In the sixteenth year of Chongzheng, 1643 AD, this year, many major events happened in history.

In this year in history, Li Zicheng established the Dashun Dynasty, conquered Chengtian, Xi'an, Yulin, and Tongguan, and went straight to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

In this year in history, Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty died, and the six-year-old Shunzhi Emperor Fulin ascended the throne, and Prince Shuorui became regent of Dolgon.

In this year in history, the famous general Sun Chuanting died on the line from Tongguan to Weinan, and the Ming Dynasty lost the hope of making a final comeback.

At this time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was already in danger and could be destroyed at any time, but at this time of the Chongzheng Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was rich and strong, and it was about to usher in a heyday.

At this time, the Ming army was about to take the entire Xibe Khanate, which could be described as invincible;

At this time, the Ming Navy had gathered thousands of super battleships and was preparing for hegemony at sea;

The most important thing is that it was in this year that Zhu Cijiong, the emperor of Chongzheng of the Ming Dynasty, began to change the backward feudal system and officially implemented the "Chongzheng Law of the Ming Dynasty".

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the first issue of the "Beijing News" in the sixteenth year of Chongzheng was released on time, and to the surprise of all those who bought the newspaper, every newspaper bought was accompanied by a booklet, and this booklet was "Daming Chongzheng Law".

What surprised them even more was the content of "Daming Chongzheng Law", if it weren't for the fact that "The Beijing News" was issued by the Daming General Political Envoy Department, which is now the Daming Ministry of Communications, they would even think that someone was trying to spread rumors and make trouble.

The emperor's power also has to talk about the rules, and the people also have the right, although these have been circulating for thousands of years, it seems to have such a meaning, but the real explicit regulations have never appeared, the so-called "the people are the water, the king is the boat, and the water can carry the boat and overturn the boat." "The people are the most important, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. That's basically just talking, which emperor really values the common people more than himself!

There are also the daily affairs of the imperial court to be handed over to the cabinet to deal with, and even the selection of officials is decided by the cabinet, which has always been the dream of scholars, and it is also the focus of the Ming Dynasty's civil official group and the emperor's contention.

The dreams of countless literati in the Ming Dynasty have come true? All this is too simple, it makes people feel so unreal, but it is written in black and white on the "Daming Chongzheng Law" that the emperor will no longer be in charge of the daily affairs of the court, but just let Jinyiwei and Dongchang assist the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise it!

No one thinks it is unreasonable to supervise, and if there is no supervision, civil officials can be lawless, and that is called unreasonable.

It's just that the emperor really delegated power like this? All the readers couldn't believe it, but some had to believe it, because the "Daming Chongzheng Law" was imperial, that is, it was written by the emperor himself, and it has been implemented since this year.

All of a sudden, the entire Ming Dynasty went crazy, whether they were reading or not, whether they were illiterate or not, everyone was going crazy.

All the common people gradually heard that there is still a right and obligation, and the sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty is also stronger. Gradually, it is no longer a slogan, because they really feel that the rise and fall of the world really has something to do with them, and at the same time, they are more supportive of the emperor, because they clearly feel that the emperor is really good to them.

Whoever is good to me, I will be good to whom, this is human nature, after all, there are a few people who don't know what is good or bad.

The craze set off by "Daming Chongzheng Law" has not passed, only one day later, on the eighteenth day of the first month, the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty and the Ministry of Education of the Ming Dynasty jointly issued a document in the "Beijing News", and the number of scholars in the Guiwei Branch Examination and the Palace Examination will be doubled again, that is, the number of Jinshi on the nomination gold list in the Ming Dynasty will reach about 800, nearly three times more than the initial two or three hundred!

Now the whole Ming Dynasty has become a sensation again, the so-called "Candle Night in the Cave Room, when the gold list is nominated." Zhongjinshi was originally a matter of honoring the ancestors, and now that the chances of Zhongjinshi are three times more, how can it not make the world's scholars ecstatic.

Originally, some people who had been desperate saw hope again, more than 4,000 people chose two or three hundred, or more than 8,000 people chose three or four hundred, this gold list nomination is indeed not much, but, now there are more than 8,000 people to choose 800 people, one out of every ten can be nominated for the gold list, and those who can be admitted to the lifting are not ordinary people, if there is hope, who will give up, choose one out of ten, maybe, if you are lucky, you may be in high school.

As a result, the entire Ming Dynasty rushed to the capital frantically, and those who originally planned to give up, and even those who had given up for several sessions couldn't hold back, except for the old ones who couldn't walk or had been in seclusion and couldn't receive news, the other lifters basically rushed to the capital.

According to the final statistics of the Ministry of Education, the number of people who participated in the imperial examination reached a terrifying 9,000, even if the Ming Dynasty doubled its enrollment in the township test last year, it should be about 8,000 people, and the extra 1,000 people don't know where they came from.

In short, plus the number of people who came to Beijing this time, the number of candidates who participated in the examination has exceeded 12,000, and the number of participants has also reached three times the original, such a grand event, this is unprecedented, so many candidates, it is also a test for the Ming Ministry of Education, because now the candidates' accommodation is arranged by the Ministry of Education.

Fortunately, after the expansion of the Ministry of Education, the area of Guozijian has expanded by as much as five times, covering an area of a quarter of the original capital, you must know that the original capital has a population of more than one million, that is to say, Guozijian is going to be opened up and built, and it is not a problem to live for 200,000 people.

Huang Daozhou also made arrangements early, the new Guozijian built nearly 20,000 houses, and he also directly gave the inmates of the Guozijian a big vacation, those who do not participate in this examination, wait for the end of the imperial examination and then come to study, so that more candidates can live.

Now the candidates of the Ming Dynasty finally realized how strong the current Ming is, the original candidates in the capital or the candidates who have been to the capital are better, those who have not been to the capital are directly frightened by the huge capital, what is the concept of a city with a population of three or four million at this time, amazing, my Daming!

The candidates of the vassal country were even more stunned, not to mention the capital, even if it was the area of the new country, it was a megacity in them, and a school was even bigger than the city, what kind of concept is this, the Heavenly Empire, worthy of being the Heavenly Empire!

The process of the examination and the palace examination will not be repeated, the Chongzheng Dynasty has also held many imperial examinations, Zhu Cijiong is naturally familiar with the palace examination, but this time he has not met a candidate he knows, and he has not even heard of it.

Therefore, he simply did not interfere in the ranking of the gold list, and completely determined the ranking according to the results.

Why hasn't he heard of any of the candidates this year? Actually, this is not surprising, because in the Chongzhen Dynasty, this is already the last imperial examination, and the Ming Dynasty died in the second year after the exam, and these candidates have no chance to show their talents at all, and it is normal that they cannot leave their names in history.

However, it is different in the Chongzheng Dynasty, now the Ming Dynasty is rising, the light will surely shine on the whole world, they will no longer pass away in obscurity, and many people will leave their names in history!