Daming heir

Chapter 315
"Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and others intend to promote Chen Anzhong from Daomin County, Fujian Province as the number one in the current discipline, the number one scholar in the current discipline."

In Huagai Palace, Xie Jin came out of the side hall, bowed and reported in a low voice to Zhu Yunxi, who was playing chess with Prince Yan.

Zhu Yunxi did not raise his eyes, silently watching the chess game in front of him.

Xiaopang is still putting on a dragon formation, and he is still fighting ten times with one force.

The ending is already doomed.

"Chen Yuqi is a good talent, and it is reasonable for Ren Hengtai to strongly recommend him."

"Brother Chi, you have nowhere to go."

Zhu Yunxi murmured softly, and then with a snap, the chess piece settled down, and looked at the chubby in front of him with a victor's smile.

Zhu Gaochi frowned, let out a long sigh, spread out his hands, and leaned back with a face full of reluctance, and looked at Xie Jin who was standing behind Zhu Yunxi indifferently.

Seeing that Fatty had no intention of continuing to struggle, Zhu Yunxi also leaned back: "From Ren Hengtai's side, how many Jinke tributes have been taken, how many have been taken from the north of the river, and how many Xinxue disciples?"

This question was naturally asked by Xie Jin.

He himself has been busy with the tax office, the martial arts hall, and his big wedding recently, so he basically didn't pay much attention to the general examination and palace examination.

Zhu Gaochi also silently watched Xie Jin curiously.

He really wanted to know whether Xie Jin, who was determined to become a sage of mind learning while he was alive, could become a sage.

Xie Jin lowered his head, pinched the black ash under his nails, thought for a while and said, "A total of 970 tribute scholars will be selected from this department, and 450 will be selected from the north of the river. There will be 320 and seven students from Xinxue."

Zhu Yunxi chuckled and shook his head.

Xie Jin took a step forward hesitantly, bent over and said in a low voice, "Grandfather, what's the problem?"

Zhu Yunxi turned around, only to hear the six ministers arguing about the top ten examination papers of yesterday's palace examination from the side hall.

Silently looking at Xie Jin, he smiled slightly and said, "Ren Hengtai and the others finally know what Hongwu's 25-year Enke Examination fraud case was for."

"For learning by heart?" Xie Jin tilted his head, with some doubts on his face.

But if it is said to be for the sake of learning, there is something wrong.

Xie Jin frowned.

That is the number of tributes taken from the north of the river!

Jiangbei Jiangbei.

Just as Xie Jin was thinking about the entire north-south pattern of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yunxi had already spoken again.

"Do the math, and see if the proportion of the subject of Xinxue students has changed from that of Hongwu in 25 years."

Xie Jin felt another thump in his heart, and then said in a low voice with some reluctance: "It seems... nothing has changed..."

Zhu Gaochi pressed forward, and taking the opportunity to clean up the chess game, he also said softly: "It seems that what you worried about happened."

Zhu Yunxi snorted, and joined in the clearing of the chess game with dark eyes: "What Ren Hengtai did was already very fair, and he didn't touch the bottom line. It's not wrong to take as many disciples as you want. Even if you don't take one, no one can find fault with him. Keeping the proportion in Hongwu's 25-year situation is already considered his dedication."

The imperial examination did not say that people of which school you said must be taken by you.

In the eyes of the emperor, no matter what theory, as long as it can govern the world, it can be used.

As long as the balance of the imperial court and the balance of the world can be maintained, there is nothing wrong with it.

Hongwu’s 25-year Enke Examination Fraud Case, it is better to say that Zhu Yunxi took the initiative to unbalance the admission ratio of students from the North and the South, and challenged it in front of the old man, and then there was a big case.

The old man will not allow the future Ming Dynasty hall to be full of southerners.

Even if the north is bitterly cold and poor, and the literature is not prosperous, the imperial court must maintain a balance in the imperial examinations to prevent the south from being dominant.

But it doesn't matter if you study philosophy or psychology.

Zhu Gaochi looked up at Xie Jin with a smile on his face: "Bachelor Xie."

Xie Jin's head was still in a daze at this time. Compared with the road construction outside Yingtian City, these calculations above the court were too complicated.

He heard Shizi Yan calling him.

Xie Jin bowed immediately, and he was already at the chessboard: "What instruction does Prince Yan have?"

Zhu Gaochi immediately waved his hand: "If you don't dare to take the instruction, you have to come here. However, there is one sentence that I want to talk about with the bachelor."

Xie Jin practiced kindness like a stream, cupped his hands and said, "Please show me, Prince Yan."

"Do things in a down-to-earth way, so that you can do things that benefit the country and the people." Zhu Gaochi stared at Xie Jin's black hands that were covered with dirt, and even the nails were not clean, and nodded silently: "Do the things now, Wait until the students of Xinxue can get half of the imperial examinations, and then think about becoming a saint."

After finishing speaking, he didn't give Xie Jin a chance to continue asking for advice, so he looked at Zhu Yunxi and yelled, "Do you want another dish? It was rare to read half a volume of fragments last night, and now is the time to use it. "

Seeing Jin's dazed look, Zhu Yunxi got up and patted him on the back: "Brother Gentleman, get the road repairs done first, and it's enough to maintain the current situation. Road repairs are the top priority. Now It’s just that in Yingtian Mansion, there are still thirteen roads that need to be repaired in the future.”

Xie Jin was a little confused, turned his head to look at Zhu Yunxi, and said in a slip of the tongue: "Why did Ren Shangshu and the others do this?"

Zhu Yunxi laughed dumbly, patted Xie Jin on the shoulder again, and pushed him towards the side hall: "I dare not let Ren Hengtai and the others hear this, it is not good for you. Brother gentleman, you are a fan of the authorities. Don't worry about this matter. Go to the Piandian and wait, it won't be long before His Majesty decides on the three tripods and the top two Jinshi rankings in this subject."

Xie Jin nodded.

Because of his status, he didn't expect that the court situation had quietly undergone many changes now.

Watching Xie Jin re-enter the side hall.

Only then did Zhu Yunxi sigh and sit down, looking at Xiaopang who was already holding the chess piece in his hand: "Fortunately, it didn't turn into the worst situation, at least they haven't tried to completely divide the way."

"It's the 27th year of Hongwu, do they dare?" Zhu Gaochi felt that Brother Xiong might also become an authority, so he said weakly.

Snapped.

The sunspot has landed on the most central eye position on the entire chessboard.

Zhu Yunxi's eyes shrank: "Is it not according to common sense?"

"It's a good deal to win against you." Zhu Gaochi raised his eyebrows.

Zhu Yunxi curled his lips: "Is this the endgame you read in the book?"

"The book I read in my dream."

……

"I think that Chen Yu can be the number one scholar in the current discipline, Yin Changlong is the second place, and Liu Shi'er is the best candidate."

In the side hall of the Huagai Palace, Ren Hengtai, Minister of Rites and the chief examiner of the current examination, put the three answer sheets of yesterday's palace examination on the top of the imperial table.

Followed by Zhan Hui, Ru Yuan, Yu Xin, and Wang Jun, five people stepped forward.

"The minister waits for a second opinion."

"Today's imperial examinations are full of people taking exams, and there are many outstanding talents. The answer papers are novel but steady. No matter the articles, or current policies and national policies, they are all quick-witted. Chen, Yin, and Liu Sangong are the most outstanding."

After the few people finished speaking, they each silently lowered their heads.

Ren Hengtai turned his head slightly and looked at Zhan Hui beside him.

Mr. Zhan was right, and he made the right bet himself.

With more than 900 tribute scholars, it can be said that the founding of the country is the first of its kind in the world. The two lists of Jinshi in this year are more than the total since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor did not convict him for this, and even appreciated it.

Behind the imperial table, Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his eyebrows, clasped his hands together, silently looked at the answer sheet spread out in front of him, and then slowly turned his head to look at the prince next to him.

"What does the prince think?"

After throwing the question to the prince, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around, grabbed a booklet on the soft couch behind, leaned on the couch and read it silently.

Zhu Biao arched his hands, looked sideways at the old man who was already leaning on the soft couch, his eyes flickered.

In that booklet, the family background and other details of Jinke gongshi were recorded.

"I think that since all the ministers and workers jointly recommended it, I think the writing skills and the ability to govern the country are not bad. It is advisable to have such skills in a thousand volumes."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Biao silently looked at Ren Hengtai, Zhan Hui and others standing opposite the imperial table.

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the booklet on his hand, and looked sideways: "In that case, the crown prince will name us."

Zhu Biao cupped his hands and turned around: "Your minister leads the order."

Then he turned around, took the red vermilion pen sent by Sun Gou'er who was waiting at the side, found the title of Sanding Jia, and circled it with a bright red circle.

Seeing this scene, the several court ministers who watched the words and expressions finally let out a sigh of relief.

"The ministers are on behalf of Sanding Jia and Jinke's new Jinshi, thank you."

Zhan Hui and the others shouted.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand from behind: "Let's all go, the imperial court chooses a day to give a banquet. Let those who should be released outside, those who should sit in the hall, and those who should watch the politics."

After Zhan Hui and the others waited for the answer sheets to be sorted out, they left with the rest.

"Father, another major event this year has been settled."

After Zhan Hui and others left, Zhu Biao walked slowly to the soft couch, bowed and whispered.

Holding the booklet in hand, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly: "After all, we can't pee in the same pot with them!"

Zhu Biao frowned slightly: "Father is dissatisfied with the candidate they pushed up?"

However, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the prince, avoided the topic, and said, "Let's draw up an order. The Minister of Rites, Ren Hengtai, entered the Wenhua Palace as a scholar, and the Minister of Officials, Zhan Hui, resigned from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and entered the Wenhua Palace as a scholar. Yu Xin, the servant of the left, was promoted to the Minister of the Household Department, and a bachelor of the Wenhua Palace..."

Zhu Biao's heart skipped a beat. Although this matter had been proposed between the father and son earlier, once it was actually implemented, he was still a little surprised and shocked.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth and pondered for a moment, then said: "Let Fang Xiaoru also enter the Wenhua Palace as a scholar."

This is an unexpected choice.

The imperial court appointed four Wenhua Palace University Scholars at once, but whenever a decree is issued from the palace, there must be a lot of discussion outside.

Zhu Biao's eyes turned quickly, and he bowed immediately: "My minister leads the order."

……

Outside the hall.

The chess game between Zhu Yunxi and Xiaopang is already in a state of anxiety.

creak.

The door of the side hall behind him was opened.

Then came the footsteps of Zhan Hui and others.

Zhu Yunxi silently raised his head and glanced at Xiaopang, and Zhu Gaochi threw the chess pieces he had grasped back into the chess basket.

The two stood up at the same time and looked at Zhan Hui, Ren Hengtai and others who came out of the side hall.

Zhan Hui, Ren Hengtai and others who came out of the side hall were naturally also Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Gaochi who saw the shogi game outside the side hall at a glance.

Several people were slightly taken aback.

Then, led by Zhan Hui, the crowd stopped and bowed their hands.

"The ministers and others have met with the grandson and met the son of Yan."

Zhu Yunxi smiled: "Everyone has worked hard on state affairs."

"The minister waits for his duty."

Zhan Hui also responded with a smile, then paused for a while, seeing that Zhu Yunxi didn't speak anymore, he led the crowd to bow and bow, and then left slowly.

Zhu Yunxi just stood there with his hands together, motionless, just following the central ministers of the Ming Dynasty as they left the Huagai Palace.

"It's very peaceful."

Zhu Gaochi folded his arms, stood aside and said calmly.

This kind of movement, when he returned to Beijing from Beiping City two years ago, he couldn't do it because of his obesity, but now it has become his favorite movement.

Zhu Yunxi smiled slightly: "It's not just calm, there's not a single word to say."

Zhu Gaochi tilted his head: "Is that indifference?"

After thinking for a while, he nodded again: "They all look friendly, but they are still indifferent."

Zhu Yunxi sighed, he had always hoped to be in harmony with these central ministers in the court, but obviously, it is impossible for everyone's butts to sit together.

He turned around, patted Xiaopang on the shoulder, and said solemnly: "You really don't want to serve in the court?"

Zhu Gaochi immediately took two steps back, shook his head and rolled his eyes, and said, "Isn't the matter of the tax office not a matter?"

Zhu Yunxi chuckled: "That doesn't count, after all, there is no intention to rectify your name."

Zhu Gaochi turned his head, unwilling to continue talking about this.

At this time, Xie Jin also walked out of the side hall not long after Zhan Hui and the others came out.

"The top three of the current disciplines have been decided, and they are recommended by Ren Shangshu and others. As for the two Jinshis, they will probably also be determined according to their collective agreement."

Regarding such an expected result, Zhu Yunxi did not intend to think too much about it.

Instead, he smiled and said, "After the banquet in a few days, the sweet potatoes from Shanglin Yuanjian will be harvested. That is what I am most concerned about now."

Sweet potatoes.

How much the planting scale can be expanded next year depends entirely on the yield per mu of the sweet potatoes planted in the sweet potato field in Shanglinyuan this year.

Xie Jin also laughed: "Nowadays, building roads is what I care most about. After His Royal Highness gets married, the road leading to Taiping Mansion outside Yingtian City will probably be repaired."

"When the time comes, I'll check and accept it myself!"

Here, the two monarchs and ministers met and laughed.

……

The more three days.

The list of Jinshi in the two rankings of Jinke has already been made public inside and outside the imperial city.

The candidates who have studied hard for decades and traveled thousands of miles to Beijing for the exam have been drunk for three days in a row.

Today is the day when the emperor gave a banquet to Jinshi Jinshi in the palace.

According to the rules, these new scholars are all disciples of the emperor.

But everyone knows that this disciple of the emperor is just to show that the emperor has the intention of taking the world's official position.

After these people enter the officialdom step by step, their mentors and mentors are the people who are really closely related and have relevant interests.

The emperor is the emperor.

The time for giving the banquet was set at the next evening before dark, and it always took one or two hours before and after. The emperor had to talk to these Jinshi who were about to become courtiers, drink together, and accept the wine from these Jinshi.

Before and after, there is no one or two hours that are endless.

Until late at night.

Taiping Lane, Shangyuan County, Yingtian City.

Dongjing Lane, because it is close to Dongshuiguan Wharf, the composition of residents here is quite complicated.

Wan Jinbiao, the tax collector of the Shangyuan County Branch of the Daming Tax Office, was wearing a gluttonous uniform that could make local gentry and merchants tremble, holding a pottery jug in his hand, walking in Dongjing Lane with dim eyes and staggering.

The Yanling Saber on his waist made a clanging sound following Wan Jinbiao's shaking.

Wan Jinbiao was originally from Taiping. He used to work at Dongshuiguan Wharf, and later joined the army. He followed the General of the Southern Expedition, the Founding Duke Chang Sheng, and the Taisun to fight in Jiaozhi.

During the Battle of Daluo City, Wan Jinbiao followed Taisun's radical to the city wall.

Wan Jinbiao killed twelve enemies and was hit by five knives and two arrows. The most serious injury was in his right arm. The elbow bone was broken. There was no room for rest on the battlefield. Injuries that never fully heal.

I couldn't stay in the army anymore, my hands would shake after dozens of slashes with a knife, so I had to go back to Beijing with my grandson.

And because the legs and feet are flexible, the head is not Montton's, and because he has killed a dozen enemies, Wan Jinbiao became the deputy tax director of the Shangyuan County Branch of the Daming Taxation Office.

Recently, the restructuring of the grain chief and tax collectors in Shangyuan County has progressed rapidly.

During the confiscation process, people like Wan Jinbiao naturally had a lot of money in their pockets.

Today, I just had a drink with some colleagues at the Qinhuai River in the south.

Now on the way home, Wan Jinbiao was still thinking about how to make the gentry outside the city obedient, so that they could do well what the grandson told them.

I heard that my grandson is getting married.

The tax office must take out a portion of the results as a gift, the people must be able to eat well, the tax office must be able to collect taxes, and people should not be greedy for money, and they must also use this to live a prosperous life.

Harmony and beauty, a group of harmony.

Thinking about it, Wan Jinbiao thought of his beautiful wife who had just gotten married.

Wan Jinbiao couldn't help speeding up his pace as his heart became hot.

In the front, after passing the big courtyard with five front and back entrances of the Li family, and in the back alley, there is his own small house with a single courtyard.

"Damn tax office!"

"Why don't you tell these dogs who have ruined their homes to die!"

"Don't yell, don't yell, be careful not to hear the Wan in the alley behind."

"Can't I even call out now?"

"I heard that the man surnamed Wan married that little wife because of his dog's skin, and he made the yard full to dry quilts all day long."

"How capable is a deputy tax secretary of a branch of the tax office? Later, I will use some means to rape that little wife while his surname Wan is not at home..."

"It's easy to talk about! Let that surnamed Wan have a few more bastards."

"..."

………………

Ding Deng Deng.

puff.

When the imperial palace's prohibition was released with the sound of the morning bell, Sun Cheng, who was wearing a flying fish suit, rushed into the East Palace with sweat on his head, and knelt down on one knee heavily on Zhu Yunxi, who had just woken up early and was practicing in the courtyard. before.

"Your Highness, something is wrong."

"Ying Tianfu has a big family extermination case..."

"The murderer is Wan Jinbiao, deputy tax director of the Shangyuan County Branch of the tax office."

(End of this chapter)