“Meow~ Meow~”

Song Ling'er curled up cross-legged in a Taishi chair, with cement lying on her legs, and everyone and cat were dozing.

The Taishi Chair of the Ming Dynasty was different from the Qing Dynasty. It specifically refers to a circle chair, which is connected from the back of the chair to the armrests into a semicircle, and it is more comfortable to lie down than the Taishi Chair of the Qing Dynasty.

Suddenly, the screams of companions came from the yard, and the cement ears immediately stood up. The guy leveraged the force on Song Ling'er's stomach, kicked it hard, and quickly rushed to the yard.

The three masters of civil and industrial circles have been honored to meet, and they don’t know what bad things are going to do.

Song Ling'er opened her eyes in a daze, yawned and raised her hands high, lifted her clothes on her body away, twisted her neck and said, "When is it? I feel a little hungry... Hey, why did your clothes fall to the ground?"

Wang Yuan didn't say anything, and read "Zhu Zi Yulei" with great interest.

Song Ling'er bent down to pick up her clothes and murmured to herself: "You have a conscience, but you still know that you are afraid that I will catch a cold."

Wang Yuan was still reading a book.

"bookworm."

Song Ling'er muttered and shouted loudly: "Acai, come here for the end!"

Soon, Acai brought a plate of pastries and brewed two cups of tea for them.

Song Ling'er was eating snacks on her own, without any ladylike appearance. She chewed and said, "Hey, I haven't been hunting with me these two days. What kind of horror books are you reading?"

Wang Yuan finally closed the book and smiled and said, "It's a very interesting book."

"You are afraid that you won't be a scholar by yourself?" Song Ling'er asked.

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "This book has nothing to do with taking the exam for scholars."

"Then you can't think of it." Song Ling'er said she couldn't understand.

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "You don't understand. This book is very interesting. I may have to rely on it to make a living in the future."

Since he was awakened by Shen Fucon that day, Wang Yuan bought a copy of "Zhu Zi Yule". The money he bought was borrowed from Song Ling'er. Anyway, he would not have to worry about his debts. He would find an opportunity to repay them together in the future.

As soon as this book is opened, Wang Yuan entered a new world.

Before the Song Dynasty, Confucianism was full of great avatars and a mixture of various schools of thought and Buddhist theories. The content was complex and lacked systematicity.

Based on Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi used the "Book of Changes" to build the foundation and framework, used Tai Chi Yin and Yang and Five Elements to construct the universe view, and threw in Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics, forming a Neo-Confucianism with a complete theoretical system.

The great principles mentioned by Neo-Confucianism are all correct in humanities, and it will not be possible to find mistakes in another thousand years.

Unfortunately, it's too sloppy.

Wang Yuan roughly finished reading "Zhu Zi Yulei" and was so happy that he picked up a brush and wrote four words on the paper.

Song Ling'er chewed the pastry and leaned over her head and looked: "Physics, chemistry...what does this mean?"

Wang Yuan smiled wickedly: "Zhu Zi said that we should 'invest things and explore the principles', and I abbreviate them as 'physics'; Zhu Zi said that all things are 'qi transformed into manifolds' from yin and yang, and I abbreviated them as 'chemistry'. Physics and chemistry are the foundation of my life's knowledge. But it is useless now. We must wait until I get into the Jinshi and make a name for myself before anyone can convince me."

"I don't understand what you are talking about." Song Ling'er became more and more confused.

What does Wang Yuan want to do?

Of course, it is tampering with the meaning of Neo-Confucian classics.

This thing is so easy to change. Who made Zhu Xi carry scientific research thinking everywhere when doing research - objective idealism is like this.

Wang Yangming was actually doing the same thing, quietly tampering with the meaning of Neo-Confucianism, but he still had the sign of Neo-Confucianism. "Study of Heart" was openly called out by his disciples.

Wang Yuan planned to follow Wang Yangming first, use Mr. Wang's reputation to promote himself, and then package Neo-Confucianism and Mind Science to tamper with it, thereby creating his own doctrine.

Well, is the integration of mind and nature called psychology?

The nickname of psychology master Wang Er is quite good.

Wang Yuan took a sip of tea and opened the Book of Rites and Justice to study hard.

Song Ling'er complained: "Why are you reading again? You're bored!"

Wang Yuan said excitedly: "I will work hard to take the imperial examination and spread my theory as soon as possible! The most urgent task is to pass the Taoist test."

...

The road test is much more formal than the county test, and the government test is much more formal.

Wang Yuan and Liu Yaozu received blank test papers at Guizhusi three days in advance, and filled in their name, age, origin and ancestors. Then they could get the test papers, namely the admission ticket, and use the admission ticket to get their own test papers on the day of the exam.

Under normal circumstances, all children from states and counties must gather together to take the exam.

Provinces with too many candidates are divided into several fields in units of counties. The questions in each exam are different, so that the first exam can prevent the first exam from leaking the questions. Moreover, the order of the exam is also given. The awesome prefectures and counties take the exam first. This arrangement rule is called the "county outline".

However, Guizhou has inconvenient transportation. In order to take care of remote areas, Xi Shu took the initiative to go to various places to invigilate the examination separately, which would save the children from the trouble of traveling.

At the fourth hour of Yin, it was equivalent to five o'clock in the morning, and the students of the children came to Sixue in the dark.

This kind of troubling rule is cheaper for small vendors, and they all pick up stalls to sell breakfast.

Liu Yaozu was extremely nervous and chewed the meat pie bought by Wang Yuan and said, "I definitely can't do it this time. I only barely memorized the first chapter of "The Book of Rites" last night."

"If you don't have a good time, you can definitely do it." Wang Yuan smiled.

While the two were joking, a group of poor people came with their hands behind their backs and walked directly into the gate of the Ministry of Education.

The leader is Zhang Bangchen, a professor of Guizhou Xuanwei Department. "Professor" is an official name, equivalent to the principal and director of a provincial public school.

If Wang Yuan can pass the exam, he will definitely be admitted to the Ministry of Education in the future and study under our professor Zhang.

In ancient times, no matter which level of official school teachers, they were all poor.

For scholars, poverty can naturally evolve into a noble person, and these teachers are very noble. No matter how old you are, I will listen to your orders correctly, but don’t think I will give you a good look, even if the Ming Dynasty chief apprentice comes, it will still be arrogant.

Why?

Because teachers cannot be promoted and are so poor that there is no need to curry favor with anyone. It doesn’t matter if you contradict Shangguan, but if you just break the teaching position, whoever likes to be the one, you will be removed from my position, let alone the local officials have no power to dismiss the teacher.

Taking into account the above factors, even a provincial governor was treated with courtesy when he saw an official professor. What should I do with a poor person? He had no benefits and had a bad reputation.

Zhang Bangchen was born in a tribute student, and he was a tribute student for every year.

That is, the scholar had not passed the exam for decades and had not passed the imperial examination. The local government recommended him to study at the Imperial College. Then he waited for the imperial court to assign his job, and was generally assigned to be a teacher in various places.

Once you accept the position of teacher, you will have no hope of promotion in this life.

Like Zhang Bangchen, he is even more miserable. His salary is not enough to live. He has to wait for the harvest of his studies and live a life. When encountering drought or something, he will be hungry.

But at this moment, Zhang Bangchen was majestic.

He walked along the way with other teachers, and his steps were full of vigor. All the students along the way bowed and bowed. Just like the club leader led his men to patrol the streets, he greeted him along the way: "Hello, Bang Ge, thank you for your hard work!"

Professor Zhang came to the school lobby, where there were more than ten people standing here, all of whom were adjutants of the chief’s lawsuits and students who secured the child’s insurance.

Under normal circumstances, local prefectures and county magistrates in the first county should be present in person to participate in the invigilance. However, the chieftains in Guizhou were arrogant and only sent an adjutant to deal with it. Xi Shu was too lazy to care about so much.

"Recommended to advance!"

An official shouted in the West Hall, and Xi Shu, the deputy envoy of the School, was sitting upright in the West Hall.

There are also some special things to recommend the school officials to sit in the West Hall. Just like the Western Palace, they all originated from the fact that Emperor Ming of Han respected Huan Rong as his teacher and asked Huan Rong to sit west and face east.

Officials from all walks of life entered the west hall in turn and bowed to Xi Shu. Xi Shu sneered in her face and ignored it.

According to normal circumstances, the first batch of people entering should be the prefect. The prefect does not need to bow, but the school officials have to bow and return. When they arrive in Guizhou, they just happened to be rebelled because all the adjutants came.

There is only one exception, that is the prefect of Chengfan Mansion.

Xi Shu walked directly to the prefect Cheng Fan and bowed. Prefect Cheng Fan also violated the rules and returned the gift.

The prefect of Chengfan was a Han official and belonged to a prefecture attached to the provincial capital of Guo. However, most of its jurisdiction was actually controlled by the chieftains, because Chengfan and his magistrate were surnamed Song, so the prefect was very frustrated. Chengfan Mansion, which was later Guiyang Mansion, had the place name Guiyang.

Xi Shu and the prefect Cheng Fan salute each other and then returned to their seats.

Then the teachers of Si Xue came in, and Xi Shu stood up again to salute. Professor Zhang and others stood with their hands behind their backs. They did not need to return the gifts according to the rules. This was a rare moment for teachers.

Finally, all the students who protect the students of the children must stand in front of the west hall and bow to the school officials. They do not have to stand up, let alone give back gifts or something.

The next normal procedure is to call the county name. When you call it a certain county, the instructor of the county must respond and then run to stand behind the school officials. But in Guizhou, this procedure is directly eliminated because there are not many county-level school teachers coming today.

Then he pointed out the names of the students who were the vassals, and they all stood behind the school officials.

Finally, it was the candidate's turn to call the name.

"Guizhou Wei Li Xun!"

"have."

"Zhong Cao Si Zhang Zhong!"

"have."

The candidates came in one after another, stood in the yard in front of the west hall, and then took their admission tickets to collect their answer sheets. Then they went to the search office to undergo body search to prevent cheating.

You cannot choose your own seat in the Taoist test. The answer sheet, admission ticket and examination table are all numbers. The three must have the same number before they can pass the verification and start the exam.

Wang Yuan slowly grinds the ink slowly, and soon he gets the title: a four-book title, no less than 200 words; a five-book title, no less than 300 words.

The title of the Four Books is: Why do you have to say profit? It is just benevolence and righteousness.

As Master Shen said, Xi Shu only examined the first chapter of the Four Books and Five Classics, and this question was the first chapter of "Mencius".

Wang Yuan wrote eight-legged essays, just like doing civil engineering. He first determined the overall design, then disassembled it and designed it in sections, and then carried out construction bit by bit.

This question talks about interests and benevolence and righteousness. It is very simple, but it is difficult to write well.

Wang Yuan first determined the central idea, that is, a gentleman does not mean not to talk about profit, but only talks about profit, which is harmful. He talks about benevolence and righteousness and does not seek profit and gain great benefits.

"A gentleman is only kind and righteous but not profit, which is the beginning of chaos in patents." This is to solve the problem.

Next, we will follow the topic and briefly describe the harm of just talking about profit.

Then start to talk about the benefits of benevolence and righteousness.

The middle eight essays discuss in detail the dialectical relationship between interests and benevolence and righteousness.

In the end, the grand conclusion is that in prosperous times, they all use benevolent policies to benefit the world, and in gentlemen, they all practice benevolence and righteousness to benefit the family and country, and then all people can enjoy their great benefits. In the last days of the dynasty, everyone says small profits and does not pursue worldly benefits, which will bring great harm. Therefore, we must learn from the lessons and listen carefully to the famous sayings of the ancestors.

By the way, we also flattered Zhu Xi, saying that benevolence and righteousness are the principles of nature, and we must carefully understand and practice it.

In fact, although Wang Yuan’s real idea also agreed that benevolence and righteousness should be the first, he had to rely on interests to promote it at critical moments. Unfortunately, such words cannot be written on the test paper.
Chapter completed!