However, President Wei also has a good impression of Zhu Yanxi, Zhou Rupan and Ding Shaoshi.

does not have the fat-headed and big-eared appearance of the imaginary top minister, but it gives people a very simple and friendly feeling.

The three Donglin Party members all have some academic temperament, the temperament of an old professor in the university.

On the other hand, looking at the ministers of the eunuch party, Gu Bingqian and Wei Guangwei are slightly better, they can be regarded as having the aura of top ministers, they have a good appearance, and they talk steadily.

Huang Liji and Feng Quan are really not good, it's not that the two of them are not good-looking, both of them are not fat or thin, they are dignified, they can be regarded as handsome old guys, but their behavior, especially in front of Wei Zhongxian, they can't wait to lower their heads below Wei Zhongxian's waist, which really annoys President Wei.

"It is naturally excellent to have nine thousand years old come in person, and nine thousand years old has a lot of opportunities to work for the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, which is really hard." Gu Bingqian looked sincere.

It immediately attracted many voices of approval.

More than half of the officials claimed to be the ones who bowed to Wei Zhongxian.

The same is true of the jinshi, but their proportion of numbers is obviously not as high as the proportion of eunuchs among the officials, and only about a third of them are in agreement.

Wei Bao folded it, only gave his hand, and did not speak.

Wei Bao secretly thought, this is the current situation of Daming officialdom, right? The Donglin Party is clearly more adequate in terms of reserves.

And because Wei Zhongxian has gained power in the past two years, the eunuch party has replaced many people, so the proportion will be slightly larger, but in general, the eunuch party and the Donglin party are still evenly matched, not to mention that the two together are only about the same as the neutral ministers.

During Wei Zhongxian's period, the Ming Dynasty was really a troika situation, which was not bad for the entire empire.

So far, Wei Baozhi knows very little about the affairs of the Ming court, unless it is related to Liaoxi and Liaodong.

As for Liaoxi and Liaodong, he only cares about military and economic issues.

As far as the Ming Dynasty's armed artillery in Liaodong is concerned, President Wei knows a little bit.

There were more than a dozen Western cannons, in addition to ten traditional Chinese cannons, which were originally one of the four large iron cannons that Xu Guangqi, who had gone to Tianjin to train the new army in the first year of Taichang (1620), commissioned his friends Li Zhizao and Yang Tingyun (actually three Catholics, so they are more well-informed in this regard) to buy in Macao to equip his new army. It is said that Li Zhizao and Yang Tingyun both paid money. After buying, Xu Guangqi had resigned, and he was reluctant to hand over the cannons, so the four cannons were temporarily shelved in Guangxin Fucheng (Shangrao), Jiangxi.

Soon, Li Zhizao was appointed to manage the affairs of the Ministry of Engineering with the rank of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, responsible for supervising the military quartermaster and dispatching the weapons of the Jingshi City Tower. In addition to the 26 new cannons, he also asked the imperial court to transport these four cannons, and finally all of them arrived in Beijing in December of the first year of the Apocalypse (1621) and stored them in Beijing.

In August of the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), Shufu Sun Chengzong went out of Shanhaiguan Town, during which he transported eleven cannons to Shanhaiguan.

Mao Yuanyi, Sun Chengzong's staff, learned the firearms operation method from the Portuguese who were invited to be instructors in Beijing, and transported a cannon purchased by Xu Guangqi, who was transferred to Shanhaiguan, to Ningyuan, and made artillery trucks with the Ming army general Man Gui, ready to be used in the siege.

All in all, it was Xu Guangqi, a military training official selected by Fang Congzhe's cabinet in the last years of Wanli, and Li Zhizao, a quartermaster logistics officer selected by Liu Yixie's cabinet in the early years of the Apocalypse.

The celebrant eunuch has administrative merit.

Wei Gonggong's "rule" began about the beginning of the third year of the Apocalypse, which was a sign that the eunuch party drove out dissidents and occupied important positions, and the power reached its peak.

In view of the fact that some civil sciences often put the well-known Donglin Party in opposition to Wei Gonggong, President Wei felt that Wei Gonggong could not be regarded as "in power" in the face of the Donglin Party that was opposed to him in the Manchu Dynasty.

Because you can look at the cabinet at that time, Shoufu was still Ye Xianggao, who had a friendly relationship with Donglin, Gu Bingqiangang, who had a little relationship with him, and Zhu Guozhen, who had a friendly relationship with Donglin, mixed sand together in Huitui, and Sun Chengzong, another minister who was friendly with Donglin, was supervising Shanhaiguan.

The official department Shangshu is generally counted as Zhang Wenda of Donglin, and the imperial history of Zuodu is Zhao Nanxing, the boss of Donglin.

The routine of decision-making in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was that the emperor (and his private secretary Si Supervisor) sent the report reflecting the dynamics of government affairs to the cabinet, and the cabinet gave instructions: ask the relevant departments to put forward opinions, and the emperor then transferred the music to one of the six ministries, and the six ministries came up with opinions, and the emperor went to the emperor, and the emperor then transferred it to the cabinet, and the cabinet said yes, and the emperor said that it was okay or not, and the emperor said that it was approved or ordered to change the six ministries and the cabinet to redraft.

Major issues are discussed at all levels of court and court meetings.

Just the emperor and the celebrant eunuchs, how did they understand the regulations, customs, details, and disadvantages of the great empire?

There is no one in the court, how can Gonggong Wei govern?

"Lord Gu is too polite, although the old slave does some things every day, he is happy, and it is my blessing to be able to share the worries of the saint. Besides, I may not be the busiest person in the Ming court. Wei Zhongxian smiled indifferently, and then said, "What about the top three in the first class of this department?" I'd like to take a look at a few jinshi. ”

Before the banquet began, Wei Zhongxian was about to meet Yijia Jinshi, which made many people present feel excited.

As long as there is a dispute, there will be a fall of the Donglin Party, and if the people of the Donglin Party fall, there will be a vacant position, whether it is to take the position themselves or to introduce friends to the position, there will be opportunities.

The eunuch party jinshi are excited, not to mention, the top three of the first class of the jinshi are all students of the Donglin Party, which makes them very dissatisfied, as long as someone comes down, it must be someone from the Wei Party who makes up for it, whether they have a chance or not, they will feel excited.

Gu Bingqian nodded when he heard this, and said to everyone: "The top three of today's science and technology scholars have come out and seen nine thousand years old!" ”

Yu Huang, Hua Qifang and Weng Hongye, who are in the top three of today's science and technology scholars, were immediately listed.

The three of them first met Wei Zhongxian, and then each introduced himself.

In fact, there is no need for them to introduce them, Wei Zhongxian has already known that the three of them are all Donglin disciples.

Wei Zhongxian glanced at the three of them, and said slowly: "Okay, sure enough, all of them are talents, and I have many more talents in the Ming Dynasty." However, the top three are not Zhejiang, that is, Nanzhili, all from one place, is it possible that all the talents of my Ming Dynasty are concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? ”

Yu Huang, the word Wuzhen, Zhejiang Huijiren, the first Jinshi in the fifth year of the Apocalypse.

Hua Qifang's word Fanghou, the number is the end of the horse, and he is a native of Wuxi.

Weng Hongye is a member of the word, the number is Yonggu, and he is a native of Qiantang (now Hangzhou) in the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone originally thought that Wei Zhongxian would take these top three and how he would pick the thorns, but they didn't expect that the route Wei Zhongxian took was a regional route.

This is a very solid statement, and it is also a statement that is not very tenable.

Because there is no rule that prohibits a place from being a top three, right?

"Nine thousand years old, during the entire examination period and the revision period, it was done in strict accordance with the regulations of the imperial court, without the slightest malpractice, occasional coincidences, and it is also normal. Moreover, there are many talented people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the past years will be examined, mainly Jiangsu and Zhejiang candidates. Zhou Rupan saw that it was inconvenient for Zhu Yanxi to speak, so he took the lead in speaking and protected the Donglin students.

Zhou Rupan is indeed right, in the past years, students from the south account for the majority, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang have obvious advantages, but few people criticize this.

Especially when it is not too exaggerated, this subject is not an exaggeration, although the top three are all students from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but in the overall proportion, students from the north also account for at least thirty percent.

Therefore, the ministers and students of the Donglin Party never thought that Wei Zhongxian would find fault with the region.

Wei Zhongxian smiled slightly: "It's nothing, I'm curious, why the top three are all from the same place, this thing has not happened before, the Hongwu Dynasty seems to have happened, I don't know if you remember?" ”

After Zhu Yuanzhang first became the emperor, in order to let all the capable people in the world use it for himself, and in order to appease the last popular people after many years of war, he quickly resumed the imperial examination. A few years later, Zhu Yuanzhang clarified the regulations for the final examination, stipulating the number of examiners and the performance standards. The imperial examination is held every three years, and all the people from all over the country rush to the capital at that time to participate in the unified examination, and finally the results are evaluated according to the articles and awarded the degrees one by one.

This examination method is very fair and just, but in the 30 years of Hongwu's examination, Zhu Yuanzhang created another examination model of the north and south lists, why is this?

It turned out that this year's exam was supposed to go smoothly, but after the release of the results, it caused a commotion. Because all the lifters on the list are southerners, but all the northerners are off the list. The northern lifters were very dissatisfied, they thought that the examiner was also a southerner, so they were biased towards the southerners, so that not a single northern lifter was on the list. As a result, a large number of indignant northern officials poured into the yamen of the official department in charge of the imperial examination, demanding that the examiners give an explanation. The southerners and the northerners originally lived in harmony, but as soon as this incident happened, the relationship became extremely sensitive, and they often made a big fuss when they disagreed.

In order to quell the riots, the army responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital quickly came to Nanjing, intending to solve this behavior by force. However, the arrival of the army did not ease the mood of both sides, but only intensified the unrest. The incident soon reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, and he immediately sent people to appease the emotional northern lifters, and told them that the emperor was investigating the matter and let them calm down. In this way, the conflict was eased.

Zhu Yuanzhang found Liu Sanwu, the chief examiner in charge of the exam, and asked him what was going on. Liu Sanwu said that he didn't do anything unfair in the paper or in the score, but the results of the southern lifter were better than the northern. Zhu Yuanzhang also knew Liu Sanwu's personality, but in order to calm the emotions of the northern lifters, he still asked Liu Sanwu to pick out a few from the northern lifters to be on the list. Who knows, this Liu Sanwu is an upright and stubborn person, he refuses to do this, and insists on his original judgment.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, drove Liu Sanwu out, and removed several other examiners from his posts.

When the northern lifters found out, they cheered.

Soon after, Zhu Yuanzhang asked other officials to re-examine the results of the exam. However, there were still a few ministers who refused to give in and insisted that the results of the northern Juzi were indeed inferior to those of the south, and their final outcome was exactly the same as that of Liu Sanwu. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, he felt that this was the officials covering each other and deceiving him, so he called these officials all imprisoned and tortured severely.

In the end, this matter became more and more popular, and these innocent officials were implicated in the Hu Weiyong case many years ago, and all of them were sentenced to death.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally re-ran an exam, and the results of this exam were diametrically opposed to the last time, and all the people on the list were from the north.

From then on, in order to prevent such a thing from happening again, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that in the future, the imperial examination should be divided into papers in the north and south, so as to make the number of people on the list in the north and south roughly the same through this form of examination.

Therefore, the imperial examination after that is no longer just based on grades, but also depends on where you come from, and a system has been formed.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's methods against those officials were excessive, he also had his own difficulties. Because in fact, the founding time of the Ming Dynasty was not short at that time, but because Zhu Yuanzhang raised troops in the south, the talented people in the north did not believe in this dynasty for a long time. In order to dispel this doubt, it is indeed the best way to select the people of the north to enter the imperial court. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the economy of the south was more developed than that of the north, and the cultural level of the people was higher than that of the north, but for the sake of national unity and stability, he had to balance the number of officials in the north and the south. In this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang and those upright ministers were not wrong, because they followed different principles.

A group of Donglin Party officials and Donglin students all feel that this is deliberately finding fault, it was a matter of the Hongwu period, more than 200 years from now, can the situation be the same?

In addition, now that people from all provinces come to take the examination, the proportion of students from all provinces participating in the examination is quite the same before the entrance examination begins.

Students in Jiangsu and Zhejiang still feel aggrieved, because there are too many masters, so that many talented people have a hard time trying to take the exam in Nanzhili.

It can be said that the level of many talents in Nanzhili is much higher than that of Jinshi elsewhere, what can be said?

"Nine thousand years old, there is a subject in the Wanli Dynasty, more than half of the Jinshi are Jiangsu and Zhejiang students, and the top three are also Jiangsu and Zhejiang students, so it's okay?" Not to be outdone, Zhou Rupan gave an example.

"What do you mean it's okay? I didn't say anything, did I? What is your heart empty? Wei Zhongxian frowned slightly.

"Where do I have a weak heart?" Zhou Rupan stiffened his neck, his old face was flushed, and his beard seemed to be curled up angrily.

Zhou Rupan did not regret confronting Wei Zhongxian in person. If he didn't have this guts, he wouldn't have been able to enter the cabinet, and there would be no way to be an official when Wei Zhongxian was in power.

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