"Hooray, hooray, hooray......"

On March 28, with the singing of the jade pillar of Tuijin Mountain, the second review after an interval of more than ten days ended.

In order to demonstrate justice, Zhu Yuanzhang opened the Wu Dynasty in the more solemn Fengtian Hall this time.

In his opinion, he has given enough face to the southerners, and all he wants is a few northerners, Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin are both close to him, and they should be able to understand what he means.

However, the reality is contrary to Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts, among the twelve lists of jinshi handed in by Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin and others again, only Dai Yi and Yin Changlong, the two candidates who participated in this examination, gave the northerners a quota, and the quota only accounted for about 20% of the total quota.

On the other hand, Liu Sanwu, Zhang Xin and others, they obviously understood Zhu Yuanzhang's meaning, but they still stubbornly gave a roster of all southerners.

Zhu Yuanzhang's energy was not so strong anymore, and he didn't want to fight with these people, so he put down his head and asked Liu Sanwu again:

"Could it be that the hundreds of scholars in the north who entered Beijing to take the entrance examination can't even find a single person whose articles are not flawed?"

However, in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's vague reminder, Liu Sanwu, who was specially approved to be able to participate in the Wu Dynasty today, stepped forward and said:

"The minister thinks that the articles of the northerners are banned, and they will not be selected!"

Liu Sanwu rejected the emperor's will, a move that caused an uproar among hundreds of ministers in the Fengtian Palace.

In the face of his rejection, Rao is Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who has gone through strong winds and waves, but he is also a little angry.

He tried his best to suppress his temper and asked Liu Sanwu rhetorically: "Could it be that my will can't get out of Fengtian Hall now?" ”

"Your Majesty's will, naturally, can be walked out, but this will, the minister can't accept it......" Liu Sanwu shook his head and knelt down:

"How can such a taboo article be used as a stepping stone for Jinshi?"

"If you are selected this time, will there be any tribute students who think that you can write like this in the next imperial examination?"

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, you are not doing this to help the candidates in the north, but to connive at them to break the forbidden ......"

"Enough" Zhu Yuanzhang calmly interrupted Liu Sanwu's words, and asked Liu Sanwu and the ministers in the palace:

"You say that all their articles violate taboos, do you mean that from the teachings of the schools below, to the officials who presided over the township examination, to the Hanlin who presided over the examination, all of them are traitorous ministers?"

"What? Did they unite with these northern candidates to slander the court and insult me? ”

"Minister......" Liu Sanwu was about to explain as soon as he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to buckle such a big hat for himself, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by Zhu Yuanzhang:

"Does that mean that these officials in the south of the court are loyal ministers, and the officials in the north should be killed?"

"Your Majesty is angry!!" Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, whether they were from the south or from the north, all the officials knelt down one after another.

Seeing them fall to their knees, although Zhu Yuanzhang was physically and mentally exhausted, he knew very well that he had to give this group of people who kicked their noses and faces a little color.

If you think about it, he hasn't used the knife for a long time......

"It is decreed that in addition to the fifty-one Jinshi who have been recruited this time, all the tributes will enter the Fengtian Temple on the first day of the first month of June, and then take the palace test."

In the Fengtian Palace, in front of hundreds of ministers, Zhu Yuanzhang recognized the status of the previous fifty-one southern tribute scholars, but he alone allowed the hundreds of people who had failed to take the palace test again.

It's just that in this regard, many of the ministers who worshiped showed smiling faces.

They all thought of the emperor's idea, which was nothing more than to take another test and recruit northerners from it.

However, it is easy to take the exam again, but the number of places admitted cannot be biased towards northerners.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray......"

During the singing, many people were thinking about how to win some more Jinshi places in the second palace examination in June, but they didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang's patience had run out......

"Retreat!"

Angry, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have returned to more than ten years ago, and the pain on his body seemed to be dispelled.

He raised his head and walked out of the Fengtian Palace, leaving behind the ministers standing under the golden platform, and even Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Jixi and Zhu Gaochi did not react.

In this regard, the faces of the three of them were ugly, and Zhu Yunwen even glanced deeply at the ministers.

As for Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Jixi, it was the first time they understood the dangers and power of forming a group of people in this temple.

When they united, even heroes like their imperial grandfather had to compromise and give in......

Zhu Yunwen took a deep look at the ministers, and then got off the golden platform and followed Zhu Yuanzhang's back.

Seeing this, Zhu Jixi and Zhu Gaochi also left Fengtian Hall one after another, but they did not follow Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yuanzhang, but returned to Wuying Palace.

They knew very well that this was not something they could mix......

After chasing out of the Fengtian Hall and getting on the step with Zhu Yuanzhang one after another, Zhu Yunwen asked softly: "Grandpa, don't you continue to investigate?" ”

"What do you think?" Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the chariot and glanced at Zhu Yunwen who was walking next door.

Zhu Yunwen pondered for a moment, and then said: "Sun Er thinks that even if he doesn't continue to investigate, he will at least have to make an example of him, so that they can know whose world this world is." ”

Facing Zhu Yunwen's words, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly closed his eyes and said softly: "I want to kill, but not now." ”

As this sentence was finished, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped speaking, and Zhu Yunwen saw that he didn't say anything, and he didn't dare to continue to ask.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this imperial examination is greasy, but the right to interpret articles is usually on the group of Confucian scholars who study the articles.

Overthrowing the previous emperor list is a self-defeating mouth, and it will consume a lot of energy to fight with civil officials.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his illness was milder, he was still not ready to fight with this group of literati, he only had one chance, that is, a chance to make an example, and that was enough, as for the object......

Zhu Yuanzhang's mind flashed over Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin, as well as the rest of the ten people who reviewed the exam papers.

Dai Yi and Yin Changlong understood their ideas and put them into action, which saved their lives, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not plan to let go of the rest of the people who understood their ideas but insisted on going their own way.

Sitting in Buyu, he and Zhu Yunwen separated at the left gate, and then returned to the Qianqing Palace.

While enjoying the palace maids' changing clothes, Zhu Yuanzhang also coughed and said: "The twelve people who reviewed the test papers this time, as well as the examiners who participated in the examination, except for Dai Yi and Yin Changlong, you can handle the rest......"

"The minister commands."

Song Zhong's voice sounded behind Zhu Yuanzhang, and hearing his departing footsteps, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced back at his back, and shook his head at the same time: "It's a pity, you have to change people before you are familiar." ”

He thought like this, and at the same time, somehow, Zhu Gaoxu's appearance flashed in his mind.

"Then Jilin City is about to start spring, I don't know when that kid will receive the news from the south......"

Sitting back on the stepping bed, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly lay down and fell asleep unconsciously.

But when he was asleep, the news of the second review also began to be deliberately disseminated.

Under the impetus of Song Zhong, the northern candidates gradually learned the names of the examiner Liu Sanwu and the attendant Zhang Xin and others, and even knew the news that they had not admitted northerners twice.

There would have been no such news, but most of the examiners and officials who reviewed the examination papers this time were southerners, so many northern candidates regarded this review as a drama directed and acted by southern officials.

If it weren't for the emperor's Enke opened on the first day of the sixth month, the northern candidates would have overturned the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites.

Thinking of Enke in June, all the candidates who failed the exam began to fight at night, and for a while, everyone who was in trouble because of the spring boudoir closed their doors.

Not only that, but the emperor did not punish some officials, which made many officials feel worried, only feeling that it was the eve of a storm, and the "boat" under their feet could capsize at any time.

It was not only them who felt the pressure, Zhu Di in the north, Zhu Li in Shanxi, Chen Hui in the northwest, Xu Huizu in the southwest, Li Jinglong in Nanjing City and other clan martial artists all felt great pressure.

Of course, their pressure is from the outside, at least there is time to prepare.

Compared with them, Zhu Gaoxu of Jilin City in the north happily received the grain escorted by the Liaodong Dusi.

"How did you bring so much food this year!"

In the spring of April, with the melting of the snow on the post road leading from 30,000 guards in Liaodong to Jilin City, Zhou Xing of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division ordered Zhou Ding to lead 2,000 soldiers and 20,000 people of 30,000 guards to drive 3,000 carriages to bring the first batch of military pay and grain to Jilin City.

"Liaodong in the south is already overgrown with green grass, Your Highness, you have just entered spring here."

As the river city of Haidong, the spring of Jilin City naturally comes later than that of Liaodong in the south, and in April, everything begins to sprout spring.

Standing at the head of Jixi Fort, Zhou Ding looked at Jilin City, which had just emerged green, and sighed and handed the two edicts in his hands to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Highness, this is an edict from the imperial court, please take a look."

"Edict?" Zhu Gaoxu, who was concentrating on materials, turned around and took over the two edicts from Zhou Ding.

He opened the first one first, and the edict was undoubtedly a surprise to him.

Lao Zhu set up the Zhaozhou Office and the Anton Office outside the Guan, which are 2,000 military households, which means that Lao Zhu wants to immigrate at least tens of thousands of people to these two cities.

Although the two thousand households were not added to the head of Jilin Wei, they were temporarily controlled by themselves, which means that they can at least justifiably mobilize 8,000 people.

Of course, he was more concerned about the drag of these two thousand military households than about the two thousand more troops.

"When will the military family arrive?" Zhu Gaoxu didn't have time to read the second edict, so he looked up at Zhou Ding happily.

Zhou Ding also smiled when he heard this: "When the last general went north, he heard that Jinzhou Wei had received six hundred military households, and he thought that he should be able to arrive in Jilin City in June, and the remaining more than a thousand households should be able to reach it before winter." ”

"Good!" Hearing Zhou Ding's words, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help laughing, but Zhou Ding smiled and said, "Your Highness, you haven't read the second edict yet." ”

"Oh?" Seeing Zhou Ding say this, Zhu Gaoxu also knew that this second edict was mostly good news, so he couldn't wait to open it.

Sure enough, when Zhu Gaoxu saw the content inside, he immediately happily said to Zhang Chun, Yishaha and others on the left and right:

"Look, I just said that I was going to clean up Wuliangha before the autumn, and my grandfather sent me a task and sent me food, so we don't have to worry about food this time."

"100,000 stones?!" Zhang Chun saw the amount of food on the edict, and he couldn't say anything excitedly.

Yishaha, who was next to him, heard Zhang Chun's exclamation, and hurriedly looked at it, and immediately smiled when he saw it: "Your Highness, we are not short of food now." ”

"Hehe......" Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "Food, naturally, the more the better." ”

He put away the two edicts with a smile, and asked Zhou Ding: "By the way, Zhou Qianhu, this batch of military salaries used so many people and carriages, I don't know how many things have been transported?" ”

"This is a document, just look at it."

Zhou Ding put away his smile, took the document from a Liaodong soldier next to him, and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu looked down and saw that the things he had transported this time were 15,000 stones of grain, 3,000 catties of iron, and 1,000 stones of beans.

According to this amount, it would take at least six months for the military salaries allocated by the imperial court to Jilin City and the annual salaries of the Bohai Palace.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't wait that long, so he said to Zhang Chun beside him: "You mobilize all the carriages tonight, take a thousand brothers and three thousand men, and go south with Zhou Qianhu tomorrow, I don't want to leave the grain in the south for too long, and the men, women and children in the city are still waiting for the grain to eat." ”

"Order!" Zhang Chun grinned, and at this time, Zhou Ding, who was looking at the scene cheerfully, gradually put away his smile.

"Your Highness, in addition to these things, the last general has some things to tell you."

"You say" Zhu Gaoxu didn't realize what was going to happen, and after turning his head, he saw Zhou Ding put away his smiling face, and he noticed something.

He gradually put away his smile, and Zhou Ding also took out a copy of the document issued by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

"This is the list of promotions made by the Governor's Mansion for the brothers of Jilinwei, take a look at it......"

As soon as Zhou Ding spoke, the smiles of Zhu Gaoxu, Zhang Chun, and Yishaha disappeared completely.

seemed to have sensed that something was wrong, so Zhu Gaoxu quickly opened the book, and sure enough, he saw one promotion and another order.

[Zhang Chun, Commander of Shendian Guard]

[Lin Su, the commander of the right guard of Kaiping]

【Liu ......】

The thin book made Zhu Gaoxu's expression stiff.

The team he had managed to pull up was about to leave more than half of the backbone in an instant.

"Divine Guard? Lao Tzu is not going! ”

Zhang Chun, who was on the side, had an idea in his heart after hearing the promotion book, and sure enough, when he turned his head and saw that he was transferred to Shendianwei, he immediately scolded him.

Although he didn't know where the Shendian Guard was, he would rather be his commander in Jilin City than go to the south to be a commander.

Zhou Dingquan couldn't hear his scolding, and his eyes signaled the soldiers around him not to say it.

In the final analysis, Zhu Gaochu is a lifesaver for Zhou Ding, if Zhu Gaochu stabs Zhou Ding's escape, then he and his father will not be able to eat and walk around.

Zhou Ding is not afraid of war, but he is afraid of death.

The situation last time was obviously a dead end, if it wasn't for the timely rescue of King Yan, the brothers of the Bohai Navy and the Shenyang Zhongwei Left Army would have died at least seventy percent.

Zhou Ding didn't dare to guarantee that he would survive, so he panicked and used asking for help as an excuse to escape.

Zhu Gaochu didn't find out the matter, he was already very grateful to Zhu Gaoxu, not to mention that Zhu Gaochu also counted his request for help as a merit, so that in this promotion, he also got mixed up with an official position of commanding affairs.

In this way, Zhou Ding was ashamed, thinking that he could help Jilin City on weekdays.

However, in his opinion, the promotion of the generals of Jilin Wei should be a good thing for Zhu Gaoxu, after all, these people are his old subordinates, and if they are promoted in the future, Zhu Gaoxu will have someone in Beijing who can help speak.

I have to say that Zhou Ding's idea is good, but Zhu Gaoxu knows very well that he didn't wait for Lin Su's group of people to be promoted to the capital division at all.

In another year, Zhu Yunwen's kid will attack their group of vassal kings, and at this time, a large number of backbones will be withdrawn, which is not a big blow to the Bohai Navy.

It's just that Zhou Ding is in front of him, and Zhu Gaoxu naturally can't pretend to be unhappy, so he patted Zhang Chun and the others with a smile:

"It's also a good thing that you can be promoted, and if you are promoted in the future, you will be able to have someone to speak for me in Beijing."

"Your Royal Highness......" Zhang Chun's nose was sour, he didn't want to leave Jilin City, let alone Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu helped him avenge his father's revenge, and also gave him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so that he could not even succeed in inheriting thousands of households from a young man to the current commander.

Before he could repay such a kindness, he was about to be transferred, how could he feel at ease?

"Okay, don't be a little daughter, you still have three months, don't worry."

Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the time in the document book for everyone to go to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies of Yingtian to report on their work, and Zhou Ding on the side also smiled and comforted:

"Brother Zhang, don't be sad, you will have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions when you go to the south."

"It's not peaceful to the south?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhou Ding suspiciously, and when Zhou Ding heard this, he also turned around and took out a thick stack of "Di Bao" from the diagonal cloth bag carried by another soldier.

"Things in the south are too complicated, I can't finish it, you will know it when you see it."

Zhou Ding handed the newspaper to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaoxu also took it.

However, his mind was not on the newspaper, and he didn't care about what was happening in the south.

Right now, he was just thinking about how long it would take him to pull up a group of backbones again after Fu let them leave.

However, although he didn't want to read it, when he caught a glimpse of "Ding Chouke Fraud" written on the cover of the newspaper, his mind was still blank for a moment.

"How did I forget this......"

After seeing "Ding Chouke Fraud", Zhu Gaoxu immediately said to Yishuha: "Leave the matter here to you, I'll go to the Arrow Tower to see the Di Bao." ”

He was a little flustered, and he hurriedly responded when he saw this.

Zhang Chun wanted to say something, but Zhu Gaoxu strode towards the arrow tower with the newspaper in his arms, and disappeared from Zhang Chun's sight after a while.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't take care of their emotions anymore, and after he walked into the arrow tower, he immediately spread out the newspaper and read it in detail.

The North and South Bang case was the last political case during Zhu Yuanzhang's administration, but this case made a lot of trouble.

Regarding the case of the North and South List, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know much about it in his previous life, but now he has seen a rough idea from the Di Bao.

Although the whole case is not over yet, and not even half of it has been completed, the various things in it are enough to surprise Zhu Gaoxu.

He always thought that Lao Zhu was a person who said the same, but this time the north-south list case refreshed his cognition of Lao Zhu.

In the Di Bao, Lao Zhu initially asked Liu Sanwu, Zhang Xin and others to re-examine the file.

It can be said that he still respected Liu Sanwu's control over Ding Chou's imperial examination, and his intentions, Zhu Gaoxu could probably guess through Di Bao.

Lao Zhu didn't want to engage in infighting between the north and the south, so he wanted Liu Sanwu to choose a few eye-catching northerners for admission, but Liu Sanwu chose to fight Zhu Yuanzhang to the end.

In Zhu Gaoxu's view, Liu Sanwu is an old birthday star who eats arsenic and has a long life.

But he looked at the newspaper in front of him in detail, and then he understood why Liu Sanwu and the forces behind him dared to fight against Lao Zhu.

In the earlier Di report, Zhu Gaoxu could see that Lao Zhu's health did not seem to be good, because he handed over all the affairs of Wuyingdian to Zhu Yunwen, and he rarely appeared at court meetings.

Lao Zhu is a workaholic, unless he is too sick to do it, he will not hand over these important things to others, even if Zhu Biao is resurrected.

The reason why he did this only shows that he has sensed that his situation is not optimistic......

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu's old and majestic body appeared in his mind, and he didn't know what that body was like now.

After a moment of worry, Zhu Gaoxu continued to immerse himself in the newspaper.

To be honest, he still doesn't understand why this group of Jiangnan literati want to provoke Lao Zhu at such a time, obviously they only need to be patient for another year or two, and when Zhu Yunwen takes the throne, they can master everything, but they want to play with fire.

In the Di Bao, Zhu Gaoxu saw that when Lao Zhu faced this matter, his initial reaction was to compromise with him, basically admitting the results of the palace examination of the spring boudoir, but he wanted to change a little and give the world an explanation.

As a result, as soon as the southern bureaucrats saw Lao Zhu's compromise, they immediately wanted to go further, and Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xiu said that "the articles of northern students are taboo" is a further step for them.

Words, this thing is enough to make a coup d'état, and the sentence "Northern students are taboo in their articles" has a wide range of blows.

To put it simply, it is the candidates who have passed the township examination that have problems, but to put it more broadly, the taboo of these northern students is a common problem in the north as a whole.

Why are there so many taboos? That's definitely not what you taught.

Why is it not right? Because your science in the north is not authentic, and you are deeply influenced by the Hu people.

In this way, do private schools and government schools in the north need to be rectified?

The science and Confucianism that are popular in the north need to be picketed?

If it is rectified and picketed, then from then on, the northern style of writing is not correct, and naturally there will be no strength to compete with the southern scholars for the quota of jinshi.

"It's so ruthless......"

After thinking about it, Zhu Gaoxu, who finally figured out a part, couldn't help but gasp.

He can see it clearly, thanks to his origin, he is a clan, otherwise if he becomes an official in the Ming Dynasty, he will have to be played to death by this group of people sooner or later.

But what made him gasp even more was Lao Zhu's way of coping.

With the words of Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin, Lao Zhu was able to refute each other with the words of Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin.

Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin said that the northern articles were taboo, at most they accused them of not following the route set by the imperial court, but what about Lao Zhu?

Lao Zhu directly asked the two of them, asking them that the article was taboo, so why didn't they find these problems when the northern part of the country was taking the township exam?

Is it the intention of the officials to cover up, or is it the dereliction of duty by the officials?

You must know that Jiangnan occupies sixty percent of the position in the number of civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, and if they admit that there is a problem with the officials in the northern township examination, then the unlucky ones will definitely be those who are officials in the north.

If Liu Sanwu and the others are only involved in candidates, then Zhu Yuanzhang is involved in thousands of officials in the north.

For the sake of more than 50 jinshi in a spring boudoir, and hundreds of Jiangnan officials were buried, even if Liu Sanwu dared to nod, those behind him did not dare to offend.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu sighed, he knew very well that Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin's group of people were likely to be abandoned by the people behind them.

Lao Zhu's knife is estimated to be about to swing down......

(End of chapter)