On the first day of March, Chunsong Hutong.

Zhao Mansion East Courtyard entered again, in a state of high alert.

Unlike last month's retreat, this time, in addition to Zhao Hao and his son, five disciples who are about to take the palace examination also participated in the retreat training.

Mr. Zhao will use this last period to help his father and his disciples prepare for the palace examination half a month later.

This is the first time he has formally directed his disciples to take up their careers.

Before, Zhao Hao always avoided talking about this, and when his disciples asked him anxiously, he said vaguely, "The writing style should be steady, and do not show off his words" and "The intention should be correct, and don't take the wrong steps" or the like.

In this regard, the disciples had several discussions at the lying talk after the lights were turned off.

Later historians saw from the notes left by their personal disciples that their consensus after discussion was because the master knew that he had "speaking and following the Dharma"... Every word he said should be included in the "Science Translation Record", and was regarded as a criterion by thousands of disciples to guide them to ride the wind and waves in the ocean of science.

When sailing, the navigator should not lead the wrong direction, otherwise the ship will be destroyed and the person will die. As a scientific navigator, the master cannot lead the wrong direction to the disciples, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

Therefore, the master must be careful in his words and actions, not say unscientific words, not do unscientific things, and not participate in unscientific activities.

The disciples agreed that in that era when Neo-Confucianism and Mind Science dominated, although in order to give science a living space, the master denied that science was a kind of philosophy in order to avoid premature arousing hatred and suppression.

But his heart is unswervingly committed to science.

Therefore, this great pioneer defended his purity by not participating in the imperial examinations for life, not talking about Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism with his disciples, and not guiding them to write eight-legged essays.

It also avoids misleading later scientists.

At the end of the wardrobe talk, every disciple confessed affectionately to Master. We have experienced your good intentions.

Whenever I see this, historians of later generations can't help but burst into tears. Zhao Zi is not selfish and specializes in benefiting others. He sacrifices me to illuminate millions of people. What a noble sentiment!

He is worthy of being a sage who created a new era...

In fact, Zhao Hao just doesn't know.

That's something that someone has been studying hard for twenty years and has been studying hard. Mr. Zhao can beat him ten times, let alone those top disciples.

Zhao Hao could only use the method of hiding his weaknesses and used different ways to get through the test all day long... His pretending to be a god, he looked very much like a qigong master in later generations.

Fortunately, he has real talent and knowledge in other aspects, so he has worked hard to survive until today.

As soon as the imperial examination was over, the days when Zhao Hao's heart fell to the ground, worried that he would be seen through his weak nature would finally be gone forever!

This young master can show off again... Oh no, I'm a role model!

Because in the next palace examination, we do not take the Four Books and Five Classics, the Eight-Legend Essays, the Table of Predicates, and the Classics and History only rely on one countermeasure!

What is a countermeasure theory? It is an essay on civil servants in later generations.

Moreover, Mr. Zhao knew the test questions, the evaluation criteria of this year, and had read many Jinshi countermeasures papers, and there was also a set of answering routines that later people summarized and worked hard to answer questions.

Of course, I can let go of the big talk and leave a lifelong impression on these disciples who are above the top!

Some people may ask, aren’t he afraid of people knowing the secret of the test questions now?

I'm really not afraid.

Because the strategy theory is an application article for the emperor to ask questions about national affairs; Chinese juren’s suggestions on this.

You ask a group of nerds who study hard all day long, can they understand the specific and subtle government affairs?

Not to mention them, the emperor also understands it.

So it can only be a general question and talk about it in general terms.

That is nothing more than five categories: general theory of governing the country, ethics of education, economic and financial management, cultural education, and military and martial arts.

Since the questions that can be asked are limited, the students and their teachers will inevitably spend a lot of energy to guess the questions, and there are definitely many guessers.

Especially the palace examination questions in the second year of Longqing, there are almost no mistakes in the guess, and at least half of them can be guessed.

Therefore, Zhao Hao has no more to worry about, just let go of his hands and feet!

In the main hall of the East Courtyard, Zhao Hao stood in front of a blackboard, looking at the father and disciples sitting neatly opposite him with bright eyes.

"Jin Ke is the first major competition since Emperor Longqing ascended the top of the world. Therefore, the topic of the strategy is likely to be decided by Your Majesty. The strategy for governing the country is bound to be the top priority of the Ming Dynasty. So I think there is something that will definitely be asked!"

He only heard him say in a deep voice: "That is the strategy to control the enemy!"

When the disciples nodded one after another after hearing this, this was almost certain. The so-called "the northern capture of the Japanese in the south" was a serious border trouble that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for decades.

"Now that the Japanese pirates have been pacified, the northern captives have become more and more intense!" Then Zhao Hao said in pain:

"Last year, Altan led 60,000 troops to bypass Xuanda's defense line and break through the Bietou Pass to the south. After capturing Shizhou, the city was massacred. More than 50,000 people were killed and the houses were burned for three days. Then he went deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and countless ruined village forts!"

"The Tuman tribes in Liaodong also invaded Jizhen at the same time, plundering Changli, Funing, Leting, Lulong and other places, and to the Luanhe River. Wherever they went, they were invincible to kill, burn and destroy, and the capital was shocked. The court had to declare martial law in the capital, and it was not until the two Tartars ended their robbery and returned with a full load."

"During this period, the performance of the Ming army was extremely poor. For example, when Altan's army invaded, it was the autumn rain. Many horses died of illness, the road was muddy, many Tartars were not adapted to the land and tired of the journey, and they also became sick one after another. Altan had to order the plundered property and population to abandon, and retreat in a low morale."

"At this time, only thousands of light cavalry chased, Altan will inevitably be defeated and suffer heavy losses. However, in Datong, there were 20,000 cavalry garrisons in Taiyuan, but no one dared to attack. Not to mention the Ji Liao defense line in the north, more than 200,000 troops were in danger, and they actually made tens of thousands of Tuman fight without any power to fight back, and they directly entered the capital and robbed!"

Zhao Hao became more and more angry the more he spoke, and wrote four big words "Strong soldiers and defeated the enemy" on the blackboard.

Then he patted the blackboard heavily and said, "You guys, who can swallow this tone? Who can trust such an official army!"

"Put your pen to join the army!" Jin Xuezeng suddenly stood up and said excitedly: "Kill the Tartars first, then attack Japan..."

Before he finished speaking, a chalk head hit his forehead accurately.

Jin Xuezeng immediately turned off the fire, pressed against the white dot on his forehead, and sat back embarrassedly.

"The shame caused by the Tartars is like a scar on the Ming Dynasty's face. If you avoid talking about it, you will talk about culture and education and whitewash the peace, and you will be ridiculed by the world."

Zhao Hao patted the white ash on his hand and said in a deep voice: "So I think the top priority of this year's policy discussion is also among the many things, which is to seek the strategy of 'strengthening the military and controlling the Tartars'!"
Chapter completed!