Chapter 42 The Test of the Little Emperor
The soldiers were half alive, singing and dancing under the beautiful tent.

This line of poem comes from "Yan Ge Xing" written by Gao Shi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Juzheng gave a banquet to the emperor, talked about the battle of Queshu Valley, how the King of Qin fought fiercely, and talked about Li Jiancheng's extravagance. He hoped to use his knowledge to educate the emperor as a warning, and he hoped that his majesty would take care of state affairs seriously.

Zhu Yijun said with emotion: "Just like now, the soldiers are working hard on the front line. Inside and outside the capital, singing and dancing are peaceful. Anyway, the Tatars can't break through the city of Beijing. The people who looted are all the people in the capital. What's the difference with the masters in the capital?" relationship."

"It's a big deal to promise to give more horse price silver."

Hearing His Majesty's words, Zhang Juzheng felt a little blocked, he didn't know how to answer for a while, but just stood there without saying a word.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help thinking of Qi Jiguang, and everyone regarded him as a wart, superfluous and useless.

Zhu Yijun wondered if he was using too much strength. The hammer wheel that broke the wall was so strong that Zhang Juzheng's indestructible belief was shaken?
If Zhang Juzheng lost his mind, became desperate for this bad world, and joined forces with the Jin Party, wouldn't Zhu Yijun be in big trouble?

Zhang Juzheng said quite solemnly: "I was entrusted by the late emperor to serve as the assistant of the world. I will never dare to forget the message from the people of the Li people. I will do my best to do what I know I can't do. I will keep my breath alive. This ambition is unremitting!"

There is still a breath, and this ambition is unremitting, which is Zhu Yijun's commentary on the word Hongyi.

Zhang Juzheng told himself that the knowledge of God is unshakable. He knows all kinds of shortcomings of Daming, and he is determined to improve and make Daming revive. This is his ambition. As long as he has a breath, he will not relax.

"When will Shuai Qi return to Beijing?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Zhang Juzheng hurriedly replied: "After Qingming."

Zhu Yijun's life is very simple. In the morning, he listens to the government in the Wenhua Palace and practices martial arts after giving a banquet. After practicing martial arts, he goes to Jingshan to hoe the earth. After hoeing the earth, he starts printing.

Zhang Juzheng's examination method finally began to be tried in the capital, and there were many complaints, but the leader of the Jin Party agreed to Zhang Juzheng's implementation in order to calm things down.

Before the law was established, the examination system for officials in Ming Dynasty was divided into Jingcha and Daji.

The Beijing inspection is to assess the officials in the capital. The grand plan is to evaluate the officials of the world. Once every six years, the government is weak and the country is weak. All beaten to pieces.

The core of the examination method is: set limits to test things, and take responsibility for people.

The examination method of the Beijing Normal University first aimed at the teaching of the six subjects. In just three days, the teaching of the six subjects was almost changed.

Then they replaced Zhang Juzheng's highly respected Xun Li, most of whom came from all corners of the country, and Zhang Juzheng had no in-laws, no mentors and apprentices, no fellowship with Zhang Juzheng.

Set a limit to examine things, set a specific time limit for a certain matter, and must complete it within the specified time.

The reason, time limit, and degree of completion are all recorded in three account books. One is kept by the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, one is in charge of the matter by the Sixth Division, and the last one is submitted to the cabinet. It will be reconciled according to the account books every month. account.

The affairs officers of the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are responsible for the implementation of specific affairs, and they must truthfully record whether they are completed or not.

The Sixth Section is responsible for supervising the work, supervising and managing the completed situation, and registering truthfully.

However, the work of the Sixth Division of the Cabinet Inspection will be verified. Once the Sixth Division and the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are in collusion, the Sixth Division will be directly dismissed.

In this way, the basic evaluation mechanism of the cabinet leading the supervision, the six supervision and supervision departments, and the six departments leading all the officials in the world has taken shape. This is an extremely complete set of official system design.

To call a person's talent, you don't have to test it; if you let it be done, you don't need to test its success, so it is called the method of testing.

The little emperor has his own unique set of criteria for judging whether the test method is effective or not, and that is the resentment of the Beijing officials.

The heavier their resentment, the more effective the test method is.

In just a few days, the courtiers who were frightened by the authority of Zhang Juzheng's chief assistant finally stood up and began to impeach Zhang Juzheng one after another!

The resentment was so great that he was no longer afraid of Zhang Juzheng's revenge!
The resentment is so great that Zhang Taiyue must be impeached even if he does not want to be an official!
Boiling against the sky.

There are countless reasons for impeachment, such as impeaching Zhang Juzheng for usurping the artifact, Zhang Juzheng's fish and meat officials, Zhang Juzheng's party fighting against dissidents, Zhang Juzheng's benevolence and immorality, Zhang Juzheng's full and arrogant, partial and taboo. Harm, the country will perish tomorrow!
Zhang Juzheng is just a frame, and any crime can be put into it.

Zhu Yijun's evaluation of this has only three words: Got it.

He didn't leave it unapproved, and he didn't draw a circle or a cross. There were only three words, I got it.

Those who cannot complete the affairs of the headquarters within the time limit will be fined, degraded, sent out, dismissed, dismissed from the official position and returned to their hometowns to live idle, exiled to smoke, borders and other places according to the number.

If the punishment cannot be implemented, the result of inspection, supervision, and leadership will be no matter how objective and true it is, the established method is just a display.

In the 12th year of Wanli, the third year after Zhang Juzheng's death, the Emperor Wanli decreed to abolish the examination system.

In the first year of Chongzhen, when Emperor Chongzhen wanted to pick up the examination method again and personally presided over the examination, but at that time everything was over and completely collapsed.

Zhu Yijun was waiting for Qi Jiguang to return to Beijing, but before Qi Jiguang, he waited for the monthly exam.

On February [-]th, the first year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun, the ten-year-old lord of the Ming Dynasty, finally ushered in his examination. All the ministers were bound by the examination law, and the little emperor also passed the examination, but no one dared to punish him, and no one could punish him. emperor.

The monthly exam is coming as scheduled.

The courtiers impeached Zhang Juzheng for all kinds of crimes, one of which was definitely not a false accusation, that is Zhang Juzheng's authority, the emperor is the supreme in the world, who can judge the emperor!

Zhang Juzheng was ahead of the emperor's order. As a minister of the auxiliary country, he did have the power to assess the emperor, but he was not punished after the assessment. This was the dilemma of the little emperor of Ming Dynasty studying.

The content of the assessment is the first two chapters of "The Analects of Confucius" and the four stories told by Emperor Jiantu.

Zhu Yijun was also a little worried about the monthly exam. If these ministers presented him with a difficult problem, if he hadn't passed the exam, then how could he not do his job with confidence!
With a slightly uneasy mood, Zhu Yijun came to Wenhua Hall.

"Your Majesty." Feng Bao said in a low voice, "Xu Jue went out of the palace yesterday and asked the Chief Assistant that the exam papers are coming, would Your Majesty want to see them in advance?"

Zhu Yijun was taken aback, looked at Feng Bao and said, "This...isn't very good."

What kind of behavior is this!This is blatant cheating!Is there any law left!Is there any reason!

"Take a look." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand.

His monthly exam not only involves whether he can continue to do nothing, but also whether Zhang Juzheng's examination method can be implemented smoothly.

Wang Xilie, Wang Jiaping, Fan Yingqi and other senior scholars were responsible for writing the examination papers, and Zhang Juzheng, the imperial teacher, was in charge of reviewing the examination papers.

If the emperor can successfully pass the monthly exam, it means that Zhang Juzheng is capable of fulfilling the duties of the former emperor Tuogu and the emperor's teacher, and it represents Zhang Juzheng's justice in assisting the country.

The supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty can pass the monthly exam as scheduled, and if he can pass the exam, why can't all the officials in the world pass the exam!

For such a big matter, for Zhu Yijun who doesn't practice morality, why not cheat openly?

He has extremely flexible standards and measures of morality.

He even wanted to move the examination room to the apse of the Wenhua Palace, so as to avoid the invigilation of the officials and open the examination.

Zhu Yijun took the test paper, looked at it for a while, folded the test paper and handed it to Feng Bao, saying: "Destroy it, in the future, you don't have to ask the chief assistant for the test paper again."

After reading the examination paper, Zhu Yijun knew what he was doing, raised his hands, took square steps, and arrived at the Wenhua Hall in a steady manner.

After three blows of the clean whip, the officials filed in one by one, stood up one by one, bowed five times and kowtowed three times, shouting at the sea: "Your Majesty, please see your majesty, is your majesty safe?"

"Zhen'an, Zhu Aiqing is safe." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand and said quite peacefully: "Let's gossip, let's start."

"The ministers are overstepping." Wang Xilie and other university scholars handed the examination papers to Zhang Hong, and Zhang Hong spread the examination papers on the imperial case.

Zhu Yijun picked up the brush, stained it with ink, and began to answer the questions. The Wenhua Hall was extremely quiet. In order not to disturb the emperor's monthly exam, the Wenhua Hall didn't even open the windows.

After two quarters of an hour, Zhu Yijun put down the pen, dried the ink, and put it on for a while, motioning Zhang Hong to take the test paper to the officials.

All the officials looked at the examination paper with some trepidation. You must know that the little emperor's homework in the past six months was actually not satisfactory. To put it bluntly, he didn't teach anything.

If Zhang Juzheng taught alone, would the situation be better?
For Zhu Yijun, the content of the exam was too simple!

That's it?That's it?Is it okay to take the exam that month?
It was so simple that Zhu Yijun doubted whether Wang Xilie had colluded with Zhang Juzheng and deliberately set up some simple questions so that the emperor could pass the test.

There is dictation in the exam, that is, the first two chapters of the Analects, only the first sentence, and the second sentence is dictation;

The examination paper has a definition, take out a certain word or a certain paragraph, and explain its meaning;
There is a brief description, Emperor Jiantu tells a certain story, and asks the emperor to briefly describe the outline of the story.

Examination papers that meet the difficulty of ten-year-old children.

How difficult is this for Zhu Yijun?Absolutely not.

Of course, Zhu Yijun thought it was simple, he and Zhang Juzheng usually ran to break the wall, and Zhang Juzheng, who faced the wall, felt headaches because of the little emperor's simplicity and ignorance.

Wang Xijue was in charge of grading the papers. He read them very solemnly, correcting them while doubting them. This neat answer paper exceeded his expectations. During the six months after Emperor Longqing's trip, the little emperor's schoolwork has always been very difficult. Difference.

With complicated emotions, Wang Xijue handed over the examination papers to the grand scholars after finishing the examination papers.

After the bachelors checked it was correct, the examination paper was transferred to Zhang Juzheng.

In fact, Zhang Juzheng knew without looking at it, the little emperor could pass the test, and the emperor could answer the exam correctly with his eyes closed. The little emperor was very smart, but he was just lazy and slippery before, and refused to study hard.

No, it's the university scholar who confused the ten-year-old master with your words and my words, and it's all the fault of the courtiers!

This is in line with the morality and etiquette of the monarchs and ministers for thousands of years.

Zhang Juzheng taught alone, and the effect is outstanding.

Zhang Juzheng opened it and looked at the examination paper. As he expected, the little emperor's handwriting was quite satisfactory and his answers were very good.

"Your Majesty will be brave tomorrow, and the virtue of the emperor has been like this. If he continues to grow in the future, all people in the world will be blessed! My congratulations to the Ming Dynasty, and congratulations to Your Majesty!" Wang Xilie came out and knelt on the ground quite sincerely , Zhensheng said.

"I am ashamed of the late emperor." Wang Xilie said a little excitedly, his tone was extremely fierce, he is an old pedant, the little emperor can't read well, he, a lecturing scholar, bears the brunt of it.

As a member of the Imperial Academy, Wang Xilie had a really high opinion of the little emperor's examination papers. The late emperor traveled for six months, and they taught them for a long time, but they didn't teach anything.

"Next time, it can be a little more difficult." Zhu Yijun hesitated to speak, and then wanted to speak, he already had an idea in his heart.

The Ming Emperor's monthly exam might not be able to take advantage of it.

The recent wind (public opinion) of Zhang Juzheng's impeachment is really too great.

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