Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Since Hongguang, there have been few imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty. Only Zhu Tianlin, who served as Minister of Rites and Dongge University in the fourth year of Yongli, recommended his younger brother Zhu Tianfeng to preside over the Guizhou Township Exam. In the eighth year of Yongli's calendar, Sun Kewang set up a cadet examiner in Guiyang, and selected 54 people including Chen Shiji. Huiyuan Chen Shiji was appointed by Sun Kewang as the magistrate of Qingfu County in Sichuan, and later recommended the arsenal secretary of the Ministry of War.

In addition to these two more influential township examinations and general examinations, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin in the tenth year of the Yongli calendar, organized a township examination in Yunnan and selected 36 scholars. After the Taiping army occupied Guangzhou and defeated the army of Jidu and went south, Zhou Shixiang considered to win the hearts of the scholars, so at the suggestion of Song Xianggong, he opened a Guangdong township examination, and more than 100 students were selected. It's just that this Guangdong provincial examination is different from the previous imperial examinations. The scholars in the middle exam are not directly awarded officials, but first go to Guangdong University to study for three years, and then they can be awarded officials only after they have obtained their academic achievements. This move made many scholars in Guangdong dissatisfied, and there was the case of attacking the palace last year. From the scholar's point of view, as long as they pass the imperial examination, they should get the official position, instead of taking another three years of miscellaneous studies and delaying their years.

After the attack on the palace was suppressed, Zhou Shixiang led the Northern Expedition, and the Guangdong side was committed to building villages and villages and restoring production and people's livelihood, providing food and grass for the front line, and attacking domestic bandits. After the restoration of the southern capital, Zhou Shixiang was busy pacifying the south of the Yangtze River, securing the occupied areas and the battle to cross the river, and he was temporarily unable to take care of the imperial examinations. But this matter has already been put on his agenda, because he knows that the so-called people's hearts do not refer to the hearts of the common people, but the hearts of the gentry, and the best way to win over the gentry is undoubtedly to open the imperial examination and select the elites, so that these gentry Can have a career, so they will join the new dynasty, not the first and second ends.

In other words, Zhou Shixiang wanted to open Enke for a long time, and the scholars who Enke accepted were undoubtedly the scholars in Jiangnan. It's just that he has been hesitant about this, because now he doesn't have enough talents to help establish a scientific system similar to the previous life, form a systematic theory, and even don't have a few textbooks, and the school only created one Guangdong University Hall, so If the imperial examinations were to be held, they could only be taken from the old eight-legged divisions. The scholars who came up in this way were not in line with Zhou Shixiang's original intention of employing people, and even contradicted the policies he was about to implement.

No matter how good a policy is, it needs people to implement it. If the people who implement it are those who oppose it, then the policy cannot be implemented. The illiteracy rate of officers at all levels in the Taiping Army has reached 80%, so it is impossible to expect to transfer people from the army to start this matter. Considering this, Zhou Shixiang wanted to put this aside in advance, and decide the new establishment of the Wu Dynasty, and the world was not unified, whether the court or the army, the focus was still on war and preparation for war, so there was no rush to start the imperial examination. In addition, there are many people who are demoted. These people are not all incompetent and incompetent. Some people have no virtue but are capable. It is completely okay to use them to appease and govern the people. .

Zhou Shixiang planned to wait until the batch of talents trained by Guangdong University Hall had achieved results in various places in Guangdong, and after gaining experience, he could really become a powerful assistant in the implementation of his policies before he could consider opening the imperial examination. In this way, even if the first few imperial examinations are still not in his mind, at least someone can help him to change slowly, instead of being helpless. At the very least, it is still possible to open some new-style schools in Nanjing and some provincial capitals. In the court, some new learning was advocated, and a group of new learning officials were reused, whether it was Ming or Ming, and under various means, the new learning could always gain a foothold in the reborn Ming Dynasty. At that time, whether it is possible to boil frogs in warm water or enforce it, there is no need to worry about no one being available.

But now Qian Qianyi and the others suddenly proposed to hold the first imperial examination of the Dingwu Dynasty, in the name of "Enke", and won the approval of Emperor Dingwu. Shangshu echoed this matter, which made Zhou Shixiang unable to arbitrarily decide and delay the matter.

Zhou Shixiang read Qian Qianyi's copy of Shangshu, and the reason is very good. He said that after the great chaos, people's minds are calm. At this time, it is time to heal the wounds, the people's anger, and the world. When the imperial examination begins, it is natural for scholars to return to their hearts, and people in the world can also stable. Qian Qianyi's sparseness has another meaning, but he wants to attract scholars from Jiangnan to the Dingwu court through this Enke, so that they will no longer have expectations for the Yongli Emperor who Wu Sangui welcomes.

Human nature is selfish, and as an official of the Dingwu Dynasty, the scholars will naturally defend the Dingwu Dynasty with all their might. Zhou Shixiang also believed in this, and he was even certain that if Tang Gui fought again in the future, the first to stand up for Emperor Dingwu's legitimacy would be the scholars who had passed the Dingwu imperial examination.

After much thought, Zhou Shitong agreed to open the imperial examination, and sent a message to Ding Zhixiang and Yuan Kuoyu in the southern capital, asking them to draft the regulations for the imperial examination. It is also stipulated that the first Enke will only be opened in Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, and other places will not be opened for the time being. The time is roughly set to start the township test in each province in March, and then the provinces will send the students of the middle class to Nanjing to participate in the general test. Finally, the palace test will be held to select the champion, second place, and Tanhua Lang of the Dingwu Dynasty~www.readwn. com~ As for the Qing occupation area, if there are scholars willing to come to participate in the imperial examination, the provinces can also make arrangements.

In terms of time, the township examination will be held in March, and the meeting and palace examination will be held in April. This must be rushed. This year is not Zhou Shixiang's previous life, he can travel hundreds of kilometers by car in a day or two. It takes a few days for scholars to travel from their hometowns to the county and prefectural cities, and the longest to the provincial capital can take more than 20 days. Therefore, although foreign provinces are allowed to come to participate in the imperial examinations, the actual reference is still the scholars of the three provinces.

It is because Zhou Shixiang now regards Guangdong and Guangxi as his own experimental field. Most of the scholars who do not want to listen to him are either in prison, or they are sent back to their hometown to supervise after taking their fame. They are all aware of current affairs and willing to learn new things in a down-to-earth manner. Even if these people are limited in their abilities, their attitude determines that Zhou Shixiang is willing to reuse them. As long as they succeed in their studies and make achievements in the local area, Zhou Shixiang doesn't mind that the outstanding talents among them will be able to sit on the court in the future.

After picking up the pen and writing letters to Ding Zhixiang and Yuan Kuoyu, Zhou Shixiang thought about it, and finally wrote the number of 260 in the letter. These 260 people are the candidates for the imperial examination, and the number of people sent to Nanjing to participate in the general examination from the three provinces is also the same number.

After arranging the imperial examinations, Zhou Shixiang came to the military staff room and discussed the Zhejiang war with military officials Guo Xiong. (To be continued.)