I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"let's start."

"Observe the order!" Wei Guangwei agreed, stepped forward two steps, and raised his voice:

"The imperial examination of the Renxu Division in the second year of the Apocalypse begins immediately!"

As soon as the voice fell, there were stewards of various palaces and courtyards in the main hall, as well as vigilant palace people, leading the tribute students to their respective positions.

Compared with Huangji Hall, Wuying Hall is much smaller.

In addition to the more than [-] tribute students from all over the country who took the exam today, there are also more than [-] invigilators, eunuchs and maids from various palaces and courtyards.

If you want to accommodate so many people, you must plan the location in advance.

The distance between the tables is appropriately reduced, and they are distributed in the shape of a "mouth" around the dragon chair steps of the Hall of Martial Arts.

Wei Guangwei, the chief examiner, stood in the middle. Liu Zongzhou, Zuo Guangdou and other twenty or so invigilators also had a clear division of labor. Sometimes they stood still, and sometimes they had to go back and forth to check carefully.

In fact, it is also standing for a long time, exercise your muscles and bones.

Anyway, in order to engage in cheating in this hall, in addition to super-high guts, you also need to have outstanding means.

The Ming Dynasty punished the examinees who cheated, not to mention that it was the first imperial examination of the Tianqi court, where the emperor came in person.

Cheating at this time is no different from courting death.

However, some people really plan to give it a go...

Zhu Youxiao sat on it and got tired after a while. He just rubbed his nose, and the caring maid came to cover Rang with a brocade quilt.

This is the same feeling as the teacher standing on the podium watching the students taking the exam below.

Zhu Youxiao's location is more condescending than that of the general platform. You basically don't need to look carefully.

Thinking that there are still three hours to go, Zhu Youxiao wanted to cry but had no tears. What the fuck, just sit for six hours?

The emperor was bored at the top, and the first sneaky Jiangsu and Zhejiang Gongsheng caught his attention.

This Jiangsu-Zhejiang tribute student is in a good position, at the lower right corner of the word "口", but with such a big movement, the emperor above is not blind, so how could he not see it.

When he moved this way, Zhu Youxiao frowned, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Damn, it's kind of interesting, Tai Sui's head is breaking ground, and he dares to cheat under my nose?

It's almost an hour for the exam, so far, he's the only one in the room.

Zhu Youxiao was not in a hurry to expose this tribute student, but he glanced at the expressions of the invigilators. As expected, each of these masters was possessed by dramatists!

The first is Zuo Guangdou, who claims to be upright and upright. This master is standing behind the cheating Jiangsu and Zhejiang candidates with his hands behind his back, less than a step and a half away.

That stern and selfless expression, I don't know, it seems that I thought he really didn't see it.

And Liu Zongzhou, when passing by the examinee, secretly helped him collect a small slip and stuffed it into the big sleeve of the toga, which made Zhu Youxiao sneer again and again.

With regard to the invigilation method of the Donglin Party, how many of the tribute students from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are on the top list of Jinshi and rank?

On the other hand, Wei Guangwei, after discovering that the Jiangsu-Zhejiang examinee was cheating, immediately glanced up, as if he was waiting for an order.

At this time, as long as Zhu Youxiao has a color, this Jiangsu and Zhejiang tribute student who is copying happily will basically be empty in his life.

But Zhu Youxiao remained silent.

Seeing the emperor like this, Wei Guang thought for a while, and instantly understood that the wise and mighty Emperor Tianqi meant that he wanted to put a long line to catch big fish.

He also "coughed" twice, passing by the guilty Zuo Guangdou.

Except for this man who thought he hadn't been caught cheating, everyone else was actually answering the questions seriously.

It's just that this topic really makes them a little bit at a loss.

What Wei Guangwei focused on was the Gongsheng students in the remote areas. This group of people had benefited from this reform, and if nothing else happened, they would all be included in the "eunuch party" and serve the emperor.

For example, Sun Zhixie, a Gongsheng from Shandong, Guo Shendu, a Gongsheng from Guizhou, and Wang Xigun, a Gongsheng from Baoding in Beizhili, are all the objects of his focus.

One of these people counts as one, and it is best to take all of them as officials. The more officials you take, the more conducive it is to form a ruling group that obeys the emperor's orders.

As for Liu Zongzhou, Zuo Guangdou and other great sages of the East Forest, they naturally thought the exact opposite of Wei Guangwei.

For the Donglin Party, the Imperial Examination of the Renxu Division was a good opportunity for a salted fish to turn around. It has always been their strength to add new officials to the court and cultivate grassroots strength.

Wen Zhenmeng, a tribute student from Changzhou in South Zhili, Chen Renxi, a tribute student from Changzhou in South Zhili, Fu Guan, a tribute student from Jiangxi, and Zhang Tianlin, a tribute student from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, are all local young talents.

If these people become officials in the court, they will just fill in for the officials of the Donglin Party who were killed and looted by Wei Zhongxian, so as to once again form the trend of controlling the government and making everyone positive!

……

"Students think that the southwestern government of the imperial court is feasible.

However, the local barbarians have lived in deep mountains and bad waters for a long time, and do not communicate with outsiders. The students also thought that they could imitate the example of the imperial court in Guizhou: to promote community schools in every village, and there are books everywhere.

The imperial court should not only have sociology, but also establish righteousness..."

Wei Guangwei glanced at it casually at first, but was immediately attracted by it. He stood behind the candidate and watched for a long time.

This Lu Xiangsheng seems to be a talent!

The thinking in the volume is clear and the context is clear. First, the opening sentence lightly exaggerates the correctness of the emperor's Southwest administration, and then he writes his own views with a lot of pen and ink.

None of these words are nonsense!

Wei Guangwei only read it for a while, and then saw Lu Xiangsheng's excellent suggestions from the paper, such as setting up "free schools" so that children from all southwestern provinces can go to school for free.

For another example, Lu Xiangsheng suggested that the imperial court implement a policy of encouraging land reclamation in the southwest, take back the land occupied by the Han people by the chieftain, and send it to the original land owner to claim according to the list.

For the barren and unowned land, the imperial court can move the refugees from the Central Plains to cultivate it, and promises that after a harvest, it will distribute the land to them for eternal cultivation.

In addition, the six-year tax exemption for newly reclaimed land in the southwest region will be exempted.

Each of these opinions surprised Wei Guangwei.

Who is this Lu Xiangsheng, and why have I never heard of it before?

It's a pity that he is a Gongsheng from Suzhou in Southern Zhili. If such a talent cannot be used by the court, it seems to be a big loss...

In this regard, since Wei Guangwei has become an eunuch, it is completely different from the original Donglin's thinking.

In his view, no matter where he was from, as long as he could contribute to the imperial court, he could be used.

At the national level, personal gains and losses, caressing, have to go back a little bit!

Chapter 189 The Last Last Grandson Zhixie

Finally passed the palace examination, Zhu Youxiao shook his neck, jumped off the dragon chair, and became the hands-off shopkeeper under the astonished eyes of all the tribute students and supervisors.

As the evening wind blows in, all the tribute students in the Hall of Martial Heroes are relieved, and at the same time, there is also a light but uncompromising tone:

"After collecting the papers, please hand them over to the Xinuang Pavilion. I will read them with you."

Hearing this, the Gongsheng students below who were doing the final inspection were dumbfounded. Didn’t they say that Emperor Tianqi was illiterate, and if he couldn’t read, he had to read the papers himself. Could it be that someone read him and listened to him?

With these strange ideas in mind, the Gongsheng students handed in the papers one by one. The moment they walked out of the Hall of Martial Arts, they felt that the world was so beautiful.

Until then, most of them are in the mood to watch the magnificent Forbidden City in front of them. If they come back next time, they may not know when it will be.

Back on the familiar armchair in Xinuange, Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief, saying that he could sit there for six hours, even he himself didn't dare to think about it.

"His Majesty……"

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao, who had fallen into a light sleep, was awakened by Wang Chaofu, the steward of Qianqing Palace, and said displeasedly:

"what's up?"

Wang Chaofu could hear the tiredness and impatience in Emperor Tianqi's voice, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and reply:

"The ministers gathered up the test papers for this palace test, and have been waiting outside the Nuan Pavilion for a while."

"Call them in quickly!"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered that he still had things to do.

When Wei Guangwei, Liu Zongzhou, and Zuo Guangdou came in with a stack of papers each, they found that Emperor Tianqi was lying on the couch, flipping through a book in his hand.

The three of them put the scrolls in front of the emperor one by one, and then bowed to salute:

"I see Your Majesty—"

"Well, all the Gong students have gone back?" Zhu Youxiao resisted sleepiness and asked vigorously.

"Go back to Your Majesty, we've all gone back, and the Hall of Martial Heroes has also been cleaned, and it looks brand new." Wei Guangwei said, rushing forward and saying:

"I read it for Your Majesty."

"No need, I can read." Zhu Youxiao glanced at him, which made the former shiver, and then said flatly:

"This paper, is it the order of the back row that you have read?"

If so, the one I hold in my hand should be the number one chosen by the examiners of the Ministry, that is, the number one scholar in the Renxu Imperial Palace Examination in the second year of Tianqi.

The three looked at each other, and Liu Zongzhou stepped forward and said:

"Return to Your Majesty, I will wait..."

"You just need to say yes or no." Zhu Youxiao didn't even raise his head, and gradually lost his patience in his words.

"Yes."

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Youxiaobian threw the paper in his hand at his feet, took out one from the stack on the left, read it for a while, and said:

"This Wang Yongji is not bad, where is he from?"

Liu Zongzhou replied:

"Your Majesty, Wang Yongji is a tribute student of a high-ranking student in the south of the Yangtze River. He has a little understanding of military affairs. This time, the strategy of dividing and transforming the southwestern chieftains in his volume is feasible."

"Gaoyou people..."

Zhu Youxiao repeated the sentence, but changed the subject, saying:

"Recorded third and last."

Hearing this, the two important ministers of Donglin in the cabinet were all taken aback. Such a talent, the emperor actually only enlisted the top three as Jinshi?

This is not a big deal, and he was deliberately ranked in the last place in the third class. Isn't this the last place in the palace examination, just because Wang Yongji is a Gongsheng student from Jiangnan?

"Your Majesty, is this biased..."

Before Liu Zongzhou had time to speak, the impetuous Zuo Guangdou spoke first. Immediately, he felt that something was going to go wrong.

Sure enough, Emperor Tianqi put down the paper and asked coldly:

"Are you teaching me how to become an official?"

"I dare not—"

Zuo Guangdou knelt down in panic, but hearing his tone, he should be full of dissatisfaction.

Zhu Youxiao naturally didn't care whether he was convinced, snorted coldly, and said:

"Then stop making noise in front of me!"

Immediately, another copy was drawn.

Looking at the examination paper, Zhu Youxiao raised his eyebrows, his expression was obviously not right, and the three ministers all looked at a loss, not knowing what was written on the paper, which made the emperor so excited.

In fact, this is not a question of what is written on the paper, but who wrote the paper. Sun Zhixie, Zhu Youxiao's name is like thunder!

This bastard is the chief culprit of Taqing's shaving order.

After entering the customs, even Dorgon didn't think of implementing the hair-shaving order immediately, but Sun Zhixie thought of it, and in order to flatter his new master, he directly mentioned it.

What he mentioned directly caused tens of millions of wives and children to be separated, and their families were destroyed!

Of course, he must be focused on flattering himself, the Great Ming Emperor, and has no intention of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't care about these things, this person had to be killed.

"You all have a look."

What is strange is that when Emperor Tianqi spoke, his expression was gentle and his tone was indifferent, as if the three of them had been daydreaming just now.

And the emperor didn't mean Long Xing at all.

Wei Guangwei looked suspicious, took the paper, saw who wrote it, and immediately decided that he had read it wrong.

This Sun Zhixie is a capable man!

When it comes to commenting on the governance of barbarians in the Southwest, the best idea is Lu Xiangsheng's, and he is the well-deserved number one in flattery and flattery!