After Yunxi asked Xia Yuanji to draft the decree, the officials present who had just been caught off guard by Yunxi began to seriously think about the reform of the examination system other than the abolition of the examiner that Yunxi had just mentioned.
Chen Di immediately discovered something and said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, your Majesty just said that the question examiner is only responsible for setting out questions about classics and contemporary texts. Then, Your Majesty, who is going to come up with questions about policy issues?" He already had one.
There is an answer, but it is best to let His Majesty say it himself.
As expected, Yunxi said: "I will be the one to think about the policy topic this time."
Unified thinking? What does this mean? Chen Di didn't quite understand, but he did not continue to ask this question, but asked again: "Your Majesty, who are these marking officers, question setting officers and promotion officers?
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After Yunxi thought for a moment, he said: "Let Liao Sheng, the young minister of Guanglu Temple, be the promotion officer and the examination room. As for the others, I will appoint them again next month."
Chen Di immediately understood what Yun Xi meant. The responsibility of invigilating exams has always been the most valued both internally and externally. It would be a serious matter if there were any fraud scandals, so it would be okay to appoint them early. However, the marking officer and the examiner are different. They should be selected early.
What if the person who made the decision leaks the question? What if the marking officer has made an agreement with a certain candidate to cheat? And it is difficult to find real evidence. So Yunxi will not appoint him for the time being.
Chen Di asked several more detailed questions, and Yunxi answered them one by one. At this time, Xia Yuanji's imperial edict had been written. Seeing that there was no problem, Yunxi stamped it with a big seal, and ordered it to be distributed to all the yamen in the capital and recorded in the Di Bao.
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After Chen Di withdrew, Yunxi called his guard Li Bo and said, "Send people to the princes' palaces to convey the decrees. Let my uncles and brothers think about the topics for this examination and the later palace examinations."
If you have any ideas, please submit them to me."
"If anyone is willing to come up with a topic about the meaning of the scriptures, you can come to the palace and let me know. However, whether it is a policy topic or a topic about the meaning of the scriptures, I cannot guarantee that I will definitely adopt it."
There are many princes who are still guarding the place in Beijing on weekdays. They may be able to see problems that Yunxi cannot see, so Yunxi decided to let all the princes participate in the topic and brainstorm.
Especially the King of Dai, King of Valley, the former King of Yan and others who guarded the border. Yunxi had great expectations for them. 'Especially Fourth Uncle, I wonder if you are willing to give the question?' Yunxi thought.
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Although the efficiency of the Ming Dynasty's bureaucracy was usually not high, this situation was obviously considered a special situation. The scribes of the Ministry of Rites wrote and posted the big-character posters at an alarming speed, and posted them on the walls around the Gongyuan.
Countless scribes also publicized this matter in inns and taverns all over the capital, and before dark, 90% of the people in the capital knew about it.
Countless people discussed it heatedly, some agreed, some disagreed, and some were noncommittal, but no matter what views they held, they were not particularly intense.
If scholars can only be regarded as preparatory elements of the ruling class, then Juren is truly a member of the ruling class. According to the system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, Juren enjoys local privileges and is a leading figure among the gentry; although Yunxi abolished
The privilege of tax exemption, but also increased financial subsidies for Juren, plus Juren’s family members do not have to perform corvee service, Juren can already be called a master like serving officials.
Therefore, there are no poor people in the candidates' families, and it is not as urgent as the scholar examination. They are also worried that if they say something and someone hears the report, they will be unable to take part in making arbitrary comments on government affairs.
However, it is inevitable that some people will be happy and some will be dissatisfied. At this time, in an inn in the capital, there was a person who was half jealous and half congratulatory and said to another person: "Brother Jingzhi, you have always advocated the Five Classics instead of the Four Books."
, I usually study the Five Classics a lot, so the meaning of the scriptures this time may not be difficult for you, Brother Jingzhi."
The man known as Brother Jingzhi was not as confident as his fellow countryman. He said: "Brother Harada, even so, this year's policy will be as important as the meaning of the scriptures. We usually live in the countryside and don't care about national affairs at all.
I’m afraid my opinions won’t reach the eyes of the marking officer.”
The fellow countryman said: "Hey, Brother Jingzhi, you often borrow the Di Bao from the county to read, and your opinions are much better than ours. The examination is not to compare with the officials in the court, but to compare with other candidates."
It must be Chinese style."
Brother Jingzhi smiled and said, "Thank you Brother Harada for your kind words."
At this time, there was a sudden burst of laughter, and then I heard a mandarin saying with a Huguang accent: "You often read the Di newspaper and think that your policy and theory can be outstanding among the people? You Ganxi people are too..."
The two looked towards the direction from which the sound came, and saw two people wearing green shirts walking down the stairs, one of them had a look of ridicule on his face.
Brother Harada also retorted: "Two Huguang guys should practice their Mandarin first before speaking." Geographical attacks have always been one of the important means for strangers to ridicule each other.
The Huguang man with a mocking look on his face was a little angry and was about to say something. Another Huguang man stopped him, then turned around and said: "My friend was the first to speak rudely, and he shouldn't have done it, but this guy from Changzhou
It's not the way of a gentleman for Xi's brother to be so sarcastic."
Brother Jingzhi said: "This brother is right."
Seeing that he was quite polite, the Fujian man felt a little fond of him and said, "I am Yang Pu, the head of Shishou in Huguang. Do you know your surname?"
"I don't dare, I'm Wang Gen of Ji'an, Jiangxi Province." He also bowed in return.
At this time, two more people came in from the outside. Seeing this situation, one of them asked: "Brother Keizhi, Brother Harada, what is this?"
Brother Jingzhi said: "I made a new friend." Then he turned to Yang Pu and said: "These are two of my friends, and they are both from Jiangxi."
The two men said respectively: "I am Hu Guang in Ji'an/Jin Shan in Xinfu."
Yang Zirong also returned the greeting and said: "I will stone the head of Yang Pu."
The three of them chatted with each other for a few words, and they all felt that the other's literary talents were outstanding, and they immediately felt sympathy for each other.
Wang Gen took his old friend and said to Yang Pu: "It was just a slight misunderstanding, so why should you two care about it? This is also a native of Ganxi, named Li Guan. Everyone, please give in."
Li Guan was a little unhappy, but seeing that his three friends were like this, he could only show that he didn't mind and said: "I saw Brother Yang, it was my fault just now."
Yang Pu also saw that he might still be concerned about it, and he didn't want to show his warm face to others, so he said calmly: "Brother Li, you don't have to be like this."
Hu Guang saw that the two of them were neither salty nor cool, and knew that Li Guan was still feeling awkward, so he took Li Guan back to their guest room to comfort him; Wang Gen, Jin Shan, and Yang Pu sat down in the hall to talk.
There were two people sitting at the table next to the three of them who were talking. One of them heard the three of them talking and said to the other: "Brother Mian, I heard that those people should be well-educated people. I'm afraid it's not easy."
If you fail, why not go over and get to know them?"
Unexpectedly, the other person said: "If they become Jinshi and serve as officials in the same court in the future, they will naturally get to know each other someday, so why worry?"
The man from before laughed and said, "Brother Mian, what if you fail the exam?" The two of them have a very good relationship, so such a joke can be made.
The man said very confidently: "How could I, Yang Zirong, fail the exam!"
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In the evening, Chang Ruijiang, Yunxi's bodyguard, rode his horse to Prince Yan's Mansion. He stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and said to himself: "Finally, the last family is left. We can return to the palace soon."
As he spoke, he dismounted and walked to the door of Prince Yan's Mansion, said a few words to the gatekeeper, then handed the horse to the gatekeeper and walked into the palace.
In the palace, the acting king Zhu Gui was talking to the former king of Yan Zhu Di. Zhu Di said: "Thirteenth brother, with my status, you can just come to me to say a few words at the banquet, but when you come to the mansion to meet me, this..."
Zhu Gui interrupted: "No matter what, you are my fourth brother. Since Yunxi has not put you under house arrest, I will come back to visit you."
Zhu Di was a little moved, but before he was finished, Zhu Gui continued: "But, fourth brother, of course I know what happened to you before. Today is the first time we have a face-to-face conversation, so I will tell you directly."
"Yunxi has treated us well enough. He treated us exactly the same as he treated us when our father was still alive. But fourth brother, you are not satisfied yet! Indeed, he wants to send most of us overseas, but it will not be in vain.
, One person has a country, is it not more comfortable than being a prince in the Central Plains? "
No matter what Zhu Di thought, he humbly accepted Zhu Gui's criticism.
Zhu Gui said again: "If Yun Xi hadn't been tolerant this time, you would have been under house arrest until death at least. Except for the Xia and Shang dynasties whose deeds were inexhaustible, which king had ever been so tolerant to rebels?"
When Zhu Gui said this, Zhu Di could not help but be convinced. Starting from the Zhou Dynasty, there were only a few people who could survive after the rebellion, but there was no one who could move freely or even serve as an official overseas. Although in Zhu Di's opinion
This is a woman's kindness, but for most people, this kind of temperament is heartbreaking.
Zhu Gui then talked a lot with Zhu Di. Just when he was talking about how the north should defend against Mongolia, suddenly a servant from the Yan Palace came to inform: "There are guards from the palace coming to deliver the order."
Zhu Gui stopped talking and stood up with Zhu Di.
After a while, Chang Ruijiang walked in, and after bowing to them, he said: "Four, your highness, your highness, your majesty has asked me to deliver a message to your highness..."
After listening to Chang Ruijiang's words, Zhu Gui immediately smiled and said: "I just talked about something with my fourth brother, so don't think about it any more, just use this as the topic of the draft policy."
With that said, Zhu Gui took out a piece of good rice paper, wrote four words on it: Yu Meng's Policy, and handed it to Chang Ruijiang.
Zhu Di also said: "I don't need to think about it anymore. It just so happens that one of the things I have been thinking about these days can be used to formulate the topic."
He also wrote four words on the paper, and then handed the paper to Chang Ruijiang.
