My Daming New Empire

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It's just that, except for scientific examinations, most of the examinations in other subjects can only be officials, not officials.

For example, doctors in Taiyuan Hospital, accountants in the Ministry of Households, headhunters in the Ministry of Punishment, military champions in the Ministry of War, and craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, they all passed this kind of examination and were promoted to officials.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty did not lack professional talents, but it just raised the status of Confucianism too high, suppressing the road to officialdom in other disciplines.

In the first examination in the Ming Dynasty, the acceptance rate was almost [-]%.

But during the Yongle period, the admission rate dropped to about 300%.Nowadays, the total number of people in each session of the examination is about [-], and the number of top three Jinshi selected is about [-].

Moreover, this is a student who has passed the county examination, government examination, and township examination.

According to the admission rate of the township examination is about 5.00%, it can be calculated that the number of scholars in Daming has reached 30, and the total number of candidates has also exceeded 2.

When the list was unveiled in late August, some people were happy while others were worried.And most of the candidates who won the exam and decided to take the exam began to pack their bags one by one, preparing to go to the capital to prepare for the exam.

In the examination next spring, His Royal Highness will add overseas current affairs and arithmetic. Although the proportion is not large, it will be more confident for the students who are thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge.

Of course, Ying Tianfu has the most comprehensive books on overseas current affairs and mathematics.

Although the cost of going to the capital will be higher, but being able to discuss knowledge and learn together with students from all over the country will make greater progress.

After the list was revealed, the officials of the Ministry of Rites who had been quarantined since the beginning of August, whether they were outer curtain officials, inner curtain officials, or chief examiners, all seemed to be fighting a difficult battle.

For nearly a month, everyone has been imprisoned, except for the chief examiner, who has a little freedom and can move around in the courtyard.

Those inner curtain officials who marked the examination papers sat in prison for nearly a month.Although the outer curtain officials presided over the invigilation, the control they received after the invigilation was stricter than that of the inner curtain officials.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji must of course express his condolences, as long as there is no fraud, the rewards should be rewarded, and the holidays should be given a holiday.

At the end of August, Zhu Zhanji also met the examiners who were invigilating the examination in Yingtianfu and expressed his condolences to them.

The Xie Mansion has been feasting heavily these days, because the two brothers of the Xie family, Xie Zhenqi lived up to expectations and won the first place in the Yingtianfu Township Examination, Xie Yuan.

Although Xie Zhenliang is not as good as his brother, he is also on the list and has a high position.

Xie Zhenfang, who has been pregnant for more than three months, is very happy for her brother, but at this time, she misses her husband who is thousands of miles away.

The Xie family is full of scholars, her father is a great Confucian, her mother is also a famous talented woman after Ouyang Xiu, and her uncle is the number one talented man in Ming Dynasty.

Xie Zhenqi was hailed as a rising star of the Ming Dynasty, not only brilliant in writing, but also suave and suave.

Xie Zhenfang had been fascinated by it since she was a child, and she was not surprised by scholars. That's why she fell in love with the down-to-earth, steady, strong and powerful Yang Dao at that time.

Yang Shiqi is now accompanying the prince in another courtyard, and there are only a group of women in charge of the house in the capital.

Xie Zhenfang's family education is very strict, and she has the demeanor of everyone. She married into the Yang family and was highly regarded by Yang Dao's grandmother and mother.

Although there is no man in the Yang family, the Yang family and Xie's family lived on the same street, not far apart, and Xie's family took care of them.

Not only did Xie Zhenfang not suffer any grievances in the Yang family, he even took over the power of housekeeper.

It was only because they found out that she was pregnant that the grandmother and mother of the Yang family were afraid that she would be tired, so they took over the mundane tasks and let her raise the baby with peace of mind.

As a newlywed, her husband went overseas. How could she not miss him for several years...

While on the American continent, Yang Dao also deeply missed his family in the capital.

After the fleet arrived on the Eastern Continent, they came into contact with more and more natives.Some of these natives are somewhat similar to Daming people, but most of them are completely different from Daming people, and they can't understand their words at all.

However, with the experience of contacting the aborigines in the Nanzhou and Nanyang regions, the well-meaning Daming people quickly became familiar with these aborigines.

It's just that the aborigines here are very poor. They only have animal furs for sale, and they don't even have gold.

And they have no writing, no currency, and they all barter.They didn't have what Da Ming wanted, but the ironware in Da Ming's hands was the goods they dreamed of.

The aborigines here didn't have anything that Ming was interested in, so the army didn't want to delay here. They just sent a team of 3000 people to land, and the others continued to go south.

These 3000 people, led by the commander Di Pingxia, carried a hundred carts, landed from the bay (Seattle) marked by His Highness, followed a trail in the mountains, and will go all the way to the middle of the Dongzhou continent. East.

There was only a small amount of food on the cart, most of the rest were various supplies, and there were some materials exchanged with the natives.

This route was delineated by Zhu Zhanji, because from the west to the east of the United States, the saddest thing is not only the mountains, but also the rivers.

The middle part of the United States is full of rivers, and when there is no boat, a small river is a great hindrance.

If you want to go from the west to the east, only along the northern part of the United States and the southern part of Canada, the rivers are the fewest.

And starting from North Dakota, the entire American continent is boundless fertile land.

Their goal is to go east along the Great Lakes, avoiding the Appalachian Mountains that cover most of the United States, and go all the way to the eastern seashore.

Zhu Zhanji predicted that it would take them a year to cross the American continent, and then join the fleet across the southern continent of Dongzhou in the waters near New York in the east.

Their mission is to find out the situation in the middle of the Eastern Continent. Because the weather in the north is cold, there is no empire here, only small tribes.

Even a tribe of tens of thousands of people would not dare to be arrogant in the face of the muskets of the Ming army.

When Spain invaded South America, more than 100 people could directly wipe out the huge Inca Empire. The combat effectiveness of these indigenous people is not worth mentioning.

Although Di Pingxia only had [-] soldiers, there were ten generals who had graduated from Habayashi Guard School.These people do not have the task of figuring out the situation, the main thing is to draw a precise map.

The army continued to go south, and in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other places in later generations, they all docked to measure the water depth and traded with the local tribes.

It was also here that they learned that there was a huge country in the south through difficult communication with the local tribes.

Hou Xian knew very well that in this land, only the Aztecs in the south could be called a big country.

Although they also found some scattered gold mines along the coast, the Ming Fleet didn't have time to pan for gold. They just wrote down the locations and sailed southward.

Due to the headwind, it took them a month to arrive at the scheduled location in the southern part of the Northern Continent, which is the future Salina Cruz of Mexico.

The reason why he chose to land here is because Zhu Zhanji has always held great doubts and wanted to uncover this historical secret.

Native Americans' ties to Asia are inextricably linked, but most of them have been obscured by history.

The only conclusive evidence left is the Olmec civilization in Mexico, known as the mother of Indian culture.

The Olmec civilization spread across the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco.Dated from the beginning of the 1st century BC to the 3rd century BC, it is the earliest known Indian civilization.

This civilization has a very close relationship with China. In the twentieth century, American archaeologists discovered 16 statues and 6 pieces of jade kui in the sacrificial center of the Olmec site in Mexico. The jade kui was inscribed with words and was the ancestor of the Yin people. Names: Chi You, Shao Hao, Di Ku, Jian Di, Duo Fu, Qi, Xiang Tu, Wang Hai, Shang Jia, etc.

Moreover, their totem worship is exactly the same as that of the Dongyi people in the Yin and Shang Dynasties of ancient China. There is a lot of evidence that they are the descendants of Yin merchants who were defeated and expelled.

However, the Indian culture of later generations was completely destroyed, and no more conclusive evidence can be found.Now that it is impossible for the Spaniards to come again, Zhu Zhanji also wants to find more evidence, and then rule "justly" against the Aztecs who ruled this area.

The number of this expedition reached 6000 people. In addition to 5000 soldiers, there was also a scientific expedition team composed of [-] old farmers, doctors, and botanists.

This is one of the two largest civilizations in the American continent today, and Da Ming will devote more energy here.