Want to learn poetry? The kind who were demoted to Lingnan.
Such was the relationship between Wu Chuhou and Cai Que. Cai Que learned poetry and poetry from Wu Chuhou when he was young. Later, when Cai Que became prime minister, Wu Chuhou came to ask Cai Que for his guidance.
Cai Que did not agree, and later Wu Chuhou joined Wang Gui's sect. Cai Que squeezed Wu Chuhou in everything.
Wu Chuhou was furious and finally initiated the Che Gaiting Poetry Case, causing Cai Que to be demoted to Lingnan, where he eventually died of old age.
Some people said that although Cai indeed deserved to die, he was not killed in the name of poetry. Wu Chuhou's move was also honored as a traitor.
Therefore, Zhang Yue heard that Cai Que recommended him to study poetry from Wu Chuhou. Of course, Zhang Yue knew that the other party meant well. However, Zhang Yue thought that he was not ready to risk being demoted to Lingnan to study poetry, so he declined Cai Que politely. .
When Zhang Yue went to visit Cai Que, he brought two bottles of plain wine, several propaganda pens, and a corner of Shu paper.
Vegetarian wine is eaten on weekdays. If you eat some vegetarian wine in Taixue, you will not be scolded without being directly seen. The students usually have a lot of homework, so they usually like this breath.
As for the Xuanbi Shu note, it was given to Cai Que to congratulate him on being named on the gold medal list next spring.
Cai Que was very happy to see Zhang Yue giving gifts.
On the way back to the Zhaishe, Zhang Yue saw Cai Que coming after him with a dose of Taimo and several kilograms of pomegranates. This pomegranate is also called golden cherry. Because Jiangnan avoided Qian Miu's name, he called the pomegranate Golden Cherry.
When Zhang Yue saw Cai Ye being like this, Zhou Zhang couldn't help but said: "Brother Zhizheng, you're out of touch with this. This Xuanbi plain wine is just something I got, and you're embarrassing me by doing this."
Zhang Yue knew that Cai Que's family situation was indeed not good. His father was dismissed by Chen Zhizhong, and the family lived in Chenzhou, where they had no meal at all.
In the past, Zhang Dun's brother-in-law Huang Haoqian often helped him. Even so, after arriving at Imperial College, Cai Que's life was very tight.
Cai Que said with a smile: "Sanlang, as the saying goes, courtesy reciprocates. You said that this xuan pen and plain wine are handy gifts, but no one else gave them to you, only me. It shows that you keep Brother Yu in your heart. I accept this friendship. ”
Zhang Yue stopped refusing and said, "Okay, I'm just waiting for the good news from Brother Chizheng, Dakui!"
Cai Que's eyes were firm and he said: "Cheng Sanlang has said good things... What's wrong, what else can Sanlang say?"
Zhang Yue hesitated for a moment, but decided to speak out: "Brother Zhizheng is upright and refuses to take advantage of his friends. This is the behavior of a gentleman. I think that when he is released as an official, he will be able to take care of the people in this way, be fair and honest." ."
Cai Que smiled and said: "Sanlang, what's the point? I can't see the time to let go now. Farewell!"
Zhang Yue looked at Cai Que and said to his heart, Cai Que was young and poor, and was accused of corruption and bribery when he first became an official. The stigma was written on his resume, which made his official reputation never good.
I don't know how far he can listen even if I remind him like this.
One must be cautious when entering an official career. If he makes a wrong step at the beginning, he will have to bear this punishment for the rest of his life. The normal route of promotion will be very difficult, unless he is willing to find other ways or cling to noble people.
But is it an easy road to cling to a noble person?
Not only must you be good at flattering and be good at flattering, but more importantly, you must have value that noble people value and be obedient.
Zhang Yue didn't know how much Cai Que would listen to his advice, so he could only express his sincerity.
After Zhang Yue returned to his dormitory, he distributed all the kilograms of pomegranates donated by Cai Que to his classmates.
This is also what his brother Zhang Shi has always said. If you have delicious food on hand, you must share it with others and don't keep it to yourself.
During this period, a classmate also took a pomegranate and ate it. While eating, he laughed and said, "Sanlang must have earned a lot of money from engraving seals recently."
Zhang Yue smiled and said nothing when he heard this.
There is no way, although there are many outstanding people in Taixue, there are also many who are smart in reading and well-educated people. However, there are also many people who lack some thoroughness in how they deal with others. However, most of these people do not have bad intentions, and Zhang Yue does not take it seriously.
It is said that his daily expenses are indeed obtained by carving seals. Every month, he sells and gives away two and a half yuan, and he can also earn two or three yuan.
Zhang Yue received a letter from his family. The family had asked the messenger who went to Beijing on business to bring him winter clothes and several pounds of money. It was estimated that he would be able to have a lot more money by then.
Zhang Yue carved two more seals that night, and the next day was the day when the Imperial Academy rested.
Zhang Yue happened to have five or six idle chapters at hand that he wanted to get rid of.
Of course, brother Ouyang Fa also often comes to Zhang Yue to buy leisure stamps, but among friends, Zhang Yue can never ask for money. When Ouyang Fa asks for something from himself, Zhang Yue always gives it to him as a gift.
Of course, Ouyang Fa and the two brothers don't ask for anything in vain. They always give good things as gifts, which always makes Zhang Yue very embarrassed.
Therefore, Zhang Yue engraved leisure seals on his hands. In addition to giving gifts to Ouyang Xiu and Ouyang Fa, he always sold them to Daxiangguo Temple to earn some extra money.
That day Zhang Yue got up early and went to visit Ouyang Xiu at his home.
Ouyang Xiu is now a bachelor of Hanlin and a bachelor of Longtuge, and has the right to know Kaifeng Mansion.
This position is not the 'Kaifeng Prefecture Yin' often mentioned in dramas. This position is not permanent. Generally, everyone has the authority to know the Kaifeng Prefecture and the Kaifeng Prefecture.
Ouyang Xiu knew that Kaifeng Mansion was busy with affairs. Zhang Yue had never met Ouyang Xiu again since he first met him.
Zhang Yue visited Ouyang Xiu's house several times in the past six months, and it was always Ouyang Fa and Ouyang Pei who received him.
Zhang Yue went to Ouyang Xiu's house today and bought some water to present to Zhi.
Unexpectedly, Ouyang Xiu was at the house.
Ouyang Fa accompanied Zhang Yue into the house and told Ouyang Xiu to receive guests at the house, and asked him to come with him to get to know each other.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue cheered up and walked into the hall.
But I saw Ouyang Xiu sitting high in the hall, with two young officials in green robes sitting below him.
Zhang Yue first greeted Ouyang Xiu, and Ouyang Xiu smiled and said to the two people in the hall: "This is the Sanlang of the Zhang family that I just mentioned to you."
When the two heard this, they stood up and bowed.
One person called himself Chen Shunyu, a native of Xiuzhou.
Another person called himself Qian Zao, a native of Suzhou.
Qian Zao smiled lightly and said: "Sanlang, he is indeed a son of a famous family."
As for Chen Shunqin, he said: "Brother Zihou's younger brother, I was also present at the Wu Mansion banquet that day. The phrase 'all the surnames in the world look up' are still fresh in my memory."
Zhang Yue humbly said that he was ashamed, and these two people had heard about it.
Chen Shunyu studied under Hu Yuan when he was in Huzhou, and won the Jinshi in the sixth year of Qingli.
As for Qian Zao, he had an even better background. His ancestor was Qian Mi of the Wuyue Kingdom, and his uncle was Qian Mingyi, a Hanlin scholar, who was a mortal enemy of Ouyang Xiu.
Qian Mingyi used the incident between Ouyang Xiu and his niece to criticize Ouyang Xiu, and eventually Ouyang Xiu was demoted to Chuzhou. However, another Qian family member, Qian Weiyan, was Ouyang Xiu's boss and was kind to him.
However, I heard that when Ouyang Xiu was writing the History of the Five Dynasties, he made many disparaging remarks about the Qian family of Wu and Yue. This was probably an act of revenge.
Zhang Yue wondered why Qian Zao was here? Since he was an enemy, how could he appear in Ouyang Xiu's private residence?
Zhang Yue was secretly surprised, and soon the two of them said goodbye.
Ouyang Xiu's expression was a little dull, and Zhang Yue didn't dare to ask any more questions.
Ouyang Xiu held a stack of manuscripts and said with a smile: "These two want to take a major next year, so they came to me to submit their strategies."
Zhang Yue suddenly realized.
Dake is the system examination. According to regulations, those who participate in the system examination must submit fifty policy essays, twenty-five policy essays, and twenty-five essay essays to the two system officials or above. Then the officials of the two systems will select those who are excellent in both poetry and theory to participate in the cabinet examination. Today, these two people came to Ouyang Xiu to submit their manuscripts.
Zhang Yue had an idea in his mind and immediately told Ouyang Xiu that he was looking for a poetry teacher.
Ouyang Xiu said to Zhang Yue: "I have read your poems and poems about the meaning of the classics. The meaning of the classics is above the theory, and the theory is above the poems. As for the poems, it is difficult to read."
Zhang Yue knew that this was a fact. He really had no talent in poetry, because this could not be improved by rote memorization.
Ouyang Fa laughed at the side and said: "Sanlang is not good at poetry, so why not take the college entrance examination! I just don't know if Sanlang is sure about the Six Essays in the Secret Pavilion."
Ouyang Xiu glanced at Zhang Yue and scolded Ouyang: "Didn't you harm Saburo?"
In addition to the nomination of two recommenders, the system examination also requires the approval of two system officials. The most difficult one is the Six Secret Pavilion Essays.
The Six Essays of the Secret Pavilion are so difficult, and the scope of the questions is so broad that it’s so wide that it’s mind-boggling!
To what extent?
Including 'Nine Classics, Seventeen Histories, Seven Books, Guoyu, Xunzi, Yangtze, Guanzi, Wen Zhongzi's text or commentaries'.
In other words, candidates must first memorize the text and annotations of these books.
It took Zhang Yue several years to memorize the Nine Classics.
As for what is the Seventeen Histories? In future generations, he will be the same as an outstanding person who can read the Twenty-Four Histories.
The Seven Books are Sun Tzu's Art of War, Wu Zi's Art of War, etc., which are also the Seven Books of Martial Arts. If you learn them all, you can become the number one scholar in martial arts.
And so on.
Anyone who has read the text and commentaries of any of the Nine Classics, Seventeen Histories, and Seven Books can be called a master among liberal arts students.
The talents selected by the system should not only be able to master classics, but also be able to understand history, and even be able to "talk on paper".
Zhang Yue immediately said: "I have learned from Ouyang that I will master the Nine Classics at the age of fourteen."
If most people say that he has mastered the Nine Classics, others will say that he is not ashamed.
Zhang Yue is very confident, and he will slap anyone in the face who dares to question.
Seeing Zhang Yue's passionate expression, Ouyang Xiu said casually: "Xiu already knows you..."
Zhang Yue had a dark look on his face, boss, can you please stop playing tricks and be more serious?
Ouyang Xiu smiled and said: "...Xiu already knows that you are very good at the Nine Classics. You took eleven exams when you were in the county school, and you passed all nine exams except one exam. You are truly a talent with broad knowledge and memorization that is rare in a hundred years." , It’s just a pity that I can’t take the major exam now.”
"I don't know why?" Zhang Yue asked.
Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "The major exams require approval from officials of more than two systems. Now you are not well-known. This is difficult. The second reason is that in recent years, most of the people who have tried the major exams are those who have been admitted as Jinshi. You should give priority to passing the Jinshi."
"It sounds like you are quite like another student of mine, Zeng Zigu. He is good at strategy and argumentation, but he is not good at the essay examination, so he failed many times. It was not until last year that he passed the imperial examination."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that after all, he still had to take the imperial examination first, but his poetry was indeed a shortcoming.
Zhang Yue heard this: "Scholar Ouyang, my poems..."
Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "It doesn't matter. I'll just find someone to teach you. I just don't know if he will agree or not."
