When he went to the Forbidden City to participate in the palace examination, Wu Fanhui scolded the ancestors of the officials of Honglu Temple for eight generations. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the days of Honglu Temple, Wu Fanhui didn't know how many kowtows, mainly to meet the emperor's three kneeling and nine kowtowing ceremonies, because the rituals of the rituals are heavy, seeing the emperor must do three kneeling and nine kowtowing ceremonies, the early dynasty and other ceremonies on weekdays, it is the ceremony of two kneeling and six kowtowing, this is no way to do anything, the so-called heaven and earth monarch pro-teacher, see the emperor's courtiers and the people must kowtow, although Wu Fanhui is a person who crosses, he hates the custom of kowtowing, but he does not dare to publicly disobey, otherwise don't say to participate in the palace test, I'm afraid all his previous efforts will be in vain.

Under the eaves of people, they had to bow their heads.

The palace examination is carried out in the Jianji Palace, presided over by the emperor himself, the examination is also a topic of the policy, that is, the emperor directly out of the topic, ask you about the country's major policies, the tributes who participated in the examination, according to their own understanding, put forward reasonable suggestions to the emperor, the strategy is not necessary to write eight strands of text according to the requirements of the Four Books and Five Classics, after all, this is the emperor directly out of the topic consultation, if many tributes are found in the four books and five classics, then the Confucian saint will be hands and eyes to the sky, Even the specific things that will happen thousands of years from now are known.

Therefore, the palace examination is a very special exam, and it has a taste of combining reality.

I have to say that the setting of the imperial examination has lasted for thousands of years, and its rationality is still undeniable, and all the previous examinations are related to the Four Books and Five Classics, including policy and essays, etc., but they are all based on the Four Books and Five Classics, to see if your basic knowledge is solid, and to the final level of the palace examination, it is to test whether you understand the reality of the situation.

It's a pity that the longer the imperial examination lasts, the more rigid it becomes, especially for the examination of the Four Books and Five Classics, which has fallen into a strange circle, most of the candidates mainly study the Bagu Wen, and even the original text of the Four Books and Five Classics, will not go to study specifically, anyway, as long as the Bagu Wen is well written, you can be admitted and you can be an official.

After all, although the emperor personally came up with the topic of the palace examination, the emperor did not intend to obtain the real strategy of governing the country from the palace examination, but only passed the palace examination to see if there were talents that could be vigorously cultivated among the tributes who participated in the examination.

Finally came to the Forbidden City.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple had been waiting outside the dark red gate for a long time.

Before the crossing, Wu Fanhui entered the Forbidden City several times to visit, and while feeling these great buildings, he was also trying to figure out what the emperor sitting in the Forbidden City thought about every day.

That was hundreds of years later, and the Forbidden City had become one of the world's historical and cultural heritages.

Now it is different, the Forbidden City is the center of the Ming Dynasty, all the policies come from here, all the holy decrees, edicts, and edicts are issued from here, the fate of all the civil and military ministers, and the life and death of all the people have an inseparable relationship here.

Wu Fanhui, who crossed over, understood this truth, and he had a deeper understanding than the people of this era.

It is human nature for anyone to chase power, but the way it behaves is different, and those who are so-called drifting and indifferent to power have either suffered too many setbacks or are self-aware.

The Ming and Qing dynasties highly centralized imperial power, criticized by the world, the vast majority of people are not against the concentration of power, in a huge imperial group, if the power is dispersed, the consequences are tragic, the main criticism is that the power is concentrated in the hands of whom, if the emperor is diligent, and has a different wisdom from the general, then the dynasty will flourish, but if the emperor is mediocre, and lazy, then it will be troublesome, the empire will decline rapidly.

The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are typical examples, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, including Ming Renzong Zhu Gaochi, Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, etc., are very good emperors, Zhu Yuanzhang created the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di created the Yongle Dynasty, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji left the rule of Renxuan, but only these four emperors could not support the Ming Dynasty for more than 300 years, and more mediocre and even absurd emperors ascended the throne, bringing about the rapid decline of the dynasty.

The study of the final decline of the Ming Empire involves too many problems, the theory of governing the country, later people said it very easily, and the mouth opened and closed the words to exit, but unfortunately governing the country is by no means just a lip service, the so-called in its position to seek its own government, no personal experience of people, the words spoken are always flowers in the moon mirror in the water.

Wu Fanhui, who has gone through four years, has realized this, he will never open his mouth at will to point out the country, this kind of Zhang Pu and others or members of the Restoration Society do, he will never do, this kind of fame and reputation fishing posture, for the current Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty, there are all kinds of harm but no benefit.

Seeking merit requires a hundred years of merit, seeking profit requires a thousand years of profit, and seeking fame requires the name of ten thousand generations.

This is Wu Fanhui's motto, and to really achieve this goal, it is not enough to just rely on words, we must be down-to-earth, rely on blood and sweat, in order to truly move towards the goal.

Wu Fanhui, who is the leader of the examination, stands at the front of the team.

At this moment, it was April 21 of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

The Daming Xinwei Palace Examination is about to begin.

Wu Fanhui has almost never slept all night, fortunately, he has already adapted a little, after all, he is young, and it is not a big problem to rest well for a night once in a while.

Besides, the situation of the palace examination is different, that is, the time of one day, the emperor has given many tributes to the questions, starting from the time of the hour, until the time of the unitary, the time of six hours, you have to hand in the papers, you must return to the many questions raised by the emperor, and the emperor personally participated in the palace examination, if any candidate dozed off in the Jianji Palace, it is estimated that it is a neurosis.

The place where Wu Fanhui and the others stood was outside the Chengtian Gate.

Chengtianmen, that is, Tiananmen Square hundreds of years later.

The oncoming Jinshui Bridge, there are five in total, the bridge in the middle is the widest, called the Royal Road Bridge, only for the emperor to walk, if the rest of the people walk around, it is to kill the head, the first bridge on the left side of the Royal Road Bridge, called the grade bridge, for the officials above the third grade to walk, next to the grade bridge, called the Gongsheng Bridge, the officials below the fourth grade, all walk this bridge, the two bridges on the right side of the Royal Road Bridge, is for the military ministers to walk, it is still a bridge for the military ministers above the third grade, and a bridge for the military ministers below the fourth grade.

Wu Fanhui and other tributes, entering the Chengtian Gate, must take the Gongsheng Bridge on the left.

But there is a difference, that is, after the palace test, all the tributes named in the gold list, when they walk out of the Forbidden City, they can take the imperial road bridge in the middle, which is a gift from the emperor, and all the jinshi who participate in the palace examination have a chance to leave the Forbidden City from the imperial road bridge once in their lives.

This is the glory of the two Jinshi for a lifetime, and of course it also reflects the emperor's intention to attract talents.

At this moment, the officials of the Ministry of Rites had already begun to roll call, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the roll call was completed.

Wu Fanhui, who was standing at the front, did not look back, behind him was Wu Weiye, who would take the second place in the test, followed by Chen Yutai, Yang Tingshu and Zhang Pu and others, there was almost no contact between them, even when they were training in Honglu Temple, they met each other, and at most they hugged their fists and greeted each other.

After the roll call of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the officials of Honglu Temple once again emphasized that after entering the imperial city, they are not allowed to make loud noises, they are not allowed to look left and right, they must follow the officials in front of them, and they must not leave the team, otherwise they will be captured by the brocade guards guarding the imperial city, and they will not only not be able to participate in the palace examination, but will also be punished.

When emphasizing these words, the faces of the officials of Honglu Temple turned a little pale, and their tone was also extremely harsh, in fact, if such a situation occurred, it was not only the Gongshi who would be punished, but also the officials of Honglu Temple.

At the end of the day, many tributes began to enter the Forbidden City through the Jinshui Bridge and the Chengtian Gate.

Wu Fanhui is still a little strange, in his impression, the people who participated in the early dynasty should also be waiting outside the Chengtian Gate, why didn't he see it today, but he will soon understand that because of the palace test, there is no early dynasty today, because the emperor wants to preside over the palace test in person.

Entering the Forbidden City from the leftmost gate of Chengtian Gate, it is not too bright all around.

Wu Fanhui, who was walking in the front, did not look around, and followed closely the officials leading the way in front.

After passing through the Duanmen and Zhaode Gate, the magnificent Huangji Hall finally appeared in front of you.

Wu Fanhui was suddenly a little excited, in fact, hundreds of years later, this hall that has been renamed Taihe Palace, he has seen it many times, but now the feeling is completely different.

The officials of Honglu Temple led everyone to the left side of the Huangji Palace, and they had to pass through the middle left gate, enter the Jianji Hall from the direction of the back left gate, and think that they would go to the back along both sides of the Huangji Hall as they had done for hundreds of years, which was absolutely impossible.

Although the Imperial Palace, the Middle Pole Hall and the Jianji Hall are the three largest halls in the Forbidden City, but the frequency of use is not very high, the emperor is generally in the early dynasty of the Qianqing Palace and acting government affairs, the three major halls in front of it, only when some major events are held, will really be used.

The gate of the Jianji Hall has already been opened.

The officials of Honglu Temple took many tributes and entered the Jianji Hall directly.

The tables and chairs in the hall have been arranged, and many tributes are seated in the same order.

When he sat down, Wu Fanhui finally breathed a sigh of relief, there was still a maximum of half an hour, and the palace examination was about to begin, and it was not until April 25 that after the ceremony and the banquet of grace, the imperial examination was really over.

At this time, Wu Fanhui suddenly felt a little nostalgic, maybe it was easy to participate in many exams, because what he thought of in his mind was how to do a good job in the test papers, once the imperial examination was over, he would step into the imperial court with one foot, and he would face an extremely complicated situation, I am afraid that such a leisurely time will disappear forever.