During the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuang households in Liantang Village were not very wealthy, and their status was not high. However, the status of the ninth uncle is very respected.

In the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty, although the ninth uncle failed to fulfill his wish in his life and won the highest fame - Jinshi and the first, he also got a fellow Jinshi background.

In the third year of Tang Xianheng (672 AD), the ninth uncle was born in a "scholarly family" surnamed Liang in Liantang, Xinzhou, Lingnan. As soon as he was born, his family cultivated him according to the model of "scientific examination and official selection". When he was three years old, his grandfather Liang Jinxing began to teach him to learn the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", etc., and the "Jinshi Dream" was the dream of three generations of his family.

According to the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty, candidates who were qualified to raise people could go to Beijing to take the examination. If you try to get it, you will be called a jinshi. In the Jinshi, you can be a righteous official, a part of the outstanding elected to the Hanlin Academy, called Hanlin, this is the highest "academic title", the general Jinshi can at least be appointed to the county, this is the ancient literati for the life goal of the struggle.

In 689, the ninth uncle passed the examination and obtained the qualification to participate in the examination.

In the first year of Yongchang of Tang Ruizong (689 AD), Liang Shiyuan, who was talented and knowledgeable, had the world in mind, took one hundred taels of silver from relatives and friends to make up the travel expenses and went to Chang'an City, the capital division of the Tang Dynasty.

After three exams, although Liang Shiyuan's paper was praised by the examiner, he failed to make the list. Liang Shiyuan had to pack some luggage and return to his hometown in the south.

Liang Shiyuan entered Chang'an City to take the exam this time, although he failed to make the list, but he had two major gains. First, he met Bole here-Zhang Cambodia. Although Zhang Cambodia is nearly seventy years old, among the more than 1,000 people who were called by the imperial court to answer questions with virtuous subjects, Zhang Cambodia ranked first. The two discussed current affairs together, talked happily with each other, and became close friends; Second, on the way home, I inspected the current affairs of various places along the way, and I knew the people's feelings clearly, and my knowledge increased greatly.

In the first year of Wu Zhou's longevity (692 AD), the former Liang Lang came again. This time, Liang Shiyuan was almost admitted. The same examiner highly recommended his papers, and the examiner also thought that this candidate "has a body of words, not a branch, a smooth line, three shuns, and a good poem." The second game is particularly good", preparing for the top 10 admissions. However, when the list was revealed, the examiner found that Lingnan had recorded an extra place, and the Central Plains had not yet been filled, so in order to balance, Liang Shiyuan's Jinshi qualification was withdrawn and supplemented to the Central Plains, and he once again fell to Sun Shan.

Later, in order to appease Liang Shiyuan, the chief examiner gave him a position of "transcription" and let him enter the team of the Hanlin Academy. However, the arrogant Liang Shiyuan was unwilling to take up such a position of copying and writing, and he still had to fight, so he refused.

Another three years later, Liang Shiyuan took the examination for the third time.

In this exam, Liang Shiyuan can be said to be handy, and if he writes with divine help, he will give full play to it. However, there was an obvious typo on the answer sheet that the examiner criticized him: the word "pull" for promotion was written as the word "dial" for pointing.

This time, it was a one-word mistake, also known as Luosun Mountain.

Exactly: "A slight mistake is a thousand miles"!

Jinshi is the "ticket" to be an official in China's feudal society since the imperial examination, and if he can't pass the Jinshi exam, Liang Shiyuan will lose a sunny road to enter the officialdom. For this reason, Liang Shiyuan fell into depression and loss.

Liang Shiyuan is only eight buckets high, only to suppress the group of Confucianism, three times to participate in the examination, all named Sun Mountain, at that time, Lin'an has a master felt this, looking up to the sky sighed: the new river flows north, pity nine bends and eighteen bends, although Shiyuan has a champion talent, but there is no champion life. What a pity, what a pity!

If you have not gone through the road of the imperial examination and have not been admitted to the Jinshi, even if you are a high-ranking official, you will be regarded as a non-"right" background and will be looked down upon by your colleagues. Liang Shiyuan's three examinations were all named Sun Shan, although he was a practical scholar who was eloquent and practical and practical to the Ministry of Rites, and later the emperor gave him "the same Jinshi background". However, he was often ridiculed and ridiculed by officials in the DPRK and China, and even Zhang Cambodia, whom he met for the first time in Beijing and regarded as a close friend and bole, once laughed at him as an "exceptional scholar" after drinking at a gathering of three or five confidants.

Therefore, Liang Shiyuan also sneered and disdained those Jinshi and officials who did not have practical learning, and also left a high argument that "lifting people is stronger than Jinshi".

If someone comes to see him and hands him over the title of "Jinshi", he may have to dry it for half a day; If the name card says "Xiucai" or "Juren", he will not only give priority to receiving him, but may also happily go over to shake hands with him and have a good talk, which is because Liang Shiyuan has sympathy for the same illness and has a "common language" with them.

Although Liang Shiyuan failed to fulfill the "Jinshi dream" on the road to the imperial examination, he was not given the birth of a fellow Jinshi until the year of the known Mandate of Heaven. But in the big examination room of his life, because he was not used to seeing the ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, he knew that accompanying the king was like accompanying the tiger, so he told the old man to return to his hometown and return to the spring forest.

And Zhang Cambodia, who was born in Xiangyang, Xiangzhou, did not have a smooth sailing career. When he was young, he dabbled in scriptures and historical books, and filled in the vacancies as a student. The sacrificial wine made Hude think that he had a genius, so he expected him as an auxiliary minister of the emperor.

After Zhang Cambodia became a jinshi, he was initially transferred to Qingyuan County. In the first year of Yongchang (689), the imperial court called for the examination of virtuous subjects, and he was already over seventy years old at this time. For more than 1,000 people who answered the questions, Zhang Cambodia ranked first, and was awarded the official to supervise the imperial history, and was later promoted to the Fengge Sheren.

At this time, the Turkic leader silently asked for his daughter to make peace, and Empress Wu Zetian wanted Wu Yanxiu to marry her. Zhang Cambodia said: "Since ancient times, there has never been a matter of a son of heaven marrying a woman of a different race. "Violated the will of the Empress Wu and was transferred out of the imperial court Renhe and Shu Erzhou Assassin History.

During the Chang'an period (701~704), Empress Wu asked Di Renjie: "Where can I get a wizard to use him?" ”

Di Renjie said: "If Your Majesty asks for articles and qualifications, the current prime ministers Li Qiao and Su Wei are enough. Could it be that the scribes are obsessed with small things, which is not enough to achieve the great cause of the world? ”

Empress Wu said: "Yes. ”

Di Renjie said: "Although Jingzhou Governor Shi Zhang Khan Zhi is old, he is a prime minister. With him, he will do his best for the country. ”

Empress Wu immediately summoned Zhang Khan to serve as Sima of Luozhou. After a period of time, Empress Wu asked Di Renjie for talent. Di Renjie said: "The minister once recommended Zhang Khan Zhi, but you didn't use him." ”

Empress Wu said: "Promote him." ”

Di Renjie said: "The minister recommended the prime minister but appointed Sima, this is not a talent. So Zhang Cambodia was awarded the title of Commander Shaoqing, and was promoted to the autumn official. Later, Yao Chong served as the military envoy of Lingwu, about to set off, and the Empress Wu Zhao recommended a person who could be appointed as the prime minister among the hundred officials outside the palace, Yao Chong said: "Zhang Khan is deep and steady, strategic, and can decide major matters, he is old, and he should be appointed as soon as possible." ”

Empress Wu summoned him on the same day, conferred the title of official with Fengge Luantai Pingzhang, and promoted Fengge Shilang.

The mastermind forced Wu Zetianli to make Li Xian, the previously deposed Tang Zhongzong, the crown prince. At this time, Wu Zetian was already ill, and his favored ministers Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi were serving on the side, and they were in power. Zhang Cambodia conspired with another prime minister, Cui Xuanwei and others, to get rid of the two. Zhang Khan Zhi and others led more than 500 Hanlin troops to welcome the prince Tang Zhongzong Li Xian from the Xuanwu Gate into the palace, beheaded Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi, forced Wu Zetian to pass on the crown prince, and restored the Tang State number. Zhang Cambodia took the Xia official Shangshu and Zhongshu Ling, and Cui Xuanwei and Jinghui were prime ministers. However, the Wu family, Wu Sansi and his feather party were still in power, and they colluded with Empress Wei to slander Zhang Khan and others. Zhang Khan was crowned the king of Hanyang and dismissed the prime minister at the same time. Zhang Cambodia asked to return to Xiangzhou for recuperation, but he was born as a stabbing history in Xiangzhou.

Before leaving, Tang Zhongzong wrote poems for him to sacrifice to the god of the road, and also ordered the ministers to go to Dingding Gate to give him food.

After arriving in Xiangzhou, he treated his subordinates with law and discipline, and did not indulge in forgiveness even if his relatives and friends were old friends. When the Han River swelled and invaded the outer city, Zhang Cambodia built an embankment on the barracks to curb the raging rapids, and the whole territory relied on it for flood control. Later, Zhang Cambodia was demoted to Xinzhou Sima.