The second year of the Apocalypse is about to begin.

In recent days, the tribute students from all over the country have rushed to stay in various places in Beijing to discuss the strategy of this palace examination in advance.

The politics of the country, the heart of the emperor, and the ancient and modern etiquette, these high-frequency test points are the focus of debate among the tribute students.

Naturally, what happened in the court recently is also a reason for the topic.

The Donglin Party preached the power of eunuch Wei Zhongxian to deceive the Holy Hearing, and set up a subordinate party to form a faction in the DPRK and China, squeezing out the Qingliu people.

There are Yang Lian and Gao Panlong in the front, Ye Xianggao and Wei Dazhong in the back, and today's government can be said to be extremely dark.

In contrast, the test questions of the Emperor's Heart are basically unlikely.

At this time, if you ask the emperor's heart, isn't it empty-hearted?

The heart of the emperor is the heart of the eunuch!

There are many people who claim to be upright, but there are also many like Gu Bingqian, who will do whatever it takes to climb up or show their talents.

The tribute students from all over the country, who arrived early, were well prepared and were arguing endlessly at various accommodations in Beijing.

In Zhangzhu Town, Yixing County, Changzhou Prefecture, there was also a fierce quarrel.

An old man held the "University" in his hand, looked at the young man in the courtyard who was carrying his bags and wanted to run away from home, and his eyes showed disbelief:

"You... Just want to go? ”

"Following the eunuch party to do things will allow you to show your talents and take revenge?"

"Daddy—"

The young man's steps forward paused, and then a touch of determination rose in his eyes.

His name is Lu Xiangsheng, the word Jiandou, he just turned 22 years old this year, he is full of blood and energy, and he exudes the blood of wanting to serve the country.

In recent days, he and his father have had such arguments no less than ten times, and each time they have been exchanged for a father-son cold war.

Until today, Lu Xiangsheng, who had calculated the time, found that if he didn't hurry up, he would not be able to catch up with the time, so he rushed early in the morning, wanting to avoid his old-fashioned father, and quietly went out to Beijing to participate in the palace examination.

Knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, Lu Xiangsheng didn't expect that his father had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time.

"People in the world often say that the eunuch party blinds the saints, and this time the main examination is a eunuch like Wei Guangwei, and hiring this batch of jinshi is equivalent to doing things for the eunuch party and bowing to the eunuch."

"Child, you can't see it!"

"Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains belong to His Majesty, where I go, what I step on my feet, is the land of the Ming Dynasty, this is the palace test, and His Majesty personally selects the talents!"

"If the child is entered into the Jinshi, this is called Guangzong Yaozu, that is, the eunuch of power, and he is also doing things for His Majesty today, how can there be a rumor of eunuchs for power?"

"Father, you're too worried."

"These words are just a cover arranged by the losers of the court party battle, whether the eunuch party is really as dark as this, the child has to go and see with his own eyes!"

When the old man heard this, he sighed leisurely and was speechless for a while.

In the scorching summer, the old crow on the locust tree in the courtyard is excitedly calling spring, and the old man leans against the tree, but the old crow screams and flies away, shaking off a few leaves.

Lu Xiangsheng stepped forward to help, but this time, he was angrily thrown away by the old man and glared at him fiercely.

Lu Xiangsheng's hand stopped in mid-air, the pupils in his eyes suddenly dilated, and he felt that his chest suddenly swelled, as if it was pierced by a sharp blade made of three-foot ice.

Since he was a child, he has been taught by his father, and Lu Xiang has been promoted to study promisingly, although he does not have the resources of a prodigy, he can often show extraordinary opinions.

He expected that entering Beijing to participate in the palace examination this time would lead to his father's opposition, but he did not expect that it would be the consequence of the father-son split like today.

Suddenly, Lu Xiangsheng's long-standing firm heart to serve the country suddenly trembled.

"Jiandou..."The old man came out of the two words, his chest hurt, and said:

"The chief examiner, Wei Guangwei, is the main commander who killed Wei Dazhong, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, do you really want to go?"

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned, thought for a moment, and still clenched his fists and said:

"I'm going."

When the old man heard this, his eyes almost filled with tears, and he sat helplessly under the locust tree, muttering:

"Jiandou, when you were a child, you always said that you would do great things in the future, didn't you count these words?"

"You've changed..."

Lu Xiangsheng frowned, stood at the door, looked at his father quietly, and said:

"Dad, the child has never changed, it is you who have changed."

"What I said, has always been a number, this time into Beijing, I am convinced that with my talents, I will be able to enter the Shi and the first, shine on the lintel, show your talents, ambitions!"

The old man covered his face helplessly, and he began to speak incoherently, with tears in his eyes, angry and angry, almost pleading:

"Jiandou, you don't want to be like this... Dad knows, you're angry with Daddy... Daddy, please... Don't go..."

Lu Xiangsheng's enthusiasm turned into tears, his eyes were a little more resolute, he bowed back deeply, and said:

"The child has never been angry with you."

The voice landed, but the old man was unusual, glaring angrily:

"Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, don't you know your identity? will also be blinded by the power castration, that is faint! ”

"Killing important ministers indiscriminately because of direct advice, that's violence!"

"For such a dumb king, where do you place the ancestors and ancestors of my Lu family?"

"This day is full of good and evil, and he is ridiculous and stupid, how has my father always taught you, and to this day, don't you even want dignity?"

"-Father!"

Lu Xiangsheng turned around, and without saying a word, he was about to leave, but the old man staggered and caught up, and asked anxiously:

"Jiandou, why are you going?"

"Go to Beijing, the palace test!"

Lu Xiangsheng was so angry that his steps were vain, he didn't look at the road, and almost tripped over a stone, but when he stabilized his body, he saw that the old man had chased him out of the house.

"Lu Jiandou!"

"You take another step forward, you and my father and son..."The old man gritted his teeth and called him by his name, only feeling ten thousand arrows piercing his heart in his chest, but he still said that sentence:

"In this life... Don't even see each other. ”

"My Lu family, I can't afford to lose that person!"

Lu Xiangsheng paused, stared, and clenched his fists tightly until blood dripped out.

Just when the old man was breathing nervously, the next moment, he saw that the young man suddenly quickened his pace, moved forward angrily, and left a sentence:

"If you don't see it, you won't see it, Jiandou will live this life and entrust it to the Ming Dynasty!"

The old man could hear this last sound, and with the cry of the old crow returning, he suddenly remembered the past when Lu Xiangsheng was a child.

He watched Lu Xiangsheng's back disappear from his eyes in a daze, cursed, and then completely collapsed.

"Little rabbit, I'm angry, I'm angry!"

......

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a case of the north-south list.

The reason for this happened was because all the people admitted to the examination were southerners, and there was no northerner on the list in the Ming Dynasty.

At first, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, thinking that it was unfair.

Later, it was found out that it was not unfair to take officials, but because since Li Tang, the performance of southerners in the imperial examination has been significantly better than that of northerners.

The court's fairness only made things more complicated, because of this excuse, the northern scholars were obviously not convinced.

Later, in order to win over the scholars from the south and the north, Zhu Yuanzhang customized the future imperial examinations, which were divided into the north and the south, and added the north to the people, which perfectly solved the case of the north and south.

To this day, as soon as the question of the palace trial policy was released, it immediately aroused heated discussions among the scholars.

There is no other reason, because this time, the policy problem, "the question of the southwest governance", is simply shameless to the extreme.