Topic 1: Discussing the Miao rebellion in the southwest and the civil uprising in the southeast, as well as strategies to appease the people and revive the Ming Dynasty.
Topic 2 discusses the border strategies of the Xuande and Zhengtong dynasties, as well as the strategies to pacify the foreign countries and Weijia.
Topic 3 discusses the tribute trade between the Ming Dynasty and its vassal states, as well as strategies to strengthen the country, enrich the people, and enrich the finances.
There are three policy questions, and candidates have several days to answer them slowly.
Zhu Qiyu also emphasized that candidates can answer questions to their heart's content without worrying about being convicted for their words.
Juren who had participated in the Shuntian Prefecture Provincial Examination were fine. After all, the ridiculous Dang Tianzi had already given a policy essay question in the last Provincial Examination.
But people in other provinces were a little dumbfounded. There was no way to answer this kind of question. If we want to discuss the Xuande Dynasty's border strategy, should we praise or criticize it?
If you praise me, you are talking nonsense with your eyes wide open. Do you think the emperor himself came up with the policy topic just to listen to your nonsense?
If he criticizes, he is Emperor Xuanzong. Is there really no problem in openly criticizing?
So Huang Pu and He Yi patrolled back and forth in the examination room. They were dumbfounded as they walked around. They found that on the first day of the policy examination, almost no candidates wrote, and they were all thinking hard there.
This exam is about whether everyone can be a high school Jinshi, and no one dares to take the policy discussion topic lightly.
In the past exams, strategies were used to adapt to the situation. Whether you can win or not depends mainly on how well you write the eight-legged essay.
But as the candidates were preparing for the exam in the capital, they all heard that today’s world is unique and different.
Therefore, it is better for everyone to be careful when trying out Jingtai Chao for the first time.
However, Huang Pu and He Yi also discovered that there were special people among the candidates. For example, Wang Yue came first in the Shuntianfu Provincial Examination.
After passing the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination, Wang Yue guessed that the emperor would personally make suggestions and discuss topics during the examination. And after all, that’s just the content.
Therefore, Wang Yue had already thought deeply about it and even made a draft. After getting the topic, others were thinking hard, but Wang Yue had a plan in mind, and he felt like he had divine help when he started writing.
After the exam on the first day, Wang Yue just finished writing and handed in the paper and left.
Gao Yao was also involved with Wang Yue.
However, Gao Yao did not deliberately guess the questions before the exam. Instead, he loved to pay attention to current affairs and was quite good at discussing things. Now that I have received these three policy topics, it can be said that I express my feelings directly, and I can write them at my fingertips and talk endlessly.
The most important thing is that Gao Yao is not too optimistic about personal honor, fame and fortune. In his answers, he has a heroic spirit of breaking the cauldron and going forward indomitably.
Huang Pu was also a little surprised to see Gao Yao handing in his paper early. Huang Pu had long paid attention to Gao Yao, because Gao Yao was obviously different from others. Not only did he answer questions very quickly, but he also gritted his teeth and acted impassionedly while answering.
After Gao Yao handed over the scroll and left, Huang Pu asked He Yi: "Xingyi, who is this young man?"
He Yi smiled and said: "His name is Gao Yao, a native of Min County, Fujian. He is twenty-three years old this year and ranked 17th in the Fujian Provincial Examination last year."
Huang Pu glanced at He Yi in surprise, smiled bitterly and teased: "Xingyi, are you too involved in the drama? You really think you are Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao who have no plans left.
Why do you know everything? Are you so smart that you are almost a demon? "
He Yi spread his hands helplessly: "I have known him for a long time. Do I have to lie to you and say that I have never met him? Do you believe it or not that I can guess almost everything written on his answer sheet?"
"real or fake?"
Seeing that Huang Pu still didn't believe himself, He Yi smiled and explained: "Gao Yao is from Min County, Fuzhou Prefecture, and I am from Fuqing County, Fuzhou Prefecture. Min County is close to Fuqing County.
Our families are less than thirty miles apart, we are close in age, and we are both young talents from Fuzhou Prefecture. We studied in the same prefecture, so we are very familiar with each other. "
When Huang Pu heard this, he suddenly realized: "So that's the case, no wonder. But you won't help him when reading the paper, right?"
He Yi smiled helplessly and said: "If we select scholars based on eight-legged essay, Gao Yao may not be able to win. But our Holy Master determines who is better based on strategy and does not need anyone's help. Gao Yao can pass the exam with his eyes closed."
Huang Pu nodded: "You praise him so much, I'm even more curious."
He Yi smiled and said, "It's still a long time for everyone to be officials in the same court. Let's take your time."
…
February 26th, the weather was fine.
While the examination was successfully held, Zhu Qiyu stayed at home doing nothing.
The important ministers in the court each had their own affairs, and even the people in Zhongshushe around them had all left, either to greet the Supreme Emperor or to work as examiners for the examination.
There is no way to deal with this military and political affairs. If His Majesty the Emperor is asked to read the memorials and military reports by himself, Zhu Qiyu will not do it if he is killed.
Fortunately, there were ministers on duty in the cabinet, most of the ministers and supervisors were there, and there were no major events in the court, so Zhu Qiyu simply gave himself a holiday and concentrated on serving his beloved concubines at home.
When he first became emperor, Zhu Qiyu still dreamed of having three palaces and six courtyards, three thousand beauties, and then having nearly a hundred children like those magical princes of the Jin Dynasty.
Now Zhu Qiyu doesn't think so at all. Fifteen favored concubines are already difficult to deal with, so why bother with three thousand beauties. This first wave of childbirth alone almost killed me. If hundreds of them were born, life would be completely unbearable.
So Zhu Qiyu also thought about it. It would be enough for each beloved concubine to have one or two sons, and there would be no need to have endless births.
As the day of delivery approaches, the beloved concubines become more and more clingy and almost never allow Zhu Qiyu to leave their sight.
Lin Xiangyu has been pregnant for more than nine months and may give birth at any time in another ten days.
Early that morning, Zhu Qiyu was beating Lin Xiangyu's legs while chatting with his beloved concubines.
Suddenly Qianxue walked in, smiled at Zhu Qiyu and said, "Husband, Li Jin has returned from North Korea, do you want to see him?"
Zhu Qiyu was overjoyed when he heard this: "It's just the right time to come back. We didn't have any maids to take care of us before, so it doesn't matter. After two or three months, we'll have a bunch of children, and we won't have any maids or eunuchs to help take care of them. We will be driven crazy." .
How many people did he buy in total? "
Qianxue replied: "Those who are over ten years old and can serve immediately include one hundred eunuchs, one hundred maids, and three hundred servants.
For those under eight years old, there are 200 eunuchs, 500 maids, and 300 servants.
There were fifteen hundred people in total. "
Zhu Qiyu was speechless after hearing this: "Why are there so many little eunuchs? I remember that Xuanzong only asked for more than a hundred eunuchs from North Korea, and the King of North Korea was forced to complain. Why did North Korea give 300 people so happily this time? "
Qianxue smiled and said: "My husband is stupid, how can it be the same? Xuanzong went to rob alive, but our family, a bunch of real people, gave money to everyone."
Just these fifteen hundred people spent a full thirty thousand taels of gold. Each of them will be rewarded with ten taels of gold for himself and ten taels of gold for his family. At the same time, the king of Korea was also rewarded with five thousand taels of gold.
Many of them were orphans, so there was no need to reward their families, so a total of thirty thousand taels of gold was spent.
At the same time, all their life experience information and official archives have been destroyed. As a result, even if the ministers of the DPRK are really idle and travel thousands of miles to bribe their families, it will be difficult to find the rightful owner.
The North Korean king accepted the gold, smiled from ear to ear, and ordered his officials to cooperate as much as possible. That’s why our talent purchase went so smoothly this time. "
(End of chapter)
