Whether in the official field or in the examination room, with the help of powerful ministers, they will generally think that things will be accomplished, and they will do more with less, such as the Yuanlu Palace introduced earlier, because Ao Bai admires him very much and is promoted to The Crown Prince.
But the powerful ministers cannot do too much, otherwise it is easy to arouse the anger of the people, and stealing chickens will not become anti-erosion of rice. For example, this exam today.
In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a powerful minister named Su Shun, and there was a doorman in his house called Gao Xinkui, whose talent was not low, and it was no problem to take the entrance examination, but in the eyes of Lord Su, the jinshi was too ordinary, and if he wanted to take the exam, he would come back with a yuan, so that he would have face. How to take the test? Strength alone is probably hopeless, so give full play to your strengths.
What are the advantages of Gao Xinkui's classmates? Just one word – fast. Someone else had just done half of a roll, and he had done it all. With this advantage, it is easy to handle, and on the day of the temple examination, Lord Su specially ran to the examination room and said to the chief examiner: "Now we all pay attention to speeding up, this exam is also mentioned, and the paper will be closed at 5 pm." ”
The examiner was stunned, this can also be accelerated? The exam time is set, how to prepare for the temporary change? However, this chief examiner was also pulled up by Lord Su, and since the leadership had arranged it, no matter how big the difficulties had to be overcome, he agreed with a hard scalp.
At 5 p.m., the candidates were answering questions in a hurry, when suddenly a rapid bell sounded, startling everyone, and then they saw several people collecting the papers one by one like a group of fast catchers. What's going on? The exam time is not over, how can I close the paper? The candidates talked a lot, but they didn't care about the papers, they grabbed it when they came up, which was more powerful than the temporary workers.
According to statistics, a total of 183 candidates, of which more than 100 have not finished, according to the regulations are ranked behind. You know, people with strength will not answer so quickly, but to adjust the rhythm according to time, and then start writing after careful consideration, but who would have thought that this time actually advanced the time?
After the news came out, the whole capital was sensational, and everyone unanimously condemned Sushun: The people you want to help you can understand, but you can't play so big, more than a hundred people have been pitted, you think the examination room is your family's!
When it was time to read the papers, an examiner named Sun Ruwei specially pulled out Gao Xinkui's papers, pointed out a big black dot on it, indicated that he had failed, and said to other examiners: "Sushun has aroused the people's indignation this time, and he must not let him succeed, and I am responsible for the accident alone!" ”
The other examiners also had opinions on Lord Su's play, but they all dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and when they saw someone coming out, they were not afraid, and they added black dots to Gao Xinkuo's rolls, and they were about to become numb.
Lord Su saw that the people were indeed very angry, and if it was not fun for the emperor to blame it, he did not dare to be strong again, and let the examiners evaluate the rankings.
After the ranking came out, Zhejiang candidate Zhong Junsheng ranked first, high school champion.
When the ranking was announced, Zhong Junsheng's classmates were stupid - was it me? Is it really me? Can I even get in?
Rest assured, it is you, although the level is not top-notch in the undergraduate, but stained with fast light, the level higher than yours is not nothing, but they are not done, no matter what, congratulations to you, Zhong Zhuangyuan!
【Zhong Zhuangyuan Tidbits】
Zhong Zhuangyuan's father was a businessman, and he was trained to do business from an early age, hoping to inherit the family business when he grew up. But Xiao Zhong was not interested in business, and every day he held the book and read it, saying that he would take the exam in the future. At that time, unlike now, the status of the reader was much higher than that of the businessman, and when the father saw that the child was still quite ambitious, he sent him to school. Xiao Zhong was also quite competitive, and just in his twenties, he passed the examination.
However, it is not very smooth to go up the exam, and I have not been admitted several times. Xiao Zhong was a little discouraged, so he went to his father, saying that if he could not pass the entrance examination, he would be equal to a white partner, and it would be better to follow his father to do business, and still make a lot of money to marry Bai Fumei. Dad said, "Do you think it's easy to do business?" Every time your father and I deal with the government, we are ridiculed by people, and we can't turn our faces, so we have to be more careful to serve people. Do you say you want to serve people or do you want to be served? ”
This heartfelt remark was more effective than any high-minded remark, and Xiao Zhong never mentioned business again, and went home to continue to study hard, striving to become a person who was served by others. Congratulations, Little Bell, you did it.
However, Zhong Zhuangyuan may be too comfortable to be served, lack of initiative, has not done much in the official field, most of the work is engaged in education, the grade is not very high, the highest only to do the Hanlin Academy to read the bachelor's degree, from the four pins.
There are not many stories handed down by Zhong Zhuangyuan, the most famous of which is a proverb - "Starting from history, ending with the bell". This proverb appeared as early as the early Qing Dynasty, which means that zhejiang province was the first zhuangyuan surname history in the Qing Dynasty, and the last zhuangyuan surname was Zhong.
Checking the title of Zhejiang Province, this is really the case. In the nearly three hundred years of the history of the Qing Dynasty, Zhejiang has produced a total of 20 titles, the first is Shi Dacheng, a native of Yinxian County, Zhejiang, who won the championship in the twelfth year of Shunzhi (1655), and the last is Zhong Junsheng, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, who won the championship in the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), and the gap between 205 years, which is exactly the sentence "Starting from history, ending with the bell".
As for the gaoxinkui classmate, due to the rejection of the examiners, he only ranked 15th in the second division. Later, Gao Xinkui was transferred to Dangzhi County, Wu County, Jiangsu Province, coincidentally, Wu Yuanbing, the inspector of Jiangsu at the time, was a jinshi in the same subject as him, and he was also drawn because he did not finish it, and the results of the examination were not very good, ranking 87th in the top three.
With this relationship, Inspector Wu naturally "took good care" of Gao Xinkui and often bought a few pairs of shoes to give to him. Where in Kochi Prefecture he wore so many shoes, he felt ashamed of the inspector's love, and it didn't take long for him to resign and go home.
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