There is an old Chinese saying called "one man gets the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven", which although it does not sound good, it is very true, such as our story today.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan should all know that the power was so high that there was even news that many people persuaded him to become emperor. Regardless of whether the matter of claiming the title of emperor was true or not, it was always the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that he suppressed, and the official Zhiliangjiang Governor, the Viceroy directly subordinate to him, and the scholar of Wuyingdian University were one of the "Four Famous Ministers" of the Late Qing Dynasty.
But don't look at his achievements after such a high level, but when he was a child, he was not less ridiculed, and the reason for the ridicule is estimated that everyone can't think of it, because of the imperial examination. In 1826, zeng guofan, who was only 15 years old, took the 7th place in the boy test, but when did he get the show? It was 1832.
What was he doing in the intervening 6 years? All in The Examination Show. Don't think that the examination of a child is very powerful, the child examination is only an entrance qualification examination, and it is divided into three levels, namely the county examination, the government examination and the hospital examination, the first two levels of the examination can be called a child student, but only after passing the third level of the hospital examination, can you become a talent.
However, Xiucai is only the lowest of the imperial examination status, only if he becomes a Xiucai, he is eligible to enter the government, prefecture, and county schools, and then he can continue to take the township examination, the meeting test and the temple examination, and the corresponding identity that can be obtained is to lift people, gongshi, and jinshi. Do you know how difficult the ancient imperial examination was?
However, Zeng Guofan was ridiculed not because he took the lowest entrance exam 5 times, but because his father, Zeng Linshu, failed to pass the show 16 times, and did not pass until he was 43 years old when he took the 17th exam. At that time, a major spectacle was when Zeng Guofan's hometown was tested, and it was Zeng Guofan and Zeng Linshu's father and son who took the xiucai together, but they repeatedly failed. Zeng Guofan was still a year after his father.
Many locals laugh at the Zeng family because of this, but who knows that Zeng Guofan, who took the exam 5 times before taking the test, will have such great ability in the future? The local county Lingyi remembered his own ridicule of the Zeng family, really worried that he couldn't sleep well, even if one day Zeng Guofan remembered to come to find himself in trouble, then he didn't say that he had been promoted to get rich, maybe even a county order was not proper.
Just when the county order was not thinking about this matter, an old local farmer came to report to the officials. The old farmer's field was occupied by the next door, and he said that he could not be a neighbor, so he had to find a county commander to regulate it. However, the county commander did not bother to pay attention to him at all, and only ordered the servants to drive him away. This servant was an acquaintance of the old farmer, and not only did he not drive the old farmer away, but he also brought him to the county court.
When the county commander saw it, even a small servant dared to disobey his orders, and he was furious, and when he just wanted to cure the crime of the servant, the servant went to the county order and whispered a word to him: "This old farmer is the uncle of the great man." "As soon as the county order heard it, he understood that lord Zeng could still be a great lord, but was it not Zeng Guofan?"
In fact, although this old farmer was indeed Zeng Guofan's uncle, he didn't know how far away his uncle was, and he had never seen the kind of person who had seen it several times, otherwise how could he have been encroached upon by his neighbors. The county commander didn't care about this, he only knew that this old farmer had a relationship with Zeng Guofan, and if he sold it well now, maybe he would be able to keep his official position in the future? So he opened his mouth and shouted, "Uncle! "Very enthusiastic to solve the field dispute for him.
This old farmer was only the lowest kind of peasant, and he never dreamed that one day he would be able to make the county order lord to honor him as "uncle", and from then on, everyone said, "The county order lord calls me uncle li." Is it wrong to say that this is "one person gets the ascension of a chicken and a dog to heaven"?