Ming Dynasty: with Three Modern Views, He Challenged Emperor Hongwu in the Imperial Examination

In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, 22-year-old Xia Zhibai entered the examination. Twenty thousand people attended the event, and students from the south were rumored to be among the "top three by default". The candidates from the north were humiliated in public and said they were not even worthy of the top three. Xia Zhibai stood up and said: "If I pass, I will be the top pick." The whole audience burst into laughter. He backhandedly made a bet - betting with his life that no student from the south would win the top prize. On the policy questionnaire, what he wrote was not a topic, but an "anti-essay": "The Ming Dynasty does not love the people, and it will be destroyed by peasant uprisings in the future." After handing in the questionnaire, facing the siege, he only said one sentence: "If a young man is not frivolous, what else can he call a young man?" Emperor Hongwu was born in a commoner family and hated officials kneeling like slaves. Xia Zhibai's bet has never been on articles, but on a heart that dares to stand up and speak. Outside the examination room, people gathered together to have fun. He sat alone by the inn window and wrote: "My classmate Qia was a young man in his prime. He was a scholar and scolded Fang Qiu." In this subject, what he wants to do is not only the number one scholar, but also the person who pulls up the kneeling scholar-bureaucrat. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.