Mingshi

Chapter 495

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In the seven north and the sixty-thirteen provinces, the whole world gathers in the capital.This is a great excitement, some are dissatisfied, some are admired, and some are sympathetic...

How could there be no literary society during such a lively period?

Not only there are literary conferences, but the scale of the literary conferences is not small, and the frequency is very fast. Some literary conferences can even invite some Hanlin to attend the literary conferences to judge articles for a group of candidates.Once such a literary fair appears, it will immediately become one of the largest literary fairs held in the capital.

This is because all Hanlin scholars are talented scholars who have been among the best in the examinations. Such people are naturally knowledgeable, and their judgments have the value of improving everyone's articles.

Hanlin!

In fact, it is an expensive job, and the usual work is very light. Roughly speaking, it is a group of people who are idle and miserable.When someone proposed to ask the Hanlin scholars to predict who would be the winner of this session and still have a first-class ranking, these people also expressed their views without any scruples.It's just that the literary style of the Ming Dynasty flourished in the south. In the past, these meeting members would appear in the south, and the disputes between the Imperial Academy would only happen among a few southern scholars.

This kind of dispute often has a very obvious tendency. Every Hanlin will prefer the candidates from their hometown, and this year is the same, but there is one more northerner among the candidates from the south, that is, Luo Xinluo. device.

Although Luo Xin is regarded as a great Confucian by scholars today, there are still many people who are not convinced, especially the Imperial Academy of Ming Dynasty.These imperial scholars are all well-educated people, and they think highly of themselves. They do not deny that "Confucius and Mencius" is profound, "Yanglin Baipian" is exquisite, and "Yanglin Poetry Collection" is even more brilliant.However, this is only famous, but no one has seen it.

There are many people in this world who are not as famous as meeting!
And from the perspective of Ming Dynasty's tradition, the person who competed for the top spot has never had anything to do with the Northern Juzi.Basically speaking, Luo Xin's age is still too young, and the speed of becoming famous is too fast. Although Shihlin has nothing to say about Luo Xin's three books, he is not satisfied with Luo Xin in his heart, and even has doubts. Whether the three books were written by him is only because after the publication of "The Combination of Confucius and Mencius", Luo Xin's name of a layman in Yanglin made the scholars all over the world appreciate Luo Xin, and they knew it was Luo Xin. Time, but also can not hold back.

Therefore, they still tended to be their Southern Juzi to get the Huiyuan, and even longed for the Southern Juzi to get the Huiyuan in their hearts, so they slapped Luo Xin hard in the face.

how about it?
You, a great Confucian, can't pass our Southern Juzi, right?

This year's competition for the top three candidates has gone through disputes among the imperial courts, and finally they are basically unified. There are a total of five candidates who are competitive.Four in the south and one in the north.

The four people in the south are Xu Shixing, Wang Xijue, Yu Youding and Qi Yuanzuo, while the one in the north is Luo Xin.

Xu Shixing is Shen Shixing, a native of Changzhou, Suzhou Prefecture. There is a very famous comedy in later generations called "An Hall Acknowledges Mother" and it is about Xu Shixing.

Shen Guisheng, a wealthy man in Nanhao, Suzhou, married the daughter of Zhang Guoxun, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and his relationship was not harmonious after marriage.One day, Shen Guisheng went to Huqiu to play, and met Zhizhen, a nun in Fahua nunnery. The two fell in love at first sight, so Shen stayed in the nunnery and did not want to go home, and unfortunately died of illness in the nunnery.At this time, Zhizhen was pregnant with Liujia, and finally gave birth to a son, named Shen Shixing.Because Zhizhen was afraid of people's words, she wrapped Shen Shixing's infancy with a blood book and Shen Guisheng's relic jade dragonfly fan pendant, and asked the mother-in-law who did some work in the nunnery to send the child back to Shen's house late at night.But the mother-in-law was frightened on the road and abandoned the child at Tongqiaotou, Shantang Street.Zhu Xiaoxi, the owner of the tofu shop, happened to pass by, so he took him back to be raised.Soon after, the tofu shop was destroyed in a fire. Due to the hardship of life, Zhu Xiaoxi had no choice but to sell the child to Xu Shangzhen, the former prefect of Suzhou. Therefore, Xu had no son and regarded it as his own.

Xu Shixing was intelligent by nature, and under the careful training of Xu Shangzhen, he was talented and well-known far and wide. 16 years later, Xu Shixing won the No. 1 in the Zhongxiang Examination. Soon, Xu Shixing will go from Dongyang to Beijing for the imperial examination.Xu Shixing read in the blood book that his biological mother was Zhizhen, a nun of Fahua Nunnery (Yizuo Zhizhen), so he turned to Fahua Nunnery on the way to Beijing, and recognized his biological mother with the jade dragonfly fan pendant.

That is to say, according to the progress of history, this Xu Shixing is the champion of this year's general examination, and even the champion of this year's palace examination.

Wang Xijue, born on July 13, the 21th year of Jiajing, Ming Dynasty, with the character Yuanyu and the name Jingshi, was born in Taicang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili Province in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Xijue was born in a famous family, the Wang family in Taiyuan.During the "Red Turban Uprising" at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to avoid the flames of war, its ancestors abandoned their officials and fled to the south of the Yangtze River. Later, one of them entered Taicang during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty.Wang Yong, the ancestor of Wang Xijue, was good at management and became a rich man in Taicang at that time.His father, Wang Mengxiang, was a scholar in his early years, and was admitted to the South Prison as a student supervisor. Later, due to lawsuits and disputes, he was forced to abandon Confucianism and run a business to manage the family business, but he was determined to train his two sons to be successful.Wang Xijue lived up to the expectations of his father and grandfather, and ranked first in the 41st Jiajing Examination (Huiyuan), and ranked second in the Imperial Examination (Second Place).Later, his son Wang Heng ranked first in the Shuntian Township Examination. In the 29th year of Wanli (1601), he was Jinshi and No.2 in high school.There are many descendants of Wang Xijue who are successful in the examination field, and his family continued into the Qing Dynasty and became a veritable family of hairpin tassels.

That is to say, according to the historical process, Wang Xijue is the No.2 of this year's general examination, the second place in the palace examination.

Yu Youding, Dongqian Lake, Ningbo, Yu Youding had a broad personality in his life, he liked guests very much, and he didn't set up a city mansion.According to the historical process, it should be the current Tanhua.

Qi Yuanzuo, courtesy name Xizhong and nickname Zhongyue, was born in Jiaxing in the south. He was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting.No.1 in this year's top two.

Otherwise, the Hanlin did not give it in vain, these four southerners were selected by the Hanlin to be the strong contenders for this session's Yuan Yuan, and in the end it was Xu Shixing among the four who won the Yuan Yuan.It's just that now there is an extra Luo Xin Luo Buqi, a northerner.

At the very beginning, many southerners visited Xu Shixing, Wang Xijue, Yu Youding, and Qi Yuanzuo. Some of these visitors were attracted by their reputation, some came to ask for advice, some came to challenge, and some were just to watch the fun.No matter what they came here for, these four people were neither arrogant nor impetuous, neither humble nor overbearing. Gradually, they became more and more popular, and they were regarded as leaders by Southern Juzi.

However, the northern candidates came to visit Luo Xin in an endless stream. No matter what the northern candidates thought, Luo Xin had become the support of the northern candidates. They all hoped that Luo Xin could win the first prize this time and fight for the north. , so their purpose is very clear, they didn't challenge Xu Shixing like the South Juzi did, but came to motivate Luo Xin, so that Luo Xin must win the prize, especially those Juzi from Jinyang Mansion, who were even more passionate , making Luo Xin dumbfounded.

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