Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2180, Transfer to a new school
"Master, master!"

"The young master is calling, it's high school, it's high school!"

"Madam, the young master is in high school!"

"It's high school!"

Along with the telephone communication in all directions of Ming Dynasty, the situation of the scientific research in the capital was also transmitted to all directions at the fastest speed. In all parts of Daming, wherever the good news was received, firecrackers blared and gongs and drums blared.

Some families are well-to-do and rich, then they will start to set up running water seats, invite troupes to sing big plays, and if they can pass the high school exam, they will be sure officials and lords in the future, and they will still have the opportunity to become the pillar of the country in the future. , of the humerus of the Son of Heaven.

This status is completely different, and it is not completely unreasonable for the carp to leap over the dragon's gate.

Here in the Gongyuan, the people who saw their titles on the gold list were happily throwing money, and the people who came to join in the fun to grab the happy money were happily grabbing the happy money.

Only those students who have lost their names in Sun Shan have no smiles on their faces at this moment, only endless loss, and at the same time cast envious and jealous eyes on those high school fellows, classmates, and friends around them.

More than 5 people came to participate in the examination, and only a little more than 700 people could go to high school, which means that the vast majority of people will fail. After all, those who can go to high school are a minority, and most people can only envy others.

The book boys and servants of Sun Yun and Chen Maoyi carefully checked the names on the gold list, but they couldn't find their names, so they came back slowly.

No need for the two of them to say anything, Sun Yun and Chen Maoyi already knew the ending, because when the officials sent the yamen servants to read the list just now, they were listening attentively, but they never heard their own names.

The two looked at each other, and they both saw endless loneliness in each other's eyes. They came to the capital to take the imperial examination several times, and each time they came with confidence and high spirits, and finally returned with disappointment.

Three years and three years later, both of them were in their 40s in a blink of an eye, and they were about to hit the fifth grade, but they still didn't have a high school. On the contrary, this Hu Xiwen, who was young, passed the provincial examination last year, and will take the high school examination this year. No.2, this is destined to have a bright future.

There is really no way to compare people, and you can't compare them.

Some people have not been admitted to Juren for a lifetime, and even if they have passed the exam, they have not been admitted to Jinshi for the rest of their life. However, some people have passed the provincial and general exams once, and they already have it at a young age. It is something that others struggle for a lifetime and cannot get.

"Ugh!"

Chen Maoyi took a deep breath.

"Brother Chen, don't be discouraged, we will fight again in three years!"

Sun Yun quickly comforted him.

"No, I won't come to take the imperial examination again in the future."

Chen Maoyi thought for a while and said.

"Brother Chen, why do you say such angry words? You and I have only participated in a few times. It is normal to fail. Many people participated in five or six times, and only after seven or eight times did they graduate from high school."

As soon as Sun Yun heard it, he felt that Chen Maoyi was speaking in anger.

"I'm not talking angry anymore."

"You and I are both in our 40s. We started taking the imperial examinations when we were in our teens, and we didn't pass the Juren until we were in our 30s. It took more than ten years for the general examinations, but we still failed repeatedly. .”

"Are we going to spend all of our lives on this?"

"What's the point of that?"

"Even if we come back to high school and become officials, we are already in our 60s and [-]s. How many years can we live?"

"We are all in our 40s, how much time do we have left?"

"I think I should be doing something I like."

Chen Maoyi shook his head and said: "You must be like Brother Hu in the Jinshi exam. It is meaningful to go to high school at a young age. Because you are young, you can make a lot of achievements."

"I'm too old, I still don't die on it."

"But, brother Chen, if we scholars, if we don't take the imperial examination, we can only become petty officials. Are you willing to be a seventh-rank county magistrate for the rest of your life?"

Sun Yun still didn't understand what Chen Maoyi meant, thinking that Chen Maoyi was going to register with the court official department as a petty official.

Juren can also be an official, usually starting from a small official of the eighth or seventh rank, basically staying at this level for a lifetime, and it is difficult to improve.

In the Ming Dynasty, if you really wanted to be a high-ranking official, you had to be admitted to the Imperial Academy to have the opportunity to be a high-ranking official. As long as the ranking in the imperial examination was close, you would basically be able to make a fortune in the future.

"Brother Sun, what I mean is that I am going to take the imperial examination, and I am not going to be an official anymore."

"I'm going to do something that I really enjoy doing."

Chen Maoyi said with a smile.

"What do you really like to do?"

Sun Yun was puzzled.

"Yes!"

"In the past, like many people, I felt that new learning was heresy, miscellaneous, and not in the mainstream, so I never learned the knowledge and content of new learning."

"Until the last two months, I have learned new knowledge, which is actually broad and profound, and also very interesting knowledge. I found that I fell in love with the new knowledge and content all at once."

"When I read the Four Books and Five Classics, I feel very tired. That's not what I like to study."

"I find it very easy to study new studies, and I can always make new discoveries. The feeling of exploring the laws of nature and discovering new things makes me very interesting and interesting."

"So I decided to learn new things in the future."

Chen Maoyi said with a smile.

After thinking about this clearly, and making up his mind, after deciding on the path he would take in the future, he suddenly found that whether he was in high school or not had no effect on him.

I didn't feel sad because I failed the ranking, on the contrary, I felt a kind of relief.

Freed from the cage of the imperial examinations, freed from that bondage, and able to do what you like wholeheartedly, to study some things you like.

Although it was only a short period of 2 months, Chen Maoyi was deeply attracted by the variety and variety of the new learning, especially in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Many of the problems mentioned above were very interesting. Chen Maoyi felt that his life had ushered in a new beginning.

"Transfer to a new school?"

Sun Yun people are all stupid.

Since ancient times, only those who read sage books are the most noble.

Those who are new students are not in the top class, and they can't get a job and become an official or something.

Where can one's status be compared with those of them who read sage books.

Chen Maoyi, who is so good at raising people, did not take the Jinshi examination seriously, but said that he would transfer to a new school, which is really surprising.

You must know that there are countless scholars in Daming who dream of being admitted to Juren. If you can come to take the exam, you are lucky, you just failed the exam a few times, and you don’t want to take the exam, and you have to transfer to a new school.

"Brother Chen, maybe it's a big blow to you this time. After all, Brother Hu passed the exam at a young age, and I'm already in my 40s."

"To be honest, I also feel very unbalanced and unfair in my heart, but people like Brother Hu are still a minority after all. Most people are like you and me, and they are still fighting here at the age of 40 or [-]."

"After going back this time, let's take a good rest and rest, and then study hard again. After three years, we may not be able to be as proud as Brother Hu today."

Sun Yun comforted Chen Maoyi, thinking that he must have suffered a huge blow this time.

To be honest, it must be very uncomfortable in my heart.

The two of us have worked hard all the way, from our teens to our 40s, almost 30 years, but this Hu Xiwen, just now, he has already finished his journey, everyone wants to finish it in their dreams way.

It still happened by my side.

Along the way, although everyone is very different in age, they are all called brothers, chatting with each other, talking about life ideals, pointing out the country, and scolding Fang Qiu.

But until now, looking at Hu Xiwen's title on the gold list, he is proud of himself, and he has a bright future in the future, but he has failed the list again.

The hurt and blow in this heart is very huge.

After that, I still need to hold those broken books and get stuck in it, but Hu Xiwen, he will be different in the future. In the next palace test, according to this trend, Hu Xiwen is very likely to be able to rank very high .

At that time, you will directly enter the Hanlin Academy, and after a few years of study in the Imperial Academy, you can be sent to a local area and start directly as a state official, and you will be promoted very quickly in the future.

Maybe at the age of 40 or [-], he is already a high-ranking minister, and it is also possible to become the emperor's humerus, cabinet minister, and six ministers.

Such a huge contrast happened to me and the people around me, and the blow was very heavy.

"Brother Sun, I'm not joking."

"It's a very serious decision on the path I will take in the future."

"Actually, I have been thinking about the meaning of life all the time. I wonder if I will spend my whole life like this?"

"Now I finally figured it out, the meaning of life is to do something that I like to do and feel meaningful."

"In the past, I was always confused. In fact, I didn't like to read the Four Books and Five Classics. I thought it was meaningless, but it was the request of my family, so I kept reading."

"Until I came into contact with the new content, I suddenly felt as if I had discovered a new world. I found it very exciting and very interesting."

"I'm in my 40s now, and I've come a long way in my life, and I'm going to do some things I like in the rest of my life."

"Brother Sun, I'm leaving first. I'm going to study a new school, and I'll go to the new university when the time comes."

Chen Maoyi finished speaking with a smile on his face, and then left directly.

At this moment, outside the entire gate of the Gongyuan, countless people who failed the rankings like Chen Maoyi and Sun Yun were thinking about the meaning of life.

(End of this chapter)