In Laizhou, Shandong, a group of tall young men crowded into the recruitment office. If the soldiers in the northwestern border towns are known for their great strength, then the soldiers in Shandong are characterized by their tall physique. The northwest is a trigram in the gossip, and it is also a place where gold is vigorous, and it is obviously relatively normal to have great strength. Shandong, on the other hand, is located in the eastern part of the north, and the wood gas is more vigorous, and the wood is mainly grown, which naturally looks taller.

"It's a pity that there are only these places, if there are more places, so many excellent soldiers can be recruited into the army." The personnel of the command department in charge of recruiting looked at so many tall young men, and couldn't help but sigh with pity.

"Don't worry, maybe there will be more opportunities in the future!" The man on the side spoke up.

With so many excellent soldiers, the recruitment team was simply dazzled, and only the strictest standards could be used. Every one of them who has passed the selection is an extremely good source of soldiers. Whether it is physical fitness, temperament, or physiognomy, it is very passable. recruited the most elite batch into the army.

This recruitment, the main thing is to recruit cavalry. At the same time, a group of infantry was recruited, mainly to supplement the vacancies drawn by the garrison mixed brigade.

The requirements for the cavalry are obviously also a notch higher.

Those who are chosen are happy, and those who are not selected are depressed. For these young lads, they don't have much culture, just good physical fitness. If they can't join the army, maybe they can only stay in their hometown for the rest of their lives.

They want to join the army, that is, they have the dream of getting ahead. I also have the idea of entering the army to exercise and study, and at the worst of all, I can broaden my horizons and understand the outside world.

However, it is true that the number of places is limited for the time being. The whole of Shandong was only allocated a quota of 6,000 people.

The whole recruitment process was very smooth, and the treatment of the Central Army attracted a large number of young people to sign up for the army, and the recruitment was completed in just over a month.

A large number of cavalry began to be formed.

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On the sixth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, in the Baohe Hall of the Forbidden City, the palace examination finally came out after a long time, and the scholars who passed the imperial examination came to the Baohe Hall for the palace examination.

Originally, the temple examination was to be held in April. However, a group of Donglin Party who presided over the imperial examination were pushed down by Zhu Youxiao. Moreover, Zhu Youxiao did not attach much importance to this kind of imperial examination, so it was postponed until the tenth month of the lunar calendar. Seeing that it was not a way to drag on like this, Zhu Youxiao finally found time in October. The temple examination was held.

The palace examination mainly focuses on questioning, which is quite in line with Zhu Youxiao's mind.

"How many scholars will participate in the palace examination this time?" Zhu You asked Li Chaoqing beside him. Li Chaoqing replied: "Back to the emperor, there are four hundred and nine people who participated in the palace examination this time. ”

"There are a lot of people!" Zhu Youxiao said with emotion, Qian Guoxing said: "The number of people is actually not very large. At least tens of thousands of people participated in the imperial examination. ”

Out of the tens of thousands, 400 were drawn. This elimination rate is really high.

"I think there should be some talents among these people!" When Zhu Youxiao thought of this, his mood rose a little. After all, those who can be drawn out of thousands of troops are generally considered elites. At least in terms of the pattern of fate, they belong to the elite.

The elite is indeed the elite, but unfortunately they are all Confucian literati, if these people can choose a major to read like later generations, it is really a talent for the benefit of the country and the people. Plainly. These Confucian literati are too much of a panacea. A lot of energy is spent on piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and some like to delve into numerology and medical skills. The impact on the country's development is relatively modest.

After more than 400 scholars have tried in this temple, they are Jinshi. However, Jinshi is also divided into first, second, and third grades.

One of the top three people, champions, list eyes, and tanhua.

The purpose of the palace examination is to rank high and low.

For this palace examination, Zhu Youxiao also made careful preparations. Because the questions of the palace examination are biased towards strategic questions, it is quite in line with Zhu Youxiao's mind.

Through policy questioning, it is obvious that a group of talents who are in line with their own minds can be screened out, and their abilities will be cultivated later, and the ideology must first be in line with them.

So Zhu Youxiao had several policy problems.

One is to ask whether the current decision to reduce agricultural taxes and raise commercial taxes is correct, and then explain the reasons. This question is the most critical, all the guys who deny the levy of commercial taxes will be classified as the top three, and then slowly boil it from the Jiupin Sesame Official! And it's still an idle job!

In fact, the first, second, and third ranks are also equivalent to an appointment list of the emperor.

The second question is to ask the imperial court's financial management how to further open up sources and reduce expenditure. This question is mainly to select a group of talents who know how to manage finance, and Zhu Youxiao is still relatively short of talents in this area.

The third question is to ask about the foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty, and to ask, 'The land of barbarians is vast and fertile, and barbarians are not good at production.' Cutting down the barbarians, expanding the territory, and damaging the yin and virtue? The popular meaning of this sentence is to ask them whether bullying those weak and small nations will cause any karma.

The purpose of this question is mainly to select a group of people to serve in the Supreme Command and the Military Department, so as to pave the way for outward expansion.

The fourth question is to govern officials, asking how to change the current administrative situation of corrupt officials and corrupt officials everywhere like the Ming Dynasty. This question is for the purpose of selecting magistrates.

There are four questions in total, and the first question can be answered casually, as long as the ideology is correct, you can enter the second grade. The second, third, and fourth questions do not require all of them to be answered well, as long as one of them can be ranked first, you can enter the first grade.

The second-class ranking will be ranked according to comprehensive ability, and at the same time, Zhu Youxiao himself will make a list to record the specialties of these people and appoint them in the future.

On the sixth day of October, early in the morning, four hundred and nine scholars of different ages came to the platform outside the Baohe Palace, and after some procedures, they took their seats to start the examination.

Zhu Youxiao's policy problem is relatively normal, and there is nothing too out of line. However, the content of the question, the first question is the most sensitive.

But the first question is also the most fatal, and everyone knows that it is a very sensitive topic. However, if those scholars from the industrial and commercial class echo the emperor's current approach, how can they oppose the emperor's policy when they enter the court in the future? So I could only refute it head-on, and I thought of a lot of crooked reasoning and wrote it up.

And for those scholars who have no stakes, the first question is the easiest. Anyone with a little bit of brain knows how to answer.

There are three remaining questions, you can answer all of them or just one.

There was a twenty-one-year-old young scholar, when he saw the third question, his eyes lit up, and he immediately lowered his head and worked hard to write. I saw that on the name column of the test paper, the words 'Lu Xiangsheng' were written.

There is also a scholar about 30 years old, not very tall, after seeing the second question about financial management, his eyes are also bright, very smooth to answer the question, and write thousands of words freely. On the test paper, the words 'Jiang Dejing' are written. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. (To be continued......)

PS: The second update! Go to grandma's house for a meal first, come back at night to code words, there should be two more at night!