Prime Minister

Chapter 36
At the end of the year, the atmosphere in the school is also different.

The Song Dynasty tribute was not fixed, sometimes it was fixed in three years, sometimes it was two years, and the readers had no idea. They read well, and suddenly an edict came down, and the court wanted the candidates to go to various prefectures to take the exam in a hurry.

At the beginning, the official family paid tribute every four years, but recently it has been carried out every two years.

Candidates who failed the palace exam in the late spring, rushed back to their hometown to prepare for the second year's test, and then went to Beijing to go to the provincial exam in March. Candidates from farther places have been on the road for one year of their two years of effort, so recently there have been three years in the government and the public. A call to try.

In the past, after the autumn exam, they would go to Bianjing to prepare for the exam, but in the past two years, the candidates have been exhausted on the road. For example, Lao Gongju in northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang plans to leave for Beijing after the new year.

In the following year, the tribute was due to Feizhi and in the fourth year, the court announced in September that the Yuan would be changed to Jiayou.

It is also the ninth year of the official family.

According to the historian's method, the first nine months of this year are the three years of Zhihe, and the three months after the Yuan change is the first year of Jiayou, and the new year is the second year of Jiayou.

Zhang Yue is no stranger to this year.

Because this year's tribute is the dragon and tiger list.The word "Dragon Tiger List" has been found in the Tang Dynasty. In the eighth year of Zhenyuan, the Tang Dynasty entered the Academy of Scholars. There were talented Han Yu, Ouyang Zhan, Cui Qun, Wang Ya, Feng Su, Yu Chengxuan and other alliances. These talents were called the world's choice and were called dragons Tiger list.

However, this year's Dragon Tiger list is much inferior to Jiayou's Jinshi Ke in the second year.

In the second year of Jiayou's history, the Jinshi subject is known as the first in the imperial examination!It does not refer to the Song Dynasty alone, but the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are all added together.

The so-called No. 1000 list of imperial examinations means that the talents selected by previous imperial examinations in the past [-] years are not as good as this list!
Now, in addition to Zhang Heng, there are several people in Zhang clanology who have gone north with Lin Xi to take the exam.Zhang Yue didn't know the specific ranking of this subject, and besides Su Shi's brothers, he didn't know who else had been admitted.But I feel that Zhang Heng and Lin Xi are two little-known people... This is probably going to be a sad reminder.

That's right, Zhang Yue has read the genealogy before, and Zhang Heng is a generation younger than himself, so logically he is his nephew.But he is already 30 years old, and he has no plans to share with himself at all.

In the past few days, Zhang Yue can also feel the atmosphere before the big exam.

"The provincial test is in March, and I'm already out of luck, but May is the state test, and the next year is the water test, but there are so many books I haven't read yet, it seems that the future is bleak."

"Don't let time be vacant, and I won't wait for it. When you become famous, everything will come to an end."

"Yeah, seeing Ziping and the others going to Beijing to take the exam, how can I be stunned? I'll pass the next township exam, and the bus will go north."

A few people in front of Zhang Yue's case were gossiping, while he was busy listening to the professor giving Zhang Heng, Lin Xi and the others answering their questions.Zhang Yue could only read the scriptures, and he could not understand most of their words. He had to write them down first, and then confirm them when he learned them in the future.

At this time, one person sighed: "Wuxinxiang Xue, what they said, are all the tips of the ken for provincial examinations, can you understand it?"

Several people also shook their heads. It seems that there are many people in the clan who are generally incomprehensible to Zhang Yue.

"Yeah, why should I wait for them? It's the end of the year anyway, and we're not going to Beijing to take the exam. Why don't we wait until next spring to study in the cold weather?

"It's the election plan again." Everyone was eager to move.

"No, no. I won't have time to wait."

"If you want to go, come, don't go. Let's go and roll it first." After speaking, the man picked up the dice and swayed it in front of them deliberately.

After speaking, several people took a look, and they were in the hall concentrating on Zhang Heng, Lin Xi, the professor who answered questions, and then secretly packed up the book bag and slipped away under his arm.

The two, who were unable to speak just now, looked at each other.

One person said: "Anyway, there are still a few months of the state test. It's not bad. Let's throw it first and then talk about it."

Another person said: "Go ahead, I want to take a look. The Zhizu has been studying for three years and has not yet achieved fame. The whole family is pointing at me."

"If you don't go, I'm not interested. If you don't go, I'll invite you to have tea."

"That's not good...it's going to be...I'm going to have a state test next year?"

"It's up to me if I lose."

The man heard the words and said, "Then we can't be too late. Have you brought enough money?"

The other party patted the bag and smiled: "Too much? Not much? Really much!"

Both smiled.

After the two of them finished speaking, they turned around and asked, "Xuelu, let's go together with Saburo?"

Zhang Cai glanced at Zhang Yue with some movement, and Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "I'm not going, you guys are worried too, sir, it's not good to be here."

Another person smiled and said: "I and other members of the family are not afraid, what are you afraid of as an observer?"

The person to be invited smiled and said, "Sanlang heard that you got a lot of money for your book? It's worth three and a half pages now."

Zhang Yue smiled and thought to the bottom of his heart, you should know how good I am.

"Since you've saved a lot of money, why don't you try your luck. If you have a lot of money, wouldn't it be better to go back and have a fat year?"

"Yeah, a lot of money is worth the book you copied here for a month. Are you afraid of losing?"

Zhang Yue said lightly, "Thank you for your kindness."

"What a boring person, Zhang Cai, are you going?"

Zhang Cai said: "If Saburo doesn't go, I won't go either."

"The two of you are a raccoon dog. After a while, when the gentleman asked, he said we went out to worship."

"So many people going out together? Can you live in a thatched cottage?" Before Zhang Cai finished speaking, these people left without even listening to him.

Zhang Cai said slowly: "Shen Shi is not in this hall, and the gentleman will generally not take it seriously. But when it comes to studying, how can I rely on the gentleman to urge him."

Although Zhang Cai said that, he just planned to go.But Zhang Yue didn't go, so the desk where the two of them sat together was obviously empty.What's more, as a student, sometimes I have to lead by example, so I said some beautiful words.

At this moment, Zhang Heng, Lin Xi and several Gongju students have already asked about the same, and now it is the turn of others to come forward and ask for advice.

The two walked down side by side, and the rest followed behind them. Lin Xi said: "Several brothers, the current provincial exam may be bad, I can say that I have no luck now, thinking of the decades of hard study in the cold window, and now I want to Buried in it. What do you think this is good?"

When everyone heard it, they all cursed in their hearts, this fellow is hypocritical again, he is really a slut.

Lin Xi said again: "It's okay, it's okay, I still went to my hometown. When I arrived in Bianjing, what did I do for my own humiliation? I hope that you will become famous once! Better go home!"

The crowd hurriedly said.

"Removing the head and being humble again."

"Xie Yuanlang, you said so, don't we have to go to Bianjing?"

"Xie Yuanlang is here... If you want to be in the middle of the three yuan, how can you say that you will be buried?"

Everyone had no choice but to hold one sentence on the left and one sentence on the right to hold Lin Xi up.He was going to come down and humble himself to sit on the ground, so they had to lie down.

Lin Xi smiled slightly. Usually, only Zhang Heng could refute him, but today he did not speak and looked towards the professor.Lin Xi turned his head to look, but saw a student who was asking the professor for advice.

This student is only twelve or thirteen years old, and it seems that he is listening here.Lin Xi didn't pay much attention, but heard Zhang Heng turn his head and say, "Zizhong, the chessboard and arrow target painted yesterday is the work of this man."

"Oh?" Lin Xi looked at Zhang Yue seriously.

At this time, Zhang Yue was preparing to ask the professor about the doubts about his reading of the scriptures yesterday.Zhang Yue was always the last one to ask questions, just for fear of delaying others' efforts.

Generally, students who do not understand the professor have finished answering, that is, they have no patience to listen.If you rush ahead, you are suspected of delaying other people's efforts.

Even if everyone won't say it on the surface, the rules and regulations are still known.Zhang Yue always waited until others had finished asking before going forward.

Now Zhang Yue stood silently on the side, waiting for the last person to leave before he stepped forward and said, "Mr. Qi, this is the difficulty of the post-study yesterday. It's all written down on paper, and I invite you to take a look at it."

Many of Zhang Yue's questions are written on paper, which saves a lot of professors' time compared to asking others.

The professor raised his head and glanced at Zhang Yue, then looked at the halfway through the school.He knew where these people went, but he wouldn't ask more questions on weekdays.

In the end, reading is his own business. He will not follow behind and let them learn. For a scholar like Zhang Yue who is willing to cherish the opportunity, he is very willing to teach more.

The professor browsed Zhang Yue's topic, frowned suddenly, and slapped the paper on the case with his palm.

boom!
Zhang Yue was taken aback when he heard this, clasped his fists and bowed.

The rest of the students in the school looked over, and there were a few vaguely gloating.

The professor shouted, "Shuzi, for the sake of the scriptures, you should follow the original text. How can there be such doubts as you, and you care about it at the end. Your knowledge has entered a crooked way, do you know?"

Zhang Yue said: "What Mr. taught is that you will go astray if you don't detect it later."

The professor said: "The most urgent task of your learning is not to seek more and more information, but to return to the meaning of the classics, and to focus more on exegesis. It is futile to learn about chapters and sentences, and your speculation is even worse than the study of chapters and sentences."

Having said that, the professor crumpled the paper that Zhang Yue asked the question on and threw it on the ground.

"Please calm down, sir." Zhang Yue picked up the paper from the ground and silently walked back to the desk.Seeing this, Zhang Cai said in a low voice, "Don't go to the bottom of your heart. Mr. scolds you because you are good at it. He won't scold you if you change it."

Zhang Yue flattened the paper again and said, "I save it. Lend me the pen and ink."

Zhang Cai nodded.

Zhang Heng and Lin Xi saw this scene from the side, looked at each other, smiled and stepped forward.Zhang Heng said to the professor: "Sanlang asked something, and Mr. Lei is angry."

The professor said: "It's not in the phrase 'filial piety is only filial piety, friendship is with brothers, and governance is exercised'."

Zhang Heng and Lin Xi couldn't help laughing, no wonder Zhang Yue was scolded.

The original source is 'Or Confucius said: 'Zi Xi does not govern? 'The Master said: 'The book says: "filial piety is only filial piety, friendship is with brothers, and government is exercised."''

Anyone who has read the Analects will know that this sentence comes from a piece of Weizheng. Confucius quoted the scriptures when answering the questions of his disciples.

But which passage of the book is quoted?Most people don't care.

But after Zhang Yue read the book, he saw the chapter "Jun Chen".

The original text is 'Jun Chen Ruo said: "Jun Chen, only you are filial and respectful. Only filial friends are brothers, and you have government. You are ordered to be in the eastern suburbs. Respect!"''

This sentence is similar to the source.

Then the problem is coming.

Zhang Yue asked the professor for some inconsistency between these two sentences. Who was wrong in the Analects of Confucius?
So the professor was furious. You didn’t study hard, and you didn’t give exegesis, but he wondered whether it was the correct version of the Analects of Confucius or the Shangshu Liangjing.

If the Analects of Confucius is right, the book is wrong, and if the book is wrong, the Analects is right.What is the scripture?Even a single word cannot be changed, every sentence is a golden rule, and if the emperor's imperial edict is wrong, the scriptures will not be wrong.Zhang Yue's move is not to respect the scriptures but to doubt the scriptures, which is a disobedient act in the eyes of the scholars.

The crowd who learned the truth laughed and walked away, Zhang Heng also smiled and said to Lin Xi, "What do you think, Brother Zizhong?"

Lin Xiluo thought: "Jun Chen's article is from the ancient text Shangshu, which is the national book of the sage No. 11 grandson Kong An. It was lost in the chaos of Yongjia. The book presented by Yuzhang Neishi Meizi gave us what we read today. It has not been unsuspected since the Tang Dynasty.”

"Yes, how did you evaluate this child before?"

Zhang Heng thought for a while and said, "I don't know how to do it."

Lin Xi smiled and said, "Of course."

"Oh? What's the meaning of this statement?"

Lin Xi said, "If you don't learn the art, what if you learn it?"

Hearing what Lin Xi said, everyone was in an uproar.

Zhang Heng was also somewhat skeptical.

(End of this chapter)