He has been teaching for more than 20 years and has gained a lot of talents all over the world. Liu, the governor of Qiu County, is one of his disciples.
Although Lu Xueru failed to achieve his lifelong wish in the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty and obtain the highest honor of being a Jinshi, he still had the same background as a Jinshi.
Lu Xueru was born into a "scholarly family" surnamed Lu in Houliang Village, Qiu County, Central Plains. As soon as he was born, the Lu family trained him according to the "scientific examination to obtain officials" model.
Since the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty, when Lu Xueru was three years old, his grandfather Lu Wenxing began to teach him the "Three Character Classic" and "The Thousand Character Classic". The "Jinshi Dream" was his Lu family's dream of entering an official career for generations.
During the Tang Dynasty, the subjects that scholars liked to take were Ming Jing Ke and Jin Shi Ke. Ming Jing mainly takes Confucian classics as the examination content. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed hundreds of schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone," the rulers of ancient times focused on using Confucianism to unify people's thoughts. This is an important reason for the popularity of Ming Jing. one.
As important as the Ming Jing Ke is the Jin Shi Ke. In the early Tang Dynasty, the Jin Shi Ke mainly focused on current affairs and policy, and the quality of the articles and poems was used as a mark of examination. In the atmosphere of this era that valued literature, many Jinshi who were appointed as officials and had not yet been selected by the Ministry of Personnel were regarded as future ministers by people wearing common people's clothes.
The Jinshi subject attracts many scholars to take the exam, resulting in fierce competition and difficulty in passing. There is a saying that "thirty-year-old Ming Jing, fifty-year-old Jinshi." If you pass the Ming Jing exam at thirty, you are already old, but you are still very young if you pass the Ming Jing exam at fifty. It can be seen that the examination of Jinshi subject is more difficult than that of Mingjing subject.
According to the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty, candidates who qualified for the imperial examination could go to Beijing to take the examination.
Those who pass the examination will be called Jinshi.
If you become a Jinshi, you can officially become an official. Some of the outstanding ones are selected into the Hanlin Academy and are called Hanlin. This is the highest "academic title". Ordinary Jinshi can at least serve as magistrates. This is what ancient literati strived for. life goals.
Lu Xueru's father, Lu Jianqing, was not only eager to learn since he was a child, but also very smart. He had a memory that he could remember. After reading all the books at home, he often walked several miles to Qiu County Academy to borrow books. His diligence and studiousness were evident. It is not difficult to see that he had lofty ambitions since he was a child. So well read.
Lu Jianqing passed the provincial examination when he was twenty years old.
Three years later, he entered the Imperial Academy to study, where he was highly regarded and his reputation grew.
Three years later, he re-examined in the Ministry of Rites and ranked among the best. However, because he was scratched on his face by a tree branch when he was climbing a tree as a child, leaving a scar. The examiner thought it was indecent, so he was only awarded the first place in the imperial examination.
Later, his literary fame spread far and wide, and he was promoted to a bachelor's degree in the Hanlin Academy.
During the years when he was in charge of the Hanlin Academy, because of his talent and knowledge, he gathered the opinions of hundreds of scholars on governing the country and benefiting the people, studied carefully, and wrote books, especially on the governance of the country and economic development. .
Lu Jianqing's achievements are all due to his love of learning. He lived to learn, which resulted in "blindness in the right eye" in his later years, but he "still kept reading."
Therefore, some civil servants in the dynasty said that intelligence was only a small factor, and that a person with a photographic memory also relied on diligence and perseverance; some praised him for "extensive knowledge"; some even believed that Lu Jianqing "not only He is a big shot in the neighboring county and a celebrity in the history of the Tang Dynasty."
Lu Jianqing has profound attainments in various fields. He can be said to be a master of Confucianism, and in literature he is known as "poems all over the world", but he prides himself on being proficient in economics.
Lu Jianqing is not only knowledgeable, but also very commendable for his character. His national thoughts are infiltrated with the profound spirit of traditional Chinese etiquette and culture. Historians of the Tang Dynasty praised him as "the wise assistant of Zhongxing" and "the great Confucian scholar of the times". He later died of illness in Chang'an at the age of seventy-seven.
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Lu Xueru himself inherited the inheritance from his ancestors and was outstanding in talent and learning. In 618 AD, he passed the provincial examination and passed the examination and was qualified to participate in the examination.
Lu Xueru, who had the world at his heart, failed to make the cut after three exams, although his paper was well received by the examiner.
Lu Xueru had no choice but to pack his luggage and return north to his hometown.
Lu Xueru went to Lin'an City to take the exam this time. Although he failed to pass the exam, he gained two big gains. First, he met Bole-Li Chunfeng here.
Li Chunfeng ranked first among more than a thousand people called by the imperial court to take examinations on virtuous subjects and answer policy questions. The two discussed current affairs together and had a great time talking, becoming close friends; secondly, on the way home, they inspected current affairs in various places along the way, and gained a clear understanding of the people's sentiments, which greatly increased their knowledge.
The spring breeze and autumn rain have lasted for three more years, and now Lu Lang is here again.
This time, Lu Xueru was almost admitted.
His fellow examiners highly recommended his paper, and the chief examiner also believed that this candidate was "well-spoken, not overly branching, smooth, smooth, and well versed. The second exam was particularly outstanding," and he was prepared to be admitted into the top ten.
However, when the results were announced, the examiner discovered that there was an extra quota in Zhongyuan, but Lingnan had not yet filled up the quota. In order to balance the situation, Lu Xueru's Jinshi qualification was removed and Lingnan was replaced. He once again lost his name to Sun Shan.
Later, in order to appease Lu Xueru, the examiner gave him a "transcript" position and allowed him to enter the Hanlin Academy.
However, the proud and arrogant Lu Xueru was not willing to take up such a copywriting position. He wanted to give it a try, so he refused.
Another three years later, Lu Xueru participated in the joint examination for the third time.
In this exam, Lu Xueru was very good at writing, and he performed as well as he could with divine help.
However, when the examiner reviewed his answer sheet, he found an obvious typo: the word "Pu" for promotion was replaced with the word "Pu" for guidance.
This time, it was a word mistake, also known as Luosun Mountain.
Exactly: "If you miss the slightest bit, you will miss the mark by a thousand miles"!
Jinshi has been the "ticket" to become an official in China's feudal society since the imperial examination. If he fails to pass the Jinshi examination, Lu Xueru will lose his bright path into officialdom.
For this reason, Lu Xueru fell into depression and loss.
Lu Xueru was a man of eight talents, more talented than any other scholar. He participated in the joint examination three times and failed in all the exams.
At that time, an eminent scholar in Chang'an City felt this. He looked up to the sky and sighed: "The West River flows eastward. Although there are talents who study Confucianism, there is no chance of becoming a Jinshi." What a pity, what a pity!
If you have never taken the imperial examination or passed the imperial examination, even if you become a high-ranking official, you will be regarded as not coming from a "proper" background and will be looked down upon by your colleagues.
Lu Xueru failed to win the title of Sun Shan in all three examinations. Although he was a practical academic official with great talents and practical application in the world, he was later given the special title "from the same background as a Jinshi" by the emperor.
However, he was often ridiculed and ridiculed by officials in the DPRK. Even Li Chunfeng, whom he met in Beijing for the first time and regarded as a close friend and bole, once mocked him as a "fellow Jinshi" after drinking at a gathering of close friends.
Therefore, Lu Xueru also scorned and dismissed those officials who were Jinshi and did not apply practical knowledge to the world, and he also left a lofty saying that "it is better to promote people than Jinshi".
If someone came to see him and handed him a name card with the title of "Jinshi" written on it, he might have to show off for a long time;
If the name card says "Scholar" or "Juren", he will not only give priority to receive him, but he may also happily go over to shake hands and have a chat. This is because Lu Xueru has sympathy for the same problem and has a "common language" with them. reason.
Although Lu Xueru failed to fulfill his "Jinshi dream" on the way to the imperial examination, the emperor specially granted him "the same background as a Jinshi".
Because Lu Xueru couldn't stand the tendency of the ministers to follow the trend, he had the idea of not serving as an official in the court but as a local official, and reported this to the emperor.
The emperor agreed and was sent to Zhongzhou as the prefect.
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Lu Xueru had read four books and five classics, and was a man of great talent. Although he was no longer a high-ranking official in the imperial court, he could still live a comfortable life as a magistrate, prefect, and local official.
Once, two men, one tall and one short, came to the Yamen noisily to beat drums and complain.
Lu Xueru has been the magistrate of Zhongzhou for more than half a year and has yet to formally sit in court and try a case. Today, by chance, he wanted to see what cases could be tried in this remote place.
So Lu Xueru put on his official uniform and sat in the hall, and issued an order: "Send the drummer up here!"
As soon as the tall man came to the court, he immediately knelt down and complained: "My lord, I know clearly that before his death, the father-in-law of Huang Dali, a humble citizen, made a will: "If Qin Ze is not my son, all the family property will be given to my son-in-law and no outsiders may encroach upon it." That's it. Submit your will.
After Lu Xueru saw it, he loudly scolded the short man Tan Zefei.
Qin Zefei immediately knelt down and complained: "Master Qingtian, here is the will my father made. Please read it carefully." After that, he took out the will from his bag and presented it.
Lu Xueru took the will and looked at it. He saw that the will said this: "Qin Zefei is my son. All the family property will be given to my son-in-law. Outsiders are not allowed to usurp it."
After seeing this, Lu Xueru was stunned. With a "slap" sound, he pointed at Huang Dali and scolded: "I think you are such a cunning person and your son-in-law is an outsider. You are so bold to fight for the inheritance and obey orders. Give him fifty bucks and pull him out of court."
How did Huang Dali know that he couldn't get the inheritance, and he also suffered fifty blows? He really had no way to appeal for his grievances.
It turned out that there was a local boss named Qin who gave birth to a boy and a girl. The man's name is Qin Zefei, and because he is the eldest, people in the village often call him Lao Yi. Seeing that he is getting old, Boss Qin is afraid that the fortune he created will be lost to his son after his death, so he talks to his son about ways to make money all day long.
Unexpectedly, although Tan Zefei was already in his thirties, he was not interested in making a fortune and studied diligently at home from morning to night. Tan Zefei did have a quirk. He took a fancy to the book and would buy it no matter how much money he needed.
Boss Qin's son-in-law, Huang Dali, was a cunning and cunning man. His father-in-law's wealth made him salivate, so he often complimented his father-in-law in various ways and pretended to be very filial.
A year later, Mr. Qin fell ill with an incurable disease and saw that he did not have many days to live. He was afraid that his family's wealth would be lost to Qin Zefei after his death, so he called his son-in-law and son to his bedside and said to them: "Fei'er, although you are My son, but he is useless. My son-in-law, Ali, is filial and obedient. Although he is not his biological son, he is half of his son. After my death, all the family property will be given to Ali. Fei'er, read your book and don't compete with your brother-in-law for my property. .”
Mr. Tan was afraid that after his death, the two of them would quarrel. When it comes to family rules, the son-in-law may be unreasonable, so he asks the son-in-law to bring a pen and inkstone and orders the son to record it by hand.
Mr. Tan said: "Qin Ze is not my son. All the family property will be given to my son-in-law, and no outsiders are allowed to appropriate it. My father's instructions."
A few quarters of an hour later, Mr. Zhang breathed his last.
After the funeral was completed, Huang Dali hired a large trailer to transport away the family property left by his father-in-law.
Tan Zefei said politely: "Brother-in-law, the father's debt is repaid by the son, and the father's legacy is inherited by the son. This is a matter of course and has always been this way. Don't be so arrogant."
When Huang Dali heard this, he became angry and said loudly: "When my father-in-law was dying, he gave instructions, and he gave them as proof. That's why I said you were arrogant." After saying this, he cursed loudly.
Tan Zefei said in a low voice: "Brother-in-law, you and I are quarreling with each other. We have been arguing to no avail. Why don't we go to the state government office and ask the magistrate to judge."
After Huang Dali heard this, he said confidently: "Just go, I have a will as proof, am I afraid that you can't do it?!"
So, there was the scene that happened before.
Afterwards, Lu Xueru discovered that when Tan Zefei recorded his father's will, he added punctuation according to his own wishes.
Lu Xueru personally experienced the trial of this case and couldn't help but sigh: I, Lu Xueru, have read poetry and books all my life, have extraordinary knowledge, have a good family background, and am an important official in the imperial court. I didn't expect that I would be played by Qin Zefei for a while in this state government. Being deceived by the word game, he was so angry that he gave up his official position and retired to the spring forest to set up a private school to teach and educate people.
