My Daming New Empire

Since the end of the Spring Festival in mid-March, the atmosphere in the entire Yingtian Mansion has become somewhat depressing.During the period before the listing, the atmosphere in Ying Tianfu was so calm that it was a little frozen.

The attention of all scholars, including civil and military officials, is in the small world of the Gongyuan.

But for ordinary people, the trains running in the capital are still a great sight.When the white smoke of the train blew its whistle and whizzed past, many ordinary people could still stop and watch.

Since the trains started running in late February, the trains on the North-South Line also started running in mid-March.Because the production of the train takes time, the train around the city is still not running yet.

The people in the capital are now used to going out to take the train, which only costs a few coppers, which is much cheaper than renting a carriage.

This has also led to the high number of people taking the train, overcrowding, and various disputes, so that the government officials are required to maintain order on each platform.

Zhu Zhanji knew that this situation would last for at least half a year, and this emotion could be relieved when there were more trains in the future.

"Your Highness, Northwest Intelligence. The Marquis of Wu'an has already led his troops to march with 17 troops, divided into two groups, and marched towards Samarkand along the north-south line of the Silk Road."

"Is there any news from Timur country?"

"Now Ulugh Beg is on fire, Medla and Kasim are standing at the northern mountain pass of Shymkent and Karaku mountain pass in the northern part of Kokand respectively. However, the opponent does not have reliable firearms, so it is difficult to resist our two armies."

Zhu Zhanji looked at the map and found two dangerous passes. Looking back, he asked, "How is the morale in the Hezhong area now? Can we have the results of our South Route Army?"

The eunuch of the supervising army shook his head, "Since I received the news from Zhang Xin and Mu Xin half a month ago, there has been no news from the South Route Army in the northwest."

In this day and age, the dissemination of information is very slow, and the Northwest is tens of thousands of miles away from Daming. Even if people are sent to speed up the whip every day, it will take more than a month for the news to come back.

Zhu Zhanji knew that the South Route Army was fighting fiercely, but he didn't know how Zhu Di was fighting.

But he didn't worry too much. With hot weapons against cold weapons, and now he sent people to the front to make new explosives, it would be an accident if Zhu Di still couldn't win.

His only concern is that the logistics cannot keep up.Now the two armies have to march for thousands of miles, and the front line is too long, which is a severe test for logistics.

The Southern Route Army is besieging Herat, which is only two thousand miles away from Horumos, and the Indians are responsible for the logistical problems, which is not a big problem.

But as Zhu Di leads the army further and further north, logistical supplies will be more difficult.

Now is not the future. There are roads everywhere. In the current Persian Plateau, there are no roads in many places, not to mention going north, you have to pass through the desert areas of Afghanistan.

However, he is beyond his reach now, and he can only hope that Huang Yuan can solve this problem well, and this Western Expedition will succeed in one fell swoop.

Zhu Zhanji thought about it, and decided not to deal with the affairs of the Western Expedition for the time being. For him, the current imperial examination affairs are the top priority.

Although the Western Expedition is important, Zhu Di is in charge, and his main task is to maintain domestic political stability.Now the imperial examination affairs are an important factor for the stability of the political situation.

The imperial examination ended on March [-], and in the following half a month, the inner and outer curtain officials selected by the Imperial Academy, the cabinet, the Ministry of Rites, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate entered the intense review process.

At the same time, in order to prevent cheating, both the Jinyiwei and the Department of Information Affairs also sent staff to supervise the whole process.

Although Zhu Zhanji added a lot of policy theory on current affairs to the test paper, but because he had ruled half a year earlier and gave these juren enough time to study, he was not opposed by the juren.

However, after the end of Chunwei, there were still some juren who did not do well in this area, and there was a wave of opposition.

But they can't make big waves, because the selection of scholars is based on merit, and the previous dynasties have always had their own unique styles.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang engaged in stereotyped selection of scholars, didn't those princes still learn stereotypes.

Today's Stereotyped Literary Selected Scholars have only been around for more than a dozen years, and the rigid style of later generations has not yet been formed.

Now that Zhu Zhanji is increasing his policy on current affairs and the content of mathematics, those scholars will only follow his request.

Xie Jin has been very happy in recent days. While paying close attention to the news from the Gongyuan, he dared not take any action.

This time, his son and nephew took part in the examination at the same time. As an elder, he didn't dare to get involved, for fear that it would affect his reputation.

But both Xie Zhenliang and Xie Zhenqi thought that they did well in the exam this time, and the title on the gold list should be a certainty.

Xie Zhenqi and the others did have such self-confidence. In terms of Confucianism, they have a family tradition.Now Zhu Zhanji added these strategies and mathematics, and the two brothers themselves are participants in all events.

They went to sea with Zhu Zhanji and saw the customs of all parts of the world, and they were also participants in Zhu Zhanji's overseas strategy.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji promotes mathematics, letters, and punctuation marks, and they are also participants.

If you don't have this kind of self-confidence at this time, it is a dead wood that cannot be carved.

On the ninth day of April, the papers were graded for 20 days. More than 1 papers were cross-marked and evaluated five times, and finally the ranking was determined.

More than 8000 applicants selected more than [-] test papers in a ratio of ten to one, and became the winners of the examination.

The list is divided into the main list and the sub-list. The 310 people on the main list will directly participate in the re-examination and palace examination.More than [-] people from the vice list will directly participate in the selection of officials.

When unpacking and calling the names, Zhu Zhanji came to the Gongyuan in person and supervised the officials of the Ministry of Rites to unseal the sealed names and hometowns one by one.

As in previous years, the selected scholars are still mostly southerners, while northerners account for less than [-]%.

But these are within everyone's expectations, this is just a preliminary test, and there will be re-examinations and palace tests later.At that time, there will be a slight bias towards the northerners. When selecting talents, the proportion of northerners will be increased to about [-]-[-]%.

The north is poor and has been suffering from wars for years. In terms of reading, it is incomparable with the southerners.Therefore, when selecting scholars, it should be slightly biased towards the northerners.

It would be unfair to the northerners if there were to be a selection of talents like the Hongwu years, and all the candidates were selected from the south.

After a whole day of review, the names and places of origin of 650 people were copied on [-] imperial lists, and posted outside the Gongyuan the next day.

According to the current system, these 650 people are all called Gongshi, but they are actually qualified to be officials.

However, most of them can only be candidates, that is, when there are official vacancies, they have their chance.

This time the examination was delayed for a month, but Zhu Zhanji was unwilling to delay the palace examination.After Si Tianjian's observation of the sky, the date of the re-examination was determined on April 21th, and the date of the palace examination was determined on April [-]st.

On the tenth day of the fourth lunar month, when the emperor's list was posted outside the Gongyuan, some people were happy and some were worried.

Although Xie Zhenqi was still on the list, but this time, he failed to take the top spot like Jie Yuan last time, and only took second place.

The first was won by Zeng Heming from Taihe, Jiangxi Province. Zeng Heming was also a well-known prodigy in Ming Dynasty. He won the exam in Yongle three years ago.

But since then, his brother has been seriously ill, and he has to support his parents, nephews and nieces, so he has stayed in his hometown.

It was not until his nephew grew up, this year he was almost 40 years old, that he came to participate in the examination.

His poems are broad-minded, his essays are clear and orderly. Although his talent is unknown, his essays are absolutely fine in terms of examination and assessment, and no one can find any faults.

In comparison, although Xie Zhenqi's articles are gorgeous, they are full of strong personal style, not as good as his articles can be liked by everyone.

If you lose Huiyuan, you will also lose the chance to win three yuan in a row, but Xie Zhenqi is not disappointed.Because the chief examiner of the palace examination is Zhu Zhanji, according to Zhu Zhanji's liking for him, he obviously has a greater advantage than others in the palace examination.

On April [-]th, in order to meet the re-examination, all the court meetings on that day were cancelled.

310 Two tributes entered the Fengtian Hall of the imperial palace at dawn. Zhu Zhanji conducted the first round of re-examinations based on Ming's diplomatic strategy, agricultural development, industrial development, ideological development, and military expansion.

This round of re-examinations caused many students from foreign enemies to complain.It never occurred to them that Zhu Zhanji did not take the Confucian classics in the re-examination, but only the current policy theory.