However, since the Jinshi Hall was later closed down, its foreign staff were allowed to take the exam after being given handouts for self-study.
Those who are ranked the best in the examination, those with a background in Hongwen will be asked to stay in the academy for conferment, and will be promoted to a higher rank in the Hongwen Academy. The subordinate Zhongshu Baobao will be promoted to one level with the original official.
Those who are ranked as top candidates will be appointed as foreign security guards by Hongwen and promoted, and will be assigned to the senior yamen at their discretion. The subordinate Zhongshu will be given priority by the original yamen, and will be assigned to the senior yamen at their discretion.
Those who pass the examination and rank in the middle will be assigned to the office by Hongwen, and will be assigned to the office at their discretion. If there are those who volunteer to serve as county magistrates, they will be allowed to report to the Ming Wenyu Academy and the Jinshi Academy.
The county magistrate will choose your schedule immediately after the library is closed.
Those who get the lower grade will need to stay in the school for remedial studies for one year before taking the exam, and they will be admitted in different grades.
In December of the 33rd year of Tianfa, the Wenyu Academy held the first Jinshi Hall graduation examination. The examinations were divided into subjects according to the subjects studied by the students, and a test on classics and history was added.
The test papers of each subject are reviewed by the teaching department of the library, and the scores are submitted to the Minister of Examination for approval. The average of the scores of each semester and the score of this examination is calculated as the graduation score.
Those who score above 80 points are considered the best, those who score above 70 points are considered excellent, those who score above 60 points are considered average, and those who score less than 60 points are considered inferior.
In February of the 34th year of Tianfa, the Wenyu Academy, together with the Hongwen Academy, and the officials and government officials introduced the graduates of the Jinshi Hall and awarded them positions and titles.
Since the Jinshi Hall was abolished at the end of Tianfa's reign, the remaining graduates of about ten years formed a party of officials who had a near-monopoly in the early and middle periods of the Xiaozong Dynasty.
The purpose of establishing the Jinshi Hall in Shun Dynasty is to enable new Jinshi to update their knowledge structure, master new knowledge in politics, military, economics and other aspects that are in line with the times to adapt to social changes, so as to cultivate New Deal talents and serve the imperial court's reform and reform.
Jingshan Bo Chen Xin, who served as the Economic and Strategic Envoy of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Governor of the Yingzhou Governor's Office, the Secretary of the Household Government and the Pingzhang of the Political Affairs Hall, once said:
"I want those who are taking the imperial examination to gain general knowledge, pay attention to law, politics, and economics, so that they can understand current affairs and respond to changes in the world."
It should be said that the imperial court partially achieved its expected goals in this regard. The graduates of the Jinshi Hall played a very good role model for scholars all over the world in learning practical knowledge that can be applied to the world. This group of Jinshi themselves played a very important role in political reform and culture after entering the official career.
Education and other aspects also played a certain role.
Although this generation, later known as the "court ministers", failed to control the actual power of the court during the Shizu Dynasty, they played an important role in continuing the reform trend of the Shizu Dynasty to the Xiaozong Dynasty.
Not to mention the academic style of the officials, which spread to the people through various methods and channels, and played a very good role in the popularity of Ye Fang's practical learning and the widespread popularity of the academic style of applying knowledge to the world.
Most of Shunchu's important ministers were veterans who had followed the Three Saints and experienced the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. This generation was politically honest and frugal, and they were familiar with the emperor Li Laiheng's intentions and practices, and had a particularly keen sense of smell and ability.
, in terms of talent, because of his rich practical experience, he is able to take on a variety of responsibilities.
But they also have other problems, such as low cultural literacy, a lack of personnel replacement, etc. These are obviously disadvantages to the new generation born after the consolidation of the Shun Dynasty.
Moreover, in his later years, due to the accidental killing of King Chu, Shizu had a perverse and unstable temperament, and his holy heart was unpredictable. The emperor was often unable to govern due to various illnesses, and most of the government affairs were entrusted to Princess Dachang, King Qi, King Wei, King Yan, and King Han.
In the hands of the king and the righteous princes, the position of the prince has been vacant for a long time. The princes formed factions and fought among themselves, which involved many important officials of the founding fathers.
Later, the struggle for the right to inherit the throne gradually became clear, and a party supporting Qi was formed, supported by the eldest princess Li Huirou, and a party supporting Wei supported by Yihou Zhang Xuanlang. The struggle between the two parties became more and more intense, especially when the emperor was often unable to attend to affairs due to illness.
, almost reaching the point of hopelessness.
The party attached to Wei later collapsed due to the disastrous failure of the expedition to India. The campaign to conquer India personally presided over by Yihou Zhang Xuanlang officially failed in the forty-eighth year of Tianfa. After the once powerful general Zhang Xuanlang was captured by the Ming army,
, not only did he not commit suicide and sacrifice his country, but he also surrendered to the Daimeer Empire and was named the Righteous King.
Although the party affiliated with Wei tried their best to conceal the matter and created all kinds of tragic stories about Zhang Xuanlang's sacrifice in the naval battle in China, but later when the Ming Dynasty negotiated peace, an envoy secretly reported the matter back to the country. When the Dongchuang incident came out, the emperor was furious and began to clean up the Wei Dynasty.
party.
The failure of the Battle of Seal greatly affected the emperor's prestige. Many court ministers also took the opportunity to oppose Shizu's grand strategy of militarizing the world and demanded that the court change its policies and rest with the people, which made Li Laiheng extremely passive.
When the Wei Party came to light, it became the target of the emperor's anger and was brutally punished. As a result, many distinguished ministers were demoted and exiled.
Although this case continued to follow the Shun Dynasty's precedent of not opening major cases to purge heroes, and there was no mass killing, it still led to the exile of more than 2,000 people, and the Wei party completely lost power.
However, the complete loss of power of the Wei-affiliated party did not mark the complete ascendancy of the King of Qi.
The most unfortunate thing happened. In the forty-ninth year of Tianfa's reign, the emperor's condition became more and more serious, and he began to miss the court for half a year.
Originally, the succession of King Qi to the throne was almost foreseeable and accepted by most people.
It happened that at this time, King Xuanyu of Qi, who was always good at bowing, horse riding, and shooting, and who was physically strong, suddenly fell ill, and died of the illness in less than a month.
The death of King Qi from illness has become a major unsolved case in the history of Dashun, and countless people have made conjectures about it that are in line with the interests of their faction.
However, the historian Zhao Yi, who stands in the most objective republican perspective, believes that the Qi Party was extremely powerful at that time and it was impossible for anyone to kill the King of Qi without knowing it. It is said that the King of Qi was fond of drinking and his living habits
He was not in good health and was already quite old. It was not impossible to die from a sudden serious illness.
The Qi Party and the Wei Party, the two most important political groups in the late Shizu Dynasty, successively lost the possibility of claiming the right to inherit the throne, which undoubtedly caused all the court ministers to fall into chaos.
The sudden blow also severely damaged the emperor's health. Many ministers believed that King Yan should inherit the throne, but Emperor Tianfa had a new idea...
In February of the fiftieth year of Tianfa, when the emperor was dying, he summoned the eldest princess Li Huirou, Taishi Fang Yiren, Pingzhang political minister Zhou Peigong, general Li Maoheng and others to enter the palace, and announced that the son of the former Chu king Li Xuanye would be the emperor's eldest grandson.
, made him the crown prince.
As soon as this statement came out, all the honorable ministers were shocked and shouted that they should not follow the old practices of the previous dynasty and start the process of peace.
However, the emperor insisted that neither the king of Yan nor the king of Han was a benevolent and righteous king, and lacked the character and talent to govern the world, while the other princes were too young, not even one over thirty years old.