The person who came was Yu Shenxing, the examiner of this Henan Provincial Examination.
Yu Shenxing, also known as Keyuan and Wuguo, was from Dong'a. In the second year of Longqing's reign, he was promoted to Jinshi. He selected common people and was awarded the title of editor and editor. After the death of Longqing, he participated in the compilation of Mu Zong's real records as an editor. In the first year of Wanli, Mu Zong's real records were compiled. Yu Shenxing further edited and compiled them, and he has served as a lecturer at the banquet to this day.
He was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing's reign. His original ranking was average, ranked No. 61 in the second class, but he was extremely talented and learned after all. He did very well in the Shujishi exam, especially after the Shujishi exam was dismissed. His room master Zhang Juzheng valued him and recommended him to Gao Gong.
At that time, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were still allies, and after understanding that Zhang Juzheng was too cautious, he also valued him more. Later, Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng fell, but Yu Shenxing was not affected at all. After Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he was even recommended by Gao Gong as a lecturer on Jingyanri.
In fact, Gao pragmatically knew Yu Shenxing before he resigned. After all, he was the emperor's lecturer, and he was the emperor's companion, so not only did he know him, but he also called Yu Shenxing "Mr. Yu" on a daily basis.
However, the trouble is that Yu Shenxing is a person who only accepts death. He always feels that the downfall of his teacher Zhang Juzheng was framed, and the person who framed him must be related to Gao Pragmatism, if not Gao Pragmatism!
Why? Yu Shenxing has been a Japanese official for six years. Doesn't he still know the situation in the inner court? In the inner court, except Gao Pragmatism, who else has such a strong network of contacts that can coax the two palaces and the emperor around, and call Huang Mengyu, Chen Ju and other "internal ministers" around as their servants?
Of course, this is just Yu Shenxing's opinion. Of course Gao Pragmatic would not treat Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju as servants, and he would never deceive the two palaces and the emperor when there was nothing wrong. In fact, he was behaved and honest 99% of the time. In fact, honest deception has the best effect when done by honest people, so Gao Pragmatic has always behaved very gentlemanly and honest in front of the two palaces and the emperor.
Gao Pragmatic didn't have any good way to change Shenxing's attitude. Although he knew that in history, when Zhang Juzheng was in power, Yu Shenxing still fell out with Zhang Juzheng because he accepted death. But Zhang Juzheng is gone, and this kind of thing will naturally happen. No more, now there is only Yu Lecturer and Yu Examiner who are prejudiced against his high pragmatism.
Gao Pragmatic even doubted whether Yu Shenxing would choose to win if he knew that the Jieyuan Juan was written by himself. Wufeng’s note: The examiner doesn’t know whose paper the paper belongs to before the test is passed. Not only are the names and other items sealed, but the text is also copied, and the ink paper written by the candidate will be archived.
At this time, when Yu Shenxing arrived, all the new imperial examination candidates stood still and waited for the examiners and others to come up to greet them before it was their turn.
Gao Jie Yuan was the first to step forward, so Yu Shenxing greeted the officials of the Chief Secretary and the examiners and sat down in the middle hall. He then stepped forward as usual and walked up to Yu Shenxing. , knelt down and kowtowed respectfully, and said: "Student pays homage to Master Yu Gong."
Yu Shenxing nodded, with no expression on his face. He even paused for a moment. When everyone around him couldn't help but glance at each other, he said, "Pragmatically, although your paper has been sealed and reprinted, In fact, I could tell at a glance that it was your handiwork."
Gao Pingshi was shocked and secretly cried out: Lao Yu, Lao Yu, you are seeking your own death, so don't take me with you!
Sure enough, as soon as Yu Shenxing said this, the whole hall was in an uproar. What does this mean? You recognized someone's article by Gao Pragmatic, and in order to curry favor with Gao from Xinzheng, you gave him a "Jie Yuan"? No more shame!
But Yu Shenxing's face was very serious. He stretched out his hand and pressed it slightly to signal the people present to calm down. Then he continued in an emotionless voice: "It doesn't matter whether you recognize it or not, because your article should be the original one." Examination leader." When he said this, he raised his head and looked around at everyone, suddenly stood up, and said loudly: "Everyone should know that the Henan Provincial Examination does not require me to preside over it, but why am I here?"
Everyone was a little surprised, but they also knew that what he said was true. As a rule, the Henan Provincial Examination usually only requires a person from the middle school to be the examiner. Sometimes the emperor may even directly select the academic administration of the province to be the examiner. Why did he choose " "Gao Pei" sent a Hanlin editor and lecturer on the feast day to come over?
Yu Shenxing looked solemn and bowed his hands towards the north: "Yu is here, he was personally selected by the emperor!"
Everyone stared at him with wide eyes. Yu Shenxing did not panic at all and continued: "Before leaving, the emperor said to me: The Gao family in Xinzheng is a prominent family in Zhongzhou. They are highly pragmatic and have great academic achievements. If they do well in the exam, , will inevitably be slandered by villains. Mr. Yu is fair, and he is not a disciple of the Gao family, so please select talents for me impartially."
After hearing this, everyone looked at Gao Jingshi one after another, with extremely envious expressions on their faces. This is His Majesty the Emperor personally standing up for Gao Jingshi!
The meaning of the emperor's words is simply this: I think Gao Pragmatism must be a high school student to understand the Yuan Dynasty, but his family's reputation in Henan is too high. If he really succeeds to understand the Yuan Dynasty, some people will definitely slander him in private, which is really not good. You are not a Gao Dang teacher, and you even have some quarrels with Gao Dang, so you are going to be the chief examiner. If the chosen Jie Yuan is still Gao Dang, people in the world will have nothing to gossip about, right?
No matter how envious everyone was, Yu Shenxing still had a solemn expression on his face and said calmly: "For the sake of justice and to convey the holy will, I will not only publish the articles of all the candidates as usual, but also make an exception to stay in Kaifeng Mansion. Ten days, within these ten days, if any of you want to read the ink scroll by Gao Jingshi to prove its authenticity, you can come to me to have a detailed look. In addition, I just said that Gao Jingshi’s article this time is It's my turn to be the leader of this year. If any of you are dissatisfied, you can come and discuss academic articles with me. I welcome you all."
The new imperial examination candidates present looked at me and I looked at you, looking at each other and not daring to say anything more.
Why? Yu Shenxing's literary reputation is extremely popular!
He is one of the representatives of the "Three Shanzuo Schools" and "Qifeng" together with Feng Qi and Gong Nai. The three of them jointly promoted the development of the Shanzuo poetry circle in the early Wanli period. His Taishan poems and essays are not only more numerous than those of the literary giant Wang Shizhen, but also have their own distinctive characteristics. He was praised by scholars as "enough to compete with the seven poets before and after him".
With his words, he was giving Gao Pragmatic his half-life reputation as a guarantee!
Gao Pingshi was also a little confused, and thought to himself: This is strange, Yu Shenxing is a notoriously stubborn donkey, how could he be like this?
But before he could understand the reason, Yu Shenxing changed the topic again, sat down again, and asked in the tone of a teacher: "Pragmatic, others will pick up characters if they pass the exam. You are now Jieyuan, how can you You still don’t have a letter? This is very inconvenient. Do you have any concerns about it?"
Gao Pingshi's heart moved, and he took advantage of the situation and said: "Return to the teacher, the family is far away, and I haven't said anything yet. If the teacher doesn't give up, please give me a message."
Yu Shenxing thought for a while and said: "In that case, your name is pragmatic, why not just be pragmatic."
