readx; In the spring of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, this unprecedented grand Enke finally came to an end in the Forbidden City. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Emperor Chongzhen appointed Huang Zongxi as the champion, but in order to take care of the emotions of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, he did not personally designate the later ranking.

As a result of the examiner's deliberations, Wu Weiye was the eye of the list, and Xia Yuehu, a candidate from Shanyang in Nanzhili, was the flower explorer. Both of them were recognized talents in the world, especially in poetry. In fact, Zhu Youzhen doesn't care whether officials can write poems and articles, like Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi, who are not only proficient in the hundred schools of scripture and history, but also have a relatively in-depth understanding of various studies that help the world. Just because the poetry is a little less famous, it is difficult to enter the eyes of Zong Dao and others, which is a pity.

The palace test is divided into "three first", and the first three are "first", which is called "first"; Those with better grades are "second grade", called "Cijinshi background"; The rest are the "top three", called "Citong Jinshi origin". Due to the fact that there are too many people in this subject, there are more than 2,000 in the middle and second grades, and 3,000 in the top three.

The vast majority of the young talents that Zhu Youzhen admired, such as Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Qian Jiazheng, Xiong Rulin, Yang Tinglin, Chen Tiangong and others, were classified as the top three. But he didn't care too much about this, anyway, the ranking of the palace examination had little to do with who he would promote and reuse in the future.

After the palace examination is over, even if Enke is completely over, the lifter who did not pass the examination will gradually leave the Jingshi. For these people, this spring is undoubtedly quite frustrating: it is not easy to catch up with an unprecedented big Enke, but the main exam questions are so simple that many candidates who boast of being full of wealth feel completely unable to play.

There are also sub-exam questions, which are only used for reference, but when the level of the main exam questions is about the same, there is no doubt that the answers to the sub-exam questions play a decisive role. Many people usually just bury their heads in studying the Four Books and Five Classics, and they don't understand these knowledge at all, and they regret it at this time.

Fortunately, the emperor issued another decree: Enke will continue to be held in the spring of tomorrow. However, the next time Enke will not be so large-scale, but like the normal imperial examination, it must first pass the hospital examination and the township examination. The format of the questions is still "subject plus sub-questions", and the same is true for the previous two levels of the exam.

This news undoubtedly brought hope to the students. In particular, many students who think that their article level has little room for improvement, and they quickly decided to focus on those "subtopics", looking forward to leaping into the dragon gate with "subtopics" in the coming year.

This is what Zhu Youzhen wants. If the college entrance examination in the previous life was a baton, then the imperial examination, which is a national talent ceremony, is even more a baton. As long as time passes, the current situation of "only reading the books of the sages" will gradually change, and the quality of officials will also be improved.

The imperial court has taken 6,000 people in one section, and the subordinate department is busy, so they have to arrange official positions for these people!

Officialdom is the most particular about seniority. According to the past practice, a vacancy in an official post was filled by an official of the same rank or a lower rank, and the chances of a new official being promoted were very small. Therefore, the imperial court will have a large number of idle positions, including the six ministries have two sets of teams in Beijing and Nanjing, just to accommodate these people who have nothing to do.

But there are so many people in this department, is it possible to add thousands of idle jobs at once? Sun Chengzong and other officials couldn't help but worry a lot.

Zhu Youzhen was confident, and after a secret discussion with Sun Chengzong, he announced that most of the new science and technology jinshi would be appointed as county officials, chief bookkeepers, and canons in various places, and the existing officials would all be promoted to half rank, and temporarily report to the Beijing Division's Ministry of Officials, and be awarded new official positions after evaluation. There are more than 1,500 counties in the country, and nearly 5,000 new science and technology scholars can be placed, and the rest will stay in Beijing and enter the Hanlin Academy and other departments.

At the decree, many ministers were worried. Because of the deep-rooted situation of local low-level officials, they were not unaware of it, and they were all a little worried that the emperor's move would cause chaos in local government affairs. And even if the process is very smooth, how should those original county officials and master bookkeepers come to Beijing Division?

Zhu Youzhen did not explain much about this, but announced that all newly promoted officials would stay in Beijing for a month of training, and then go to various places to take up their posts. As for exactly how it will be trained, the ministers do not know.

Although they felt that the emperor's Enko was like child's play, the courtiers didn't take it too seriously. The reason is also very simple, no matter how many jinshi are taken from, they have to start from petty officials, and they cannot threaten the power and status of these high-ranking officials.

What they really care about is the "Divination Ceremony", that is, the election of cabinet members. Because the cabinet holds the power of "vote drafting", for more than 100 years, the cabinet ministers are the real masters of the empire, not the emperor who often drops out of the dynasty.

The position of the cabinet minister is hot, but the number of places is limited, generally one first assistant, two or three secondary assistants, and there will be no more than six or seven people at most. Everyone wants to be a cabinet minister, and everyone feels that they are not ambiguous, so what should I do? I don't know which emperor invented a bad idea: to decide by drawing lots, whoever is drawn is whoever!

Because the word "lottery" is not very good, it was replaced by "meibu", but the meaning is exactly the same. Since then, the "Divination Ceremony" has become a fixed procedure for electing the cabinet.

No, as soon as the palace test ended, many ministers played to Zhu Youzhen, asking the emperor to fulfill his previous promise and immediately carry out the divination ceremony. And the original three cabinet ministers Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu and Li Guopu also immediately submitted their resignations, not to mention greedy for official positions at this time, the emperor did not condemn them because they had a close relationship with Wei Zhongxian, they had already burned high incense.

This time, Zhu Youzhen gave the ministers a lot of face, and immediately approved the edict, and scheduled to hold a ceremony in the morning of the day after tomorrow.

The ministers had waited too long for this day, and the next day they presented their candidates. Those who can enter this list are naturally very prestigious officials in the DPRK, Zhu Youzhen took a cursory look, but couldn't help frowning.

It turns out that this list is basically the "roster of party members" of the Donglin Party. It can be seen how big the Donglin Party's influence in the DPRK and China has become!

In this list, Sun Chengzong, Wang Zaijin, and Yuan Keli, the three important ministers, were all excluded because they were not members of the Donglin Party. The well-known leaders of the Donglin Party, Zhou Daodeng, Cheng Jiming, Li Biao, Liu Hongxun, Han Yi and others are all listed, at least more than 20 people. is not a member of the Donglin Party, only the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Lai Zongdao is a person, and this person is a well-known good old man. The Donglin Party's abacus is very fine, and the candidates are all Donglin Party, so no matter who is elected, the cabinet will be controlled by the Donglin Party, and they will be able to control the government.

Zhu Youzhen saw the fire in his heart, his eyes swept over these names one by one, and suddenly fell on the last two names.

Both of these people have the surname Qian, one is named Qian Longxi and the other is Qian Qianyi.

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