At the beginning of the year, Zhu Youxiao not only had to worry about the training of the Imperial Guards at any time, but also had to pay attention to the upcoming imperial examinations and palace examinations.

This year is the year of a major competition, and Zhu Youxiao issued an edict last fall, and this year's Jinshi admission quota will be more than in previous years.

In other words, the number of Jinshi admissions this year will reach more than 500.

It is precisely because of this that the remnants of the Donglin Party, which contrary to Zhu Youxiao's ruling philosophy, and the Fushe, which was established one year ahead of the eighth year of Tianqi, are much more at peace at this moment, and most of them have entered Beijing to prepare to jump into the Longmen.

In addition, a group of traditional gentry from the Royalist Party who were from the bottom or non-mercantile class also entered Beijing one after another.

In response to Your Majesty's call to encourage talented people from all over the world to serve the country, Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch in Nanjing, even personally booked ten official boats to send royalists to Beijing for free for the exam.

In addition, Wei Zhongxian also invited Yu Huang, the top scholar in the fifth year of Tianqi who returned home because his mother was seriously ill, and brought these royalists to Beijing for the exam. Naturally, there was also the intention of teaching these scholars how to deal with the exam.

Zhu Youxiao first removed a group of eunuchs who were really useless and then eliminated a large number of members of the Donglin Party. Therefore, until now, the forces of various factions in the court are equal.

If anyone beats the other party in future competition for political forces, this year's exam will be a more critical competition.

In modern terms, we cannot lose at the starting line. Therefore, the two factions have tried their best to compete for the quota of Jinshi in this imperial examination. Wei Zhongxian invited the top scorer, and the scholars from Fushe also invited the second-year Fu Guan from the second year of Tianqi.

Among the scholars, there was a lot of noise about this test, and as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao naturally could not stay out of the matter.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao knew very well that this examination was based solely on the previous examination method, that is, the first evaluation criteria was the eight-legged article, then the Jiangnan scholars who would win the examination this time were undoubtedly still the main members of Donglin and Fushe.

Although the imperial court also divided the quotas with the north and southwest Huguang and other places such as Qianguichuan, it has become a common practice to take the exam without any quotas.

Therefore, if Zhu Youxiao wants to prevent the newly promoted officials in his court from being monopolized by scholars in Jiangnan, he can only change the way of setting questions.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to make major changes. In an era when Confucianism still dominated, even though he was an emperor, he did not dare to violate the great things of the world and tried to take the ninth chapter arithmetic and other miscellaneous studies.

Since this is the case, he could only start with the examination and questioning. Therefore, he summoned Qian Qianyi, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites who presided over the examination early in the morning and asked him to convey to the examiners that the first priority of this examination is the examination and questioning.

Qian Qianyi is not a literati with a strong character, and is suitable to be the royal literati of Zhu Youxiao. Following His Majesty's opinion, he also readily promised, not to mention that he has completely offended the scholars of Jiangnan. Even if he wants to stumbling to these scholars of Jiangnan, His Majesty will turn a blind eye.

"This meeting must be fair and strict. In addition, I only have one requirement for the question setting, which is pragmatism!

I don’t want to talk fancy and empty talk, praise merit, and not to make unfounded nonsense. Of course, when it comes to those who actually raise questions, there is no need to pursue the correctness of the views they put forward. It is reasonable and well-founded to be my needs."

Zhu Youxiao said again, "You go down first. Before the final exam is finished, I will check ten articles first."

"I'm going to leave!"

After Qian Qianyi left, he couldn't help but look at the little girl Liu Rushi who was accompanying him, and took the initiative to bow to Liu Rushi before leaving.

Liu Rushi completely ignored the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and came in with a bowl of lotus seed soup: "Your Majesty, it's late at night, let's have some midnight snacks, this is what the Empress himself has done."

Seeing the two people as strangers, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile, thinking that he had not only changed history but also the fate of historical figures. Seeing that the cute Liu Rushi was blowing the still hot lotus seed soup, he came over and said with a smile: "Give it to me, I'll blow it myself."

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After Zhu Youxiao finished eating the lotus seed soup, Liu Rushi hurriedly took a lantern and followed Zhu Youxiao to sleep in Kunning Palace.

But when Zhu Youxiao entered Kunning Palace, he saw Zhou also there, and was snuggling in the arms of Queen Zhang Yan, crying. When he saw Zhu Youxiao coming in, he hurriedly bowed to salute, but couldn't help but scream in pain.

When Zhu Youxiao saw that there were claw marks on her face, bruises on her forehead, and blood was still flowing from her mouth, he hurriedly asked Liu Rushi to use her white medicine to wipe it with Zhou.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly asked Zhou to be ashamed and asked himself the queen: "What's going on?"

"Youjian was also suffering from madness, smashing things all over the room, and beating eunuch maids. Zhou went to persuade him and was beaten by him. When I found out, I hurriedly ordered someone to bring them."

Zhang Yan said that, and asked Zhou to sit behind the screen. Although Zhu Youxiao was the emperor, one was his eldest uncle and the other was his younger brother and sister. It was indecent to live in the same room.

Liu Rushi often stayed by Zhu Youxiao's side and knew more about modern medicines and other products than others, so he quickly took them and took the initiative to run to the back of the screen to wipe Zhou's wife.

Here, Zhu Youxiao sat on the kang on the side and asked, "Zhou, how many times has Zhu Youjian beat you up? Tell me, I will make the decision for you."

"Thank you, my brother, I don't dare!" Zhou said sobly, and said again: "I'm not a big deal when I'm beaten. I just ask the emperor to not put his husband under house arrest for his brotherly feelings. This will be very painful."

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that Empress Zhou in history was really a seed of infatuation, but he did not expect that Zhu Youjian would be the one who beats his wife. However, he was still considering Zhou's husband. Although he was a little confused, he could not impose interference. After all, wife is the rule of this era.

"Go and call Zhu Youjian, I have something to ask him." Zhu Youxiao gave an order and lay down on the kang and closed his eyes to rest. Queen Zhang Yan saw that he was working hard for state affairs for a day and was still worried about these family affairs, so she couldn't help but come over, grabbed Zhu Youxiao's hand, and called gently: "Your Majesty!"

"Let me take a break," Zhu Youxiao said. Queen Zhang Yan saw that Liu Rushi had come over with a bedding at some point, and couldn't help but smile and cover Zhu Youxiao with a smile.

When Zhu Youjian arrived, he saw Zhu Youxiao lying comfortably on the kang. Queen Zhang Yan rubbed his temples and Xiao Liu Rushi hammered his knees, and she couldn't help but snorted coldly: "I really know how to enjoy it!" Then he reluctantly bowed: "The criminal Zhu Youjian has seen Your Majesty!"

"Come here!" Zhu Youxiao called out.

Zhu Youjian walked over, but suddenly, Zhu Youxiao suddenly got up and slapped him: "What's the ability to beat your wife? If you have the ability, go to Liaodong to beat the Tartars!"

Zhu Youjian was stunned for a moment. This major change was the first time he had ever remembered that his royal brother had beaten him, but he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Youxiao slapped again: "That palm just now was to teach you a lesson for your father. This slap is to teach you a lesson!"
Chapter completed!