There is nothing to say about the scientific examination. In a poor place like Guizhou, students who are interested in taking the provincial examination next year can basically pass the scientific examination organized by the academic officer.
Since Chenghua ten years ago, Guizhou's quota for candidates has been 19.
There are at most three to four hundred people taking the exam in the province. In addition, the road is long and dangerous. Those who can walk into the exam room in good health will be about three hundred people in each session. If there is another flash flood or something and the official roads are blocked,
There may be less than 200 candidates.
Taking 19 people out of two to three hundred, Guizhou's winning rate is quite high, at least more than double the national average!
If Wang Yuan takes part in the provincial examination next year, he will have better luck, because the number of candidates will increase again.
Thanks to Eunuch Liu, the number of candidates in the Zhongbang and Nanbang areas next year will be greatly increased. Because Liu Jin himself is from the north, most of the officials who serve him are from the Zhongbang and the Northern list. When excluding dissidents, he deliberately attacks the South.
Jinshi, and deliberately win over those in the middle and north who do not oppose him.
Combining many factors, Eunuch Liu made a crazy decision——
In the fifth year of the Zhengde Provincial Examination, the number of candidates in Shaanxi (Liu Jin's hometown) increased by 35, directly from 65 to 100! The number in Shanxi increased by 25, and the number in Henan and Sichuan increased by 15 and 10 respectively... Guizhou
Following the blessing, the number of people to be elected was increased by two.
Eunuch Liu was very skillful. He wanted to transform the dispute between eunuchs and civil servants into a dispute between the south, the north, and the middle-ranking Jinshi, and directly create divisions within the civil service group.
So a nonsense phenomenon emerged. When Li Dongyang overthrows Liu Jin next year, it will coincide with the time of the national provincial examination. When the court announces that the new quota is invalid and most areas have already announced their results, how can you still deprive so many new imperial examination candidates of their merit?
What’s even more interesting is that when the provincial examination was held again in the eighth year of Zhengde, the newly added quotas in other provinces were invalidated. Only Yunnan and Guizhou were retained, and the amounts prescribed by Liu Jin were still used. It was probably because there were too many rebellions in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the court wanted to strengthen regional rule.
And the promotion of education is the first priority.
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Civilization Academy.
This academy was built in the Yuan Dynasty, abandoned in the early Ming Dynasty, rebuilt during the Yongle period, and abandoned again in the Chenghua period.
After Xi Shu and Mao Ke came to Guizhou, they summoned local gentry to raise funds, including the Song family and the An family, and now they finally rebuilt the Wenming Academy.
It was a pity that the teaching staff was insufficient. Before Wang Yangming came down from the mountain, he could only ask some old scholars to teach him.
After Wang Yuan paid his tuition, he went to the academy to study with Song Ling'er and Liu Yaozu, and all the students in Longgang Mountain also lived in the academy.
Canteen.
Wang Yuan came back with a bowl of rice, sat down, and asked: "Brother Zonglu, why don't you take the scientific examination?"
Chen Wenxu said with a smile: "Ever since we studied under the teacher, we have known that our knowledge is shallow. If we go to Yunnan next year to take the provincial examination, we will be delayed for two or three months on the road. Why not use the time to follow the teacher?"
Well, in order to stay with Wang Yangming and study, Chen Wenxu, Tang Xin, Ye Wu and others did not even take part in the provincial examination next year, so they did not bother to take the scientific examination this year.
Wang Yuan said: "A few days ago, I saw a lot of strange faces during the exam. Why didn't I see them in last year's exam?"
Yue Zhen explained: "Most of these students are the children of officials. Their fathers are officials in other provinces, and their families have moved out. Although they are students from Guizhou, they have actually been studying in other places since they were young. They can only take part in the scientific examination.
I will go back to Guizhou and go to Yunnan to take the exam after I get the qualification."
"That's it." Wang Yuan suddenly realized.
Ye Wu shook his head helplessly: "In every provincial examination, most of Guizhou's candidates' quotas are taken up by these officials' children. After all, the place where they study is much more prosperous in literary style than Guizhou. How can local students pass the examination?"
Yue Zhen and Zhan Hui didn't say anything, because their two families have produced many high officials in the past dynasties.
There are five or six students from Yue and Zhan who returned to their hometown to take the scientific examination this time, all of whom are their brothers. Not surprisingly, at least two or three students from Guizhou who will pass the examination next year will be from these two families.
The children of the family.
It is indeed unfair to the local scholars, but they strictly abide by the court laws.
Take Wang Yangming for example. He studied in Beijing since he was a child and lived with his father Wang Hua. Most of today’s cabinet ministers are Wang Hua’s colleagues in the Hanlin Academy. When Wang Yangming failed in the examination, Li Dongyang even comforted him personally. Enjoy this
With excellent educational resources, Wang Yangming also had to return to his hometown to take the scientific and provincial examinations.
After breakfast, Wang Yuan went to study conscientiously. He now recites ten ancient poems every day. And he does not require a deep understanding. He only needs to understand the basic meaning of the poems and be able to recite them skillfully. Wang Yangming is cultivating his sense of vocabulary.
After Wang Yuan finished memorizing a thousand poems, Wang Yangming taught him "The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons", followed by the advanced course "Article Standards".
"Article Standards" contains sixty-nine ancient articles from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, of which Han Yu's articles account for thirty-one, and there are also famous articles by Zhuge Liang, Fan Zhongyan, Xin Qiji, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and others. By then, Wang Yangming will
I will break down each article and focus on analyzing the rhetorical techniques of these articles.
"Brother Wang, aren't you going to listen to your lecture?" Liu Yaozu asked.
Wang Yuan said: "I'm not going, you can go by yourself."
"oh."
Liu Yaozu had moved out of the Song family, and Mr. Song gave him ten taels of silver.
As for Mr. Song, he not only gave up his ambition to take the imperial examination, but also gave up his inheritance rights (Guizhu Tusi), and chose to study in the Song clan as a teacher. According to him, the Song family had become corrupted. Not only did they not dare to face the rebels, but they also spent the whole day
The fight was endless. Mr. Song decided to start from a young child and teach the next generation of the Song family carefully, so that the children of the Song family would know honor and disgrace, understand etiquette, and be moral.
Song Ling'er held a copy of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and sat next to Wang Yuan, reading it silently and carefully. Only when she could recite the entire book would Wang Yangming explain its meaning to her.
Liu Yaozu carried his schoolbag and came to the academy's lecture hall.
Shen Fucong was also there. While serving as Xi Shu's staff, Master Shen also served as the instructor of Wenming Academy.
Master Shen and Wang Yangming have chatted several times in the past few days, but the topic has nothing to do with knowledge. The two are from the same hometown, and they are talking about past events in their hometown. Master Shen is even a classmate of Wang Yangming's father in the county school - a classmate in name.
There was no actual interaction. After Wang Hua passed the scholar examination, he was invited by Zhejiang Zuobuzhengshi to be a teacher of ethnic studies.
Master Shen is not interested in Wang Yangming's psychology, but he wants to pretend to be interested, so he came to listen to the class today.
"Mencius said: What a person can do without learning is his good ability; what he knows without worrying about it is his good knowledge. As a child, everyone knows how to love their relatives; as an adult, everyone knows how to respect their brothers.
also……"
Wang Yangming's lung disease is no longer serious, and he stands on the podium to promote the concept of "promoting conscience".
At first, no one thought it was anything new, but when he talked about "the unity of knowledge and action," it immediately aroused the interest of countless students. At the same time, all the students who decided to take the provincial examination next year ran away after hearing half of it.
Based on the actual situation of students in Guizhou, Wang Yangming tried his best to explain the truth in simple and profound terms. After a few days, he simply used colloquialisms to teach, and the teaching method became more like chatting.
Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism had little influence in Guizhou, and even many scholars only knew about the imperial examination and had no idea what Neo-Confucianism was.
The degree of acceptance of Xinxue among Guizhou scholars is much higher than that of scholars in other provinces. Coupled with the advocacy of Xi Shu, deputy envoy of Tixue, all students came to attend the lectures. Some dropped out midway, but more joined halfway.
In less than half a month, Wang Yangming’s class audience has exceeded 200 people.
Another month later, Wang Yangming could only give lectures at the entrance of the academy because the classroom could not accommodate so many people.
Not only scholars, but also traffickers and footmen came to listen to the lectures to kill time. They may not be literate, but they can understand Wang Yangming's principles. This is the fundamental purpose of Wang Yangming's lectures in colloquial proverbs.
Two months later, the number of people attending the lectures reached more than 600, and the street in front of the academy was full. There were even vendors starting business, carrying burdens and running to sell food. People often listened to Uncle Wang's lectures while eating melon seeds.
This teaching method was later inherited by Wang Gen, the founder of the Taizhou School.
At the peak of Wang Gen's lectures, the audience could reach thousands at a time, and most of them were ordinary people.
No matter what, Wang Yangming has become a phenomenon-level figure in Guizhou City, a bit like an academic star in the hearts of ordinary people. Even when neighborhood disputes arise, both parties go to Wang Yangming for comment. Uncle Wang often transforms into the neighborhood committee's Aunt Wang.
Wang Yangming's loyal core disciples soon expanded to more than thirty people, forming a young academic force.
Wang Yuan did not attend the lectures, but continued to study the Four Books and Five Classics, practicing calligraphy, memorizing poems, and doing eight-legged exercises every day. He even did not touch sword skills, archery skills, and riding skills.