For Confucian officials, the two most important means for them are to pick a pick, and the other is to use a pen.

The greatest value of Confucianism is to maintain the legitimacy of imperial power and govern the world for the emperor, which is also the goal that Confucian scholars tirelessly strive for.

This method is most frequently used among courtiers, especially bigwigs, to make the emperor compromise, so as to achieve his own demands.

The emperor is not worried that the scholars in the world are picky, after all, there are more scholars who want to be officials, and after studying and becoming a member of the official, then the interests of the officials are the same, but what about the non-official?

For example, Xiucai, Xiucai will manage the interests of officials and the dispute over Taoism?

If they don't get into the examination for a day, they don't even have the qualifications to be officials, and you let them think about this, it's pure nonsense.

I have to say that since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, Confucianism still gave birth to many ministers with integrity, and there are those who are not afraid of imperial power, and there are those who fight for reason, and there are not a few who resign and return to their hometowns because of dissatisfaction.

For the sake of the concept in their hearts, these ancient famous ministers threw their heads and spilled their blood, fought against the imperial power, and did not hesitate to die martyrs.

But such officials are few and far between, compared to the huge civilian bureaucracy.

The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies in the community, and does not cede the land, does not pay compensation, and does not make peace with relatives......

Later generations' evaluation of the Ming Dynasty is the most backbone dynasty in history, Zhu Houwei has never questioned it, but how much these have to do with civil officials, this is the will of the dynasty!

And the official, Wang Zhen wanted to become the second Tong Guan, so he encouraged the Yingzong to conquer Wara, and finally there was a change in the civil fort, after which the civil official was beaten to death by Wang Zhen's cronies, but what about before?

When Liu Jinquan leaned towards the government and the opposition, the Manchu ministers were persecuted and excluded, and those officials fought for their black hats.

When Wei Zhongxian was alive, he subdued the whole dynasty, and the officials all over the world were bent to welcome him, and countless people set up shrines for him, why didn't he see a backbone scholar jump out and point at Wei Zhongxian's nose and scold?

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are indeed an extremely large interest group, and they do have common interests and political demands, and when faced with external forces that are not civilian officials, they will join forces to save themselves, but they will certainly not do anything to save them.

Therefore, Zhu Houwei didn't take the so-called civil official group in his eyes at all, the reason is very simple, what the eunuchs can do, there is no reason why he can't do it as an emperor.

Of course, the emperor wants to be faced, but civil officials can do anything for the sake of Taoism, can't he?

I can't realize my ambitions, and I have to be subject to civil officials, and I still have a fart face, it's really not good, Zhu Houwei feels that he can completely cultivate a Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, and let the shameless eunuchs toss the civil officials to death!

Zhu Houwei was not afraid that the civil officials would resort to the unskilled means of picking on him in order to confront him, because even if more than eighty percent of the courtiers threatened him with resignation, he still had enough coping strategies.

As for the pen, it is nothing more than smearing, just like smearing Yingzhou's victory and smearing Emperor Zhengde in the original history.

Zhu Houwei believes that as long as he can achieve the final victory, then no matter how the historian discredits him, he will not be able to discredit the basic fact that he is a Ming monarch.

The palace examination, the candidate from the time of entering the palace, to the beginning of the exam to the end of the whole day, of course, this does not mean that it must take a day for the candidate to write an article, in fact, can stand out from tens of thousands of people to become a tribute, they do not know how many articles they have written in their lives.

It is no exaggeration to say that if they are allowed to write freely and write without scruples and burdens, then it will not be difficult for these people to write ten or eight articles a day.

The reason why it is slow is because of the attention, the palace examination can be said to be the last exam of all tributes in this life, and the good or bad test is directly related to the ranking of the exam, and the ranking is related to the future, and even the height that the career can finally reach in this life.

And there's only one chance!

There is absolutely no single chance to regret the pills!

All the tribute students will only be cautious in the face of such an ultimate exam, they have to think about why the Son of Heaven made such a question, what kind of words the Son of Heaven wants to hear, and whether their own question will be seen by the Son of Heaven.

If the Son of Heaven can't see it, then what will the person who reads his own paper think, and whether he can cater to the thoughts of the officials.

The knowledge in this is simply big, as for what to avoid, it is simply pediatrics, can fight from the scientific examination to the palace, if you can't even avoid it, then this book is also in vain.

Each Gongshi first wrote the first draft of the article on the manuscript paper, and then first looked at it to see if there were any taboos, and if it was not scrutinized sentence by sentence from the beginning, if it was not good, then crossed out and rewritten.

Over and over again, without getting tired of it, so that it is perfectly normal for an article to be written from dawn to dusk.

The bigwigs of the Manchu Dynasty all sat on stools, they were invigilators and accompaniers, and while watching the scholars work hard to write, they recalled the scene when they participated in the palace examination.

Zhu Houwei sat on the dragon chair, and was still a little interested at first, after all, this was the palace exam, the exam he presided over, and nominally he was also the only grader, novelty and curiosity were definitely indispensable, but it took a long time......

Isn't it just writing essays, why are you so tired?

Soon it was lunch time, and it was said that the emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, so the imperial dining room prepared a simple meal, and continued to wait after eating.

There was no need for Zhu Houwei to wait, but he just waited, which surprised the ministers present.

It wasn't until the end of the day, that is, at two o'clock in the afternoon, that a candidate finally stood up and handed in the paper.

Zhu Houwei's spirits lifted, and finally someone handed in the papers, and he could finally pretend to be majestic without having to sit dry......

Yang Tinghe was stunned and slightly displeased, this is not the right time, there is still an hour and a half before the unitary time to hand in the papers, and this hour is inevitably too eager to hand in the papers.

And the Gongsheng who handed in the paper looks quite old, almost forty years old, it stands to reason that he must have fought in the scientific examination field for many years, why is he still so uncontrollable?

Although he didn't know who this Gongsheng was, in Yang Tinghe's heart, he had already classified him into the top three fellow jinshi.

It was naturally Zhang Cong who handed in the papers, and Yan Song's words on that day gave him a lot of inspiration, and indeed only by letting the Son of Heaven see his own papers, then the expositions he wrote that were favored by the Son of Heaven could make the Son of Heaven remember him.

This is called the first prize!

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