Li Gou had just finished his lecture in Chonghua Hall and then returned to the academic residence.
At this time, two imperial students, Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou, as well as a dozen scholars who were watching the event arrived.
Li Gou frowned when he saw Chen Manzhou with a bruised nose and swollen face. He looked at Zhang Yue, who was even more unhappy, and immediately asked: "Who can beat him?"
Chen Manzhou pointed out to Zhang Yue and said: "This professor was beaten by this person. Please seek justice for me. It is really insulting to gentlemen."
Li Gou heard this and said: "No matter the merits, it is wrong to hit people. Sanlang, how are your poems and poems? If you fail in the public examination, you will be expelled from Imperial College. I warned you again and again. Now it is also about beating people." , if there is no explanation for this matter, then the public examination will not be held."
Zhang Yue said: "Students understand. People are beaten by students, and students are willing to let everything be dealt with directly."
Li Gou nodded and said, "Let me tell you the reason first."
The two imperial students explained what happened and immediately handed over the paper.
Li Gou glanced at the poem on the paper and thought to himself, isn't this a three-character poem?
Li Gou read it several times and asked Chen Manzhou: "According to you, did you submit this matter to the magistrate of Shuzhou?"
Chen Manzhou said: "Of course, when the student wrote this poem, there was a celestial response. He gave me a few words of praise from the queen and the prefect, and also rewarded me with thirty guan of money."
Li Gou saw that the other party was speaking seriously and sneered in his heart. This poem was written by Chen Shengzhi to Wang Anshi. How could it have reached this person's mouth and become the poem he wrote to Wang Anshi. However, Chen Shengzhi said at the time that he was an unknown student from Pucheng, so he did not ask in detail. Unexpectedly, it was written by a student from Taipei University.
Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue again and thought, with your poetry level, can you write a three-character poem?
But Li Gou then thought about it, Zhang Yue was from Pucheng, and he might know Chen Shengzhi.
Li Gou immediately called for a servant to give some instructions, and then asked him to go to Chen Shengzhi's house first. Then he looked at Zhang Yue and said, "What evidence do you have for saying that you wrote this poem?"
Zhang Yue said: "This poem was indeed written by a student. At that time, the student saw that his classmates did not have a good literacy book at hand, so he made this plan without considering his own abilities. At that time, the student wanted to write a seven-character book, but the seven-character book failed If it doesn't work, I have to write a five-character poem, but even five characters can't be completed. In the end, I thought of writing a four-character rhyme as an enlightenment, just like a thousand-character essay, but after writing it for a while, it didn't work."
Everyone shook their heads and laughed when they heard this.
"So the student finally decided to learn the surnames of hundreds of families and write a three-character poem that was easy to understand and catchy to enlighten the young scholars."
Li Gou recalled Zhang Yue's previous level of poetry and poetry. He could only say that the format and rhythm were correct, but his literary talent was mediocre. Although the literary talent of this three-character poem is not very high, it still requires considerable historical knowledge.
Zhang Yue said: "Sir, if you don't believe it, you can ask the students to compare the content of the three-character poem with the student surnamed Chen."
Li Gou nodded, but was led away by Zhang Yue unknowingly. From the examination of whether this poem was written by Zhang Yue to the debate between Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou about who had a deeper understanding of the three-character poem.
Li Gou said, "Just ask."
Immediately Zhang Yue and Chen Manzhou asked: "Who is this Su Laoquan, twenty-seven years old?"
Chen Manzhou said with a smile: "This is Su Xun, who became a Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou's reign. Who would know?"
Zhang Yue asked again: "So where does the good nature of man come from in the beginning?"
Chen Manzhou said: "This is what Mencius said."
Zhang Yue said: "The Classic of Filial Piety is well understood, and the four books are familiar. Which four books are these?"
Chen Manzhou said with a smile: "The Analects of Confucius has twenty chapters. Mencius has only seven chapters. His master of the Doctrine of the Mean is Zi Si Si Bi. His master of great learning is Zeng Zi. He cultivates himself to the level of peace.
"Of course the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Doctrine of the Mean, the Four Books of Great Learning, haha, this is obvious."
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Then do you know who wrote these four books?"
Chen Manzhou was stunned and said: "The Four Books are the Four Books. If there is any other explanation, please don't force it."
Zhang Yue shook his head and said: "How could I arbitrarily determine the seat of the Four Books? Brother, you are short-sighted. Since you know that 'man is originally good by nature' comes from Mencius, how can you not know who respected Mencius the most after Mencius?"
"this?"
Zhang Yue said: "I will teach you a lesson. The Four Books are written by Han Tuizhi. The Four Books are written by the four masters, namely Confucius, Mencius, Zisizi and Zengzi."
Chen Manzhou was speechless when he heard this, and then argued forcefully: "You said that the Book of Four Sons was written by Han Tuizhi, is that Han Tuizhi?"
Zhang Yue said: "The truth will be known for itself."
An imperial student on the side said: "You don't even know what Han Tuizhi said, so why did you pretend to be someone else?"
The scholars watching on the side also said clearly: "Brother Chen, you are so shameless, you actually copied other people's poems."
"This man is really shameless. I will go back and tell my fellow countrymen about him."
"Let's go, let's go, I thought there would be fun."
When Chen Manzhou saw everyone leaving, he immediately panicked and exposed it. Then he looked at Zhang Yue and said harshly: "I won't let this matter go."
After saying this, Chen Manzhou wanted to leave. The two imperial students wanted to stop him, but Li Gou said, "Let him go."
Chen Manzhou left immediately as if he had been granted amnesty.
Li Gou walked around for a while, then said to Zhang Yue: "Is this poem really yours?"
Zhang Yue said: "It is true that the student's poem was intended to be used for educational purposes and did not want to be famous. However, someone actually stole the student's poem. The student wants to seek justice."
"real?"
Li Gou immediately picked up the three-character poem and asked Zhang Yue a few questions, but Zhang Yue was even more tricky when he asked Chen Manzhou just now.
Fortunately, Zhang Yue now has a very solid foundation in Confucian classics, so he did not fail the exam.
Zhang Yue knew that he had misjudged the situation.
If an ordinary Taixue teacher knew that a student in Taixue had written something like a three-character poem that was praised by a state magistrate, and promoted education in the local area, he would definitely be eager to write a special book and report it to the court immediately.
But Li Gou didn't. Instead, he was cautious and confirmed repeatedly.
Zhang Yue wiped the sweat from his forehead. Other time-travelers didn't have any poetry skills. They could just pick up a book of poems from later generations and get a round of applause. Why was it so difficult for him? What's more, I didn't want to copy it at the beginning, I just taught it to Zhangqiu.
In fact, it was Zhang Yue's poetry that was usually too poor. If it had been written by a student from the Jinshi Department, Li Gou wouldn't have doubted it after hearing those discerning words just now.
Li Gou didn't say anything and asked everyone else to go back, leaving Zhang Yue alone in his academy.
Zhang Yue maintained a respectful posture, while Li Gou was eating tea, eating some cakes, and writing documents. Anyway, he didn't even say a word to Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue didn't know what kind of medicine Li Gou was selling.
At this moment, a servant walked in from outside and handed Li Gou a note.
Li Gou's expression became slightly relieved after looking back, then he looked at Zhang Yue and said, "Go back first and ask whether this poem was written by you. I will give you an answer after the public examination."
What did Zhang Yue mean when he heard Li Gou's words?
Zhang Yue saluted Li Gou and was about to leave the official residence.
"Wait!" Li Gou said.
Zhang Yue turned around and said, "I don't know what other instructions you have to tell me directly?"
But when Li Gou put his hands behind his back and said, "You made the mistake of advocating Mencius' words in front of me, I am not Mencius!"
It is well known that Li Gou is not Meng.
For example, I have read Jin Yongli’s criticism of Mencius.
'How can a beggar have two wives? How can his neighbor get many chickens? At that time, there was still Emperor Zhou, and everyone was talking about Wei Qi. 'It comes from Li Gou's words.
In addition, Li Gou also wrote a poem "Hello Mencius", "It is unknown whether Meng Ke would have finished his donation and was convinced that he was still crazy." Yue Wengfang is the emperor, so how can his son-in-law be killed by his brother? '
This means that Gusou asked Shun to repair the roof of the warehouse and suddenly removed the ladder. Gusou asked Shun to fill in the well, and asked his second wife and son Xiang to bury the soil.
Li Gou said that the logic of this matter was wrong. Yao had already married his two daughters to Shun at that time. Shun's father-in-law was the emperor, so Gusou would not kill Shun no matter how hard he thought about it. So Li Gou said that Mencius was stupid and could take these things seriously.
Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue's back, holding in his hand the small note that Chen Shengzhi had given him.
The note confirmed that Zhang Yue was the author of the three-character poem.
Li Gou believed it in the end, or maybe he didn't know the twists and turns in the process, but Chen Shengzhi said this, which means that he is probably not wrong.
Li Gou thought to himself that he should report this matter to the court. As for whether it can be adopted, it will be up to Zhang Yue.
As for Wang Anshi, I have to say something.
By the way, the last time the primary school professor at Prince Pu’s Mansion started teaching the clan’s children with this three-character poem.
Li Gou didn't know why he thought of this. In June this year, Prime Minister Han Qi, Bao Zheng, a direct bachelor of Longtuge, and others proposed to the officials to establish a heir apparent. The officials said that there was a woman in the harem who was pregnant, and they would wait and see.
Just a few days ago, news came from the palace that another daughter was born in the harem.
So Li Gou took Zhang Yue's three-character poem to find Wu Zhongfu, the supervisor.
Wu Zhongfu didn't want to deal with Li Gou. He saw Li Gou coming and said, "Li Zhi told me why you are here."
Li Gou said: "I would like to report to the judge that this is a three-character poem written by a Taipei student. It was recommended by Wang Jiefu and cited in the Changzhou Mongolian School. I would like to use this to evacuate the imperial court."
"The reason why I am a scholar is because of Wang Jiefu."
Li Gou said: "This poem is catchy and easy to understand. It is suitable for elementary school students. This is a contribution to the creation of the holy religion."
Wu Zhongfu took the three-character poem and read it and said: "It's not even seven or five characters. The words are so simple, how can it be submitted to the memorial? Doesn't this make all the officials laugh? Li Zhijiao, are you trying to embarrass me in front of all the officials?"
Li Gou said: "The supervisor..."
"Okay, no need to say more, I will not agree to you. You should try your best to make an explanation in front of the officials during the public examination. Do you know that the government and the public have long been dissatisfied with the imperial students' criticism of the government, if not I've said all the good things for you, but I'm afraid I won't even be able to establish this university. As for such a trick and flattery, you don't have to bother with it."
After Wu Zhongfu finished speaking, he put down the three-character poem.
When Li Gou saw this, he immediately walked away.
Wu Zhongfu shook his head and said: "Kangsheng, what a crazy person."
When Li Gou returned to his apartment, he and Wu Zhongfu clashed with each other for more than one day.
Three feet of ice cannot be frozen in one day.
Although he had expected that Wu Zhongfu would not look good on him before he came, he was still very angry now.
Li Gou immediately got angry and thought that since you are not willing to submit the memorial, then I will list the memorial separately.
Thinking of this, Li Gou went ahead and started writing it on the public case.
