control the heavens

Chapter 19
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the palace examination began to hold a ceremony where the emperor announced the ranking of Jinshi, and gave a banquet in Qiongyuan, so it was called Qionglin Banquet.

Later, in order to show the emphasis on talents, all dynasties and generations followed this system after the palace examination. After the ranking was announced in the palace examination, the emperor gave a banquet in Qiongyuan, and Jinshi and civil and military officials had a banquet in Qionglin.

This shows the solemnity of the palace examination. There are students cheating in the provincial and general examinations, but there will never be any gongshi whose head is burned to cheat in the palace examination, because once cheating is discovered, the emperor will directly order the guards in front of the palace to arrest him in a rage. Pull down to execute.

"It's time! All tributes, start the exam!"

On the Golden Luan Hall, a eunuch's sharp voice spread throughout the entire Golden Luan Hall, making people feel goosebumps.

Tang Han looked at the test questions on the test paper. Generally speaking, the palace test is mostly based on policy theory, but it is not completely like this. Sometimes it will test current affairs.But this time the imperial examination was a combination of policy theory and current affairs. Tang Han was also indifferent. He browsed the questions, thought for a while, and answered the questions with a pen.

As for the last question on current affairs, it is a very interesting question. It is based on the current events in the southwest region where the aborigines surrendered and then rebelled, and then rebelled and surrendered.

Tang Han showed a thoughtful look, while the other candidates gasped when they saw this question.

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, in fact, most of the barbarians in the southwest have no choice but to use the army to force them. , can't reason with them at all.

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.

Tang Han slightly closed his eyes, thinking about the policies of the Manchu and Qing dynasties towards the southwestern barbarians. Among the past dynasties, among the policies towards the grasslands and the southwestern barbarians, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had the best effect and the least rebellious dynasty on the border.And there is also the Republic, which can be used as a reference for the governance of the frontier land.

On the contrary, at this time, the imperial court's policy towards the Southwest was either blindly using troops, or blindly being gentle, and there were even quite a few voices to abandon the "Southwest" so as not to worry about it.This makes the southwestern region perennially restless, and wars break out from time to time.

It took Tang Han half an hour to sort out his thoughts before he started to compare.

"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!
The land of the Southwest is very important, and it is the strength of the Central Plains. How can the territory that our ancestors worked so hard to give up at will!
Tang Han directly wrote down the necessity and policy of "reforming the land and returning it to the flow". He suggested that "reform the land and return it to the flow" in the southwest. Dedication is the best policy, and imperial edicts are the worst policy." "The method of making seedlings should be used in combination with kindness and power.".It is suggested to establish a chieftain system, implement the dual governance of chieftains and officials dispatched by the imperial court, and wait for the time to mature in the future, and then the official officials of the imperial court can be the leading ones.It is suggested that after the implementation of "reform the land and return it to the local people", it is necessary to use tactics to capture illegal chieftains, and to use soldiers to suppress them;Use force to deter each other, and strive to solve it by political means.

Unknowingly, he filled the entire paper completely, and he was still unsatisfied. He asked the eunuch to take another piece of paper, and Tang Han continued to write. Set up fiefdoms and move the vassal kings of the Central Plains to the border, just like enforcing eight hundred princes as a barrier in the Zhou Dynasty to consolidate the frontier land.

It has been more than 100 years since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty formulated the clan policy.It was okay at the beginning, and the power of the imperial court can naturally bear it.However, with more and more people in the clan, the salary increases every year. Now, the salary of the clan accounts for one-third of the income of the imperial court. It can be said that if this continues, the imperial court will be dragged down.

In the past life, many people studied the history of the Ming Dynasty. The demise of the Ming Dynasty can be basically summarized into several points: [-]. When encountering the Little Ice Age, the climate became colder, natural disasters increased, and land production decreased; [-]. Party struggles became fierce in the later period. , the eunuchs and the civil official group, the civil official group's infighting, and the Donglin Party's talk; three, the huge clan!

When the eunuch's sharp voice announced the end of the exam, Tang Han had just finished writing the last word. Looking at the neat and beautiful calligraphy on the paper, Tang Han was very satisfied. Up to now, his handwriting can be said to be better than his previous life. All the calligraphers I saw on the Internet wrote beautifully.

After the palace examination, the scholars of the Tang and Han Dynasties were taken to the side hall by the eunuchs to wait, and the emperor and all civil and military officials would review the examination papers and select the tribute scholars who ranked [-]. .

There were pastries and tea prepared in the side hall. Tang Han picked up a piece of pastry and put it in his mouth. He thought it was really delicious.After taking another sip of tea, I just feel that my mouth is full of tea fragrance, which is wonderful.

"If this kind of tea was put in a tea shop in my previous life, I'm afraid a catty of tea could sell for tens of thousands." Tang Han praised secretly.

Not long after, the officials of Honglu Temple brought some delicious and attractive meals to each candidate. After lunch and a short rest, the top [-] will be announced in the afternoon.

In the Golden Luan Hall, Emperor Hongzhi, sitting on the dragon chair, was reading the top ten articles sent by the cabinet ministers and officials of the Ministry of Rites, his expression did not change much.Being able to become a tribute, especially the top ten selected by cabinet ministers and officials of the Ministry of Rites, naturally has strong writing and language organization skills. Hongzhi can get a general idea of ​​the point of view in the article just by glancing over it.

"Hey, good characters! Good characters!" Emperor Hongzhi picked up a test paper, and praised it when he saw the words before reading the content. As Emperor Hongzhi read the article carefully, a flash of light flashed in his eyes from time to time , nodding again and again.

"Reform the land and return to the bloc!?" Emperor Hongzhi muttered to himself in a low voice, only he could hear him, and his expression was different.

Emperor Hongzhi's childhood was very rough and unfortunate. He experienced cruel struggles in the harem since he was a child. His father, Emperor Xianzong, only favored Concubine Wan Gui, who was jealous and had no children.Emperor Hongzhi's mother was also a court lady. She was favored once, but she had a bad pregnancy and gave birth to Hongzhi's younger brother after going through all kinds of difficulties.Emperor Hongzhi grew up eating hundreds of meals in the harem, and was not recognized by the emperor until he was six years old. At the age of six, due to long-term confinement, his fetal hair had not diminished, and he was dragged to the ground extremely thin.Even if he was named the crown prince, he was framed and poisoned several times by Concubine Wan Gui.

When Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne as emperor, what the previous emperor left him was a country with chaotic government and withered national power. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was riddled with holes.After his hard work, the imperial court gradually improved, and it was much better than when he ascended the throne.

But Emperor Hongzhi has always had a heart problem, that is, in the past ten years since he ascended the throne, the southwest where his biological mother was located was often in chaos. Emperor Hongzhi had a headache.

It is precisely because of this that Emperor Hongzhi personally drafted the questions on current affairs this year, using current affairs in the Southwest as the exam questions. He did not place much hope at first. Woolen cloth.

However, after watching "Reform the land and return to the stream", Emperor Hongzhi seemed to be touched. He faintly felt that this method was a good one. It could not only solve the border problem, but also solve the problem of the clan and vassals.

As an emperor of Zhongxing, Emperor Hongzhi was naturally a wise man, who could see the disadvantages of current politics, but was limited by his vision and thinking, so he couldn't find a good way.

Emperor Hongzhi handed over Tang Han's article to the eunuch, and then took a pen and wrote it on the position of the number one scholar on the list-Tang Han.

As a result, Tang Han became the third person to "connect three yuan" since the Ming Dynasty opened.

(End of this chapter)