Chapter 341 How to Win the Champion
Commenting on Taizu Taizong, who is right and who is wrong? Do you want to die? Didn't you send the wrong roll?
Seeing this kind of exam question, the sweat of the Gongsheng came down with a sound. This is an exam, this is roasting us on the fire!
Shen Mo frowned slightly when he saw the title, but he thought of something else...... Yesterday, Zhang Juzheng told him that in view of the situation, Tang Shunzhi, the prefect of Shaoxing, and others should reopen the three cities of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong. During this period of time, the two factions were arguing and arguing every day, from the court to the home, and from the cabinet to the six yamen. Unexpectedly, this controversy turned directly into the question of this palace examination, allowing the tribute students to express their opinions on it.
In fact, it's not just him, most of the candidates are well-informed, deaf and clear-sighted, seeing that the previous exam question was 'there is a way to make money', and now there is a 'should you open the sea ban', the meaning behind it is self-evident - everyone is a person who has taken the test for decades, and they understand that if they want to take the palace test to be the best, a policy that conforms to the holy will is very important. If the emperor is satisfied with it, the title of champion will be secured. Therefore, although it is illegal, it is essential.
For example, Huang You, a priest of the Southern Song Dynasty, was in urgent need of spiritual comfort because he speculated on the holy will and found out the ambitious Emperor Xiaozong. For the argument, a strategy was written. When he moved Emperor Xiaozong's tears, he thought that this person had the right argument and lofty ambitions, especially the word 'perseverance', and was greatly relieved, and immediately opened the test paper and sealed it.
There are not a few people like Huang You who have achieved good results, such as Lian Zining in Hongwu's eighteenth year; Hu Guang, who was in the second year of Jianwen; Luo Lun, the second year of Chenghua, etc., it can be seen that writing an article that caters to the will is the king!
Therefore, the tributes all fantasized about being able to find out the emperor's mind like Huang Senior, but Huang You and others usually care about national affairs, and they are clear about Emperor Xiaozong's temperament, surname, ambition and ambition. And these juniors who usually say that they only read the books of sages and sages, and don't listen to things outside the window, I am afraid that they can't even tell which provinces have been afflicted, whether they are Tatar or Warat, let alone to understand the Jiajing Emperor, who can be called the most mysterious Emperor in history.
Fortunately, there is Shen Huiyuan's test Cheng Wen, everyone has already speculated carefully, and they are deeply impressed by the benefits of advocating the reopening of the city's shipping division in the article, so they all rely on the gourd to draw scoops, generously state, and vigorously describe the advantages of opening the sea ban, and the harm of not opening the sea ban, and I can't wait to turn all the coastal cities of Daming into the city...... But is that really what Emperor Jiajing thought?
Shen Mo didn't think so, and before he entered the examination room, he reminded the six brothers of the Qionglin Club to remember the 'defeat of Zeng Milling'!
In fact, not only before the exam, in the past few years, this old man has been repeatedly mentioned silently, as a negative teaching material for getting to know Emperor Jiajing. His experience is roughly as follows:
In the process of fighting against the northern Mongolia for a long time, it was found that the reason why the Mongols wanted to grab and go, the root cause was that the imperial court lost the important strategic buffer of the Hetao area, so Zeng Butang wrote the article vowing to restore the Hetao with full of passion for serving the country, "This one-and-done policy, Wanshi Sheji also depends!" ’
It should be said that this is the best strategy for the world, and it is fully feasible, and it is not a marginal nonsense, if the imperial court is accurate, Zeng Milling, who has a high prestige on the three sides, still has hope to achieve this goal.
But what about the next development? At first, Emperor Jiajing was also unprecedentedly excited, and immediately agreed, and was so excited that he couldn't cultivate, so he took the initiative to convene the cabinet to discuss, and tomorrow we will go and cut my answer and regain the posture of the Hetao!
However, the final result was that Zeng was beheaded and his wife was exiled for 2,000 miles; Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet who vigorously supported him, was even more miserable, abandoned the city, his wife was exiled to Guangxi, and his son and grandson were cut to the people.
A good thing that was supported by the number one and second in the Ming Dynasty actually became this result, what is the reason?
In fact, it is still in the case of Emperor Jiajing - not every emperor Yanjing dreams of making meritorious contributions and expanding the territory, at least in the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, who is concentrating on cultivation, it is too far away to make meritorious achievements, and it is true that it is plain and bland...... So excited...... To be precise, after impulse, Emperor Jiajing began to fight Xiao Jiujiu...... The recovery of the Hetao is certainly a good thing for the descendants of Ze Quilt, but what if it doesn't go well? Who's going to clean up the mess? And even if it goes well, the country has to mobilize for war, collect food, dispatch troops, and strategize, and if you don't die of exhaustion, you have to be annoyed to death.
So he quickly reneged on his words and issued an edict saying: 'Today, one set of thieves, is the teacher famous? The soldiers have more than enough food, and success is assured? What is the sufficiency of a mill, such as the people are poisonous? It means that the idea of recovering is good, but there are still many problems that cannot be solved, such as the lack of a reasonable name, and the lack of food and grass for the soldiers.
Of course, this is all a so-called excuse, and the hidden meaning behind it is - don't make trouble for me!
There is a saying that 'the country is easy to change, but the surname is difficult to change', especially the stubborn Emperor Jiajing, who is already forty or fifty people, it is impossible to change his surname overnight, and become a heroic lord who works hard and vows to prosper!
Now the voice of controversy is so loud, and the actual situation is indeed that once the sea ban is opened, no one can estimate the impact and impact on the southeast coast and even the entire Ming Dynasty...... Shen Mo bet that after three minutes of blood, Emperor Jiajing should start to have a big head.
Therefore, the reason why Emperor Jiajing raised the two ancestors this time was not to really want people to divide them into superiors, but to show the contradictions in his heart...... In fact, Emperor Jiajing didn't think about changing anything at all, he was just poor and crazy and wanted to spend two money, and now there is such a big controversy, it must be against the emperor's original intention. If the situation continues to develop like this, I am afraid that eighty percent will be another 'milling set'!
Thinking through this, Shen Mo finally sweated his clothes, and suddenly found that his situation was extremely embarrassing, if he supported the ban with great fanfare, he would repeat the mistake of Zeng Milling if he didn't get it right, and if he turned around and opposed the ban, his conscience would not be in the second place, and more importantly, it would leave a bad impression to the emperor and ministers that he was 'in the twilight of the dynasty and had no principles', and he would be thin by Shilin from then on, and he would sit on a cold bench for the rest of his life.
It's really difficult to enter, it's hard to retreat, so sad that I pull my hair silently, and I can't wait to hand in a white roll back, and it's a big deal to take the exam again in three years.
In the infinite entanglement, an hour passed unconsciously, and the sedentary invigilators felt back pain one after another, and began to move their hands and feet, and by the way, they also looked at the candidates' papers...... For bigwigs like Zhang Zhi and Li Mo, it is inevitable that there will be their apprentices and grandchildren below, so I just took this opportunity to remember the opening chapters one by one in my heart so that I could take care of them. The temple test is already relaxed, and this is almost a custom.
Cho Jung-gil is also moving around, but his purpose is different from that of the two bigwigs who want to show favoritism, he wants to memorize certain people's papers and depose them. For example, Shen Mo, and the accomplice Xu Wei. In Lord Zhao's view, this is not a personal grudge, but a hoe for the country! Lang Lang Qiankun and above the court, how can he allow this kind of villain who aids and abuses to gain a foothold?
In fact, he had already seen those two people, but he couldn't do it too obviously, he walked around for a long time before he got behind Xu Wei, pretending to pick up the scroll inadvertently and look at it, and couldn't help but gasp for a while, it's really a good word! is better than Wang and Tang, I'm afraid that only Xie Jin and Yang Shen can compete with the entire Ming Dynasty!
If such a talented man is taken low, I, the examiner, will definitely be ridiculed by the world and the history books. Old Master Zhao sighed secretly, put down the article, walked behind Shen Mo depressedly, and couldn't help but be happy when he saw it...... Halfway through the exam time, there was not a word on the paper, and it was empty!
'Haha, it seems that this kid's previous article must have been written by a gunman, and now when it comes to the unobstructed palace test, it will be completely exposed. What a retribution! Old Master Zhao wanted to laugh three times to vent his happiness.
The examiners also noticed his strange expression, and Zhao Zhenji hurriedly turned his face and walked away with his hands behind his back...... That's it, kill one and keep the other, just so people have nothing to say, Old Master Zhao thought.
After gritting his teeth and thinking for nearly two hours, Shen Mo suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and thought of a plan to achieve both, and when the text thought was like a spring, he conceived a countermeasure, but looking at the hourglass on the high platform, there was less than an hour left...... If he typed the draft and then transcribed it, it might be too late, so he simply put aside the straw paper, settled down, and started to write.
At this time, the hard work in the flat said was revealed, one by one with black ink, the body is square, with the pen smooth, even round and plump dignified Xiaokai, from the tip of the pen to reveal down, an hour of effort, then wrote more than a thousand words in one breath, just finished.
(To be continued)