Father can be an enemy to the country

In the Wenhua Palace.

The prince sighed deeply, swallowed back his words of persuasion, and asked somewhat bleakly: "How did the test questions go?"

"It's finished." Zhu Zhen took out a locked wooden box from his sleeve and presented it to the prince: "Brother, do you want to see it?"

"I won't read it anymore. You can present it directly to your father." The prince waved his hand, not wanting to cause any further complications.

One of the important reasons why Zhu Zhen was left in the capital was to write a question for Chun Wei.

Five years ago, when Zhu Zhen was serving as the celebrant of Guozi University, he launched a major educational reform and got into trouble with the civil service group. Later, the emperor and Confucianism behind each were involved, and even the tablets of Confucius and Mencius were forced to participate in the war, almost breaking the sky.

Although in the end, as expected, Boss Zhu and his son won, they did not make compromises. The most important one was to resume the imperial examination that had been suspended for many years three years later.

It was the thirteenth year of Hongwu's reign, and it was said that the imperial examination should be re-opened in the sixteenth year. In the spring of that year, Boss Zhu recalled Zhu Zhen from Yunnan, in addition to getting married, just to let him take part in the imperial examination.

As a result, the situation in Yunnan suddenly collapsed, and Boss Zhu had to send Lao Liu back urgently, and forcibly postponed the autumn of that year by one year.

Boss Zhu's reason at that time was that when we said three years later, we were referring to the seventeenth year of Hongwu, not the sixteenth year. Boss Zhu is cheating, what can the ministers do? I can only hold my nose and accept it.

Last year, that is, the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Lao Liu was still in Yunnan and could not leave. Zhu Yuanzhang had no reason to delay anymore, so he had to agree to hold the Qiu Wei.

As a result, this time Qiu Wei was completely dominated by civil servants, and the selected candidates were still all in the shape of Confucius...

Fortunately, Boss Zhu knew this and did not let his emperor's disciples wade into this muddy water. Otherwise, the whole army would be wiped out... This is almost certain.

Although Confucian leaders such as Song Lian and Dai Liang were all eliminated by Boss Zhu through the Hu Weiyong case. But as long as the imperial court still respects Confucius, Confucianism will not be destroyed, and there will still be countless disciples of Confucius and Mencius who will stand up one after another to "eliminate demons and defend the Tao."

In the eyes of many Confucian believers, Zhu Zhen and the Guozi University where he teaches "deviant doctrines" are "crooked doctrines" that seek to destroy our holy religion. How is it possible for college students from Guozi University to pass the examination?

Boss Zhu stipulated that graduates of Guozi University were equivalent to being elected and could directly participate in the examination held by the Ministry of Etiquette. In this way, his emperor's disciples were escorted to Chunwei.

But doing so was very controversial. Not only the officials, but also some high-ranking officials such as ministers and ministers also wrote letters to remonstrate, accusing Boss Zhu of being too biased towards college students and being unfair to candidates from all over the country.

Although Boss Zhu will never be swayed by criticism, the greatest advantage of civil servants is their perseverance. What they are best at is the 'swarm of flies tactics', like a swarm of flies buzzing around him all day long, which can annoy people. die.

Moreover, after the Hu Weiyong case, Boss Zhu became much more tolerant of civil servants and no longer shouted for beatings and killings easily. At first, they were still wary of Boss Zhu's power, but that's how people are, they only care about food and not about fighting. As time went by, they started to bite their noses and face again...

At this time, Zhu Zhen returned to Beijing, and Boss Zhu couldn't wait to leave the mess to Lao Liu, and plausibly said: 'When people get old, they just want to be quiet...'

This is purely pushing Lao Liu into the fire pit.

Originally, according to Boss Zhu's idea, the imperial examination was just for selecting officials for his family. Lao Liu makes his own questions and admits himself, and that's it. Those civil servants would at most continue to buzz with flies. Anyway, Lao Liu was already used to it, so he shouldn't be affected at all.

But he greatly underestimated the fighting power of the civil servants. Those civil servants only dared to fight with him, but they really dared to fight against Lao Liu, the vassal king who had already conquered the vassal and had no royal guards in his hands - so The swarm of flies tactic has turned into the swarm of mosquitoes, which will not only buzz you but also bite you all over your head!

Ever since Boss Zhu announced that Lao Liu would be solely responsible for Chunwei, the civil servants became obsessed with it. They wrote frantically together and listed various reasons to advise the emperor not to do this.

Boss Zhu didn't say anything, so they said it at the court meeting. Not just once, not just one person, but everyone said it together. Whenever they had the opportunity, they said that all important national affairs would be put aside. This is what Ke Dao Yan Guan said——

How could Lao Liu be allowed to set and grade exams at the same time? Then the imperial court's talent promotion ceremony would not become an internal examination of his Guozi University? Those from all provinces who traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to take the exam would definitely not pass the exam.

This will chill the hearts of scholars all over the world! There may be a few Zhang Yuan among them, and then it will be too late to regret it.

~~

The two sides were in a stalemate for two months.

In the past two months, of course, the civil servants did not keep talking, and they also threw out all kinds of wet and dirty materials, such as the old Liu who was greedy for money and lust, dug the graves of desperate families, and kicked down the widows' doors; Jiangxi, Japan and Yunnan are killing people like crazy; what old man is plotting evil, turning the commercial fleet into his own private armed force, and turning Yunnan into an independent kingdom...

Most of them are based on rumors and smear stories. Even if they have some influence, they are exaggerated and add fuel to the fire. However, people make money with words and waste bones with people. People arrange it like this every day, and no one can resist it.

At least the candidates who came to Beijing to take the exam were convinced of this. They also signed a letter, saying that if Lao Liu took over all the setting and grading of questions, they would collectively abandon the exam and never take part in any Ming Dynasty exams again.

Boss Zhu saw that Lao Liu was really unable to resist, so he had to take a step back and let the civil servants be responsible for admission, while Lao Liu was only responsible for setting the questions. But the premise is that they can no longer hold on to Lao Liu, otherwise Boss Zhu will close the door and let Lao Ba go...

The civil servants then stopped.

~~

As a result, the examination, which was originally scheduled to be held in mid-February, is now in April, and the sixth child has just finished the questions.

Of course, the test questions are indeed difficult to answer. This is purely the result of Lao Liu’s own fault. At the beginning, he stipulated that the examination should be divided into seven sections: classics, law, arithmetic, calculation, engineering, science, and Cantonese. That is to say, he has to set out test questions for seven subjects, and each test paper must have a sufficient amount of questions and an appropriate difficulty level to play a role in selection.

In order to prevent leaks, he couldn't ask others to help him, or even contact anyone. He had to do every question personally, which really cost his life.

When he was at his worst, he was a little envious of Lao Shi. He felt that His Royal Highness King Lu was the right way to open up the vassal, instead of his stupid way of looking for trouble, asking for trouble, and ending up with a lot of infamy.

The moment he handed over the test questions to Boss Zhu, he let out a long breath, and it was finally over. I no longer want to care about these trivial matters in Beijing...

But when he was about to go back home to hug Meng Xu and relieve his worries, he was stopped by Boss Zhu: "You can't leave the palace yet."

"What?"

"You have to wait until the exam starts before you, the question maker, can contact outsiders." Zhu Yuanzhang coughed and said, "If you want to have a child, just ask your wife to take Meng Huan into the palace to accompany you."

"That's fine." Zhu Zhen nodded slowly, cursing in his mind that this was nothing.

I really can't stay in this capital for a day.