I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Four years after Yongxing, Dahua's second imperial examination ended.

When the final list was finalized, there was some controversy.

The overall performance of the champion Wu Kezhang was not outstanding, and he could only be regarded as the middle of the more than 200 jinshi.

However, he was appointed as the champion by the emperor.

Fortunately, this champion is one year older than Wu Changqing, otherwise there must be conspiracy theorists who suspect that this is the emperor's illegitimate son.

Even now, some people suspect that there is some kind of relative relationship between them, after all, they are both surnamed Wu.

Of course, for some well-informed people, it is easy to find the three generations of Wu Kezhang's ancestors.

Obviously, Wu Kezhang and Wu Changqing are not related.

The reason why he can be the champion is purely because he has something the emperor likes and has outstanding talents in certain aspects.

The emperor, the biggest, he said that he wanted Wu Kezhang to be the champion. Although others were not convinced, they could only hold back.

Fortunately, Zhuangyuan Lang didn't start very high, he just went to the Financial Department to report and received the sixth-rank title.

However, the others started at a lower level. The second and third spots were all rank seven, and most of the other top two started from rank 8, and only a few outstanding ones could become a magistrate of rank 7.

Moreover, most of them are county magistrates in remote areas.

The magistrates of the top counties in the Jiangnan region have no part in them.

With the stability of the political situation, the future promotion channel will be more difficult.

Now they can still be a rank seven county magistrate, waiting for the candidates for the next subject, I am afraid they can't even be a magistrate.

The speed at which officials retire often cannot keep up with the speed of imperial examinations.

There are only so many official positions in the world, and the local government can still increase it with the expansion of the territory, while the increase in the central government positions is much slower.

However, this is an inevitable trend in the development of a dynasty, and those who have won the jinshi know it in their hearts and have nothing to complain about.

The most, that is, regret that when Wu Changqing was uprising, he didn't come to defect.

By now, it's all too late.

Among the Jinshi admitted this time, there are two more special people.

One was Korean and the other was Manchu, and the two were awarded Tongjinshi backgrounds.

Tongjinshi means that their two grades are not enough to be admitted as Jinshi.

All are jinshi, but the gap is still huge.

At least, they are all alternate officials now, and they have to wait until there are vacancies before they can get their share.

The reason why two ethnic minorities were deliberately admitted was naturally to send a signal to those two ethnic groups that Dahua treated them equally and did not bully and enslave them.

As long as you study hard, you can enjoy the same treatment as the Han Chinese.

This attitude can appease the elites in those two ethnic groups.

Ordinary people of the two ethnic groups still like to integrate into Dahua, because they have obtained tangible benefits.

However, the interests of the original nobles and elites in the two ethnic groups have been greatly deprived.

These people must be dissatisfied with Dahua in their hearts.

The admission of candidates from both ethnic groups as Tongjinshi can be regarded as a kind of comfort and give them some hope of becoming an official.

Otherwise, these people will definitely be unwilling to do things again.

They do things like mosquito bites, they can't hurt people, but they can be disgusting and unpleasant.

Too many mosquitoes will also affect the normal development of Dahua.

"Go to his mother's eight-legged essay."

In a restaurant, several candidates who failed the list were drinking and spreading drunkenness.

"Haha, Brother Liu also suffered from this loss. I thought I was the only one who suffered."

Another failed candidate laughed at himself.

These people, by studying the scores of admitted candidates, discovered an astonishing fact.

That is, those people's eight-part essay scores are extremely poor.

There is a more important point is that this year's eight-legged articles are extremely strict.

In previous years, you can get 90 points for eight-part essays, but this subject can only get 60 points.

Its purpose, obviously, is that the imperial court continues to suppress the weight of Baguwen, and let those who specialize in Baguwen fall off the list.

On the surface, Baguwen is still an elective subject as important as physical chemistry, but in fact, physical chemistry is more interesting if you study it with heart and mind.

And the eight-legged essay, no matter how well written, will last for sixty or seventy points.

As a result, candidates who specialize in eight-legged essays suffer a dark loss.

There are no fools who can participate in the township examination, and they can see this little trick of the court clearly. Or, the imperial court did not intend to hide it from them at all.

It is to use this distinction to force them to change their learning direction and learn more practical skills.

"I'm also going to change my direction. I think the most popular thing at the moment is economics. As long as the next subject is good in economics, it will definitely be recruited, just like the number one undergraduate student."

Another student analyzed.

The subject of economics is a newly added subject in the imperial examination, and it can be deliberately added by the imperial court, which naturally shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to it, or that there is a great shortage of talents in this field.

Follow the needs of the imperial court, and you will be able to find a bargain in the exam.

Just like in this imperial examination, the first person in the economics subject only scored more than 80 points, and as a result, he was recruited by exception.

The first place in other subjects is basically above 95, which is much more difficult.

"Maybe the weather vane of the next division will change again. After three years, the court may have collected talents in this field."

"Impossible. The imperial court's main method of recruiting talents is the imperial examination. The shortage of talents in economics is not so easy to fill, and the next subject will definitely be popular."

"Anyway, don't study the eight-legged essays any more. This is a subject raised by the stepmother. Since His Majesty's uprising, it has been suppressed and never stopped. I heard that all official documents are now required to be written in both spoken and vernacular languages. , the use of serious article format is not allowed."

"The world is going down."

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This group of losers who did not pass the examination will definitely have opinions on the changes in the content and format of the imperial examination.

Humans, when encountering failure, instinctively like to look for external causes and shirk responsibility.

Of course, they would not admit that they were lacking in talent and learning, but due to the eccentricity of the imperial court.

Every time during the imperial examination, someone will shout about injustice, and no one will care too much about this.

Many people shouted, in fact, it was an explanation to the parents and villagers in their hometown.

After all, those elders and villagers worked hard for them to study, and they didn't pass the exam and had no face to face those people.

However, shouting an injustice can resolve this embarrassment.

They can communicate with their elders and fellow villagers. It is not because they do not work hard and have no talent to learn, but because the court is unfair.

It is precisely because of this reason that even if they shouted injustice, or even shouted that someone was practicing favoritism, the officials of the government would not teach them a lesson and let them shout.

Anyway, they couldn't make any waves before, and now it's even worse.

There is a high probability that after shouting, he will hide in a corner again, continue to study hard, and change direction by the way.

If you can't change the court, you can only change yourself.