The winter sky was thick with clouds, Liu Ziguang stood in the hanging basket of the airship, let the cold north wind blow, like the ear protection of the dogskin flight cap, the air was extremely cold, and the pilot Ma Saiyou, who was born in the bitter cold land of the northwest, could not stand such low temperatures, and his face under the goggles was red from the cold, if he hadn't worn thick sheepskin gloves on his hands, he might have been stiff and unable to hold the joystick.

The flight capsule should be added with a cold-proof and warm shell and glass windows, so as to meet the all-weather operation, Liu Ziguang decided to return to Beijing, and let Addison start to renovate, now in the southern suburbs of the capital has built a factory, specializing in the research and production of conventional weapons production line of the Liguo Iron Plant, Qishuyan Machinery Factory's large 6 weapons production line, Jiangnan Shipyard's water warfare weapons production line has begun to take shape, a complete set of dual-use production system has begun to take shape, the rich Jiangnan can provide sufficient labor and raw materials, I believe that it will not be long before the new equipment of the red shirt regiment can be born。

Peng Jianguo's words that day are still lingering in Liu Ziguang's ears, avoiding the exhibition of hot weapons is not a wise thing, science and technology are always spiraling, you don't show others, others will also show the first to be strong, it is absolutely necessary to maintain sufficient technical superiority, the Central Plains Dynasty has never been the opponent of the northern barbarian peoples, that is, because the technical gap is not big enough, not enough to offset the advantage of fast horses and strong bows, and now the opportunity to open this gap has appeared, as a Han youth, in this divided and chaotic world, Liu Ziguang has unconsciously expelled the Tartars and restored China as his own responsibility, rather than like other traversers, to seize the throne and make beauties the first pursuit。

Liu Ziguang was full of ambition to hold on to the railing of the hanging basket and look at the vast land below, the first snow of this winter fell last night, the land covered in silver is extraordinarily beautiful, the canal is like a crystal jade belt stretching forward, if there is no appearance of his own, this troubled Chinese land is afraid that it has fallen into the hands of the enemy in the Manchu invasion at the beginning of last year, the barbaric Tartars will not have anything good to bring to the Chinese nation except for plundering and slaughtering, resulting in the destruction of the whole society, the productivity of the whole society will not be anything good, the current situation is still grim, the north occupied by the Manchu Qing has not yet recovered, the northwest land is not peaceful, the newly rising Xia State seems to be more ferocious than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, relying on the excellent three hippos and sharp scimitars to run rampantThe slaughter of the Han people in the Western Regions and the plundering of land had the intention of continuing the eastward crusade.

The situation in the southeast is even more complicated, the sea is full of warships from various countries, the Zheng family, the Song Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are all coveting this busy international route and the rich leaf-shaped islands.

Even if so many ships can be built, what about Liu Ziguang smiled reservedly and patted the railing, in front of the airship, no matter how big the warship is, it is just a living coffin floating on the sea, and the future warship airship is the king!

Before leaving Liguo, Liu Ziguang specially went to the sinkhole, that is, the level pit where the spaceship was hidden, but he was disappointed that the sinkhole had been submerged in a landslide in the summer, looking at the sinkhole that had almost been filled, Liu Ziguang knew that he couldn't get anything valuable from the spaceship for the time being, so he had to leave in a huff.

Taking advantage of the north wind, Liu Ziguang quickly arrived at the capital, and the airship was tied to the top of a seven-story pagoda in the south factory, and the crew and passengers went down the cage-shaped soft ladder to the pagoda, and then walked back to the ground, took the green tweed carriage that had been prepared for a long time, and rushed to the palace to face the saint.

Seeing Liu Ziguang's return, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed, and after seeing the gift of the monarch and the minister, he immediately asked the eunuch to give him a seat and tea, first put on a face of a passerby, and asked Liu Ziguang with a smile How does he feel about his new marriage, isn't this a pot that is not opened, and the emperor continued to mention this matter unrelentingly, saying that the queen has been happy, and it is very likely that it is a prince, let Liu Ziguang hurry up and give birth to a daughter, so that he can form a family of children, Liu Ziguang said in his heart, I was pulled by you before I even had time to go to the cave house, where is the time to help you give birth to a daughter-in-law, even if there is a daughter in the future, she will not let her marry into the emperor's family, this is naturally not said in person, so Liu Ziguang quickly diverted the topicAsked Zhu Youxiao what was the important thing to recruit him.

When it comes to business, Zhu Youxiao's radiant face immediately turned into a bitter gourd, and the recent life is really a headache, and a good autumn has almost turned into a riot, because all the candidates on the list are Jiangnan's moves, and the candidates in the north are all famous without exception, Sun Shan is disgruntled, and the northern candidates who suspect fraud are angry and tear up the list, gathered at the gate of the Gongyuan to ask for explanations, and the candidates' courage comes from the secret support of officials from the north, on the surface, this is a protest against scientific examination fraud, in fact, it is a struggle between officials in the south and local officials in Jiangnan。

Before coming, Liu Ziguang had studied this problem with Peng Jingrong, and now it is naturally easy to deal with it, in fact, there is a precedent for such a thing, and it has been as far back as the Hongwu period.

The examination in the 30th year of Hongwu was supposed to go smoothly, but on this day of the list, there was a riot.

The reason for the riot is that all the lifters on the list this time are southerners, and there is not even a single northerner, which is very rare in previous exams.

In Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the unsuccessful northern gentlemen flocked to the yamen of the official department in charge of the imperial examination, demanding that the officials of the official department explain the results of the examination.

They believe that the examiner this time is also from the south, so they cheated on the test results and deliberately favored the southerners.

At this moment, the city of Nanjing suddenly became a mess, and even if the southerners and northerners did not know each other, they seemed to have become enemies who shared the sky, and there were often fights and brawls in the city.

The army responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital quickly marched into the city to try to quell the riots. However, they could stop the violence by force, but it did not change the antagonism between the North and the South, but only exacerbated it.

This matter soon reached the ears of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. He immediately sent someone to appease the troublesome northern lifters, assuring them that the emperor was investigating the matter and would definitely give everyone a satisfactory answer, and the emotional movers slowly dispersed.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Sanwu, the chief examiner of this exam, to understand the situation. Liu Sanwu didn't do anything on the test papers, and the test scores of the people were real, and the southern ones did do better than the northern ones.

Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that Liu Sanwu had always been upright, and he was not a person who would bend the law for personal reasons, he believed in Liu Sanwu's judgment of the candidates' results, but in order to calm the anger of the northern lifters, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Sanwu to select a few from the northern lifters to be on the list.

Unexpectedly, Liu Sanwu was really stubborn this time, this old master thought that his judgment was fair and selfless, and there was nothing wrong with it, so he refused to change the test results, so that the originally poor northern Juzi was on the list.

Zhu Yuanzhang heard the big thunder and thought that Liu Sanwu was really out of business, so he was so angry that he drove Liu Sanwu out. He also removed several other examiners.

When the northern princes heard the news, they all cheered loudly and demanded that the emperor administer justice for them. Soon after, Zhu Yuanzhang sent other officials to re-examine the results of the exam.

However, when he listened to the review report, there were really a few ministers who were not afraid of death, but these upright scholars still insisted that the examination papers of the northern juzi were indeed inferior to those of the south.

Their final conclusion turned out to be exactly the same as that of the original examiner, Liu Sanwu. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, he accused the officials of covering each other and deliberately blinding himself, and in a fit of anger, he dismissed these officials from their posts and put them in prison, and tortured them severely.

As a result, this matter has gone too far. When these innocent officials were finally convicted, they were linked to the case of Hu Weiyong, who was born more than 10 years ago, forming a party for personal gain and secretly plotting rebellion, and all of them were sentenced to death.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally presided over a re-holding of the exam. The results of this examination were diametrically opposed to the previous one, and all of the 61 people selected were from the north, and none of them were from the south.

It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang went from one extreme to another in order to calm the injustice of the northerners.

From then on, in order to prevent such an incident from happening again, Zhu Yuanzhang established a rule that the subsequent imperial examinations were divided into papers in the north and south according to the standard of 60 percent in the south and 40 percent in the north, in order to name people in the north and south through this method, and the number of officials in the north and south was about the same.

Therefore, the subsequent imperial examinations were not only based on grades, but also added regional factors, and formed a conventional system.

But this system did not last too long, with the war of the Manchu invasion and the southward relocation of the imperial court, who still has the energy to do what, the north and south list, and most of the northern land has fallen into the enemy, and the move itself is less, why bother to open two more papers, and this year's examination is different from previous years, it is a special convening of the Enke Emperor's big marriage, pro-government, open Enke to take scholars, plus the Northern Expedition to Shandong was a great success, the Manchu Qing Dynasty temporarily died down, and the people who secretly went south from the north to take the exam were also turned a blind eye, resulting in a considerable number of candidates from the north in this examination, and the northern candidates were under the high-pressure rule of the alien race for a long time, and the results were naturally a little wasted for poetry and booksIt is reasonable to have lower scores than southern candidates, but it is indeed a bit unbelievable that no one enters the list, those northern candidates are hot-blooded men who cherish their homeland, if such a one-sided list is made, I am afraid that most of the northerners will chill and affect the plan to recover the northern homeland to a certain extent.

The old things of the north and south list, the lonely and unheard of little emperor, naturally don't know, but the ministers know very well that these officials who were originally from the six departments of Nanjing were not dealing with the officials who went south from Beijing, and now they will naturally not sit idly by and watch the northern official system add fresh strength, so everyone tacitly does not mention the old things of the north and south list, and the excerpts of the northern officials have also been suppressed by the cabinet.

Poor Zhu Youxiao knew that there was still the solution of the old ancestor Zongming's north and south lists, and he actually heard from Liu Ziguang that after listening to Uncle Zhen Wu's talk about the balance of the relationship, the little emperor pondered for a moment and said: "Even so, reopen the north and south lists."

"Your Majesty, Shengming Danchen thinks there is a better way to solve this matter." Liu Ziguang said confidently.