Chapter 831: A New Beginning (I)

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In the champion building, the silent words made the atmosphere of wanton joy in the building disappear.

In fact, his seriousness was deliberate and well-intentioned......

First of all, for those new Kegongs, no one knows about their hard work for many years, and once they are known to the world, more or less, they are all a little 'endless to think about today', and most of the wanton joy is done by these people. Silently watching from the sidelines, I saw them carrying wine jugs from table to table to persuade them to drink, and if they didn't comply, they would pour wine with their ears...... If you are also in high school, you won't think much about it, you will only think that it is carried away and human nature.

However, for those who have fallen behind, it is a kind of torture to come to this banquet similar to the celebration. Although he didn't ask, Shen Mo could guess that this must be those who were in high school, and they were forcibly pulled here. Most people are reluctant in their hearts, but they dare not offend their already developed classmates, so they can only reluctantly come over and serve as a foil for others. At this time, any enthusiastic celebration of the tributes would sting them deeply. If they become the object of pinching their ears and pouring wine, they will feel even more humiliated. If Shen Mo also coaxed and gave those tributes a chance to show off their thoughts, maybe even he would be disliked by most of them.

But the silence is not only to take care of the emotions of the students, but also to sound a wake-up call for the students. Although as long as there are no major accidents, they will all be selected in the temple examination. However, because of the overall success of Suzhou Fuxue, the complacency and laxity they show may have a negative impact on the final ranking. You must know that there is a hall test after the palace examination, and whether or not you can be selected to enter the hall to study depends on the ranking of the palace examination...... The top 30 in the second class are basically guaranteed to enter the museum, and there are only a few places left, which are better than the article.

Therefore, whether you can get a good ranking in the palace examination is related to whether you can choose a good scholar, and whether you have the opportunity to enter the cabinet in the future...... If it is because of a moment of paralysis and carelessness, resulting in not getting the due ranking, it is really a mistake and hatred for eternity, and there is absolutely no regret about eating. Therefore, in order to make them tense the strings, Shen Mo had to say two more heavy words.

"Confucius said, 'If you learn and excel, you will be a scholar'. Being able to fight your way out of the competitive southeast shows in itself that you are a person who is 'excellent in learning'. Some of you are now lifters, and some of you are tributes, and sooner or later you will all be officials. Let people fill the wine glass, and said slowly in silence: "How to do this official, you have to watch and learn from politics in the future, and you don't need to say much for the teacher." After today, some of you will go to the temple examination, while others will return to your hometown to continue your studies and come back in three years. At this time, there is no other gift for the teacher, but two words for you! ”

Speaking of this, the silence stopped, and the students all listened with bated breath, waiting for the teacher's next words, and the whole restaurant was immersed in a solemn and dignified atmosphere, as if a needle on the ground could be heard clearly. With a smile in his face, two words burst out from the dantian: "Self-denial!" ”

"Those who deny themselves, restrain sīyù, and discipline themselves strictly! To put it simply, it is to be strict with yourself. Then he heard a silent voice: "You are all familiar with this, Confucius's way of benevolence...... But what I want to say today is its practical significance. That is, the more ambitious your ideals, the stricter you must be for yourself. Those who didn't make it this time. Is it difficult to enter the middle school? Of course, it is difficult for ordinary scholars, but for you, it is actually a desirable thing, but why did it fall short? If you want to reflect on yourself, are you being involved in the huāhuā world with too much jīng power, and not putting all your body and mind into hard work? There is a saying that 'can't win an inch of heart, can peace win the sky?' You must know that there is only one self-reflection, there is nothing that cannot be done in the world, go back to work hard for three years, and I will drink celebration wine with you in the future! ”

Those who did not reach the rank were ashamed and ashamed by him, but he was also very moved, and felt that Teacher Jī did not ignore them, and naturally remembered his earnest teachings.

As soon as the conversation changed, Shen Mo said to the tributes who were about to participate in the palace examination: "What about you, although you were lucky to be selected, there is nothing to be complacent, there is a palace test the day after tomorrow, and there is a hall test after the palace test, and you can't relax for a moment." It's a long journey, in fact, it's just the beginning, and you're nothing. If you start to indulge yourself at this moment, you will definitely regret it for the rest of your life when you look back on it in the future...... That's all for yourself, waiting for your good news. After speaking, Shen Mo drank the last cup with everyone and retired first.

was poured this basin of cold water by him, and those tributes who had fallen into excitement since the release of the list finally woke up, yes, the palace test the day after tomorrow is not a formality, but a big test to determine the ranking on the list of questions and determine the fate of a lifetime!

Thinking of this, the students who originally felt that the teacher was a little unkind also understood the teacher's painstaking efforts, and they became more and more respectful of this strict teacher who always thought about the students.

So the originally scheduled carnival was canceled, and the people who didn't pass the exam packed their bags and left Beijing to return to their hometowns immediately, and the rest stayed at home, calmed down in the house, abandoned the impetuousness in their hearts, and greeted the upcoming palace exam with a serious attitude.

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On March 19 of the second year of Longqing, the Bingchen Branch Hall trial was held in the Forbidden City.

The four hundred and three new Kogong warriors, just like their predecessors, entered the Great Inner at dawn, and after going through roll calls, body searches, and teaching rules, they finally witnessed the true face of the imperial palace, and they were all shocked by the majestic and majestic and sacred momentum, and they couldn't help but feel insignificant, and all of them rose in awe.

Under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, they lined up on both sides of His Majesty, and after standing still, they asked the music loudly, and the Huang Zhong Da Lu, Xiao Sheng's reed flute, and the chime copper chime played together, and a solemn feeling came to the face, refreshing people's hearts and lungs. In this music, the lord of the ten directions of Kyushu and trillions of people in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaiyuan, the emperor of Longqing, appeared in front of everyone under the honor guard of the canopy and the treasure fan.

"The ministers knock on my emperor, long live long live, long live, long live...... the voice of the mountain call long live, which made the young Emperor Longqing also a little moved. In order to adjust his state and leave a good impression on his 'Son of Heaven Mén Sheng', he postponed the palace test for four days on the grounds of illness.

However, it is still a little difficult for Longqing to speak to so many high-level intellectuals at such a solemn moment. Although I memorized the speech for several days repeatedly, when I was teaching, there was still a forgetting of words and a cold scene, but fortunately, no one dared to laugh at the emperor, and they all listened silently with a stiff face.

It wasn't until the second half that Long Qing found his senses and spoke smoothly, but the prepared rhetoric was also used up, so he could only say "Let's start......"

As a result, most of the officials withdrew, leaving only Chen Yiqin, a scholar, Yang Bo, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, Gao Yi, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, Ma Ziqiang, a member of the Zhan Shifu, and an official of the Ministry of Rites to invigilate.

When all the idle people and others withdrew, Longqing personally used a knife to open the test questions on the yellow case, and then awarded it to Chen Yiqin, a university scholar around him. Then he transferred it to Gao Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and finally Gao Yi announced the title: "The Holy King James Treatises on the Doctrine of Peace: "The Way of Outer and Inner Peace"! ”

During the Jiajing period, it was necessary to test the theory of strategy and green words, and Emperor Longqing hated the worship of the first emperor, so naturally he would not let the tributes pile up that kind of meaningless ornate rhetoric.

But for many people, it is not a good thing to save green words, because the policy theory is not about things in books, but about their understanding of national politics and people's livelihood. For nerds who only read the books of sages and sages and don't listen to what's going on outside the window, it's not as easy as holding back a four-six essay.

The more this kind of thing seems to be free to play, the more it makes the candidates hurt their brains, and the more many people think about it, the more they feel that their brains are a mess, and they can only use the words of those saints who are absolutely not wrong to write the article as gorgeous as possible. Of course, they are not too worried, after all, everyone is in a similar situation, no one has ever been an official, let alone been in contact with political affairs, even if the children of those official eunuchs, how many of them can explain the way of the Ming Dynasty today?

It is said that in previous years, this was also the case, and most of the scrolls that came up in the last Jiāo were ornate and empty, and in order to judge the high and low, the minister could only compare their calligraphy...... It is the so-called 'Taige style', and the more square, light, black, and large the characters written, the higher the score.

Therefore, there have always been rumors in the rivers and lakes that in fact, in the palace examination, calligraphy is more important than articles! It's just that no one can confirm what it is...... Because any minister who marks the papers will not admit that he takes the papers by words, just as he does not admit that they will judge people by their appearance.

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The palace test is only one day, and the sunset jiāo volume is accepted by the officials, such as the volume, the palm scroll, and the seal. To the day of reading, divided into eight Jiāo reading papers, each person has a table, take turns to read, each add '○', '△', '\', 'ㄧ', '×' five kinds of marks, get the most '○' for the good volume, and then in all the volumes, choose '○' the most than a dozen books into the emperor, the first of the imperial approval of the first grade, the second and third are the champions, the eyes of the list, and the exploration of huā, the first three people are called 'Jinshi and the first', also known as 'three tripod armor'. A number of people in the second class, accounting for one-third of the admitted, are called 'Jinshi origin', and the first name of the second class is passed on. A number of people in the top three, accounting for two-thirds of the admitted, are from the same jinshi background. The first three people were immediately conferred, and the champion was awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing. The second and third class jinshi such as yù into the Hanlin Academy, but also through the Shuchang Pavilion hall examination, comprehensive palace examination results, the best to enter the Hanlin Academy for the Shu Jishi, that is, commonly known as 'point Hanlin'. However, because the palace examination is the ranking of the emperor, in order to avoid finding unpleasantness, the officials in charge of the hall examination generally do not change the ranking. Unless there are particularly good people who can't bear to take it, it is impossible for the Jinshi who are ranked lower in the top three and second to become a Jishi.

If it is said that the examination determines whether the juzi can enter the Jinshi mén, then the palace examination is the key to determining his level and whether he can enter the cabinet in the future, and its importance is no worse than the former.

Two days later, Chen Yiqin, who was the official of reading the papers, submitted the 17 examination papers with the most '○' to the emperor and asked him to select the top 10 with his imperial pen...... Even if Longqing was a hardworking emperor, it was impossible to read every volume. Instead, the minister of reading the papers first read all the papers, basically ranked the rankings, and then took out the best dozen copies, and asked the emperor to set the top few, even if it symbolized the completion of the reading by the Son of Heaven.

Long Qing is a kind person, and he feels that since people call Xinke Jinshi 'Tianzi Mén Sheng', then he, as a teacher, can't deal with official affairs too much, so he flipped through these seventeen exam papers one by one. After reading it, I was not very satisfied, not that these words were bad, in fact, they were all gorgeous and made him dizzy, and the writing made him feel inferior. But it didn't satisfy him, because Long Qing really wanted to know the answer to this question's question of 'the way of external and internal security'.

As an adult emperor, Long Qing didn't know what kind of problems the country was facing, but he felt that when dealing with these affairs, those experienced and wise ministers were much better than him, a rookie emperor with mediocre intelligence and inexperience...... Although this is the reason that the emperor found for his laziness, he really hopes that this country can be under his rule, and the country and the people will be safe.

How can this be done? Long Qing knew that it was these four words, 'Outside and Inside', but how to do it, his eyes were dark, so he had to ask the Jinshi of Xinke...... Compared with the ministers who regarded the new science and technology scholars as rookies and disdained them, Long Qingzhen regarded them as the hope of today and the pillars of the future...... As for the 'outside world', since he went to the imperial tombs of the past dynasties in Changping once, and was coaxed by Shen Mo to visit the Great Wall once, he was completely shocked by the distance between the capital and the border pass, and only then did he know that 'the Son of Heaven defends the country', not to say it for fun. In addition to the invasion of the previous year, although the Ming army finally defeated the Méng ancients, the Longqing Emperor still felt very depressed...... Because tens of thousands of people were slaughtered in the whole city of Shizhou, many northern cities were plundered by the Méng ancients along the way, and the Ming army only took advantage of its light enemy to steal a big victory. But Master Shen has already said that in the future, the Méng ancients will change their strategy and will no longer go head-to-head with the Ming Dynasty's car formation, so it is almost impossible to replicate the 'perfect right guard victory'. On the contrary, the Méng ancients would take advantage of the characteristics of coming and going like the wind and not requiring logistics, and the invasion of the Ming Dynasty would be more in-depth and cunning, and the damage to the common people would be greater.

This made the emperor who cherished the people very unhappy, and he finally realized how important the border problem was, so in addition to collecting honey, he often thought hard about how to solve the border trouble, but he couldn't think of any good way. Later, the three political battles that happened one after another made Longqing have no old troubles, and he added new sorrows, and regarded infighting as a major problem for the imperial court, so there is this policy problem-

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