In the third year of Zhaowu, July 18th.
The voice of reform is still the main body of public opinion in the world, but in the capital, the attention of the government and the public has already focused on this first palace examination since the founding of the country.
At the hour of Mao, four hundred and eight tribute students, led by the Minister of Rites, walked through the Thousand Steps Gate and gathered outside Chengtian Gate.
The Great Heng Dragon Flag was waving, and the soldiers of the Imperial Front Camp were wearing armor and holding sharp weapons, and martial law was put on the entire Chengtianmen Square. A tribute student stood by and waited after the soldiers of the Imperial Front Camp.
It is worth mentioning that not all those who participated in this palace examination were tribute students from the third year of Zhaowu. According to the practice of the previous dynasty, if the previous tribute students were unable to participate in the palace examination that year due to worry and illness, they could be transferred to this palace examination.
This is why this palace examination was postponed.
Some court officials advised this, and the emperor ordered a favor, so the palace examination was postponed, and time was prepared for the previous tribute students.
After the search was completed, the tribute students also walked through Chengtian Gate and then through the Meridian Gate under the guidance of the Minister of Rites, and finally arrived in front of the Danbi in the square in front of Chengtian Hall.
Outside Chengtian Hall, the document reading officers, the document receiving officers headed by the cabinet ministers and dozens of deacons stood on the Danbao. After accepting the visits of the candidates, they waited for the emperor's arrival.
At this time, the emperor was still in the Qianqing Palace, and the palace maids were serving him, wearing the emperor's robe.
According to the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's robes and clothes were woven in the imperial court, and the twelve chapters of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, and flower insects were weaved in the clothes, Zongyi, algae, fire, pink rice, fu, and fu, and fu, and fu, and fu, and fu, and fu, and fu, and fu, and fu.
The Ming Dynasty advocates the virtue of fire and always advocates the virtue of water. Therefore, in addition to the overall color of the robe and robe, the twelve chapter patterns that symbolize the supreme emperor are still embroidered according to the usual practice.
The robe and robe are solemn and solemn, not for major festivals such as sacrifices or celebrating the dantian. Nowadays, even the emperors are often disliked even if they are ordinary dragon robes. They think they are too restricted and wear casual clothes on weekdays.
Now that Daheng's first palace examination is the emperor's intention to show his importance, it is also the first time since he ascended the throne, he has been wearing this extremely complicated twelve chapters of the emperor's robe.
Several maids were busy for nearly a quarter of an hour before they could barely wear this robe.
"Your Majesty, the time is almost over."
Wang Wu quickly stepped forward and whispered to report.
"OK."
The emperor nodded, felt the restraint of the robe on his body, and couldn't help frowning. He glanced at the tall body in the mirror, and then the emperor slowly turned around. When he reached the outside of the hall, the emperor suddenly stopped.
Wang Wu was shocked and looked in the direction the emperor looked, but saw a few dirty children in the square holding small wooden knives and shouting. Dozens of eunuchs and palace maids followed carefully like their tails, but they did not dare to go forward too much.
Seeing this scene, Wang Wu immediately withdrew his gaze, as if he hadn't seen it. There was no doubt that there were only those little princes who dared to be so reckless in the palace.
He knew that the emperor emphasized many times that the empresses did not dare to disobey, and all relaxed the control of the little prince.
Now, let go, and it becomes like this...
He didn't dare to say more, and no one in the palace dared to say more.
Looking at the little princess who looked like they were abandoned, the emperor couldn't help but twitch his cheeks.
After a while, the emperor withdrew his gaze and asked casually: "How old are the princes?"
"Report to Your Majesty, Your Highness Prince Jing is two years and one month old, Your Highness Prince Huan is one year and eight months old, Your Highness Prince Yu is already..."
The emperor nodded and glanced at the little princes and princesses who were like the demon king in the world. With their eyes flashed, they also stepped onto the imperial chasing. Then, with a loud shout, the imperial chasing set off and headed towards Chengtian Palace.
"See Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"
When the emperor arrived, the ministers and tribute students entered the hall and worshiped and shouted.
"You guys are exempted from courtesy!"
Although the voice of the emperor seemed dull, it was heard by the ministers and the tribute students, but it seemed like a bell. Everyone stood up and thanked him again.
Immediately, the chief minister of the cabinet came to Zongdao to hold the imperial edict and stood in front of the tribute students, reading out the holy wishes of the emperor and the questions of the palace examination.
The emperor sat upright, listening to Lai Zongdao's slightly excited voice, his eyes were circling on the tribute students.
According to convention, it is rare to admit so many tribute students in one examination, but this time, with his personal intervention, it is more than 30% higher than in previous years.
The reason is naturally simple. Daheng lacks officials, and extremely lacks officials!
When Chongzhen ascended the throne, there were more than 50,000 civil servants in the Ming Dynasty and as many as 110,000 military officers.
With years of wars and repeated purges, coupled with the change of dynasties, the rebellion of King Shou and the reform, the tax case is also needed. Now, even if the officials in Daheng are included in the military officials serving as pastoralists in various places, the total number of officials has dropped to more than 10,000, and more than 100 military officers have dropped to less than 20,000.
Even if the officials who have been transferred to the Ministry of Personnel on a large scale recently need to be added to the civil department of the Martial Arts Academy, it cannot keep up with the speed of officials being dismissed or simply resigning from office and moving south.
According to rough statistics, since the Shou King Rebellion, the gentry and merchants who moved to the Southern Ming Dynasty had no less than 500,000.
Such a large-scale loss, in fact, if Daheng had not been in a military state as a whole, and the overall allocation of this money and merchants, Daheng would have been shaky long ago.
And these tribute students in front of us are the fresh blood that Daheng urgently needs to fill the gaps and survive the fittest.
After the reading of the sect, the tribute students also sat at various tables in an orderly manner, and began the first palace examination since the founding of the Daheng Dynasty.
If the emperor followed the previous practice, most of the emperor would leave for more than half an hour. This time, the emperor obviously did not follow the practice of the previous dynasty.
About two hours later, the emperor stood up from the dragon throne and walked into the hall, obviously trying to inspect it. The three cabinet ministers of the cabinet looked at each other and wanted to dissuade them, but in the end, they still did not dare to say it, followed the emperor honestly and patrolled the hall.
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The emperor frowned, but his steps did not stop. He still walked in the hall, his eyes also circling on the answer sheets of the candidates.
The questions in the palace examination are mainly based on policy topics, while the topics of policy topics are mainly based on reform.
Just as the emperor attached great importance to grassroots affairs, he also attached great importance to these tribute students.
Many times, even if you are in the game, no matter how clever the tricks are, you don’t see thoroughly than outsiders. At this critical moment, the emperor is unwilling to miss any thing that can make him see more thoroughly.
Of course, this move is to avoid the tricks when reviewing the papers after the palace examination.
After all, after the palace examination is over, the review work is determined by the document reading officer, and after the pros and cons are determined, the cabinet will review the top ten, and then the top three are selected by him, the emperor, and the three are decided.
In other words, the emperor, only ten of the test papers can be seen in more than 500 test papers.
It is not difficult for people who think about a seemingly rigorous system.
At this critical moment, the country's first imperial examination was in a scandal, and that would be a real ugly!
As for the stupid behavior of the emperor, as the emperor, he would not do such a foolish act as long as he had no water in his head.
The emperor was not fast, and he stopped from time to time and watched for a while. He took more than an hour to read the scrolls of hundreds of tribute students.
There is no doubt that all those who can overcome numerous assessments and levels and sit in Chengtian Palace to participate in the palace examination are elites among the elites.
The mind, talent, talent, and fortune are indispensable.
Of course, the emperor cared the most was the hundreds of tribute students this time, more than half of them were from poor families.
This alone is enough to prove that Daheng already has the foundation of a prosperous era!
Chapter completed!