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Li Dongyang is more than just the chief assistant of the cabinet, he is also the official secretary.

The official department is the head of the six departments, and the official official book is the head of the hundred officials, and it has the reputation of heaven official.

In the entire Ming Dynasty Hall, apart from Emperor Hongzhi's most powerful power, Li Dongyang is next.

He has already issued an order right now. Where do other officials in this great hall have any other opinions? This palace test officially began.

More than a dozen invigilators from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Rites acted at the same time and distributed the test papers in front of more than a hundred Xinke Gongshi.

Looking at the test paper on the desk, Zhou Chen couldn't help but sighed in relief secretly.

As early as before paying respects to the palace exam, Zhou Chen tried to suppress several palace exam questions based on the personality of the current emperor Hongzhi.

Generally speaking, the palace examination is an examination for the Imperial Court to directly select useful talents. Therefore, instead of taking the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics as the test questions, change has become a policy argument.

As for the content of the policy, it is not known.

However, the current emperor Hongzhi is a diligent emperor, so Zhou Chen boldly guessed that the strategy of this palace examination is most likely to be in line with the current affairs.

However, today, the current affairs policy theory of Imperial Court is most likely to be tested by the school, and it is nothing more than that.

For example, the intrusion of border troubles, how to fill the national treasury, how to deal with coastal Japanese pirates and so on.

At the moment, on the test paper in front of Zhou Chen, the recorded test questions are about the policies on the management of border troubles, and the candidates are required to give realistic and good policies for governing the country.

Looking at the questions on the test papers on the desk in front of them, most of the candidates present couldn't help but become nervous.

For these Gongshi who are accustomed to quoting scriptures and writing beautiful articles in accordance with the Four Books and Five Classics, this kind of policy and theory that fits current affairs has never been their good point.

Except for a few people, almost most of the tributes are frowns, thinking hard.

Even after they started writing, they basically wrote about sending troops to crusade.

As everyone knows, if the trouble here can be solved once and for all by just using soldiers, why did Ming Chengzu Zhu Di fight the grassland in the past, and eventually even died on horseback?

Furthermore, the grassland is vast and sparsely populated. Even if the Imperial Court sends hundreds of thousands of troops, it cannot form a real suppression.

At that time, the town of Ming Yingzong Zhu Qi personally led half a million elite soldiers to the grassland. As a result, it was not the tragic end of a civil castle.

Not only did he lose the throne, it also made the Ming Dynasty's noble generals group collapsed, making the civilian group completely control the entire court situation.

From this, it can be seen that simply using military force to suppress side problems is simply not desirable.

Zhou Chen lowered his head to meditate for a while, and after careful consideration in his mind, did he slowly start writing on the test paper.

Ping Rongce! This is the first sentence written by Zhou Chen, the opening topic.

The meaning is self-evident, but it is a strategy to calm the border troubles of the northern grasslands.

"The border troubles have existed since ancient times. Whether it is the Emperor of Qin Hanwu or Tang Sect Ming ancestor, they are all building strong cities on the frontier. Chen Chongbing is used to deter Rongdi outside the country.

However, the minister thought that using the lives of frontier soldiers as a line of defense is far less secure than using the human nature of the people of the world as a line of defense.

The reason why Rong Di would knock off the border is nothing more than that. In order to rob my people on the border of the Ming Dynasty, so as to ensure their own survival.

After all, these Rongdi belong to nomadic people, and they don’t know how to farm.

They want food to live, so they can only plunder from the people of the border gates of the Ming Dynasty.

But there are who are born to want to live in the edge of a knife licking blood? Those? The herdsmen’s hearts are also impossible and willing to fight all day long.

If the Imperial Court can open a mutual market on the frontier, so that these herdsmen have a way to obtain the food they need for survival, the fighting intent in their hearts will inevitably be Significantly lower.

As long as the Imperial Court manages the mutual market fairly, and the merchants on the border obey the rules, the herdsmen on the prairie are used to a stable life, even if the leaders of each Rongdi want to violate me In the border areas of the Ming Dynasty, their soldiers would also be dissatisfied and tired of fighting.

Moreover, the grassland has always lacked daily products such as salt oil, sugar and tea. My Ming Dynasty can open a mutual market to sell these daily products to Go up to the grassland in exchange for strong horses, cattle and sheep.

The opening of the mutual market first, and then display the border with elite soldiers, so as to deter the Rongdi tribes.

Wait for the herdsmen on the grassland. After living a stable and peaceful life, I am afraid that even if the leaders of their tribe want to rebel, their herdsmen will not agree."

Unconsciously, Zhou Chen has already spread out the entire test paper. It's full.

While putting down the brush in his hand, Zhou Chen quietly looked at the candidates on the left and right.

He found that although most of the other candidates had finished their answers, the expressions on their faces were not pretty. I guess they were not satisfied with their answers.

This hall trial is divided into two sessions, which started in the morning and afternoon.

The first half of the palace exam was mainly about current affairs and policy, and the second half was about poems and songs.

Similar to the previous Qiuwei Chunwei, the First Stage of this palace exam is also particularly important.

even more how The current Emperor Hongzhi is still a diligent emperor, he will naturally pay more attention to the current affairs policy theory of this first half.

As for the next examination of poems and songs, unless the answer is very amazing, people can see it immediately.

Otherwise, this poem and song will simply not have much influence on the performance of the palace exam.

After the first half of the exam is over, the invigilator will seal the exam papers and take them away. The Imperial Dining Room in the Imperial Palace serves the candidates with steaming meals.

It is rare to taste the craftsmanship of the imperial kitchen in the Imperial Palace, but most of the candidates in the hall taste like chewing wax.

Obviously, most candidates were not satisfied with the results of the first half of the palace exam, which made them have no intention of tasting this rare court delicacy.

Of course, Zhou Chen himself is very sweet.

After lunch and a short break, the exam in the second half began.

At the moment of that test question, Zhou Chen's mouth couldn't help but a smile appeared.

It seems that Emperor Hongzhi simply didn't pay much attention to the poems and poems of the palace exam, and it can even be said to be very perfunctory.

Because the topic of this exam is extremely simple, it is about winter things as the topic, just write a poem and song.