Lying on his own small recliner, eating snacks bought from outside, osmanthus cake, after eating yesterday, I never forgot it, and it was very good to eat it as a snack.

The next thing is to eat melons quietly, to say that this is the first time in the year of Hongwu to open a branch to take scholars, from top to bottom is very important, Lao Zhu such a large territory needs to be managed, and a batch of fresh blood is urgently needed.

But accidents always happen.

Daming Hongwu four years, students from the north and south gathered in the capital, the arrival of the first Enke made Nanjing city particularly lively, a total of more than 400 students from the north and south, began the palace examination, the chief examiner is Taishi Ling Song Lian, take the top 36 for the Jinshi directly into the Hanlin Academy, the top three for the champion, Tanhua, Bangyan, directly selected by the Ministry of officials to serve in the local supplementary government, county.

For the first time, Liu Bowen, who was sick at home, heard the news and came to the emperor list accompanied by his son Liu Lian, unlike other onlookers who cared about the people on the list, Liu Bowen found a serious problem, a political event that could be bloody.

So Liu Bowen hurriedly found Song Lian, the chief examiner of Enke's big test, and the list of candidates was not greasy when admitted, after confirming that he was fair and went to work, Liu Bowen did not have a trace of joy, but asked Song Lian worriedly, "Song Gong, why are the people on the list this time all from the south, and there is no one from the north who is on the list?" ”

Song Lian, who was frightened by a question, slowly replied for a long time: "In order to maintain fairness, the candidates were covered with their school status, names, etc., and the full-screen text was won, and I didn't know whether the admitted candidates were from the south or the north, not to mention that most of them were from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui."

But Liu Bowen asked again: "It is true that people from the south are admitted according to their ability, but the results are all people from the south on the list, once these northern students make trouble, the emperor wants to ask if I only have half of the country in the Ming Dynasty?" After speaking, Liu Bowen asked Song Lian to find the queen for help, and he hurried back to Liu's mansion to thank the guests, so as not to cause any trouble, and at the same time deeply thinking about how to deal with such a situation.

For the first time in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to it, and appointed Prime Minister Li Shanchang as the director of Enke, and Song Lian, a university scholar, as the main examiner of the big test, and looked forward to using Enke to win the students of the world to serve Daming, but if there is only half of the world's Enke, Zhu Yuanzhang can do anything under his anger.

Sure enough, Song Lian was still suing the queen's mother for her experience and worries, and expected the queen to help her avoid this catastrophe.

After hearing the news, Song Lian hurriedly left the queen's place, only to see that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had arrived under the main hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious again in the court, and asked Li Shanchang and Song Lian if they had favoritism, why there were no students north of the Huai River, and was there really only half of the world in the Ming Dynasty? Although Li Shanchang and Song Lian vigorously denied that they had cheated, Zhu Yuanzhang was already angry at this time, and did not believe the words of the two examiners at all, so he immediately ordered the guards to gather Song Lian and all the examiners in Guozijian to wait for disposal, and at the same time ordered the guards to send Prime Minister Li Shanchang home to be monitored.

In order to appease the candidates to avoid gossip, and at the same time to find out whether Enke had cheated this time, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to cover the names, places of origin and ages of all the candidates, and ordered officials in the DPRK to re-examine the test papers of all the candidates on the spot, and everyone recommended the examination papers that they thought were excellent, so as to determine whether Song Lian and Li Shanchang had bent the law for personal gain and done things that damaged Enke's majesty.

Fortunately, after a day of fighting without eating or drinking, all the ministers finally selected their own approved answer sheets and presented them to the emperor, and after comparison, it was found that the volumes selected by the ministers were no different from those selected by Song Lian and Li Shanchang, which eliminated the suspicion of the two of them. But why didn't any Huaibei students make the list?

At this time, how to explain to the northern scholars, how to explain to the people of the world has become a major problem for him, if he is a little careless, he will lose the hearts of the people in the north, how to win back the hearts of the northern scholars, and how to deal with this incident happily.

This night, Zhu Yuanzhang entered Queen Ma's room, Queen Ma has always been smart and virtuous, the queen hesitated and said: It is recommended to set up a special Enke North Field, and the reasons are written for Zhu Yuanzhang, because the north is initially decided, many students have not had time to prepare for the Enke exam, and some students have not been able to catch up in time because of the rugged mountain roads in the north, and they are far away from Nanjing.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang said that this plan is very wonderful, taking the initiative to benefit the northern scholars, solving the current state of dissatisfaction among the northern students in Nanjing, and winning the hearts of the northern scholars, and also raising talents for the country and making the northern territory stable, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately agreed, and the northern students selected 36 jinshi and competed with the 36 southern jinshi to select the top three, so the climactic fraud case in the early years of Hongwu ended in the form of killing three birds with one stone, which can be described as exquisite.

In fact, it is indeed very possible that the students in the north are not on the list of thirty-six jinshi, first of all, the proportion of candidates is different, less than 100 students from the north arrived in Nanjing, and it is a long journey, while the students from the south are the home exams, the north after many years of war in the early years of Hongwu, the remnants of the Yuan forces are still entrenched in the north, and the instability of society has caused the scholars to have few opportunities to learn.

The south belongs to the category of separatist forces all the year round, and various warlords recruit talents all the year round, pay attention to cultivating talents, and recuperate with the people, especially in Anhui, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, Zhu Yuanzhang's nine-character policy: build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow down the king, so that these places are in a state of peace all year round, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and a large number of outstanding scholars will appear in a good living environment.

The nine-character policy was put forward by Zhu Sheng, a native of the late Yuan Dynasty, and was the theoretical foundation of Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the north, the imperial examination has been abolished for many years, the people's livelihood is withering, life is a problem, not to mention learning, the north has been affected and oppressed by the remnant Yuan cultural forces for a long time, and there is a fundamental difference with the southern culture, and the examiners are all southerners, which is easy to lead to the failure of northern students in the south.

Although this matter was covered by the big hot spot of cowpox caused by Zheng Xiong, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there is never a shortage of markets for current political news, and there are still many people who eat melons.

There are also two errand runners on Friday and Saturday, and there is nothing to arrange, so let them go to inquire about the gossip news for themselves and have some fun for themselves.

The battle between the north and the south is just the beginning, and it ends with the thirty-six jinshi selected by the students from the north at this stage.

What followed was the palace test, originally, it was just to select thirty-six jinshi, one hundred and two tribute students, and finally thirty-six jinshi to set a rank.

Zheng Xiong was quietly a melon-eating crowd, just eat melons, but Lao Zhu's inexplicable will turned Zheng Xiong into that melon.

After there are thirty-six more Jinshi, there is another variable of Zheng Xiong.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: Xuanhuimin Pharmacy will lead Zheng Xiong to try to serve in the first hall in early March."