"Let's get started!"

Emperor Hongzhi was a pragmatic emperor, and after the necessary etiquette, he gave the order for the beginning of the palace examination.

After the decree was issued, Hongzhi no longer stayed in the Jinluan Palace, but left under the service of the eunuchs, not only did he leave, but most of the officials who were used to fill up the number also walked out of the main hall one after another after Hongzhi left.

Li Dongyang, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Yang Tinghe, the second assistant, stayed, and below the two of them, more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials also stayed behind as the invigilators of the palace examination.

This invigilator lineup can be called absolutely luxurious! Imagine what it would be like for a group of high-ranking officials and vice-national bigwigs to invigilate you in the future?

I'm afraid there are few people who can maintain absolute calm, right?

"Ladies and gentlemen, the palace examination is an examination of the best, there is no first place, everyone should not be pressured, just give full play to their best state. ”

Seeing that the tributes had found their seats in the examination room one by one, Li Dongyang, the first assistant of the cabinet, who had faint signs of gray hair and beard, encouraged the candidates with a smile, and then nodded to the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

"The hour has come, let's get started!"

After the officials of the Ministry of Etiquette sent the test questions, Lin Nuo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Before the exam, he also tried to press a few questions according to the character of the current emperor.

Generally speaking, most of the palace examinations are based on strategy, but this is not always the case, and sometimes it is also a test of current affairs.

The current Hongzhi Emperor is a benevolent monarch and a pragmatic emperor, and the exam questions assigned by Lin Nuo had guessed before the exam that the possibility of taking the exam was higher.

And in the current affairs, the most likely test is nothing more than those few things.

Opening the sea and forbidding the sea, how to quell the unrest of the indigenous people in the southwest, how to increase the stockpile when the treasury is empty......

This time, the current affairs question is based on the current incident in the southwest region, where the indigenous people of the Southern Barbarians surrendered and rebelled, and the candidates were asked to give accurate policies for governing the country.

Seeing the questions, many candidates gasped.

For the tributes who were accustomed to quoting scriptures and writing policy theories, it was indeed extremely difficult for them to write detailed examination questions for good policies for governing the country.

Regarding the southwest issue, in fact, both the court and the people basically have a kind of argument: if you are not of my race, your heart will be different!

Therefore, from the emperor to the hundred officials, for the southwestern barbarians, in fact, most of them have the mentality of forcibly suppressing them by the army.

There is no way, the imperial court has not thought of educating them with the rites of sages, but unfortunately, those barbarians are not civilized at all, and they can't reason with them at all except for fighting.

Therefore, among the tributes present, the content written is basically how to use troops in the southwest, and some tributes who have a little understanding of the art of war even talk about the method of arranging troops.

Even Xu Wei, a great talent, thinks that the use of soldiers is the mainstay, supplemented by education, and describes in detail how to use soldiers and how to educate, but it is full of the entire examination paper.

As for Lin Nuo, after seeing the exam questions, he first closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, sorted out his thoughts before starting to write.

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!"

This is the first sentence, which opens with the topic.

The meaning is self-evident, the southwest region is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the so-called barbarians who grew up in the southwest are also the people of the Ming Dynasty!

"To pacify the southwest, the minister has three strategies!"

"Make a decision, use razing to defeat razing, and lead Guangxi wolf soldiers into Yunnan, Guizhou and other places to suppress the rebellion!"

"Zhongce, the law of the Han Dynasty, implement the Tui'en order among the southwestern local officials, and disintegrate the rule of the local local officials!"

"The best policy, change the land and return to the stream, gradually abolish the system of local officials governing the southwest, and change to the governance of the flow officials!"

After proposing the three strategies, Lin Nuo followed up with a detailed description of how to implement these three policies, especially the method of changing the land and returning to the stream, which was described in great detail, and unconsciously, the entire volume was completely filled.

Putting down the pen with some unfinished thinking, Lin Nuo turned his head slightly to look, and found that Xu Wei had just finished answering, and put down the pen with a sad expression, looking a little dissatisfied with his answer.

There are two examinations, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

The first half focuses on strategy or current affairs, writing an article, and the second half is mostly about a certain word and sentence, writing a poem and song.

In general, the first half is the most important, especially for pragmatic emperors like Emperor Hongzhi, who naturally attaches more importance to the current affairs articles in the first half.

At the end of the first half of the exam, after the officials of the Ministry of Rites put away the papers, the officials of Honglu Temple served some delicious and attractive meals for each candidate, and after a short break after lunch, the second half will begin.

A group of candidates may feel that they are not too satisfied with what is written about current affairs, and their expressions are a little unnatural when they eat, and they don't have the heart to taste the palace food, so they close their eyes and rest after eating hastily, preparing for the next exam.

There was no long rest, and the second half of the exam began.

The moment he got the exam questions, Lin Nuo smiled secretly in his heart, this Hongzhi Emperor seemed to really don't pay attention to this second half, and even the questions were very perfunctory.

The topic is very simple, which is to write a poem about this year's heavy snowfall.

Whether it's poetry or words, there are no hard and fast rules, and you can write whatever you're good at.

The meaning is self-evident, I don't bother to read it anyway, you can write whatever you want, it doesn't matter what you write.

Even the emperor was so perfunctory, Lin Nuo was even more lazy to use his brains, and without shame, he moved the masterpieces of the great men of later generations to this palace test.

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting ......"

After writing "Qinyuan Spring and Snow" with a flying pen, Lin Nuo no longer paid attention to the volume, and sat directly on the chair, seemingly closing his eyes to recuperate, but in fact he had already cultivated.

There are not many opportunities to cultivate in the Jinluan Palace, and he naturally won't waste such an exciting thing.

Not to mention, maybe it is the reason why this Jinluan Hall carries the fortune of the country, he has only been cultivating here for half an hour, but Lin Nuo feels that his internal strength has increased a little, if he cultivates here for a year and a half, maybe his Jiuyang internal strength can catch up with Xiu'er.

"What a place!"

In the evening, Lin Nuo opened his eyes with some pity, and after handing in the papers, he left the Jinluan Hall with a group of tributes.

Next, the candidates will have a two-day break, and two days later, they will come here again to participate in the ceremony, that is, on that day, the emperor will hand-pick the champions, the list of eyes, and the flowers, and feast a group of new scholars.

Lin Nuo looked back at the splendid Jinluan Hall again with some regret, leaving this time, and the next time he wanted to cultivate in the Jinluan Palace, he didn't know what year it was.