I'm watching the gate in the jail

Qiu Qingtian's hometown is in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, bordering Huangshan Mountain in Huizhou, and adjacent to Wuyuan in Huizhou to the southeast.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was the main artery of water transport in the Ming and Qing dynasties.The Anhui merchants represented by the Lianghuai salt merchants are like the blood running on this main artery.

It can be said that the prosperity of Yangzhou and the prosperity of Jiangnan are due to the fact that this place has always been outstanding and talented since the Luoyang nobles went south in Yongjia years.

The most critical reason is to take advantage of the salt industry and the canal.

It really makes sense to take Huizhou as the first stop of the investigation.

And after leaving Huizhou, they can take the overland route instead, riding a car and riding a horse all the way, boasting about returning to their hometown, shaking off the prestige of becoming the first flower lover in Huanian.

For this trip, Wanda and others did not borrow a merchant ship, but set up an official ship to go south.

Sure enough, before this three-story official ship reached Xuzhou, the river had already begun to feel congested.

After entering the Qingjiang River, because the ship's hull was too large, it almost brushed shoulders with the huge merchant ship that was traveling in the opposite direction to transport grain northward several times.

At this time, there was no water transportation headquarters. In order not to delay the transportation of grain, Wanda and the others had no choice but to sail at night to make way for the grain transportation ship.

But even so, after entering the Huai'an Waterway, Wanda feels as if it is in the Beijing Fifth Ring Viaduct 600 years later every day.This familiar feeling makes people want to cry.

After approaching the south of the Yangtze River, the channel blocked by silt was also blocked by ships of all sizes, and it has reached the point where it cannot be moved at all.

Wanda and others can basically see the boats capsized in the river and the merchant ships stranded on the river beach every day, and they have to call the trackers to pull the fibers.

Standing on the deck, he listened to the scolding voices coming from the ships on both sides. The voices of "Niang Xipi", "Kuzi" and "Eccentrics" could be heard endlessly.

Although these people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who travel all over the country come from different regions, they are miraculously able to understand each other's accents and communicate with each other without any obstacles.The northerners were amazed after seeing it.

Fortunately, their ship is an official ship, and those people dare not curse at them.The accompanying officers and soldiers on board were not vegetarians.

But among them, except for Qiu Zijin, they are all from the north, even if they are scolded, they don't know what the other party is scolding.

"Xiaoqiu, what's the matter with you? I feel that if you continue to eat like this, you will eat a mouthful of tooth decay before we reach our destination."

Wanda smelled the sweet smell in Qiu Zijin's room, and felt that she was going to be crushed to death.

In the short time he was sitting here talking to Qiu Zijin, this guy had already consumed a pack of pine nut candy and a box of Jingguo.

Today Wanda received a report from Fei Ge in Jinyiwei Yamen.

The residence newspaper stated that although His Majesty finally did not allow the first assistant Li Xian to return to his hometown for three years, he finally agreed that he could leave home for the funeral.

In order to prevent Mr. Li from "delaying for too long" at home and "affecting work".

The "exploitationist" emperor's brother-in-law also specially sent someone to accompany Mr. Li Ge back to his hometown to "assist" him in handling the funeral as soon as possible, and urged Mr. Li not to miss his hometown for too long, and to return to Beijing on time to sell his vacation...

After reading the mansion newspaper, Wanda broke out in a cold sweat, and then looked sympathetically at Qiu Zijin, a classmate who returned home to "marry by the way".

At the same time, I finally realized that there seemed to be no difference between those who accompanied Xiaoqiu home to get married and those who accompanied Li Gelao home for the funeral...

Wanda originally wanted to drag Qiu Zijin to secretly criticize his brother-in-law, is it too inhumane, but he talked here for a long time, but the other party didn't seem to listen at all...

"My lord, I ask you."

Qiu Zijin didn't even take a sip of tea, and kept putting candy in his mouth, "Is Mei Qianzhang really dead?"

On the day they returned to the capital, Mei Qianzhang, who was still wearing a bandage on her chest, was taken away by the people from Nanzhen Fusi.

Half a month later, news came that he had been sentenced to hang for flouting military discipline and leaking military information.

"Well, dead."

Wanda twitched her eyebrows, reached out and took out a piece of pastry from the snack box and stuffed it into her mouth.

"People from Nanzhen Fusi executed it, and the fathers-in-law of Dongchang supervised it. After the execution, the people from Nanzhen Fusi used secret methods to dispose of the body."

Because Mei Qianzhang was already Jinyiwei at that time, and what he committed involved the inside story of Wanda and others' private visits to Guangxi Weifu, so he could not be executed publicly at Xisi Pailou, but could only be executed in Jinyiwei's yamen.

Including the corpses are handled in secret, and no information can be disclosed to the outside world.

Qiu Zijin put down the pastry in his hand, his expression was gloomy.

"Xiaoqiu, you, you make so many candied snacks on the boat, could it be..."

Could it be that he was waiting for Mei Qianzhang to steal it?

Wanda almost choked to death on the pastry stuck in her throat, picked up the teapot rudely, and gulped it down.

It wasn't until she swallowed the cake alive that Wanda let out a long sigh of relief.

"What did your lord say?"

Qiu Zijin glared at Wanda as if he had been told what was on his mind, but immediately returned to his listless look.

"You...you have a good rest."

Seeing Qiu Zijin's appearance, combined with his own dark brain, Wanda ran out of Qiu Zijin's cabin in a panic.

"what happened?"

Yang Xiuxian was coming from the other end of the corridor, and seeing Wanda's ghost-like expression, he asked with concern.

"No...it's fine."

Wanda shook her head, secretly cursing that she might be confused by sugar

Not everyone in this world likes gays!

And what is Xiaoqiu?Wenquxing descends to earth!

The future is boundless?

The most important thing is that he went home to get married this time.

Mei Qianzhang or something, it's impossible, impossible...

"By the way, Ah Zhi wrote me a letter."

Wanda whispered, and walked towards the deck with Yang Xiuxian.

It has been almost half a year since Wang Zhi entered the inner study. Not only has his Chinese level improved by leaps and bounds, but now he can't hear the native accent of the Southwest at all, and he is already proficient in Beijing movies.

Moreover, he already knew a lot of Chinese characters, and his level of writing big characters was almost as good as that of Susu, who was illiterate and more than ten years older than him.

For the time being, Wang Zhi can only write some simple spoken Chinese, which just happens to take care of Wanda who also has a "hard hand" in classical Chinese.

Since they went south, they have communicated once every five days or so.

White and gray carrier pigeons "cuckoo" to and fro between the Forbidden City and official ships.

It stands to reason that only people in the internal system can use Jinyiwei's Feige transmission.But who told Wang Zhi not to be disciplined by someone else, but the current owner of the East Factory, Huai En...

It was only after Wanda entered Beizhen Fusi that he learned this cold knowledge of the Ming Dynasty: Jinyiwei and Dongchang usually work together.

The Dugong of the palm print can admiral the Jinyiwei troops, especially in occasions that require violent suppression and force cooperation.

"Ah Zhi said..."

Wanda looked back and forth, lowered his voice, and said nervously, "Recently, he found that the Empress Dowager Zhou often sent people to check around the Zhaode Palace. Those people were sneaky and did not enter the palace. They just stood outside and watched... A few times Ah Zhi deliberately walked over to pull those palace people's legs, and those people would pretend to pass by deliberately and then leave."

I have to say that Ah Zhi is really a very smart kid.

Maybe some people are born geniuses.Wang Zhi's genius is not only manifested in language, but his carefulness and vigilance have already greatly surpassed his peers, even most adults.

At least, the other palace people in Zhaode Palace didn't seem to notice the change in Ningqing Palace.

Under the protection of Mei Niang and Wang Zheng, Wang Zhi, who grew up carefree until he was six years old, grew up rapidly shortly after entering the palace.

It was one day not long after the group of children who came from Guangxi to pay tribute entered the palace for training.

Wanda went to the palace to visit Wan Zhen'er, who had not yet given birth at the time. In the corner of Zhaode Palace, he saw Wang Zhi squatting by the flower bed with a dejected expression on his face.

"Susu, they all said, those little servants said that it was my father who caused them to come into the palace. Their parents were also killed because of my father."

Xiao Wang squatted on the ground, with teardrops in his big eyes, "Is it true? Everyone is because of my father. My father has done bad things and hurt many people, so everyone hates him." .Is it like this?"

Wanda squatted down, touched Wang Zhi's little head wearing the servant's hat, and nodded bitterly.

"However, when I was at home, everyone said that my father is a great hero. Ah Zhi has always wanted to be a great hero like my father."

"However, a great hero can also do wrong things."

Wanda was at a loss, he really didn't know how to comfort the child, "If you do something wrong, you will be punished."

"So, my father, mother and Uncle Pan are all dead, right?"

Looking up again, Wang Zhi's pale and tender face has completely changed its expression.

A kind of solemnity that only adults have appeared on the face of a six-year-old child, which made Wanda's heart ache.

"They didn't go to business, but they died. Because they did something wrong, they were executed by the court, right?"

Although it was a question sentence, Wanda knew that Xiao Wang Zhi already knew the fact that he was an orphan.

Among the group of children captured into the palace, the oldest boy was 13 years old, and if it was a girl, there were even older girls who were seventeen or eighteen years old.Many people already remember things and know the reason why they entered the palace.

Wanda thought, those people should have told Wang Zhi what happened to his father.

Children are really direct and cruel animals.

"Those people don't have birds anymore. Eunuch Wynn and Eunuch Tan said that they don't either, but I have them."

In order to protect the secret that Wang Zhi had never been clean, Qin Chang was in charge of his daily life and washing.

But apart from bathing and going to the toilet, Wang Zhi and these little servants live and eat together every day, so he naturally noticed the difference between himself and those children.

This difference was won for him by his "susu".

Wang Zhi wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"When I was studying in the inner school, my husband said that to be a man, you should 'repay the kindness of a drop of water, and the fountain', and you should also 'obey the Lord and be loyal to the emperor', and 'repay the emperor with death'."

Neishutang is the place where the servants learn to read and write. Those who are in charge of teaching them are all well-educated people from the Imperial Academy. What they teach are naturally the thoughts of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.

It seems that Xiao Wang has listened to it.

"Su Su..."

Wang Zhi hugged Wanda's neck tightly, and said firmly, "I will listen to Susu's words. I will also listen to your Majesty and Your Majesty's words. I will be a good man who is loyal to the emperor and serves the country, and I will repay you."

Wanda hugged his small body, holding back tears.

Life in the palace must not be as peaceful as it seemed every time he entered the palace.

In the past six months, what happened to Wang Zhizhi?

Only then can he change from a completely carefree young man to such a well-behaved and stable boy.

Steady enough to make people feel distressed.

Thinking of my sister, when she entered the palace, she was two years younger than Wang Zhi now.

What did she go through to get to where she is now in this treacherous harem?

However, for Wanda now, Wang Zhi, who was accompanying Wan Zhen'er in Zhaode Palace at this time, is no longer an ordinary pet, a kitten and puppy who amuses the empress, and a pistachio.

He became Wanda's eyes, protecting his sister and nephew for him in a place that ordinary people cannot easily reach.

"The difference between Ningqing Palace and Zhaode Palace is so far...how did those palace people pass by?"

Yang Xiuxian also felt something was wrong.

"Even if she doesn't like the emperor's eldest son, it's still her grandson, the first grandson, isn't it?"

Wanda was extremely puzzled.

If he guessed right, the Queen Mother Zhou actually wanted to harm the eldest son of the emperor.

Also, nothing hits a sister more than losing a child.

"She is the emperor's mother. As long as His Majesty has the first child, it means that she will have countless grandsons and granddaughters in the future. It seems that one child is not enough to dissolve the hatred she has had for the imperial concubine over the years."

Yang Xiuxian said with a sigh.

Although it is said that why do women make things difficult for women, the enmity between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law may indeed be a difficult problem that cannot be resolved until one party dies.

Not to mention this pair of "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" who are basically the same age.

"A Zhi is really sensitive. Thanks to him."

Wanda needs to think carefully about how to reply to Wang Zhi's letter.

Because Wan Zhen'er and Mei Niang are similar in age, when Wang Zhi first entered the palace, except for sleeping, he basically hung out in Zhaode Palace.The feeling of being by the empress's side is like returning to the mother's side.

The elder sister's intimacy with Xiao Wang Zhi has long surpassed the relationship between an ordinary inner palace master and a servant.

The relationship between the hard-working "master and servant" moved Wanda.

Everything in the "last life" has been too long, and Wanda has forgotten many things.

But he firmly believes that as long as he is there, the current Xiao Wang Zhi will never become the treacherous and evil person that everyone shouts and beats in history.

And he will not let his sister become the "Wan Guifei" who was criticized by the historians.

The congestion finally eased as the ships transferred from the Grand Canal to the Xin'an River.The speed of their actions gradually accelerated, allowing them to finally reach Huizhou at the end of April.

The place they are going to visit this time is She County.

She County is the hometown of Huizhou merchants, the hometown of She inkstone and the capital of Hui ink.

This county is located at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi and Zhu Laofuzi once founded "Ziyang Academy" here and gave lectures here.

The literary style in She County is at its peak. It is said that even in a small village with only seven or eight young children, there are masters teaching in the village.Even ordinary country women can blurt out ancient poems.

"From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 600 scholars in Guangshe County."

Those who followed Qiu Zijin to explain were the county magistrate Luo Luo who came to welcome Shangguan, and representatives of the local gentry.

Hearing that the inspector censor came here, these people waited at the pier early to welcome them, and said that they had heard that the censor and Jin Yiwei Zhen Fu had arrived early in the morning, and had already arranged a banquet.

I can finally be blatantly "arrogant" for once!

Wanda twitched her index finger when she heard this, and wished she could fly into the county right away, see the charming scenery at the foot of Huangshan Mountain, and listen to the operas of Huizhou in the Ming Dynasty—that must be the great grandfather of the "quintessence" of Peking opera!

How could Qiu Zijin, who lives in Wuyuan next door to them, not know about the situation introduced by the county magistrate Rhodes and the gentry around him.

All of this, isn't it just for the younger brother of the most popular imperial concubine who just gave birth to the emperor's eldest son for His Majesty the Emperor!

You know, at the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Rites and the servants came to Huangshan to offer incense to the eldest son of the emperor, and Lord Luo, the county magistrate, even accompanied him personally.

"Last year in the spring, I remember that three Jinshi from Guixian County were on the list, and one of them broke into the palace examination and went to the Luming Banquet with me."

The general examinations of the Ming Dynasty were generally held in Qiuwei, which is the second year after the provincial examinations were held.

Qiu Zijin was Tanhualang in high school last year.

And there will be another two years to wait before the birth of the next Tanhualang.

What he just said was about the events of the Rong En Banquet, also known as the "Deer Ming Banquet" and "Qiong Lin Banquet", for the candidates of the same subject after the results of the palace examination were announced last year.

Wanda looked at Qiu Zijin, who was showing off the grades of the students in the county, with a calm expression on Qiu Zijin's face.

Thinking that this is probably the "Versailles" that belongs to Xueba.

Three Jinshi can be produced within a year, and one of them has at least broken into the second class—what does this mean?

In the triennial exam, three people from a small county were admitted to the top [-] in the country.

This is much more difficult than later generations' admission to Tsinghua University and Peking University.

You must know that Qiu Zijin, as the supervisory censor, has the duty to assess the performance of local officials.

The assessment of officials in the Ming Dynasty was multi-faceted, including taxation, corvee service, enthronement checks on the yellow book, arrest of thieves, persuasion to farmers, and so on.

A small county government has concentrated the responsibilities of taxation, industry and commerce, police, urban management, and education in the future.

The two most important of these are taxes and education.

The "education" here, in a crude way, refers to how many students from the county stand out in the provincial and general examinations every year.It is similar to the "enrollment rate assessment" of later generations.

In a town of culture and education like She County, if there are not three Jinshi in three years, people will be amazed. If there is something wrong with the current parent official, it will even alarm the officials at the first level of the government to come down for inspection.

"The south of the Yangtze River is rich and prosperous, so there are naturally more scholars. What's more, Huizhou is the hometown of the sage Zhu."

Qiu Zijin said seriously.

The county magistrate Luo originally wanted to show off his political achievements, but he didn't expect the other party to think that this was nothing at all, so he smiled embarrassingly twice and shut his mouth obediently.

"Qiu Xun's words are wrong. Although Huizhou people are good at reading because of the ethos. But in the past two years in the competition, our She County has been among the best in the whole prefecture."

Seeing that Rhodes was a little embarrassed, a gentleman beside him interrupted and said to Qiu Zijin, "We don't compare ourselves with others, we just talk about the one next door..."

Just when this person was about to speak, he saw a figure with a large piece of paper written on his head, shouting "I am wronged" all the way, dodging several times, avoiding the officers and soldiers who wanted to catch him, " Plop." Kneeling down in front of Qiu Yushi.

"Master Censor!"

The young man raised his head and looked firmly at Qiu Zijin, "The villain's master has a grievance. The villain knew that the supervisory censor from the capital arrived today, so he came here to file a complaint! Please avenge the villain's master!"

Rhodes, who was standing behind Qiu Zijin, took a deep breath, and was about to call for someone to drag this rude servant out, so as not to disturb Lord Yushi and the younger brother of the imperial concubine.

I saw Wan Zhen Fu smiled and bent down, took the pleading paper, and handed it to Qiu Zijin who was frowning.

Oops, that's right.

Wanda thought.

Isn't that how it's played on TV?

Patrol officers from eight prefectures came to visit, and the local people stopped their sedan chairs to redress their grievances.Then it is the link that everyone loves to see Qingtian handle the case and kill corrupt officials and bandits.

The person who came to sue was surnamed Ding, he was quite prestigious, and he was a servant of the Ding family who specialized in the lake silk business.

It stands to reason that on an occasion like today, Master Ding should also be present to welcome Qiu Shangguan with other gentry and countrymen.

It is even possible to vacate the Ding family's house to welcome Wanda and his group to move in - just like when the last supervisory censor came to She County for inspection.Master Ding said that their family is a distinguished family, and they always take pride in receiving distinguished guests.

But this time, Master Ding did not show up.

Because he fell ill, according to the complaint, he was very sick, with a splitting headache, and could barely give birth.

And the ones he wanted to sue were the magistrate of this county, Luo Luo, and the squire who had interrupted when Qiu Zijin and the magistrate Luo were talking just now—Guo Yuanwai.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, when the people sue the officials, regardless of the reason, they first beat the board to "kill power".

Since Mr. Ding was dying of illness, he naturally wouldn't come to complain by himself, so he could only let this little Ding do it for him.

So now, Ding is going to get spanked.

Qiu Zijin, Wanda and the others had just disembarked, so naturally there would be no instruments of torture on the pier.

So all the meals and stays were cancelled.

All are available, let's go to the county government office first.

Sure enough, extravagance and lust... Is that a beautiful thing that people with "Conan physique" like me can enjoy?

Wanda sniffed and let out a long sigh.

When everyone left the pier, Qiu Zijin rejected the county magistrate Luo's proposal to sit in a sedan chair, and the "group of four Fusi of Beizhen" walked to the county government office on foot as usual.

Those country gentlemen who had no chance to walk on weekdays were embarrassed, but they didn't dare to complain and shrink back.

I could only obediently follow behind this group of young men in their 20s, walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Walking from the pier to the city is actually only a distance of more than ten miles, but it still amazes Wanda.

He could hardly count how many archways he had passed along the way.

These tall, blue-gray archways are scattered on the streets along the way, along the banks of the fields and water.

Wanda narrowed his eyes, and even on the low slope of the green hill not far away, he could vaguely see several archways standing among the mountains.

Like a thin fairy, independent of the world.

There are also many archways in Beijing.The east and west archways are still the two busiest commercial streets in the capital, and the two tall archways are erected at the intersections of their respective streets.Every day, we are greeted by the morning bells and evening drums and the bustling crowds in the capital.

Like two tall door gods, people feel kind when they look at them.

The archways in Huizhou are completely different from those in the capital, although there are quite a few standing in the streets and in front of temples.

But more, I was walking, and suddenly a archway bumped into my eyes, and it might even be just a piece of wasteland next to it.

Compared with the bare scene next to it, this stone archway carved with dragons and phoenixes, exquisite in shape, and engraved with royal vocabulary such as "imperial gift" and "enrong" is particularly shocking.

There is a sense of grandeur and desolation.

"This is a specialty of Huizhou."

Master Luo and Guo Yuanwai, who were sued, didn't bother to introduce to Wanda this time, but Qiu Zijin began to talk freely.

"This archway is the glory of a family. Don't think that they appear everywhere with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west. In fact, there are treasures of geomantic omen after Kanyu. It is said that they can protect the prosperity of the descendants from generation to generation and keep them safe forever. To the clan To me, an archway is no less important than an ancestral grave."

Huizhou in the Ming Dynasty had a lot of money, literati, and archways, and there was another thing, that is, there were a lot of Fengshui masters.

The degree to which people in Huizhou believe in Feng Shui can be seen from the files of the cases closed every year.

Local residents sue, eight out of ten, nine times out of ten, someone has occupied someone's good Feng Shui, and whoever broke someone's good grave.

For the sake of feng shui, it is almost common for clans and villages to turn against each other.This is also one of the most troublesome things for the county magistrates and state officials who come here to be officials.

In a sense, the level of trouble even goes beyond taxes and education.After all, these two items are their strengths, and things like Feng Shui... really only God knows.

Qiu Zijin pointed to a group of archways lined up on the winding road ahead.

"Look at these archways, some are for commending fame, some are for rewarding Xiaoyi, but most of them are for promoting Zhenlie."

"Zhen Lie?"

Wanda frowned, a bad premonition struck her heart.

"Huizhou is the hometown of Old Master Zhu, so Zhu Lixue is very popular. The so-called 'preserve the principles of nature and eliminate human desires'. Have you heard of it?"

The scumbag nodded his head, half understanding.

"Women are not like men, they can glorify their families by studying. But they can use another method—such as raising a promising son."

Yang Xiuxian continued.

Just like Qiu Zijin's mother, it is said that last year His Majesty sent someone to issue an order to allow the Qiu family to build a centenary Enrong archway in front of their house, in recognition of Qiu's mother's ability to teach their children well.

"There is another kind, which is to observe the festival for the dead husband."

Everyone came to the front of a tall "chaste memorial archway" and looked up together, looking at the origin of the archway and the name of the honored martyrdom engraved on it.

"Beginning to be a widow until she passed away at the age of 60. The son of Mrs. Qian, because of his mother's 'virginity', submitted a statement to the state government, and the state government then submitted a statement to the Ministry of Rites in Beijing. In the end, he got this building to show off. The archway of the lintel."

Qiu Zijin pointed to the story recorded above and said.

"Then...there are so many chastity archways here, are they all here?"

Seems a little unfriendly to widows?

As a modern person, Wanda feels a little disgusted physiologically.

"It's too slow. It takes at least 40 years to wait for a memorial archway. If the woman lives long enough, it may take five to 60 years."

Yang Xiuxian took a step forward and said sadly, "I just read it along the way. There are many women who committed suicide not long after their husbands died. For this reason, their husbands' families have been honored."

"Sacrifice? The first emperor has abolished the system of burial. Why do women in the folk have to die?"

Wanda never knew that the gentle Jiangnan people had such a fierce side, so she couldn't help being surprised.

"I just don't know whether it was 'voluntary' or 'voluntary'."

Qiu Zijin sneered.

"Do you know what Master Ding sued County Magistrate Luo for?"

"He... did he force the woman to commit suicide and be buried?"

Wanda was taken aback by his own thought.

"Not so much."

Qiu Zijin shook his head, "According to what Master Ding said, his mother once got a chastity memorial archway because she kept the festival for her husband for 40 years."

"And this archway was recently demolished by Master Luo."

Qiu Zijin turned around and looked at the flinching Magistrate Luo.

"The reason is that another family in the county has requested a petition for their daughter-in-law who died less than two years ago, which has been approved by the court. And that archway belongs to the Guo family."

"When the Guo family erected the archway, they demolished the old lady Ding's archway."

The author has something to say: Regarding the future of the eldest son of the emperor, I can't spoil it yet.Everyone first wait.

Bean Knowledge: The most admitted imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were in the second year of Yongle, with a total of 472 people admitted; the least one was in the 24th year of Hongwu, with 31 people.

In the Ming Dynasty, a total of 89 subject examinations were held, and a total of 24866 students were admitted (this number may not be accurate), with an average of 276.5 students per subject.

Candidates who took the imperial examination in the Hongwu Dynasty were too pitiful. Except for 24 years, they caught up with the lowest admission rate in the country.In the unfortunate case of Hongwu's 30-year exam, there will be a dispute between the North and the South, and a large number of scholars will die.The test scores of all southern candidates were cancelled.