Chapter 532 This damn spring
It was about to be the spring exam, and Zhu Youxiao has been busy these days.
What are you busy doing? You are busy giving papers to those who come to take the exam.
What papers are produced? The papers produced will make many people cry.
In fact, Zhu Youxiao personally gave the papers, which was purely helpless. Although he had already brought the six pieces of the work in advance, a big problem happened to be exposed.
That is, he has too few talents.
Even if he had mastered all the six ministers of the second grade, there were only six people, and even if he had only a dozen ministers, he could not control those ministers.
If you can truly command the six ministries like an arm, you must also master the grassroots officials below.
So where do grassroots officials come from? They are usually taken from the imperial examination, so this spring exam is very important to Zhu Youxiao. He wants to select talents suitable for implementing his philosophy in this spring exam, so he must not release the papers by himself.
Although the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three sessions, the only one that really received attention was the first session. The questions in this first session were the four questions of this sutra and the three questions of the four books. What is this sutra? When registering for the examination, each candidate should choose a sutra from the five classics of "The Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes", and "Spring and Autumn Annals" as his examination direction. Then, according to the examination direction, write four articles during the examination, and write articles based on the sentences selected by the examiner in this sutra. The meaning of these four books is to do three questions from the most classic Confucian Confucian classics, "The Analects of Confucius", "Mencius", "The Doctrine of the Mean", and "The Great Learning".
With this conversion, the examiner must prepare a total of twenty-three questions in each exam, and then each candidate selects seven questions to answer.
The second test was "theory", "edicts" and "judgment". What is "theory"? In fact, it is a small argumentative essay. Although the direction of the question is also from the Four Books and Five Classics, it is not stipulated that you must use the eight-part essay to answer and just use it freely.
"Edicts and Edicts" means "Edicts", "Edicts" and "Edicts", which are similar to today's civil service examination essays, which are to allow candidates to imitate the words and deeds of officials to write official documents and write corresponding edicts, edicts, and edicts.
Generally, it is the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, and Song Dynasty. "Judgement" can be simply understood as a commentary given by a subordinate to the official documents submitted by him, and to examine the candidates' familiarity with the "Da Ming Law". Generally, this is not important. Just cram the Buddha's feet in the exam soon. It is not difficult to have a fixed template to bring it into it.
This third exam tests "State Question". The question of this "State Question" is a question-and-answer question. Each question starts with "State Question", which is a piece of material that allows you to answer questions and write your own opinions after reading comprehension. Compared with the first two exams, "State Question" is much simpler, difficult or easy, and these are not important. The examiner only values the eight-legged essay in the first exam, and as long as the text is smooth, it is enough.
Zhu Youxiao is now aiming at these last two games. Why doesn’t he look down on the most important eight-legged essay in the first game?
It’s because he has the seven orifices of the Four Books and Five Classics. He has the only one left, which is a rolling pin that can’t be connected to the fire. There is also the eight-legged essay thing. Zhu Youxiao thinks it’s useless, so it’s better not to read it. Anyway, he can’t understand what he wrote after reading it.
He simply gave it to those officials the most important game. At that time, he would have to hold the final score in his own hands. What can you do behind the scenes?
Today's imperial examination is destined to be an unusual imperial examination.
Zhu Youxiao bit his pen and continued to work hard.
"I'm so fucking! I'm so fucking emperor, I'm really useless. God, can't you come down to help me with a time traveler? You're so stingy! I despise you for the rest of my life!"
Zhu Youxiao's hair was scattered like a golden lion king, and he held a black orange water pen in his mouth and raised two middle fingers outside the hall.
The little monkey with a stack of melodies happened to walk in.
Seeing Zhu Youxiao's finger, he couldn't help but look happy. His Majesty praised me again. It must be because I am very diligent recently. OK! This month, I will try to stay by your side even if I don't sleep, so that I can see how hard I am.
"What is this?" Zhu Youxiao asked.
"Your Majesty has just sent it from the cabinet. He said that you are asking your Majesty to formulate the examiner and the examiner of the spring exam as soon as possible." The little monkey said while putting the memorial on the table.
"If you don't look, take it to the small imperial kitchen to cause fire." Zhu Youxiao's head was about to explode when he gave the questions. So he had the intention to look at this thing.
"Your Majesty Sun Si reported that Han Yu had brought more than a dozen large carriages into the capital, saying that they were gifts for His Majesty." The little monkey said, and took out a letter from his arms and handed it over.
"Oh?" Zhu Youxiao felt happy when he heard that someone brought him a gift. No matter how the other party, it was always a good thing that someone brought him a gift.
"What did you bring?" Zhu Youxiao asked when he opened the letter.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, there were seals on the box, and Sun Si didn't know what was inside. "The little monkey replied truthfully.
After Zhu Youxiao opened the letter, he found that there were several blank sheets of paper inside, so Zhu Youxiao took out a bottle of brown potion and applied it finely with a cotton swab, and finally the words were revealed on it.
This letter was a secret letter submitted by Wang Tiqian. The content of this letter was to sue Zhu Youxiao first, saying that he insulted His Majesty for some necessary moments and asked Zhu Youxiao to sue him or her.
However, Zhu Youxiao said he didn't care at all about this, just cursing him, small things are trivial matters.
I am the emperor, are you afraid of being scolded if you are in trouble?
At worst, you can start your next life.
Write it in the small notebook first, and then settle the accounts carefully when he comes back.
The next step is simple, just report on his recent progress in Jinling.
In summary, it is.
The emperor and the minister worked hard and finally entered their base camp and successfully lurked.
But when I first joined the gang, I didn’t trust us very much, so there was no particularly important information. But I was unwilling to accept it. I really found out an important situation at the risk of being caught.
What is the important situation? Jiannu sent someone to Jinling, and he also had contact with a wealthy Wu family in Jinling. According to Weichen's inquiry, Jiannu was planning to buy a batch of grain, salt and iron and other materials from the Wu family. I heard that the price is very high, more than three times the market price. The Wu family was very moved, and there may be a big deal in the near future.
As for the location of this transaction, there are no other Weishu.
The only thing Weichen knows is that they will be transported to Liaodong by sea, and the specific date and location of Weichen will continue to inquire about it.
Your Majesty, don’t worry, your order is the destiny of me. You will definitely do whatever you want to do with the greatest strength. Although I am in the enemy camp for many years, I always want to return to You Majesty.
Chapter completed!