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Chapter 32: Palace Examination with Hongzhi's Characteristics!
"let's start!"

Emperor Hongzhi was a pragmatic emperor. After the necessary etiquette, he issued the order to start the palace examination.

After the decree was issued, Hongzhi no longer stayed in the Golden Luan Hall, but left under the service of the eunuchs. Not only did he leave, but most of the officials who used to make up the number also left the hall one after another after Hongzhi left.

The three elders of the cabinet, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Liu Jian, stayed, and under them, more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials also stayed as invigilators for the palace examination.

This lineup of invigilators is absolutely luxurious!Imagine what it would be like if a group of senior officials and deputy state-level dignitaries were to invigilate your exams in future generations?

I am afraid that few people can maintain absolute calm, right?

"Everyone, the Palace Examination is an exam to select the best from the best. If you don't fall first, don't feel pressured, and just bring out your best."

After seeing all the tributes find their seats in the examination room one by one, Li Dongyang, the old man with gray hair and beard, encouraged the candidates with a smile, and then nodded to the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

"The time has come, let's begin!"

After the officials from the Ministry of Rites handed out the test questions, Lin Nuo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Before the exam, he also tried to press a few questions according to the character of the current emperor.

Generally speaking, most palace examinations are mainly based on policy theory, but this is not entirely the case, and sometimes current affairs are also tested.

Today's Emperor Hongzhi is a benevolent and pragmatic emperor. Lin Nuo had guessed the exam questions before the exam, and the possibility of taking the current affairs exam is higher.

As for the current affairs, the most likely to be tested are those few.

Opening the sea and banning the sea; how to pacify the indigenous unrest in the southwest; how to increase the inventory when the treasury is empty.
And this current affairs question is based on the current incidents in the southwest region where the aborigines surrendered and then rebelled, rebelling and surrendering again, and asked the candidates to give a definite good policy for governing the country.

Seeing the title, many candidates gasped.

For scholars who are accustomed to citing scriptures and writing policy theories, it is indeed extremely difficult for them to write detailed and good policies for governing the country.

Regarding the issue of the Southwest, in fact, both the imperial court and the people basically hold a kind of argument: If you are not of our race, your heart must be different!
Therefore, from the emperor down to the hundred officials, most of the barbarians in the southwest actually had the mentality of forcibly suppressing the barbarians by the army.

There's no way, it's not that the imperial court has never thought of educating them with the rites of sages, but unfortunately, those barbarians are not educated at all, and there is no way to reason with them except beating them.

Therefore, among the tributes present, the content written was basically how to use troops in the southwest, and some tributes who had a little understanding of the art of war even talked about the method of arranging troops.

Even Xu Wei, a great talent, thinks that the use of soldiers is the main thing, and education is supplemented. He describes in detail how to use soldiers and how to teach, and it is so eloquent that it fills the entire examination paper.

As for Lin Nuo, after seeing the test questions, he closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, sorted out his thoughts, and then began to write.

"Is there no king's land under the whole world, and there is no king's ministers on the coast of leading the land!"

This is the first sentence, the opening point.

The meaning is self-evident, the southwest region is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the so-called barbarians who grew up in the southwest are also the people of the Ming Dynasty!
"To pacify the southwest, I have three strategies, top, middle, and bottom!"

"The worst policy is to use the barbarians to control the barbarians, and lead Guangxi wolf soldiers into Yunnan, Guizhou and other places to suppress the rebellion!"

"The middle policy is to learn the law of the Han Dynasty and implement the Tuen Order among the native officials in the southwest to disintegrate the ruling power of the local native officials!"

"The best policy is to reform the land and return it to the exiles, gradually cancel the system of native officials governing the Southwest, and replace it with exiled officials!"

After proposing the three policies, Lin Nuo described in detail how to implement these three policies, especially the method of reforming land and returning locals. It's full.

Lin Nuo put down the pen with some unfinished intentions, turned his head slightly, and found that Xu Wei had just finished his answer, and put down the pen with a sad expression, as if he was not very satisfied with his answer.

The palace examination is divided into two sessions, starting in the morning and afternoon respectively.

The first half focuses on policy theory or current affairs, writing an article, and the second half mostly focuses on a certain phrase as the topic, writing a poem or song.

Like the provincial examination and general examination, the first half is the most important, especially for a pragmatic emperor like Emperor Hongzhi, who naturally pays more attention to the current affairs articles in the first half. As for the later poems and songs, unless the writing is particularly amazing, otherwise Most of them are swept away without much notice.

After the first half of the exam was over and the officials of the Ministry of Rites put away the papers, the officials of Honglu Temple served each candidate some delicious and attractive meals. After lunch and a short rest, the second half would begin.

A group of examinees may feel that they are not too satisfied with the writing of current affairs. They all looked a little unnatural when they were eating, and they were not in the mood to taste the palace food. After eating hastily, they closed their eyes and rested, preparing for the next exam.

After a short break, the second half of the exam began.

The moment he got the test questions, Lin Nuo secretly smiled inwardly. It seems that Emperor Hongzhi really didn't pay much attention to the second half, and even the questions he asked were very perfunctory.

The topic is extremely simple, that is, to write a poem on the topic of this year's heavy snow.

Whether it is poetry or words, there are no hard and fast rules, and you can write whatever you are good at.

The meaning is self-evident, anyway, I don't bother to read it, you can write whatever you want, it doesn't matter what you write.

Even the emperor was so perfunctory, Lin Nuo was even more lazy to use his brain, and without any shame, slightly modified the masterpiece of the great man of later generations and moved it to this palace test.

"Northern scenery, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow."

Lin Nuo would not have dared to write this poem if it was in the Qing Dynasty, but it didn't matter during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty.

Hongzhi was a benevolent emperor in the Ming Dynasty who opened up the way of speaking, and he was not happy to be convicted for his words.

As a young man less than 20 years old, I wrote poems saying that Emperor Qin, Han and Wu are nothing, and even more powerful people are still alive.

In the eyes of Hongzhi and the courtiers, this is just a young and frivolous madman who loves to brag. Whoever didn't brag when he was young, probably just looked at it and smiled, and didn't take it to heart.

Lin Nuo stopped paying attention to the paper and sat cross-legged on the chair, seemingly closing his eyes to rest his mind, but actually he had already started to practice.

There are not many opportunities to practice in the Golden Luan Hall, so naturally he will not waste such an exciting thing.

Not to mention, it may be the reason why the Golden Luan Palace bears the fate of the country. After only practicing here for half an hour, Lin Nuo felt that his internal strength had increased a little. If he practiced here for a year or so, perhaps his Nine Suns internal strength would They can catch up with Xiu'er.

"Nice place!"

In the evening, Lin Nuo opened his eyes regretfully, and after handing in the paper, he left the Golden Luan Hall with a group of tributes.

Next, all the candidates will have two days of rest, and they will come here again two days later to participate in the ceremony of passing on people, that is, on that day, the emperor will hand-picked the number one scholar, the second place, and the best candidate, and have a feast for all the new scholars .

Lin Nuo looked back at the resplendent Golden Temple with some regrets. He left this time, and he didn't know when he wanted to practice in the Golden Temple next time.

(End of this chapter)