Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The new year of Chenghua twenty years was spent in an earthquake. The first day of the first month of the first month of the pilgrimage, the second day of the first month, the Jingshi earthquake, people are in panic. The Yongping Mansion in Zhili Province was in the same shock as Xuan Mansion, Datong, and Liaodong. The sound was like thunder. The sand and spring of the Xuan Mansion broke out.

When the news from other places did not reach the capital, the focus of the ministers' attention was that the earthquake in the capital was a sign of vows from heaven. The emperor Chenghua is not a person who is easy to manipulate. What's more, the concubine Wan Gui was involved in these remonstrances. His combat power suddenly exploded. From an old good man who "you just admonish me and don't listen anyway" to "I am guilty of you too "Unclean" fighting emperor.

He gently led himself in the edict, and pointed out that the ministers and the emperor "share the heavenly duties". The disaster from heaven must have something to do with the courtiers' negligence. He asked the ministers to reform and rehabilitate in order to be qualified. A local memorial of the Imperial History of the Central Dynasty, Emperor Chenghua either stayed in the middle and did not publish it or accused him of sending people to a remote place to be a magistrate.

The foreign officials of Beizhili who stayed in Beijing for the pilgrimage are even more panicked. While paying attention to the court situation, while worrying about the disaster and relief situation under his control, he still has to wait for the officials to be brought up.

Fortunately, they didn't wait long enough-Beizhili Zhufu was directly under the six branches, and they were in the forefront during the inspection. After passing Shuntian Mansion and Baoding Mansion, it was Yongping Mansion's turn. The prefect Wang Wenxian went to the hall to respond to the attendants, the staff and the others, and took out the education, money and food, supervising the transportation, mining, construction and construction, and righteous husbands and women of the counties under the rule, and commented to the superiors in person.

There is nothing special about other prefectures and counties, only Qian'an County has set up a library that lends books to scholars and scholars for free, which slightly aroused the interest of Yushi Li Yu. When the Qian'an county magistrate went to take the test, he asked: "Your library really allows students to read books without money? How is this different from those bookstores that allow people to copy?"

The county magistrate Qi spent several months working on this library. He regarded it as a very proud cause. He couldn’t help but say a few more words when he heard people’s questions: "My lord, the library in our county is actually for scholars. , The people are open to the public, among which books are only for people to read, not for profit. There are three hundred kinds of books in the library, with three books on each shelf, and there are spares and replacements in the library, a total of more than three thousand books The library is open every day from Chenzheng to the beginning of Shenyang. Anyone who loves books is allowed to go in and read their own books. There are always pens, inks, papers and inkstones in the library, so that you can copy and remember famous passages while reading."

Li Yu nodded slightly. Geng Yu, the assistant secretary of the staff, asked: "Where did your library come from and where did the books come from? Is it donated by a large family or is it intercepted by the county?"

Qi Sheng bowed and replied: "The library and books were gathered by a young righteous man and many big households in the county. Originally, he wanted to set up such a library by himself for free borrowing by the county students. The next official saw his poor family. However, he had such aspirations and was so ashamed that he wanted to take this matter over. Who knew that he was determined to do things for the court, but he still donated both the premises and the collection of books at home, and the official has set up a monument for him. It's aspirational."

Geng Yu sighed: "Why don't you ask the court for such a righteous act? What is the name of that righteous man and what does the family do?"

Li Yu said a little regretfully: "After all, what he donated is not the relief rice, and it is not in the case of Jingbiao. It is enough to honor him if the prefect of Qian'an has erected a stele for him and recorded it in the county chronicles. "

Qi Sheng said twice and replied: "That's a righteous citizen who has received the royal flag, his family..." Just as he was about to say that his patriarch was a householder, he suddenly remembered that he had just said that his family was poor. And Cui Langzhong's family background, as far as he inquired about in the past two days in Beijing, does not seem to be very poor?

At least it wasn't the poverty that Cui Xie showed when he first arrived in Qian'an.

The parents live in Qihu, Zhumen, and they call slaves and maids at home, and there are many wives and concubines. But the son lives outside the county, and has to be accompanied by two male servants, one old and one young, and he has to run the shop himself to make ends meet. Bullying. At first he only felt that the servant was domineering and deceiving the Lord, but now thinking about it, he was a little frightened-what if it was not just the servant who was insulting him?

He hesitated for a moment, but the two palm seal officers in the hall thought he had forgotten the person's name, so they told him not to think about it anymore and went back to the post house to wait for the result. They have to finish the trial of the 13 chiefs of the two capitals and the 3,523 chiefs from various prefectures and counties before the tenth day of the tenth day. There has been a lot of delay here in Qi Sheng, and there is really no time to wait. He wanted to go down.

After Qi Sheng came out of the staff, he knew that he could stay in office this time 80%. But he still had thoughts, after breaking up with his colleagues, he walked quietly to Cui Langzhong's mansion by himself, looking at the exquisitely whitewashed compound from the outside.

The second son of the Cui family was just going out at this time, bringing a group of brightly-clothed servants, shouting and embracing, and riding a horse passing by him with great enthusiasm, without even giving him the little official in Qingyi.

He also didn't want to take a second look at these dudes, arrogant people, and turned back to the post house.

On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, the results of the bureaucratic plan finally came out and reported to the emperor. Not only did the magistrate of Qi County fail to fall into the dismissed Bamu, but he also gave a testimony of "good at enlightenment" and passed this big plan in peace.

Later, the staff department will also promote officials below the prefectural Tongzhi level to fill the gaps in those who have been rejected. However, the county magistrate Qi estimated that his qualifications and achievements would not be enough to bear the impact of the current earthquake, and he would no longer stay in Beijing for thorns. After the plan was over, he quickly returned to Qian'an.

In fact, most officials in the earthquake zone wanted to walk like this, but few could really ride back like him-because he was thin. Good physical strength. I often travel and ride, and I am used to riding.

While most of the foreign officials were still dragging along in the suburbs of Beijing, he had already rallied and returned to the county government.

Fortunately, the epicenter was in the border area further to the north. Qian'an didn't suffer any damage. It was just that some shantytowns collapsed due to the ground movement, and several houses were burning. Fortunately, there was heavy snow that day and the fire did not spread.

The victims were arranged in the Guandi Temple and Xuanjue Temple nearby by Tianxian Cheng. There were clothes and quilts, as well as the porridge of the county's large family house. The faces of the victims could be seen. The magistrate of County Qi breathed a sigh of relief and instructed people to go to the big households to persuade the rice and grains. He also planned to go to the household department to request the opening of warehouses for disaster relief.

Tianxian Cheng said to him: "I have been persuaded once during the earthquake, and I got more than 50 stone grains, 100 pieces of old cloth, and 20 carts of charcoal. Now the weather is not very cold, and then ask the victims to go by themselves. Chopping some firewood outside the city will last until mid-spring."

The county magistrate Qi held his hand and his eyes were red with touch: "Fortunately, I have brother Arita to help me, otherwise I will be unable to reach the master in Beijing, so what about these people."

Tianxian Cheng said: "This is a matter of the subordinates, why dare to be praised by the adults? Fortunately, I am not affected by the disaster in Qian'an. Like the Yongping Frontier, the subordinates can't manage even if they have the ability to pass the sky. "

The two praised each other for a while, and the county magistrate Qi followed him to see the victims living in the monastery: whether the porridge in the house was thick or not, and the clothes on the victims were thick. Looking at the people below doing things, a man in a green cloak suddenly walked into the yard. His figure is not tall, but his legs are long, his steps are large, his actions are windy, and his white nose tip is very bright. eye.

A name surged on the tip of the tongue of the county magistrate Qi.

"Cui Xie."

Cui Xie paused, looked over subconsciously, and widened his eyes in surprise, and cried out, "My lord! My lord came back from Jingli so soon?"

The magistrate Qi nodded and asked casually, "You are not at home to review, what are you doing here?" As he asked, he looked at him.

He also wore a fur cloak, but the material and fur looked like a few silver pieces of ordinary goods, and outside the doctor’s house, the young man Qi Sheng saw was wearing a fine silk brocade cloak. Mao is also much better than this. Even the servants around the young man are also wearing big fur clothes, and the material seems to be brighter than this one.

But he seemed to mind whether the clothes were good or not, so he hurried up and said, "I have met the masters of the county, and the masters of the county. The students heard the government say that there are not enough medicines to fight the cold, so they asked someone to buy some from Tongzhou. , Just delivered it."

He could think of this, thanks to Xie Qianhu who sent him many nourishing herbs. He ate all by himself, and only when people came from the yamen to persuade him to recruit, did he remember to buy some medicine for these victims to prevent it. However, there were only a few pharmacies in Qian'an, and they were empty when they bought them, so he asked the guy to go to Tongzhou and asked the guy who opened a branch there to buy some.

The county magistrate Qi couldn't help but think of the extravagant young man outside the doctor's house, and when he looked at this young man who was more sensible than an adult, he only felt that he was unfair. However, there is no reason to belittle the son to his father in this world. He just sighed, summoned him to his side and asked, "You donated these medicinal materials?"

Cui Xie nodded: "Exactly. At that time, the students heard that the victims could only stay in the temple temporarily, thinking about the cold weather and easy to get sick, so they donated some medicinal materials. There happened to be surplus left by the silk cloth shop at home. Cloth, so I donated some..."

The county magistrate Qi smiled and said softly: "You did a good job. On the occasion of natural disasters, those who have enough energy should give money to the people to help the people. But you are still ordinary people, if you are in me... if you stand in the position of the court For disaster relief, we can’t just donate some money, food, cloth and silk, there are many other things to consider. You can see what you can see here, what have you thought of?"

When Tianxian Cheng and a few accompanying Zaoli saw them talking, they stepped back and went to see some old and weak victims.

Cui Xie is not too timid to take this test. He has watched a lot on TV before: leaders usually fly to the disaster area for inspection, soldiers and doctors stationed in the disaster area for disaster relief and treatment, built tents and simple mobile homes to settle the victims, and then reconstruction after the disaster. jobs. Ordinary people like him donate money to disaster areas in modern times, or buy some clothes, tents, mineral water, food...

He recalled for a while, combined with the current era, and said all the methods he could think of without violating Da Ming's taboo.

The county magistrate Qi also said: "The earthquake disaster in Qian'an this time is not serious, but the disaster in the capital from the capital to Datong and Liaodong is extremely serious. No matter how good your idea is, if it can't be used by the court, what benefit will it do to the victims? Only by staying in the court and exercising authority, can these thoughts be applied to the world, so that the people of the world can live and work in peace..." When he said this, he suddenly glanced at Cui Xie, his eyes full of solemnity.

Cui Xie's heart moved, and he remembered this sentence in his heart.

The people listening nearby did not notice anything. The county magistrate Tian listened vaguely to the phrase "people under the world" and "live and work in peace," and walked up to shoot him a flattering: "Adults are dedicated to the people, and they are really a model for herdsmen officials."

The county magistrate Qi also smiled and praised him: "Brother Tian has a good reputation. These days, we rely on Brother Tian to support the overall situation so that the county can survive the earthquake smoothly without causing the people to be displaced."

The two joked and laughed. Master Qi glanced at Cui Xie again and said mildly: "You can go back for a good review. This year, the Shangding Shangsi day comes late, and the county will have to wait until the Wenwu Temple has been sacrificed before hosting the county test. One month's work, don't let go."

Having said this, he ignored Cui Xie and continued to inspect the victims.

After Cui Xie said goodbye to him, he still went to the monk to check and accept the medicinal materials. He counted the missing items, but he remembered the words of the Qi county magistrate repeatedly in his mind: being in the middle of the court, so that everyone in the world can live and work in peace...

Translating this sentence, is it just called "the peace of the people of the world"? Mencius went to the Qi section of "If the king uses the gift, it will be the peace of the people, and the people of the world will be safe"?