The reason why Zeng Guofan's road to the imperial examination is getting smoother and smoother: don't give up!

Zeng Guofan worshipped his grandfather since he was a child. So he has always been as stubborn as his grandfather and never gives up.

Although he is clumsy, he is ambitious and has made superhuman efforts to this end. He believes that it is the greatest shame for a big man to show cowardice in the face of difficulties and be easily knocked down by failure.

The troubled father and son finally got into the top spot. However, Zeng Guofan's road to success is different from Zeng Linshu's. The scholar in Ceng Lin's book is only an honorary ending, because he is over forty years old and can't continue to struggle in the examination room. Zeng Guofan, on the other hand, was twenty years earlier than his father, and he still had plenty of time to test juren and Jinshi. In the second year after being a scholar, Zeng Guofan went to Changsha to take the juren exam. At that time, it was more difficult to take the exam. Just like Zeng Guofan took the scholar exam for the first time, the Zeng family didn't have much hope, but I didn't know that Zeng Guofan actually got in the exam. Zeng Guofan and his family are proud of it.

In November this year, Zeng Guofan left Hunan and rushed to Beijing to take the exam, hoping to visit the cottage. The difficulty of taking the Jinshi exam is different from that of taking the juror exam. On average, there are only 100 scholars in China every year. Examining Jinshi depends not only on strength, but also on luck. Many people are brilliant and have good articles, but they lack the luck to take the exam, and they will never pass the imperial examination. So it is not surprising that Zeng Guofan failed in the second and third years.

In the eighteenth year of Daoguang, Zeng Guofan went to Beijing to fight again, the last battle. In the end, Zeng Guofan became famous in this exam and got an excellent starting point in his career. Since then, the Zeng family in Xiangxiang has risen from the ordinary peasant family at the bottom of society to the official family near the top of the pyramid. Zeng Yuping's decision to send her children to school was no longer absurd, but extremely wise.

Some people who took the imperial examination with Zeng Guofan became scholars early, and then stood by and watched the jokes of Zeng Guofan's father and son. As a result, these people didn't even get into juren later. It can be seen that as long as you work hard, there is nothing impossible in the world. In the later life course, the more setbacks Zeng Guofan encountered, the more he could inspire his fighting spirit.

In addition, the reason why Zeng Guofan failed in the scholar test for the first time was mainly because his father, Zeng Linshu, had problems in his teaching methods. His father, Zeng Linshu, was stupid when he took the self-taught exam, and his education method was very backward. He only recited four words. As a result of this education, Zeng Guofan made no progress in how to read. His articles are steady, weak in brushwork and lacking in touching places. Zeng Guofan compared his articles with others' compositions on the same topic, and came to the conclusion that his main problems were that he was too cautious in writing, paid too much attention to local polishing, and lacked the overall situation and overall momentum. So he focused on these two aspects.

Then, why did he take the Jinshi exam seven times, but both Juren and Jinshi did well? It is precisely because he has laid a solid foundation and mastered the tricks of the exam that writing exam-oriented articles has become more and more handy and smooth. On the contrary, smart people are unwilling to work hard, encounter difficulties, have a weak foundation, and the result will not go far. So "clumsiness" seems to be slow, but in fact, the later the faster, just like building a house. Because the foundation is laid firmly, the house will be built higher than others.

As a fool, Zeng Guofan found that it is better to be stupid.

First, clumsy people have no intellectual capital, so they are more open-minded and willing to pay than others.

Second, a clumsy person is a fool since he was a child. He has received a lot of frustration education since he was a child, always failing, and his ability to resist blows is particularly strong.

Third, clumsy people don't know how to play tricks, don't take shortcuts, and only know how to get into a dead end when encountering problems.

Therefore, Zeng Guofan's philosophy of life is "still clumsy". Since the nature is dull, we should give full play to the advantages of dullness. He never takes detours or shortcuts in life, and always does things in the most clumsy and practical way.

From the difficult process of Zeng Guofan's exam, we also saw how a child with less talent changed from a stupid child in the eyes of others to a great man in history praised by everyone.

If we can do something as persistent as Zeng Guofan and persist for one year, three years and ten years as always, we should be able to make brilliant achievements in that field, right? Let us, like Zeng Guofan, ignore our own clumsiness and work hard. As for the result, it is left to time to verify.