Chapter 592 0587 [The prince also makes the decision in the palace examination]
Chui Gong Hall.
Zhu Guoxiang handed over an official document: "Most of the prefectures and counties in Guangdong have been announced. However, several prefectures and counties were occupied by the peasant army. Li Bao divided his troops and went to Guangzhou Town and found that the chief officials in Guangdong should be killed.
.He couldn't make the decision, so he asked Shangshu for instructions from the imperial court."
Ju Ming had already received Li Bao's letter. He pretended to read the official document and said: "Take him back to Beijing and then kill him, so that local officials will not be frightened."
The situation in Guangdong is particularly funny and extremely corrupt.
First, Zheng Liang, the transfer envoy, returned to Beijing to report on his duties. He was reported to have been embezzled, violated the law, plundered excessively, and enriched his own pockets under the guise of Hua Shi Gang.
At that time, Song Huizong had not yet fled Tokyo. When he heard that his Hua Shi Gang had been embezzled, he immediately arrested Zheng Liang and imprisoned him for interrogation.
Who would have known that Zheng Liang died in Dali Temple Prison the day after he was imprisoned.
Song Huizong was furious and sent a censor to Guangzhou to investigate - Zheng Liang had been an official in Guangdong for a long time and simply settled in Guangzhou.
At this time, the Jin soldiers marched south and Ju Ming marched north. Song Huizong was so frightened that he ran away.
Yushi Shu was ordered to investigate the case, and taking advantage of the country's chaos, he ransacked the home of Zheng Liang, who died mysteriously, and embezzled hundreds of thousands of his property.
Then, Statement also died in Guangzhou!
The Guangdong transshipment envoy Yin Zhongchen and the deputy envoy Xu Geng jointly swallowed up this huge sum of money.
The luck judge Ren Xiaokai did not get much benefit. When Li Bao divided his troops and occupied Guangzhou, he reported Yin Zhongchen and Xu Geng to kill people and buy goods, embezzled stolen money, preyed on the people, and exploited merchants.
Li Bao sent someone to inquire and found out that Ren Xiaokai was not a good person either.
The entire officialdom in Guangdong has been ruined. Not only has the peasants been extremely poor, but even the gentry and merchants have complained about the difficulty of living. Only those temples are still living a very prosperous life.
When they heard that Li Bao had occupied Fujian, Guangdong officials expressed their surrender one after another, hoping to continue living freely in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Guoxiang said: "Corruption in Guangdong is more serious than in other places. Although the local officials there have contributed to the city, I plan to use none of them and remove them all and return to their hometowns. Those who are notorious will even have their homes confiscated and beheaded.
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"Okay, since the territory is almost occupied anyway, there is no need to worry about any negative impacts." Zhu Ming supported this approach.
In traditional concepts, father and son are unkind and unkind.
Those Guangdong officials who offered their territory to the new dynasty were not rewarded for their merits, but they were all dismissed from office, and even the notorious ones were killed.
The reason why the officialdom in Guangdong is completely rotten is that, firstly, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, secondly, officials are acting badly, and thirdly, there is money to be squeezed.
Take Xu Geng, the deputy transshipment envoy, for example. After he was transferred to Guangnan, he thought that he had been relegated in disguise and would have no career pursuits in the rest of his life, so he began to exploit people crazily to make money.
While Xu Geng was embezzling, he also wrote a poem to complain: "The truth of nature is determined before birth. The water in the stream in front of me flows away day and night, and the owner upstairs does not know."
Directly in the poem, Guangdong is called "Southern Wilderness".
Zhu Guoxiang said: "Even if they are all dismissed from office, they must be replaced in batches to avoid any trouble in the middle."
Ju Ming said: "This version of Zhejiang Province is too big, and we still need to guard against one-handed separatist rebellion. Now that Fujian is almost pacified, Wenzhou and Chuzhou (Lishui) should be placed under Fujian's jurisdiction."
"It's okay," Zhu Guoxiang said, "In the future, Zhejiang's surplus finances can be used to transfer some of it to Fujian."
Transfers refer to fiscal transfer payments.
Fujian is too poor and Zhejiang is too rich. They should help each other.
With a few words, the father and son decided on the southeastern ecology. Wenzhou and Chuzhou will belong to Fujian Province from now on.
Zhu Guoxiang looked at the sky, stood up and said, "It's almost time."
The two of them walked south together and soon arrived at Daqing Hall.
"The emperor has arrived!"
"The prince has arrived!"
The palace examination of the Northern Song Dynasty was held in Jiying Hall.
Now it has been replaced by Daqing Hall, which is more spacious, open and bright!
The scholars who were already sitting there waiting for the exam were surprised when they heard the shout.
The imperial examination should be conducted by the emperor, so why did the prince come with him?
But I saw Zhu Guoxiang sitting down and writing a line of words with a brush, and the palace examination questions were completed.
The guard brought it to the palace and read out the title: "Zhi said: Let's discuss the gains and losses of governance in the old Song Dynasty. Please write it clearly in the article. Don't be too general or omit it. I will read it personally!"
The candidates all raised their heads and looked at the emperor in astonishment. This kind of imperial examination question was too direct, right?
Most of the candidates stood there stunned, anxious and wanting to scratch their heads.
This thing seems simple, but it is actually very difficult to write.
First of all, you must determine a core idea, and then discuss around it, and you must quote scriptures, otherwise the article will not be exciting.
Secondly, both the gains and losses of the old Song Dynasty have to be written, but how to control the degree is difficult.
Finally, you must be quite familiar with the overall situation of the old Song Dynasty, and you must be able to speak meaningfully.
Li Tong and Hu Quan, who had carefully studied Ju Ming's articles, started to write almost at the same time: "I am right: I heard that "Shang Shu" said that the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful..."
The words and sentences are slightly different, but their strategies and main ideas at the beginning are the same.
Halfway through writing, differences began to appear.
Li Tong mainly elaborated on the "loss of virtue" in the old Song Dynasty, while Hu Quan focused on the "loss of merit" in the old Song Dynasty.
Zhu Ming sat reading in the Daqing Hall for three hours. Suddenly he got up and started walking around, checking the candidates' articles back and forth.
It's like the invigilator is walking around, putting great pressure on the candidates.
In the end, Ju Ming stayed by Li Tong's side and even picked up the finished draft of a page.
After reading, gently put it back.
The second time I stayed was with Hu Quan.
After taking a rough look at the two papers, Zhu Ming liked Hu Quan's article more.
Suddenly, Ju Ming stopped next to another candidate.
There were 350 answer sheets, and the marking officer spent three days ranking them.
The first place is Li Tong. The second place is Hu Quan. The third place is Zhang Jiucheng.
Zhu Guoxiang read the top ten and said to Xiao Chu, Huan Guo, Huang Shang and others: "This third-placed article is too scattered. Half of the article is criticizing Zhao Ji. What are you thinking? I
It’s very clear, and you don’t have to do this again in the future.”
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Everyone quickly bowed.
Zhu Guoxiang said to his son: "You can re-rank."
Ju Ming was not polite and rearranged all the top ten.
The first place is Hu Quan, a native of Jiangxi.
The second place, Yang Ji, is from Sichuan.
Third place, Li Tong, from Fujian
Fourth place, Li Gongmao, from Jiangxi.
Fifth place: Wang Dabao, from Guangdong.
The sixth place, Li Yi, is from Huainan.
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The tenth place, Zhang Jiucheng, is from Zhejiang.
The Sichuan scholar Yang Ji, who was ranked second on the list, was born in the Yang family in Shuzhong, and his brother worked with Zhu Guoxiang for two years.
He followed his brother closely and understood the thoughts of the emperor and the prince very well. Although the literary style of the policy review was not very good, the content was very solid, which was to Ju Ming's liking.
"Your Majesty, please take a look." Zhu Ming held the paper and handed it back.
Zhu Guoxiang took the answer sheet smoothly, without even bothering to read it, and ordered: "Just write the yellow list according to the prince's ranking."
"According to the order!"
The ministers were extremely shocked that the prince actually made the decision regarding the ranking in the imperial examination.
After writing the yellow list, everyone left the palace one after another.
Huan Guo invited Xiao Chu into his carriage and said in a low voice: "As a minister, you should not talk about the emperor and the prince. But today's court is really worrying. The military power is in the hands of the prince. If someone happens to
God... I'm fine for one or two years, but your Majesty's dragon body is in good health, what will happen in ten or twenty years?"
"How can you care about Hui Yuan?" Xiao Chu said with a smile, "Honest brother, haven't you understood? The prince is the main priority in everything. Your Majesty's move today may make you want to abdicate."