Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

In the early April of the tenth year of Hongzhi, He and Ge brought a few family members, Qingqi came to Qian'an, and said goodbye to Cui Xie. He is about to get married in August. The climate in the south of the Yangtze River is humid and hot. He, a native of the north, may not be able to adapt, so he has to leave a few months in advance to avoid getting sick from the heat on the river and delaying the wedding.

Cui Xie led him to worship his ancestors and told him not to drink raw water on the boat. No matter how thirsty or anxious, he must boil it before drinking. There are a large number of ships passing by in the canal every day, garbage and waste water are dumped directly into the river. I don't know how many bacteria there are.

Li Qingzhao's ex-husband, Zhao Mingcheng, drank raw water and died of illness. With his brother's physique, he probably won't be able to take a cup.

Cui He immediately took his lesson and took his brother's advice and medicines for seasickness, heatstroke, and diarrhea, and went straight to Tongzhou by boat. The big boat rented by the Cui family has stopped at the pier waiting for him. The boat has been loaded with the bride price and his daily furniture, clothes and quilts. After picking him up, he went south.

The two parties have agreed that he and his brother will live in Xie's house until the beginning of the spring next year. This period happens to be with the future Yue Zu and father-in-law studying.

Before Xie’s family could get married, Cui Xie had already fulfilled his grandmother’s twenty-seven months of filial piety. He packed up the things and written manuscripts used to keep her filial piety, and returned to the capital with a few cars of fresh food.

On the day of returning to Beijing, Cui Heng took his family to meet him outside the city, and wanted to take him back to his old house to rest, but Cui Xie refused to go back. Instead, he asked him to have a cup of tea at the Shijiao Mansion. But because Yang was pregnant this summer, and the month is still young now, Cui Heng is worried and fidgets. Cui Xie didn't want him to get in the way at home, so he sent him early and turned the entire yard around by himself.

From the outside, the yard is not much different from when he left home. It was just repainted. The green-painted pillars, the sauce-colored doors and windows, and the newly pasted translucent window paper made it look extraordinarily fresh and clean.

But when he came to places like his bedroom and study, the decoration was quite different.

The study room was pasted with light green paper on all sides, and colored papers set in frames were hung on the walls. They were originally made by him. They were painted with light-colored fruits and vegetables and utensils covering the surface of the paper, which were elegant and plain. The ceiling is framed with a small wooden slatted ceiling, in which a translucent tile board is inlaid, and a large chandelier hangs in the middle. The upper part of the lamp body is a blue and white porcelain cover, and the translucent claw lamp is seated on a torus-like iron frame. Spelled together.

It is not very similar to the chandeliers in his paintings, but it is also the only modern style of the Ming Dynasty.

The bedroom is also decorated in the same manner as he painted it, but the wall is pasted with light yellow paper with broken flowers, like it has been dyed with Huanglian water or gardenia water, which has a warm feeling. On the top of the head, there are also Ming-tile ceilings and chandeliers that are not easy to catch fire. The bed is covered with down cushions and pillows, and lying on it is soft and uncomfortable.

He couldn't help but fell asleep, and only heard his family knock on the door at night, saying that it was the next door Xie Yushi's family who heard that he had arrived home and specially hosted a banquet for him.

Cui Xie woke up in a sudden "huh", jumped out of bed neatly, got up to wash and change clothes, asked his family to prepare gifts, entered the door of Xie's house seriously, handed over the gift list, thanked Mr. Gao Lin Xie for these Nian helped him look at the house and had a polite feast.

When someone looks at it through the gate, disregarding personal suspicion, when no one looks at it... it is natural to open the garden gate and go to the small building for a tryst. However, Cui Xie had just returned from his hometown more than 500 miles away. Xie Ying couldn't bear to toss him, so she massaged his sour muscles and drove in the car and slept quietly all night.

The next morning Xie Ying had to go back to the town’s Fusi to order. Cui Xie helped him pass the belt and net towel with sleepy eyes, and escorted him home through the back door.

After such a toss, Cui Xie couldn't fall asleep either. He simply went back to pack up the gifts he brought back, and asked someone to hand over the post to his relatives and friends, or pick a day to visit, or make an appointment to drink together.

As soon as the post was sent out, the two uncles came to see him with red faces wearing flying fish costumes gifted by them. As soon as he walked in, he hurried to talk about how their brother was struggling to write questions for the prince, forcing the little prince to do the papers seriously, and to correct his learning and working attitude from an early age.

The two of them did not study very well, and they had rich experience in being punished. To deal with the prince, Cui Xie used one-tenth of the methods that Cui Xie used to deal with them, and they were able to toss the little prince everywhere to complain...

The two of them recalled how they were punished when they were fine. They didn't recall the psychological shadow. Instead, they realized the pleasure when Mr. Cui punished them. No, it was painstaking, and then they liked to remember the old more.

The two said sincerely: "If there were no teachers who had painstakingly taught me back then, how can I have the responsibility and skills today? Please be respected by our brothers, and will not hesitate to discipline us in the future."

For a while, Teacher Cui didn't know how to evaluate their attitude of applying what they learned. After thinking about it, it was better to encourage them and praised them a few words.

Not only praise, but also the two most heart-warming and favorite rewards from the two national uncles: "After the second time the young Jinyiwei was printed, draw a real-life statue for each of your brothers. What kind of clothing do you like?"

like! I like any clothes! Just like Xie Zhenfu and 14 thousand households of Jin Yiwei Zheng Chuan!

Grand Uncle Zhang Guo put on a slanting posture with the knife, and the little Zhang Guoji turned his head horizontally, both of whom felt that he was too cool and brave. Cui Xie took a careful note, and promised to ask the painter to draw the two of them taller and more handsome. It was so beautiful that they didn't eat much for lunch. He loaded a car with the local products that the teacher brought back to Beijing and went home dizzy.

Cui Xie watched them leave, first took a pencil to draw the two postures that the brothers wanted, so as not to forget, then turned out his writings in the country, and prepared some live chicken, bacon, many melons, vegetables, and vegetables. He was going to see Teacher Li at night .

It is a common practice for officials to give lectures and write books when they are in rural funerals. Of course, Cui Xie has to bring out things for people to watch. It's just that what he writes in the countryside is not the Confucianism articles or poems that ordinary scholars love to write, but a stack of agricultural papers.

His article Cuanba Cuanba also has a small 200,000 characters, and it is about to catch up with the "Zuo Zhuan": it includes the agricultural technology that has been experimented over the years; it restores and uses the agricultural tools and water conservancy in Wang Zhen's "Nong Jing" Experience report of facilities; experience in planting salt-tolerant plants and using saline-alkali land; there are guidelines for breaking superstition, preventing locust plagues and eating locusts...

For locusts, those with wings are locusts, and those without wings are locusts. They are common pests in the north. Fried and eaten, delicious; roasted and eaten, delicious; aired into dried locusts, the taste is the same as dried shrimp, delicious.

Locusts mostly live after floods and droughts. Hopefully, severe droughts will be accompanied by locust plagues. If they are not managed in time, they can even become migratory locusts that spread thousands of miles and spread across several provinces.

Cui Xie has always lived in a village. Sometimes it doesn't rain for days, and you can see locusts flying around at home.

Whenever he saw locusts, he asked people to catch them everywhere to avoid disaster. Some local people were willing to hunt locusts, and some superstitiously believed that locusts were punished by heaven and were afraid to drive them. So he took out food from his home and bought local people to catch locusts and dig eggs. One bucket of insects is exchanged for one bucket of millets, and many old, young, and young women and children are willing to do these things and clean up the deserted beaches where the insects grow.

It's just that the eggs are not easy to clean up and cannot be dug up by humans, so he still sacrificed the birth of lime to kill Dafa, sprinkling quicklime and sulfur on the locust breeding places to burn the eggs that were not dug up.

Zhang Ji, the county magistrate newly transferred from Qian'an, heard about this and told farmers elsewhere to learn how to catch locusts. However, because it was not when the locust plague was severe, the government could not exchange grain for insects, and could only persuade the rich to raise money, so Cui Xie donated a lot of grain and soybeans.

For this reason, the county magistrate Zhang specially wrote an article "The Story of Extinguishing Locust" to thank him, and he personally delivered the article, and asked him to comment.

Cui Xie took out his stereotyped eyesight to read his articles, and helped him pick a few places where he was showing off his literary talent, which seemed trivial and weak, and modified a little to make the article more smooth. Zhang Xianling was so excited that he not only changed the article, but also wrote a title on the spot, "I feel that Cui Shi Jiangxie commented on the article, made with feelings," and gave him.

Cui Xie couldn't hold back the second rhyme for a while, so he could only give him a bag of dried locusts and two chickens that were fattened with locust powder as a gift. The county magistrate Zhang took it home and pondered for a few days, invited the local elders to come, and ate the dried locusts in public to show that the locusts were edible, and persuaded the people to hunt them as soon as they saw them.

When Cui Xie heard about this, he felt that he could afford to control the locusts. He also expressed his pride. He suffocated a few words to the bare wheat field after the harvest: "Is the flying insects coming from heaven? Silt coating can also be prevented."

After seeing him at night, Mr. Li didn't ask Han Wen, first read his articles and poems. When I saw this poem first, a hint of joy flashed across his face, and he was a rare compliment: "The turban is gone, and the tower is visible."

In other words, it's not too sour, and the official language is changed.

Anyway, Mr. Li himself said that it's not a bad thing to have Taiwanese style in the poem, so Cui Xie regarded himself as making progress and received the praise happily.

However, Mr. Li Ge likes to read his short essays, and it is more sincere to boast about it. In the thesis, all the crops he used are painted, and the different forms of birth, growth, flowering, and fruiting are also drawn. The branches, leaves, flowers and fruits have anatomical drawings, which are lifelike. Even people who have never been in contact with crops can recognize the crops in the fields when facing this painting.

A lot of numbers are listed in the text, and more obvious tables, histograms and pie charts are made, so that people can see the advantages and disadvantages at a glance, and save much vision and energy!

When he was a Hanlin bachelor, he wanted to write memorials and chapters to show off his skills; now, as a patron, he has to read a stack of memorials a day before he knows that such an article is time-consuming and time-consuming. Simple and straightforward.

He put down the manuscript and glanced at Cui Xie approvingly: "It's no wonder Xu Shoufu said that you can do real things back then! It's nothing else, food and locust control are really important tasks in the world. I have played for you in the first step between hybrid beans and grain beans. Going up, the palace is trying to plant. You can rewrite this locust control method into a simpler and implementable memorandum, and then submit it to the holy master."

The essay is easy to understand, but the format is wrong, and you have to rewrite it to submit it.

Cui Xie nodded immediately, and asked about the recovery. His teacher is Elder Ge, and there is no need to say anything between the master and the disciples. He just said: "Last year the emperor ordered the seminary, the imperial court is short of people, and it has long been waiting for you to come back! You will return to the official department tomorrow to return the quotation. , I’ll give you three days off to arrange housework, and as soon as the three days are over, I will go back to the Imperial Academy to work."

Just after finishing the "Xianzong Record", he has to revise the ceremonies. The emperor Hongzhi is really diligent, and he doesn't give them the chance to live a life like in the Chenghua period!

Cui Xie had been living in the country for a long time, and felt sore in his arms when he thought of repairing books every day, and couldn't help sighing. But he didn't dare to say that he didn't want to do it, so he could only comfort himself in bitterness: Fortunately, the data saved during the last revision was still not deleted in the hard disk. The data can be checked in the brain during the seminar, which can save a little bit. Child energy.

Li Dongyang saw him sluggish, but also aroused some distractions, and sighed: "You have been keeping filial piety in Qian'an for the past two years, but you have delayed the prince's release from the cabinet. If you were in the court last year, the twelve princes said You must have a seat in the official ranks. Now the East Palace is full, and all the young and promising Hanlin are used. Unless Zhang Wenxiang is promoted to a higher level and vacates a seat in the right middle, he can put you in."

Zhang Wenxiang is the probing of Wang Zhuangyuan's list, and his name is Tianrui. Cui Xie also completed the transcript in Hongzhi's four years, and was promoted to the assistant lecturer according to the rule. From his position to the time, he collided with this Zhang Zhongyun to death. It is estimated that he will not be able to enter the East Palace within a short time.

Li Dongyang looked at him regretfully: "You can teach books and teach your disciples to be kind. If you can teach in the East Palace, there should be a way for the Pope Prince to study hard. Fortunately, the two uncles often enter the palace to persuade the Prince to study. The papers were also reviewed, which means that when the lecturers are not in the East Palace on weekdays, they are not afraid that the prince’s teachers will be lured by the servants."

Cui Xie deeply thought it was true, and he also praised the uncles.

It is a bit inhumane for the two uncles to add homework to the little prince so early, but thinking about what Zhengde has done in history, he doesn't have much sympathy for this child.

Even if it's a bit overcorrected, just correct it first. Don’t modern children have to attend preschool training classes at the age of three? Not only Chinese characters, but also mathematics and English for children! It is to teach Zhengde to be a nerd, and it is better than the king Xiong who wandered all over the history, indulged Liu Jin in politics, and made the ruling and the opposition uneasy, and King Ning rebelled.

The positions of the teachers and students are quite consistent, the more they talk, the more they agree. Teacher Li asked people to open a jar of Xie’s family wine, cooked chicken and meat, kept him for dinner, and asked him to send people home to get dried locusts to taste.

It is not locusts that eat, but this kind of manpower's heroic spirit!

Li Dongyang drank the strong wine in the cup, and looked at Cui Xie with a smile: "It's still the most comfortable to talk to you. Although there are many talents in the dynasty, Li Xianji, one of my students, Bian Tingshi and Wang Jingfu of the Wang Shouren list in Hongzhi nine years ago They are all clever and profound young talents, but these young people are very strong, and their spirits are somewhat proud, not as calm as you."

"Only you are the one who does things steadily and does not want to be famous."