I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 143 Encore
After enfeoffing the ministers, Zhu Yijiong immediately began to assign hundreds of official positions, that is, to formally determine the names.

It is no longer like before, it can only be regarded as an official supervising the country, especially the cabinet to which Wang Li belongs. During the period when Emperor Zhu was supervising the country, it was really chaotic. If it were publicized, I would be laughed at.

Regarding the classification of civil and military official positions, the cabinet had already made plans in advance. Zhu Yijiong saw that there was nothing wrong with it, and immediately approved: "Yes."

After deciding on the positions of hundreds of officials, Zhu Yijiong immediately issued an order to promote Wu Sidao, the prefect of Shaowu and chief secretary of Yanshaoting, to the governor of Fujian.

The Ming Dynasty now has one capital and two provinces, and it is indeed time to appoint this governor.

Otherwise, as the territory becomes larger and larger in the future, the rule of the central court will only become more and more sluggish.

Although Wu Sidao had only been in charge of government in Shaowu for only two months, he had already organized the three prefectures of Yanshaoting in order, and the new policy had been thoroughly implemented in the three prefectures.

In terms of political performance alone, it barely meets the requirements of the governor of Fujian.

Moreover, Zhu Yijiong's promotion to appoint Wu Sidao as governor of Fujian was also to prepare for Wu Sidao's future entry into the cabinet.

The cabinet cannot only have people like Wang Li who were former officials of the Qing Dynasty. Although Wang Li and others are still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, as former officials of the Qing Dynasty, they will naturally stick together and form a clique.

It was fine in the beginning, but it would become a disaster if time goes by. This is why Zhu Yijiong promoted Zhu Chengxun and Lu Youlong to the cabinet. The former was a rising gentry bureaucrat in the Ming Dynasty, and the latter was a former governor of Fujian. Their official positions were inherently lower than Wang Li, Liang Wenxuan and both of them are taller together.

With the two of them in the cabinet, they can be a check and balance for the time being.

However, in order to prevent the cabinet ministries from having daydreams and to balance the official factions, Zhu Yijiong promoted Wu Sidao to the governor of Fujian and promoted Wang Yuan, the prefect of Taiwan, to the governor of Zhejiang.

Wang Yuan, as a close confidant of Wang Li in the past, had been in charge of government in Taiwan for more than half a year, so his ability goes without saying.

It took this guy half a year to slowly complete some of the policy strategies that Zhu Yijiong had put on hold because he entered Fujian.

Today, Taiwan has one prefecture and five counties. Compared with the original area, there are two new counties, one is Changhua and the other is Pingtung.

Although the strategy was originally planned, it was only tentative at the time, and the specific implementation had not yet been arranged, so Emperor Zhu rushed to send troops.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yuan actually sorted out the internal affairs of Taiwan, and at the same time used excess manpower for north-south expansion by encouraging reclamation and training local braves.

Not only did it ease the heavy population pressure on Taiwan Prefecture, but it also fully developed the land in the Taixi Plain, greatly enhancing Ming's control over the entire western Taipei.

This can really be regarded as a remarkable achievement.

Not only that, this Wang Yuan also had some ideas. While developing the Taixi Plain and adding two more counties, he also paid close attention to collecting and studying the living habits, population size, tribal distribution, etc. of the headhunting indigenous people in Taitung.

And in the previous political report to the imperial court, these were also written down.

It seems that he said nothing, but he said everything.

Because of this, Zhu Yijiong remembered who he really was...

The capital was Nanjing, and while Zhu Yijiong was still busy with the matters of awarding and appointing hundreds of officials, Lin Jingyu, the Minister of Rites, suddenly made a report, saying that the Ministry of Rites had been preparing for several months, and intuitively the time was ripe. At this moment, it was time to announce to the world, officially It's time to get a bachelor's degree.

Zhu Yijiong did not criticize immediately, but read the memorial carefully.

It can be seen that the Ministry of Rites is indeed well prepared. It not only secretly monitors the attitudes of the gentry in the two provinces, but also has various alternative plans in case no one or few people come.

It can be said that everything that can be thought of has been thought of.

In short, as long as Zhu Yijiong, the Ming Emperor, nods, the Ministry of Rites will definitely do a good job.

After careful consideration for a long time, Zhu Yijiong also felt that it was indeed time to open a subject to obtain scholars, and since the Minister of Rites could directly report it, it means that the cabinet should also pass it.

This imperial examination was not so much about recruiting scholars and selecting talents as it was a political statement to win over the hearts of the gentry all over the world.

After all, the impact of dividing the land between farmers and farmers is still there. Although Zhu Yijiong plans to open the sea as compensation, the sea has not yet opened, and even if it does, these gentry cannot guarantee that they will be completely free of resentment.

But it will be different once the imperial examination begins...

After careful consideration, Zhu Yijiong commented on Lin Jingyu’s memorial: “Yes!”

After thinking for a while, he added: "A math subject can be added to the imperial examination, and the same rank as a Jinshi can be given." Although Zhu Yijiong agreed with the imperial examination, he never thought about changing the eight-legged essay of the Jinshi in the imperial examination.

After all, it is useless to change this thing. The real problem lies in the imperial examination system itself, and compared to the entire imperial examination system, the eight-part essay is indeed the most fair and easy to use.

Its biggest role is not to allow candidates to show their talents, but to standardize.

These candidates and scholars all studied hard in the cold window, and they are all novices in politics. In the final analysis, these eight-part essays are the best batch of novices selected based on standardization.

The Mingshu Branch added by Zhu Yijiong is purely a private one.

At least after passing the Ming Shu exam, these Jinshi can at least know how to calculate how many accounts, taxes, and population flows have been processed under their rule, so that they will not be ignored when they become officials.

As for other exams on current affairs, these are essentially useless. They are a bunch of candidates who don't know anything. If you expect them to express any good opinions, even if they do express them, they are mostly just words on paper.

It is mid-March now. From Zhu Yijiong's approval to the Ministry of Rites' announcement to the world in accordance with established procedures, the imperial examination will not be held until April at the earliest, and many scholars from remote places will not be able to make it.

But it doesn't matter, after all, this is the first enke since the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. The main purpose is to show off politics and get familiar with the cabinet etiquette department.

As long as this encore is completed, there will be basically no problems with the more formal Qiu Wei.

In ancient times, the imperial examination was very cumbersome and complicated. You had to take the Tongsheng Examination first to obtain the qualifications for the scientific examination, and then take the Qiu Wei (rural examination) and Spring Wei (regional examination). Only after you passed all the examinations could you go to the imperial examination.

However, after the Spring Festival, if you are lucky, you can still become an official if you wait for a vacancy, but it is not as safe as the imperial examination, and the grade and prospects are not as good as those of a serious Jinshi master.

There were some minor incidents during this period. Zhu Yijiong had just approved the memorial to Enke requested by the Ministry of Rites.

On the second day, Wang Li, Liang Wenxuan, and Zhu Chengxun entered the palace to see Zhu Yijiong at the same time.

The palace was still the palace where he proclaimed himself emperor. The Ministry of Industry originally wanted to renovate the Forbidden City in Nanjing, but considering that it would cost too much, Zhu Yijiong refuted it.

Seeing the three people entering the palace together, Zhu Yijiong was startled and thought there was something wrong with the Songjiang Mansion.

The Ming army has received an offer of surrender from Yuan Tianpei of Songjiang Prefecture, and a prefect's head as a certificate of surrender.

The Ming court naturally attached great importance to this and sent an officer in charge to appease him.

Could it be that we haven't reached an agreement?

Then Yuan Tianpei was so greedy that he killed the recruiting officer?
When Zhu Yijiong got to know him seriously, he realized that it was actually a false alarm. The three people came over with solemn faces early in the morning and actually recommended themselves and asked to be the examiners for this Enke.

Ok!

Zhu Yijiong still ignored the ancients' obsession with imperial examinations, especially since this was the first encore in the founding of the Ming Dynasty, which was of great significance.

These three people seem to have come together, but in fact they are all in competition.

In this regard, Zhu Yijiong treated everyone equally and decisively rebuked all three of them on the spot.

These three people, one is the chief assistant, one is equivalent to the second assistant, and there is also the chief officer of the Privy Council and the assistant minister of the cabinet. Are they very busy every day?

However, this also reminded Zhu Yijiong that since this encore was so important, the examiner could not be given to anyone else.

Just like the previous attack on Nanjing, it was the same as when Emperor Zhu personally conquered Nanjing.

Soon, the announcement of the first visit to Enke since the restoration of the Ming Dynasty was issued by the Ministry of Rites.

For a moment, Jiangnan was shaken.

But among all the scholars, no one laughed or scolded Ming for this incident. Most of them remained silent, and some of them packed up their gift baggage.

　It’s hard to get off work at nine o’clock

　　
　
(End of this chapter)