Although Xu Huaiyuan's ecstasy was unexpected by Xu Yan, it was reasonable to think about it carefully.

In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty was an era when everything was inferior, only reading was high. Don't look at the Xu family, which has a lot of facades in the local area, but it is really dwarfed by those scholarly families and official eunuch families.

Although Xu Huaiyuan is rich, he hopes that Xu Yan can take the road of the imperial examination and obtain fame and glory as soon as possible. Nowadays, it is not as strict as in the early Ming Dynasty, and businessmen can devote themselves to the industry after that. Therefore, many families rely on business to support their officials, after all, there are people in the family who are officials in the court, and the help brought to the family is great.

Now Zhao Xianzun personally gave Xu Yan a word, which is equivalent to accepting Xu Yan as a protégé in disguise. The master-apprentice relationship above the officialdom is the most important link, and Xu Yan has the support of Zhao Xianzun, at least it is not a problem to mix up talent and fame.

What's even more commendable is that Xu Yan himself figured out this truth, and this move not only made him look like a bright future, but also raised the prestige of the Xu family a lot.

This food donation is really worth it!

At this moment, the anger in Xu Huaiyuan's heart was swept away, and it was replaced by full of relief.

Seeing the scene of a father's kindness and filial piety, Xu Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"Father, the child doesn't know whether to talk about it or not."

Xu Huaiyuan now looks at his son, and said with a smile: "When you talk about it, what can't we talk about between the two of us?" ”

Xu Yan pondered for a moment and then said in a harmonious voice: "In addition to having an accident with Hangzhou Mansion and Huzhou Mansion, does our Xu family have any other maritime business?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Huaiyuan was taken aback: "Be cautious." Today, the saint has decreed that the sea is forbidden, and not an inch is allowed to go to the sea. How dare a father disobey the will of God and do such a murderous business? Don't talk nonsense outside. ”

Xu Yan said with a smile: "Father, don't worry, the child just asks like this, as long as our family has nothing to do with maritime merchants." ”

Xu Huaiyuan sighed: "No matter how much money you make, you have to have a life to spend it, and you are not stupid as a father, how can you do that knife licking blood?" ”

"What my father said is very true."

Xu Yan sent a sycophant very timely.

"You!" Xu Huaiyuan patted Xu Yan's somewhat immature shoulder dotingly, and said softly: "Go to Wenshu." ”

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"Well, point, point."

Xu Yan enjoyed lying on the bed very much, directing his personal maid Taochun to massage him.

In his previous life, he had also read some health books and had some superficial understanding of Chinese medicine acupuncture points.

As a human being in two lives, and born in a wealthy businessman's family, wouldn't it be too much of a waste of resources if you don't know how to enjoy it.

Besides, the days of reading are boring, and even the articles written by the saints will be dizzy after reading them for a long time.

The right combination of work and rest can stimulate the desire to continue reading.

"Young master, is this okay?"

Tao Chun is only twelve or thirteen years old, and his body is extremely thin and has not yet grown. Such a little girl's hand strength is naturally not enough, and her hands are still a little sore after pressing it for a long time.

"Well, that's a lot better." Xu Yan said with great enjoyment: "Taochun, you are pressing the waist and eye points now, you move down about three punches, and then move one punch out, it is the ring jumping point." ”

"Ah, young master, I'll try."

The little girl nodded and obeyed.

One punch, two punches, three punches......

Oh, why is this ring jumping hole here in the young master.......

The little girl blushed for a while.

Seeing that Taochun didn't press it, Xu Yan turned his head and said with a smile: "Why did you stop?" ”

"Young Master!"

Tao Chun jumped up suddenly, and said with some embarrassment: "The young master will bully others." ”

Xu Yan was secretly cool in his heart, but he didn't say anything, coughed twice and said, "Okay, you go down." ”

The little girl seemed to have been pardoned, and she gave Xu Yan a blessing, and ran away in a hurry.

I rested, I enjoyed it, but it was time to read.

Xu Yan got up neatly and stretched, and then came to the bookcase and sat down.

I have to say that the original Xu Yan's foundation is really poor, although he has been enlightened for a long time, he can't even memorize all the four books.

Fortunately, today's Xu Yan's soul comes from later generations, and he is also a professor of history. As the saying goes, literature and history are not separated, Xu Yan has a great deal of research on the Four Books and Five Classics, although he is not as good as those professional professors of Chinese Studies, but he also has his own unique opinions.

In his opinion, although the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty was an examination of the Four Books and Five Classics on the surface, it was actually a test of comprehension and analysis ability.

It is impossible to get results in the exam just by memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, let alone lifting people and entering scholars, even if you are a talent, don't even think about it.

Xu Yan has read a lot of articles by the champions of the Ming Dynasty, and the logical ideas are very clear, and they are by no means mediocre people who are dead readers.

Xu Yan's advantage is that he has read many excellent article templates and has a strong ability to summarize. Then what he has to do now is not to sweep the essay and sweep the questions, but to summarize.

Xu Yan opened the "Notes on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" on the desk, and saw "University" last time.

Let's say that this is the most classic passage: those who want to be clear and virtuous in the world will rule the country first; Those who want to rule their country must first gather their families; Those who want to gather their families must first cultivate their bodies; Those who want to cultivate their bodies must first correct their hearts; Those who want to correct their hearts must first be sincere; If you want to be sincere, you should know it first; Enlightenment is in Gewu.

In a few words, he talked about the simplest truth, to be virtuous, first to learn things.

What is Gewu? Some people say that it is to explore the truth of things, and some people say that it is to get rid of material desires. Although there is an academic controversy in this, Xu Yan will only recognize the former, that is, to explore the truth of things.

Why? Because Zhu Xi and his old man saw it this way, and made annotations.

In other words, the imperial examination is nominally a four-book examination, but the actual examination is a collection of four books. If you write an essay based on your own opinions, you are likely to write off-topic.

And the most concise and convenient way is to see how Zhu Zi and his old man view the words of the sage, and then solve the problem from this angle.

Therefore, Xu Yan decided to review the book in accordance with the way he did learning in his previous life, that is, to summarize the main points and memorize them in series.

In this way, not only the learning efficiency can be greatly improved, but also the knowledge points will be integrated. The most important thing is that in the process of summarizing, Xu Yan found that Zhu Zi's understanding of the different parts of the four books could be combined. And these combined points are likely to be examined. After all, in the Jiajing Dynasty, the exam questions that could be taken directly from the original text of the four books were basically almost issued by the predecessors. Most of today's exam questions are truncated. What is a cut-off? For example, the last sentence is from "Mencius", and the next sentence is from "The Mean". A question that seems to be unrelated is actually related, that is, Zhu Zi's opinion.

Xu Yan's induction and merger can well predict the direction of the interception question, which is extremely effective from the perspective of test-taking.

This is certainly a bit opportunistic, but in order to gain fame, Xu Yan can only be utilitarian.

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