Zhao Wenhua was stunned as he looked at the distant back of the Kuzen Master, and his heart was very broken.

That's it? Of the three mountains I had carefully prepared, two of them fell like this? Not only did he fail to make Xiao Feng discouraged, his bones and tendons broken, but judging from the reaction of the audience, he also increased his popularity a lot!

Look at the virtue of the Ministry of Rites, stretching his neck, staring at his eyes, people are talking, what are you excited about? Shame, shame!

Zhao Wenhua has never watched the small movies of later generations, in fact, if he has seen it, he will know that sometimes it is more enjoyable to watch others compete than to go into battle himself.

After all, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu knew that he did not have the enduring combat power of Xiao Feng and Kuzen, and if he went into battle, he might be defeated in a few minutes.

Xiao Feng shouted twice more before Zhao Wenhua came back to his senses and smiled at Xiao Feng in embarrassment.

"My lord's words are serious, how can I have anyone to let my adults see. It's just that before the adults came, the Jiangnan scholars had already ***, saying that they had been admiring for a long time, and asked to meet the adults.

Your Excellency knows that since Chengzu moved the capital, he has always been courteous to Jiangnan scholars, and the adults came on behalf of the imperial court, and the lower officials feel that it is better to see each other."

Xiao Feng smiled faintly: "Since Lord Zhao thinks that he should see it, then let's see it, but Jiangnan Shizi, there are too many people, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it."

Zhao Wenhua was afraid that Xiao Feng would find an excuse to retreat, so he hurriedly said, "Your Excellency doesn't need to worry, the lower officials also know that your Excellency is busy with official business, and he has already told those scholars.

Let them publicly recommend the three most learned and convincing people, as representatives, adults can meet them. Look, they're coming!"

Zhao Wenhua is like a third-rate variety show host, reaching out very dramatically, full of Stanislavsky's performance style combined with postmodernism.

Two showmen, one lifting, squeezed out of the crowd watching the excitement, calmly walked up to the hall, and bowed to Xiao Feng.

Xiao Feng stood up, walked to the back of the public case, sat down in a big way, and kicked the chair that Zhao Wenhua was leaning too on in disgust, kicking Zhao Wenhua and staying away from the public case.

The officials and the people looked at each other, not knowing why Xiao Feng was approachable in the face of the Kuzen monk and did not show his identity, but in the face of these three scholars, he suddenly took a big place.

The leader's face changed slightly, and he sneered, "My lord is so powerful! The three of us came here to meet your lordship, why are you so arrogant and rude?"

Xiao Feng raised his eyelids and looked at the lifter: "Why am I arrogant and rude? Lord Zhao has reminded me again and again that I am receiving you on behalf of the imperial court.

I also want to be treated as a private person like a monk, but Lord Zhao doesn't allow it, if you want to blame, you should also blame Lord Zhao, right?"

Zhao Wenhua gasped, this pot came too suddenly! He hurriedly expressed his position to avoid being victimized, and burned the back of his head by eating sugar cakes.

"My lord, I'm just suggesting, just suggesting, my lord is approachable, corporal courteous and virtuous, I should be polite."

Xiao Feng smiled faintly: "Okay, the three of you want to see me, what are you doing, this official is busy, let's not go around in circles."

The three of them glanced at each other, and it was still the same person who raised his hand, obviously as he was the leader of the entire team as he was successfully promoted to the official rank.

"My lord, this time the imperial court opened Enke, and the number of scholars from the north and south is almost the same, and we are not convinced!"

Xiao Feng looked at him calmly: "What's not convinced?"

"The land south of the Yangtze River is full of humanities, and there are many talented people since ancient times, and the land of the north is full of fierce people and brave and ruthless.

If it is a competition for the martial arts, it is acceptable for the north to have the upper hand, and how can the north be evenly matched with the south in the literary examination, and it is clear that there are private disadvantages!"

I see, Zhao Wenhua's hand is to let me take the blame for the unfair college entrance examination of the entire old Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty!

This matter has to be traced back to the victory of the old Zhu family, and the first imperial examination organized by Zhu Yuanzhang after he ascended the throne, there was a great disaster.

I don't know if God wants to play Lao Zhu, or indeed

It was after the war at that time, the learning environment in the north was worse than that in the south, and an incredible coincidence occurred in that examination, and the fifty-one candidates on the list were all southern scholars!

If this coincidence is put into the present, what level of phenomenon is it equivalent to?

It can be imagined that the college entrance examination in a certain year, no, it is the college entrance examination for three consecutive years, and the top ten universities in the country, represented by Tsinghua University and Peking University, recruit all southerners! ap.

Strictly speaking, the comparison of the college entrance examination may not be weighty enough, it should be the civil service entrance examination for three consecutive years, and all the people who go ashore are southerners!

It is conceivable that the anger of the northern scholars at that time must have been beating their chests, tearing books and burning pens, and then they found a nonsense phenomenon in their anger.

Liu Sanwu, the chief examiner who presided over this year's examination, and Bai Xinyu, the deputy examiner, are also southerners!

Then a more imaginative northern scholar suddenly proposed: Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is a native of Fengyang, Anhui Province, and an out-and-out southerner!

The anger of the northern scholars reached its peak in an instant, and they rushed to the gate of the Ministry of Rites, the parents' home of the scholars at that time, regardless of their lives, to shout grievances, accuse the examiner of fraud, and the court is unfair!

And this flame of anger also ignited the northern officials in the court at the same time. They were even more sensitive than the scholars, because in the court, the villagers were a very valuable political wealth!

Those southerners can't get us, so they go to our juniors, and want us to cut off our children and grandchildren in the political bloodline of the Ming Dynasty! And then they are so good at bullying us political shitbucks!

As a result, the so-called imperial examination fraud case suddenly became a life-and-death political struggle, which seriously threatened the newly established Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang also became angry and immediately set up an investigation team to investigate the case of fraud in the imperial examination.

He originally thought that according to the probability, this result must be problematic, even if the examiner Liu Sanwu is highly respected, there will be no problem, maybe someone else will make a little move.

Unexpectedly, after some investigation, the investigation team came up with a large amount of evidence to prove that the entire examination process was open, fair and just, and there were no problems.

Some people even privately speculated that it was Zhu Yuanzhang's Lanyu case that killed many northern officials, causing the really learned scholars in the north to be reluctant to take the exam!

But such a result, not to mention that the northern scholars and officials did not accept it, Zhu Yuanzhang could not accept it. What's wrong? Investigation comes and goes, and the responsibility is actually me?

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang directly announced that there was indeed fraud in this imperial examination, not only fraud, but also fraud in order to vent his anger on Lan Yu's case.

This crime must be a catastrophe, and the entire examination team is in trouble, except for Liu Sanwu, who was sentenced to exile because of his high morality and fame, almost all the rest of the people were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the results of this imperial examination, organized another examination, and admitted more northern scholars, which put down this unbelievable case of scientific examination fraud.

In this case, the mainstream voices in the historical circles have always believed that the examiners were wronged, and it was Lao Zhu who pushed out the blame in order to stabilize the situation.

But there are few dynasties and dynasties who have wronged these people, because there is a profound truth here: when a coincidence reaches an incredible degree, the person who has been wronged by coincidence will seem to be less wronged.

For example, when you suddenly come home from a business trip, you happen to see Lao Wang next door taking a shower in your bathroom, and he is only wearing a pair of underwear.

Lao Wang told you again and again that he was really invited by your daughter-in-law to help with the sewer, and because he was afraid of soiling his clothes, he took off his clothes outside.

I also got dirty things from the sewer, so I had to take a shower. Now the question arises, believe it or not?

Lao Wang may really be wronged, your wife can prove it, even the hair pulled out of the sewer can prove it, but can you believe it?

Since then, the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty has been divided into the north and south lists, and there is no need to compete with each other, the imperial court has set the proportion, and you only have to compete with the same region.

After Zhu Yuanzhang stabilized the situation, he also felt a little embarrassed to kill Lao Wang next door. Considering that the average level of education in the south was indeed relatively high at that time, the proportion was also biased

To the south.

The ratio is about 46 open, 4 in the north and 6 in the south, and the scholars and officials in the south and north can accept it, so the imperial examination has entered a period of peaceful competition.

But this time, Jiajing Kaienke, as soon as the Tatars besieged the city, the number of southern scholars who came to participate was indeed small; Second, everyone knows that this Enke is here to mourn Xiao Feng, and Xiao Feng is an authentic northerner.

Therefore, the examiner fine-tuned the ratio when admitting scholars, and admitted the scholars from the north and south in a ratio of five to five.

Only then did Xiao Feng understand that Zhao Wenhua had always emphasized that he had sinister intentions on behalf of the imperial court.

If he kept silent, or talked about him left and right, it would be tantamount to acquiescing in the fact that the imperial court had bullied the south this time in front of the people of Jiangnan.

If he opened his mouth to explain, then no matter how many objective reasons he explained, the southern scholar would have a sentence waiting for him: "When all 51 of us were on the list, why didn't you say it was the objective reason?"

Xiao Feng sighed, and suddenly looked back at the Ministry of Rites: "Lord Shangshu, this is a matter that the Ministry of Rites should be in charge of, I don't know what you think about this matter?"

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was excited, and suddenly sweated on his face, and smiled bitterly and waved to Xiao Feng again and again: "Don't joke, my lord, the lower official is in Nanjing, and now the imperial imperial examination is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites in the capital, and the lower official really has nothing to say."

Xiao Feng also knew that the Ministry of Rites Shangshu would never take the initiative to take the pot at this time, and when he asked this, he also told the Ministry of Rites Shangshu that Lao Tzu was carrying the pot for you, and you have points in your heart!

"Of the three scholars, Enke is not a regular scientific expedition, it is increased due to time and events, and the proportion set by the imperial court at the beginning was not clearly stated, and Enke was also included."

"My lord, but Enko has always been in this proportion, how do you explain this?"

Xiao Feng smiled, "Oh? It's always been like this, is it the rule? It can only be called a custom, or a regular practice, which is different from the rules."

Juren was unconvinced and said, "What's the difference, please make it clear!"

"You are a lifter, I ask you, can a lifter be an official?"

"Naturally, as long as there is a shortage of scholars in the imperial court, and there is a vacancy in the official position, you can appoint an official!"

"Then let me ask you, can you become a scholar if you raise someone to be an official?"

"This ...... There is no rule that says you can't, but you can."

"Let me ask you again, since the founding of the country, has anyone raised someone to be a scholar?"

「……」

The man was speechless. It is actually very difficult to raise people to be officials, even if the court is really short of people, it will only take out trivial petty officials for people to be promoted.

Generally speaking, being an official is also a county order, and being able to rise to the prefect is already a successful person, and there are very few people above the prefect, let alone a scholar!

If Xiao Feng's words were asked a few decades later, he could still give an example, that is, Hai Rui Haigangfeng, who was promoted to be an official, and became the imperial history of Nanjing's right capital, barely reaching the level of Shangshu.

So at this time, I can't really cite an example, so I can only shake my head helplessly.

Xiao Feng said with a smile: "Since Juren has never been a scholar, can it be considered that it is the rule of the imperial court that a person cannot be a scholar?"

"This ...... It shouldn't work."

"That Enke has always admitted tributes according to the ratio of the regular department, can it be determined that Enke must follow the proportion of the regular department, which is the rule of the imperial court?"

「…… No, it can't."

"Then you accuse the court of breaking the rules, what rules are you breaking?"

Lift people's heads to see sweat, and they are stumbling. Seeing that this shot didn't go off, the tallest of the two showmen behind him stepped forward and bowed his hand.

"My lord, even if the imperial court did not break the rules, judging from the regular department, the imperial court also recognized that the southern scholars were more knowledgeable than the northern scholars.

Why did you feel that the northern scholars could be on par with the southern scholars as soon as they arrived in Enko? Don't talk about rules, just common sense, adults have to be reasonable, right?"

Juren wiped the sweat from his head and glanced at his wingman with satisfaction. lad

If you have a future, you will definitely be able to pass the exam!

Zhao Wenhua also calmed down a little from his anxiety, this was his last mountain, and he didn't expect that the person he had high hopes for would be destroyed by Xiao Feng in a few words.

Seeing that this tall show is sharp-tongued and reasonable, he may be able to surprise himself! What's more, this tall jinshi has a long face and light eyebrows, and he has the demeanor of a godfather, which should not be underestimated!

Xiao Feng looked at the tall Xiucai and said indifferently, "Who told you that the ratio set by the imperial court is because the southern scholars are slightly better than the northern scholars?"

Gao Xiucai was stunned for a moment, and was a little speechless, because almost no one has ever questioned this matter, the imperial court doesn't think so, why do you want to do this?

"What your lord asked, it is self-evident, if the imperial court does not think so, why does it make such a rule?"

"You mean, the imperial court set the rules of the north four and the south six, which must be based on the fact that the northern scholars are not as knowledgeable as the southern scholars, is that true?"

"It's natural!"

"Have you ever had a wife?"

Well? What's the situation? What kind of fairy brain hole is this? Talking about the admission ratio of the imperial examination, why did it mean that I didn't marry a wife?

But Xiao Feng is a big official, and the tall Xiucai doesn't want Xiao Feng to get a chance to breathe, so he has to answer first according to Xiao Feng's words.

"The student hasn't married yet."

"Have you ever taken a concubine?"

"The student has never taken a concubine."

"Are you impotent?"

「…… Your Excellency! You have deceived too much!"

(That's right, the word impotence appeared in medical books at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.) ）