As soon as Nan Juyi came out, the candidates recommended by the later Shangshu were a little dwarfed, although the Ming Dynasty has expanded greatly in recent years, but there are not many civil officials above the third grade who have really dealt with foreigners, because many times the Ming Dynasty is negotiating with foreigners with his fists, if he is looking for a military general who has fought with foreigners, he can pull a lot of them casually, but the civil officials can't find a few.

In the end, through a show of hands, Nan Juyi was unanimously elected as the new secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a unanimous vote of thirteen.

Zhu Youzhen was still very concerned about this matter, because this was the first time he presided over the election of court officials, and he naturally wanted to have a perfect result, and as soon as the meeting was over, he went straight to the Qianqing Palace and asked the emperor for advice.

If this is someone else's election, Zhu Cijiong will definitely let Dongchang and Jinyiwei check it, he doesn't want to let the cabinet elect a mediocre official, a faint official or even a corrupt official for the first time to let the cabinet elect a member of the imperial court, but Nan Juyi doesn't need to check, Xu Guangqi is right, he does appreciate Nan Juyi, he is quite satisfied with Nan Juyi's performance in the southeast, and there is naturally no problem at all in promoting him to be the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In this way, the new secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nan Juyi, who was elected by the cabinet, soon won the emperor's favor, and the emperor issued an order that the former governor of the southeast, Nan Juyi, be transferred to Beijing to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The candidates for the three new yamen scholars have been determined, but a yamen can't just have a book, especially a big yamen like this who is responsible for daily affairs, there are at least a dozen officials such as the left and right attendants, langzhong, and wailang, and there are dozens of chiefs in charge of specific affairs, and it is normal for a big yamen to have hundreds of officials, and this is still the configuration before the Ming Dynasty did not expand.

Now the Ming Dynasty, the territory area has expanded more than three times, and the provinces have almost tripled the original, and then Siberia will be laid, and the number of provinces will even exceed the original four times, that is to say, the major yamen must be matched with at least two or three hundred talents to be enough, not only the new yamen, the old yamen also have to expand, the last time the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education were established, the officials of the yamen have been expanded almost doubled, and now, it seems that it is a little insufficient.

In this way, the number of people required is a bit terrifying, just the three newly established yamen need six or seven hundred people, and the original eight big yamen also need to expand by six or seven hundred people, adding up to more than a thousand people!

More than 1,000 people don't seem to be much, because the current population of the Ming Dynasty is more than 100 million, but the problem is that more than 1,000 people must have meritorious fame, and the general talent is not good, at least it has to be a person, according to the previous rules, it is difficult to raise people to be Beijing officials, and the heads of various departments are generally from Jinshi, not to mention the staff outside Lang, Lang Zhong and Shilang.

This can make Zhu Youzhen and Yang Sichang worried, Zhu Youzhen is better, because he is only responsible for the senior members above the fifth grade, and a yamen has two waiters, four langzhong, and four foreign langs are above the fifth grade, the old yamen have these, and the new yamen add up to thirty, the problem is not very big, but it is more time-consuming to hold a meeting to elect.

Yang Sichang is different, he really needs to select more than 1,000 Beijing officials here, and at least he has to have the fame of lifting people, where can he find so many people and jinshi!

Why can't he find so many lifters and jinshi, according to the admission rate of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, you can know it by a little calculation.

According to the convention, the admission rate of Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty is about 1 out of 20, that is to say, only one person out of 20 people can be admitted to Jinshi, and the most Jinshi selected in each subject of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty is about 200 people, so that the maximum number of people who participate in the examination is about 4,000 people each time.

This 4,000-odd person does not mean that there will be 4,000 people every three years, but that there are more than 4,000 people who participate in the imperial examination every time.

Jinshi is admitted every three years about 200, but the lifting is not, many books have repeatedly failed to try, that is to say, many people have participated in a lot of examinations, and in the end failed to get the Jinshi, combined with the admission rate of the examination can prove one thing, that is, each time to participate in the imperial examination at most about 4,000 people, sometimes even less than 4,000.

Are there any people who have passed the examination and have not taken the examination? There must be such people, but there are definitely not too many, most of them are old and frail, and they can't afford to take the test, but whoever is in the prime of life doesn't want to be named on the gold list, that is to say, the number of people who have meritorious service in the same period of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not exceed 8,000 people.

The problem arises in this way, even if the Jinshi and all the people in the 10th Imperial Examination are all officials in the court, the number of Jinshi and the people together is less than 10,000, and how many officials are there in the Ming Dynasty now?

It's not that I don't know, it's even more scary, the number of provinces in the Ming Dynasty is almost forty, each province is almost eight to ten state capitals, and each state capital is almost eight to ten counties, that is to say, now there are three or four thousand county orders in the Ming Dynasty, and there are more than 2,000 officials above the seven grades such as political envoys, prefects, governors, and Tongzhi at all levels. Almost all of the others are in office.

It is already standard to raise people as county orders, and Xiucai to be county ministers in Daming, and Jinshi is basically above six grades!

The Jinshi and Juren who can be officials are basically officials, where did Yang Sichang come from to pick out these more than 1,000 people, Zhang Pu, Wu Jianye, and Nanju Yike are all powerful officials, and when they start to do things, they are called a storm, and the yamen has been established, and they don't even give subordinate officials, so they naturally don't do it.

As a result, the threshold of the Ministry of Officials was about to be trampled by them, and Yang Sichang was blocked by them in the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials almost every day, in addition to asking for people or people, this one went and that came, that one came here, sometimes two came together, sometimes three went together, and he was almost crazy.

He was forced to be urged and had no choice but to go to the emperor, there is really no one, he can't recruit some shows to be Beijing officials!

Zhu Cijiong really didn't take this problem into account, in the past, all dynasties and dynasties were Jinshi waiting to be officials, but it was good to come here, and he couldn't even raise people.

What else could he do, he could only summon Xu Guangqi and Huang Daozhou over to discuss the expansion of the imperial examination.

In fact, the imperial examination has been expanded once, starting from the Ding Chou section in the tenth year of Chongzheng, the number of jinshi admitted to each subject has doubled, reaching nearly 400 people, but the number of people has not doubled, it is still so much.

Actually, this can't be blamed on Zhu Cijiong, he is presiding over the palace examination, not the township examination and the hospital examination, and more than 400 jinshi can be selected, how can he think about how many people are raised in the Ming Dynasty!

This is also a coincidence, it happens that August this year is the triennial college examination, that is, the examination of Xiucai candidates.

What else is there to consider, Zhu Cijiong directly ordered that the number of admissions in various places be doubled!