Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 341, Palace Exam

At the gate of the Gaodacai City of the Imperial Palace in the capital, Liu Jin stood with many scholars, waiting to enter the palace to participate in the palace examination.

Although Liu Jin also entered the palace once, but that time was only brought in by Zhu Houzhao, and his identity was only a grassroots person, but now it is different.

He is a scholar of modern science, and he came to the imperial palace to take part in the palace examination. Regardless of whether he did well in the palace examination, according to the past practice, Liu Jin can be regarded as buying into the bureaucracy of Ming Dynasty.

If you do well in the imperial examination and you can get to the top few, you will enter the Imperial Academy next. After a few years in the Imperial Academy, you will be able to go straight to the sky. Without accidents, you can basically reach the level of the Six Departments and Jiuqing.

Of course, if you pass the mid-level exam, it’s not very good, and you can’t get into the Imperial Academy, then you can work in the Six Departments, a proper Beijing official, and become an official like the head of a certain department. Generally speaking, it also belongs to a place with a bright future. Of course , If you don't enter the Hanlin, your room for promotion will be limited in the future. Non-Hanlin can't join the cabinet. This is basically an unwritten rule.

If you don't do well in the exam and get into the bottom of the second or top three list, then don't worry, at least you can have the opportunity to become a local official.

Although the starting point is relatively low at the beginning, maybe a small official of the eighth or ninth rank, but generally the promotion is very fast. After working for a few years, you can be promoted to be a county magistrate or something, and the county magistrate will work for a few more years. Can be promoted quickly.

Generally speaking, as long as you can pass the general examination and take part in the imperial examination to become a student of the emperor, you will have a bright future, especially those who rely on the first and second grades.

First, I went to the Imperial Academy to stay for two or three years. Dozens or hundreds of people edited and edited books together, or went to the East Palace Zhan Shifu to correct and correct characters. Once there is a vacancy, it can be filled immediately, and the promotion is super fast. Many people can be promoted to the position of the six ministers and ministers in just a dozen years.

The imperial examination is held every three years, and there are more than one hundred Jinshi admitted from the entire Ming Dynasty. Naturally, each of them is very valuable and has a bright future. selected from the exam.

So at this time, the Jinshi of the same subject beside Liu Jin were all high-spirited, with a spring breeze on their faces, and slowly went from a book boy to today, and everyone has suffered countless hardships for this.

Now it is finally the end of all hardships and rewards, successfully realized the carp jumping over the dragon's gate, and realized the highest ideal of a scholar.

"Father, have you seen it?"

Wearing a brand-new scholar's uniform, Tang Yin looked at the group of court ministers walking in front of him, and couldn't help but ask his deceased father in his heart.

Tang Yin's family background was not that good, his father ran a small tavern, and his family fortune was considered a failure, so his father had very high demands on him since he was a child, hoping that he could pass the imperial examination and shine in the family.

Tang Yin's family was actually very brilliant. His ancestor was Tang Hui, a former Lianglingjiang general. Tang Hui's grandson, Tang Yao, was the prefect of Jinchang. Later, Tang Yao's son, Tang Bao, was named Duke of Jinchang because of his meritorious service.

Later, Tang Bao's grandson Tang Jian followed Tang Taizong to join the army and was granted the title of Duke of Ju. He was one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion.

However, in the Song Dynasty, the Tang family did not have many outstanding people who went abroad, but only small officials such as censors and military vehicles, and they were still the family of officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, even if the Tang family was completely in decline, there were no more capable people, and no one became an official or general.

Because of this, his father was very strict with Tang Yin. Tang Yin was known as a child prodigy since he was a child, and he learned everything very quickly.

A few years ago, Tang Yin's father, mother, ex-wife, son, etc. left one after another, which hit Tang Yin hard, so he also hoped that the imperial examination could revitalize his family.

Now he has finally been admitted to Jinshi as he wished, fulfilling his father's high hopes for him.

"Finally passed the exam~"

Similar to Tang Yin, the young classmate Wang Shouren was full of emotions at this time. His father was the number one scholar. He could be said to be born extraordinary. His mother was pregnant with him for fourteen months before giving birth. Yi Feiyu, preached in the cloud, hugged a child and fell from the sky, so Wang Shouren was called Wang Yun at the beginning.

To put it simply, he was born in Niucha, and when he was born, he was born like a saint.

He was indeed young and promising, he started to study in a private school at the age of twelve, and wrote letters to the emperor many times at the age of fifteen, offering advice to put down peasant uprisings, and at the age of fifteen he dared to travel throughout the Ming Dynasty, and even dared to go beyond the Great Wall.

He began to learn how to study objects at the age of eighteen, and he was the one who talked about the seven-day and seven-night bamboo study, and he passed the Juren examination at a young age.

But in the general examination, he failed repeatedly. When he failed the first time, Li Dongyang said that if he failed this time, he would definitely win the first imperial examination next time.

But the next time he took the exam, he still didn't pass, and he immediately felt a lot of pressure. His father was the number one scholar, and he was said to be the number one scholar by a big man like Li Dongyang, but he failed the exam twice, so that Be laughed at.

Now, he is just twenty-eight years old this year. He took part in the examination for the third time and finally passed the exam.

It can be said that everyone present was similar to Tang Yin and Wang Shouren, and everyone felt a lot of emotion when they saw the courtiers going into the palace.

Um, of course, except for Liu Jinlai.

Liu Jin has a golden finger, and he passed the imperial examination in sleep, and he has never felt the difficulty of the imperial examination in this era, and he doesn't know what this status means now. At this moment, he is feeling that the ancient strict system is really It's so inhuman.

He has been waiting here for more than a full hour. Standing here, he can neither walk around casually nor whisper to each other. He even has to stand upright and have an appearance.

In short, there are many rules. For him, a person from later generations, there are really too many constraints and restraints, and he always feels very tired.

"Hey, why don't you fail the exam on purpose? If you go to the morning court every day and stand up in the morning court, you will definitely collapse."

Thinking of going to the morning court, Liu Jin looked even more sad, getting up in the middle of the night every day, waiting here, and going to the morning court and standing for an hour or two, thinking about it, I feel that this is not something that people do .

Finally, waiting left and right, waiting for Liu Jin's legs to go numb, it was time for these new scholars to enter the palace to take part in the imperial examination.

The place for the palace examination was arranged in the Hall of Supreme Harmony Square in front of the Golden Luan Hall. At this time, the square was full of big men from the current dynasty. On the dragon steps, Emperor Hongzhi was also sitting on his dragon chair carelessly.

After a lot of ceremonies, it was finally time for the exam. The emperor personally set the questions for the palace exam. Of course, sometimes the emperor was lazy and would send an important minister to do it for him.

Emperor Hongzhi was a diligent emperor, and he attached great importance to this kind of ceremony of ethics and talent held every three years. Naturally, it was impossible to be lazy.

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes swept over Liu Jin and the others, and soon locked on Liu Jin who was sitting in the front row, and couldn't help smiling immediately.

"What's a good question?"

Emperor Hongzhi pondered in his mind, the palace examination was given by the emperor, and the emperor took the exam, so everyone was called the disciple of the emperor, but the questions usually given by the emperor were related to current affairs and politics, and rarely published the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics. After all, what the emperor needed was Talents who can govern the country, not nerds who can only read dead books.

"Have~"

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi thought of something, picked up a pen and wrote a few words on the paper.

Why Anxi~
This is the topic of the Imperial Examination Palace Examination this time, and it is also combined with current affairs and politics. In the Ming Dynasty, the Southwest has been unstable. The chieftains in the Southwest often rebelled, and sometimes even caused serious disturbances.

Now that the frontier troubles in the north can be put to rest temporarily because of the appearance of cement, Emperor Hongzhi only has the chieftain in the southwest region in his heart.

Recently, another piece of bad news came from Guizhou. The female chieftain Milu rebelled again because of conflicts with her husband. The disturbance made Guizhou uneasy, which caused Emperor Hongzhi a headache.

The mountain roads in the Yunnan-Guizhou area are steep, and it is not suitable for large corps to fight at all. Even if the imperial court has a million soldiers in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, it will be in vain. There is nothing to do with these chieftains hidden deep in the deep mountains, old forests, and high mountains.

The emperors of all dynasties have been very troubled by the affairs of the Yunnan-Guizhou area, and they have never been able to come up with any good solution.

Now Emperor Hongzhi is also taking this matter to test Liu Jin and other new scholars. He wants to see what insights they can have. Of course, he mainly wants to see what good methods Liu Jin, a high-ranking student, can have in this regard. .

"Why Anxinan?"

Soon, everyone saw the question posed by Emperor Hongzhi.

The ministers in the court immediately thought about it one by one. The emperor's question was obviously not random. The emperor was worried about the affairs of the Southwest. Naturally, they, the ministers, also had to worry about the rewards and loyalty of the emperor.

As for Tang Bohu, Lun Wenxu, Liu Long, and Fengxi, they all frowned, and began to carefully figure out the intention of Emperor Hongzhi to ask this question, and then thought about how to answer it.

This kind of exam questions must be very difficult for those nerds who are obsessed with reading.

"Why Anxinan?"

Liu Jin looked at the test question, thought about it carefully, picked up a pen and began to write. At the beginning, there were four big characters of "reform the soil and return to the stream".

(End of this chapter)