In these days of court meetings, Zhu Youzhen finally had a preliminary understanding of the cabinet left by the Apocalypse through careful observation, "Shoufu Huang Li is extremely low-key and does things in a good manner. After the death of the Apocalypse on August 22, he first proposed to follow the edict of the Apocalypse and establish himself as the emperor.

The second assistant Shi Fenglai is like a senior intellectual like a university professor in later generations, with a profound foundation in Chinese culture and an easy-going personality. Zhang Ruitu is intelligent, quick to react, is a person who wants to do something for the Ming Dynasty, and is quite a city. Li Guopu is not only talented and academic, but also upright, and has the support of hundreds of officials.

But these people have one of the biggest flaws, none of them have served as pro-people officials in their official experience. has not experienced the state and county, and directly selecting personnel from the Hanlin Academy to enter the cabinet is an unwritten unspoken rule in the Ming cabinet system.

The root of this is that the Ming Cabinet first appeared as the secretary of the Yongle Emperor, and the Yongle Emperor who fought in the south and the north, in order to ensure his control of the government when he went out, set up this system similar to the emperor's secretariat.

However, with the continuous expansion of civil power in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the cabinet changed from the emperor's secretary to the prime minister without a proper name.

However, the congenitally stunted Ming cabinet system continued the rules of selecting the emperor's secretary to select the ruling ministers of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, the elected cabinet also lacks an understanding of the grassroots affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and the cabinet members cannot distinguish whether it is the real situation in the local area for the report of the local officials. It is impossible to confirm the true Ming Dynasty, and the national policies formulated by the natural cabinet are often detached from the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty. ”

After the dissolution of the court, Zhu Youzhen did not return to the Qianqing Palace as usual, but made a detour to the Xuanwu Gate in the north of the palace.

Xuanwu Gate is a small hill across the jade belt bridge, "Is this the Long Live Mountain that Chongzhen hanged in the future?" Zhu Youzhen stopped and looked up, the hill was lush and wooded, and the famous crooked-necked old locust tree could not be found at all.

"Is Your Majesty looking for something? It's better to tell Weichen and let Weichen go up the mountain to find it. Seeing Zhu Youzhen stunned at Long Live Mountain, Wang Chengen took a small step forward and asked for instructions behind him.

"No, I don't have to." Zhu Youzhen turned his head and glanced at Wang Chengen meaningfully, he always had to meet the crooked neck tree on the Long Live Mountain, but now is not the time.

Today is the day of the examination for the recruitment of new members by the Metropolitan Governor, and Zhu Youzhen came to the palace to see the situation of the examination. He no longer paid attention to Banzai Mountain, but crossed the bridge and walked towards the Metropolitan Governor in the northeast direction.

The governor of the capital is not far from the east of Banzai Mountain, although the place is not small. However, as the emperor, the governor traveled and cleaned the road in front of a yamen, which was naturally not valued by the palace.

Therefore, in the huge courtyard, there is only a row of dilapidated houses. It can be seen that in order to prepare for today's exam, Wang Dehua has bothered to clean up here. However, it is congenitally insufficient, and it can only look neater.

The house where the governor was located was not big enough, so Wang Dehua simply placed the examination room in the courtyard. Since only a little more than 300 sets of tables and chairs were pieced together, the exams were also conducted in batches.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen personally ran to the capital governor's prison, Wang Dehua, who was invigilating, quickly got up and prepared for everyone to greet him. But Zhu Youzhen waved his hand at him, signaling that he was not allowed to alarm the palace maids and eunuchs who were taking these exams.

Wang Dehua immediately quietly bypassed the examinee and walked to Zhu Youzhen's side. When he was about to kneel down and salute, Zhu Youzhen stopped him, "Don't salute, don't alarm the candidates for these exams." How many times is this? How many people have signed up in total? How many people didn't show up for the exam? ”

Zhu Youzhen's continuous questions made Wang Dehua's brain a little short-circuited. After a while, he said cautiously: "There are 987 people who have registered, and 876 people have actually come to the exam, this is the second exam, and it will be the last exam soon." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at these candidates in the field with satisfaction, as long as one-third of these people can pass, they are his good helpers to clean up the entire inner palace management organization. In this era, those who can read and write, and can calculate are talents.

Based on the number of these people in the examination room, it is basically equivalent to the number of students in a province in the northern region.

Zhu Youzhen instructed Wang Dehua beside him: "These people, regardless of whether they pass the exam or not, must record their names, and those who fail must let them continue to study as reserve talents for the capital governor." Got it?"

Wang Dehua immediately agreed, although he didn't know what Zhu Youzhen wanted to do to rebuild the capital governor, but he understood that Zhu Youzhen was so aggressive, and it was not for the purpose of establishing an ordinary yamen responsible for miscellaneous matters such as the transfer of various prisons, Guan Zhi, and investigation.

Wang Dehua originally thought that Zhu Youzhen would not replace the eunuch, the leader of the 24th Yamen, but made him feel a little depressed when he was preparing to organize and rebuild the capital governor. However, after seeing the big plan to recruit members of the Metropolitan Governor's Eunuch, he felt a little uneasy that he had not been appointed as a clear eunuch in charge of the Metropolitan Governor's seal.

When the third group of personnel in the field entered to prepare for the exam, there was suddenly some noise from the courtyard gate.

"What's going on? Lu Jiude, go to the door and see what happened? Zhu Youzhen was a little unhappy, and said to the little eunuch who was standing on the side and waiting.

Lu Jiude hurriedly agreed, and ran towards the door. Outside the courtyard gate, two eunuchs guarding the door stopped a middle-aged eunuch and loudly reprimanded him not to let him in.

The middle-aged eunuch accompanied the smiling face, even if he was pushed by the eunuch guarding the door, he insisted on refusing to leave.

Zhang Shiingsheng thought about it for a few days, and finally he was moved, wanting to see what the newly enthroned Emperor Chongzhen wanted to do.

But on the day of the exam, he was assigned by his boss to clean the Showa Palace. When he left, he happened to see Eunuch Xiao Zhang snickering at him, and he naturally understood that this was Eunuch Zhang's tricks and feet in secret.

After some delays, when Zhang Xingsheng finished his work and hurried to the governor's prison, he was told by the eunuch guarding the door that he had been too late to enter the exam.

Since he has decided to take this exam, Zhang Xingsheng, who has a tough personality, naturally refuses to leave so easily. What's more, the severity of the specifications of this exam aroused his determination not to miss it.

"What are you guys doing here? Don't you know that Your Majesty is in the courtyard? When Lu Jiude saw this scene, he immediately scolded.