Lao Zhu highly affirmed the method of rebelling against Sun, but soon felt that something was wrong.

"That's not right!"

"What if the results are the same?"

Zhu Yunxi also had a headache when he heard this.

"Grandpa Huang, if the results of the two marks are the same, it can only show one problem."

"What's the problem?"

"Your old emperor is not qualified!"

"Shhh

Liu Sanwu, who had just been kicked down by Lao Zhu, gasped directly when he heard this.

The emperor's grandson is too dare to say it!

This is tantamount to questioning the emperor's level of governance!

The other examiners who were locked in the examination booth were also shocked when they heard this, and secretly said that the big thing was not good, and the old emperor was going to be crazy again.

Sure enough, Lao Zhu was stunned for a moment, and when he raised his foot, he was about to take advantage of the eldest grandson, but unexpectedly, the rebellious grandson had already prepared and rolled on the ground with a donkey to easily escape.

"Grandpa Huang, don't be in a hurry, at least listen to me!"

Lao Zhu was almost angry with his own rebel grandson, and he just moved out of the palace without a sound, and now he hasn't seen each other for several days, and he will be angry with him when he meets, which is really not a grandson!

"What else do you have to say?"

"Grandpa Huang, you are indeed to blame for this!"

"Think about it, it's been twenty-seven years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and there is still such a big gap between the education level of the north and the south, who is to blame you, the emperor?"

"Uh-uh......"

Lao Zhu was speechless for a while when he heard this, if he followed this grandson's theory, it seemed that this pot really had to be buckled on his head.

"Even if there is a gap, it can't be so big, right?"

In fact, this is also where Zhu Yunxi is puzzled.

It is an indisputable fact that there is a gap between the education level of the north and the south of the Ming Dynasty. But all the northern scholars were defeated, which is a bit unreasonable, right? Could it be that the level of the northern scholars is really poor?

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson is also puzzled about this matter, so I said that I would find someone to re-read the file."

Lao Zhu secretly sighed when he heard this.

"Okay!"

"Let's send people from the six departments to come and read the papers!"

"However, none of these people can be let go until the papers are marked!"

"However, none of these people can be let go until the papers are marked!"

Zhu Yunxi nodded hurriedly, coaxed Lao Zhu to the main house of the Tribute Courtyard, and then ordered people to go to the six departments to arrest people and come over to read the papers. In order to speed up the efficiency of grading, Zhu Yunxi also called his three masters and a group of students in the Hope School to help.

Yang Xinlu, Gao Ming, and Qin Hengbo were naturally the main and deputy examiners of the second marking, and the Jinshi who were arrested by the six departments acted as the examiners of each room.

Although the second marking paper is several times more than the first examiner, in the face of tens of thousands of test papers, I can't see anything for a while.

Zhu Yunxi originally wanted to persuade the imperial grandfather to go back to the palace to rest, and then show it to him when there are results here.

However, Lao Zhu was determined that his subordinates lied to him, and he didn't go back, so he had to stare here.

"Grandpa Huang, are you really not going back to the palace?"

"No return!"

"These female officials are used to cheating, so we have to keep an eye on it here!"

After Lao Zhu Hao finished speaking, he thought that the eldest grandson would accompany him to stare at it, but he thought that the reverse grandson bowed to him, said hard work and ran away!

"The emperor's grandfather worked hard, and the grandson went back to make up for sleep first!"

Lao Zhu looked at the back of his eldest grandson gradually moving away, and he really wanted to slap the two of them.

How old are you, what kind of diligence do you pretend to be in front of this grandson, and look young?

"Get back to us!"

"Get back to us!"

"If you want to sleep, let's go back to sleep......

"No!"

"You keep going slowly, hahaha!"

"You rebel!"

Lao Zhu watched his eldest grandson run away like a rabbit, his face was full of face

smiled helplessly, and then ordered someone to put the recliner flat, and then covered himself with a blanket, and just consumed it with a group of chief and deputy examiners.

Gao Ming could only shake his head helplessly when he saw his disciple doing this, and then continued to bury his head in the test paper.

Three days later, all 10,000 test papers had been reviewed.

To everyone's surprise, the results of the two marks were basically the same.

Why is it basically the same, the first admission is all Jiangnan candidates, and although the list of the second admission is slightly different, the admitted people are still Jiangnan people.

Lao Zhu was stunned when he saw the two admission lists.

"Is there such a big difference in the education level between the north and the south of our Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Yunxi ignored Lao Zhu when he heard this, but continued to stare at the list in his hand.

The second marking fully absorbed the experience of the first grading, and not only recorded the list of the top 100, but also ranked all the people after the 100.

Zhu Yunxi searched for a long time on the directory before he found the name of a northern scholar three hundred away. Then I wanted to find a second one, and I looked for about fifty people in the back.

"Grandpa Huang, you're right, the gap between the north and the south is really too big."

"According to the ranking of the unified examination between the north and the south, the highest ranking of the northern scholars is only three hundred and twenty, which means that our Ming Dynasty can admit three hundred and twenty jinshi at a time to admit a northerner!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he didn't believe it, so he immediately threw down the list and ordered someone to bring the scrolls of the northern scholars. However, if you don't look at it, you don't know, but you don't know it...... It's a long way off.

Not to mention that compared with the first paper in the examination, even compared with the last place in the examination, there is a big gap in arts and sciences, and it is still the kind of gap that can be seen at a glance.

It can be seen from this that Qi Tai did not bend the law for personal gain, and they were indeed fair and just when they read the papers.

But Lao Zhu still can't accept this result, the Daming country he worked so hard to build is not half of the Ming Dynasty, but the entire Daming Dynasty that includes Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

Let these readers do it, how will the world think?

Doesn't it mean that he, the emperor, only has Jiangnan people in his eyes, and there are no northerners?

But the gap between the two test papers is too obvious, and Lao Zhu can't help if he wants to, so he can only use his identity as an emperor to launch the skill of opening his eyes and talking nonsense.

"Let's see that this Han Kezhong's volume is also very well written, even if you can't enter the first and second grades, it's still no problem to give a third grade......

The examiners in the Gong Academy, you look at me, I look at you, everyone's face is full of speechlessness.

The emperor is not only blind himself, but also wants them to be blind with him!

"You're all dumb, why don't you speak, isn't what we're talking about?"

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty said yes, it must be really good!"

"All the ministers are commanded!"

When Lao Zhu heard the examiners say this, his old face couldn't help but turn red.

What a shame!

These guys may be laughing at us in their hearts!

The northern scholars are also really, why can't they write a few better articles if they don't fight for it?

"Let's look at this Wang Shu's scroll is not bad, although we didn't avoid our grandfather's secrets, but we can't blame this kid entirely. After all, our grandfather Zhu Chuyi, this is indeed a bit unavoidable......

When Yang Xinlu and the others heard this, they all nodded secretly, and His Majesty the Emperor finally said something this time.

The emperor's family is really unavoidable, grandfather Zhu Chuyi, father Zhu Wusi, and later renamed Zhu Shizhen, but no matter before or after the name change, there is no rare word, all special is a commonly used word, you let the candidates avoid it!

The so-called evasion refers to the fact that during the imperial examination, we must take the initiative to avoid the emperor's name and the emperor's ancestors. According to the rules of the imperial examination, once you commit a taboo, no matter how wonderful your essay is, it is impossible to be admitted.

The old Zhu file was a big one, but he really couldn't pull it out, so he could only take the initiative to relax the admission conditions and cut his grandfather's secret first.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty's eagerness to seek merit is enough to be moved

Cang, I have moved the world and all the scholars!"

This time, their sycophants were shot from the heart.

After all, it's so hard to avoid this thing, and you might accidentally commit it one day.

The emperor's initiative to demote is a great thing for the world's scholars.

Lao Zhu listened to everyone's praise, his face secretly showed a look of self-satisfaction, and then he took out another test paper and looked at it, and bragged about his discomfort.

"This Jiao Sheng's roll is okay, right?"

Gao Ming hurriedly stretched out his head to take a look when he heard this, he had an impression of this volume, and it was barely written in line with the format of the Bagu Wen, but many places were made up, and the literary level was quite average.

"Your Majesty thinks it's okay?"

Lao Zhu looked at the scroll again with a weak heart.

"No...... Can't you?"

Yang Xinlu closed his eyes in resignation.

"Okay!"

"Your Majesty just says it's okay, and the ministers have no objection!"

Lao Zhu was still a little stunned by Gao Ming, after all, he beheaded his brother in a fit of rage.

However, after seeing Gao Ming's perfunctory attitude, Lao Zhu still broke the defense.

"Old man!"

"Who are you talking about?"

"We are indeed inferior to you in terms of knowledge, but when it comes to being an emperor, you can't compare to us with ten!"

"Do you think the imperial examination only looks at the quality of the article?"

"This thing has to balance the north and the south, and reconcile the east and the west!"

"After all, our Ming Dynasty is not only a few provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, but also several provinces in the north!"

"The northern provinces have been ruled by Hu Lu for hundreds of years, and the naturalization of the Ming Dynasty has only been less than thirty years in total, and now you have deposed them all through a single test paper, what do you make the northerners think, what do the northern scholars think!"

"Besides, the northern scholars are not useless. The northerners are not as literary as the southerners in the article, but the northerners can bear hardships and stand hard work, and they are down-to-earth and willing to work, which is incomparable to you southerners!"

Gao Ming muttered when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, Weichen can also endure hardships, and he is also very serious in his work......

Lao Zhu glanced at Gao Ming fiercely when he heard this, and said angrily.

"You're different!"

"A person like you is already an exception among the southerners!"

"Let's just ask you, don't pay attention to what we say!"

When Gao Ming heard Lao Zhu ask like this, he could only kneel on the ground and sincerely apologize to Lao Zhu.

"Wechen knows his mistake!"

"Wechen only judged from the perspective of literature and science, but His Majesty did judge from the perspective of the world, and Wechen naturally couldn't compare with His Majesty's ......

Lao Zhu apologized to himself when he saw such an arrogant old man as Gao Ming, and his heart was as beautiful as eating ice cheese on dog days.

"Hey!"

"Just know that you are shallow, we are not unforgiving people......

Gao Ming, who had already buried his head deeply, suddenly raised his head when he heard this, and looked directly at Lao Zhu. I thought to myself, this old man really dares to say it, what kind of generous person he really is?

Lao Zhu ignored Gao Ming, completely intoxicated with his own subtle knowledge, and couldn't extricate himself from the light of the holy candle.

"That's what we think."

"Isn't it true that fifty or sixty people are directly admitted to each imperial examination, let's record more points this time and directly admit a hundred people!"

"Then pick some people from the northern scholars, and try to achieve a balance between the north and the south......

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson thinks this method is inappropriate!"

As soon as Lao Zhu heard the opposite tone of the eldest grandson, he roared angrily.

"Shut up!"

"We didn't ask for your opinion!"

"My grandson thinks it's better to take the exam again, only take the northern scholars, and then set it as the northern list......

"Get out!"

Zhu Yunxi saw that Lao Zhu was starting to be unreasonable again, so he immediately walked out angrily, but after taking two steps, Lao Zhu stopped him again.

"Wait, what did you just say?

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Zhu Yunxi was angry and didn't say anything, but the masters on the side hurriedly said it for him.

"Your Majesty, just now the imperial grandson said that he could let the northern scholars take the exam alone and set it as the northern list, so as to show that Your Majesty treats the north and the south of the world equally."

"Medium!"

"That's a great word!"

Lao Zhu was so happy that he was dancing a little, if it weren't for the gravitational pull of the earth, it is estimated that this old man would be able to fly to outer space.

"It has to be our good saint grandson, this little head is fast!"

"Hahaha!"

When the people in the Gongyuan saw Lao Zhu's excitement, they muttered in their hearts. This is really the grandson's own good, no matter what he says, he can boast of it!

What kind of feeding idea did the imperial grandson come up with, this is not clear and biased towards the north, is it unfair to the southern scholars?

Besides, the northern scholars may not appreciate it.

Once the imperial examination is divided into the north and south lists, isn't it known to the world that the northern scholars are not good at learning?

In this way, the gold content of the North List can be greatly reduced.

Some people slander in their hearts, while others speak out.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks this method is inappropriate!"

"The imperial examination is a ceremony for the imperial court to select talents, and its original intention is to select materials for the country, and only talents are promoted."

"As soon as the northern list comes out, is it fair to the southern scholars?"

"It must be known that the southern scholars have also studied hard for ten years, showing their talents all the way and being admitted. Then, because of the poor learning of the northern scholars, they were forcibly deprived of their qualifications as jinshi, which is too unfair to the southern scholars!"

The person who said this was Zhang Bingyan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, who was originally a Jiangnan candidate and knew the suffering of Jiangnan candidates.

Jiangnan Wenhua is gathered, and it is extremely difficult to show off talents and raise people, and now it is too unfair for southern scholars to make a north-south list for the Jinshi.

As soon as Zhang Bingyan's words came out, they resonated with many Jiangnan examiners, and many people expressed their support and wanted to fight for Jiangnan candidates.

However, the examiners for this marking are half south and half north.

For the sake of their fellow countrymen, the northern officials also squirted with the southern officials one by one.

—While saying that he paid a lot of taxes, and how difficult the imperial examination was.

On the other hand, it is difficult to eat, and how difficult it is to save money and study. While playing the emotional card, he pretended to be poor and miserable.

After a while, the tribute courtyard was quarreled into a pot of porridge by the two parties.

Lao Zhu was really annoyed by these people, so he picked up the inkstone and smashed it on the table.

"Shut up!"

Fortunately, Lao Zhu has been decisive in killing for many years, and he has accumulated a lot of authority. Seeing that Lao Zhu was furious, everyone hurriedly bowed down one by one to plead guilty, and then honestly went to the side to stand.

Lao Zhu saw that everyone was shut up, so he snorted coldly and said.

"We are the Emperor, or you are the Emperor!"

"What kind of system is it to be noisy and shouting!"

"Didn't we just say, we are not the emperor of the people of Jiangnan, we are the emperor of the entire Ming Dynasty!"

"Since we are in front of Daming's home, we must have a bowl of water, right?"

Zhang Bingyan couldn't help muttering when he heard this.

"The point is that the water is not even......

When Lao Zhu heard this, he picked up the inkstone and smashed it.

"Shut up!"

"Did we let you speak!"

"No one has the courtesy of a courtier!"

"If we hadn't thought about accumulating some yin virtue for the eldest grandson, we would have pushed you all out and cut them down!"

When everyone heard this, their hearts were stunned, no wonder His Majesty the Emperor has not killed people in recent years, even if it is a vigorous whipping method, the gentry can pay for food in one piece, they can be degraded, exiled if they can be exiled, and rarely use swords.

It turned out that it was because of the emperor's grandson!

When everyone thought of this, they looked at the imperial grandson with a much more eager look, and there was a little more gratitude in their eyes. Zhu Yunxi saw everyone looking at him, no

Yu straightened his chest and gave a warm smile.

Hum!

This time I know that this grandson is good, if it weren't for this grandson to help you bear the anger of the emperor's grandfather, the six officials in the court may have changed a few times!

"Don't embarrass Grandpa Huang, Grandpa Huang's rule over all directions of Jiuzhou, it is already extremely difficult to reconcile yin and yang, how can he be completely fair in everything?"

"But since you feel that it is unfair to the south, then Lone will say one more thing, we might as well do it in one step and divide the north-south list into three lists: northern, central, and southern."

"The north is dominated by Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, and the middle volume is dominated by Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Lu, Fengerfu, Xu, Chu, and Sanzhou, and the rest belong to the southern volume."

"Then the admission ratio also needs to be adjusted, how about the tentative setting of 424?"

"The North List and the South List each account for four, and the Middle List accounts for two."

"In addition, Nanbang has added ten more Tongjin Shi on the basis of accounting for four."

"The reason why Jiangnan is given ten more places is that Jiangnan has the largest number of scholars, and secondly, it is also because Jiangnan pays half of the world's Thai taxes, which has made great contributions to the national dynasty!"

"I wonder if you think this method is feasible?"

As soon as Zhu Yunxi's words came out, the centrists of the Gongyuan, who were not in the south and the north, or the north and the south, all secretly pondered.

The area in the middle of the list has the smallest population, and they can get a fixed 20%, which is quite satisfying. Without this guarantee, they may not be able to get a Jinshi for several years.

The people in the north list are also quite satisfied, according to the distribution method of the imperial grandson, it is much easier than them fighting bayonets with the southern scholars every year.

Judging from the number of admissions from the north and the south in the past, if there are 100 admissions, it would be good to have 10 northerners.

However, according to the new law of the emperor's grandson, they can admit at least dozens of scholars in the north, so it is cost-effective.

Only the Jiangnan officials are very dissatisfied, because if it is really calculated according to the quality of the article, their Jiangnan candidates have the strength to dominate the list.

But looking at it now, whether it is the old emperor or the emperor's grandson, it is impossible to make the court full of Jiangnan officials. Therefore, they have to retreat if they don't want to!

What's more, the imperial grandson has already taken good care of them and given them an extra ten places.

If you look at the number of admissions over the years, the average number of admissions in the previous scientific examinations of the Ming Dynasty is about 60. This extra ten people is not one percent, that's nearly two percent!

The Jiangnan officials felt that they were not too much of a loss, so they could only reluctantly agree.

Lao Zhu saw that everyone had no objections, and immediately laughed happily.

"Since all of you Aiqing are satisfied with this method, then let's issue an edict to implement it, and make this method a permanent example, so that future generations can carry out the imperial examination according to this method!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Emperor Sun Shengming!"

Lao Zhu lost himself again in the cries of a crowd of sycophants, this time he not only danced, but even gave everything unprecedentedly

The people gave food, and invited everyone to the palace to eat and drink.

During the banquet, Lao Zhu naturally praised the eldest grandson from time to time for growing up, and he could share his worries for him, the imperial grandfather. At the same time, he also revealed that he was old and his body bones were useless.

This made some officials with lively eyes immediately see the opportunity.

His Majesty the Emperor wants to give in?

Otherwise, why would he say this, isn't it just to prepare for the future Zen concession!

Gao Ming, Yang Xinlu and others were also given a banquet by His Majesty the Emperor, and when they heard His Majesty the Emperor sigh that they were old, several people were also secretly happy in their hearts.

Although they longed for the emperor's grandson to ascend the throne and become emperor immediately, they still maintained some sanity in their hearts.

Since ancient times, there has been no happy Zen Rang, even if the old emperor himself revealed this meaning, as the emperor's grandson, he also had to persuade a few words, saying that His Majesty the Emperor's sword is not old, and he still needs to rely on the emperor's grandfather and the like.

Only three resignations and three concessions can be regarded as a complete set of tricks.

However, just as the three of them followed each other

Like a dog, he stretched his neck all over the hall to find Zhu Yunxi, and wanted him to persuade His Majesty the Emperor, but found that the emperor's grandson was gone!

"What about the Imperial Grandson?"

"How do I know!"

"I just saw him tearing roast chicken on the side!"

"Hurry up and find Your Highness, and let Your Highness advise Your Majesty!"

"Then you two eat first, I'll go out and find Your Highness......

"Go!"

Yang Xinlu came out of Fengtian Palace, asked the guards guarding the door, and learned that the imperial grandson went to the direction of Qianqing Palace, and immediately ran towards the apse with a big belly.

However, as soon as Yang Xinlu ran to the back left door, he saw a young man wearing the costume of a county king, sneakily lying at the door and peeking outside.

There are not many county kings who can walk in the palace, and now it is not the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor, and it is not a major celebration, and the vassal royal family has not entered Beijing, so there is only one county king left in the palace, and that is Zhu Yunwen.

"His Royal Highness the King of Anhui?"

"Shhhhhh

Seeing this, Yang Xinlu also walked over lightly, and peeked outside like Zhu Yunwen.

However, after just one glance, Yang Xinlu felt that his scalp was numb, and his heart also mentioned his throat.

I saw that at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunxi was moving with a woman wearing a concubine's costume, and the woman kept waving her hand, as if she was dodging the teasing of the imperial grandson.

Yang Xinlu hurriedly stretched out his big hand, covered Zhu Yunwen's eyes, and then dragged him aside.

"His Royal Highness the King of Anhui, this matter is very important, don't go out and talk nonsense!"

Zhu Yunwen's eyes turned around.

"Good!"

"But you have to promise me something, let Zhu Yundu give me the equipment for the three guards and horses!"

"At the same time, I can't let him stop my marriage to my cousin of the Chang family!"

When Yang Xinlu heard this, he couldn't wait to spit on Zhu Yunwen's face.

This guy really dares to ask for a sky-high price!

How much is the equipment of the three guards and horses worth, and it is estimated that it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!

This is just the equipment, not the money for the war horses!

If you count the war horses, you can't beat a million taels!

As for the marriage with the Chang family, it is even more ridiculous, how many teacups and inkstones have the imperial grandson smashed for this matter?

The Chang family even let out the words, they would rather beat their daughter to death than let their daughter marry Zhu Yunwen!

However, Yang Xinlu struggled again and again, but still agreed with humiliation.

"Yes!"

"But if the old man hears any rumors, don't think about what you say!"

"Master Yang, don't worry, I just want to be a vassal now, and I will never compete with the third brother!"

Yang Xinlu sighed gloomily when he heard this.

"I hope His Royal Highness the King of Anhui will remember today's words!"