Wei Zhongxian naturally heard from it what Zhu Youzhen meant by the outer voice.

It will be like this for the last time.

Why?

In fact, in the face of such a situation, none of the efforts made by the emperor in recent days can come in handy.

Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian also sighed slightly in his heart.

Soon, however, his old body was rejuvenated.

I, Wei Zhongxian, want to be the emperor's dog, the most loyal dog in the world.

Next, it was in a hurry to go down and arrange according to the will.

In the cabinet on the other side, at this moment, there was a ruckus because of Zhu Youzhen's will to reform the imperial examination.

"The imperial examination system can be changed in this way. . . What's even more ridiculous is that the right to take back the township test and the meeting test to the ministry is returned, how can this be explained to the local government..."

The sorrow on the brows of the cabinet elders at this moment is not the sadness of Zhu Youzhen's reform, but if the cabinet does not revise it at all, then it will not only break the continuation of the imperial examination tradition, but... that

The most important point, but one that everyone deliberately avoids.

That is, to divide the number of candidates in each province, and after pulling the average line, the passing line is formulated, and it is no longer decided by the examiner.

Anyone can see at a glance that the superiority of the emperor's reform this time will be fairer than in the past, but the problem lies in the word fairness.

Now.

The darkness of the imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty was actually an important factor in Zhu Youzhen's reform.

Jiangnan scholars crowded out a large number of students from the north.

There was even a ridiculous scene of no northern students in the palace examination for many years.

But now it's good, Zhu Youzhen directly moved out the set of the college entrance examination in later generations, which made these pavilion elders anxious.

"This... Your Majesty's move is of course good... But this is too urgent... If only I could have some more time.."

Huang Liji, who had just secured the position of cabinet chief assistant, was unusually calm.

Just sat but didn't participate in the discussion.

Seeing that everyone had been arguing for a long time but still couldn't come up with an idea and was in a dilemma, Huang Liji stood up and took over the thin draft, "If you don't mind, let me, the old bone, go to the palace, but my ugly words are ahead, if the emperor has made up his mind, all ministries should not think about dropping the chain, otherwise I am afraid that you will not be able to protect your heads." ”

Huang Liji's words are not shocking, and they carry helplessness about the ability of his cabinet colleagues.

With the expectation of Emperor Chongzhen, since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Huang Liji has seen everything he has done, but most of these things have not gone through the cabinet, but have been directly implemented by the six departments or Dongchang controlled by Wei Zhongxian.

Although this move is not in accordance with the rules everywhere, Huang Liji is unusually sober, and he is deeply aware of what the current situation of Daming is.

Round after round of actions against those corrupt officials above the court, Huang Liji sometimes can't help but applaud when he thinks of it in the house at night.

But why did the cabinet stand still in this purge of the entire Ming Dynasty?

The main reason is that although the cabinet at this moment is still nominally a cabinet, in fact, everyone in the cabinet, Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu, and Li Guopu, except for Li Guopu, who can barely be regarded as upright, is a complete pro-imperial party.

Nature does not reach them.

Therefore, the cabinet did not directly send Emperor Chongzhen's intention back, if it was replaced by the cabinet under the control of the Donglin civil official system in the late Ming Dynasty recorded in history.

I'm afraid Zhu Youzhen doesn't even dare to have such an idea.

It's impossible to get it directly.

In the later period, Zhu Youzhen was not so much able to do all kinds of small things as to be able to do micro operations, but only to do micro operations, and the general direction was already formulated by the cabinet, although it was not overhead, but in fact the imperial power had been greatly weakened.

But!

It's different right now!

Imperial power is still abundant!

The pro-emperor party gradually controls the court!

This is a good sign.

After entering the palace, Huang Liji no longer had the toughness in front of everyone in the cabinet, but sweated on his forehead as he walked, because he knew that most of the emperors had already made a decision on this proposed decree, and it would be difficult to stop it, but he still had to come.

"Weichen Huang Liji.. See.."

"Come in!"

In the end, it was still the cabinet Zaisuke, and no one in the palace stopped him, although it was a slow step, but it still arrived.

"Your Majesty . . . In my humble opinion, I would like to ask Your Majesty to withdraw your will for this proposal for the reform of the imperial examination."

After the words fell, Zhu Youzhen gently put down the cinnabar brush used to batch red in his hand, briefly put together the countertop, got up and sat on the main seat similar to the living room, and motioned Huang Liji to find a place to sit down.

"Tell me why? Is there something wrong with my plan? ”

Huang Liji replied.

"Your Majesty's reform of the imperial examination system this time has nothing flawed, although I don't know the examination questions prepared by Your Majesty personally, but only from the point of view of the rules, it is already several times superior to the current Ming imperial examination system.."

"Then why do you come today to ask me to take back your will?"

Seeing that Huang Li was extremely cowering, and seemed to say so much nonsense, Zhu Youzhen also wanted to know why.

Compared with Wei Zhongxian, in fact, Zhu Youzhen also knows a lot about Huang Liji, as the cabinet assistant at the beginning of the Chongzhen Dynasty, although he is biased towards Wei Zhongxian, according to historical records, it was more of a helpless refuge at that time.

Because from the perspective of the court at that time, if you can't rely on Wei Zhongxian, then let alone the future, even your life will be a problem.

Not to mention, even the word Chongzhen in the Chongzhen Dynasty was thought up by Huang Liji, which is enough to see that the original Emperor Chongzhen valued Huang Liji, but later, with the influence of Donglin on the court, and the continuous coercion of righteousness under the crazy brainwashing of the original Zhu Youzhen, he gradually lost trust in the cabinet.

But at present, Zhu Youzhen still admires Huang Liji, after all, this is already one of the rare talents.

Available people: Not much.

So he really wanted to hear what Huang Liji had to say.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is no problem with the content of His Majesty's will, the problem lies in the implementation, at the moment I am empty in the Ming Dynasty, the original imperial examination has various places to supplement, and can barely run, but there has been a huge difference between the north and the south of the examination whether it is the venue, the examiner equipment, and even the paper used to answer the test papers in the north and south are quite different, the paper used in the south is mostly good rice paper, the highest one is dozens of papers, and the paper used in the north is mostly cotton and linen straw paper, and the ink bleeding is serious, resulting in many candidates having to give up the brush and switch to the bamboo tip to dip in ink."

"And now once you want. . . reform, all the expenses will be pressed on the head of the court at one time, and the household department really has no extra silver..."