Since Hongguang, there were few imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Tianlin, who wrote "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info only Yongli for four years, served as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, recommended his younger brother Zhu Tianfeng to preside over the Guizhou Township Examination. In the eighth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang set up a branch in Guiyang again, and selected 54 people such as Chen Shiji. Huiyuan Chen Shiji was appointed by Sun Kewang as the county of Qingfuzhi in Sichuan, and later recommended the Arsenal Division of the Ministry of Promotion, Wailang, who was quite able, and Wu Sangui's Qing army abandoned the seal and returned to the country after the Qing army entered Sichuan, and his whereabouts are now unknown.

In addition to these two more influential township examinations and meeting examinations, Li Dingguo, the king of the Jin Dynasty in the tenth year of Yongli, organized a township examination in Yunnan, and 36 people were selected. After the Taiping army occupied Guangzhou and defeated Jidu's southward army, Zhou Shixiang considered winning the hearts of scholars, so he opened a Guangdong township test at the suggestion of Song Xianggong, and took more than 100 people. It's just that Guangdong's township examination is different from the previous imperial examinations, and the scholars in the middle examination are not directly conferred officials, but first go to Guangdong University Hall to study for three years, and can only be awarded officials after learning the arts. This move made many Cantonese scholars dissatisfied, so there was last year's attack on the palace. In the eyes of scholars, as long as they pass the imperial examination, they should be officials, instead of going to study miscellaneous studies for another three years and delay their years.

After the storm on the palace was suppressed, Zhou Shixiang led the Northern Expedition, and the Guangdong side was committed to building villages and townships and restoring production and people's livelihood, providing grain and grass for the front line, and cracking down on bandits in the territory. After the recovery of the southern capital, Zhou Shixiang was busy pacifying the south of the Yangtze River, stabilizing the occupied area and crossing the river, and he did not care about the imperial examination for the time being. But this matter has already been put on his agenda, because he knows that the so-called people's hearts do not refer to the hearts of the people, but to the hearts of the gentry, and the most effective means to win over the gentry is undoubtedly to open the imperial examination to win the scholars, so that these gentry can have a way to become officials, so that they will join the new dynasty, not the two ends of the first rat.

In other words, Zhou Shixiang has long wanted to open Enke, and the scholars accepted by Enke are undoubtedly the scholars in Jiangnan at the moment. It's just that he has been hesitating in this matter, because now he doesn't have enough talents to help establish a scientific system similar to the previous life, form a systematic theory, and even don't even have a few textbooks, and the school is only a grassroots Guangdong University Hall, so if the imperial examination is opened, it can only be taken from the old eight shares, and the scholars taken in this way are not in line with Zhou Shixiang's original intention of employing people, and will even conflict with the policies he will implement.

No matter how good a policy is, it needs people to implement it, and if the people who implement it are the people who oppose it, then the policy will naturally not be able to be implemented. The illiteracy rate among officers at all levels of the Taiping Army also reached 80 percent, so it was impossible to expect to transfer people from the army to take care of this matter. Considering this, Zhou Shixiang wanted to put this in advance, and set the military dynasty to be newly established, and there was no unification of the world, whether it was the imperial court or the army, the focus was still on war and preparing for war, so he was not in a hurry to open the imperial examination. In addition, there are many demotion officials, these people are not all immoral and incompetent, some people are immoral but capable, use them to appease and govern the people, it is completely okay to go up for a while first, and there is no need to appoint and dismiss new officials on a large scale.

Zhou Shixiang planned to wait until the group of talents cultivated by Guangdong University Hall had made achievements in various parts of Guangdong, gained experience, and could really become a powerful force in the implementation of his policies before he could consider opening the imperial examination. In this way, even if the first few imperial examinations are still not to his liking, at least someone can help him slowly change, rather than being helpless. At the very least, it is still possible to open some new-style schools in Nanjing and some provincial capitals. The court advocated some new learning, reused a group of new learning officials, or light or covert, under various means, the new learning can always stand in the reborn Ming Dynasty. At that time, whether it was boiling frogs in warm water or mandatory, there was no one to use.

But now Qian Qianyi and they suddenly proposed to open the first imperial examination of the Dingwu Dynasty, and it was in the name of "Enke", and obtained the approval of Emperor Dingwu, Guo Zhiqi, the first assistant, is also very keen on this matter, that is, Zhang Huangyan They also echoed this matter, which made Zhou Shixiang unable to make arbitrary decisions and delay this matter any longer.

Qian Qianyi's copy of Zhou Shixiang looked at it, and the reason was very sufficient, saying that after the chaos, people were determined, at this time, when the sores were healed, Su Minqi was peaceful, and the imperial examination was opened, and the people of the world could also be stable. Qian Qianyi's Shangshu has another meaning, but he wants to attract Jiangnan scholars to the Dingwu Imperial Court through this Enke, so that they will no longer have expectations for Emperor Yongli welcomed by Wu Sangui.

Human nature is selfish, and as an official of the Dingwu Dynasty, the scholars will do their best to maintain the Dingwu Dynasty. Zhou Shixiang also believed this, and he was even sure that if Tang Gui fought again in the future, the first to jump out to support the legitimacy of Emperor Dingwu would definitely be these scholars who had taken the Dingwu Imperial Examination.

After thinking about it again, Zhou Shixiang agreed to open the imperial examination, and sent a message to Ding Zhixiang and Yuan Kuoyu in the southern capital, asking them to draw up a charter for the imperial examination. It is also stipulated that the first Enke will only be held in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Hunan provinces, and will not be opened in other places for the time being. The time is roughly set in March, the township examination will be held in each province, and then the provinces will send the Zhongju scholars to Nanjing to participate in the examination, and finally the palace examination will be held to elect the champion of the Dingwu Dynasty, Bangyan, and Tanhualang. As for the Qing occupation area, if there are scholars who are willing to come and participate in the imperial examination, the provinces can also make arrangements.

In terms of time, the township examination will be held in March, and the meeting examination and the palace examination will be held in April, which must be in a hurry. This year is not Zhou Shixiang's previous life, and he can go down hundreds of kilometers by car in a day or two. It took several days for the scholars to rush from their hometowns to the county seat and the capital city, and the longest time to reach the provincial capital was more than 20 days. Therefore, although other provinces are allowed to come to participate in the imperial examination, the real reference is actually the scholars of the three provinces.

Not allowing Liangguang to send scholars to participate in the examination, Zhou Shixiang now regards Liangguang as his experimental field, and most of the scholars who are unwilling to listen to him are not in prison, or have won fame and sent back to their hometowns to supervise, and those who remain are those who know the times and are willing to learn new studies in a down-to-earth manner. Even if these people have limited talents, their attitude determines that Zhou Shixiang is willing to reuse them. As long as they succeed in their studies and make achievements in the local area, Zhou Shixiang does not mind that the outstanding talents among them will be able to be above the court in the future.

After writing a letter to Ding Zhixiang and Yuan Kuoyu, Zhou Shixiang thought about it, and finally wrote the number of 260 on the letter. These 260 people are the candidates for the Jinshi in this imperial examination, and the number of people sent to Nanjing by the three provinces to participate in the examination is also this number.

After arranging the imperial examination, Zhou Shixiang came to the staff office of the military department and discussed the war in Zhejiang with Guo Xiong, an officer of the military department. (To be continued.) )