Since Su Ze came to the county school to study, he has never seen such a lively scene in the county school.
He called the disciple of the county school and asked: "Old man, why are so many people coming to the county school today?"
Menzi naturally knew Su Ze. He sighed and said: "I heard that there was a Japanese pirate riot outside the city. People from the Fu School and Yanping Academy rushed into the city. The prefect arranged them all to go to the county school. What kind of thing is this!
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Su Ze finally understood that all of this was related to him and was a chain reaction caused by killing Xu Shisheng.
There are three schools in Nanping County: two official and one private. Only Nanping County School is inside the city, while Yanping Prefectural School and Yanping Academy are both outside the city.
Originally, the three schools were in harmony with each other, but this time it was reported that Japanese pirates were committing crimes thirty miles away from the county seat, Yanping Fuxue and Yanping Academy could no longer sit still.
If the Japanese pirates really attack, the students in the school will not be able to guard against it.
Those who can study in the government schools are at least talented people who have passed the Tongsheng Examination. Those who can study in the Yanping Academy are all the children of local officials and squires. If these people are kidnapped by Japanese pirates, the newly arrived Fang Prefecture will not be able to afford this.
A scapegoat.
So the prefect ordered all the teachers and students from the Fu School and Yanping Academy to move to the county school. Anyway, the county school also had school buildings and classrooms. They could make do with it for a while until the news of the Japanese pirates subsided before returning.
Scholars throughout the Yanping Prefecture praised the magistrate for his thorough work and caring for the people like a son.
The only ones who are depressed are the teachers and students in the county school.
Although there is no superior-subordinate relationship between the government school and the county school, Professor Zhong and Hai Rui, the professor at the government school, are both academic officials with academic backgrounds, and their qualifications are more senior than Hai Rui's.
Chen Moqun, the headmaster of Yanping Academy, is even more extraordinary. He is considered a well-known scholar in Fujian, and he was a Jinshi without ever becoming an official. He is the same age as Xu Ge, the current second minister of the cabinet.
Hai Rui, the county magistrate, Professor Zhong, the professor of government studies, and Chen Moqun, the academy principal, could still maintain a semblance of harmony.
Hai Rui gave up his room to the oldest, Chen Shanchang, while he and Professor Zhong lived in a side room.
But with so many students pouring into the county school, the school building is obviously not enough.
In the end, it was Hai Rui who came forward and added beds to the originally single-person school building and turned it into a group dormitory for four people.
However, these students still felt that Hai Rui had neglected them, and they did not dare to cause trouble for Hai Rui, the tutor. Instead, they bullied the students of the county school whenever they had nothing to do.
However, since everyone is a scholar, it is not easy to get started, so it became a matter of testing each other's homework.
Among the three schools, the one with the worst results in the county subject examination, and Hai Rui expelled many students, also had the smallest number of students.
As a native of the county school, he was bullied by the Yanping Academy students and the students from the prefecture who occupied the magpie's nest, so that he did not dare to go to class.
The timid Zhou Xiucai was so frightened that he moved out of the school building.
The carriages and horses at the door were brought by the students from the prefecture and the academy. Hai Rui did not allow their bookboys and servants to enter the county school to serve students, so these people simply parked the carriages and horses at the door and completely blocked the intersection.
Blocked.
Su Ze also didn't expect that killing Xu Shisheng in the name of a Japanese pirate would cause so many chain reactions.
Under the guidance of the disciple, Su Ze bypassed the crowd and entered the county school. The whole county school was noisy.
Chen Chaoyuan, Xiong Yue and Lin Qingcai had already arrived, and Hai Rui, wearing a patchwork official robe, walked towards the four of them.
"Instructions!"
Su Ze and the others saluted, and Hai Rui responded and said:
"The county school is busy, so you can study on your own today. I will give you lessons tomorrow after the government students and college students have been settled."
"Teacher, please be busy, we just have to study by ourselves." Su Ze said quickly.
Hai Rui nodded, feeling a little embarrassed, and said in a consultative tone:
"Originally, I promised to arrange a school building for you, but now the students in this county can't live in it. How about we squeeze in four people and share a school building these days?"
The four people nodded and said, "It's good to squeeze in."
Seeing that he had convinced the four people, Hai Rui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There are a lot of talk among county scholars these days, so you should keep a low profile."
After saying that, Hai Rui glanced at Su Ze.
Su Ze felt wronged. He had always kept a low profile, but Hai Rui actually thought that he would stand out.
After Hai Rui finished explaining the matter, he hurriedly walked to Minglun Hall where he was giving lectures, while Su Ze and the others moved their things into Chen Chaoyuan's room.
It had only been half a month since they last met, and the atmosphere in Nanping City had become so tense. The four of them couldn't help but feel a little sad.
After talking about some recent developments, Chen Chaoyuan, a local and the most well-informed among the four, said:
"I heard that these prefecture students and college students dislike the narrowness of the county school and are dissatisfied with the requirements of the Haijiao dormitory. Today they always ask the county students to ask questions. Many county students dare not live in the school building. We have been here for the past two days
Be careful."
Xiong Yue said quickly: "Isn't that right? I was almost dragged into torture by a group of college students when I entered the county school today. Fortunately, I said that I was not a county student member, so the group didn't drag me over."
Chen Chaoyuan added: "How about you stay at my house tonight and come back to class tomorrow?"
The Chen family is not close to the county school, and the entrance to the county school is so busy that it is a waste of time to come and go.
Lin Qingcai objected and said: "There is an early morning class tomorrow. I'm afraid we won't be able to make the trip from Brother Chen's house in time. Let's just squeeze in."
Su Ze also nodded in agreement, and the four of them simply crowded in the school building and began to share their experiences in studying these days.
The day before yesterday, Su Ze had passed Level 4 in the imperial examination. Now he has read through the Four Books and the Annotations of the Four Books, both of which are at a level that can pass the boy's examination.
After learning the Five Classics that are left to be treated, it is estimated that I can reach Level 5.
As a systematic cheat, Su Ze naturally chose the Spring and Autumn Period, which is the most difficult among the Five Classics.
This time when he came to the county town, Su Ze originally wanted to borrow the Spring and Autumn Copy Book from the county school, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing.
Chen Chaoyuan and others were all self-study with their heads covered after being enlightened. Although they remembered the contents of the Four Books and the Annotations, they memorized them by rote and did not understand much of the contents. They did not know the true meaning of the books at all.
Su Ze, a Level 4 person, was naturally more than enough to guide them. Soon, the four of them discussing knowledge became three of them asking Su Ze for advice.
[Study the scriptures, imperial examination skills +10, Lv4, 30/400]
An hour passed. When Su Ze saw the prompts that popped up from the system, he felt that the three people in front of him were good experienced students, and he seriously answered their doubts when they were studying.
"So that's what it means!" Chen Chaoyuan slapped his thigh. After Su Ze's explanation, he finally grasped the essence of this scripture.
Su Ze discussed with them for another hour. When the imperial examination skills increased to 40/400 experience, there was a noise outside the school building.
Xiong Yue couldn't sit still while studying on weekdays, and he couldn't sit still when he heard the noise outside. He completely forgot about the purpose of being a human being with his tail between his legs.
Xiong Yue stood up and said, "I'll go out and find out!"
After saying that, Xiong Yue opened the door and went out. Su Ze was also aroused in curiosity, put down the book in his hand and said:
"Shall we also go and see the excitement?"
The three of them walked out of the school building together and saw a few scholars rolling up their sleeves and doing physical work in the open space in front of the school building.
They inserted a wooden pillar into the ground and hung a scroll on the pillar.
When the scholars finished their work, a young young man walked up to the pillar.
Chen Chaoyuan immediately said: "That is Huang Shixing of Shaxian County, the leader of the students of Yanping Academy, after Huang Shang, a famous official in the Song Dynasty."
Wait, Huang Shang?
Su Ze wanted to go up and ask Huang Shixing if he knew the Nine Yin Manual.
However, this Huang Shang did exist in history. He was a famous official of the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as a mathematician and astronomer.
Huang Shang is the author of "Astronomical Map". Huang Shang used his years of studying astronomy and astrology knowledge and combined with his practical experience of repeatedly observing stars to draw this map. A total of 1,440 stars are drawn in the whole map.
Huang Shang was also a master of Neo-Confucianism. He proposed the theory of "three talents and nature", advocating the unity of the three talents of heaven, earth and man, and pursuing the realm of resonance between heaven and man.
Huang Shang was originally from Bashu, but he moved his family to Fujian when he was the governor of Fujian. Later, Huang Shang died of illness in Fujian. Because of the war in the Southern Song Dynasty, his descendants stayed in Yanping Prefecture.
Chen Chaoyuan said in an envious tone: "This Huang Shixing passed the Boy's Examination at the age of fifteen. Now he has just turned twenty. He ranks first in every examination in Yanping Academy. Chief Chen said that he will definitely win the exam next time. !”
Thinking that someone was admitted as a scholar at the age of fifteen, Chen Chaoyuan felt even more useless.
Coming from a Confucian family, a young man who passed the imperial examination was treated like a protagonist.
Looking at Huang Shixing who was surrounded by everyone, he said: "Today we have three schools living together, which can be regarded as a good story in Yanping Mansion. This is a wonderful question that I collected, but I have been thinking hard for several months and there is no way to solve it."
After speaking, Huang Shixing waved his hand, and a follower pulled the rope, and an official silver ingot was hoisted onto a wooden pillar.
"I'm offering a reward of forty taels of silver to ask you for a solution to the problem."
Seeing the silver ingot, everyone was amazed at Huang Shixing's generosity.
However, Su Ze just looked at it coldly. Huang Shixing must have thought of the answer a long time ago and offered a reward for solving the problem just to gain fame.
When no one could answer, Huang Shixing suddenly realized that he came up with the answer "accidentally".
This question must be the same as the last question in Baizhi County, "The Second Chapter of King Hui of Liang". They are both quite tricky questions.
Seeing that the atmosphere was almost brewing, Huang Shixing opened the scroll and saw only one scroll with no words on it, only a big circle!
What's this?
The scholars who were gearing up to solve the problem were stunned.
What the hell is this title? A circle?
Su Ze smiled, it turned out to be this topic.
Su Ze had encountered this problem when he was studying the history of imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty with his tutor.
In fact, this is not a formal question in the imperial examination, but a strange question similar to folk brain teasers.
This circle does not represent the number 0, but the symbol used to divide chapters in the layout of "The Analects of Confucius".
Strictly speaking, this question is also in line with the scope of questions in the imperial examination. After all, as long as it is the content of the Four Books and Five Classics, it can be used for questions.
The imperial examination questions in the later Qing Dynasty were even more unreliable, and some questions were even composed by combining the preceding and following sentences together.
The scene fell silent for a moment, and Huang Shixing looked around happily. This was a perfect topic that he had spent a lot of effort to collect, just to become famous in Shilin.
Next year is the Provincial Examination. As long as you have a reputation as a scholar, you can increase the probability of passing the Provincial Examination by running it again.
The Huang family was originally a large family in Yanping Prefecture. It had been farming and studying for generations since the Song Dynasty, and even the Yuan Dynasty did not give up the knowledge passed down from the family.
Huang Shixing has a family tradition of academics. In fact, the recognition of the answer sheet is still very high. Even if his name is obscured, he can still be recognized by the examiner.
As long as you can become famous in Shilin and write a few beautiful articles, it will be easier to win.
This is equivalent to the admission of extra points for later generations to participate in the college entrance examination. The children of wealthy families can continue to be elected as Jinshi. In addition to the atmosphere of studying and studying in their family, they also have the unspoken rules of the imperial examination that ordinary people are not exposed to.
related.
They were setting up a stage to sing, and Su Ze had no intention of causing trouble. However, suddenly a scholar from Nanping County School saw Su Ze and deliberately said:
"Brother Su, you are the only one in our Nanping County School who can solve this problem!"
The scholars at Nanping County School had suffered a lot of grievances recently, and led by this scholar, they all began to boo.
Huang Shixing looked at Su Ze, raised his hands and said, "Can this brother break it?"
The students from Nanping County continued to cheer and said: "Brother Su solved the last problem in Baizhi County!"
Huang Shixing suddenly realized and said: "It turns out that Mr. Su Zesu, who is the 'Guan Qi Pian Book of Benevolence and Righteousness', has been rude."
Why does this sentence sound so familiar?
Su Ze really doesn't understand. Is the circle of scholars in your Yanping Mansion so small?
Just by solving a question, all the scholars in the city know each other?
Huang Shixing looked at the patches on Su Ze's clothes and knew that he must be a poor scholar with no background, and he couldn't help but feel a little contempt in his heart.
However, he pretended to be very good and pulled Su Ze and said: "Brother Su, please stop hiding your clumsiness. If you can really solve this problem, it will solve my confusion for several months."
The students in Nanping County began to boo, while the government students and college students booed contemptuously.
Although they knew that Su Ze had solved County Magistrate Bai's problem, they only thought that Su Ze was a blind cat and a dead mouse, or that Su Ze had seen this problem before.
After all, Su Ze was a poor scholar who didn't even have the reputation of being a scholar. If he was so good, why didn't he become a scholar?
Some people even shouted: "Nanping County School is really depleted, and a poor person with no fame is allowed to solve the problem."
"I'll pay you forty taels of silver and ask him to get out quickly and don't ruin Mr. Huang's elegant affairs!"
Huang Shixing heard it all, but had no intention of stopping it.
There are few scholars in Nanping County, and the voices of students from government schools and academies outweighed the voices supporting Su Ze.
At this moment, Su Ze smiled slightly. He walked directly to the wooden pillar and untied the silver ingot hanging on the pillar.
Su Ze was tall and fast, and these scholars didn't even react.
When Su Ze put the silver ingot into his sleeve, he said to Huang Shixing: "Brother Huang, thank you for your silver."
Huang Shixing's gentle exterior was a little unbearable. He suppressed his anger and said, "Brother Su, please solve the problem."
Su Ze said loudly: "The sage is the first to establish his words, and he also observes the phenomena of the sky."