179 Song Jiang tearfully said about the imperial examination

Song Jiang said as he spoke, from excitement to gloom. said that he stabbed the sore spot when he participated in the imperial examination, and he really succeeded and failed.

When it comes to the imperial examination, people immediately think of the "Eight Shares of Scholars" and think that it is a harmful thing. Later, Baguwen was indeed not a good thing, both in format and in thought.

The eight-strand literary style has a fixed format: it is composed of eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting to speak, starting, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock, and bundle stock. The titles are all from the original text in the Four Books and Five Classics. Each of the last four parts has two strands of dual text, for a total of eight strands. Moreover, the Baguwen should speak in the tone of Confucius and Mencius, and the four pairs should fight against each other, and the saints should not be blasphemed with allusions......

In fact, Baguwen was only popular in the Ming Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, the questions for the imperial examinations were still very flexible. For example, in the year when Su Shi participated in the "college entrance examination", the "essay question" was written by the great writer Ouyang Xiu, and the title was "The Treatise on Punishment and Reward for Loyalty", which was neither said by Confucius nor Mencius, but from "Shangshu".

Su Shi picked up the pen and wrote with a smile-

Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Cheng, Kang, how much they love the people, worry about the people, and treat the world with the way of gentlemen and elders! There is a goodness, so that it is appreciated, and it is sung and sighed. So happy to begin, and reluctant to end. If there is a bad thing, it will be punished, and then it will be punished and punished, so it will abandon the old and open up the new. Therefore, the voice of his call for Yu, joy and misery, can be seen in the books of Yu, Xia, Shang, and Zhou......

When Yao, Gao Tao was a scholar. Will kill, Gao Tao said: "Kill", three. Yao said: "Youzhi", three. Therefore, the world is afraid of Gaotao's law enforcement, and Le Yao's punishment is lenient. Siyue said, "Kun is available!" Yao said, "No! 鲧方命圯族. Then he said, "Try it!" "He Yaozhi didn't listen to Gao Tao's murder, but from the use of Siyue? However, the meaning of the saint can also be seen. The book says: "The suspicion of the crime is only light, and the suspicion of the merit is serious." Rather than kill innocent, it is better to lose. "Woohoo! That's it!

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This "college entrance examination essay" is only 673 words with punctuation marks (the ancients did not use punctuation when writing articles), and the deputy examiner Mei Yaochen's eyes lit up when he saw it, and immediately recommended it to the examiner Ouyang Xiu, and said: "It's really a good essay, with the style of Mencius." "Immediately gave first place.

Ouyang Xiu saw it, and applauded again and again: "The old man should avoid the road and let him go out of the way." "I'm afraid that this article was written by my student Zeng Gong, so I changed it to second place. The score of "full score composition" was reduced from 60 to 59. When I opened the volume, it was not written by 40-year-old Zeng Gong, but by a fledgling, 22-year-old "stinky boy" named Su Shi.

Later, the three met, and Mei Yaochen asked: "'When Yao, Gao Tao is a scholar. What is the ...... of killing people? ”

Su Shi laughed when he heard it and said: "Take it for granted - I can't think of what allusions to use for a while, so I made one up." ”

Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen looked at each other after hearing this. After a while, the two of them also burst into laughter. did not blame Su Shi for making things up, and still admitted him in second place......

When I was 15 years old, I began taking the imperial examinations, initially at the lowest level organized by the county. Accidentally, I won the first place, what a teenager! Since then, he has the name of Xiucai. There was an old man who participated in the county exam with me, 65 years old, 50 years older than me, and only passed the middle and lower level, and the county order took pity on him. won the title of showman, and cried with joy.

A year later, I took the state exam again, easily won the second place, and was sent to a higher level to take the "provincial exam" (called the township exam in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The imperial examination is called differently in different eras, and it is particularly complicated, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties). This exam is different from usual from the "shelf", the county is in a "simple house", and the state is in the examination shed. The "provincial examination" is not ordinary, it is in the Gongyuan examination, after the examination, it is to raise people, with the qualification to be an official, you can also go to participate in the Jinshi examination, become a bigger official.

From the outside, the Gongyuan is particularly tall and noble. It can give each candidate space, which is very small, similar to a chicken coop. The place where each candidate stays is called the number house. It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that it is like a chicken coop, but it is really not big. Each house has walls on three sides, and the south side is open and has no doors. The building is 3 feet wide and 4 feet deep, with a back wall 8 feet high and a front eaves 6 feet high......

No matter how brilliant you are later, as a candidate, you have to stay up here for at least three days and three nights. Writing is here, eating is here, sleeping is also here, it's like squatting in prison. As long as you succeed, it is really "the dynasty is a farmer, and the twilight is in the Tianzi Hall", as Meng Jiao's poem wrote: In the past, it was not enough to boast, and now there is no end to debauchery. The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day.

The provincial test is the real test compared to the county test and the state test. In the past, it was only an audition, and it could only be regarded as a seed player, as for whether it can really become a seed of "Jinshi", it depends on whether the seeds are full or not.

My "neighbor" was an old man with a white beard, and when he asked about his age, he scared me and was 72 years old. Life is in his seventies, and he told me that he has taken the provincial exam more than a dozen times. As soon as you look at the clothes and clothes, you know that you are destitute, and the dry food for three days is pancakes and green onions. I couldn't see it and gave him a box of peanut butter.

The old man thanked him again and again, and said, "When we all become 'protégés of the Son of Heaven', we must support each other!" ”

I smiled and said, "Old man, you will carry me when the time comes; I'll help you lift your shoes. ”

"Oh! Virtuous and virtuous; The gentleman is poor, and the villain is poor and chaotic; Only women and villains are difficult to raise, and those who are close are not inferior, and those who are far away are resentful......"

At first glance, it's a nerd who reads books and reads stupidly.

Soon after the exam, a cheating person was caught and escorted by officers and soldiers in front of various houses. The man was only wearing a small shoulder on his upper body, sackcloth, with dense fly-headed small letters written on it, which could have tens of thousands of words, all of which were articles that he asked someone to try to do first. He had many whip marks on his arms, apparently from being whipped.

The content of the exam is only scriptures and poems, and the most important exam topic is: The Way of Civil and Martial Arts, one by one.

When I read this topic, I was overjoyed. I naturally know that this is what Confucius said, talking about the governance of King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou, and by extension, if you want to govern the country well, you must let the people combine work and rest. Considering that since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, I have emphasized literature over military force, so I will use the topic to play and talk about the importance of military equipment.

It's a pleasure to write! To this day, I can still recite it backwards-

Since Taizu's "cup of wine releases military power", civil officials have ambitions, and they are happy. Good generals do not come out, soldiers are not good at fighting, and the people are not martial, and over time, "sheepization" is serious. Looking at the Western Xia and Khitan people, they are like tigers and wolves. Hu Er can ride a horse at the age of ten, and the Song people can ride a donkey in fifteen directions. If you continue like this, you will be deceived!

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The way of civil and martial arts, one by one. Wen Zhang is enough, Wu Chi is too long. Wangsheng raised his arms and shouted, and all the people were soldiers. If people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, but if people offend me, I'll kill you!

After writing this, my heart is getting high. That feeling is really going to be overwhelming, and you can see all the mountains at a glance; Don't clouds cover your eyes, just because you're at the top; If you want to be poor, go to the next level.

I felt that I would definitely be able to get the top three to obediently send me to the palace examination and show my skills in front of the emperor. Gan Luo became the prime minister at the age of 12, and I, Song Jiang, was 16 years old, and I also got a secretary of the military department.

As soon as I was on the list, I fell behind Sun Shan. They also arrested me and said that my "strategy" was to encourage people to rebel. I was still young, so I played a few boards and put them away. Later, I took two more provincial exams, but they all failed. Later, someone reported that my uncompetitive father used to be a monk and was vulgar again. And that grandmother of mine, who once fooled around in the Qinglou for half a year. From then on, I was not allowed to participate in scientific expeditions. blocked my way to become an official all at once!

Song Jiang said in the end, he actually burst into tears and sighed at the sky!

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