Prime Minister

Chapter 310 Qing Pine
"The entry of Zhang Duzhi?"

In the Daxiangguo Temple, Wang Kui trembled with anger when he saw this, and said, "He also competed with me for the department. Why did he fight with me? Why didn't he let me go?"

Wang Kui's face was pale, he didn't tell He Qi what was in his stomach, but asked: "Then where did Brother He get Zhang Duzhi's entry?"

He Qidao: "I heard that Zhang Duzhi entrusted the owner of the bookstore to bind the articles. The owner of the bookstore saw that there are rare goods to live in, so he agreed to print them for free, and let him sell them in the market."

Wang Kui changed his face and said: "It's clearly for selfish profit, but also to tell the boss of the bookstore."

He Qidao: "Brother Junmin, Zhang Duzhi has come to compete with you for virtue, what should you do?"

Wang Kui said: "What else can I do? You are dying. I can't take a step back now. You also know that if I can't enter the virtuous department, then..."

He Qidao: "I know, no matter what, I will do my best to help you."

Wang Kui said: "For the current plan, I will definitely criticize one of the chapters as useless. Let him stop the idea of ​​​​restricting subjects."

He Qi smiled and said, "This is also my intention."

After Wang Kui knew that Zhang Yue had also gone to the department, especially after he went to the department with him, his heart collapsed.

After Wang Kui picked up Zhang Yue's book, read a few pages, he was overjoyed and said, "However, it's not as good as the palace examination. It's really not as good as it is every day, and God is helping me."

He Qi smiled and said: "I also think so. It is said that the higher you stand, the harder you fall. In order to enter the examination, Zhang Duzhi postponed the major examination, which caused a heated discussion among the scholars. The rules are in the bottom of my eyes, and now this matter has seriously frustrated his spirit."

Wang Kui smiled and said, "Brother He is really my Kong Ming."

He Qi said with a smile: "Kong Ming dare not be, as long as he can do a little bit of hard work for Brother Junmin."

Wang Kui flipped through it a little more, but felt that the article was not as elegant and meaningful as the articles in the Zhang Yue Palace Examination.

Wang Kui said: "Brother He, you go back first, I want to correct the mistakes in Zhang Duzhi's article, criticize it harshly, and dispel my bad temper. Then I will ask Brother He to publicize it for me."

He Qi still wanted to persuade Wang Kui to focus on his own imperial examination.

He Qidao: "Brother Junmin, you don't have to pay too much attention to this effort. What if it delays your preparation for the exam."

Wang Kui smiled confidently: "I've been studying hard for more than a month, and it's really not short of two or three days. Thank you, Brother He, for your kindness."

After speaking, Wang Kui looked impatiently at Zhang Yuejin.

It would be useless for He Qizhi to persuade him any more, but he was also happy to see Wang Kui criticize Zhang Yue.

"Brother Junmin, just save it." He Qi immediately stood up and said goodbye.

Wang Kui has already picked up a pen to write about the shortcomings of the article. He does have talent in his heart. If he really wants to pick on other people's articles, he thinks he won't be so bad.

It just takes a lot of work.

Inside Taiping Xingguo Temple.

The ancient temple is quiet, except for the morning bell and evening drum, only the sound of birds.

In a pine forest, a white-robed scholar sits on a straw mat in the pine forest gap and reads.

A few squirrels hopped up and down the branches with pine cones in their hands, and one of them accidentally dropped a pine cone and hit the person who was kneeling and holding a book reading under the pine tree.

The other party was completely immersed in the sea of ​​books, and couldn't help but pause for smashing the pine cone.

The man picked up the pine cones from the ground and looked up at the branches, not afraid of squirrels.

The other party couldn't help smiling, and shot the pine cone into the pine forest.

The man put down the scroll, took a bottle of drinking water and looked at the white clouds in the distance in the blue sky. He couldn't help getting up and pacing and saying, "I have practiced so that my body looks like a crane, and there are two scriptures under a thousand pine trees. I come to ask and I have nothing to say. The clouds are in the blue sky and the water." In the bottle."

"Choose to live in a secluded place and enjoy the wildness, and there is no sending or welcoming all year round. Sometimes it goes straight to the top of a lonely peak, and there is a whistling sound under the moonlight."

After drinking the water, the other party praised the well water in the temple, and then raised his sleeve and wiped his lips to continue reading.

This scholar is Zhang Yue.

Reading in the temple, he naturally does not know the years, and eliminates the noise of the mundane.Anyway, on the day of the exam, someone will pick me up.

This day Han Zhongyan is also at home.

Zhang Yue entered the paper for Han Qi, and he read it first.After he read Zhang Yue's article, he flicked the words: "It's not as good as before. Is it the end of the world? I'd better show it to my father."

When Han Zhongyan arrived at the door, he saw that Han Qi was discussing business matters with Ouyang Xiu, so he couldn't advance or retreat for a while.Han Zhongyan is fearless, but when he sees his father, he can't help but restrain himself.

When Han Qi saw Han Zhongyan, he poked his head around the door and shouted, "What are you looking for, come in."

Han Qi said to Ouyang Xiu: "The dog just can't get on the stage, which makes Ougong laugh."

Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "My husband said so, but I'm afraid that your son will get married in the future, so why don't you reprimand him face to face?"

Han Qi laughed and said, "Why do you worry about it? Even if you are 80 years old, you will still be my son, so why don't you train me?"

After finishing speaking, Han Qi pressed his knees and said to Han Zhongyan, "Why are you here?"

Han Zhongyan immediately presented Zhang Yue's scroll and said, "Father, this is Zhang Duzhi's scroll."

Han Qi took it, and asked Ouyang Xiu casually: "It can be said that I have been waiting for a long time, has Ougong seen it?"

Ouyang Xiu shook his head and said, "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm going to succeed my husband."

Han Qi smiled and said, "Ou Gong doesn't have the time to spare, so let me feast my eyes first."

Speaking of which, Han Qi held the scroll and read Zhang Yue's entry in front of Ouyang Xiu. Halfway through reading it, Han Qi covered the scroll and paced back and forth in the room.

Ouyang Xiu held the book and read it.

In fact, he had read Zhang Yue's entry book before, but because he was too busy with business, he didn't read it briefly. Now that he reads it carefully, he thinks it is a good article, but compared to the two articles in the palace examination, the king's connection with heaven, earth, man and water are less than Taoism. Much inferior.

But in general terms, the whole article is even more strict.

Fifty articles are like one article, and they are completed in one go from beginning to end.Unlike other examinees, the east and the west seem to be pieced together and scattered.

Although Ouyang Xiu's heart is more inclined to Ersu's style of writing, Zhang Yue's entry also has his own unique features.

"What do you think, Mr. Xiang?"

Han Qi said: "When I was young, reading was like looking at the moon through a gap; when I was middle-aged, reading was like looking at the moon in the garden; now reading is like playing with the moon on the stage. Most of the books have long been out of reach, but this sub-article can still be read. Observable."

Ouyang Xiu heard Han Qi's well-behaved words, and seemed to think that Zhang Yue's writing was ordinary.

Ouyang Xiu and Han Qi said a few more words before leaving.

Seeing Han Zhongyan nearby, Han Qi didn't know whether to come forward, so he called him to come closer.

"How are you and Zhang Duzhi doing?"

"We are classmates in Taixue, and we have the friendship of the same year."

"I'm asking about your personal relationship."

For fear of offending his father, Han Zhongyan said, "It's not a casual acquaintance."

Han Qi nodded and said: "I know that you go to and from the Goulan House on weekdays, and meet some friends who drink and eat, that's all. If you make friends carelessly, you will make friends carelessly. My Han family has never been short of money, so I let you squander it, so I usually Never cared about how you made friends."

"But there is one thing you need to keep in mind. If your friend is not as good as you, see if he listens to you. If your friend is worse than you, learn from it."

When Han Zhongyan heard Han Qi say that he had made friends with Goulan Washe, he was unhappy at first, but when he told him the next sentence, it seemed that there was some deep meaning in it.

Didn't it mean that if three people walk together, there must be my teacher?

However, Han Qi is usually busy with political affairs, so he seldom confesses his way of self-cultivation and handling affairs in person.

After Han Zhongyan pondered carefully, just now his father told Ouyang Xiu that Zhang Yue's writing was ordinary, so why did he explain it to Ouyang Xiu so that he could learn from it.

Han Zhongyan said: "My child will remember."

Han Qi signaled Han Zhongyan to back down.

Han Qi paced in the hall, picked up Zhang Yue's volume from the case, and read it carefully.

The servants came to invite him to dinner, but Han Qi chased him away.

When Han Qi finally read the last page of Bi Zhangyuejin's volume, he closed his eyes and thought for a moment: "It's a pity that Fan Wenzheng is not alive. If he reads your article, I don't know how much joy he will have..."

Saying this, Han Qi lost his voice.

After Zhang Yuejin's volume was sold, it attracted people in Bianjing to snap up it.

Needless to say, the title of Duke Zhuangyuan is admired by scholars all over the world, and some people say that Zhang Yue won the title and wants to win the imperial title again (Zhike No. 1).

So as soon as his book was published, Bianjing Zhigui was immediately aroused.

But ordinary people are fighting for nothing, many of them are boudoir women, and even the women in the Goulan are rushing to buy Zhang Yue's articles.

This is a big surprise to the boss who sells books.

He didn't understand why Bianjing's daughter's family also went for the imperial examination?Can they understand the champion essay?Such a thing is simply unheard of.

Therefore, in front of the book stall, the storekeeper saw a group of women entering and opened their mouths and asked, "Does my Zhang Lang sell books?"

"Sold, sold."

"Take ten books."

"Miss, you people can't read so much, five books are enough."

"Why do you do business like this? Are you not allowed to buy more for your sisters?"

A scholar at the side smelled the thick smell of makeup and powder beside him, and immediately shook his head and said, "It's not proper, so it's okay not to read the book."

After speaking, the scholar left in a hurry.

Seeing this, many scholars who lined up behind the book shop also left.

Even so, the store put up the sold out sign early, which caused people to almost make trouble in front of the store.

However, the owner of the bookstore is also a shrewd person, the engraving block of the engraved book is still there, and he just needs to reuse it, so he rushed to reprint it overnight.

Although this book was popular in Bianjing for a while, it was not well received by scholars, and the response was mediocre.

There is even a saying that the number one scholar would rather let the officials postpone the registration date to write an article, is this what it looks like?
Anyway, it's a tone of 'that's it'.

If there is a certain scoring system in this era, before Zhang Yue wrote the book, probably scholars would give him eight or nine points, and many of them were entirely based on the face of the champion.

But as more and more people bought books, the score gradually decreased, from nine points to eight points, and then from eight points to six points.

Many people have even questioned and criticized that these papers are not as good as the Zhangyue Palace Examination Provincial Examination Articles, and the Three Biography Submissions to the Son of Heaven.

Anyway, it's not a champion article. For most people, the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

In the end, there was an idle book circulating on the streets of Bianjing, criticizing Zhang Yue's entry from beginning to end to nothing.

Ps: There are two kinds of opinions about whether Su Shi deserves to be a virtuous founder or a talented and talented person. This article takes the latter.

(End of this chapter)