The first name in the provincial examination is called Jieyuan, such as Tang Yin and Tang Bohu; the first name in the joint examination is called Huiyuan; the first name in the palace examination is called Zhuangyuan.
No matter what kind of talent they are in, those who can pass the exam are the most outstanding talents in the Ming Dynasty. The right time, place and people are indispensable.
It is not particularly difficult to guess who is the top pick, because the palace examination only tests one question, which is about countermeasures, and lasts for one day. The admission list is called the "A List", also known as the "Gold List", and is mainly used to distinguish the top three. The palace examination
It is only used to determine the ranking. Those who can participate can usually become Jinshi, and there will be no chance of failing.
The emperor presided over the palace examination and set the questions, and the order of the top ten was also determined by the emperor.
Therefore, most of the top prizes depend on the emperor's wishes. Whoever among the tributes can guess the emperor's thoughts will get a good ranking. If the emperor is young, it depends on the wishes of the chief minister of the cabinet.
But if you want to guess the correct Huiyuan, the difficulty will increase many times. There is too much chance. Marking, answering questions, political power, etc. must all be taken into account.
But this is not the point. None of the people present are fools. As soon as Zhu Shou finished speaking, Zhang Heling burst into tears and shouted: "Your Majesty, please spare my life."
The eunuchs also wanted to speak, but after looking around, they all stopped, waiting for those who couldn't help but come forward first.
Their target was naturally Boss Liu who was kneeling on the ground.
Since the emperor used the roster of fifty people as bait, he would definitely not let Liu Lao go. Therefore, apart from Zhang Heling, who was dying, the most dangerous person at the moment was Lao Liu who was standing on the edge of the cliff.
Why do you say that?
Because they all heard that the emperor wanted Zhang Heling to set up a gambling bureau to bet on the results of the test, and the person sent to act as a protective shield was Liu Jin.
An uncle and an emperor, together they can be said to be rampant in the Ming Dynasty. Even if they are counterattacked, they will not rush to the street and die in one fell swoop.
Zhu Shou's method was not complicated, and he did not directly say that he would set up a gambling game to disgust the Wuchenke Conference. Even when Li Dongyang and others questioned him, the emperor could kill his relatives in a very righteous way: throw out the uncle to plug the loophole.
So what do you think, Uncle Guo?
Of course Zhang Heling understood that this was a dead end, but Zhu Shou had already given his eldest son a worldly position. This was a white envelope for the funeral, and he also threw out a bunch of memorials that could kill him hundreds of times. The meaning is very clear: you
If you do it, you can die later; if you don't do it, you will die tonight!
He knew that his nephew, the Emperor, would not allow him to plead with the Queen Mother's sister. If he did not submit a petition immediately, he might not be able to leave the Nuan Pavilion at all.
Compared to the single-celled animals who know how to play with women after eating all day long, Boss Liu's thoughts are much more complicated.
This is not a dead end!
Old Liu, who was positioned as a protective umbrella by Zhu Shou, was naturally not as stupid as Uncle Guo. Whatever Zhu Shou thought of, Old Liu had already thought of it. If Zhu Shou didn't think of it, Old Liu would naturally think of it for him.
Liu Jin's political skills are unrivaled in the palace. Except for the insidious woman Empress Dowager Zhang. Liu Jin knows that she can't defeat her. Apart from her reputation and righteousness, Empress Dowager Zhang's political understanding is no better than that of old Liu.
Low.
Compared with students like them who are studying for a master's degree and a Ph.D., Zhu Shou, who has awakened, can be regarded as a junior high school student.
But this junior high school student is a little nervous, because he is the emperor.
"Your Majesty is wise," Mr. Liu said, and he got to the point in one sentence, "This is an act of universal celebration. One person's guess is not as good as everyone's guess. The so-called happiness of one person is not as good as the happiness of everyone."
Zhu Shou's original intention was to let Uncle Guo set up a bureau. While selling lottery tickets for sports games, he also held a small-scale Huiyuan betting competition and poured blood on the solemn and sacred imperial examination system.
The seventeen-year-old boy, after understanding the horror of the gentry group, came up with a ridiculous strategy just to disgust the powerful class that he was afraid of...
As for Uncle Guo's life and death, Zhu Shou did not consider it at all. From his normal perspective, Zhang Heling, if he had not been Uncle Guo, would have died tens of thousands of times.
Throwing him out as a scapegoat is purely for him to make money.
Besides, if this matter got serious, it would be a crime of banishment, and it would not cost anyone. But for the uncle, banishment was no different from beheading.
But Liu Jin is different. The scheming Boss Liu has long seen through Zhu Shou's thoughts and has already calculated the next step, which is to turn a dead situation into a viable situation and turn a bloody prank into a universal celebration.
There is only one starting point: the law does not blame everyone.
Yes, all the people in the capital are guessing who will be the first, number one, and top three. No matter how ruthless your civil service group is, it is impossible to wipe out all these money-obsessed people?
In the face of money, righteousness is nothing. Besides, judging from the lottery guessing in the three-day sports meeting, the group of ordinary people who recognize silver coins but do not recognize the word righteousness have a desire for guessing and for lottery tickets and competitions.
The popularity is quite unprecedented.
Yang Yiqing was a capable minister that even Boss Liu was extremely afraid of. He organized the Ming Dynasty Games and invited all the barbarians to come.
The competition was ultimately divided into thirty-seven events, including horse riding, swimming, and archery. The top three in each event were determined, known as the leader, second place, and third overall.
The first winner decided this afternoon was the archery event. The winner came from the Oirat tribe of Mongolia, named Obturo. It is said that he was a nobleman and once led his tribe to duel with the little prince on the battlefield.
Zhu Shou granted Obituluo a hereditary household of one thousand and stationed him in the old area of Hetao to avoid irritating the frontier generals. The Daming Martial Arts Academy is preparing to recruit the second batch of students this year, and the eunuchs who were sent to Gansu and Shaanxi to recruit people are all on the border.
The army suffered a lot of hidden losses.
Zhu Shou understood that this was a silent protest from the frontier army chiefs: another emerging promotion mechanism had broken the peace of the military household system for more than a hundred years and would inevitably arouse dissatisfaction among the army chiefs.
As for the other leaders, Zhu Shou also planned to follow the rules. Those who came from the barbarians would be given a title and asked to return to their hometowns to become local emperors;
Zhu Shou fished for silver.
Qin Dongyi recently received news from Japan that Ouchi Xingyi, a literary young man, has gone to Luo, and beat Hosokawa Sumitomo and Ashikaga Yoshinari to the ground. This group of Japanese country rich people fled to the Omi Rokkaku family, and Ashikaga Yoshisai became a general.
He changed his name to Yizhi, and Yixing also became the governor and took charge of Kyoto's political affairs.
Qin Dongyi, who was originally leading the way with the 20,000 Ming navy, was also entangled with a lot of Japanese ronin at this time, so he separated from the navy governor Liu Ji. Liu Ji continued to lead the Ming army to sweep the Ming coast, and Qin Dongyi took the money with him.
He and his men sneaked back to eastern Japan, looking for opportunities to cause trouble.
Qin Dongyi, who was known as the source of the "Mingkou" disaster in Japan in later generations, was about to begin his vigorous life as a Mingkou.
This is a later topic, so let’s not mention it for now.
It is only said that after Zhu Shou listened to Liu Jin's words, he quickly understood and knew that he could not do without this old dog for the time being, so he asked: "In this case, who should handle this matter?"
He was asking, but his eyes were staring at his uncle.
Uncle Guo escaped from death and understood that this was a way to survive, so he repeatedly said: "I am willing to fight to the death!"
Seeing that Uncle Guo was so sensible, Zhu Shou no longer thought of playing tricks on him, and he felt less disgusted with this useless big fat man. He waved his hand and told him to get out quickly, lest he change his mind.
Zhang Heling escaped from the catastrophe, so he naturally crawled out of the Nuan Pavilion. Regardless of how late it was, he went straight to Cining Palace. It was not to complain, because he knew that the Queen Mother's sister doted on the emperor's nephew, but to represent the emperor's nephew.
Find yourself a gold medal to avoid death...
You know, the idea put forward by Boss Liu is definitely harmless to Boss Liu, but for yourself, you can't say for sure.
No matter how big the gambling game is, no matter how many people are involved, Uncle Guo will be able to operate it, but the key is, what if the civil servants cling to themselves as the operator?
The law does not blame the public, but your own butt is not clean. If you don't stumble on this matter, you will stumble on other things. The civil servants are very good at throwing dirty water.
How to get yourself out of this predicament is what Uncle Guo is thinking about. It has to be said that Uncle Guo, who is fat and big-eared, is sometimes very smart.
Zhu Shou didn't care who his uncle went to for help. Everything was ready, and Lao Liu was watching, so he couldn't help but fall for it.
"I have one more thing to report." Now that he has passed the test and helped the emperor fix the loopholes and made a contribution, Boss Liu also wanted to get some of his own dividends and said, "The imperial mansions around the capital,
It has been in disrepair for a long time, and the number of fields in the village is unclear. Please give me your Majesty's instructions."
No one makes a lot of money, and Lao Liu is no exception.
Even though he has become extremely wealthy, his love for money still remains undiminished.
Huangzhuang is a farmland directly operated by the royal family. After Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, the scale of Huangzhuang expanded rapidly. It is mainly distributed in Shuntian and other prefectures in North Zhili, among which Shuntian, Baoding and Hejian are the most numerous. The site of the Daming Martial Arts Academy is
It was rebuilt from an imperial mansion.
Mr. Liu makes money in various ways. Selling officials and Jinshi diplomas are just small side businesses. His main business is still lavishly occupying land.
Renovating the imperial village and occupying dozens of hectares of farmland was a trivial matter for Lao Liu. Even if it occupied over a hundred hectares, it was not an impossible task.
Although Zhu Shou didn't understand the trick, he could understand it when he saw the typical envy and jealousy in the eyes of other eunuchs.
"Zhunzou, I'll leave this matter to you and Gu Dayong," Zhu Shou deliberately added sand into it and continued, "You have to keep an eye on Shouning Hou's place."
Liu Jin had a grimace on his face, and Gu Dayong, whose face was full of laughter, knelt down to thank him.
Zhu Shou's words are easy to understand. If two people are sent to occupy the land together, it is impossible for them to add to it and make five. The emperor's share must be kept; and the uncle's place cannot be allowed to be monopolized by the fat man. Old Liu can
Get a share, and Zhu Shou's share must be prepared for the emperor.
Gu Dayong made great contributions in this operation. He was the one who obtained Liu Jin's roster, so he should naturally be rewarded.
None of these things were secret. All the big guys present knew it, and Liu Jin himself knew it. He didn't dare to confront the emperor, but he hated Gu Dayong to his core from then on.
"Bah!" Gu Dayong glanced at Boss Liu and cursed in his heart, "You have the guts to bite grandpa!"
The battle between the Eight Tigers began to resemble the Eight Heroes of the Warring States Period, which made Zhu Shou quite satisfied.