Chapter 353: The Cotai Avenue That Will Be Widened

"It's natural, and I don't want to go back on my word over and over again. What's more, this idea of mine has been thinking about it in my mind for a long time, and I want to announce it in front of all the students, if you have any doubts, you can ask me in person. Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly, and his face gradually condensed, and his deep and majestic gaze swept over the young and full of vitality and passion in front of him one by one.

"Your Majesty, this dynasty has no precedent, the imperial examination system affects the hearts of the people in the world, a little carelessness will definitely make the world troublesome, please think twice......" Guozi Priest Jiu Keqian's face was extremely ugly, and he came to Zhu Qizhen's side and said in a loud voice.

"Your Majesty has your own reasoning, Master Ke, you can't let Your Majesty always be capricious, right, so, where is Your Majesty?" And Yuan Bin, who finally showed a sudden expression, whispered in Ke Qian's ear with a hint of a groaning smile.

"This ......" Ke Qian wanted to open his mouth to refute, but when he saw Yuan Bin's face with a hint of a sly smile, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, yes, he wanted to jump out again and let Zhu Qizhen swallow the words back, then he was really a typical looking for a draw.

After arching his hand gratefully towards Yuan Bin, Ke Qian decided that unless the Son of Heaven asked him, it was better to keep his mouth shut in peace, and he was also very curious, what did Zhu Qizhen want to rely on to convince these talented students Gao Zhiyuan, as if everything in the world was not in his eyes?

And Zhu Qizhen didn't wait for the questions of the prison students who were messing up in their heads, Zhu Qizhen opened his mouth first, and the deep voice made the strange sounds inside and outside the classroom disappear without a trace in an instant. "I remember that the imperial examination system originated from the first year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, because since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system was adopted, and most of the officials were selected from the children of high-ranking elites from all over the world. The children of the powerful can be officials, regardless of their merits.

Many people from humble backgrounds but with real talent and real learning cannot be reused in the court. In order to change this malpractice, Emperor Wen of Sui decided to use the method of separate examinations to select officials. Let the states nominate talents, take the exam, and those who pass can become officials. During the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the Jinshi Department was officially set up to assess the candidates' views on current affairs and select talents according to the examination results...... By the time of my Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system had been relatively perfect. However, the content of the examination is basically Confucian scriptures, with the "Four Books" as the title, and the format of the article is eight-strand text, and the explanation must be based on Zhu Xi's "Notes on the Four Books......"

-------------------- "Although I have provided countless national pillars and temple talents for my Ming Dynasty, many students with talents and expertise in the world have still not been used by the court, why?" Zhu Qizhen's words resonated with many prison students present.

Yes, there are thousands of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and those who can really leap into the dragon gate, I am afraid that there are a hundred of them, and it is a great luck to be able to pick out one or two. This really makes many talented readers only be able to stay far away in the rivers and lakes, and place their affection on the landscape paintings.

Seeing these people bowing their heads frequently, they looked eagerly looking forward to their continuation. Zhu Qizhen is very satisfied with this situation, yes, if his previous will is to cut off their Cotai Avenue.

So now my words are equivalent to helping these people to turn the Cotai Strip, which was originally just a one-way street, into a four-lane or even eight-lane Super Cotai Strip.

I have to say that just this piece of bone, well, I want to talk about cakes, but the bones will be more appropriate, and this bone alone has attracted the attention of all the prison students.

Then Zhu Qizhen told with a bitter heart, all in all, what he did as a great tomorrow was precisely to enable talented scholars in the world to serve the court and become officials.

Nowadays, every year, only a small number of scholars can be promoted to serve in the court, but there are still many more, talented and learned intellectuals can only stare dryly. Now, Zhu Qizhen has decided to open more subjects, so that more professionals who have a skill or a knowledge can stand up and serve the court as officials with technical surnames.

“…… When I was in power, Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong, I had a pioneering and enterprising heart when I was in power, and I had a vast territory today, and I made the big ship cruise in the sea and frontier, so that the world knew that I was a great Ming Huang Tianwei, but a hundred years have passed in a flash, and now, my Ming has appeared to be in a twilight state, and it is not the wish of many talented people in the world, so Er, I Wanger and other young talents, help me, help me Ming, and make me Ming add the vitality of youth......"

“…… If you want to talk about the old and young of the country, please speak about the old and young of the people. The elderly often think about the past, and the young people often think about the future. Thinking about the past, so I am nostalgic; Thinking about the future, so hope ......"

And Li Ji and others, who were originally sitting at the back of the classroom, but because of the arrival of Zhu Qizhen, Li Ji and others, who began to squeeze forward with all their might, also looked at this legendary genius who was talking here with eagerness.

Listen to the fresh and novel words that came out of his mouth. The country is a metaphor for people. It seems to be a metaphor for the old and the young based on the national conditions, which is shocking and confusing. Hearing this, the prisoners couldn't help but feel their hearts swaying, and they were quite abrupt.

That's right, today's Ming Dynasty, compared with the beginning of the founding of the country, is indeed less of that kind of cutting-edge spirit and enterprising heart. Think about it when Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong were in power, in the world, who dared to squeeze their eyebrows at our Ming Empire, let alone dare to use a knife to compare with our Ming Empire, well, Yuanmeng, who was compared with the Ming Empire with a knife, was finally beaten far away from the desert and did not dare to peep south for decades.

Moreover, in the first decades of the Ming Empire, both the construction of the country and the people's living standards have developed by leaps and bounds, and industry and commerce have also flourished, making the Ming Empire present a prosperous situation.

But now? The lives of the people today seem to have not changed much compared to the first 50 years of the Ming Dynasty, and even the people in some places no longer have a sense of happiness and security.

As the system became obsolete, and with the aging or inaction of the supervisory bodies, the already swift and agile political apparatus gradually became bloated, and likewise, the officials were gradually corrupted by the power they possessed, without adequate supervision and management.

Zhu Qizhen borrowed some classic passages from the later generations of the juvenile Chinese sayings, and in the end, when Zhu Qizhen left, what he heard was no longer questioning, and what came into his ears was all the boastful words of those wise and martial arts of the Son of Heaven, His Majesty Shengming, and so on.

"Your Majesty, did you think about doing this from the beginning?" On the way back, Yuan Bin recalled Zhu Qizhen's previous foolery in Guozijian, not only put on a bunch of high hats for those prisoners, praised these students, but also threw down such a big piece of bones.

Thinking about it, Zhu Qizhen really made this will clear to the world, and I don't know how many people in the world will look north and worship with tears in their eyes.

"Originally, the imperial examination system of our Ming Dynasty should have changed a long time ago." Zhu Qizhen, who was still proud of turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands for the means of rain, smiled, but his tone was not relaxed.

(To be continued)