When Ouyang Fa heard that Zhang Yue had not finished the manuscript for more than twenty days, he suddenly went crazy.
It’s not like this policy theory has not been admitted before.
Didn’t Zhang Yue submit his admission papers to the officials before the provincial examinations?
Although there were not fifty articles at that time, even if he wrote a few more articles, it would not take so many days. Not to mention that after Zhang Yue finished writing, he would have to copy it himself or hire someone to copy it.
Ouyang Fa ignored the obstruction of Tang Jiu and Zhang Gong and forced his way in.
Ordinarily, how could an ordinary scholar like Ouyang Fa get through Tang Jiu and Zhang Gong? It was simply because Tang Jiu and Zhang Gong knew that Ouyang Fa was a good friend of Zhang Yue, so they let him go.
Ouyang Fa broke into Zhang Yue's home, expecting to see Zhang Yue wearing a feather fan and turban, so he shook the fan and told himself that I had already written the fifty volumes.
Little did he know that what he saw was Zhang Yue, whose hair was disheveled and had not been washed for several days and nights.
Scholars in the Song Dynasty still admired the romantic figures of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but they were not like this. He was so busy and exhausted, how could he look like a dignified scholar?
"Du Zhi, Du Zhi, you are going to kill me." Ouyang Fa rushed to Zhang Yue's study and said to him.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yue glanced at Ouyang Fa, but ignored him, and continued to immerse himself in the case and write his article.
Ouyang Fa looked at Zhang Yue and ignored him. He wanted to open his mouth to speak again, but saw the other party glare at him. Ouyang Fa was stunned and immediately swallowed his words.
Ouyang Fa thought about it and thought, Zhang Yue has not been the number one scholar for a long time, but he has become very powerful. That's not right. I am Zhang Yue's brother, how can I still be afraid of him?
Ouyang Fa wanted to say more, but remembering Zhang Yue's look just now, he retreated from the other party's study.
Zhang Shi happened to be here with food. Ouyang Fa said to Zhang Shi, "Mr. Zhang Dalang, how many days have you spent like this?"
Zhang Shi said: "It has been like this since the second day after returning home. I also eat one meal after another. Sometimes I don't eat one meal a day, sometimes I eat more than ten meals a day, and one day I mistakenly eat Mo."
Chew it in your mouth as food."
Ouyang Fa was startled and said: "Is this still the case? Do you want to ask a doctor to take a look?"
Zhang Shi said: "That's not necessary. He still spoke in an organized manner and ordered us to do things."
Ouyang Fa made sure that Zhang Yue was fine and walked into the study again. He didn't dare to disturb him, so he just sat aside and watched. He thought to himself, I don't believe you can write articles without eating or sleeping. There will always be a pause.
Unexpectedly, Ouyang Fa just sat there and sat there all night.
Ouyang Fa watched Zhang Yue write page after page, writing non-stop, sometimes flipping through the books, but sometimes writing very smoothly without adding any points, and sometimes getting stuck, wandering around the room over and over again.
However, Ouyang Fa did not see too many emotional fluctuations on Zhang Yue's face. It seemed that his soul was wandering in the sky, his whole person was devoted to the article, and he was immersed in his own world.
Ouyang Fa went from being skeptical at the beginning, to gradually admiring him, and in the end he was really impressed.
If I had been so diligent and focused when I was studying, I wouldn't have failed the provincial examinations repeatedly and been complained by my wife all the time.
Ouyang Fa was still unconvinced and thought to himself, why are you complaining? Didn't your two brothers from the Wu family pass the exam differently?
As a result, until the day Zhang Yue passed the exam...
Ouyang Fa was completely speechless. Although Zhang Yue was his friend, the resentment on the lady's face seemed to have increased tenfold.
At this time, Ouyang Fa always comforted himself by saying that he lacked some luck or that if I were as diligent and diligent as the number one scholar, I would also be the number one scholar.
But Ouyang Fa watched Zhang Yue study and study hard today, and he completely knew that he would not be able to catch up with Zhang Yue in this lifetime or ten more lifetimes of reading.
Ouyang Fa remembered that when his father held him on his knee and taught him to read poetry and books, he seemed to have liked reading for a while, but now it is difficult to do so.
Ouyang Fa fell into a deep sleep thinking about it, but when he woke up in the middle of his sleep, he found that he had a piece of clothing wrapped around him.
Ouyang Fa secretly thought ashamed, why did he fall asleep?
He opened his eyes and saw Zhang Yue standing there under a bright high-footed lamp, his wrist hanging on the desk and writing as fast as he could.
At this moment, he was still concentrating on writing the article in front of the light, and the pages of the book were opened casually and put aside.
Ouyang Fa said nothing more, stood up and left the study.
Just as Ouyang Fa pushed the door open and walked out of the room, he heard a voice coming from behind: "Brother Bohe can come here to collect papers in ten days."
"Ten days? Isn't it already late? Do you know what you are doing?"
Ouyang Fa turned around and asked, but saw that Zhang Yue was still writing at the desk, without even raising his head to look at him, let alone replying to his words.
"Okay, let me ask dad." Ouyang said and returned home.
When he returned home, Ouyang Fa reported to Ouyang Xiu.
Ouyang Fa said: "People in the world are writing articles, but Zhang Duzhi is crafting articles."
Ouyang Xiu heard this and said nothing.
He recalled that it was the same when he was writing The Drunkard Pavilion.
At that time, I was very disappointed after being demoted to Chuzhou, and I wanted to write a shocking article to win over the government and the public again.
After Ouyang Xiu wrote the article "The Drunkard's Pavilion", he posted it on the wall and revised it dozens of times.
In fact, the first sentence above is not about surrounding the Chuji Mountains.
Instead, he described the scenery of Chuzhou in hundreds of words, but in the end Ouyang Xiu cut off all the descriptions for the sake of neatness in the article, leaving only the sentence "Chuzhou is surrounded by mountains", which eventually became popular.
As soon as "The Drunkard's Pavilion" came out, Luoyang became very expensive. After reading this article, officials remembered that Ouyang Xiu recalled him to the court.
This is also Ouyang Xiu's consistent style. He must revise an article repeatedly and publish it only when he is satisfied.
Ouyang Xiu heard about Zhang Yuexiu's article so much that he didn't sleep, eat or talk. He felt deeply that Zhang Yuexiu really had the same demeanor as I did back then.
Ouyang Xiu said to Ouyang: "Although the deadline for submitting papers is approaching, I can come forward to extend it for a few days for one of Zhang Du."
Ouyang Fa was impressed after hearing this. Does Zhang Yue still receive such treatment?
Ouyang Fa asked: "Is it okay to break this rule just to save one person?"
Ouyang Xiu smiled and said: "You can't do it to others, but you can save it!"
After Ouyang Xiu said this, he went to Shuguan's house the next day and said that most of the candidates for the seven-month subject were ready and had completed the examination for the ministers of the two systems. Now Duzhang Yue was in a hurry to take the exam and it was difficult to write it for a while, so he asked the emperor to postpone it.
time limit.
After Zhang Yue is written down, the qualifications of candidates for the system-related examinations will be decided.
As soon as this remark came out, the scholars were in an uproar.
I have only heard of candidates waiting for exams, but I have never heard of exams waiting for candidates.
For major national affairs, the purpose is to select the talents of the ministers. How can we select candidates who can adapt to changes in time?
Besides, is it difficult to get fifty articles into the volume? I will write it out for you in a minute.
However, the complaints of the scholars and the candidates were just complaints, but they also knew that Zhang Yue, as the number one scholar in the new subject, had the qualifications and confidence to ask the court to suspend the subject and wait for the examination.
Finally, the officials also spoke.
"When selecting talents in the imperial court's system of subjects, they must first pass three tests before using them. Extraordinary talents are waiting for them."
With these words from the officials, all opposition voices subsided.
Everyone once again admired that the number one scholar was indeed the number one scholar.
Nowadays, everyone is talking about how many fifty articles Zhang Yue wrote, so that he still cannot submit the paper?
Today Zhang Yue's article is very talented and has a lot of people looking forward to it.
However, there are also jealous people who say that the first scholar in this dynasty who won the first prize by relying on his appearance and his words, what articles can he expect?
That’s what I say, but the ministers of the two systems or above who have read Zhang Yue’s article will never think so.
Of course, Zhang Yue, who did not leave home and wrote his essay behind closed doors, did not know that when he was writing the paper selflessly, he alarmed Ouyang Xiu and even ordered the officials to postpone the registration time for him, which caused such a big incident.
The scholarly discussion.
For Zhang Yue at this moment, he devoted himself completely to writing the article.
In the past, my concepts and knowledge were vague, like a flash of light occasionally flashing in my mind, but when it finally turned into the tip of a pen or exited my mouth, the light disappeared.
When I selflessly explore, I just want to catch this flash of inspiration.
In this way, you can only understand the indescribable feeling, which is a state of first-class mystery and mystery.
Zhang Yue threw himself into it, and his whole person was integrated into it.
He had seen others say before that such a selfless experience could be summed up in one word, ‘flow’.
It is said that throughout the ages, people who can achieve great things in certain aspects must integrate into this state.
Some people use over-learning to describe flow. In fact, Zhang Yue thinks it is right. In a state of flow, he can learn more in one day than in ten.
Just like the world in a dream.
But the world in the dream is the space itself that has carved out a space for you to study quietly.
But flow is different. It means that you enter such a selfless state anytime and anywhere, and finally perform input and output.
Just like in a library or a train station, even in the noisiest environment, you ignore the environment and still study so selflessly.
It's like being isolated from the outside world and focusing entirely on yourself.
Such an experience is not much different from what Zen Taoism calls "getting the Tao".
Ten days later, early in the morning, Ouyang Fa arrived at Zhang Yue's house again.
But he saw Zhang Yue eating breakfast, and there was a book beside the table.
When Ouyang Fa saw Zhang Yue's busy look, he couldn't help but think of his father's voice for him. What kind of article did he spend so much time crafting?
Ouyang Fa asked Zhang Yue: "Du Zhi, where is your entrance examination?"
Zhang Yue pointed to the calligraphy beside the desk and said: "Here it is."
Ouyang Fa was surprised, when did Zhang Yue actually bind fifty volumes of his articles into a book?
Ouyang Fa picked up the book and took a look, and found that Zhang Yue's articles were indeed included in the volume, but the articles in them were not copied by Zhang Yue himself or asked to be copied on his behalf, but printed.
Zhang Yue looked at Ouyang Fa's face and knew what he wanted to ask, so he explained: "These days, I write a page myself and ask a craftsman to engrave a page. Yesterday, I engrave and printed the book overnight."
Zhang Yue saw Ouyang Fa's surprised expression and smiled to himself.
Now that I have entered the papers, it would be better to publish these papers as a collection and make some money on the way.