The imperial examination system originated in the Sui and Tang dynasties, completely breaking the bad habits of the upper grade no cold door and the lower grade no scholar clan, the common people can improve their social status in this way, and the readers can realize the aspirations of the dynasty as Tian Shelang and the Tianzi Hall, on the one hand, providing a relatively fair opportunity for the ordinary people, and also selecting diverse talents for the imperial court.
During the Ming Dynasty, a large number of intellectuals entered the imperial court as officials through the form of imperial examination, although Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system after the "Hu Weiyong" incident, but soon there was a cabinet, and those university scholars had similar rights and status to the prime minister, and entering the cabinet to worship was the goal pursued by every civilian official.
Hu Guang
Among the many cabinet university scholars, Hu Guang, a Jishui man in Jiangxi, was a very special figure, who passed the township examination, the meeting test, and the temple examination, and had the honor of becoming the second place of the first class, which is the so-called "list eye", when the top three of the first class of the temple test were Beiwei, The Champion: Wang Jingzhi, The List Eye: Hu Guang, and Tanhua: Li Guan.
Hu Guang, who was supposed to be the eye of the list, unexpectedly won the grand prize, and the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, because of an inconspicuous and trivial matter, stripped Wang Jingzhi of the title of Champion, and promoted Hu Guang, the "Eye of the List", to The Title of Champion, and demoted the Title to the Eye of the List. The reason is that Wang Jingzhi looks ugly, looks good, and is easy to take Hu Jing, that is, Hu Guangye, it seems that the successor chosen by Zhu Yuanzhang is a "face value control", and the reason for promoting Hu Guang is even more speechless, because he has a pro-Fan Lu Liang in the policy chapter, and people's hearts are shaking... With such a sentence, Emperor Jianwen not only admired him, but also gave him the name Jing and taught Hanlin cultivation!
Zhu Yunjiao
When Zhu Di successfully rebelled under the pretext of "Jing Difficulty" and seized the throne, Hu Guang surrendered to Zhu Di the next day, summoned him, and prostrated his head in thanks! He was well-written and had the ability to handle government affairs, and he was so knowledgeable about current affairs, it was no wonder that he could be appreciated by Zhu Di, and Hu Guang, who saw the wind and made the rudder, gradually rise, and was appointed as one of the seven members of the first cabinet of the Ming Dynasty together with Xie Jin, a talented son who was responsible for editing and revising the Yongle Canon.
Hu Guang and Xie Jin are both from Jishui County, Jiangxi Province, and they are also cabinet ministers, the relationship between the two is extremely close, as the "boss" Zhu Di intends to match them into a family, Xie Jin already has a son, Hu Guang's wife has just become pregnant, the sex of the fetus is not easy to determine, but Zhu Di concluded that Hu Guang's wife will definitely have a daughter!
In fact, as Zhu Di judged, Hu Guang was indeed overjoyed, so it seems that Zhu Di is not only a good emperor with great talent, but also has the potential to be a gynecological doctor, the two cabinet ministers are married in-laws, and the combination of talent and beauty is really envious of others, and the two young people can combine wealth, status, and prestige without effort, which can be called an ancient version of the combination of strength and power.
Unfortunately, Hu Guang's relative Xie Jin was a restless "talented son", he supported Zhu Gaoxu to inherit the throne, and impressed Zhu Di with the reason of "good grandson", inevitably involved in the whirlpool of the crown prince's succession, and constantly reported to Zhu Di the "disobedient behavior" of his second son Zhu Gaoxu overstepping the rules, which could seriously stimulate Zhu Di's sensitive nerves!
Unravel
Sadly, Xie Jin still went his own way, and repeatedly opposed Zhu Di's sending troops to attack Annam (now Vietnam), and finally angered Yongle the Great, stopped Xie Jin's work as the editor of the Yongle Canon, and sent him to Guangxi to become a senator.
If Xie Jin could reflect on the reasons for his transformation from cabinet minister to Guangxi senator, perhaps there would be no tragic end later! Unfortunately, Xie Jin made a serious mistake, he went to the prince's mansion without asking for instructions, negotiated for a long time before leaving, and left in a hurry without waiting for Zhu Di to return.
Zhu Gaozi
Sure enough, after Zhu Di returned, the second son Zhu Gaoxu reported that Xie Jin and the prince had formed a party, Zhu Di ordered the arrest of Xie Jin, and was imprisoned in jinyiwei's zhao prison, after 2 years, Jinyiwei Jigang reported the list of prisoners, Zhu Di asked Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei is still in Ya? Of course, poor Xie Jin could not escape the poisonous hands of Jinyiwei, and was frozen alive in the ice and snow.
After the fall of Xie Jin, his son Xie Zhenliang was also sent to the Liaodong area to reclaim the wasteland, at this time, his relatives once again showed his nature of seeing the wind and making the rudder, soft and hard to let his daughter and son-in-law divorce and remarry! Ancient women paid attention to "three from four virtues", and their father's orders were simply "golden rules", but Hu Guang's daughter's actions really made her father, who was the first assistant of the cabinet, ashamed!
Hu Guang's daughter
Miss Hu Jia (should be Lady Xie), in the face of her father's several times and three times of "persuasion" unswerving, under Hu Guang's persecution, she cut off one ear to show her loyalty, sent someone to hand it over to her father, and angrily rebuked Hu Guang: Although my relatives are unfortunate, but also the emperor is the master, you promised, how can you do this, rather than die!
Perhaps it was the strong deeds of this young lady that reached Zhu Di, who pardoned Zhen Liang and reunited the husband and wife! The first assistant of the cabinet is not as dignified as a woman, and it also verifies Hu Guang's nature of "virtue is not worthy"!