Speaking of this, Luo Guanzhong hurriedly listened to it.

He pulled the people around him back.

Shi Nai'an took a sip of tea and soup, and said: "This civil and military examination is very important, it is related to the future national fortune of my Ming Dynasty, and the north is the most important, you go to Beijing, you must know what can be written in the newspaper and what can not be written." ”

Luo Guanzhong's eyes shrank.

Isn't it?

"Nowadays, whether it is the Ming Classics Department, the Ming Arithmetic Department, or the Ming Law Department, they all attach great importance to arithmetic geography, and they have also joined the assessment of this official department, which can be regarded as an expansion of recruitment, but listening to the tone of the saint, it seems that he is still very dissatisfied."

"The Son of Heaven asked us to call on talented people all over the world to put forward opinions on the imperial examination, especially the direction of the imperial examination in the north, don't you want to listen to the tone of the family?"

Luo Guan muttered in a small voice.

Shi Nai'an nodded.

"The saint said, there are too many students in the south, and it is not easy to make the list, let us encourage the southern scholars in the newspaper, go to Beijing and Xi'an, Chengdu to participate in the imperial examination, no essay martial arts, in remote places in the southerners, the treatment of the people is half higher than that of the Nanjing lifter, and a settling-in allowance is also given, and the officials are promoted to give priority to the examination, go to the examination, and rely on the local yamen voucher, and the post stations along the way provide food and lodging."

"Now, the Son of Heaven has been in Guozijian and Taixue, recruiting volunteers to go to Beijing, Xi'an, and Chengdu for reference, and many scholars have signed up for ......."

Luo Guanzhong was a little surprised, in the past, he could refer to his hometown, but now he has relaxed the restrictions on household registration, and encourages applicants to apply for exams in other places.

Is this a concern that Beijing and Xi'an, as well as Chengdu, will not have enough scholars to open the imperial examination next year?

"However, in this way, there are many students in the south of us, won't it squeeze the way for the students in the other three places to be promoted? Will it lead to conflicts? ”

Shi Nai'an shook his head.

"The Son of Heaven hinted that as long as he went to the north and Sichuan Shu for reference, as long as there was no big mistake, he would be admitted to the official, but most of them would have to stay in the north, or Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Shu would be officials......"

Luo Guanzhong nodded, I see.

In this way, it is really a very important thing to go to Beijing by yourself, to grasp the public opinion propaganda position of the Ming Dynasty, to advocate for the Ming Dynasty, to publicize the benefits of the imperial examination, and then to encourage the southern scholars to go to the north for reference.

Nowadays, Daming is short of people.

Everywhere is missing.

Daming Royal Bank, immigrants, local government schools and county schools, arithmetic officials in the yamen, measuring fish scales......

In fact, the imperial examination opened a department for officials and added a rising channel to the small officials in the officialdom, which did not cause much reaction, because the small officials did the first and added arithmetic and other exams, which did not make the scholars of the Ming Dynasty have too much resistance.

On the contrary, it is a martial arts......

The literati, because of what the martial arts had to test, exploded, and began to worry that the martial artists would preempt the positions and establishment of the literati.

Therefore, newspaper propaganda is too important, and it must be carefully considered, and the pen must understand where to blow the wind.

This is related to the relatively enlightened imperial examination in the Song and Yuan dynasties.

The imperial examination at this time was completely different from that of the Qing Dynasty in the previous life.

Ming Jing subject, test four books and five classics.

In the Ming arithmetic subject, it is necessary to take the arithmetic test.

Knowing the law department, testing all kinds of legal knowledge.

Among them, the Ming Law Department attached great importance to it in the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Jin Dynasty also attached great importance to it, which was already customized.

In the Song Dynasty, the six subjects were examined, which was already very complex and enlightened, and the Ming arithmetic department sometimes tested the mathematical astronomical calendar, mixed with the equatorial ecliptic, etc., and once the exam was to test the position of Venus and so on at sunrise and sunset in a certain year, and also to test the position of the total solar eclipse.

This is related to the relaxed academic atmosphere of the Song Dynasty, which seems to be Shen Kuo, and he made "Mengxi Pen Talk", if it was placed in the late Ming Dynasty or Qing Dynasty in the previous life, he would be very despised and regarded as a heretic, but many Confucians in the Song Dynasty had a wide range of hobbies, astronomy, geography, arithmetic, calendar, fortune-telling, constellations, and also studied medicine and Buddhism.

When Song Taizu was born, there was once a time when the two people were very good in the palace examination, and it was difficult to distinguish between the superior and the inferior, because Song Taizu was born in martial arts, Song Taizu let the two of them wrestle, and whoever won was the champion.

In the Yuan Dynasty, because they did not attach importance to the imperial examination, and most of the Han people in the examination were small officials with a sesame size, or they were simply assigned to Mongolian nobles as housekeepers and settle accounts.

Therefore, the subjects of the imperial examination in the Yuan Dynasty were varied, and the questions were also very casual.

Once, the topic of the exam was to test weddings and funerals, which is an auspicious day of the zodiac.

Another time is even more outrageous, the test is constellation......

The constellations of the Yuan Dynasty have been widely circulated in China, but the constellations of the imperial examination are also the only ones in the Dayuan scorpion, and the examination is more like recruiting fortune tellers.

Liu Bowen was also promoted in that year, and the reason was that he was very proficient in astronomy, geography, and feng shui metaphysics.

At this time, the master and apprentice, you and I, are thinking about the exquisiteness of this matter.

Luo Guanzhong deeply felt that he had a great responsibility to go to Beiping.

"This martial arts move caused an uproar in Jiangnan Shilin, because there has been no precedent for martial arts in my south for many years, and there are those who are contemptuous and some who are in favor of Confucianism. "

Under the guidance of Zhu Xiongying and the instruction of Zhu Yuanzhang, Daming Daily also added a lot of new things.

Let's say editorials.

This is a special column, which is mixed with all kinds of poems and songs, as well as contributions from the great Confucians of the time, not only giving manuscript fees, but also allowing them to comment on current affairs on it.

During the Yuan Dynasty, how could scholars have this treatment.

Especially in the south, there are many Confucian families, and the Confucian families that have been passed down for hundreds of years abound, and the literacy rate and reading rate are also higher than those in the north, so everyone broke out in an instant.

Daming Daily has to receive a lot of various submission suggestions every day.

With it, the simplified words promoted by Daming Daily are no longer so resistant.

The Son of Heaven personally ordered to solicit opinions from the world on the imperial examination of cultural relics, which is actually a call to the great families, come on, come and build a great emperor!

I, Emperor Ming, need you.

As a result, many Confucian scholars in academies, or famous scholars in the Jiangnan area, such as Shi Nai'an, have made suggestions and suggestions, making the Ming Dynasty reimbursement road popular.

The newspaper published some Nanjing customs and customs, restaurants and tea shops, and earned advertising fees.

and used advertising money to pay those Confucian manuscript fees.

Such a cycle has greatly driven the newspaper industry in Nanzhili, and some strange tabloids have appeared, such as the newspaper that secretly prints silver words and songs, all of which are miscellaneous dramas in spring boudoir dreams, and the sales are still very good.

There are also some small newspapers that specialize in all kinds of advertising.

The wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.

Zhu Xiongying just made a start, and the wealthy businessmen and scholars in the Jiangnan area have launched their brains and developed all kinds of strange newspapers, because the Ming Dynasty has not strictly controlled the readers, so as long as the tabloids do not involve rebellion, the imperial court has not managed too much, not to mention, many tabloids are still made by the Jinyi Weiguo Security Division itself.

The self-confidence of culture has made Jiangnan Shilin's enthusiasm for the country's advice and suggestions unprecedentedly improved.

Even before, Jiangyin's huge wealth, Xu Qi, who claimed to never come back and would not be an official in the Ming Dynasty, couldn't bear the loneliness, and cheekily asked Shi Nai'an to send a message to Li Shanchang, wanting to get an official position in the newspaper.

Because he once went to Xiqiang as an envoy.

Li Shanchang then asked Xu Qi to be sent to Chengdu to compile Daming Bao in Chengdu and be the editor-in-chief of Chengdu Daming Bao.

In the future, all parts of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, Xi'an, and Chengdu will publish a newspaper every month, and the content of the newspaper will not only be unified in the propaganda of the country's major policies, but also leave a lot of blank pages.

This blank page is a place for local landlords and heroes in Beiping, Xi'an, Chengdu and other places to speak.

It is also a statement of the imperial court.

Shi Nai'an sighed and said: "I listen to the Son of Heaven, and it seems that I still want to start recruiting young people in the imperial examination, especially Mongolian, Semu, and even Goryeo." ”

"He said, the Han and Tang Dynasties have their own worldly bearing, and my Ming Dynasty inherited the Chinese national Zuo, and should also have the spirit of a great country, like Mongolia, Semu, Goryeo, Ryukyu, Wa Kingdom, and Annam.

"So you are going to Beijing, the task is very important, not just to go to Beijing to make a newspaper, you have to go over and think about how to help the imperial court win over the Northern Yuan scholars."

"When Emperor Shun fled north, there were many Confucian gentry in Shandong, Hebei and other places followed, these people all wanted to return to the country, and I heard that I opened the imperial examination of cultural relics in the Ming Dynasty, and someone must come to vote."

"Oh?"

These words made Luo Guanzhong stunned.

"There seems to be no precedent for this in the previous dynasty."

Shi Nai'an nodded.

"I know that the Holy Lord wants to accept the hearts of Mongolia, Goryeo, Annam and other small neighboring countries......"

"Now there is another problem, if both the north and the south open martial arts, the northern martial arts must have a large number of applicants and bravery, and it is unfair to the southern martial arts, and most of the officials in the DPRK and China are worried that the northern martial arts will become bigger, and they are very concerned about the martial arts subjects."

"The Holy Gods want us to guide ......"

"What's the guidance?"

Shi Nai'an squinted his eyes and said: "I have an idea, if the martial arts are also examined, you can brush down many northerners, and then the martial arts will still be the world of my southerners. ”

"When the time comes, there will be ministers of the DPRK and China who will shout for me."