Chapter 121 to Chapter 122: Winning the championship (Part 1)
But the six words "all are elegant words. Ye Gong" are connected together, and it seems to be completely incomprehensible.
However, for the silence with strong jumping thinking, this is not a difficult task. He knew that the original text of the first four words was "The Book of Songs, Book of Changes, and all of them were elegant languages." Elegant language is the official language of the Zhou Dynasty, which is roughly equivalent to the Shaanxi dialect today. Confucius was a native of Lu and usually spoke Shandong dialect. The meaning of this sentence is "Confucius usually uses Shandong dialect in conversation, but when he recites "The Book of Changes", "The Book of Changes, and praises rituals, he switched to Shaanxi dialect."
Of course, the specific explanation must be followed by Zhu Zi. He said: "Elegant" means "constant" and elegant words means "constant" and that is the virtue of the sage.
Look at the word "Ye Gong" again. The original text is "Ye Gong asked Confucius about Zilu, but Zilu was wrong." Zhu Zi explained: "Ye Gong is named Zigao. The Yin of Ye County of Chu, and he was called Gong." This means that Ye Gong asked Confucius' students, "What kind of person is your teacher?" Zilu refused to answer this question.
After understanding the meaning of the two sentences, I started to talk about it... and it was reasonable to join them, and it was successful.
Suddenly, when he found out that this seemingly unreasonable interrogation question became a clear and straightforward question after he understood the source of each. Because after Zhu Zi introduced who Ye Gong was, he also commented: 'Ye Gong did not know that Confucius must have asked someone who was not asked, so Zi's path was wrong; but because of the virtue of a sage, there are those who have not changed their famous sayings?"
The four words "The virtue of a saint" link the first and the last sentences and express the meaning of the topic in a straightforward manner. As long as you memorize the Analects of Confucius and Zhu Zi's annotations, you can directly solve the topic without you having to guess nonsense.
To be honest, this is silent. When I first did the interrogation questions, I felt at ease in my heart, because the things I encountered in the past were often made up by examiners and students. Even if the questioner’s own standard answers were far-fetched, the answerer was naturally confused and could not find a strict answer.
Chen Silence couldn't help but secretly praise: "You can write the screenshot so upright, and make people convinced. Tang Jingchuan really lives up to the name of "King of Tang"!"
Since the question is correct, the following article will start with the topic and start with the title, and it will be like flowing water, and it will be completed in one go, making him excited...
After writing an article, I checked it carefully several times like the county exam, and made the words and sentences correctly. After the rhythm of the rhyme is smooth, I copied it in the style of the library and the paper... County Magistrate Li once said that with his words alone, even if the article is written as a tofu, he can become a scholar.
After the first article was finished, it was almost noon. I was silent and stretched my muscles and bones, carefully put the paper away, and prepared to write it after lunch. Although the fire was already cold, he was not spoiled and just ate it. There were many other thoughts about him, and many candidates took out dry food and bamboo kettle from the basket and started eating.
But some rich children could not eat cold and hard dry food, and they only accepted hot meals. Some candidates took out the money and asked the inspectors to go outside to get the food boxes delivered from home.
The prefect sealed the door, and the servants dared not make any decisions, so they asked them to endure it first and sent a representative to ask for instructions: "Master, some candidates do not bring dry food, please help me buy some."
The prefect Tang shook his head and said lightly: "Although it is understandable to serve the candidates, the examination room is not a market and needs to be absolutely quiet. Moreover, fraud is prone to entering and leaving at this time. Let them lose their hearts. I will not agree."
Shortly after the officer went down, a twittering sound came from the examination room. The children of the wealthy families stopped working. Some of them really didn't bring dry food, while others were just waiting for the officers to send the exam questions and send the answers in, so naturally they didn't want to.
At this time, a crisp sound of "slap" made everyone smart. The prefect Tang said coldly: "If anyone else is a noise, you will be expelled from the scene with twenty sticks!"
There was a rich man who was ignorant of life and death and said with his neck straight: "We must have a meal if we beat us to death!" He obviously didn't know what it means to "shoot the gun and shoot the bird."
"Go out!" Three words popped out of the gap between the teeth of the prefect Tang.
Then two soldiers like wolves and tigers rushed in, lifted the scared boy from his seat, and dragged him backwards to the backyard.
The boy then knew who was the boss of Shaoxing Mansion. He cried and called on his parents to beg for mercy by his ancestors, but it was too late... The two soldiers dragged him to the base of the south wall, pressed him on a stake, and then stuffed his mouth with a rag-cut head. Then he fucked the board with a thick finger and thrust hard.
Listening to the frightened "whimper" sound of the little beast, all the brothers became honest. Although they were still hungry, they didn't dare to say a word again.
Only then did the prefect Tang ordered people to carry out baskets of pancakes mixed with bean noodles from the back hall and send them to the candidates who had no food to eat. Then they gave them some radish pickles, as a free lunch.
Just eating meat was so hot that it was so fucked. Seeing that the cake was quite soft, Shen Mo changed one with the people around him, and he was full after eating half of it.
He carefully wiped his fingers and table with a rag, then took out the paper and began to answer the next question, "Tell me with virtue". This is a big question, that is, a question that understands the meaning of the question and will not be misunderstood. It examines the basic skills of Tong Sheng.
Shen Mo knew that this topic came from "The Analects of Confucius", and the whole sentence was "Tao it with politics, generalize it with punishment, and the people are exempted from shamelessness. Tao it with virtue, generalize it with ritual, and have shame and stature." Obviously, it is to verify the relationship between moral governance and rule of law... but it is not to let you express your own opinions, because Zhu Zi has given a conclusive answer: "My governance is the basis, rule of law is the auxiliary!" If you dare to disagree, it is heresy, and you are ready to go to the nine sides to surround the Ming Dynasty.
Not every candidate is as careful as he is. Many people have already answered two questions before noon, but they are waiting patiently due to the examination rules that are not allowed to hand in the paper before noon.
As soon as the sound of bangzi sounded at noon, many candidates stood up to hand in the papers. The prefect Tang ordered them to hold the papers and stand in a row far away from the test table. After ordering people to remove the case, they whispered: "Submit the test papers one by one, and do not make noise. This official reviews them on the spot."
The first test paper was handed over, and two servants took it, one holding the cover and the other holding the back cover, and pulled it to both sides, and presented the 10-fold answer sheet to Lord Fu Zun.
Another small official brought a brush and served the ink cartridge on the side. The prefect Tang took the pen and then began to review the papers. He even went through several lines at a glance. In a blink of an eye, he finished reading it and left two words of comments behind the article.
Seeing that the servant finished writing, the two officers put the papers together and returned them to the candidate and said, "Come again next year."
The candidate was already nervous. Hearing this, his legs became weak, and he almost knelt on the ground, tremblingly took the test paper and said, "Master... Sir, you can only use the number to determine that the student's test paper is 'not'. Is it a bit..." He mustered up the courage and gritted his teeth and said, "It's a bit hasty?"
Tang Shunzhi reviewed the next paper, while reciting the first "bad" part. After memorizing several parts, he actually said word by word. Finally, he said lightly: "Do you think it's smooth?"
The candidate blushed and bowed, and took the test paper back.
With this skill, the prefect Tang had already approved four or five papers in succession. The result was either "not understandable" or "off-topic", and no one was taken. The candidates behind were shocked to death and said tremblingly: "Sir, please write a few more words." What he meant was, don't send me two more words.
Tang Shunzhi nodded, and indeed wrote two lines of verses, but he still refused to take them.
The candidate took the paper he received and saw the comments: "Two orioles sing in the green willows, and a line of egrets climbed into the blue sky." It was a famous line of Tang poetry! He couldn't help but feel aggrieved: "You praised the students' articles for being very vivid, why don't you take them?"
The prefect Tang kept his hands and eyes and smiled faintly: "It's so vivid? Why do you say this?"
The candidate pointed to the poem and said, "Isn't it sound like an oriole singing in the green willow? Isn't it color? Isn't it color in the blue sky?"
At this time, the prefect Tang finally wrote the word "Zhong" on a paper. The servant who was waiting on one side took it to the clerk on the other side and copied the name on it.
The prefect Tang continued to review the papers. Seeing that the 'Ming Cui Liu' was still standing there, he explained softly: "Two orioles sing at the green willow, and they don't know what to say; a line of egrets climbed into the blue sky, and they are thousands of miles away from the question." The candidate left with shame.
The candidates only saw that the prefect was judging the papers, including the time to write comments. If they stayed on each paper for only a few breaths, they could immediately judge the high and low. Moreover, the fallacy of those who could recite and not take them again was beyond refutation, and they couldn't help but be amazed. Everyone thought, "Why is the difference between people so big?". They saw that more than 90% of the test papers were beaten back, and they were even more shocked... In fact, the probability of admission to less than 300 people in the test was completely normal. They just watched the test papers being beaten back with their own eyes, which made the Chinese illusion of "finding a needle in the sea".
A candidate had a sudden idea and wrote a likable poem at the end of the test paper and said: "Student, I have suffered ten years of hardships this year. If I fail this year, how can I see my child's mother when I go home?"
When the prefect Tang saw his wrong poem, he added two words to the end of each sentence. When the candidate saw that his likable poem became: "Student, I am 25 years old this year, and I have suffered ten years of hard work - bragging. If I fail this year, I will definitely see my child's mother kneeling down when I go home.' I had to scratch my head and go down laughing and crying.
But there are also people who are in their hearts and feel that they will definitely win. There is a candidate who is the head of Zhuji County case. He has been praised by Hu Chuhai in the county and feels that he will win two more poems in a row. He once gave the paper to the prefect of Tang with a proud smile and said with a reserved smile: "The first week of the student Zhuji case..."
But the prefect said lightly: "According to the examination room laws, if you say your name, you will be disqualified."
Zhou Censor quickly shut up and almost bit his tongue off. He said in a slight resentment: "Look at my article as gorgeous as fireworks, do you still need people to be comfortable with it?"
As expected, Lord Fu Zun stayed in his paper for a while, and Zhou Hshou said proudly in his heart: "Are you convinced?" The corners of his mouth were grinning to the root of his ears.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, his test paper was called back.
Zhou Seshou's smile froze. He opened his mouth wide and said, "Sir, what do you mean?"
"No." The prefect Tang still said indifferently, so he continued to review the papers as if flying.
"I am the leader of the case..." Zhou Chou felt that he had really hit a ghost. He had never heard of any example of the county's case leader failing to pass the prefecture examination. He couldn't help but say angrily: "The leader of the county's case leader must win a scholar!"
"No one stipulates that this official must admit the county case leader." The prefect Tang said lightly.
Zhou Censor was so angry that he laughed and said, "My case was a real test. If the adults don't win me, then the fresh candidates in Zhuji are not qualified!" As he said, he shook the paper and said, "Tell me, what's wrong with my two articles? I can't even rank the top 300?"
The prefect Tang was unmoved and would like to approve the same as he should. He just said softly: "Look at the comments."
Zhou Censor looked down and saw a line of gorgeous running scripts saying, "Please come, let me accept it together." After reading it, he blushed, stuffed the test paper into his arms, saluted the prefect, and left hurriedly.
It turned out that the small questions were written by him, but the big questions attacked the article by Huiyuan Yuezheng during the Zhengtong period... Although he knew it was a suppression attack, he was not worried at all, because Cheng Mo, who had a big question like "Tao it with virtue", was flying all over the sky, and the examiner was unlikely to have read the article he used... Even if he read it, he was not afraid, because the Ming Dynasty law did not stipulate that the attack was not allowed, and the examiner could not find fault with the article, so he could only consider himself bad luck and swallowed the stinky fly.
In fact, he has a good memory in nature, and has less than 3,000 Chengwen articles in the county examination. Both articles in the county examination were obtained, but no one noticed them yet. Only now did he use the same trick again and want to continue to use opportunistic methods to pass.
But this guy didn't ask who Tang Shunzhi was? He was recognized as a genius in the world. He won Huiyuan at the age of 22. If he hadn't been unwilling to support Zhang Cong, the top scorer that year would be his pocket. But even if Zhang Cong had tilted his nose, he would have only dared to demote him to Tanhua, otherwise the saliva of the world would have flooded Zhang Shoufu.
Later, due to his faith issue, he was driven back to his hometown to study for twenty years and became a top-notch expert. What articles have you read like this monster? How could he be fooled by a little boy? Lao Tang just said "Let Yue Zheng come" and solved the problem that has troubled the examiners for many years. The so-called "little weightlifting" means this.
Of course, only such authoritative persons dare to break the convention that the head of the county trial must be a living person.
But the prefect Tang was a kind man after all. If he made this "suppression attack" public, the reputation of Zhou's chief would be completely over, and he would never pass the exam again in his life. Although the candidates are talking about it now, there is no evidence after all, and speculation will pass after a while.
Chapter completed!