Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 271 The Imperial Examination Is Really Difficult

At the beginning of Hongwu's 19th year.

The entire Yingtian Mansion is a prosperous scene. Since Beiyuan was defeated by Daming, the national pride and self-confidence of the common people have also increased a lot.

All the streets and alleys were discussing how His Royal Highness King Liao beat Bei Yuan to pieces, and how he captured Emperor Bei Yuan.

As for the fact that the Northern Yuan Emperor was captured by Sapphire, there is little publicity among the people.

And those who know the truth will naturally not promote Sapphire.

Sapphire's reputation is much worse than that of His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

The topicality is naturally not as good, if you are chatting in the streets and alleys, if you don't talk about His Highness Liao, no one will listen to you there.

These words are naturally very familiar to the common people of Yingtian Mansion.

But for those candidates who come to Beijing to rush for the exam, it is very fresh.
There are quite a few people from the countryside, and this is the first time I have heard so much powerful news and content.
And at this time, they would naturally sit down and listen to these people talking about the deeds of Liao King Zhu Qi for no other reason, because this Liao King Zhu Qi was their teacher.

Since the education reform was carried out, not only the Guozijian in Yingtianfu, but even the private schools in the countryside have started to issue new textbooks.

And the new textbooks that have been implemented for several years.

This year, the content of these new textbooks will finally be officially included in the imperial examination.

This is naturally very important to those students.

It's just that there are still some important problems, that is, students in remote places may not have access to these textbooks.

Naturally, they learn later than others, or those who live in remote mountain villages don't even know that there are new textbooks.

Fortunately, this is not the first time Zhu Yuanzhang has dealt with this kind of thing. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, he had done such things as the North and South List.

Regarding the uneven academic performance between the north and the south, now there can be a new and old list. The original Four Books and Five Classics can still be tested, but the imperial positions obtained may be slightly limited.

As for the content of the new-style school, the court positions obtained are more extensive and superior.

This will naturally force those scholars and students to learn the knowledge of the new school. Of course, even those who don't want to study can continue to take the Four Books and Five Classics exams.

And as long as the things of the new school are well spread among the scholars, and after everyone agrees, there will naturally be no mathematics in the new school.

The subjects of physical chemistry are no match for the Four Books and Five Classics.

As long as you study, you can become an official. Which scholar in the world would not want to do it?

Do you really think that books like the Four Books and Five Classics are the greatest dream in the hearts of scholars?
This is naturally impossible.

And after Liao Wang Zhu Qi was appointed as the chief examiner of this imperial examination, he naturally became busy immediately, and all the scholars in Yingtian Mansion heard the news.

If we talk about the past few years, these students were naturally unconvinced when they heard that someone as young as Liao Wang Zhu Qi was coming to be the chief examiner.

But now when they heard that it was Zhu Qi, King of Liao, who came to be the examiner, all of these students would take it for granted, and not only that, but some would sigh.

"As expected of His Royal Highness Liao Wang, I have known for a long time that His Royal Highness Liao Wang must be the pride of all our scholars."

There is no other reason, just learning from the heart alone has made the Liao King Zhu Qi have a great reputation in Confucianism.

Not to mention all the subjects they've learned lately.All are written by His Royal Highness Liao Wang,

Aren't things like mathematics, physics and chemistry written by His Royal Highness Liao Wang himself, and then promoted?

That is to say, all the students who take the new imperial examination, but those who have studied psychology, chemistry, physics and mathematics, are all students of our Highness Liao Wang.

Aren't you happy that your teacher is now an examiner?
These students were naturally very happy in their hearts and took it for granted, but Zhu Qike, king of Liao, was really worried.

Although I am also doing the main examination, printing and distributing test papers, arranging confidential work, and arranging the process and so on.

But Liao King Zhu Qi over Prince Zhu Biao was full of guilt.

Such a showy thing should have been done by his elder brother Zhu Biao, but he didn't expect it to fall on him.

But the work still had to be done, and it didn't take long, when the first month came, the imperial examination soon began.

The exams held in the capital during this time period are also called spring exams.

Gather a group of scholars from all over the world to the capital to select talents together, and these students who pass the exam will enter the imperial court to serve.

The exam work was going on in an orderly manner, and there were no electronic equipment these days, let alone so many surveillance cameras.

Therefore, as long as the candidates are searched and checked for safety, there is no place for cheating, and then separated from them can largely guarantee that cheating will occur.

Of course, the examiner also needs to patrol continuously, and the test will take three days in a fully enclosed environment.

Regarding how to prevent cheating, the wisdom of the ancients is no worse than that of modern people.

At least the current system in the Ming Dynasty must be able to guarantee it.

Because it has been prepared since early in the morning, and there are so many people under my hand to help.

Those officials are much more skilled than themselves in bureaucratic matters.

Not to mention the rigid bureaucratic behavior of scientific examinations, so Zhu Qi basically did nothing, and completed all the work.

And those candidates quickly bid farewell to their families, relatives and friends and entered the examination room.

For the next three days, they will all conduct closed examinations in the examination room.

There are too many subjects to complete, and there are not as few things to learn these days as in the current college entrance examination.

They have to write a long story, and some people even need to write tens of thousands of words by hand in these three days, which is not so easy and casual.

Although Zhu Qi was the chief examiner, he only showed his face and said a word at the beginning. After seeing everyone's excited expressions, Zhu Qi did not appear in the examination room for the next three days.

The main reason is to prevent those students from getting too excited because of my appearance, causing the atmosphere of the scene to be destroyed.

While it may be pretentious to say so, it is also true.

And three days later, the exam ended smoothly, and no one was arrested for cheating. After all, if these students cheated, the consequences would be very serious.

In the lightest case, they will be taken to prison, and in the worst case, they may be released to the border.

After all, the Ming Dynasty severely punished candidates for cheating in the exam.

Then there is the need to correct and grade the papers. Of course, other teachers will do it, but those courses in mathematics, physics and chemistry, if you want to correct them, it is not a job that ordinary scholars can do.

Fortunately, Zhu Qi has already cultivated a lot of talents during this period, so he doesn't need to correct them by himself.

And when he was in charge of the imperial examination, his elder brother Zhu Biao had been assisting him from the side, and he had no intention of having any quarrel with him.

Zhu Qi couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, at least the estrangement between the brothers he thought did not happen.

It's just that after this point, I'm afraid my title of saint will be firmly established.

The only worrying thing is probably my age, which is too young.

Many Confucianists may disagree, but that is for ordinary people, but Zhu Qi's identity is the prince of Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, he has made great contributions to Daming for so many years, and the achievements he has made are also highly anticipated.

It can be said that a saint has done what a saint can do, and he has also done what a saint has not done. If none of these can become a saint, what kind of conditions are there?

And after finishing the imperial examination, the next step is to select those outstanding students. Naturally, Zhu Qi can only go through the first round of selection based on his grades, and then conduct an interview.

But the interview had nothing to do with me, it was the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's business, and Zhu Qi was finally able to rest for a while, but Zhu Yuanzhang obviously didn't intend to let him rest, and soon let Zhu Qi enter the palace to meet the saint.

And Zhu Yuanzhang let Zhu Qi do nothing this time.

The main reason is to let Zhu Qi continue to write his national policy.

After formulating the strategy of engulfing Beiyuan and Goryeo for the Ming Dynasty, in terms of national policy, if Zhu Qi claimed to be the second in the court, no one would dare to claim to be the number one.

You must know that there may be generals who can defeat Bei Yuan, but if you dare to confidently say that you will be able to control Bei Yuan, there is only Liao King Zhu Qi.

And judging from the extent of the implementation of the current plan, if Liao Wang Zhu Qi's strategy can be implemented perfectly, and Daming can continue to develop Beiyuan.

It is only a matter of time before the people of the Northern Yuan Dynasty surrender to Ming and become real Ming people.

Such powerful strategies and policies can only be imagined by our Royal Highness Liao Wang.

That's why Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Qi to write the national policy, laying the foundation for the future generations of Ming Dynasty.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang was supposed to do this matter, but he didn't expect it to fall on him. Zhu Qi was also quite speechless.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was his father and the emperor of Ming Dynasty, and the emperor himself spoke up, so he couldn't say anything.

But he has never had any experience in writing on national policy, those Spring and Autumn strokes and various sentence patterns.
He didn't understand it very well, so he could only write whatever he wanted in vernacular.

If you write like this against other emperors who have received a good education since childhood, I'm afraid they will be reprimanded.
But his policy statement is for his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, who is also a commoner emperor.

Then there's no problem at all.
On the contrary, he wrote this kind of vernacular, and Zhu Yuanzhang liked it even more.
What's more, if Zhu Qi writes vernacular, it will be much easier to promote, and Zhu Qi is also planning to promote vernacular.

However, the biggest obstacle to the promotion of vernacular is not politics, or policy, but productivity. Yes, you heard correctly that productivity restricts the promotion of vernacular.

The reason why ancient people could write classical Chinese is not because that's how they spoke in their daily life.

It is because the things used for writing are too precious. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, bamboo slips and cloth were used.

Bamboo slips, needless to say, were extremely troublesome to make.

You have to have a knife to engrave one by one, if you engrave slowly in vernacular.

You have to write about the year of the monkey, and the cloth is ridiculously expensive.

Even for princes and nobles, it is absolutely impossible for them to write the vernacular Chinese characters of time with cloth and silk.

Naturally, it is as simple as possible. Although paper was invented later, the production scale of paper has not been very large.

There are so many scholars in the world, if everyone uses vernacular, it will definitely not be enough. Even if classical Chinese is used for writing, Luoyang paper is often expensive and so on.

And when you find that productivity has increased, the first thing to increase is the literacy rate.

There is no other reason, it is because ordinary people can afford it, and the books can afford paper, inkstone and pen, and the literacy rate of ink will naturally go up.

After all, in this place in China, every ordinary person is thinking that one day, reading can change their destiny.

The idea that reading can change one's destiny is deeply rooted in the hearts of common people.

Zhu Qi didn't need to save much, and after spending a few days writing a national policy theory, he quickly handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

And his national policy theory is actually very simple, that is to vigorously develop productivity, encourage talents, and improve the level of science and technology, nothing more.

As for foreign conquest and so on, these are things that will come naturally. When you invented Maxim, and the other party is still using spears and bows, conquest is a question of whether you want to, not whether you can. Can't problem anymore.

Zhu Qi also wrote this sentence in the national policy. In short, it is a sentence, as long as the productivity can be vigorously developed.

Internally, ensuring that the peasants are well-fed, that they can eat enough and wear warm clothes, there will be no subversion of the regime.

If it can guarantee the suppression of force and the monopoly of science and technology to the outside world, it will be invincible.

This is also the reason why it is difficult for modern countries to change dynasties. If you think about it, the national armed forces are all kinds of aircraft, artillery and missiles. The most important thing is that everyone's living standards have been greatly improved. How can you To change the dynasty?

Who is full and has nothing to do?

After Zhu Yuanzhang saw this national policy, he did not express any thoughts immediately.

I just went back and thought about it for two days, so I called Zhu Qi over again, and this time not only Zhu Qi was there, but several of his brothers were also present.

After Zhu Yuanzhang showed this national policy to everyone, he took them to the ancestral temple to worship.

Except for Zhu Yuanzhang's father and grandfather provided by the ancestral temple of the old Zhu's family, the names of other people have actually been unable to be verified.

But this does not prevent Zhu Yuanzhang from building Zhuzu Temple beautifully and magnificently.

After the worship, Zhu Yuanzhang led Zhu Qi to the people without saying a word.

Once praised, he only said one sentence to everyone:

Without my son Zhu Qi in the Ming Dynasty, eternity would be like a long night!

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