Zeng Guofan's way to catch the exam: heroes must swallow their teeth with blood!

Once upon a time, learning to be excellent was an official! These five loud characters gave the ancient literati the clearest way out. This is not only the only wish of all parents in feudal society to entrust their children, but also the only goal of all scholars. The imperial examination is an official, and the road to the rise of the poor is coveted by all students in the world.

For the Zeng family, whose family background is not very deep, several generations did not have a reading material. It is particularly urgent to cultivate a top scholar to log in to Gaotang and change his appearance. Zeng Guofan's grandfather is called Zeng Yuping, who is mainly engaged in farming, with low academic qualifications and rich experience. My father, Zeng Linshu, is a rural scholar. He is bent on becoming famous. Unfortunately, he is just gifted and unlucky. Only the scholar took the exam 16 times. He didn't get a scholar until he was 43. He didn't get a scholar for the seventeenth time, and didn't get a scholar until he was 43 years old. What else can he do? On second thought, Zeng Linshu might as well cultivate his son, because obviously, his son Zeng Guofan has more talent for reading than his father.

The Zeng family has always attached importance to family style and family education, so Zeng Guofan, both his grandfather and his father, has been nourished and edified by culture. Zicheng is less famous. At the age of nine, I read the Five Classics. At the age of ten, I can write eight essays and four books on historical records, and I have never stopped since. At the age of fourteen, Zeng Guofan's father's good friend Ouyang Ningzhi (No.Ouyang) was one of the experts on stereotyped writing in Hengzhou Prefecture. He is aloof by nature and easily refuses to praise others. Nowadays, it is not easy for Zeng Guofan, a young man, to win his praise. In order to give Zeng Guofan a try, Ouyang Ningzhi wrote another poem called "Climbing the Green Ladder". Zeng Guofan improvised a poem, and Ouyang was surprised when he saw it. He thinks the child will succeed in the future and have a bright future. Now he plans to marry Zeng Linshu and his daughter Zeng Guofan. Later, it was said that Mrs Ouyang was Zeng Guofan's wife.

From 1832, the Zeng family embarked on the road of good luck. This year, Zeng Linshu was admitted to a scholar and finally became addicted. In the second year, Zeng Guofan was 23 years old and went to take the exam. As a result, in 65438+ February, Lao Zhang Ouyang chose a good day and Zeng Guofan married his wife. The following year, Zeng Guofan, who was already a scholar, continued his studies and became the pride of the family, because he was actually bent on becoming a character who changed the family.

You know, at this time on the way to the imperial examination, Zeng Guofan actually only took two steps. In addition to these two levels, there are also provincial examinations (which level is for juren), followed by the senior high school entrance examination (Gong's in Chinese, Huiyuan in the first place), and finally the final examination, the palace examination (No.1 and No.2, Huatan), as well as Jinshi Ji, Jinshi origin and fellow Jinshi.

Zeng Guofan's next step is to elect voters. In the second year after marriage, Zeng Guofan entered Yuelu Academy, the highest institution in Hunan, and won the 36th place in the provincial examination. He is in the limelight in his hometown and his self-confidence is bursting. In order to see his upper limit, Zeng Guofan hurried to Beijing to take the exam. The first time I went out, my family was particularly uneasy. My parents have prepared enough travelling expenses for Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan couldn't afford a hotel and chose to live in Changsha Hall, Hunan Province. His hometown is far away in a foreign land. Zeng Guofan came to take the exam and naturally got a lot of care. In the guild hall, as a child of a rural family, Zeng Guofan tried to be self-disciplined and consciously reviewed his lessons, but fate played a joke on him. After more than half a year's adaptation, his first attempt failed. I didn't get into Gong's, so I had to go home and fight again next year.

Just as Zeng Guofan was dejected and ready to return to Hunan, news came from the court that the following year was the queen mother's 60th birthday, and Cohen was added as usual. Hearing the news, Zeng Guofan was too excited to sleep, because he usually tried it once every three years. This adds another Cohen, which is equal to giving himself a chance in vain, but there is little money left in his hand, whether to go or stay, which gives Zeng Guofan a difficult problem. But we can guess that Zeng Guofan, as a literati, will naturally pay more attention to fame and fortune than money. In this way, Zeng Guofan continued to study in Changsha Hall in Beijing for one year. This time, the imperial examination seems to be all!

But as a result, God once again played a big joke on Zeng Guofan. This time, it gave Zeng Guofan a blow. The exam went well. After trying it, what's the effect here? Is your upper limit a lift? With a line of questions and mixed feelings, Zeng Guofan felt so depressed in a foreign land for the first time without money in his hand. Do you say you don't work hard? I tried, and I never gave you a chance. I got a chance, and not once, but why didn't I go in? Zeng Guofan think impassability at this time. Enduring extremely complicated feelings and the dilemma of being down and out, he didn't want to stay here for a moment, so he packed his bags, traveled around the world and relaxed himself.

This time, he didn't intend to go by land, but by water, from Beijing Shun Canal to Jiangsu and Zhejiang and then back to Hunan from the Yangtze River. He knows that Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times, and the southeast has won the beauty of the world. He also prefers to escape from Taibai and perilla. Zeng Guofan is a scholar with a thin face. This time he spent two years studying hard and failed to seize the excellent opportunity twice in a row. He can't give a reasonable explanation to those eager villagers. Anxiety and melancholy have created this endless sadness.

Halfway through the trip, Zeng Guofan discovered a major problem, that is, there is not much money left on him, and money is human courage. If this wave continues, I am afraid I will become a beggar. At this time, he remembered that a friend happened to be not far away, so he went to Suining, Jiangsu Province to borrow money. To say that Zeng Guofan is not looking for ordinary people, but a Suining county magistrate whose name is Yi Zuomei. I heard that there was a young man from Hunan in his early twenties who sought audience outside the door, and Yi Zuomei didn't know who he was until he led Zeng Guofan to the living room, saying that Yi Zuomei would look familiar. The magistrate of a county went to Zeng Guofan and looked intently. He found that this man was angry, extraordinary and not mortal. He didn't know until he asked. Zeng Guofan told Yi Zuomei about it in detail.

After the magistrate of a county listened to Yi Zuomei, he felt that Zeng Guofan was a good boy, and he also loved talents, especially young people like Zeng Guofan who had an extraordinary speech. He not only entertained Zeng Guofan, but also gave him 100 taels of silver before leaving, knowing that Yi Zuomei's salary visible on the facade at that time was only 40 taels. After borrowing money, Zeng Guofan was very moved and declined to invite Yi Zuomei to continue his southern tour.

During his trip to Nanjing, Zeng Guofan saw a set of gold-printed Twenty-three History in a bookstore and liked it very much. When he asked the price, it was strange that it was neither too much nor too little, just 100 silver. When he heard the owner's price, he looked back at the set of books. Zeng Guofan swallowed, and his head was hot: I bought it! A set of "Twenty-three History" looks glamorous in Jin Guanghua, and the printing really doesn't matter. But after buying it, Zeng Guofan regretted it because he felt in his pocket and had no money. Finally, his father's friends sold their faces to borrow money, and he just squandered it. With such hardships, the next journey cannot go on. More importantly, he borrowed so much money that he spent it all at once. What will he tell his father when he goes back? Young Zeng Guofan made a whisper in his heart. No way, the living can't starve to death. Then he pawned his traveling luggage and took a bag of books back to Hunan by boat along the Yangtze River.

Roaring Jiang waves and drifting away, Zeng Guofan slowly began to feel a sense of tension. On the day of returning home, Zeng Guofan didn't have the courage to face Zeng Linshu, but said hello to his mother and several younger brothers first. Later, when his father came over, Zeng Guofan silently bowed his head. Zeng Linshu asked Zeng Guofan how it took him so long to come back. Also bought so many books? So Zeng Guofan explained the journey to his father in detail. The words sound just fell and Zeng Guofan thought it was a bolt from the blue. Who knows that Zeng Linshu was silent for a while and said: It is a good thing to spend money on books. I am willing to repay the money you borrowed to buy you books, but I hope you will not forget one thing, that is, the original intention of buying books!

Zeng Guofan listened to his father's words, and his heart was depressed all the way, and then it all vanished. So he recalled the experience of falling out of the list twice in a row, suddenly looked at the twenty-three histories he had spent a lot of money on, and with his father's diligent entrustment, he instantly felt that being a scholar was the most important incentive in his heart. Later, he vowed to study hard and be admitted to the exam, bringing the best comfort to his father and family. A hero will swallow his teeth with blood. If he is not a saint, he is an animal! In the next two years, we saw countless Zeng Guofan who studied hard at night. That is a ruthless Hunan person, struggling with blood and unruly. He doesn't believe in fate, nor does he accept it. He studies this set of twenty-three histories carefully every day.

Finally, two years later, Zeng Guofan once again went north to Beijing to catch the exam. This time, he firmly grasped the throat of fate and made a blockbuster. He won Gong's family with 42 top three scores, and was the first scholar in the North Korean exam. Palace examination was classified as first-class and second-class by Daoguang Yuguan, and entered the Imperial Academy as Jishi Shu. Since then, Zeng Guofan has changed the fate of himself and his family from poverty to prosperity. When his parents learned the earth-shattering good news in their hometown, the couple flew out of golden phoenix in the henhouse, tears streaming down their faces. People in the village know everything, and Zeng Guofan did it!

Extraordinary achievements require extraordinary perseverance; Outstanding fame is inseparable from the hardships behind it. Zeng Guofan's heart is an iron man, so hard that he persists every day of his life, so hard that he can force a peaceful and brave army, so hard that a hero can gnash his teeth and swallow blood together!