Zhao Han knew the development of literature in the Ming Dynasty roughly, because the teacher of the professional course had roughly talked about it.

In the past three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has experienced a total of three literary retro movements.

At this moment, the second retro movement has long ended, and the third retro movement is still in its infancy.

Between the two vintages, there was the rise and fall of Romantic literature.

During the Wanli period, the government was corrupt and there were many social contradictions. The publication of "Book Burning" (Li Zhen), which contained a large number of heretical ideas, laid the cornerstone of romantic literary thought.

Immediately, the three public security Yuan were born, and popular literature also blossomed, opening the most wonderful chapter of Ming Dynasty literature.

At that time, there were three kinds of popular literature: public security literature, erotic novels, and satirical literature.

A large number of small yellow texts in the Ming Dynasty were mostly produced during this period.

Two of the three public security officers died, and Yuan Zhongdao, the only surviving fruit, suddenly self-denied and corrected. He abandoned the path of retroism and returned to the road (true feelings), and seriously fell into the retro school (Wei Li hypocrisy), and the romantic literary trend came to an abrupt end.

As a result, the Jingling faction was born.

While absorbing the sexual spiritualism of the Gong'an faction, the Jingling faction emphasized the genre of classical poetry.

Between the two, it is difficult to reconcile, resulting in the poetry of the late Ming Dynasty full of ghostly fun, striving for obscurity and treachery, strange words and dangerous rhymes, and has completely entered the evil way.

The same is true for articles, scholars like to study the ancient Qin and Han texts, but do not absorb the essence of the Qin and Han ancient texts. On the contrary, he is keen on obscurity and treachery, and especially likes to use rare words.

In the early years of Chongzhen, the green and yellow were not connected, and they belonged to the most withered era of the Ming Dynasty!

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The boat docked in Shitang Town, Fei Yinghuan held the "Eight Great Families of the Tang and Song Dynasty Bills", and he had lost the interest of visiting friends, and just wanted to stay on the boat and continue to read the article.

"Young master, it's here." Wei Jianxiong reminded.

Fei Yinghuan had no choice but to walk with the book in his hand, wandering back to taste the true interest of ancient texts, and his mind was full of "Morning news, death at night is enough".

Zhao Han followed behind, stunned at the moment, thinking: How many super towns are there in Leadshan County?

Shitang Town, the largest paper industry center in the country in the Ming Dynasty!

In this town alone, more than 10 million pieces of paper are made every year, of which more than 300,000 pieces of paper are tribute, which are specially used as paper for the recitals of court officials.

There are tens of thousands of paper-making workers in the town, and at this time, the population of the entire Leadshan County is only more than 10,000.

After coming to the luxurious mansion outside the town and handing over the name post, Menzi immediately took them to the meeting room.

"Brother Jokhang, which gust of wind blew you here?" Fei Zhaojia walked out of the courtyard to greet him.

Fei Yinghuan said: "Dog boy, come to you by the way." ”

Fei Zhaojia is Fei Yinghuan's clan brother, and he is not from the Henglin Lord's Sect, and the characters of the two branches are not matched.

Shitang Fei is also very powerful, mainly engaged in the papermaking business, and Fei Zhaojia's family has thousands of papermaking workers.

After a few words of greeting, Fei Yinghuan couldn't wait to say: "Brother Xian, read this book." ”

Fei Zhaojia is also quite famous, but unfortunately he is just a showman. He looked at the cover, then shook his head and said, "I have read this book, and it is not very helpful for the imperial examination article." ”

Fei Yinghuan thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's true." ”

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, every sentence of the Four Books and Five Classics had been repeatedly tested, and it was impossible to write new tricks.

Then you can only blindly ask for blame, and the more strange it is, the more it can attract the marking officer.

If you can use rare words, you will resolutely not write commonly used words.

There are many ways to write a word, so let's pick the complex ones to write.

And the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties are all sincere, and their words and sentences are relatively straightforward. This style of writing is difficult to imitate, if you don't have a deep foundation, if you don't have rich experience, it is easy to write mediocre and shallow.

The imperial examination articles were most afraid of mediocrity, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars simply did not read the Eight Masters.

To be precise, the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties were eliminated by the imperial examination......

Suddenly, Fei Yinghuan shook his head again and said, "The township test is like this, but the meeting test is not true." ”

"Maybe," Fei Zhaojia smiled bitterly, "I haven't passed the township test, and I don't dare to imitate the eight masters." ”

The full set of imperial examination process, the township examination can be called the most difficult, especially in Zhejiang and Jiangxi!

Zhejiang, Jiangxi scholars, if there is no outstanding talent, with the style of the eight masters to take the township test, it is undoubtedly self-defeating.

The national examination is different, there is no need to deliberately seek blame and innovation, and it is a good article to be able to explain the truth clearly.

Fei Yinghuan stood with his hands in his hands: "I should cultivate the eight masters, and then go to the capital to take the exam in two years!" ”

"I wish you the title of the gold list." Fei Zhaojia smiled.

……

said that Xu Ying walked out of the examination room, and it was already afternoon.

Feng Zhixian was not there at the time, and the master favored Xu Ying, but he couldn't make the decision to admit him, so he only said that he would definitely help recommend it.

It should have been examined, the county exam is not difficult, and it is useless to be admitted, but the really difficult ones are the prefectural exam and the road exam (that is, the college exam).

If you pass the government examination, you can be a child.

If you pass the test, you can be a showman.

Xu Ying couldn't find her friends outside the examination room, so she walked home along the lead mountain river, and it was estimated that she would have to walk until midnight to arrive.

While walking, while recalling the article, the more Xu Ying thought about it, the more excited she became.

His "Zi Said" broke the topic: The words of the sage, the thousand years of education, the gentleman to self-cultivation to govern the country and level the world.

After seeing it, the master asked happily, "How many years has it been enlightened?" ”

Xu Ying replied honestly: "The kid's family is poor, and his enlightenment is late, only two years, and "Mencius" has not yet been learned. Fortunately, both questions today are from the Analects. ”

"It only takes two years of literacy to make such an article?" The master became more and more surprised.

Xu Ying was proud and shy, and replied: "My mother knows some words, and before enlightenment, I was able to write more than 200 words. ”

Seeing Xu Ying dressed shabby, the master couldn't help but think of his childhood, and praised and encouraged: "A good student studying, don't live up to Lingtang's expectations." With your wisdom and wisdom, he will one day be able to come to the court and pay homage to him. ”

"Sir, I praised it." Xu Ying's heart was like eating honey.

The master watched Xu Ying leave the examination room, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, the imperial examination is not just a matter of talent. He also had the name of a prodigy back then, but he was still a talent after half his life, but Feng Xun became a magistrate with a straw bag.

Walking happily along the river, Xu Ying dreamed of her gold list title, and then built a big mansion for her parents to enjoy.

As she walked, Xu Ying became worried again, looking at the seedlings along the way.

From the beginning of spring to the present, there has been no serious rain, and today's exam is only a little sprinkled, and even the clothes cannot be completely wet.

Fortunately, there is heavy snow in winter, and the melting of the snow can replenish the water, otherwise this spring's seedlings will not be able to bear it at all.

I hope there will be a few spring rains, if there is another month of such a drought, I am afraid that my family will not be able to pay the rent again this year.

Poor children always think more, like Fei Ruhe, who only knows how to play.

……

After staying at Fei's house in Shitang for two days, Fei Yinghuan finally took a boat home.

Zhao Han pointed to the countless paper mills under the mountain and asked, "Childe, is our paper mill also so big?" ”

"It's still called Childe, not Daddy?" Fei Yinghuan asked with a smile.

Zhao Han said: "Respect in the heart, not in the mouth." ”

"Slippery head," Fei Yinghuan said with a smile, "Our paper mill is not as prosperous as Shitang." There are only two or three hundred workers in total, which is like the paper mill in Shitang, where there are hundreds or thousands of people at every turn? Moreover, the paper is not good, and it is impossible to make a tribute paper, so I have sent people to steal the teacher several times but have not learned. ”

The workers in the paper mill are all hired laborers, also known as hired slaves, and the deeds are in the hands of the employer, and you can't dig people if you want to spend money.

Moreover, the process of Shitang Songben paper is complex, from picking materials to selling paper, the production period is as long as one year, and it is not easy to dig people and steal teachers.

"Daddy, the wine is here." The wine spirit came over with a flask.

Fei Yinghuan took the wine jug and blew it on his mouth, poured a sip and said, "Ling Zun was really a person when he was alive? ”

Zhao Han replied: "It's true. ”

"Aren't you from any big family?" Fei Yinghuan said suspiciously.

"It's just an ordinary Confucian household." Zhao Han said.

Fei Yinghuan became more and more confused in his heart: "In addition to the Eight Masters and Fan Wenzhenggong, who else have you studied?" ”

Zhao Han said ambiguously: "I have learned a lot, but I can't remember it clearly, and I can't memorize it." ”

"Bring pen and paper!" Fei Yinghuan suddenly shouted.

The heart of the piano and the gall of the sword immediately came over with the four treasures of the study.

Fei Yinghuan said: "What good articles have you read, and write an entry. ”

Zhao Han thought carefully for a moment, didn't bother to think about it anymore, and simply wrote down the table of contents of "Guwen Guan Zhi" from memory.

There must be some articles that I have forgotten, but half of them should still be remembered, after all, it is just to write the title, and it is not for him to write the full text silently.

Fei Yinghuan lay on the side and watched, at the beginning they were all pre-Qin articles, most of the articles he had read - it was so weird and abnormal, Fei Yinghuan did not read the prose of the Tang and Song dynasties, but he was very familiar with the ancient texts of the pre-Qin Dynasty.

Writing and writing, Fei Yinghuan suddenly said: "I don't need the ancient texts of the Qin and Han dynasties, I have studied them carefully, and you have started writing from the Wei and Jin dynasties." ”

Zhao Han immediately changed lines, and Fei Yinghuan was looking forward to it.

"Presentation Table", read.

"Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface", read.

"Words of Return", read.

has been writing until "Beishan Shifting Texts", and in more than ten articles since then, Fei Yinghuan found that he only knew one or two.

Du Mu's "A Fang Gongfu", such a famous article, Fei Yinghuan has never heard of it!

Du Mu is not a person from the Tang Dynasty.

Most of the retro schools despise the late Tang Dynasty (except for the late Tang faction), not to mention the ancient texts of the late Tang Dynasty, and even the poetry of the late Tang Dynasty is rarely read.

Zhao Han just wrote with his head bored, and wrote hundreds of articles in a blink of an eye. He mostly forgot the content, but he remembered a lot of the title of the article, so he threw it to Fei Yinghuan to read it slowly.

Fei Yinghuan's expression became more and more frightened, and he turned his gaze from the paper to Zhao Han, as if he was observing a monster.

How can a child who has read so many articles be just an ordinary Confucian family?

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no "Ancient Literature and Views".

Fei Ruhe, Fei Chun, Qin Xin, Jian Guts, and Jiu Spirit, all standing next to them at the moment were dumbfounded, they ...... Almost none of them have been read.

Brother is awesome!