The days when I fished in Daming

Chapter 28

Lying on my own little recliner, eating snacks bought from outside, sweet-scented osmanthus cake, I can't forget it after eating it yesterday, it's very good to eat as a snack.

The next step is to eat melons quietly. It is said that this is the first time in Hongwu's year to open a department to obtain a scholar. From top to bottom, he attaches great importance to it. A site as large as Lao Zhu needs people to manage it, and it urgently needs a batch of fresh blood.

But accidents always happen.

In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, students from the north and the south gathered in the capital. The arrival of Enke for the first time made the city of Nanjing extremely lively. There were more than 400 students from the north and the south.

It was the first time that Enke released the list. Liu Bowen, who was sick at home, came to the imperial list accompanied by his son Liu Lian. Unlike other onlookers who cared about the people on the list, Liu Bowen discovered a serious problem, a political event that could cause blood to flow into rivers.

So Liu Bowen hurriedly found Song Lian, the main examiner of the Enke University Examination, to ask if there was anything tricky about the candidate list. After confirming that the candidates were fair and then went to work, Liu Bowen did not feel a little joy. Instead, he asked Song Lian worriedly, "Mr.

It took a long time for Song Lian, who was startled by a question, to answer slowly: "In order to maintain fairness, the candidates' school status and names were covered up, and the full-screen text was used to win. I didn't know whether the admitted candidates were from the south or the north, let alone most of them were from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.

But Liu Bowen asked again: "It is true that it is true that the selection of scholars is based on ability, but the result is that the southerners are on the list. Once these northern students make trouble, the emperor will ask me if I have only half of the Ming Dynasty? May I ask Song Gonggai how to answer?" After speaking, Liu Bowen asked Song Lian to ask the queen for help.

The first Enke in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to it. He appointed Prime Minister Li Shanchang as the director of Enke, and Song Lian, a bachelor, as the examiner for the big test. He was full of expectations that through this Enke, he would win over students from all over the world to work for Daming.

Sure enough, Song Lian was still suing the empress about his experience and worries, and hoped that the empress would help him escape the catastrophe. Over there, he heard students breaking into the palace to make trouble, and Zhu Yuanzhang called officials of the third rank or above to a meeting.

After hearing the news, Song Lian hurriedly left the Queen's place, only to see that all the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty had arrived under the main hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious at the court again, and asked Li Shanchang and Song Lian whether they had practiced favoritism, why there were no students north of the Huaihe River, is it true that there is only half of the world in the Ming Dynasty?Although Li Shanchang and Song Lian tried their best to deny that they had cheated, Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry at this time that he didn't believe the words of the two examiners at all.

In order to appease the examinees to avoid gossip, and to find out whether Enke had cheated this time, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to cover up the names, places of origin and ages of all the examinees, and ordered the court officials to re-examine the examination papers of all the examinees on the spot.

Fortunately, after a day of hard work without eating or drinking, the ministers finally selected all the answer sheets they approved and submitted them to the emperor. After comparison, they found that the papers selected by the ministers were not different from those selected by Song Lian and Li Shanchang.But why didn't any student from Huaibei enter the list?

At this time, how to explain to the northern scholars and how to explain to the people of the world has become a big problem for him. If he handles it carelessly, he will lose the hearts of the northern people. How can he restore the hearts of the northern scholars and handle this incident happily.

That night Zhu Yuanzhang entered the room of Empress Ma. Empress Ma was always smart and virtuous. Empress hesitated and said, "It is suggested to set up Enke North Field and write down the reasons for Zhu Yuanzhang. It is because the north is initially set up, and many students have not had time to prepare for the Enke exam. Some students are not able to catch up in time because of the rugged mountain roads in the north and the distance from Nanjing. At the request of the northern scholars, the North Examination Hall is amnesty as an encouragement."

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang said that this plan is very clever. He took the initiative to give benefits to the northern scholars, solved the current state of dissatisfaction among the northern scholars in Nanjing, won the hearts of the northern scholars, promoted talents for the country, and stabilized the northern territory. It can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately agreed that the northern students were selecting 36 Jinshi, and they competed with the 36 southern Jinshi to select the top three. Therefore, in the early years of Hongwu, the climax of the imperial examination fraud case ended in the form of killing three birds with one stone, which can be described as exquisite.

In fact, there is a great possibility that northern students are not on the list of 36 Jinshi. First of all, the proportion of candidates is different. The number of northern students who arrived in Nanjing was less than 100, and they had to travel long distances, while the southern students took home exams.

The south, on the other hand, belongs to the separatist forces all the year round. Various warlords recruit talents all the year round, pay attention to cultivating talents, and recuperate with the people, especially in Anhui, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu.

The nine-character policy was put forward by Zhu Sheng, a man at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and it is the theoretical foundation of Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the north, the imperial examination has been abandoned for many years, people's livelihood is poor, and life is a problem, not to mention learning. The north has been influenced and oppressed by the cultural forces of the Yuan Dynasty for a long time, and there is a fundamental difference from the southern culture. The examiners who mark the papers are all southerners.

Although this matter was overshadowed by Zheng Xiong's cowpox, there was never a lack of market for political news under the Son of Heaven, and there were still a lot of people eating melons.

There is still money for the two errands on Friday and Saturday, and they have nothing to do, so let them inquire about the gossip for themselves, and have some fun for themselves.

The competition between the North and the South is just the beginning, and at this stage it will end with the selection of 36 scholars from the north.

What followed was the palace examination. Originally, only 36 Jinshi were selected, 36 Gongsheng students were selected, and the final [-] Jinshi were assigned a ranking.

Zheng Xiong quietly became a melon-eating crowd, just eat melons, but Lao Zhu's inexplicable decree turned Zheng Xiong into that melon.

After the addition of 36 Jinshi, the variable Zheng Xiong was added.

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said: Xuan Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau will bring Zheng Xiong to attend the palace examination on the first day of March."

(End of this chapter)