Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

After the long holiday of the first month of the sixth year of Hongzhi, I will go to various states and counties for examinations. The county exams and government exams are arranged tighter. Qian'an County is now the county of Beizhili's scientific research. Yongping Prefecture is also called Tixue. It is more important to mention the Taoist exam that should have been their turn in March. February.

Calculating this way, Qian'an County will have to take the county exam once the first month holiday is over, and when the results come out in early February, the students will have to go to the government for the remaining two exams without stopping.

This is how Cui Xie passed the test, and this year it is Cui Heng and Cui He's turn.

The two candidates from the Cui family weren't Cui Xie, who was wearing a full set of test-oriented education skills, but they were educated by Cui Xie who had been restrained as high school senior candidates for many years. The two men memorized the four books and this sutra well, and the main thrust of the article was close to the meaning of the sutra. There were a few desirable highlights in the even sentences, and the words were all well practiced.

This is a good student.

Lord Lu Dinglu, the magistrate of Qian'an County, was a student of the Imperial College. Although he and Cui Xie were not in the same house, they were still classmates for several years. In previous years, Cui Xie wrote to him and asked him to take care of his younger brother. He also called two students to the school, knowing that they were hardworking people.

Seeing the two neatly organized papers in the examination room, Lu County magistrate felt more sure.

Cui and the young man are stronger and handed in the papers early. The daughter of Lu County loved him when he was young and asked him to make a few poems. When he got the right pair, he drew a red circle on his curling head and waved his hand and said, "Go, you're over, you don't have to come again. ."

Cui Hengjie was inferior to his younger brother, and he followed the others to hand in the papers at night when the papers were collected. Fortunately, the scroll is clean and beautiful, and the text is fluent and the rationale is good. The Lu County magistrate read it carefully and drew a circle for him.

After five games, the two brothers had the county test together and waited for the official test in early March.

The younger brother of the first champion in Beizhili wants to take an exam, and officials from the county to the government are watching. The two of them are more well-known than Cui Xie when he was the self-made prodigy. When queuing outside the test shed in the mansion, the guards on the tour recognized them somehow. They were lighter and neater than the others. How long to let them freeze in the cold wind.

Mr. Wu, the prefect who was newly transferred by Hongzhichu, asked people to stare at their articles and made a mark, wanting to see what kind of talent the younger brother of Cui Zhuangyuan, who is in duality, can have.

The two comparisons show that they are both rigorous in format and full of loyalty to the emperor. The analysis of the words and the words in the original meaning of the Zhu family are really taught by one person. It's a pity that the writing is a little flat, and there is a little bit less passionate writing. It can only be said that it is an article cited in the Chinese regulations, and it is not as good as the number one scholar's essay circulating by their brother.

Cui He is still young, and Cui Heng's talent seems to be inferior to his brother.

Wu Zhifu felt a little regretful, and while shaking his head, he drew a circle next to the title of the two people's articles, and included them in the top 30, which is also considered as a face to their brother.

After the two examinations at the county government, the two of them officially had the lowest level of fame in the Ming Dynasty-Tongsheng. Those who had the status of Tongsheng did not need to take the two examinations at the county government every year, and they could directly apply for the school examination of the imperial history.

Cui Heng was even more delighted. What his eldest brother said at the beginning was that if he could not pass the exam, he would not marry him. Now he has at least the guarantee of his status as a child, and the elder brother can explain the difference.

The two brothers held the spirit of the first two victories, stayed in the city and tried again in the hospital, vowing to make it in one fell swoop. They temporarily stayed in the inn arranged by Zhao Yingshi, the eldest brother of the Zhao family, and memorized the articles that the eldest brother had corrected for them in the New Year, and waited nervously for the final hospital examination.

In late February, the hospital examination was finally over, and the two brothers were on the list at the same time, and immediately wrote to their family and Beijing to confess.

Cui Jia immediately prepared firecrackers, wine and food, and invited his neighbors and friends to celebrate, only to welcome the two rookies back from Yongping Mansion without beating the gongs and drums. But their elder brothers confiscated the letter at all, and did not care about the obedient younger brothers, because Cui Xie was imprisoned in the Gongyuan on the eighth day of February, and served as the same examiner in the poetry room as a Hanlin attendant.

The chief examiner of this test is his teacher Li Dongyang, and the assistant test is Lu Jian, who is also a lecturer. Cui Xie is so dazzled by the teacher, he will be a house teacher at a young age.

But precisely because he was brought up with the help of his teacher, he had to work harder to select real talented articles, so that no one would catch him and pour dirty water on Xueshi Li. For this reason, he took the attitude of sprinting for the exam that year. Since holding the first paper on the night of the ninth day of February, he has not closed his eyes before the third watch.

Sleeping at three shifts and starting at five shifts every day, keeping his hands on the pen and keeping his eyes on the scrolls, so busy that even famous artists like Wang Shouren and Zhu Zhishan can't even bother to ask, let alone the two younger brothers in the family.

——It's no use thinking about it. After paying tribute to the courtyard, even the colleagues who patrol outside the curtain can't say a word to them, let alone family members?

Cui Xie stayed up all night to read the papers and ate the exquisite wine and food specially provided by the scoring officer, accidentally gaining a few catties. Fortunately, in the bedroom at night, I can still practice small movements such as squats and abdominal curls. Otherwise, I can't say that I can see my abdominal muscles after a month.

For that matter, he also felt that his face was a lot fatter, and his face was full of red. Compared with those examiners who stayed up all night and had blue eyes, he was not professional enough.

On the day when the tester was filling out the list, Cui Xiezuo was on the bench with the examiner, listening carefully to the reader's reciting the Zhu Mo scroll, looking for his familiar name.

Unexpectedly, after listening to the two hundred and ninety-eight papers, none of them was named Wang Shouren. Not only Wang Shouren, but even Zhu Zhishan and his party, whom he met from the provincial examination, failed to take it.

Choi Xie was heartbroken.

It's a pity that one of these two learns "Rite" and the other "Yi", and the papers have not fallen into his room. Otherwise, he must carefully judge the papers of the two, pick out the essence of the sentence, and strongly recommend them!

It is a pity that Wang Shouren is not the only one who failed. After filling out the list, the elders who have taught Wang Shouren in the Hanlin Academy and watched him are a pity.

It must be because Ge Zhuge got sick to fail the exam! The next course will definitely be hit!

Wang Zhuangyuan saw this matter very well, and he didn't delay sending the manuscript to Cui Xie. When he submitted the manuscript, he said to their masters and apprentices openly: "It is the destiny that will be tested, and I am not behind the two talents of Brother Qiao. The first name? This child may have the same fate as mine, so he shouldn't be in this class. It will take two courses to get to the fire."

Xie Qian studied with his classmates, studied in the same subject, and became a champion at the same time. They did not distinguish between superior and inferior, but there was a priority in the middle exam. Isn't it just fate? His son also followed his father, and it is inevitable that he would have to enter a few more times.

Li Dongyang comforted him by saying that his son would be like his father, and he would be the first prize winner. After carrying him, he asked his disciples to persuade Wang Shouren privately, so that he should not lose his ambition because of the failure of one department.

Choi Xie said with a thick manuscript: "Teacher, don't worry, Shourenxian is not like that. The disciple just received a letter from my brother, saying that they have already won the talents, and I am about to move them to Beijing. Talk about your relatives, and when you have settled down with your family, you will talk to him."

After calculating the age of his younger brother, Li Dongyang nodded: "Your younger brother is in his twenties? If it is not convenient to marry a wife like you, you should prepare as soon as possible. Can you find someone?"

I found it, and Mr. Lu recommended him to Yang Chengqi, a Juren from his hometown in the same year.

Mr. Yang did not stay in Beijing to take the exam like Mr. Lu did. Instead, he chose officials as a human being. Now he has done the justice and promotion of officials in Yongping Prefecture. His daughter stayed until nineteen because of her mother's filial piety, so she was not good to marry, but she was actually a gentle and filial girl; the husband was as clean and honest as Mr. Lu, and she was able to control her uncle and really matched Cui Heng.

Most of the married couple this year is Weng-in-law, and Cui Xie can't avoid it. He fell in love with his younger brother's future father-in-law, and Mrs. Yang liked the eldest brother of the future son-in-law. The two hit it off and they could settle the marriage.

It is common for parents not to go through their children, and Cui Xie behaves a little more prominently—he didn't even go through his father, and he took care of everything from start to finish. After coming out of the Gongyuan, he knew that both of his younger brothers had been selected as talented scholars, so he immediately wrote to the Yang family about his intention to ask for marriage.

The Yang family replied very quickly.

Master Yang was in Yongping. He looked at the test list and found out that Cui Xie's two younger brothers were going to take an exam. So he went to meet his son-in-law in person and asked the prefect for Cui Heng's article. Although Cui Heng didn't have enough talents, he read it out in a small black room. The chapters, sentences and scriptures were very solid, the essay routines were familiar, and the articles he wrote were also remarkable. Master Yang saw that he was a talent and loved his elder brother, so he didn't mind that he was born into a woman and was willing to marry the Cui family.

Cui Xie was very optimistic about the marriage. The Yang family came with the word "Xu". He immediately sent someone to Qian'an to tell his grandmother Mrs. Song that he asked his grandmother to preside over it by himself. Don't ask Cui Que to make any trouble. You mistaken Cui Heng. A rare good relationship.

He arranged a marriage here, so he went to see Wang Shouren to comfort him of the pain of failing, and asked him to introduce Zhu Zhishan by the way. Unexpectedly, Wang Shouren was completely unaffected by his dismissal. He still remembered what he had requested at the beginning. In the past few days, Zhu Zhishan had been persuaded and brought to the door to visit him.

Zhu Zhishan entered Beijing on the first month of the first month, but he was conceited and talented. He did not go directly to the Wang family. It was Wang Shouren who looked for him when he was trying to publish the rankings. The two were both inferior, but their mentality was different. Wang Shouren was not moved by this failure, but Zhu Zhishan was conceited, a little embarrassed, and didn't want to see anyone.

But he was just a weak scholar. Wang Shouren learned to bow horses since childhood. With a wave of his long arm, he dragged him into the teahouse and talked about culture and education with him.

Using dramas and novels to educate people, change customs and habits, although people are not in officialdom, they can also promote their ambitions as scholars.

Zhu Zhishan knew immediately that Wang Shouren wanted to talk to him about Jin Yiwei. It is a series of comics with the name of Jin Yiwei from Pipa Ji to today.

He is older than Wang Shouren. He is thirty-three this year. He has experienced more world conditions. He has even seen Jin Yiwei sent from Jingli capture his son who was sent by Quan Huanliang and Wei to make money in Jiangnan. Jin Yiwei now has a huge change from his youth. And the opportunity for this change has nothing to do with the popularity of Jinyiwei Opera.

He heard a few words from Wang Shouren and said with a smile: "Brother Wang Nian also deliberately wrote a Jinyiwei opera and wanted to draw me to co-author with you? Jinyiwei operas are now mostly northern operas, and only one "The Wind Rising Clouds" is used both. The format of the southern opera is still the northern sound of the northern opera. Suzhou and Hangzhou are the center of the world's essays, and it is appropriate to produce a play of our own, but I am not familiar with Beijing..."

He raised his head and glanced at Wang Shouren, his eyes without glasses looked a little distracted, but his face exuded a splendid color unique to a talented man, and he smiled and said, "Brother Wang pulls me over, and he must have a draft in his heart. , Why not take it out and call it a happy one to see it?

Wang Shouren smiled and said: "The little brother doesn’t have any drafts, and I don’t know what I asked Nian brother to write. To be honest, I am actually entrusted by others. Please come with me and help him write such things that can change customs and shape people. Temperamental manuscript."

Zhu Zhishan was surprised: "It turns out that it's not Brother Nian? I don't know what kind of talented person, who can have such a big skill, can help a beautiful woman like Brother Wang to do it?"

Wang Shouren was not good at telling such secret things in the restaurant. After a moment of indulgence, Zhu Zhishan asked with doubts: "Could it be that the master of Ju'anzhai who specializes in Jinyiweishu?"

If it’s a businessman who starts a study, he really needs to think about it: "I have been idle since I was a child, and I don’t like being restrained by others. I still have a little land in my family, so I don’t want to spend some gold and silver light articles. Although Ju'anzhai is famous in Beijing... …"

But he couldn't invite Zhu Zhishan, who was named Wu Clan.

Wang Shouren understood his unexplained pride, and smiled: "I specifically ask Brother Zhu to come here. How can it be entrusted by the owner of the study? The owner is just a bookmaker, and the one who wants to ask Brother Zhishan to help is to compile the book. People, but he is a strange person in the world, he is unwilling to use this to invite a name, only silently behind."

"Could it be the Lord of Boshizhai? Longquan Hermit? Mr. Shuixi?"

Zhu Zhishan was shocked, surprised and delighted, caught guessing the names on the covers of dramas and comics. Wang Shouren himself didn’t know who the authors were, so he shook his head and said, “He is not the man who wrote the manuscripts, but those talented people are grateful for his sincerity and kindness, and they are willing to write these things for him. If you don’t believe me, please come and visit me. One trip, it’s not Shouren’s reputation, that one is indeed an extraordinary layman, anyone who has seen him can’t turn around without his persuasion, and can’t stay!"

This is really the truth-two years ago, even Wang Shouren himself was able to call Cui Xie to hold down within dozens of strokes, and he couldn't run away.