Of course, the palace examination is not a champion to set a list and explore the flowers, and all the candidates in the back should also arrange their seats to determine the first, second and third, the first is generally called the Jinshi and the first, the second is the Jinshi origin, and the third is the same Jinshi origin.

Don't underestimate this ranking, the ranking of the first, second and third grades basically determines the future of the candidates.

A class generally directly into the Hanlin Academy, the champion awarded the Hanlin Academy to revis, the list of eyes and tanhua to the Hanlin Academy to edit, the others are awarded to the Jishi, these are actually short-term positions, entering the Hanlin Academy means that you have the qualifications to be a senior official, when the local or central middle and senior positions are vacant, generally in the Hanlin Academy to select people to fill in, the Ming Dynasty has a 'non-Hanlin is not allowed to enter the cabinet' regulations, that is to say, you are not from the Hanlin Academy, don't want to enter the cabinet.

The second class will generally go to the examination of the Jishi, and strive to enter the Hanlin Academy, if you can't pass the exam, you will be directly awarded an official position, and it is generally the six or seven grade officials under the six departments of the Qing Officials Division or the magistrates and judges of the state capitals. Of course, there are also lucky people who are appointed as the Taoist officials, that is, the six departments are given to the affairs and the imperial history of the various provinces, don't look at the positions of these two kinds of officials, the power is great, it has been mentioned before, I will not repeat it here, in short, the second class still has a bit of a future.

The top three are different, they will generally directly delegate to the local government to serve as county orders or state capital level seven-grade officials, unless they have made amazing achievements in this life, or they can only be transferred around the country, and they can only be transferred around the country, and they will not be able to go up again.

Of course, these are all local candidates of the Ming Dynasty, this Ding Chou Ke Palace Examination is not only the candidates of the Ming Dynasty, but also the candidates of the vassal countries such as North Korea, Dongying and Ryukyu, although their future is not necessarily the same as the candidates of the Ming Dynasty, but more or less will be affected by the ranking, if you run back to the vassal king and the subordinate king do not look at the ranking, indiscriminately confer officials, so that the position of the top three and the same Jinshi is higher than that of the second class of the Jinshi or the first class of the Jinshi and the first, they are estimated to run to the Ming Dynasty to avenge their grievances, then the Ming Dynasty will have to clean up those vassal kings and subordinate kings, Who the hell let you!

This time, because the number of candidates has more than doubled, the number of the top three has also been adjusted accordingly, in the past, the previous imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty generally selected the first class Jinshi and the tenth place, the second class gave the Jinshi to be born 100, and the top 3 with the Jinshi was nearly 200. This time, the first-class jinshi and the first have become twenty, the second-class jinshi has become two hundred, and the third-class jinshi has become more than 400.

After all, candidates from Dongying, North Korea and Ryukyu have to be distracted to learn their own language and culture, and the time to study the Four Books and Five Classics is much less than that of the candidates of the Ming Dynasty, and the level is naturally limited, so the first and second class are almost all candidates from the Ming Dynasty, and the candidates from Dongying, North Korea and Ryukyu are basically the top three.

In order to comfort these candidates who came from the subject country, Zhu Cijiong deliberately left two positions in the first class for Dongying and North Korea, and the second class also left twenty positions for Dongying and North Korea, as for the Ryukyus, there are only dozens of candidates in total, and there are less than ten jinshi, and it is almost the same to give a second-class quota, and the rest are all in the top three.

The palace exam is over, but all the candidates who participated in the palace exam did not leave the capital immediately, and Zhu Cijiong took great pains to prepare a series of activities for them.

First of all, Zhu Cijiong asked the Ministry of Rites to prepare a big red book for all the candidates of this year, that is, their 'Jinshi Certificate', with three rows of gilded characters printed on the cover:

The upper left corner of the first row is printed with 'Daming Chongzheng Dynasty Ding Chouke Yijia', 'Daming Chongzheng Chao Ding Chouke Erjia', 'Daming Chongzheng Chao Ding Chouke Sanjia';

In the middle of the second row, 'Jinshi and the first', 'Ci Jinshi origin', and 'Tongjinshi origin' are printed respectively;

In the lower right corner of the third row, it is uniformly printed with 'Da Ming Rite Department, Guozi Jian Pardon'.

The candidate's name, age and place of origin are written on it, and it is also stamped with the big seal of the Ming Rite Department, the Ming Guozijian and the Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong.

In fact, the candidates of the Ming Dynasty don't need this thing at all, because the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials have their files, and they can take it out and look at it when they are promoted, but the candidates of North Korea, Dongying and Ryukyu are different, this is their official certificate, especially the candidates of North Korea and Ryukyu, they are vassal states, and officials are appointed and dismissed by the vassal king.

As for the candidates of Dongying, because they belong to the country, their positions are all appointed and dismissed by the Ministry of Ming Officials, and the symbolic meaning of this thing is greater than the actual significance, but it is also a cost to show off if you can take such a gilded red book back, and it is also a face-saving thing to show off in front of relatives and friends.

Zhu Cijiong also made arrangements for the appointment and dismissal of Dongying officials, he asked the Ministry of Officials to reorganize the Dongying court directly according to the civil system of the Ming Dynasty, those left ministers, right ministers, internal ministers, foreign ministers, big Nayan, Zhong Nayan, small Nayan, etc., etc., all of them were exempted, and they were directly replaced with the title and position of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cijiong deliberately recruited all the Jinshi to the Huangji Hall the next day, and personally sent the 'Jinshi Certificate' to them one by one, and everyone encouraged a few words, nothing more than to be diligent as an official, to be honest and honest, to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, but don't underestimate this ceremony, in the future, these Jinshi will deeply remember today's scene, and the majesty of His Majesty the Ming Emperor will always be engraved in their hearts.

Zhu Cijiong just wanted them to understand that the emperor of the Ming Empire was the real co-lord of the world, and the vassal kings were just the princes under him.

After the end of the imperial examination, there were many people from the vassal states who did not return to China to serve, they all chose to stay in the Daming Academy of Liberal Arts to continue their studies, and strive to be nominated for the gold list in one fell swoop after three years, which is also the welfare given to them by Zhu Cijiong.

This costs a lot of money, and even the Daming Academy of Arts and Humanities has to expand the dormitory because of this, but Zhu Cijiong doesn't care about this money at all, he just wants to dilute the influence of the vassal kings and vassal kings in this way, and strengthen the sense of belonging of these candidates to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cijiong believes that after this lasts for decades or even hundreds of years, even if the vassal kings and subordinate kings want to become independent, no one will bird him, and the Ming dynasty will be as stable as a rock.