The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were mainly divided into four levels: Tongsheng Examination, Township Examination, General Examination, and Palace Examination. The Tongsheng Examination was a small examination at the first level of the Prefecture Examination. This small examination was divided into three levels: County, Prefecture, and Court Examinations, which was the most important.

The basic examination, while the provincial examination is a major provincial examination. In high school, one is elected as a squire, and in the local area, one is qualified to be an official. At present, Zhang Zijun has passed the government examination, and the next step is the college examination. Zhang Zijun

Shamelessly, Liu Sheng was asked to seek a guarantee, which meant that five students were required to jointly serve as guarantees to apply for the college examination. Liu Sheng, who was currently an Imperial Academy official, used his authority to directly send a letter to the college, asking Zhang Zijun to be appointed as a prisoner to the Imperial Academy. In this way,

It is not used as a guarantee.

What is the Imperial College? In the early Ming Dynasty, all provinces selected and sent outstanding students to the prison as prison students. Those who failed the imperial examination could also be admitted to prison. By the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, the prison students were divided into four categories: the imperial prison and the tribute prison.

, Yin Jian, Regular Jian. Jian Jian refers to those who participated in the capital examination and failed the election, and were selected by the Hanlin Academy to be sent to the Imperial Academy. Gong Jian means to enter the prison based on the contribution of talents. At the beginning of Hongwu, it was stipulated that all prefectures and counties in the world

Each school selects one student every year to study in the Imperial College. Later, the quota was slightly changed, but because the criteria for selecting students as tribute were in vain, only those who had been eating and drinking for a long time were given priority, often those who were older and uneducated.

When a person goes to prison to study, the further he goes to prison, the worse his grades will be.

Yinjian refers to the students who are the children of third-grade officials or above or the children of honorary relatives who study in prison. Regular prison refers to the students who are allowed to study in prison after the common people pay millet to the government due to the vacancy of prison students or due to state affairs and lack of funds. Therefore,

Also known as people's livelihood. "History of the Ming Dynasty·Election Chronicles 1": "Scholars who entered the country are generally called supervisors. Those who raise people are called jujian, students are called tribute supervisors, children of officials are called yin supervisors, and those who donate money are called regular supervisors. The same tribute supervisor is also called a tribute supervisor.

There are annual tributes, there are selected tributes, there are benevolent tributes, and there are paid tributes. In the same prison, there are official students, and there are benevolent students... Every time I take charge of the world, I will select students who are more than 20 years old, and they are dignified and handsome.

Those who were sent to the invigilator were sent to stay. The candidates who passed the general examination were admitted to prison and graduated. Because of the remonstrance official Guan Xian's memorial, it was established as a rule. Each of the prefecture, state, and county students had one tribute student, Hanlin examination scriptures, one book each, and a sentence.

One thing is that Chinese-style students are admitted to the Imperial College in the first class. Among them are candidates from the Siyi Hall, that is, the "Foreign Language School". These students all belong to the Imperial College. In addition, there are also students from foreign countries, such as Japan, Ryukyu, and Siam, who all have officials.

He was sent to prison to study."

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the scientific examination, another way to become an official was to enter prison. It was good to have someone in the court. Zhang Zijun wanted to laugh in his sleep. No wonder Zhang Erbao said the day before yesterday that he went to Zhang Butcher’s meat stall to buy meat, and gave him more

After three liang, the children next door and Zhang Zizhe's family gave way to each other. Even the children knew that this person in Zhang's family had an unusual background. We are also the masters of someone in the court.

In fact, Zhang Zijun didn't want to do anything, but he was afraid of being exploited by some people with ulterior motives. Those who had no backing would make friends with the servants in the yamen, and those with some money would make friends with the masters, bookkeepers and the like in the yamen.

I thought I could stay safe and be less oppressed. In this society governed by humans, the big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat the shrimp. Even Lin Cong was devastated. After all, there was only one Haigangfeng born in the Ming Dynasty in three hundred years.

All children who are admitted through the government examination can participate in the college examination. The procedures for registration, filling in resumes, and local student guarantees are slightly the same as those for the government examination and county examination. The school administration will take the examination in the nearest government where the school is located, and the other governments will

Then he will come to the examination room in person to preside over the examination in stages. The examination is divided into two main examinations and two re-examinations. One main examination and one re-examination. Test eight-legged essays and test poems, and memorize hundreds of crosses from a certain paragraph in the "Five Classics" set by the examiner. Revealed

It is called a case, and the admitted person is a student member (commonly known as a "scholar"). He is sent to the government. The county school study is called "enrollment", also called "entering Pan". He receives monthly lessons and examinations from the instructor. This is the child student examination.

The highest level examination.

There is no need to sign a joint name now. Soon after Zhang Zijun filled out his resume, he received a small piece of paper two fingers wide for the Academy Examination. The Academy Examination is a test for talents. After passing the Academy Examination, you will have fame and you will have privileges. For example, you can meet an official without having to

Kneel down, you don’t have to go to the yamen to open a road when you go out, you can get rice from the state if you have good grades, and you can live a normal life.

At this time, in the first month, the Yellow River breached in the south of the new fortress. In April, the breach broke out again. In May, heavy rains broke out on the north bank of Shawan. The canal water flowed into the Salt River and all the canals were blocked. At that time, a branch of the Yellow River came from Ying

Zenan flows into Xiangcheng, and one branch flows from Xinxiang Baliushu to Zhangqiuhui River. In July, Shi Pu opened a new river, three miles long, to avoid the breach and connect the upper and lower canals.

The imperial court was concerned about the flooding of the Yellow River and needed to send an official to control the river. The imperial court sent many officials to control the river, but they were never able to calm down the river. For this thankless matter, after several games in the court, they all shied away.

In the end, the unpopular Ren Youyu de Xu Youzhen was appointed. Xu Youzhen advocated moving the capital to the south due to the "Tumubao Incident". Yu Qian, the minister of the Ministry of War, firmly opposed it, saying: "Anyone who proposes to move south should be beheaded!" Hu, the Minister of Rites, said:

Chen Xun, the Minister of Household Affairs, and other important ministers all agreed with Yu Qian. Even the internal official Jin Ying also scolded Xu Youzhen as a capitulator. Xu Youzhen, who proposed to withdraw to the south, was very frustrated and did not dare to say anything. Being rejected, he was staying at home depressed, Kyoto

After the victory in the defense battle, Xu Youzhen became increasingly unpopular and was ridiculed by the inner court. As a result, she was not promoted for a long time and had to turn to flatter the cabinet minister Chen Xun, hoping to be recommended by him.

At that time, most of the people employed in the imperial court depended on Yu Qian. Xu Youzhen asked Yu Qian for the post of imperial minister through Yu Qian's disciples. Yu Qian recommended Xu Youzhen to Emperor Jing. But Emperor Jing did not agree, and asked: "Is this the Xu Youzhen who proposed to move south?

?This man is cunning by nature, and he was in charge of the Guozi Sacrificial Drinking Party to corrupt the supervising students." Xu Youzhen didn't know the reason, thinking that Yu Qian was causing trouble, and she was deeply resentful of him.

But this time when she received such an errand, Xu Youzhen was overjoyed and happily went to Yanggu County, Shandong Province. After a field investigation, Xu Youzhen believed that water gates should be set up, branch rivers should be dug, canals should be dredged, and the river should be calmed down by dredging and dredging simultaneously.

The problem was approved by Emperor Jing. He recruited civilians and personally supervised the construction of the project. He dug a ditch (Guangji Canal) and built a sluice (Tongyuan Gate) from Zhangqiu to the Yellow River and Qinshui River.

At that time, Jiang Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, proposed to send 50,000 Beijing troops to support, hoping to complete the project within three months and solve the grain transportation problem as soon as possible, but Xu Youzhen rejected it. After more than 550 days of hard work, Xu Youzhen finally completed the project.

The river control project was successfully completed.

It seems that Xu Youzhen was also a fierce man. Xu Youzhen was recalled to Beijing to assist in the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and later went out of Beijing to inspect Caohe. He petitioned the imperial court to exempt the river husbands from the official horse corvee in the thirteen prefecture counties of Jining.

Floods occurred in Shandong, and many river embankments in the territory were damaged. Only the embankment built by Xu Youzhen was still intact. Emperor Jing of the Ming Dynasty ordered Xu Youzhen to go to Shandong to control floods. Xu Youzhen repaired the breaches of the old embankments and set up many places between Linqing and Jining.

The water sluice was reduced and the flood was successfully quelled. Emperor Jing personally summoned him to express his condolences and worshiped him as the censor of the left deputy capital.

Due to serious floods in Shandong, although Xu Youzhen managed it, famine spread immediately after the floods. Someone came up with a crooked idea. Zou Qian, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and the concubine of Zuo Chunfang, wrote: Wu Ming, a student member of Linqing County, and others wish to be named.

Eight hundred stones, begging to be sent to prison to study. Today, Shandong and other places are short of grain reserves, so I begged him to ask for it as a temporary measure to help with storage. Emperor Jing agreed to this proposal and issued an edict to all the chief secretaries and governors across the country.

Students from prefectures and counties who can produce 800 shi of rice to Xuzhou, Dongchang, and Linqing to help the victims are allowed to study in the Imperial College. Later it was reduced to 500 shi, and then to 300 shi.

Hu Ying, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't stand it any longer. This was a disservice to scholars. Soon he stopped. At this point, the law of accepting millet was introduced. Although it was soon abolished, in the future, there may be shortages, border police, or large-scale construction projects.

The previous rules were often quoted. Children of soldiers and civilians were also admitted to prison as life-support workers. They were called "people's livelihood" and "handsome". Some people actually called them "regular prisons", and the social status of prison students was gradually reduced.

After one wave of peace, there was another wave. Japan came to pay tribute and went to Linqing to plunder the residents' property. The Ming Dynasty officials went to question them and were beaten to death. Some officials asked the imperial court to supervise their envoys. Emperor Jingtai

For fear of losing the favor of people far away, I won't allow it.

At that time, in addition to tribute, the Japanese brought ten times more personal belongings. For the Ming Dynasty, it was necessary to pay several times the amount of gifts in return, so officials from the Ministry of Rites said: "During the Xuande period, all private belongings brought by envoys were given money at the time of the price.

, or cut off the cloth, it is not much, but it has made a big profit. If it is still made now, the money should be 217,000, and the silver price is like this, its value should be greatly reduced." Emperor Jing was dumbfounded when he heard this.

, scolded the little Japanese for being unreasonable, sending out an envoy to bring so much private goods, according to the Ming Dynasty's calculation of paying tribute, otherwise he would die. The order to give 34,700 silver was unusual, and the envoy was not happy. The edict

The additional money of 10,000 was still considered small, and he asked for additional gifts. Emperor Jing also issued an edict to present 1,500 pieces of cloth, and the Japanese envoy left in dismay.

These court news were all told by Yao Xi when he came to visit Zhang Mansion. For Zhang Zijun, the tribute from this neighboring country should not be so high. Look at this little Japan, it is so shameless, Shengmi En,
Chapter completed!