Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Liu Jian is the second place on the Xie Qian list in the eleventh year of Chenghua. He is known for his integrity. He is only as famous as the top picks Xie Qian and Tanhua Wang, who are tied together on the list. He is not weaker than others in terms of qualifications and knowledge. He is better at commenting on articles. . To get him a compliment, the "Chinese article" must be a good essay that is exuberant and elegant and recordable.

The four examiners in the same room couldn't help putting down the scrolls and blue pens in their hands, and also took a look.

"Sacred learning was taught in the past... the emperor has learned, so maintain this heart to rule out, and the Taoist also." Liu Jian pushed out the paper, and he whispered the good sentence in the volume: "How many people write only about sacred learning." Can you write "Respect to Heaven and Dharma Ancestor", how many can write that the sacred learning is the way of the emperor's rule?"

The editor Zeng Yan read an article carefully, and praised: "Students from today, Da You don’t even read this sutra very deeply. Chunqiu reads only Hu Zhuan, poems and Yi read only Zhu Zhuan, and rituals only use annotations, The book only learns from the Chua family... Except for the four books and five classics, I don’t even bother to touch them. Those who can recite the emperor's ancestral instructions are already considered as diligent students. This example can actually remember the "Hongwu Shengzheng Ji". This kind of dedication alone is worth recommending."

After all, policy questioning was not the most important hurdle for recruiting scholars. He curiously turned the paper forward, wanting to see how well the scripture question was answered.

The two examiners who were farther away had not finished reading, and pulled his sleeves to make him slow down. Liu Jian simply retelled the whole article to them-he could be sandwiched between Xie Qian and Wang Hua To be ranked second in this subject, I am also a person with a aptitude far superior to ordinary people, and meekness is only a basic talent.

He repeated it with accents and wrongly: "Taste the view contained in "Sheng Zheng Ji," the vast and unobtrusive righteousness, and promote the enlightenment of Confucius; trance and fear, denounce the illusion of the gods, we must use the righteous man to understand the art of the tree. To rebuke evil in order to get rid of the evil, the Taoism is clear and the talents can argue!"

The two room examiners who heard him read the article couldn't help but nod their heads:

"Honesty can be described as loyalty and love."

"It is indeed appropriate to persuade and loyalty."

The words and sentences are to persuade the emperor to inherit the heavenly ancestors and expel the evil villains-such as Li Zixing and Seng Jixiao who use the theory of gods and ghosts to deceive the saints. Such a person who is loyal and loves the emperor will be able to become a worthy person in the court in a few years!

Zeng Yan has also turned to the forefront of the volume, starting from the "Zi Wenshao Qi".

The lines transcribed in Zhubi have used horizontal lines to break good sentences, and the side columns are almost full of blue circles, only occasionally empty. In the blank space at the back of the volume, Liu Xueshi criticized the sentence "The saint's unique interest has been exhausted, and what he saw is also profound."

He sentenced the papers for several days, and many of them were comments on "completely forming a chapter" and "good for the purpose". In fact, he didn't believe in Liu Xueshi's saying "the saint's unique taste was exhausted", and he smiled slightly and read it for himself. Up.

The broken title contains the word "learning", and the sentence "I don't know the smell of meat in March" is picked up to make the meaning clear, which is considered to be a profound reading of the saint. But he is not the only one who can make it to this point, he is careful, but he is not unique...

While examining the text closely, he contrasted with Liu Jian's comments and circles, feeling that he had given it a slightly higher evaluation. But when I saw the sentence of “thinking about the virtues of Shun, his heart is more than usual; hearing the happiness of Shun, his body is as if he was at the time”, suddenly a trace of thought flashed in his heart-substituting yourself into Confucius, just like yourself When you hear the sound of "Shao Le" in Qi State, when you have the heart of Mu Shun with ambitions, you feel improperly as if you were at the time?

He reads this text with the thought of "being at the time". When a saint hears sacred music, will he feel like seeing the sacred virtue?

Sweeping his gaze over the next line, there was another sentence that perfectly fits his mood at this time, "So not just listen to the ear, but the real agreement is in the heart." He suddenly felt his heart and understood why Liu Jian wrote "Sage "The unique fun has been exhausted."

The examiner who can make him understand the state of mind of Confucius at that time, this article is indeed called "exhausted." Not only is it exhausted, the sage’s mentality when learning music is not easy to know, not easy to speak, this article can be written so deep, as if standing outside the Confucian sect and listening to it, one can advocate and sigh three times.

He simply took the pen immediately, wrote his own comment after Liu Ping, and did not return his papers, so he read it on his own.

The second chapter "The Administration of Civil and Martial Arts" is also called Liu Jian's highly commented. The commentary is "Gao Zhiwei, published as Hongyin, but the ancient books are deep and he knows its meaning."

Zeng Yan is no longer picky as he was in the first article, but instead of being an examiner, he reads it carefully, just like when a colleague introduces him to a good article.

This article was broken without breaking the topic, but it was broken according to the original topic, "The saint asks about Lu Jun's politics, and he uses the thoughts of the father of law." However, one or two comparisons of civil and military politics can imitate the policies of the previous generations. Suddenly, the sentence "covers a generation of governance, there must be a generation of governance, according to what the world is suitable for, so it is controlled", suddenly the article The pattern awareness has reached a height that is difficult for everyone to reach.

He watched heartily and couldn't bear to release the scroll. After repeated aftertastes, he had to admire Liu Jian's evaluation: "Sure enough, there is a high sense of wisdom, a clear and honest manner, and it is different from the fishing and hunting Chen Yan, the glyph and the wrong color."

With these two texts, he couldn't bear to pass this paper.

If there are format errors or too much alteration, in the copying step, the people in the Chinese bookstore responsible for the copying will be rejected. Those that can be in the hands of the house master must be good papers with correct text and regular format, and they will be taken directly. It doesn't hurt. However, Liu Xueshi is a rigorous person, and he must read the last volume before he decides to leave. He also read a few more.

After reading a lot, he also discovered Cui Xie's routine-almost all of them are correcting the problem, and then discussing according to the score of the question, and finally throwing a big knot to break the problem. Although the pattern is somewhat patterned, the text is graceful, elegant and harmonious, with detailed discussions, and the level of knowledge is always higher than others. It seems that he was born in the family of Shilu and he is familiar with government affairs.

He naturally did not know that there is a kind of "keyboard politician" in this world, nor did he know that a traverser who was born more than 500 years later was mixed in this subject, but the more he looked at it, the more he lamented the examinee’s extraordinary knowledge. .

When he saw the "Fake Music" article that started with "Lehua", he would not dislike Cui Xie's routine again.

Those who can only write routines are called routines. They can create new ideas that everyone hasn't discovered, and write the most difficult "le" in a creative, clear and thorough manner. His format is well-written!

Such a paper can't be taken, he can be expelled from the curtain directly by the room examiner!

He did not hesitate to compliment the words "music is the most difficult to speak, music is the best of virtue, and those who understand it can only see this", he read the article repeatedly and added a few blue circles in the blank space.

After the twenty-day papers were judged, Liu and Zeng recommended this paper to the two chief examiners at the same time as Fang Jingkui: "Although this is the northern paper, the examinees have a high level of knowledge and tolerance but no less than the southern scholars. ，The text is also elegant and graceful, quite impressive. Although the volume in the Book of Songs has better literary talents than this volume, it is hard to compare in terms of its breadth of knowledge, loyalty, and profound meaning. It's him."

Both Liu and Zeng, and the examiner Yin Zhi, both came out of Jiangxi Province, a large scientific research province, and they can be regarded as some fellow countrymen. Yin Zhi did the third assistant in the cabinet, thinking about two steps forward day and night, he needed the strong support of his fellow villagers, and the papers recommended by the two villagers would naturally give some face.

And this paper is printed with the word "North Book". The learning style in the north is far lower than that in the south, but the number of places taken during the test accounted for 33%. The competition is not fierce. Take one paper and discard one paper. It's not a big deal.

He nodded happily because he wanted to sell his personal affection, and took the test paper and put it in front of his seat: "The one that can be recommended by the two house masters is a recordable paper. The officer will go back and review it carefully."

The deputy examiner Wu Kuan kept silent, but took the paper from before the case and looked through it, trying to see if there were any secret notes, so that the three Jiangxi examiners could work together to choose it.

——It is true that he was overshadowed by the cheating by the chief assistant Wanan Wange.

Because Wan'an’s grandson Wan Hongbi took part in the current examination, in order to call his grandson the middle examination, Wan Ge asked to order two percent of each of the southern and northern volumes to be divided into the middle volume, so that every 100 people who took the middle volume test would win Fourteen people. This kind of thing can be done. The imperial court's majesty of recruiting scholars is almost gone. It is not uncommon for any official underneath to ask for the second and third assistants.

Master Wu opened the examination paper with the idea of ​​exposing fraud and fraud for the country, and it turned out that what he saw was not a secretly memorized article, but a story written by Zhuang Li and Ming Ying, and that one. A powerful topic of police policy.

The title of "The Lord Is Not Right" was written by him. The title seems to be easy but difficult, it is difficult to get rid of the staleness, and it is difficult to speak up. And this article did not start with the example of "Mencius sees the king of Qi three times without admonition, so as to get rid of his evil heart", which is commonly used by other candidates. Instead, it uses the sentence "The world has no rule outside the heart". To be exhausted, it is even more convincing in the heart of "benevolence and righteousness", which can be said to be self-explanatory and self-explanatory.

The words are advisable, the intention is commendable, and the heart of loyalty and love in the text is even more admiring! Not only does this candidate have no suspicion of cheating, he is also the most loyal and straightforward gentleman that the country should take!

Wu Yude secretly regretted that he had misunderstood the two room examiners, and also missed the examinee. He dipped heavily in blue ink. After the four room masters had judged, he criticized a sentence full of expectation, "I will look forward to the future of the future. , Its worthless!"

After he approved the paper, he changed his hands and put it on the desk, and said to Yin Zhi: "The next official has already read this excellent work of scholar Rong Weijingkui's article, and I really see that it is quite impressive. Although it is the northern scroll, he is resigned. His high level and his expertise in the study and analysis of the scriptures are by no means inferior to the few southern scrolls that Xiaguan had previously read, which shows that the bachelor's vision is extraordinary."

Yin Zhizheng was busy picking out the exam paper of Lord Wan from the middle paper. He didn't want to look at anything else. He only smiled faintly when he heard the words: "Master Wu is old in essays, and naturally has excellent eyesight. You are the deputy chief tester and the ability to rank south is in the exam. Is there anything wrong with this article?"

He put all the other papers aside, and read the forty-nine middle volumes first, looking for Wan Hongbi's papers. After reading it, I felt that the article didn’t look like it. I went to every room to search the paper for fear of missing it. Finally, I found the test paper that he had taught him how to write the article, and the words and sentences were familiar. One hundred and ten.

Wan Hongbi is the grandson of the first assistant, and taking this exam is already attracting attention. If he gets too high, he is afraid that he will have to deal with the matter. What's more, this test paper was just found out of the paper, and the circles and comments of several fellow examiners are vividly visible. It is not a good work, and it is really difficult to mention the first.

He is a cabinet bachelor, and Jane is a man of identity. Even if he inherited the grace of ten thousand heads and assistants who brought him into the cabinet, he could not be like the little officials below. He would do everything to curry favor with the heads and assistants. If he puts it too high, his own face and literary pride will make life difficult for.

It was because Wan Hongbi's papers told him to stuff him into the middle-examination papers, he judged the other papers fairly, and most of them were arranged according to the recommendations of the room examiner. It’s just that I searched the papers for a while more deliberately, and found two good texts, but because the examiner made a mistake in the busyness of the examination papers, they all brought them to the forefront, as a fair appearance. It's so easy to stop the long talk with the examiners.

However, when he saw the book of the Book of Songs in which he was also recommended by the examiner and the deputy chief examiner, it was really his turn to get blocked in his chest.

That paper is the literary words of Zhuang Li, the deep study of the classics, the true love of loyalty...

But he was too brave to speak up!

However, in the first question of the policy question, the paragraph in the "Qijia Zhiyao", "The order is unique to the palace, the law is often strict than the servant", "the matching is heavy, the internal governance is strict", it is almost like seeing Li Dongyang before For months, the emperor asked the emperor to organize the inner court and restrained the concubine's right to be a servant. Why is it so disturbing?

But he had just promised two fellow villagers to use this paper, and the deputy examiner Wu Kuan took another mouthful of "Adult Rong as Jingkui", and the words and sentences of the comments on this volume read "I recommend it." If he stubbornly refrained from saying "to be proud of what he is doing", wouldn't he attract criticism from everyone again?

Yin gritted his teeth, swallowed the bitterness of a thief ship, and sneered secretly.

He was simply an examiner who cherished talents and was upright and loyal. Just as these people wished, he was chosen from a high altitude, so that the eyes of the talented people from all over the world would fall on the northern candidates who appeared suddenly-naturally they would hide. The grandson of the old Wange was on the list.

After the examination papers, he wrote the sentence "Examiner's Bachelor's Bachelor's Yin Bi: The words are concise and the meaning is advisable." The paper is ranked first.

A copy of the northern scrolls force the southern talents, this is something that hasn't happened since the founding of Ming Dynasty, and you can't afford this high reputation.

The author has something to say: The comment comes from the Ming Dynasty Jinshi Enrollment Records, mainly two books of 0506

I'm stupid. After reading the compilation of Qing Dynasty Zhujuan for so long, how can I still feel that the paper is blue-written. The judgment paper is red...(＿＿)ノ｜