Whether in ancient times or in modern times, talent is a key factor in maintaining social stability and promoting social development. Before the Sui Dynasty, China basically appointed several officials to be sent to the localities for inspection, and elected talents to enter the DYNASTY as officials. Such a system undoubtedly carries a very strong subjective color, and the evaluations and opinions of the officials below can basically be conclusive. Therefore, during the period of China's Southern and Northern Dynasties, there will be an unbalanced situation of "no scholars at the grass-roots level and no cold doors in the DPRK and China".
After the Sui Dynasty, there was a way to select talents by sub-discipline examination in China, and in the Tang Dynasty, this sub-subject examination method was inherited and carried forward into the imperial examination system that was passed down for more than 1300 years. In the Tang Dynasty, the first place of the examination would be called Yuan, for example, the first place in the examination would be called Huiyuan. Because people had to accept the examination before going to the capital, the first name of the temple examination was called Zhuangyuan, and this title continued until the examination was abolished.
It is not an easy task to stand out from thousands of students, so each Yuanyuan has two brushes, and many Zhuangyuan are also repeatedly mentioned in the history books, such as Guo Ziyi, a Tang Dynasty famous minister who worshiped the prime minister as an official of Wu Zhuangyuan and eliminated the chaos of An Shi; Wen Tianxiang, who preferred to die and refused to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty, and wrote generous poems such as "Song of Righteous Qi" and "Crossing Zero Ding Yang". And this article is going to tell the story of Luo Chengjun in the late Qing Dynasty.
Luo Chengjun is recognized as the poorest person in the 1300 years of the imperial examination, he was born in 1865 in a poor peasant family surnamed Li in Huize County, his mother died when he was seven years old, and Luo Chengjun's father was a lazy man who was idle and did not produce and operate, and the life of father and son was getting tighter and tighter. Seeing that it could not go on, Luo Chengjun's biological father gave Luo Chengjun to a merchant couple who came here to do medicinal materials business, and the couple took the child to Sichuan by renaming Luo Chengjun.
After arriving in Sichuan, Luo Chengjun, who was nine years old at the time, was sent to the academy by his adoptive father, and when he took the state examination at the age of fourteen, Luo Chengjun became a blockbuster, which made Yang Rui, who was in charge of the examination, praise him and recommended and funded Luo Chengjun to go to the academy for further study. In 1893, Luo Chengjun went to the capital, but he played abnormally. Luo Chengjun was not discouraged, and continued to prepare for the exam in the capital, and two years later he was admitted to the jinshi and prepared to take the temple examination.
When Luo Chengjun was preparing for the palace examination, it was exactly when the Qing Dynasty was defeated in the Sino-Japanese Battle of Jiawu, and Luo Chengjun was also a person who worried about the country and the people, and he hoped that he could enter the dynasty as an official and repair the broken imperial dynasty. When conducting the temple examination, Luo Chenghua also wrote an article with such a mood. After the end of the temple examination, when Guangxu and the personnel of the ceremonial department were watching the examination paper together, they inadvertently saw the 12 words written by Luo Chengjun on the examination paper: "Yin Worries Qisheng", "The Lord is worried about the humiliation of the subject" and "The Lord insults the death of the subject".
Although the Guangxu Emperor had been a puppet in the hands of Empress Dowager Cixi since he ascended the throne, he also had his own ideals and ambitions, and after seeing Luo Chengjun's ambitions, he directly appointed Luo Chenghua as a champion, and called Luo Chengjun the contemporary Marquis Zhuge Liang. Luo Chengjun also lived up to his ambition, and after entering the dynasty as an official, he was always fair, honest, and impartial in enforcing the law, and was a famous Qing official in the Qing Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty. After that, Luo Chengjun went to Sichuan Higher Education School (now Sichuan University) as president and made many contributions to Sichuan's education.