The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

It’s no wonder that in the late Ming Dynasty, there was a shortage of talents, and the national talent ceremony was reduced to a feast for some powerful people to trade power and money and make a fortune. Who else can be selected?

Tang Lian'er handed Yan Song a tightly packed envelope: "I asked a thief from the White Lotus Sect to steal this from a child of an aristocratic family. Those who sell questions are very cautious. They not only dress up as fortune tellers, but also never follow Do business with people they don’t know well. Only the children of the aristocratic families they know can get these real questions. I can’t let people buy them, so I can only steal them.”

Yan Song's eyes flashed: "These question sellers know so many descendants of aristocratic families, which shows that their backgrounds are also extraordinary. Maybe the people behind them are the masterminds behind those who bought and sold imperial examination positions in the past!"

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Chapter 1084 Really Bet on the Title 【2】

Yan Song's eyes flashed: "These question sellers know so many descendants of aristocratic families, which shows that their backgrounds are also extraordinary. Maybe the people behind them are the masterminds behind those who bought and sold imperial examination positions in the past!"

Tang Lian'er nodded again and again: "As expected of Mr. Yan Ge, your guess is very likely to be the truth. Otherwise, these people selling questions would not be able to find those buyers so well and make transactions."

Yan Song tore open the envelope and took out a piece of paper.

On this piece of paper, there are 10 real questions written.

The first question: "The way of university is to show virtue, to be close to the people, and to stop at perfection"

The second question: "A gentleman is virtuous and kisses his relatives, and a villain enjoys his own happiness and benefits his own interests. This is why we will never forget it in this world."

The third question: "There is a way to make money."

Question [-]: "..."Three Five Zero""

Yan Song looked at it and broke out in a cold sweat.

Because the third question: "There is a way to make money" happens to be one of the four questions and four books he came up with!

This question is a clean stream that Yan Song injected into the imperial examination in order to promote his capital-first thought.He also wanted to use the words of the sages and use economic methods to see what kind of money-making methods these scholars with the Four Books and Five Classics had in their heads.

He looked down again.

Ninth question: "Although Zhou is an old state, its destiny is only new."

Yan Song's mind exploded again.

wipe!

Another hit!

This question means that although the Zhou Dynasty is an old state, it needs continuous reform and innovation to maintain its vitality.This is a reformist test question, and it is also a test for the candidates in the imperial examination by Yan Song as the standard-bearer guiding the reform of Ming Dynasty.

Yan Song, of course, is not willing to choose those stupid pigs who only understand the meaning and talk nonsense. What he wants is young talents who understand the way of managing the world and helping the people, and have the courage to reform and innovate, so the topics he proposes are all It is related to the two major themes of reform and economy.

This is also a clear signal that Yan Song, as a reformist mind, sent to scholars all over the world-during my Yan Song administration, only if you understand the economy and have the courage to reform can you be an official and have a future!

Nima, those feudal and rotten Confucians, don't think about getting on the list.

But out of these ten questions, two questions have already been suppressed!

He looked down and was speechless again.

Because of the tenth question, unfortunately, I was hit by the betting question again!

"A gentleman does not compare himself, and a villain does not compare himself."

This is from the "Analects of Confucius" in the Four Books, and it is Yan Song's only question about a gentleman and a villain, because it is an imperial examination, and it is impossible not to involve the topic of a gentleman and a villain.Otherwise, the Jiajing test would not be easy.But Yan Song has kept a mechanism here, which is specially used to disgust the prince and Xu Jie.Because everyone in the world knows that Yan Song has no party affiliation and is alone (on the surface), but the princelings are the most powerful cronies in the court!

In other words, this is a test question that Yan Song asked scholars all over the world to criticize Sang Huai, the crown prince and Xu Jie!

If the prince and Xu Jie saw it, they would definitely faint from anger.

Presumably those masters who are taking the test will also have a nervous breakdown and scratch their heads when they see this test question.

The question is, to scold or not to scold?

If you scold him, you are scolding the prince, maybe you are ranked high, and the article is passed down as Chengwen, then you are blatantly scolding the prince!In the future, he will inevitably offend the princelings, and he has a grudge, so he can only stay away from the prince obediently.

If you don't scold... you won't pass the exam!

It has to be said that Yan Song's methods of manipulating people can be described as endless, digging holes for the prince everywhere.

In particular, the topic of cursing cronies can be said to have touched Emperor Jiajing's heart!

Jiajing hated cronies the most, and repeatedly scolded ministers who formed cliques in the court.

If the ministers formed a party, wouldn't the emperor be emptied?

Yesterday Yan Song gave the exam questions to Jiajing. After Jiajing read it, he was most satisfied with this question. He was overwhelmed, his eyes lit up, and he shouted: "Yan Aiqing is really talented, and this exam question has come out of my heart! Good! Good! I also want to see how scholars in the world scold cliques! If they are well scolded, if they are selected, I will personally write a preface and publish it in a collection! Let those who only have cliques in their hearts but no ruler and father have a look! "

But right now.

Yan Song broke out in a cold sweat.

Among the so-called real questions, ten questions outweighed three of his own.An economic question, a crony question, and a reform question.

There are only four questions in total for the most important four-book questions in the imperial examination!

Although there is another question that is a relatively rare Mencius question, which was not hit, but this kind of four-in-three leak question is not much different from all the leak questions....

Yan Song's first reaction when he saw this question was that someone around him leaked the question!

But when he thought about it carefully, it shouldn't be. He personally wrote and sealed the test questions.With his martial arts cultivation, not to mention the people in this world, even Gai Nie would not be able to steal this topic without disturbing him.

Could it be that there is a problem with the emperor?

Also unlikely.