He has been teaching for more than 20 years, and he is full of peach and plums, and Liu Tingshi of Qiu County is one of his disciples.

In the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty, although Lu Xueru failed to fulfill his life's wish and obtained the highest merit - Jinshi and Di, he also got a fellow Jinshi background.

Lu Xueru was born in a "scholarly family" surnamed Lu in Houliang Village, Qiu County, Central Plains. As soon as he was born, the Lu family trained him according to the model of "scientific examination and official selection".

Since the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty, when Lu Xueru was three years old, his grandfather Lu Wenxing began to teach him to learn the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text".

During the Tang Dynasty, the subjects that scholars liked to participate in were Ming Jing and Jinshi. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", the rulers of ancient dynasties paid attention to using Confucianism to unify people's thoughts, which is one of the important reasons for the popularity of the Ming Classics.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi Department was mainly used as a sign of the examination. In this era of heavy writing, many Jinshi who had not yet been selected by the Ministry of Officials were regarded as future ministers when they wore the clothes of the people.

Jinshike attracts a lot of students to take the exam, which leads to fierce competition and great difficulty. There is a saying that "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi", if you are thirty years old and admitted to the Ming Jing, you are already old, and you are still very young when you are admitted to Jinshi at the age of fifty. It can be seen that the difficulty of the examination of Jinshi is greater than that of Mingjing.

According to the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty, candidates who were qualified to raise people could go to Beijing to take the examination.

If you try to get it, you will be called a jinshi.

In the Jinshi, you can be a righteous official, a part of the outstanding elected to the Hanlin Academy, called the Hanlin, this is the highest "academic title", the general Jinshi can at least be appointed as the prefect, this is the ancient literati for the life goal of the struggle.

And Lu Xueru's father Lu Jianqing is not only studious since he was a child, but also smart, read and read, after reading the books at home, he often walks several miles to borrow books from Qiu County Academy, and his diligence and studious can be seen, it is not difficult to see that he has great ambitions since he was a child, so he is well-read.

When Lu Jianqing was twenty years old, he was admitted to the township examination.

Three years later, he entered the country to study, and was deeply respected and became famous.

For another three years, he was re-examined in the Ministry of Rites and ranked among the best, but because he was scratched by a branch on his face when he was a child when he climbed a tree, leaving a scar, the examiner thought it was indecent, and only gave him the first Dengjin Shi in the second class of the palace examination.

Later, he became famous and was promoted to a bachelor's degree in Hanlin Academy.

During the years when he was in charge of the Hanlin Academy, because of his extraordinary knowledge, he gathered hundreds of schools of thought on governing the country and helping the people, carefully studied them, wrote books and theories, and especially made new insights on governing the country and developing the economy.

Lu Jianqing's achievements are all because he is studious, he lived to learn, resulting in "blindness in his right eye" in his later years, but he "still reads it".

Therefore, when some scholars in the court said that intelligence is only a small factor, as a person who has been able to recite, it also depends on diligence and perseverance; Some praised him for "being well-informed"; Some even think: Lu Jianqing "is not only a big man in the neighboring county, but also a celebrity in the history of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Lu Jianqing has very deep attainments in various fields. It can be described as a Confucian, and in terms of literature, he has the title of "poetry and literature all over the world", but he himself is conceited for being proficient in economics.

Lu Jianqing is not only knowledgeable, but also very commendable in character, and his national thought is infiltrated with the profound spirit of traditional Chinese etiquette and culture. Historians of the Tang Dynasty praised him as "Zhongxing Xianfu" and "Contemporary Confucian". He died in Chang'an at the age of 77.

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And Lu Xueru himself, inherited the inheritance of his ancestors, outstanding talent, in 618 AD, in the township examination to get the examination, obtained the qualification to participate in the examination.

Lu Xueru, who has the world in mind, took three exams, and although his paper was praised by the examiner, he failed to make the list.

Lu Xueru had no choice but to pack some luggage and return north to his hometown.

Lu Xueru entered Lin'an City to take the exam this time, although he failed to make the list, but he had two major gains. First, he met Bole here-Li Chunfeng.

Li Chunfeng ranked first among the more than 1,000 people who were called by the imperial court to answer questions with virtuous subjects. The two discussed current affairs together, talked happily with each other, and became close friends; Second, on the way home, I inspected the current affairs of various places along the way, and I knew the people's feelings clearly, and my knowledge increased greatly.

The spring breeze and autumn rain have been three years, and the former Du Lu Lang is here again.

This time, Lu Xueru was almost admitted.

The same examiner highly recommended his papers, and the examiner also thought that this candidate "has a body of words, not a branch, a smooth line, three shuns, and a good poem." The second game is particularly good", preparing for the top 10 admissions.

However, when the list was revealed, the examiner found that the Central Plains had recorded an extra place, and Lingnan had not yet been filled, so in order to balance, Lu Xueru's Jinshi qualification was withdrawn and made up for Lingnan, and he once again fell to Sun Shan.

Later, in order to appease Lu Xueru, the chief examiner gave him a position of "transcription" and let him enter the team of the Hanlin Academy.

However, the arrogant Lu Xueru was unwilling to take up such a position of copying and writing, and he still had to fight, so he refused.

Another three years later, Lu Xueru took the exam for the third time.

In this exam, Lu Xueru can be said to be handy, and if he writes with divine help, he gives full play to it.

However, the examiner found an obvious typo in his answer sheet: the word "pull" for promotion was written as the word "dial" for pointing.

This time, it was a one-word mistake, also known as Luosun Mountain.

Exactly: "A slight mistake is a thousand miles"!

Jinshi is the "ticket" to be an official in China's feudal society since the imperial examination, and if he can't pass the Jinshi examination, Lu Xueru will lose a sunny road to enter the officialdom.

For this reason, Lu Xueru fell into depression and loss.

Lu Xueru is only eight buckets high, only to suppress the group of Confucianism, and he participated in the examination three times, and his name fell to Sun Shan.

At that time, there was a master in Chang'an City who felt this, looked up to the sky and sighed: The West River flows eastward, although Confucianism has a talent for scholars, but there is no life for scholars. What a pity, what a pity!

If you have not gone through the road of the imperial examination and have not been admitted to the Jinshi, even if you are a high-ranking official, you will be regarded as a non-"right" background and will be looked down upon by your colleagues.

Lu Xueru's three examinations were all named Sun Shan, although he was a scholar who was eloquent and practical and practical to the Ministry of Rites, and later the emperor gave him "the same Jinshi background".

However, he was often ridiculed and ridiculed by officials in the DPRK and China, and even Li Chunfeng, whom he met for the first time in Beijing and regarded as a close friend and Bole, once laughed at him as a "fellow jinshi" after drinking at a party of three or five confidants.

Therefore, Lu Xueru also sneered and disdained those Jinshi and officials who did not have practical learning, and also left a high argument that "lifting people is stronger than Jinshi".

If someone comes to see him and hands him over the title of "Jinshi", he may have to dry it for half a day;

If the name card says "Xiucai" or "Juren", he will not only give priority to receiving him, but may also happily go over to shake hands with him and have a good talk, which is because Lu Xueru sympathizes with them and has a "common language".

Although Lu Xueru failed to fulfill his "Jinshi dream" on the road to the imperial examination, the emperor specially gave him "the same Jinshi background".

Lu Xueru was not used to seeing the ministers of the court and the central government tend to be inflammatory, so he had the idea of not being an official in the court, but being a local parent official, and made it clear to the emperor.

The emperor was allowed to play and was sent by the imperial court to Zhongzhou as the prefect.

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Although he is no longer a high-ranking official in the imperial court, he is a prefect who guards the local parents, and his life is at ease.

Once, two tall and short men came to the yamen to beat drums and complain.

Lu Xueru has served as the prefect of Zhongzhou for more than half a year, and he has not officially sat in the court and tried the case.

So, Lu Xueru put on his official uniform and sat in the hall and ordered: "Pass the drummer up!" ”

As soon as the tall man arrived at the court, he immediately knelt down and said: "The eldest lord is aware that before his death, the father-in-law of Xiaomin Huang Dali made a will and said: "Qin Zefei is not my son, and all the family property is given to the son-in-law, and outsiders shall not encroach on it."

After Lu Xueru saw it, he scolded the short man Qin Zefei loudly.

Qin Zefei immediately knelt down and shouted injustice: "Lord Qingtian is above, my father's will is here, please be aware of it." With that, he took out the will from his bag and presented it.

Lu Xueru took the will, and when he saw it, the will said like this: "Qin Zefei, my son, all the family property is given, and the son-in-law and outsiders are not allowed to encroach on it." ”

Lu Xueru saw it, and suddenly slapped the hall in shock, and as soon as the "pat" sounded, he pointed at Huang and reprimanded: "I put you, Diao Min, and your son-in-law is an outsider, and you are so bold enough to compete for the inheritance, listen to the order left and right, reward him with fifty boards, and pull him out of the court." ”

How did Huang Dali know that he couldn't get the inheritance, and he was also hit by fifty boards, and he really had nowhere to sue.

It turned out that there was a local boss surnamed Qin who gave birth to a boy and a girl. The man's name is Qin Zefei, because he is the boss, and the people in the village often call him the elder. Boss Qin saw that he was getting old, and he was afraid that the belongings he created after his death would fail in the hands of his son, so he told his son all day long about how to make money.

Who knew that although this Qin Zefei had reached the age of establishment, he was not interested in making a fortune, and studied diligently at home from morning to night. Qin Zefei really has a quirk, he took a fancy to the book, no matter how many silver taels he wanted, he had to buy it.

Boss Qin's son-in-law Huang Dali is a cunning and slippery person, and the wealth of Lord Yue's family makes his saliva flow three feet and three feet, so he often compliments his father-in-law in various ways, pretending to be very filial.

A year later, Qin Lao had an incurable disease, seeing that there were not many days left in the world, he was afraid that the family fortune would be lost in the hands of Qin Zefei after death, so he called his son-in-law and son to the bedside and said to them: "Fei'er, although you are my son, you are not successful; Son-in-law Ali is filial and obedient, although he is not his own, he is also half of his son. When I die, all my possessions will be given to Ali. If you read your book, don't fight with your brother-in-law for my possessions. ”

Qin Lao was afraid that after death, the two of them quarreled. When it comes to family rules, the son-in-law may be unreasonable, so he asks the son-in-law to bring a pen and inkstone and let the son record it by hand.

Qin Lao said: "Qin Ze is not my son, all the family property is given to the son-in-law, and outsiders are not allowed to encroach on it." Parental will. ”

A few quarters of an hour later, Zhang Lao swallowed.

After the funeral, Huang Dali invited a large trailer to transport away the family property left by his father-in-law.

Qin Zefei said politely: "Brother-in-law, the father and the son repay the debt; Father's business is inherited by children, this is a matter of course, and it has always been so. Don't be so brutal. ”

Huang Dali became angry when he heard this, and said loudly: "When Uncle Yue was dying, he had words to instruct and set up words as evidence. That's when I said you were brutal. After saying that, he scolded loudly.

Qin Zefei whispered: "Brother-in-law, you and I quarreled with each other, and there was no result in the quarrel, so let's go to the state government and ask the prefect to judge." ”

After hearing this, Huang Dali said confidently: "Go and go, with a will as a basis, are you afraid that you can't do it?!" ”

So, there is the scene that happened earlier.

Afterwards, Lu Xueru found that Qin Zefei added punctuation as he wished when recording his father's will.

Lu Xueru personally experienced the trial of this single public case, and couldn't help but sigh: I think of me Lu Xueru, who has read poetry and books all my life, has excellent knowledge, is a person, and is also an important minister of the imperial court.