Guo Zhiyuan still overestimated the level of scholars in this era, and the literati in this era paid attention to neat and neat rhetoric, so the scholars were quite unimpressed with Guo Zhiyuan's two meaningful couplets, they didn't know that this couplet was written by Guo Zhiyuan's relatives, and thought it was the handwriting of a professor in the academy, so they sprayed it directly:

"This couplet is not in the arts and sciences, and the battle is not neat, and it is still hanging at the gate of the academy in a grand manner, it seems that the level of this Dongfan Academy is not very good, it shouldn't mislead people's children, right? If it weren't for the tuition-free study here, I really wouldn't want to come! ……”

"That's it, look at this calligraphy is the same as the chicken paw crawling, it's not as good as me......"

"Don't enter this door if you are greedy for life and fear of death, please go his way when you are promoted and get rich, aren't we people who study just to gain fame? Otherwise, what's the use of reading? I might as well wait to go home......"

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Guo Zhiyuan listened to the scholars' discussions, his face was also a little unsightly, of course he didn't expect the nearly 1,000 scholars recruited this time to become credible, but he still had high hopes, now it seems that his expectations are still too high, it is really a long way to go to let these scholars and literati who have been brainwashed by feudal Confucianism for a long time accept their new ideas from later generations!

At this time, Guo Zhiyuan suddenly heard a slightly childish voice and said loudly: "I think this couplet is very well written, reading for the rise of China, what an ambition, what a mind, the person who wrote this couplet must be a great wise man with the world in mind!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan turned his head in surprise and found that it was a young man about thirteen or fourteen years old, this young man was thin and weak, wearing a coarse cloth gown, because of his short stature, this gown did not fit well on him, it was about to be changed from an adult's gown, it looked a little funny, and his appearance was also very ordinary, but a pair of eyes were bright and bright, and he was as bright as the stars.

As soon as the young man spoke, he immediately attracted the sneers of the surrounding scholars: "Yo, where did this little hairy boy come from?" The milky smell has not dried up, and the scholar recites poetry right? Are you still studying? Go home early! ……”

The young man was not stunned at all, and said with his head held high: "Ambition is not old, I can write poetry at the age of seven, and I can do it right at the age of eight, why do you look down on me?" ……”

The scholars suddenly burst into laughter, and a scholar holding a folding fan with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek sneered: "Yo, you still gasp when you say you're fat, it's really a toad yawning and a big breath!" Then I'll test you, I'll take a link, if you can come up, then you are right! ……”

The young man said confidently: "You just have to solve the question, if I can't get it right, I will go home immediately!" ……”

The scholar saw that the young man was confident, and he muttered a little in his heart, and said that this young man is really a genius, and he dared to boast about Haikou in front of so many people, and he couldn't make it simple, otherwise so many people around him would lose their hair when they looked at this face, he rolled his eyes, and thought of a pair that others gave him some time ago, and he thought about it for a long time and didn't come up, just to make it difficult for this young man, and immediately put the folding fan away and pointed at the young man and shook his head and said: "Then you listen well,: white tofu, Tofu white, upright and erudite Li Bai ......"

The surrounding scholars also thought hard when they heard this Shanglian, this pair is not good, right, with tofu as the topic, but the idea is quite far-reaching, and there is a historical celebrity at the end, but the young man just groaned slightly, and replied loudly: "This pair is good, black inkstone, inkstone black, for the official iron bone jingle black!" ……”

The young man's next link suddenly made the surrounding scholars who looked down on him just now couldn't help but shout in unison, this young man's next link is not only neat and tidy, but also shows his extraordinary ambition, it is indeed a rare good pair, and what is even more rare is that this young man can be in such a short time to make the next link, which shows his quick thinking.

The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked gentleman made it difficult for the young man, and he was bored with a bad look, and walked away with a red face. Guo Zhiyuan stared at this extraordinary young man with quick thinking, and when everyone dispersed a little, he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and asked with a smile: "This little brother, what is your name?" Who's the people? ……”

The young man saw that Guo Zhiyuan was wearing a long robe, and only thought that he was also a scholar who came to study, so he bowed his hand to him slightly and said: "This brother, my name is Hong Chengchou, a person from Quanzhou, Fujian......"

Hong Chengchou? Guo Zhiyuan was stunned at first, then ecstatic, and grabbed Hong Chengchou in disbelief and asked, "You are Hong Chengchou?!" ”

History's evaluation of Hong Chengchou is more negative, but it is undeniable that Hong Chengchou is definitely the most capable of the military generals in the late Ming Dynasty, whether it is Wen Taowu strategy, he has to far surpass Yuan Chonghuan and others of the same era, under his command, Li Zicheng and other peasant rebels were beaten everywhere and fled, and were almost completely strangled several times.

The reason why Hong Chengchou was criticized by historians is nothing more than because he betrayed the Ming Dynasty and became a lackey of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in all fairness, it is normal for Hong Chengchou to make such a choice under the circumstances of the time, and unlike those Ming traitors who took the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou was defeated and captured in Jinzhou at the beginning of his would rather die than surrender, and he went on a hunger strike for several days. It was only then that he surrendered.

After Hong Chengchou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he did not live up to the weight of Huang Taiji, and made immortal contributions to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to pacify the Central Plains and seize the Ming Dynasty, and was called "the first hero of the Qing Dynasty", which was certainly shameful for the Hanchen who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but from another point of view, Hong Chengchou vigorously promoted the integration of the Manchus and Han after the Qing Dynasty, which objectively played a role in accelerating national unification and alleviating national contradictions, and saving the people of the Central Plains from war and chaos, which is also worthy of affirmation.

As a traverser, Guo Zhiyuan will certainly not be swayed by narrow nationalist sentiments, he knows very well that a capable person like Hong Chengchou lies in how you use him, use it well, he is a famous minister who governs the world, and now Hong Chengchou has met himself, of course he will not let history repeat itself, he must firmly grasp this capable man in his hands, and let him become his right-hand man to change the fate of the Chinese nation!

Thinking that this "first hero of the Qing Dynasty" was cut off by himself, what happened to Huang Taiji, Guo Zhiyuan became more and more excited, and laughed a little forgetfully: "Haha, it is really the emperor who pays off, and it takes no effort to get it!" ……”