Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Why don't you come up with a collection of sentences?

Ashamed, he wanted to engrave the book after copying the collection of transcripts to Xie Qianhu. But later I wanted to sell the "Diamond Sutra" and compared the two books. I felt that the book was not easy to add pictures, and it was not as mature and easy to promote as the scripture market, so the plan to print the book was postponed.

But Guo Yong looked at him as severely as Mr. Lin, as if he would be punished for copying a book if he made a mistake. He didn't dare to tell the truth. He lowered his eyes slightly, and replied with discretion: "I am still young and learned. It's also simple, and wherever you are qualified to compile a book. What's more, these are words from the book of the saint..."

Guo Yong shook his head and said categorically, "I just came out when I was young. A fifteen-year-old boy who can collect the chapters and sentences of the "Four Books" is right, and he can be called a prodigy; if he writes again at our age, he is a boring literati looking for chapters. The excerpt game!"

He is still the youngest of this group of scholars, only in his early twenties, and saying this kind of words will almost pierce the hearts of those Bensansheng students.

Fortunately, those who were cited in their thirties were not too old. The sentient beings were sore in their hearts for a while, then they endured it, and then persuaded Cui Xie: "This is the truth. If you published this book two months earlier, fourteen Year-old child prodigy is even more important. Since Guo Xiandi said that your book can be published, there is nothing wrong with it. You can just do it boldly. If you drag on, you will become a child at the age of sixteen. This boy’s identity is valuable."

It was a pity that Qi county magistrate failed to become a fourteen-year-old scholar. Now these scholars are urging him to publish books. It seems that the child prodigy is really worthwhile in the Ming Dynasty-then again, when will the child prodigy be worthless What? He was blessed with the original body. He is still at the age of a child prodigy. There are so many people who plan for him. In any case, he should cherish his good years and don't waste time easily.

Cui Xie stood up and bowed his hands to several people: "I was too late to learn, and I didn't study well. I'm afraid there are many errors and omissions in the book. I have to ask the seniors to correct me."

Tang Ning jokingly said: "You are polite, aren't we still sitting on your sofa and looking at your collection of books? Besides, our country test is about to look at this pair of sentences, and it can be considered a review. You should print out the book first and call it Guo. A gifted scholar writes a preface for you. Next year, he will be admitted to the Jinshi and become a court official of the Hanlin Qinggui. You will become famous as a child prodigy."

Cui Xie couldn't help laughing: "Yes, if I can't get a Jinshi in the future, I will be a clean guest under Mr. Guo, and I will edit some books for school children and become a celebrity."

An older student Wang Zhining was about to persuade him to say less of such unlucky things, but Tangning rushed to shout: "No! What can be printed in the Mongolian script, I am still waiting for your family's embroidered portrait novel. "Lianfanglu" is about to be ripped, so you don't have any new books to print?"

Cui Xie replied: "There are also. Recently I will print the scriptures, and then I plan to draw a few more pictures of the famous soldiers of the Three Kingdoms, and print an embroidered version of the Three Kingdoms. I also want to bother you seniors-if any of the seniors wrote eyebrows while studying in the Three Kingdoms, Or written by a celebrity who is familiar with, and younger generations want to collect it and print it in the book."

Criticism began to be popular in the late Ming Dynasty. Jin Shengtan's criticism was still sold in bookstores in the 21st century. If he did not add an expert comment when he published "Three Kingdoms", I would be very sorry for the talented person.

However, we must pay attention to the typesetting when printing. Not only one person approves a paragraph, but a few experts put it together and use different colors of ink to distinguish it, just like a video barrage. Experts have different criticism styles, different tendencies toward characters from the Three Kingdoms, and readers have different likes and dislikes, or choke off critics, or write reviews and criticize critics.

He who sells books is not afraid of being pinched, and he is afraid that he can't be pinched!

He said frankly and honestly to his predecessors: "Just ask the predecessors to check, and the comments received must be well-founded, or pungent and powerful, or witty, or thought-provoking. The cost of the manuscript will depend on it. The manuscript fee for writing novels will be printed here as a critical copy of "Three Kingdoms", so that readers can read the book while reading the criticism, which can not only increase the interest of reading, but also show the talent of the critic."

"Like...like the "Lianfanglu", with pages of criticism behind the main text?" Tang Ning said pleasantly, "I've written an article on Three Kingdoms! And the book. With the notes of the eyebrows, I will ask someone to send you my book when I turn around. I don’t want your money either. You just need to criticize Tang Yi’an, a talented Qian’an talent on the inner seal!”

Two students, Lu An and Xu Liyan, who also like to read novels, are also vying to give him his annotated "Three Kingdoms". Only Guo Yong still insisted on the "Four Books" and asked him to print dozens of books first, and sent all the celebrities and seniors from the county to the top and bottom of the county, so that he could do other things after he confirmed the name of the "prodigy".

Cui Xie was a little helpless with his stubbornness, but more moved by such care, he nodded and replied: "Senior Guo, don't worry, I will ask them to engrave tomorrow."

After speaking, Huang Sao came to deliver the food. The book boy servants brought in by the few wardens outside helped bring them in, and a table filled with them. When they were talking before, they ate a lot of pine-flavored biscuits and cloud cakes with tea, cushioned their stomachs, and faced the table full of new hard dishes such as pearl balls, fried crispy carp, red simmered lamb’s feet, steamed lamb’s tail, etc. Be calm, drink and eat food, chat about poetry, and occasionally talk about exams.

Cui Xie came back after he was full, and didn't want to use it again, so he sat next to him and poured the wine, occasionally holding a chopsticks of vegetable dishes. He couldn't talk about those poems and prose, but when everyone talked about scientific examinations, he couldn't help asking for some experience.

Wang Zhichang smiled and said, "This is true. Although I am not a young talent, but fortunately, I have some experience in child trials, so I have to tell my little brother."

He knocked on the mouth of the wine cup with his chopsticks, and after thinking about it, he said, "Let’s talk about the rules in the examination room. The county test papers and draft papers must be bought in advance at the Yamen concierge. The seal is sealed by the Lifangshu. One piece of your own paper is not allowed to be brought into the county school. The official test day is in February these days, the weather is freezing, and your own spare parts are not on top and have no fur. , I have to take off the cold during the inspection, but when I sit in the examination room, I can feel a lot warmer with this clothes."

Guo Yong also said slowly as he recalled: "The county government will not lose its name in both exams. As long as the paper is worthwhile, the county and the government will look at you at your age and will be able to record you low." If you try this level, it’s not necessarily true. The scholars are all from Beijing. Some love young scholars and some love mature literati. Seeing you are too young, you will be overwhelmed in order to make your knowledge more solid. ."

He raised his eyes and looked at Cui Xie, smiled and said, "But if you are a prodigy who can publish the "Four Books", it's different. When you come to Yongping Mansion, you will not only have to conduct the college exam. , I also need to inspect the local style of study, and evaluate the students in the local government... If I heard that there was such a child prodigy at that time, and read the dialogues extracted from this scripture, I would naturally think that although you are young, you are very respectful. A scholar. When you hand in the paper, you should answer the questions calmly. He doesn't have to be afraid of your talents, and naturally he won't deliberately pressure you."

Senior Guo is about the same age as him, and he has such a deep understanding of the examination room. It is no wonder that all county officials and scholars regard him as the most likely candidate!

Asking him to analyze it like this, he himself felt that Tongsheng was tentative!

Cui Xie's cheeks flushed with excitement, and he poured a few glasses of wine for these scholars, waiting eagerly for them to say more.

The remaining three also talked about some taboos in the examination room. For example, you must prepare food in advance for entering the examination room and reward the scattered money of the patrolling staff; only two times a day are allowed for examinees; if you hand in the papers in advance, you must wait at the door to get enough. Only the number of people can go out... What is more special is that it is forbidden to describe self-reporting in the text or difficult to read, as long as the volume shows such a meaning, it will be immediately rejected.

Cui Xie remembered the must-try selling links in all kinds of draft competitions and interviews. He couldn't help but admire Zhu Yuanzhang, who established this system: no one is allowed to sell, and candidates don’t have to worry about making up a miserable childhood, and the examiner who judges the paper will not be there. Taking care of disadvantaged candidates and scoring according to the text are swayed.

He listened with interest to those people talking about the rules of the examination room, and they were almost done, and the scholars’ thoughts came out, and Tang Ning toasted and said: "Our house is either a student or a child prodigy. There is Hongru, there is no white Ding in the communication. Why don't we also learn from Young Master Cui's "Four Books" and take some words and sentences from ancient poems to make joint sentences? If you don't, you will be fined wine..."

Wang Zhichang said: "Drinking so much wine at Master Cui’s house is not a problem for others? According to me, if I don’t come up, I will be punished to sort out a book for him. Insert all these books, and everyone wakes up from the wine. Now, we have enough food, and we should go home separately."

This method of punishment was unfavourable, and everyone agreed, and he first slapped Liu Yuxi's sentence: "When will the copper pot leak?"

With Tang Ning beside him, he replied: "The sound of the anvil in the imperial court is much more late," and after the meeting, he gave Xu Liyan next to him a couplet: "Taking the threshold, the smoke and the sun."

These scholars turned around one by one, and Cui Xie, who didn't study poetry anyway, was just beside him as a surveillance room, taking notes and writing sentences. Anyone who couldn't stand up to it handed over a book and asked them to put it back on the shelf according to the paper note posted on the back.

At the beginning, they were very fluent in each other, and after two moments, they gradually became a little bit creative, and they were slowly squeezed to the bookshelf to do a few times, and the wine was drained with sweat.

When parting, a few scholars rubbed their waists and legs, and they all said with some regret: "How can I say it is to come to your house to rest and read the book. The rest is even more tired? Brother Wang's idea is really tiring, why not? After drinking the wine, I cleaned up together, so I don’t have to sit up and sit like this."

Cui Xie forced them out with a smile, and went back to neatly copy a copy of the "Four Books" in the style of the pavilion, and took it to the studio for the engravers to sculpt it. The total number of these dialogues is only more than 500 sentences. Most of them are two-character and three-character pairs, which are shorter than the "Diamond Sutra", and there are no pictures and texts to add. The four engravers put "Diao Chan Worship on the Moon". The color pictures such as "Lü Bu Plays Diao Chan" pushed back and hurriedly carved it out for him.

Cui Xie thought about the packaging of the teaching aids for later generations. He really wanted to engrave his own avatar on the inside cover, so that the pupils could grow up in their own shadows. After thinking about it, he felt too ashamed. In the end, he only left the bookmark. "Cui Xie catalog in Qian'an" is printed on the side, because it is mainly for giving away, and there is no sign.

One hundred copies of the engraved book were first printed, and one copy was given to the county deity, the county prime minister, the county instructors, instructors, and students who are familiar with each other, and they were asked to criticize the school. Guo Yong and others asked for a few more sets, saying that they wanted to find someone to make a preface and comment on his behalf. It's a pity that he doesn't usually go out to socialize, and there are not many literati who know him well. Even the big brother of Zhao's neighbor's school in Fucheng has sent it to him, and there are many that can't be sent out, and they are simply thrown in the bookstore for consignment.

But he knew in his heart that throwing this Mongolian book over was just a change of place. Generally, private school teachers have used familiar Mongolian books, and it is difficult to get them to exchange books without vigorous promotion. For promotion, the effort and cost are not worth the loss, so it is better to put it in the Diamond Sutra and return quickly.

What's more, the Cui Jian and novels in the store are selling very well, and the treasurer has money on the books, and he also asked his son to go to Beijing to enter a lot of rural test Weimo and Shixin's small talk. How can it not be better than this pair of sentences? He handed the book to the party who came to pick up the goods for the time, and he also confessed in consideration: "If you can't sell it, you can't sell it. Let it go."

Even though Choi Xie said so, is there any reason why a buddy shouldn't sell books published by the boss himself? After Mr. Fang went back, he discussed with the treasurer and his son, and he put up a big sign outside the store and wrote "Meng Xueqi Shu, the collection of the fifteen-year-old prodigy in this county "Four Books", placed the book below, and called A teenage little student stared at the side.

There is no beauty on this brand, just a few lines of bare ink, and there are not many people who read the brand, and no one wants the books underneath. When several Confucian boys in Mr. Lin's family saw such a bleak situation when they went to buy drawing papers, they told him when they were in school. Cui Xie didn't care, and just smiled and passed by.

A few days later, the treasurer of Ji asked him to explain the accounts of the Buddhist scriptures of various monasteries. After finishing talking, he mentioned the situation in the store. When he talked about the "Four Books", his face suddenly became a little strange.

Cui Xie said strangely: "If you can't sell it, you can't sell it. I have a bottom, and I don't blame you for being so concerned about what it does."

The shopkeeper looked like he had just swallowed a personal ginseng fruit, his eyebrows were frowning, he didn't know if he liked it or it was uncomfortable, and he smacked his lips and said, "It's not that it can't be sold, but it's strange that it has been sold. ! It was bought by a foreign merchant-Cui Jian and "Lianfang Lu", which are the best in our store, didn't even ask for the things that merchants were rushing to ask for. He only picked some long-left poetry and book collections and those on the stall. "Duality", I didn't even pay the price, and included all the more than 30 copies."