Even though he lived in the Ming Dynasty for more than a year and had been to the capital for several months, Zhao Hao was still too far away from the top of the Ming Dynasty.

When there was no historical material support, he naturally had no way to explore what happened in the palace examination in the second year of Longqing.

Besides, that's not something he should worry about.

But he could infer that the large-scale rise and fall of candidates' scores is definitely not caused by the quality of the article.

Because when you can check the test papers, each Chinese-style paper has been reviewed and considered by the same examiner and chief examiner three or seven times. The level of the text that can be selected is fine, and the ranking is basically reasonable.

As mentioned earlier, Chinese-style students basically know nothing about national affairs, and most of the palace examination articles written are parrots, and the reviewers basically judge the level of writing.

In addition, the palace examination has only been reviewed for two days. Therefore, the reading officers are neither capable nor necessary to change the rankings of the examination.

Therefore, it can be concluded that it is caused by factors other than words.

And because there are too many people involved in changes, it is impossible for someone to go through the relationship and get through the joints... If there were so many candidates and the relationship between the country's talent ceremony, the fall of the Ming Dynasty would be in the evening.

There is only one reason--that is the viewpoint of strategy!

Usually, for the sake of security, Chinese-style students will adopt popular views in the officialdom as the core of their countermeasures.

Because they have not entered the political arena yet, the bigwigs in the review will not laugh at them for following the crowd.

On the contrary, if you are rashly surprised, you will leave a bad impression of not being steady and sensational enough for the big guys, so most of the views in the policy discussion are clichés about big-name goods.

If the admissions suddenly have a whim and hopes to convey some views that are contrary to the general environment through praise and criticism of the palace examination policy, it makes sense...

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After bold guessing, I carefully proved it.

First of all, in this year's palace examination questions, Emperor Longqing asked two questions in total - one is how to eliminate refugees, and the other is how to resist foreign humiliation.

Mr. Zhao said there were three, so of course it was to cover up. Even if he could calculate, he could not guess all two of them just now, and he would not leave any allowance.

That's unscientific.

Zhao Hao sat on the rocking chair next to the stove and put a jacquard blanket on his knees.

While shaking slightly, he closed his eyes and recalled several top-ranked countermeasures in his impression.

Zhao Hao wanted to extract their arguments and see what different opinions were hidden.

Especially the gangsters who can actually make the grading papers win the title of top scholar for a Chinese juren at the tail of a crane despite the rules of many years.

After carefully reading it in my mind, Zhao Hao quickly extracted the key points of Luo Zhuangyuan's long article of more than 4,000 words.

First, Luo Wanhua put forward a thoughtful one-person opinion on the issue of refugees who are "there are many lazy people and the few farmers":

First, ‘If you want to drive the people of the world to do everything in your heart, there is nothing else to do with the way, you only value grain and millet.’

The so-called "prime grain" comes from Chao Cuo's "On the Precious Millet". The general idea is to increase the price of grain to increase farmers' income. When farmers' income is high and their enthusiasm for farming increases, they will naturally be willing to go back to farm.

Second, it is proposed to clear the land in the world and crack down on the investment, so that the wealthy family cannot evade taxes, thus sharing the heavy burden on farmers.

This is the "Qingzhangmu" that Zhang Ju was promoting nationwide ten years later, which shows that Luo Zhuangyuan has two tricks.

Third, the salt law formulated during Taizu was restored - merchants transported grain to the border for salt in exchange for salt intake, so that the price of grain naturally rose, and the court could also collect salt taxes instead of exploiting farmers, achieving the effect of increasing income and reducing burden on the people.

On the second question, how to resist the Tartars.

Luo Wanhua proposed a package of plans to "change the current situation of focusing on culture and over military affairs", "spend three years to retrain troops", "using the method of garrisoning salt to manage finances and accumulate strength", and "and then find an opportunity to fight to the decisive battle".

It actually generally conforms to Zhang Juzheng's ideas.

This made Zhao Hao suddenly realize that this test was recommended by idol Zhang.

‘Idols are worthy of being idols, and they really promote talents without any restrictions.’ Zhao Hao immediately changed his argument and no longer thought that someone was messing around.

Can idol affairs be called foolish? They are far-sighted.

However, according to Zhao Hao's memory of the palace examination rules, the examiner could only recommend more than a dozen test papers, and finally decided to be the top ten, at least the top three candidates were the emperor.

Jinshi is a disciple of the emperor. How could the emperor hand over all the steps to the documentary reading officer?

Then what did Emperor Longqing like about Luo Wanhua again?

Zhao Hao thought about it and burst into laughter.

Luo Zhuangyuan's paper started with a shout of "I heard that the emperor must make clear decisions and follow the rules, and then I can collect the real achievements of the world." The penultimate paragraph shouted again, asking Your Majesty to "respond to the will of the will of the king, and the king will rule his power, and it will be like a drum of thunder in the sky, and its power is unpredictable."

Which emperor doesn’t like such thoughtful words?

Thinking of the current calls for "the holy emperor ruled with his throne" and "the authority was entrusted to the cabinet and the government affairs were handed over to the six ministries", it is not surprising why Emperor Longqing turned Luo Wan into the top scholar.

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I recalled several other papers. Although the answers to the policy theory are different, the common point among all the top ones is that they did not forget to shout, "I will be more powerful and blessed by the Lord, please let Your Majesty make a decision."

As he thought deepened, Zhao Hao's ideas gradually became clearer.

It seems that the variables are in Zhang Juzheng and Emperor Longqing.

Judging from the fact that the Shujishi was selected by the back-end hall, the ranking of the palace examination was almost completely denied, Mr. Xu should be very dissatisfied with this.

Because Shujishi was selected jointly by the Chief Auxiliary and the Hanlin Academy. Considering the relationship between Zhao Zhenji and Xu Jie, it can be roughly believed that Shujishi's candidates were all finalized by Xu Ge Lao.

It is normal for Mr. Xu to be dissatisfied, because he defeated Yan Song and forced Gao Gong to retreat. The weapon was a censor.

One thing the officials have been doing is to limit the emperor's power and freedom—

Some of these are reasonable, such as advising the emperor not to let eunuchs be tyrannical, so as to avoid re-enacting the Wuzong eunuch rebellion.

But more advice is purely a mistake and nitpicking. For example, the emperor is not allowed to return to Yudi to nostalgia, prohibiting the emperor from going to the suburbs of Beijing to relax, suspected that the emperor had the intention of traveling for public expenses and prohibiting him from going to Mount Tai for worship, etc., and they were very eager to keep the emperor in captivity.

Even the emperor had not had sex with the queen for too long, so he had to take it out and talk in his memorials, which made Longqing lose face in front of the world.

In addition, Gao Gong was beaten up by censors before, so Emperor Longqing naturally disliked the "just" who spoke about Tianxian, but did not pay attention to internal and external troubles, and only focused on his own actions and spoke indifferently. He naturally hated the "just people" who were very disgusted.

And Xu Jie undoubtedly stood on the latter side in the struggle between the emperor and the censor.

In other words, the latter is the hunting dog he raised, so of course the owner needs to provide protection.

Last July, Emperor Longqing issued an order to conduct an investigation of the Ministry of Science and Technology. However, in order to protect the censors, Mr. Xu advised him to stop this investigation.

It can be said that Emperor Longqing, who had just ascended to the top for more than a year, was completely controlled by the civil servant group headed by Xu Ge Lao and could not do anything to do.

That's why the emperor did something in this palace examination. He wanted to equip those who were willing to maintain the emperor's authority and let those who shout "The Holy Emperor is ruled with his pride" be all behind?

Even if you still can't do anything to the censor, you can still use this method to express your position and breathe a sigh of relief?

‘It’s probably like this.’ Zhao Hao breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he finally figured it out.

Then how to teach the disciples to do something in detail will come naturally.
Chapter completed!