Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Zhu Xuan waved his hand, and Hou Xian immediately took apart the name that was written on it.

The one at the front was naturally the first place winner of the imperial examination. Zhu Xuan took a look and saw that this person's name was Zeng Qi, the second place was Zhou Shu, and the third place was Zhou Mengjian...

"Zeng Qi, the first place winner in the imperial examination, what do you think of him?"

It was the first time that Zhu Xuan presided over the imperial examination, and there were indeed many things he did not understand, especially about those scholars, he had no idea who they were.

"A talented person from Jiangxi."

Zhang Xun knew this person and nodded, saying, "He is indeed a talented person. He won the first place in the examination the first time he went to Beijing to take the exam. People outside are saying that he is quite talented and writes excellent articles."

At this time in the Ming Dynasty's imperial examinations, good essay writing was no longer the only criterion for judging results.

“The article is indeed well written.”

Zhu Xuan simply glanced at Zeng Qi's article and said, "It's not the kind of gorgeous ones that are good, but very simple. He has a deep understanding of our government affairs. What he wrote is quite useful. Zeng Qi is good!"

He compared it again, the second, third, and even later articles.

There is a reason why they chose Zeng Qi as the first. Zeng Qi has a good understanding of various policies in the court, is very pragmatic, and gives very accurate insights.

“To be number one.”

Zhu Xuan said again.

After hearing this, Zhang Xun slowly exhaled.

How worried he was. Zhu Xuan felt that they were partial to one another when marking the papers. In fact, the officials who temporarily changed the marking process did so out of concern that they might be partial to one another. Zhang Xun was very clear about all this.

Zhu Xuan just commented on Zeng Qi's article and then turned the page.

Finally, he found Jian Jinzhong's paper among the eighth place in the imperial examination. He was particularly impressed by Jian Jinzhong. He read his paper and found that the essay was well written.

However, perhaps because of Jian Jinzhong's poor family background, he usually did nothing but read books, and had little exposure to court policies or current affairs. The articles he wrote were also pragmatic, but his insights were indeed not as good as those ranked above.

With limited knowledge, he was able to write so many practical suggestions, taking everything into consideration and doing a really good job. To get the eighth place is a real display of strength.

Zhu Xuan admired Jian Jinzhong and thought, "If he has Zeng Qi's insight, it's hard to say who will be the first in the examination."

After reading Jian Jinzhong's paper, Zhu Xuan continued to look at other people's papers.

There were quite a few people who came to take the imperial examinations. These were the people on the list, and their number was extremely large. But there was no need to worry about too many officials passing the examinations and not having so many positions to assign.

The Ming Dynasty was so large that it needed a lot of officials.

A group of officials were killed by Zhu Xuan not long ago, and now someone is available to fill the position.

When Zhang Xun saw Zhu Xuan flipping through the books, he didn't dare to disturb him and stood below waiting for orders.

Zhu Xuan only looked at the first part. After watching the first part, he felt bored when watching the latter part. After all, after watching the good ones, the feeling can be completely different when watching the worse ones.

"What about those foreigners?"

Zhu Xuan asked.

"At the very back."

Zhang Xun lowered his head and said, "The essays written by foreigners are even worse, but we need to show them some extra leniency now. Those who should not have passed the exam have been included in the list."

It is necessary to ensure that most of the first batch of foreigners who come to take the imperial examinations can become officials in the Ming Dynasty.

Only in this way can we attract more people.

As long as they want to be officials in the Ming Dynasty and want to personally experience the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, they must study and read the Confucianism of the Ming Dynasty to have this rare opportunity.

Zhu Xuan flipped to the end and found the papers of the foreigners, but there were only so many foreigners and the names on the papers were not covered up.

The content they wrote was indeed very different from that of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, but considering Zhu Xuan's policies, the officials of the Ministry of Personnel had to be placed last.

"These Koreans, no!"

Zhu Xuan was not targeting the Koreans, but after taking a look at the articles written by the Koreans, he found that they were at the bottom of the list, messy and confusing.

Normally speaking, the people in Goryeo who accepted Chinese culture were more than those in other regions, and their degree of Sinicization was also higher.

Since the Tang Dynasty, Goryeo, like Japan, has been constantly absorbing Chinese culture. Many Confucian classics can be found in Goryeo, and those Goryeo people understand Confucian knowledge. However, the candidates who came to take the exam this time were so bad that Zhu Xuan couldn't stand it.

It was just a perfunctory test. People just came to take the test casually and their attitude was almost invisible.

Zhang Xun asked worriedly, "Gao Li is indeed very bad, but if we single them out, will it cause a bad reaction?"

Zhu Xuan waved his hand and said, "It's okay! The others wrote poorly, but they also wrote down the answers normally and gave suggestions on how to do it. They have a certain level of ability. Let's look at these Koreans..."

He didn't even know how to evaluate it, it was just terrible.

It's good enough that they didn't cheat in the exam.

In fact, when the officials who were marking the papers, such as Zhang Xun, saw the Korean papers, their first impression was similar to Zhu Xuan's. They thought, what kind of garbage is written? Their attitude was not visible at all.

However, for the sake of assimilation, they had no choice but to stuff their papers in and wait for Zhu Xuan's arrangements.

"Get rid of them."

Zhu Xuan said without hesitation: "What we need is someone who can govern the country, not someone like this who is nothing."

"Yes!"

Zhang Xun nodded.

Since Zhu Xuan specifically pointed out that those Koreans should be removed, the Ministry of Personnel could feel much more relieved. At least they no longer had to be disgusted by the Koreans.

"The announcement of the results and the palace examination..."

Zhang Xun said again.

Zhu Xuan said, "Don't worry. Let Grandpa Huang arrange the palace examination. When the results are announced, I will take these essays to Grandpa Huang to have a look and wait for his decision."

"Yes!"

Zhang Xun nodded.

They almost forgot that Zhu Xuan was not the emperor yet.

The current emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still Zhu Yuanzhang!

Zhu Xuan was only the regent and could not overstep his authority in this regard.

Zhu Xuan waved his hand and let Zhang Xun go down first.

Finally, looking at the papers on the table, Zhu Xuan took them all with him and went to the Qianqing Palace to show them to Old Zhu.

"Has the ranking been determined?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Xuan bringing the test paper, he raised his head and asked.

Zhu Xuan nodded and said, "It's arranged. Please have a look, Grandpa Emperor."

Zhu Yuanzhang opened the paper, briefly looked at the order, then looked at the content of the answers, nodded and said, "For the time being, let's stick to this. This time, they are fair."

He was in it and didn't see any problem.

Zhu Xuan smiled and said, "My grandson temporarily changed the reviewer. Otherwise, whether he could be fair or not is another matter."

“How dare they be unfair?”

Old Zhu listened and snorted coldly at first.

But we also know the character of those officials. They dare to be unfair and do anything.

"There is also the palace examination. How will Grandpa Huang arrange it?"

Zhu Xuan asked again.

"We don't care. You can arrange it."

Zhu Yuanzhang completely gave up his power and said, "You are the crown prince, you are the regent. I will let you do all these things to gain some experience." (End of this chapter)