Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 370: The Double Act Between Zhu Yuanzhang And The Princes And His Sons [Please Subscribe, Pl

At the end of February in the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380).

Another half month has passed since the last lecture on "Dragon Slaying Technique".

In the past half month, several major events occurred one after another that could shock the government and the opposition.

The first thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang is preparing to completely abolish the imperial examination that has been suspended for seven years.

The reason is that from the third year of Hongwu to the sixth year of Hongwu, the imperial examinations for three consecutive years failed to select suitable and useful talents for the imperial court.

Since the imperial examination cannot select suitable and useful talents, then the imperial examination will have no effect if it is retained. It is better to abolish it completely.

As soon as this proposal came out, the entire civil service ministers were collectively shaken.

Although they had been worried that the currently suspended imperial examination would be completely abolished in the future, they never expected that this worry would become a reality so soon.

Just when Song Lian, the head of the civil service, was about to use his old life to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to take back his life.

In addition to Zhou Wang Zhu Ji, the other princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes have all come together to remonstrate in public, begging Zhu Yuanzhang to withdraw this order.

A group of princes even said bluntly that if Zhu Yuanzhang did not take back this order, they would not be able to kneel down for a long time.

Faced with the actions of the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, which was almost tantamount to forcing remonstrance, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and walked away on the spot.

Before leaving, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that no one should approach the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes.

Not even allowing anyone to bring them water or food, he wanted to see how long the princes could kneel!!!

This kneeling lasted for three days and three nights.

During these three days, when all the ministers went to court every day, they could see the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes kneeling in the Fengtian Hall, "ten of them looked pale and weak.

Among them, the younger Chu King Zhu Zhen and Qi King Zhu Shu even fainted in front of all the civil and military ministers on the morning of the third day, and were sent to the Imperial Hospital by a group of internal servants on the spot.

Fortunately, the lives of Chu King Zhu Zhen and Qi King Zhu Bo were not in danger, but they were weak due to not drinking water or eating rice for a long time.

During this period, there were no ministers who wanted to intercede for the princes. However, all ministers who interceded for the princes were dragged out and beaten twenty times by Zhu Yuanzhang's order.

Seeing this, all the civil and military ministers couldn't help but flinch even if they wanted to ask for mercy.

During the morning court on the fourth day, Prince Zhu Biao, King of Qin Zhu Xi, King of Jin Zhu Fan, and King of Yan Zhu Di fainted one after another in front of all the civil and military officials in the palace.

The original morning court was interrupted because of this, and all four princes were sent to the Imperial Hospital.

However, the hard work of the princes finally paid off.

Faced with the unremitting admonitions of the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Zhu Yuanzhang finally temporarily withdrew his order to completely abolish the imperial examination.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang still had another request. If he did not want to completely abolish the imperial examination, he must give him a new imperial examination that could play a positive role in national elections, and the time was required to be within three days.

As soon as the news came out, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who had just woken up in the Imperial Hospital immediately ignored their own weakness and quickly ordered the ministers to write down their thoughts on the new imperial examination. The memorial was handed over to them.

In response, a group of ministers racked their brains on how to reform the imperial examination system in order to allow the imperial examination to continue to exist.

Especially Song Lian, the head of the civil service, stayed up for two days and two nights, almost to the point of dying, and finally wrote a 10,000-word letter about the new imperial examination and submitted it to Prince Zhu Biao.

Finally, during the morning court on the seventh day, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes dragged their weak and sick bodies to the court, and together they submitted a memorial about the new imperial examination to Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Yuanzhang read it, his expression remained unchanged and he ordered it to be circulated to all civil and military officials.

When a group of civil and military officials saw that it was mentioned in the new imperial examination memorial that the rural examination should be changed into a provincial examination, and that under the provincial examination, there would be a government examination, a state examination, and a county examination.

At the same time, the past scoring system of the imperial examination was reformed and the imperial examination hundred-point system was introduced.

In the future, the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" accounted for 50% of the total score of the imperial examination, "Ce Wen" accounted for 30% of the total score of the imperial examination, and "All Matters of People's Livelihood" accounted for 10% of the total score of the imperial examination. twenty.

In addition, the [Education Mission] has been added to the Prefecture Examination and the State Examination. All students who pass the Prefecture Examination and the State Examination can go to the capital to receive the [Education Mission].

Originally, Yan Changqing planned to let the scholars who passed the government examination go to the countryside to teach the common people how to read and write.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and felt that it was just a matter of teaching the people to read and write three hundred core Chinese characters and two important Chinese characters.

It does not necessarily have to be a scholar at the level of a scholar. Students who have passed the state examination should also have such teaching ability.

So Zhu Yuanzhang made an exception and also gave students who passed the state examination an opportunity to receive [the merit of enlightenment]. However, students who passed the state examination did not receive any court welfare subsidies when they educated the people.

It is only given to students who pass the state examination. If they possess [the merit of enlightenment], they will be able to enjoy the same score in the government examination in the future. Those with [the merit of enlightenment] will receive an extra ten points, as well as the benefits of priority admission.

Because for one thing, the imperial court only had to bear the welfare subsidies provided to the scholars who passed the government examinations and chose to educate the people, which had already caused the imperial court to increase a lot of additional financial expenditures.

If we were to provide certain welfare subsidies to the people who passed the state examination and chose to educate the people, then the imperial court's financial expenditure would increase greatly, "even to the point of being unbearable.

Secondly, if the state talents who pass the state examination are given the same welfare subsidies as the scholars who pass the government examination.

Then the level gap between state talents and scholars, state examinations and government examinations will become blurred, causing scholars to lose a certain amount of gold.

So in the end, after combining the two factors, it was decided that for the state talents who passed the state examination and received the education task, they would be given preferential treatment in the future government examination, but no welfare subsidies in terms of material salary would be given.

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Regarding this new imperial examination, all the civil and military officials looked at each other and found it difficult to speak.

Because they found that the suggestions they put forward regarding the new imperial examination were of no use at all!!!

Especially Song Lian, who had been suffering from liver disease for two days and two nights and almost died of liver disease, found that the ten-thousand-word book he wrote about the new imperial examination was of no use at all, and it was not reflected in this document at all. Above the new imperial examination.

Then Song Lian looked up and looked at the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who were standing on the Dan steps. Although they looked pale, they stood extremely calm.

At this moment, the princes and Zhu Yuanzhang were looking down at the civil and military officials with almost the same expression on their faces.

Then I thought that after the morning court ended a few days ago, the Fengtian Palace would be closed directly under Zhu Yuanzhang's order [nominally, no one was allowed to visit the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes who were kneeling to remonstrate at that time.

But in fact, after Fengtian Temple was closed, no one knew the situation inside Fengtian Temple.

It is possible that the princes in the Fengtian Palace are still kneeling, but it is also possible that after the gate of the Fengtian Palace is closed, the princes will sit down when they should, lie down when they should, eat when they should, and drink when they should. Just do what you have to do.

As for the pale colors on the faces of the princes and the news that the princes were weak from the Imperial Hospital, it was easier to disguise and falsify.

In addition, the degree of perfection of this new imperial examination system was obviously not something that could be formulated in just eight or three days.

Finally, I heard Zhu Yuanzhang condescendingly asking the civil and military officials for their opinions on the new imperial examination. If all the civil and military officials agreed with the new imperial examination system, then it would be implemented temporarily.

If all civil and military officials do not agree with this new imperial examination system, then the imperial examination system will be completely abolished in the future.

Seeing this, Song Lian didn't know that he and others had fallen into the double act between the father and son of Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, etc.

However, even if they knew that Zhu Yuanzhang, his son, and others were singing the double act, they had to accompany Zhu Yuanzhang, his son, and others to sing the double act.

Because if they don't cooperate, Yi Yuanzhang may really abolish the imperial examination completely.

Once things evolve into that situation, it will not be the result they, the civil servants, want to see.

Although the new imperial examination has changed, even to the extent that they can hardly recognize it, it still bears the name of the imperial examination, and Confucian students can still pass the imperial examination to become officials.

As long as this point remains, it is not impossible to agree with this new imperial examination.

In the end, all the civil and military officials unanimously agreed and recognized the new imperial examination system, regardless of whether they saw that Zhu Yuanzhang, his son and others were playing a double act.

Finally, the Ministry of Rites began to implement matters related to the new imperial examination.

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