Zi said: Wealth and nobility are what people want. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info is not in its way, and it is not everywhere. Poverty and cheapness are the evil of people. If you don't get it by its way, you won't go. A gentleman goes to benevolence, and he becomes famous? The gentleman has no end of food, and he is more than that, and he is better than him. ”

This is the Analects. The words in "Liren", this passage means that wealth and promotion are what everyone wants to get, and it is unacceptable to get it without a positive method, poverty and lowliness are disgusting to everyone, and if you can't get rid of it in a proper way, don't get rid of it, how can you call it a gentleman if you throw away your benevolence, how can you call it a gentleman, a gentleman can't leave the path of benevolence for the rest of his life, he can't leave the path of benevolence in an emergency, and he can't leave the path of benevolence when he is displaced.

This is a typical preaching statement, and I didn't expect it to become a question in the government exam.

Wu Fanhui immediately thought of an allusion, the Battle of Hongshui in 638 BC.

Song Xianggong, the monarch of the Song State, had the style of aristocrats, and when he fought with the Chu army in Hongshui, he waited for the Chu army to cross the river, and was unwilling to do it when the Chu army crossed the river in a chaotic manner, nor was he willing to attack when the Chu army had just crossed the river and was in chaos, and waited until the Chu army set up a position to start the battle, but the result was a big defeat, and he was also injured, and died soon after. Regarding this fiasco, Song Xianggong has a very classic comment: "The gentleman is not seriously injured, and he does not capture Ermao." The ancient army is also not to obstruct the pass, although the widow is dead, there is no drum and no column. ”

Could it be that the prefect came up with this question to evaluate it from this aspect?

Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, most of the scholars supported Song Xianggong, and after the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were many people who opposed Song Xianggong.

Zhu Xi's "Analysis of the Four Books" does not have a clear view on this, which can be said to be noncommittal.

It is said that such a question should not appear in the government examination, and it is quite difficult to know that the exams are taken by scholars who do not have any merit, and it is quite difficult to ask them to comment on this passage.

Wu Fanhui quickly dismissed this idea.

Sometimes, it's important not to overcomplicate the problem, which will lead you into a mystery.

There was a large-scale famine in Yan'an Province, and there were already peasant rebellions, and the imperial court's attitude towards exterminating the peasant rebel army was clear, but there were differences in what method to take to exterminate it, whether to focus on extermination or appeasement.

However, from top to bottom, almost all of the imperial courts are in favor of appeasement, this is because there are large-scale famines in various parts of Shaanxi, Xi'an, Yan'an, Qingyang and other places have played excerpts begging for relief from the imperial court, and the governor's yamen and the political envoy Si Yamen have also played excerpts, and the emperor and the cabinet have seen too many of these excerpts, and they all think that this is a rebellion of the common people in a desperate situation, which is understandable in some respects.

Since it was the imperial court that could not help the people because of lack of money and food, when suppressing the peasant rebellion, it was necessary to implement benevolence, and the peasants who were willing to submit to it would no longer be pursued by the imperial court, no matter what they had done before.

This view occupies the mainstream, and the emperor, the cabinet, and the trilateral governor Yang He all know this.

Since Ma Mao only came up with such a question during the government examination, he is in favor of it.

Wu Fanhui still didn't start writing immediately, but thought quietly, if it was discussed from the Battle of Hongshui, it would not have much effect, and it was just more than a thousand words, it was impossible to completely explain it, even if it was Wu Fanhui, a person who crossed over, it was not easy to say whether Song Xianggong's aristocratic style was right or wrong.

Then we can only start from the actual situation at present.

For the peasant uprising, Wu Fanhui's view is the same as Hong Chengchou's, that is, we must do our best to extinguish it, and avoid indecision, history has proved that Hong Chengchou's view is correct, and he even thought of expressing such a view in the article, but he quickly dispelled this idea.

You can't command thousands of troops, you can't make any decisions, you can only write a line on the white paper, decide whether you can pass the government test, whether you can achieve a good reputation, and the rest has nothing to do with you.

Wu Fanhui's point of view must be in line with the point of view of the imperial court and the point of view of the prefect, only in this way can he really achieve good results in the government examination.

In fact, Wu Fanhui doesn't have to worry so much, even if he writes articles casually and accumulates the opinions and understandings of the ancients, as long as his words are gorgeous, he can also pass the government test, after all, he is the head of the county test, and he left a deep impression on the prefect, and there is no problem in passing the government test.

But Wu Fanhui still doesn't want to do this, since he does things, he has to do his best.

After thinking about it for a full hour, Wu Fanhui began to write, he would not have thought that of nearly 500 candidates, he was the only one who wrote this eight-strand essay from the perspective of exterminating the peasant rebel army and implementing benevolent government, so that his article was easily noticed.

During the three-day government examination, Wu Fanhui learned the lesson of the county examination, he would not hand in the examination papers in advance, even if he had already finished writing the article, he would sit quietly in the examination booth, and when the time was over, someone would come to paste his name.

In the second and third exams, Wu Fanhui felt relatively relaxed, and through the questions of the third strategy, Wu Fanhui concluded that his judgment was correct.

The question of the third policy theory is also from the "Analects", which is the second part of the "Xueer", "Youzi said: He is also a filial brother, and those who are good at committing crimes are rare; It is not easy to commit, and those who are good at making trouble are not there. A gentleman is a gentleman, and he is born from the beginning. Filial piety is also the foundation of human beings. ”

The meaning of this passage is to say that filial piety to parents, obedience to elder brothers, and like to offend the upper rulers, such people are rare, do not like to offend the upper rulers, and like to rebel There is no, the gentleman concentrates on the fundamental things, the fundamental is established, the principle of governing the country and being a man is also there, filial piety to parents, obedience to the elder brother, this is the root of benevolence.

This topic is exactly the same as the title of the essay, as if one put forward a point of view, and the other confirms that the common people do not want to rebel for no reason, but because they can't survive anymore, so the government at all levels will definitely be able to quell the matter by adopting benevolent policies.

Wu Fanhui can only write Bagu Wen according to this point of view, and at the same time, he must conform to the views in Zhu Xi's "Analysis of the Four Books", which are easy to find in "Analysis of the Four Books".

It's just that when writing these eight-strand essays, Wu Fanhui himself felt numb, the troubled times have come, and the pedantic scholars are still shouting what benevolence is in their mouths, can you go to Liaodong and shout benevolence with your mouth, let Houjin put down the butcher's knife, can you shout benevolence in your mouth, and let the peasant rebel army disappear.

are all the views of some fools, and it is these foolish views that determine the attitude of the imperial court to the peasant rebels, so that Emperor Chongzhen finally reaps the consequences.

In the final analysis, Emperor Chongzhen has no real ability, and it's okay to be an ordinary prince and enjoy life, but to be an emperor, it's too far behind.

On the seventh day of the sixth month, the hour of deuteronomy.

Wu Fanhui dragged his tired body and left the tribute courtyard.

At the end of the exam, the Gongyuan will not continue to provide wheat cakes, you need to be responsible for the food in the afternoon, three consecutive days of wheat cakes, Wu Fanhui is sick to the stomach, and the wheat cakes should be accompanied by millet porridge, but think about the famine suffered by various parts of Yan'an Prefecture, think about the homeless people on the road, Wu Fanhui is still embarrassed, it is very good to be able to have wheat cakes to eat.

When he returned to the inn, the shopkeeper was already smiling, and told the guy to make water immediately and let the guest officer wash well, and at the same time instructed the guy that the food in the kitchen had been prepared, and when the guest officer finished washing, he would serve it immediately.

The shopkeeper also specially instructed that the settlement of this meal inn, that is, the meaning of treating, does not need to be paid out of pocket by the guest officer.

There are four dishes brought into the room, a plate of braised beef, a plate of pork belly, a plate of broad beans, a plate of stir-fried vegetables, and a pot of wine, as for pancakes and millet porridge, which are staple dishes.

It seems that the innkeeper is still very real, Wu Fanhui is just a teenager, he can't eat so many dishes, and he is also a person who drinks alcohol, in fact, he can eat enough with this millet porridge and pancakes.

This meal, Wu Fanhui ate very slowly, and also tried to drink two glasses of wine, there is not much problem in passing the government test, the next thing to consider is the hospital test, only by passing the hospital test, and achieving the fame of Xiucai, can it be regarded as taking the first step to enter the court as an official, the township test is the most important level, the patriarch Wu Mianqing once told him that even in Shaanxi, there are thousands of Xiucai who participate in the township test every time, among which there will be no more than 100 Xiucai who can pass the township test and obtain fame. That is, not necessarily one out of ten people will be admitted.

In the examination, even if you can't pass the examination, you can also enter the Guozi Jian to study, and then file in the Ministry of Officials, and wait until after you leave the Guozi Prison, you are sent to the local government to be an official, but it is generally from the county of the eighth grade.

Of course, there are also people who have not entered the Guozijian, and they have always been keen on the examination, and they have to seek the identity of a two-rank jinshi, so the future will be completely different.

Even if it is a third-class jinshi, the expatriates are at least Qipinzhi County, but the quality of the place is not easy to say, the Jinshi in the north, few can be sent to the rich places in the south to serve as the Qipinzhi County, the Jinshi in the south, either pursue to stay in the capital, it is best to be able to enter the Hanlin Academy, and if the qualifications are not enough, they must enter the Sixth Department or the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, or they choose Beizhili and Nanzhili and other places as officials, and they are unwilling to go to other places in the north to be officials.

Wu Fanhui's purpose must be the two lists of Jinshi, as for how to develop in the future, it is a very distant thing, the road can only be taken step by step, when the foundation has not been laid, no matter how much you think about it, it will not have much effect.