Wang Kun, the newly promoted eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, recklessly made a suggestion in front of the emperor.

He thought that this was the emperor's favor, and in his opinion, this was also an opportunity to gain the respect and appreciation of Emperor Chongzhen.

But he didn't expect that Emperor Chongzhen not only did not accept his suggestion, but also seemed to be quite disgusted with it.

This made Wang Kun regret it in his heart, knowing that he still couldn't calm down, this time I was afraid that he had committed the emperor's taboo.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's mind was so difficult to fathom, but it also sounded the alarm in advance for this eunuch, who was known for his insidious cunning in later generations, and let him know that the set of practices he was used to in the past had no effect in front of Emperor Chongzhen.

Let's say that during this Spring Festival, Emperor Chongzhen's idea of going to the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy in person for the last time was dispelled because of the self-righteousness of this eunuch Wang Kun, but his attention to this Spring Festival was not affected.

The tributary examination, which is held every three years by the Ministry of Rites of the Imperial Court, has always been the so-called talent ceremony of the Ming Dynasty to select officials from all over the world.

After the examination, those selected tributes, or quasi-jinshi, will not be eliminated by the emperor in the next palace examination unless they commit some great crimes of rebellion before the palace examination.

Therefore, as long as you pass the examination and can become a tribute, you are destined to become an official and quasi-official of the Ming Dynasty court or locality.

For such an elite group of scholars and doctors who will serve him in the future, it is impossible for Emperor Chongzhen not to pay attention to it.

Now the Chongzhen Emperor naturally has many different ideas about the imperial examination system at the end of the Ming Dynasty, such as the problem of Baguwen, such as the problem of dead reading, such as the lack of various scientific knowledge, and so on, and he wants to make some changes.

However, all his ideas, whether it was the content of the reform of the imperial examination or the form of reforming the imperial examination, could only be left to be done slowly in the future and in the future.

Because he knows very well that the imperial examination system involves the fundamental interests of almost all scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and it is a forbidden area that must not be acted rashly.

You must not easily deny it until you have established absolute authority, that is to say, when you are not absolutely sure.

Moreover, in the eyes of the current Emperor Chongzhen, the imperial examination system that has lasted for thousands of years is not useless, it is not necessary to change, and it is not his top priority to deal with the current situation, and it can be left for later.

For example, it's not too late to make adjustments after the threat of Jianyu has been eliminated.

Because, when that time really comes, Emperor Chongzhen will have the absolute authority to reform the imperial examination system.

In the silent attention of Emperor Chongzhen, the results of Chongzhen's four-year spring season were successfully released.

This time, the spring festival ended in the early morning of March 21 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, during which it went through three exams, accumulating nine days, until the afternoon of March 29 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, it was really over.

In the original history, Chongzhen's four-year spring school admitted 349 jinshi, including three first-class, sixty-seven second-class, and two-hundred-and-seventy-nine.

In this life, Chongzhen's four-year spring is very different.

Now the Chongzhen Emperor continues to continue the idea of Enke in the first year in terms of the number of places to be recruited, and still relaxes the threshold for admission.

Moreover, when Emperor Chongzhen allowed Korean scholars to join the Beibang for admission, in order to appease the hearts of the northern scholars of the Ming Dynasty, he added ten more places to the Beibang.

In this way, the number of places admitted in Chongzhen's four-year spring will reach a record 510, which is destined to become the subject with the largest number of Gongshi admitted since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.

This, of course, is also the consistent routine of Emperor Chongzhen today.

In his opinion, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are actually not very difficult to deal with, as long as they are given officials, they will be honest and obedient.

Therefore, for the emperor, if he wanted to tie the group of scholars, or more scholars and doctors, to his chariot, the best way was to draw as many talented people among the scholars as possible into the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty.

Just like the practice of recruiting Zhang Pu, Xia Yunyi, Wu Weiye and others as jinshi several years in advance, this time, Emperor Chongzhen still planned to do so.

Because such figures, such as Zhang Pu, Wu Weiye, and Xia Yunyi, after getting them into the bureaucratic ranks of the Ming Dynasty, they can be justified and openly manipulated.

For example, let Zhang Pu go to North Korea to reside, let Wu Weiye go to Ryukyu to reside, and let Xia Yunyi go to Yungui to take up a post, and let Shi Kefa go to Shanxi to serve and so on.

Let them go, they have to go, and if they don't go, it's not okay, if they really want to resign than go, it's not just a crime of resisting the decree.

For them, the most fatal thing is precisely to violate their own Donglin creed that they openly publicize and spread everywhere.

When these people were in the people, they always convened a gathering of scholars to discuss the government and government, accusing the government of gains and losses, thinking that this is not good, that is not good, and it seems that they can do it.

So now I give you the opportunity to govern, give you the opportunity to govern the place, if you don't go, or if you don't do well, what kind of face do you have and what confidence do you have, and then go to point fingers at the gains and losses of the Ming Jingshi's government?

As the saying goes, if you don't know the price of firewood and rice.

It is much better to bring these people into the system as soon as possible, to send them to local posts, to tie them up with cumbersome government affairs, to distract their contacts, to consume their energy, and to keep them without time to moan every day without illness, than to keep them talking nonsense in the localities.

For today's Emperor Chongzhen, doing so seems to be a concession to these talkative readers, but in fact, it is a simple move to retreat.

The effects of this are already being felt.

At least, in the four years of Chongzhen in history, a certain scale and influence of the Fusha Society had been formed in Jiangnan, and now there is no shadow.

Because Zhang Pu, the leading figure and soul of the Restoration Society in history, is now serving as his ambassador in North Korea, and by virtue of this high-ranking but very transcendent identity, he led a group of Jiangnan Shilin colleagues to establish the Fulin Academy in North Korea.

So when Emperor Chongzhen used this method to restrain characters like Zhang Pu and prevent them from staying in Jiangnan to engage in the east and west and make waves, are there any characters similar to Zhang Pu among the scholars and Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty?

And, of course.

Among the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, there may be no shortage of people who are really talented but have a stinky and hard temper.

For example, Huang Zongxi.

In the spring of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Zongxi had just turned twenty-one years old, but in the Jingshi Guozi Prison, where the children of the family gathered, the signs of Shilin leaders had already appeared.

Outstanding talent, of course, is essential.

Now this Huang Zongxi is still young, and his academic attainments are far from being as broad and profound as they were later.

But even so, the twenty-one-year-old Huang Zongxi has been outstanding in everything in the Guozijian, whether it is the traditional subset of classics and history, or the emerging astronomical arithmetic, often the doctors of the Five Classics in the Guozijian are speechless.

In addition to his outstanding talent, the reason why this Huang Zongxi was able to become a man of the year with a strong leadership temperament in the Guozijian is that there are other superior conditions.

First, his father Huang Zunsu was a big figure in the Donglin Party back then, and died tragically at the hands of the Eunuch Party, and his name was very loud.

In addition, Huang Zongxi is indeed very talented, which made him recommended to enter the Guozijian, and soon became the leading figure in the Guozijian.

Second, his teacher is Liu Zongzhou, the head of Dali Temple in the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Zongzhou, the head of Dali Temple, is not only respected and respected by the current Chongzhen Emperor, and has a high status above the Beijing court, but also has a very high reputation among the scholars and Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

As Liu Zongzhou's personal disciple, this Huang Zongxi was supported and sought after by many scholars in the Guozijian, and faintly became a figure like Zhang Pu.

Emperor Chongzhen is not worried about what these Guozi prisoners can do, but if he keeps letting a restless prisoner like Huang Zongxi keep talking about it in the Guozi Prison, it is not a long-term solution.

Of course, there are collaborators of Jinyiwei and Dongchang in Guozijian, and a large number of discussions by Huang Zongxi in Guozijian have also been continuously passed to Emperor Chongzhen's desk through the hands of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

Many of these arguments cannot be regarded as wrong in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen today, but under the current situation, it is not the right time to put forward them.

For example, Huang Zongxi said in the Guozi Prison: "What the Son of Heaven is not necessarily what is, and what the Son of Heaven is not necessarily not."

Is this wrong? Of course there is nothing wrong with that.

But now that Emperor Chongzhen is consolidating his power, it is not beneficial to spread such discussions.

For another example, after Empress Zhou finally gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, the entire Jingshi was celebrating this, but this Huang Zongxi debated with others in the Guozi Prison, and made a surprising proposal to reset the prime minister, saying:

"The Son of Heaven passes on the son, but the prime minister does not pass on the son; The sons of the Son of Heaven are not all virtuous, and the prime minister still relies on the prime minister to pass on the virtuous enough to remedy each other, and the Son of Heaven will not lose the meaning of passing on the virtuous!

"The regent of Yi Yin and Zhou Gong in the past, the prime minister and the son of heaven, and the son of heaven treated him with a teacher, even if the son of heaven was young, and the national government could be maintained!

"Since Emperor Taizu Gao in the current dynasty, the position of prime minister has been abolished and not established, and the son of the Son of Heaven is not virtuous, let alone a sage!"