Zhu Houzhao finally returned to the city from the mountains, he had to preside over the palace test, and he had to wait for the hand-picked champion.

Although the palace examination is said to be written by the emperor, most of them are done by the chief examiner. Historically, the question of this year's palace examination was given by Zhang Xuan, and the key word was "Baobang and Anmin". Now it has been changed to Yang Tinghe, and the key words are actually the same, becoming "governing the country and securing the people".

Jiajing's "protection of the state and the people" originated from the Mongols in the north, the Japanese in the south, and the rebellion in the interior, and natural disasters continued for several years.

Zhengde's "governing the country and securing the people" stems from the rebellions and frequent natural disasters for many years.

The questions of the temple examination are closely related to current affairs, and they are not random.

The questions are similar, and the rankings of candidates are also not too far behind, namely: Luo Hongxian, Cheng Wende, Tang Shunzhi, Yang Ming, Chen Shu, Ren Han......

As soon as the name of the answer sheet was removed, the examiners were all stupid, and Yang Tinghe was so depressed that he didn't want to talk directly.

Champion Luo Hongxian, Wang Yangming's personal disciple.

Bangyan Cheng Wende, Wang Yangming's personal disciple.

Tanhua Tang Shunzhi, Wang Yuan's personal disciple.

The first Yang name in the second class, Xi Shu's son and nephew (the two families have intermarried), Xi Shu is Wang Yuan's mentor and Wang Yangming's friend. At the same time, Yang Ming is also a student of Wang Tingxiang, who is Luo Qinshun's academic confidant (the four masters of Qi Studies: Luo Qinshun, Wang Tingxiang, Wang Shangxuan, Yang Shen), and Wang Tingxiang has not had a good relationship with Yang Tinghe.

Chen Shu, the second in the second grade, Wang Yangming's fellow villager in Zhejiang, although he is not a disciple of Xinxue, he is the son-in-law of Dong Yuan, and he has a close relationship with Xinxue disciples. Dong Wei belongs to the literary retro school, and has a bad relationship with Yang Tinghe, and his son-in-law Chen Shu is also a retro school, striving to carry out ideological reform from the field of literature.

The third Ren Han of the second grade, the student of Wang Yuan's student Nie Guang (the one who engaged in flight tests), that is, Wang Yuan's second disciple.

A bunch of palace test examiners, facing the answer sheet after the name demolition, stared at each other and didn't know how to evaluate it.

Yang Yiqing sighed: "The heart is booming! ”

Everyone is silent, but it's not a great way to learn. If the school of physics is also classified as the study of mind, then four of the top six jinshi this year are all descendants of the study of mind.

There are two left, a descendant of Qi and a literary retro school, and their respective teachers and fathers-in-law are actually not on good terms with Yang Ting.

Yang Tinghe almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, the questions of the palace examination were made by him, and he also presided over the marking of the palace examination, what the hell was selected as a result! This thing has not been avoided yet, because the palace examination strategy theory, the candidate looks at the problem from the perspective of the emperor and the auxiliary ministers, and basically does not involve mental keywords such as "to conscience", and it is impossible for the examiner to see the candidate's way from the article.

For Yang Tinghe, this year's Jinshi list has exploded!

And the top six belong to young talents, respectively 25 years old, 32 years old, 22 years old, 24 years old, 21 years old, 28 years old, the average age is only 25 years old, this is the youngest Jinshi top six since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, the careers of these six people have not been smooth.

One of them resigned, reinstated, and dismissed; The two were released after being imprisoned and never hired; One resigned, reinstated, or dismissed, and was reinstated due to peace, and died of illness on a warship; One person was demoted and released, asked to resign to no avail, and died of drinking and coughing up blood; One person was imprisoned and demoted to the end, and finally promoted back to the central government, and because of Qingzi offended Jiajing, he was thrown to Nanjing by the emperor, degraded again and again, and cut his post to the people.

Half of these six people offended Zhang Xuan and Wang Hong, and Zhang Wang's reform will inevitably eliminate dissidents, and the means are extremely radical, and if they don't get along, they will get out or be idle, and it is very difficult for the centrists to do it. Wang Feng also likes to exercise power, he is also a scholar of two books, and he has been impeached the most, and every time he is impeached, he is promoted, and he fights back and puts the official who impeached him to prison.

The other half offended the emperor, and Jiajing's nerves were very sensitive, because superstition delayed the establishment of the crown prince. Once Jiajing was sick and ignored the court for a long time, Luo Hongxian and Tang Shunzhi asked to make a prince. Jiajing felt that this was cursing himself to death, so he dismissed the two. This approach is simply a psychopathy, his own sons, they have grown so big, what's wrong with the officials asking for the crown prince? Even if you are unhappy in your heart, you can't dismiss officials because of this, otherwise who will dare to tell the truth in the future?

Yang Ming was the most unlucky, offending both the emperor and Wang Hong.

The cause is the appearance of a comet in Beijing, according to the convention, all officials have to do something, Zhu Houzhao and his close ministers because of this kind of thing, the civil officials took the opportunity to spray countless times, you spray casually but I don't listen.

When he got to Jiajing, Yang Ming said that the comet appeared in the capital because Jiajing was not properly employed.

Jiajing was unhappy, but he praised it verbally and wanted to lure the snake out of the hole. Yang Ming was encouraged and impeached Xungui and Taoist priests, implicitly to persuade the emperor not to indulge in Taoism. Jiajing was furious and sent Yang Ming to prison and tortured. Wang Feng took the opportunity to say that Yang Ming was from Sichuan and was Yang Tinghe's remnant party, but in fact, Yang Ming couldn't fight Yang Tinghe Baganzi.

Yang Ming was tortured to the point of almost dying, but he would rather die than slander others, and only said that the draft of the impeachment chapter was shown to Cheng Wende. Cheng Wende was also arrested and tortured in prison. Two officials petitioned for the release of Cheng Wende, and the two were also tortured in prison. Yang Ming was exiled to the army and released a year later, but was never hired again. Cheng Wende didn't do anything, just read the draft of the chapter, and was directly demoted from Hanlin to the canonical history.

What is this called?

At the very beginning of the fight, the political struggle of the Jiajing Dynasty was very fierce, coupled with an emperor who liked to play with power, the speed of official changes was very fast, and the cabinet and the six Shangshu were also frequently appointed and dismissed. And ordinary officials, offending the emperor, often go to prison, demote officials, dismiss officials, and even impeach cabinet ministers and monks will be imprisoned on trumped-up charges.

The instability of the court is very harmful, it is difficult to carry out major national affairs, and it will bring serious corruption. After Zhang Xuan stepped down, no one could control the situation, officials were thinking about fighting for power all day long, the emperor was watching a good show by reaping the profits, and local military and political affairs were simply a mess.

Compared with the two, the Zhengde Dynasty after Liu Jin's death is simply a civil paradise, and Zhu Houzhao doesn't play like that anymore.

Yang Tinghe should feel fortunate that he met Zhengde, and this time and space is not working under Jiajing. Of course, it can also be said that Jiajing's suspicion and suspicion were forced out by Yang Tinghe.

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After the palace test, Wang Yuan was busy again, and he needed to arrange the roll call or something.

As soon as the emperor's list was posted, the disciples of Xinxue rejoiced, and the Xinxue, which had been spreading for many years, finally broke out in the imperial examination.

Wang Ce was not discouraged when he fell off the list, but asked: "Father, why are four of the top six Jinshi disciples all disciples?" ”

Wang Yuan explained with a smile: "The first six Jinshi, four minds, one qi, and one literary retro, you still can't summarize the rules?" ”

Wang Ce understood in seconds: "Push through the old and bring forth the new!" ”

"Exactly, you can still see clearly." Wang Yuan smiled approvingly.

In traditional science, no matter how you take the exam, the essay is the same old routine. The retro schools of psychology, qi, and literature have jumped out of the trap of science, and the academic reform has brought new thinking, and the strategies and answers are novel and have something to say, which can naturally stand out from thousands of scholars.

The ideological movement of the Ming Dynasty was undoubtedly revealed in this imperial examination.

Once the list of Jinshi spreads all over the country, all the scholars in the world will know that the traditional way of science is useless, at least not competitive when they are admitted to Jinshi.