Early the next morning, Zhu Youzhu had breakfast, and then he wore a wide regular dress to drive the Wenhua Palace, and after sitting on a chair, he beckoned the eunuch to give him two more cushions.

After applying medicine and massage, although the symptoms were relieved a lot, he still felt a little stiff.

Leaning on the cushion and closing his eyes for a while, Liu Jian and the three arrived.

The brocade pier has been set up in this Wenhua hall, and the other two ministers sat down separately after saluting.

Only Li Dongyang is still standing, still holding a lacquered wood brocade box in his hand, first of all, he is today's book reader, and secondly, his butt hurts when he sits.

Seeing that the emperor above His Majesty was tilting his head slightly, and there seemed to be a cushion on his neck, he couldn't help asking, "Your Majesty accidentally fell into the pillow last night?" ”

"It's not that I fell into a pillow, it's just that I sat for a long time when I presided over the palace exam, and the imperial doctor said that I was a meridian blockage caused by poor qi and blood, and I had to tilt my neck like this, and if I didn't mention this, I would be cured after two more days."

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhu straightened his head, no longer raised his head slightly, and then looked at the brocade box in Li Dongyang's hand.

"Today's reading of the paper will be in Lao Liqing's family."

"Choosing talents for the country and sharing worries for the monarch is a matter within the minister's share."

Li Dongyang bowed slightly, and then asked solemnly: "Your Majesty, can you order the roll now?" ”

"Yes."

"Whoa."

After two questions and answers, a eunuch soon stepped forward to take the lacquered wooden box in Li Dongyang's hand and held it in his arms.

Then Li Dongyang opened the lid of the box, took out a volume from it, and began to read, "Zi said: The Tao is governed by government, and all are punished, and the people are free and shameless; The way is virtuous, the way is polite, and there is shame."

After the end of the palace examination, several of their elders had already read all of them, and they had discussed and arranged their ranks.

According to the order in which the papers are read, the first three test papers are the test papers that the cabinet elders have prejudged to be the first grade, and so on for the next nine papers.

Although it still has to be reviewed by the emperor, and the final interpretation is also in the emperor, the emperor also has to discuss with the cabinet elders and listen to the opinions of the ministers.

So basically, the higher you read this volume, the higher your ranking will be.

And this first volume, not to say that it is a champion, at least it is also a role model, Tanhua.

As the article gradually read to the end, Zhu Youjiao's expression also became a little approving, and the beginning was a sage's words, giving people a sense of being in the head, and the writing was magnificent, which discussed how to govern the Yi people, and also discussed the pros and cons of the Tusi system of the national dynasty, and even demonstrated the side through the problem of border Tatars.

Although the whole article still does not get rid of the shackles of moral education, and the discussion is discussed, only what to do and what not to do, and does not say the detailed implementation plan.

But Emperor Hongzhi was still quite satisfied, after all, the Ming Dynasty's palace test strategy papers were not very outstanding.

As for the reason, of course, he, the emperor, is also very clear, the scholars read the four books and the five classics, and what they learn is the eight shares, and only by learning these can it be possible to pass the county test, the government test, the township test, and the meeting test.

Become a showman, lift people, and even pay tribute.

And the palace examination does not seem to be in the scope of consideration of these scholars, or it is too far away.

The palace examination and strategy theory are all about how to govern the country and how to govern the world.

For those who read, if they have the kung fu to ponder these things, it is better to read more about the study of the saints, write a few more essays, and hurry up to take the exam.

Therefore, these papers are basically high-minded and useless when they fall into reality.

And this one is kind of useful.

After reading this paper, Zhu Youzhu asked, "Whose test paper is this?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the name of the tribute student who made this volume is Kang Hai, and his person is the third place in this examination."

"I remember that the third place is from Guanzhong, Shaanxi?"

Zhu Youzhu had an impression as soon as he recalled it, and he also understood why this person mentioned the Tatar border trouble in his strategy.

Go to the Tatar border, first plundered Pingliang, Qingyang, and then looted Guanzhong.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi sighed in his heart, and then cheered up to listen to Li Dongyang read the next test paper.

The second and third parts are read in turn, each with its own brilliance, and after each one, Zhu Youzhu will also ask whose volume it is according to the rules, and wait until the fourth and fifth parts.

After waiting until the twelfth volume was finished, Emperor Hongzhi asked as usual, "Who made this volume?" ”

"Ying Tianfu Gongsheng Su Yan, this person is the fifteenth place in this examination."

Hearing this, Zhu Youjiao's brows finally wrinkled, when he heard Li Dongyang read the scroll before, his face had always been silent, but in fact, his heart had long been full of suspicion.

Now that the twelve test papers have been read, and the fifteenth place papers have come out, what about the first place in the test?

"Where is the test paper that will take the first place, and the current science and technology will be so unbearable?"

Who knows, hearing this, Li Dongyang's face suddenly turned weird, not only him, but also the other two pavilion elders in the hall had strange looks on their faces.

Xia Yuan's article they had read, and it was the first test paper they had read.

In all fairness, it was not badly written, not bad, and even the most useful of the volumes they had ever seen.

But his answer in the paper was really mad, not that the three elders were poor, but that they could only use the four words to describe it.

The topic of the policy discussion can be seen as two questions or one question, and most of the Gongsheng students answer these questions together, but this Jinke Huiyuan is one question, one question after another and discusses it.

Of all the tributes, he wrote the most, others used three pages at most, he used eight pages, and even if the number of words added up to not more than 10,000, there were definitely 8,000.

And this policy, there is no problem with how to govern the Yi in the back, or the problem is harmless, but why did the Li Yi people in the front rebel.

When others write about the reasons for the rebellion of the Yi people, most of them are not educated, and the etiquette is not prosperous, and they have to come to a sentence to be bewitched by the bandit leader Fu Yuhui.

Then from the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, he talked about how the local officials should teach the people, the so-called use knowledge to fight ignorance, and etiquette and law to eliminate ignorance

Of course, as ministers who assisted the emperor in governing the world, they were dismissive of such answers, and they could vaguely guess that the Qiongzhou rebellion was related to the corruption of local officials.

It's not that there is no tribute to making a fuss about this, but it usually means that officials are not sympathetic to the people's feelings, do not know how to love the people, and they are all on the spot, and they will not write too presumptuously.

But this new science and technology master, what he wrote is too presumptuous.

In a year of great disaster, the government did not provide disaster relief, but instead sat back and watched the people die of starvation, and the government and businessmen colluded to raise the price of grain

A number of reasons are also written, and each of them is followed by a detailed discussion of the causes of the rebellion.

The writing is very transparent, and many of the views in it are even admired by them, and there is even a feeling of opening up.

But the writing is wonderful, but you are too frustrated, when did the rule of my Ming Dynasty corrupt to this extent?

My Ming Dynasty is now in the Holy Son of Heaven, and it is in the era of Zhongxing and Great Governance, how can the rule of officials be corrupted to such a degree?

Or is it that when the Qiongzhou government is tyrannical, bullying men and women, bullying the market, exploiting the people, and colluding with officials and businessmen, you just sit by and watch?

Otherwise, why would it be written so carefully, with a nose and eyes?

After a moment of silence, Li Dongyang took out a paper tube from the cuff of his official robe, which was rolled up from eight pages of paper and tied with a rope to prevent it from falling apart.

He took two steps forward, held the paper tube in his hands, and then bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, this is the strategy paper of Xia Yuan, the first name of the current science and technology association, and the minister is the official of the current science hall to read the paper, and he has been discussing with the other two ministers for a long time, and he really does not dare to be arbitrary. ”

After that, Li Dongyang took a deep breath and said loudly: "But the minister and the two pavilion elders both suggested that this person should not be hired!" ”

(End of chapter)