Yesterday we told the story of Huang Jingren, and today we continue to tell the story of the talented man in the Qing Dynasty. Today this talented man is Jiang Shiquan.
Huang Jingren wrote "A scholastic student who has nothing to do with nothing", and also wrote "The miserable Chaimen wind and snow night, at this time it is better to have children than nothing." Huang Jingren's helplessness. At that time, he was miserable in Beijing and had no food and clothing. He had no choice but to send his family back to his hometown to live. When saying goodbye to his mother, he wrote this poem that made people cry.
is consistent with Huang Jingren's poem: "Wandering ashamed, dare not sigh the dust." The poem
was written by Jiang Shiquan. It is said that Jiang Shiquan had to walk around in order to live, but his heart missed his mother at home. After wandering for many years, he finally arrived home before the eleventh year of Qianlong's New Year's Eve. When he was reunited with his mother, he was surprised and delighted, and at the same time said that he was not worthy of being a son of man.
Jiang Shiquan, like Huang Jingren, is a wanderer, and their income is not high. Compared with Huang Jingren's last death to hide from debtors, Jiang Shiquan is slightly better, and can only be said to be slightly better.
Jiang Shiquan began to take the imperial examination at the age of 23, and he failed to pass the examination several times. He was admitted to the Jinshi until he was 33. In other words, it took him ten years to pass the examination.
Although he was admitted to the Jinshi, he did not immediately assign a job as an official. Instead, after three years of miscellaneous work, he was assigned a small official to serve in the Hanlin Academy. Z1z
Hanlin Academy is simply a think tank and a civilian institution, which has existed in all dynasties and generations. Many scholars who have won the Jinshi will go to the Hanlin Academy first.
The main work of the Hanlin Academy is generally to compile national history, factual records, national geography, hydrology and other books; assist the six departments to formulate laws, rituals and other systems. In short, it is a job about writing and reading.
Jiang Shiquan has worked in the Imperial Academy for a long time and has not been promoted for a long time. Because "I don't want to be a minister in my life, but I can die for the sake of Xun Li" wish can not be realized, so I resigned.
As for why he resigned, the reason is actually very simple. It has something to do with his personality. He is actually not suitable for this kind of department and officialdom. It is difficult for this kind of high-ranking literati to mix in officialdom.
So, is Jiang Shiquan an upright official? Are you unwilling to dance with officialdom? Yes. We can see from the following story.
Jiang Shiquan has repeatedly used couplets to tease corrupt officials. After Jiang Shiquan resigned and returned to his hometown, he became a teacher in his hometown.
Once, when he went to the suburbs to relax, he saw a few ordinary people discussing a couplet with a sad face:
water wheeling, wheeling, pounding rice and chaff
Jiang Shiquan felt strange, so he asked what was going on. It turned out that the corrupt official gave the people an upper union. If anyone did the right thing, he would be rewarded. If he didn't do the right thing, he would be fined. To put it plainly, this is corrupt officials making things difficult for the common people. They clearly know that the common people are not studying, but they are told to confront their opponents. To put it plainly, they just want to be greedy for their food.
Jiang Shiquan naturally couldn't see it, so he was very angry, and decided to help the people out of a bad breath, so he asked: "Did the corrupt official come on horseback or in a sedan chair?" After thinking about it, suddenly Yang Tian laughed and said: "Yes!" So he told the villagers' Xialian.
Soon, the corrupt official came back with a dark smile from behind, telling the common people to quickly couplet. One of his common people couldn't be sorry, but the common people said in unison:
people carry sedan chairs, sedan chairs carry people, pigs carry dogs and dead people. When
corrupt officials heard that Xialian was insulting themselves, they had no choice but to shout: "You spoilers."
corrupt officials can only be naturally unlucky. There is another story about
. When Jiang Shiquan was still working in the Imperial Academy, one year, when he returned to his hometown, he just caught up with the 60th birthday of a gentry in his hometown. In order to increase his worth, the tyrant, pretending to be gentle and arty, knew that Jiang Shiquan had come back from the capital, and he had some literary talents, so he wanted to ask Jiang Shiquan to write a deputy birthday couplet for him.
Jiang Shiquan knew that the tyrants usually run wild in the countryside, fish and meat villagers, lack of morals and talents, originally refused, but after thinking about it, decided to teach the tyrants, so he agreedInvitation.
On the day of the banquet, the gentry's family was full of crowds and crowds of congratulations. While the firecrackers were being set off, the servants of the gentry family received Jiang Shiquan's birthday couplet. The gentry
was very happy and decided to let everyone appreciate it in public, so everyone read it out in unison:
the snow and the prestige and the majestic white accounted for the countryside, the cloud leaned on the rain and the sky was dark and the earth was not much. Shen Shen, this clearly meant to insult the tyrant. The gentry was very angry, but he had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky.
Therefore, Jiang Shiquan is a person who hates hatred and disdain for officialdom. He has a heart for the world. Unfortunately, in the dark officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, he did not get a chance to show his talents. In the end, he had no choice but to resign and return to his hometown to teach. people.
