Chapter Eighteen: Selecting the Sons in the Palace Examination
Naturally, Yang Shen didn't know that a good story about the relationship between the emperor and his ministers was cut in half, and the emperor's personal advice was also dealt with in one stroke.
The palace examination only tests policy questions. Candidates enter the Fengtian Hall at dawn and go through etiquette such as roll call, dismissal of papers, praise and worship, salutes, etc., and then the policy questions are issued.
Fengtian Hall, built in the 18th year of Yongle, is also known as the Huangji Hall and Taihe Hall in later generations, commonly known as the Jinluan Hall and the First Hall of China. Major ceremonies such as the emperor's enthronement and the appointment of a queen were held here. It is a symbol of imperial power.
Therefore, it has a unique status in Chinese history.
Holding the imperial examination in Fengtian Hall is a rule set by Chong Bage. Historical records say that "the emperor personally made policy questions, tried them in Fengtian Hall, and promoted Wu Bozong to be the first." Although later emperors often changed the location, the location also changed, but Zhu
Shou decided to follow the ancestral system and still held the test in Fengtian Hall.
The emperor and the gentry were two grasshoppers strung together in the imperial examination system. Although Zhu Shou was afraid of the power of the gentry and had some crazy ideas about guessing the lottery, he still took the Ming Dynasty's national code to heart, and besides, this was
His first subject, the Jinshi, will become his right-hand man in politics.
Therefore, the current policy question he used was more than 300 words long, but it had only one central idea: How to govern the ocean?
In the more than a year after the twenty-kou trade, Zhu Shou encountered many problems, such as the decline in trade volume, the rampant combination of pirates and merchants, the complex situation in the foreign countries, the management of the Donghai Company, etc.
Some problems have no good solutions, and some problems have not found the time to be solved, but the biggest problem is that Zhu Shou's men lack talents!
Military management, management, political strategy, plunder, rule, and so on all require talents. And the talents of the Ming Dynasty are currently concentrated in the gentry class. How to pull them out of the gentry group and become his direct descendants is what Zhu Shou faces.
The biggest test.
He does not need scholars who are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. Such people can manage the local area, but they are not very useful in opening up the sea and fixing the borders. But looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, how many people can understand what the ocean is?
Zhu Shou's hard work will inevitably lead to embarrassing things.
Of course, Yang Shen, who has always been with Zhu Shou, naturally knows a lot about maritime affairs. He can write beautifully in Guange style, and he handed in the paper before sunset. In later generations, Yang Sheng'an's handwriting will be valuable
Thousands of gold cultural relics.
There is only one day for the palace examination. Papers are handed in at dusk, and the test papers, palm papers, and seal papers are kept by the officials. On the marking day, they are handed over to the paper readers, each person has a table, and they take turns to read.
Those who are outstanding in the Imperial Academy and court officials' literature will be appointed as book readers.
The ten test papers that the examiners agree are the best will be presented to Zhu Shou, who will decide the final ranking.
The three persons in the first and third grades, respectively, are the number one scholar, the second and third overall scholar, and are called Jinshi and rank; the number of persons in the second grade and the third grade are called the Jinshi origins; and the number of the third graders are said to be from the same Jinshi background, which is what later generations call Mrs. Ru.
Finally, the official will fill in the list and publish it. The first and third graders will be conferred immediately, and the number one scholar will be awarded the title of editor of the Hanlin Academy. If the second and third grade Jinshi want to be conferred and become officials, they will have to pass the imperial examination, and the best will be admitted to the Hanlin Academy based on the scores of the previous and later examinations.
They are Shujishi, commonly known as "Dian Hanlin", and the rest are distributed to various ministries as directors or to serve in other places.
On the day of the palace examination, Zhu Shou did not stay in the Fengtian Palace for long before returning to the Nuan Pavilion in the Qianqing Palace.
On the day when the ten test papers were presented, he picked up the test papers delivered by Li Dongyang himself and let out a long sigh.
Among the ten people, only Yang Shen and Han Bangqi had something to say, but they all told them themselves, and there was nothing novel about it.
There is no need to read the two young masters, Jiao Huangzhong and Liu Ren, as they are completely incomprehensible.
Lu Nan, a fellow from Shaanxi whom Boss Liu strongly recommended, was even more ridiculously pedantic. He actually talked about Taizu's teachings. Zhu Shou was so angry that he directly threw the test paper in Boss Liu's face, which also made the historical Jing Mr. Ye lost his No. 1 spot...
There is also Dai Dabin. Although his article is colorful, he actually dares to secretly satirize Zhu Shou for being surrounded by traitors and being able to drag traitors from the sea. Could it be that his ancient prose was taught by a physical education teacher? Zhu Shou was so angry that he demoted this guy. Arrive at Sanjia.
In addition, Jing Yang, Shao Rui, Huang Fang and others are all popular people.
The last one was Han Bangjing. This young man who had high hopes from Zhu Shou actually said that opening up the sea would do more harm than good and would "cause eternal worries." Zhu Shou really wanted to kick this kid to Yizhou for fishing. But for the sake of it, For the sake of his eldest brother, he decided to send him back to his hometown in Shaanxi and become the magistrate of Mizhi County in Yan'an Prefecture in the north.
After a few years of being exposed to the wind and sand, this kid may be mature.
Only two of the ten test papers he liked were picked out. Li Dongyang thought that Zhu Shou would randomly pick another one from among the dwarfs. This was also a common practice for the emperor to kiss. Basically, no emperor would seriously grade the papers. Unexpectedly, Zhu Shou asked him to get ten more papers. Come.
When I saw the lights, Boss Liu and Admiral Zhang Yong had dozens of test papers piled up around them. Zhu Shou casually threw them at them after he got angry. Although most of them were not related to them, Lei Yulu Thanks to your kindness, the two of them just stood there obediently, like a pair of brothers in need.
"Hey, this guy is excellent." Zhu Shou suddenly saw a paper written by Zhai Peng from Shandong.
This paper contains thousands of words. It has a deeper understanding of military and maritime affairs than Yang Shen and Han Bangqi. However, its literary talent is slightly inferior, and it was ranked behind one hundred by the marking officers.
The central idea of this paper is to put military occupation first, followed by coastal immigration, and use offshore islands as strongholds to naturalize the maritime barbarians so that they can admire the Chinese civilization and thus solve the problem of population shortage.
Talent, absolute talent!
Zhu Shou looked at Zhai Peng's roster: he was originally from Funingwei, and was originally from Wuding Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture, Chengxuan Government Envoy, Shandong Province. He was now twenty-seven years old. His father and ancestors were good people and loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty for three generations.
He was not familiar with history, so he naturally did not know the name of Zhai Qingtian in later generations, but Zhai Peng, the civil servant representative who served as general and prime minister in the Jiajing Dynasty, simply walked into Zhu Shou's talent pocket.
In the official history, Zhai Qingtian, who was forced to die unjustly, burst into tears: I finally don’t have to work as a hanging thread to get my qualifications.
So when the examination list for Wuchen Kedian in the third year of Zhengde was announced, the eyes of scholars all over the world were shattered.
No. 1 scholar Yang Shen was awarded the Hanlin Academy for compilation. No one had any objections to this. After all, talent, learning, character and connections were all displayed there. Han Bangqi, um, one of the tallest and richest men in the Ming Dynasty, the eldest son of the Han family, the emperor’s sweetheart Secret, everyone has no objection.
It’s just that so-and-so, who, together with Han Tanhua, was awarded the Imperial Academy editorship, second place? That’s right, Zhai Peng!
Although this guy's talent and learning are acceptable, everyone knows that among this group of rich and handsome men, he can barely make it to the bottom of the second-tier class. How can he squeeze out the talents of Jiaohuang Zhongquan and Lu Nan?
The father of Jiao Huangzhong, the most educated gangster in the Ming Dynasty, and Mr. Jiao Fang, the most educated gangster in China, was even more furious.
In order to avoid suspicion, he has been hiding nearby and messing with Yang Ting and Dong Laxi, but his stupid and beating heart hopes that his son will enter the first class.
Who did this damn thing? He rolled up his sleeves and prepared to start a movie with Li Dongyang, so that Prime Minister Li could see Prime Minister Jiao's bastard boxing skills.
The emperor ordered it himself! Prime Minister Li smiled coldly. A gentleman talks but doesn't do anything. Lao Jiao, go away and cool off.
Prime Minister Jiao was immediately discouraged. He dared to beat Li Dongyang, but he did not dare to confront the emperor. But old gangsters are old gangsters. If they can't bully the emperor, then they will bully these young men who are new to officialdom.
So the miracle of the three years of Zhengde happened. No matter what faction they were, as long as they were new members of the Wuchen Branch, they were all reduced to disgrace by Prime Minister Jiao, including Yang Shen, who made them fully understand what Jianglin means.
Still the same old Jiao….
However, talents are always talents and can shine wherever they are placed. Prime Minister Jiao's suppression only makes them mature faster.
Zhai Peng's opportunity came soon.
In early April of the third year of Zhengde, there was a disaster in Huguangda, and the land was filled with refugees.
There were frequent famines, so Boss Liu asked his fellow countryman Han Fu to provide food and salary in the name of disaster relief. Han Fu scraped the land very hard. Wherever he went, the sky was three feet low and all the people saw bones.
But Boss Liu doesn't care about the business thousands of miles away. He is only responsible for collecting money.
At this time, Donghai Company's second auction conference was being prepared. Zhu Shou was busy scheming with the smuggling groups along the coast all day long, and had no time to worry about Boss Liu's plan to make money.
So Liu Lao worked harder and harder and promoted Han Fu to the position of deputy censor of the capital, supervising the Fu Fu in Huguang, in order to appease the people.
A censor named Wang Shizhong couldn't stand it, so he filed a petition to impeach the two good friends, but he didn't expect that the accusation would fall into the hands of Boss Liu.
Wang Shizhong and Mr. Liu have always had a grudge, and now both public and private matters can be repaid. Mr. Liu naturally shows no mercy and arrests Wang Shizhong on a random charge.
Killing people can only be done with a nod, but Boss Liu doesn't think so. He feels that his influence has become less and less recently, so he put heavy shackles on Wang Shizhong and asked him to stand in front of the Sanfa Division to blow off the wind.
Three days later, when Wang Shizhong was about to be played to death by Boss Liu, Prime Minister Li came forward: Old Liu, in this way, you can make money in Huguang. I guarantee that no one will talk too much. That bastard Wang Shizhong, just treat it like a fart.
Let him go, okay?
Boss Liu was still willing to sell Prime Minister Li's face. Anyway, he was done playing with it, so he let Wang Shizhong go.
Mr. Liu was extremely wicked in wanting to make money during a natural disaster. The victims in Huguang were forced to survive by Han Fu and had to flee to neighboring Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan and other places.
Tens of thousands of these victims fled to the Daba Mountains at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei.
It stands to reason that those waiting for these disaster victims will either starve to death alone or freeze to death alone. Anyway, too many people have died like this in all dynasties, no less than tens of thousands of them.
But history always has surprises of one kind or another.
A Sichuan native named Lan Tingrui was born!
Two people who had absolutely no intersection in official history, Zhai Peng and Lan Tingrui, became a pair of good friends in life and death because of Zhu Shou's time travel.