"Ten years of cold window no one asks, the title of the gold list is known to the world", in the ancient society of learning and excellence, people are usually only qualified to be officials if they pass the examination, which also leads to many people working very hard to study, just for the dream of one day to be able to pass the examination, but there are many people who have the dream of passing the examination, but there are very few people who can really pass the examination, and not only can pass the examination, but also can get the first place.
The first place with the highest gold content in the imperial examination is called "Zhuangyuan", and now we will also call those who take the college entrance examination and obtain the first place as the yuan, but today's college entrance examination is far less than the ancient scenery of the imperial examination. After participating in the imperial examination, as long as there are no major mistakes in the future, they are basically officials with more than three pins, and even the prime minister who is above ten thousand people under one person.
It is precisely because the title of Zhuangyuan can not only bring people a good reputation, but also means a good future, so many readers hope that they can get the title, but even a figure like Su Shi has not become a Champion, which shows that this is actually something that can be encountered, and in the Ming Dynasty, there was a woman who "met" twice in succession.
The woman's name is Wang Mengjiao, she has lost her parents since she was a child, and she is a lonely woman who flows everywhere and can barely live by begging. When she was 16 years old, she met a businessman surnamed Ma, who also traveled all over the world on weekdays, but instead of begging like Wang Mengjiao, he sold horses, earned the difference, and made high profits.
Horses were an extremely important means of transportation in that era, and they could also be regarded as very valuable commodities, and since Boss Ma had the ability to run such a business, his family foundation was naturally very thick, and he was deeply attracted at the first sight of Wang Mengjiao, and immediately found someone to propose to her, and Wang Mengjiao was also impressed by Boss Ma's wealth, and soon married into the Ma family as a concubine, and soon gave birth to a son.
This was originally a great thing, but it caused the dissatisfaction of Boss Ma's wife, Xu Shi, who took advantage of Boss Ma's outing, and when Wang Mengjiao was not paying attention, pushed her from the stairs with the child in her arms, trying to kill her, while Wang Mengjiao's mother and son seemed to be favored by heaven and were unharmed.
When Boss Ma returned and learned of this, he was very dissatisfied, but because he was old and could not take care of Wang Mengjiao's mother and son at all times, he was worried that they would be bullied by the Xu family after his death, so he begged a friend named Li Yuanshan to take care of their mother and son for him.
The widowed Li Yuanshan agreed to this matter after the bitter pleading of Boss Ma, so Wang Mengjiao took his child Ma Le to remarry Li Yuanshan, and gave birth to a son Li Ma with Li Yuanshan the following year. Ma Le passed the Examination in the Tenth Year of Yongle (1412), and changed his name to Ma Duo in order to avoid the secrets of Yongle The Great, and Li Ma took the Examination for the Title of Emperor in yongle sixteenth year (1418), because the Yongle Emperor believed that there was a word "horse" in the name of a country, which sounded quite indecent, so he changed his name to Li Qi.
The brothers Ma Duo and Li Qi, the same mother and different father, but they were able to pass the examination, which is also quite rare in their hometown of Changle County, and the villagers have said that this is because their mother Wang Mengjiao is blessed and has a good godson, so that they can teach both sons to become Champions. What do you think about that?