In any case, Zheng Guang can't slack off, the difficulty of the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination have always been harsh, and there is a Jinshi who once wrote a couplet after the title of the gold list to describe his imperial examination process - the county examination is difficult, the government examination is difficult, and the college examination is especially difficult, and it took 42 years to enter Pan; The township test is easy, the test will be easy, the palace test is especially easy, and it has been registered in fifteen months. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to get the qualification for the official imperial examination, he actually lost forty-two years of time, and the best years of his life were spent in the company of the boring Four Books and Five Classics, but what he didn't expect was that once he was admitted to Xiucai, the next road was surprisingly smooth, all the way to the end, there was no difficulty, Zheng Guang thought to himself, when this Jinshi knew the title of his gold list, he recalled the forty-two years of wasted time, and he should be full of emotion.

As the head of the Wuxian County trial, there are certain privileges, which is envy in the eyes of others, but it is a great challenge in Zheng Guang's view, the greater the reputation, the more attention it receives, and the easier it is to be targeted.

Fan Qing, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture, has been an official in Suzhou Mansion for two years, and his political achievements are mediocre, there are no big mistakes, and there are no major achievements, and the special status of Suzhou City makes the governance of two counties and one government arranged here, so the political exchanges between the three sides are more frequent, Fan Qing's name is not loud in Suzhou Mansion, and he does not appear often, anyway, Zheng Guang has never seen Fan Qing, he himself thinks so.

Here Zheng Guang was reading a book, and the cold door was suddenly pushed open, and a middle-aged man walked in in a hurry: "Guang'er, are you okay?" ”

Zheng Guang was taken aback, and when he looked at it, it was actually his mentor Tang Shunzhi, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he didn't know where the impulse came from, so he hurriedly put down his book and stood up, walked to Tang Shunzhi and knelt down: "Students meet the teacher!" ”

In memory, Tang Shunzhi is one of the few people who treat Zheng Guang sincerely, he got married to his father because of something, so he carefully taught his father knowledge, which was an important help for his father to be admitted to Xiucai, after his father sacrificed to protect the people, Tang Shunzhi lost his beloved apprentice, and was in pain, seeing Zheng Guang lonely and miserable, he fell in love with the house and Wu, and took on the responsibility of teaching Zheng Guang, and became Zheng Guang's teacher, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Zheng Guang's qualifications were better than Zheng Wei.

It's not an overly utilitarian purpose, it's really that the competition in the Nanzhili imperial examination is too fierce, there is no outstanding qualification, it is difficult to get ahead in the Nanzhili examination, rather than burying the good years of life in the hopeless scientific examination, it is better to know a few words to do business, to be a rich man, it is better than studying hard in the cold window, Tang Shunzhi is a scholar in Jiangnan, especially in the developed business environment in the southeast, growing up, and his view of business is not as rigid and conservative as that of a scholar in the north.

Zheng Guang's excellent qualifications undoubtedly let him see the dawn of hope, so he carefully taught, Zheng Guang lost his father, grief, so he turned grief into strength, with the goal of inheriting his father's will, devoted himself to reading and studying, at a young age like an adult who saw through the world, he actually suppressed the child's nature, and never had fun in the three years of filial piety.

Tang Shunzhi is an important figure in the disciples of Yangming Xinxue, in the people of Xinxue all over the southeast, he has a very high status and right to speak, his disciple is his heir, and he should also inherit his status and become the leader of the Xinxue people.

Fortunately, Zheng Wei left a son Zheng Guang, with outstanding talent, and even above Zheng Wei, Tang Shunzhi was like a treasure, teaching Zheng Guanglai, more serious and careful than teaching Zheng Wei, more comprehensive, and at the same time sparing no effort to mobilize his own strength to protect Zheng Guang, Jiajing's eighteenth year of Zheng's rebellion was Tang Shunzhi behind the control of the pacification, leading the public opinion and the government to protect the Zheng family's business.

After the death of Mr. Yang Ming and the attack of the official Cheng Zhu Lixue, the Xinxue sect was more united, although there were many internal differences, but in the face of the blow of the Cheng Zhu Lixue defenders, it was still quite united, they generally believed that the Xinxue was the academic mainstream suitable for the Ming Dynasty, and the Xinxue was more in line with reality and the needs of the Ming Dynasty, while the Cheng Zhu Lixue imprisoned people's thoughts, restricted people's behavior, and restrained people's hands and feet, and should be relegated.

In the Beijing Imperial Court, there has always been a group of people who hold the idea that "the southerners are either traitors or thieves", and they are very wary of the southerners who are admitted to the Jinshi to enter the imperial court as officials, believing that they are all people who want to tamper with the ancestral system and endanger the Ming Dynasty, and the deeper reason is the primitive resistance to commerce in traditional thought.

However, in the game of political power, the Beijing government located in northern China was naturally more suitable for Cheng Zhu Lixue, and from the perspective of governance, Cheng Zhu Lixue was more suitable for the notification class, so Emperor Jiajing did not hesitate to choose to support Cheng Zhu Lixue, and promoted the action of cracking down on Yangming Xinxue, destroying many academies that preached Yangming Xinxue, and forcing the Yangming Xinxue people to move the battlefield to some mobile places, such as painting boats on the lake, which was quite a guerrilla warfare style.

Insight and really suitable for the Ming Dynasty will not be easily eliminated, it will be more widely circulated, for more people to accept, endlessly, in South China, Yang Ming psychology occupies the absolute mainstream, South China's famous academic figures are almost all mental scholars, including Zheng Guang's father Zheng Wei, Zheng Guang received the influence of Yang Ming psychology since childhood, and deeply agrees with Mr. Yang Ming's "unity of knowledge and action" and "knowledge of things".

And after coming to the Ming Dynasty from the Great Song Dynasty, Zheng Guang's thinking was of course more pragmatic, the last nine years of the Great Song Dynasty were not any academic controversy about the imperial examination, everything was for the sake of resisting Mongolia, everything was for survival, what was the most practical, what was the mainstream, people put aside the doctrine of the sage, picked up swords, guns, swords, halberds, and followed Zheng Guang to fight on the battlefield, and survived in such an environment for nine years, expecting Zheng Guang to agree with the more rigid Cheng Zhu theory than the Song Dynasty, that is impossible.

Whether it is Zheng Guang's own will, or the actual conditions, Zheng Guang will never agree with Cheng Zhu Lixue, although modern education has many shortcomings, but there is one point, broad vision, China likes to criticize this and criticize that, feel that their own ism is the best, but inadvertently, but also let people understand a variety of ideas, Zheng Guang is definitely not an idealist, but a pragmatist, he does not agree with the doctrine of false emptiness, but agrees with the down-to-earth handling of practical problems.

In the course of Tang Shunzhi's teaching, he has more than once taken some classic cases of local officials dealing with tricky government affairs to Zheng Guang to interpret, telling the amazing wisdom of these practical talents, which is the most commendable, Tang Shunzhi not only teaches theory, but also teaches practical problems, which is an excellent teacher who is hard to buy.

In addition, Tang Shunzhi treats Zheng Guang like his own grandson in life, Zheng Guang loves himself even more as a benefactor named a teacher who is actually a grandfather, and it is normal to bow his head and bow down, Tang Shunzhi saw that his beloved disciple was unscathed, and immediately put his heart at ease, relieved, helped his beloved disciple up, and looked deeply at the beloved disciple's face, for fear of seeing some wounds that he did not want to see, he scanned up and down before finally letting go.

"Hearing the news that you fell into a coma, the teacher was frightened, and hurriedly rushed over, fortunately you didn't have an accident, otherwise the teacher would have the heart to die!" Tang Shunzhi held Zheng Guang's hand, his face was full of fear, Zheng Guang smiled and said: "Where is the master, the student is in strong health, and he can't die if he falls into the Yellow River, and his life is hard!" ”

Tang Shunzhi smiled, slowly walked to the chair and sat down, looked Zheng Guang up and down, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, there is no neglect of martial arts because of the scientific examination, if you want to be an official, you must not only have excellent knowledge, but also be strong physique, to deal with all kinds of crises, the scholar who has no power to restrain the chicken, can only be a conspiracy power artist, can not become a great weapon, Yang Ming Gong is not only talented, martial arts is also extraordinary, there are few opponents in martial arts, and he is most admired for the teacher." ”

Zheng Guang said with a smile: "A person like Yang Minggong only has one in hundreds of years, how dare students expect to compare with it." ”

Tang Shunzhi shook his head and said: "The ancestors are worthy of respect, but if you don't want to surpass the ancestors, you are resting on your laurels, and you can only go to extinction in the end, to put it disrespectfully, the ancestors are used to surpass, and when you become the ancestors, you must also count on the descendants to surpass you, the greatest hope for a teacher is that your father can surpass as a teacher, but unfortunately ......" Tang Shunzhi showed a lonely look, but soon regained his strength, looked at Zheng Guang, and said with a smile: "You are better than your father, and you will definitely be able to surpass as a teacher." ”

Zheng Guang said with a smile: "Then you have to be able to pass the government examination first, there are many literati in Suzhou Prefecture, and students are not completely sure that they can surpass them." ”

Tang Shunzhi waved his hand and said with a smile: "Although Suzhou Mansion is a great imperial examination mansion and there are many literati talents, you have a huge advantage. ”

Zheng Guang guessed: "The head of the case? ”

Tang Shunzhi nodded: "Yes, it is the head of the case, according to the convention, the capital of the county trial case will be pointed out as a student, and the iron show talent, the difference is only that the school students or the county school students are just students, naturally, the government school students are better, the monthly payment will be more, and the status will be higher, and when the time comes to the township test, there will be better opportunities, these are all later words, at the moment, the government test will definitely pass." ”

Zheng Guang also thought about these problems, and after thinking about the practice of the Ming Dynasty over the years, Zheng Guang said: "Even so, if the head of the case plays abnormally, it is also very bad, so the students are still a little worried. ”

Tang Shunyi smiled: "It's good to worry, if you don't worry, then you will be blind and can't see yourself clearly, but you also have to be confident, you are the first place to stand out from the three thousand candidates in Wu County, and you are my disciple of Tang Shunzhi, the successor of the mantle of Yang Ming Gong, besides, this year's government examination and hospital examination, there is no master, but all the famous talents, at least there is a show of talent, waiting for the examination, like you, you can pass the county examination for the first time to participate in the imperial examination, very few." ”

Zheng Guang relaxed his mood a little, but he knew that he was not the original Zheng Guang after all, and the knowledge in his memory was still there, but the leading idea was no longer the original, whether he could play according to the needs of the Ming Dynasty, he was not clear, Tang Shunzhi looked at it in his eyes, and felt that it was probably the first time Zheng Guang participated in the imperial examination, and he was apprehensive, so he comforted him gently: "Don't worry, in the past few years, the teacher gave you so many scientific examination questions, and you answered them very well, you must have confidence in yourself, even if it is a truncated question, don't panic, don't mess up." ”

Zheng Guang suppressed the worry in his heart and said with a smile: "Shizun came from afar, and he hasn't eaten yet, right?" ”

Tang Shunzhi touched his stomach: "I got the news that you were in a coma, I haven't eaten well, and now I'm hungry, go, give Shi Wen a pot of good wine!" ”

Zheng Guang smiled and went to prepare a banquet for the teacher.