In the Daxiangguo Temple, Wang Kui was so angry that he was trembling with anger and thought: "He is also fighting with me for the system of education. Why does he have to fight with me? Why doesn't he let me go?"
Wang Kui's face turned green. He did not tell He Qi what he was thinking, but asked: "So where did Brother He get Zhang Duzhi's entry?"
He Qidao: "I heard that Zhang Duzhi asked the bookstore owner to bind the articles he was going to publish. The bookstore owner saw the rare goods and agreed to print them for free, leaving him to sell them in the market."
Wang Kui changed his expression and said: "It's obviously for selfish gain, and he also wants to talk about the owner of the bookstore."
He Qidao: "Brother Junmin, Zhang Duzhi comes to compete with you for virtue, what should you do?"
Wang Kui said: "What else can I do? You die and I live. Now I can't take a step back. You also know that if I can't get into the virtuous department, then..."
He Qidao: "I know, no matter what, I will try my best to help you."
Wang Kui said: "For the current plan, I will definitely criticize Zhang Du as useless and make him stop thinking about reforming the subject."
He Qi smiled and said: "This is also my intention."
When Wang Kui found out that Zhang Yue actually went to the Medical College, especially after he went to the Xianliang Fangzheng Neng Speak Out and Admonishment College together with him, his heart collapsed.
After Wang Kui picked up Zhang Yue's entry book, he read a few pages and said with great joy: "But this is not as good as the palace examination. It's really not as good as one day at a time. God is helping me."
He Qi smiled and said: "I think so too. As the saying goes, the higher you stand, the harder you fall. In order to get into the examination, Zhang Duzhi postponed his move to the major subjects, which caused a heated discussion among scholars. He was proud of being the number one scholar and would not let the imperial court
He takes the rules seriously, and now he is using this incident to severely dampen his spirit."
Wang Kui smiled and said: "Brother He is really my Kong Ming."
He Qi said with a smile: "Kong Ming doesn't dare to take it. As long as he can serve brother Junmin as a dog or two, that's enough."
Wang Kui flipped through it again, but felt that this article was not as elegant and meaningful as Zhang Yue's articles in the imperial examination.
Wang Kui said: "Brother He, you go back first. I want to correct the errors in Zhang Du's article and criticize it severely to dispel the bad temper in my heart. I will also ask Brother He to publicize it for me."
He Qi still wanted to persuade Wang Kui to focus on his imperial examination.
He Qidao: "Brother Junmin, you don't have to worry too much about this little effort. It's delaying your study and preparation for the exam."
Wang Kui laughed confidently and said: "I have been studying hard for more than a month, and it is really not enough for two or three days. Thank you Brother He for your kindness."
After saying this, Wang Kui looked at Zhang Yue Jinjuan impatiently.
He Qizhi tried to persuade him in vain, but he was happy to see Wang Kui criticizing Zhang Yue.
"Brother Junmin, just save it." He Qi immediately stood up and left.
Wang Kui has already written down the shortcomings of the article. He does have talent in his heart. If he really wants to find fault with other people's articles, he will not be any worse at his own expense.
It just takes some effort.
Inside Taiping Xingguo Temple.
The ancient temple is quiet, except for the morning bells and evening drums, the only sound is the sound of birds.
In a pine forest, a white-robed scholar sat on a straw mat in the pine forest gap and read.
Several squirrels were jumping up and down on the branches with pine cones in their hands. One of them accidentally dropped a pine cone and hit a man who was bending down and reading a book under the pine tree.
The other party was completely immersed in the sea of books, and couldn't help but pause when he smashed the pine cone.
This man picked up the pine cones from the ground and looked up at the squirrels on the branches without any fear of humans.
The other party couldn't help but smile and shot the pine cone into the pine forest.
This man put down his scroll, took a bottle of water and looked at the white clouds in the distance in the blue sky. He couldn't help but get up and walk around and said: "The body has been refined to look like a crane, and two scriptures are written under a thousand pines. I came to ask and I can't help but say, the clouds are in the blue sky and the water is
In the bottle.”
"I have chosen to live in seclusion and enjoy the wildness. There is no farewell or greeting all year round. Sometimes I go straight to the top of the lonely peak, and the clouds roar under the moon."
After drinking the water, the other party praised the sweetness of the water from the well in the temple, then raised his sleeve and wiped his lips and continued reading with his scroll.
This scholar is Zhang Yue.
Studying in the temple, he was unaware of the passage of time and eliminated worldly distractions. Anyway, on the day of the exam, someone would come to pick him up.
Han Zhongyan was also at home today.
Zhang Yue entered the paper for Han Zhongyan, and he read it first. After reading Zhang Yue's article, he said after reading Zhang Yue's article: "It's not as good as before. Is it possible that the man's talent has been exhausted? It's better to show it to dad before talking about it."
Han Zhongyan arrived at the door and saw Han Qi discussing official matters with Ouyang Xiu, unable to move forward or retreat for a moment. Han Zhongyan was fearless, but when he saw his father, he couldn't help but restrain his hands.
Han Qi saw Han Zhongyan leaning towards the door and shouted: "What are you looking for? Come in."
Han Qi said to Ouyang Xiudao: "The dog just can't get on the stage, which makes Ou Gong laugh."
Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "My husband said so, but I'm afraid that my son will get married in the future, so I won't reprimand him in person?"
Han Qi laughed and said: "How can you worry about this? Even if you are still my son when you are eighty years old, won't you stop training me?"
After Han Qi finished speaking, he pressed his knee to Han Zhongyan and said, "Why are you here?"
Han Zhongyan immediately presented Zhang Yue's entry book and said: "Dad, this is Zhang Duzhi's entry book."
Han Qi took it and asked Ouyang Xiu casually: "It's been a long time, has Mr. Ou read it?"
Ouyang Xiu shook his head and said: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm going to be second to my husband."
Han Qi smiled and said: "Mr. Ou doesn't have the time, so let me feast my eyes on it first."
As he said this, Han Qi held the scroll and read Zhang Yue's book in front of Ouyang Xiu. Halfway through, Han Qi covered the scroll in his case and paced back and forth in the room.
Ouyang Xiu held up the book and read it.
In fact, he had read Zhang Yue's book before, but he was too busy with official duties so he couldn't read it briefly. Now that he took a closer look, he thought it was a good article, but compared to the two articles on "The King Connects Heaven, Earth, Man, and Water"
Much inferior.
But speaking generally of the whole article, it is even more obvious that the law is strict.
The fifty articles are like one article, and they are coherent from beginning to end. Unlike other candidates, there are one article here and one here, which seem to be pieced together and scattered.
Although Ouyang Xiu prefers Ersu's writing style in his heart, Zhang Yue's writing also has his own uniqueness.
"What do you think, Mr. Xian?"
Han Qi said: "When I was young, reading was like gazing at the moon through a gap; when I was reading, it was like looking at the moon in the courtyard; when I read now, it was like playing with the moon on the stage. Nowadays, most books can no longer be read, but this article can still be read.
Observational.”
Ouyang Xiu listened to Han Qi's decent words and seemed to think Zhang Yue's article was ordinary.
Ouyang Xiu and Han Qi said a few more words before leaving.
Han Qi saw Han Zhongyan nearby and didn't know whether to come forward, so he called him to come closer.
"How is your daily life with Zhang Duzhi?"
"We are classmates in Taixue, and we have a friendship of the same age."
"I'm asking about your personal relationship."
Han Zhongyan was afraid of offending his father and said: "We are not just casual acquaintances."
Han Qi nodded and said: "I know that you go in and out of the Goulan House and make some friends with meat and wine on weekdays. That's fine. If you make friends carelessly, you will make friends carelessly. My Han family has never been short of money, so you can squander it freely. So I usually make friends."
I never care about how you make friends."
"But there is one thing you need to remember. If your friend is not as good as you, see if he listens to you. If your friend is worse than you, then learn from it."
Han Zhongyan was originally unhappy when he heard Han Qi say that he had made friends with Goulan Wase, but when he told him the next sentence, it seemed that there was some deep meaning in it.
Isn’t it said that when three people are walking together, there must be my teacher?
However, Han Qi is usually busy with political affairs, and rarely explains his own way of self-cultivation in person.
After Han Zhongyan thought about it carefully, his father had just said to Ouyang Xiu that Zhang Yue's article was ordinary, so why did he start to explain it here?
Han Zhongyan said: "I remember it, kid."
Han Qi signaled Han Zhongyan to step back.
Han Qi walked around the hall, picked up Zhang Yue's manuscript from the case, and read it carefully.
The servants came to invite him to dinner, but Han Qi drove him away.
When Han Qi finally finished reading the last page of Zhang Yuejin's volume, he closed his eyes and thought for a moment and said: "It's a pity that Fan Wenzhenggong cannot be alive. If he had read your article, I don't know how much joy he would have had..."
After saying this, Han Qi lost his voice.
After Zhang Yuejin sold the scroll, the people of Bianjing went crazy for it.
Needless to say, the title of Zhuangyuan Gong was respected by scholars all over the world. Some people said that Zhang Yue had won the title of Zhuangyuan, but he also wanted to win the imperial title (the first place in the system of subjects).
So as soon as his book came out, it immediately aroused the high price of paper in Bianjing.
But it was just ordinary people scrambling for it. Many of them were actually women in the boudoir, and even the women in the hook column were vying to buy Zhang Yue's articles.
This really surprised the book seller.
He didn't understand why the daughter's family in Bianjing also took the imperial examination? Can they understand the articles for the number one scholar? Such a thing is simply unheard of.
Therefore, in front of the bookstall, the shopkeeper looked at a group of women entering and asked, "Are my Zhanglang books for sale?"
"Sold, sold."
"Take ten copies."
"Madam, people like you can't read so much. Five books are enough."
"How come there is such a business? Aren't you allowed to buy more for my sisters?"
A scholar on the side smelled the strong smell of makeup and powder beside him, and immediately shook his head and said: "It's not appropriate. It's okay not to read the book like this."
After saying this, the scholar left angrily.
Seeing this, many of the long queues of scholars who lined up behind the bookshop also left.
Even so, the store still put up a sold out sign early, causing everyone to almost cause trouble in front of the store.
However, the owner of the bookstore is also a smart person. The engraving blocks for engraving the books are still there, so he just needs to reuse them, so he rushed to print them overnight.
Although this book was popular in Bianjing for a while, it was not well-received by readers, and its response was mediocre.
There is even a first-class saying that the number one scholar would rather let the officials postpone the registration date. The article he just wrote is like this?
Anyway, it’s a ‘that’s it’ tone.
If there was a scoring system in this era, before Zhang Yueshu was put on the market, readers would probably have given him an eight or nine score, many of them purely for the sake of the No. 1 Scholar.
But as more people bought the book, the score gradually dropped, from nine points to eight points, then from eight points to six points, and so on.
Many people have even raised doubts and criticisms. Not to mention that these papers are far inferior to the articles on the Zhangyue Palace Examination and the Provincial Examination, and the three biographies submitted to the emperor.
Anyway, it is not a top-ranked article. For most people, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
At the end of the day, an idle letter was circulated on the streets of Bianjing, criticizing Zhang Yue's entry as useless from beginning to end.
Ps: There are two opinions on whether Su Shi deserves to be regarded as a virtuous and virtuous person or as a wise and talented person. This article takes the latter.
