..Many times, people cannot control their own destiny. Various accidental factors and deliberate arrangements will greatly change the trajectory of life. Even so, we are not content with destiny, unwilling to accept the status quo, and never succumb to fate.
Arrangement is the charm of life——
Zhang Yuan didn't know that the conspiracy against him was unfolding in the Gongyuan Academy. He still devoted himself to the next two examinations. On February 12, the second examination was the same as the provincial examination. He wrote an essay, imperial edict, and imperial edict.
, choose one from the table, and there are five judgments. The theory is the first of various literary styles in the second session of the examination. In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination used essays to test whether the candidates' thinking is clear and whether they are good at reasoning. Eloquence is what officials need to have
Zhang Yuan is good at writing essays. The topic of this examination is "The government of the world comes from one". There is only a lower limit but no upper limit for the number of words in an essay. The lower limit is no less than 400 words. Zhang Yuan originally wrote an essay on "The Government of the World Comes from One".
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty completed the "Edict of Luntai" to terminate the field. Both edicts and imperial edicts are official documents issued in the name of the emperor. This tests the candidates' familiarity with ancient and modern political affairs and their ability to write official documents. It is the responsibility of cabinet ministers to draft edicts on behalf of the emperor.
Responsibilities, these are all about cultivating talents to serve in the cabinet and assist the government in the future——.
"I was angry at the Xiongnu's violence, so I sent my soldiers to attack thousands of miles across the desert. I also set up several counties in Hexi. I sent my envoys to recruit all the kingdoms in the Western Regions, and appointed captains to set up fields, ditches and plows, hoping to weaken the Xiongnu..."
An imperial edict of more than 600 words was completed in less than an hour. Zhang Yuan read it himself and was very satisfied. He spent another hour writing the five judgments, and then concentrated on writing the argument, eloquently, until the afternoon.
It was written at three o'clock in the afternoon. This article has more than 1,800 words. It is full of grand remarks and eloquent parallels, just like the Yangtze River. It has the style of Jia Yi and Su Shi. Zhang Yuan thinks that he wrote it very freely. It needs to be checked and copied.
When we got there, it was already dark in the dormitory, and the exam was even later than the first one...kas. Although the science exam was repeated in the first exam, Zhang Yuan went all out in every exam, and he also had enough energy to support him and accept the test.
When the office handed in the paper, the lights were already bright. The Mi Feng officer ordered several clerks to be busy and did not pay attention to Zhang Yuan's paper. The Mi Feng officer no longer needed to scratch his finger marks. How dare he "cut off the head alive" again and again?
To do this, we just need to ensure that Zhang Yuan's first volume is deposed.
…
At the same time as the second examination of the joint examination was going on, the reading office had finished proofreading the first ink scroll sent by the transcription office with the original ink scroll, and stamped the title of the reading officer on the ink scroll.
.Send the ink scroll and the ink scroll to the Outer Collection Office together. After verifying that the numbers of the ink scroll and the ink roll are correct, the ink scroll and the ink roll are separated. The ink roll is left at the Outer Curtain Office, and the ink scroll is sent to the Ti Tiao Hall.
The supervisor will wrap a number of papers into a package, stamp them, pack them and send them to the inner curtain. At the examination area of the inner curtain, there are six rooms for "Poetry", five rooms for "Yi", four rooms for "Book" and three rooms for "Li".
Room, the second room of "Spring and Autumn", with a total of twenty rooms. These red scrolls were sent to each room according to the number of the book, so starting from the afternoon of February 12th, the review of the scrolls has been fully started——
The twenty room officials are all selected from among Beijing officials of sixth rank or above who have good reputations for their knowledge and character. In addition to the room officials, there are four to five grading officers in each room. Most of these grading officers are from the Hanlin Academy and the Zhan Dynasty.
Xu Guangqi, the Ci Linguan of the Imperial Household, served as the grader in the first room of "Spring and Autumn". Xu Guangqi went back to the Hanlin Academy to apply for reinstatement, but was promoted. He was promoted from the Imperial Academy to Zuo Chunfang Zuo Zanshan of the Imperial Academy. The Hanlin Academy's examination was
From the seventh rank, Zuo Zanshan of Zuochunfang in Zhanshi Mansion was promoted from the sixth rank, two ranks in a row. This was because Qian Qianyi and Dingyou returned to his hometown, and there was a vacancy in the James Mansion. Xu Guangqi's character and reputation had always been good, so he was suitable.
It was the right time. So he was promoted——
There are a total of five people in the "Spring and Autumn" room together with Zhang Heming, the room official. The afternoon sun shines slantingly. The marking room is spacious and bright. Xu Guangqi is sitting behind a large writing desk. On the left is a tall stack of red scrolls to be read. Before starting to mark the marking, Xu Guangqi does
Zhang Yuan taught him the cervical spine self-treatment exercises, including shaking his head, rocking his arms, and pinching his neck. The other marking officers were surprised and asked what happened. Xu Guangqi said: "I have been suffering from headaches and dizziness for many years. Two months ago, I received a certificate from the same school.
I learned this neck-rubbing trick to strengthen my brain, and it’s quite effective.”
In this way, these marking officials must learn from Xu Guangqi this trick of rubbing their necks to strengthen their brains. They are all civil servants. They are tired of filing papers and have mild or severe cervical spondylosis. When they rub their necks and shake their heads, they ask Xu Guangqi to teach him how to treat this cervical spondylosis.
The patient was the famous Shanyin Zhang Yuan, and one of the reviewers said: "Zhejiang Jieyuan, the leader of the Han Society, is extremely famous among the eight thousand scholars in this department, and he is even better than Huang Zhi.
Technique?"
Another examiner smiled at Xu Guangqi and said: "Brother Zi Xian, the Jie Yuan Classic is the Spring and Autumn Period. Maybe the paper is in our room, and maybe it is the copy that Brother Zi is looking at now."
All the reviewers laughed.
Zhang Heming, the room official, who is over sixty years old, has a tanned body and is currently a doctor in the Ministry of War. He said: "Gentlemen, please stop joking and mark the papers seriously. Don't miss out on talented people." After a pause, he added: "This is a textbook.
There are more than 800 candidates in the Spring and Autumn Period, so the grading task is very heavy."
After grading, there will be a break when the lights are on, and then there will be a meal and tea. The grading will continue at 2:00 am, and it will end at 3:00 pm, and the next day's grading will start again at 3:00 pm.
Just before noon on February 13th, Xu Guangqi read such a red scroll. The first title was "Only the benevolent can be good and evil."
The article above is a relatively excellent writing technique. Between the advisable and the undesirable, Xu Guangqi pondered for a moment and was waiting to take a look at the candidate's eight-legged essay. If the eight-part essay on the classical essay was done well, then he would recommend it to the official.
I went there, but before I turned the page, I suddenly found two lines of supplementary notes in small red characters at the end of the paper: "This candidate violated the temple taboo of the late emperor, and the mistake was still made when transcribing it"——
Xu Guangqi frowned, and then looked at the candidate's first question paper again, and found that there was indeed a word "Mu" painted in it to avoid taboos. The temple name of Emperor Longqing, the father of Wanli Emperor, was Mu Zong. Whenever the candidate's examination paper encountered an imperial name or temple taboo,
You must avoid the taboo with missing strokes, and those who violate it will be deposed——
Xu Guangqi shook his head and thought to himself: "This candidate is too careless. He made such an obvious mistake in Shouyi. There is no need to read the next six articles." He immediately wrote "Taboo" on the red scroll with a green pen.
The three words "post", this means that this red scroll is illegal and must be sent to the court for posting——
Anyone who posts papers has no hope of success. Of course, these papers posted in the court due to violations can only be seen by the people behind the curtain, not the candidates.
There are always dozens of papers posted, which is not surprising.
The Mi Fengguan saw the red scroll posted in the first room of "Spring and Autumn", nodded secretly, and it was done.
…
On February 15th, Zhang Yuan conducted the last session of the joint examination. The examination questions were three policy questions, and the answers went smoothly. He handed in the paper and left the dragon gate before sunset, completing the three spring examinations of Bingchen.
The weather has obviously gotten warmer in the past two days, and you can smell the breath of spring in the evening breeze, which is the fragrance of wood leaves and flowers. Zhang Yuan stood in front of the dragon gate and looked back at the huge tribute courtyard, with several layers of thorn walls and towering walls. East and West two
The archway in the east is said to be "recruiting scholars for the Ming Dynasty", and the west is said to be "seeking talents for the country" -
"Brother Mr. Zhang, what are you looking at? Are you still reluctant to leave? Haven't you had enough fun in the exam?"
Shang Jinghui saw Zhang Yuan turning around to look at Gongyuan frequently, so he asked with a "gege" smile.
Zhang Yuan hurriedly said: "No, no. I had a lot of fun taking the exam, and I never want to take it again." He thought to himself, "Don't let Xiao Jinghui's words come true, that would be terrible."
…
When Zhang Yuan finished the third exam, the red papers for the second exam were also distributed to the desks of the marking officers in each room. In the afternoon of February 17, a marking officer in the first room of "Spring and Autumn" was marking the papers when he suddenly made a sound
He praised: "This essay is excellent, not inferior to Han Liu Ousu." He immediately recommended this examination paper to Zhang Heming, the official of the house, and said: "Master Zhang, please read this treatise and the edict. It is a rare and excellent art, and it is worthy of being crowned in this house."
Zhang Heming already has dozens of first-term examination papers recommended by four marking officers on his desk. After the second examination examination paper is completed, he will recommend these two examination papers to the deputy examiner Liu Chuxian, and the third examination examination paper will be
It's not important anymore, as long as it's passable.
When Zhang Heming saw that the examiner praised this examination paper so highly, he put down the paper in his hand. He looked at this paper first, and saw that the article "The government of the world comes from a theory" said: "The world has the basis of government, and the people are responsible for their sincerity."
Then, government should follow its roots without distinction. The world is governed by human beings, so government should be placed in a container to ensure peace and eternity..."
Zhang Heming read while twirling his beard and nodding. After reading this long article, he also read the "Edict of the Luntai of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to Stop Farming", which opened with the following words: "I was angry at the Xiongnu for their violence, and sent soldiers to attack thousands of miles across the desert -
"
After reading it quickly, the good article seemed so smooth. Zhang Heming praised: "It is indeed a rare good art." After looking at the number of the red scroll, it was a southern scroll, which meant that the candidate was from Suzhou, Zhili, South.
, Songer Prefecture or the provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Huguang, Fujian, and Guangdong——
——In the Ming Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Examination System was implemented, which stipulated that the southern provinces and the northern provinces would divide more than 300 Jinshi quotas according to the June 4th Movement, because if this system was not implemented, the southern provinces would occupy the absolute majority of the Jinshi quota.
Most of them are taken up. The economy and culture in the south are developed. The streets in the countryside are full of books, and there are many people among the vendors who can read. However, there are few scholars in the north. Even the scholars often know nothing except stereotyped writing. Therefore,
Northern exams are not as good as southern exams. To give two examples, Ji'an Prefecture in Jiangxi Province alone produced 11 top scholars, eight Huiyuan scholars, and 39 Jieyuan scholars in the Ming Dynasty; in Putian County, Fujian Province, Li Ke
There are 324 people who have passed the examination, far more than in one northern government. If there were no geographical restrictions, then the northerners would have accompanied the examination. This would definitely cause strong dissatisfaction among the northern gentry and trigger a political crisis. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang
The northern and southern examinations were divided into separate rolls to recruit scholars to ensure the chance of admission to the northern candidates. Although the southern scholars were also dissatisfied, at least six out of ten southerners could tolerate it. In addition, in the first-level and second-level imperial examinations, southerners still made up the majority, which is correct.
It is because of the Northern and Southern Examination System that there are disadvantages of changing one's nationality in another place. There was a Zhejiang candidate who failed to pass the Jinshi exam many times and moved to Henan. In the blink of an eye, he was not allowed to change his nationality in high school -
Zhang Heming saw that this examination paper was from the Southern Examination Paper, so he searched for the first examination paper with the same number among the Southern Examination Papers recommended by the four marking officials.
If you are an artist, the first performance must be good. Could it be that you haven’t read that paper yet?” He asked Xu Guangqi and other three marking officers to search among the red papers for the first performance that had not yet been read and find out the red paper with this number.
Give it to him, but Xu Guangqi and the others could not find the paper with this number in the first volume on their desks, and they even searched through the papers and couldn't find it——
A marking officer asked: "Is it possible that there was a mistake and the first paper was assigned to the second room?"
The examination papers are divided into rooms. Whichever room the first volume is sent to, the subsequent scrolls with the same number will also be sent to that room. Of course, mistakes are also possible. Zhang Heming took this second scroll to the second room of "Spring and Autumn".
After looking through the more than 400 first examination papers one by one, he still couldn't find the examination paper with the same number. This made Zhang Heming wonder how the first examination paper could be missing!
Xu Guangqi said hesitantly: "I posted an examination paper two days ago. That examination paper violated the taboo of the late emperor's temple. Could it be that examination paper?"
Zhang Heming loves talents. This second examination paper is really excellent and he can't bear to miss it. It is also the honor of the house official to allocate outstanding talents, so he asked Xu Guangqi to go to the court to check.
Xu Guangqi went to the Zigong Hall and took a look. The paper posted was indeed the first paper they were looking for. Since it had been posted on the wall, there was no reason to take it off again. Xu Guangqi returned to the marking room and said to Zhang Heming: "
Mr. Zhang, I’m really sorry that the first volume is really taboo, so I can’t recommend it.”
Zhang Heming was quite disappointed and sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity. This talented candidate has to wait until he takes the exam. It's another three years of hard work."
Xu Guangqi took the scroll of the second performance and looked at it. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was written by Zhang Yuan. But how could such a careful person like Zhang Yuan make such an obvious mistake in the first performance?
Xu Guangqi shook his head, thinking it was impossible. He did not immediately discard the red scroll into the pile of discarded papers, but put it aside and continued to grade the papers.
On February 19th, the third session of policy questionnaires was also sent up. At this time, all the papers that should be recommended were recommended. The three sessions of policy questions had never been taken seriously. The marking officers reviewed millions of papers in just a few days.
I am also tired and have no energy to look at the papers for the third session in detail. Based on the numbers of the nearly 100 scrolls from the first two games that have been determined to be recommended, I can find the corresponding scrolls for the third session.
Take a look, just make sure there's no taboo -
Xu Guangqi specially found the third chapter of the Zhujuan of the person whose first performance was posted. The three policy questions were concerned about the affairs, clear and upright, without flashy words, but with real insights. After reading these three policy questions, Xu Guangqi's worries became more and more serious.
Seriously, judging from the production skills of the second and third games, this is most likely Zhang Yuan's test paper, but how could Zhang Yuan make such a low-level mistake? This is like a national Go player who kills the dragon with one glance. Logically speaking, it is
Is it impossible for a wise man to make a mistake after thinking a lot about something that cannot happen?
The craftsmanship of these last two scenes was so good that people couldn't put it down. Regardless of whether it was Zhang Yuan's or not, Xu Guangqi had to go to the court again to read the posted volume. He had not read the next six chapters.
————————————————
Tragedy, Jie Zi suffered some setbacks, won’t book friends vote for Yasao? Setbacks are meant to explode, please vote! To be continued...
{Piaotian Literature www.piaotian.com thanks all book friends for their support, your support is our greatest motivation}