There is nothing to say about the scientific examination, in this shabby place in Guizhou, students who are interested in next year's township examination can basically pass the scientific examination organized by the school officer.

Since Chenghua ten years ago, the number of lifters in Guizhou has been 19.

The number of candidates in the province is at most three or four hundred, plus the distance is far and dangerous, and there are about 300 people who can walk into the examination room in good health. If there is another flash flood or something, the official road to and from the official road is blocked, and there may be less than 200 candidates.

Nineteen out of two or three hundred, Guizhou's winning rate is quite high, at least more than double the national average!

If Wang Yuan takes the township test next year, then he will be luckier, because the number of lifting places will increase again.

Thanks to the blessing of Father-in-law Liu, next year's Zhongbang and Nanbang areas will be greatly increased. Because Liu Jin himself is a northerner, most of the officials who serve him belong to the Central and Northern List Jinshi, and when he excludes dissidents, he deliberately attacks the Southern List Jinshi, and deliberately woos the Central and Northern List Jinshi who do not oppose him.

Combining many factors, Liu Gonggong made a crazy decision -

In the five-year township test of Zhengde, the number of people in Shaanxi (Liu Jin's hometown) increased by 35, from 65 to 100! The quota for Shanxi increased by 25, and the quota for Henan and Sichuan increased by 15 and 10 respectively...... Guizhou also followed suit, and the number of lifters increased by two.

Gonggong Liu is very skillful, and wants to transform the dispute between eunuchs and civil officials into a dispute between the south, the north, and the middle list of Jinshi, and directly divide the civil official group.

So there is a nonsense phenomenon, when Li Dongyang overthrows Liu Jin next year, it happens to coincide with the national township test. When the imperial court announces that the new version of the quota is invalid, and most of the regions have already announced the results, can you still deprive so many new imperial examination people of their fame?

What's even more interesting is that when Zhengde took the township test again in the eighth year, the new quotas in other provinces were invalidated, but Yunnan and Guizhou were retained, and the amount stipulated by Liu Jin was still used - it is likely that there were too many rebellions in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the imperial court wanted to strengthen regional rule, and the implementation of indoctrination was the first priority.

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Civilization Academy.

This academy was built in the Yuan Dynasty, it was abandoned in the early Ming Dynasty, rebuilt in the Yongle period, and abandoned again in the Chenghua Dynasty.

After Xi Shu and Mao Ke came to Guizhou, they summoned the local gentry to engage in crowdfunding, including the Song family and the An family, and now they have finally rebuilt the Civilization Academy.

It's a pity that the teachers are insufficient, and before Wang Yangming goes down the mountain, he can only invite some old talents to be teachers.

Wang Yuan paid the tuition, and went to the academy with Song Ling'er and Liu Yaozu to study, and all the students in Longgang Mountain also lived in the academy.

Canteen.

Wang Yuan came back from a bowl of rice and sat down, and asked, "Brother Zonglu, why don't you take the scientific examination?" ”

Chen Wenxue said with a smile: "Since studying under Mr. Yu, we know that our knowledge is shallow. If you go to Yunnan next year to take the test, the journey will be delayed for two or three months, why not use these times to follow Mr. ”

Well, Chen Wenxue, Tang Mi, Ye Wu and others, in order to stay with Wang Yangming to study, they didn't even participate in next year's township exam, so they didn't bother to take this year's scientific exam.

Wang Yuan said: "A few days ago, I found a lot of unfamiliar faces, why didn't I see them in the exam last year? ”

Yue Zhen explained: "Most of these students belong to the children of official eunuchs, their father was an official in another province, and the whole family moved out. Although he is a student from Guizhou, he has actually been studying in other places since he was a child. Only by taking the scientific examination will they return to Guizhou, and after obtaining the qualification for the examination, they will go to Yunnan to take the examination. ”

"I see." Wang Yuan suddenly realized.

Ye Wu shook his head helplessly: "Every time I take the township test, most of the quota in Guizhou is taken up by these children of official eunuchs. After all, the place where they study is much more prosperous than Guizhou, how can the natives pass the exam? ”

Yue Zhen and Zhan Hui didn't speak, because because of the two of them, there have been many big officials in the past dynasties.

There were five or six students from other places who returned to their hometowns to take the scientific examination this time, and there were five or six of them from the Yue and Zhan families, all of whom were their relatives and brothers. Not surprisingly, at least two or three of the Guizhou students who will be lifted in the middle of next year are the children of these two families.

For the local scholars, it is indeed not fair, but the people strictly abide by the laws of the imperial court.

Take Wang Yangming as an example, he studied in Beijing since he was a child and lived with his father Wang Hua. Today's elders, most of them belong to Wang Hua's colleagues in the Hanlin Academy, Wang Yangming will try to fall first, and Li Dongyang personally comforted him. Enjoying such abundant educational resources, Wang Yangming also has to return to his hometown to participate in the scientific examination and the township examination.

After breakfast, Wang Yuan honestly went to study, and he now recites ten ancient poems every day. And he doesn't need to understand much, he only needs to understand the basic meaning of poetry and be able to recite it proficiently, Wang Yangming is cultivating his sense of speech.

After Wang Yuan finished reciting a thousand poems, Wang Yangming gave him a lecture on "Wenxin Carving Dragon", followed by the advanced course "Article Track".

"Article Track" includes 69 ancient texts from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, of which 31 are Han Yu's articles, and there are also famous articles by Zhuge Liang, Fan Zhongyan, Xin Qiji, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and others. When the time comes, Wang Yangming will break each article apart and talk about it, focusing on the rhetorical techniques of these articles.

"Second Brother Wang, aren't you going to listen to Mr.'s lecture?" Liu Yaozu asked.

Wang Yuan said, "If you don't go, you can go by yourself." ”

"Oh."

Liu Yaozu had already moved out of the Song family, and Song Gongzi gave him ten taels of silver.

As for Song Gongzi, he not only gave up his ambition for the imperial examination, but also gave up his inheritance (Guizhu Tusi) and chose to go to the Song clan to learn to be a teacher. According to him, the Song family has fallen into corruption, not only did they dare not face the rebels, but they also fought among themselves all day long. Song Gongzi decided to start from a small doll and carefully teach the next generation of the Song family, so that the children of the Song family can know honor and disgrace, understand etiquette, have morality,

Song Ling'er held a copy of "The Art of War" and sat next to Wang Yuan to read it carefully. When she can recite the whole book, Wang Yangming will explain the meaning to her.

Liu Yaozu carried his schoolbag and came to the lecture hall of the academy.

Shen Fuxuan was also there, and while serving as a staff member for Xi Shu, Master Shen also served as a teacher at the Civilization Academy.

In the past few days, Master Shen has chatted with Wang Yangming a few times, but the topic has nothing to do with learning. The two are fellow villagers, and they are chatting about some hometown past, and even Master Shen is still Wang Yangming's father's county school classmate - nominal classmates, and there is no actual relationship.

Master Shen was not interested in Wang Yangming's psychology, but he wanted to pretend to be interested, so he also came to listen to the lecture today.

Mencius said: Those who can do what people do not learn are also good and capable; Those who know without concern also have their conscience. Every child knows how to love his relatives; and their elders, all of whom know how to respect their brothers......"

Wang Yangming's lung disease is no longer serious, and he stands on the podium to preach the concept of "to conscience".

At first, everyone didn't think there was anything new, but when he talked about the "unity of knowledge and action", it immediately attracted the interest of countless students. At the same time, the students who decided to take the township test next year all ran away when they heard about it.

According to the actual situation of the students in Guizhou, Wang Yangming tried his best to explain the truth in simple terms. After a few days, he simply lectured in colloquialisms, and his teaching method was more inclined to chat.

Cheng Zhu's science has little influence in Guizhou, and even many scholars only know about the imperial examination, and they don't know what science is at all.

The degree of acceptance of the study of the mind is much higher than that of scholars in other provinces. Coupled with the advocacy of the deputy envoy of the university, all the students came to listen to the class, and some quit halfway, but more joined halfway. In less than half a month, Wang Yangming's class audience has exceeded 200.

After another month, 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 even peddlers and pawns have nothing to do to come to listen to lectures to pass the time. They may not be literate, but they can understand Wang Yangming's reasoning, which is the fundamental purpose of Wang Yangming's lectures in colloquial language.

Two months later, the number of attendees reached more than 600, and the streets in front of the college were full. There are even hawkers who start a business and come to sell food with their burdens, and people often listen to Uncle Wang's lectures while eating melon seeds.

This way of lecturing was later inherited by Wang Gen, the patriarch of the Taizhou School.

At the peak of Wang Gen's lectures, the audience could reach thousands, and most of them belonged to ordinary people.

In any case, Wang Yangming has become a phenomenal figure in Guizhou City, a bit like an academic star in the hearts of ordinary people. Even in the event of a neighborhood dispute, both parties went to Wang Yangming for comment, and Uncle Wang often incarnated as Aunt Wang of the neighborhood committee.

Wang Yangming's loyal core disciples soon expanded to more than 30 people, forming a young academic force.

Wang Yuan didn't go to the class, he still studied the Four Books and Five Classics, practiced reciting poems every day and did eight strands, and he didn't even touch the knife technique, archery technique and riding skills.