For Zhu Yihai, whether it was to promote people, whether it was Jinshi, or even scholarly students, these were just a means for the court to recruit officials and talents, or even to control and appease the scholars.
Under normal circumstances, the number of admissions must be strictly controlled, but the current situation is special. Admitting more is also a good way to win over and appease scholars all over the world.
With an extra three thousand or so scholarship quotas and seven hundred or so Jinshi quotas, scholars all over the world can rush to Nanjing to take the exam and work for him. This is such a good deal.
In February, the examination was held and completed as scheduled.
Then at the beginning of March, another palace examination was held, and Zhu Yihai even increased the number of first-level officers. Originally, there were only three people in first-level officers.
Zhu Yihai still has one number one pick, but there are two second places and three third flowers.
One armor makes six people.
Adding the North and South lists, there are twelve people.
Anyway, a total of 1,000 Jinshi from the Northern and Southern lists were admitted at once, and 700 more were admitted. Everyone was happy. Even though there were many candidates who failed to be admitted, Zhu Yihai also held an additional exam after the palace examination.
During the examination, 5,000 more people were admitted and appointed officials from those who failed.
A total of five thousand people were recruited. After admission, the files were transferred to the Ministry of Personnel, which then assigned them to various ministries or provinces in Nanjing to serve as low-level officials.
Juren in the Ming Dynasty were originally qualified to be officials, but under normal circumstances, although juren were qualified to be officials, it was too difficult to become an official, and there might not be a real vacancy in their lifetime.
Now Zhu Yihai has made a special decree to recruit thousands of fresh blood from these candidates to replenish the central and local yamen. The purpose of this is to replenish fresh blood to the yamen after the war, and even break the unspoken rules and regulations of the local bureaucracy.
, a large number of airborne officials were of course representing the central faction.
As for the thousand Jinshi admitted this time, their treatment will be better.
First, a group of people were selected as Shujishi and entered the Imperial Academy. Most of the rest were in the capital. The rest mainly went to the provinces to serve as subordinate officials to the governor, governor, sub-inspector and other officials. The rest went directly to the local areas to serve as county magistrates and county magistrates.
Let these first and second leaders.
Under normal circumstances, when people are promoted to officials, they start from some idle officials, but Zhu Yihai undoubtedly boldly awarded important tasks and had high hopes for the new Jinshi. In the final analysis, the original bureaucrats were not good enough.
Coupled with wars, etc., there were even fewer officials in local government offices. There were even few who were able to do things, understand the court's intentions, and implement them resolutely.
At this time, the green-robed officials sitting in the restaurant were actually Xinke Jinshi, and they were all First-A students. According to the convention, these first-A Jinshis were admitted directly to the Hanlin Academy without taking any further examinations, and were awarded the title of Compilation and Compilation.
Editors and editors are all seventh-grade officials, so they wear green robes directly.
The rest of the Jinshi took another imperial examination. Those who passed the examination were called Shujishi and entered the Hanlin Academy to study for three years. After three years, they passed the graduation examination and were dismissed.
Jinshi who can become Shujishi represents a bright future, not to mention those who are ranked number one in the first class, these people are the emperor's beloved sons.
Those who are not Jinshi will not be admitted to the Hanlin, and those who are not Hanlin will not be admitted to the cabinet. This has been an unspoken rule since the Ming Dynasty.
As Tianzhizi of Xinke No.1, they had just experienced the most proud moment in their lives. However, after entering the Imperial Academy directly, the highlight moment passed and they had to work in a low-key manner.
After all, who in the Hanlin Academy is not an old-timer and has never been proud of his glory?
But not every Jinshi who enters the Imperial Academy will have a smooth career. In the final analysis, they still have to be steady at the end.
Wearing light green robes, they kept a low profile in the Hanlin Academy, doing some writing tasks that they even looked down upon. After getting off work at the office, a few people of the same age traveled together on the Qinhuai River, drank tea and chatted in restaurants, so they could be unscrupulous.
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Although they are not of high rank, they regard Zheng Zhilong, who is now the Duke of Ping, has a bachelor's degree in Dongge as a cabinet minister, and has been granted the title of Shaobao and Taibao of the Crown Prince, as well as serving as the Prime Minister's Office, and as the Governor of the Royal Camp.
On the contrary, I still don’t look down upon it.
After all, Zheng Zhilong, the new cabinet boss, started his career as a pirate and was nothing more than a guerrilla general when he was recruited. No matter how noble he is now, how many people can look up to him?
Even the elders and ministers who had started their careers in the imperial family did not look down upon these new top scholars and second-ranked scholars who had just entered the Hanlin Academy. They felt that they were all ordinary Jinshi before and had only been treated as doctors and chief ministers.
He was only a fifth- and sixth-rank official, but now he became a cabinet minister because of his obedience to the dragon. Of course, he felt a little unconvinced.
"I heard that the Tatars sent people to appease the Zheng family and promised to grant him the title of King of Fujian."
"The Tatars named him the King of Fujian, would he dare to accept it?" The speaker was Li Ehui, the number one scholar in the South Ranking List. His hometown was Fujian, and he had previously worshiped under Su Guansheng.
And Su Guansheng is now a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and he can be regarded as a minister more trusted by the emperor.
Li Ehui is dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong in his hometown. The main reason is that although Zheng Zhilong is from Fujian, he is a pirate and has brought plunder to Fujian for many years. In recent years, the Zheng family has become more and more arrogant in Fujian, treating Fujian as the Zheng family's private territory.
There were many conflicts with local gentry and clans in Fujian.
These people had just entered the Hanlin Academy and were still in the learning stage. They could not even do some simple word processing work, that is, managing files, which was indeed very boring at ordinary times.
"If Zheng Zhilong is really loyal to the imperial court, then he should take the initiative to ask his brothers to hand over the Fujian governor, admiral, general soldier and other positions, and even hand over the Fujian land and sea troops to the imperial court for reorganization, instead of still holding them in their hands.
, and even maintains a monopoly on the southeastern maritime trade."
"Zheng, it's just that the traitorous nature is hard to change. Going north was just forced by the situation, but we still have to wait and see."
A few people were there to point out the situation, but they looked down upon Zheng Zhilong, thinking that this man was just a pirate after all, short-sighted, and taking advantage of the situation to make a fortune, but that was all.
Anyway, all of these people thought that they would definitely be able to become ministers or even elders in the future. At this time, they commented on Zheng Zhilong with the attitude of elders, and they were very disdainful.
The No. 1 scholar, Li Ehui, even said bluntly in public that he expected that the Zheng family would never end well in the future. The reason was very simple. If you are a powerful and capable king, you will definitely not be able to tolerate people like this who want to separate their kingdoms.
If Hong Guang is like that and there is no other way, he can only compromise and appease him. But if the situation is like today, sooner or later he will have to deal with the Zheng family. However, the Zheng family is still short-sighted and thinks that he has the strength. Send some money, food, ships, artillery, and lead some people.
Will the emperor be grateful if he enters the dynasty?
That would only hasten his demise.
If he could surrender happily now and hand over the territory, military power, and money that should be handed over, the emperor might still give the Zheng family a good result, such as allowing the Zheng family to establish a vassal on Taiwan Island to guard it. As long as there is no longer a threat to the court,
It's also safe.
Although several Hanlin officials were arrogant and arrogant, they all respected and even worshiped today's emperor.
They usually don't agree with anyone, but for today's situation, they are full of admiration and admiration.
Although today's world is too strong, a capable emperor is strong and an incompetent emperor still wants to be strong, but they are two different things.
For example, although Chongzhen was strong and tough, the more he governed the world, the more chaotic he became. The ministers were also dissatisfied and disdainful, and their opposition became even more fierce.
An emperor like Zhu Yihai did not follow the old rules at all in his actions and appointments, but he was very capable. In just one year, he saved the Ming Dynasty from a major defeat, stabilized half of the world in the south of the Yangtze River, and even beat the Tartars again and again.
All the officials were amazed by this ability, and the young and energetic scholars were directly conquered by the emperor's charm.
Young people like to worship such strong people. The stronger they are, the more they will kneel down and sing about conquest.
"If you ask me, Your Majesty shouldn't be so kind to the Zheng family. A warrior like this who comes from a pirate background must be strong against him. Do they dare to resist? While the current situation is good, we must take back Fujian completely.
If the maritime trade is also collected, Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be the foundation, and if the rear area of Fujian is stable, there will be no worries at all. If we can gain the wealth of southeastern sea trade, we can also meet a lot of military expenses for raising troops and fighting.
After Fujian is stabilized, it can also be used to connect Lingnan and Guangxi, and connect Jiangxi to the west."
"The current situation is too nurturing and raising tigers is dangerous."
Although the Zheng family is very powerful, in fact, no matter it is the Chongzhen Dynasty, Hongguang Dynasty, or today's Shaotian Dynasty, few people in the court really look down on them. They are just country bumpkin nouveau riche in everyone's eyes.
If Zhu Chenggong had not performed very well after entering the court and gained some popularity for the Zheng family, the Zheng family's evaluation would have been even worse.
In essence, these people in the imperial court dared to look down on the Zheng family in this way. In the final analysis, it was because Zhu Yihai, the emperor, was so strong that he defeated Jianlu in succession, stabilized half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River, and also had more than a dozen all-powerful imperial troops in his hands. With this strength,
With the confidence and capital in place, they naturally started to shake off one by one.
In a word, although the Ming Dynasty still only has half of its kingdom left, the Ming Dynasty has the capital and strength to not rely on the Zheng family, and even has the precedent of quickly quelling the Hunan rebellion, which gives them the courage and confidence to sharpen their swords against the Zheng family.
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To put it bluntly, although the Zheng family is very powerful in the southeast and even became the local emperor of Fujian, the Zheng family has not been rich for a long time. He has no big interests tied to these gentlemen in the temple. Even now
Zheng also affected and even threatened the current good situation, so naturally he became the target of everyone's attacks.
Even several young new Hanlin officials held this view, which shows what the court's attitude was towards Zheng at this time. It also explains why Zheng did not dare to stay any longer after the Qing court sent envoys to confer him the title of Queen of Fujian.
He hurriedly went north to Nanjing, and even brought in a lot of money, food and equipment.
After all, Zheng Zhilong was actually afraid. The Tatars named him the King of Fujian, which actually showed that Emperor Shaotian Zhu Yihai was really a powerful group now. Even the Tatars in Beijing were scared to death, and they tried so hard to win over him.
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Zheng Zhilong has been around for half his life, and his strongest skill in this life is watching the wind.
If the wind is blowing in the wrong direction, you must turn the steering wheel immediately!
