Finally on June 20, Shen Xi got up very early and woke up Lin Dai, who was asleep on the head of the bed.

Xiao Nizi was also conscientious, she stayed by Shen Xi's bed all night, and in the second half of the night, Shen Xi covered her with a layer of clothes, and Xiao Nizi slept very soundly.

"Huh? What's wrong? It's so sleepy......"

Lin Dai was sleepy-eyed and lacked spirit at all, so Shen Xi simply helped her to lie down on the bed, covered her with a blanket, and then went out.

After a simple wash, before Shen Xi could take a few bites of breakfast, Zhou had already urged him to go on the road.

When Shen Xi followed Shen Mingjun and went out of the door accompanied by Zhou, the person who sent the exam next door also came, Hui Niang took a few maids from the family to send them out, and the food she personally prepared was stuffed into Shen Xi's examination basket one by one.

The parting is another earnest entrustment......

Shen Xi came out of the alley and went to the street outside, where he could see candidates heading to the examination room everywhere.

After all, Shen Xi participated in the county examination and the government examination, and he was already very familiar with the rules of admission, but when he entered, Shen Xi was not allowed to bring in the soup in the urn, because the officials were afraid that the soup would hide a cheat sheet.

Shen Xi had no choice but to hand over the urn to a few errand servants, and it didn't look like they were ready to return it, and the soup boiled by the Zhou family would definitely enter their stomachs.

Shen Xi because he got the position of the head of the case in the last government examination, according to the rules, he needs to mention the "hall number", that is, the seat is closer to the examiner, Shen Xi's exam number is very special, the number A is located in the northwest corner of this examination room, and you can see the examiner's desk as soon as you look up, more than 700 candidates, led by him.

It's not the first time that Shen Xi has sat at the No. A table, but there is no mention of the hall number in the county test, and the No. A test booth is in the outer part of the Ninghua County test.

Shen Xi's side, the second number is Wu Xingyu, the third number is Su Tong, and the Wu number is Zheng Qian, all of whom have won the top ten in the first year's government examination, even if other people don't often intersect, the top ten in the same government examination are at least familiar with their names.

Except that Su Tong and Zheng Qian greeted Shen Xi. Others, including Wu Xingyu, turned a blind eye to Shen Xi.

When the candidates were almost there, the sky was just bright. Different from the previous county and government examinations, this time the college examination was held in the middle of summer, and the daylight was very long, and when the sky was clear, the roll call was not over.

There was already some noise among the candidates. It means that the examiner does not follow the rules, generally speaking, for an exam like this, one day of the test, the questions should be released before dawn and the papers should be handed in after dark.

But even if there is no more noise below, Liu Bing sits behind the desk and does not move like a mud bodhisattva, and even drinks a few sips of tea from time to time to look very leisurely, only occasionally there are candidates whose names are not clear, and he will take a look at it in person. Compare the confessions, and then wave your hand to signal the candidate to return to his seat.

The hospital exams in various places began in March and April, and when it was the turn of Tingzhou Mansion, it was the last one, and Liu Bing had to find a balance in this way.

The roll call is over, followed by the question.

This is also the most nervous time for candidates, whether the Cheng Wen and Fan Wen memorized in the previous year can come in handy depends on how the exam questions are.

According to the information that everyone came from all over the world before, I knew that Liu Bing liked to give multiple exam questions, and the questions were relatively biased, so there were basically no people who cheated in tandem with each other. Because even if you say hello to the people around you in advance, it is difficult to run into the same problem.

But when the candidates saw Liu Bing personally write the title of the first four-book essay question and let people post the inspection card, the candidates realized in their hearts that Liu Bing did not play the cards according to common sense this time. The first question of the four books is actually the same question for all the candidates in the audience.

"Stop at the best!"

Four words. It is clear, everyone is familiar with it, and everyone can't help but be in an uproar when they see it.

This kind of exam question can be said to be so popular that it can no longer be popular, and it is simply a childish who has just learned Bagu Xingwen can also memorize one or two Cheng Wen, which is too easy for candidates.

But easy is easy to overdo it.

The first sentence of "University" is said: "The way of the university." In Mingmingde, in the people, in the perfection. ”

From the words "stop at perfection" alone, it can be understood that we must stop in the realm of absolute perfection, which is actually to encourage people to reach the point of perfection in self-cultivation.

After seeing this exam question, some people were so excited that they couldn't find the north.

Such an easy question, those county masters from the second department disdain to take the test, you are a famous scholar who was born in the Jinshi and used to work in the Hanlin Academy, and you actually sold the pediatric question at such a discount? I memorized thousands of Cheng Wen, just to be able to bet on the topic one day, and I finally ran into it once today, isn't it an eye-opener?

But those who have a heart obviously don't dare to write easily, and this topic alone is enough to read it all morning.

First of all, why did Liu Bing take the exam in Fujian Province and go to Tingzhou Mansion to take the exam, and change the habit of giving different questions on the four books and essays when he took the main exam in other provinces, but only one question?

Of course, it can be explained that Liu Bing is tired from the Tingzhou Mansion and wants to save trouble, after all, his term of office is about to expire, and he will step down after returning to the provincial capital after the main examination this time, waiting for the new appointment letter of the imperial court, and the same question will be issued, and the question is simple, and it is easier to identify the candidate's talent and learning.

But Shen Xi knew that Liu Bing's personality was very cautious, he had just used Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments" to reprimand those candidates who were messing around, and it had only been two days, what reason was there for him not to be rigorous in his studies? If he really wants to be lazy, he will not personally come to the examination room to supervise the examination when the candidates look at the examination room.

Such a responsible person will definitely start and finish well, and will not make such a low-level mistake in the last game of Fujian University.

Then this incident may be related to the noisy protests of the candidates in public in the first two days.

Candidates should have been polite and observant, they were all slinging sons when they came out, they all spoke in chapters, and they had to be more upright and upright in dealing with people, which should be the standard for Liu Bing to select talents. However, when he took exams in various places, there were many things to ask for gifts, and the scholars did not memorize the articles of the sages in order to take the exam, and they only cared about memorizing the questions of the Cheng texts.

When the atmosphere of the sergeant made him feel sad, he would feel that the last time he was the chief examiner in his Fujian promotion, he had to express this dissatisfaction in his heart, and came up with a seemingly simple, but actually full of profound meaning.

That is to expound the relationship between self-cultivation and learning, and to discuss the issue of cultivating Qi and governing peace.

Thinking of this, the basic candidates can answer. But Shen Xi still pondered, pondering the deeper meaning.

This sentence is the opening sentence of "University", and "university" is relative to "primary school", primary school is to learn the six arts, which belongs to the learning level, while university is to sublimate a little, learn the way of self-cultivation, learn to be a gentleman. But the problem is that "supreme goodness" is an adjective, and it is impossible for people to achieve supreme goodness, even the great sage Confucius said that people are not sages who can be without fault, and even Confucius, who is respected as a sage by later generations, admits that he is at fault, let alone mortals?

Zhu Xi explained "supreme goodness" as "the extreme of reason", that is, the highest principle of discussing things after the fact, that is, impeccable goodness.

But this argument is actually idealistic, because there is no absolute supreme principle in this world, there is no such thing as the extreme of course, because in order to judge it as "of course", there must be a standard, and who will set this standard?

On the contrary, Wang Yangming, a few decades later, was more appropriate in the discussion of "Biography", "The best person is also sexual." There is no evil in the sexual element, so it is said to be the most good". It means that human nature is inherently good, and as long as it returns to its origin, it will reach the highest standard of supreme goodness, and supreme goodness is to return to its nature.

This is also the highest level of mind that Wang Yangming admires.

Shen Xi usually coped with things, but this time he chose to be silent for a long time, and after an hour passed, he didn't even mention the pen. Although Wu Xingyu, Su Tong and others next to them also reviewed the topic for a long time, they did not have Shen Xi to think about it for so long.

When Wu Xingyu concentrated on finishing the essay on the four books and was about to revise and transcribe it to the test paper, he found that Shen Xi was still holding a pen and pondering, which surprised Wu Xingyu: "Such a simple question does not involve the question of whether he will or will not, his talent is not below me, why did he think about it for so long?" ”

Shen Xi's delay in writing was not because he didn't think about his argument points, but even all the words had been formed in his mind, and the whole article didn't need to be scratched up to the paper, and it was already clear to him. He can even put his essay on the exam paper with a pen.

But the problem is that although Xinxue has always been a school, before Wang Yangming carried it forward, Xinxue has not been accepted by the mainstream school of science, so his article is likely to be blasphemous to the sage.

Shen Xi held the pen, and was really embarrassed in his heart, the academic criticism in the middle of the Ming Dynasty made the study of mind begin to flourish gradually, creating conditions for Wang Yangming to finally become a family of his own, but who is Wang Yangming, a great politician, a great military strategist, a great philosopher, and he is just a little kid who examines Xiucai.

When Shen Xi was hesitating to write or not, others had already completed the first article one after another.

"Write whatever you want, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu will take the exam in two years! You can disagree with every word I say, but you have to respect my right to speak! ”

Shen Xi is also fighting, if you have insight and can't express it, it is an insult to personality, I have a materialistic attitude, I feel that the mind is better in this proposition, why do you let me sing the praises of science against my will? your mother's, isn't it just a college exam, it doesn't matter if you Liu Bing advocates science or mind, anyway, I just want to write like this, what can you do with me?

After Wu Xingyu finished his question, he couldn't help but look at Shen Xi again, wondering what he was doing.

Suddenly, Shen Xi picked up the pen, didn't even type the draft, and directly wrote the article on the official examination paper, and his face was indignant, which made Wu Xingyu quite stunned.

Reading more than 10,000 volumes, and writing like a god, it probably refers to Shen Xi's state at this time.

Shen Xi picked up the pen and sprinkled more than 300 words, the number of words is not much, but the article is brilliant, and even the calligraphy that has always been covered up by him was also at his fingertips at this time. Although Wu Xingyu couldn't see what Shen Xi was writing, he already felt a crisis in his heart.

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PS: The third update!

I was so tired when I came back from Chongqing, and I have slept on the computer desk several times today! Brothers and sisters come to a wave of subscriptions, tips and monthly passes to stimulate the Son of Heaven, please! (To be continued.) )