"Ministers to see our emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

Seeing the emperor arrive, the ministers immediately knelt down and saluted, the sound of the mountain shouting long live, it sounds so pleasant, although Emperor Jiajing has not been in court for many years, but it does not mean that his desire for power is not enough, the more the emperor has a strong desire for power, the more he likes the feeling of the supreme in the world, after enjoying it, Emperor Jiajing began to speak, what you study hard, go up every day, learn some skills, get the Jinshi, and then do things for my Zhu family, Emperor Zhu will not treat you and other nonsense. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Emperor Jiajing did not go to court for a long time, a large number of middle-level and low-level courtiers could not see the emperor in their lifetime, and the days when they could see the emperor in the bright and bright light, speaking of which, only a few days, and only the middle and senior courtiers could see it.

Emperor Jiajing felt that this was the best respect for him, so he said more and more energetically, but Zheng Guang maliciously guessed that these people were definitely not crying excitedly to see the emperor, but looking back on the suffering they had experienced in the past, and shed tears of excitement when they thought that they would never have to go through such a painful process in the future, but Zheng Guang didn't feel this mood much, and those who passed at one time, and those who passed after several failures, after the exam, the feeling was completely different.

Finally, Emperor Jiajing's various nonsense was finished, he picked up the golden knife, opened the test questions on the yellow case personally, and then awarded the cabinet chief assistant Xia Yan next to him, Xia Yan held the test questions in his hand and said in the loudest voice: "In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, Ding Weike's palace test, start!" Then he handed it over to the chief examiner of this time, Sun Chengen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Next, the emperor withdrew, in the long live of the mountain, Emperor Jiajing left here very comfortably, leaving the space to the new science and technology scholars, and the officials who were pulled to fill the scene also withdrew after pretending to be forced, leaving only the first assistant of the cabinet Xia Yan and the second assistant of the cabinet Yan Song, as well as the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials two Shangshu Sun Chengen and Wen Yuan, and a cadre of officials of the Ministry of Rites, these more than a dozen are the invigilators of the palace examination, the lineup is extremely luxurious, and the overall academic level exceeds any country in the world.

Then, under the instructions of the invigilator, the tribute students sat down behind the examination table in turn, and when everyone sat down, Sun Chengen, who had a righteous face, said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, this palace examination has a total of three hours, the examination starts at the hour, the examination time is a question, the lower limit is 1,000 words, the paper must be handed in at the end of noon, after His Majesty gives the meal at noon, the exam is over, you can go back and wait for the final list, can you understand?" ”

The three hundred Gongsheng said in unison: "Students understand! ”

Yan Song, the second assistant of the cabinet, sang with a red face, and said softly: "There are still some times before the time of the hour, you have not eaten breakfast, when you entered the palace just now, there were cakes and pear juice given to you by His Majesty, you can eat some first, and when the time comes, you can start answering the questions, don't panic, the palace test will not be degraded." ”

Yan Song's official reputation is not very good, it has been spread all over the court and outside, and most of these new science and technology scholars also know, but limited to the court etiquette, the face that should be given still has to be given, so everyone responded sparsely, Yan Song also knew that he had a bad reputation, and seemed to be used to such treatment, so he stepped aside as usual, looked at his nose and nose, and stopped talking.

Xia Yan glanced at Yan Song coldly, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Sun Chengen didn't care about these, the exam paper was pulled out, handed over to the officials of the Ministry of Rites around him, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites began to distribute the test papers, the palace examination is the highest level of the exam, the question paper is framed with rice paper, extremely elegant, each page is twelve inches long, four inches wide, there is a red line straight, each line is only allowed to write twenty-four characters, the examination requires each word to be used in the pavilion body, written full and neat, the palace test is only a name, not transcribed, you can intuitively feel how the candidate's words are written, the so-called words are like their people, directly look at the examination papers, You can almost see what kind of person this candidate is.

Of course, in Zheng Guang's view, this is a fart, otherwise Dong Qichang would be a saint.

Zheng Guang buried his head in eating all kinds of fruit fillings of the palace cakes, he didn't drink much pear juice, he planned to drink it slowly, from Chen to noon, three hours and six hours, if he drank the pear juice in one go, he would die of thirst after that, Zheng Guang didn't think that those big names would kindly prepare water for the candidates to drink during the palace exam, and just wait for lunch to eat and drink soup.

While eating, while waiting for the paper to be issued, waiting for the volume to be sent down, Zheng Guang looked at the question, and sure enough, compared to the obscure meaning of the examination, the palace examination is Chiguoguo's strategy, and a considerable number of people will be dethroned during the examination, they are not real court officials, and the palace examination will not dethrone anyone, and the elected are already destined court officials, ask them for advice, naturally they will not worry about causing social instability.

Therefore, the palace examination is to explain the plain to the people who understand, explain the problems that the imperial court is facing now and what the emperor intends to do, and ask the candidates how to deal with the troubles between the north and the south, and how to do it, so as to do the best.

The psychology of most candidates is collapsed, you don't ask about the way of Confucius and Mencius, you don't ask about the middle of the university, you just come to ask military questions, lie in a groove, even if you ask the governance of the people, we can also get some words from the Four Books and Five Classics to prevaricate, but you just ask about the military, there is no one in the Four Books and Five Classics!

There is a lower limit of 1,000 words, at least 1,000 words, how can you make us embarrassed? We are all scholars, we don't understand military strategy, and if the emperor gets angry and revokes our fame, what will we do? We are not Zheng Guang, we have fought and led soldiers, what do you want us to do?

Everyone turned their eyes to the back of the person who was struggling to write, envy, jealousy and hatred.

Of course Zheng Guang is not worried about this kind of problem, no one can say that this kind of problem is not the palace trial strategy, the elected person is naturally the person the emperor needs, you don't even pay attention to this kind of problem, you don't listen to the things outside the window, only care about your own one-acre and three-point land, it is difficult for you to be a good official, so you still honestly do the top three jinshi, don't compete for the really important places, those places are for people who really have that kind of talent.

After arriving in Beijing, after experiencing the severe cold climate in the north and the topography of the Pingchuan River, he deeply felt the severity of the border troubles in the north, and how much the imperial court needed to pay if it wanted to do something to the Mongols.

Simple calculation, what does it take to fight a war? Soldiers, swords, guns, firearms, armor, chariots, horses, oxen and donkeys, grain, salt, forage, cloth bandages, tents, timber, craftsmen, medics, money......

If you really want to calculate carefully, you can't finish writing, just these, it's not that the current Ming treasury can afford, the Mongols have at least 300,000 cavalry to mobilize after the unification of the tribe in Alta, although the number of soldiers on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty is about twice as many as theirs, but what can really come in handy, definitely not more than 100,000, of them, the cavalry is only about 30,000 or 40,000, that is, in fact, the soldiers who can really be used to make progress are not more than 100,000.

The Mongols naturally did not immediately mobilize all their forces to meet the Ming legion, they also needed to deal with the attacks of the rest of the tribes, deal with the surprise attack of the Ming army, protect their important land of abundant water and grass, protect their families and property such as cattle and horses, and the strength of the enemy that could be divided into the Ming Dynasty was no more than 200,000.

But that is a real 200,000 army, 200,000 cavalry, 200,000 people with combat effectiveness, and once the Ming Dynasty sends troops to fight a full-scale war, the people brought with it are not only 100,000 soldiers, but also more than 100,000 auxiliaries and people, in fact, the army of 100,000 people has to bear more than 200,000 people of grain and grass consumption, a day is an astronomical number, is the granary of the imperial court and the granary reserves of the nine sides really enough?

Compared with the battle of Pingwa in the south, the battle against Mongolia is a battle that really needs to be carefully planned, and it is definitely not just a battle that can be solved, the Ming Dynasty can currently launch a 50,000-person battle to recapture the Hetao to stabilize the battle line, and buy time for the rear to recover and accumulate strength, but at the same time, we must also guard against the risk of increasing the intensity of the attack after I am aware of it, I am not a fool, it is impossible to let the Ming accumulate strength to attack himself without reacting.

This is the risk of the battle of the set, and whether the battle of the set can be won, whether the Ming can hold the Hetao, still need to speculate carefully, the capture of the Hetao is one thing, it is recaptured, how to defend it before the launch of the all-out war, is another thing, after I have tasted the sweetness, I suddenly lost this sweetness, do you say that he doesn't care about it, or does he feel that he has no face to raise an army to get back face?

According to the consistent practice of the Hetao, at least it is necessary to prevent it from sending more than 50,000 cavalry to attack after losing the Hetao, and to this end to design a feasible strategy to ensure that after recovering the Hetao, at least in the defense of the Hetao, we must destroy the living force of more than 30,000 cavalry in the Hetao, forcing it to shrink its forces, not daring to attack rashly, and destroying too little, I will not give up and do too much, I will feel that there is a lot of danger, in case which tendon is not right, mobilize all the troops to fight, the Ming Dynasty is not prepared enough, There will be great dangers.

These need to be discussed in a real way, not in a sentence or two, and we are facing a living and very cunning and powerful enemy, not a pig.