On the sixth day after Weifu left the palace, Zhu Cihong had already left that "Yu Chen" behind.

Not to mention that "Yu Chen" is the same as "the first handsome man of the Ming Dynasty", it is just a pen name, even the rough men's clothing style, and it can't arouse the slightest interest in Zhu Cihong, let alone have any ideas.

The only thing he was amazed about was the woman's knowledge, and the feel of the delicate nephrite hand......

Of course, if the other party is a beauty, you can have a relationship or two......

The spring examination has ended, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Education are busy reading the papers, and sometimes they submit some papers that have done well.

Because the Ming Dynasty is divided into north and south volumes, there are many things to deal with in the middle, and the general palace examination is held one month after the examination.

The so-called north-south paper is to admit Jinshi according to the different ratios of north and south according to the candidate's region.

During the Hongwu period, because of the different cultural levels of the north and the south, the 52 jinshi taken were all southerners, which caused an uproar among the northern scholars for a while, and there was a dispute between the north and the south.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been suspicious, ordered someone to transfer the test papers, and found that the existing test papers were written differently, and there were many forbidden sentences in the papers, which were justified in falling off the list, but the northern scholars coaxed, and things were not easy to do.

So Lao Zhu personally served as the chief examiner, and the national unified examination again, in order to win over the readers, this time in the later examination, among the 61 people admitted, none of them were southerners.

Later, during the reign of Renzong, in order to completely solve the matter, the imperial court directly stipulated the distribution ratio of the north and the south, with the south being sixty percent and the north forty percent.

In the Xuande and Orthodox years, the imperial court once again set a new system, which was divided into south, north, and middle volumes, with a rate of 100 people, with 55 in the south, 35 in the north, and 10 in the middle.

The southern volume includes Yingtianfu, Suzhou, Songjiang and other provinces south of the Yangtze River, as well as Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang and Guangdong;

The northern volume contains the four provinces of Shuntianfu, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi in the north of Zhili.

The middle volume contains the dead provinces of Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, as well as the two prefectures of Fengyang and Luzhou in Nanzhili, as well as the three prefectures of Chuzhou, Xuzhou, and Hezhou.

Later, in various periods of the Ming Dynasty, the north and south volumes were adjusted in terms of region and proportion, but they always adhered to the system of dividing the north and south volumes.

In view of the problem of the north and south volumes, Zhu Cihong also has no good solution, and now the north of the Yangtze River has just been rebuilt, the conditions are poor, and there are naturally few scholars.

Even if there is no war, some places with slightly worse economic conditions are still slightly behind in this regard.

Otherwise, the imperial examination system of the Qing Dynasty and the college entrance examination system of later generations would not have been so greatly affected by the northern and southern papers, such as the allocation of admission places by region in some schools......

Reading the papers is a very boring thing, of course, as the emperor, Zhu Cihong does not feel boring, but enjoys it.

The volumes presented by the Ministry of Rites are all carefully selected and of the highest quality, some of them are ornate in rhetoric, some are eulogizing virtues, and some are acupuncture and disadvantages, expressing unique views.

On top of that, the handwriting of these scholars is so beautiful!

It's like printing it out, it's so neat!

Rao is Zhu Cihong, who has a few brushes in calligraphy, and he also has to write a big "service" character!

Although Zhu Cihong couldn't change the north and south volumes, he also made changes to change the previous Jinshi awarding system in the Ming Dynasty.

The last 20 of the top 20 were selected as officials such as Zhongshusheren, pedestrians, assessors, and doctors, and the top 10 of the top 3 were also selected as Beijing officials such as the Bank of China.

Eleven to 20 of the top three are elected as local governors, 21 to 70 are elected as magistrates, and the rest are all elected as local magistrates, so that the political system and people are equal, and in the period of lack of officials, rational use of talents.

"Emperor, the two eldest princesses ask to meet!"

Wu Zhong walked quietly and said in a low voice.

The eldest princess is also Zhu Cihong's younger sister, Kun Xing and Zhaoren.

The emperor's daughter is called the princess, the sisters are called the eldest princess, and the aunt is the eldest princess, and the status of the eldest princess in the palace is higher than that of ordinary concubines.

After a while, the eldest princess Kunxing walked in with the eldest princess Zhaoren and made a serious family ceremony.

Kunxing eldest princess Zhu Yujiao, seventeen years old, she has a graceful figure, wearing a square neck sleeveless orange bikin, the chest and back of the bijia are decorated with woven gold square patches, under the wide green horse-faced skirt, the delicate melon seed face is as white as jade, and a pair of pear vortices are slightly flushed between the cheeks.

Behind her, the eldest princess of Zhaoren, Zhu Yuji, was only eight years old, and she was dressed similarly to her sister, all of them were typical royal princess skirts, the only difference was the hair accessories.

Zhu Yujiao is still a small bald head, wearing small headbands more than an inch wide on both sides, while Zhu Yujiao is combing her hair on both sides, tied into a figure-eight shape, and wearing some delicate simple hair accessories.

According to the rules, the princess can only choose an auspicious day to hold the ceremonial ceremony when she has a horse for marriage.

Zhu Cihong put down the notebook in his hand and said with a smile: "What's the matter, don't you go to Concubine De's little princess today?" ”

Zhu Yujiao pouted and said: "No, your little princess is so likeable, today those noble wives came to visit again, and Dingxi Hou's wife almost opened a martial arts lecture." ”

The new nobles can often enter the palace, which is specially approved by Zhu Cihong, so that they can accompany the queen mother and concubine in the palace, as well as Zhu Cihong's three concubines, to promote the relationship between the monarch and the minister.

Not only that, Zhu Cihong also often invited some important ministers into the palace to eat and chat together, and showed benevolence and righteousness while learning more about the ministers.

Zhu Cihong smiled slightly and said, "I heard that the queen mother chose a concubine for you, and she is the son of the Zhou Guofu family of Taifu Temple, what is Zhou Shixian?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yujiao's white and tender face was as white as jade, and the rouge was lightly smeared, so that the cheeks were polished like a newly opened Qiong flower, white and red.

She frowned slightly and said, "I don't like him!" I heard that he is very pedantic and doesn't know anything, just a rotten Confucian! ”

"And what do you like?" Zhu Cihong said meaningfully.

According to the usual practice, the eldest princess Kunxing should have married a long time ago, but who didn't expect that her brother was so strange, he hadn't gotten married at the age of eighteen, and her marriage could only be postponed.

The clothes, Zhu Yujiao was obviously embarrassed, fiddling with her hands there, twisting and pinching.

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "It's all big girls, if you don't say it, it's too late to regret it!" ”

Zhu Yujiao is extremely intelligent, and from these words, she immediately heard that the imperial brother is going to make decisions for himself and choose another horse!

Although this matter is a bit tricky, who is the royal brother? Who would dare to object to just one word?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yujiao was happy in her heart, her steps were light, elegant and calm, her pretty face was slightly red, and she said: "I like that kind of knowledgeable, preferably handsome and good-tempered......."

After a while, Wu Zhong picked up a long piece of rice paper, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and said, "Emperor, the conditions of the eldest princess have been written......

Zhu Cihong sighed, feeling that his sister seemed to be still living in a dream, but this can also be understood, which girl has not had a beautiful vision of love?

"Brother Huang, why are you sighing?" Zhu Yujiao looked at Zhu Cihong, who had been silent for a while, and asked.

Zhu Cihong raised his head, looked at Zhu Yujiao, who had a somewhat surprised face, and said with a smile: "I guess you came here today to ask for a request to go out to play, right?" ”

was broken by a word, Zhu Yujiao did not hide, and said bluntly: "Brother Huang, tomorrow is the Flower Dynasty Festival, I heard that there will be many people in the eastern suburbs to go out together, visit and enjoy the flowers, if you are not busy, take us to go to the green together!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yujiao, who was waiting there to be bored, jumped over, took Zhu Cihong's hand and said, "Brother Huang, I want to go to Qingqing!" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Okay, where Zhaoren wants to play, the imperial brother will accompany you!" ”

The two of them were immediately overjoyed.

After thinking about it, Zhu Cihong said to Wu Zhong: "Send someone to the palace to deliver the decree, and let King Ding and King Yong also go together." ”

In recent years, Zhu Cihong has been busy with state affairs, and he has deeply felt alienated from his relatives, so he took this opportunity to promote family affection.