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This examination in Nanchang City made Hong Tiangui see the serious shortage of officials in the Heavenly Kingdom, and after consulting with the Yiwang, Hong Tiangui decided to temporarily use the imperial examination during the Manchu Dynasty. Although the imperial examination has such and such drawbacks, it is undeniable that those who take the imperial examination are all literate people, except for a small number of people who have studied and died, and the others still have a great chance of improvement as long as they are used. After all, it's too late to popularize culture.

Hong Tiangui did not return to Tianjing, but explained the matter of the imperial examination of the opening of the heavenly kingdom to the cabinet. The Manchu imperial examination system was extremely mature, and the Heavenly Kingdom was extremely simple to use.

With the spread of the news, many scholars in all the jurisdictions of the Kingdom of Heaven got the news, especially the recognition of the imperial examination qualifications in the Manchu Dynasty, which made many talents happy at once. After all, Komeito, which they had obtained after ten years of hard study, naturally did not want to be discarded with the rise of the Kingdom of Heaven. Of course, there are some people who read books and read stupidly and disdainfully the imperial examinations of the heavenly kingdom. They adhered to the idea of loyalty to the emperor's family after reading the books of the sages and sages, and did not listen to the command of the kingdom of heaven. In particular, some of the famous talents have expressed on many occasions that they are not recruited by the kingdom of heaven, and for these scholars who have forgotten their ancestors, Hong Tiangui has a big stroke of the pen, depriving them of the identity of scholars, and will never be hired.

The system is ready-made, and in this day and age, it is extremely difficult to find people who understand the cultural ideas of Western capitalism, but it is extremely easy to find people who understand the imperial examination. Most of the officials who surrendered to the Manchu Qing were proficient in the imperial examinations, so in a very short period of time, the Heavenly Kingdom prepared for the first imperial examination in the Heavenly Kingdom.

Half a month later, Hong Renxuan reported the list of eligible readers in the Kingdom of Heaven to Hong Tiangui. The four provinces under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Heaven are all relatively culturally prosperous areas, with more than one million scholars, nearly 300,000 who are eligible to take the exam, and so far, more than 100,000 people have signed up for the exam. This made Hong Tiangui extremely excited and attached great importance to it.

He originally wanted to draw up the exam questions himself, but he was opposed by Hong Renxuan and all the members of the cabinet, because the exam questions drawn up by Hong Tiangui were not close to the imperial examination at all, and even cabinet members could not answer the strange exam questions. If you really use Hong Tiangui's exam questions, I'm afraid no one will be able to pass the exam.

Hong Tiangui was also a little depressed, this kind of application of the Manchu imperial examination to select talents will inevitably have a lot of omissions, and as the first imperial examination in the history of the Kingdom of Heaven, if it is made into a joke, I am afraid that he will really go down in history.

Hong Tiangui accepted the advice of Ganwang and others, and found the well-educated Confucians in the south of the Yangtze River to write the questions, of course, Hong Tiangui did not completely follow their eight-strand exam. He added three additional questions at the end of all papers:

Question 1: How can the Kingdom of Heaven defeat the Manchus?

Question 2: How does the Kingdom of Heaven solve the problem of feeding the people?

Question 3: How does the Kingdom of Heaven solve the current financial constraints?

There are no answers to the three questions, there is no format, and anyone is free to talk about their ideas.

In this regard, Hong Renxuan did not refute that the cabinet now has executive power and is facing these big problems.

The examination was scheduled for a month later, and Hong Tiangui sent a division of new troops to ensure the smooth conduct of the imperial examination.

Just as the Kingdom of Heaven was busy carrying out the imperial examination to select talents, the Manchu court was also shaken by the rout in Hunan.

After the Tianjing Incident, the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom weakened, and the Manchu Qing began to gain the upper hand on various battlefields, according to previous estimates, the Qing Dynasty could destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom within three years. But since the beginning of this year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Heavenly King transposed, and the new Heavenly King Hong Tiangui worked hard, first in the eastern battlefield to attack and occupy Shanghai, and then defeated the British and French forces in a head-on battle, and then defeated Zeng Guofan in Anqing, a windy and cloudy pursuit operation, Zeng Guofan not only lost the entire Jiangxi, but also took his own nest Hunan was also captured by the Taiping army, it can be said that the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom suddenly exceeded the heyday, and once again became a major problem for the Manchu Dynasty.

The Manchu court was in turmoil both inside and outside. The Manchu ministers wrote letters asking the imperial court to punish Zeng Guofan's crime of harming the country and the people, and suggested that the establishment of the Hunan army be abolished and that the main generals of the Hunan army, such as Zeng Guofan and Zeng Guoquan, be escorted to Beijing for interrogation.

There are also suggestions that Zeng Guofan should be killed, and Zeng Guofan should be used to kill chickens and monkeys to deter all front-line Han ministers.

The Han ministers also wrote to exonerate Zeng Guofan, and the two sides fought a war of words, and the Manchu court became as lively as a vegetable market.

The little emperor of Tongzhi was a little frightened, usually these ministers who only knew kowtow quarreled so fiercely. Emperor Tongzhi kept looking at the queen mother of the two palaces behind him, hoping that the two queen mothers would be able to end this farce soon.

"Enough, the mourning family already knows the situation, sixth brother, what do you think about this matter?" The Empress Dowager Ci'an pretended to be calm, but Prince Gong, who was very close to him? But I heard a tremor in the words of the Empress Dowager Ci'an. The woman was frightened by this event.

The Empress Dowager Cixi never spoke, and apparently she didn't know what to say for a while.

"Queen Mother! I don't think it's a question of who to punish at this time, but how to block the attack of the bandits, we have already lost the two provinces of Jiangxi and Hunan, and we can't let the bandits continue to occupy it like this. Prince Gong looked solemn. To tell the truth, the rout of the Hunan army hit him the hardest, because he has always been the staunchest supporter behind the Huai army of the Hunan army, and now Zeng Guofan, who has the upper hand, has lost his troops and lost his generals, and now he is even more cut into two parts and trapped in Hubei and Guangxi respectively, which makes the Manchu ministers who were already dissatisfied with the Hunan army jump out one by one and fall into the ground.

Prince Gong felt a little sad in his heart, don't these Manchu ministers know that the current Qing Dynasty is supported by Han ministers, if it were not for Zeng Guofan's bloody battles in the past few years, then the Taiping Army would have swept the country long ago, and it is a question whether these Manchu masters can return to the customs with all their beards and tails. If the tragedy of the Yuan Dynasty being driven out of the Guanwai by the Ming Dynasty is staged, they will not have the good luck of the Great Yuan, because the north outside the Guanxi is not peaceful, and the old Maozi of Tsarist Russia has been eyeing the ancestral land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they can't lose the country that their ancestors beat down anyway.

"Prince Gong, now that the Hunan army has been defeated and retreated, I don't know who can lead the troops to fight again?" The Empress Dowager Cixi spoke in a deep voice. is worthy of being a person who will rule the Qing Dynasty for 50 years in the future, and his vision is indeed sharp.

"The minister suggested...... Give Zeng Guofan a chance! Prince Gong said in a deep voice. He knew that it would not be easy, but Zeng Guofan had also experienced many failures in the early stage, and in the end he stood up on his own. What's more, now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is really able to stand alone in the aspect of the scarcity, those Manchu banner owners and Qing princes who are pampered in the capital, let them counsel the army, and really lead the troops to fight are laymen.