Emperor Taizong said that the husband can use copper as a mirror to be dressed properly, and he can know the rise and fall by taking people as a mirror. The case of the North and South Bang is exactly what we have taken as a warning, so how can such a disaster happen again?"

"What Lord Yang said is extremely true, the imperial examination to obtain the northern scholars, I don't know that it can calm the hearts of the northern scholars, but also can calm the anger of the northern officials, if it is handled well, the northern scholars are expected to take the imperial examination, and everyone recites the words of the sage, so that the wind of learning in the north will also be better, and the gap between the education and the south will be smaller and smaller, so it will be very beneficial to my Ming Dynasty!" Hu Hu agreed with Yang Shiqi's views very much, and he also bowed down at this time.

When the civil and military officials saw a scholar and a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, they all said so, even the prince also had this intention, where was there any opposition, and hurriedly agreed.

Hu Hu squinted his eyes and glanced at Zhu Zhanji, saw that his brows were stretched, he gritted his teeth, and said: "It's just that this matter is easy to say, but it's not easy to handle. It is an indisputable fact that the economy is backward in the south, I have always only judged the merits of the article in the imperial examination, and sought justice in order to serve the world, since the northern scholars made trouble, Weichen re-examined the examination papers in accordance with the will of His Royal Highness, and paid special attention to the examination papers of the northern scholars. The bundle (big knot) has not yet been smoothed, it can be regarded as barely qualified, and it can be regarded as a useful person for the country, but when it comes to literary talent, it can only be regarded as inferior?"

Zhu Zhanji said "um", his brows furrowed slightly, what Hu Hu said is exactly where the problem lies, each of the eight shares is composed of ten parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting the lecture, entering the question, leaving the question, starting the share, middle share, back share, bundle share, and falling. To put it bluntly, it is to look at the quality of the text of the test paper as the standard, not based on the southerners and northerners, regardless of the root cause of their weakness. ”

The culture of scholars in the north does not give rise to scholars in the south, unless you want to leave the imperial examination to the scholars in the north like Emperor Taizu, there is really no good way?"

Seeing that the prince's brows were tightly locked, no one in the hall dared to say more, and they all waited patiently.

Zhu Zhanji thought for a while, shook his head slightly, obviously there was no good way, exhaled lightly, swept his gaze to the ministers, and saw that everyone was bowing their heads, but Yang Shiqi was standing aside, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking at him with a smile.

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Zhu Zhanji's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered something that the emperor's grandfather had told him back then.

At that time, when Xu Qi, the political envoy of Guangdong, ruled the southwest, he gave local specialties and officials of the inner court, and some people received a list of gifts and presented them to the emperor. Ming Chengzu saw that there was no name of Yang Shiqi in it, so he summoned him to ask. He replied: "When Xu Qi went to Guangdong, the ministers wrote poems and essays, and at that time, I was sick and did not participate, so my name was not included. If I had been disease-free at the time, it is unknown whether my name would have existed. Besides, gifts are all small things, and there should be no other meaning. Zhu Di then ordered the list to be burned, and he trusted Yang Shiqi very much.

When the imperial grandfather said it, he didn't care, but then he gradually grew up, and when he thought about it, the person who received the gift back then was not only Yang Shiqi, but after the imperial grandfather asked Yang Shiqi alone, he burned this list, but from this point of view, the imperial grandfather valued him more than trusting him, which means that he must have something outstanding.

After thinking about it carefully in his mind, Zhu Zhanji's brows stretched, and he looked at Yang Shiqi and said, "I don't know if Yang Aiqing has a good way?"

Yang Shiqi has heard of the imperial examination case this time, after more than half a year of careful thinking, now there is indeed a way, but such a case happened in Nanjing, and the prince has already started to deal with it, although he was ordered to come, if he rashly said more, I am afraid that he has the suspicion of being a high-ranking master, and he is very cunning, how can he not know this truth, so he is not in a hurry to express his position, but chooses to wait.

Now, Zhu Zhanji opened his mouth to ask, as a courtier, it was much easier to say, first hugged his fists and saluted, and then said aloud to Zhu Zhanji: "Back to His Highness, the old minister's method is very simple - the north and the south are separated!"

Zhu Zhanji's eyes lit up, and he nodded and said: "Dividing the north and south, this is indeed a good way, but how to divide it, and ask Yang Aiqing to tell me a specific plan?"

Yang Shiqi had already prepared for this matter, and said without impatience: "The so-called north-south list, I can follow the method of recruiting jinshi in the early region, and finally set up a north-south volume system for taking jinshi by region, according to this system, there are more students in the south than in the north, and there are more useful talents for the country, and the south roll takes six-tenths and the north rolls take four-tenths." The southern provinces include Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang and Guangdong, as well as Yingtian, Songjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Huizhou, Ningguo, Chizhou, Taiping, Huai'an, Yangzhou and Guangdezhou in the south.

The northern volume covers the four provinces of Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi, and the three capitals of Liaodong, Daning and Wanquan in the north of Zhili, including Shuntian, Baoding, Zhending, Hejian, Shunde, Daming, Yongping, Guangping and Yanqing Prefecture and Baoan Prefecture. “

Speaking of this, Yang Shiqi thought for a while and replied: "As for the four provinces of Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, as well as Luzhou, Fengyang, Anqing, Xuzhou, Chuzhou, and Hezhou in the south of Zhili, His Royal Highness can reduce the number of scholars from the south and set up a middle list. And in the south, too, only within six tenths of the way can be lifted, so that if the scholar has expectations, he will also have complaints?"

"Okay, a good north-south list, it's really a method, just do it, at this time, the lonely will play His Majesty, and announce to the world that this year's imperial examination will be stopped, and the imperial court will set the regulations and re-examine the imperial examination next year!"

"The prince is wise!"

The civil and military officials shouted for a while, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, most of the half of the imperial examination case, finally came to an end today, I believe that with this news to tell the world, although the southern scholars are dissatisfied, but there will not be too many complaints, and the northern scholars must be shouting wise. Everyone looked at each other and nodded: "This time, Nanjing City can finally be quiet."

After Zhu Zhanji reported the matter to Beijing, Zhu Gaochi formally agreed on the quota of candidates for the examination in each province and township. Among them, there are 80 people in Nanjing Guozijian and Nanzhili, and 50 people in Beijing Guozijian and Beizhili, and there are only 100 people who will try to get a scholar, three-fifths of them are southerners, and two-fifths are northerners. Those who are familiar with the past and the present, dignified and quiet, and those over the age of 25 can take the exam. Before this regulation could be implemented, Renzong died. After Xuanzong ascended the throne, the edict was issued to the world, requiring all provinces to still implement this provision, and since then, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, it has not changed.

Zhu Zhanji retreated from the early court, turned around and went to the Jinshen Palace, and as soon as he sat down, a little eunuch quickly followed, picked up a box, and said with a happy face: "Your Highness, this is a cricket presented by Nanjing, please take a look at it?"

The eunuch is about thirty years old, the color of the clothes is slightly dark, and a little rough, horse face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a pair of lips are very fat, with a high nose, but also looks extremely loyal, such a appearance If you wear a peasant costume and walk in the field, you will look like an ordinary person, but Zhu Zhanji chose him at the beginning, in addition to his ability to read and write words, this loyal appearance is also very flattering.

This eunuch's surname is Wang, and his single name is a Zhen character, and he is hopeless because he is promoted and admitted to the Jinshi, so he castrated himself into the palace. However, scholars have always despised Yan people, and there are very few people who enter the palace because of repeated failures; it is inherently rumored that Wang Zhen was unable to repay a large amount of money due to excessive gambling, and was kicked and broken by the thugs of the gambling house, and then the matter of being castrated due to injuries spread through the little apprentices in Gao Langzhong's mansion, which attracted the shame and exclusion of his colleagues and even students, Wang Zhen was ashamed and embarrassed, and had no face to see people, so he had to resign from his position as an instructor and enter the palace; the reason for this was shameful and indescribable, so he lied that he had failed many attempts.

When he first entered the palace, he was a little eunuch who ran errands, but this teaching gentleman, unlike other eunuchs in the palace who had wooden heads and teachers who needed to avoid problems everywhere, he was a scholar, and he was soon discovered by Chen Wu next to the prince, and let him be responsible for teaching the little eunuch to read and write in the inner study hall.

Wang Zhen knew that if he wanted to get ahead in the palace, he had to rely on the important backers in the court, and the prince in front of him was undoubtedly the biggest backer, so he served Zhu Zhanji with all his heart, and learned that Zhu Zhanji liked to fight crickets, and he would always pay attention to it in his free time every day, and gradually received Zhu Zhanji's favor.

Zhu Zhanji is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but in addition to this, his favorite is fighting crickets, he has liked it since he was a child, and it is this hobby, after he ascended the throne, he once let all over the country purchase high-grade crickets to Beijing, local officials in order to please Xuanzong, have intensified the task, once caused a great burden to the people, Zhu Zhanji is also known as the "cricket son of heaven" by the people, it can be said that this is the biggest stain in his life.

As soon as he heard that it was a tribute cricket, Zhu Zhanji was secretly happy in his heart, and squinted at it, only to see that the crickets in this box had big heads, big necks, big legs, and good skin color, and Zhu Zhanji, who was familiar with all kinds of crickets, saw at a glance that this cricket was extraordinary.