Chapter 12 Gu Jingxing: From a Weed to a Cottage

Great sages come out of Qishui leisurely, and the time is full of memories of Huang Gong.At the foot of Huanggong Mountain in the east of Qizhou City, blue-gray Artemisia argyi, phoenix-tailed ferns, vigorously expanding wild chrysanthemums and thick lion grass cover a tombstone. After years of wind and rain erosion, the inscription on the rectangular tombstone has become somewhat blurred. A black ant climbed onto the stele from a leaf of lion's grass protruding obliquely. It stopped for a moment, and then hurried up and down, as if a master of arts was studying a long history. The profound thought of the literary giant who has an indissoluble bond. In 1687, Gu Jingxing, the long-sleeper behind the tombstone, left 46 volumes of "Bai Mao Tang Ji" and 200 volumes of "Huang Gong Shuo Zi" and passed away. Life.

Gu Jingxing was born in Quanshengfang (Dongchang Street), Qizhou. When his mother was pregnant with him, his father, Gu Tianxi, dreamed of a star falling on the courtyard, shaped like a crescent moon, and was very surprised. There is a dream in Chinese folk culture. It is said that what is dreamed is what will be reincarnated.It is written that Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, was born when a star fell from the vast sky to the sky above Zhu's house in Fengyang, and there was a glow, and then there was a "wow", and Zhu Yuanzhang cried earth-shatteringly.This is about the birth of an extraordinary person. Such a dream is obviously rare in a thousand years. After Gu Tianxi woke up from the dream, he immediately got a divination, and the name he got was "Jing Xing". , is it easy to be a god-sent son?So it was named Jingxing, and it was called Gu Jingxing.

It seems that Tianxi and Jingxing are destined to be related, and they are combined into "Tianxi Jingxing".Gu Tianxi was a tribute for the seventh year of Tianqi. He inherited the scholarly spirit of the Gu family. He has read poetry and books, mastered astronomy and geography, and is skilled in medicine. He once traveled around Tianjin, Haidian and other places to give lectures. It is more important to create a genius who inherits the scholarly fragrance than to be a county magistrate. This is not a problem in Qizhou culture.Gu Tianxi lived in seclusion in Qizhou and devoted himself to teaching his children and writing books. In addition to cultivating Gu Jingxing, he wrote 22 works in his life, including "Twenty-one History Commentary", "Yilin Shuo", and "Ju Shi".In the upper row, Gu Daxun, Gu Jingxing's grandfather, was also a Gongsheng student. He was awarded the Nanchang General Judgment by the imperial court. He has a collection of more than 50,000 volumes and 8 volumes of poetry.In addition, Gu Jingxing received 81 cabinets of books as a gift from his grandfather Feng Tianyu, who was once the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Gu Jingxing is intelligent and precocious. Under the careful training of his father Gu Tianxi, he can recite poems and compose Fu at the age of six, and has read all over the scriptures and history at the age of nine.In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1643 AD), Gu Jingxing was 15 years old. His father took him to Huangzhou to participate in the Huangzhou Prefecture Examination.In the era of imperial examinations, examinations were the first hurdle in life. At the age of 15, he participated in the government examination for the first time and won the first place. Naturally, many grandparents with white hair and handsome heads who failed to pass the examination were killed. Huangzhou Kaopeng Street is not There are seats for mediocrity, but will history inevitably leave seats for geniuses?Only history can answer.

In the second year, Gu Jingxing went to participate in the college examination hosted by Xuezheng Wang Chengchuan, and won the first place again.This exam not only improves the exam structure, but more importantly, it eliminates the accidental factors in the exam. If we can return to the historical scene, it is enough to weigh the weight of the first place in the two exams, and understand that the Qing court will repeat it again and again. She fell in love with Gu Jingxing.However, the exam did not expect that there was a word in the paper that violated the name of the examiner and was dismissed.

A new star rises, and before it shines, it is shrouded in haze.Gu Jingxing inherited the reading tradition of the Gu family and Qizhou. Gu Jingxing’s great-grandfather, Gu Que, and his great-granduncle’s advisers were all well-known Neo-Confucians and educators. The adviser was the teacher of the great scientist Li Shizhen.Feng (Feng Tianyu), Gu (Consultant, Gu Que), Hao (Hao Shouzheng), and Li (Li Shizhen) are known as the "Four Masters of Qizhou" in history. The combination of profound regional cultural reserves and personal talents has been fully realized in Gu Jingxing. verify.

Go back to Qizhou City in the late Ming Dynasty and revive the cultural memory of that era. In Xionghualing, the Gu family occupies the local cultural highlands. There is Jingwang Mansion in the city. Officials, celebrities, literati and merchants, and sages of the Ming Dynasty lived in seclusion, regardless of land (post road) North and South Travel, or the waterway (Yangtze River) shuttle from east to west, all have to stay in Qizhou.Therefore, the culture of Qizhou has isomorphism with the capital and other developed areas, and there are relatively complete education systems such as academies, ethnology, free schools, and private schools. The education popularization rate is high and the information is accessible. The historical status of this cultural highland can be scouting.

Gu Jingxing's mansion got the first place in all examinations, and his strict father taught him, learned a lot, combined with profound cultural accumulation, his future should be limitless.To advance is to be an official, to assist the government, and to govern the country; to retreat, to be a hermit, to write books, set up lectures, and set up libraries to give lectures. As long as there is a suitable platform, it is absolutely impossible to do nothing.However, the geniuses in the world always choose the worst time to be born. Gu Jingxing's era coincided with the weakening of the Ming Dynasty, the corruption of officials, the people's livelihood, and the flames of peasant uprisings ignited one after another, approaching the decline and corruption of the Ming Dynasty.

On the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), heavy snow fell in the sky, and the land in the north of the Yangtze River was silvery white. Phoenix Mountain and Qilin Mountain were covered with silver makeup. The clear water is slightly rippling, Qizhou City is peaceful and quiet after the Spring Festival, the firecrackers and confetti on the Qingshiban Street are lightly covered by snowflakes, and the edge of the well in Xuanmiao Temple is covered with a silver circle.On a heavy snow day in the first lunar month, people in Qizhou City came and went as usual, and the shops displayed a wide variety of goods, including silk and satin, porcelain, gold and silver jewelry, rice tea, oil and salt, etc.; In private schools and private study rooms, as usual, it was fried dried cloves with Chinese celery, stewed salted duck with yam, stewed pork ribs with nine-hole lotus root.The scholars, on the other hand, gather around a small red mud charcoal stove, pour wine in a small cup, stew pork ribs with lotus root in a sand bowl, stew hen with yam, or cook crucian carp with tofu. Serve wine with poetry, drink and pour yourself, life is full of warmth of self-love.At that time, the fashion of viewing ice lanterns had already risen. People in Qizhou made ice lanterns, but it was different from the cold weather in the north, so the method was different. They used bamboo chopsticks to make ice lanterns.Coincidentally, the earliest written record of ice lanterns in China was Gu Jingxing’s "Bai Mao Tang Ji". Among them, the scene of lighting candles: "A row of ice gathers snow in the courtyard, and the light of falling wax is not red." It is made of frozen bamboo chopsticks, painted with snow on the outside, and lit with candles inside. In the courtyard, for people to appreciate.At this time, beautiful ice lanterns were lit in many courtyards of Qizhou City.

It was night, the river wind was blowing fiercely, and the snowflakes were swirling.Zhang Xianzhong led 200 light cavalry to make a long-distance raid from Guangji County, 60 miles downstream of Qizhou City. Qizhou City and King Jing's Mansion in his dream suddenly woke up from the gentle dreamland, and what came into his eyes was a bloody and tragic nightmare: the massacre of the city!The river is whimpering and the north wind is stern. This is the catastrophe that once again befalls the people of Qizhou after the massacre of Luozhou in Xinji! Zhang Xianzhong massacred the city, ending the rule of the tenth King Jing of Qizhou City.The kingship system played an important role in the power distribution system of the royal family in the Ming Dynasty, so all the minor changes in the Jingwang Mansion are recorded in official history and unofficial history, but the details of Zhang Xianzhong's massacre of the city have been circulated among the people in multiple versions, such as Zhang Xianzhong's departure place There are two versions of starting from Huangmei and starting from Guangji. The real one should start from Guangji with a rate of 200 Qingqi.Before the massacre of the city, Zhang Xianzhong had placed spies in King Jing's Mansion, so he was able to cooperate with outsiders from King Jing's Mansion and Qizhou City, and wiped out the prince, his descendants, relatives, family members, and squires in King Jing's Mansion. Only the general got a report from a maid from the city wall Two descendants of the Zhu family escaped by hanging in baskets. They concealed their identities and herded cattle for a living. The rest were all captured and killed by Zhang Xianzhong.Of course, the literati who fled to Dongchang Street outside the city also survived.The mournful sound resounded throughout Qicheng that night, blood and flames dyed the snowy night sky red!Unexpectedly, Gu Jingxing, his father Gu Tianxi, and his aunt Gu Yongzhen were also captured by Zhang Xianzhong's peasant uprising army.

Gu Tianxi, Gu Yongzhen and Gu Jingxing were brought before Zhang Xianzhong.The Gu family is a Wenchang family in Qizhou City, living in the area of ​​Xionghualing and Quanshengfang in Qizhou, Zhang Xianzhong definitely knows it.However, among the three, the two men, one father and one son, did not kill each other, and Zhang's butcher knife pointed at the weak girl Gu Yongzhen.A peasant uprising leader, or a reckless leader, Zhang Xianzhong would not let go of anyone from the sworn enemy of the Zhu family dynasty, and it is natural to reason that he would not let go of the relatives and extremely closely related people of the Jing Palace.If he wanted to kill Gu Yongzhen, Gu Tianxi would not do it first. He held his chest high and held his head high, asking to exchange his own life for Gu Yongzhen's, that is, to die for Gu Yongzhen!Gu Jingxing was young and energetic, and he couldn't put a grain of sand in his heart. He was not the kind of person who was greedy for life and afraid of death. When he saw this, he also stepped forward, facing the butcher's knife, begging for death, and using his young life to save the lives of his father and aunt. The tranquility of the snowy night was broken, and the flames of the massacre lit up the night sky of Qizhou City. On the one hand, there was mourning and mourning, begging for life, and on the other hand, facing the knife coldly, competing to die on behalf of the dead. The heroic spirit of the father and son, two frail scholars, He was moved by Zhang Xianzhong, a hero of the generation, and immediately ordered the release of the three members of Gu Jingxing's family, and sent a small leader named Zhang San to accompany them to protect the Gu family. A catastrophe occurred in Qizhou City, the world changed suddenly, and the country was sad. After Zhang Xianzhong massacred the city, the Gu family on the East Chang Street outside the city still had lingering fears. After several discussions, the Gu family decided to return to their ancestral home, Kunshan, Jiangsu, to avoid chaos and wait for the next year. Taiping makes another plan.Gu Jingxing then returned to his ancestral home Kunshan with his family. This is the benefit of his ancestral home or hometown, a place to stay in troubled times.In Kunshan, Gu Jingxing started his life as a poor scholar after the catastrophe. The Gu family’s vast collection of books and many of Gu Jingxing’s works were destroyed by Zhang Xianzhong’s attack. Who really offended by reading? In September of the first year of Hongguang (1645), Gu Jingxing went to Nanjing to take part in the exams for exile tribute students in seven provinces including Beijing, Shandong, Shanxi, Hunan, Henan, Liaodong and Hubei, and won the first place among tribute students.In the next October, he was awarded the Fuzhou government official in the imperial examination of the Wuying Palace.Gu Jingxing is a top talent of a generation, as long as he enters the examination room, he will definitely get the first place.But after entering the officialdom, Gu Jingxing is just a child who has not yet enlightened.Not long after he took office, he directly stated the disadvantages of the times, and played the "Respectful Submission of Four Events" to Emperor Hongguang, but was detained by the Tong Zhengguan and refused to report.This incident greatly stimulated Gu Jingxing, the little emperor Hongguang was incompetent, and the Qing army was moving southward in front of him, approaching the south of the Yangtze River, and a large area of ​​the country was lost. Gu Jingxing was disappointed by his insatiable greed.At this time, Ma Shiying, the number one treacherous official in the Southern Ming Dynasty, secretly recruited Gu Jingxing. The messenger revealed to him Ma Shiying's intention to hope that Gu Jingxing would belong to him, but Gu Jingxing sternly reprimanded him and flatly refused.At that time, the people in Nanjing City made up a jingle: The staff is as cheap as a dog, and the governor walks all over the street; Sweep all the money in the south of the Yangtze River and fill up Majiakou. After being an official for several months, Gu Jingxing's eyes were full of darkness and he was at a loss as to what to do, so he excused that he could not resign as an official and returned home, and since then he has been writing a book behind closed doors. Seeing that the general situation was gone, the Southern Ming Dynasty changed dynasties, and the old country did not exist.During this period, Gu Jingxing had a close relationship with the anti-Qing literati Wei Xi and Du Jun, and they shared his nostalgia for the old dynasty and his aversion to the new dynasty. Some of his poems also strongly revealed the longing for the homeland and the pain of leaving: "Yongjia's hatred is indelible; who will tell about the treasures of Tianbao? To Xuandu Guanli, shed tears and blood", "Ask Chang'e, why is it not long and round? The mountains and rivers are short!"But Gu Jingxing also sang with Shi Yushan and Wang Yuyang, who were scholars in the Qing Dynasty, and plucked the strings and sang long songs with the lamp facing the moon, but Gu Jingxing had given up his official career.In the second year of Shunzhi (1645), when the Qing army captured Kunshan, Dorobelle forcibly took Gu Jingxing to the army, gave him the original post of "push official", and ordered him to go south with the army to Zhejiang and Fujian. He decided to refuse on the grounds of "home", and was finally able to get away and return to his hometown.At this time, Gu Jingxing was horrified when he heard the news of "Ten Days in Yangzhou".The Ming official Shi Kefa died, and the Qing army massacred 800,000 people in Yangzhou in ten days!The massacre in Yangzhou was horrific, shaking the world and weeping ghosts and gods. Yangzhou has become a dead city.Gu Jingxing was fortunate that he did not fall under the knife of the Qing army, and also fortunate that he did not serve the Qing army with the Qing army. The Jiangnan was full of wars and dangers, and Gu Jingxing missed Qizhou a lot. In the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651 AD), Gu Jingxing returned to Qizhou with his mother's coffin.Set foot on the land of Qizhou again, under the Qilin Mountain, on the shore of Yuhu Lake, the city of Qizhou is already desolate. After Zhang Xianzhong destroyed King Jing's Mansion and slaughtered the city, in the second year of Shunzhi (1645 AD), it was looted again by Ma Yuliang's subordinates, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Ming Dynasty.Ma Yuliang was originally stationed in Wuchang. Because he hated the traitor Ma Shiying for being corrupt and perverting the law and doing whatever he wanted, he led his troops eastward along the river to Nanjing to get rid of Ma Shiying and "side the Qing Dynasty".When they passed through Qizhou, the soldiers burned and looted Qicheng. Seeing that there was nothing to pick up inside and outside the city, they cut down all the bamboos in Qizhou and left.In the same year, the Qing army occupied Qizhou, reduced Qizhou to Sanzhou, assigned Huangmei and Guangji to Huangzhou Prefecture, set up a green camp in Qizhou, and the green camp ginseng will be the third grade.But the officers and soldiers had no food and wages, looted everywhere, the people fled to death, the fields were barren, and Quanshengfang was in ruins (Quanshengfang is Dongchang Street. There are three squares in Qizhou, one in the city, and the second in the east of the city. There are three squares from the north of the city to Missing Tooth Mountain)!Gu Jingxing led his family back to Qi with nowhere to live, so he built a hut with thatched grass and picked wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger. "Wild Vegetables Praise" in "Bai Mao Tang Ji" records this period of life.In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652 AD), a tiger plague broke out in Qizhou. A group of tigers attacked the city through villages. The tigers used empty houses in the city as their dens. They came out of the dens during the day to catch people, and sneaked into the house at night to eat up the whole family.For a time, the tigers in and out of Qizhou City killed more than a hundred people.The government has no way to kill tigers, so they asked someone to make a "Tiger Drive Order" to drive tigers away. At this time, Qizhou's most common foods, fried ginger and fried cloves with dried celery, have become delicacies in memory.Ginger oil is a delicacy for scholars. It tastes slightly sweet, slightly spicy, slightly salty, and has a strong sauce aroma. .The aroma of Qiqin is stronger than that of celery in other places. Its seedlings are more than a foot high, with large white roots, dense branches and no main trunk. Dried cloves are also made by Qizhou's method.How horrible is it to have nothing to eat?And Gu Jingxing, known as a gourmet, a great writer and gourmet, can only eat wild vegetables and grass roots to survive. The country is still there, the villages and cities are broken, the wars are endless, and the masters have changed, so we can't remember the past!Gu Jingxing began to compile his works into "Bai Mao Tang Ji".At the same time, Gu Jingxing's classmate, the number one scholar in the Qing Dynasty (the Qing Dynasty opened the course in the sixth year of Shunzhi), and another talented person from Huanggang, Liu Zizhuang, made a special trip from Huangzhou to Qizhou to visit Gu Jingxing. Gu Jingxing was rewarded and refused to see him behind closed doors. The scientific research in the Qing Dynasty was to lose the integrity of the nation, so Liu Zizhuang had no choice but to return. In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1659), the territory of the Qing court expanded rapidly. However, a lot of waste was waiting to be rejuvenated. Talented people from all over the world were needed, especially intellectuals from the Han nationality, in order to realize the rule of the Qing court. Going into seclusion to become an official, the local Fu and Fan officials once again remembered Gu Jingxing who wrote a book in Jielu, so they came to lobby and mobilize Gu Jingxing to become an official in Beijing, which was almost intimidating. , Mountain people love bamboo forests" (Wang Boshi)'s secluded study life.In Qizhou, that mountain is Qilin Mountain, and that bamboo is Qizhu. In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661 AD), a major event that shocked the world's literati and poets, Shanlin Yishi, was a major event, that is, the "Crying Temple Case" in Wu County, Jiangsu Province.The protagonist of the Weeping Temple case is Jin Shengtan. The cause is that the county magistrate of Wu County is greedy and plunders the peasants under his rule. Corrupt officials, who would have thought that at this time, Emperor Shunzhi passed away, and mourning halls were set up throughout the country. It was the national mourning period. Jin Shengtan was accused of treason by corrupt officials.Jin Shengtan, who has few talents and reputations, likes to criticize books.He used "Li Sao", "Historical Records", "Du Poems", "Water Margin", collectively known as "Six Talented Scholars Books", to criticize various books. The "Water Margin" he corrected was widely cited for its unique insights. The "Crying Temple Case" is an external incident of the Qing court's emphasis on power and despise morality, and it is also a self-smearing of the Qing court after it revealed a ray of bright color in "conquering the world's mountains and forests to enter the court". Molecule hit hard. In the seventeenth year of Kangxi (AD 1678), after experiencing the "Crying Temple Case", the Qing government reopened the door to Han intellectuals, and opened a very creative special subject - erudite Hongci, which was recommended by the ministers of the court to take the exam. .As usual, Gu Jingxing was at the top of the list in this celebrity recommendation.Gu Jingxing is in the wild, but like a registered fish, every catch has to be caught online to see if it is alive?Are you alive?Fresh and moisturized?Would you like to enter the Royal Pool? Gu Jingxing refused to take the examination of Erudite Hongci. His reason was that he was sick. Illness was Gu Jingxing's only weapon against the Qing court. Writing a masterpiece "Huang Gong Shuo Zi" with 12 episodes and 200 volumes was nothing at all. There is no reason to come to Beijing to take the exam.Gu Jingxing was writing "Huang Gong Shuo Zi" at this time. Obviously, this huge project can only be carried out in Qizhou. The small town is still a little quiet. Its air, water, food and buildings are all conducive to reading and writing, and writing books is a compulsory course for literati. The first lesson is the second life path of the literati in that era. Nothing in history is more painful than the Han intellectuals in the late Ming and early Qing. They spent the first half of their lives seeking fame and fame. Because of the different ways, they did not conspire with each other, and Kangxi's literary inquisition made intellectuals shudder.Jin Shengtan was cut in half, and he used the life of a great talented man with justice in his chest to protect a small county magistrate who was extremely corrupt and corrupt in the Qing court. The blood on the butcher knife was still wet, and he turned to set up a erudite CI department to recruit talents from all over the world. There is nothing more absurd in the world. . In summer, the red lotus blooms on Yuhu Lake, and long-necked egrets fly over the lotus. As the sun turns and the clouds move, the lake wind blows, and the round lotus is rolling.Life as a hermit, idyllic scenery, great talent and great composition, "Huang Gong Shuo Zi" is in the process of writing, what a bad time to open the subject of erudition and Hong Ci!Gu Jingxing thought that he could avoid many entanglements of the Qing court just like he escaped from "retirement in the mountains and forests" in the 16th year of Shunzhi.Otherwise, Gu Jingxing made a misjudgment. Emperor Kangxi was determined to recruit him to the capital, and there was no room for maneuver. The governor and fu officials came to the house in person and forced Gu Jingxing into a sedan chair, and the committee members supervised him to the capital.Kangxi's behavior style is: efficient, courageous, and keep his word!However, this is not like recommending a scholar of erudite poetry, but rather like escorting a criminal to Beijing.Because even if it is carried by a sedan chair, it is against Gu Jingxing's will. North, North!Go north along the Huangzhou and Macheng post roads at the foot of the Dabie Mountains, cross Tongbai Mountain and enter Henan Province, take a rest in Xinyang, then pass Zhumadian and Zhoukou, eat Kaifeng’s soup dumplings, cross the Yellow River and continue north, take the official road in an official sedan chair Along the way, there are pick-up and drop-off at post stations, board and lodging arrangements, hearing the name of Gu Jingxing, a college student, and there are also small scenes of drinking and drinking happily.People in Qizhou are good at drinking, but only in small amounts.Compared with those students who are just seeking fame and fame, those who are erudite in CI subjects go to the exam, and it is like the minister of the frontier returning to Beijing. The further north he went, as the sedan chair bumped flickeringly, Gu Jingxing's heart was beating anxiously: "If you enter Beijing, you can't do it without trying. That is to resist the imperial court. If you try, you will definitely become an official for the Qing court. To be an official is to be an official." Against one's own wishes.In this world, people without talent are so eager to have talent, how can talent also bring disaster?For example, Jin Shengtan, or Gu Jingxing in the sedan chair, the grievance is so painful, it is rare for a talented person to end well without peace! Entering Neihuang, Henan, the front is Anyang, Henan, and passing through Anyang is Handan, Hebei. Handan is a toddler, and it is definitely taboo. Thinking of Qizhou, there is a huge project of "Huang Gong Shuo Zi". The Forbidden City is boundless and unfathomable——Thinking of this, Gu Jingxing shuddered, and couldn't help sighing up to the sky, with tears streaming down his face: I, Gu Chifang, have ruined my life!Thus, Gu Jingxing, a genius of a generation, came up with a genius and naive idea, unprecedented and unprecedented: jumping on a sedan chair! Sedan sedan jumping has only been performed by women since ancient times. How can men try it?Gu Jingxing's innocence lies in the fact that in the past, he resigned on the pretext of illness, but the repeated use made the Qing court suspicious, and it was not a real illness. If it was a real illness, especially a visible injury, the court would forgive him.Thinking about it, the more I feel that this idea is good, it seems that this time it is impossible not to pay a little pain, and the only way is to hurt myself. The Neihuang post road was full of sand and dust, and the horses and horses were in a hurry, and a large number of Eight Banners troops marched from north to south.At that time, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, ascended the throne in Hengyang, Hunan, and proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named "Dazhou".Gu Jingxing, who had experienced "Ten Days in Yangzhou" and "Three Massacres in Jiading" in the second year of Shunzhi, knew that countless souls would suffer misfortune. Gu Jingxing resolutely rushed out of the sedan chair and fell headfirst!But when he landed, his right hand instinctively supported him.The bearers and accompanying officials were caught off guard and were horrified when they saw this. When Gu Jingxing was lifted up, his face was covered in dust and his right shoulder was broken!The pain of cracking bones, the dirt and the blood flow from scratches on the skin surface, Gu Jingxing swept the floor gracefully, he looked like a wounded and defeated soldier crawling back from the battlefield, the pain made his forehead burst out with beads of sweat, and his facial muscles were extremely distorted.Gu Jingxing sat beside the post road in Neihuang and groaned loudly, ignoring the accompanying officials with uncertain expressions such as panic, embarrassment, helplessness, and worry about responsibility for negligence of duty. He was sure of his injury in a very short time. There are doctors in Zhouzhou. Li Shuyan and Li Shizhen were two imperial physicians in the Ming Dynasty. His father, Gu Tianxi, was well versed in the history of classics and skilled in medicine. Most of his books on classics and medicine were included in Sikuquanshu.Gu Jingxing knew that he was injured, and when he thought that he was forced to take an examination of Erudite Ci for no reason, and he was about to injure himself, he couldn't help feeling angry: I'm disabled, ah, I'm disabled!You should be satisfied, right?Should I be sent back to Qizhou for treatment? The accompanying officials did not dare to touch Gu Jingxing's eyes. They lowered their heads and let Gu Jingxing growl in grief and indignation. They felt admiration for this stubborn scholar who refused to go to Beijing from the beginning to the end. They had a deep understanding of him through the exchanges along the way. It is impossible not to be overwhelmed by his profound knowledge, just to realize why the imperial court attaches so much importance to a scholar, and he——refused to be an official in an extreme way of self-mutilation, what a man! Wound dressing.Tip to eat.The mutton soup in Neihuang is surprisingly spicy, it is spicy, and the stewed noodles are thick and wide.Gu Jingxing said to the accompanying officials: Look, I am already a disabled person, and I can't do anything. Let me go back to recuperate?The genius's calculation was wrong this time, and the accompanying official said: Mr. Gu, we only have the right to send you to the capital, not to let you go. You have to go and tell the emperor.After finishing speaking, he stuffed Gu Jingxing into the sedan chair again, and for the sake of safety, the accompanying officials added a plug to the outside of the sedan chair door. After bumping all the way to the capital, Gu Jingxing was injured and took the examination of Boxuehong CI. 162 people from all over the country were recommended, and 50 people were admitted.While healing his wounds, Gu Jingxing studied and made friends, including Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin.At that time, Emperor Kangxi came up with a wonderful way to deal with the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty, which was to organize the adherents of the Ming Dynasty to write Ming history and reflect on the root causes of the decline of the Ming Dynasty, thereby diverting their resistance to the new policies of the Qing Dynasty. In March of the following year, Emperor Kangxi Xuanye received Gu Jingxing. Gu Jingxing asked to resign from office and return to his hometown on the pretext of illness. Kangxi imperial approval allowed Gu Jingxing to return to Qizhou.In the 23rd year of Kangxi (1684 AD), the second draft of "Huang Gong Shuo Zi" was completed. Cao Yin, who was in charge of weaving in Jiangning at that time, learned that Gu Jingxing's other work "Bai Mao Tang Ji" was finished but had no money to print it, so he donated a silver dollar. Thousands, to promote "Bai Maotang Collection" to be printed and engraved. "Bai Mao Tang Ji" has 46 volumes, including Chu Ci, Yuefu, folk songs, poems, policy theory, memorials, historical theory, biographies, prose prefaces, miscellaneous works and Qizhou local historical materials. In order to engrave "Bai Mao Tang Ji", Cao Yin once visited Qi in spring, and there is a poem "Spring Day Passes Mr. Gu Chifang's Residence" in his "Nianting Poetry Note": Seeing Ji Zi coming to the front of the steps, the gentleman in the hall Shang Yanmian. Reversing the rotation of celery and fragrant flowers, Chang'an's day is warm and dreamy. Kaixuan regards his arms as March, and takes off his hat for nearly ten years of papers. That is to say, when we meet again in the past, we often come here with stick money. In the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi (AD 1687), Gu Jingxing passed away. "Huang Gong Shuo Zi" was proofread and transcribed successively by his third son Gu Chang and his grandsons, until the fourteenth year of Qianlong (1749 AD) when the original and copy were transcribed. It took 76 years from the time of editing to this point! "Summary of the General Catalog of Siku Quanshu" is included in the category of storage. In the summary of the general catalog, Gu Jingxing is called "remembering Yanbo, with unrestrained talent, magnificent poetry and prose, and a momentary genius." Gu Chang died of exhaustion editing and engraving his father's two great works.Gu Chang was a candidate for the provincial examination in the 33rd year of Kangxi (1693), and he wrote 5 works including "Xixuan Changhe Poetry Collection" and "Jiangshan Bizhu Collection".