Why did Chen An die after being the top scholar for 20 days?

Since the imperial examination began, the champion Lang has almost become the envy of scholars all over the world. It is an exaggeration to say that everyone wants to be the top scholar.

However, there was a man in history who was killed because he won the first prize. His name is Chen An, and he is called the most miserable first prize winner in history.

Chen An and Fujian Min County were both born in the early Ming Dynasty. They have been called the Son of God since childhood, and they are especially good at poetry and prose. They will be more famous when they grow up. Together with Lin Hong and Chen Zhongwan, they are called? Top Ten Talents in Southern Fujian? . In the remains of the messenger, Zhu Yuanzhang conducted a large-scale imperial examination. The examiners are Liu Sanwu, a bachelor of Hanlin, and Wangfuji.

At that time, Chen An also took the exam and became the first in high school. Facts have proved that this is a happy and glorious thing for An Chen. He himself is waiting to go shopping by horse. However, the following events completely changed the fate of Chen An and the 800-year imperial examination inheritance system.

In the imperial examination, the imperial court chose 52 scholars, but the problem is that all of them are southerners. This in itself is dissatisfaction with students in the north. Unfortunately, the three officials in charge of the director's exam at that time were all southerners, and they had to suspect that the northern students had improper behavior.

As a result, on the day of the announcement of the qualified list, students from the north took to the streets one after another to cause uproar and asked the court to explain. At this time, the northern minister published a book in the court to thoroughly investigate the incident. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered a strict investigation of the imperial examination.

But the examiner sent by Zhu Yuanzhang checked the papers of northern students and found that the articles they wrote were not as good as those of southern students.

In fact, this is understandable. Since the Song Dynasty, the level of economic development in the north has lagged far behind that in the south. The economic base determines the superstructure. The imbalance of economic development will also lead to the imbalance of educational resources. In this context, the number of people taking exams in the south is naturally much higher than that in the north.

According to the researchers' statistics, during the whole Northern Song Dynasty, there were 9,630 people who took the examination of Jinshi, of which only 400 were from the north, which was not enough for the mantissa in the south. At the same time, in the nearly 300-year history of the Ming Dynasty, there were 89 top scholars, while the northerners only had 1 1.