Daming: At the beginning, recognize Zhu Yuanzhang as grandfather!

Chapter 168 Perfectly solve the big case of the North and South List!
The triennial Enke Ceremony was held as scheduled.

In order to select fresh blood, the imperial examination examiners of all dynasties were generally selected by the emperor himself, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception. After repeated weighing, Zhu Yuanzhang finally decided to send Liu Sanwu, a highly respected Hanlin scholar in his 80s, as the examiner.

Sure enough, as Zhu Xiongying expected, something happened.

After nine days of three exams and four subjects, Liu Sanwu and other examiners immediately put themselves into the examination papers. After going through strict examination procedures, 51 students including Song Cong were admitted. An is No.1, Yin Changlong is No.2, and Liu Shier is No.3.

However, not long after the list was published, some students from the north discovered that the people admitted on the list were all from the south, so it was nicknamed the Southern List.

The news spread like wildfire among the northern students. No one from the north was admitted, and the northern students were very dissatisfied.

Within a few days, the northern students who failed the rankings united and complained to the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, believing that the examiner Liu Sanwu and his party must have secretly colluded with the southern students, accepted bribes, and obviously favored the southern students in grading papers.

Some northern students even cried out their grievances along the way, stopping officials' sedan chairs to appeal.

Gossips are flying all over the streets and alleys. Some say that the chief examiner has received money, and some say that the southern scholars have cheated collectively.

It didn't take long for the incident to be full of ups and downs in the city, and it also reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and demanded a thorough investigation of the matter, so he ordered his attendant Zhang Xin, his attendant Dai Yi, You Zanshan Wang Junhua and others to set up an "investigation team" to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Zhang Xin and others knew that this matter was of great importance, so they did not dare to be sloppy. The investigation team carefully reviewed all the examination papers immediately, and finally reported to Zhu Yuanzhang that there was no problem with the evaluation of the examination papers. The students are all real talents and practical learning, and there is nothing tricky about it.

The conclusion once again caused an uproar from all walks of life.

The northern students who failed the rankings could not accept the results of the investigation, and many northern officials in the DPRK and China criticized them one after another, demanding that capable officials be re-selected, the examination papers re-checked, and all officials involved in the case should be strictly investigated.

Someone complained that Liu Sanwu secretly asked Zhang Xin and others to deliberately get involved in the submission.

The fermentation of public opinion made Zhu Yuanzhang furious.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to quell public opinion with thunder.

Because after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the dynasties have gradually begun to develop their economies in the south. By the Ming Dynasty, the economy of the south had far surpassed that of the north. As the so-called economy drives culture and education, the improvement of the economy of the south also comprehensively drove its culture and education.

So at this time, the education in the south is better than that in the north.

It is not impossible that all members of the South will be on the list in the examination.

Of course Zhu Yuanzhang knew this. There was no incident of a northerner being listed in the imperial examination.

Using the lives of dozens of people to balance the politics of the north and the south, win over the northern scholars, and block the phenomenon of cultural dictatorship, although Zhu Yuanzhang's approach was coercive, arbitrary and extreme, in exchange for political stability and peace in the world.

This is Lao Zhu's political wisdom.

But at this moment, Zhu Xiongying stepped forward.

"Southerners are good at writing, while northerners are serious and pragmatic. Why don't you use two sets of test papers, and finally judge with comprehensive scores. This is fair."

Zhu Xiongying took out the tricks of the later generations' kaogong.

In fact, the current imperial examination is more like the application of later generations, but now Zhu Xiongying has added the line test to it.

In this way, the more pragmatic northerners also have their own advantages, and the combination of behavioral testing and application theory can better select talents with talent, learning and action.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed.

Now that he has Zhu Xiongying, he has long since lost the violence he had before. He doesn't want to be stained with blood anymore, but he has to do it for the sake of the entire court situation.

"A good idea! As expected of our eldest grandson!"

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been worried for many days, finally showed his smile again, and of course ordered Zhu Xiongying to preside over this matter.

If Liu Sanwu and other examiners were granted amnesty, they would be grateful to Zhu Xiongying.

According to Zhu Xiongying's idea, Liu Sanwu and others re-proposed the question.

Under the guidance of Zhu Xiongying, Liu Sanwu and others finally completed two sets of test questions.

The Enke Ceremony was held again.

The whole world is also paying attention to this matter, and there is a lot of discussion about the emperor's grandson coming out to preside over the imperial examination again.

Finally, under the long-awaited.

The imperial examinations have been announced.

Just as Zhu Xiongying expected, the more action-oriented test really weakened the literary advantages of the southerners, while the thick and pragmatic advantages of the northerners were revealed.

On the list, Southerners accounted for six and Northerners accounted for four.

At this point, the public opinion turmoil stopped, and everyone exaggerated the wisdom of the emperor's grandson.

Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded Zhu Xiongying even more.

Liu Sanwu and other examiners, as well as Zhang Xin and others who were in charge of the investigation, and all the candidates on the list, all of them are grateful to Zhu Xiongying.

Zhu Xiongying's influence in the court has been formed.

At that time, it was called "Emperor Taisun Party".

The emperors of all dynasties were most afraid of the formation of party feathers, but Zhu Yuanzhang at this time was different. He was very happy to see the formation of the "emperor's grandson party".

He even wished to push all capable people to Zhu Xiongying's side.

Next, Zhu Xiongying will also show his ambition and lead the Ming Dynasty to a brand new path...

(End of this chapter)