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, the mainland basically appointed several officials to be sent to the local areas for inspection, and elected xianneng 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 the Southern and Northern Dynasties on the mainland, there was 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 subject examination on the mainland, and in the Tang Dynasty, this method of sub-subject examination 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.
The young widowed mother passed the Luo family and took the entrance examination to participate in the temple examination
Luo Chenghua's original surname was Li, and he lost his mother when he was seven years old, after which the father and son relied on each other for their lives. However, because his father was not good at taking care of the family, so life was difficult, when Luo Tenghuan and his wife, a native of Zizhou, Sichuan, came to Huize to do business such as red and green paper, so Father Li passed on his young son to the couple surnamed Luo as a son.
Although the Luo family said that the conditions were ordinary, because Luo Chengjun was brilliant since childhood, his stepfather was willing to pay someone to teach him to study alone. In 1893, Luo Chengjun took the township examination in Sichuan Province, and won the third place in the province, and two years later he passed the examination and passed the entrance examination, and then participated in the temple examination of the evaluation order.
The temple was appreciated by the Guangxu Emperor, and the eight big characters made him a champion
It just so happened that the temple test was different from the past, when the Qing Dynasty was defeated by the European powers, and even Japan could defeat the Beiyang Marine Division. Under the pain of thinking bitterly, the imperial court also realized that "zhihu also" could not resist the enemy, and what the Great Qing really needed was a good strategy to save the country, so this temple test was the theory of time and policy.
This is difficult for the nerds who "don't hear anything out of the window and read only the books of the sages" with their ears closed. But Luo Chengjun was not a person who closed his eyes and listened, he had his own opinions, at the time of the temple examination, he lifted his pen in anger, explained the situation and said countermeasures, and at the end of the day he looked up at the Guangxu Emperor sitting on the throne, as a generation of emperors he was full of depression.
Seeing this emperor who had no real power, and thinking about this stormy country, Luo Chenghua wrote down eight big characters at the end of the examination paper with sorrow and indignation: "The Lord is worried about the humiliation of the subject, and the Lord is insulting the subject to death."
At this time, Empress Dowager Cixi had just finished listening to the government, and the Guangxu Emperor, who had finally gained power, was eager to show his fists, so he was eager to select some talents who could be used for himself through this examination.
Therefore, this was also the first time that the Guangxu Emperor really presided over the examination of the palace. When he saw the emotional eight words at the end of Luo Chengjun's examination paper, he was very moved, it was rare for an outsider to feel sorry for himself as a king, so he wrote a little, and Luo Chengjun became the only Sichuan national in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
For the official clean and honest for the country and the people, the deceased 10,000 people sent off
Throughout his life, Luo Chengjun was honest and self-reliant for officials, and he was frank and bright, and he did not seek high-ranking officials. His famous saying, "The world is as difficult as eating, only reading is high in the world", encouraging generations of future generations.
After the Xinhai Revolution, although Luo Chengjun served as the speaker of the Provisional Parliament, an adviser to the Governor's Office, and the superintendent of the Sichuan Relief Bureau, he was diligent and honest. Therefore, Luo Chengjun has been an official for many years, but his family is destitute, and he has always had the reputation of "cloth and cloth".
In the summer of 1926, Luo Chenghua died of illness at the age of sixty-one. After learning of this bad news, the local people hung up their homes and hung up, and tens of thousands of people sent his coffin out of the city, and the scene was very spectacular.
Although it is a great honor after death, Luo Chengjun's life, seeing the king die and the country decline, the talent of the champion is depressed, it is really very sad. His life was a clean and honest official, admirable for the country and the people, and the merits he made can be seen from the people who sent him away, this is a parent official who really thinks about the people, but it is a pity that such a good official died at the age of sixty-one.