At this point, the movie screen changes and continues to play:
After passing the scholar examination, Fan Jin was finally proud and proud.
The next day, Fan Jin Shao was not allowed to pay homage to his neighbors.
Wei Haogu made an appointment with a group of friends who were also involved in the crime to interact with each other.
Because it was the year of the provincial examination, I held several literary meetings.
Fan Jin has been very happy these days.
Unexpectedly, at the end of June, these accomplices asked Fan to go to the provincial examination.
But Fan Jin opened the door and looked for money, and found that the rice in the rice vat at home was all gone, not to mention the money.
Since there was no payment fee, he could only discuss it with his father-in-law.
When I arrived at my father-in-law's house, I was spat in the face by the butcher Hu, and he cursed me like crazy, saying:
"Don't waste your time! You just feel like you've won a husband, and you're like a toad craving for swan meat!"
I have heard people say that even when the Prime Minister was in charge, it was not your article. It was the Master who saw you abandoning the crow, but was not satisfied with it and gave it to you.
Now I want to win over the master!
The master among these is the 'Wenquxing' in the sky!
Don't you see that all the gentlemen in the Zhang Mansion in the city have tons of furniture, and they all have big ears?
A sharp-mouthed monkey like you should take a pee and take care of yourself!
No matter what, I just want to eat the swan's fart!
Accept this as soon as possible and find a place for you in our agency next year. Find a few taels of silver every year to support your immortal old lady and your wife!
You asked me to borrow money, but I killed a pig a day and couldn't make any money, so I threw all the money into the water with you and told my whole family to eat the northwest wind!"
Fan Jin was scolded so hard that he couldn't touch the door.
When Fan Jin resigned from his father-in-law and came back, he thought to himself: "The honorable master said that my time has come. Since ancient times, there has been no one outside the court. If I don't go in and give him a test, how can I be willing to accept it?"
Because of consultation with several co-defendants, he went to the city and countryside to take the exam without telling his father-in-law.
After leaving the field, even go home.
Zaicai's family has been hungry for two or three days.
Butcher Hu found out and scolded him again.
During this period, Fan Jin suffered countless looks at him. The embarrassment at home, the lack of money, and the insults from outside made him feel extremely depressed.
As the movie played, everyone was very nervous. Naturally, these poor students had a sense of empathy. The movie was called Fan Jin Zhongju.
Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, don’t bully the middle-aged and poor! ! !
They all wanted to see Fan Jin win the exam and feel proud.
The Confucian scholars and the children of aristocratic families cursed angrily:
"This Li Xiao is clearly insulting us scholars. I am a scholar of character. How can I bend my waist for two buckets of rice?"
"You'll have to wait and see. When Fan Jin is successful, I'll have to beat my father-in-law to death."
Obviously, they have lost touch with reality and cannot care about the suffering of the people.
But this movie shot by Zhu Yunwen is actually what happened.
Let more students feel the same way.
At this point, the movie screen changes and continues to play:
On the day when the results were announced, there was no rice for breakfast at home, so his mother told Fan Jin:
"I have a hen that lays eggs. You can quickly sell it and buy a few liters of rice to cook porridge. I'm so hungry that I can't even see."
Fan Jin hurriedly hugged the chicken and walked out of the door.
I had only been there for less than two hours when I heard the sound of gongs and three horses rushing into the future. The three men got off their horses and tied them to the thatched shed. They all shouted: "Please come out, Mr. Fan. Congratulations on graduating from high school!"
The mother didn't know what was going on, so she was so frightened that she hid in the room. When she heard that she was hit, she dared to stick out her head and said, "Everyone, please sit down. My son has just gone out."
Those who reported it said: "It turns out to be an old lady."
Everyone gathered to ask for money.
During the commotion, a few more horses came, and the second and third reports came in. There was a room full of people, and the bottom of the thatched hut was full.
The neighbors came and crowded to watch.
The old lady had no choice but to ask a neighbor to find her son.
The neighbor rushed to Jishang and was nowhere to be found.
I went straight to Jidongtou and saw Fan Jin holding a chicken with a straw mark in his hand. He was pacing, looking around, looking for someone to buy it.
The neighbor said: "Mr. Fan, go back quickly! Congratulations on your success, the people who brought the good news are crowded in the house."
Fan Jin thought he was trying to coax him, pretending not to hear, lowering his head and walking forward.
When the neighbor saw that he was ignoring him, he came up and tried to take the chicken from his hand. Fan Jin said: "Why are you taking my chicken? You don't want to buy it."
The neighbor said: "You have won the prize. Let your family send the newspaper."
Fan Jin said: "My neighbor, you know that I have no rice today and I want to sell this chicken to save my life. Why do you use this to confuse me? I am not stubborn like you. Just go back and don't miss me selling the chicken."
Seeing that he didn't believe it, the neighbor snatched the chicken away with his hands, threw it on the ground, and pulled it back. The reporter saw it and said: "Okay, the new noble man is back."
Just as he was about to hug him and talk, Fan Jin walked into the room and saw that the newspaper poster in the middle had been hung up. It read: "Good news for your master, Fan Tao, ranked seventh in the provincial examination of high school. The Beijing News has been listed in Huangjia ."
"I won, I won, I finally won."
The poor students breathed a deep sigh of relief, feeling as if they had won the lottery.
The plot has reached its climax at this point. Just waiting for the moment of turning over, countless students feel that this is the end of all hardships. How miserable it was before, but now it is so exciting.
But they soon fell silent.
The movie continues:
Fan Jin just didn't read it, read it once, read it again, clapped his hands together, laughed, and said: "Hey! Okay! I won!"
As he spoke, he fell down, clenched his teeth, and fell unconscious.
The old lady panicked and drank a few mouthfuls of boiling water.
He climbed up, clapped his hands again and laughed: "Oh! Okay! I'm hit!"
Smiling, he couldn't help but run out the door, startling the reporter and neighbors.
Not long after walking out of the gate, I kicked myself into the pond. When I got up, my hair fell loose. My hands were filled with yellow mud, and my body was dripping with water.
The crowd couldn't hold him back, clapped and laughed, and walked all the way to the market. Everyone looked at each other with big eyes and said together: "It turns out that the new noble man is crazy with joy."
The old lady cried: "How could such a miserable life happen? I won a certain exam and got this stupid disease! When will I get better from this madness?"
Mrs. Hu said: "I went out so well in the morning, but why did I get such a disease? What should I do?"
At this time, Fan Jin was very dirty, and when he saw people, he would shout "I've won, I've won," as if he was going crazy.
See here.
Everyone was silent. They didn't expect that Fan Jin would end up like this. The happy people went crazy.
After taking the exam for more than 40 years, I finally passed the exam when I was over 50 years old, but I went crazy, which is extremely ironic.
But then came the irony.
In the subsequent plot, Fan Jin is already half crazy, half stupid, and half conscious, and his mental state is very wrong.
His father-in-law still changed from his normal behavior, being humble and humble, and said something completely different from before: "This virtuous son-in-law of mine is highly talented and well-educated, and has good character and appearance. He is from the Zhang and Zhou mansions in the city. None of these gentlemen have such a decent appearance as my son-in-law."
Sure enough, many people came to flatter him: some gave him land; some gave him shops; and some couples came to work as servants for shelter.
After two or three months, Fan Jin's family had servants and maids.
Of course, money and rice go without saying.
The contrast between before and after is worlds apart.
Soon, Fan Jin became an official.
Even if a person is stupid, he can still be an official. No matter whether he is really stupid or pretending to be crazy, as long as he passes the examination, it is enough!
Extremely ironic!
That's right, the reason why Li Xiao chose this movie about Fan Jin was because he is the pinnacle of satirical literature in Chinese history.
The story revolves around Fan Jin before and after he passed the imperial examination, and there is never a word of praise or criticism. It makes the image, behavior, and heart of the satirical object contradictory and ugly because of Fan Jin's election, thus vividly exposing all kinds of ugly phenomena and people's morbid psychology. .
It uses sharp contrasts to fully satirize the characters and the imperial examination system.
Through the comparison of before and after, the appearance of his butcher father-in-law and villain is vividly presented, and the contrast between the people around him is also thought-provoking.
Once Fan Jin won the election, 34 years of torture, 34 years of enduring humiliation, and 34 years of bitterness all burst out in "madness". The encounters and performances profoundly reveal the poison of the imperial examination system to scholars, and at the same time vividly depict the harshness of the world.
"This is not a movie, it's clearly the truth!"
"The bloody truth!"
A down-and-out scholar fell silent.
He seemed to see himself and his life in a movie!
No, I am not as good as Fan Jin!
Because I haven’t even passed the examination until now.
"The ups and downs of the world are like the ebb and flow of the tide, and the warmth and coldness of human relationships are like swords and ice."
A scholar wearing washed white clothes couldn't help crying.
He thought of his own fate.
His father spent his whole life studying for exams, and then he passed away suddenly, leaving him and his mother to depend on each other.
In order to support her, her mother remarried again and became a concubine in a master's house, becoming the twelfth concubine.
In the deep compound, the mother and son had a good life for two years. Then they were despised by the eldest master, ostracized by other concubines, and lived in a demolished house. They suffered countless looks.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, in order to prevent the two of them from freezing to death, his mother secretly went to the woods to cut firewood. She was discovered and beaten half to death. He would always remember his mother's desperate eyes.
It was not until he was twenty-two years old that he passed the Tongsheng examination and his status improved.
Having tasted the sweetness, he wanted to continue taking the imperial examination.
As long as you pass the Jinshi exam, you can change your painful life.
However, ten years later, my mother died of illness in bed without ever seeing that day.
The girl with whom he had a private life-long relationship broke up because his father-in-law looked down on his status as a mere child, so he broke up with her.
He told the girl that if she waited for him for three years, he would marry her.
Three years later, he still failed.
The beloved girl has already been married.
Despair, extremely desperate!
He had also been kicked out of the house a long time ago. He was in his thirties, had no talents, and there was no room for him in the world. He had no choice but to do odd jobs while continuing to take the imperial examination.
Cold, loneliness, hunger, and embarrassment are always with him.
But what can he do?
There is no other way but to rely on the imperial examination to continue to turn over.
The cancellation of the imperial examination this time was unacceptable to him. He took all the remaining expenses and went all the way to the capital to ask for an explanation.
If the imperial examination was really cancelled, he might commit suicide by jumping into the river.
After seeing this movie, he really hated the imperial examination.
But he had no choice but what could he do? If it had been canceled earlier, he would definitely support it with both hands.
But now, when it comes to himself, he has no money, and only has a lot of ink Confucianism and eight-part essay, which are his last skills.
"In just one hour, I saw everything in the world. It's true. Before I won the exam, no one cared about me and everyone despised me. But after I won the exam, I changed. I'm still the same person, even if I'm crazy. , that is also envied by countless people, how ironic!”
Another scholar murmured to himself.
"Isn't it true that we, as scholars, should serve the country and the people, but the fact is that we have been busy all our lives just for fame?"
"This movie is so ironic. The imperial examination is really like this. It is the only way for us to jump over the dragon's gate. But how many fish can jump over this dragon's gate? Even ordinary people are inferior!"
"After watching this movie, I suddenly felt that it makes sense to cancel the imperial examination. But if the imperial examination is cancelled, where will we people go? But if the imperial examination is not required, how many of us will be able to pass the exam?"
Many poor scholars have become increasingly silent.
They have their heads lowered, their moods are depressed, their minds are confused, and their emotions are mixed.
Apparently autistic!
Another group of Confucian scholars stood up and cursed:
"What a bullshit movie. It's not true at all. It's all fabricated, bullshit stuff!"
"Yes, this is clearly to smear us. Scholars whose families are poor can report to local officials to be exempted from grain service. There is no way they are so poor!"
"Yes, as long as you are admitted as a scholar, the law stipulates that you can be exempted from the household service. If you are so depressed, this movie is obviously a fabrication."
This group of Confucian scholars had a privileged family background. Their ancestors had been elected officials in the Yuan Dynasty. They were exempted from taxes as Jinshi and high-ranking officials. They had a lot of land and interacted with people of the same class. They had not seen the suffering of the people, so they naturally did not believe in such things.
"Then Fan Jin is a scholar in his fifties. Didn't you see clearly? Besides, it doesn't matter if he is a scholar. It doesn't matter if he is exempted from labor. He has no land, a way to make money, and it costs money to study and eat. It also costs money, isn’t it normal to be down and out?”
retorted a poor scholar.
"That's your waste, you're useless. If I were you, I would kill you with a piece of tofu." The Confucian scholars arrogantly cursed.
The scholar immediately became intimidated and sat down, not daring to speak any more.
No one spoke for him. These down-and-out scholars had no money in their pockets, and sometimes they were even worse than ordinary people.
They have heard too many sarcastic comments on weekdays, and have long since developed a resigned mentality.
The movie is still playing.
What follows is a scene where Fan Jin keeps going crazy.
It is extremely ironic that even though he is crazy, he wears official uniform and sits in an official position to handle cases. (The script has been slightly changed)
The movie continued, and the screen turned to black.
The movie is over, the curtain falls!
Then white words on a black background appeared:
[This movie was shot in real life. The real Fan Jin was named "Zhao Sanlang". He was not successful in the election, but after getting the news, he still went crazy. ]
After seeing this line of subtitles, everyone fell silent.
It turned out to be a real thing, and it was really crazy.
This sentence touched everyone's hearts even more!
[Full of knowledge but nowhere to apply it. How many Fan Jins are there in the world? Fan Jin is right around you. Do you want to be the next Fan Jin? Abolish the imperial examination so that every talent can be reused. ]
The screen turned and subtitles appeared again, which was a message written by Li Xiao:
[The mountain is close to the moon and the moon is small when it is far away, so I say that the mountain is larger than the moon. ]
[If someone's eyes are as big as the sky, he should see that the mountains are high and the moon is wider. ]
silence.
The entire cinema was silent.
Silence fell.
The literati were completely autistic and did not know where to go.
The Confucian scholar was angry and felt deeply humiliated.
A few days ago, they were verbally and physically criticizing each other, but Li Xiao mocked all the scholars with just one step in the movie.
Especially the latter poem, which clearly says that they are short-sighted and short-sighted and cannot see the benefits of canceling the imperial examination.
"The Imperial Master is right."
Nan Nan, a down-and-out student, said, "The imperial examination is really harmful. What's the use of wasting our whole life and learning all these bad stereotypes?"
"Although the imperial examination is not good for us, it can save future generations of students from our tragedy!" Another down-and-out student burst into tears.
They felt the same, but they had ambitions. Although the cancellation of the imperial examination was not good for them, it would be good for the scholars who followed.
"In that case, let him go. We have wasted half of our lives. There is no hope for the imperial examination, and we cannot pass the examination for those rich children. What does it matter whether it is canceled or not?"
These down-and-out students sighed deeply and said, "If we follow the reform of the National Teachers and other places like Peking, everyone can take the exam. If you fail the exam, you can still work in a job you like. That would not be bad."
"Crazy, really crazy!"
After hearing these discussions, the Confucian scholars shouted wildly: "You have been brainwashed by that national master and have fallen into a trap!"
"This is the magic performed by Li Xiao!"
"Smash it, smash this theater to prevent Li Xiao from confusing all living beings!"
"I'm waiting for support, smash it!"
These Confucian scholars rolled up their sleeves and wanted to use force.
Before Zhu Gaosui could stop him, Wang Jianlin showed up with a group of guys dressed in black and holding sticks, shouting: "I'm giving you free movies, and you're also smashing up my cinema. You guys are really ignorant. If you are sensible, please leave immediately!"
Wang Jianlin thought to himself, this group of scholars is indeed difficult to serve. If it were not prepared in advance, this cinema that took so much effort to study would have been smashed to pieces on the first day.
He waved his hand, and those men in black emerged from all corners, a hundred or so of them.
A group of guys in black were coming menacingly, standing around with sticks. Looking at the situation, anyone who dared to hit them would immediately rush up and beat them up.
These Confucian scholars who were about to smash the movie theater were scared. A good man would not suffer the immediate loss. One Confucian scholar rolled down his sleeves again and drank: "It's so majestic. This Peiping is in chaos. Even the slaves dare to wait for me." Someone with a good reputation is taking action!"
His mouth was tough, but his body was honest. He walked away with his head held high and his chest high.
Afterwards, all the scholars imitated him, jumped out and escaped completely in the blink of an eye.
That's it.
The movie plays from morning till night.
In two days, almost all Confucian scholars and scholars in Peiping were included.
The effect was also very obvious. There were no more people who criticized Li Xiao, and everyone was silent. No one scolded Li Xiao on the street. Scholars everywhere were drinking sullenly.
As for the Confucian scholars, they were furious. Seeing the situation turning towards Li Xiao, they were helpless.
The Duke's Mansion.
"Brother-in-law, brilliant move!"
Zhu Gaosui gave a thumbs up.
After two days of investigation, I found that the literati were autistic, and the Confucian scholars could only be incompetent and furious.
"Hey, let's forget about it for now. Tomorrow is the dragon boat racing competition, so there is no time to pay attention to these people." Li Xiao said with a smile.
The dragon boat racing competition is a big event, and Li Xiao wants to show the emperor whether he can afford the huge event of a thousand villages with the power of one government.
If everything goes well, the community will be thoroughly promoted. The promotion of the community will be able to open up the last mile that the dynasty's rule cannot reach.
Not only the Holy Emperor is paying attention, but even the officials of the imperial court are waiting to see.
"Brother-in-law, you have to be careful. On the day of the dragon boat race, the Confucian scholars will make big moves." Zhu Gaosui reminded: "I don't think they will give up."
Li Xiao frowned slightly: "Gao Sui, you reminded me."
At this time, You Jin, the magistrate of Beiping Prefecture, came.
This prefect succeeded Li Xiao a few years ago.
He graduated from the school founded by Li Xiao, passed the provincial examination and became an official, and then started working in the community. He was very capable and was promoted to the position of prefect by Li Xiao.
Li Xiao has the appointment and dismissal of all officials in Beiping Mansion, and the entire Beiping Mansion is under his control.
"See the Duke." You Jin, the prefect of Peking, handed over his hand.
"You Jin, you came just in time."
Li Xiao waved his hand and asked him to sit down, and the maid immediately came forward to pour tea.
Li Xiao said: "You have to pay attention to the competition tomorrow, especially those Confucian scholars wearing Confucian shirts. These people may cause trouble."
"Confucian scholars?" You Jin nodded and said, "These Confucian scholars have been made taciturn by the movies released by the government recently. However, we cannot take it lightly. The official has sent extra personnel to patrol."
Li Xiao nodded.
Zhu Gaosui suddenly thought of something and said: "Brother-in-law, according to my observation, brother, this group of people has some character. Do you think they would jump into the river that day to prove their ambition by dying?"
"Death makes one's ambition clear."
Li Xiao's eyes widened and he said calmly: "That's right. Gao Sui, you reminded me well. I almost didn't expect this. It's very possible!"
After saying that, he looked at You Jin and said: "You Jin, quickly go to each village and mobilize all the militia teams, put on life jackets, prepare life boats, and be ready to rescue people who fall into the water at any time. It is a festive day and this kind of thing must not happen. Otherwise Long Yan will be displeased."
You Jin stood up and held his hands in his hands: "My lord, I have foresight, and I will take care of it immediately."
After saying that, he hurriedly turned around and left.
"Brother-in-law."
Zhu Gaosui said in surprise: "It's already four o'clock in the afternoon, and the dragon boat race is about to start tomorrow morning. Your temporary arrangement of such a thing won't make people lose sight of one thing, right? Do you want me to send Jin Yiwei to help?"
"That's not necessary."
Li Xiao waved his hand and laughed: "Look forward to tomorrow."
(End of chapter)
