Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Yongping Mansion was hit by the earthquake during the first month of the year, and the areas of Fuzhi, Funing and Linyu were the hardest hit. Numerous houses and walls collapsed, and victims were injured. The prefect Wang Wen was busy with disaster relief, and the trial was delayed again and again, and it would not start until the end of February.

Students from Jiashan Haiwei and several military villages in the six counties of the prefecture were going to take the test in the city. The people outside the examination room were squeezed, and examinees from all counties stood in one place waiting to be summoned. Zaoli, guarding the gate, ordered the students to check their identity and search in the order of Lu Long, Qian'an, Funing... The government examination is not just a guarantee for five lives, a guarantee from a young student, but two guarantors.

Zhao Yinglin asked his eldest brother to help find someone, meaning that he would collect premiums for the primary school students and stand outside the dragon gate to prove their identity.

This time Cui Xie didn't have the county's preferential treatment, and he was really checked, and he entered the examination room with a shaggy head like other Confucian boys. There were several people in front of him who were found to be entrained by the search, and they all asked the officials to pull to the road and kneel down with their backs on the wall. They were allowed to leave the examination room for a full day. There are also courageous, throwing the paper strips and mini question bank to the side of the road before going through the examination, and honestly enter the arena empty.

These three examinations are more difficult than the county exams. After all, you will be a child student after the government exams. You can take the college exams every year in the future. If you don't take the exam again next year, you still have to start with the county exams. Lord Fu Zun Wang is not an examiner like the county magistrate Qi, who is too lazy to even small questions in pursuit of ancient customs. Although he does not ask questions that are too difficult to find the source, he still wants to come up with a chapter:

The first two essays of the official test, the four books are titled "Cultivate in the spring to make up for the deficiencies, and help the princes". The original sentence after "to make up for the deficiencies in the cultivation of spring" also has "to help but not to help in autumn". Then there is a Xia Yan poem, the last one of which is "One travel and one Yu, to save the princes", which is a separate sentence, and it can be regarded as a sentimental match; the title of the poem is "Mu Muwen Wang, Tong Gong prostitution", with "Daya·Wen Wang" takes "Xiaoya·Tong Bow".

In the next two games, it was easier than Qi Xianzun, only one discussion and one policy question. In terms of "Lilu", the policy question is about disaster relief. Cui Xie County simulated all disaster relief policy questions before the test, and it was like a fish in water. After the first two scriptures were written, I was still a little uneasy. The policy question was written and I was shocked by the joy of the graduation thesis defense. I finished writing before noon, and took the Fu Zun personally.

The official examination is also unsealed. Although Wang Zhifu is not familiar with his people, he is familiar with his name. I watched the papers he had handed in three days in advance. When we met for the last time, I couldn’t help telling him to stand, holding his papers and asking: “You’re the Cui Xie who published the “Four Books” in Qian’an County. ?"

Choi Xie replied, "It's a student."

The mansion asked: "You are good at verses, but can you write poems?"

This really won't... Cui Xie knew that he just memorized a selection of Ming and Qing poems, and he couldn't reach the level of authoritative writing, let alone memorized it? So he said honestly: "I have never done it before. The student has a short period of studying seriously, and he has learned to write from his husband, and has not yet learned poetry."

If a child prodigy can't write poetry, the word "God" will be discounted.

Wang Wenxin was disappointed and wanted to send him back directly, but thinking about the name of the child prodigy before him was written in pairs, he said: "I have read your "Four Books in Pairs", since you are familiar with the Four Books Well, if the words in the book are correct, this mansion will issue an upper couplet, and you will come to the sentence."

He pondered for a while, and said, "Li Weimu is an electricity."

This sentence comes from the third chapter of "Book of Changes·Said Gua Zhuan". The original sentence is "Li is the eye. Li is the fire, the sun, and the electricity". Cui Xie had read the Book of Changes once, but he didn't write the script and only carve the content into the hard disk. At this time, he couldn't remember where it came from.

He is not familiar with the Book of Changes, but is familiar with the "Four Books". Listening to the rhythm of the Shanglian, he immediately thought of the first sentence of the chapter "The Analects of Confucius Zihan", "Zihan speaks for benefits and fate and people", and replied: "Profit and fate and people."

Wang asked with an "um", looked up at him, and said, "You are indeed proficient in the four books, but the dialogues in the four books are all short sentences. If you write too much, I am afraid that you will be restrained. I will test you. Long sentence."

Because it was a primary school student who was taking the exam, he came up with an interesting sentence: "A talented person with eight fights must be successful in solving the Yuan, Hui Yuan, and champion, and even the three Yuan, the Hanlin, and the eighteen bachelors."

Cui Xie said without blushing, "Students should work hard and live up to the expectations of the palace." He arched his hands to the west, and said, "The emperor of ten thousand years, I must respect the first, the first, the first, the Dazun. Unite one, proclaim Danzhao, and proclaim hundreds of millions of livelihoods."

This pair is still from Mencius, "There are Da Zun Three in the World: Jueyi, Chiyi, Deyi" in Chapter 2 of "Gongsun Chouzhang Juju".

Wang Zhifu smiled knowingly, waved his hand and said, "No matter, it's enough to test your "Four Books". Go back and carefully review and prepare for the hospital exam. This time you will be taken."

Cui Xie thanked him, walked outside the dragon gate and waited for a while, and gathered five students who had handed in their papers in advance and went out. Unexpectedly, they had just walked outside the gate of the Confucian Temple. Suddenly a group of Zaoli came to stop them. Among them was a sergeant wearing a red cloak and a six-petal felt hat. He shouted: "Cui Xie, a candidate from Qian'an County, is here. Huh? Come with me if you are there, I have something to ask you."

Several students turned their heads to look at each other, and Cui Xie's heart jumped, wondering what would happen if he tried the exam well—could it be that the parents at home had committed a crime and he would no longer be able to perform imperial examinations in the future?

There were a lot of messy thoughts in his mind, and his body became more cold. He stood up and replied: "The student is Cui Xie, I don't know which adult is looking for a student?"

The sergeant's expression wasn't very stern. He seemed to be a little known for a long time. He finally saw the real person's emotion and sighed: "So you are Cui Xie. Come with us. We, Qianhu and Yushi Liu, both meet you."

Several students who went out together left him a few feet away, and the crowd blocking the door separated automatically. Cui Xie followed the red carpet and walked on the empty road to the sergeant's side and asked in a low voice: " But I don’t know where are we going? Where are the thousand households that the lord said?

The sergeant replied in a low voice as he walked: "Naturally, we thank Qianhu, do you know another one? Master Liu is waiting in the palace to ask you something. You will know what happened there. , Hurry up."

It turned out to be Xie Qianhu, so he can rest assured... Wait, Jin Yiwei! Yu Shi took Jin Yiwei to the countryside to handle the case! What the **** did the Cui family commit? Even this kid in the country has Jin Yiwei Qianhu personally asking?

He was hurriedly pushed into a small sedan chair and carried into the palace. The government office and the school temple were built on the same street. The government school was in the north and the yamen was in the south. They were only half a street apart, and the sedan chair was carried outside the yamen within a few steps. The leading Jin Yiwei called him down, led him through the small door, and went to the second hall.

There are two officials sitting upright in the hall. They are all dressed in black gauze official robes, but their clothes are green and blue. The one on the left with the seventh rank of civil servants should be Liu Yushi; the one on the right... Look at tonic, look at the face, you know that it is a five-tier Jinyiwei. Next to him, there was an official who had the same appearance as his, who was just playing baiji tonic. He should be a fifth-rank official.

Although he knew that Xie Qianhu had come to copy his house to take people, Cui Xie felt a sense of security inexplicably when he saw his face, and his heart was settled after hesitating all the way. He walked to the center of the hall, stood there steadily, and bowed his hands to salute: "Cui Xie, a Confucian scholar in Qian'an County, has met two adults."

He is indeed longer, and he is indeed thinner.

The first time Xie Ying saw him, although he was ill, there was still flesh on his face, and because he was having a fever at the time, his cheeks were flushed, and he looked good. But this time he had just come out of the examination room, and everyone felt tired and haggard. He didn't know whether his face was cold or tired, and he was so pale that he was a little bit blue.

But his figure was longer and taller than before. He wore layers of jade-colored gowns, just like the same jade tree standing on the hall, illuminating the inner hall a little bit. His face is thinner, and his chin is pointed, but it is not the kind of pathological depression, but a breath of heroism growing from the cuteness of a child.

Only those eyes did not change much, the tails of the eyes were slightly raised, and when they lowered their eyes, they felt warm and graceful, but when they looked up, they revealed a burning brilliance.

Xie Ying was here to ask about him, but she didn't come to see him salute. He bowed and said, "You don't need to be polite. Master Liu, Tongzhi Zhang and the officials are not people who pay attention to common etiquette, and you are not a criminal. Don't stand, sit down under Master Zhang."

Master Liu glanced at him. He just didn't feel it, holding a tea cup and said, "Bring a cup of tea to Master Cui. The Holy Life didn't say that he wanted to ask him, so he should give him the treatment he deserves for his official children and students from the government examination."

There is still a holy life? But he didn't come to arrest him, so he should be a witness? Isn't it the White Lotus Sect who is doing something...

With Cui Xie's barren experience and imagination, one can only think of this. Anyway, as long as he didn’t come to catch him, he got up and walked to Tongzhi Zhang Gui’s head, but did not sit down, but respectfully bowed his hand: "I don’t know what your lord is going to ask, Cui Xie must Know everything."

Liu Zan also liked his face very much, but he was afraid that his virtue and talent would not match his face. I wish he could test him on the spot and make sure that the three papers were really written by him, or he guessed the topics in advance, please. Ghostwriting.

However, he was the imperial historian who was ordered to inquire about the case. If he wanted to ask, he had to endure the case until he finished the case. Therefore, he couldn't wait for him to sit down and have a sip of tea, so he directly asked: "The library in Yahou Street, Qian'an County. It was originally your family's property? You dedicated it to Qian'an County?"

Not White Lotus? Is it the library?

Cui Xie was taken aback for a moment, and fell in the eyes of Liu Yushi, and suspected that he had no idea about donating the library. He leaned slightly and looked at Cui Xiewen and said: "Just tell the truth. Both the official and Xie Qianhu came by the emperor's orders. No matter what wrongs you have, we can call the shots for you."

Xie Ying also smiled and said, "Master Liu is right. Whatever wrongdoing you have, just come back in person. The emperor Shengming, the candle shines thousands of miles, I wait for the grace of the emperor, how can I allow those ghost tricks to harm good people?"

Cui Xie came back to his senses, and quickly took a step forward, watching the two imperial servants and saying firmly, "The courtyard of the library was donated to the county by me on my own initiative. There has never been any wrongdoing. Two adults came to ask about this. Shouldn't I donate this place?"

of course not.

Donating property to the court is a righteous act, and building a library in Qian'an County for free reading is also a moral government. No one dares to say wrong. What Yushi wants to play, what the imperial envoy wants to check is not that they shouldn't donate to the hospital to build a museum, but how did such a child who had not yet become a child last year thought of donating to the yard——

Was it really out of my heart, or was it tempted?

Liu Zan's body leaned even harder, he almost got up from his chair, looked at Cui Xie's bright and clear eyes and asked: "You weren't a child last year, when you were young, how did you know that the donation yard built books for the county? Museum? But did someone teach you this? Or what promised you?"

Cui Xie squeezed out a few shallow lines of Sichuan characters on his eyebrows, and asked him, "Why do adults think that? The donation to the library comes from the heart of the students. As for the past, Qi County Order's "Xiu Qian'an County Library" It’s clearly written in Ji. The students donated the first mother’s dowry in a more beneficial place, and were not persuaded by others."

Liu Zan's tightened eyebrows relaxed slightly, and he asked, "That shop is your first wife’s dowry, and there is a total of more than a hundred rents every year, right? You have a child living in a foreign city, and the family’s share of the bill should be sent from the capital. , It’s always inconvenient to come and go. Without this interest, wouldn’t it affect your study?"

Not afraid. Without Zhirong Bookstore, there are also two homes Anzhai and Qingzhutang, which is open during the festival.

Cui Xie looked away a little, and said abruptly: "The student once heard the servant say that when the first mother married into Cui's family, his father was still a child, and his grandfather's family married a bookstore just to take care of his father. Later, my father had the opportunity to read the books before he was successfully admitted to the Jinshi and served the court. I came to Qian’an to prepare for the exam, and Chongci was the master of the bookstore and handed it to me with such expectations. I can read as much as I want, so I can learn composition after more than a year in the county, and I can rush to the government to test..."

It turns out that this bookstore still has such twists and turns. Liu Zan nodded his head again and again, and then he woke up until he heard "Learning composition in one year in the county"——

wrong! That's not something you can learn with a book to read! Most people certainly cannot write articles just because they read a few more books!

The scriptures are fine, and if you ask your husband to change it a few more times, you can also correct the clear sentences. Such a skillful and sophisticated questioning cannot be written by a child who has never seen the world. Even the literary attendants in the Hanlin Court asked them to write scripture articles and ancient essays, which are full of flowers; when it comes to this kind of current affairs policy, it will take a long time to attack the old affairs.

He was about to interrupt Cui Xie to ask about the details of the article, but Cui Xie stepped forward more generously, raised his head and said to him: "Students thought that day, women in the world do not expect their husband to study and become an official; The mother of the world, do not expect her son Chan Gong to win the laurel; and the scholars in the world...whether it is a poor scholar or official eunuch, who is not willing to pick up books in the library for reading?"

Liu Zan asked him to bluff him for a while, and forgot to interrupt him. Instead, he nodded and said, "So you donated your bookstore..."

Cui Xie laughed and said calmly: "The adults said that they have entered the students' hearts. Although the students are shallow in learning, they also understand the same as Master Yushi and the prefectural order. I set up the imperial examination to teach the common people. Because of his painstaking efforts, and pity for the difficulties of Hansu’s children in studying, that’s why they donated the yard to the county and did their best to serve the court."

Xie Ying nodded next to him, and faintly praised: "That's right. You can do this righteous deed, and you will live up to the sage's imperial order to praise you for being'loyal to the emperor and justice'.

Liu Zan was stunned for a moment, thinking of the plaque on the door of Cui's house that "urgent justice and justice", and the imperial edict memorial at the corner of the street, he immediately dared not go deep into asking him how he was so young that he could give birth to the world and serve the country.

It is not an ordinary child who does not know the importance of wealth, but a righteous man who has received the decree at the age of fourteen!

Now he has passed the county exam, the government exam, and the road exam to be a student. Even if he is a student, he should be treated as an adult. A student who is anxious for justice donates his property and books for others to borrow. What can I ask?

I'm afraid that county magistrate Qi knows that he has such a desire to serve him, and tempts him in the name of the court...

Liu Zan hesitated for a while, then asked: "Qi Sheng and you, who on earth wanted to build a library in the first place?"

The establishment of this should be the political achievement of the county magistrate Qi, should you say that he mentioned it? Cui Xie glanced at Xie Ying subconsciously, wanting to get some hints from him, Xie Ying looked back at him, only smiled and shook his head: "Let’s tell the truth. The county magistrate Qi has already said that, as long as Liu Yushi Listen to what you say."

That must be what he thought. Qi County Order this person will not lie.

Cui Xie calmed down and said, "The students wanted to build it. It was originally built in Qian'an for seventeen years. The bookstore could not continue to operate, so I had to rent it to outsiders. The house was a woman who lived in the backyard of the bookstore, and someone was in charge of the bookstore. The pictures and books in Liyin are called'Cui Meiren' or something. The students think they have a bad reputation and do not want to open a shop again after returning to the yard. Because they have the ambition to make the books accessible to all students, they have to be converted into books. Pavilion.

"The county lord knew about this and said that a student of me could not afford it, so he had to allocate the county's finances and taxes and choose another location to build a library. I made up my mind to do this, and I couldn't do it myself. I hope Master Qi will do it, and simply donate the books in the courtyard to the county."

Speaking of Cui Meiren, Liu Yushi couldn't help showing a pity: "Why did Cui Meiren move away? Do you know where she went?"

As soon as he said this, Cui Xie’s face was instantly colder than when he first entered the second hall, and he replied with a stiff face: "Students don’t know. The students have never seen the face of Cui Meiren's, let alone where he has been. ."

Xie Ying's smile became alive in an instant. She lowered her head and pursed her lips. She quickly returned to her usual gentle expression. She leaned to persuade Liu Zan, "An adult asks what these do. He is a child, and he knows that beauty is not beautiful. You just ask him about the case."

Hey... It's a pity that this elementary school student is too young to appreciate beautiful women!

There is nothing to ask about the case. It was Cui Xie who wanted to donate the bookstore himself, and the reason was clearly stated. Without the slightest trace of reluctance, the charges of Qian'an County were cleared. It's just that Cui Xie, as a son of man, was mentioned in the first book of Yushi that shouldn't deal with his parents' property, so he still needs to ask him in person.

Liu Zan’s expression relaxed, and he sat down in a chair and asked him, “After all, the bookstore in your house is the property of your parents. When you donated him, did you say hello to your family and got your parents’ permission?”

Of course Choi Xie never asked. But the more guilty he was, the harder he was. He looked at Liu Zan’s eyes and said with a slightly offended expression: “At that time, because the county lord mentioned that he wanted to build a library, the student agreed on the spot. It was too late to talk to his family. Discuss. However, loyalty to the emperor means filial piety. Why do we need to discuss such an act of benefiting the country and the people and serving the divine grace! The adult must have asked the student's home in Beijing. My father is a court loyal minister. No words!"

Dare to say half a word is unfaithful!

In this feudal society where the ruler is the minister and the father is the son, the relationship between the emperor and the minister is far above the relationship between the father and the son. It doesn’t matter if you take out the title of loyal emperor, and be less filial, don’t you see that so many ministers do not even observe the filial piety of their parents, and try their best to win love when Ding is worried?

Liu Zan nodded and said in agreement: "My father indeed said that he is willing to dedicate his property to the court. In this way, you are not using your family's property privately, you just moved to and from Beijing a few days away. Yu Zhongyi made a decision immediately on major matters, and couldn't wait for his family to take the lead from hundreds of miles away."

Cui Xie lowered his head slightly, standing upright and replied: "My lord is right, I know my father's loyalty to the emperor. I will do anything that is beneficial to the people of the court. He will definitely agree with it and no need to send someone. Please contact me."

Xie Ying turned her gaze aside, she could hardly look at him, for fear that she would laugh out loud after one more glance.

Even if Liu Yushi had finished taking the confession at this point, the book office of the attendant had already written down the question, brought it to Cui Xie and asked him to sign it. A copy of the police station and a copy of Jin Yiwei. He glanced around and saw that there was nothing wrong, so he signed the names and fingerprinted them.

Tongzhi Zhang Gui sat here for a long time, and then he relaxed a little, and straightened up and asked, "The two adults have finished their questioning. What arrangements are there for them to come down?"

Xie Ying said: "We are here with the imperial decree. Now that we have finished our errands, we still have to rush back to pay the decree. There is no need to arrange anything. If it is too late today, Lao Yongping's mansion has several houses for Master Liu to rest with our Jin Yiwei."

Zhang Tongzhi agreed and ordered people to prepare. Cui Xie saw that nothing happened to him and wanted to say goodbye, but Liu Yushi stretched out his hand to stop him and cried, "Wait, although the envoys sent by the Holy Supreme are over, there is one more thing I want to ask you. "

Cui Xie straightened up immediately and looked at the two innocently. Although his face was right in the middle, his eyes floated towards Xie Qianhu a few times.

Xie Ying said: "It's nothing big. It's just that Mrs. Liu never forgets the praise of Qian'an County. He is also a prodigy who learned to write in just one year. He wants to compare you to you."

Come on, take the test! He has a hard drive in his hands, he is truly memorable and memorable, but he is not afraid of exams!

Cui Xie's eyes were bright, and his face was faintly **** because of his excitement, making it even more glamorous. Although Liu Zan had some doubts about his article, he also felt that this person was born like this. He was really a character of the number one scholar. He couldn't help but soften his attitude a little bit. He said warmly: "What you wrote in the Qian'an County Examination A few articles are good, and I have read them. They are indeed a combination of theory and law. It's just too square and elegant, not like what you can write at your age..."

Before he came, he thought about asking the student harshly how he made those articles, but at this time he couldn't get up. He sighed lightly, and said, "I didn't ask anymore. You can't remember. Huh? Re-read your three manuscripts here, and call me...call two adults and the official review."

Xie Ying glanced at Cui Xie, then smiled and said to Liu Zan: "This is not the case of the Supervisor Yushi, nor the disciple of the teacher's examination. How can I tell him to stand up and answer? Move him a chair in the middle and tell him to sit. Just answer."

Then Jin Yiwei moved up the chair, and Cui Xie arched his hands at Xie Ying, bowed and said, "Students thank you for sitting."

He is also very grateful to Liu Yushi for his willingness to take him a test—whether his county chief deserves his name, or whether the county magistrate Qi likes him too much, and Aiwu and Wudi gave him the first name. This article proves it.

Cui Xie sat shallowly on the edge of the chair, opened the PDF file in his mind, and slowly muttered, "'Spring is plowing to make up for the deficiencies, and for the princes': that is to observe and not forget the diligent people. The world is over!"