June 6th.
Students from the Fu School, local academies, and private schools gathered outside the gate of Linhai Fu School in Taizhou and stood in a queue under the guidance of Mr. Fu Xue.
Disciple Wu Ding and professor Sun An are responsible for invigilation and field affairs.
Looking at the more than 300 disciples who had made the reference, Wu Ding stroked his beard and was filled with joy. He said to Sun An beside him: "The scale of the reference this time is far greater than last year. It seems that they have also learned about the expansion of the Imperial College enrollment and want to catch up. It’s time to jump up and enter the dragon gate.”
Sun An smiled kindly and handed the directory in his hand to Wu Ding: "There are many people who want to enter Longmen. Look, even Fang Xiaoru's direct disciples Lin Jiayou and Liao Yong are among them."
"What, they're here too?" xь.
Wu Ding was a little surprised.
You must know that Lin Jiayou and Liao Yong ran to Linhai after being "sent out" of the Imperial College by the emperor when Fang Xiaoru was at his most unlucky. Out of disapproval of the Imperial College of Confucianism and annoyed by the Imperial College's tampering of Confucianism, they created the Zhengxue The Academy aims to spread the most orthodox Confucianism and regards the authenticity of Confucianism as its mainstay. It secretly calls the "reformed Confucianism" of the Imperial College "Autumn, Spring, Winter and Summer Confucianism".
The words "autumn, spring, winter, and summer" here actually refer to the spring and autumn brushwork, which means deleting, deleting, and subtracting, picking out what you like and keeping it.
The reason why it was renamed Autumn, Spring, Winter, and Summer is because Confucian academies are also mixed with too many other learnings, including too much emphasis on practice and doing things, neglect of the pursuit of reason, too much focus on hard work, and less education on personal benevolence, righteousness, and morality.
Autumn, Spring, Winter and Summer Confucianism, to put it bluntly, is random Confucianism, a miscellaneous Confucianism. To be more straightforward:
Rubbish Confucianism.
The most supportive of Fang Xiaoru's authentic Confucianism are his direct disciples such as Lin Jiayou, Liao Yong, and Liao Ming. Lin Jiayou and Liao Yong have long been famous, and are considered to be second only to Fang Xiaoru in the Zhengxue Academy. It is really surprising that these two people have to take the imperial examination.
"Is there some conspiracy involved?"
Wu Ding was a little unsure.
Sun An thought for a while and shook his head: "No matter what his plans are, Fu Xue will accept all comers. I would like to see if these great scholars can use their skills to break into the top five in Taizhou Prefecture."
Wu Ding nodded solemnly. The exams for government schools are relatively open. As long as you can get a recommendation letter from a gentleman with teaching qualifications, you can come. Even if you are eight years old, no one will stop you if you want to take the exam, let alone a serious student. The people in the academy are not simple.
The auspicious time has arrived.
Professor Sun An lit three sticks of incense on behalf of Taizhou Fu School. Holding the incense and looking at the people who were referring to it, he shouted in a deep voice: "Thanks to your majesty for enlightening education and promoting culture and education, you gentlemen have worked hard and taught well, so that we have three hundred and one Sixteen disciples participated in the Taizhou Fuxue Examination in the twelfth year of Jianwen's reign."
"We follow the teachings of His Majesty and the saints, and use the standards of the Imperial College, the highest school, and the governor of the government and Mr. Yiqian as the supervision, to make fair judgments without mixing personal preferences, and to judge achievements based on knowledge. May you cherish the moment and criticize Fang Qiu. , a blockbuster! Come on, open the dragon gate!"
A dragon-shaped gate is built inside and outside the gate of Fuxue, which symbolizes that after passing one dragon gate, there is another dragon gate. Only by passing the Dragon Gate of the Imperial College Examination and then the Dragon Gate of the Imperial College can one approach the real dragon, serve on the emperor's errands, and transform into an official.
Lin Jiayou and Liao Yong looked at each other and led the people from Zhengxue Academy to line up and pass through the dragon gate.
Entering it, there are two roads, separated by railings on the left and right.
There is a gentleman in front who is responsible for checking to see if the person making the reference has any cheating materials. Because Fu Xue proactively provided pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and you can leave Fu Xue to eat after an exam, and you don’t need to carry a few steamed buns with you. The interrogation is much easier, as long as you don’t bring books or paper with you, and there is no random writing on your clothes. Just doodle.
In the past, when I participated in the scientific examination, I was alone in the dormitory, eating, drinking and sleeping. I still had the opportunity to take off my clothes and read the cheat sheets. However, with the continuous changes in education, there is no chance to take off my clothes for the exam...
Everyone is in the classroom, the two gentlemen are one behind the other, and there are people from the security bureau who come and peek outside the window from time to time. It is impossible for anyone to take off their clothes during the exam.
The inspection is quick and they are carried out separately.
Entering the classroom, there are forty people in one classroom.
After all the examinees entered the classroom, the examiners prepared and carried the examination papers from the Printing Institute in the presence of the prefect He Wenyuan, the professor Sun An, the supervisory censor Jiang Yuan, and the Security Bureau Qianhu Xu Xun. come out. The boxes were opened and delivered to the proctors in each classroom.
Wu Ding received a stack of test papers and walked into the classroom where he needed to invigilate the exam. He pointed to the cover and lacquer of the test paper: "The test paper has not been opened. This round of exams is Confucianism. Answers should not exceed one and a half hours. You are not allowed to look back and forth during the answer period. , you are not allowed to whisper to each other, and you are not allowed to leave the seat at will."
"If you feel unwell, you can raise your hand and tell us. If you violate the rules, your results for this round of exams may be cancelled, and you may even be disqualified from taking the exam this year. If someone is found to have cheated blatantly, according to the regulations of the Imperial College and the Imperial College, you will not be allowed to take the exam within five years. You don't have much Five years can be spent, so don’t let a small thing cost you a big thing.”
The test papers are distributed and everyone answers.
In the courtyard.
He Wenyuan looked at the list of candidates and asked Sun An: "Lin Jiayou and Liao Yong are the most powerful people around Fang Xiaoru. Do they take the exam to enter the Imperial Academy in Peking and leave Fang Xiaoru?"
Sun An shook his head: "It's hard to predict their intentions. If they really enter the Peking Imperial College, they might still be in trouble."
He Wenyuan had a headache.
Lin Jiayou and Liao Yong studied authentic Confucianism all their lives, and inherited Fang Xiaoru's "retrospective" thinking. They highly praised the Zhou Dynasty and believed that court etiquette and systems should be in line with the Zhou Dynasty.
They criticize the current imperial etiquette and innovation, and are especially uneasy about the growing prosperity of the Imperial College. From time to time, some people jump out and curse. For example, the Imperial Academy researched trains, which shocked the world, but for those in the Zhengxue Academy, they But they think that "if it is not for manpower, how can it be a man?", "The steel beast roars past, and what is burned is not coal, but the fat and oil of the people", "The power of a poor country can be used to build a wooden horse, saving financial resources, and enriching all people" and so on. .Ь.
He Wenyuan was greatly influenced by the new school of the Imperial College, and his wife Ye Ling'er was from the Yongjia school. She advocated investigation and research, and gained true knowledge through practice. He did not like people like Fang Xiaoru.
But these people are still very influential. They have considerable influence in Taizhou Prefecture and even the entire Zhejiang Province. If Lin Jiayou and Liao Yong really pass the imperial examination and enter the Imperial College of Peking, then their goal is probably not as simple as entering, but to declare war on reformed Confucianism!
