On the second day, the exam continues.

Yesterday's nine numbers and five salutes made everyone's heads as big as a fight, and today's content made everyone smile with a relaxed smile on their faces.

First, a few legal questions were taken, and several classic cases from the Criminal Department were extracted, which tested the "Da Ming Law" and the ability to judge cases for officials.

This is followed by a few current strategies, such as: "Please discuss the purpose of being an official." ”

"Please discuss the necessity of paying taxes."

Many people are calm in their hearts, secretly sighing that this is called the test, and they should take these real contents!

But the more they went down, the more chilled their hearts became, and the questions behind them became more and more frightening.

One of the topics is: "Now that the Ming Dynasty is in ruins, but there are still easterners in the north, but the treasury is unable to make ends meet, may I ask: how to make the treasury full?" How to stabilize the people of the world? ”

Then the next question is: "If the imperial court abolishes the poll tax of the common people and implements the policy of apportioning the land into the mu and the gentry paying the grain as an errand and the gentry, do you support it, please explain the reasons." ”

These two questions appear one after the other, and it is obvious that the crown prince is going to make a lot of money, how can the imperial treasury be filled? Collecting taxes according to the mu will make the tax increase exponentially!

But do you really want to support it? Who does not have the landlord's land under his name and is doing some tax evasion? If it is apportioned into the mu, how much tax is charged according to how many acres of land, and those wealthy families are not allowed to fry the pot?

Many scholars have been dissatisfied with Zhu Cihong's investigation of the land of the guard, but the land of the guardhouse is a military tun and belongs to the official field, and they are not easy to attack, but now the prince is blatantly preparing to collect taxes from large households, which is too much!

Scholars in the southeast, who doesn't have some land? Even if you are a poor scholar, there are big dogs who donate money after gaining fame, in order to evade taxes and evade taxes under the fame of the land.

Many of the reference scholars were silent after encountering this question, and they had to make a choice between fame and family interests.

The meaning of Zhu Cihong's move is very clear, that is, to use this meeting to try to let the scholars in Jiangnan stand in line, is it for the future of the government or the interests of the family? You can only choose one between the country and the family.

As long as he does not support the new policy, Zhu Cihong will not hesitate to pass it directly, cutting off their fate as officials, and he will only use those who support the new policy to implement the new policy.

In an examination number, Hou Fangyu's face became more and more gloomy as he stared at the test papers, he slammed the table, and said: "Why should I make a choice, this decree is obviously aimed at the gentry class by the crown prince, and I categorically cannot accept it!" ”

Hou Fangyu did a bad job in the exam the day before yesterday, since he knew that he couldn't win, why not take advantage of this matter to make a fuss? Maybe you can get the support of the southeastern scholars and gentry and win prestige for yourself!

If you have prestige, you're still worried about not having an official job? Isn't that the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty? The more you toss, the more famous you are, the better you get promoted!

Jiangnan has always been the hardest hit area of the Ming Dynasty's anti-tax resistance, Donglin and Fushe are even more anti-tax pioneers, the prince came to Nanjing to supervise the country and did not exempt the tax arrears of large households in Jiangnan.

Hou Fangyu was the first to make trouble on the table, which immediately aroused the echo of other Jiangnan scholars in the examination shed, no one was sure that he would pass the examination, so it was better to use this to fight for political ideas and win the financial support of Jiangnan landlords and businessmen such as "Wujiang surname"?

"No test! The crown prince went against the sky, so blatantly digging the roots of my Ming gentry, the soldiers can be killed, not humiliated! ”

As Hou Fangyu, one of the four sons of Jinling, raised his arms, Jiangnan Gongyuan immediately exploded, walked out of the examination number, and gathered outside the examination shed.

"This second entrance examination is not an examination at all, but the crown prince is waiting for me to wait for Jiangnan Shilin to have a showdown, and he wants to collect money in my Jiangnan!"

"I'm going to boycott the exam!"

"Yes, the boycott demonstration!"

Listening to the noisy boycott of the Jiangnan scholars outside, candidates from other provinces sat in a daze in the exam number, feeling that something was going to happen.

The chief examiner upstairs in Mingyuan, Zhu Jiqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, saw the sudden change that occurred in the examination room, and immediately panicked, and hurriedly sent someone to the palace to inform the crown prince.

Li Shaoyou, who was inspecting the Jiangnan Gongyuan, learned that someone was boycotting the exam, and transferred hundreds of armed troops to enter the stadium to maintain law and order on the spot, but he was pushed and kicked by the Jiangnan scholars.

The sergeants did not dare to fight back privately without orders, so they could only let this group of scholars vent and beat.

Li Shaoyou saw that these scholars didn't know what to do, and the matter was getting bigger and bigger, so he immediately shouted: "All listen to the order, take down all these troublemakers, and if there are any resistors, give Lao Tzu a hard beating!" ”

For a while, there was a sound of shouting and scolding in the Gongyuan, and the troublemakers were pushed to the ground, but there were too many people making trouble, and they couldn't press it at all.

The chief examiner, Zhu Jiqi, hurriedly dissuaded: "General Li, don't do it, they are all scholars, you will arouse the resistance of the candidates!" ”

"Oh?" Li Shaoyou glanced at him and said, "Then how does Lord Zhu plan to deal with it?" Just let them make trouble, will the impact be tried? ”

Zhu Jiqi was also entangled in his heart, and said: "This, the official will talk to them first to stabilize the situation, and then wait for His Highness's decision......

"Whatever you want!" Li Shaoyou waved his hand and ordered all the Tianwu troops to withdraw from the Tribute Academy.

He sneered again and again, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so strong, how can he be forced to give in? What a joke! When the order arrives, let's see how Lao Tzu kills these hypocritical dogs!

In the Forbidden City of Nanjing, Zhu Cihong was learning to paint with Dong Xiaowan in the Rouyi Palace, when suddenly a brocade guard walked in and briefly told the things in the Jiangnan Gong Courtyard.

"Boycott demonstrations?" Zhu Cihong raised his eyebrows, without the slightest surprise, those questions would cause radical changes that he had long expected.

He looked at Wu Weiye, the waiter of the East Palace, who was grinding and analyzing poems and paintings for himself, and said, "Wu Weiye, how do you think this matter should be handled?" ”

Wu Yewei is a native of Taicang, Nanzhili, and a disciple of Zhang Pu, the founder of the Fushe Society, who has become famous in recent days, and is known as "Jiangzuo's three families" along with Qian Qianyi and Gong Dingyu.

Zhu Cihong originally wanted to use him to win over some young scholars who had made a difference in the Restoration Society, and took advantage of this matter to test him by the way.

Wu Weiye's heart twitched after hearing this, and he said: "The scholars in Jiangnan are too high-minded, and they lack some rules, Your Highness can summon them to talk and understand the inside story......

"Really?" Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "Since there are fewer rules, then the palace will set rules for them!" ”

His face sank, and he said: "Pass on the decree of the palace, order Li Shaoyou to lead the troops to arrest and disrupt the people who disturb the test, and kill all of them regardless of their subordinates!" ”

Wu Weiye was frightened: "Your Highness, this ....."

Zhu Cihong glanced at him and said, "You stand down!" You don't have to walk in the palace anymore. ”

Wu Weiye felt a chill in his heart, knowing that it was useless to say more, so he hurriedly bowed down and retired.

The Yirou Hall is elegantly arranged, and the two bottles of nameless flowers on the Xuan case exude a faint fragrance.

Dong Xiaowan was dressed in a moon-white light veil, plain and clean, spotless, revealing an icy and jade temperament, which made it difficult for people to have blasphemy thoughts.

She frowned slightly and said, "Your Highness, the slave family thinks that Hou Gongzi is talented, wouldn't it be a pity if he killed him like this?" ”

Zhu Cihong glanced at Dong Xiaowan and said lightly: "No matter how talented a person is, he can't be used by me, but he gets in the way everywhere, is this kind of person left to add to the blockage?" ”

As he spoke, he walked up to Dong Xiaowan, lifted her delicate white chin with his right hand, and said softly: "A woman in the palace, it's best to talk less and read more, sometimes appearance is not omnipotent, understand?" ”

Dong Xiaowan's delicate and smooth face stiffened for a while, and her body was motionless like a jade statue made of white jade, and after being stunned for a moment, she said in a low voice: "The slave family understands......

Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "Well, let's continue to paint, don't paint that orchid, paint that kind of red and purple peony." ”

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