Chapter 028: Best Friend
Said to go east to the drunken immortal building to entertain Wang Qizhen, a student of the Guozijian, the word is pure, the ancestors are in business, several generations are imperial businessmen, and the family has a lot of wealth. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info to Wang Qizhen's generation, the Wang family sent a daughter into the palace, was named a beauty, quite a saint, and her status began to become prominent.
So the patriarch decided to train excellent family children to follow the official career, completely get rid of the lowly status of business, and enter the ranks of the family. Wang Qizhen is one of the children of the Wang family who were selected to focus on training.
Wang Qizhen and Liu Zhi met when they visited Zhou Hui together before the hospital examination, and it can be said that they did not know each other "better", and they formed a deep friendship because they accepted the entrance test set by Zhou Hui together.
Zhou Zhen served as the priest of the country for many years, won the trust of the saints, and devoted himself to cultivating and promoting talents from all over the world. Therefore, anyone who wants to send his children to the country and take the official career is economical, and there is no one who does not go to visit Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi is honest and square, but people are alive in the world, how can there be some "push but not fall"?
Therefore, Liu Shi, who held the greeting post of his father-in-law Peng Yongxin, and Wang Qizhen, who took the road of Wang Meiren with a huge amount of money, met unexpectedly in Zhou Yi's mansion.
However, in order to get Zhou Zhen's personal reception and guidance, in addition to the greeting post, you must also answer the three questions set up in turn from the gate to the hall where the guests are held. As for the format and content of the questions, they change daily.
This is to make it difficult for those who have no real talent to learn, and only blindly want to go through the back door with relationships.
It can be regarded as choosing a protégé for the Son of Heaven in advance, so that the originally disgraceful things can be elegant, so that others can't find faults. In this way, even if someone has bad intentions and sues the saint, Zhou Yi has something to say.
has been an official for many years, and Zhou Yanyan will not know how to protect himself.
What the Son of Heaven needs is a pure minister, not a reckless man who is upright and inflexible.
Wang Qizhen and Liu Zhi happened to meet, so they were tested together.
The first question is a couplet, which is based on the Four Books and Five Classics respected by scholars, which is the foundation of every Confucian student.
The upper link is: the etiquette collapses and the music is bad, the eight dances in the court, it is tolerable, which is unbearable, depressed and depressed, I am from Zhou, and the dream of Zhou Gong is quick to punish Shaozhengmao.
This couplet is about the Zhou Dynasty in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the etiquette collapsed, and Lu Qing Ji Sun ordered someone to perform the dance of the Eight Hundred in the family temple. Confucius heard that Ji Sun was a doctor of the Lu country, and he had to have four taels, and he actually used eight taels in the family temple, which was really a dishonor. In Confucius's view, a person who is unscrupulous is very harmful to the country, so such a person cannot be tolerated. Confucius believed that the Zhou Dynasty had the most complete rules and regulations and etiquette, so he followed the Zhou rites. In the fourteenth year of Lu Dinggong, Kong Qiu served as the secretary of Lu Guoda, and seven days after taking office, he killed Shao Zhengmao, who had competed with him to set up a school and compete for students, under the east view of the two views, and the corpse was violent for three days.
Ritual music is the core of Confucius's thought, and it is also the doctrine he practiced throughout his life.
Wang Qizhen thought for a long time, reluctantly got up, and sent someone to present it to Zhou Yi who was waiting in the hall, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response for a long time.
Wang Qizhen is one of the well-qualified children of the Wang family, and he has always been highly valued, and he was not depressed after eating this closed-door meal, so he paced to the side to see how Liu Zhi was doing the next link. But in fact, Wang Qizhen is not optimistic about Liu Zhi, who was born in Xungui, he just waits to see Liu Zhi's jokes and find a psychological balance.
However, when Wang Qizhen saw the words on the rice paper that were as vigorous as a dragon, he immediately put away his contempt and applauded.
"The water is in dire straits, the princes invade each other, no fish, there will be disasters in the future, and the king of the frank people will return to their roots, and the benevolent government will protect the people and have a permanent production."
It is said that during the Warring States Period, the princes attacked each other and fought for hegemony, and the people lived in dire straits. At this time, Mencius, a sage who shouted for the first time in thousands of years "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light", was born, refused to be domineering, preached benevolent government, people-oriented, made the people have enough food, and cultivated perseverance with constant production.
There are many famous Confucian masters, but Liu Shi chose Mencius, who asked for the people's life, to couplet the upper and lower couplets, and his ambition can be seen.
Sure enough, not long after the next link was sent, someone invited Liu Shi and Wang Qizhen to enter the door, go to the verandah, and answer the second question.
Wang Qizhen knew that he was stained with Liu Zhi's light, although he was grateful, he was not convinced.
The second question is set in the middle of the verandah, in front of a painted picture of lying on the ice and seeking carp, and the requirements are to be filled with poems, and there are no specific requirements for using rhyme and so on. This is not only to test personal talent and promote filial piety, but also to test one's understanding of one's own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to promote one's strengths and avoid weaknesses.
This time, Wang Qizhen did not rush to write, thought carefully, and wrote a talented but innocent "Learning Filial Piety", humbly expressing his diligence and efforts on the road of filial piety.
Liu Shi also put down his pen at the same time.
With the common advance and retreat of the first level, the two people are no longer as unfamiliar and vigilant as when they first met, so they exchanged manuscripts to read.
When Wang Qizhen saw Liu Zhi's "Partridge Heaven - The Way of Filial Piety", with the allusion that Zeng Shen obediently beat his filial father but was criticized by Confucius, euphemistically criticized foolish filial piety, and proposed that the true way of filial piety is to be filial piety from the way, rather than obedience to filial piety, he was immediately ashamed.
And Liu Zhi saw Wang Qizhen's frank and innocent heart, and he was also greatly appreciated, and he was ashamed in his heart - the reason why he criticized foolishness and filial piety was actually related to his resentment of ignoring him by his family to a certain extent.
The two were invited to the door of the hall together to answer the third question.
The third question is a policy theory, which is still an allusion - Dayu's control of the water. Of course, the question is about water control, but the answer can involve self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world, and the key to Dayu's water control lies in the choice of "blocking" and "sparse".
Wang Qizhen and Liu Zhi, both based on "sparse" and "blocked" as appropriate, each made a strategy, and both wrote it steadily and passed the test smoothly.
Only then was he received by Zhou Hui.
Wang Qizhen clearly remembers that when Zhou Yi evaluated Liu Zhi, the kind of appreciation and liking from the bottom of his heart was definitely not because of the relationship between his in-laws.
Zhou Yi even commented on Liu Zhi in an expectant tone, "The son of righteousness, or the talent of Confucianism, Xu is a good general who governs the country"!
Sure enough, in the hospital examination not long after, Liu Zhi was shocked and won the case!
But such a person who has been so highly praised by the country's priest wine actually failed in the township test!
Of course, this can't be because Liu Shi was complacent and self-slacking after he got the case in the spring. Liu Shi's efforts in the past six months, as a close friend, Wang Qizhen is really looking at it.
rain or shine, reading at night, the splendid chapters have won the praise of the masters of the country.
In private, when a student gambles on someone who wins the township test, Liu Shi's odds of failing the list are the highest, because everyone thinks it is impossible.
But the truth is so real and absurd!
Wang Qizhen was shocked, worried, and even the joy of his own lift was diluted a lot.
The person who has always admired and chased after him, suddenly fell at a certain level and was unexpectedly surpassed by himself, this kind of taste, mixed with joy and sorrow, obscure, is really hard to explain.
Therefore, when he saw Liu Zhiqiang's smile and pretending to be open to dissolve the heavy atmosphere, Wang Qizhen immediately agreed.
It's just silver, where can it compare to the friendship of classmates who fight side by side!
Wang Qizhen was willing to spend a lot of money to comfort Liu Shi, but Liu Shi was reluctant to let his friends spend money in vain.
What's more, Liu Shi feels that working hard to solve problems is far more reliable and important than indulging in venting.
"Knowing that the Wang family has been an imperial merchant for generations, and the wealth is comparable to the country, it is not bad for this bit of silver." Liu Shi said with a smile, "However, the vulgar place where the laity satisfies the appetite of the laity is not suitable for us who are elegant." Well, it's still the same old place, what do you think? ”
The people who get together are all confidants and friends, where there is no disagreement.
Originally, they initially said that going to the Drunken Immortal Tower was just a joke, but later they wanted to comfort Liu Shi, who was not on the list.
So, the group left the noisy Bangwen, turned around the streets and alleys, and went to Fengluzhai, where they usually gathered.
Yuan Bao drooped his head and waited with him, his heart was clenched, and he was deeply worried about Liu Shi's situation after returning home.