The political structure of the Longwu Imperial Court was a dualistic system consisting of the cabinet of the conventional system and the general of the temporary war system. But no one is blind, and at a glance he knows that at the moment, the war is the priority, and it is natural to press the cabinet. Moreover, the money and food needed for the daily administrative affairs of the palace and the imperial court were also allocated to the inner government and the cabinet. One hand is the gun and knife handle, and the other hand is a purse and a bag of rice, along with it, and the line is also in charge of the black gauze hats of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

However, in recent days, cabinet officials have also been in full swing. Without him, Longwuenko is going to open. This is a major event of the national dynasty!

All of you adults are well-educated people who are on the right path in Kejia, and there is such a good opportunity to earn face and get money to receive protégés, how can you not rush to be the first? The chief examiner was occupied by the first assistant Huang Daozhou, and the examiners of the remaining rooms were also the objects of competition for the left and right imperial histories of the six Shangshu, Shilang, Dali Temple Zhengqing, Shaoqing, and Yushitai.

Once the organization is decided, the next step is to clarify the scope of the exam, the format of the exam, and the questions. Theoretically, it is natural that the south, north, and sixty-three provinces under the great tomorrow can come to take the exam. However, this cannot be achieved in the first place. Not to mention that the north of the Yangtze River has fallen, it is south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the place where the Ming and Qing dynasties fought back and forth and fought repeatedly. Do you want these people from the occupied areas to let them participate in this Enko? In addition, the cabinet here is still discussing the scope of the examination, and there has been a word from the industry that students from all over the country, including Nanyang Luzon and other places, are also eligible to participate in Enke.

This stabbed the hornet's nest. The officials of the cabinet were indignant, "The lifters of the provinces have been cold for ten years, and the iron inkstone has been worn through to have this meritorious name." Then students from all over the south of the middle school, just learned some counting and accounting, barely able to read, can write letters on their behalf, how dare they come to participate in the imperial examination?! ”

Slander is slander, but he doesn't dare to say anything.

However, Huang Shoufu twisted his beard and said with his head: "The general's move is for the sake of the country's decency." He knew very well that if it was really carried out as in the autumn of previous years, he was afraid that few people would be able to participate in this Enko, for the simple reason that there were too many places lost. The Ming Dynasty does not cut the land and does not get along, and it has accumulated over the years, it is already not out of Shanhaiguan in the east, but Jiayuguan in the west, and it is not the Ming Dynasty when the Great Wall is out, so there is the Son of Heaven guarding the country. (In other words, if you really follow the theory of the founding of the eighteen provinces of the revolutionary pioneers, don't say that you can't eat a large plate of chicken and mutton skewers, if you want to go to the snowy plateau to purify your soul, you will probably have to apply for a passport if you want to eat beef ramen.) ）

If it is a selection of materials for the country, and at the same time, it marks the legitimacy of his regime, so that everyone in the world recognizes himself as an orthodox imperial examination, and when it is solemnly held, only three or two kittens come, this is not a slap in the face, this is a slap in the face with a dragon cannon! Therefore, Huang Daozhou greatly appreciated Li Shouhan's order for people from all over Nanzhong who had received school education to participate in this Longwu Enke exam.

Therefore, for those who are according to the standards of the gentlemen of Kejia Zhengtu, those who not only have no fame, but are not even considered to have gone to school, at most they know how to read, all of them have the status of lifting people.

This is something that people who are born on the right path of Kejia cannot tolerate no matter what. After some deliberation, they came up with a plan to deal with it. On the grounds that the Jiangnan Township Trial had not been reported due to the fall of Nanjing, an official document was sent to Xingyuan, asking for instructions to hold the Jiangnan Township Trial before Enke.

In this way, those who did not have the identity of the showman, can also participate in the Longwu Enke exam in a grand manner after taking the township test to obtain the identity of the lifter, if you are lucky, the identity can change from the showman when you came, to the same Jinshi, Jinshi, completed the triple jump of identity change!

"Sir! Mr! "In front of the door of the Zodiac Zhou's signature room, several cabinet officials rushed in." Meddlesome! What a good thing! ”

"What made you so out of shape?!"

Although Huang Daozhou is not the kind of Taoist who is not smiling, but he also pays attention to manners and appearances on weekdays, people like him, deep down in their hearts, take Xie An as a model to learn, even if the news comes from the front line at this moment that the army has recovered Nanjing, he is also ready to say like Xie An's sentence "Little generation big thief", say "pack up your things and prepare to go back to Nanjing." Something like that. But now the subordinates in front of him are so out of shape, which makes him a little unhappy in his heart.

The general sent back the official document. The marshal has approved the charter of holding the township examination first and then opening Enke. Order that the provinces be informed and that they should be handled accordingly. ”

"The branch secretary of Xingyuan also sent a message, asking about how many scholars participated in the township examination, and how many participated in the lifting of Enke, and asked me to wait for the statistics to inform them that they were ready to plan money and food to give subsidies. The student inquired about the visitor, and according to the general's wishes, the Duzhi Division was going to give an allowance according to the standard of three meals a day, two meals of one meat and one vegetarian, and an ordinary single room. In addition, if the candidates are unwell during the examination, they will be given a silver dollar for the decoction. ”

"There is another thing to tell Lord Shoufu, the general Xingyuan ordered the Fuzhou Mansion to renovate the existing tribute courtyard and rebuild the examination shed. The kind of examination shed that is heavy rain outside and light rain inside, can't stretch your legs when you go in, and can't stretch your waist when you sit down, is not allowed to appear in this imperial examination. For the insufficient part, temples and ancestral halls inside and outside the city, and even military camps can be requisitioned for use as examination rooms. ”

This series of good news immediately dispelled Huang Daozhou's dissatisfaction with these officials, and replaced it with joy. In the end, it is the foundation of a reader! As soon as I heard that I respected the scholars and respected the teacher, I was so happy.

"Although the marshal was born as a martial artist and his style of acting is inevitably rough, he is not ambiguous in the matter of promoting the king's transformation and respecting the teacher. Not to mention anything else, you can take a look at the piles one by one, renovating the examination booth and providing bait for the candidates to arrange food and accommodation. These make the old man remember the five and empathize! ”

"Exactly! In fact, the marshal is as Mr. said, he is the one who promotes the king, and in just twenty years, he has turned the wild and barren land into a place where books are sounding. In all parts of the country under the rule of the general, the rate of children attending school was several times higher than that of Jiangnan. It's a pity that it's a little vulgar in the end, and it doesn't read the essence of the scriptures. ”

"It doesn't matter, when the war calms down, I have to wait for a good life to help the marshal, and the chaos will be rectified."

A group of people began to look forward to Enke in full swing, and a large number of scholars and scholars went to Tianzi Hall for Tian Shelang to carry on the past and forge ahead into the future, creating a grand occasion of a Zhongxing situation. However, as the saying goes, it is too rigid and easy to break, and it is too strong to keep. Just after a happy cup of tea, an official on duty in the cabinet for today hurriedly ran in.

"Lord Shoufu, the marshal's approval of the Enke exam has come down!"

"Oh! It must have been a big draw of a quasi-word. In their hearts, a few officials who were quite disdainful of Li Shouhan, a martial artist-born nobleman, ridiculed, in their opinion, Li Shouhan's bad words, that set of rude words, at most, were to draw a quasi-word on the submission, and draw a word. What else can be said?

"The marshal attaches so much importance to Enke this time, he must have encouraged him a lot. We must keep our good life in mind, and we must keep it in mind when we do things. ”

The officials speculated about the content of Li Shouhan's comments on the approval of the submission, but their eyes fell on the faces of their colleagues on duty, trying to analyze one or two from his expressions on duty.

"Naturally, the marshal wouldn't say anything else. However, there are ill-intentioned people around him! This generation has a deep prejudice against me as a scholar, holds a grudge, and is always in trouble with us. ”

Naturally, the official document should be read by Huang Daozhou first, and the officials on duty were quite angry and told their colleagues about the approval of this official document.

While listening, everyone watched the change in the expression on Shousuke's face, and when they saw that Huang Daozhou's expression was gradually solemn, they shouted in their hearts that it was not good. I'm afraid that there are quite a few articles in this reply that go against the mind of Lord Shousuke.

"My lord," seeing Huang Daozhou's uncertain expression, the cabinet colleagues were cautious, lest they say a bad word and put themselves sandwiched between the first assistant of the cabinet and the general Liang Guogong. "But the general has a new intention for this Enko?" In order to clear his name, he was very cautious to change the more respectful and affectionate title of the marshal to an impartial general and officer.

"It shouldn't be the marshal." The circumference of the zodiac let out a long breath. Trying to calm down, "The marshal is good at military and politics, and he doesn't know much about the many affairs of the imperial examination, this," he raised a few pieces of paper in his hand printed with the red head of the general's official documents, and it was really a big quasi-word with cinnabar, and another line of small characters, "Please handle it with Mr. Huang Shoufu Dao Zhou of the cabinet and your colleagues." ”

"It must have been written by someone in the shogunate."

Li Shouhan's official office belonged to a black yamen that had no quota, no budget, and no grade regulations. Of course, in the eyes of the princes in the court, this is a consulting agency subordinate to Li Shouhan's private family, and they also have a lot of money, food, and criminal copywriters around them. No one would have thought that this office was like the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, belonging to an institution with enormous power. (Fourth Master: What are you kidding?) The military aircraft office I built was turned into a bullshit office by you, and it was used to fight against the Son of Heaven, and dared to reject the emperor's will at every turn, the cabinet disagreed, the emperor's holy decree is the straw paper to wipe the butt, oh, it's not right, it seems that the straw paper that wipes the ass is also very valuable now. Can you still make the emperor fall into the water and die at every turn, and the cabinet that died of a cold is more than that? ）

Several officials hurriedly took over the regulations on the organizational form and content of the Enke Imperial Examination proposed by the official office, and looked at them at a glance.

The first part is in the form of imperial examinations. The original five days and four nights of three consecutive exams have been changed to three three-day exams. And there are two days of rest in between, so that candidates can recover their strength and adjust themselves. These officials have been in the examination room for a long time, all the way from the pen, ink and paper to fight out, with the pen in their hands and the inkstone on the desk in the pen array to seek fame. They know the pain of the imperial examination.

The first test of the imperial examination is Jingyi, and the examination time is not particularly excessive, only three days and two nights. This seems to be much more painful than the current college entrance examination. Officials who have traveled to Nanjing and visited the Gongyuan can imagine that staying in that kind of examination shed for three days and two nights, not to mention racking your brains to conceive an article, just let you stay in it, that feeling, students who have entered the detention center of the police station should be very familiar with this feeling.

Think about it, I was ready to enter the exam room in the early morning of the first day, and then stayed in the examination room for three days and two nights, eating, drinking, and Lazar in it. Note that it is February of the lunar calendar, whether it is Jiangnan or Jingshi, it seems that it is not pleasant to spend the night in a cowshed the size of a kennel in this season. Candidates in Jiangnan are faced with the spring rain in early spring and February outside, and those in Beijing are to meet the physical fitness test of the cold northwest wind in spring, which is sour, so there are often exams to die in the imperial examination, and it is not uncommon to have more than a dozen every year. It is more likely that physical exhaustion and mental stress lead to collapse, and the so-called madness is also a lot.

Ay! The judge said, isn't it just an exam! It's not a physical education exam, or is it still physically exhausted for such a long time of three days and two nights? Judge, don't be a hero on your lips, wait for me to talk about the content and questions of this exam, and it's not too late for you to say more.

The content of the first scripture test is to give you seven scripture questions, you write seven scriptures in a row to explain the scriptures in the form of eight strands, and the seven articles are written in almost 10,000 words, plus the draft, and the workload is made up by your own brain. Moreover, the requirements of the imperial examination are very high, if you refer to the standards of the college entrance examination, you will wait to be defeated! The font requirement is "Taige style". Not only is it very demanding for writing, but also for the same size of font, even the ink is also required. It is required that the words written are black and clean. Later, there were so-called "black, large, light, round" standard requirements.

Speaking of which, this pavilion body still can't avoid Zhu Chong and the eight masters. Taige, originally refers to Shangshu (an official who assisted the emperor in handling government affairs in ancient times). Because Shangshutai is in the palace building, it is called this, and it is later extended to the name of the government. As the name suggests, Taige style is a special font for official writing. Due to personal preference, the father and son of the starling brother have vigorously advocated calligraphy, and the study is flourishing for a while. Zhu Laosi even issued an edict to ask for people who are good at writing at home, and invited them to gather in the Hanlin Academy, doubling their favor. In the Ming Dynasty, when the scholars were selected, they all used regular script to answer the test papers, so as to be neat. Those who do not write well, even if they are full of wealth, will lose their name to Sun Shan. Not only is it going to be off the list, but the paper is also going to be hung out for the public, so that everyone can take a good look at the negative teaching materials. This had a great impact on the art of calligraphy at that time. Therefore, the scholar writes, but seeks to be upright and formal, horizontal and vertical, neat and tidy, written like woodblock printing, which forms the Ming Dynasty's Taige calligraphy, called "Taige style". So! Those who want to get a career in the imperial examination hall or be shocked by a big man by relying on a bad word in the crossing, I advise you to dispel this idea! As far as the bad characters of your calligraphy interest class are expelled, it is estimated that you can't write letters on the street, and you still want to take the imperial examination? Wake up!

Ladies and gentlemen, think about it carefully, for three days and two nights, you must first conceive seven articles, and then write at least 10,000 words of articles in the same font.

It's the form and the title, the amount of the question, and then let's talk about something else. Well, let's say the scope of the exam. (Knock on the blackboard!) This paragraph is important! Although the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was divided into three sessions, only the first one was really valued; The topic of the first session is 4 questions of the meaning of this scripture + 3 questions of the meaning of the four books. The so-called scripture means that each candidate should determine a scripture as his or her own direction of specialization from the five classics of "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", "Zhou Yi" and "Spring and Autumn" when registering, and write 4 articles on the topic of the sentences precipitated in this classic during the exam; The four books are three questions from the four so-called "Neo-Confucian" classics, namely "Analects", "Mencius", "Zhongyong" and "University". That is to say, the examiner has to prepare a total of 4 * 5 + 3 = 23 questions for each exam, and each candidate actually answers 7 questions.

How's it going, is it already a headache? These are the characteristics of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty. It has a heavy starling characteristics of the imperial examination system.

The imperial examination began in the Sui and Tang dynasties and was formalized in the Song dynasty. Although the Tang and Song dynasties also examined the scriptures, they also took the scriptures as an important content, for example, Wen Tianxiang wrote "Hard Encounters and Encounters a Classic" in Ding Yang, which is the inner monologue of this literary champion. But the way to test the scriptures is very simple, that is, to paste the scriptures (fill in the blanks) and Moyi (silently), how about it, do you immediately feel that you have hope?

After the reform of Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty, he abolished the poetry fu, and then the focus was on the strategy. When it comes to the starling, the emphasis will be on the assessment of the scriptures.

If you can withstand the test and face the seven questions picked out in this sutra and the four books, and you can deal with them calmly, the next two will be much easier. Especially in the third strategy, as long as you don't say that Zhu Yuanzhang is a thief and Zhu Di is not in the right position, then it is all over. You just wait to become a jinshi or a fellow jinshi!

However, this charter, which makes people feel deviant and rebellious, or the proposal for the reform of the college entrance examination system, under the banner of frequent wars and the reform of the Togu system, openly wants to undergo a major operation on the form and content of the examination. In addition to the shortened time, the difficulty is also reduced to an outrageous level. For example, restore the meaning of the scriptures to the Song Dynasty's pasting scriptures (fill in the blanks) and Moyi (silent writing). Moreover, the status of Cewen should be greatly improved.

"This is a big matter, and it is related to the future of thousands of scholars in the world, and this official wants to go to Xingyuan, meet the marshal, and share a word with him!" Zodiac Zhou Yi knew that he could not do it, and ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair.

"If the scriptures are changed to the scriptures and the ink meanings, then the younger brothers and nephews in my family who are not successful can also gain fame?"

Looking at the sedan chair and honor guard in the distance around the ecliptic, some officials couldn't help but rejoice in their hearts.