Great Ming: I, Zhu Di, Declare My Intentions to Seize the Throne from the Start!

Zhu Di turned his head and asked with a smile: "When did you wake up? Did the little cotton-padded jacket do something strange again at night?"

During this time, Miaoyun was very sleepy.

Getting up so early must be because of the little cotton-padded jacket being punched and kicked in the stomach.

The closer to giving birth, the more impatient the little cotton-padded jacket seems to be.

Miaoyun would wake him up before, but she definitely wanted him to have a good rest today.

The two of them get along day and night, and there are no secrets in their daily life.

Xu Miaoyun smiled and said: "It will only take a while to wake up..."

As he spoke, he yawned.

"It's not me! It's the little cotton-padded jacket. She's black and white. She's going to sleep now."

Zhu Di was amused, stretched out his hand and pinched Xu Miaoyun's nose, stood up and put on clothes, and said: "I am very confident that a child will take the exam, so don't go to the exam room today."

"That won't work." Xu Miaoyun stretched out her hands out of habit, "I think it's very interesting. Now I'm taking the little cotton-padded jacket with you to take the exam. When the little cotton-padded jacket is born, I can hold her and take you to the exam next year. .”

Zhu Di smiled and bent down, letting Xu Miaoyun hook his neck and stand up.

He never imagined that in his entire life.

There will be such a day.

His wife and daughter sent him to the examination room to take the exam.

Well, no matter who said it, he wouldn't listen. He firmly believed that Miaoyun would be pregnant with a little cotton-padded jacket!

After hurriedly getting dressed, he helped Xu Miaoyun get dressed and said with a smile: "Okay, then I will try for the sprint meeting. It will be this time next year. When our little cotton-padded jacket turns one year old, you and the little cotton-padded jacket will be given to me. Go take the exam.”

Xu Miaoyun nodded with a smile.

The two washed up and pushed the door out of the house, stunned.

"Master, Master." The children had woken up and were standing neatly in the corridor. They bowed neatly when they came out.

The house next door.

The little maid Mingxia, who was helping Ma Xiuying comb her hair by the window, heard the commotion and curiously opened the window to look at it. She couldn't help but sigh: "These children are quite sensible."

"Children from poor families have already become rich." Ma Xiuying said with a smile.

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun took the children past the window. After seeing it, they greeted with a smile: "Mom, let's go downstairs to order breakfast first. What do you want to eat?"

"It doesn't matter. Whatever you eat, we will eat."

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun took the children downstairs.

Not long after, other children taking the child examination also came to the lobby one after another.

The accompanying adults were surprised to see the children of Tuqiao Village getting ready so early, playing and talking in low voices around the table, and secretly observed Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun.

Not long after, Ma Xiuying also came down.

During breakfast.

Zhou Shixian rushed over in a hurry. When he saw Zhu Di, he panted and said, "Mr. Zhu, I'm late."

Zhu Di smiled and comforted: "As I said yesterday, you are busy with your work and haven't eaten yet. Sit down and eat something."

After Zhou Shixian sat down, he said while eating: "Mr. Zhu, my mother asked me to hire some carriages. After dinner, we will take the carriage to the examination room..."

Ma Xiuying looked at this slightly reserved young man. Ϭ९ʂհմ×.çօʍ

Not much contact.

But at first glance, you can tell that he is an honest young man.

Even the matter of hiring a carriage must be clearly stated as a reminder from his mother.

As a mother, if she wants her son to leave a good impression on others, she definitely doesn't want her son to say that she thought of such thoughtful and meticulous arrangements.

She would hide it deeply and let others think that such meticulous and thoughtful arrangements were all thought of by her son.

The boy's mother must also hope that the boy is like this.

It's just that the young man is too honest...

The boy's father is Zhou Lang.

Former Jiangning County government official.

I heard that he took the initiative to ask for permission to go to Liaodong with the fourth child.

After going out and gaining more knowledge, he took the initiative to join the army in Liaodong and served as a soldier under two young generals whom Chongba valued.

The young Zhou Shixian did not know that his actions made the queen of this dynasty remember his father.

…

After the meal, everyone sat in the carriage hired by Zhou Shixian.

Ma Xiuying and Xu Miaoyun were riding in a carriage.

Zhu Di and the Jinyiwei commander in charge of driving the carriage made Mao Xiang sit on the shaft of the carriage.

On the way, Mao Xiang secretly observed Zhu Di with the corner of his eyes, and the corners of his lips moved several times.

Zhu Di noticed it.

But he never spoke to me.

Mao Xiang's identity is too sensitive, and he doesn't want to cause trouble for himself.

Soon, everyone arrived near the Jiangning County government-run school.

The examination room for children's examinations is held in this school.

This school is similar to the school in Tuqiao Village, both of which educate children.

Especially wealthy gentry families had family traditions.

If ordinary people in the city want their children to study for merit and fame, most of them will come to government-run schools.

When studying in this kind of school, the teacher will give the children special emphasis on the content range of the child examination.

Relatively speaking, the admission rate of children in this type of county government-run school is very high.

Of course, it doesn't actually work.

This kind of disguised cheating only occurs in the childhood stage.

County government-run schools use a method similar to cheating to increase the passing rate of children. In fact, the purpose is to get more people to study and generate income.

Yes, it’s about generating income.

There are many additional expenses for county government and local academic administration, and one of the ways to generate income comes from county government-run schools.

Passing the children's examination is the college examination.

When waiting for college exams, even if you study in a college in a state capital, you can't cheat by defining the exam scope.

Because the questions for the college examination were assigned to the Ministry of Rites of the imperial court.

If you don't belong to the local government, if you want to cheat at this time, you have to directly bribe the officials of the Ministry of Rites and buy the test questions. This is a particularly serious form of fraud.

Once discovered, a large number of people will lose their heads.

Therefore, the identity of Tongsheng is not difficult.

Passing the child examination is equivalent to getting a primary school diploma, which can only prove that you are a scholar, not an illiterate.

There is no political treatment.

Those who pass the academy examination are considered scholars.

Scholars have already received some political treatment.

Therefore, the imperial court will set a very high level of difficulty in the court test and pass a large number of people.

Anything like this sharing of political treatment.

Throughout the dynasties, everything has been strictly controlled.

All tangible and intangible benefits are created by people and are limited.

The more people share, the more benefits will be diluted.

When there are more people sharing, the people who create benefits will have to shoulder a heavy burden.

The imperial court now has four to five hundred common people, supporting one person who eats royal food.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, there were probably more than a hundred people supporting one person who ate the imperial grain.

One can imagine how heavy the burden is on the people.

Throughout the dynasties, at the end of the dynasty, there is always a similar characteristic, that is, getting something for nothing, and the group sharing the benefits is very large.

This group, at the end of the dynasty, will not be willing to contribute to the dynasty to protect the dynasty from destruction just because it benefits from it.

They will divide the last interests of the dynasty.

Dedicate this part of the profits to the new dynasty as political capital for promotion.

The most typical example is that in history, Chongzhen asked dignitaries and officials to donate money, but only raised 200,000 taels.

After Li Zicheng destroyed the city, he received a contribution of 70 million taels.

Look, how ironic.

History has proven time and time again that giving favors, doing more, and expanding the ruling class are of no use.

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"Your Highness..."

The voice beside him brought Zhu Di back to his senses.

Mao Xiang reminded: "Your Highness, we are here."

Only then did Zhu Di notice that he had arrived at the door of the school. He couldn't help but laugh at himself, "It's up to my father to think about these issues. Why should I think about these things?" ’

He smiled at Mao Xiang and nodded, then lifted the curtain and said, "Mom, we're here."

A group of people got off the bus one after another.

Zhu Di asked the children to line up.

You don’t need to bring pens, inks, paper and inkstones yourself, the government will provide them.

Everyone only needs to do a simple body search to verify their identity before entering the examination room.

Xu Miaoyun and several little girls looked at the children who were lining up with Zhu Di. She couldn't help laughing and warned: "Don't be nervous. If you encounter something you don't know, just drive by and finish what you know first..."

"come on!"

After encouraging the children, Xu Miaoyun walked up to the 'eldest child' and said with a smile: "Come on!"

Zhu Di smiled and glared, "Go in."

Then take the children to the door to verify their identities.

Fortunately, there were middle-aged scholars older than him, so he didn't have to be particularly embarrassed.

I watched Zhu Di enter the examination room with a group of children.

Ma Xiuying said with a smile: "Miaoyun, let's go back, they won't finish until the afternoon."

The amount of questions in the children's examination is very large.

The exam will not end until noon.

Xu Miaoyun wanted to stay and wait, but her current body was not suitable.

…

Afternoon.

Xu Miaoyun and Ma Xiuying arrived early.

At some point.

Ding ding ding!

When the copper bell rang in the yard, all the adults waiting in the carriage got down.

"Madam, look, it's out!" While Xu Miaoyun and Ma Xiuying were looking around, the little maid Mingxia, who kept jumping up and looking around, was the first to see Zhu Di and his party, and shouted happily.

"Master, Master!"

"I saw the master, and Brother Dongxu and the others!"

…

Several little girls soon saw Zhu Di and others, and rushed to greet them with shouts.

"Brother Dongxu, how did your exam go? Was it difficult?"

"It's not difficult. Apart from the fact that I'm not sure how well the article is written, the basic content has been explained by my wife and master."

"Wang Jinmi, do you think you have passed the exam?"

"In the article, I also quoted a passage from Han Changli's collection."

…

The little girls were not worried about whether the master could pass the exam. They walked up to him and curiously asked their peers.

Zhu Di couldn't help but smile when he heard the discussion of the children behind him.

"Is it difficult? It took you so long to come out?" Xu Miaoyun waited for Zhu Di to come over and joked with a smile.

In fact, the two of them had discussed it yesterday.

Even after Zhu Di finished answering the test papers, he would stay in the examination room.

When the children see him, they won't be nervous.

Zhu Di was not angry, smiled and glared, and then greeted Ma Xiuying: "Mom."

Ma Xiuying smiled and said, "You should have passed the exam. If you haven't, it doesn't matter. Your father can't forgive you, and your mother can't forgive you first."

If the fourth child failed to pass the test for children, it must be intentional.

If you have a bad attitude, you should be beaten!

Zhu Di smiled and urged: "There are too many people here. Let's get in the car first and go back to the inn. When we come out, the children can't wait to answer the questions with me."

Everyone got in the car and went straight to Wangxian Tower.

Because the answer needs to be answered child by child.

So dinner was eaten in the room.

After finishing.

Xu Miaoyun looked at Zhu Di in disbelief, "If all the children tell the truth, except for the youngest ones, will they be able to pass? On the edge, all the other children should be able to pass!"

This pass rate is really high.

It can shock many people!

Zhu Di smiled and said, "We all know the children's character. It is impossible for them to lie to us."

Except for articles.

Other questions actually test more memory and understanding skills.

Needless to say, memory.

The children received memory training for a year.

The ability to understand is the ability to understand the words of sages. All the annotations in the books brought by Miaoyun are annotations by famous scholars from all dynasties.

Miaoyun has read the annotations of each version.

What is taught to children is taken from the essence of all famous teachers.

This is an educational resource.

For many ordinary farming and reading families, some versions with commentaries by great Confucian scholars cannot be collected.

If you can't collect it, you won't be able to combine the strengths of each family.

Scholars in ancient times visited famous scholars and borrowed books from big families, mostly because they wanted to gather the strengths of each family.

Dong dong dong...

There was a knock on the door.

"It must be mom." Zhu Di smiled and stood up to open the door.

Sure enough, it was Ma Xiuying.

After Ma Xiuying entered the room, she curiously asked: "How did the children do in the exam?"

She and Chongba pay close attention to these children.

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun looked at each other, and Zhu Di smiled and said, "It's not bad."

Ma Xiuying looked at the two of them carefully and said, "The young couple can't hide their smiles. The situation must be good. Tell me it's not bad. It should be modest." ’

Soon, Ma Xiuying made a basic judgment.

Then he changed the subject with a smile, looked at Xu Miaoyun's belly, and asked, "Do you want to send a midwife from the palace?"

"Mother, you don't need to go to such trouble." Xu Miaoyun smiled and shook her head, "The fourth aunt in the village is a very famous midwife in all the villages. She has delivered hundreds of children and is very experienced."

On the number of babies delivered.

The midwives in the palace may not be as rich as the fourth aunt.

Zhu Di supported Xu Miaoyun's choice.

And yesterday he went to Wangji Pharmacy and made an appointment with Mr. Wang.

As soon as Miaoyun showed signs of giving birth, she immediately took Mr. Wang to Tuqiao Village.

The fourth aunt with rich experience in delivering babies was responsible for delivering babies.

In addition, famous doctors from Jiangning County are included in case of emergencies.

With this kind of arrangement, in this era, medical coverage is already at its limit.

Ma Xiuying felt relieved after hearing the young couple's plan.

Zhu Di asked: "Mom, will you come back to the village with us tomorrow and stay for a few days?"

"No, mother will return to the palace tomorrow." She wanted to go back quickly and tell Chongba that the fourth child had agreed to the impact test.

…

The next day, Uncle Eighth and others arrived in the car shortly after dawn.

Apparently, he set off from the village in the middle of the night.

After bidding farewell to Ma Xiuying, Zhu Di and others began their return journey.

After watching the seven carriages go away, Ma Xiuying lowered the curtain and said, "Mao Xiang, let's go back too."

Mao Xiang took a deep breath and said secretly: 'It should have exploded, extend your head and cut it, shrink your head and cut it...'

"drive!"

The carriage started, Mao Xiang put down his complicated thoughts and asked with a smile: "Empress, did your Highness tell you how the children did in the exam?"

Ma Xiuying couldn't help but smile, "He said it was okay, but I think they were being modest, so it shouldn't be too bad."

‘The risk of losing your head is less! ’

Mao Xiang suddenly grinned quietly.

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