It wasn't until noon that Xia Yuan finally stopped writing, rubbed his sore wrist, and looked at the test paper again, don't look at the writing a lot, it took a long time, in fact, he only finished answering the first question.

Although he knew the reason for the rebellion, and he had also seen the introduction of King Funan's deeds in the memorial hall, the introduction on it was all based on King Funan's positive image, and Ming Ting was naturally the villain.

If you really write from this position, then don't do anything after handing in the papers, go home and find a rope to hang on the beam, and die cleanly, without going to prison to be tortured.

So he has to analyze it one by one, and he has to write down the reasons clearly, and there can be no things that smear the image of the court and the emperor, and it has to be said that the officials below are not good, but it is not the fault of the emperor who selects and appoints officials, this is the degeneration of those officials.

After reading the volume carefully, he found that the various reasons were written quite thoroughly, and they were quite stable, and Xia Yuan was satisfied.

Then he began to face the second question, how to govern the country.

"Goo."

While pondering, his stomach protested, Xia Yuan looked at the sky, the sun was rising, it was already noon, and he looked around again, all the Gongsheng were either doing contemplation, or they were writing hard.

The eunuchs and forbidden soldiers standing around them just stood quietly in their respective positions, like sculptures.

I didn't say that I came with pastries, so that all the tributes and students padd their stomachs, and they didn't even have tea.

Don't you care about food in a palace as big as you?

Xia Yuan turned his head to look at the emperor sitting in front of the Taihe Palace, Zhu Youzhu was still sitting upright, looking like a sculpture.

Well, no matter what the meal is, don't care about the meal, the grandiose people are all sitting there obediently, and they haven't left to eat, so their own group of tributes are not worthy of being hungry.

But this Emperor Hongzhi can really sit, when he first came in the morning, he was sitting like this, and now it's noon, it's still like this, isn't he tired of sitting like this?

Zhu Youzhu was already frowning a little at this time, he had already noticed that there was a bold Gongsheng below who was looking up at him.

And he still knew who it was, although he still couldn't see the faces of the Gongsheng below, but these seats were arranged according to their respective rankings, and that seat was Huiyuan's.

Why is he looking at me like this?

Isn't it out of character in my posture?

Can he see my bow so carefully?

Thinking in his heart, Zhu Youzhu quietly straightened his somewhat rickety body, and now he was really sitting upright, which was extremely in line with the emperor's majesty.

And Xia Yuan coincidentally lowered his head at this time, fell back on the paper and continued to answer the question.

How to govern

Hulu barbarians, each of these words refers to different ethnic groups, and Yi refers to the few people in those remote areas in the south.

Of course, although the question of the policy question is how to govern the Yi people, the Ming Dynasty is not actually without methods of governance, such as the fetters system that has been implemented by several dynasties.

The so-called fetters system is simply to control raze with raze, and this system has a long history, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin period.

Almost all dynasties have adopted such governance methods, such as the current Ming Dynasty, which is to select a toast in the gathering places of those Yi people, and then these Tusi manage the local Yi people themselves.

The most significant advantage of such a strategy is that there is no need to send a large number of garrisons to these confined areas, the cost of ruling is very low, and a lot of manpower, financial and material resources can be saved.

But the disadvantage is more obvious, the imperial court allows these toasts to govern their own areas, and these toasts are still hereditary, so that the local Yi people only know the toast but do not know the court, and they have no sense of identity with the court.

The Ming Dynasty naturally realized this, so since the Yongle Emperor has been implementing the strategy of changing the land and returning to the river in Guizhou, after all, most of the Tusi are concentrated in the southwest, and Guizhou is the most powerful area of the Tusi.

It's a pity that the progress of the Ming Dynasty's land reform and return to the stream was relatively slow, and even after the Ming Dynasty died, Guizhou has only just completed half of the land reform and return to the stream.

There are many reasons for this, the most important point is that at this time, the Yi people in remote areas did not identify with the Central Plains culture very high, but the efforts made by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years were not fruitless, and the foundation was definitely laid, otherwise the later Manchu Qing Dynasty would not have succeeded in reforming the land and returning to the stream.

The more he thought about it, the more confused Xia Yuan's mind became, although this question of how to govern the Yi was derived from this Li rebellion, it was obvious that the emperor was not asking how to govern the Yi people of the Li people, he was asking how to govern all the Yi people.

It's really beautiful.

This problem will not be said to be solved in the real sense in later generations, and it is still an autonomous cough.

After pondering for a long time, Xia Yuan could only write down the four words of changing the land and returning to the stream, this method has at least been proven by history to be feasible, and it is also the only policy that can be promoted in this era.

He plans to discuss this policy, add some personal goods, and when the time comes, it will be over as soon as the paper is handed in.

At dusk, the nine bells rang, and the aftermath was melodious, which also heralded the end of the palace examination in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty.

"The emperor has a decree, the palace trial has been completed, and the volume is sealed!"

"The emperor has a decree, the palace trial has been completed, and the volume is sealed!"

"The emperor has a will,"

Accompanied by the sound of bells, shouts echoed in this empty Taihedian Square.

The sculptures seemed to have come to life, and the eunuchs shuttled between the various cases, began to collect the files one by one, and then handed them over to the collectors of the Ministry of Rites.

The rewinder then puts the rolls in a box prepared in advance, and there is no need to obscure the name of the exam, and after a little tidying, it will be sent to the cabinet.

Twelve test papers were selected by several cabinet veterans, which were used to read aloud in front of the emperor, and this was exactly what Li Dongyang, the paper reader, had to do.

Of course, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, these twelve test papers came directly from the top twelve of the examination.

If nothing else, the Sanding Armor will be produced in these twelve volumes, and the remaining nine will also enter the forefront of the Second Division.

The remaining 200 or so papers were reviewed by other marking officers, and then scored, that is, OOXX was drawn, and finally graded to select the second and third grades.

If you encounter a very good volume, it will be directly presented to the palace and handed over to the emperor for review, if this volume is valued by the emperor again, it is likely to have an accident.

A person who only took the top dozens or even one or two hundred in the examination was pointed out as a tanhua, an eyewitness, and even a champion.

After many candidates collected their papers, they lined up to salute the emperor, and then began to stream out of the palace.

Kneeling for too long, Xia Yuan's legs were numb, and his walking posture was a little staggering, but when it was time to leave Fengtianmen, he still didn't forget to look back, and then he was a little moved.

He saw that Emperor Hongzhi was still sitting on the dragon chair in front of the Taihe Palace, sitting like a statue, looking at this place with his eyes, watching them go out of the palace.

It's just a matter of sitting with them all day, and now they still have to watch them.

Since three generations or less, he can be called a virtuous monarch, Emperor Wen of Han, Emperor Renzong of Song, and Emperor Xiaozong of our dynasty.

This is definitely not a little bit of water, Emperor Hongzhi may not be an emperor who has done much, but he is enough to be called a virtuous monarch.

Until all the tributes walked out of the Fengtian Gate and went out, Zhu Youzhu was still sitting upright, but he said faintly: "Xiao Companion, go to Xuan Taiyi, my neck and back seem to be stiff."

(End of chapter)