"Who's the champion?"

Wen Yanbo stopped.

"Zong Ze. It was hand-picked by the Queen Mother. ”

Wen Jifu looked at the thick stack of letter paper in his hand, and then looked up and said.

Wen Yanbo was silent for a moment before he said again: "...... Seems to have heard of this person. ”

"Last year, he commented on the war in Hedong under a pseudonym on the two express newspapers of Jingshi, and he was very famous."

"Oh. Where are you from? ”

"He is from Zhejiang, Yiwu, Wuzhou."

"Yiwu ...... What about exam papers? Did Brother Seven copy it? ”

Wen Yanbo has eight sons, only Wen Jifu serves his father at home, and the rest are all foreign officials, and there are two people in Beijing alone, but their status is not high, and they have no real power.

"Brother Qi attached it to the letter and sent it back."

Under his feet was a small bridge more than two feet wide, and after Wen Yanbo read Zong Ze's article, he silently looked down at the gurgling stream under the bridge.

The water of the stream was clear, the white stone green algae at the bottom of the stream was clearly recognizable, and a red carp made a splash and chased a few small shrimp down the bridge.

After watching the fish for a long time, waiting for the fish to swim away, Wen Yan Bofang raised his head, "Although Yiwu is in Jiangzuo, it is mountainous and mineral, the people are strong and healthy, and they are simple and filial, close to the north wind, which is very different from the people in the south." ”

"Your Excellency is right."

It is rare for Wen Yan to praise people, Wen Jifu nodded again and again, waiting for his father's next words.

But Wen Yanbo walked up again, and Wen Jifu hurriedly rushed up to help.

It's late spring, and there are more and more streams flowing down from the mountains.

Located at the foot of the mountain, the Wenjia is not in business, and Xijing is famous for its beautiful mountains and forests.

After the Wen family left the business, there were hillsides, streams, and more fragrant grasses and bamboo bushes. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, Range Rover will be pleasantly surprised.

The father and son walked along the bluestone paved path all the way to the top. Walking through a bamboo forest, Wen Yanbo said quietly: "I know that this son will not be willing to live under others." ”

There is no need for Wen Yanbo to explain, Wen Jifu also knows who his father is talking about. It won't be Zong Ze, it will only be Han Gang who made the question. His seventh brother copied Zong Ze's test papers, and the focus was still on the questions and judging criteria, rather than Zhuang Yuanlang's answers. Maybe Zong Ze's answer is very good, but in the eyes of the real Zaifu, there is no answer based on actual results, and it is just a good article.

Wen Jifu turned out a page in the long letter with difficulty with one hand, and followed Wen Yanbo's footsteps, helping him to walk and said: "Seventh Brother also said in the letter that the change of the questions in the palace examination this time is completely Han Gang's arbitrariness, and Han Jiang and Zhang Qi are not allowed to participate. ”

"It's not that in the court," Wen Yanbo tilted his head, "it's among Confucianism." The dispute between the families is now intensifying. Wang Anshi and Han Gang Weng's son-in-law are even more so. Han Gang may not care about the temporary official position, but he will never be willing to let Xinxue weigh on his head. ”

"But if Han Gang does this, Qi Science will become the target of everyone." Wen Jifu argued.

"What do those new recruits say when they come out?"

"Of course it's scolding Han Gang."

"Do you think it helps?"

Wen Jifu shook his head, "It's useless." ”

"Yes, it doesn't work. Ou Jiu lost many tributes because of his style, and he didn't see how much he could help him, and the style of the world was changed. Right now, he is only on the palace exam, and he is in a high ranking, who dares to offend Han Gang easily? It was too late to find Zhang Zai and Han Gang's writings. ”

"In this way, Zong Ze should be a Qi scholar. The son remembered that he was famous for commenting on the battle situation in Hedong, and presumably Han Gang had already joined his disciples when he went to Hedong that time. ”

Wen Yanbo was noncommittal, stroking a bamboo shoot on the side of the road that would be as tall as a person, "It's only been a day, it's all so high." He turned back to his son, "Don't look at the beginning, it's different in the blink of an eye." Looking at the present, do you want to know how tall it was yesterday? ”

Wen Jifu understood, nodded and said, "My son also heard that he went to listen to Cheng Bochun's class. ”

"Absorbing all families is the way to learn. Zong Ze's article is not bad, and it is definitely not enough to read the works of Xinxue and Qixue. ”

No matter how much luck there is, no matter how partial the Queen Mother is, Zong Ze, a candidate with such an obvious bias, Wang Anshi and Zhang Dian have not been able to stop him from becoming the champion, he must have enough talent, but he is not like that Ye Zhuangyuan.

With the position of Ye Zuqia's champion, it took more than ten years to be sentenced to Henan Prefecture. It is important to know that the champion of Lu Dao, Shi Brown, was an official in Beijing from the beginning, and he was judged by seniority. It is completely different from the jinshi after three or five people, who need to start from the selection stage. Luoyang Henan Mansion is one of the four capitals, the status is higher than that of other places, and the general judgment in the house also has the seniority of Zhizhou, but the same branch of Han Gang has two into the two prefectures, and other people have done it in the same year.

This is related to Ye Zuqia's own talent, and he can be selected as the champion of the Gengxu Branch in Xining's three years, just because of the sentence 'The ancestors mostly follow the simple government, His Majesty ascends the throne, and the revolution is new' in line with the intention of the first emperor, and Wang Anshi took this kind of slippery speech as a clarion call because he wanted to change the law, so that Ye Zuqia picked up the cheap - at present, the party is fighting for the party, but it has not yet reached the point of only talking about factions and ignoring the facts, there is really no level, and it is difficult to escape well on the side of Zhu Zaifu.

Wen Jifu also had the same feeling, "To be able to put such an article at the bottom of the list, Wang Cun's generation can be said to be eye-catching." ”

Zong Ze's name was placed at the bottom of the list, among the dozens. From the top 100 in the Ministry of Rites exam to the bottom dozens, such a huge gap is rare in previous exams.

Wen Yanbo turned his head and glared at his son a little unhappily: "Have you read Zong Ze's scroll?!" ”

“…… Looked. ”

"After reading it, I still don't know why he will be ranked last in the last place?"

Wen Jifu swallowed dryly and whispered, "Because he was too harsh in his questioning." ”

Wen Yanbo snorted heavily: "Zhilu Dao also said! ”

Today's Kedian trial strategy question is a question that many people have guessed in advance to ask Que Zheng.

Of course, it is normal to say a few more words about the great achievements of the Queen Mother, and then criticize Zai Fu; If you want to gamble, you can take it, criticize the Queen Mother for being too lenient to the two kings, Zai Fu can't take precautions in advance, and the current situation, the Queen Mother can't be blameless - just like criticizing Zheng Zhuanggong, and then praise the Queen Mother's governance, and don't hide the flaws.

The criticism in Zong Ze's article is sharper than the latter, especially the criticism of the Empress Dowager and the imperial court. The victims of Hedong and Hebei are not concerned enough, and the space praising the ruling power of the Queen Mother is far less than others. Which examiner dares to put such a test paper in the front?

Now the Queen Mother's words will promote the candidates who are at the bottom to the top of the list, which of the examiners can escape the responsibility of not knowing people and judging papers? The Queen Mother didn't mind Zong Ze's outspokenness, but praised him greatly, but Wang Cun's generation put him at the back of the last to curry favor with the Queen Mother.

was reprimanded, Wen Jifu helped Wen Yanbo and didn't dare to speak more.

After going down the small slope, the stream appeared in front of him again, walking along the path by the stream, Wen Yanbo asked: "Wang Cun and the others are only fined copper, are there any other punishments?" ”

"No, someone helped to speak."

"It's Han Gang?!"

The raised tail note made Wen Yanbo's question full of mockery.

"It's Zhangdun. said that Wang Cun and others were sincere, but if they were caught off guard, it was inevitable that they would make mistakes, and it was not appropriate to punish them heavily. Han Gang did not object. ”

Wen Yanbo was silent for a few steps, and then snorted coldly.

Wen Yanbo's thoughts, Wen Jifu, who is a son, can more or less guess a little. It can be seen from the two things about the examiner and the champion that Han Gang has not really torn his face with Wang Anshi, Zhang Dian and others, and he is still trying his best to maintain a relationship with each other. This kind of situation of fighting but not breaking is definitely not what Wen Yanbo wants to see.

The father and son walked silently on the path, and the personal servants and maids were ten steps away from each other, not daring to disturb Wen Yanbo and Wen Jifu.

The older he gets, the healthier Wen Yanbo's body becomes. Every morning and afternoon, Wen Yanbo will walk around the bamboo forest after another industry, which is not pampered, and there are few sports that can be compared. Wen Jifu, the sixth son, was born after Wen Yanbo was middle-aged, and he was only in his early forties, but with Wen Yanbo walking around the bamboo forest on the mountain, the old prime minister was only slightly sweating, but Wen Liuya was already snoring and panting.

Sitting down in the small pavilion by the pool at the bottom of the mountain, looking at his son who was breathing heavily, Wen Yanbo shook his head: "It's really useless." ”

Ignoring his son no longer, Wen Yanbo lowered his head and looked carefully at the exam questions of this palace exam.

After a long time, Wen Yanbo raised his head and said: "This question should be the question that Han Gang is going to give to Huang Sheng in the imperial examination. ”

If it is another exam question, whether it is a question or a discussion. No matter how much Huang Shang writes, there will be objections. Only this new style will make people unable to beak.

Wen Jifu had already relieved his breath at this time: "What the adults said is that my son thinks so too. ”

"Now Han Gang has put this scientific examination question on the palace examination, if it is just a question added, it is actually not enough. The examiner who marks the paper can only look at the questions and ignore the arguments. If Han Gang made a fuss about the argument, he would fall behind. Wen Yanbo squinted his eyes, "In the past, there were also three topics of poetry, fu, and theory at the same time, but the most important evaluation is to look at the level of fuwen, poetry and theory, there is a middle and upper level." However, Han Gang made it clear that the two questions were divided into three or seven, and although the argument was only three, no one dared to give up this question. ”

If there is less argument, there is less 30 points. In the case that there is not much difference in the level of more than 400 new science and technology scholars, one point represents a change in the upper and lower ten, let alone thirty points?

Listening to Wen Yanbo's words, Wen Jifu remembered the first Gongsheng in the letter who had only been a quarter of an hour.

Originally, he was ranked first for the examiners - his essay question was in the third class, and he was the only candidate in the third class. After using the 100-point system, it was difficult to achieve an outstanding test paper in the first question, because of the high evaluation of the second question, it was at least seven and a half points more than other candidates, and the gap was widened at once. However, after Wang Anshi, Han Gang and other Zai Fu watched it, they were dethroned to the fifth class, and the total score was reduced by fifteen points, not only did they lose the first place, but they couldn't even keep the top three, top five, and top ten.

But Zong Ze was selected, and it was also the result of the Queen Mother's handpicking. Han Gang's plan is also useless. ”

The Queen Mother's hand-picking is everything, since Zong Ze is the champion, then he is the champion. When it comes to scores, he's never as tall as anyone else. Even if the first question can get a good evaluation, the second question will not make Zong Ze open up the gap with other candidates. In the letter, the matter of this palace examination was explained in detail, and someone asked Han Gang afterwards that his evaluation of Zong Ze and Han Gang was the fourth and third class. The harshness of the temple examination paper should be taken down. Still fourth-class.

"Being ingenious and making it logical is Han Gang's ability. Even if Zong Ze is not selected this time, it will not be a 'talent' who remembers the Jingyi of the Guozijian Lieutenant General. Wen Yanbo added a heavy tone to the last two words, full of sarcasm, "Poetry can't select talents, and neither can Jingyi." Su Shi was so opposed to improving the style of Shike back then. I can't do it, but at least I can know how much insight those new practitioners have in the Dao. ”

"It's just on paper." Wen and Fu said.

"It's good to talk about it, not brag. That's why Wang Anshi can tolerate him to act like this. ”

"Wang Anshi's temper seems to have changed a lot." Wen Jifu thought of the first time he was promoted, Han Gang was able to enter the two mansions, or his father sent someone to help, if Han Gang and Wang Anshi continued to maintain, wouldn't it be in vain?

"It's because Han Gang knows how to converge, and that's why he just started." Wen Yanbo is not impatient or impatient.

Sooner or later, Han Gang would understand that it would never be possible to maintain a consistent style of conduct between Zaifu and Confucianism.

Maybe Han Gang has already understood.