My life skills in Daming Liver

Su Ze looked at the embroidery on the sachet, and it took him a long time to recognize it. It must be a carp?

Carp jumping over the dragon gate, this is the most auspicious blessing of Ming Dynasty for scholars.

People in the Tang Dynasty loved carp especially, and carp was regarded as auspicious, and high-ranking officials were required to wear fish bags with fish charms in them.

This trend spread to the Japanese country. Japanese families with boys set up carp flags at the door of the house on the Dragon Boat Festival, which also means that the carp jumped over the dragon's gate.

Nowadays, officials of the Ming Dynasty no longer use fish bags, and the carp-patterned sachets have become a common thing worn by examinees for auspiciousness.

It's just that Miss Fang's embroidery is really beyond words.

It is barely recognizable as a carp, and the stitches are also crooked. The style is a bit like a funny emoticon bag of later generations. Su Ze held back his smile. Although the sachet looks ugly, but the smell is fresh and elegant, enough to see the magistrate Miss Jia's attainments in incense and Taoism far surpass that of female workers in embroidery.

Two days before the county examination, Lin Liangjun and the staff of Changningwei found Su Ze together. Little Luobotou took out a sachet from his sleeve and handed it to Su Ze:

"My brother gave it to you."

Another sachet?

Su Ze took the sachet, also embroidered with a carp.

If Fang Ruolan's embroidery has some elements of abstract art, it can be attributed to the expressive techniques of postmodernism.

Lin Mojun's embroidery work is open and close, marching to the height of symbolism, horizontal and vertical lines, quite a bit of the simple style of military products of later generations, if it weren't for Su Ze's outstanding comprehension ability, I'm afraid it would be impossible to think of this. only carp.

Dumbfoundingly accepting the sachets, Su Ze had to wear both sachets on his body.

On the day of the county examination, the entrance of the examination institute was already full of candidates.

Scholars from the entire Nanping County gathered here, and Su Ze looked around, most of them were immature faces.

There are still a lot of boys in the boy test, and there are not no old boy students who are rich and poor, but in Fujian, after all, the business atmosphere is strong, and they always fail in the imperial examination and basically change careers.

The Examination Institute is located near the southeast gate of the county seat, and the only purpose of this building is to hold imperial examinations.

Both the county examination and the government examination will be held here. In order to prevent cheating in the examination, the county magistrate and invigilator in charge of the examination, as well as the scribes selected by the ceremony room to transcribe the papers, will be locked in the examination hall in advance.

Although it was only a county test, the procedure was already complete, at least in form there was no room for cheating.

The soldiers responsible for guarding the examination hall and examining candidates were also guard soldiers transferred from other counties.

It's not that you can't cheat, but that the cost of cheating is high, at least it's fair to most people.

In the restaurant next to the examination institute, there were also a group of scholars sitting.

The scholars headed by Huang Shixing also meet upstairs every year during the county examination.

When a candidate came out, some scholar asked the test questions and passed them upstairs, and the present scholar wrote the questions on the spot, and then announced a "upstairs desk leader".

This kind of behavior is similar to paying attention to the composition questions of the college entrance examination after the college entrance examination is over, and taking the line test after the public entrance examination. It belongs to the "reminiscence" of the past hard study time for those who have already landed, and it is actually an act of seeking a sense of self-satisfaction.

Otherwise, why don't you do math problems after the college entrance examination? It's not just the Chinese questions that can be understood, but the math questions have long been incomprehensible.

The protagonist of the party is naturally Huang Shixing. Although he has withstood the shock of "Surprise", Huang Shixing has a reputation as a scholar after all, and he is also recognized by Chen Moqun, the head of Yanping Academy. He is the most likely scholar in this class.

The circle of scholars also pay attention to a person who would rather be a phoenix tail than a chicken head.

Local Juren in Nanping generally have two choices.

One is that, like Hai Rui, he will not continue the imperial examination and go directly to the Ministry of Officials in the capital to wait for the appointment of officials.

Even the unqualified academic officials are still officials. If they can pass the examination with excellence, they may not be unable to be the magistrate of any county and become Bailihou.

As for the rest of the candidates, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, those who failed the list would go to the Imperial College to study, and then take the next tribute examination.

Studying in the Imperial College is called "jurring into the prison". Although the literary style of the Imperial College in the north and the south is not strong, you can avoid the high cost of accommodation and meals in the capital by studying in the Imperial College. You can also study and compete with your peers. It is an ordinary family. good choice.

If you don't study in the Imperial College, it is actually an illegal act in the Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations.

In the fifth year of Jiajing and the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, the emperor clearly issued decrees that those who want to continue to participate in the tribute examination must have a study record in the Guozijian, otherwise they will not be allowed to participate in the tribute examination.

In fact, these decrees had no effect at all. For example, in the tribute examination in the 28th year of Jiajing after the decree was issued, the proportion of candidates admitted to the invigilation was less than 30%, but the qualifications of these Jinshi were all recognized in the end.

And these candidates who are not in prison can enjoy the freedom that ordinary people do not have as a candidate for officials.

After becoming a Jinshi, he must obey the arrangement of the imperial court to be an official, and he will never have such a free life.

So many people will travel around to study at this time, such as studying in famous academies.

There are also those who travel in the name of study tours, and even run business in the name of Juren.

Some people simply imitate the ancient rangers, claiming that the Confucian knights go around fighting for justice.

For example, the prefect's brother-in-law and Fang Ruolan's uncle Li Zhi, after winning the Juren, he traveled around to give lectures, wrote books and biographies, and was regarded as a guest of honor. He was sponsored everywhere he went, just like a star on a national tour.

This is also the reason why Su Ze wanted to take the Juren examination.

If you pass the exam, you will have the freedom that ordinary people do not have, and Su Ze can leave Nanping, Yanping and even Fujian to accumulate the power of rebellion.

Also because the local candidates are not in the local area, Huang Shixing, the "most promising" scholar, became the leader of the younger generation of scholars in Yanping Prefecture.

There are quite a few mountains where there are no tigers, and monkeys are called kings.

Huang Shixing was surrounded by everyone, enjoying the feeling of being sought after by others.

At this time, some candidates had already come to the entrance of the examination institute with their examination baskets.

This kind of basket is tied with a red string, and there are stationery such as pens, inkstones and so on.

Su Ze’s kaolan was taken from Yu’s bookstore. After checking the pen, ink and inkstone, there were no words or cracks on it, and some food was put together, and a piece of oilcloth was put on the kaolan. Su Ze also came. Before the exam.

Zhou Xiucai was Su Ze's guarantor, and a group of scholars gathered around him, all of whom were scholars under his guarantor.

Su Ze took the marriage confession form and lined up for the inspection, but this inspection was basically a formality. There were only these scholars in Nanping County, and Su Ze was a well-known scholar in Nanping County today, so he passed the inspection quickly.

A burst of firecrackers sounded, which is called "Three Cannons", which is the exam bell when the exam hall opens.

Firecrackers will be set off three times on the day of the exam. At three or four o'clock in the morning, the first firecrackers will be set off at Simen County and nearby villages to remind candidates to get ready.

An hour later, the second artillery will be fired, and candidates who are far away from the examination hall can start.

The third firecracker was the sound of firecrackers opening the examination hall. Su Ze said goodbye to Lin Xianyang, who accompanied him to the exam, and entered the examination hall with the exam blue.

The next step is the body search of the entrance examination institute. Although the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were not as perverted as the inspections in the Qing Dynasty, the speed of body searches by soldiers was still very slow. The candidates who were with Su Ze were Zhou Xiucai's security candidates. Watch others with wary eyes.

The guarantor for granary students is jointly guaranteed by ten people, which means that if one of them has a problem, the rest will be disqualified from the exam.

However, Hai Rui is the instructor of the county school in Nanping County, and Nanping's style of study is relatively upright, but there are no people who cheated.

It wasn't until he entered the examination institute that Su Ze realized that what Chen Chaoyuan said was simple, it was so simple.

The test shed is smaller than the office cubicle of later generations. There is only a stool built of wood and masonry, and the usable area is similar to that of a squat toilet.

Mottled walls and hollowed-out ceilings, Chen Chaoyuan's statement that it was raining lightly outside and heavy rain inside was true.

Su Ze was holding the number plate. Jialiu was not only the exam certificate number, but also the mark of the exam location. He quickly found his exam booth.

Only then did Su Ze know why the examination number of the former chief of the case could be sold for five taels of silver.

Because it was the test shed of the previous case, it should have been repaired recently. At least the roof is not leaking, and the walls are much whiter than other test sheds.

It is indeed an elegant seat worth five taels of silver!

Under everyone's envious eyes, Su Ze walked into the examination booth, hung the wooden sign on the side of the examination booth, and waited for the clerk to check his identity for the last time.

After distributing three answer sheets and nine draft papers, Baizhi County led his men to lock the gate of the examination institute, and the Yimaonian County Examination of Nanping County began.

After Baizhi County announced the start of the exam, in each exam area, a guard held a wooden sign and began to stop and go in the exam area.

The question of the first "Four Books" was written on this sign. Candidates in the test booth had to copy the question on the manuscript paper first, and then copy it to the marked test paper after answering.

"It's not easy to say, you have friends"

Seeing this question, Su Ze heard sighs rising and falling in the examination room.

Unexpectedly, the first Four Books is an interception question!

Intercepting questions are questions that combine two or even more sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics.

This sentence is not the original text in the Four Books and Five Classics, so the difficulty is naturally much more difficult than ordinary single-sentence questions or multi-sentence questions!

First of all, you have to read the four books thoroughly to know the source of this question, and then you have to answer the question according to the intercepted question.

In fact, the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty seldom gave cut-and-answer questions in the tribute examination, but in the county examination, many county magistrates preferred to give cut-and-answer questions in order to be lazy.

Because it is difficult to cut and answer questions, it is very fast to dismiss ordinary candidates. Sometimes, enough candidates can be cleared in the first exam, and it is very easy to correct the papers.

But the person who made the question is happy, and the person who made the question will secretly greet the ancestors of Baizhi County.

But in fact, this kind of intercepting and taking questions is not intentionally embarrassing candidates.

By the Jiajing year, the Ming court had held so many imperial examinations.

There have been so many issues of selected periodicals, and the content of the four books has basically been published.

And if there is cheating in the examination room, the chief examiner will lose his head.

For some commonly used questions, candidates who have reached the extreme have already memorized all famous works by famous writers.

The fear is that there will be two paper kings in one examination room, and if there are two identical examination papers, will the examiner still be alive?

But Su Ze breathed a sigh of relief when he got this topic.

Although this kind of interception question is ingenious, as long as there is a correct way of solving the question, it will basically be stable.

Su Ze picked up the pen. This kind of topic is actually a bit similar to modern intellectual games.

First look at the source of the two sentences.

In fact, those who have gone to school have basically read these two sentences.

"Learning and practicing it from time to time is not easy to say. It is a joy to have friends coming from afar."

However, if you solve the question according to the original sentence, you will fall into the trap of the person who made the question.

To solve the problem of stereotyped essay, we must closely follow the topic, that is to say, we must solve it corresponding to "It's not easy to say, you have friends".

At this time, Zhu Xi's bet must be withheld to break.

The interpretation of "Shuo" in Zhu Xi's Anthology, "Scholars will practice it. If you learn it from time to time, you will learn from me, so I will say it."

Zhu Xi's comment on this sentence is very clever, pointing out the relationship between learning and practice.

Although Su Ze doesn't like Zhu Xi, he agrees with this sentence.

"After learning, I need to practice. After practicing, the knowledge will be transformed into my own knowledge, so I will feel happy."

Said is the same as "Yue", which means pleasure.

Su Ze began to solve the problem by learning the joy of practice. He wrote:

"Speaking of deep learning can determine the existence of friends."

This sentence means that if you can enjoy yourself from learning to practice, and get happiness from what you have learned, then you will naturally have like-minded friends to follow.

This way of solving the problem not only writes the dialectical relationship between reading and practice, but also conforms to the definition of a friend of a gentleman in Confucianism. It can be said that it is quite clever to solve the problem.

There is no problem in breaking the topic, and Su Ze will start writing his theory of practice in the next part.

[Blue Passive——Extensive Quotes]

[Golden Passive—Six Classics Note Me]

These two passive skills made Su Ze's mind unprecedentedly clear, and all kinds of quotations from the classics abruptly turned this topic to the final argument——

Practice is the only way to test the truth. Pursuing the truth is the happiest thing in the world, and the truth is bound to become clearer and clearer. Those who can practice the path of truth will have like-minded friends to follow.

After writing a stereotyped essay eloquently, Su Ze checked it again to make sure there were no typos or taboos, and then copied it onto the examination paper.

In this way, half an hour has passed, and another small official took a pen and began to check the progress of the candidates in answering the questions.

Every half an hour, a clerk came to check the progress, check the words on the manuscript paper and the number of words on the answer sheet, and record them in the examination book.

This is because they are afraid that the examinee and the examinee next to him will cheat. If you do not write a word on the draft paper and start answering directly on the examination paper, then there will be suspicions that the examinee who is seated will help you answer the question.

By the time Su Ze finished transcribing it, it was already nine o'clock in the morning, and the five guards held up signs, which were the topics of the Five Classics.

Daming only asked to treat one classic, and you can answer the questions of whatever classic you want to study. Su Ze copied the title of "Spring and Autumn".

The following test post poems were also in good order. Su Ze checked it for the last time, and simply called the scribes to hand in the papers!

The topic of this stereotyped essay comes from the 30 sample essays in the stereotyped essay textbook "Quyuan Lesson Sun Cao".

Of course, the latter theory of practice was modified by Fat Bird.