The person who came was Yu Shenxing, the examiner of this Henan Provincial Examination.
Yu Shenxing, also known as Keyuan and Wuguo, was born in Dong'a. In the second year of Longqing, he was a Jinshi. He was selected as a good scholar and was awarded the title of editor. After the death of Longqing, he participated in the compilation of "Muzong Shilu" as editor, in the first year of Wanli
The "Records of Muzong" was compiled and edited by Yu Shenxing, which has been used as a lecture for officials at banquets until now.
He was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing's reign. His original ranking was average, ranking 61st 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.
Zhang Juzheng, his room master, valued him and recommended him to Gao Gong.
At that time, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were still allies, and after understanding Yu Shenxing, he also valued him. 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 the Jingyanri Lecturer.
official.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic had known Yu Shenxing before he resigned. After all, he was the emperor's official 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, and he still doesn’t know the situation in the inner court? Who among the inner court, except Gao Pragmatic, has such a strong network to coax the two palaces and the emperor into chaos, and Huang Mengyu
, Chen Ju and other "internal ministers" are called around as servants?
Of course, this is just Yu Shenxing's opinion. Of course, Gao Shenxing 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 behaved well 99% of the time.
Be honest - deceiving people is actually the most effective when done by honest people, so Gao Pragmatic 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, so 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 that if Yu Shenxing knew that the Jieyuan paper was written by himself, he would still choose to pass it. (Wufeng's note: Before passing the paper, the examiner did not know who the paper belonged to. Not only the names and other items were
Sealed, and the text is copied, and the ink scroll written by the candidate will be archived.)
At this time, as soon as Yu Shenxing arrived, all the new candidates stood quietly and waited for the examiners and others to come up to greet them before it was their turn.
Gao Jie Yuan was the first one 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, and even paused for a moment. When everyone around him couldn't help but look at each other, he said: "Pragmatically, although your paper has been sealed and reprinted, but
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 Gao pragmatic article, and in order to curry favor with Xinzheng Gao family, you gave him a Jieyuan? How shameless!
But Yu Shenxing's face was very serious. He stretched out his hand and pressed it slightly to signal everyone 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."
The leader of the exam." 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 province's academic administration to be the examiner. Why did he choose "
Gao Pei "compiled a Hanlin editor and came over to give lectures on the banquet day?"
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 and is highly pragmatic. Even if they have great academic achievements, if they do well in the exam,
, you 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 - His Majesty the Emperor was 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. Are you, Teacher Yu?
Gao Dang, there is even some quarrel with Gao Dang, so if you are the chief examiner, if the selected Jie Yuan is still Gao Pragmatic, 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 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 Gao Pragmatic's ink scroll to verify its authenticity, you can come to me to have a detailed look. In addition, I just said that Gao Pragmatic's article this time is
This is the leader of this term. 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 each other, looking at each other, and they didn't dare 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 "Qi Feng" 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 articles are not only in quantity but also in quantity.
He surpassed the great literary figure Wang Shizhen and had his own distinctive characteristics. He was praised by scholars as "enough to compete with the seven brothers before and after him".
His words meant that he had pledged half of his reputation to Gao Pragmatic!
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 examination. You are now Jieyuan, how can you
There is no expression for it yet? 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, my family is far away, and I haven't said anything yet. If the teacher doesn't give up, please give me some words."
Yu Shenxing thought for a moment and said, "In that case, you are known for being pragmatic, so why not be pragmatic?"