeared in his chest, and he blurted out: "You come to a 'eight families are all private with a hundred acres'."

Cui Heng replied in a terrifying manner: "One person has four Shu!"

Cui Jue touched it, and felt that although the sentence from the Four Books was not as meaningful and ingenious as the phrase "catch ten birds in one day", it was still neat. Moreover, "one person monopolizes the Four Books" somewhat insinuates the meaning of his brother's "Four Books and Sentences".

He smiled slightly and praised: "Yes, you have also read your brother's book? Although he made some small things, it is not bad to read more..."

Cui Heng said excitedly: "Is what my father said true? I think so too! My mother forbids me to read my eldest brother's books, saying that those are all acts of humiliation..."

"Damn!" Cui Ju suddenly stood up, knocked off his son's hand, and said in a low voice, "Where is this nonsense! Your mother is also a well-known lady, how could you have such an idea? It's insulting the saint, so that people don't want to be an official if they hear me!"

"What sages are insulting..." Cui Heng looked at him blankly, and quickly explained: "Isn't the book my eldest brother published the story of four pairs of talented and beautiful women, where are the words of sages. Could it be that my father was referring to his newly published "Six Talents Criticisms" "The Three Kingdoms"? Can my father let him bring some books home? It is rumored outside that this criticism is good-looking, and if there are heroes and beauties printed like paintings, the criticism is also wonderful!"

His mind was full of the four beauties and the three kingdoms. Although he had heard people say that Cui Xie published "The Four Books of Dialogues", he couldn't remember it for a while.

Cui Ju looked at him like this, and the little bit of joy in his heart had long since disappeared. Instead, the anger that had been busy for the past few days arched, and pressed his anger, he asked him: "You just said 'one person has four books alone' and it's not about your brother..."

Cui Heng said hurriedly: "It's also a reference to him. Didn't he find the four beauties and draw them? He can't be regarded as a one-person monopoly on the Four Shu..."

"Go away!" A tea cup flew in, interrupting his complaint. Cui He's wet nurse hugged him and quietly shrank into the inner room, coaxing him in a low voice to not allow him to make a sound.

Cui Heng also wanted to leave, but Cui Langzhong got up and grabbed him again, scolding fiercely: "Nie Zhan! Why don't you compare the good! No matter how he makes fun of it, he is in a place where no one sees in the village, and he can even publish a book of "Four Books". "Anti-sentence", caught Zhang Shangshu's eyes, what about you? You will enter the Imperial College in the future, and will you follow the instruction to 'occupy the Four Shu's exclusively'!"

The anger accumulated by the busy work these days, the anger that the eldest son and Jin Yiwei couldn't get rid of, spread to Cui Heng together, scolding him bloody.

Cui Heng was aggrieved, holding his head and endured half the training. After Cui Ju finished scolding, he felt unhappy, so he banned his feet and told Madam Xu to take care of him, and don't keep telling him to read those idle books that didn't make progress.

Madam Xu felt sorry for her son, and said sadly: "This is Brother Heng's fault. How can a younger brother know that the book printed by his elder brother can't be read? The old lady treats me as an outsider and doesn't allow me to care about him. But can this child do it anyway? Think about it, sir, Brother Heng was restrained by someone in the capital, and he read the dirty book from outside; Brother Xie was in the village and printed such books, he was confused when he saw it. How to do?"

Cui Ju snorted coldly: "You take good care of him? Then why didn't he receive the sage's honor when he was at home, and got the green eyes of the minister?"

He said something, and thought that these two things were caused by Jin Yiwei, and he didn't have the slightest benefit of being a father. Scolding Madam Xu was like scolding himself, and he couldn't help but snorted again: "This kind of evil Son, let him enter the official position in the future, but I must not turn my good and clean family into a branch of Jinyiwei! You don't have to worry about him, let him do whatever he likes in the countryside, but dare to climb Jinyiwei to make a plan Fortunately, I will open an ancestral hall and drive him out of the house!"

Mrs. Xu stopped crying and fussing suddenly, meaning she squeezed out a few more tears, lowered her eyes and said, "I heard that there is a 'Cui Meiren' in his bookstore, who knows what the relationship is with Brother Xie. If he really likes that beautiful girl and ruins his body before getting married, what kind of daughter will marry him in the future?"

The two were married, and she knew best that Cui Ju loved her face, and she could not see that her children were acting unethically. He thought that as soon as he said this sentence, Cui Ju should put aside Brother Heng's business and try to teach the eldest son a lesson, but this time he only frowned and said lightly: "There is a craftsman woman on the left and right, so call him So what if he accepts it. In the future, I will choose a lower-ranking and honest wife for him."

Madam Xu's tears were half-fading on her eyelashes, watching him fling her sleeves and leaving, holding her breath in her chest, she said angrily and annoyed: "What's the matter, Master's soul is also called Cui Meiren's hook, what's the matter? Don't care about that little beast!"

Her mother and foster mother came to hold her to comfort her, and said something nice about the elder brother, but no one knew the torture in Cui Ju's heart at this moment—

He knew that his son did not have the ability to make paper or print books, and that his ex-wife accompanied him to the bookstore.

In the past few months, many people have asked him on and off about the color printing in the bookstore. He also wanted to bring Cui Xie into Beijing to ask, and even dedicated the color printing skills to Neifang. It's just because of the loftyness in his heart, afraid that people will say that he is flattering to the servants, and he didn't do it in the hope of being lucky.

Now Cui Xie called Zhang Shangshu as a role model for poor students, so he should honestly study in the county. If he calls someone into the capital and then presents the things that his concubine made, wouldn't he offend Zhang Shangshu for nothing and ruin the sage's plan to rectify martial arts

One is the craftsman's craftsmanship, and the other is the official business of the court, so why doesn't he know which side to choose. Just thinking that Cui Xie is highly valued, he has never gotten half of the benefits as a father, and his heart is hard to calm down.

Next year will be the official plan, he has been sitting on the fifth-rank seat for a long time, if he can move it...

He was torn about whether to save his face or not, but he couldn't decide whether to take the path of Zhang Shangshu or Wan Shoufu, to show off his prodigy son or a daughter-in-law who could print color pictures.

This entanglement waited until the news that the little prince had committed a crime. Datong had to pay attention to guarding everywhere in Shanhaiwei, and the faces of several great scholars and Tang Shangguan were dark. Even if his son was a prodigy who printed four books, or he took a concubine who was good at printing color pictures, he didn't dare to tell it at this time.

Even Qian'an County, hidden behind the border of Yongping Prefecture, felt this atmosphere. There were more and more sergeants on the Wang family's school field and horse field, and the eldest son of Wang began to get up early to practice. Cui Xie was embarrassed to go to the horse farm again, so he pointed out an excuse to write an article for Wang Zhifu to read, and said that he would not come to horseback anymore because he would be busy with his studies in the future.

Wang Gongzi saw what he was thinking at a glance, and said with a smile: "You still tell your brother what you are doing. Actually, it doesn't matter if we move to Anwei. There are Shanhai and Lulongwei in front of us, but we have to take care of it in advance and be prepared. That's all. You should come or pay it back. There are hundreds of people in this school, not many of you."

Cui Xie said: "After all, it is the matter of the imperial court. You are serious about training. What am I doing here? I have been bothering you too much in the past few months. I will take a break for the past two months and spend more time painting "Three Kingdoms". I will come again when the Tartars are gone.”

Wang Xiangzhen suddenly regained his energy, stared and asked, "Is there a new one? Your Lu Fengxian's halberd shooting is so energetic, I have also practiced archery in the past two days, and asked someone to give me that bad silver suit. The armor is over, I'll dress it up later, and you can draw a picture for me, okay?"

Cui Xie looked at him - Prince Wang was considered to be a bee-waisted ape-arm, with a handsome appearance, tall and slender body, and the proportion of armor that was worn around the waist should be good. He touched his chin and said with a smile: "If you don't dislike it, or I will print a set of armour costumes when a famous general is produced, and then I will draw you a full body picture in a bunt, and you will cut out your clothes and replace them. If you put it all together, can you play a few more heroes?"

Wang Gongzi's eyes lit up with a "swoosh", and he patted his thigh and said, "This is good! Good brother, my brother really hurts you in vain. When we come back, we have to go to the Guandi Temple to worship!"

Cui Xie said with a smile: "This is also my way of being lazy and saving trouble. When I look back, Brother Wang thinks the printing is rough, so I can ask you Luanzhou to draw a large and exquisite picture."