Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 142

The room is very small, less than one meter wide and about 1.8 meters long. The walls on both sides of the room have been peeled off, exposing the green bricks inside. Although it was cleaned a few days ago, there is still a faint musty smell.

Directly in front, about thigh level, was a plank the size of a small door, resting on two protruding bricks.

This board can be used to lie on and sleep on, or as a stool to sit on.

There was also a smaller wooden board on the door. After a little thought, Fanning realized that this small wooden board should be a table. He picked up the small wooden board and put it on the two bricks in front of him. Chest, this wooden board has a thick layer of oily luster, and stains left by ink can be seen everywhere.

Thinking of ink, Fanning looked up, and saw a very old basket hanging above his head, which he took down from the hook.

There were a lot of things in the basket, including an inkstone, a new pen, half a piece of residual ink, most of a candle, a piece of flint, two pieces of paper for pasting names, a bottle of paste, and a bamboo tube for clear water.

At this time, a soldier came with a bucket and said coldly, "Put the bamboo tube on the table!"

Fan Ning quickly put the bamboo tube on the table. The soldier filled the bamboo tube with a ladle of water, and then said, "You can light the candle."

Fanning lit the candle, and the room suddenly became brighter, and he felt a little warmth in his heart.

A little bit of time passed, and the sky was already bright. At this time, all the candidates had entered the arena, and the soldiers slammed the gate of the examination hall shut.

Each alley is in charge of two soldiers and an invigilator, and the first one at the end of the alley is a toilet with a dung bucket inside.

No. [-] and No. [-] are always the poorest. They sit next to the dung bucket and have to endure the pungent stench.

However, the provincial test is much better. There are no candidates in the two test numbers near the dung bucket, but the solution to the test has not been considered so much, and there will always be candidates who will unfortunately get a dung number.

At this time, a bell rang in the distance, which was a request to start preparations.

It was only then that Fan Ning discovered that there was a thin rope next to the wall. It turned out that there was a bell hanging outside. When the bell was ringing, the invigilator would come.

Zhao Xiuwen told them that they can only ring the bell when going to the toilet and handing in papers, and try not to ring the bell for other special things.

Otherwise, being stared at by the invigilator and giving a bad comment on the examination style will affect the examiner's evaluation of the paper.

There are many details in solving the test. If you are not careful, you will be recruited. Every candidate needs to be careful. To this extent, solving the test is more tense than a war.

At this time, the invigilator began to distribute the test papers, each with four sheets of paper, two of which were official test papers and the other two were draft papers.

Today is the first day of the interpretation test, the argumentative essay will be tested, the countermeasure essay will be tested tomorrow, and the scriptures and poems will be tested the day after tomorrow.

The time is the same, four hours, in which the argumentative essay should not be less than [-] words, and the countermeasure essay should not be less than [-] words.

The candle had already been extinguished, and it was put into the basket. Fan Ning calmly began to grind ink, and patiently waited for the bell to ring for the official start of the exam.

'Boom-thump-'

The deep bell rang dully, and the second year of Emperor Song Huangyou's test finally kicked off.

Scholars first wrote their names, hometowns and examination room numbers on the paper with a pen, and then wrote the paper number on the upper left corner.

Then there's a bell 'clang!Bang! 'Here came the sound, which made every scholar hold his breath. It was the sound of a question, and the question only appeared once. If you couldn't see it clearly, you had to ring the bell, but that would definitely cause the invigilator to be unhappy.

The bell rang in front of Fanning, and a soldier appeared, holding a sign with the topic of today's discussion on the sign.

"Spring and Autumn Unjust War"

Sure enough, it was the same as the memory in his mind, and there was no deviation. Fan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, picked up a pen and wrote down the title of today's argumentative paper on the manuscript paper: "The Unjust War in Spring and Autumn".

This is "Mencius.A sentence from "With all my heart".

Mencius said: "There is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period."If he is good at this, he has it.Crusades are from the top to the bottom, and the enemy countries do not compete with each other for conquest. '

The general meaning of this passage is that there was no moral war in the Spring and Autumn Period.At most, this country may be better than that country. ． ． ． ． ．

There have been various explanations on how to understand this passage of Mencius.

Sun Tzu pointed out at the beginning of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" that "soldiers are the great affairs of the country. The place of death and life, the way of survival, must be investigated."

Fan Ning thought of Zhu Xi's understanding of this passage in "Four Books Collected Notes".

In "Spring and Autumn", every book about the wars and conquests of the princes must be ridiculed and demoted, because of the crime of arrogance, no one thinks it is in line with justice and allows it.But there are those who are good at this among others, such as the teacher of Zhaoling.

However, from Fan Ning's personal attitude, he did not quite agree with Mencius's words.

Without the melee of the Spring and Autumn Period, how could there be the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period?Without the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, how could there be the unification of the Qin Dynasty?Without the foundation of great unification, how could China rise again?
History has its own laws. If everyone obeys righteousness and does not fight, and the vassal states maintain harmony for 2000 years, then China in future generations will be a mess.

From the point of view of historical materialism, the Spring and Autumn Period is indeed a war without justice, but this kind of war is necessary.

Disapproval is disapproval, but Fan Ning still has to follow the righteousness and write an argumentative essay that can get him a high score.

Fan Ning had been preparing this article for a long time, and after a moment of pondering, Fan Ning wrote his argumentative paper on the manuscript paper.

Although the argumentative essays in the Song Dynasty were not as rigid in format as the eight-legged essays in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in the imperial examinations, they generally stated their own opinions directly.

There is no way around this. The examiners have to face thousands of papers. Generally, they don’t have much patience to help you scrutinize them carefully. Generally, halfway through the examination, the examinee is still chattering. Immediately sentenced to death.

The examiner's eye must be caught in the first two or three sentences.

Fan Ning had prepared at least three plans before, and he was still undecided. At this moment, he finally decided to use Zhu Xi's annotations as his beginning.

"Spring and Autumn Unjust War"

In "Spring and Autumn", every book about the wars and conquests of the princes must be ridiculed and demoted, because of the crime of arrogance, no one thinks it is in line with justice and allows it.

But there are those who are good at this among others, such as the teacher of Zhaoling.

The husband's so-called righteous fighters must be those who use the orders of the emperor. If enemy countries fight, there will be no king.

People call him Master Si, so what is the meaning?

This "Spring and Autumn" has the meaning of respecting the king, and Mencius described it as an edict for the world.

Gai said, what is the meaning of "Spring and Autumn"? Husband's "Spring and Autumn" fakes the history of Lu in order to embody the king's law, and reverses the chaos. That's all.

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Fan Ning wrote more than [-] words in one go, and stopped writing. He estimated the time it took, and it only took more than half an hour, which made Fan Ning quite proud.

But what is done in one go is only creativity. To write a good article, it must be constantly revised, refined, and tempered to succeed.

Fan Ning sank down again, pondering over each word.

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'when!when!when! '

The bell rang, and it was time for the lunch break, and the soldiers began to distribute lunch to each room.

Lunch is very simple, two steamed buns with shredded radish and minced meat, and a bowl of vegetable soup per person.

This is also the most criticized part of the Examination Institute. This lunch is sold for eight cents at most, and even three meals are only twenty yuan, but the Examination Institute actually charges a lunch fee of one hundred cents per person.

It is inevitable that the sacred imperial examinations will also be stained with a trace of copper.

Noon is also the time when candidates are not restricted from ringing the bell, and the bells of the test number keep ringing, asking to go to the toilet.

The invigilator watched the students of each test number enter and leave expressionlessly.

At this time, the bell on No. 24 rang, and a soldier ran over. Not long after, the soldier ran to the invigilator and whispered: "Please examiner, please go and have a look!"

The invigilator frowned, what's the problem, not enough papers, or not enough pen and ink?
He walked quickly to the door of examination number 24, and saw that the examinees inside were carefully sticking their names on a line with their name strips.

"What are you going to do?" the invigilator asked a little unhappy.

"Report to the examiner, the student requests to hand in the paper!"

"carry out an assignment?"

The invigilator froze for a moment, "Is it too early to hand in the test paper?"

Fan Ning said lightly: "The students have already finished their work and have been waiting for noon. They should be able to hand in their papers now."

When the lunch break bell rings, it is noon. According to regulations, students can hand in papers after noon.

In fact, when it was noon, the exam time had passed for three hours, and there was still one hour left before the end of the exam. At this time, handing in the papers had little effect.

The invigilator nodded, "Wait a minute, after the lunch break, I will collect the papers!"

There was only a quarter of an hour for the lunch break, and the alley soon became quiet. The students finished their lunch quickly and began to write again. It was less than an hour before the papers were handed in, and everyone began to feel anxious.

Then the invigilator came to the examination room No. 24 with his hands behind his back, and slowly said to Fan Ning, "I'll give you one more chance, and you can withdraw your request to submit the paper!"

Fan Ning handed the paper to the examiner, and said calmly: "The student has already checked it, confirm to hand in the paper!"

"All right!"

The invigilator took the test paper and the manuscript, and walked out of the way, "You can leave, try to keep quiet and don't affect others."

Fan Ning put the kettle on his back, took the floating ticket and the test card, quickly walked out of the test number, and walked quickly to the gate.

The invigilator looked at the background of Fan Ning going away, shook his head secretly, and looked at his paper number, Ding Liuqisan, it turned out to be a boy test candidate.

The invigilator became somewhat interested, and began to carefully read the argumentative essay written by Fan Ning. After reading only a few sentences, he was attracted and couldn't help but read it carefully. ． ． ． ． ．
Fan Ning was not the first scholar to pass the exam. He walked to the entrance of the examination hall and saw two students walking out of the gate.

He knew these two people, they were both Changzhou County Boys' Exam candidates, one was Jiang Feng, the other was Yao Xi, unexpectedly they had handed in their papers early.

Fan Ning walked out of the gate, and Zhao Xiuwen, who was waiting outside the gate, was stunned for a moment. He saw Jiang Feng and Yao Xi coming out just now, and Guo Yun went up to question them with an angry face.

Unexpectedly, Fan Ning also came out. You must know that Fan Ning is his most valued student, and he is also the only hope for the boy to try Wu County this time.

Boys' exams are different from ordinary adult imperial examinations. Boys' exams are not only the glory of scholars themselves, but also represent the young students of a county.

It can be said that Fan Ning influenced Gao Fei, the county magistrate, and Yang Han, the county magistrate, to some extent, but it was such a county magistrate leader whom Zhao Xiuwen was looking forward to, who turned in the paper an hour earlier.

Although Zhao Xiuwen had a very good self-cultivation, he finally couldn't help it, and hurried forward and asked, "Fan Ning, what's going on, why are you handing in the paper now?"

(End of this chapter)