Personally consulted the records written by the quasi-jinshi who participated in the palace examination on the way to Beijing, and Chongzhen actually found a thunderous name, Song Yingxing, the author of "Tiangong Kaiwu".

Among the quasi-jinshi, it is natural that Song Yingxing wrote the most knowledgeable record of what he saw and heard on the way, and the other one named Song Yingsheng wrote the closest to the life of the small people.

On the list of Jinshi rankings submitted by Wang Zheng and Fan Jingwen, it is not surprising that these two people fell last. Obviously, the eight shares of the two are not very good, but Chongzhen understands this very well, after all, in his memory, it seems that Song Yingxing has not been admitted to the Jinshi.

Although he didn't know why this name appeared in the list of palace examinations, he was originally from Jiangxi and was in his 40s, and it was obviously Song Yingxing, the author of "Tiangong Kaiwu".

When Wang Zheng and Fan Jingwen were on the gold list, they happened to see the emperor holding an article and looking at it without distraction.

Wang Zheng and Fan Jingwen then saw that on the screen behind the emperor, there were three ranking words, and only two names were written side by side at the top.

Fan Jingwen's eyes swept lightly, and he found that these names were all new Jinshi in this year's Jinshi Branch. However, the number of names on the entire screen is less than 100, and the order of the names is completely different from the order of the gold list they submitted.

Fan Jingwen's heart suddenly became very nervous, although the emperor has the power to adjust the ranking of the list, but this time the meeting test and the palace test are different from the past.

Half of the places in this examination are selected by province, and the other half are determined according to the quality of the article. Therefore, those who passed this year's examination had uneven writing standards.

If the emperor makes a large-scale change to the order of the gold list, when these articles of the new science and technology scholars circulate, I am afraid that they will not be able to convince the scholars.

Just as Fan Jingwen was thinking carefully about how he would advise the emperor when he proposed to change the ranking, Chongzhen finally finished reading the article in his hand and raised his head.

"It turns out that Wang Qing and Fan Qing have both arrived, and I was a little fascinated by the article, but I didn't notice it. Lu Qi gave them a seat. ”

After Wang Zheng and Fan Jingwen thanked the emperor, they presented the list of gold lists they had prepared, as well as the volumes of the top 20 people.

Zhu Youzhen roughly flipped through the papers, then looked at the list again, and after finding the names of Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng, he handed the list to Wang Chengen, and asked him to know whether the names on a pair of screens were on the list.

Fan Jingwen saw this scene, thought for a moment, and then admonished Chongzhen with a heart: "Your Majesty, this dynasty is a scholar, and you should judge your superiority by words. Although the minister did not know how His Majesty's names on the screen were chosen, the minister asked His Majesty not to deviate too far from the level of writing when revising the rank of Jinshi. ”

Zhu Youzhen replied to him indifferently: "I won't change the order of the list you sent, I just want to confirm whether these people are on the list." Ranking on the gold list is probably important to some people, but it is not the case in my heart, so I will not break some people's dreams. ”

Chongzhen was talking, Wang Chengen had already checked the list in his hand and handed it back to him. Zhu Youzhen motioned for Lu Qi to bring the jade seal, stamped it on the gold list, and then handed it back to Fan Jingwen.

When Wang Zheng and Fan Jingwen came out of the Qianqing Palace, it took them less than half an hour. Chongzhen's first year's talent ceremony is over, things are done so smoothly, Wang Zheng is full of joy, he can finally return to the Academy of Sciences to do his research again, but Fan Jingwen is a little worried.

As soon as the two of them left, Zhu Youzhen instructed Wang Chengen: "Inform Mr. Qishan to prepare, and all the new science and technology scholars will enter the Central Government Academy for a three-month training to learn how to handle political affairs and write official documents."

The six departments, as well as Shuntianfu, Wanping, and Daxing counties, all had to send officials to give a lesson to these jinshi. In addition, the central government school was asked to record the performance of these jinshi in class and send them to the Ministry of Officials for archiving as a reference when assigning positions. ”

Wang Chengen nodded yes, and when he wanted to go out to convey the emperor's order, Zhu Youzhen stopped him again and said: "After the Enrong banquet, arrange a time for me, I want to meet Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng..."

In the first year of Chongyu, the first three people in Wuchenke were Liu Ruozai, He Ruizheng, and Guan Shaoning, and the first name in the second class was Zhuang Yinghui, with a total of 353 undergraduates.

Although some Jiangnan scholars were dissatisfied with the new scientific examination method, scholars from other provinces greatly supported the provincial quota system for the imperial examination, and the articles of the first and third people did overwhelm everyone, which made the voices of criticism of this imperial examination a lot less.

The second day of the palace examination is the day when the gold list is announced, and the third day is the grace banquet held at the Ministry of Rites.

According to the practice of previous years, three days after the palace examination, there will be a court examination, which is divided into one, two, and three grades. It is used as the basis for the selection of the priests and the conferring of official positions.

However, this year's court exam was cancelled. Instead, it was changed to a three-month training in the government school to learn how to be an official.

Most scholars welcomed this kind of reform. On the one hand, some scholars who are not from official families need to absorb the experience of how to deal with political affairs through this kind of study, rather than exploring on their own.

On the other hand, the court examination was not as strict as the previous examination, and those who had connections and connections could often obtain better positions, while some jinshi from civilian backgrounds were assigned to poor places to become county officials.

Therefore, this new rule formulated by the emperor was accepted by the new jinshi without any shock.

After Chongzhen summoned Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng in the Wuying Palace, he knew that these two were still brothers, and after chatting with the two for an afternoon, Chongzhen was very happy.

The elder brother Song Yingsheng is familiar with the world, which is different from those rotten Confucians who don't listen to things outside the window. He also did not reject commerce and handicrafts, and opposed the bombastic way of learning of the Jiangnan Academy. Like his younger brother Song Yingxing, he is also a Confucian who pays attention to the application of what he has learned.

Although Song Yingxing is not as tactful as his brother, his research on various handicraft technologies, agricultural planting techniques and natural sciences is far beyond Song Yingsheng's reach.

After meeting the Song brothers, Chongzhen thought about it for a long time, and finally figured out how to arrange the use of these two brothers.

And around this time, Shen Pei finally arrived in the capital. Although the person in charge of the overseas trade of the Shen family in Chongming has seen countless stormy waves in his life, this is the first time he has discussed business with the Ming Emperor.

Even if he has always been bold, after staying in the Beijing Huitong Pavilion, he became a little panicked.

He did not stay in the Tongtong Pavilion for a few days before he was summoned by the Emperor, not in the palace, but in the Tongwen Hall in the Beijing Library.

In a flower hall in the Tongwen Pavilion, Shen Pei, led by a eunuch, finally met the Ming Emperor. Contrary to what he had imagined, the emperor he had seen seemed to be more mature than his age.

According to the mention of the eunuch on the road, Shen Pei lay down in front of Chongzhen with five bodies, not daring to make unnecessary movements, lest he offend the emperor.

Chongzhen looked down, and said gently: "You are Shen Tingyang's fifth uncle, you don't have to be so polite, get up and sit down and talk." ”

Shen Pei didn't dare to raise his head and said: "Xiaomin doesn't dare to offend Tianyan, please give instructions to Your Majesty, and Xiaomin will listen to you." ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said: "You are also interesting, when you didn't see me, you still had to bargain with me, why did you meet and change your words to let me speak?"

You better get up and sit down, so that you can talk. This is the Tongbunkan, not the palace. I want to talk to you about business today, and nothing else..."

Under Chongzhen's kind words and persuasion, Shen Pei finally got up tremblingly and sat on the chair next to him, but he only had half of his butt next to the chair, and he didn't dare to sit down completely at ease.

Zhu Youzhen didn't continue to say anything, but asked some about Shen Pei's experience when he was doing business overseas.

The emperor's homely questioning finally relaxed Shen Pei's nervousness. From him, Chongzhen also learned a lot about overseas trade and the customs of Southeast Asia.

After chatting for a long time, Zhu Youzhen suddenly said to him thoughtfully: "You have been to so many places in Southeast Asia and know so many different customs and customs, so have you ever thought of writing down your experience and writing it into a book for the people of the Ming Dynasty to understand the situation overseas?" ”

Shen Pei blinked his somewhat cloudy eyes, and said with some confusion: "Back to Your Majesty, Xiaomin is just a businessman with a rough understanding of literature and ink, how to write this kind of article, that is what only a scholar can do." And who wants to see this kind of vulgar thing of doing business overseas? ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "Doing business overseas is not a vulgar thing, you take the things made in China, exchange them for the resources that China needs from overseas, and pay taxes to the imperial court to benefit the people, which is a good thing for the country."

If you write down your experience when doing business overseas, you can let the people of the Ming Dynasty open up their knowledge, and secondly, you can also let those businessmen who want to engage in overseas trade take less crooked paths, how can no one look at it?

I thought that as long as you recorded your experiences over the years in detail, it was already a wonderful book, and as for the text, you could find someone to polish it. What if you could write such a book, and I would let this library collect one set first? ”

Chongzhen's suggestion suddenly moved Shen Pei's heart, Jiangnan merchants are the best names, and for an epitaph, they even did not hesitate to spend thousands of taels of silver, asking celebrities to write a one.

Being able to leave a set of books with his name written on them, in this library built by the emperor, undoubtedly made Shen Pei a little excited.

"If Xiaomin completes this book, can he ask His Majesty to write a small preface?" Shen Pei asked a little greedily.