After returning to the palace, Zhu Houzhao immediately found Wang Yangming and told Wang Yangming his ideas, Wang Yangming also felt that his idea was very feasible, and improved it for him a little.

The number of candidates participating in the big exam is too large, and it is unrealistic to admit all of them, but it is still possible to expand the number of admissions.

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After the examination, many candidates did not leave the capital in a hurry, even if they knew that they were not on the list, they had to wait for the results to come out, so as not to leave regrets on this trip.

The chief examiner Liang Chu, the deputy examiner Fei Hong, Wang Wei, and a group of Hanlin bachelors worked day and night to correct the test papers, and then prepared a list of the names of the candidates they identified as the best scores, and submitted them to Zhu Houzhao together with the candidates' answer sheets.

"There are fewer people!"

casually put the list of candidates submitted by Liang Chu on the table, and Zhu Houzhao said vigorously.

"Less?"

Liang Chu was a little surprised, in a imperial examination, three first-class candidates were admitted, namely the champion, the top eye, and the flower.

There are a number of second-class candidates, seven of them, and more than 200 third-class candidates, adding up to nearly 300 candidates on the list, which is still less?

He really couldn't figure out what Zhu Houzhao was going to do.

"I strongly support Wang Yangming's change of law, people are needed everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and three hundred jinshi are distributed to all parts of the country, which is not enough at all."

This is only one of the reasons, more importantly, he plans to use troops against Annan, Jiaozhi and other places, and it is time for the Ming Dynasty to reclaim the land that he had no choice but to give up during the Xuande period!

He did not intend to use the external methods of Lao Zhu and Zhu Di, but only carried out a nominal canonization, and in fact did not have much actual dominance at all.

What he wants is to master it thoroughly, so that the reserve of officials is extremely important, and if he immediately sends someone to take over the city, he doesn't believe that anyone else dares to turn the sky upside down.

In addition, Annam is located on a key road, and if you control Annam, you can further attack the city, Siam, Chenla and other countries, and coerce Sumatra, Java and other overseas barbarians, the strategic significance is extremely extraordinary, and it is impossible not to fight.

Ten years, only ten years, Zhu Houzhao must do everything in this short ten years to enhance the strength of his Zhengde Dynasty, Annan is an important pedal for him to plunder overseas resources, must be taken.

As for whether those local residents will make trouble for him twice in three days as before, as before, so that the control of the imperial court will become more and more inadequate, he doesn't care about this, there are some things that the first emperor did, and he also did.

Ten years is too short, his Zhengde Dynasty is a little too busy to take care of himself, how can he still care about the life and death of those barbarians, the big deal is to encourage the people of the Ming Dynasty to have more children and more pregnancies, and then immigrate the people of the Ming Dynasty to enrich the land of Annam.

"It's not in line with the rules to expand the number of admissions."

Liang Chu also knew that there was a shortage of people in the imperial court, especially in Liaodong, Yunnan, Sichuan, Mobei and other places, but rashly expanding the number of admissions would inevitably cause some unnecessary controversy.

"Rules are dead, people are alive, the court is short of people, so why not expand the number of admissions."

Zhu Houzhao said abruptly that he likes others to follow the rules he makes, but he doesn't like to follow the rules set by others.

In the entire Zhengde Dynasty, there is only one rule-maker, and that is himself.

"How many people does Your Majesty want to admit?"

Liang Chu thought about it, since Zhu Houzhao took the throne, have there been few rules to change, Zhu Houzhao, the country of non-conquest appointed by the great grandfather, has been extinguished, and the political system formulated by the great grandfather has almost changed Zhu Houzhao beyond recognition, and the change in the number of people admitted to the imperial examination is not a big deal at all.

If it is changed, it will be changed, who dares to say a word more, those candidates will even be happy and rejoicing, after all, the more people are admitted, the greater the chance of their gold list title.

"There are nearly 6,000 people participating in the scientific expedition this time, and I want to take 1,500 people, and those with special abilities will be given priority."

Zhu Houzhao's lightly written sentence directly frightened Liang Chu into a daze!

He thought that Zhu Houzhao would admit one or two hundred more people at most, but he didn't expect Zhu Houzhao's appetite to be so big.

1,500 people, accounting for one-third of the total number of candidates, even if after admission, most of them will be sent to Liaodong, Yunnan, Sichuan, Mobei and other places, there is no need for so many people!

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Liang Chu asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, is there too many people?" ”

One hundred and fifteen hundred jinshi were admitted at one time, and since the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties, such an appalling thing has never happened.

"It's a lot, I'm telling you, not much at all!"

Zhu Houzhao didn't care, and put the situation clearly in front of Liang Chu: "There are large tracts of land in eastern Liaodong that have never been developed, do you want someone to manage it?" ”

"The Mobei grassland fell into the palm of my court, do you want to let it go?"

"Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places have just suppressed the Tusi forces, and if they don't send people to manage them, do they want to let the Tusi resurrect."

Liang Chu subconsciously said: "That's really not much. ”

"I am not Emperor Taizu, every inch of my mountains and rivers must be under the absolute control of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Houzhao poured out his ambitions: "Facts have proved that ruling by inaction and appeasing with softness will not work, and the reluctance to give up a large area of land during the Xuanzong period is the source of this, and I will not make a second mistake." ”

Liang Chu looked at the domineering Zhu Houzhao, and sighed in his heart, with such ambition, it is no wonder that he dares to risk the disapproval of the world, and would rather offend many power groups in the world than carry out law reforms.

As a husband, a son, and a king, Zhu Houzhao is seriously unqualified, and no one will like an indifferent and almost ruthless, decisive, and self-respecting existence.

But as the emperor, Zhu Houzhao is right, every step he takes is for the Ming Dynasty to be more prosperous, and the Ming Dynasty's ills are deep in the bone marrow, unchanged, and not enough to expand the country.

"Your Majesty's pride is shocking, and the old minister admires it, but Your Majesty, have you ever thought about how many candidates and students are willing to go to Liaodong, Mobei and other places to serve even if the number of admitted students is expanded!"

Liang Chu poured a basin of cold water on Zhu Houzhao.

Study to be an official, and be an official to make a fortune.

Therefore, all the Jinshi who have just entered the officialdom do not want to be assigned to Jiangnan, Shandong, Hunan and other places with rich oil and water, even if it is a small county.

But if they go to Liaodong, a place that has nothing to do with prosperity, Mobei is afraid that they will make a fuss.

In the eyes of those new science and technology scholars, they can be named on the gold list, and in the future, they will be prosperous and rich, and they will enjoy inexhaustible, and it is impossible for them to continue to endure hardships and stand hard work.

Ten years of hard study, except for a few wealthy families, most of the students are living hard, becoming a new science and technology scholar, and they have to live a hard life, so isn't their new science and technology scholar in vain?

"Willing or unwilling, can they be helped, it is the court that chooses them, not them who choose the court."

Zhu Houzhao's face was slightly cold, and he said angrily:

"If you can, you can do it, you can't do it."

"There are so many people in the world who are willing to replace them, and they are not willing to go to Liaodong, Mobei and other places, it is ridiculous, is it not the land of Daming in Liaodong and Mobei?"

In other words, others may be accustomed to those new science and technology scholars, but he will definitely not, if he is disobedient, he will be replaced, anyway, these people are not earth-shattering, weeping ghosts and gods.

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