The capital city of Jinan.

Hanyuan Hall.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Science and Technology has prepared the questions for this year's imperial examination, please ask Your Majesty to make a judgment."

Ning Zongyin, the secretary of the department, got up and walked out of the ranks, holding a large stack of exam questions in his hands.

"Hand it over."

Hearing Ning Zongyin's words, Su Hao said lightly, it is already September, and it is already very late to have the exam questions at this time, after ascending the throne, he asked the department to start preparing for the imperial examination, after all, any means to win people's hearts are not as effective as the imperial examination, especially in attracting wealthy families from all over the world, only by letting them enter the court of Daqi, they will really support Daqi.

As for why it took four or five months, in addition to the attack of the Ming Dynasty, the main reason is that the imperial examination of the hundred schools of thought is still groundbreaking, and no one has experience at all.

In addition to the professional knowledge of each family, there is also management ability, after all, after the test, are to be officials, although professional ability is important, but management ability is more important, in addition, he also prepared for the subject examination, all divided into six subjects, corresponding to six departments.

Although he supported the hundred schools of thought, but did not set up a corresponding department for the hundred schools of thought, the civil system is still six ministries and five temples, except for the speech officials, all civil official positions are under the six ministries and five temples, all the sons and hundreds of schools are in this Shura field, how much can be fought for, it all depends on the ability of their own school.

Of course, each school also has its own focus department, for example, the examination papers of the Criminal Department are naturally the test of the law, which is the territory of the Legalists, and the Ministry of Industry is naturally the territory of the Mohists and a few other schools.

He believed that in order to compete for more positions, each family would definitely strive to expand the knowledge system of their own school to suit the official positions in the court, and it would not be a few years before a group of officials with professional knowledge would emerge.

Instead of being like the Ming Dynasty, all of them are learning Confucianism, even if they are admitted to the Jinshi, except for Confucianism, they still don't understand anything, they can only rely on the officials below, and they have been officials for decades, except for managing people, they can't do anything.

To control the flood, we have to temporarily hold on to it, look at the experience of the predecessors in water control, and let the drought prevention not understand the, and even the cost of the project is not clear, so let the small officials below get it.

After looking at it a few times, Su Hao continued: "The imperial examination is related to the lifeblood of the imperial court, and all ministries must fully cooperate. ”

"The ministers obey."

Hearing Su Hao's words, the civil officials bowed down one after another.

"Your Majesty, the statute of the martial arts, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has been drawn up, please Your Majesty."

At this time, Liang Ping also got up and went out of the ranks.

"Hmm."

Su Hao nodded and said, "Martial arts are very important and must not be neglected. ”

Although it is difficult to recruit real powerhouses in martial arts, it is still no problem for second-rate level martial artists, after all, martial artists of this level can only be regarded as having a little status in the county, and many people are still ambitious.

Before, Daqi was in a precarious state of extinction at any time, and he did not hold a martial arts, because in the state at that time, even if it was held, not many people would participate.

However, now that Daqi has gained a firm foothold, there should be many people who want to speculate on one or two, especially now that Daqi is heavy on literature and light on martial arts, and the martial arts on Daqi's side should be able to attract many warriors to come.

After dealing with some miscellaneous things, the early dynasty ended, and the civil and military officials retired.

…

"Liao Qing, I asked you to collect all kinds of spells, how are you collecting them now?"

After returning to Zichen Palace, Su Hao summoned Liao Qing, with these five years of buffer time, he naturally couldn't waste it, in addition to increasing his troops, it was to enhance his own strength.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has collected a part of the left path techniques, including the Yin Walking Method, the Secret Technique of Raising Ghosts, the Technique of Raising Corpses, the Technique of Piercing the Wall, and the ...... of Stepping on Shadows."

Liao Qing reported a series of left path techniques.

Listening to Liao Qing's reported left path technique, Su Hao waved his hand and said, "Put it in the black ice platform and let the people below exchange it." ”

There are a lot of spells, but unfortunately for him, it has no effect at all, and learning these spells basically has little impact on his strength, but is just a simple waste of time and energy.

Now for him, there are not many ways to make a qualitative change in his strength, he is now in the realm of martial arts masters, even if he is not the first person, but the top ten can still be ranked, even in the face of martial artists in the innate realm, he can remain undefeated.

Now there are only two ways for him to go further, one is to break through the martial arts and be promoted to the innate grandmaster, but the innate grandmaster is not so easy to be promoted, although the last time he copied the Heng Palace, he got a five-hundred-year-old spirit ginseng, which allowed him to save three or five years of penance, but if he wants to be promoted to the innate realm, it will take a long time.

Now although the internal force in his dantian is filled with nearly sixty percent, most of it is the effect of spiritual ginseng, but spiritual ginseng is hard to find, and it is a blessing to get one, and the remaining forty percent of the internal force is estimated to be able to rely on time to suffer.

Another way is to obtain the Taoist foundation building method to make up for his defects in spells, after being promoted to a martial arts master, as long as it is not a fierce battle, the usual use of spells will not hurt the body.

However, in order to make up for the lack of essence and spirit after refining mana, he usually has to consume a lot of internal force to nourish his body, which has seriously affected his internal force accumulation, slowing down the time for him to ascend to the innate realm, after all, he is now using the natal paper man to review and fold for a long time.

Therefore, after completing the Basic Law, he can consume less internal force and promote the martial arts innate faster, and more importantly, the martial arts all the way to the innate realm is the limit, and if he wants to break through in the future, he can only rely on the hard pile of enlightenment points.

And it is difficult to pile up the enlightenment points to the limit, even if the others are not pointed, the enlightenment points to be consumed by the martial arts alone is an astronomical number, before the pure Yang Wuji Gong forcibly comprehended the innate realm used 9720 points, and the forcible comprehension of the next layer of the exercises had to be increased tenfold, that would be nearly 100,000 points.

Now his enlightenment points are only more than 24,000, a large part of which is still offered by King Heng, he took the entire Shandong, and the enlightenment points obtained are only fifty or sixty thousand, even if he wins the entire Ming Dynasty, at most two or three million, this still has to be established in the case of everyone's stubborn resistance, if too many people surrender, there may not be so many.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to rely on enlightenment and martial arts, and Taoist practice is different, although there may not be innate exercises in this world, but there must be outside the world, after all, Jinan Mansion Chenghuang Pan Ning also said that the gods and Buddhas really exist.

But there may not be martial arts in the outside world, so martial arts are only for a while, and cultivation is for a lifetime, unless he plans to stay in this world for the rest of his life, but there is no possibility of immortality in this world, which is doomed to make it impossible for him to stay here until he dies of old age.

Thinking of this, Su Hao asked again, "What did the Laoshan faction say?" ”

In fact, after he became emperor, he asked Liao Qing to find the foundation building method and practice method of Taoism, and the largest Taoist sect in Shandong is the Laoshan faction, so he sent Liao Qing to seek the law a few months ago.

It is said that the Laoshan faction was passed on from Qiu Chuji, but the real establishment of the faction was only seventy or eighty years, but because the patriarch of the establishment faction was profound, and now the entire Shandong Taoist temple has incense with the Laoshan faction, so he did not let Liao Qing use the strong.

"Back to Your Majesty, those stinky bull noses still refuse to hand over the exercises."

Liao Qing shook his head, although Su Hao now occupies Shandong, but in the eyes of those Taoist priests in Laoshan, Su Hao is still not a climate, and Taoist people have never participated in the change of dynasty, because the risk is too great, and the slightest carelessness will be the end of the severance of the inheritance.

"If you don't, forget it."

Hearing this, Su Hao waved his hand: "They will take the initiative to hand it in in the future." ”

He was not very surprised by this result, although he is now firmly established, but he is far from becoming the new co-owner of the world, and there is no sign of the end of the dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, so people will naturally not risk the inheritance to give him exercises.

However, as long as the power of Daqi expands, these Taoist priests will naturally take the initiative to hand in the exercises, which is the tacit understanding between the dynasties and Taoism.

…

Since Su Hao ordered the ban on Confucianism, many Confucian academies have been seized, and the great Confucians in the academies have chosen to flee Shandong.

But for the local students, the Confucians can leave, they can't, the children of the wealthy family dare not go, the family is here, if they all leave, then Daqi will not keep their family, and the poor students have no choice, after all, they have money to travel all over the world, and it is difficult to move an inch without money.

It's just that the Confucian Academy is gone, and few students have joined the Zhuzi Hundred Academies, mainly because not many people are optimistic about Daqi, once Daqi is destroyed, the students who join the Zhuzi Baijia Academy will not end well.

However, some time ago, the news of the peace between Daqi and Daming spread, which made the students have a better view of Daqi, and with the news of the imperial examination and martial arts, the whole Shandong was boiling in an instant, especially the hundred academies of Zhuzi, which had withered away, ushered in a wave of enrollment.

…

A month passed in a flash, and as the time of the imperial examination got closer and closer, a large number of students gathered in Jinan Fucheng.

Fuyao Restaurant.

Several students gathered together to discuss the next imperial examination.

"Brother Zhao, which subject are you going to take?"

Ma Yan held the wine glass, his eyes were full of confusion, and he had studied Confucianism for twenty years, but Su Hao said that it was wasted, and twenty years of hard reading became a joke, and he had to learn it from scratch.

"Criminal Division."

Zhao Shuqing's eyes were also full of confusion, and she said in a low voice: "My cousin once served as a prosecutor in the Criminal Prosecution Department, and during this time, I have been studying in his home and studying the law. ”

To be honest, he has no interest in the law at all, his family is a big family in Qingzhou, when he used to study in the academy, he could go out with three or five friends from time to time, go to the Qinglou and chant poems against the little ladies, talk about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but now that he has learned the law, is it difficult to talk to the little ladies about what punishment officials should be sentenced to when visiting the Qinglou?

It's a pity that he doesn't like to have to learn the same, and he has to take the exam, this is his responsibility as a child of the family, once there is no official protection in the family, then the family is not far from falling, although the Zhao family still has clansmen in Daming, but the officials of Daming can't keep the Zhao family.

"What about you, Brother Ma?"

At this time, Zhuang Xiantao on the side asked.

"Toko."

Ma Yan said in a low voice: "I originally wanted to take the official department, but my father said that the competition in the official department was too fierce, and he was worried that I would not be able to pass the exam, so he asked me to take the household department, and he also invited the head of the household department in my hometown, Director Liu, to give me a lesson." ”

"Your Majesty's change now, all the hard work I have waited for more than 20 years has been in vain."

Zhao Shuqing shook her head and sighed.

"It's all to blame on the Kong family!"

Hearing Zhao Shuqing's words, Shi Zhexiong on the side was dissatisfied: "A family that sees who kneels and who pretends to be a loyal minister and filial son!" ”

"At the beginning, I could abandon Yuan and vote for Ming, but now why can't I vote for all, and I wiped His Majesty's face in public, which caused us to study hard for more than 20 years in vain!"

Listening to Shi Zhexiong's complaints, Zhao Shuqing and the others were speechless, although they understood the choice of the Kong family, after all, the previous Su Hao was just a thief, and he could be destroyed at any time, and it was naturally impossible for the Confucian family to be a thief.

However, understanding is understanding, if you want to say that you don't hate, it would be a bit fake, the Kong family is a loyal minister and filial son, but more than 20 years of hard study by these people have been in vain.

What's more, these people were originally famous for their talents, and Su Hao also recognized their fame when he first rebelled, but when the Confucian family came, Su Hao directly abolished Confucianism in a fit of anger, and their fame naturally disappeared.

Although Su Hao did not set a threshold for this imperial examination, as long as the students who passed the academy assessment could take the exam, this also meant that their competition would be very large, especially the sub-examinations of the six subjects, which also tested the knowledge of hundreds of schools.

Even Lang Zhong and carpenters came to get involved, but the knowledge of the hundreds of schools of thought was more than them, which made all the experience advantages accumulated by their family for dozens or hundreds of years come to naught.

"Let's not talk about this for a while, I heard that hundreds of people will be admitted to each subject, is this true?"

At this time, Zhuang Xiantao spoke.

"This should be true."

Zhao Shuqing nodded: "I heard my father say that His Majesty is now preparing to officially establish the officials of the third class and six rooms in the county as officials, and also set up some more official positions, such as river officials and medical officials who manage the canals, but I don't know the specific situation." ”

"However, it is said that even if we pass the exam, we must start from the ninth rank official, and the first-class jinshi can only be the eighth rank official."

Hearing Zhao Shuqing's words, the three of them frowned, the Zhao family has the best family background among them, and the most well-informed, since Zhao Shuqing said so, it will naturally not be false.

Seeing the faces of Ma Yan and the others, Zhao Shuqing smiled and said: "Don't worry, I heard my father say that the promotion here in Daqi is different from that of Daming, even if it is an official position of catching heads and arresting fast, it is also a serious criminal department official, and the promotion will not be suppressed like other officials." ”

"That's good."

Hearing this, Ma Yan immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "As long as you can be promoted normally, it's fine." ”

In the past, the reason why petty officials such as the classics and histories of the Ming Dynasty were not treated well by scholars was because they had no future, and once they did, they might not have to be promoted until they died, which is also the reason why many of the top three jinshi and people would rather be idle at home, raise flowers and grass, and now if they can be promoted normally, they don't mind being a small official in the county.

(End of chapter)