prosperous age

Chapter 53 53 My Historical Mission
Entering the lobby, the sky is only slightly bright at this time. Naturally, the lobby should be relatively dark, but the lanterns and candles on both sides illuminate the whole room as bright as day.

When Wei Guangde and others walked in, they saw Tang Xianzun sitting in the hall, and there were a few students wearing t-shirts standing beside him, and one of them he still knew was Gao Xiang Gao Xiucai.

"Wei Guangde, Lin Tianti, and Liu Shizhen in Madang Town are protected by Gao Xiang, a congenital student."

After Wei Guangde and other five people bowed to Tang Xianzun in the hall, an official next to him held a file and sang loudly.

"Gao Xiang is the guarantor."

Just after the officials finished singing, Gao Xiang and Gao Xiucai from the crowd stood up, bowed slightly to the magistrate of Tang County, and sang loudly.

With the completion of the process of singing the guarantee, that is to say, the official ceremony of the mutual guarantee of Wei Guangde and other five people and the completion of the marriage guarantee, they then walked out of the lobby to find their own examination seats.

Wei Guangde already knew the approximate location before, so he quickly found his place, sat down in front of the exam table, took out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the exam basket to prepare for the next exam.

The paper is actually the examination paper issued during registration, which is also the answer sheet for later generations. There are more than ten pages of red grid rice paper, each page has fourteen lines, each line has eighteen characters, and several sheets of draft paper are attached. in the red grid.

The county examination with hundreds of people, the singing and guaranteeing session will not be over in a short while. Wei Guangde made his preparations and watched the candidates coming in and out. It took a while for the last group of candidates to come out of the hall.

At this time, because the exam tables were already full of people, these people found their seats very quickly.

Wei Guangde's seat number is Tianzi No. 12. In fact, Tianzi seems to be the exam seat under the eaves of the lobby. It should be the best, and it will not be affected by wind and rain, so you can take the exam with peace of mind.

The first round of the county exam is the main one, and the admission is wide. Those who can write fluently can be admitted, and those who get it are allowed to take the prefectural exam. It is up to the candidates to decide whether to participate in the following rounds.

Because it is very critical, the main examination questions are also relatively formal. There are two questions about the Four Books, one question about the Five Classics, and one poem with five characters and six rhymes.

As all the examinees were seated, the examination questions for the county examination were quickly spread in the lobby. After the magistrate wrote the questions, the clerks copied them on the gate board, and the yamen servants carried them back and forth in the examination room, so that all examinees could See this question.

Wei Guangde had already prepared a pen and inkstone, and quickly copied the topic on the draft paper, laughing in his heart while writing, it was really something he was familiar with, and his mother's burning incense and worshiping Buddha had an effect.

Because, Wei Guangde has already seen the first question of today's county examination, "Zi said that Yan Yuan said that if you use it, you will do it and if you discard it, you will hide it, but I and you are the husband", which comes from the Analects of Confucius.

Well, after seeing this, Wei Guangde knew that the county test is indeed relatively easy, as long as he has read the four books, it should be easy to find the source of the questions.

What do you mean? That is to say, Confucius said to Yan Yuan: "If you use me, take active actions; if you don't use me, hide yourself. Only you and I can do this!"

And the second question comes from the sixth chapter of the University, "The so-called extension of knowledge lies in the investigation of things, and the one who wants to tell me that knowledge is in the immediate things, but exhausts the reason."

It means that the way to gain knowledge lies in knowing and studying everything.It mainly means that in order to gain knowledge, one must touch things and thoroughly study its principles.

Seeing this question, Wei Guangde's heart moved slightly, there seemed to be something wrong with this question.

Wei Guangde thought there was a problem, not that there was a problem with this question, but that this passage seemed to be more biased towards Wang Yangming's psychology. Tang Xianzun's examination of this question is quite intriguing.

The name Wang Yangming was also heard by Wei Guangde from Mr. Sun last year, but Mr. Sun rebuked him, thinking that his theory was a lie to confuse the public.

However, this does not affect Wei Guangde's thinking of such a person, "the unity of knowledge and action" and "knowledge of things", seem to be very famous.

Later, I heard from other places that when King Ning rebelled, it seemed that Wang Yangming participated in suppressing the rebellion, but by now, this person has long since passed away.

Although he is not around, the philosophy of mind he created continues to be widely spread in the circle of scholars, and gradually rivals the prevailing Neo-Confucianism of Cheng and Zhu.

Of course, because of the rough creation of Xinxue, its influence is far less than that of Neo-Confucianism, and it is also hostile by the Neo-Confucianism school.

Wei Guangde not only turned his head to look in the direction of the lobby, although he couldn't see what was going on in the lobby, but Wei Guangde thought in his heart, could this magistrate who "govern by doing nothing" be a mind-learned person, otherwise why would such a situation happen? a subject.

There is also a question about the Five Classics at the back, and you can choose the five questions by yourself, and there is also a five-character and six-rhyme test poem.

For the five classics questions, Wei Guangde naturally chose the "Shangshu" that he had chosen, and naturally chose the Shangshu questions to answer.

If you come to take the county examination, you have already read all the Four Books and Five Classics. As for memory and understanding, it depends on the individual.

Wei Guangde chose the Five Classics at the beginning, because unlike the Four Books, the Four Books must be mastered, while the Five Classics only needs to be learned well. However, Wei Guangde didn't know how to choose, so he simply read them all.

The Five Classics of Confucianism, according to Wei Guangde's understanding, respectively discuss human emotional issues "Book of Songs", social issues "Book of Rites", political issues "Shangshu", historical memory issues "Spring and Autumn", metaphysical issues "Book of Changes" ".

The Book of Songs, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Period were all eliminated by Wei Guangde immediately, and there was really no way to learn them.

He read the Book of Rites for social issues and Shangshu for political issues several times, and finally chose Shangshu.

Perhaps because of preconceived ideas, Wei Guangde always feels that he doesn't adapt to the current era. Although he has been here for more than a year, he still feels a little unaccustomed. He still thinks about his computer, mobile phone, and Internet.
The choice to make a book is naturally because Wei Guangde hopes to use the knowledge of hundreds of years, especially the various information seen after the information explosion, to think more and see farther than people in this era .

Thinking about it, relying on this as a basis, the decisions made should surpass most people in this era.

Among other things, Wei Guangde had already made up his mind that if it was destined for him to come to this era, then he must have come with a mission.

Then what is his mission, Wei Guangde thought for a long time, of course it is not for him to enjoy the glory and wealth of ancient times, with wives and concubines in groups.

Thinking about the braid scenes that later generations watched, Wei Guangde felt that he should be the one to end that period of history, after all, the era he was wearing was really not embarrassing or embarrassing.

I don't know if that slave Ha Chi was born or not. It seems that the last Emperor Chongzhen in the Jiajing Dynasty should be far away.

There are several generations of emperors in between, Wei Guangde really doesn't know, but it doesn't matter, anyway, find a way to deal with the pig tails on the Jianzhou side, and there should be no tragedies for future generations, and the Han family will not perish Alien hands.

(End of this chapter)