After Zhang Heming received the appointment, he refused to leave, saying that he was going to prepare. After preparing in the capital for seventeen days, he saw that the emperor was in a hurry, so he went to Shanhaiguan slowly.

When he arrived at Shanhaiguan, he didn't say that he was going to investigate the situation of the enemy army, train soldiers or anything, just drink every day, ask the court to send benefits to the Mongols, and wanted the Mongols to fight with Jiannu in front. The Mongols are very cunning now, of course the benefits are wanted, but can they fight, you can fight first, and we will help.

After doing it for a few days, Zhang Heming may feel that it is not safe to go on like this, so he said that he was sick and wanted to be transferred back, and at the same time asked some Donglin officials to impeach him for nothing.

The cabinet also recommended Xie Jingbang to take over, so Zhu Youxiao promoted Xie Jingbang, the governor of Xuanfu, to the right attendant of the military department, and concurrently served as the right servant of the Imperial History of Liaodong, but Xie Jingbang was sparse three times, and he resigned from his heavy responsibilities, no matter what the emperor said, he was unwilling to go to Liaodong, the place of death. Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but laugh, this is the scholar doctor of the Ming Dynasty, so he ordered him to be dismissed from his post as a citizen and never be used.

There was no choice but to start the court push by the ministers. After being busy for a long time, this heavy responsibility fell on the left servant of the military department, Wang Zaijin.

In March of the second year of the Apocalypse, the emperor decreed: the king was promoted to the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, passing through Liaodong, Jizhen, Tianjin, Deng, Lai, and giving python jade, cloth belt monk Fang sword.

Yuan Chonghuan was also promoted to the former soldier of Ning, and followed Wang to live in Shanhaiguan before the Jin Dynasty.

After sending Wang Zaijin away, Zhu Youxiao's first palace test after ascending the throne was about to begin.

The examination of the second year of the Apocalypse has been held in three sessions on the 9th, 12th, and 15th of the first month of February, and it is slightly different from history that this time the main examination is Fang Congzhe instead of Ye Xianggao, and Ye Xianggao is just the same exam.

The palace examination in the second year of the Apocalypse was held on March 15 as in the past (eight years after Chenghua). Because it was the first palace examination since he ascended the throne, Zhu Youxiao attached great importance to it, and he first promoted his scripture teacher Yuan Keli to the secretary of the General Political Affairs Department, and let him serve as the official of the court examination paper.

He asked Yuan Keli carefully about the procedure of the palace examination, but found that there was nothing to do with himself, the palace examination was only the final decision, and the topic cabinet had already helped him out, he only needed to appear during the examination, indicating that everyone after the palace examination was a protégé of the Son of Heaven.

However, he was still very excited, because he felt that some officials were now good at attacking each other and not doing practical things, such as Yang Lianzuo Guangdou of the Donglin Party who specifically attacked Li Xuanzhi and other suspected of hanging the curtain, and even Mr. Ye Xianggao, who was the second assistant, kept attacking Xiong Tingbi just for his own disciples, as for how to deal with Jiannu and how to increase the output of the peasants, it was not a suggestion at all. Zhang Heming, Xie Jingbang, these people didn't even dare to stay in Liaodong. He wanted to find some people who could really do practical things, instead of talking about being invincible in the world and powerless officials, so he changed the title of the cabinet.

On the evening of March 15, the palace examination began, and Zhu Youxiao finally made a grand appearance after waiting for the candidates to enter. After everyone saluted the mountain and shouted long live, Yuan Keli announced the topic: Mr. Wang Yangming advocates the unity of knowledge and action, and many years later, all the heroes are either governors, or officials, or strategies, that is, they choose their aspirations, and they are clear as officials.

Yuan Keli read out the question three times, and all the candidates have not yet reacted, and the temple examination on weekdays is always from the rule of the three generations, and the quotations of the saints, even if it is from the political aspect, it is also to ask a certain aspect of the question, like this self-choice of aspirations, expounding the policy of governance has never been encountered. However, the emperor is the biggest, and since there is such a question, of course it must be answered according to what the emperor said.

After the examinees began to answer the questions, Zhu Youxiao was bored, so he wanted to go down to see what the examinees answered, but Yuan Keli hurriedly stopped him: "Your Majesty can't go down to watch, it will affect the examinees." In desperation, I had to look around, only to see that most of the candidates were thinking, but there was a candidate who was struggling to write, and he was very curious, so he stared at him, looked at it, and always felt that this person was very familiar, but he didn't know where he had seen it.

The candidate seemed to feel his gaze, raised his head and glanced at this side, but Zhu Youxiao stood up in shock, Zhu Xiaotian, it turned out to be his brother Zhu Xiaotian, he stepped forward, and only then did he take a step to react, he is now in the Ming Dynasty, how could his brother be in the Ming Dynasty, just a person who looks like his brother, he fell back and sat heavily on the chair.

The candidate just looked up, he was very surprised by the emperor's unusual behavior, but it was only strange for a moment, and he lowered his head again and began to answer the question. Although the officials around the emperor were strange, no one said anything, and when they looked at the emperor's line of sight, they only saw the candidates who were answering the questions.

When the time for the exam came, all the candidates stood up and saluted the emperor, Zhu Youxiao saw that the candidate stood up and was more similar to his brother, the same white and thin skin, the same eyes were bright, the only difference was that the elder brother was bare under the chin, and this candidate had a short beard. And if my brother hadn't shaved every day, he would have looked like this.

He memorized the candidate's location, and after collecting the paper, he took his paper. This candidate's name is Lu Xiangsheng, a native of Yixing County, Changzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, looking at his answer sheet, it turned out that if he was a Liaodong economic strategy, how to resist Jiannu, he proposed that he should train elite soldiers, train strange soldiers, and train elite soldiers to choose the best soldiers with relatives, so that morale can rise, and soldiers can help each other, and generals must share weal and woe with soldiers, so as to get the support of soldiers, and put forward euphemistic criticism of the current soldiers who do not know the generals, and the soldiers who do not know the soldiers.

The training of strange soldiers is used to rob camps and surprise attacks, so the requirements for soldiers are higher, and he believes that such a strange soldier, if used well, can determine the victory or defeat of the battlefield.

To deal with Jiannu, he believes that the first thing is to train the troops, before the training should be in the Liaodong city with artillery and firecrackers to defend, after the training of the soldiers, the soldiers are divided into three routes, all the way to Liaoxi to deter Jiannu, all the way from North Korea to harass the rear of Jiannu, the main force can be fought all the way from southern Liaoning, with the advantage of the Ming army's naval army, when the Jiannu forces can be compressed to the vicinity of Liaoyang and Shenyang in a short period of time, and then attack from the west and south of Liaoning, when it can be expelled from the border wall.