"It's easy to be a gentleman, but it's hard to say. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info doesn't say it, don't say it. and its making people also, instrumental things.

The official of the heart thinks, thinks about it, and gets it, and if you don't think about it, you can't.

Virtue is a saint, respected as the Son of Heaven, rich in the four seas. ”

This question comes from three aspects, the first part of which is from the Analects. Zilu", its core meaning is that it is easy to serve the gentleman, but it is very difficult to get the appreciation of the gentleman.

The second part is from Mencius. The meaning of the "Confession" is very clear, the function of the mind is the slightest, thinking can be gained, and without thinking, there can be no gain.

The third part is from "The Mean", which praises Emperor Shun, who is a saint in virtue and a noble son of heaven in status, and has wealth throughout the world.

The whole exam questions are taken together, the first emphasis is on being a good man, on the basis of being a good man, we must think about problems anytime and anywhere, so that we can continue to make progress and become a useful person, and the third sentence is very interesting, obviously not requiring many candidates to want to be the emperor, that is not a rebellion, this is probably the emperor's urgent idea of seeking talent, hoping that the Ming Dynasty can appear to truly govern the country.

Of course, this also reveals the pride of the emperor, thinking that he is a gentleman, a character like Yao Shunyu, so many scholars must also be morally noble and be able to become truly useful people.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, the concept of governing the country shown in the Four Books and Five Classics, there are indeed quite a lot of places worth learning from, governing the country is indispensable to benevolence and courtesy, but it is indispensable to iron and blood, hundreds of years later the theory has proved that any strong country, need to go through the rule of iron and blood, accumulate enough wealth, in order to gradually move towards prosperity.

He had to admire the cabinet minister, Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and really grasped the emperor's mind, presumably this topic, the emperor was very satisfied, although the imperial examination for hundreds of years, I don't know how many times the examination has been carried out, and these words and sentences have been used as examination questions.

The emperor did not ascend the throne for a long time, and he ascended the throne at the age of seventeen, and the first two years were in the rectification of the government, and in one fell swoop exterminated the eunuch party headed by Wei Zhongxian, so that the government and the opposition were invigorated, and the emperor's own prestige also reached its peak, but with the party struggle, the emperor fell into anger and confusion, and the evil consequences directly formed by the party struggle affected the stability of Beizhili.

In the next two years, the Houjin Tartars pointed to the capital, plundered the North Zhili, the north and the Central Plains continued to suffer famines, and the peasants rebelled on a large scale, so that the emperor suffered a heavy blow, and even appeared pessimistic and desperate, in the early three years of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong, who was just one year old, was appointed as the crown prince, and actually thought of abdicating, but with the withdrawal of the Houjin Tartars from the North Zhili, and the military department Shangshu, Jiliao Governor Sun Chengzong recovered Luanzhou and other cities, and won the victory in the battle against the Houjin Tartars, the emperor's ambition was re-established.

The reason why the emperor killed Yuan Chonghuan, the former secretary of the military department and the governor of Jiliao, was because he believed that Yuan Chonghuan was caught in the party struggle, and the first sign appeared that Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong without authorization.

Yuan Chonghuan was beheaded, affected by the cabinet minister Qian Longxi and the Ministry of War Shangshu Wang Qia and other officials, the Ming Dynasty has an iron law, no one must violate, otherwise they will be killed, that is, the border marshal colluded with the close ministers, the border marshal is like Yuan Chonghuan, the close ministers are the cabinet ministers and the six Shangshu, Qian Longxi is the cabinet minister, Wang Qia is the military secretary.

The border marshal colluded with his close ministers, which was a direct threat to the imperial power, and this was a crime of rebellion.

After that, Wang Cha was beheaded, and Qian Longxi was exiled.

Wu Fanhui saw from some later materials that the reason why Yuan Chonghuan was killed had a great relationship with the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party people tried their best to calculate the cabinet minister Qian Longxi at that time for the sake of party fighting, in order to be able to obtain greater power, because Qian Longxi and Zhou Yanru who supported the Donglin Party had a fierce struggle, and Qian Longxi did not support the Donglin Party, in this case, the Donglin Party people must have besieged Qian Longxi, and one of the charges of impeachment of the Donglin Party people was Qian Longxi's collusion with Yuan Chonghuan, which was the border marshal's collusion with close ministers. According to the law, it must be beheaded.

Ironically, Yuan Chonghuan was originally a member of the Donglin Party, but his status at that time was not very high, and Yuan Chonghuan's main energy was focused on fighting against the Houjin Tartars, and it was impossible to do things completely according to the requirements of the Donglin Party, so he was thrown out by the Donglin Party as the reason for calculating Qian Longxi.

These facts, the emperor is not necessarily particularly clear, but the internal party struggle in the court, the emperor is deeply touched, Chongzhen's first year will push the cabinet ministers, it is fully revealed, Donglin Party leader Qian Qianyi, as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, was elected as a cabinet minister, so that the emperor was extremely vigilant, aware of the signs of party strife, and removed Qian Qianyi from all official positions in anger, let him go home to retire.

In this examination, the questions directly involve the concept of governing the country for people, and I am afraid that it has a huge relationship with the emperor's intentions.

Wu Fanhui also did not start writing immediately, these historical analyses, he is very clear, this is the advantage he has that others cannot reach, he knows even more that any article, can be called a good article, it needs to have bright spots, Baguwen is no exception.

The so-called highlights of the article not only need to be literary, but also need to have a refreshing point of view, which is like creating a beautiful and beautiful girl, and you need to give this girl a seductive look and a kind soul, so that she can truly be called a beauty.

It's the same with articles.

Wu Fanhui needs to find an entry point before he can give this eight-strand essay the soul.

Where to start with the article, this is also very particular, but also needs to pay attention to, the article can not be forbidden, and the words that should not be said must not be said, otherwise not only will you not be able to pass, but also cause yourself a huge trouble.

Half a day passed, and Wu Fanhui finally determined the focus of this eight-strand article, that is, to strengthen the imperial rule and promote the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Such an article will inevitably fall into the cliché circle, but Wu Fanhui has a way.

In the article, he applied two poems of the great man, in the praise of the emperor to eliminate Wei Zhongxian and his eunuchs, summarized in one poem, and in the revitalization of the Ming Dynasty, he used another poem to summarize.

"I am arrogant, Yang Jun loses the willow, and the willow is light and straight to the sky. asked Wu Gang what he had, and Wu Gang took out osmanthus wine.

Lonely Chang'e stretched her sleeves, thousands of miles in the sky and danced for the loyal soul, suddenly reported that there had been a tiger in the world, and tears flew as a downpour. ”

This poem implies the emperor's decisive extermination of Wei Zhongxian and his eunuchs, and the redress of grievances for the ministers of civil and military affairs of the imperial court who have been killed by the eunuchs, and quietly praised the emperor.

"The west wind is strong, and the geese in the sky are called frost and the morning moon. The frost and the moon are shining, the sound of horses' hooves is broken, and the sound of trumpets is choking;

Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is stepping forward from the beginning. From the beginning, the mountains are like the sea, and the remnant sun is like blood. ”

This poem, of course, is the key point, especially the one in which "Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is stepping forward from the beginning." From the beginning, the mountains are like the sea, and the remnant sun is like blood", which is almost a portrayal of the emperor's state of mind.

The two poems echo back and forth, the first praises the wisdom of the emperor, the unyielding of the Chinese military minister in the face of the eunuchs, and the latter clarifies the difficulty of governing the country.

And the entire eight-strand essay is also spread out around these two poems.

Two poems, one euphemistic, one domineering, the meaning of the expression is extremely clear, such poems appear in this article, if you can't pass the exam, Wu Fanhui is afraid that he will really doubt the examiner.

After the article was completed in one go, Wu Fanhui read it carefully three times, and the more he read it, the more satisfied he felt.

For example, the article written by Chen Lin, the seventh son of Jian'an during the Three Kingdoms, scolded Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao not only did not get angry, but thought that Chen Lin was a rare talent, Luo Bingwang, one of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty, wrote an article scolding Wu Zetian, which made Wu Zetian extremely impressed, saying that such talents could not be reused, and it was the fault of the prime minister.

Some articles avoid the attack on people, and from a macro perspective, they expound the essence of people and politics, and this kind of article looks more atmospheric and more convincing.

Wu Fanhui chose the latter type of article, from the county examination, the prefectural examination to the township examination, and all the way to the general examination, he did so, and the previous examinations were all successful without exception.

In this examination, Wu Fanhui believes that he will be able to succeed.

The time of the trial list is the first day of April, April 21, the tributes admitted to the examination will participate in the palace examination in the Jianji Palace, the palace examination is only one day, and the paper is three days, and the emperor appoints a champion, a role model and a flower, and the ceremony is held on April 25, and the ceremony is followed by the grace banquet.

So far, this year's imperial examination has come to an end.

The time between the examination and the palace examination is very close, and the tributes who have passed the examination, the title of the gold list is certain, but it is not clear whether the palace examination is the first, second or third.

The gap between the three is still very large, the top ten of the first and second grades, all of them will enter the Hanlin Academy, commonly known as the Hanlin Academy, and the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty, including the civil officials above the third grade, almost all have the identity of the Hanlin, as for the rest of the second and third Jinshi, either in the capital six or the Metropolitan Procuratorate as officials, or as an expatriate official.

March 14, unitary time.

Wu Fanhui dragged his tired body out of the tribute courtyard.

After seeing Xu Yanqi, Li Yong, Ma Jigang and others, he had no interest in going to the restaurant to eat and drink, to say that although the imperial court was difficult, it was still good in terms of living supply, and the combination of meat and vegetables would not make people feel hungry.

At this moment, Wu Fanhui thought of returning to the inn to have a good rest.