The uncle who was missed by Xia Yuan was still concentrating on grinding the ink at this time, and the ink had already been polished, but Xia Ru was still grinding the ink while thinking about how to solve the topic just now.

Unlike Xia Yuan, who started to be in a daze when the article was written, Xia Ru hesitated for a while and didn't know how to write, mainly because he was a little uncertain after seeing the topic.

Inferential.

At a glance at these four words, Xia Ru thought that the source was in Mencius, but he felt that it was wrong.

As for the reason, of course, it must be counted on the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of which, Lao Zhu is also an acting school, scolding Li Si and Han Fei all day long, but the ideas he uses to govern the country are obviously Legalists.

Boasting Confucius and Mencius on his lips, he must be called three generations, but he looks down on these Confucian scholars in his bones.

Even if it is a saint, he doesn't know how to respect it, and he always wants to be a saint.

The reason is that Confucius and Mencius have too much influence in society, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang feel very jealous, but in order to win the hearts of scholars all over the world, he can only talk about respecting Confucius and Mencius all day long.

But in fact, he was actually very unhappy in his heart, these clay statues and tablets carved on wood were even higher than the status of our emperor?

When the cow is herding, it doesn't matter if these saints have a higher status than themselves, and when they become emperors, they have a higher status than us, so isn't our emperor especially in vain?

At the beginning, he was secretly preparing to attack Confucius, for example, he once found an excuse to say that such a thing as sacrifice was strange and troublesome, and Confucius respected it in his heart and did not engage in formalism.

Then he ordered that in the future, only those descendants of Confucius in Qufu were allowed to worship saints, and no more worship was allowed in other places.

This edict was obviously a temptation to see which way the wind was blowing, and if it could be done, he would begin to suppress Confucius's influence step by step.

As a result, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the crowd was indignant, and the music was handed to the palace like raindrops, and Zhu Yuanzhang saw this situation, and did not punish these officials, but reluctantly withdrew the edict.

Then he turned the gun and prepared to attack Mencius, thinking that he could not get a sage, and it would not be bad to get a sage.

At this time, I picked up Mencius and looked at it, and there happened to be a lot of unpleasant and even rebellious remarks in it.

What kind of king regards his ministers as mustard, then the ministers regard him as an enemy, what kills the father, and people also kill their fathers, what thieves are called husbands, and what kings have great faults, they will be admonished, and if they are repeated and do not listen, they will change their positions.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel as if he was pointing his nose and scolding himself, especially the sentence that the monarch had a mistake to admonish, but the monarch did not listen repeatedly, so he simply changed someone to be the emperor.

It made him feel very angry, didn't this clearly instigate the courtiers to depose the emperor?

"If this old man is today, he would rather be spared!"

This is what Zhu Yuanzhang scolded at the time, he only hated that this old miscellaneous hair was not born in the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't let him feel what the iron fist of absolute monarchy was.

However, this can be regarded as an excuse for Lao Zhu, and immediately ordered Yasheng to move and drive him out of the Confucian Temple.

Facts have proved that Mencius is indeed not as difficult as Confucius, with the obstruction of his group of filial sons and virtuous grandchildren, Mencius and his old man did escape, and he can continue to stay in the Confucian temple and eat cold pork,

But at the cost of having one-third of Mencius's writings removed, Mencius is now a castrated version.

In addition, since Zhu Yuanzhang downward, the successive emperors of the Ming Dynasty have not been very interested in Mencius, strictly speaking, as long as he is an emperor, it is difficult to express his admiration for Mencius, who advocates the people's nobility and gentleness.

Therefore, the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty seem to have formed a convention, and there are few, and it can even be said that there are almost no selections from Mencius.

This is the reason why Xia Ru felt uncertain, the first three times he came to take the exam, most of the questions were taken from the Analects, the Mean, or the university, why did a Mencius suddenly pop up this time.

In fact, not only him, but also many other candidates in the entire Gongyuan expressed confusion about this topic.

Mencius?

It doesn't seem right, but there must be a deep meaning.

So there was a strange phenomenon in the entire examination room, nearly eighty percent of the candidates hesitated and did not write, except for those who had no heart and lungs, such as Xia Yuan.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with this question, Confucius Meng, Confucius Meng, the question was either from Confucius, or from Mencius, is there a problem?

After a long time, Xia Ru finally began to write nervously, but like many other candidates, he really didn't dare to use Mencius's original sentence to solve the question, so he had no choice but to find another way.

On the other side, Xia Yuan had already woken up from hunger, looked up at the sky, as if it was afternoon, he reached out and took the test basket and took out the pastries he had brought in advance.

This is the first of the township test, the time is three days and two nights, in addition to the eight shares, there are two more behind, to test the strategy, history, and write poetry.

Although there is a lot of content in the test, but the real decision is the Bagu Wen, the Bagu Wen is beautifully written, as long as the following test items are decent, there is no big mistake, and the examiner will not have any problems.

It's just that the time is too long, you have to take three exams, each of which is three days and two nights, if you don't bring some food, it is likely that candidates will starve to death in the examination room.

The pastry is auspicious, a time-honored brand in Beijing, affordable and delicious, but unfortunately it has long been broken into slag, and it was crushed by those people during the search, and I am afraid of hiding a cheat sheet in the pastry.

After a bunch of pastries and a drink of water, Xia Yuan began to be in a daze again.

My mind is full of one thought, why is it so long?

PS: There will be one shift later, about five or six o'clock in the afternoon.

Then I will say again, please don't keep books, it's very important to follow up on the new book period, so please don't keep books.