Daming talker

Chapter 145

In the entire imperial examination level, the government examination is not high.The examination procedure of the government examination is similar to that of the county examination, and there is no essential difference.

Because the prefecture and county are in the same city, the examination room for the Suzhou prefectural examination and the Wuxian county examination are the same, but the examiner has changed from the magistrate to the magistrate.

Sitting in this examination room again, 12-year-old Feng Menglong felt that he was already an old examinee.

Compared with the nervousness during the county test last time, Xiao Feng Menglong's mood has relaxed a lot this time.

In particular, he was reassigned to the auspicious seat number "B 29", which made him feel at ease.

He was in this position last time and passed the county test.

Until a huge shadow appeared out of thin air and enveloped him.

Xiao Feng Menglong raised his head and looked to the side, only to see the man named Lin Tailai smiled at him, and said pleasantly: "What a coincidence, your seat number and mine are the same as last time."

For low-level exams like the County Examination, the questions are not weird. They are usually complete sentences, not intercepted questions.

The title of the government's trial this time is "The Gentleman's Disease is Dead and His Name Is Unknown".

After the exam started, Lin Tailai borrowed the original text from Feng Menglong who was next to him, and then began to write the article.

The county examination does not test policy theory, and the articles written are commonly known as stereotyped essays.

Stereotyped essay can be regarded as an article genre with a fixed format, and the structure of the full text is subdivided into several parts.

Moreover, the content must be spoken in the voice of a saint, and the meaning cannot exceed the scope of Cheng and Zhu's annotations.

In addition, there are many detailed requirements, and there are so many rules and regulations that people who are not intensively studying stereotyped essays do not understand at all.

Take the most important opening question as an example. Don’t look at the part that breaks the question before Wanli, there are only three or four sentences, and after Wanli, there are only two short sentences, but the rules are also very complicated.

Breaking the title of two sentences with the upper text is called connecting, and the language intruding into the lower text is called committing a crime; if the meaning of the title is not completely broken, it is called missing the title.

The names of the so-called sages, sages, Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Zhou Wenwang, and Zhou Wuwang cannot appear in the title, nor can the names of birds, beasts, vegetation, and utensils be used.

To break the title of the two sentences, you can't use virtual words such as "ye, yan, just" in the previous sentence, and you can use it in the next sentence, otherwise the style will be unreasonable.

If one of the above mistakes is made, the test paper will be judged as unqualified.

There are so many rules in just two sentences to solve the problem, and the rules and regulations of the whole stereotyped essay can be imagined.

So it's not that smart people can't write stereotyped essays well. Smart people like Wang Yangming, Tang Yin, Tang Shunzhi, and Zhang Juzheng are all masters of stereotyped essays.

But smart people whose brain waves don't match can't write stereotyped essays well. Such people write articles wantonly, without adding points, and can't stand the constraints of rules and regulations.

For example, Wen Zhengming and Gui Youguang, two crouching dragons and phoenixes, often ended up in the street every time they took the eight-legged essay test.

Aiming at the title of "A Gentleman's Illness and No Name", Lin Tailai brushed his brush and wrote: "There is no name for future generations, and the sages worry about it."

These two sentences can be regarded as breaking the topic at the beginning of the article, and established the theme and ideas of the whole article.

Then continue to write the second part of the eight-legged essay: "It is not necessary to have a husband's name for a while, but it is indispensable to have a name for later generations. Therefore, a gentleman does not seek fame, but he has to suffer from it."

Until the entire article is completed on the draft, it is about [-] words.

After Lin Tailai copied it again, he got up and handed in the paper.

The government examination is not vague, and the hand-in paper is directly handed over to the chief examiner, Zhu Wenke, the prefect.

Lin Tailai was not the first to hand in the paper, there were more than 20 other people who handed in the paper before him.

According to the regulations of the examination room, you can't leave the examination room after handing in the test papers. Only when there are 50 people, the door will be opened to let this group out.

Therefore, those who hand in the papers first can only stand on the sidelines, waiting to gather a group of people.

Many classic passages in which the examiner and candidates ask and answer questions happened in this scene.

Official Lin always thought that his government examination was just a formality, so after handing in the paper emotionally, he had to turn around and go to the crowd to wait for his release.

But Zhu Zhifu, the chief examiner, asked, "Are you Lin Tailai?"

Lin Tailai replied: "I'm right!"

In today's examination room, it was indeed the first time that Zhu Zhifu saw this newly famous troublemaker in person.

After being stopped by the chief examiner, Lin Tailai couldn't leave, so he had to stand in front of the test case and wait for the questioning.

Zhu Zhifu glanced down at Lin Tailai's article, and asked casually, "You wrote this?"

Lin Tailai asked back: "Of course it was written by me, what is the evaluation of Futai?"

Zhifu Zhu said sarcastically: "Whether this article is good or not, does it make sense to you?"

He doesn't believe it. With your great ability, Lin Tailai, you still can't get the exam questions ahead of time?

After you have the exam questions, is it not easy to find a gunner to write an article in advance?
Lin Tailai heard what Zhu Zhifu meant, and immediately felt grief and indignation for June Feishuang, this is a grievance higher than the sky and deeper than the sea!
He did cheat, borrowing from the original text written by the seat next door, but he really wrote the test essay!
Why are there so many people in this world who judge people by their appearance? Couldn't he, Lin Tailai, write articles?
In addition, more than 20 people who submitted the papers heard the prefect's words and started talking in whispers.

Suddenly, as if encouraged by the magistrate, a young scholar stood up and said loudly: "Wang Yusheng of the lower Dongshan Mountain wants to ask the head of the Lin case for advice!"

After hearing this name, the surrounding discussions became louder, and even Lin Tailai took a few more glances at this person.

Taihu Dongshan Wang family, one of the four major families in Wu County, is famous for being half Confucian and half businessman.

In other words, rich and powerful, not ordinary rich and powerful.

For example, there are eight major merchant groups in the world today, and the most famous ones are Huizhou merchants.

In addition, there are Longyou merchant gangs in Zhejiang, Jiangyou merchant gangs in Jiangxi, Shanshan merchant gangs in the west, etc., and the merchant gang representing Suzhou is the Dongting merchant gang.

This Dongting is not Dongting Lake, but the East Dongting Mountain and West Dongting Mountain in Taihu Lake, referred to as Dongshan Xishan, and the Wang family of Dongshan is one of the leaders of the Dongting business gang.

100 years ago, the Dongshan Wang family gave birth to a Dashige old Wang Jia who almost won the triple prize. This person also has a very high status in Suzhou literary circles.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Suzhou was depressed by Emperor Taizu's morale.

Later, the Suzhou Shilin Renaissance was led by the champions Wu Kuan and Wang Jia.

In fact, there were three generations of leaders who led the Suzhou Renaissance back then. Wu Kuan and Wang Jia were only the second and third generations. The first generation was Xu Youzhen, whom Suzhou people do not want to mention now.

In today's Suzhou city, Wang Jia left behind three gardens, including Yilao Garden, which covers an area of ​​[-] mu.

Moreover, the north-south main road on the edge of the west city wall and the Bachelor Street, which Lin Tai must pass to and from the county government, are named after Wang Jia, which shows Wang Jia's status in the Suzhou literary world.

And the Wang Yusheng standing in front of Lin Tailai is Wang Jia's great-grandson.

At first, others were still wondering, whoever dared to come out and challenge Lin Tailai would be desperate.

But if it's from Dongshan Wang's family, then there's no problem.

Zhu Zhifu laughed and said, "Could it be that Wang Sheng is not convinced by the county trial chief?"

Wang Yusheng also bowed to Zhu Zhifu and said: "The head of the county case is the face of a county, and the subordinate is also a member of Wu County, how can you not cherish your face?

Dirt was smeared on the face, and it is human nature to want to wipe it off. I hope Futai will understand. "

Lin Tailai looked suspiciously at Zhu Zhifu and Wang Yusheng, and said loudly:

"Your Majesty! Could this friend Wang be your babysitter?

As soon as Futai questioned it, Friends Wang jumped out on his own initiative, feeling a tacit understanding, like singing together.

If the Futai wanted to get rid of the subordinate from the Fushi, he would just be expelled directly, so why bother to collude with the Dongshan Wang family and cover it up? "

Prefect Zhu: "."

　I searched through countless materials today and found nothing new. The classic passages in the imperial examination have all been used by others, so what should I do? . . . .I have a headache all night

　　
　
(End of this chapter)