As the saying goes, "there is no noble son in the cold door", the feudal society in the mainland has been very strict in the hierarchy for thousands of years, before the Sui Dynasty, no matter how talented you are, it is not even as good as the bloodline of the family that flows on others, until 587 AD, when Emperor Wen of Sui set up the imperial examination system, it gave the children of the cold door a hope. Therefore, in order to change their destiny, many people's lifelong goal is to participate in the imperial examination and to hold the middle school.
In 1690, the 51-year-old Pu Songling was still insisting on participating in the township examination, but he still failed to win the examination. In the Qing Dynasty, there was another person who wanted Pu Songling to participate in the scientific expedition with such persistence, that is, Shen Deqian, who took the examination a full 17 times during the 40 years, and did not become an official until the age of 67, but after his death, he was treated like this by the Qianlong Emperor! In 587, Emperor Wen of Sui announced the implementation of the imperial examination system throughout the country, and the imperial court officials were no longer selected only from the children of the family clan.
As soon as the news came out, the cold people in the world were shocked, but at first not many people believed this decree, because although the previous Nine Pin Zhongzheng system had relaxed the conditions, it could not escape the restrictions of the Blood Patriarchal Law in the end, but in 607 AD, the Sui Emperor personally selected ten talents who stood out through the imperial examination, and wanted the world's Cold Soldiers to announce the feasibility of the imperial examination system, which popularized the imperial examination system throughout the country, and since then the Han disciples have regarded the imperial examination as the most important way to change their fate.
In 1673, Shen Deqian was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, his father was a teaching gentleman, and under the influence of his father, he was very intelligent from an early age. At that time, everyone thought that such a talented man would definitely be able to go to high school to become a high official in the future, but in 1695, the 22-year-old Shen De sneaked to Beijing to catch the exam, but unfortunately fell off the list, but he was not discouraged, and he has been in the scientific examination for the next 40 years, but every time he has failed, but he is very unwilling, and finally at the age of 67, he entered the high school.
If it is not discovered, Shen Deqian has been buried in vain for more than forty years, but after entering high school, the Qianlong Emperor admired him very much, and before his death in 1769, he was an official for more than twenty years, all the way from a small jinshi to a position such as Libu Shangshu, you must know that the six departments of the three provinces are ancient Zhugao political institutions, and the officials inside are backbone members.
When he returned to his hometown at the age of 77, the Qianlong Emperor also specially allowed him to establish a shrine in Hangzhou, which is a privilege that only the closest people to the imperial family and the most famous people in a place can enjoy, it can be said that the second half of his life was very smooth, after learning of his illness and death, the Qianlong Emperor also personally wrote a letter of elegance to send, which was very kind to him.
However, in 1778, when the Qianlong Emperor remembered Shen Deqian's "Poetry of the National Dynasty", in which he put Qian Qian, who opposed the Ming Dynasty, first, but the Qianlong Emperor thought that he was a traitor, and how much contribution he made to the Qing Dynasty could not change the essence of his defection to the enemy and treason, so he began to feel suspicious of him.
Since then, the prison of words has spread wildly, and the late Xu Shukui's "One Pillar Building Collection" has also been involved, and a large number of poems that rebelled against the imperial court appeared in the book, and Shen Deqian wrote a biography for it, so the Qianlong Emperor was angry with Shen Deqian, even though he had been dead for 9 years, or the atmosphere could not help but drag him out and whip the corpse, it can be said that the world is unpredictable, Shen Deqian's death ended up like this, which is sad.