[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

In the third round of the test, the examiners seemed to have no intention of letting the candidates play freely. This time, all the seasonings and ingredients they brought were ruthlessly confiscated when they entered the arena.

Instead, a bowl of mixed noodles was given out at mealtimes, using the most common method of mixing noodles in Yingtianfu, and two boiled eggs were placed in each person's bowl.

Thinking about it this way is to ensure that if the noodles do not meet the taste of the candidates, there will still be egg pads, but obviously, this situation is relatively rare.

Most of the candidates who came to take the exam did not have any requirements for food, especially those who lived in Xiangshan Bookstore, they felt that the noodles were quite delicious when they ate them.

Ahem, Xiangshan Bookstore itself exists to solve the most basic survival problems. To be honest, the food supply there can only be said to be starving.

However, the dormitory area also clearly stipulates that all candidates must go down the mountain if they want to satisfy their appetites. They are not allowed to buy takeaways, nor are they allowed to bring in wild food, and it is strictly forbidden to share.

Even nearby stalls are not allowed to sell meals.

The reason is also very simple. If the dormitory provides meals in a unified way, it can ensure safety. But if you buy food from outside, who will be responsible if you eat food or get sick?Xiangshan Bookstore will never take the blame.

Eating is not safe, so of course there is no need to talk about sharing food. In case something happens, do you think people doubt you or believe you?

As the saying goes, the melon field does not accept the shoes, the Li Xia does not crown the crown, and it is the behavior of a gentleman who does not cause trouble to others or trouble himself.

Under such intimidation by the administrators, the disgruntled students could only shiver and give up saving their tongues, and insisted on eating student meals for several months.

Candidates whose tongues have been blunted are eating outside food for the first time in these days, tears welling up in their eyes!

Is it the imperial chef who cooks for them?It must be the royal chef, right?Why is it so delicious!

No... In fact, it was cooked by ordinary chefs in the kitchen of the Ministry of Rituals, and what they brought out was also the regular configuration of civil servants in Ming Dynasty.

Candidates who ate with tears in their eyes felt a sigh of relief as they watched the invigilator, inexplicably thinking of themselves before becoming an official, and some sentimental ones also remembered those years when they fought with Emperor Hongwu.

Few people in their generation didn’t go hungry when they were teenagers. If it weren’t for the fact that they couldn’t survive, who would want to put their head on the waistband of their trousers and go to the battlefield to fight their lives.

When they went to the battlefield, they thought nothing more than earning a living for themselves and future generations.

Looking at these candidates who can be said to have grown up through their efforts, all the invigilators suddenly felt a little affection.

But this love and affection jumped directly when passing by Mu Bai's cell.

Sorry, they really don't have much affection for this boy who caused them to have meetings again and again.

Several invigilators who were in charge of distributing the meals specially distributed a large portion of noodles and put them in front of Mu Bai.

Don't get me wrong, this move is not good intentions. Today I am a poor person who loves crops very much. The meals of the princes and daughters in the Daming Palace can definitely be called the simplest among the royal families of all dynasties.

There are usually three or four small dishes and a pot of rice on the dining table of the first family.Unless it was a major event related to the face of the country, Emperor Hongwu generally did not allow extravagant cooking in the kitchen, and ingredients such as abalone and sea cucumber, which required a lot of labor to salvage, were not allowed to appear on the table.

Therefore, it is understandable that Emperor Hongwu hated people eating leftovers, right?

From a young age, it’s the examination room’s food. When you grow up, it’s a feast from the emperor. Even a bowl of noodles is a gift. Who dares to leave food when the emperor gives it to you?You have to eat even if you lie flat!

And noodles are not as tasty as soup noodles. If you eat noodles alone, you will get tired easily, and if you don’t eat them fast enough, they will even clump together.

They discussed for a long time, and everyone felt that if the noodles were clumped, there was absolutely no room for recovery under the current situation. That is to say, the child would at most soak in hot water and eat, and this time he would definitely not be a demon.

In the imagination of these invigilators, there are only two possibilities for the next one, a child leftovers, and a child forced, no matter which one can relieve their hatred.

But what they didn't expect at all was that when Mu Bai took the rice bowl, he showed a look of great interest, then he picked up the chopsticks, rolled up the noodles and stuffed them into his mouth without hesitation, without showing any embarrassment color.

He must be holding on!The invigilator was already a little panicked.

When he turned back after sharing all the meals, he was shocked.

This kid actually ate up the entire bowl of noodles that an adult would find too much!

All!

I even finished eating two eggs!A thin layer of sauce-colored soup base is left.

How can this be?Did he dump the noodles into the Gong bucket?The invigilator immediately turned to his colleague who was standing there for verification, but his colleague shook his head solemnly at him, saying that the examinee did not use any tricks, and he relied entirely on his own strength.

Mu Bai: Huh?Don't you know that we martial arts practitioners have a lot of appetite?In fact, I have not eaten enough before several times.This time I can finally let go of my stomach and eat, I am happy.

Fortunately, the invigilator didn't know what was going on in his heart, otherwise it would be too pitiful.

A bullying incident caused by Mu Bai's inadvertent offense before ended hastily without the parties knowing it, and it can be regarded as a happy event on the whole.

After eating, Mu Bai washed his hands, tidied the desk and began to write a draft.

Yes, at the third exam, he was finally about to officially use his draft paper.

The third part of the examination tests the candidate's thinking ability and ability to govern the country.The imperial examination, to put it bluntly, is an inaugural examination. What the officialdom wants is talents who can be hired and can take office directly, and they don't plan to spend effort on re-educating talents.

Therefore, the third test is whether students can use it directly.

The chief examiner of this year's candidates is not well-known in the literary world, but he has done a lot in the political arena, and he can be regarded as a practical talent.Therefore, the questions he asked are also very practical, that is, let the students briefly talk about the strategy of flattening.

This question is not big, but it is not small, just look at how to understand the word [平].With Daming's current strength, he can basically rely on level A to deal with many alien races.

The Ming Dynasty’s attack on Yunnan is an ironclad proof. Regardless of the fact that the entire battle line seems to have been stretched extremely long, it was so long that the Mu brothers all made a big circle around Yunnan. Once the two armies came into contact with Kunming King Liang committed suicide and Dali Duan's surrender, but it took only two or three months.

Even counting the time that Fu Youde's army is still in Yunnan running around to deal with those resentful Tu people, more than six months will have passed.

For most of the six months, the Ming army was in the local area to sort out government affairs and clean up the mess for Qian Yuan. From this, we can also get a glimpse of the fighting power of the Ming army today.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that those people on the grassland were so hard to find, the Canyuan government, which had been beaten to death, would have been wiped out long ago.

But this [Ping] is definitely not what the court needs.

Wen Zhiguo, Wu Dingbang, if a civil servant is asked this question and the answer is the thinking of a general, then this civil servant must be unqualified.

Mu Bai rubbed his hands. Although this question is really difficult, it is a coincidence that he just discussed it with his friends before!

Mu Xiaobai is now as happy as every child who finds himself inadvertently betting on the exam questions during the exam. The happiness and joy can't be hidden. At this moment, he feels that this article can be completed in one go—— This is of course impossible.

Turning ideas into words is a huge problem in itself, otherwise the baldness rate of literati groups would not be much higher than that of generals.What's more, he had to write the plan as comprehensively as possible.

By the way, considering that everyone came up with this idea together, in order to avoid the suspicion of fraud, the topic discussed before has to be further processed.

Coincidentally, during the previous discussion, Mu Bai still had some ideas that he had not shared with his friends.

Originally, he had already written this idea on the paper during the provincial examination, but at that time he was just working behind closed doors, so the answer could only be said to be that it looked colorful and not very operable. The holes left by the naive thinking of the past.

He picked up his pen and ink, and wrote down the words "on the possible influence of mixed living and migration on tribal integration" on the manuscript paper.

It is not impossible to resolve hatred, increase understanding, accept and recognize each other, learn culture and receive education, but it is too slow.

If you want to get to know each other as quickly as possible, living together is a good way.

For example, Xiangshan Bookstore, it is precisely because everyone lives together that he knows that people in the Central Plains do not like to eat sour. The limit they can accept is Shanxi vinegar for dipping dumplings. They can't stand papaya at all.

If it wasn't for this opportunity, he might never know that Yuanxiao is hand rubbed in the south, and rolled in flour in the north, and he might never know that in coastal Fujian and Qiongzhou Island, they have mastered it. With the introduction of oyster farming methods, now you don’t have to go to sea to fish for delicious oysters.

And other candidates may not know that in addition to the Miao and Luoluo ethnic groups in Yunnan, most people in Yunnan make a living from farming, do not raise insects, ride elephants, let alone ride peacocks!

Although we are separated by thousands of rivers and mountains, it is quite interesting to have similar food.Although the composition ratio of the food is different, there are rice cakes in the north and Baba in the south; noodles in the north and rice noodles in the south.In northern legends, flames can ward off disasters, and the same is true in the south.

These are absolutely not written in books, because both parties feel that this is common sense.And it is precisely these differences and common points that are the points of fusion and opposition between the two nations.

Mubai believes that in the eyes of Atu and Halati, Han people will no longer be synonymous with cunning. Most of them are friendly and knowledgeable, and they are willing to tolerate some differences.

And in the minds of my Han Chinese friends, when it comes to Yunnan, they don't feel that there is barbarism everywhere, and the people they meet are either savages or barbarians.

This would not have been possible if it hadn't been for the fact that everyone lived together and understood and communicated with each other in a friendly manner.

Therefore, if you want to enhance the communication between the two parties, living together is the best way.

As for the mixed blood after living together, Mu Bai doesn't care.

In the era he lived in, there was no such thing as a nation. People from different countries could marry and have children normally, and their offspring were not looked down upon.

What makes people stronger than other creatures is their tolerance, ability to learn, and persistent beliefs, which have nothing to do with blood.

Just like his former companions, because of his arrogance and warlikeness, he changed from the lord of a country to a prisoner. In order to survive, he even led a horse to eat dung. How can he be noble?

And it was the same him, after being humiliated and returning to the country, he resolutely mobilized his troops, made arrangements for his body and family, frugalized his family to benefit the country, and achieved the great cause of destroying Wu 16 years later with his own efforts.What does this have to do with blood?

It is never blood relationship that determines whether a person is noble, but inner strength.

The original Huaxia was just a corner of the Huanghuai River Basin, but the reason why Daming is Daming today is because of absorption and integration.

Therefore, he believes that the real strategy of leveling is not leveling people, but leveling hearts.

As for the difference in living habits, looks, and clothing... Mu Bai quoted a sentence from "Chunqiu Zuozhuan": "If water is used to feed water, who can eat it? If the instrument is single-minded, who can listen to it ?”

When cooking, no oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar are used, and only a single water is used. Who would like to eat it?When playing, only the qin and zither are used, without supplementary instruments, singers, and dancers. Who wants to watch it all the time?

"A wise man seeks common ground, a fool seeks differences, and seeking common ground while reserving differences is the policy of the country... This kid really dares to write." The emperor in Fengtian Hall stroked his beard and smiled, his eyes full of appreciation and joy.

The chief examiner who presented the test paper was more than half disappointed, and then he expressed his appeal.

"Your Majesty, the examinee's writing in this paper is too bold, and his strategic thinking is also unheard of. As for how to evaluate, the opinions of all colleagues are very different. The polarization of the debate is unprecedented, so I have to be shy. Your Majesty, please decide."

"Is that so?" Emperor Hong Wu folded the test paper that had been sealed and held it in his palm, looked at this beloved minister who was chosen by him as the examiner, narrowed his eyes and asked, "What do you think?"

"In my opinion, this examinee's ability to use allusions is a little insufficient. For example, the theory of similarities and differences is not from a sage, but a medical book. Many of the other allusions he quoted have never been heard by me. I think they are not from the Four Books and Five Classics. Inside." The examiner raised his eyes slightly, and said again, "Ran Chen thinks that the lack of academic skills can be made up for, but the lack of character and courage cannot be made up for."

"I am stupid. I have been an official under His Majesty for 18 years. It is not that I have not thought about how to rectify after the expulsion of Bei Yuan. I am afraid that we will fall into the same cycle between us and Beiyi for more than a thousand years."

The examiner paused, raised his eyelids, saw that the people on the throne were not displeased, felt a little relieved, and said: "It is very rare in this life to dare to think and dare to think. Looking at his remonstrance, I also feel that there is some truth in it." Feasibility. As the saying goes: If you are poor, you will change;

"Yichen, the evaluation given is... the top volume."

Emperor Hongwu laughed loudly. He handed back the test paper and waved his hand: "Just do what you said, and quickly make a ranking based on the results of the first and second games. I can't wait to see him ranked first." What time!"

"Here!" The examiner bowed and exited the hall, suddenly felt a little strange, this is clearly a blurred test paper, why does His Majesty seem to know whose file it is?This kind of intimacy is really not what one should expect when meeting an ordinary student.

Of course Emperor Hongwu knew.

After the people left, the emperor, who finally couldn't contain his joy, walked back and forth several times in the main hall of Fengtian Temple, his steps were extremely brisk.Afterwards, he took out a note from the wide sleeve of the dragon robe, opened it and looked at it again and again, and couldn't help laughing: "This kid's journey has not been in vain, and his thoughts have matured a lot."

What Emperor Hongwu held in his hand was a good answer sheet sent to him by his little friend Mei Sizu when he was the examiner of the Yunnan Provincial Examination.

The author of that answer sheet is exactly Mu Bai.