The Hanlin Courtyard of the Ming Dynasty is located on Qinglong Street on the south side of East Chang'an Street, opposite the door of the Zongren Mansion and the official department. Such a good location is not because of how important it is, but because Boss Zhu set their yamen closer to the palace gate in order to make it convenient for the Hanlin to study for him, that's all.

In fact, the Hanlin Academy in the Hongwu period was far less prominent than that of later generations. Because Boss Zhu clearly distinguishes between learned people and capable people. After going through the initial superstitious stage, he found that people who are good at learning are often only good at reading, and do not mean that they are also good at other things. And a lot of nerds read books and have bad heads, which will only make a mess of things.

Therefore, he soon stopped being superstitious about the so-called Confucians, and only regarded them as human trumpets to tell him stories and tools to help polish the holy decrees. Therefore, officials from Hanlin will not receive special preferential treatment, but will be regarded as nerds by Boss Zhu, and they are unwilling to let them take on heavy responsibilities.

But the Hanlin obviously don't think so, they deeply believe that the truth of all things is in the books of the sages, and they are familiar with the Four Books and the Five Classics, and they are well versed in the way of the sages, which is the best pillar. Boss Zhu doesn't reuse them, which can only show that he is a big man with no eyes, not their own problems.

Therefore, the Hanlin Academy has been rich in 'direct ministers' who work against Boss Zhu since its inception, second only to the Metropolitan Procuratorate that specializes in spraying people.

After Song Lian, Dai Liang and other Confucian bigwigs were eliminated by Boss Zhu in the name of the Hu Party, they took the initiative to assume the responsibility of leading Shilin and became the new backbone of the civil official group.

At this time, Liu Sanwu, a bachelor of Hanlin Academy, Dong Lun, a bachelor of waiting, Zhang Pu, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, and Zhu Shan, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, these four heads of Hanlin Academy, were discussing something in Liu Sanwu's duty room.

Outside the door, there is also Liu Sanwu's family looking at the wind, obviously the matter is confidential. Not to be known to outsiders.

They were talking about the upcoming Rite Exam.

At that time, Boss Zhu proposed to take a step back, and the king of Chu would ask the questions, and the civil officials would admit them, although they reluctantly agreed on the surface, but behind their backs, they were already celebrating each other.

Because the civil servants are responsible for admission, they can abolish the most important sub-disciplines in the reform of the old six imperial examinations. What bullshit science, household studies, engineering scholars, as long as you don't take the scriptures, don't want to be admitted!

"The list of examiners is out?" Hanlin Bachelor Liu Sanwu asked. He was over the age of six, but his hair was jet-black, his eyes were bright, and his voice was full of energy.

"Zhao Butang has already reported it, although the emperor hasn't had time to see it yet, but it is estimated that these people will be the ones in the end." Zhang Pu, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, replied.

Zhu Shan, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, also nodded slightly, indicating that this was the case. Then the two revealed the list to Liu Sanwu from memory.

Five years ago, after Boss Zhu abolished the prime minister and withdrew from the Chinese government, he finally enjoyed the happiness of monopolizing power, but the workload also increased sharply...... Of course, it is mainly the prince who is tired, and Zhu Biao has actually done the work of the prime minister and Zhongshu Province over the years.

After staying up year after year, seeing that he was exhausted, Boss Zhu felt sorry for his son and had been seeking to create a new auxiliary political system. After the failure of the attempt of the four-auxiliary official system, Zhu Yuanzhang imitated the Song system in the fifteenth year of Hongwu to set up the Huagai Palace, Wuying Palace, Wenhua Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion, East Pavilion and other scholars as officials of the Hanlin Academy, and their main task was to serve the emperor around him and prepare for advisers.

Although at this time, the status and role of the scholars of the palace pavilion were not as good as those of the scholars of the Hanlin Academy, and they were still under the management of the latter, but after all, they were always with the king, and the news was far better than that of the latter.

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After listening to the two scholars, Liu Sanwu nodded slowly, and asked Dong Lun, the attendant on the side, "Have you remembered everything?" ”

"Hmm." Dong Lun bowed slightly, a person with good knowledge must have an excellent memory.

"Talk to them privately and tell them that there are three studies in science and engineering households, and not a single jinshi will be admitted." Liu Sanwu said in a deep voice: "The reason is that 'poor literature and science, shallow knowledge', is not enough to be a jinshi." ”

"None of them will be admitted?" Dong Lun frowned slightly and said, "Isn't it too obvious?" ”

"At this point in the struggle, everything is obvious, what's the point of hiding it?" Liu Sanwu laughed and said, "If you want to cover it, stop laughing." ”

"Yes, I just want to let the sixth and his gang know that if you don't read the sage books, don't think about being a jinshi, not a single one!" Zhang Pu resolutely agreed: "Overkill must be overdone, so that this unhealthy trend can be killed, and who dares not to read the sage books!" ”

"I also agree that the division of disciplines must be abolished." Zhu Shan continued: "When Lao Liuyi patted his head, he turned out the things that were abolished in the Tang Dynasty. To emulate it as a treasure is simply unrealistic and absurd. Not feasible at all! ”

"Okay." Dong Lun nodded in agreement: "I'll send a message to Zhang Xin." ”

"Pay attention to confidentiality, be sure to contact each other one-way, and do not gather." Liu Sanwu admonished again.

"Don't worry, I've learned how to deal with Jinyiwei's spies over the years." Dong Lun nodded: "It won't attract their attention." ”

"Okay." The two scholars nodded, but Liu Sanwu still frowned and said:

"The old man thinks that this is not enough."

"How?" The three asked.

"I let people sneak to the bottom, more than seventy percent of college students are studying the scriptures, and we can't exclude them with this alone." Liu Sanwu said worriedly:

"And it's the sixth child who came up with the questions, and he will definitely come up with some questions that he can't learn outside of Guozi University to help his college students get into the Jinshi."

"That's a certainty." The three of them thought so, and Zhang Puxu pondered: "In fact, scripture, law, and even Guangwen are all fine, and the most troublesome thing is arithmetic." There are always opinions on which other subjects are better or worse, only arithmetic, right is right, wrong is wrong, and if you can't, you won't. ”

"Yes, everyone still has to ...... exam" Zhu Shan and Dong Lun nodded distressedly: "The sixth will definitely make trouble here!" ”

In fact, according to Zhu Zhen's original design, only arithmetic scholars need to take the arithmetic exam, but Boss Zhu believes that arithmetic is too important, and those who are officials can't do math, so they are waiting to be fooled by the people below. Therefore, arithmetic is made a compulsory subject. The status is higher than the scriptures, you say that you are angry or not.

Although the local state and county schools have also opened corresponding subjects, those gentry who have passed down the family of poetry and books have also invited mathematics masters to tutor the children who are taking the exam. But after all, the time for the exam-takers to be exposed to mathematics is too short, and many of them are not even getting started. Even those gifted children, who dares to say that all the problems and strange problems can be solved?

If you fail to pass this exam, no matter how good the other two exams are, they will be in vain, and they will end up directly.

Therefore, the sixth child can really rely on this subject to keep people outside of Guozi University out of Jinshi.

(End of chapter)