In mid-September, after the review of the papers, the results of the second examination were officially announced.

A total of 100 people with excellent comprehensive ability were selected in this examination, and 100 students who were good at certain fields, such as arithmetic and case solving.

Looking at the familiar historical names on the list, Zhu Cihong couldn't stop smiling, these people are all treasures, especially Song Yingxing, Yan Yingyuan and others.

Needless to say, Song Yingxing's research field involves different disciplines of natural sciences and humanities, and he devoted his life to the scientific investigation and research of agriculture and handicraft production, and also proposed for the first time that sound is transmitted by gas, and even more so in terms of ideology and philosophy, and is a walking encyclopedia.

Yan Yingyuan is even more a bull, during the history of Jiangyin, he led 100,000 righteous people to resist the Qing soldiers to the south, facing 240,000 Qing army iron cavalry, more than 200 heavy artillery, trapped in the lonely city for 81 days, so that the Qing army broke three kings and 18 generals, and 75,000 people died, known as Jiangyin 81 days in history.

During the defense of the city, Yan Yingyuan used almost all the tactics in the thirty-six strategies, such as deception, ambush, fire attack, straw man borrowing arrows, pretending to be a god and playing ghosts, attacking the east and west, attacking the enemy camp at night, and Chu Ge at the head of the city, and even used a human bomb.

The Qing army persuaded him many times, but Yan Yingyuan said: I have a general who surrendered, but there is no history of surrender!

When the city was broken, Yan Yingyuan sat on the enemy tower in the east city, asked for a pen, and mentioned on the city gate: "Eighty days with allegiance, the characters of the 17th Dynasty of Taizu, 100,000 people died with one heart, and left 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty." ”

On the day of the destruction of the city, none of the 100,000 righteous people surrendered, and only 53 people survived.

In this test, all the three princes of the anti-Qing Dynasty arrived, Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, Feng Houdun, and these three unpopular officials in history joined forces to resist the Qing Dynasty in Jiangyin, composing the backbone and blood of the Han people.

Zhu Cihong met the three people in the Qianqing Palace, and personally poured wine for them, the entire history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he admired Li Dingguo and these three people the most, knowing that they could not do it, they carried forward the spirit of an excellent nation.

Generally speaking, as soon as the Jinshi is admitted, you can wait for the officials, but it is much more difficult to raise people to become officials, and if you don't get into the Jinshi, you can only register with the Ministry of Officials, and after a few years or decades, the officials will die a lot and there will be vacancies.

People are qualified to be officials, but because there are too many people, they can only line up, and those who are officials can only have a chance after they hang up.

A memorial service was held at the home of an official who died, and some people were poking their brains at the door, and their faces were happy, if these people did not have an enmity with this official, then they were waiting in line for the official to be lifted.

There is a vacancy, and the people who are waiting for the others can only be officials after being selected by the officials, and the selection criteria are very strange, first look at the appearance, dozens of people are lined up in a line, just like the guests in the club to pick the miss, the ugly can only be called the heavens, go home early.

Zhu Cihong did not follow this old routine in appointing officials, but he conducted a one-month training for the people selected by the second examination, first training and then taking up posts, and the content of the training was the work of officials, mainly to implement the new policy.

After the training, an internship will be arranged first, and the state and county where the post will be taken up for three months, and only those who pass the internship assessment can be officially turned into a regular after three months.

If you can't pass it, you will come back for training for a month, and then arrange an internship, if you can't pass it again, it means that you are not suitable to be an official, so change your career! It's okay to go to the county to learn and teach, but it can be regarded as knowledge changing fate, and it just so happens that Zhu Cihong is preparing to reform education, and they will not be poor.

On September 16, an earthquake struck Nanjing, and Zhu Jizhu, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, asked the ministers to check the lack of government affairs.

Zhu Cihong adopted his suggestion, took the opportunity to carry out a major change of blood in the Sixth Department of Nanjing, and asked the Metropolitan Procuratorate to increase the intensity of supervision, and scattered the Jinyi Guards to arrest corrupt officials and fight corruption, so as to make room for the people.

In the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were 3,952 natural disasters of 12 types such as flood, drought, insects, earthquakes, and snow, of which floods, droughts and earthquakes accounted for three-quarters of natural disasters, and there were one or several natural disasters every year from Wanli to Chongzhen.

From the first year of Chongzhen to the thirteenth year of Chongzhen at present, there have been many major floods, droughts, snow disasters, locust plagues in the Ming Dynasty, and earthquakes have occurred in some areas, only in Nanjing, there have been four earthquakes, and the Beijing earthquake is as high as seven times.

In the face of such frequent natural and man-made disasters, Zhu Cihong also felt very difficult, and even the prosperous Zhejiang and Sanwu lands had a great famine, and it is conceivable that the situation in Shaanxi, Henan and other hard-hit areas can be imagined.

Zhu Cihong knows that the last few years have been the heyday of natural disasters, and as long as they carry it for another two years, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, natural disasters will gradually weaken.

Zhu Cihong looked at the copies sent from all over the country and took a long breath: "Compared with these natural disasters, man-made disasters are the root cause of social turmoil, and the new policy must be implemented as soon as possible!" ”

In the hall of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, a large group of officials sat in greetings, waiting for the crown prince to adjust the six departments of Nanjing.

After sitting down in order, a group of officials began to talk and gossip, because the conversation was not on official business, many of them met for the first time, and everyone began to talk about their origins.

Talking about this topic was Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who opened his mouth, and immediately a large group of officials withdrew from the lobby.

The other officials were not surprised at all, they were accustomed to this, this was not because Xiong Ming had a bad reputation, but because of the internal rules of the civilian group.

The officials who stayed were all from the Jinshi, and the officials who went out were all from the people's background, and the internal order of the civil and official group was clear, and the Jinshi talked about private affairs, and the people who had not even participated in the palace examination should not come to join in the fun.

It's like a group of people in interviews in later generations chatting and asking each other about their academic qualifications, I'm Tsinghua University, he is Peking University, isn't it boring for you to come together as a pheasant university graduate?

When I met for the first time, some officials immediately began to put themselves on the table, and as soon as I opened my mouth, I thought about how Lao Tzu coped with it in the palace examination back then, and was deeply praised by the saints.

Yang Shicong, the young Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu, stood up, hugged his fists to the people around him and said: "This official is Chongzhen's four-year jinshi, I don't know if it is the same year?" ”

Wu Weiye hugged his fists and said: "Brother Chao Che, we are the same year!" ”

Yang Shicong nodded, looked at Yang Tinglin again, and saw him sitting there silent, so he had to ask: "Brother Boxiang, I heard that you are also a Jinshi of Chongzhen for four years, I don't know if it's right?" ”

Yang Shicong played such a play, just to close the relationship with Yang Tinglin, everyone knows that Yang Tinglin is a celebrity around the prince, and the six reshuffles are reshuffled, and he is most likely to hold the position of a scholar.

Yang Tinglin took a sip of tea and said lightly: "Exactly, Yang is a Jinshi of Chongzhen for four years. ”

Yang Shicong smiled, said a few polite words, and then turned to look at Cheng Guoxiang, the big celebrity next to the other prince, and asked, "I don't know what year Lord Cheng is from?" ”

Cheng Guoxiang said: "This official is a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli. ”

Yang Shicong saluted Cheng Guoxiang seriously: "Disrespectful! Disrespectful! ”

A group of officials around him immediately bowed to Cheng Guoxiang, and even Zhang Guowei, the governor of the Ten Prefectures, got up and saluted, according to the rules of civil officials, regardless of their official position and age than most of the other party, they had to salute when they met someone who was earlier than their own Dengke.

Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, smiled and said: "This official is a Jinshi in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli!" ”

His extremely conspicuous words immediately aroused the congratulatory voices of all the officials in the hall, this is a living fossil-level figure!

Xiong Mingyu was very proud, when he looked at Yang Tinglin, who was still sitting there without moving, his face was slightly gloomy, and he said: "This official is from the top three in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, I don't know where Lord Yang came from?" ”

The rest of the officials also looked at Yang Tinglin, sneered again and again, and secretly said that Yang Tinglin didn't know the depths, even if he was a prince, he couldn't spoil the rules of civil officials like this.

Yang Tinglin was still sitting there, took a sip of tea, and then said lightly: "I'm Shu Jishi." ”

Just now, a group of sneering officials couldn't laugh immediately, and even Xiong Mingyu, who was born in the top three in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, lowered his posture, and obediently stood up and saluted Yang Tinglin.

The origin of the Shu Jishi is big, after each Enke Palace test, only the first champion, Bangyan, and Tanhua can directly enter the Hanlin Academy, and grant the Hanlin compilation and editing, and the emperor will choose young and talented people with potential from the second and third grades to enter the Hanlin Academy as the Shu Jishi.

The duty of Shu Jishi is to explain the history books to the emperor, and help the emperor draft edicts, is one of the important sources of cabinet ministers, Ming Yingzong has a convention: non-Jinshi do not enter the Hanlin, non-Hanlin do not enter the cabinet.

Therefore, the Shu Ji Shi is known as the "Chu Xiang", can become the Shu Ji Shi have the opportunity to rise to the top, the Ming Dynasty into the cabinet of more than 170 people, eight or nine out of ten from the Hanlin Academy, such as the Ming Dynasty Wanli cabinet first assistant Zhang Juzheng, is the Shu Ji Shi born, you say the cow is not awesome?

Yang Tinglin glanced at him, smiled and said nothing, as if asking: Do you still have to pretend to be senior?

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