Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 337, they are all bullies
Wangyue Tower is now a famous building in the capital. It has always been the place where high-ranking officials and dignitaries first entered. Ordinary people dare not enter at all. It couldn't be more normal, and as for the private room upstairs, it is even less known to outsiders.

The reason why Wangyue Tower has the status it has today is due to Liu Jin's earth-shattering speeches on the Moon Tower the year before last.

The owner of Wangyue Tower is also constantly seizing the opportunity to operate, keep up with the development of the times, use reinforced concrete, and redecorate with various glass products. It has always been leading the restaurant industry in Beijing.

Now it is the court's three-yearly Luncai Grand Ceremony, and Moon Tower will naturally not miss such a good opportunity, almost every day there are various poetry gatherings and the like held on Moon Tower.

At this time, on the fifth floor of Mingyue Building, a group of talented scholars were sitting north and south, obviously competing with each other.

Sitting on the south side are Tang Yin, a gifted scholar from Zhili, Fengxi, a gifted student from Zhejiang Province, Lin Ting, a gifted scholar from Fujian Province, Luo Qinzhong, a gifted scholar from Jiangxi Province, and Lun Wenxu, a strange talent from Guangdong Province.

Those sitting in the north are headed by Liu Long, a talented scholar from Shanxi, Sun Xu, a famous official from Hejian, and Yang Tingyi, a talented scholar from Sichuan. There are also more than a dozen talented scholars from northern provinces beside them.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty has a special feature, that is, it is divided into two rankings, the north and the south, and they take separate exams, and finally they take the palace exam together to select champions, role models, Tanhua and so on.

Speaking of this, I have to say that the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty were divided into north and south. When Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor, the imperial examinations were held again. From the first to the fifty-first place, all the talents from the south were occupied. At that time, it aroused extreme dissatisfaction among northern scholars.

It happened that Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin, who presided over the imperial examination at that time, were all officials from the southern region, so the scholars in the north made a fuss, bluntly saying that the selection of scholars in the imperial examination was unfair and favored the southerners.

As for Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, he is not a person who likes to study the causes of problems, he is a person who likes to solve problems directly, so he chose to chop off the head of the examiner to calm the anger of the northern scholars, and at the same time ordered Dozens of northern scholars.

However, it is an indisputable fact that northern scholars cannot pass the exam for southern scholars, because from the Tang Dynasty until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the northern region was ruled by foreign races for a long time. Naturally, they couldn't pass the southerners.

In the imperial examinations of the Hongwu Dynasty, the northern scholars were almost crushed by the southern scholars every time. If this continues, it will definitely be harmful to the entire court, because once the southern scholars monopolize the imperial examinations, they will definitely become southerners in the future. The situation of monopolizing the court.

In fact, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the southern scholars headed by the Donglin Party basically monopolized the court and completely controlled this huge empire.

In order to prevent such a phenomenon, and of course to reflect Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang's concern for the northern region, there is a north-south list. The southern scholars and the northern scholars take separate exams, and each recruits a certain number of Jinshi, and then they take the imperial examination together. It can form a balance and stabilize the hearts of northern scholars.

This is the origin of the North and South List.

So in the Ming Dynasty, the scholars in the south looked down on the scholars in the north, at least in the imperial examinations, and the scholars in the north were indeed inferior to the scholars in the south. The three provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu were all famous. The hometown of Kaoba is all in the south.

There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. Although scholars in the north know that they may indeed be inferior in strength, they have never been convinced. Naturally, every time the imperial examination takes place, it is inevitable to get together , compete with each other.

At this time, the same is true on the Wangyue Tower. The two sides sit in the north and the south, and ask and answer each other's questions, which is a good contest.

Liu Long, Sun Xu, Yang Tingyi and the others looked at each other and sighed slightly. Although they had contacted the talented people in the northern provinces as much as possible, compared with the talented people in the south, everyone immediately felt that the pressure was great.

The talented people in the south are really not good enough, especially Xie Yuan Tang Yin from Nanzhili, who is full of talent, whether it is poetry, poetry, calligraphy, brush and ink, etc., he is proficient in everything, and everyone can't lift their heads if they are alone .

"It's a pity that Liu Jin from Beizhili was not invited. If he was here, it would be much easier for us. After all, he is the son of a master."

Sun Xu smiled and sighed and said, Liu Jin's name has already been heard by scholars in the north. Jie Yuan, the son of a high-ranking man, was talented and full of experience in Beizhili last year. There should be no problem with the extremely arrogant Tang Yin in front of him.

"I also sent an invitation to Liu Jin, but he has never been interested in this kind of poetry fair, and he is busy with business, so he didn't come."

Liu Long can be regarded as the leader of the northern scholars this time, and took the lead in organizing this competition with the southern scholars.

"It's a pity that you Liu Jin from Beizhili didn't come. Even if you beat you today, it wouldn't be considered complete."

Tang Yin looks very good, has a good skin, and he is just in his thirties at this time, and he can be regarded as a young talent. He got to know Yuan in the test in Beizhili, a town where he is a test master, and now he is very happy.

When Liu Long and Sun Xu mentioned Liu Jin, a great talent in Beizhili, they immediately said arrogantly.

"Tang Yin, the outcome is still unknown, so you are too confident, right?"

As soon as Liu Long heard this, he immediately became slightly angry. The other party's tone seemed to treat the northern scholars as nothing, and he didn't notice them at all. It's fine if one person confronts everyone, even Liu Jin who didn't come In the first place, Liu Jin didn't come, even if he won, he felt that it was not enough.

With such an arrogant attitude, if everyone was a martial arts examiner, they would probably be able to beat him to death.

"I still have confidence in winning you."

Tang Yin said lightly, very confident.

His arrogance also makes the southern scholars around him a little bit unbearable. Anyway, everyone is at the same time anyway, and they may all be officials in the same dynasty in the future. How much is still necessary to save face.

This Tang Yin is different, he is crazy, he is crazy, of course he does have this capital, he is really good at poetry, calligraphy, brush and ink, etc., as long as it is something that literati like to play with, he is awesome, a talented man in the south of the Yangtze River The name is really not blown out.

But this arrogant and haughty attitude is really annoying.

"I seem to be late~"

At this moment, a voice came in from the outside, and everyone hurriedly looked over, only to see a handsome young man with an extraordinary bearing walking in with a smile on his face.

"Liu Jin~"

When Liu Long, Sun Xu and other northern scholars saw it, someone shouted out immediately. Obviously, there are quite a few people who know Liu Jin.

"Liu Jin met you brothers in Xiayongping Mansion`"

Liu Jin smiled and waved his hands to greet everyone.

"Meet Brother Liu~"

The person who came was Liu Jin, the rumored disciple of a high-ranking man, Xie Yuan from Beizhili last year, who seemed to be only twenty years old now, very young.

Everyone couldn't help but look at Liu Jin carefully, and all of them couldn't help but nodded silently in their hearts. At least from the outside, Liu Jin's performance was better than Tang Yin's, after all, he was ten years younger .

"Brother Liu, let me introduce you."

Liu Long was very familiar with him naturally, so he pulled Liu Jin and began to introduce these scholars to Liu Jin one by one.

"This is brother Sun Xu from Hejian~"

"This is brother Yang Tingyi from Sichuan~"

"This is Brother Tang Yin from Suzhou Mansion in Nanzhili~"

"This is Brother Lunwen Xulun from Guangdong~"

"This is Brother Feng Xifeng from Zhejiang~"

"......."

"Good guy, they are all good people, only Wang Shouren is missing~"

After listening to Liu Long's introduction, Liu Jin couldn't help exclaiming immediately, these talented people present are really awesome characters.

Not to mention Cantonese Lun Wenxu, he was the champion of this exam, and finally went to Zhan Shifu Youchunfang Youyude, Zhanshifu is the place where the emperor chooses the prince's successor, Lun Wenxu is dead Early, he died at the age of 47, otherwise he would definitely have a bright future, and a six-part minister would definitely not be able to escape.

Fengxi from Zhejiang took the second place in the first place in the examination, that is to say, he was the only number one in the list. In the end, he became a bachelor of the Imperial Academy. Because he was on the wrong team during the "Great Etiquette", he was dispatched by Jiajing to Zhenhaiwei, Fujian. Otherwise, It will be great too.

Liu Long from Shanxi took the third place in the exam this time, that is, Tanhua. He finally became an official and became the Minister of the Ministry of War.

Sun Xu of the Hejian Mansion took the fourth place in the exam this time, and finally became a doctor in the Ministry of Officials, and he was definitely a big boss.

This time, Lin Ting, who was ranked fifth in the exam, became a minister in the end, and he also added the prince and Taibao. There is no doubt that he is another big boss.

Luo Qinzhong, who took the sixth place in the examination, died too early, at fifty-four. Level up.

As for Yang Tingyi, he is Yang Tinghe's younger brother who is a master. He took the seventh place in the exam this time, and finally became an official at the position of the left servant of the Ministry of War. There is no doubt that he is another big boss.

Even Tang Yin, Tang Bohu, who did the worst in the exam this time and was demoted to a petty official because of the inscription case in history, he eventually became a famous painter. In later generations, his reputation is higher than that of any one present. loud.

"Brilliant people, all of them are great people. I saw them all at once, and the only thing missing is Wang Shouren."

Listening to Liu Long's introductions one by one, Liu Jin couldn't help sighing that the imperial examinations in the [-]th year of Hongzhi really produced a large number of outstanding people, and everyone was amazing.

　Who said reading is useless?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)