Li Gou had just finished giving lectures in Chonghua Hall and then returned to the academic building.
At this time, two imperial students, Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou, as well as a dozen scholars who were watching the event arrived.
Li Gou looked at Chen Manzhou with a bruised nose and swollen face, and couldn't help frowning. He looked at Zhang Yue, who was even more unhappy, and immediately asked: "Who can beat him?"
Chen Manzhou pointed out to Zhang Yue: "This professor was beaten by this person. Please seek justice for me. It is really insulting to gentlemen."
Li Gou heard this and said: "No matter the merits, it is wrong to hit people. Sanlang, how is your poetry? If you fail in the public examination, you will be expelled from Imperial College. I warned you repeatedly at the beginning. Now you are also involved in beating people."
, If there is no explanation for this matter, then there will be no need to hold a public examination."
Zhang Yue said: "Students understand that people are beaten by students, and students are willing to let everything be dealt with directly."
Li Gou nodded and said, "Let me tell you the reason first."
The two imperial students explained what happened and immediately handed over the paper.
Li Gou glanced at the poem on the paper and thought to himself, isn't this a three-character poem?
Li Gou read it several times and asked Chen Manzhou: "According to you, did you submit this matter to the magistrate of Shuzhou?"
Chen Manzhou said: "Of course, when the student wrote this poem, there was a celestial response. He gave me a few words of praise from the queen and the prefect, and also rewarded me with thirty strings of coins."
Li Gou saw that the other party was speaking seriously and sneered in his heart. This poem was given by Chen Shengzhi to Wang Anshi. How could it have reached this person's mouth and become the poem he gave to Wang Anshi. However, Chen Shengzhi said at the time that he was an unknown student from Pucheng, so he
I didn't ask in detail, but I didn't expect it to be written by a student from Taipei University.
Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue again and thought, with your poetry level, can you write a three-character poem?
But Li Gou then thought about it, Zhang Yue was from Pucheng, and he might know Chen Shengzhi.
Li Gou immediately called for a servant to give some instructions, and then asked him to go to Chen Shengzhi's house first. Then he looked at Zhang Yue and said, "What evidence do you have for saying that you wrote this poem?"
Zhang Yue said: "This poem was indeed written by a student. At that time, the student saw in the private school that his classmates did not have a good book on literacy enlightenment, so he made this plan without considering his own abilities. At that time, the student originally wanted to write a seven-character book, but the seven-character book failed
If it doesn't work, I want to write a five-character poem, but even five characters can't be completed. Finally, I thought of writing a four-character rhyme as an enlightenment, just like a thousand-character essay, but after writing it for a while, I couldn't do it."
Everyone shook their heads and laughed when they heard this.
"So the student finally decided to learn the surnames of hundreds of families and write a three-character poem that was easy to understand and catchy to enlighten the young scholars."
Li Gou recalled Zhang Yue's previous level of poetry and poetry. He could only say that the format and rhythm were correct, but his literary talent was really mediocre. Although the literary talent of these three-character poems was not very high, it still required considerable historical knowledge.
Zhang Yue said: "Sir, if you don't believe it, you can ask the students to compare the content of the three-character poem with the student surnamed Chen."
Li Gou nodded, but was led away by Zhang Yue unknowingly. From testing whether this poem was written by Zhang Yue to Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou debating who had a deeper understanding of the three-character poem.
Li Gou said, "Just ask."
Immediately Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou asked: "Who is this Su Laoquan, twenty-seven, Shifafen?"
Chen Manzhou smiled and said: "This is Su Xun, who was Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou's reign. Who would know?"
Zhang Yue asked again: "So where does the good nature of man come from in the beginning?"
Chen Manzhou said: "This is what Mencius said."
Zhang Yue said: "The Classic of Filial Piety is well understood, and the four books are familiar. Which four books are these?"
Chen Manzhou smiled and said: "The Analects of Confucius has twenty chapters. Mencius has only seven chapters. He wrote the Doctrine of the Mean, Zi Si Bi. He wrote the Great Learning, Zeng Zi. He studied Qi by himself and reached Pingzhi.
"Of course it's the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Doctrine of the Mean, and the Four Books of Great Learning, haha, it's obvious."
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Then do you know who wrote these four books?"
Chen Manzhou was stunned and said: "The Four Books are the Four Books. If there is any other explanation, please don't force it."
Zhang Yue shook his head and said: "How could I arbitrarily determine the seat of the Four Books? Brother, you are short-sighted. Since you know that "in the beginning of man, nature is good" comes from Mencius, how can you not know who respected Mencius the most after Mencius?"
"this?"
Zhang Yue said: "I'll teach you a lesson. The Four Books are written by Han Tuizhi. The Four Books are written by the four masters, namely Confucius, Mencius, Zisizi and Zengzi."
Chen Manzhou was speechless when he heard this, and then argued forcefully: "You said that the Book of Four Sons was written by Han Tuizhi, is that Han Tuizhi?"
Zhang Yue said: "The truth will be known for itself."
An imperial student on the side said: "You don't even know what Han Tuizhi said, why are you pretending to be someone else?"
The scholars watching on the side also said clearly: "Brother Chen, you are so shameless, you actually copied other people's poems."
"This man is really shameless. I will go back and tell my fellow villagers about him."
"Let's go, let's go, I thought there would be fun."
When Chen Manzhou saw everyone leaving, he immediately panicked and exposed it. Then he looked at Zhang Yue and said harshly: "I won't let this matter go."
After saying this, Chen Manzhou wanted to leave. The two imperial students wanted to stop him, but Li Gou said, "Let him go."
Chen Manzhou left immediately as if he had been granted amnesty.
Li Gou walked around for a while, then said to Zhang Yue: "Is this poem really yours?"
Zhang Yue said: "It is true that the students' poems were intended to be used for educational purposes and did not want to be famous. However, someone unexpectedly stole the students' poems. The students now want to seek justice."
"real?"
Li Gou immediately picked up the three-character poem and asked Zhang Yue a few questions, but Zhang Yue's questions to Chen Manzhou just now were even more tricky.
Fortunately, Zhang Yue now has a very solid foundation in Confucian classics, so he did not fail the exam.
Zhang Yue knew that he had misjudged the situation.
If an ordinary Taixue teacher knew that a student in Taixue had written something like a three-character poem that was praised by a state magistrate, and promoted education in the local area, he would definitely be eager to write a special book and report it to the court immediately.
But Li Gou didn't. Instead, he was cautious and confirmed again and again.
Zhang Yue wiped the sweat from his forehead. Other time-travelers didn't have any poetry skills. They could get a round of applause just by picking up a book of poems written by later generations. Why was it so difficult for him? Besides, he didn't want to copy it in the first place, he just taught it.
Just Zhangqiu.
In fact, it was because Zhang Yue's poetry was usually very poor. If it had been written by an ordinary student from the Jinshi Department, Li Gou would not have doubted it after hearing what he just said.
Li Gou didn't say anything and asked everyone else to go back, leaving Zhang Yue alone in his academy.
Zhang Yue maintained a respectful posture, while Li Gou was eating tea, eating some cakes, and writing documents, but he didn't even say a word to Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue didn't know what kind of medicine Li Gou was selling.
At this moment, a servant walked in from outside and handed Li Gou a note.
Li Gou's expression became slightly relieved after looking back, then he looked at Zhang Yue and said, "Go back first and ask yourself whether this poem was written by you. I will give you an answer after the public examination."
What did Zhang Yue mean when he heard Li Gou's words?
Zhang Yue saluted Li Gou and was about to leave the official residence.
"Wait!" Li Gou said.
Zhang Yue turned around and said, "I don't know what other instructions you have to tell me directly?"
But Li Gou put his hands behind his back and said, "You made the mistake of advocating Mencius' words in front of me. I am not Mencius!"
It is well known that Li Gou is not Meng.
For example, I have read Jin Yongli’s criticism of Mencius.
"How can a beggar have two wives, and how can his neighbor get many chickens? At that time, there was an emperor of Zhou, so why did everyone talk about Wei Qi." This is what Li Gou said.
In addition, Li Gou also wrote a poem "Hello Mencius": "It is unknown whether Meng Ke believed in it after finishing his marriage. If his father-in-law is the emperor, how can he kill his son-in-law?"
This is what happened when Gusou asked Shun to repair the roof of the warehouse and suddenly removed the ladder. Gusou asked Shun to fill in the well and asked his second wife and son Xiang to bury the soil.
Li Gou said that the logic of this matter was wrong. At that time, Yao had already married his two daughters to Shun. Shun's father-in-law was the emperor, so Gusou would not kill Shun no matter how hard he thought about it. So Li Gou said that Mencius was a confused man.
These things can also be taken seriously.
Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue's back, holding in his hand the small note that Chen Shengzhi had given him.
The note confirmed that Zhang Yue was the author of the three-character poem.
Li Gou believed it in the end, or maybe he didn't know the twists and turns in the process, but Chen Shengzhi said this, which means that he is probably not wrong.
Li Gou thought to himself that he should report this matter to the imperial court, and it would be up to Zhang Yue to decide whether it could be adopted.
As for Wang Anshi, I have to say something about it.
By the way, the last time the primary school professor at Prince Pu’s Mansion started teaching the clan’s children with this three-character poem.
Li Gou didn't know why he thought of this. In June this year, Prime Minister Han Qi, Bao Zheng, a direct bachelor of Longtuge, and others proposed to the officials to establish a heir. However, the officials said that there was a woman in the harem pregnant, and they would wait and see.
Just a few days ago, news came from the palace that another daughter had been born in the harem.
So Li Gou took Zhang Yue's three-character poem to the judge Wu Zhongfu.
Wu Zhongfu and Li Gou didn't want to deal with each other. He saw Li Gou coming and said, "Li Zhi told me why you are here."
Li Gou said: "I would like to report this to the supervisor. This is a three-character poem written by a Taipei student. It was recommended by Wang Jiefu and has been cited in the Changzhou Mongolian School. I want the supervisor to use this to evacuate the imperial court."
"The reason why I am a scholar is because of Wang Jiefu."
Li Gou said: "This poem is catchy and easy to understand. It is suitable for elementary school students. This is a contribution to the creation of the holy religion."
Wu Zhongfu took the three-character poem and read it and said: "It's not even seven or five characters. The words are so simple, how can it be submitted to the memorial? Doesn't this make all the officials laugh? Li Zhijiao, are you trying to embarrass me in front of all the officials?"
Li Gou said: "The supervisor..."
"Okay, no need to say more, I won't agree to it. You should try your best to make an explanation in front of the officials during the public examination. Do you know that the government and the public have long been dissatisfied with the imperial students' criticism of the government, if not
I've said all the good things for you, but I'm afraid I won't even be able to establish this university. As for such a trick and flattery, you don't have to bother with it."
After Wu Zhongfu finished speaking, he put down the three-character poem.
When Li Gou saw this, he immediately walked away.
Wu Zhongfu shook his head and said: "Kangsheng, what a crazy life."
When Li Gou returned to his apartment, he and Wu Zhongfu clashed with each other for more than one day.
Three feet of ice cannot be frozen in one day.
Although he had expected that Wu Zhongfu would not look down upon him before he came, he was still very angry now.
Li Gou immediately got angry and thought that since you are not willing to submit the memorial, then I will list the memorial separately.
Thinking of this, Li Gou went ahead and started writing it on the public case.
