Daming Military Empire

Chapter 269

Of course, the palace examination is not just a matter of ordering the number one scholar and setting the second place and the third place. All subsequent candidates must also arrange seats, and determine the first, second and third best. He was born with Jinshi.

Don't underestimate this ranking, the ranking of first, second and third basically determines the candidates' future prospects.

First graders usually go directly to the Imperial Academy, the number one scholar is awarded to the Imperial Academy for editing, the second place and Tanhua are awarded to the Imperial Academy to edit, and the others are awarded to Shu Jishi. These are actually short-term positions. Entering the Imperial Academy means that you have the qualifications to be a high-ranking official. Qualifications, when there are vacancies in local or central senior positions, people are usually selected from the Hanlin Academy to fill them up. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a rule that "non-Hanlin students are not allowed to join the cabinet", which means that if you are not from the Hanlin Academy, you don't even want to enter the cabinet.

Erjia usually goes to take the exam for Shu Jishi, and strives to enter the Imperial Academy. If they fail the exam, they will be directly awarded official positions. Generally, they are the sixth- and seventh-rank officials under the six ministries of the Qing Dynasty, or the officials and judges of the state capitals. What.Of course, there are also those who are lucky enough to be appointed as departmental officials, that is, the Sixth Division and the various supervisory censors. Don’t look at the positions of these two kinds of officials who are only at the seventh rank, and they have great power, as mentioned above. , I won’t repeat it here, in short, Erjia still has a bright future.

The top three are different. They will usually be transferred directly to the local area to serve as county magistrates or seventh-rank officials at the state level. Unless they have made amazing achievements in this life, they can only be transferred around the country, and they will die. At the sixth rank, you can no longer go up.

Of course, these refer to the local candidates of the Ming Dynasty. This Ding Chou Imperial Examination is not limited to the candidates of the Ming Dynasty, but also the candidates of the vassal states such as Korea, Dongying and Ryukyu. Although their prospects may not be the same as those of the Ming candidates, they are more or less the same It will be affected by the ranking. If the vassal kings and vassal kings don’t look at the rankings when they go back, they randomly assign officials, so that the positions of the third-class and Jinshi are higher than the second-class or first-class Jinshi. They will probably run away If Daming comes to appeal for grievances, then Daming will have to deal with those feudal lords and vassal kings, who the hell made you mess around!
This time, because the number of candidates has more than doubled, the number of top-ranked scholars has also been adjusted accordingly. In the previous imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty, first-class Jinshi and No.10 were generally selected, and second-class was granted to 400 Jinshi, and nearly [-] third-class and Jinshi. .This time, there are [-] first-class Jinshi and second-class scholars, [-] second-class Jinshi, and as many as [-] third-class and Jinshi.

Zhu Cijiong's Jinshi ranking is not based on regions, but is almost always based on the level of strategy and writing. Candidates from Japan, North Korea, and Ryukyu have to be distracted to learn their own languages ​​and cultures. They spend more time studying the Four Books and Five Classics than Ming There are far fewer candidates, and the level is naturally limited, so the first and second grades are almost all candidates from the Ming Dynasty, and the candidates from Japan, North Korea and Ryukyu are basically the top three.

In order to comfort the examinees who came from these dependent countries, Zhu Cijiong specially reserved two places in the first class for Dongying and North Korea, and the second class also reserved [-] places for Dongying and North Korea. As for Ryukyu, there are only a few dozen candidates in total. There are less than ten Jinshi, so it is almost enough to grant a second-class place, and the rest are all in the third-class.

The palace examination is over, but all the candidates who participated in the palace examination did not leave the capital immediately, and Zhu Cijiong took great pains to prepare a series of activities for them.

First of all, Zhu Cijiong asked the Ministry of Rites to prepare a big red book for all candidates this year, which is their "Jinshi certificate", with three rows of gold-plated characters printed on the cover:

The upper left corner of the first row is printed with "Daming Chongzheng Dynasty Dingchou Branch First Class", "Daming Chongzheng Dynasty Ding Chou Branch Second Class", "Daming Chongzheng Dynasty Ding Chou Branch Three Class";
In the middle of the second row are printed "Jinshi Jiji", "Give Jinshi's background", and "Same Jinshi's background";
The lower right corner of the third row is uniformly printed with the words "Ministry of Rites, Guozijian Amnesty".

Inside are the candidate's name, age, and place of origin. They are also stamped with the big seals of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Zhu Cijiong of Chongzheng. The bright red ones are really beautiful.

In fact, Ming Dynasty candidates don’t need this thing at all, because the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials keep their files, and they can be seen when they are promoted, but the candidates of North Korea, Dongying and Ryukyu are different. Their official certificates, especially candidates from North Korea and Ryukyu, they are vassal states, and officials are appointed and dismissed by the vassal king. Once this thing is taken back, the vassal king must at least give him a seven-rank county magistrate. Of course, according to the current two countries The number of Jinshi is rare, and they are likely to be Zhizhou, Zhifu or even Six Ministers.

As for the candidates in Japan, because they belong to the country, their positions are all appointed and dismissed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty. The symbolic meaning of this thing is greater than the actual meaning. Taking it back to show off in front of relatives and friends is also a matter of face.

Zhu Cijiong also made arrangements for the appointment and removal of Dongying officials. He asked the Ministry of Civil Affairs to directly reorganize the Dongying court according to the civil service system of Ming Dynasty. Wait a minute, let them all be exempted, and directly replaced by the name and position of Daming. At least North Korea opened Enke once. It's unlucky for a magistrate to be a county magistrate.

Zhu Cijiong deliberately recruited all the Jinshi to the Hall of the Emperor the next day, and handed out the "Certificate of Jinshi" to them one by one, and everyone encouraged a few words, nothing more than to be diligent in being an official, to be honest, If you want to be loyal to the emperor and love the country, don't underestimate this ceremony. In the future, these Jinshi will deeply remember today's scene, and the majesty of His Majesty the Ming Emperor will always be engraved in their hearts.

Zhu Cijiong just wanted to let them understand that the emperor of the Ming Empire was the real master of the world, and that the vassal kings belonged to the kings and so on were just the princes under him.

After the end of the Ding Chou Imperial Examination, many candidates from the vassal states did not return to China to take up positions. They all chose to stay in the Daming Academy of Arts and Sciences to continue their studies, and strive to be nominated for the gold list in three years. This is also the benefit that Zhu Cijiong gave them. Those who failed the general examination and did not obtain the title of Jinshi can apply to study in the Daming Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Daming will provide free food and lodging.

This would cost a lot of money, and even the Daming Academy of Arts and Sciences had to expand the dormitory, but Zhu Cijiong didn't care about the money at all. He just wanted to dilute the influence of the vassal states and vassal kings and subordinate kings in this way, and strengthen the influence of these candidates. Daming's sense of belonging.

Zhu Cijiong believed that after decades or even hundreds of years of this, even if the vassal kings and subordinate kings wanted to fight for independence, no one would ignore him, and the country of Ming Dynasty would be as stable as a rock.

(End of this chapter)