Chapter 1 A warning to the youth! (Please collect)
It was February 15th, the 18th year of Hongwu.
The third round of the imperial examination.
Wenchi Palace.
One team after another, the Imperial Guards, wearing iron armor and holding swords, were guarding the Wenqi Palace majestically.
This year is the imperial examination year of the Ming Dynasty.
Five years after the imperial examination in Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the candidates selected for the imperial examination were few and had real talents, so he announced the suspension of the imperial examination. The imperial examination had been suspended for ten years.
Only in the fifteenth year of Hongwu's reign did he announce the resumption of the imperial examination. After two and a half years of children's examinations, college examinations, and rural examinations, it finally entered the stage of the imperial examination.
The number of people participating in this examination reached 10,000.
As a deafening gong sounded, people outside the palace filed in and entered this relatively narrow examination room. After a rigorous search, Xia Zhibai went to his seat.
Sit in your seat.
Xia Zhibai’s eyes were clear at this moment.
There was a lot of noise in Wenchi Palace at the moment, but Xia Zhibai seemed to be unable to hear it.
He whispered softly in his mouth, strengthening his determination.
“A message to the youth.”
"Sovereign, not slave!"
"Progressive, not conservative!"
"Progressive, not regressive!"
"Worldly, not conservative Locking the country!”
“Practice and not just words!”
"Scientific, not imaginary!"
"..."
As he whispered these words, Xia Zhibai's eyes became more determined, with fighting spirit and fighting spirit in his eyes. It’s getting thicker and thicker.
He wants to be an official.
There is no doubt about it.
In his previous life, he had been actively preparing for the civil service examination since he was in college. When he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he had also been actively preparing for the imperial examination.
Otherwise, at such a young age, I would not have passed the Children's Examination, the College Examination, and the Provincial Examination in two and a half years to sit in the Grand Examination Hall today.
Although I took advantage of the literary decline in the north, it is indeed the result of my own efforts.
He has traveled to the Ming Dynasty for so long and has been actively preparing for the exam for so many years. His goal has never been to get the so-called Jinshi, but to have greater ambitions.
He will establish a destiny for all peoples.
Strive for eternal peace and prosperity for China.
This is difficult.
But tens of millions of people are leaving!
This is exactly the great cause they, as time travelers, should do and achieve.
He was overshadowed by his ancestors in the past, and he was able to straighten his spine and live an upright life. This was achieved through the bloody sacrifices of countless people with lofty ideals and countless revolutionary martyrs at that time.
Hard won.
He will not be willing to degenerate just because he once traveled through time, nor will he be willing to become a pawn of the old era and an accomplice of the old society's evil.
He can't do such a thing.
He knows it too.
As long as he answers the last 'Ce Question' smoothly, he will be able to pass the imperial examination and become an official of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the promulgation of the "Imperial Examination Form" in the 17th year of Hongwu, China's imperial examination system has officially entered the era of eight-legged essays.
In the first two examinations, he has completed three "Four Books", four "Five Classics", and one article in the form of "Edict".
According to his memory, starting from this year, the imperial examinations in the world no longer paid attention to the last "Ce Question".
The emphasis is on the eight-part essay in the first scene.
The good or bad answer to ‘Ce Wen’ is just the icing on the cake. As long as he can write smoothly and make no mistakes, it is basically a certainty that he will be a Jinshi.
He really wanted to be an official, but the official in the Ming Dynasty was not the official he wanted to be, and it was not an official, but a slave of the Zhu family.
His backbone was supported by countless revolutionary ancestors’ bloody struggles and endless flesh and blood, and it cannot be bent for the sake of mere power. Gain fame and fortune, lose body and mind.
Even if you have the intention to benefit the world, you are destined to be invaded by the turbid current of the old era and become a member of this turbid current.
Although Broken Ridge can reach the sky in one step, become a successful person, gain high official status and generous salary, and gain both fame and fortune, he has become a feudal dog and can hardly lift his head for the rest of his life.
He is different from Song Lian.
Song Lian in history surrendered. When Song Lian's "Preface to Chen Ting's School" was written, Song Lian's fate was already doomed.
Now that we have eulogized the Holy Lord and said, ‘Now that the Holy Lord has risen and settled within the universe, he has become one family within the extreme sea,’ how can there be any possibility of sticking to one’s original intention?
What Zhu Yuanzhang wants is for Song Lian, the head of civil servants, to become his domestic slave, and what he wants is for Song Lian to become a weapon in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands.
And he has faith.
He did not want to kneel or be a slave.
His spine, which stands erect in this world, carries too much hope. It contains the blood and fire of the revolutionary martyrs, as well as the earnest expectations of future generations.
He stopped writing, raised his head, and looked at the high wall.
On the solemn high wall, through the high windows, red sunlight filtered in. This touch of red looked particularly bright in this dull examination room.
He never denies it.
The Ming Dynasty was a very great dynasty.
Reshape mountains and rivers, rebuild China.
It ruled the Tang and Song Dynasties, and reached the Han and Tang Dynasties far away.
On the top of the Forbidden City, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, founded the Ming Dynasty and founded the Yuan Dynasty, which is worthy of a special book in history.
A Huaiyou commoner, holding a three-foot sword, accomplished an unparalleled feat in bridging the north and the south. Such achievements are worthy of long-lasting memory in the world.
But it is undeniable that the Ming Dynasty had a deformed system, suppressed economy and culture, and focused on agriculture and suppressed business, which did great harm to China's future.
The righteousness of the country lies precisely in the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the common people, and the fault of the Ming Dynasty lies precisely in this commoner.
After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, he still thought of the common people. He only wanted all officials to be long-term workers of the Zhu family, and only wanted all the people to be slaves of the Zhu family.
Xia Zhibai also came from a commoner background.
Just a commoner from later generations.
As a commoner, he did not want to live in the present and become a slave under the imperial power, nor did he want to kneel down, beg for mercy and become an accomplice of evil in the old era.
He must straighten his spine, live up to the dedication and high hopes of the revolutionary martyrs, become a gleam of light in this old era, and become the leader of the new era.
He wants the current generation to stand up too.
When you travel through a lifetime, you should have the arrogance that a time traveler should have, and more importantly, the character that future generations should have. How can you follow the trend, and be willing to fall for temporary gain?
The beginning of time travel.
He told himself clearly.
In this life, I would rather be a beggar than a domestic slave!
And he participated in the imperial examination for one thing only, which was to revolutionize the Ming Dynasty. If he failed, he would become a light in this turbid era and not fall short of the aspirations of those who traveled through time.
The vastness of China is the eternal river.
As the sun rises, as the moon remains.
He came back to his senses and looked at the rice paper in front of him, with a touch of pride and ambition flashing in his eyes.
Xia Zhibai picked up the pen and started to write. The answer was not the policy question on the rice paper, but a new topic that he opened.
“In view of the past, we are qualified to govern.”
“Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the gains and losses of the country have become increasingly consistent.”
“In the Song Dynasty, the country was gained by children, and the country was lost by children. "Little boy, Yuan will take over the world immediately and lose the world immediately."
"The Ming Dynasty originated from the peasant uprising, and it will surely perish due to the peasant uprising."
"Because the Ming Dynasty does not care for the people!"
The new book sets sail, asking for data.
There is only one chapter in these two days. I will chat with the editor next Monday and revise the plot slightly.
(End of this chapter)