At the beginning of the year, Zhu Youxiao had to pay attention to the training of the Praetorian Guards at any time, and also had to pay attention to the upcoming general examination and palace examination. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This year is the year of the big competition, and Zhu Youxiao has issued an edict last autumn, and the number of Jinbang Jinshi admission places this year will be doubled compared with previous years.

That is to say, this year's Jinshi admission quota will reach more than 500.

It is precisely because of this that the remnants of the Donglin Party, which are contrary to Zhu Youxiao's governing philosophy, and the Fushe Society, which was established a year ahead of schedule in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, are much more peaceful at this moment, and most of them have entered Beijing to prepare to leap into the dragon gate.

In addition, a group of traditional gentry from the lower class or non-merchant class of the royalist party also entered Beijing one after another.

In response to His Majesty's call to encourage talented people from all over the world to serve the country, Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch guarding Nanjing Town, even personally chartered ten official ships to send royalist soldiers to Beijing for free.

In addition, Wei Zhongxian also invited Yu Huang, the champion of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, who had returned to his hometown due to his mother's serious illness, to bring these royalist scholars to Beijing to take the exam.

Zhu Youxiao first dismissed a group of eunuchs who were really useless, and then eliminated a large number of Donglin Party members, so up to now, the forces of various factions in the court can be said to be equal.

As for who will overwhelm the other party in the future competition of political forces, this year's examination will be a more crucial competition.

In modern terms, you can't lose at the starting line, therefore, the two factions are doing their best to compete for the Jinshi quota in this imperial examination.

There was already a lot of noise in Confucianism for this test, and Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, naturally couldn't stay out of it.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao knew very well that if the examination was purely based on the previous examination method, that is, the starting title of the Bagu article was the first criterion, then the Jiangnan scholars who would win the examination this time would undoubtedly be Jiangnan Shizi, who were mainly members of Donglin and Fushe.

Although the imperial court also divided the quota with the north, southwest Huguang and other places such as Qianguichuan, it has now become a common practice to take the examination by impersonating people.

Therefore, if Zhu Youxiao wants to keep the new officials above his court from being monopolized by Jiangnan scholars, he can only change the way he asks questions.

But Zhu Youxiao did not dare to make major changes, in the era when Confucianism was still dominant, although he was the emperor, he did not dare to commit the world's great disapproval to take the nine-chapter arithmetic and other miscellaneous studies.

In this case, he can only start on the examination strategy, so he summoned Qian Qianyi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, who presided over the examination, early in the morning, and asked him to convey to the examiners that the first priority of the examination is to ask questions.

Qian Qianyi is not a literati with more style, he is suitable to be Zhu Youxiao's royal literati, listening to His Majesty's opinion, he also readily agreed, not to mention that he has completely offended Jiangnan scholars now, even if he wants to make a stumbling block for these Jiangnan scholars, it is estimated that His Majesty will turn a blind eye.

"This exam must be fair and strict, and I only have one requirement for the questions, which is to be pragmatic!

I don't want fancy empty talk, I don't want to sing praises of merit, let alone baseless nonsense, and of course, I don't have to be too concerned about the correctness of the views he puts forward when he really asks questions. ”

Zhu Youxiao said and said: "You go down first, before the end of the test and the drawing of the rankings, I will first check the ten articles." ”

"Wechen retires!"

After Qian Qianyi left, he couldn't help but glance at Liu Ru, the little girl who was waiting on the side, and took the initiative to bow his hand to Liu Ru is before leaving.

And Liu Ru completely ignored the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and came in with a bowl of lotus seed soup: "Your Majesty, it's late at night, let's have some supper, this is the queen's mother herself." ”

Seeing that these two people were strangers, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile, thinking that he had not only changed history but also changed the fate of historical figures. ”

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After Zhu Youxiao finished eating the lotus seed soup, Liu Ru was busy lighting the lantern and followed Zhu Youxiao to Kunning Palace to sleep.

But when Zhu Youxiao entered Kunning Palace, he saw that Zhou was also there, and at this time he was snuggling in the arms of Queen Zhang Yan and crying.

Zhu Youxiao saw that she had claw marks on her face, bruises on her forehead, and blood in her mouth, so he hurriedly asked Liu Ru to bring her white medicine to wipe with this Zhou's family.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly flattened Zhou's body, and asked himself the queen: "What's going on?" ”

"You Zhen had another madness, smashed things all over the house, and beat the eunuch maid, Zhou went to persuade him to be beaten by him, and the concubine was busy with someone after she knew about it."

Zhang Yan said and asked Zhou to sit behind the screen, although Zhu Youxiao is the emperor, but after all, one is the eldest brother and the other is the younger sister, and it is indecent to be in the same room.

Liu Ru often stayed by Zhu Youxiao's side, and he knew more about modern drugs and other products than others, so he quickly took them and took the initiative to run behind the screen to wipe Zhou's.

And here, Zhu Youxiao sat on the kang on the side and asked, "Zhou, this is the first time Zhu Youzhen has beaten you, tell me that I will call the shots for you." “

"Thank you Brother Huang, the concubine doesn't dare!" Zhou whimpered as he spoke, and said again: "It's nothing if the concubine is beaten, it's just that the imperial brother is asked to do it for the sake of brotherhood, don't put her husband under house arrest, he will be very painful like this." ”

Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that the Queen Zhou in history was really an infatuated seed, but he didn't expect Zhu Youzhen to be the one who beat his wife, but for the Zhou family still thinking about his husband, although he was a little puzzled in his heart, he couldn't force interference, after all, a wife is a husband is the norm of this era.

"Go and call Zhu Youzhen, I have something to ask him", Zhu Youxiao gave an order and lay on the kang with his eyes closed, Queen Zhang Yan saw that he was still worried about these family affairs after a day of hard work in state affairs, so she couldn't help but come over, held Zhu Youxiao's hand, and called gently: "Your Majesty!" ”

"Let me squint for a while", Zhu Youxiao said, and Queen Zhang Yan saw that Liu Ru had come over with a futon at some point, and couldn't help but smile and cover it for Zhu Youxiao.

When Zhu Youjian arrived, he saw Zhu Youxiao lying comfortably on the kang, Queen Zhang Yan rubbing his temples, and Xiaoliu hammering his knees, so he couldn't help but snort coldly: "I really enjoy it!" Then he reluctantly gave his hand: "The criminal minister Zhu Youzhen has seen Your Majesty!" ”

"Come here!" Zhu Youxiao called.

Zhu Youzhen walked over, caught off guard, Zhu Youxiao suddenly got up and slapped him: "What kind of ability is it to beat his wife, if you have the ability, you have the ability to go to Liaodong to fight Tartar!" ”

Zhu Youzhen was stunned for a while, this big change was the first time his imperial brother beat him since he could remember, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Youxiao slapped him again: "That slap just now was to teach you a lesson for your father, this slap is a lesson for me!" ”