Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 167
For the sake of prudence, Huang Daozhou consulted Wen Zhenmeng and others for their opinions.

After all, they are five people comparing with this group of people, not him alone.

The five of them murmured together for a while, then Huang Daozhou turned his head and said in a loud voice: "Why don't we compare calligraphy? You have all come to participate in the test, and you can't write even if you don't know how to write?"

Can I say that we can't write?

Wu Kongjia is so depressed, this guy's mouth is too poisonous.

"Okay!"

The people around are not depressed, they are very happy, and they just want to applaud.

Calligraphy is still very popular these days, because well-written characters seem to be a kind of enjoyment, and the special charm of the characters can often make people feel refreshed.

These ordinary people watching the excitement don't know calligraphy, but it doesn't matter, they just want to see how good calligraphy is written.

Of course, it is not that there is not one person who knows calligraphy among the ordinary people watching the excitement. After all, this is the capital city, a place where humanities gather, and there are still many scholars.

As for how many scholars are watching the fun here, it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter how many merchants specializing in calligraphy and painting are watching the fun here.

Anyway, someone can tell whether the handwriting is good or not, and that's enough.

Wu Kongjia didn't know how well these characters were written, because before the rankings were released, those examiners who cooperated with them in cheating, supervisory censors, and others were still locked up in the Gongyuan and have not been released.

Moreover, they went to find Grandpa Wei after reading the list, and they had never met these people before.

If they knew how good these people's handwriting was, they probably wouldn't dare to compare.

Unfortunately, the ignorant are fearless.

Wu Kongjia thought that among the hundreds of candidates who failed the rankings, there were always a few who could write well, and it would definitely not be a problem to compare these five people.

So, he nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, send someone to write first."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and went to the calligraphy master.

As for himself, his handwriting was not very good.

Because he has devoted all his attention to the title of the gold list, he has never practiced calligraphy at all, and he can only write in the style of pavilions and pavilions, so naturally he dare not show his shame.

Huang Daozhou and others were actually calligraphers, and later generations even called Huang Daozhou, Ni Yuanlu, Wang Duo, Fu Shan, and Zhang Ruitu the five great calligraphers of the late Ming Dynasty!

Fu Shan is Fu Qingzhu. This person was a famous anti-Qing righteous man who fought against the Qing Dynasty from the Shunzhi period to the Qianlong period. From the time point of view, he should be a famous figure in the last few years of the Ming Dynasty. He is probably still a child at this moment.

That is to say, unless Zhang Ruitu, the current Minister of Rites, came out to compare with them, otherwise, Huang Daozhou, Ni Yuanlu and Wang Duo's characters would be invincible, even Wen Zhenmeng could not compare with them!
In fact, Wen Zhenmeng is also a calligrapher, but his reputation in later generations is not as great as them.

The five discussed for a while, and Wen Zhenmeng was still allowed to go first. After all, he is a Huiyuan, and his handwriting is not bad.

Wen Zhenmeng was not too polite, he sat cross-legged in front of a table, adjusted the ink carefully, then took out a blank paper, and started to write smoothly.

He is best at running script, and the pinnacle of running script is "Orchid Pavilion Preface", so what he wrote is "Orchid Pavilion Preface".

Wu Kongjia had just found him, and he had already finished writing a "Lanting Preface" with great eloquence.

Huang Daozhou picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help praising it again and again: "Okay, what a "Lanting Preface", Brother Wen Qi is simply the reincarnation of Wang Youjun!"

Is this word really so good?

The people around couldn't help stretching their necks, wanting to see what the so-called rebirth of Wang Youjun meant.

Seeing this, Huang Daozhou simply blew the "Lanting Preface" written by Wen Zhenmeng, and then found an old man in a Confucian robe in the crowd, handed the "Lanting Preface" to him, and said politely: "Old gentleman, look at it. It is a well-educated person who believes that he should have seen "Lanting Preface", why don't you read it first, and then pass it on to colleagues who are interested."

The old man in the Confucian robe took the "Lanting Preface" and looked at it, he was shocked and said: "Wang Youjun is reincarnated, really Wang Youjun is reincarnated, this word is so well written!"

There is no such thing as copying these days, at most there are engraved copybooks, and Wen Zhenmeng's words are written in front of everyone, so naturally they are not printed copybooks.

Many people with a little knowledge of calligraphy couldn't help stretching out their hands and said, "Let me see, let me see, is it really so good?"

The people who took over all exclaimed loudly and praised again and again, until Wang Youjun came back to life.

At this time, the calligrapher Wu Kongjia found out wrote the first word.

Huang Daozhou craned his neck to look, and couldn't help shaking his head.

This guy can write well, but he doesn't look like a master at all.

Unconvinced, Wu Kongjia took the handwriting written by that person, and handed it to the onlookers to read.

He thinks this person's handwriting is already very good, at least he can't write it.

However, the result was a sigh and a disappointed shake of the head!

Anyone who knows calligraphy can see that the characters written by this man are incomparable with Hui Yuanlang.

Seeing this, Huang Daozhou couldn't help but mocked: "Is it even better?"

It's impossible to admit defeat, I still don't believe it, there can still be a master of calligraphy among the five of you!
Wu Kongjia said shamelessly: "Of course there is more competition, you are five people, you must win three out of five games, and then do it again."

Come and come!
Zodiac Zhou immediately invited Ni Yuanlu, who was second on the apricot list, out.

Ni Yuanlu didn't talk too much, just knelt down in front of the table, took out a blank paper, took a deep breath, and immediately picked up the pen to write.

He is good at running cursive, and he is self-contained and unique.

And to say that among the calligraphers of the former dynasty, the most unique cursive is Su Shi and Su Dongpo among the four great masters of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Ni Yuanlu directly came to a piece of Su Shi's masterpiece "Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post".

After writing this poem, Huang Daozhou picked it up and looked at it, he was stunned and said, "Brother Ruyu, do you want to compare Dongpo Layman?"

Ni Yuanlu's handwriting really surprised Huang Daozhou.

Huang Daozhou thought that his handwriting was good enough, but he never thought that Ni Yuanlu had become a whole by itself!

He marveled for a while, and then passed Ni Yuanlu's "Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post" to those around him who knew calligraphy.

This handed down, immediately attracted a burst of amazement, and some people even couldn't put it down: "Can such a masterpiece be gifted to me as a family heirloom?"

Fuck, you have a good idea.

Many people in the crowd immediately argued with him, and almost tore up the "Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post" written by Ni Yuanlu.

Seeing this, Wu Kongjia's face turned green.

However, it is impossible to give up this competition, he has to bite the bullet and let others win!

Ever since, he asked a calligrapher selected from among the failed students to write a picture.

As can be imagined, the result was a sigh and a disappointed shake of the head.

Seeing this, Huang Daozhou couldn't help but contemptuously said: "Is it even better?"

Wu Kongjia gritted his teeth and said: "Competition, why not compare, as agreed, three out of five rounds."

Okay!

Huang Daozhou sat down cross-legged without hesitation, took out a blank paper, and started writing with a pen.

In fact, he is also good at running script and cursive, but Wen Zhenmeng and Ni Yuanlu have already written both, so he didn't choose these two, he wrote regular script.

Although his regular script is not self-contained, it has already absorbed the strengths of other families. It can be said that his calligraphy has integrated the strengths of Zhong Yao, Wang Xizhi, and Yan Zhenqing, and his skills even surpassed Dong Qichang, a famous calligrapher in the Wanli Dynasty. .

What he wrote was "Bai Juyi's Pipa Xing" written by Dong Qichang.

This piece of "Pipa Xing" was written, which also attracted Wen Zhenmeng and Ni Yuanlu's amazement.

As soon as his words were passed on, there was another burst of looting.

Anyway, they didn't say that they would take this word back, whoever snatched this treasure belonged to it!

When Wu Kongjia saw the fierce looting scene, his expression turned ashen.

He knew that they had lost, lost completely, and he didn't want to admit it!

Seeing this, Huang Daozhou couldn't help pointing at him and said angrily: "You still have the face to say that others are cheating? What kind of virtue do you not know about yourself? Are you right about the right pair, can you write stereotyped essays well? You "Four Books and Five Classics" "I can't even memorize it well. How did you get your fame in the exam? You also cheated in the exam, right? Also, you can't even write well, so you still have the nerve to come to the exam? You are here to shame people, right? "

"puff."

Wu Kongjia was almost spurred by him!

Huang Daozhou was still feeling puzzled, and continued to retort: ​​"You didn't learn anything well, and you still came to take the exam, no wonder you cheated and failed the exam! If you don't go back and study hard, you still think it's not enough to be ashamed, right? By Zhuge Wu In a word, I have never seen such a shameless person like you!"

you!
Wu Kongjia was almost knocked out by him.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Daozhou clasped his hands and said to the people around him: "Fathers and folks, you have also seen that they are all ignorant, so even if they cheat, they will not be able to make the list! Moreover, they are thieves shouting "Stop the thief." I didn’t pass the exam by cheating, so I gathered a crowd to make trouble, slandered others, and tried to confuse the public, if you don’t believe me, you can wait, and there will be a notice soon, announcing their cheating behavior one by one!”

Ah!
Wu Kongjia was so frightened that he fell back paralyzed.

Li Jiantai, Zhang Douyao and the others were already so frightened that their hands and feet went limp at the moment, and they didn't catch it at all.

(End of this chapter)