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On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the first year of Xuande, a major event occurred in the capital, and for the first time in history, the shortcomings of the garrison system were exposed to the public. The update is the fastest and most stable

Fan Ji, a Xingzhou sergeant who was already over 80 years old, came from Xingzhou thousands of miles away, sounded the Dengwen drum outside the Daming Gate, and said to Emperor Xuande that the Xingzhou guard was short of soldiers, and many military households fled with their families because of the Shangguan Ping, and in the long run, the Ming military strength was worried, and I hoped that Emperor Xuande could rectify it.

Fan Ji is not an ordinary military household, he is a Jinshi of the Yuan Dynasty, and he served as the prefect of Guangxin Prefecture during the Hongwu period, but unfortunately he was later implicated in the case and was deprived of his official position and sent to Xingzhou to the border.

Although Emperor Xuande had already learned from Li Yuntian about the shortage of soldiers in the guard, he never expected that the situation had reached such a grim point that he would "force" an old man in his eighties to trek through mountains and rivers to come to the capital to admonish.

Therefore, Emperor Xuande attached great importance to Fan Ji's speech, and immediately ordered 15 officials from major ministries and courts, including Huang Zongzai, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, Hao Peng, the servant of the Household Department, and Fan Jing, the waiter of the Criminal Department, to go down to the local area to clean up the number of soldiers in the guards under the jurisdiction of the governor's office.

In order to grasp the changes in the military households under the jurisdiction of the governor's office in real time, Emperor Xuande then formulated the "Twenty-four Rules for the Qing Army", which made it a routine to send officials from various ministries, imperial historians, and six departments to clean up the world's ranks.

At the same time, this incident also invisibly increased Emperor Xuande's expectations for Li Yuntian's new army.

On the sixth day of the second lunar month, Zhang Zhengshang, the superintendent of Shanxi, said that although Emperor Hongxi exempted the people from the taxes of the abandoned fields because they fled, that is, the unpaid taxes, the actual situation was not optimistic, and the people in Shanxi who fled to and from home were more depressed.

The reason for this is that when these people fled to the country, the officials of the local yamen were afraid of being blamed by their superiors, so most of the abandoned fields because of the flight were not reported, and the household department did not know about it, and there was no way to exempt the tax arrears. [30715671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty]307 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 3

Now that these fleeing people have returned, the officials of the local yamen are still coming to collect the taxes from the abandoned fields, which may cause those people to flee again because they cannot pay the taxes.

In this matter, Emperor Xuande showed his decisiveness, and immediately ordered Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department: "After the amnesty, why not get rid of it, how can it be said that he has not heard of it at the beginning, but he must pay it!" This is a breach of trust with the people. ”

Therefore, the household department obeyed the holy decree and sent the yamen to all localities to exempt them from taxation.

At this moment, Li Yuntian had already left the capital, and personally built momentum for the martial arts in the eight prefectures and two prefectures of the Northern Zhili, publicized the lecture hall with great fanfare, packaged the lecture hall as the imperial forest army under the command of Emperor Xuande, and swore that the students who graduated from the lecture hall would directly obtain the military position under the military cabinet.

Because Li Yuntian was a popular person before Emperor Xuande and the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, the officials of the eight prefectures and two prefectures of Beizhili were very polite to him, which made Li Yuntian's propaganda in Beizhili smooth sailing, which aroused the interest of many scholars in the lecture martial arts.

On the first day of February in the first year of Xuande, Emperor Xuande ordered the formal establishment of the military cabinet, and the military cabinet yamen took the former military department yamen as the place of office.

At the same time, Emperor Xuande also ordered the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture to complete the number of six departments, because the Ministry of Agriculture Yamen is newly established, so it is located on the left side of the Daming Gate of the most distant end of the Yamen of the Ministries.

The seven members of the military cabinet have all arrived, namely:

Former Gyeonggi Governor's Office, Governor of the Former Gyeonggi Prefecture, Chungkook Gong Zhou Zheng.

Chen Qia, the former secretary of the Ministry of War.

Qin Mu, the left attendant of the former military department.

The former Gyeonggi Governor's Office, the left deputy governor of Lu, and the Righteous Kingdom Gongzhongqian.

The former commander of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, Wuding Hou Lu Dahai.

The former commander of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division, Yongqing waited for Sun Yi.

The former commander of the Henan capital was the commander of the envoy and the loyal wait for Peng Yu. [30715671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty]307 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 3

Among them, Zhou Zheng is the first assistant of the military cabinet, Chen Qia is the second assistant of the military cabinet, and the other five are the group assistants of the military cabinet.

The candidates for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Left Squire have also been confirmed, the former Nanjing Household Secretary Han You was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture, and the former right waiter of the Ministry of Agriculture, Dong Zehai, was promoted to the left waiter of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the right waiter of the Ministry of Industry was vacant.

In order to streamline the structure and strengthen responsibilities and powers, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry took the lead in carrying out reforms, and both will not have the post of right attendant, and the right attendant will become a kind of additional title.

Not only the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry, but also the yamen of the major ministries and institutes in the capital will gradually abolish the right post in the left and right posts at the same level, and the left post will be a permanent position, and the right post will become a kind of bonus title when the Beijing official goes on a business trip.

For example, the governor usually adds the title of the military department Shangshu and the right capital of the Imperial Palace, and the governor usually adds the title of the right squire of the military department and the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace.

On the eighth day of February in the first year of Xuande, Beizhili held the first examination of the new style of martial arts, and more than 20,000 candidates who met the requirements of the eight prefectures and two prefectures participated in the examination.

The martial arts exam is divided into two major sessions, the first is the literary examination, which is the examination of Wenmo, and the second is the martial arts examination, which is the examination of martial arts.

Contrary to people's expectations, this examination is completely different from previous years, and adopts a new model of score system for examination papers.

The test paper is divided into four parts: multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, true/false questions, dictation questions and essay questions, each question has a certain score, the total score is 400 points, and then the ranking is ranked according to the score.

In this way, not only can you save time on the exam, but you can also see the results of the exam at a glance.

What is particularly important is that this move avoids the interference of human factors, examines the comprehensive qualities of the candidates, and also liberates the candidates' thinking, so that they will not die in reading.

Li Yuntian set the time for the exam to be two hours, that is, four hours, and after the exam, the local prefect and prefect organizers will review the test papers.

Multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, and dictation questions have standard answers, which are either true or false, so they are very quick to review.

Li Yuntian deliberately stipulates the corresponding deduction criteria for silent writing questions, so that he will not lose all his points if he makes a mistake, which is quite "sexual".

As for the essay questions, it is more troublesome, Li Yuntian gave a rough reference answer, as long as the candidates involve the key points mentioned in the reference answer, they can score, and try their best to avoid the influence of human factors.

In order to avoid errors in the marking of the test papers, two rounds of re-examination are carried out after the marking of the test papers to avoid mistakes and ensure the true results of the candidates as much as possible.

Like the literary examination, the martial arts examination of the martial arts also adopts a point system, with a total of 300 points, divided into three parts: strength, archery and Jiaojian.

Strength assessment stone locks: Stone locks of different weights correspond to different scores, and the maximum score is 100 points.

The archery assessment is step "shooting": each person "shoots" ten arrows, and the maximum score of each arrow is 10 points, and the score after ten arrows is the score of "shooting" arrows, with a maximum score of 100 points.

The fitness assessment is push-ups: different numbers correspond to different scores, with a maximum score of 100 points.

Originally, Li Yuntian also wanted to take the test of riding "shooting", but considering that most of the candidates had never even ridden a horse, he gave up this idea.

According to the rules set by Li Yuntian, among the candidates admitted by each state government to participate in the re-examination, two-thirds of them are excellent in the literary examination, and one-third are excellent in the martial arts examination, so that different types of talents can be obtained.

Since the score system is used to test the papers, the results of the examination were announced quickly, and the two lists of the essay examination list and the martial arts examination list were posted, and the results of the examinees were arranged according to the scores from high to low, and the top of the two lists were admitted in turn.

If a candidate meets the admission requirements in both rankings, he or she will be admitted according to the list with the highest ranking.

After the two lists were posted outside the examination booth in the state capital, they were immediately surrounded by candidates, vying to check their results.

The candidates who have obtained the qualification for the re-examination are all rejoicing, which means that they are one step closer to the Jingshi Lecture Martial Arts Hall.

The exams that did not qualify for the re-examination were depressed and lamented, and the opportunity was wasted in this way.

After the examination, the generals of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall who went to the state capitals to supervise the examination will be responsible for taking those candidates to Beijing and Nanjing, and the candidates will participate in the literary examination of the martial arts re-examination in the Gongyuan of Beijing and Nanjing.

On February 23 of the first year of Xuande, more than 2,000 candidates from the eight prefectures and two prefectures of Beizhili took the literary examination of the martial arts re-examination at the Beijing Gongyuan, and the questions were the same as the style of the preliminary examination.

Different from the initial examination, during the re-examination, both the military pavilion and the Ministry of Rites sent personnel to the scene to supervise the examination, and they were very surprised that the lecture hall adopted a 100-point system for the examination papers.

The day after the end of the literary examination, the martial arts examination was held in a military camp in the capital, and it took more than 2,000 people only two days to complete all the examinations.

After the results of the literary examination and the martial arts examination came out, Li Yuntian was very pleased, and there were many high scorers in both the literary examination and the martial arts examination.

In view of the fact that the source of the candidates was far better than expected, Li Yuntian specially invited Emperor Xuande to increase the number of admission places in Beizhili by half, from the original 200 to 300.

At the same time, the number of students admitted to Nanzhili has also been raised from the original 100 to 150.

The list of those who had been admitted to the lecture hall was soon posted on a notice board outside the Gongyuan in red and black, and those who were admitted were ecstatic, and those who were not admitted looked depressed.

Those candidates who were only one step away from the admission line all beat their chests and felt very sorry that they were only a little short of being able to enter the lecture hall, but they fell short.

Li Yuntian comforted those candidates who had not passed the re-examination, telling them that the next time they started martial arts, the candidates who met the age limit would be exempted from the initial examination and directly enter the re-examination, giving those candidates a comfort.

As for when the martial arts will be held again next time, Li Yuntian is not clear, because it depends on the progress of the preparation of the new army, but it gives hope to those candidates who have not passed the re-examination, and tells them that there will be a martial arts exercise within three years, which makes those candidates can't help but ignite a longing in their hearts.

To be honest, the vast majority of candidates are very much in agreement with the content and method of the new martial arts examination.

Although the new martial arts examination is based on the content of the literary examination, its examination papers are not only novel in style, but also extensive and flexible, assessing knowledge in many fields and testing their comprehensive ability.

Unlike Wenju, where a few questions can be the difference between life and death, and the results of the exam are influenced by the preferences of the examiners.

After the list of admitted candidates was announced, those admitted candidates were immediately taken to the lecture hall by the instructors, and arranged for them to live in the dormitory and begin training.

Li Yuntian took a boat to the south non-stop and went to Nanjing City to supervise the re-examination of Nan Zhili's martial arts.

It is worth mentioning that one-third of these candidates admitted to Beizhili are not from Beizhili. Shandong, Henan and Shanxi around Beizhili also came to refer to it, and finally passed the retest.

For candidates other than the southern and northern Zhili, Li Yuntian did not make any restrictions, as long as they got the identity certificate issued by the local county government, then they would go to the nearest southern and northern Zhili state capital to register for the exam with the help of the road.

After all, the reason why Li Yuntian wanted to recruit for the examination in the south and north was because the time and conditions did not allow him to take the exam in other places, otherwise if all the affairs were arranged, the exam would have to wait until at least next year.

Therefore, for those candidates who want to participate in the martial arts examination to gain fame and future, Li Yuntian will naturally not refuse