Indecent behavior

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Indecent behavior

The uncle who was missed by Xia Yuan was still concentrating on sharpening the ink. The ink had already been sharpened, but Xia Ru was still sharpening the ink while thinking about how to solve the problem just now.

Unlike Xia Yuan, who just started writing after a few clicks, and then started to mess around after finishing the article, Xia Ru hesitated for a while and didn't know how to start writing, mainly because he was a little unsure after seeing the title.

It is inappropriate to do so.

When Xia Ru took a quick look at these four words, he thought they came from Mencius, but he felt something was wrong.

As for the reason, of course it must be attributed to the founder of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of which, Lao Zhu is also a showman. He curses Legalist figures like Li Si and Han Fei all day long, but the ideas he uses to govern the country are obviously Legalist.

He talks about Confucius and Mencius, and talks about the Three Generations, but in his heart he looks down on these Confucian scholars.

Even if he is a saint, he doesn't know how to respect him, and he always wants to mess with saints.

The reason was that Confucius and Mencius had too great influence in society, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel very afraid. However, in order to win over the hearts of scholars all over the world, he could only talk about respecting Confucius and Mencius all day long.

But in fact, he felt very unhappy. These clay statues and wooden tablets were actually higher than the status of our emperor?

When we were herding cows, it didn’t matter that these saints and sub-sages had a higher status than us. But when they became emperors, they were even higher than us. So didn’t we become emperors for nothing?

At first, he was secretly preparing to attack Confucius. For example, he once found an excuse to say that things like offering sacrifices were troublesome. The sage Confucius respected him in his heart and did not engage in formalism.

Then he ordered that only those descendants of Confucius in Qufu would be allowed to worship the saint, and no more sacrifices would be allowed in other places.

This kind of edict was obviously a test, and the purpose was to see which direction the wind was blowing. If it could be done, he would start to suppress Confucius' influence step by step.

As a result, the government and the public were shocked and angry. The memorials were delivered to the palace like raindrops. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this situation, he did not punish these officials, but reluctantly withdrew the edict.

Then he turned his gun and prepared to attack Mencius, thinking that if he could not defeat the sage, it would be good to defeat the sub-sage.

At this time, I picked up Mencius and took a look. There happened to be a lot of objectionable and even rebellious remarks in it.

What kind of king treats his ministers like dirt, and his ministers regard him like a bandit? What kind of king treats his father as a murderer, and people also kill his father? What kind of person who kills thieves is called a husband; what kind of king remonstrates him when he has a serious fault, but does not repeat it over and over again?

Listen and it will change its position.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel as if he was pointing his nose at himself and scolding him, especially when he said that the monarch had made mistakes and needed to be remonstrated. If the monarch repeatedly refused to listen, he would simply replace him as emperor.

This made him feel very angry. Didn't this clearly instigate his ministers to dethrone the emperor?

"If this old man were alive today, he would rather be spared!"

This was what Zhu Yuanzhang scolded at the time. He only regretted that this old bastard was not born in the Ming Dynasty and could not let him feel the iron fist of autocracy.

However, this time Lao Zhu found an excuse and immediately ordered Yasheng to move to a new home and drive him out of the Confucius Temple.

Facts have proved that Mencius is indeed not as difficult to deal with as Confucius. With the obstruction of his gang of filial sons and grandsons, Mencius and the old man did escape the disaster and can continue to stay in the Confucius Temple and eat cold pork.

But the price is that one-third of Mencius's works were deleted, and the current Mencius has become a castrated version.

In addition, from Zhu Yuanzhang down, all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not very fond of Mencius. Strictly speaking, as long as he was an emperor, it would be difficult for him to express his respect for Mencius, who advocated that the people should be valued and the monarch should be valued.

Therefore, it seems that the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty have formed a routine, rarely, or even almost never, selecting topics from Mencius.

This was the reason why Xia Ru felt uncertain. The first three times he came to take the exam, most of the questions were taken from the Analects, Doctrine of the Mean, or from the university. Why did Mencius suddenly pop up this time?

In fact, not only him, but also many other candidates in the entire Gongyuan expressed confusion about this question.

Mencius?

It doesn't seem right, there must be a deeper meaning.

Then a strange phenomenon occurred in the entire examination room. Nearly 80% of the candidates hesitated to write, except for those who were heartless, such as Xia Yuan.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with the question. Confucius and Mencius. That question came from either Confucius or Mencius. Is there a problem?

A long time passed, and Xia Ru finally began to write nervously. However, like many other candidates, he really did not dare to use Mencius' original sentence to solve the question, so he had no choice but to find another way.

Xia Yuan on the other side had already woken up from hunger. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was afternoon. He reached for the examination basket and took out the cakes he had brought beforehand.

This is the first session of the rural examination, which lasts for three days and two nights. In addition to eight-part essays, there are two more sessions later, which test policy theory, classics and history, and write poems.

Although there are many contents in the test, the eight-part essay is what really determines the grade. If the eight-part essay is beautifully written, as long as the following test items are satisfactory and there are no big mistakes, the examinees will not have any problems.

It just takes too long. There are three exams. Each exam lasts for three days and two nights. If you don’t bring some food, the candidates may starve to death in the exam room.

The pastry is from Xiangfuji, a time-honored brand in Beijing. It is affordable and delicious. Unfortunately, it has already been broken into pieces. It was crushed by those people during the inspection. They were afraid of hiding cheat sheets in the pastry.

After eating a bunch of pastries and drinking some water, Xia Yuan began to feel dazed again.

My mind is filled with one thought, why does it take so long?

PS: There will be another update later, around 5 or 6 pm.

Then I will say something more verbose, please don’t keep books. It is very important to read new books every time, so I beg you not to keep books.
Chapter completed!