The general rain situation in the local area is often not reported to the court.
This is also understandable. In those days, there were only two-legged people and four-legged horses to deliver documents. It was not easy for everyone to send documents all over the world. Who would write something like "One day, it rained heavily" on it.
This is an official document from the imperial court, not your diary. You can express your good mood by writing: "The strong wind blows to drive away the heat, and the heavy rain brings the cool night." Unless you are in a disaster due to heavy rain and need help, you can write a sentence: "The wind drives the rain and pours on the high city, and the clouds suppress the light thunder."
It is a basic rule that official documents should not be mixed with irrelevant emotions.
Yu Xin wiped the sweat from his face and observed Zhu Yunwen's expression.
Zhu Yunwen looked at Zheng Ci, Minister of Industry, and asked: "Can the Huaihe River, Yellow River and other waterways withstand heavy rains?"
Zheng Ci smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it should be fine."
Zhu Yunwen frowned and asked, "So confident?"
Zheng Ci nodded slightly and said, "It's all thanks to Taizu."
Zhu Yunwen was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that he was too worried and forgot that Zhu Yuanzhang had already laid a good foundation for him.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang killed many officials, he was really good to the people and understood the importance of water conservancy projects. He personally inspected waterways several times.
For example, Yangzhou, the land of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, has been a prosperous place since ancient times. The ancients said: If you have a waist of one hundred thousand gold, you can ride a crane to Yangzhou.
But in the troubled times of the late Yuan Dynasty, how many people were there?
Well, eighteen households.
You heard it right, in Yangzhou city with a population of 1.47 million, there are only 18 households left (the place where these people live is later called Shibajia Alley, which still exists today). It is estimated that there are not more than 18 households left. One hundred people.
Where have the others gone?
was eaten.
"Records of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty" records: "Since Mingjian and others occupied the city, it was more beneficial to be violent and slaughter the residents in the city for food."
Zhang Mingjian, the general of the Yuan army, almost completely wiped out the city of Yangzhou.
In fact, the tragedy is not limited to Yangzhou.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the whole of Shandong, Henan, and Hebei was almost deserted. If you traveled hundreds of miles and met a living person, then your luck would be determined in future generations, and you would definitely win hundreds of millions in lottery tickets.
In some cities, only a few people are left.
At that time, the land of North China was devastated and heartbreaking.
Zhu Yuanzhang lamented: "Among the Central Plains states, the Yuan Dynasty War suffered the most, with piles of corpses and few residents."
The founding of the Ming Dynasty started on this basis, beyond everyone's imagination, right?
Many people will ask, how come the population of the Central Plains is so large? Has it become prosperous in thirty years? You can’t give birth so quickly…
Zhu Yuanzhang’s countermeasures are:
Immigrate, develop agriculture, build water conservancy!
To put it bluntly, if you are in North China, then you or your relatives or friends, their ancestors are most likely from Shanxi (in the case of Jingxue, Jingxue is from Shandong, in the genealogy Their ancestors were from Shanxi), and they came to the Central Plains in the early Ming Dynasty.
In the early Ming Dynasty, millions of people immigrated from Shanxi to the Central Plains. It started from Hongwu, passed through Jianwen, and ended in Yongle. It lasted for fifty years, covering several provinces in the Central Plains and East China, and affecting most of China.
When people have it, they cultivate the land.
Once we have land, we need to build water conservancy.
Zhu Yuanzhang was an infrastructure maniac, and he left no room for construction of water conservancy projects.
From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the 28th year of Hongwu, hundreds of thousands of laborers were mobilized to dredge more than 5,000 rivers, renovate more than 40,000 ponds and weirs, and build more than 5,000 dams across the country.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang's immigration policy caused great emotional trauma to the Shanxi people at that time, from the perspective of Chinese civilization, the migration of Shanxi people was meritorious.
It was precisely because of Zhu Yuanzhang’s emigration that
Thanks to the people's policies, agricultural development and water conservancy projects, the land of the Central Plains was able to have a human atmosphere in just thirty years.
The "Yongle prosperous age" in history is not only due to Zhu Di, the foundation laid by his father cannot be ignored or buried.
Zhu Yunwen understood, and his originally worried and gloomy expression gradually softened, and he said to Zheng Ci: "The contribution of Taizu lies in the country and the people. However, the land of the Yangtze, Huaihei and Yellow Rivers is an important land. Once a flood occurs, it will cause widespread disaster." All localities are ordered to strengthen inspections of dams, rivers, and ponds, and to be vigilant about rain and water conditions, and not to slack off."
Zheng Ci agreed, but he didn't think so.
In the past ten years, there have been problems with the Yellow River only in the 24th year of Hongwu. In these years, it has been relatively peaceful.
Zhu Yunwen looked at Qitai, the Minister of Household Affairs, and said: "Urge the local government to speed up the transportation of grain to the capital. In addition, let the agricultural and water bureaus in various places report the situation of grain storage. If there is insufficient land to fight the disaster, report it to the chief envoys of various places. Its priority is coordination.”
Qi Tai said solemnly: "I obey the order."
Zhu Yunwen was still a little worried, and said to Zhang Xianzong: "I hope you can go to Huai'an, Suqian, Xuzhou, Kaifeng and other places to explore the Yellow River and surrounding waterways. If repairs are needed, contact the local government to recruit people and deal with them as soon as possible. , once it is consumed, it can be reported to the Chief Envoy and the imperial court."
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Zhang Xianzong accepted the order and said: "I obey the order."
Zhu Yunwen stood up and walked towards Zhang Xianzong and said: "It's going to be hard this time. The summer floods will definitely come. I entrust this matter to you. Don't let me down."
Zhang Xianzong shook his head slightly and saluted: "I will do my best to share the emperor's worries. I will leave the capital early tomorrow morning and go to Huai'an."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhang Xianzong with joy and said, "When you come back, I will give you a celebration banquet."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."
Zhang Xianzong smiled and saluted, and exited Wuying Hall with others.
Zhu Yunwen walked out of Wuying Hall and looked at the night sky, feeling heavy in his heart, as if something was about to happen.
After two days of screening, Yang Shiqi and Yao Guangxiao selected 20 papers from the rejected papers and put them together with the previous 300 papers, for a total of 320 papers.
After completing the three test paper reviews, it is time to rank the test papers and fill in the draft list.
In many people's minds, since it is a ranking, it should start from the first place.
But the reality is not like this.
Before ranking, the examiner first ranks all the test papers by font size, and then fills in the ranking list. The list starts from the 18th place, and will be adjusted to the 19th place in the mid-term.
The draft list is made in triplicate, one copy for the examiner, one copy each for the promotion officer and the supervisor.
The examiner checked the ink scroll and the ink scroll according to the rankings on the draft list. After checking the three examination papers and finding that there were no problems, he put the ink scroll and the ink scroll in the box and marked them with a seal.
The next day after finishing all these tasks, the examiner, proctor, and promotion officer were arranged to open the papers together to fill in the main list. The unrolling of the scrolls also starts with the eighteenth (or nineteenth) person. After completing these, then open the first volume of each room.
The chapter titles of each room here need to be explained.
There are three exams for candidates, including three sections on the meaning of the Four Books, four sections on the meaning of the Classics, one section on trial discussion, five sections on judgments, one section on imperial edicts on internal medicine, and five sections on the classics and history.
Adding up the number of these questions, there are exactly nineteen questions.
During the review, each question is divided into a room for review, and the first place in each question is selected. This is the top nineteen.
As for why the number was eighteen at the beginning, it may be that having a room is not very important and was ignored...
In many articles, it is said that the Imperial Examination of the Ming Dynasty actually only took the first test, that is, the test of Shu Jing Yi.
This is actually unfair and not objective.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the examination papers were divided into eighteen rooms. Each room had an equal status. It could be said that everyone was treated equally, and their importance was irreplaceable.
Only in the middle and late Ming Dynasty did the "Wu Jing Kui" appear, which means winning or losing based on the Five Classics. As long as you write eight-legged essays well, other things such as judgments, classics and historical policies, etc., even if it is uncanny, no one can understand it. Can win the first place.
This kind of partial problem replacing the overall problem did exist in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
This is also understandable. For example, the number of words in a book such as Classics and History can often exceed a thousand words in the later period, which is more difficult than writing a thesis.
Some people racked their brains and spit before writing it. When I got to the examiner, I took a look and saw that it was smelly and long. What do you think?
Moreover, there are only a few reviewers, but there are a lot of papers. It is not a problem to review papers here every day and not be able to go home to spend time with my wife and children for more than half a month.
In order to go home and go to bed early, everyone can save some trouble. You have written the eight-part essay, and we have reviewed the eight-part essay. That's it. The one who failed, don't read any historical advice when you go home, and concentrate on practicing the eight-part essay. .
In the final analysis, although the harm of the eight-part essay was planted by Zhu Yuanzhang, the real source of its shackles on the world lies in this group of lazy examiners.
The lazier they are, the more they care about the eight-part essay...
If anyone in the world wants to board this ship, they can only take out a ticket written in eight-part script. If you take the wrong ticket, you will not be allowed to board the ship.
It is extremely rare for fare evaders like Yang Shiqi and Yao Guangxiao to sneak onto the ship.
For most Juren, they can only go home and study the issue of eight-gu boat tickets.
On June 30, Fang Xiaoru, Yao Guangxiao, and Yang Shiqi entered Wuying Hall to report on the imperial examination.
"The total number of scholars selected this time is 320, and they have all been filled in the main list. The list will be posted outside the Gongyuan tomorrow."
Fang Xiaoru presented Zhu Yunwen with a list.
Zhu Yunwen nodded with satisfaction and said, "Thank you for your hard work these days."
Taking the list, Zhu Yunwen looked carefully. The name of Huiyuan selected by the three people was Wang Gen, the second was Hu Jing, the third was Jin Youzi, and Yang Rong was fourth.
After scanning them one by one, I saw Yang Pu's name at the twenty position.
"finally come."
Zhu Yunwen said softly.
The "Three Yang" cabinet who once served under Zhu Di and assisted him in creating the prosperous age of Yongle finally all entered the imperial court!
And they will assist me, Zhu Yunwen, to create a prosperous era of civilization!
As for the rest, Zhu Yunwen didn't care too much.
The imperial examination was moved a year ahead of schedule and it was so tense. In the final analysis, it was just for the sake of Yang Rong and Yang Pu.
Now, except for Xie Jin, there is no one in the court who Zhu Yunwen can take advantage of.
Yao Guangxiao and Yang Shiqi are good, but they are not from the imperial examination, and they have not accumulated experience in the court. They have no mass base. They cannot stand in the court based only on Zhu Yunwen's appreciation.
Therefore, Zhu Yunwen arranged for Yang Shiqi to go to the Imperial College. In the future, the officials coming out of the Imperial College will all be Yang Shiqi's students. This is the key to Yang Shiqi's future in the imperial court.
As for Yao Guangxiao, he had to do more. Not only did he need to assist in the compilation of "Records of Taizu", but he also needed to promote the reform system of the Imperial College. From time to time, he also had to go to the Central Military Governor's Mansion to discuss the three issues with Xu Huizu, Zhu Di and others. The problem of coordination in the battle formation of the camp.
Zhu Yunwen also handed over the matters of Baoen Temple and the Monument of Heroes to Yao Guangxiao. The reason is simple. He is also a monk, which makes it easier to deal with the people of Tianjie Temple.
Therefore, before Yang Shiqi and Yao Guangxiao have established themselves, Zhu Yunwen needs Yang Rong and Yang Pu, two people with professional backgrounds, to train these people early, so that Zhu Yunwen can better control the court situation.
The road ahead will be more difficult, especially the northern border and moving the capital. Without enough people to stand up and support, it will be difficult for Zhu Yunwen to accomplish it.
The constant constraints at every step in the court consumed Zhu Yunzhen's energy too much. In the past year, it can be said that the government has been divided into three parts: administration and seven parts infighting. Most of the energy has been spent on arguing with officials.
This situation must be broken!
