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chapter 109
The last champion is someone else

In the spring of 1894, in order to celebrate the 60th birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi, the Qing government opened a special imperial examination. Zhang Jian was appreciated by the chief examiner in this examination, and he was the number one scholar in high school.

Zhang Jian is a well-known figure in modern history. He is a national industrialist who "saved the country by industry", and is also the "last champion".But he is not the last champion in Chinese history.

In fact, the last champion was named Liu Chunlin (1872-1944) from Suning, Hebei. In 1904, he won the first place in Jiachen Enke, and he was the last champion in Chinese history.

In 1872, Liu Chunlin was born in an ordinary peasant family in Beishibao Village, Suning County, Zhili Province. His father was a simple and honest farmer.Forced by life, my father took the whole family to a relative's house in Baoding Prefecture.According to someone's introduction, my father went to the government office as an errand and became a Zaoli.

In 1903, Liu Chunlin and his brothers took part in the palace examination together. As a result, Liu Chuntang was admitted as a Jinshi, but Liu Chunlin unexpectedly failed.The imperial examination generally takes one subject every three years. Since the following year coincides with the 70th birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi, Jiachen Section was added and called Jiachen Enke.On July 7th of this year, Liu Chunlin participated in the palace examination again, and won the first place in the first class in one fell swoop, and won the number one scholar. In 4, under the pressure of public opinion, Empress Dowager Cixi announced the suspension of imperial examinations and the promotion of schools.The abolition of the imperial examination system made Liu Chunlin the last champion in Chinese history.

In 1907, Liu Chunlin, the number one scholar, was sent to study in Japan.After the Revolution of 1944, he resigned from public office and stayed at home without participating in political affairs.After the September 73th Incident, Zheng Xiaoxu, the prime minister of the puppet "Manchuria", sent someone in the name of Pu Yi to invite him to be the Minister of Education.He said that the king is not the king of the past, and the ministers are not the ministers of the past, so he flatly rejected it.The July [-] Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, and the Japanese invaded and occupied Pingjin. Wang Yitang, chairman of the North China Political Affairs Committee of the traitor organization, personally invited him to be the pseudo-mayor of Beiping, as a Jinshi of the same subject and a student studying in Japan.Liu Chunlin reprimanded him face-to-face, cursing sharply: "I must not attach myself to foreigners!" Wang Yitang became furious and sent troops to search his house and drive Liu Chunlin out of the house.After this blow, Liu Chunlin was devastated physically and mentally. He died of a heart attack in [-] at the age of [-].

Liu Chunlin is erudite and talented, and has profound attainments in ancient characters, history and epigraphy.He is good at calligraphy, especially in lower script. So far, there is still a saying in the calligraphy world that "big script learns from Yan (Zhenqing), and lower script learns from Liu (Chunlin)".Liu Chunlin reviewed the past and summed up his life in the poem "Sixty Self-Reports", calling himself "the last person in No. 1", "the ambition in life is not food and clothing", "no lofty position and lofty behavior".

Liu Chunlin was able to maintain the evening festival, with awe-inspiring righteousness and the demeanor of a champion.He angrily denounced traitors, and his patriotic deed of not being a subjugated slave was praised by people.

It is worth mentioning that although Zhang Jian was not the last number one scholar in the Qing Dynasty, he was the most influential number one scholar in modern Chinese history.

Zhang Jian, courtesy name Jizhi, nicknamed Sian, was born in Changle Town, Haimen, Tongzhou (now Nantong), Jiangsu Province. He was a famous industrialist, educator, and representative of the constitutional school in modern times.He was a scholar at the age of 16, won the first prize in the year when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and was appointed as the editor of the Imperial Academy.China's fiasco in the Sino-Japanese War deeply stimulated him.He gave up his official position to devote himself to his career and education.He used his prestige and family property to actively set up industries, and successively built Dasheng Spinning Mill, salt industry, oil extraction, flour, iron smelting, ships and other enterprises, forming the Dasheng Spinning Mill Capital Group.Zhang Qian is an advocate of "saving the country by industry" and "saving the country by education", and has devoted his life to his cause, so he is known as the "number one capitalist".

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