Countless people are waiting for the imperial court to announce the chief and deputy examiners of this Gengchen examination, and Zhu Yijun, the only great tomorrow who has the legal right to make a decision on this, has also been in a tangle these days.

Zhu Yijun's entanglement, in fact, has to start with the addition of cabinet ministers not long ago. This time, the cabinet ministers were added, and the final targets of the supplements were Yu Youding and Xu Guo. If you look at it from the point of view of the school, Yu Youding is obviously a line of psychology, Xu Guo originally didn't have much academic tendency, but because he was Gao Gong's protégé, he must be a school of practical learning in the eyes of the outside world.

In this way, after the addition of the cabinet, the comparison between practical learning and mental science has changed from the previous two to one, to the current three to two.

But there are some things that can't just look at the "data", because there are many people who come out of the body and mind, and not everyone necessarily acts according to the current retreat trend of the mind, such as Zhang Juzheng in history, his grace is still Xu Jie, he doesn't still govern according to the idea of practical learning?

Yu Youding is actually a person who is physically and mentally educated, but does not have much political leanings himself. In fact, before he entered the cabinet, it was not easy for him to have a tendency, because he was a Jinshi in Jiajing for forty-one years, and the three first-class people in this subject were Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, and Yu Youding, and all three of them were selected by Yuan Wei, the chief examiner at the time. And Yuan Wei, the famous "Qingzi Prime Minister", died in the 44th year of Jiajing, so these three first-class jinshi were quite isolated and helpless in the court, and to a certain extent, they could only be forced to report to the group to keep warm.

But the group heating is not perfect, Liu Guanzhang still has to have a big brother, Shen Shixing, as the undergraduate champion, has the smoothest career, and there is no doubt that he has become the "leading big brother".

Wang Xijue, as the eye of the list, is also from a famous family in Taiyuan, and his family is still a huge rich man in Taicang, and he also has a younger brother named Wang Dingjue, who is a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing (also a scholar, the fifth in the examination, and the ninth in the palace examination).

In fact, this is not over, in history, Wang Xijue's son Wang Heng will be able to take the second place in the examination and the second in the palace test in the future, thus achieving the reputation of the Wang family's "one door and three jinshi, father and son double list eyes" - Li Xunhuan and his son in Gulongzhong "one door and three jinshi, father and son two tanhua" may have been born here.

It's okay to say that one person is a scholar, but it's too powerful for everyone to be a scholar, so Wang Xijue is a second brother.

This time, Yu Youding had to consciously regard himself as the little brother of the three, but the problem was that among the three of them, Yu Youding was actually the oldest, eight years older than Wang Xijue, and Wang Xijue was one year older than Shen Shixing. In this case, Yu Youding naturally behaved the most generously.

In the officialdom, the main manifestation of generosity is not to fight, Yu Youding does not fight for anything, whatever task is given to him by the court, he will do anything, honest and well-behaved, but there is no momentum. Gao Gong is relatively indifferent to a person with a character like Yu Youding, neither reusing and promoting, nor deliberately suppressing it, but when Guo Pu took over as the first assistant, he liked such a person, so Yu Youding was promoted all the way to the left servant of the ministry.

A person from the heart school, but he was promoted to such a prominent high position by the first assistant of the real school, of course, it will arouse suspicion, so although Yu Youding insists on showing himself as a person of the heart school, his position in the line of heart is indeed a little embarrassing, so many times he can only dilute his political attitude and try to deal with things fairly.

In this way, there are actually some problems with the three to two in the cabinet, and it must be three to two on the surface, but is it effective...... No one can say.

And the reason why Zhu Yijun's entanglement starts with the addition of cabinet ministers is because Zhu Yijun originally planned to let Zhang Siwei preside over this Spring Festival, after all, Guo Pu has presided over several sessions of the examination, and it is customary for Zhang Siwei to come.

However, unexpectedly, Zhang Siwei refused, on the grounds that his nephew Gao Shishi also took the exam this time, and he wanted to avoid suspicion. Zhu Yijun is very annoyed by this - I just want you to take your nephew into the middle, which kind of suspicion do you avoid!

But Zhang Siwei refused, and Zhu Yijun couldn't help it, theoretically speaking, he was not in charge of the government, and the operation of the country was actually supported by the cabinet in the final analysis. Guo Pu is not suitable, and Zhang Siwei is unwilling, so the examiner can only choose one of the other three elders.

It stands to reason that there should be no need to pick this, Shen Shixing has been in the cabinet for a few years, and it is a matter of course for him to preside over the test this time, but Zhu Yijun also knows that Shen Shixing is a big man in psychology, and he may be more familiar with Gao Pragmatic's articles, what if he just refuses to take the middle and high pragmatic articles? This is the talent left to me by the first emperor!

If Gao Pragmatic passed the exam, but the ranking was not good, then there was no problem, Zhu Yijun could adjust his ranking after the palace exam; But if he doesn't pass the test, then Zhu Yijun, the emperor, will not be in a bad position.

But what if you don't use Shen Shixing, what if you use the surplus? It seems to be about the same.

In Zhu Yijun's view, no one dares to pack a ticket for Yu Youding's political ideas, and he may be inclined to articles in the style of mental studies; It is also possible to be impartial and only look at the level of the article itself; It is also possible to take care of Guo Pu's face and take advantage of his student Gao Pragmatic.

In short, Zhu Yijun felt a little unsafe in his heart.

As for Xu Guo, if he is the chief examiner of the examination, he must be the most likely to be pragmatic in the middle and high schools. After all, Xu Guo is Gao Gong's protégé, and he has known Gao Pragmatic for many years, and he is from his own official background, so he also has the grace to teach Gao Pragmatic.

Of course, this generation is very difficult to discuss, because from the relationship between Gao Gong's side, Xu Guo's most formal title for Gao Pragmatic should be Gao Pragmatic's "world brother" - this is the official name of the protégé for the teacher's children, regardless of age. They usually refer to each other as brothers, but in fact, they can only be regarded as nicknames, after all, Xu Guo is fifty-four (imaginary years old) this year, and Gao Pragmatic is only eighteen (imaginary years old), so Xu Guo is called Gao Pragmatic "World Brother", this ...... It's a little embarrassing indeed.

But let Xu Guo be the main exam, although there is no problem in terms of qualifications and background, but this kind of no problem is a big problem in itself - what if Xu Guo also resigns? Also avoid suspicion?

Zhu Yijun considered: Even if he doesn't shirk and doesn't avoid suspicion, what if he feels sorry for himself in the future and feels that he is not the right Jinshi? Didn't I do bad things with good intentions?

So Zhu Yijun dragged and delayed, and finally couldn't make up his mind, so he had to invite Guo Pu and ask Guo Pu what his opinion was.

Who knew that Guo Pu's answer was very decisive: "Shen Yaoquan's top talent, the status of the cabinet elder, since the old minister and Zhang Fengpan can't avoid suspicion, then naturally Shen Yaoquan should take the exam, please believe in the cabinet, I believe that Shen Yaoquan can take the exam fairly." ”

Speaking of which, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but hesitate, because Guo Pudu said that he wanted him to "believe in the cabinet", so Zhu Yijun had no choice but to nod and ask the deputy examiner who was suitable.

In fact, this question is a routine matter, because after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, a cabinet elder is the main exam, and the Ministry of Rites is the deputy examiner, so Guo Pu didn't think much about it, and replied directly: "Pan Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is a senior and equal politician, and can be the deputy chief examiner." ”

Guo Pu's evaluation of Pan Sheng is basically in line with Zhu Yijun's opinion, Pan Sheng was quite arrogant when he was young, and later when he got older, he gradually became more stable, and he generally didn't do anything out of the ordinary.

On January 19, the chief and deputy examiners of the examination were announced, and the chief examiners were the prince Taibao and Wu Yingdian University scholar Shen Shixing; The deputy examiners are the prince Shaobao and Pan Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Gengchen Chunfu has finally entered the final stage, and people of all ages who have gathered in Beijing from all over the world are about to gather in the Beijing Tribute Academy to compete together.