Before the noon gate, a group of ten blind dates waited for the meeting.

In this place, except for the guards of the Forbidden City who did not squint, and the entourage of everyone in the distance, there were no onlookers, and it seemed a little quiet.

Zhang Yifan looked at the competitors around him, and he found that in addition to Li Qi and Mei Yin, the other seven young people were obviously a little nervous, and they looked up at the Forbidden City from time to time, and they were also vaguely afraid.

Even when these seven people saw that Li Qi turned their heads to look at them, they all hurriedly avoided it, not daring to look at him.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Yifan understood in his heart that these seven people were afraid that they would be used together, and the final competitor would be between himself, Li Qi and that Mei Yin.

He was thinking about it, and suddenly, he saw that Mei Yin turned his head to look at him, and said proudly: "It is rumored that the eldest princess and you are in love, but it's a pity, since the eldest princess said that the most talented person in the world can marry, it has to be." ”

After saying that, he turned around again, and then looked directly in the direction of Fengtianmen, ignoring the others. It's as if his words are a manifesto.

When Li Qi heard this, he immediately snorted heavily, and was very dissatisfied in his heart. This nephew of the Marquis of Runan actually ignored him like the other seven people, it is really unreasonable!

Zhang Yifan was also speechless when he heard it, a false name, as for it, he came to rob someone's wife?

Besides, are you really so sure that you can be named the champion by Zhu Yuanzhang? Don't you see that Li Qi is not panicked at all, nine times out of ten is to test the ability to govern the country, just by virtue of your age, you can order four books and five classics, and you can order poetry and songs, you can win?

Thinking so in his heart, he made a comment to this Mei Yin: naïve!

There is no need to pay attention to such a person, otherwise, the more you pay attention to him, the more he will pretend!

Fortunately, not long after, a eunuch appeared and ordered the ten of them to meet him.

The expansion of the inner palace began in the eighth year of Hongwu, and it was not completed until the tenth year of Hongwu. Therefore, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang put this competition to recruit a son-in-law on the side of the imperial garden.

In a pavilion, Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma were sitting, and then there were two rows of people standing on both sides.

In the first row are Zhu Yuanzhang's adult sons, including Zhu Biao, Zhu Zhang, Zhu Li and Zhu Di; On the other side are several important ministers of the imperial court, namely Li Shanchang, the Duke of Korea, Hu Weiyong, the Prime Minister, Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao Guo, and Song Lian, the scholar of Hanlin.

This location, coupled with this posture, can show that Zhu Yuanzhang, a recruiting horse, is more focused on family affairs. Of course, the royal family affairs are not purely family affairs, so there are foreign ministers on the list.

There are vassal kings, civil officials, military generals, and even famous Confucians, which can be regarded as complete.

Zhang Yifan looked at it secretly, but still didn't understand what kind of exam questions Zhu Yuanzhang would make?

However, by observing the eyebrow hints between Li Qi and Li Shanchang, he knew with a high probability that Zhu Yuanzhang was estimated to be biased towards the Li family and would come up with topics that the Li family was good at.

In that case, don't be afraid!

After ten people stepped forward to greet him and introduced himself to a set of processes, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "No matter what kind of talent it is, in the final analysis, it must be used to be considered talented." I have two questions, and the one that satisfies me the most is my colt! ”

Zhang Yifan listened to it, and couldn't help but comment in his heart: The founding emperor was decisive, and there was really no drag!

This kind of examination is actually the same as the imperial examination held by Zhu Yuanzhang before, which is the so-called strategy.

I only heard Zhu Yuanzhang look at the ten of them, and asked in a deep voice: "I have suffered from corrupt officials since I was a child, so I will never tolerate corruption, and I will treat it with heavy punishment." However, not long ago, there were officials in the court who used blank account books with official seals to fool the court, and I will not tolerate such illegal things, and I have set the punishment of the main seal official to be executed, and the deputy to be punished with 100 canes to fill the army. What do you think? I'd like to hear what you guys think? ”

Hearing his words, everyone was taken aback.

No one expected that Zhu Yuanzhang would let go of it at the beginning, and even use the empty seal case to test these ten people.

You must know that as soon as the empty seal case happened, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, whether it was Li Shanchang, a very influential prince, or Hu Weiyong, who held the power of prime minister, or anyone else, they didn't dare to discuss this matter.

It is also because of this that in the original history, that Zheng Shili would go to the book to talk about this matter.

At this time, hearing Zhu Yuanzhang speak about this matter, Li Shanchang suddenly felt a sigh in his heart, although he hinted at Zhu Yuanzhang, and at the same time created public opinion, saying that it was better to govern the country and secure the country when the test was examined, but I really didn't expect that Zhu Yuanzhang would take the empty seal case as an example.

This empty seal case is very important, how can these ten people in front of me talk about it?

Even if it's his son, he can't talk nonsense about this matter!

His idea is actually the idea of most of the people present.

Suddenly, after Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, the scene suddenly quieted down. Only the occasional birdsong in the distance shattered the peace.

The seven people who were full didn't even dare to raise their heads, for fear that Zhu Yuanzhang would call them names. Just like when Zhang Yifan was studying in later generations, those scumbags avoided the teacher's roll call and spoke.

I have to say that Li Qi, a person in his forties, is still very conspicuous standing in a group of hairy boys.

When he saw Zhu Yuanzhang looking at him, he couldn't help but peek at his father, and his heart was crossed, so he played to Zhu Yuanzhang: "The student thinks that His Majesty's handling is extremely proper, and the student admires it very much!" ”

Li Shanchang listened and nodded slightly, his son said this very well. Although it is a bit cliché, it can at least show the emperor that the Li family has no opinion.

The reason why he had such an idea was also because of this empty seal case, which was done in the former Yuan Dynasty, but Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and he wanted to kill a group of officials and beat a large number of officials. Seriously, will the officials of the Ming Dynasty be convinced? Definitely not convinced!

However, Li Shanchang knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was using the topic to play, which meant that he was referring to the deer as a horse, so who would come out against him?

It is also for this reason that he has not spoken on the empty seal case, and Hu Weiyong has also not spoken on this matter.

Everyone understands that jumping out to preside over the so-called justice at this time will definitely be beaten!

At this time, after Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Li Qi's answer, his face was expressionless, and he couldn't tell whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied, but just glanced at the ten people in front of him with his eyes.

Suddenly, he found that there was a person who seemed to have a strange expression, and at first glance he found that it was Mei Yin, and then followed Mei Yin's gaze and found that he was looking at Song Lian.

So, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately snorted and said, "Mei Yin, do you have anything to say?" I will compare you with you, and I will tell you what you think, and I am only for the sake of choosing a colt, and I will not blame you. ”

As soon as Mei Yin heard that he was named by the emperor, he saw that he raised his head, as if he had taken out the momentum of seeing death as home, and immediately replied to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, the students think that corrupt officials and corrupt officials naturally have to be severely punished, but they are to blame for this empty seal case." Students think ......"

Maybe it was because he finally opened this mouth, and with less scruples, he immediately talked endlessly, ignoring his teacher Song Lian to give him a look, and even his eyelids were sour, which didn't stop him from continuing to speak.

I only heard him say generously there: "First, the account books handed over by the yamen in various places are all stamped with a sewing seal, which is not comparable to a piece of paper and a seal, even if someone accidentally picks it up, that piece of paper is only half a seal, and it will definitely not work if you want to use fraud to embezzle." ”

"Second, the amount of money handed over to the household department must be reviewed at multiple levels at the county, government, province, and ministerial levels, and it is inevitable that there will be some loss or negligence in the middle. If it is only the state capital and the county government, it is easy to do, but if there is a problem in the household department, it will be re-examined, with the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, it is really laborious and laborious, and it is very unflattering! ”

“……”

Listening to him accusing, Zhu Yuanzhang was still expressionless, just looking at him.

But Song Lian's face turned a little pale, this student's temper is very strong, he knows it.

After hearing that the most talented person in the world is a concubine, he must sign up for this title, even if Song Lian persuades him, it is useless, and he also said that if he doesn't get this title, he will be sorry for Song Lian's teaching.

Knowing that the emperor would ask this question, Mei Yin would have replied like this, no matter what, he should have been prevented from signing up.

But at this time, no matter how much Song Lian regretted it, it was useless, and Mei Yin still spoke generously there.

"Third, even if the officials involved in the case are all guilty of political negligence and should be punished, there must be a law to follow, but as far as the students know, the imperial court does not yet have a law on empty seals. The students thought that they could not be judged as corrupt officials on a whim by His Majesty, which would make the Manchu civil and military frightened and unfavorable to the country! ”

"It is really contradictory to kill innocents indiscriminately like this, and His Majesty is eager to seek talents and issue edicts of recommendation many times!"

When Mei Yin said this, he immediately knelt down, kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and said again: "Your Majesty has every opportunity, and it is inevitable that there will be negligence in this situation. The students implore Your Majesty to hand over the case of the empty seal to the Criminal Department for trial, so that the civil and military officials can rest assured and the people of the world can rest assured! ”

Zhang Yifan was dumbfounded when he heard this, this Mei Yin really deserves to be a strong temper. In history, he was drowned because he was dissatisfied with Zhu Di, and under the butterfly effect, he dared to bombard Zhu Yuanzhang, this is death!

At this time, the six ministries, including the Criminal Department, are under the management of the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister is responsible to the emperor again, if you let the Criminal Department go to the trial, wouldn't you hand over the power to Hu Weiyong's side, how could Zhu Yuanzhang agree?

Thinking of this, he secretly looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's face and found that Zhu Yuanzhang's face was really ugly.

However, coincidentally, when Zhang Yifan secretly went to see Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze swept over and came to eye to eye.

So, I heard Zhu Yuanzhang cry coldly and asked, "Zhang Yifan, you can also talk about it!" ”