Blessed are the kind people. He is the luckiest candidate in the history of China.

In the twenty-five years of Qianlong, the night before the palace examination, there was a dialogue in the military department:

"Brother Biyuan, the emperor didn't throw away the paper when he saw your handwriting was so ugly!" Zhu Shigemitsu of the military department told his colleague Bi Yuan with disdain.

"Yes, brother Bi Yuan will be a good man, and you will be on duty for both of us. If brother shigemitsu and I are the top three in high school, we will take care of you in the future. " Another colleague, Tong Fengsan, echoed this voice.

I saw this man named Bi Yuan, with a simple and honest smile, saying, "Well, I'll be on duty alone, and the two guys will prepare well. I wish you to be the first! "

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Bi Yuan, who was on night shift in the army and looked down upon by his colleagues, was appointed as the new champion by Emperor Qianlong!

What's going on here?

Speaking of Bi Yuan, as early as the 18th year of Qianlong (1753), he won a prize at the age of 24 and was qualified to take the exam. However, due to difficulties in family life, Bi Yuan took the exam by reviewing while working. However, due to busy work, there was little time to study, and Bi Yuan failed to take the previous two exams.

What does Bi Yuan do? Was elected to the military as a military aircraft Zhang Jingju. In layman's terms, it is equivalent to being a secretary in the military department, responsible for recording files, reviewing and conveying the throne and other written work.

In the Qing Dynasty, if people wanted to further develop their careers, they had to pass two major exams, the general exam and the court exam. Among them, the court examination graded by the emperor himself is the most important.

The exams and palace exams are held every three years for 25 years, which is the "college entrance examination year" for exams and palace exams. Bi Yuan and two other military colleagues, Zhu and Tong Feng, passed the examination successfully. However, whether we can make further progress, enter the top three, win the first place and the second place, and explore flowers depends on our next performance in Gongkao.

The night before the entrance examination, it happened that Bi Yuan, Zhu Shiguang and Tong Fengsan were on duty in the military department.

Zhu and Tong Fengsan think that tomorrow's court exam is too important, so they want to go back to their apartment to review and prepare for tomorrow's exam. Bi Yuan is honest and kind. Zhu Shiguang and Tong Fengsan discuss with him and let him stay on duty alone.

Zhu said categorically, "Tong Fengsan and I are both better at calligraphy than you. We may win the first prize tomorrow, so we must hurry to make some preparations. Your handwriting is too ugly. Even if you are on the list tomorrow, it is impossible to get a good ranking in the palace exam. " They also said that they would remember his friendship.

At that time, in the palace examination, examiners preferred candidates with good handwriting. As long as the writing is neat and beautiful, the score of the paper will be high, and even if the article is almost good, it is expected to get a good ranking, otherwise it will be difficult to get an excellent one.

Bi Yuan also knew that his handwriting was really poor and he was a helpful person, so he stayed on duty without complaint.

After Zhu and Tong left, they were idle. Bi Yuan opened his book and began to prepare for the next day's entrance examination. However, maybe God just gave him a hard time, and then something urgent came. The emperor suddenly issued an official document, and the "minister" on duty must deal with it in time.

This is an essay written by Huang Tinggui, the governor of Gansu, Shaanxi Province, about the reclamation in Xinjiang.

According to the memorial system of Qing dynasty, almost all memorials were approved by the emperor, that is, the emperor gave a reply to this memorial. This approved memorial is called "Zhu Pi Memorial". After the military "recorded" a copy of Zhu Pi's memorial, it was originally returned to the performer, so that the performer could follow the emperor's instructions.

After receiving the letter, Bi Yuan copied a copy carefully. During the deliberation, there were many constructive opinions about reclaiming land, which also opened his eyes.

Early the next morning, Bi Yuan, who had just finished the night shift and was slightly tired, and Chu and Tong Feng, who looked quite well prepared, came to the examination room of Gongkao.

The palace exam is different from the senior high school entrance exam. He doesn't take the eight-part essay test, but only takes the current affairs test, that is, he writes a paper on current affairs and politics. The purpose of the Palace Examination is very clear, that is, to examine students' ability to analyze and solve problems, so as to determine the ranking and distribution of work.

The topics of the court examination were decided by the emperor's reading minister, and several topics were drawn up and sent to the emperor to delineate one of them. On the first day, the minister of reading books prepared the questions temporarily in the Wenhua Hall and then submitted them to the emperor, so no one knew the contents of the palace exam in advance.

As soon as the examination paper for the Palace Examination was handed down, Bi Yuan was surprised at first, then beaming, and immediately began to write ... The whole article can be said to be a stroke of a pen.

There are such coincidences in the world. It turns out that the topic of the palace exam is Xinjiang's current reclamation policy!

Last night, Bi Yuan knew the situation report, proposal and the emperor's instructions in the memorial of the governor, but so do dungans, and he added his own opinions. In the end, the paper he produced was not a temporary composition, but a "policy of improving border security" carefully prepared by the minister of border affairs and the emperor!

The fly in the ointment is that Bi Yuan's regular script is not very good. At the beginning of the ranking, readers did not dare to put it in the first place, but ranked second (that is, fourth). At the top of the list for the time being is Zhu Shiguang's beautifully written paper.

On the fourth day, Emperor Qianlong finally finished reviewing Volume 10 in Zhonghe Hall. After reading the first three articles, Emperor Qianlong shook his head and felt that the article lacked originality.

As soon as Bi Yuan's examination paper was checked, Emperor Qianlong's eyes lit up! This paper is ambitious and practical, which not only conforms to my own ideas, but also has many original opinions. So I'm happy to get a wave of my hand and hand it over to the champion without hesitation!

Bi Yuan's other two colleagues also achieved good results. Zhu Shiguang ranked second in the list and Tong Feng San Dimethyl ranked sixth. When they later learned what happened that night, they could only sigh that everything was fate.

Chu Shigemitsu and Tong Fengsan lamented that everything is fate. Yes, opportunities are very important for the direction of life, and people will encounter many accidents in their lives. But the question is, what chance do you have to be partial to someone? Is there any inevitability behind lucky success?

Bi Yuan, born in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, was born in a poor family when he was a child. He lost his father when he was young and was brought up by his mother. Bi Yuan's mother Zhang Zao is a famous talented woman in Loudong. One of the ten sons of Leng, he is the author of Poems of Peiyuantang. She is not only a poet, but also knowledgeable.

Zhang Zao was young and widowed, and life was not easy, but she took great pains to make her son famous by studying.

Under the guidance of his mother, Bi Yuan was able to read The Book of Songs and Li Sao at the age of 6, and 10 was known as a "child prodigy".

At this time, Zhang Zao was very upset. She looked at Bi Yuan a little smug and worried that he was used to being praised. Since then, he has become a secular Zhong Yong without making progress. So she gritted her teeth and sent Bi Yuan, who was only in her teens, to Mudu Town, Suzhou, hundreds of miles away, to learn from Shen Deqian, a famous scholar and poet, and Huidong, a master of Confucian classics, so that he could further broaden his horizons and increase his knowledge.

Zhang Zao is very strict with his son. Even though Bi Yuan was the top student in this exam, she still refused to relax. When Bi Yuan left Beijing to be the governor of Shaanxi, Zhang Zao also wrote 54 poems of Xunzi with his mother's unique feelings, earnestly expecting his son: "Live up to his lifelong education and have plenty of food and clothing;" Pay a high salary and protect your family. " After Zhang Zao's death, Emperor Qianlong specially gave him an imperial book, Jing Xun Ke Jia, to praise him.

Bi Yuan's success is inseparable from her mother's lifelong education. In order not to forget the kindness of his loving mother, he specially named his study "Jing Xun Hall" and his poetry collection "Jing Xun Tangji".

Bi Yuan studies very hard. There are many rich children in the school auditorium in Shen Deqian, accompanied by their families and children, who have no worries about food and clothing. Bi Yuan's family is poor, so he can only rent a farmhouse at the foot of Lingyan Mountain in the suburb of town. The conditions are very difficult. So I am often ridiculed by those rich children.

One day, there was a heavy snow in the sky. Soon, Yong 'an Bridge and Shantang Street in front of Guan Xue were covered with heavy snow, and the weather was very cold. The rich man's brothers rubbed their hands and stamped their feet, and they were not interested in attending the class. Bi Yuan was the only one sitting tight, listening carefully, for fear of missing a word. Shen Deqian boasted to everyone that Qu Yuan was bound to achieve something.

Bi Yuan passed the age of sixteen, and his mother searched for relatives everywhere for him. But the family is poor, and no one in the media mentioned it. In this way, several years passed unconsciously. One day, Gao Shiqi, an old friend of Bi Yuan's father, came to visit their mother and son. Although Bi was born in a poor family, seeing that Bi had a good personality and a good knowledge, he betrothed his youngest daughter to him.

After Bi Yuan married Gao's little daughter, their relationship was very good. But the other two sons-in-law of Gao's family are very rich and often joke about Bi Yuan's poverty and honesty. Facing the ridicule of others, Bi Yuan said to his wife, "From now on, I will study angrily and must come back with fame, otherwise I will not enter this house." ?

The wife thought Bi Yuan was angry words and didn't take it to heart. Unexpectedly, Bi Yuan really left home and rented a cabin by the lake to concentrate on his studies. There was a continuous rainstorm, and his hut was almost flooded, but he still sat inside and read aloud. A fisherman saw it and shouted, but he didn't even hear it.

At the age of 24, Bi Yuan finally saw the dawn of life. In the eighteenth year of Qianlong, he was a scholar.

According to the imperial examination system of the Qing Dynasty, juren can become alternate officials as long as they register in the official department. Of course, there are very few people appointed in the end, usually only a few dozen people every year. Due to his excellent academic performance and good reputation, Bi Yuan got the position of cabinet minister at the age of 28, and soon he was transferred to the military as Zhang Jing, a military aircraft. With a certain income, you can support your family.

Ambitious Bi Yuan will certainly not be content with the status quo. He never forgot his mother's teaching and made up his mind to shine and finish his work. After looking for a job, he prepares for the exam while working, which is equivalent to "work-study program".

Bi Yuan's academic career was not smooth. After he passed the juren exam, he took two exams and failed. However, he was not discouraged and continued to study hard. Hard work finally paid off handsomely. When taking the third exam, Bi Yuan not only passed the exam smoothly, but also won the first prize in the palace exam in one fell swoop, ranking first in high school. This year, he is 3 1 year old.

"Opportunities only favor those who are prepared." Many people are familiar with this famous saying, but in practice they just pray for good luck and are indifferent to the word "preparation".

If Bi Yuan happened to see the materials closely related to the contents of the imperial examination when he was on duty, there were some lucky factors, but when we understand his schooling experience, we will find that the strict discipline of the loving mother, the hard cultivation of the teacher and his own efforts made the arrival of the champion an "accident", but it is also reasonable.

The ancients said: "Heaven is healthy, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality. " A man should be diligent and enterprising, self-reliant, honest and kind, and noble in character. Bi Yuan not only studies hard, but also is honest and willing to endure hardships. Don't haggle with your colleagues, it's an unexpected gain. Good people are rewarded, and the "luck" of Bi Yuan's first prize is his blessing.