In the eyes of these tributes who participated in the palace examination, the great tomorrow who is now sitting more than a dozen steps away in front of him is quite different from the rumored image of the emperor. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe rumored scheming, ruthless, and mean emperor who took the house now doesn't look ruthless at all. If it weren't for the emperor wearing a dragon robe, he would not be much different from ordinary Confucian scholars. The emperor, young and kind, thin and handsome, with a fair countenance, was now looking out of the hall with his eyes blazing, as if he had fallen into deep thought.

According to convention, it is disrespectful to look at the emperor, so Li Xin, who was secretly looking at the emperor from the corner of his eye, quickly lowered his head after seeing the emperor's appearance clearly, and looked at his nose and nose, just staring at the blank rice paper on the few cases in front of him.

As soon as Li Xin lowered his head, he heard the emperor speak: "The first year of Enke is nearing the end, and today is the last one. According to the old practice of the emperor, today I only test the policy theory, and do not test anything else. All the tributes are the world's talents who have been selected by the imperial court many times, and they will help me govern the world in the future. In order to govern the world, we cannot but do general affairs, and the economy and righteousness are important, but only when they are applied to reality can they play a real role. ”

Hearing the emperor say this, Li Xin couldn't help nodding, he agreed with the emperor's statement, although he can also write Bagu Wen, but he doesn't like to write, in his mind, how many corrupt officials and corrupt officials are familiar with the four books and five classics of the Bagu Wen master, whether the Bagu Wen can be written well, and personal conduct, actual ability is not directly related, so the key to governing the country and the people, the key depends on the ability to apply it to the world.

Sure enough, after a slight pause, the emperor continued, "Yasheng has said a saying, which is called being born in sorrow and dying in peace. I have the world for more than 250 years, and now I look around the universe and have a lot of worries. Today, you will make a policy discussion on how to revitalize the decay, reform the old and make the new, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and prosper the Ming Dynasty. ”

Born in sorrow, died in peace, the rise and fall of the old and the new, the rich country and the strong army, the Ming Dynasty, the emperor said this, some people in the palace were surprised, some people were surprised, some people were at a loss, and some people suddenly understood in their hearts.

Shen Tingyang was one of the tributes who suddenly understood in his heart. After the emperor finished talking about the topic of this palace examination, he thought about it for a while, and began to put pen to paper.

Shi Kefa, Li Mengchen and others naturally quickly found their own points of interest, and drafted them while thinking.

In fact, for most of the tributes in the temple, such a topic of strategy is completely a question of sending points. For example, people like Xia Yunyi and Zhang Pu like to spread such discussions on weekdays, but now the emperor has no choice but to send such a question.

But what they don't know is that there are many possibilities in this, whether a person's opinion is written down is consistent with the future historical trend, and now only the current Emperor Chongzhen knows. Therefore, who has real talent and real learning, he can know at a glance.

Therefore, no matter how brilliant you are, if you can't get the idea, of course, you can't get the emperor's reuse.

Shi Kefa talked about refreshing the rule of officials, Li Mengchen talked about selecting and employing people, Xia Yunyi talked about opening up a new picture and strengthening it, Zhang Pu talked about cultural education and education, Song Yingxing talked about revitalizing industry and advocating agriculture, Wu Weiye talked about pacifying Liaodong, and Li Xin talked about lightly relieving people with thin endowments.

Niu Jinxing said that he recruited people to reclaim the land, and also said that he trained the soldiers, but the main opinion was to open up the territory to the west, restore the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties, that is, to march into the Western Regions, and think that if you want to prosper the Ming Dynasty, you must learn from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and be enterprising, and continue to push the territory of the Ming Dynasty to the west, and constantly expand the territory, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty have more land, rather than staying in the western territory of Hexi in Gansu.

Shen Tingyang advocated the opening of the sea ban and the development of maritime trade, and from this he came to the conclusion that it was necessary to train sailors, protect shipping routes, and open up territory overseas.

Looking at the tributes below, who had already started to write one after another, Emperor Chongzhen got up and left the throne, and among the tributes in the main hall, he symbolically walked back and forth for two times, and then turned around and left the main hall, leaving only a few cabinet ministers, still sitting on both sides of the throne, as invigilators. After all, the emperor is the chief examiner, and they only have the role of being an invigilator.

Because the emperor's policy questions were easy to understand and very simple, by the beginning of the afternoon, the five hundred tributes had all finished answering the questions, and then they were taken away from the imperial palace by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and placed in the hall of the Beijing Division, waiting for the next day's Jinshi ranking.

After the palace examination, this Enke is considered to be the end of the examination, for those who have no intention of ranking before and after, this time the task of entering Beijing to catch the exam has been successfully completed, and you can completely relax. However, the 500 jinshi were arranged together and supervised by officials of the Ministry of Rites, so although many people were eager to go out to celebrate, they still resisted the excitement and impulse, and stayed in the hall for a night.

At the end of the next day, as usual, it was the grand ceremony of the new science and technology jinshi, which was also held in the imperial palace. The emperor personally read out the list of the first and third people, which is commonly known as the names of the champions, bangyan and tanhua, and then the cabinet chief assistant read out the list of the second class, and finally Xu Guangqi, the chief examiner of this subject and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, read out the list of the top three.

After all this was completed, the ranking of the new science and technology scholars was posted on the wall at the entrance of the Ministry of Rites and announced to the world.

In fact, the emperor does not have much autonomy for this ranking, unless he can read all the policy answer sheets in just a few days and give a score, otherwise, he can only make slight adjustments in the order given by the examiners.

In the end, what the emperor saw was only the top ten palace trial theories presented to him by the cabinet ministers after reading the papers. Unless the emperor himself is very dissatisfied with the top ten and wants to make a big move, he can only make a slight adjustment to his own preferences in the top ten.

And Emperor Chongzhen didn't make a big move, but just mentioned Shi Kefa, who was ranked in the top ten, to the first.

Shi Kefa was the first, Xia Yunyi was the second, Zhang Pu was the third, and the three were given Jinshi and the first; Wu Weiye, Shen Tingyang, Niu Jinxing and other two hundred and fifty-seven people, Ci Jinshi was born; Lu Daqi, Wang Zhang, Gao Doushu, Song Yingxing, Li Xin and other 340 people, given the same Jinshi background.

Because of the infinite admiration of the Chongzhen Emperor for Shi Kefa's national integrity in later generations, Shi Kefa, who was originally born in the top three in Enke in the first year of Chongzhen, was the top student in high school this time.

Twenty-seven-year-old Shi Kefa, although he once fantasized about such a day, he never dared to hope that this dream would really become a reality. Therefore, since the emperor pronounced the name of the champion in the Imperial Palace, Shi Kefa has always been in a state of a little intoxication and trance.

It wasn't until the end of the ceremony that the new scholars returned to the hall again, and they gradually became sober in the congratulations of everyone.

Li Mengchen, Niu Jinxing, Li Xin and other fellow villagers also surrounded him and coaxed him to treat him to a drink, and Shi Kefa, who was not short of money, naturally hurriedly agreed. The imperial court's arrangements for the new science and technology jinshi soon came out.

Shi Kefa was awarded the post of editor of the Hanlin Academy, and Xia Yunyi and Zhang Pu were awarded the post of editor of the Hanlin Academy.

The rest of the people, etc., should be held in the Ministry of Officials, according to the comprehensive ranking, with reference to personal wishes, and then respectively awarded the Hanlin Yuan Shu Jishi or the six department chiefs, Guan Zheng, Zhongshu Sheren, pedestrians, and Qipinzhou County officials and other positions.