At the end of the examination, the people in high school happily prepared for the temple examination, and when they saw the current saint, the people who failed the list sighed, thinking about how to explain to their relatives in their hometown, and some felt that they really had no face to go back, so they thought about entering the country to prepare for the next examination.

If the children stay in the Guozijian to study, not only do they not have to pay money, but the imperial court will also give subsidies, and staying in the Guozijian is the best choice for them.

Of course, people are also qualified to go out directly, but except for those who are older and feel hopeless to go further, others will not give up easily.

In mid-March, these high school tributes, under the guidance of the Ministry of Rites, walked into the palace and stepped into the Fengtian Palace, the power center of the Ming court.

Everyone lined up neatly, Zhu Yuanzhang came in person, ascended the throne, the ministers and students bowed together, and after some cumbersome etiquette, the palace examination was officially started.

The palace test is also a pre-printed test paper, but the questions are made by the emperor himself, after all, there are hundreds of people, and it is impossible for the emperor to talk to them one by one to take the exam.

When the scholars saw this cloth-clothed prince, they were excited at the same time, and the pressure was also very great, after all, the legend said that this was a tyrant who slaughtered the ministers like killing chickens and dogs.

However, even such tyrants cannot stop their lust for power.

The test paper was sent down, and Lu Xiu and Ye Qingyun saw the Son of Heaven on it, and their hearts were suddenly happy.

"The teacher is really a man of God!"

Lu Xiu secretly said in his heart, Ye Qingyun and the others also had similar thoughts.

Li Wei had instructed them before, guessing a few questions that His Majesty might ask in the palace test, and what was written on the paper at this time was one of the questions that Li Wei guessed!

"I have unified Huayi since the Yuan Dynasty, the officials obeyed the ancient system, the law released the old chapters, diligently sought talents, and awarded the position of Lu, but its virtuous gentleman, restrained in things, a corporal in the middle, shameless and ignorant, if it is not the true sage and the most holy, but also be confused by it, if there is no such thing, what is the rule? ……”

On the test paper, Zhu Yuanzhang said a lot as if complaining, and the questions asked were nothing more than the way to employ people.

The Ming Dynasty has been established for more than ten years, in fact, there is no shortage of moral gentlemen, but those who have both talent and virtue are rare, most of them are either boastful, or they are greedy and perverted the law secretly on the surface, which makes him a headache, and now it is time to throw this question out to see what these talented scholars will say.

Li Wei once discussed this issue with Lu Xiu and put forward several very special views.

The first is to employ people, whether to emphasize morality or talent.

In ancient times, officials were often elected more on virtue, and when officials were praised, they were often honest and noble, but there was no actual merit.

And Li Wei put forward another view with Lu Xiu and others, that is, we should pay more attention to talent, and those who are officials have talent, even if they are greedy, as long as they are not too excessive, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for the people of the family and country, on the contrary, if they are virtuous but not talented, they are often similar to the existence of the Virgin's watch, either inaction, or doing bad things with good intentions.

If you are not virtuous, you can also use severe punishment and strict laws to restrain you, and if your talent is insufficient, you can only sigh in vain.

Of course, in addition to this special point of view, there is also the need to focus on practical learning, and it is very useful to pat yourself on the back and engage in political struggles, but it is useless to do practical things, and it is useless to really do any Confucian classics, and it has to be mathematics, physics and chemistry.

In the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's questioning, other students began to rack their brains to quote scriptures, and even asked Zhu Yuanzhang if he could really listen to the advice, or whether he despised them literati from the bottom of his heart and didn't take them seriously.

Although these literati used euphemistic words, this is what they meant.

Compared with their taboo words, those who went to Minghuang Academy to follow Fang Xiaoru to believe in Minghuang Science are much better, and they all agree with the concept of emphasizing practice in Minghuang Science, which is roughly similar to Li Wei's idea of emphasizing practical learning.

And Lu Xiu and the others are even more relaxed, and they can easily deal with these concepts directly by improving the concepts pointed out by Li Wei.

The palace examination is not as troublesome as the meeting examination, if it were not for the cumbersome etiquette that delayed too much time, a few questions of the emperor could be answered in less than an hour.

At noon, as the ceremonial official sounded the whip and the answer sheet was over, a special official collected the students' answer sheets, and Zhu Yuanzhang directly read the papers with the examiners on the spot.

When he saw the suspicious words of those scholars, he couldn't help frowning.

But this is a scientific examination after all, and he will not do anything to people just because the scholar's words are a little ugly, but he just threw these answer sheets aside with a calm face.

When he saw the answer sheets of those scholars in Minghuang Academy, his face was a little better.

Virtue and incompetence are due to a lack of practice, and the theory of Ming Huang Lixue has played a great role in changing the current style of writing in the Ming Dynasty, which is why he promised to give Ming Huang Academy the qualification for the examination while reducing Li Wei's power.

Minghuang Academy was founded by Li Wei, although Zhu Biao is the nominal principal, but Li Wei is the real principal, if the students in this academy are high school, it will definitely further enhance Li Wei's power.

But even so, Zhu Yuanzhang still has to use these capable ministers and good ministers, and the government is not only about power and strategy, but also about the righteousness of the family and the country.

There is no party outside the party, imperial thought. There are no factions in the party, and there are all kinds of strange things.

Party strife is not terrible, what is terrible is that only party strife is scary.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was also a dispute between Huaixi and eastern Zhejiang, but it did not cause the disaster of the destruction of the country as in the late Ming Dynasty, on the contrary, the national strength was booming.

In the end, it depends on the emperor's means.

Just like Li Wei wants to fight for power, everything he says in the court is also for the benefit of the country, for Zhu Yuanzhang, as long as he has not reached the point of getting out of control, it is advantageous.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face improved, and after reading a few of these answer sheets, he was quite satisfied, but the concepts of these people were not much different, and the answers were almost the same, so he didn't waste any more time, and quickly flipped through them.

However, when he turned to one of the answer sheets, he suddenly paused.

"Fushimi Your Majesty's virtue, the minister is brave and clumsy, no one is perfect, there are very few people who have both virtue and ability in ancient times, it is naturally difficult to find, the minister thinks that talent is more important than virtue, if there is both virtue and virtue is a great good, if there is no law to control, on the contrary, there is virtue and no talent, but the kindness is harmful to the people......"

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw these discussions, he was immediately shocked.

For thousands of years, officials have been selected based on morality, but the answer sheet in his hand puts forward a different point of view, which is considered by other literati to be a great rebellion.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think so, but his eyes lit up, and he felt that this view was very novel.

He is a pragmatist, and although this statement on the answer sheet sounds outrageous, it is not unreasonable when you think about it.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the name of the answer sheet, and shouted directly: "Ye Qingyun? (End of chapter)