Lying on my little recliner, eating snacks and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes bought from outside. I couldn’t forget them after eating them yesterday. It’s a good snack.
The next step is to eat melon quietly. To say that this is the first time to open a subject to recruit scholars in the Hongwu Year, they attach great importance to it from top to bottom. A territory as big as Lao Zhu needs people to manage, and a batch of fresh blood is urgently needed.
But accidents happen.
In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, students from the north and south gathered in the capital. The arrival of Enke for the first time made Nanjing extremely lively. There were more than 400 students from the north and the south, and they began the imperial examination. The chief examiner was Taishi Ling Song Lian, and the top 36 students were selected as Jinshi to enter the Imperial Academy directly. In the courtyard, the top three are the number one, third and second place, and are directly selected by the Ministry of Personnel to serve in local supplementary prefectures and counties.
The first time Enke released the results, Liu Bowen, who was sick at home, heard the news and came to the imperial list accompanied by his son Liu Lian. Unlike other onlookers who cared about the people on the list, Liu Bowen discovered a serious problem, one that could make a river of blood flow. political events.
So Liu Bowen hurriedly found Song Lian, the chief examiner of Enke's examination, and asked if there was anything fishy in the list of candidates. After confirming that candidates were selected fairly and that talents were used for work, Liu Bowen did not feel a trace of joy. Instead, he asked Song Lian worriedly: "Song Gong , why are the people on the list this time all from the south, but not a single student from the north is on the list?"
The question frightened Song Lian for a long time before he slowly answered: "In order to maintain fairness, the candidates' academic status, names, etc. were covered up in the admissions process. The full-screen essay was used to win. It was impossible to know whether the admitted candidates were from the south or the north, let alone Most of them are from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.
But Liu Bowen asked again: "It is true to select students based on ability, but in the end, all southerners are on the list. Once these northern students make trouble, the emperor will ask, do we only have half of the Ming Dynasty? How should Song Gonggai answer?" After saying that, Liu Bowen asked Song Lian to go to the queen for help, and he hurried back to the Liu Mansion to thank the guests behind closed doors to avoid any trouble. At the same time, he was thinking deeply about how to deal with such a situation.
Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to the first Enke in the Ming Dynasty. He appointed Prime Minister Li Shanchang as the director of the Enke and the bachelor Song Lian as the chief examiner. He fully expected that through this Enke, he would win over students from all over the world to serve the Ming Dynasty. But if there were only half the world's Enke , Zhu Yuanzhang can do anything when he is angry.
As expected, Song Lian was still complaining about his experiences and worries to the empress, and hoped that the empress could help him avoid this disaster. Over there, he heard students breaking into the palace to cause trouble, and Zhu Yuanzhang called a meeting of officials above the third rank.
After hearing the news, Song Lian hurriedly left the queen's place and saw that all the civil and military officials from the court had gathered under the main hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious again in the court, asking Li Shanchang and Song Lian whether they had engaged in malpractice for personal gain, and why there were no students north of the Huaihe River. Is it true that the Ming Dynasty only had half of the world? Although Li Shanchang and Song Lian strongly denied that they had committed fraud, Zhu Yuanzhang was already furious at this time and did not believe the words of the two examiners at all. He immediately ordered the guards to gather Song Lian and all the examiners to the Imperial Academy to wait for disposal. At the same time, he ordered the guards to send Prime Minister Li Shanchang away as well. Go home and monitor.
In order to appease the candidates and avoid rumors, and to find out whether Enke had cheated this time, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to cover up the names, place of origin and age of all candidates, and ordered the officials on the spot to re-review the examination papers of all candidates. He recommended test papers that he thought were excellent to determine whether Song Lian and Li Shanchang had bent the law for personal gain and done anything that undermined Enke's dignity.
Fortunately, after a day of hard work without eating or drinking, the ministers finally selected the answer sheets they approved and submitted them to the emperor. After comparison, they found that the papers selected by the ministers were no different from those selected by Song Lian and Li Shanchang. , only then did the doubts about the two of them disappear. But why didn’t any Huaibei students make the list?
At this time, how to explain to the northern scholars and how to explain to the people of the world has become a big problem for him. If he handles it carelessly, he will lose the hearts of the northern people. How can he win back the hearts of the northern scholars and handle this matter happily? The next incident.
That night, Zhu Yuanzhang entered Queen Ma's room. Queen Ma had always been smart and virtuous. The Queen hesitated and said: She suggested setting up a special Enke North Field and wrote down the reasons for Zhu Yuanzhang. It was because the north was initially set and many students had not had time to prepare. During the Enke examination, some students were unable to catch up in time due to the rugged mountain roads in the north and the distance from Nanjing. At the request of the northern scholars, the northern examination room was exempted as an encouragement.
After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang said that this plan was very clever. He would take the initiative to benefit the northern scholars, solve the current dissatisfaction of northern students in Nanjing, win the hearts of the northern scholars, recruit talents for the country, and stabilize the northern territory. It can be said that it kills three birds with one stone.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately agreed. The northern students would select thirty-six Jinshis and compete with the thirty-six Jinshis from the South to select the top three. Therefore, the climax of the examination fraud case in the early years of Hongwu was solved in the form of killing three birds with one stone. It's over, it's wonderful.
In fact, it is very possible that students from the north are not on the list of the thirty-six Jinshi. First of all, the proportion of candidates is different. Less than 100 students from the north arrived in Nanjing, and they traveled a long distance, while students from the south took the exam at home. After years of war in the north, the remnant Yuan forces were still entrenched in the north in the early years of Hongwu. The instability of society resulted in scholars having few opportunities to learn.
The south has always been in the category of separatist forces. Various warlords have been recruiting talents all year round, focusing on cultivating talents and recuperating with the people, especially in Anhui, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu. Zhu Yuanzhang's nine-character policy: Build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and slowly become king. , so that these places can be in a state of peace all year round, people can live and work in peace and contentment, and a good living environment will produce a large number of outstanding scholars.
The nine-character policy was proposed by Zhu Sheng, a native of the late Yuan Dynasty, and was the theoretical foundation of Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the north, the imperial examination has been abolished for many years, people's livelihood is in decline, and life is a problem, let alone study. The north has been influenced and squeezed by the cultural forces of the Yuan Dynasty for a long time, and it has a fundamental difference with the southern culture. The examiners are all southerners, which is very important. Reasons that easily lead to northern students failing in the south.
Although this matter has been overshadowed by the hot topic of cowpox caused by Zheng Xiong, there is always a market for current political news at the feet of the emperor, and there are still many people who want to take advantage of it.
There was still money for the two errands on Friday and Saturday, and they had nothing to arrange, so I asked them to go and find out gossip for me to have some fun.
The battle between the North and the South is just the beginning. At this stage, it has ended with the selection of thirty-six Jinshi by northern students.
Then came the palace examination. Originally, it was just to select thirty-six Jinshi and one hundred and two Gongsheng students, and the final thirty-six Jinshi would be determined by a ranking.
Zheng Xiong quietly acted like a melon-eater, just eating melons, but Lao Zhu made an inexplicable decree and turned Zheng Xiong into that melon.
After the addition of thirty-six Jinshi, another variable was added: Zheng Xiong.
"The emperor is destined to carry the emperor, and the edict says: Xuanhuimin Pharmacy will appoint Zheng Xiong to serve on the palace examination on the first day of March."
