Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

At dawn, several censors and supervisors inspected the examination room and assigned a government guard sergeant to guard each examination number. The examinees were ordered not to sit up and walk around at will, and the first examination was considered to be officially opened.

The papers that were handed over to the concierge room of Shuntian Mansion earlier were sent out, each with a printed test paper, and 23 questions were printed neatly on the paper: three questions with four books, 20 questions from the Five Classics, candidates. According to their own scriptures, we picked out the four questions to be done.

If there are talents who have fully studied the Five Classics, or they can do all the twenty questions of the Five Classics-as long as they have the ability to answer them, no matter how good the answers are, they can also win the name of "learning should be learned". To be taken.

Of course Choi Xie lacks the spirit and academic ability. Based on the experience handed down by his teachers and predecessors, there are seven essays in the field. The only focus is on the first one. Later, the examiner has insufficient energy and will not read it carefully. It is directly written on the familiar essays that have been written, or even seen before. It’s okay to have text in the house. Even if the examiner recognizes it, you won't blame you for the attack, but you have to take it, because it has been evaluated by other examiners and the level is high enough.

If another examiner was the chief examiner, he could copy a copy, but Teacher Li was the chief examiner. As a disciple, he was linked to Teacher Li's reputation, let alone a slight mistake. There were more than 2,300 people participating in this township test, but only 135 people were relieved. As soon as the test was over, there would be talents who came to the Shuntian Mansion to beat Li Dongyang for private admission.

If he copied other people’s writings, the unqualified candidates would have to attack the examiner for unfairness and take him as an inexperienced person; if he used his own old writings, someone with a heart would be more likely to frame Li Dongyang in advance. give him……

Cheng Minzheng will fall over here in ten years' time. How dare he take this risk!

Cui Xie took a deep breath, read the seven test questions from beginning to end, found out the source of the questions, covered the paper, and silently wrote the first four-book question: "It's not good for a villain to live in idleness, and he can do everything. When he sees a gentleman, he becomes disgusted. Cover up the bad, and use the good."

This question comes from "University", the original text is in the chapter "Sincere". To live alone is to be alone. Disgusted, dispel the appearance of being depressed. Zhu Zi said: Those who are sincere are the beginning of self-cultivation. The self-cultivation of a gentleman is to be honest with the outside, and to be careful not to deceive oneself.

The gentleman is like this, but the villain can't be "cautious". When living alone, he will indulge his heart and do evil wantonly. The villain is not ignorant of the argument between good and evil. He doesn’t know how to do good and get rid of evil. He just indulges evil for good and difficult. Only after seeing a gentleman, he will be ashamed of his actions, cover his evil, deceive for good, and disguise himself. Become a good person.

However, how can these concealments be deceived by the ten eyes and the ten hands?

For example, Wan Guifei nowadays, since the prince was old and stable, she also pretended to be a gentle and graceful concubine, letting go and let the emperor give birth to so many sons; for example, the **** Wang was fighting for corruption and fighting for the country. The title of slaughter and tortured Qingliu, killing good at the border; for example, Wan Ge, when Wang Zhi fell out of favor, sent a memorial to the Guanxi factory, as if he was also a veteran who was loyal to the country; The official censor, in order to sell his fame, discourage the emperor from giving favor to a certain Jinyiwei Qianhu, and forbid him to be promoted to try the town's caretaker...

A wise gentleman like him can see through the essence of those villains at a glance!

Of course, you can’t directly refer to current events in the examination paper, but Cui Xie first separates the gentleman from the villain, standing on the height of the real gentleman, condescendingly criticize those villains who pretend to be gentlemen, but secretly do wicked things. : "To deceive a gentleman with a self-deceiver, and a villain is hypocritical!"

The problem is broken according to my own mind, but I still have to respond to the problem, or copy the original problem, slightly modify it, and write "The husband is not good or bad, but he is idle when he is idle, and when he sees a gentleman, he uses it to cover up. Now, self-deception is so great!"

The word "covering" in the question is to abbreviate the original question "to cover up what is not good, and to use what is good".

The villain sees that a gentleman will cover his evil and use his good, isn't this deceiving himself? This sentence of "self-deception" also corresponds to the "self-deception man who deceives the gentleman" in the broken title. The two sentences are self-corresponding, and they are consistent with the title without a trace. He feels very happy when he writes it himself. There are countless sentences rushing to pour out of the pen, which is indeed a good start.

This day, I have to write seven articles for more than ten hours, and eat three meals in between. In the evening, my energy tends to be exhausted along with my physical strength. It is evenly distributed, and each article has at most one hour to conceive. If it is stuck on the first question, it will not only consume time, but also consume his confidence. The latter questions can only be more difficult than one.

Now he takes less time on the first question, and he may have less than half an hour to finish the draft, and he has more physical and energy to deal with the following questions.

The next question is from the "Analects of Confucius", which is from the "The Analects of Confucius: Shuer": "You do not fish but do not aim, and you do not shoot at night."

Confucius was a poor and humble boy. He used to hunt for fishing, but he did not open a net to catch everything when he was fishing, and he did not shoot resting birds while shooting. This shows the human heart. There are things that see people, and they are small and big, which shows the saint’s love for the world.

But this sentence is a separate paragraph, and it must be done in the original sentence when answering the question. There is no reason to break the original question to the comment. The original name of the thing in the question cannot appear in the broken question, and all can be replaced by "thing". Therefore, for Confucius' benevolence, one can only point to "loving things", and the love of things will be extended to the master's benevolence.

He simply and plainly extracted the central idea of ​​the original text, and broke the sentence "I want to catch sight of the saint, and see the benevolence of the beloved." Fishing is commonplace, and the fish and the shooters are too hunted, and the master does not use such techniques. , Don't you just show the benevolence of the master?

From loving things, then pushing to benevolent people, conceiving the world.

Shooting and hunting are for the survival of the people. If only the objects of love are not captured by shooting, the people will have no way to survive, so cherishing creatures is putting the cart before the horse. Therefore, the saint does not take this action, but fishing and hunting by the law, should eat and use, first fill the belly of the people, and fulfill the ritual regulations, but don't fish because of the exhaustion of the appetite and give the animals room to thrive.

Confucius' choice between animal protection and human rights is just so reasonable.

"The master said: The blessing of the kindness of the world, the small one is all fate, and the big one appeals to the husband and the world." This choice is simple and simple, and contains a little ecological balance. The proliferation of animals, in turn, can make people hunt inexhaustible, abundant food, stable country, and achieve the harmonious coexistence of humans and animals.

And this kind of harmony shows the benevolence and virtue of the Master "love things"!

After finishing the second question, the sun is still hanging diagonally in the northeast. The sky is much brighter than when the hair is curled, and it is not dazzling. The wind blows from the door, and the paper trembles slightly. Good time.

Cui Xie pressed the second draft to the table, closed his eyes and did eye exercises, and read the third question in his mind by the way.

The first question on the township examination paper is people and people, the second question is people and nature, and the third question does not slide all the way to the animal world, but rises to the court—it is "Mencius·Gongsun Chouzhangju" "The second chapter of "There are Da Zun three in the world, Jue one, tooth one, and virtue one."

He was particularly impressed by this sentence. During the official examination, Yongping Mansion Prince Fuzun took the couplet to test him after he collected the papers. One of the pages he answered was: "The emperor of ten thousand years must respect the first, the first, and the first. Danzhao, know hundreds of millions of livelihoods."

It was this sentence that entered Wang Fuzun’s heart, and when he was scoring the papers, he was a little bit biased towards him, and he was appointed as the leader of the test case. Otherwise, among the thousands of candidates in Yongping Palace, how could there be no better answer than him? people?

This question is his lucky question. Choi Xie smiled and copied the question onto the roll of paper.

The expert, the pass also. There are three kinds of respects in the world. That is to say, the only things that can be undoubtedly respected by the people of the world are the three things of "honor, tooth, and virtue".

The imperial court emphasizes nobility, and it is not up and down; the township party emphasizes filial piety and righteousness; it helps the world to live up to the people's morals and to be honest. These three are not self-respect, but the world respects them, and because the world respects them, distinguishes them from the top and bottom, is clear, and has good customs, they can make the court stable, the people are filial, and the morals are honest.

These three four-book questions are compulsory for five-room candidates, and the competition is also extremely fierce. As long as the five-jing questions are compared with the candidates in the same room, the difficulty is always lower than the three four-book questions.

Cui Xie turned over the three sets of papers and checked it from beginning to end. There was no space in front of the "sage", whether he had committed the taboo of the present and his father and grandfather, whether there were any typos... After all, he checked it out. Lang Lang Sun copied onto the roll of paper.

The twelve-page roll paper has written more than three pages, and the empty half page and the next eight pages are left for the longer five-script questions.

Cui Xie dried the roll of paper and carefully received it in the roll bag. Seeing that it was still early, he bowed his head and started to study the Five Classics. The guards of the palace army guarding outside the examination number stared at him closely, lest he missed the cheating by mistake, and when he saw him raising his head and suspected that he was going to show respect, he hurriedly divided his eyes to see if the inspector came.

However, Cui Xie made preparations early, and he never left the exam number that day, and Xie Mo was also in the prepared Gong bucket. Although the smell is not good, everyone came here like this. It’s better than trying half of the test to call the patrol officer to seal the seal, and the two defenders would go to the hut with two guards, and the outside curtain officer and the sergeant would be the same as the thief. look.

Lunch and dinner are provided by the Gongyuan. The taste is not as good as the nutritious meal ordered in the elementary school canteen, and the quality is even lower. Fortunately, it has arrived in the cool autumn weather and there is no peculiar smell.

Thanks to the high-intensity simulation questions a few days ago, he practiced quickly. When it was time for dinner, he had just finished the last poem question, simply saved a meal, endured hunger, checked for errors and omissions, and copied the question onto the examination paper.

The sky was still yellow and bright at this time, and the sunlight coming in from outside the door of the room was falling on the roll of paper, and it took at least an hour to get out. He sat on the chair with his eyes closed, opened the PDF in his brain and checked it from start to finish-so that the check was not eye-intensive, and he could see clearly and comprehensively in his mind, faster than looking at it with his eyes.

After checking the seven chapters from beginning to end, Cui Xie didn't want to wait any longer before the palm of his hand. He got up and said to the soldier, "I want to hand in the paper."

The troupe was very vigorous. He never thought he would not cheat because of his good-looking appearance. He stared at him with good eyes all the way to pack the papers and drafts, and accompany him to the censor's office to register the papers. The collecting officer signs and seals, and after changing hands, he seals the test papers and takes them to the transcript officer to record them into a red scroll, and send them to the poetry room for review by the examiner.

The examination papers were delivered to the examiner's room one after another in the afternoon. Cui Xie was not handing in the earliest batch. There were also two or three people who handed in the papers during the same period, and they were not conspicuous in a pile of red papers. Although the two examiners knew that Cui Xie was also in the test, they were staring at the candidates who had been taught in advance, and they were discussing the candidates' answers while making judgments.

Cui Xie made the limelight in the imperial court with the base of "The Story of Wang Yao Niang's Pipa". Almost everyone in the imperial court knew his name. The two co-testers Liang Chu and Zhang Pu were also the chief writer Yang Tinghe in the same year. They were close to him. They had both read the academy and sentenced the test papers he gave to the prince’s companion. They knew Cui Xie’s writing style. I was guessing which one of his papers when I was doing it.

This "Qiqing, strong pen and perfect sense of footwork" is like his style; the article "Strengthen the bones, the abundance and sharpness" is familiar to you; although the first one was handed in, a few sentences were not concise enough, But it is also "rigorous in metric and precise in reasoning and law", which is what the disciple of Xi Ya should have...

The two of them discussed it all afternoon to no avail. They simply ate the exquisite delicacies specially provided for the examiner first, and then took the newly delivered Zhujuan to digest.

The author has something to say: This is copied from the Qing Dynasty Zhu Juan compilation, Cai Zhenwu Juan

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