Chapter 89 Dare to challenge the emperor

In such busyness, it was the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678), when Fu Qingzhu was already seventy-three years old.In this year, in order to win over intellectuals, Emperor Kangxi implemented a policy of softness, asking people from all over the country to recommend and select educated people to take exams in Beijing and appoint officials. This is the famous Erudite Hong Ci subject examination. The imperial edict was issued on the 23rd of the first lunar month. As a result, people immediately followed suit. The Ministry of Officials recommended Fu Qingzhu to Li Zongkong and Liu Zongzhou in the matter to go to Beijing to take the examination.

Fu Qingzhu is so angry, he is over seventy years old, what's the point of taking the exam? I've been rebelling all my life that it's not like you don't know, so I excused myself. There is no way, the reputation is too great to hide, the court heard: what?Master Fu Qing is not coming?That's not going to happen, pass the order down, you must come! It’s been hard for the officials below, Dai Mengxiong, the county magistrate, to prepare a donkey cart, and when he came to Fu Qingzhu’s house, he almost knelt down to Fu Qingzhu: “Boss, you can save face, it’s fine if you don’t go, but I’m still here If you want to hang out on the road, you can do it!"

In fact, the county magistrate was really good with Fu Qingzhu. He had no choice but to hesitate again and again. Fu Qingzhu thought that this matter should not drag others down, so he went on the road under the support of his son Fu Mei. But when he went to the capital this time, he made up his mind that he might die. He wrote in the poem "Extremely Ill and Waiting to Die": "Life requires sincerity, and death requires spirit..."; Survival, Fenshui Xiyan Old Shouqiu". On the way to Beijing, Fu Qingzhu was filled with grief and indignation, and he could not sleep or eat. It is said that he pierced his legs with an awl, creating the illusion of his own injury.

After arriving in the capital, Fu Qingzhu stopped the donkey cart outside Chongwenmen and refused to enter the city. He found a long-unpopulated Yuanjiao Temple thirty miles outside Chongwenmen to live. What a bull, what kind of integrity is this!I don't recognize your government, and I don't even enter your capital city. At this time, people in the city heard that Fu Qingzhu, who was loyal and righteous all over the world, was coming. This was big news, so they organized a mighty Fu Qingzhu visiting group, ranging from princes and officials, to ordinary people, all ran out. He came to visit him in this Yuanjiao Temple. It is estimated that many of them don’t know what learning is. No, there is no way, Fu Qingzhu will always lie on the bed under the pretext of being seriously ill, and will not get up to greet and see you off. His son Fu Mei will greet and see you off.

Most of the more than 100 scholars who were recommended came to Beijing in the fall of that year, but the exam was only held in March of the following year. What did these pedants live in Beijing for so long?Let's communicate with each other if there is nothing to do, so we started to visit each other, and finally turned this exam into a national academic exchange conference. After the meeting, we also published a number of papers (poems written in response to each other). In March of the next year, the exam began. Everyone took the exam and was given a banquet by the emperor. What an honor for an intellectual!

As a result, Fu Qingzhu told the examiner, sorry, I am not in good health, so I will not participate! This made Emperor Kangxi feel very embarrassed. Then there was an interview by Emperor Kangxi in the Palace of Preservation. As a result, many people who took the exam failed, but Fu Qingzhu who did not take the exam. Emperor Kangxi announced that he was made an exception to "show favor" because of "popularity" (the approval rate of text messages was too high), To confer official positions, the Ministry of Officials originally planned to confer "Zhengzi", but Kangxi felt that the official title was too small, and decreed that "Fu Shan's literature is plain (it is quite famous, and he scolded the Qing government all his life). , Thinking of his old age, he was specially granted the cabinet secretary, and he wrote questions for local officials."

Well, this is really polite, and most people will be overjoyed after this, why don't you hurry up and thank you? As a result, Fu Qingzhu told the minister who came to remind Xie En that I will not go!Nothing to be thankful for. ah? !This frightened the ministers, why don't you thank me?Boss, you really don't give face, how can you say this is also the emperor? Fu Qingzhu told them, if you don't go, if you force me again, I will go on a hunger strike and die for you to see. My God, we have to force it, otherwise we can't explain it!It is estimated that the legs of these ministers were shaking at that time. I have seen those who were scared and stubborn, but I have never seen such a backbone!

So he continued to force, and Fu Qingzhu really went on a hunger strike to show them. (If you don’t eat for seven days, you will lose your pretense) Now the ministers are even more stupid. If this person dies, there will be no way to explain it, Mr. Fu!Shall I call you uncle Cheng?Just give me some face! Fu Qingzhu still didn't go. At this time, a minister named Feng Pu was in a hurry, because he was in charge of this matter, and he couldn't control so much, so he directly ordered someone to forcibly carry Fu Qingzhu to the Meridian Gate (because Xie En was going to be at the Meridian Gate). Thinking of Fu Qingzhu seeing the Meridian Gate, thinking of the old country still in existence, and the country changing hands, he couldn't help crying.

At this time, other people were flattered and kowtowed to Kangxi three times and nine times from a distance, but Fu Shan held his head high and stood upright without kneeling. These ministers were so frightened that they almost peed their pants. They thought to themselves, Mr. Fu, what kind of guts are you, are you desperate? That Feng Pu became even more anxious, rushed forward and forced Fu Shan to the ground. Wei Xiangshu, a minister next to the emperor, hurriedly explained to the emperor: "Okay, okay, he has already thanked the emperor" (stop, stop, thank you), Emperor Kangxi also smoothed things over by himself, okay, no thanks, Flat body.

That's the way to go. Soon, Fu Qingzhu was about to leave the capital and return to Shanxi. When he left, all the bachelors and below went out of the city to see him off. This group of people really admired Fu Qingzhu. That Feng Pu came to write poems to send them off. In the windy and sandy sky in Beijing in spring, Fu Qingzhu left the capital with a donkey cart full of farewell poems. To be fair, Fu Qingzhu came to Beijing this time with the belief that he would die, but no one expected that Emperor Kangxi would be so magnanimous. Here, because of this matter, it has won the hearts of more literati, and from Fu Qingzhu's point of view, this matter has fulfilled his integrity throughout his life.

Instead, a group of ministers were so frightened that they began to have nightmares all night.