Seeing the grain chief sitting at the bottom of the statue of Confucius, Zhang Zhaohua was only stunned for a moment, then immediately knelt down on his knees, bent his head down, bowed his head with both hands, bowed his hands in a round way, and said, "Meet Mr." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

She performed the prostration, a ritual that she had only performed on the day of her official enlightenment at the age of five, to the person in front of her. Usually seeing him, Zhang Zhaohua usually just stands and walks solemnly, and only calls "Grandpa" in his mouth and passes by hastily, but obviously today is different from the past.

Even the grain chief's wife, who brought her in, saw it, and she was solemn and said, "Master, you rarely wear this dress." ”

The grain chief wore a moon-white Confucian robe, green silk silk, white silk socks, and brown shoes. He sat there with a scroll, which made Zhang Zhaohua suddenly feel moved like a spring breeze and rain.

"In the past, the Son of Heaven did not pay attention to scholars, and Confucianism had treasures but did not use them," he said, "but today it can be greatly changed." ”

Before Zhang Zhaohua could react, the wife of the grain chief next to him suddenly covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Is it the reconvening of the imperial court and the palace test?"

Seeing that the old man nodded slightly, the grain chief's wife suddenly sobbed and said, "Brother Geng, can you go to the exam?"

"He hasn't studied well yet," the grain chief said: "And the ceremony is not complete, just a meeting to test the palace examination, and is still arguing about the issue of awarding officials to Jinshi and the first. ”

"As long as you can take the exam, you will not violate your original oath," the grain chief's wife complained: "You have always said that the scientific examination of the national dynasty is incomplete, and you have to wait, and the stepbrother can't wait to go to the Guozi Prison, so you will not recognize him; ”

"The prisoners are not right, and the Jinshi is the most important step for the officials," the grain chief said: "Don't look at the current prison students and people who are flooding the court, as long as the Jinshi is opened, the court in the future will only be the world of Jinshi." Prisoners and people, I am afraid that even the followers will not be able to do it at that time. ”

Zhang Zhaohua listened silently, with her shallow knowledge of history, she also knew that the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties was the right way. When she took the college entrance examination, the teacher used to take the Ming Dynasty scientific examination as a ratio, indicating that the ratio of Chao Xiucai was mostly 30:1, and the winning rate was about 3.3%. The ratio of jinshi to the lifters is mostly 20:1, and the acceptance rate is about 5%.

This is much more difficult than the college entrance examination in later generations, it can really be regarded as a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, and about 300 people will be selected from the thirteen provinces of the country every three years.

It was on this day that Zhang Zhaohua finally learned the life experience of the grain chief.

The name of the grain chief is Uncle Zhang Cong, and the word is Gengwang. Every word in this name has a story.

The grain chief is the third son in the family, and he was born to agree to pass on to his uncle who has no heirs, so his name is Uncle Zhang Cong. When he grew up, he studied everywhere, and finally worshiped under the door of a great Confucian. It's just that this great Confucian is the eliminated person under the imperial examination system of the Yuan Dynasty, and in the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were only sixteen imperial examinations, and this great Confucian waited for twelve years to wait for a scientific examination, but unfortunately he still did not win.

At this time, Zhang Congshu was studying under the door, so he gave this child the word "Gengwang", which means that if he does not enter the Jinshi, he will be able to cultivate the field.

Later, under the hard study of Uncle Zhang Cong, the teacher's unfulfilled wish was finally completed, and he was awarded the Jinshi of the Yuan Dynasty to the fifth year, if you count two sessions forward, there is a person named Liu Bowen, who won the Jinshi of the third year of the Zhizheng.

Later things became blurred in Uncle Zhang Cong's mouth, he was admitted to the Jinshi, but there was no eunuch. Not many years after studying and returning to his hometown, the world became chaotic. After a bumpy half of his life, he returned to his hometown, because his son was a prisoner, so he shirked the appointment of the county official, and still served as the local grain chief.

Zhang Congshu was born on the right path, and saw that the dynasty was in the hands of Emperor Zhu, but he became a popular official by recommendation, so he naturally disagreed with it in his heart, and gave birth to two sons. The eldest son sneaked to Nanjing to enter the Guozi School, and the younger son stayed in the county to take care of the family business, waiting for the day when the scientific examination was sent to Kaifeng Mansion.

The grain chief was actually from a jinshi, and before Zhang Zhaohua could react from the shock, he heard Uncle Zhang Cong say: "There are still things to do in the yellow book today, and I won't test your homework, I will teach three sentences, and you will take the test tomorrow." ”

Zhang Zhaohua answered in a low voice, opened the books placed on the small table, and said, "Sir, please speak." ”

"The son said: 'The country of a thousand times of the Tao, respect and believe, use sparingly and love people, so that the people can be timely. Zhang Congshu said: "To govern a country, we should respect state affairs, govern the people with faith and not deceive the people; save expenses without extravagance and waste; sympathize with the people's hardships and make the people cultivate and harvest according to the agricultural time." ”

He elaborated on it and asked, "Is there anything else you don't understand?"

"Sir, there are some things that Zhaohua doesn't understand. Zhang Zhaohua thought for a while and said, "Confucius said that the people of the country of a thousand times of the Tao refer to the king or the ministers?"

Uncle Zhang Congshu looked at her with interest and listened to her: "It stands to reason that Confucius advocated learning and excelling. He did not advocate retreat, and he also hoped that his disciples would go out to become officials. Therefore, when he tested the ideals of his disciples, except for people like Yan Hui and Zeng Hui who were willing to be indifferent, the other disciples all had the ambition to become a leader, and Lian Zilu also had the ideal of governing a thousand times a great country, so this sentence should be the method that Confucius taught his disciples to govern a great country. ”

Therefore, Confucius's consistent thinking is that the courtiers are loyal to the state affairs, to the monarch Yao Shun, and to the king to rule. Zhang Zhaohua said: "But I remember that my husband once mentioned to me that His Majesty is now wearing clothes and food, and the chapter does not go through the Chinese book province and goes directly to the imperial case, and everything is decided on the top." The palace is very frugal, with only four dishes and one soup per meal, and he also opened his own vegetable garden to grow vegetables. The emperor did everything that should have been done by officials, so how should the officials deal with themselves?"

In fact, Zhang Zhaohua still has something to say. Confucius put forward a total of five principles of governance, respect, faith, frugality, love, and time, in addition to what she said just now, in addition to the respect and thrift, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang has done everything.

For example, on this credit issue, Zhang Zhaohua found a very interesting place in the past six years.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand economics.

She heard Uncle Zhang Congshu say that eight years ago, Luoyang and Kaifeng in Henan Province set up Baoquan Bureaus to mint coins together with the Baoyuan Bureau in Beijing. This Baoquan Bureau has been opened and closed many times. Zhu Yuanzhang minted small money, and did not formulate a unified money exchange rules, the exchange ratio is up and down, Zhang Zhaohua does not know how the people in the city view the treasure banknotes, but they countrymen, that is not known at all, and they will not use the treasure money if they know.

There was a market for treasure banknotes in the Song Dynasty, which was a product of a high degree of economic prosperity. Now is the time to rebuild all kinds of waste, the country has not yet established a good national credit, today to exchange money for money, in a few days the same money can not be exchanged for the same money, how can the people trust the government's decision-making?

Therefore, Zhang Zhaohua heard and saw that when he was six years old, he had never seen a so-called treasure banknote that passed through the country, and all he saw was small money and broken silver.

Although the country was created in a hurry, Zhang Zhaohua did not believe that there were no officials who were proficient in money law. This is the result of the emperor's arbitrariness, and it is estimated that the Hubu Shangshu can't say anything at all, so even this "letter" was taken over by Emperor Zhu.

As for this "lover", if Zhu Yuanzhang does not love the people, then there is no emperor in history who cherishes the people, if the people sue the officials, he will not offend the people, but only punish the officials. In all dynasties, this was to investigate the people's sin of "committing crimes", but when it came to Zhu Yuanzhang, they were all exempted.

The last "to make the people time", at this time the government to the court decision-making is very thorough, the military tun, the people, spring planting and autumn harvest, and even silkworm reeling, all have the help of the government schoolwork, work efficiency is very high.

To sum up, what Confucius said should have been done by officials, Emperor Zhu did it all by himself, so what should the officials under him do?

When Zhang Zhaohua thought of this, he realized that he was asking more than just the interpretation of a sentence in the Analects. Since the Ming Dynasty, the imperial power has risen unprecedentedly, which is not the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's abolition of prime minister's monopoly of power. No matter how wise a person is, he can't hold the whole world.

"Then what do you think is the duty of the emperor?" Uncle Zhang Congshu did not answer her question, but asked her a question instead.

Zhang Zhaohua said with a smile: "The position of the emperor has been described by the predecessors, the so-called 'simple can be let go, choose the good and follow it.'" The wise do their best, the brave do their best, the benevolent spread their benefits, and the believers serve their loyalty. Civil and military contention, the monarch and the minister have nothing to do, you can enjoy the joy of Yu travel, you can raise the longevity of Song Qiao, and the piano hangs down, and it goes without saying. Why bother thinking hard and taking the place of the minister, serving the wise ears and eyes, and doing nothing!'"

This passage from "Ten Thoughts of Emperor Taizong" clearly shows that the monarch only needs to choose the virtuous and capable, and he can have the government of cultivation. The rule of Zhenguan is not the power of Tang Taizong alone, but the result of the celebration of monarchs and ministers.

"Yes, it can be said that he is extremely smart-" Uncle Zhang Cong obviously agreed with her opinion, praised her, and suddenly asked: "Although there are many books in my house, there are no meetings and political leaders, where do you think about it?"

Zhang Zhaohua was complacent about receiving a very high praise from Mr., and suddenly heard this sentence and was suddenly dumbfounded.