Chapter 59 Chapter 4 It takes six generations to read a broken book

Hong Huoxiu succeeded.From the perspective of social laws and historical laws, no one can compete with him, but at this time, Zeng Guofan, a thousand-year-old hero of Chinese Confucian culture, was born again.In Chinese history, there have been countless mass incidents involving cults, but they were defeated by Confucian culture every time, and this time is no exception. When we say that Hong Huoxiu suffered from consecutive failures in the imperial examinations, his pain is far less than that of the six generations of the Zeng family.The first generation of the Zeng family is Zeng Zhenzhen, who was originally from Jiangxi. He migrated to Hunan when the world was in chaos at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.The Zeng family has been farming for generations. After the generation of Zeng Zhenzhen, he managed the family business in a decent manner and had some money. At this time, he considered: No, our Zeng family can’t just farm for generations. Bright lintel.So Zeng Zhenzhen called his son Zeng Shangting over, and earnestly taught: Son, you want to honor your family, honor your ancestors, and give you a task today, and study hard for me in the future.

This Zeng Shangting picked up the book and closed his eyes after looking at it. These words recognize me, but I don’t recognize them, but this is the task assigned by my father, so I have to read it. Is there any trick?With that, I will hurry up to marry a wife and have a child, and leave this task to the next generation.So Zeng Shangting married a wife and had a son named Zeng Yansheng. He told Zeng Yansheng: Son, you must keep in mind your grandfather's teachings, you must study, and you must learn something famous. Zeng Yansheng took a look at the book, please, give me something else to do!I really don't understand this book.So Zeng Yansheng soon married a wife and had children, and gave birth to Zeng Yuping.It has been three generations in Zeng Yansheng's generation, and none of them have been famous. Zeng Yansheng is in great pain, and he educates his son Zeng Yuping very seriously: You have to learn famous tricks no matter what.

Zeng Yuping opened the book and looked at it, thinking that I would be exhausted enough to read famous books in this life. In a fit of anger, he threw the book down, bought a horse with money, and rode away from home.Where are you going?When he came to Hengyang, he hung out on the streets every day, fighting with a bunch of hooligans, and lived a debauched life for so many years.One day he was sleeping curled up on the street, when suddenly a person approached him, and he was in a drowsy sleep.The man said: Do you still know who you are?Do you still know your family mission?Do you still want to indulge yourself like this?Remember, if a person wants to make some career in the society, it is absolutely impossible to do nothing like you are doing without doing a solid job.After saying this, the mysterious man left.

Who is this guy?Several generations of Zeng's family went looking for it, but they couldn't find it.After Zeng Yuping woke up from the dream, she broke out in a cold sweat and began to reflect on herself: I am sorry for the Zeng family. I have been here for four generations, and I haven’t made a name for myself in my studies. We must educate our offspring to study well.He knows that he can't read anything famous. So Zeng Yuping sold the horse, walked back to his hometown, began to manage the family business, and gave birth to his son Zeng Linshu.He said to his son: If you don't read books for me in this life, I will not recognize you as a son.Poor Zeng Linshu had to start reading with tears in his eyes, but he really couldn't read it.

But if he couldn't go on reading, his father refused to do it, so he beat him. In this painful and desperate struggle, Zeng Linshu spent half of his life, and finally ushered in the glorious moment of his life - he passed the Tongsheng examination.Tongsheng is similar to today's junior high school graduates. It's shameful to be a child student when you are in your forties, and you have no face to face others.Moreover, there was a child next to him who was on the same list as him when he was taking the test for children. He was just a teenager. Zeng Linshu looked to the side and was delighted to see the child's name——Zeng Disheng.My son and I were on the list at the same time. I didn’t get famous. If my son got famous, there would be one of the six generations of our family who was educated.

So Zeng Disheng became the hope of the whole family, and took the money to the capital to participate in the palace examination, hoping to be the champion.As a result, he failed the exam and lost his name to Sun Shan.After he failed, he spent all the money he had on buying a set of Twenty-Three Histories—the Qing History hadn't come out at that time.Zeng Disheng came back with this set of books, and then began to bite the bullet and continued to read the books to prepare for the exam. After a few years, he went to Beijing to catch the exam, and he got in the list! Now the Zeng family was overwhelmed with joy, and six generations finally produced a scholar.

After being admitted as a Jinshi, Zeng Disheng stayed in the Hanlin Academy as a Shujishi.At this time, he was already regarded as an official in the capital, and the political treatment of Shujishi was quite high. How high was it?If you pass the exam, there will be a big exam every three years. If you pass the exam, you will go directly to the Hanlin Academy. If you don’t pass the exam, there will be a magistrate.Therefore, the mental pressure of these sages is also very small, and it is entirely based on personal interest after studying and taking the exam.But Zeng Di was born in the capital, he had no support from above, no roots from below, he was the only one, if he wanted to make a career in the court, he could only rely on himself.But relying on himself is not enough, he is not capable enough, he has to curry favor with powerful people.Fortunately, these concubines of the Hanlin Academy were very talented and learned. He found Woren, the master of Neo Confucianism at that time. This Woren was a very well-educated person at that time.

When Wuren saw him, he said, "Your name is so weird. What does Zeng Disheng mean?" Zeng Disheng said: My name comes from a sentence. Everything before is like dying yesterday, and everything after that is like being born today. So I named him Zeng Disheng to cleanse my heart and give me a new life. Woren said: No, your name is too weird. Even if this kind of name can be remembered, it is still a mouthful. I will change your name to Zeng Guofan. Thus, the Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan was born in this way.