Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 569 The emperor personally inspected six thousand disciples. Dongsheng was attacked and fell unexpectedly.
Time flies, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

On February [-]th, the general examination will begin.Three thousand civil examinations and three thousand military examinations gathered in the capital.

On February 22, the trial ended.

Times make heroes. Three thousand people were elected, and five hundred people were admitted to the imperial examination. On average, one person won the imperial examination for every six people who were elected. It can be regarded as the simplest imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty.

The key is that the previous Jinshis had to slowly complete their qualifications after high school. If they wanted to be promoted to county magistrate or something, they had to wait hard for a job.

This year is good, as long as you win the Jinshi, you will start as a county magistrate immediately, without any waiting.

The prosperity of the world is for profit; the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.

Although the emperor wants to destroy the Buddha and seize his direct descendants, he is still obsessed with being the emperor of the Han Dynasty all day long. It is really absurd and out of tune.

However, the emperor could not stand it and gave him too much: if he won the imperial examination, he would not only be able to take charge of power immediately, but also the salary of officials in Annan, Myanmar, Gansu and other provinces was fully [-]% higher than that of officials at the same level in the mainland.

The top group of talented students are still waiting for Jingtai's five-year formal examination, but a large number of middle- and upper-class students have come to participate in this session.

February 23, early morning.

Zhu Qiyu sat on the couch, facing the three thousand test papers in front of him, and began to study them one by one.

The eight-part essay part was completely handed over to He Yi and others, while Zhu Qiyu only read the policy part.Only from policy discussions can we glean a person's political tendencies.

Lin Xiangyu nestled in Zhu Qiyu's arms and asked curiously: "Master, do you really want to read these three thousand test papers from beginning to end?"

Zhu Qiyu nodded seriously: "What else should I do? The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Now I can easily decide the fate of a student with just a stroke of my pen.

I can make a person successful at will, or I can ruin a person's life at will.

So I can be a little ridiculous about other things, but I still have to be very serious when marking.

Look at them one by one, comment on them one by one, and find the talents that Ming Dynasty needs. "

"Assuming that if you finish reading it in ten days, you will have to approve [-] exam papers every day!"

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said, "It's okay. With a beauty in my arms, I'm not tired at all."

It's such a boast, but Zhu Qiyu actually read it for eight hours a day, marking about 120 exam papers, and read it for 25 days before finally finishing the review.

Then He Yi led his people to make a copy of the examination papers and submitted them to the Ministry of Personnel for archiving.The original papers were returned to the candidates as a souvenir and encouragement.

The candidates were also very surprised. It was the first time I heard that the test papers were sent back to the candidates.

When I got the exam papers back, I realized that each exam paper had the emperor's personal annotations on it.Since he ascended the throne, Zhu Qiyu has been practicing calligraphy seriously in his spare time. Although he is not as good as calligraphy masters now, he can barely catch the eye.

Wang Yan, the Qing Mansion's accompanying student, also got the test paper. What was different from everyone else was that the emperor had annotated thousands of words on Wang Yan's test paper.

For example, the third policy topic discusses the gains, losses and necessity of Zheng He's voyages to the West.

Wang Yan listed the background, experiences, and achievements of Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, and put forward the theory of opening up permanent routes.The most important point is to mobilize civilian forces to form a joint force with the government and the army to thoroughly Chineseize the route.

In the spirit of discussion and exchange, Zhu Qiyu put forward his own ideas: build an invincible fleet, occupy important ports, guard transportation arteries, and establish a naval base.Overseas provinces were also set up to cooperate with feudal lords and nobles to relocate Han people and achieve permanent occupation of strategic places along the route.

Finally, Zhu Qiyu also asked Wang Yan to write more memorials and continue in-depth exchanges and discussions with him.

Wang Yan watched the emperor's imperial writing with excitement. Nowadays, people usually write in regular script or Song script, but the emperor wrote a very distinctive Han Li style.Moreover, the font shape is concise and straight, soft yet strong. To be precise, it is a variant of Han Li.

After getting excited, Wang Yan also shook his head, "Emperor, everything is different."On March 25, the test results will be released.On March 28, the palace examination began.

It took until April [-]th to finally release the results, and the top three Jinshi were officially announced.

Zhu Qiyu only left Wang Yan, Tanhualang, as the editor of Zhongshu and the editor of Hanlin Academy. The rest were all released to the outside world.

On April [-], Zhu Qiyu went to the capital, summoned the current literary and military scholars, and gave them instructions and encouragement.

But this time the location is not Fengtianmen, but Shangshengxian Palace.

What is Shangshengxian Palace?

Since Sun gave Queen Hu the title of Immortal Master Jingci, today I will fight back and give Queen Hu the title of 'Shangsheng', and name the place where her jade statue is located Immortal Palace.

Zhu Qiyu stood on the ten-foot-high stargazing platform. Behind him was the nearly twenty-foot-high jade statue of the Holy Queen. Under the stage were five hundred literary scholars and five hundred martial arts scholars.

Before the lecture, the emperor led everyone to kneel down and worship the jade statue of the Holy Queen.

The first lesson Zhu Qiyu taught the new scholars was the obedience test: I, Emperor Jingtai, am the legitimate son of Queen Xuanmiao and Shangsheng.If you agree, then kneel down and worship with me.If you don’t agree, no problem, just get out of here as soon as possible.

Everything is said in advance, don't say it is unforeseen.When you kowtow, it means you have confirmed your political stance.

However, no one left, and they all kowtowed to the emperor honestly.

Next, Zhu Qiyu gave an amiable and admonishing talk, vividly describing a bright blueprint for the future of the Ming Dynasty to the new scholars, and drew a good pie.

In the next few days, Zhu Qiyu used the same process to meet with the civil and military officials who were ranked behind him in three batches.

After completing this process, Zhu Qiyu's mission was finally completed.

What remains is that the cabinet, the Sixth Ministry, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other yamen have conducted more than half a month of training for new scholars and candidates.

On the first day of May, Jinshi and Juren left Beijing one after another and went to Annan, Myanmar, Gansu and other provinces to take up posts.

On the sixth day of May, the Dragon Boat Festival has just ended, and the good days are coming to an end.

Early in the morning, Zhu Qiyu hugged a beauty on each side and slept soundly in the warm quilt.

Qianxue and Suxi ran in in a panic and shook Zhu Qiyu awake.

Zhu Qiyu frowned and asked: "My dear ladies, what's such a big deal that you let you manipulate me with such bitter hatred?"

Qianxue replied: "Wala Gongshun Wang Huo'er suddenly led [-] cavalry and led King Yi to attack thousands of miles away. Dongsheng City was unprepared and was captured.

More than [-] soldiers of the various guards were killed and countless wounded, and they all fled towards Xuanfu. "

When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he sat up and said, "What are you talking about, Dongsheng City has been breached? I have allocated a full 30 taels of internal funds specifically for the reconstruction and expansion of Dongsheng City, and greatly strengthened the city's defenses.

I have had people start repairing it since the beginning of the second year of Jingtai. Last year, I ordered Shanxi Governor Li Bing to personally supervise it. What are they doing? "

"Li Bing, the governor of Shanxi, is in Taiyuan now. He said that he wants to sort out the guard land in Taiyuan and Pingyang to prevent encroachment by gentry, powerful men and military generals.

Only when the garrison has sufficient food can it support large-scale reinforcement of the Great Wall and block the attacks of Oara and Tatar cavalry. "

Zhu Qiyu sneered and was too lazy to argue with Li Bing: "Then I want to know, even if Li Bing is not in Dongsheng to guard against the Oara and Tatars, Dongsheng will not be defeated by Huo'erhuda and breach the city wall, right?"

(End of this chapter)