On the 15th day of November in the 18th year of Jiajing, 68 scholars wearing brand-new school uniforms entered Chengtianmen.

The school uniform is not a Confucian shirt, but a unified robe style, and the right chest of each robe is embroidered with words, such as Daming Yenching University, such as Daming Agriculture and Forestry University, such as Daming Guozijian.

In later generations, each school has its own style of school uniform, but in Daming it is unified, the only difference is the wording.

Some of these students are pure new scholars, they go from primary schools in various places to middle schools and then to high schools in Fucheng Prefecture, and finally come to the capital with excellent grades to enter various universities, they do not need to participate in the imperial examination, as long as the university is completed, they can be flooded into all walks of life, and even officialdom.

Officialdom is the last position held by Confucianism, but this front has long been riddled with holes, and it has been torn apart by the new scholars.

Pure Confucians naturally wanted to stop this erosion of Confucianism, but it didn't take long for them to find that they couldn't stop it at all, for the simple reason ......

Because of the reform of the official system, there are too many more officials in the Yamen that have been added and differentiated, and there are not enough Confucian scholars at all, coupled with several vigorous immigrations, Confucian scholars have been divided out I don't know how much, and the manpower seems to be even more stretched.

Obviously, the latter is more difficult for the Manchus to accept, not to mention that the new bachelors are flooded with low-level officialdom, and the ability they show in the end is not inferior to those Jinshiju people who are from professional classes, and some special departments, such as finance, are better at than Confucian scholars, which is that facts speak louder than words, and there is no need to say more to shut the mouth of the Manchu Dynasty.

Today, new bachelors have already flooded the yamen at all levels, and many new bachelors are still holding official positions in various key departments in the capital.

Dozens of scholars are either in the capital or in Tongzhou to study, there is the convenience of the train, the capital and Tongzhou are just a stone's throw away, they have all been to the capital, and they have also seen the majestic and magnificent Ming Forbidden City outside, and then from the heart will unconsciously rise a sense of pride.

This is the dream of every scholar, whether it is Confucianism or a new scholar, as long as they have not set foot in the official career and have not entered the society, have not been impregnated by officialdom, and have been beaten by the society, their minds still retain a little purity and simplicity relatively speaking.

At this time, they still want to one day be able to enter the career of Kuang Fu Sheji, create the Ming Dynasty of Zhongxing, of course, now it is not appropriate to use ZTE to describe the Ming Dynasty, to be precise, it should be a prosperous ten thousand years!

The Forbidden City, the brain of the Ming Dynasty here, the absolute center of the governance of the Ming Dynasty by Emperor Jiajing, the only human emperor in the ages, since Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, all the decisions that changed the Ming Dynasty started from here, and finally spread and changed the whole world!

No matter who it is, when you face this incomparably majestic palace for the first time, your heart will inevitably be filled with awe, awe of imperial power, and reverence for Emperor Jiajing!

Dozens of scholars never thought that they would have the opportunity to contact the Forbidden City, have the opportunity to enter this palace, and have the opportunity to meet the Jiajing Emperor, who is regarded as a god and Buddha by thousands of people.

This is glory, the glory of having no regrets in this life.

Entering the Chengtian Gate, passing through the halls, and going straight to the Jinluan Palace, no one dared to say a word along the way, and all the scholars were thinking about seeing Emperor Jiajing in their minds, in the face of the emperor's inquiry, how should they answer the questions appropriately and proportionately, and then let the emperor leave a good impression on himself.

This good impression is not even if Jane is in the emperor's heart, but it is enough to make himself able to go smoothly and rise smoothly after entering the official career!

As to why they were summoned, or even why they were chosen, no one knew until at least yesterday, but they could guess.

After all, the dozens of scholars selected from so many universities this time are all handsome, tall, heroic, and knowledgeable, which is almost the meaning of both civil and military.

Why is this a condition to screen, there are speculations in various universities, such as the royal needs a guard of honor, for example, the emperor wants to test the talents of young scholars, for example, I heard that the princess has reached adulthood, and the emperor wants to choose a horse......

He's really a colt!

Yesterday, when the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Music came to inform them that this screening was to choose a horse for the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty, the sixty-eight scholars were all shocked!

Shock is resistance!

No way, it's not a good thing to become a concubine of Princess Daming, especially for a scholar who is full of confidence in his future, because becoming a concubine basically means that his career is cut off!

And this is a burden that every reader who aspires to govern the country and the world cannot bear!

So when they learned that they were choosing a horse, more than half of the scholars wanted to find an excuse to slip away, such as having a marriage contract in their hometown or something, and the rest were also trying to find a more reasonable excuse.

Sometimes people are so realistic, many of these scholars are born poor, because of Emperor Jiajing's great policy of learning, there are books to read, and there is today, that is to say, the new scholars are extremely grateful to Emperor Jiajing, take a step back and say, if they are still civilians, if they encounter such a good thing as the emperor's choice of horses, if there is a chance to fall on their heads, then it is estimated that they have to go to the temple to burn high incense and make a vow, and they have to go to the ancestral tomb to see if there is green smoke......

But now it's different, they are grateful and grateful, the future is the future, who wants to ruin their future because of being a colt!

However, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Entertainment obviously understood their concerns, so they told them very clearly that now the Ming Dynasty's horse policy has changed!

Becoming the concubine of the Ming Dynasty will not affect his career in the slightest, and he will not live separately from the princess!

Of course, this will be doubtful for the scholars, but in the end, no one wants to find an excuse to leave, it is also a trade-off!

It's all said about this, you still run, is that looking down on the royal family, don't you want to be the emperor's son-in-law, just this heart, even if you enter the official career, you still expect you to be loyal to the royal family?

I was afraid that if I didn't go, I would ruin my career, but now it's the other way around, I'm afraid that the emperor will ruin my career if I go, look at this ambivalence......

But people still have a kind of psychology, that is, luck!

The eldest princess chooses a concubine, naturally she can only choose one, sixty-eight scholars to run, that is, one in sixty-eight chances, then hide it again, are you afraid that you can look at yourself?

I don't think so......

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