"You guys should follow along and do this set of papers, and we will do the same."
In the main hall, Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to distribute the test papers to the princes, grandsons and great-grandchildren.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very relieved about the questions Li Xiao asked.
According to Li Xiao's thinking, if you want to be a good official, you must know something about everything.
The Master distributed the test papers to the hands of the princes and grandsons.
Zhu Gaoxu looked confused, pointed at himself, and said, "Grandfather, why do I have to do the questions too?"
Early this morning, Zhu Gaoxu was sent to the palace by Zhu Yuanzhang. He thought he had some good things waiting for him, but it turned out that he was here to answer questions? ? ? ?
There are a bunch of little carrots in this main hall, and a big boss like me is doing the questions with them?
"What?" Zhu Yuanzhang said dissatisfied: "Aren't you our grandson?"
Zhu Gaoxu pointed to his son Zhu Zhanhe who was sitting next to him, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Isn't it not good for me, a big old man, to sit and do questions with my son?"
Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened: "Do you have any objection??"
Zhu Gaoxu was frightened: "I don't dare."
"He is upright and does not obey orders. If he is not upright, he disobeys orders. Gao Xu, you are now in charge of three thousand battalions in the army and know nothing. How can you command the army?"
Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes at Zhu Gaoxu, took a paper, sat down, and said, "Let's do the questions with you. Can you be older than me?"
How could Zhu Gaoxu dare to be so stubborn? He could only admit defeat.
If I had known I was here for a test, I would have pretended to be sick no matter what I said.
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he looked at all the princes and grandsons and said:
"Hmph, don't think that the results of this exam have nothing to do with you. The National Master once said that those who can do anything will be given priority and those who are capable will be ranked first. Those who rank at the top in this exam will be selected for enfeoffment in the future. Those who are admitted into the top two thousand , we still have rewards!”
When I heard this, it didn't sound like a joke.
Although the Supreme Emperor did not care about government affairs, Zhu Di still did not dare not listen to Zhu Yuanzhang's words.
In this way, no one dares to neglect it.
They all took the time to read the questions and answer them.
Zhu Gaoxu also became serious, picked up the pen, and looked down at the test paper.
Hey, if you get a top score in the exam, wouldn't you be able to ask for your fief to be changed?
Whoever wants to go to the poor land of Yunnan can go there.
Just because I hang out with my brother-in-law every day, can I solve this question?
It really can’t be done.
The first question stumped Zhu Gaoxu.
Then, I can’t do the second question, and I can’t do the third question either.
Zhu Gaoxu was about to say, this question is too difficult!
But I heard Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised and said: "What kind of question did Li Xiao ask? Why is it so simple? Isn't this a question for a three-year-old child?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu immediately shut up.
For Zhu Yuanzhang, this question was simply too simple.
Where is Wu Zetian buried in Qianling, Shaanxi? Is this a title? It's not difficult at all, it's just common sense.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the name of the test paper, he thought it was "Common Sense".
Oh, that's okay.
There aren't any fools who can't do it, right?
Don't tell me, it really does exist
Obviously many princes don't know how to do it.
For example, Zhu Gaoxu was looking around. He stared at his son and whispered: "Zhan He, pull the test paper over a little and give it to dad to copy."
Zhu Zhanhe said naively: "Dad, you are cheating. Diligence leads to a mountain of books, and there is no end to the sea of learning. You should study hard instead of thinking about taking the wrong path."
Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect that his son would educate him in turn. It seemed that he still didn't play enough on weekdays, so he scolded him angrily: "Fuck you, I will get a higher score in the exam. I will allocate a good fiefdom by then. I will wait for you." Now that I have been buried, who will inherit your father’s throne?”
Zhu Zhanhe thought for a while, he seemed to be the heir apparent. When his father went to the Western Heaven, he would be the King of Han. If his father divided the fiefdom, wouldn't he be the one to enjoy the blessings?
So he smiled and said, "Dad, what you said makes sense."
After saying that, he pulled the test paper aside. Zhu Gaoxu had a good eye and could see it at a glance, but found that the test paper was blank.
Zhu Gaoxu: "Zhan He, why don't you do it?"
Zhu Zhanhe: "Dad, I can't do it either."
Zhu Gaoxu was furious and scolded him with Li Xiao's curse words: "You idiot, you don't know how to teach me. I'll see if I don't beat your ass until you get back in the evening."
Zhu Zhanhe smiled mysteriously: "Dad, don't worry, the kid has his own way."
After saying that, Zhu Zhanhe turned his head, looked at Li Wuyou on his right, and said, "Sister Wuyou, I want to..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Wuyou glanced at him, and then covered the test paper with his elbow.
Seeing this, Zhu Zhanhe's heart ached.
Zhu Gaoxu's heart ached even more.
Why did you give birth to a stupid son?
Unfortunately, he could only rely on himself.
Zhu Gaoxu found that there were questions related to the art of war in the general knowledge, so he filled in all the questions about the art of war and filled in the rest blindly.
A quarter of an hour later, Li Wuyou stood up and handed in his papers, attracting a lot of attention.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded happily. She was indeed Li Xiao's daughter. She was indeed a woman and a woman.
Then Zhu Zhanji also stood up with a smile: "Grandfather, I'm done."
After speaking, he took the paper and handed it in.
After Zhu Yuanzhang saw it, he nodded with satisfaction. This great-grandson is not bad, Zhu Zhanji. Gao Chi's son, no wonder he is smart.
Then, he looked at Zhu Gaoxu. Sure enough, the idiot was sweating. His son was not much better either.
Half an hour later, the test paper was handed in, and Zhu Gaoxu filled it in completely.
Zhu Yuanzhang specifically looked at the answers to Zhu Gaoxu's test paper, and then he became numb.
Question 1: Where is the first female emperor buried?
Answer: Buried in the soil.
Question 2: Who is the founder of Chinese humanities?
Answer: The first ancestor of humanities.
Question 3: The miracle doctor Hua Tuo studied a kind of exercise to strengthen the body. What is it?
Answer: Baguaquan.
Question 4: What are the five lakes and four seas that are often said to be divided into?
Answer: East Lake, West Lake, South Lake, North Lake, and Middle Lake. East China Sea, West China Sea, North Sea, South China Sea.
Question 5: Where is the origin of the Yellow River?
Answer: At the source of the Yellow River.
Zhu Yuanzhang held his forehead and sweated
The only good thing is that the common sense about the art of war is very thorough.
Subsequently,
After the general knowledge test, there are arithmetic, Confucianism, and policy theory.
Zhu Gaoxu knew nothing about the first two doors.
It’s the policy discussion’s turn. The topic of the policy discussion is:
[Being an official is based on the people. If you are the chief of a village, the village is very dilapidated and poor; the villagers are ignorant and ignorant. Faced with such a situation, how should you lead the villagers to get out of the current predicament and live a life of ample food and clothing? Please write an article on this topic. 】
When Zhu Gaoxu, the policy critic, saw the question, he knew it!
He was watching how his brother-in-law led Peiping to the road of prosperity step by step.
"Why did my brother-in-law say that we should revitalize the countryside?"
When Zhu Gaoxu recalled it, his face lit up and he began to write furiously.
Fortunately, there is no requirement to use classical Chinese, so I can write!
An hour later.
Submit the test paper.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Gaoxu's answer and was surprised.
He thought to himself: "This Gao Xu is very knowledgeable about rural governance. The barbarians in Yunnan are just ignorant. Wouldn't it be a good idea to let him go to Yunnan to govern in the future? It seems that the fourth child is quite good at employing people. This Gao Xu, The fiefdom is arranged in Yunnan!"
After two days of intense exams.
The entire national examination ended successfully.
The candidates were walking out of the examination room one after another. You could see that most of them were frowning and complaining constantly.
"It's too difficult. Who produced this set of papers?"
"I heard that the Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty personally came up with the question."
"The final strategy is simply too difficult. How can I write it out?"
"This national master simply doesn't play by the rules!"
"Shh, keep your voice down, the Imperial Master is now a saint, you must not disrespect the saint."
"Oh, but it's still difficult. The only thing that's easier to do is Confucianism. This time, Confucianism is particularly simple."
"Yes, the eight-legged essay has been cancelled. Confucianism has been relaxed too much. This time the topic is about writing poems to express one's aspirations. It seems that the poetry world is about to rise."
"Yes, we still have an advantage. This time the question is difficult, but it is also difficult for others."
"That's true. Scholars are selected based on ranking, but this time there are 100,000 candidates, so the chances of selecting 2,000 are not high."
This examination room is specially designed for scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and all candidates are scholars.
As for students who graduated from Beiping High School, they now need to attend Beiqing University before they can take the national examination.
However, because there are so many candidates this time, the chances of admission are very low.
Everyone had no choice but to return to the inn and wait for news.
Among the crowd, a young man walked out of the examination room. Nan Nan said to herself: "It's too easy, it's too easy."
However, he looked around and did not dare to say it was too severe for fear of being hit.
This young man is none other than Yu Qian.
In the following time, officials from the Ministry of Rites began to correct the test papers.
The test paper had names covered as usual.
The correction speed is also very fast.
Because most questions have standard answers.
"This poem is so good. Thousands of hammers have carved out the deep mountains, and the fire burns them as if it were nothing. Don't be afraid of your bones being broken into pieces, you want to leave your innocence in the world."
In the marking room, an official from the Ministry of Etiquette suddenly stood up and praised the poem.
"What a poem! I never thought that as soon as the eight-legged essay was cancelled, such poetic talent would appear!"
"Can this poem be given full marks?"
"Full marks, must be full marks!"
The marking teachers spoke one after another.
Soon, good poems appeared one after another
Officials secretly thought that if they did not take the eight-part essay test, many talents would indeed begin to rise to the top.
These people who can write good poems are often knowledgeable and talented, and even do very well in other subjects.
On the other hand, those who get high scores in Confucianism are not good at other subjects. At first glance, they are the type of candidates who memorize by rote.
It seems that it is not unreasonable for the National Master to cancel the imperial examination.
From these, we can see what each candidate is good at. For example, those who are good at governance are more suitable to be district heads, and those who are good at arithmetic are suitable to work in the Ministry of Household Affairs or the Ministry of Industry, or as clerks in the county government.
The test papers were marked very quickly.
However, because there were more than 100,000 test papers, the officials of the Ministry of Rites worked overtime and corrected them for five days and five nights before they were finished.
A week passed and the imperial examination results were released.
The release of the rankings is also different from the previous release of the rankings.
Because of the large number of people, the list was released directly through newspapers.
Candidates can spend two cents to buy a newspaper to see if they have been admitted. Everything is open and transparent, and everyone can see the scores of each subject.
"I'm on the list, I'm on the list!!"
In a restaurant, a scholar was reading the newspaper and found out that he was on the list. He stood up and shouted in ecstasy.
"Keep your voice down, please come in."
Another classmate cursed, feeling envious and jealous in his heart, but soon he found his name on the list and shouted with joy: "Hahaha, I'm on the list too!! Fifty-five points in common sense , 10 points in arithmetic, 80 points in Confucianism, 35 points in policy theory, total score, 180 points! Just in the 2000th place, hahahahahaha."
Very loud sound.
A group of people cursed angrily: "Fan come in, you! Two thousand people, you are just a dormitory member, you are so excited!"
The man apologized quickly: "I'm sorry, I'm a little excited."
Although the chances of admission are small, the number of people is here, two thousand people were admitted, and the joyful sounds of students can be heard everywhere in the city today.
However, wherever there is joy, there is also sorrow, and weeping everywhere.
In the Hall of Nourishing Heart.
Zhu Yuanzhang is also looking at the rankings of this national examination.
After all, this is the first national examination in Ming Dynasty, so we have to pay attention to it.
"The first place is actually a fifteen-year-old boy? But the total score is 400 points, and he only scored 350 points?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at another list.
This is the list of the last royal internal examination. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his score. He scored 399 out of 400 points.
"Sure enough, there are drawbacks to this eight-part examination. The question is too simple. The top candidate only scored 350 points?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.
Li Xiao said with a smile: "Grandfather, in the past, when recruiting scholars, they only read the Four Books and Five Classics. Not to mention these common sense, I am afraid that many people are even indifferent to the four bodies and five grains."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "You're right, well done. After this test, I found that they are all mediocre people who only understand Confucianism. They are indeed not good officials. The officials of the Ming Dynasty should also learn some skills and serve the people well!" "
Everyone nodded in approval.
As he said that, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the score of the last person again and cursed: "The last person only scored 180 points. Is this a pig's brain?"
After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu shrank his neck and flattered him: "Grandfather, you are really smart. At such a young age, you compete with these scholars on the same stage, and your scores are far higher."
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the test scores, then looked at Zhu Gaoxu, and said in surprise: "Gaoxu, we underestimated you. You actually scored 240 points. If you were ranked among the scores of the national examination, you would have already advanced." That’s it.”
Zhu Gaoxu's eyes lit up: "What? Grandfather, I got such a high score in the exam?"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and read: "Fifty points for common sense, thirty points for arithmetic, sixty points for Confucianism, full points for policy theory, and a total score of two hundred and forty points!"
Zhu Gaoxu was overjoyed and said: "Grandfather, my grandson actually got such a high score in the exam?"
Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, and Li Xiao were also surprised, thinking that they would not cheat.
"Did you cheat?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Gaoxu and said.
"This is absolutely not the case! It was all done by the grandson himself."
Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly defended.
"Hey, kid, you got 60% in the Confucian exam. This is impossible." Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply disbelieving and waved his hand hurriedly: "Come here, bring Zhu Gaoxu's test paper."
Not long after, Zhu Yuanzhang got Zhu Gaoxu's Confucianism test paper and then took a look at it.
Good guy, it turned out that he wrote a poem about his ambitions that was perfect for entering the officialdom.
"Stand firmly on the green hills and never let go; your roots will always be in the broken rocks.
It has endured thousands of blows but is still strong, regardless of the winds from east to west, north and south. "
Zhu Yuanzhang took a breath and praised him profusely: "What a poem, what a poem! Gao Xu, you actually have such a poetic talent. It's because the emperor looked down on you!"
Zhu Di: "???"
Zhu Gaochi: "???"
Zhu Gaosui: "????"
Li Xiao: "????"
The whole family was deceived. Wasn't this poem hanging in Zhu Di's study? Unexpectedly, it was used by Zhu Gaoxu. No wonder he got such a high score in the exam.
Zhu Gaoxutian was shameless and said with a smile: "Grandfather, did you still say what you said at that time? You see, my grandson got into the top 100 and gained face for the royal family, right?"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said with a smile: "It's true that you are fighting for face. Thanks to those scholars who have been studying for a lifetime, they still can't pass you as a martial artist. Haha, what reward do you want?"
Zhu Gaoxu: "Hey, my grandson wants to change his fiefdom."
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "I keep my word, but your matter has been decided and it is not easy to handle. We are the Supreme Emperor now. You have to ask the current Holy Emperor. He has the final say."
Zhu Gaoxu cursed in his heart, "Grandfather, you are a big trap, and your words really don't mean anything. It's useless to ask my father, why should I ask you for anything?"
However, Zhu Gaoxu still smiled flatteringly and looked at Zhu Di: "Old man?"
Zhu Di: "Get out!"
Zhu Gaoxu: "Okay!"
(End of chapter)
