The pain of seven imperial examinations makes the first perfect person in ancient and modern times.

There is a little joke in the countryside of Hunan.

It is said that he studied very hard since he was a child and never recited the next article or slept every day. One day when the sun was setting, he was sitting in his study reciting The Story of Yueyang Tower. A thief sneaked into his house and hid on the beams, preparing the whole family to fall asleep and steal things.

every minute, the thief yawned repeatedly, took a nap for two or three times, and when he opened his eyes, he was still shaking his head on his back, "Celebrating the four-year spring festival, Teng Zijing guarding Baling County …" The thief looked at the moonlight, held back his anger, and listened again and again.

Later, the thief couldn't bear it anymore. He came down from the beam and scolded, "Why do you learn so stupid? I can recite it! Let me recite it for you. " With that, he recited it in one breath and slammed the door.

Leave him stunned at home.

who is he? He is Zeng Guofan, the first perfect man in ancient and modern times.

In the 12th year of Daoguang (1832), one morning in spring, 22-year-old Zeng Guofan and his 43-year-old father Zeng Linshu stepped on the dew in the morning to "catch the exam".

The father and son rushed for the exam side by side, which seemed to be extremely inspiring. In fact, it was already a joke in Xiangxiang scientific research.

Zeng Linshu has been in the examination room since he was a teenager. After more than a dozen exams, he is still a "boy student" over forty. What is "tong sheng"? Is a scholar who is not a scholar.

The old "tong sheng" has always been the object of ridicule by the society. Some people make up a pair, "When you are 8 years old, you are still called a child, but you can test your longevity." "I'm a scholar when I'm still young. It means that he is still a boy in his eighties, and when he is old, he has not learned the four books and five classics by heart, so he is really a scholar.

who knows, Zeng Guofan's father, Ke Xiao, took the exam five times in a row, and he came last.

Everyone laughed at Zeng Yuping, a mud leg in the Lotus Pond, for he didn't smoke in his ancestral grave, and his son and grandson didn't have that wisdom.

At that time, reading was a very expensive and laborious task, and "marking pens on foot to be competent", carrying a 3-catty examination basket, the first floor of which was pen, ink, paper, inkstone and books, and the second floor was food and fruit.

Take such a heavy examination basket and take part in the county, government and college examinations. You need to walk sixty or seventy kilometers from Baiyangping to Xiangxiang County, and then hike more than one hundred kilometers to Changsha Prefecture. Zeng Linshu's road to scientific research for seventeen or eighteen times. But he walked 5,6 kilometers, and Zeng Guofan also walked more than 2, kilometers.

not to mention the time, energy and money spent, it also gave them great humiliation. The blow of Sun Shan's reputation, as well as the ridicule and sarcasm of others. People are on pins and needles.

However, at the age of forty-three, Zeng Linshu finally became a scholar in high school! Open the "Zeng Family Tree" until the Song Dynasty, not to mention that there were no officials or scholars. Therefore, Zeng Yuping spared no expense to invite a famous teacher for his son, but Zeng Linshu was so stupid that Zeng Yuping pinned his hopes on his grandson. He had high hopes for his eldest grandson. At the age of five, he asked Zeng Yuping to enlighten Zeng Guofan. He began to teach the Five Classics at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen, I went to the county government office to sign up.

Every time I send my son and grandson for an examination, the old man becomes more disappointed and more determined. If my son and grandson can't do it, then pay attention to their grandchildren!

The persistence of the old man and the company of his father presumably gave Zeng Guofan a firmer encouragement, but the time when he was a scholar in his father was even more painful for Zeng Guofan.

father's high school. Although there is no further development, there is also an explanation for more than a dozen scientific examinations.

The family gave a big banquet for their father's high school, and Zeng Guofan was depressed in the study, because there was no Zeng Guofan on the list, but he was on the other list.

Zeng Guofan not only failed in the list, but was also criticized by "hanging cards". That is to say, as a negative case, because of the lack of arts and sciences, let everyone learn from it. This is classified as the last article instruction, which is great. It is famous not only in Xiangxiang, but also in the whole province.

in the thirteenth year of Daoguang, it was another year of imperial examination. Zeng Guofan once again set foot on the road of imperial examination. After drawing a painful lesson, he found that his article lacked the grand momentum of the overall situation. Therefore, Zeng Guofan meditated on this expedition and did not start writing at once.

After reflection and hard work, I finally became a "scholar"! And his grandfather also hosted dozens of seats to cheer for his eldest grandson!

The next year, when the autumn was crisp, Zeng Guofan went to Changsha to take the Juren Examination. In the Juren Examination with extremely low admission rate, Zeng Guofan went to high school again, which was "Lianjie".

in November this year, Zeng Guofan made another effort to join the Jinshi and wanted to win three consecutive victories!

compared with juren, the admission rate of Jinshi is even lower. Jinshi takes the exam every three years, and 3 or 4 people are admitted at a time. According to statistics, in the Qing Dynasty, Jinshi accounted for 4% of the total population, which is reasonable.

The average age of Jinshi in Ming and Qing Dynasties was 38 years old. Zeng Guofan won the first place in one fell swoop when he was 28 years old, and he took part in the "imperial examination". If you want to be a great official, you must be an academician.

Zeng Guofan didn't have a chance to enter the Hanlin Academy, because Zeng Guofan was a third-class scholar, and the first-class scholar was the top scholar, and the second-class scholar could directly enter the Imperial Academy, and the second-class scholar had to take the entrance examination. However, Zeng Guofan's article won the favor of Daoguang Emperor, and he liked to mention Jishi Shu in the Imperial Academy!

Zeng Guofan's personality characteristics, which were more frustrated and more excited, were also laid in these seven scientific examinations. Many people faint after three misses, or even give up and stop studying.

But Zeng Guofan is not like this. Zeng Guofan said that "the world is the most clumsy, and it can surpass the world's cleverness." Stupid people learn with an open mind, keep their feet on the ground, and fail many times. adversity quotient is higher, and they do things step by step without leaving any dead ends. He accumulated his work in a trickle all his life, and he struck with a heavy sword, seemingly without a front. In fact, his atmosphere was heavy and invincible.

in the preface to seeing Guo Jun off to the south, he said, "A gentleman is very blunt in going to the country, very circuitous in taking the road, scrupulous in his morality, scrupulous in his career, difficult and wrong, and lagging behind for a long time. "Every penny counts, and every inch counts. If you are proficient, you will be a saint." Gentlemen don't take shortcuts, don't seek fame, and accumulate money, and success is not afraid of being late!

Zeng Guofan reached the realm of "three immortals" in his life, which made him the first perfect man in ancient and modern times!