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What did Zuo do after he was frustrated in the examination hall?

Zuo was frustrated in the imperial examination, unable to enter the upper class along the road of formal imperial examination, and then realized his ambition. However, after all, he is different from those ordinary people who only know reading, don't care about current affairs, and are bent on pursuing fame. After all, he is ambitious. Have lofty aspirations. He is most concerned about the fate of the country and the rise and fall of society, and is most interested in understanding the national economy and people's livelihood. Even in those years when I fought for the imperial examination, I never gave up my concern about current affairs.

He went to Beijing for the first time, visited the home of Hu Dayuan, who was a Zhan Shi in Zhan Shifu, and was lucky enough to meet Hu Linyi, the son of Hu Dayuan, who later became a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty.

Zuo Jia and Hu Jia used to be family friends. Hu Dayuan, a native of Yiyang, Hunan, studied under Zuo Guanlan at Yuelu Academy in Changsha in his early years. They have deep friendship and affection. Hu Linyi and Zuo were classmates in the same year and later became relatives. He was born in June of the seventeenth year of Jiaqing, four months older than Zuo, and also studied under He Xiling. He was smart since he was a child. At the age of eight, he was taken by Peng Tao and recruited as a son-in-law. When he was a teenager, he often lived with his father-in-law. He was a handsome man. He was also deeply influenced by Tao Nai, Lin Zexu and others, and he had the ambition to save the world.

Zuo and Hu Linyi hit it off, talked very well and became best friends from then on. The two talked about the past and present together. The government was corrupt and the officials were incompetent. The hardships of people's livelihood and the invasion and coercion of western countries are everywhere, and they are deeply worried about the current situation. To this end, the two were "slightly relieved and deeply worried." When people saw it, they were all surprised. How can they possibly know what they are responsible for?

However, on the other hand, what Zuo saw in the capital was the traffic in front of the princes and nobles, the darkness of the officialdom, and the scene of singing and dancing.

After coming back from the second exam, Zuo began to study geography. He believes that due to the changes of the times, the previous maps have rarely changed, and some even have many mistakes. Therefore, he intends to draw a map of the whole country first, and then draw a map of provinces and governments. Based on historical records and local chronicles, he made a careful investigation of ancient and modern place names, trends and mileage, and marked out the places where waterways passed, the names of village posts and the ups and downs of hills. The change of the valley, the blockage of the canal, the distance of the branch, the rise and fall of the city governance, and the evolution of the ancient times in the hinterland. , are carefully traced back to the current dynasty, through the Ming, Yuan, Song ... until Kyushu, Gong Yu.

In this way, in the west building of Zhouguizai Hall in Xiangtan, Zuo browsed ancient and modern books day and night, hand-drawing. Mrs. Zhou sat reading history books, comforting each other with a pot of incense and a bowl of tea. Every time Zuo draws a sketch, he gives it to Mrs Zhou for painting. When there is a problem to check, Mrs. Zhou will check it out from the bookshelf. A letter and a roll are often tacit cooperation. After 10 years, Zuo completed this project with the strong support and help of his wife. Later, he copied the annals of Russia and Russia, the annals of sacrifice areas and the annals of provinces. "In the mountains and rivers, the distance of the post road is ten huge volumes."