Chapter 12 Let's play naked together

Because he fell into a deep ravine and broke his foot, Wang Yuzhun escaped the calamity of being an official.So he said: "Shi has virtue in me, and I dare not forget it."So he called himself Shi Dunweng. And Wang Jie, the second treasure of his family, also called himself Huailizi. What is this title? It turned out that the second treasure, Wang Jie, had a big locust tree in front of his house, so he gave himself such a strange name.But because he came from a family of poets and books, he was honored as Mr. Huaili by the villagers.This little gentleman is not yet fourteen years old, and he has already memorized the Four Books and Five Classics and the works of great Confucianists in the Song Dynasty. The local education officials have calculated that this little guy will definitely be in high school during the imperial examination, and he is regarded as a key point Raw cultivation.

The so-called cultivation means that the local people recommend him to take the imperial examination.This is a strange rule at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Students are not allowed to sign up casually. They must be recommended by the local education department after passing the political review. In terms of Wang Jie's talent and learning alone, it should not be a problem to take part in the imperial examination and get a ranking.But unexpectedly, when the exam came, something happened. It is said that since the existence of human beings, the pursuit of fame and fortune by unscrupulous means has become the norm.People such as Wang Gang, Wang Yanda, and Wang Yuzhun who are indifferent to fame and wealth for three consecutive generations are extremely rare in human history.That is to say, although the Wang family has regarded fame and wealth as dung for generations, for more people, getting promoted and making a fortune is the main topic of life.

To get rich, first become an official.If you want to be an official, you have to take part in the imperial examination first. Of course you are very happy to get the number one, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t get the number one.When you have an official position, you can figure out a few ways to pay taxes for the common people. High taxes are the glory of low-income people. If you make a lot of money in this way, you can get rid of poverty and become rich-this is the same thing in a power society for thousands of years. law. In other words, if you want to get rich, you have to be an official first.To be an official, one must first be on the list of imperial examinations.

But it’s not easy to be on this list. First, everyone’s learning is not so solid, and second, the exam questions are too difficult to behave... Well, yes, I’ll find a few gunmen outside in advance, write a good article and bring it in. , When the time comes, hand it in, wouldn't it solve the problem? Cheating! Cheating in exams is a chronic problem in the era of imperial examinations. People who enter the exam room do not come here for any ideology, but just as a stepping stone. Why don't you let others cheat? But there are too many cheaters, and there are too many reports, so the government must take care of it.But how to manage this kind of thing?At that time, the level of technology was backward, and there were no cameras in the examination room. How would you know whether the examinee had cheated?

There is only one solution left: search! Because some candidates will hide the cheat sheet in their hair, before entering the examination room, candidates have to loosen their hair so that the examiner can see it clearly.And because some candidates will write the cheat sheet on their belly or even on their thighs, you have to take off your clothes and let the examiner check carefully to make sure that you really did not hide the cheat sheet before you are allowed to enter the examination room. So when Wang Jie happily came to the entrance of the examination room, he found that he had to loosen his hair, strip off his clothes, and act like a bald chicken, so that a large group of strange men could see clearly.At that time, Wang Jie was stunned for a long time, and said:

I would rather walk on the Hengmen gate! Turn around and go home. If you take the exam naked, I will refuse it. What he said meant: I would rather go hungry than bear such humiliation! When Wang Jie quit the exam, the local education department was in a hurry. They tried their best to do the work for him, but found that there was no way to do the work. why? Because Wang Jie is a person with real materials. He reads books only to seek knowledge.The joy of learning is not the same as obtaining fame and fortune.The purpose of other candidates entering the examination room is to seek an official, and they can even write a cheat sheet in order to become an official. Do you care if you take off your clothes and search your body?But Wang Jie has no interest in fame. Since he is not interested in fame and fortune, why should he be humiliated for it?

The magistrate found that the work was difficult, so he went to Wang Jie's mother in a fit of anger, and asked the old lady to come out to persuade her son.