In terms of talents, Ming Dynasty is overwhelming.
But Jiannu didn’t do nothing.
While Chongzhen was talking to Ziye, Hou Fangyu walked into Dongnuan Pavilion again.
"Master, I just received a letter from an old friend from Nanjing. He mentioned something in the letter. I think my master needs to pay enough attention to it."
"Where's the letter?" Dorgon stretched out his hand and said, "Bring it to me and take a look."
Hou Fangyu handed the letter to Dorgon and said: "This old friend of my servant said that in recent months, tens of thousands of students have gathered in Nanjing to prepare to participate in the Jinke Imperial Examination."
"The Imperial Examination?" Dorgon asked, "What is the difference between the provincial examination and the general examination?"
Hou Fangyu said: "It is neither a provincial examination nor a general examination, but after the Chinese Imperial Examination, you can enter the Imperial College to study. After graduating from the Imperial College, you can enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Nanming as an official."
Since the Lao Nu era, Jian Nu has attached great importance to talent selection.
When Huang Taiji was in power, he held the imperial examination five times
A total of more than 1,000 candidates were selected for these five imperial examinations.
However, due to the small number of candidates and poor quality, Huang Taiji did not hold further rites examinations.
Since entering the customs, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, I and even Gang Lin have mentioned to Dorgon more than once that preparations for the Ministry of Rites examination should be made as soon as possible to select senior talents.
That is, Jinshi who can be directly awarded officials.
But because there were so many things to do, I kept putting them off.
Today, Hou Fangyu mentioned the imperial examination again.
After reading the letter, Dorgon suddenly felt that the situation was serious.
"Nanming's Imperial College Examination actually has to admit more than 10,000 students?"
"Yes, more than 10,000 students will be admitted to one subject, and this year is already the third subject." Hou Fangyu said solemnly, "By this time next year, the more than 10,000 students admitted to the first subject will be able to graduate from the Imperial College. After graduating from high school, Chongzhen, the dog emperor, will have another 10,000 diligent scholars to drive."
Dorgon's face suddenly became more and more embarrassed.
"No, our Qing Dynasty must also hold the Ministry of Etiquette Examination as soon as possible!"
"In addition to students from Beizhi, Shanxi and Shandong, we also need to attract students from Shaanxi, Henan and even Huguang to take the exam."
Dorgon said with a dark face: "Little Marquis, you immediately send someone to invite Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Feng Quan and others to Dongnuang Pavilion. I want to discuss with them the matters related to the Etiquette Examination. Hurry up. go."
"Hey." Hou Fangyu immediately sent someone to invite Hong Chengchou and others to come to Prince Rui's Mansion.
Less than half an hour later, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanme and Feng Quan arrived one after another.
Walking into Dongnuang Pavilion again, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo were all a little bit sad because they had not stepped into Prince Rui's Mansion for three months.
Obviously, last time the three of them included private goods in their suggestions, which angered Dorgon.
This matter can also be regarded as Dorgon's warning to Hong Chengchou and the other three. You can reserve your opinions, and you can even raise objections, but please don't treat me as a fool and make secret comments.
"Swish, swish, swish." Hong Chengchou and the four of them knelt down in unison.
"Slave Hong Chengchou/Fan Wencheng/Ning Wanwo/Feng Quan invites master Jin An."
"Get up." Dorgon, who had his back to the door, turned to face Hong Chengchou and the others, "The three gentlemen really have a leisurely life. They have only been cultivating flowers and grass for more than three months."
Hong Chengchou and the other three could only smile bitterly at each other when they heard this.
Feng Quan was the only one with a happy face. He had been very proud of himself in the past three months.
Fortunately, Dorgon just made a slight sarcasm and got straight to the point: "Today I brought you gentlemen here just for one thing, the Ministry of Etiquette test."
"Etiquette of the Ministry of Rites?" Hong Chengchou and the others were overjoyed. Is the master finally going to hold the exam of the Ministry of Rites?
Feng Quan was even more energetic. With the examination of the Ministry of Rites, he, the Minister of Rites of the Qing Dynasty, was the real Minister of Rites. Otherwise, he was just an empty minister.
Dorgon went on to say: "In recent years, the world has been unstable and wars have been frequent, so the Qing Dynasty has neglected to recruit the world's talents, but the Nanming has not delayed at all, except for the three-year rites examination.
, from the year before last, an additional National College Examination was added, and tens of thousands of students were admitted once admitted."
"If things go on like this, all the talented people in the world will be trapped by Nanming."
"Therefore, we, the Qing Dynasty, must change this unfavorable situation."
After a pause, Dorgon asked again: "I wonder what you gentlemen have to say?"
"Master Mingjian." Hearing this, Feng Quan was so excited that he almost shed tears, "The struggle between countries is, in the final analysis, a struggle between talents. If Nan Ming is allowed to continue to recruit talents from all over the world, our Qing Dynasty will
Sooner or later, it won't work, so holding the Rites Examination to compete with Nanming for talents is a top priority and cannot be delayed for a moment."
After saying so much, Feng Quan actually said all empty words, which is equivalent to saying nothing.
This is a typical bureaucrat, unable to do anything but fighting for power and first place.
Hong Chengchou made a real suggestion: "Master, it is probably unrealistic to compete for students from Nanming, but we can try our best to fight for students from Shaanxi and Sichuan."
"My slave suggests that the candidates should be deducted from their travel expenses and provided with free food and accommodation."
Speaking of this, Hong Chengchou said: "In addition, the number of admissions for the provincial examination must be increased. Even if we cannot admit tens of thousands of candidates in one subject, we must admit at least 5,000."
"There is also a general examination, and it is best to admit more than a thousand students to one subject."
"My slave seconded the proposal." Fan Wencheng agreed, "If this is not the case, it will not be enough to attract students from Shaanxi and Sichuan to come and take the exam. Otherwise, it will not be enough to attract the world's talents to be used by our Qing Dynasty."
"My servant also seconded the proposal." After Ning finished, I followed suit and knelt down.
Feng Quan originally wanted to object, but after seeing this posture he quickly agreed.
"Okay." Dorgon said on the spot, "That's it."
After talking about this for a while, he continued: "In the current examination of the Ministry of Rites, Gang Lin, a bachelor of Hanlin Academy, will be the chief examiner, and the four gentlemen will be the deputy examiners. The four gentlemen will go to the military machine room to discuss the specific examination with Gang Lin.
The date and detailed rules will be agreed upon and then announced to the world as soon as possible to attract talents from all over the world to come to Beijing to take part in the provincial examination."
"Hey!" Hong Chengchou and the four others agreed in unison.
…
At the same time, in Nanjing.
Chongzhen decided to send troops overnight.
"Gao Banban, please put this map away."
Chongzhen signaled Gao Qiqian to put away all the pictures on the wall, and then said to Zhu Cihong: "Hang'er, I'll leave the Imperial Examination and the many other chores of the Gewu Section to you, and the Secret Investigation Section will also keep a close eye on it."
"In recent times, the spies who established the slaves have been really arrogant."
"We must urge Zhang Huangyan to destroy the slave-building intelligence organization as soon as possible."
"My son, I obey the order." Zhu Cihong responded respectfully, and then said, "Father, will you leave tonight?"
"Well, we'll leave tonight." Chongzhen nodded and said, "Calculating the time, your third brother should have arrived at Gaizhou Guard by now. Xu Yingwei may take action at any time, so my father must rush to Dagokou as soon as possible.
, otherwise there will be a disconnect in time, and once there is a disconnect, there will be no response, and it will not be able to put too much pressure on the Jiannu."
Zhu Cixi said with some reluctance: "In this way, Rong Erchen will send his father off."
"There's no need to give it away." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "This is not a separation of life and death."
While talking, Chongzhen was already dressed neatly under the service of Wang Chengen and Lu Jiude.
Finally, he took the phoenix-winged helmet from Wang Chengen's hand and placed it on his head, then pulled off the visor.
By the time Chongzhen walked out of Yilun Hall, surrounded by Wang Cheng'en and several other eunuchs who were also wearing mountain armor, Wu Batan and other ten barbarian generals were already waiting outside with eight hundred barbarians.
Soon, a group of more than 800 riders came straight to Shence Gate.
Outside Shence Gate, 20,000 new troops had already lined up and were waiting.
The 20,000 new troops have received firearms from the armory and have been organized into four infantry brigades and four artillery battalions. They are equipped with more than 16,000 flintlock muskets, 80 4-inch field guns and 120 squatting tiger guns.
After meeting up with the new army, they went straight to Yanziji Pier.
At Yanziji Pier, Zheng Zhilong's navy was already waiting.
…
With the vigorous development of industry and commerce, Yanziji Wharf, which is a hub of water and land transportation, has also prospered rapidly and has now developed into a prosperous market town.
Hundreds of naval warships entered Yanziji Pier.
And clear the merchant ships that had been moored at the pier earlier.
Then, tens of thousands of new troops arrived at the dock.
Although it was at night, such a big movement still attracted countless eyes.
On the second floor of an inn not far from Yanziji Pier, behind the window of one of the guest rooms, two pairs of eyes were staring closely at the warships on the pier.
These two people were none other than Luo Zuochang and Luo Zuojiu.
"Brother, it is almost certain now." Luo Zuojiu said in a deep voice, "The Ming army is going to send a large number of troops to Gaizhou Guard or Dagukou, and it is most likely Dagukou."
After a pause, he added: "Maybe we will launch the Northern Expedition."
Luo Zuojiu hummed and said with a sullen face: "It must be reported to Beijing as soon as possible."
While the two brothers were talking, a dull cough suddenly sounded outside.
This is the tiger that stayed outside to warn them that there are Ming court eagle dogs!
Brothers Luo Zuochang and Luo Zuojiu immediately fell silent, but it was already too late, they had been discovered.
The outer door was suddenly kicked open from the outside. The Luo Hu who was guarding the outer room decisively raised his gun and pulled the trigger. Hearing a bang, the eagle and dog rushing at the front fell to the ground.
The next moment, there was a dense sound of gunfire.
Luo Hu had no time to escape and was beaten into a sieve in an instant.
"Let's go!" Luo Zuochang shouted, opened the window and signaled Luo Zuojiu to go first.
Luo Zuojiu did not refuse, and immediately jumped down. There was the Yangtze River outside the window. He only heard a pop, and Luo Zuojiu fell into the cold river water.
When I looked up again, I heard the sound of gunfire first in the guest room, and then the sound of intensive weapons clashing.
Obviously, Luo Zuochang, who was left behind, had already made contact with the eagle dogs of the Ming court. Luo Zuojiu sighed secretly, plunged into the river and disappeared.
