The number of participants in Enco was clearly beyond expectations.

But don't worry, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Hu Hu, who presided over this Enke, still has two brushes.

Under the leadership of the Ministry of Rites, Enke's exam time was temporarily extended by three days, and as soon as the news came out, the originally uncertain candidates were relieved.

After all, this way, they have more time to prepare for the exam, and more people can participate.

This is an unprecedented event, and it is likely to be a great test for Enko.

As the chief examiner, Hu Hu is a little Alexander, but at the same time, he is also secretly happy, because once Enke succeeds this time, it is very likely that his old age career will come to a successful end.

This is an opportunity to go down in history.

Even if many people know that they don't have a chance, they are very willing to follow the trend and come to Jingshi.

The first is to see this kind of grand occasion, and the second is also a life in the world, and it is really unreasonable to be an outsider with such a big event.

However, due to the control of various divisions in the imperial court, the order has been relatively peaceful.

As Enke's news spread, even many foreign businessmen began to pay attention, and even some envoys from Nanyang countries stationed in Beijing came to the palace to congratulate Zhu Di.

Zhu Di just replied casually at first, but as more and more people came to congratulate, Zhu Di didn't understand, so I simply did an Enke, what were they congratulating.

Zhu Di didn't expect that the scale would be so large, and the initial idea was just a simple liquidation of political enemies and then stuffing his own people.

However, even Zhu Di didn't expect that with the continuous fermentation of Enke this time, something that even he couldn't understand how useful it was, or rather, an institution, was finally derived.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

In the end, Zhu Di couldn't help it, and pulled a Western missionary to start asking, and only then did he get an answer from Daigo's empowerment.

From the point of view of the Nanyang countries, such an unprecedented large-scale examination has a great role in promoting the reading education of the whole country, and for the West, it is an extremely advanced and clever policy.

After sending off this Western missionary, a bold idea came to Zhu Di's mind.

Reform the country!

As the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty, Guozijian is responsible for sending talents to the Ming officialdom, so the general supplementary officials are preferentially selected from Guozijian students.

Guozi Jian students often proudly declare to the outside world that we are the protégés of the Son of Heaven!

But in fact, Zhu Di knew in his heart that these prisoners of the country were not so much the protégés of the Son of Heaven as the protégés of those officials.

Guozijian has been established for many years, and its interior has long been decayed, from the original intention of ordinary students to participate in the imperial examination outside the channel to become an official, to a rich children gilded and official children to become officials.

Children from wealthy families, even if they have the ambition to become an official or study, often have to worship local Confucians or court officials as teachers, and then use gold and silver as tickets to enter the country.

To the gold plating of Guozijian has long become the consensus of the children of the rich people in the south of the Ming Jiangnan.

In addition, Guozijian has become a high-sounding shortcut for official protégés to enter the official without the imperial examination.

Students of local Confucianism, or those who were born in official eunuch families and whose parents were officials in the imperial court, often did not have to pay money, and they could be directly recommended to become the prisoners of the Guozijian.

In the words of later generations, let your children come to the Guozijian, and then fill the vacancy of an official position, it is just a matter of one sentence, who will follow whom!

In addition to the shortcut of Guozijian, the traditional imperial examination road of the Ming Dynasty is very difficult to have the qualification to be an official.

Poor students have no power, no power, and no wealth, and they can only hit their heads day after day, year after year.

Xiucai--Juren-Gongshi--Jinshi, these four fames must be tested at least one in order to realize the dream of being an official.

However, the difficulty of the imperial examination road is difficult to go to the sky, after all, there are still many people in the world who want to change their lives against the sky, and everyone goes to the imperial examination, and it is natural that thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge.

The fame of Xiucai is now useless except for some welfare policies of the imperial court, and to put it bluntly, it is already rotten on the street.

And only relying on the welfare of Xiucai, now it can only make a scholar barely make ends meet, and then there will be the title of poor Xiucai.

Xiucai wants to make up for the official, except to wait for the current scene, the only way is to continue to take the exam and get lifted.

However, similar to this Enke opportunity, it has been nearly a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it has only happened once, whether there will be any after that, and how long it will take to wait, this is unknown.

From Xiucai upwards, the Jinshi is not taken every year, the Jinshi is once every three years, and the number of places is very limited, no matter how many people participate, the people who can be named on the gold list every year are still those.

How many or three years can a person's life wait?

The most youthful and energetic people are between 20 and 30 years old, but they can catch up ten times, and the lower the chance of being admitted in the future.

Because there have always been young people, every time someone who takes the imperial examination will not leave you a place for him because you didn't pass the exam, and the competitors will only increase and become more and more powerful.

Since the Hongwu years, there has never been a time when there are fewer than a few million scholars, and every three years, there are only two or three hundred people on the gold list and the second list.

Zhu Di also saw from the popularity of the Enke official supplement this time, how many people in the country study every year, just waiting for the supplement, waiting for the next imperial examination.

In this case, it is not enough to add as many people as there are and how many jinshi and people are added to the imperial examination.

From the perspective of scholars, there are too many scholars, and they have exceeded the number of officials and alternate officials needed by the imperial court several times or even dozens of times, so this phenomenon occurs.

So many people read those articles that don't do every day, fantasizing about being an official one day.

Then there are so many people who want to be officials, how many real Qing officials and famous ministers can come out in the end?

Zhu Di chatted with the Western missionary for a long time, and he also felt that he suddenly realized the problems in education in the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone studies just to be an official, and uses all their brains on how to pass the imperial examination, so who will innovate firearms? Who will innovate the knife and gun? Who will innovate tactics?

If you don't innovate, will you have to eat this old book for another hundred years?

Zhu Di saw with his own eyes that the newly established Tiangong Bureau, the group of people responsible for researching firearms, but few of them had ever read books, and they were all craftsmen from various places.

Those who have knowledge and cultivation do not go to these places to innovate and serve the continued prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, but instead gather in Beijing to squeeze their heads, just for a small official position.

Is this reasonable?

This doesn't make sense!

If it goes on like this, what will Daming do in the future?

For the first time, Zhu Di realized the shortcomings of the current imperial examination system and was determined to carry out reforms.