Smiling at the peach blossom fan, peach blossoms smile at the spring breeze

Wu Ciwei also has a more famous name - Wu Yingji.

Wu Yingji is a friend of the "Four Sons", but he is not listed as the "Four Sons". In terms of personal reputation alone, Wu Yingji is no worse than the "Four Sons" in all aspects, and the history books evaluate his "dual ability and political integrity, all-round talent in civil and military affairs", and Yuan Mei, the chief editor of the Siku Quanshu, praised Wu Yingji as a "perfect person". A showman with no official body and no diploma actually achieved both stylistic flowering, and cultivated the incorruptible body of King Kong without flaws in his body, which was worshiped by a group of high-ranking officials in later generations, which shows that he is actually a character.

There are two reasons why Wu Yingji was not selected as the "Four Sons of the Late Ming Dynasty": one is that the composition is wrong, the composition of the four sons is all bureaucrats, and Wu Yingji's composition is a middle peasant. The second is that Wu Yingji's age is slightly longer than that of the fourth son, and he is more than ten years older. In this regard, some people complained about Wu Yingji, and listed a resounding honorary title outside the four sons - "Five Xiucai in the late Ming Dynasty", that is, the four sons and Wu Yingji were a total of five people, and Wu Yingji was ranked in the first place, overpowering the other four.

Wu Yingji has three identities.

First of all, it is a chivalrous and righteous man. This is not unrelated to Wu Yingji's family background. Grandpa Wu Yingji is a well-known cultural person, who often writes couplets for small temples in the village, inscribes rural cultural activities held in the town, and is a guest in the county's calligraphy association and literary association. Wu Yingji's father regarded books as enemies, and he spent his days loitering and gathering crowds to fight, and roared when he saw injustice. At the same time, Wu Yingji inherited the glorious tradition of the two ancestors, both literary and martial arts, and assiduously studied cultural knowledge at the same time, "bold and happy", both civil and military, and cultural hooligans. What's even more rare is that Wu Yingji has a chivalrous heart, at the most intense moment of the struggle between Donglin and the eunuchs, when a large number of decent people intend to draw a clear line with Donglin and clear up the relationship, Wu Yingji is not afraid to call the eunuchs, stand for Donglin, and often visit Donglin felons in prison, and call these felons brothers, nerves, and buddies are very righteous.

Wu Yingji was also a bachelor and a scribe. He had good grades as a child, was at the top of his ranks, and was recognized by his uncles, aunts, and children around him, but there was a problem in the examination - the root of the problem was his teacher. Wu Yingji's teacher was his maternal uncle, a high-ranking and powerful old and angry young man who still thought that he was untalented and cynical, which will be mentioned later. Uncle Wu Yingji was very green-eyed, and taught him his full talent, and at the same time taught him full of negative energy, which successfully brought Wu Yingji to the ditch. Under the guidance of his uncle, Wu Yingji has become an upgraded version of his uncle, who is talented and extreme, and his talent and personality are far beyond his uncle. Some people think that this is not a good thing, and there can be no problem with thinking more than uncle, and it can only make people hehe; some people think that this is necessary, and only extraordinary people can do extraordinary things and make extraordinary achievements, if there is no uncle, Wu Yingji will not have any achievements, and it is only a matter of time before everyone is ignored.

Seeing that his nephew was like an uncle, Wu Yingji's uncle had a sense of accomplishment, but Wu Yingji's mother was drunk. Most mothers in the world are the same, compared to hoping that their sons will get ahead and be full of achievements, more hope is that the children are happy and safe, so Wu's mother is proud of what Wu Yingji has done, but at the same time, she is more worried, just afraid that something will happen to Wu Yingji one day. Every time I think of Wu Yingji like his uncle, Wu's mother will have angina, what kind of sin she did in her previous life, she just had such an unconscious younger brother, and let her younger brother take her son badly, I have never seen this kind of nephew and sister of the pit.

Wu's mother's worries were soon fulfilled. During the examination, Wu Yingji put into writing the cultural knowledge and passion he learned from his uncle. The result is the same as everyone imagined, the article is not in line with the mainstream aesthetics, the positive energy is seriously insufficient, and because the sharp edge does not meet the standards of moderation, it cannot enter the eyes of the marking teacher, and is judged to be unqualified.

This is not surprising, the talents needed by the government must be highly unified with the government, like Uncle Wu, who can only be the champion of Zu'an's liberal arts. But it doesn't matter, Uncle Wu doesn't care about killing and burying it, he has long expected Wu Yingji's defeat and boiled a big pot of chicken soup for the soul: since ancient times, God has been jealous of talents, and he has been jealous of Qiu Niang every time; Failure is a necessary experience for great people, and setbacks are the best nutrients for mental growth; a life without failure is not a complete life, and no regrets in life are the greatest regrets; before the heavens descend on a great task, they must first suffer their minds; if the heart is in a dream, it is just a matter of starting all over again. Uncle Wu personally fed the big bowl of chicken soup to Wu Yingji to drink, and waited for it to be completely digested and absorbed before leaving.

Soon Wu Yingji walked out of the shadow of the exam, full of confidence, the more frustrated and braver, the stronger he became, the more angry he studied hard, and we will meet again in the examination room in three years.

Three years later, for the same reason, Wu Yingji fell again.

The following days were lackluster, and Wu Yingji kept a boring and boring single cycle in the back and forth of falling - drinking chicken soup - studying - exams - falling down.

The incident had two consequences.

First, Wu Yingji has become a talent. Over the years, Wu Yingji's obsession has been taken to the exam, and it is all in his soul and dreams, and he will not stop until he reaches his goal, he only cares about walking with his head down and does not look up at the line, thinking about the test, and he is too lazy to think about why he wants to take the test. What is the purpose of the examination? The sooner you become an official, the more promising you will be, the more energetic young people will be liked by their superiors, the easier they will be promoted and then become a bigger official, age is the main indicator for cadre promotion, and the younger the cadre contingent is the basic requirement, and no cadre likes to do things under his command is a bunch of old men. At this time, Wu Yingji was already over half a hundred years old, and he missed the golden age of being an official and becoming famous. However, these are not in Wu Yingji's consideration, the dead dog remembers a way, there is no why, it is to study, it is to take the exam, it is to be admitted. It is conceivable that a highly talented learning talent, long-term high-intensity cramming study, and from croaking to gray hair for 50 years never give up uninterrupted, you can imagine how his knowledge accumulation will reach an amazing degree, it can be said that Wu Yingji has become a large-capacity mobile hard disk full of data, history called it "Luo Jiujing 21 history in the chest, insight into the rise and fall of ancient and modern roads, the evil of talents, the gains and losses of national affairs are well understood." This evaluation is too high, not to mention a show, even if it is a person, a jinshi, or even a champion, it may not be possible.

The second is that Wu Yingji has a lost demon. There are often cases around us that are shocked after the blow of failing the college entrance examination, and it is completely understandable that the feeling of years of hard work in the water is very painful and unacceptable. Wu Yingji has been taking the exam for 40 years, the five lakes and the moon are contrary to each other, every time he sets off, he is full of ambition and pride, and every time he returns, he is full of injuries and empty bags, and his good youth is stumbling in the exams year after year, and he is still white when he is old, Wu Yingji's pain has completely exceeded the scope of our imagination, Wu Yingji can proudly say to anyone: "No one is more painful than me, and my pain is far above you." Pain has indeed changed Wu Yingji, just imagine that a normal person would be idle and bored in the unarmed situation to tease the eunuch party who is in full swing, and the eunuch party has killed more court officials and literary tycoons, and he has never been afraid of adding another charge of killing the Magi. Wu Yingji did this, he was not afraid, and endured 40 years of inhuman torture with examination questions; what is so terrible about eunuchs, is it even more terrible than the exam? Even if he does not go crazy, he must not be a normal person; Wu Yingji's personality is becoming more and more unruly, his mentality is becoming more and more unbalanced, his views are becoming more and more extreme, and his articles are becoming more and more out of the circle, and the more he goes out of the circle, the more he fails to pass the examination, the more he fails to pass the examination, the more he thinks that society is unfair, and the more he has to fight against the dark society.

In fact, it is not that the society is unfair to Wu Yingji, the society does not know who he is at all, and no one is targeting Wu Yingji, and he cannot be included in the scope of the imperial court's targeting. But why didn't he fail the exam? It wasn't that he was wrong, he studied hard and was talented, or that the examination system was wrong, because the examination system was generally fair and just for everyone, and he couldn't pass the exam just because the examination system was not suitable for him. The examination system will not change, and if you want to be admitted, Wu Yingji must make changes, otherwise he will become another victim of the examination system. In fact, Wu Yingji also thought deeply about not being able to pass the exam: his ability is undoubted, he has been smart since he was a child, and he has studied hard, but he has not failed the exam, and even the Xiucai diploma in his hand is only obtained by the local government to reduce the score and admit him, and finally Wu Yingji thinks: It is not him who is wrong, but the examination system. So Wu Yingji began to call for education reform, opposing high scores and low ability, and opposing the imperial examination system.

At the age of 49, Wu Yingji took the lifting exam for the ninth time with a belly full of talent and a full stomach full of untimeliness. It doesn't matter if you take the exam or not, taking the exam itself is a big deal, and everyone wants to see if this talent who must hang up on the exam can break the curse.

became the object of onlookers, and even became a joke in the eyes of some ill-intentioned people, and Wu Yingji didn't feel embarrassed to compete with a group of juniors on the same stage? I don't know, at least he didn't show it, as long as I wasn't embarrassed, it was others who were embarrassed. Of course, this was also the last time he came to the exam, because he was 50 years old. As a scholar, 50 should know the destiny of heaven, sometimes there must be in life, there is no time in life to force it, and if you continue to resist God, it will only be worse.

There is no place to stay here, there is a place to stay here.

There is no master everywhere, and the master is self-employed.