Chapter 98 The Ming Dynasty Literary Circle (please vote for me!)
"Okay!" A scholar from Nanping County cheered loudly, and then everyone started cheering too.
This circle is the spacer symbol for each paragraph of the Analects, usually before "Confucius said".
"The sage speaks first, following the laws of heaven."
The key to solving the problem is the position of this circle. The circle is before "Confucius said", which means "the sage speaks first."
The circle represents the round sky and the square place, that is, all the phenomena of heaven and earth. It is indeed very clever to start from the saint's words for "Dharma and celestial phenomena".
Huang Shixing was also stunned. Su Ze's solution to the problem was more clever than the answer he thought, and his intention was more lofty.
The students from Yanping Prefecture and Yanping Academy all looked ugly. They often bullied the county students these days, but they did not expect that this time Su Ze, a scholar who was not even a scholar, would be the one to take the spotlight.
Especially the followers around Huang Shixing. They wanted to point out the problems in Su Ze's problem solving, but the problem was solved perfectly and no problems could be found.
Huang Shixing held it in for a long time and lost another forty taels of silver, which was the worst in the whole meeting.
However, when the acting got to this point, he had no choice but to continue acting. He even pretended to be happy and pulled Su Ze and said, "
Thank you, Brother Su, for clarifying my doubts!"
But when he opened his mouth again, he really couldn't hold back anything more. After hearing the compliments, he had no choice but to say: "Mr. Academy is about to give a lecture, so let's say
goodbye." After saying this, Huang Shixing left with his followers. The students of Nanping County School cheered one after another, and they were finally proud!
[Broken questions in public, imperial examination experience +20, Level 4, 50/400]
Looking at the forty taels of official silver in his hand, Su Ze couldn't help but sigh, this classmate Huang is such a good person!
He is a top-notch tool who can gain experience and explode treasure chests alongside Second Young Master Yu!
The news that Su Ze solved the problem quickly reached the ears of the three division commanders.
Hai Rui nodded with satisfaction. With Su Ze's talent and learning, it would not be difficult to pass the county examination. There was also hope that he would be a candidate for the examination. Hai Rui was full of pride in being able to cultivate such a student.
Professor Zhong from Fu Xue is an old scholar who always pays attention to face. Hearing that Su Ze, a non-staff member who is not a student, has taken the spotlight, he is in a bad mood. He has added a lot of courses and announced that there will be a small exam every three days. The exam was held on the 10th, causing the students in the government to complain endlessly.
When Chen Moqun, the director of Yanping Academy, found out, he angrily reprimanded Huang Shixing for indulging in such weird questions and difficult questions, which was not the right path for the imperial examination, and ordered Huang Shixing to shut up and reflect on his mistakes.
However, Su Ze solved the problem twice, and the news spread among the scholars in Nanping County.
Magistrate Fang, who had just left the magistrate's office, held a family banquet in the back house. This time he hosted officials who were returning to the capital and temporarily staying at the Nanping County Inn.
This person is the same scholar as Fang Zhifu, that is, the same year as Fang Zhifu.
People in the Ming Dynasty paid special attention to friendships between people of the same year. After each admission, they would publish a "Tong Nian Lu" to record the identity, birthplace and contact information of the same year. This classmate's diary was also the first important network resource for all new scholars to enter the officialdom.
Fang Zhifu is already over forty years old and has a son and a daughter, but he is only thirty years old at the same year.
However, since they were admitted to the same examination, even the sixty-year-old old Jinshi and the twenty-year-old young Jinshi are both in the same year.
However, there was someone in the Kong Jinshi court. He and Fang Zhifu were both born in the same Jinshi era in the 29th year of Jiajing. Both of them were county magistrates when they first took office. They were transferred to the prefecture in three years, but this Kong Zhifu was the prefect. After one year, he was transferred to the capital official position and promoted to the right-hand censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Although the imperial censor of Qiandu has the same rank as the prefect, the censor is a Qingliu official and a capital official. For example, the prefect of Yanping Prefecture is much more noble.
And Fang Zhifu still doesn't know how long he will waste his time in this post.
The future Censor Kong was promoted from Guangzhou Prefecture. He happened to pass through Nanping County on his way back to Beijing, so he naturally wanted to reminisce about the past.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, officials must stay at the inn when they return to Beijing to take up their duties, so this was a private banquet, with only Magistrate Fang and Yushi Kong at the table.
Since it was a Jinshi banquet in the same year, it was natural to talk about the same year first.
Magistrate Fang first asked: "Is Mr. Liang recuperating in Shunde? How is his health?"
Kong Yushi shook his head and said: "It's not very good. I went to visit him before I left. Every year, the weather is cold and he has to stay in bed for several months. , I can’t get out of bed until March this year.”
The two sighed at the same time.
Liang Gongshi was also a Jinshi in the same year as the two of them, named Liang Youyu. His first rank was higher than both of them. When he was first appointed, he was the head of the Criminal Department of the Beijing Government. His starting point was much higher than that of Fang and Kong.
At that time, Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen were serving as officials in the Ministry of Justice. They were both well-known poets at that time. Liang Youyu formed a society with them to discuss poetry. People at the time called it the Poetry Club of the Ministry of Justice, and it became famous in the capital.
However, both Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen were dissatisfied with Yan Song's power and often wrote poems to criticize the current situation, so they were retaliated against.
However, Liang Gongshi was accustomed to the party strife among the upper echelons of the imperial court in the capital, and because of his poor health, he resigned and returned to his hometown in Shunde to recuperate.
Since it was the same year, Prefect Kong, who was the prefect at that time, often visited him. Hearing that he was in poor health in the same year, the prefect also took a sip of wine.
"The party struggle between the DPRK and China is becoming more and more intense. Brother Jingmei must be careful about his words and deeds when he returns to the capital."
Kong Censor's cousin was Jingmei. They were friends in the same year, so naturally they called each other their cousins.
"I know this. In fact, if I go to Beijing at this time, I might as well stay as the prefect, but my family can't wait."
Kong Yushi sighed. He and the prefect Fang were both newcomers to the officialdom, and they still had some ambitions in their hearts.
In fact, when most officials first enter office, they always want to follow the words of the saints.
It is relatively rare in history that someone like Yan Maoqing became an official just to make money, or someone like the cruel official of Han Dynasty was a pure murderer.
Generally speaking, after being educated by superiors, colleagues, powerful people, and subordinates, they start to make money by messing around.
Officials with good family backgrounds like Kong Yushi often want political achievements without money when they first start working as officials. With the support of their family, they can be promoted quickly. However, when they become corrupt, they will no longer be greedy for such small money. .
The two of them talked about the government again. Kong Yushi just passed by Fuzhou Mansion and told the prefect Fang about the situation in Fuzhou Mansion.
"There is a long queue at the gate of Fuzhou Prefecture, and those who submit to Yan Maoqing have to take their numbers and queue up! Now that the Japanese rebellion is rampant in Fujian, the imperial court actually allows such villains to do whatever they want!" Kong Yushi hammered the table: "Now the military is unmotivated, and the sea frontiers are in disarray
. Restless! It's all Yan Maoqing's fault!"
"No one in the entire Fuzhou Prefecture dares to impeach Yan Maoqing! The strict party's disaster is so poisonous!"
Fang Zhifu sneered in his heart. He, the same year, liked to sing some tunes. , he was transferred to the imperial censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, why didn't he say that he would return to Beijing to impeach Yan Maoqing?
Opposing Yan Song was now the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty. For people like Fang Kong who were unwilling to surrender to Yan Song for various reasons, it was very normal for him to curse Yan Song in private.
Anyway, the problem of the Ming Dynasty is that if we don’t criticize Yan Song, the chief minister, how can we criticize the emperor?
In short, Yan Song did not do his job well as the first assistant. As the first assistant, if you do not properly advise the emperor, isn't that your problem, Yan Song?
However, it is indeed right to scold Yan Maoqing and Yan Song. Magistrate Fang held the wine glass and said: "Brother Jingmei, when you get to the capital, it will not be the same place. You can stop saying that." For officials like Kong Fang and others, it is
really He is just an insignificant pawn in the overall situation of the imperial court. Scolding Yan Song only shows his unwillingness to be complicit. You also want Yan Song to be willing to be complicit with you.
Kong Yushi just talked a lot, and naturally he would not dare to ask him to be the censor to impeach Yan Song.
If Yan Song wanted to recruit him, maybe this Kong Yushi would join the Yan Party.
In the final analysis, the so-called Strict Party is just a group with shared interests. As long as you join this group, you can reap benefits. The Strict Party has no goals and program, and the Anti-Strict Party also has no goals and program. Even the so-called anti-strict party forces were cultivated by Emperor Jiajing himself. He used the secondary ministers of the cabinet to check and balance the chief minister of the cabinet. This was Emperor Jiajing's consistent method. When Yan Song was the second minister of the cabinet, the chief minister of the cabinet was Xia Yan. , it was also Xia Yan who was falsely accused and killed by Yan Song.
Before Xia Yan became the first assistant, he was Zhang Cong. In the cabinet of every Emperor Jiajing, there was a second assistant who opposed the first assistant.
Emperor Jiajing mixed up these different opinions, and he was playing a very consummate game!
Regarding the overall situation of the imperial court, Kong and Fang could only take a look at it. With their qualifications and levels, it was still too early to participate.
Instead of discussing the current situation, as a scholar, we can only discuss literature.
Magistrate Fang stood up, took a book from the bookshelf next to the banquet, handed it to Yushi Kong and said, "Brother Jingmei, this is my newly collected book." "Yang Sheng'an's collected works!" Magistrate Fang said
proudly
. He said: "This is from my brother-in-law, and it contains all of Yang Sheng'an's new works!"
Kong Yushi directly picked up the candlestick on the table and started reading by the light.
"Yang Sheng'an lived in Yunnan and Guizhou, and he was able to produce such gorgeous and majestic prose. He is the Zhenwen sect!"
Yang Sheng'an was Yang Shen, the son of Yang Tinghe, the number one political enemy of Emperor Jiajing after he succeeded to the throne.
After the great ceremony, Yang Shen was exiled to Yongchangwei, Yunnan Province. Thirty years have passed since then.
Emperor Jiajing has never been a generous monarch. Now that he has firmly controlled the government, he is still unwilling to pardon Yang Shen. During his reign, he deliberately refused to pardon Yang Shen during several amnesties.
However, after Yang Shen arrived in Yongchangwei, his writing frequency increased. His articles were famous all over the world. Someone always compiled his articles into anthologies and published them. Every time they were published, they were quickly sold out.
Yang Shen is now the top figure in the literary world of the Ming Dynasty. The next top figure in the literary world, Wang Shizhen, is still an official in the Ministry of Punishment, and his influence is far less than that of Yang Shen.
"I copied this collection of essays and gave it to Brother Jingmei!"
Censor Kong felt as if he had found a treasure, but was afraid that the prefect would regret it, so he stuffed the collection directly into his collar.
Immediately afterwards, Yushi Kong said: "No, when did Brother Bo Xian's handwriting look so good?" Fang
Zhifu was corrected by the same year, and he pretended to be angry and said: "My daughter copied this!"
The two men again There was a banquet, but Kong Yushi was afraid that the prefect's family would get into trouble if he stayed overnight, so he insisted on returning to the inn to rest.
After seeing off Censor Kong, the prefect returned to the study and saw that the light in his daughter's room was still on.
Magistrate Fang walked to his daughter's room, coughed and said, "Why isn't Lan'er sleeping yet?"
Fang Ruolan's voice came out: "Dad, my daughter will go to bed immediately after reading this chapter."
Magistrate Fang rubbed his temples and said: "Lan'er, please show Yang Sheng'an to my father for two more days."
Fang Ruolan said immediately: "This can't be done! Dad, you agreed to read it to me first. Besides, didn't I copy everything for you? Are you a part of it?"
Magistrate Fang said with some embarrassment: "Well, didn't I just give this to you, Uncle Kong Shi?"
Fang Ruolan said immediately: "My daughter copied it with great difficulty. Dad, you gave it away and you asked me for the original. ? Besides, this book was sent to me by my uncle, not for you."
Fang Zhifu was quickly defeated. He had no way to deal with this weird daughter.
Just when she was about to show off her father's airs, Mrs. Li came out of the room again and said,
"If you don't go to bed quickly after drinking, the master will have no official duties tomorrow? Aren't you going to inspect the county school?"
"Lan'er, you should go to bed early, too. Staying up late reading hurts your eyes!"
Mrs. Li took action and subdued the two of them.
The prefect sent out an anthology, and Hai Rui received an anthology.
These days, Su Ze has used his only Level 3 literary knowledge to copy out all the ancient texts in his memory that he can recite.
Level 3 is probably the level of classic classics in junior high school. Su Ze also wanted to improve his literary skills and memorize more classic classics, but this literary skill did not increase with experience.
Hai Rui opened the book. Although Su Ze's handwriting was not good enough, it was handwritten by a student. Hai Rui was still a little moved.
If it was a gift for someone else, Hai Rui would definitely not accept it, but what Su Ze gave was a book, and Hai Rui was a book lover, so he couldn't put it down and started reading it.
"On the Battle of Cao GUI" was published by Zuo Zhuan, and Hai Rui had naturally read it.
"Zou Ji satirizes the King of Qi for accepting remonstrances", an article on Warring States policy. Hai Rui has also read it before, but he just borrowed someone else's book. What a great article!
"Teacher's Guide"! good article!
Hai Rui couldn't help but praise when he read "Being close to virtuous ministers and staying away from villains is why the early Han Dynasty prospered; being close to villains and being distant from virtuous ministers is why the later Han Dynasty declined." Hai Rui couldn't help but praise!
Hai Rui has not read this article. It is no wonder that Zhuge Wuhou is famous in history. This article is enough to show his loyalty to the Han Dynasty!
Hai Rui couldn't help but read it again and continued to scroll down.
"Peach Blossom Spring", Hai Rui also had a desire to escape from the world, and he felt that this was a good novel for all time.
Hai Rui closed the book. It was so beautiful that he couldn't bear to read it.
Su Ze watched Hai Rui reading like crazy when the system suddenly prompted a prompt that a certain skill had been increased by 10 points.
Su Ze couldn't laugh or cry, does this count?
But it’s right to think about it. Isn’t it the essence of a certain skill to do what you like?
If this was really a game, Su Ze would have gained several hundred favorability points from Hai Rui.
Hai Rui said to Su Ze, "My father has so many books. He must be a learned scholar. I wish he could meet you!" "
By the way, tomorrow the prefect is going to inspect the county school. Although I would rather you concentrate on your studies, the reputation of the scholar is very important to you." You still have some benefits, so if you have the chance, you should perform well."
Su Ze was also moved when Hai Rui, who had always been upright, said this.
After these days of contact, Su Ze discovered that Hai Rui's greatest advantage was being strict with himself and being lenient towards others.
It can even be said that in the second half of the sentence, he is not ignorant of the world, but has a clear understanding of the world. It is just that he is unwilling to compromise with this troubled world.
But Hai Rui is very lenient towards people who have compromised themselves in society for various reasons and haven't done anything outrageous.
Su Ze immediately said: "Thank you teacher for your guidance."
(End of chapter)