March 18, the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1547), the Forbidden City, Fengtian Temple.
Ding Weike's 306 would-be jinshi, dressed in wide-sleeved soap robes and holding wat boards, stood in three rows under the guidance of officials of Honglu Temple, solemnly waiting for the final results of the palace examination to be announced.
Accompanied by the sound of Xiao Sheng's reed flute and chime bronze chime, Xia Yan, the head of the cabinet wearing a red python robe and a jade belt around his waist, walked slowly outside the Fengtian Hall with a yellow book in his hand.
"In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, Ding Weike took the first class jinshi and the third person, the second class jinshi was born 90 people, and the third class was born with 208 people. ”
Xia Yan read the result aloud.
"The first place in the palace examination - Li Chunfang!"
Thirty Han generals relayed and shouted: "First place, Li Chunfang is here." ”
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"The ninth place in the second class of the palace examination - Zhang Juzheng!"
"The one hundred and ninety-seventh place in the top three in the palace examination, Yin Zhengmao!"
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01
The NBA draft in the United States will have the saying of a big year and a small year, and the same is true of the imperial examination in ancient China, where there will be a blowout in a certain subject.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the imperial examination was at its peak, there were a total of 200 Jinshi lists (89+111), among which the one that can be called the first list of the imperial examinations in the Ming and Qing dynasties is undoubtedly the list of Ding Weike Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why Ding Weike's Jinshi list can be called the first list of the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties is not simply how many high-ranking officials have been produced in this subject.
In fact, if we only talk about the number of high-ranking officials, the list of Wuchen Kejin scholars in the second year of Longqing (1568) is the most, and there are seven cabinet assistants, namely Shen Yiyi, Zhao Zhigao, Zhang Wei, Zhu Geng, Chen Yuma, Wang Jiaping, and Yu Shenxing, as well as eighteen Shangshu and fifty-two squires.
In the twentieth year of Jiajing (1541), there were also many Xin Chou Kejin scholars, and there were five cabinet assistants, namely Pan Sheng, Gao Yi, Gao Gong, Yan Ne, and Chen Yiqin.
However, the twelve cabinet ministers of these two sections combined, except for the high arch, are all flat, public-faced bureaucrats.
The Ding Weike Jinshi list is different, there are too many cattle with distinct personalities and can influence history, and under the stars of this subject, other subjects can only be a foil.
02
After thinking about it for a long time, it was decided to put Yang Jisheng in the first place to write, although the eternal Yiju Zheng had already left the galaxy.
Without him, just because of the wind and bones!
Yang Jisheng (1516-1555), a native of Hebei, the eleventh of Ding Weike's second class, and the first tough guy in the Ming Dynasty!
Yang Jisheng was born as a cattle herder, and he worked and studied part-time before Zhongxiucai. Cattle people have always been cattle people, Yang Jisheng, who has just entered the official career, his ability and conduct are visible to the naked eye, so later Yan Song tried his best to pull Yang Jisheng into the camp, and even did not hesitate to take out the position of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War to win over.
The Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Military Affairs are respectively called the first division of the world and the second division of the world. Those who understand the operation of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty can know how much blood Yan Song has to pay for such a position - a large number of people in the Yan Party are staring at it, everyone follows you Yan Ge is always for promotion and wealth, not for you to be handsome.
Why is it cheaper for that black boy?
But Yang Jisheng then went on the "Please Punish the Thief and the Minister".
After being persecuted by Yan Song and imprisoned, he was tortured but did not give an inch. The wound was rotten and inflamed, and he borrowed the jailer's lamp and scraped it off with broken porcelain.
Before righteousness, leave a sentence "Haoqi is still too empty, Dan's heart is eternal"!
From Yang Jisheng's body, it can be seen that the Ming people have an indescribable and unclear aura.
02
Yang Jisheng's topic is a little heavy, let's talk about a lighter one, Li Chunfang.
Li Chunfang (1511-1584), a native of Jiangsu, was the first in Ding Weike's first class, the champion, and the prime minister of Taiping.
There is no disaster and no trouble to the minister, Li Chunfang's life seems to be open. He is proficient in Confucianism and Taoism, and he also Xi Yangming Mind by the way. What I learned was so complicated, but I didn't delay the champion.
After joining the company, he has been lying down to win. At that time, it was Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, who was engaged in the wind and rain, and Xu Jie, the second assistant of the cabinet, was in action step by step, pulling and standing in line countless times, and no one could stay out of it, they were all pawns crossing the river.
But Li Chunfang is an exception, never standing in line, smiling at the wind and clouds, and there has never been the slightest obstacle in his career, all the way without shock, rising step by step, entering the cabinet is like drinking water, and being the first assistant is equivalent to eating.
After Zhishi, the high hall is still there, and the hometown feasts all day long, and everyone is envious.
is also a bureaucrat, why is Li Chunfang special?
Just because Li Chunfang is suspected of being the real author of a certain masterpiece.
Of course, Ding Weike also has a big bull who is also rumored to be the real author of another masterpiece - Wang Shizhen.
Wang Shizhen (1526-1590), a native of Jiangsu, ranked 80th in Ding Weike's second class, and the leader of the literary world!
Although Wang Shizhen's career achievements are not low, he has also served as the governor of Yunyang and the secretary of the Criminal Department. But his most popular nature is his literary achievements, as one of the "Later Seven Sons", he dominated the literary world together with Li Panlong in the early stage, and in the later period, he dominated the literary world for 20 years, and was the leader of the literati at that time.
His literature, opera, calligraphy, and historiography have all reached the pinnacle.
Wang Shizhen was actually born in the Jiangnan Wang family, and has been a high-ranking official for generations, and his father, brother, and son are all masters of the imperial examination. But Wang Shizhen did not have the slightest shelf of a high-ranking disciple, traveled widely, regardless of his background, called friends all day long, drank and entertained, and once wrote "Sword Song" for Qi Jiguang and preface to Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica".
03
Zhang Juzheng, who "works for the country and is clumsy for his life", has been in the right position for thousands of years.
Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), a native of Hubei, was the ninth in the second class of Ding Weike, the most outstanding statesman of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the most influential reformers in Chinese history.
One of his whips and test methods forcibly continued the life of the Ming Dynasty for half a century. If it weren't for the wayward Wanli Emperor Chargil messing around, maybe China's history would have gone in a different direction, and the Han family would not have changed color.
Zhang Juzheng has too much to say, just borrow one sentence here: there is no Zhang Juzheng in the world!
04
The people on Ding Weike's Jinshi list were more or less influenced by the Yangming Mind at that time, and many of them were themselves disciples of the Mind Study.
Six years later, that is, in the 32nd year of Jiajing (1553), many of these 306 people were there to give lectures.
Therefore, the integration of knowledge and action will inevitably be expressed. At that time, it coincided with the chaos on the southeast coast, so Ding Weike also emerged a number of famous generals, Yunwen Yunwu.
Yin Zhengmao (1513-1593), a native of Anhui, was the 197th of the top three in Ding Weike, the southwest of the town, and a famous general of the anti-Japanese army.
Wen Jinshi Yin Zhengmao, but started with military talents, Longqing four years (1570) Gutian Gu clan Wei Yinbao, Huang Chaomeng launched a rebellion, Yin Zhengmao was in danger of being ordered, with Yu Dayou as the general, strategizing, the army is divided into seven roads, virtual and real, even breaking dozens of nests, killing Huang Chaomeng, capturing Wei Yinbao.
Subsequently, when Guangdong was in turmoil, Yin Zhengmao was once again ordered to serve as the governor of Liangguang with the secretary of the military department, rectify the army, and go to the front line in person. In the ambush battle of Confucianism, the demeanor of Confucian generals was fully displayed, and there was no last resort, and the successive battles finally quelled the coastal rebellion in Guangdong.
Wu Baipeng (1519-1578), a native of Zhejiang, ranked 75th in the top three of Ding Weike, and a famous general of the anti-Japanese war.
In the 28th year of Jiajing (1549), when Wu Baipeng patrolled Jiangbei as a superintendent of imperial history, he keenly discovered the loopholes in military defense, so he reorganized the armament in Wuwei Prefecture and trained soldiers and horses.
In the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing (1550), the Japanese invaded Yangzhou, and the rich and prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River was in danger.
At that time, there were countless refugees outside Yangzhou, and the local governor refused to accept them. After Wu Baipeng arrived, he angrily pointed out, and as a seven-rank patrol, he confiscated all the talismans of the officials, and monopolized the power, and no one dared to disobey. First open the city to accept the people, and then to attack instead of defending, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese are not stable in the foothold, personally led the elite starry night out of the city to launch a surprise attack, the big break the Japanese invaders, and the people of Yangzhou set up the "Wu Gongsheng Temple" to worship.
It's heartbreaking!
Wang Daokun (1525-1593), a native of Anhui, was the 107th of the top three in Ding Weike, a famous opera artist, and a famous minister of the anti-Japanese war.
Wang Daokun and Wang Shizhen were equally famous, and at that time they had the reputation of "North and South Sima" (both of them served as the squire of the military department, and the squire of the military department was also called "Shao Sima"). He has a profound literary attainment, is proficient in music and rhythm, and is especially good at miscellaneous plays.
When he served as the governor of Fujian, he was in the midst of the Japanese rebellion in Fujian, and he worked closely with Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang to quell the Japanese rebellion.
Song Yiwang (1514-1578), a native of Jiangxi, was the 160th member of Ding Weike's top 3, a disciple of Xinxue, and a famous minister of the anti-Japanese war.
He studied under Nie Bao, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and Nie Bao was the orthodox descendant of Yangming Xinxue.
In the second year of Wanli (1574), when he served as the governor of Yingtian, the coastal defense was initially decided, and all local officials were taboo to talk about military affairs, only Song Yiwang thought that the rebellion of the Japanese would have a beginning and an end, so he tried his best to overhaul the war preparations. As a result, the Japanese returned to the country, sniping at the Black Water Ocean and winning a complete victory.
05
In addition to the above, there was also Ling Yunyi, the governor of Liangguang who took over from Yin Zhengmao to Fuxian (1519-1570, a native of Jiangsu, the thirty-first rank of Ding Weike);
Yin Shidan, a generation of emperors who paid attention to the people's livelihood and sufferings (1522-1581, a native of Shandong, the 106th of the top three ranks);
Liu Yingjie, the governor of Shuntian (1517-1591, a native of Shandong, the 200th of the top three), who rectified the river and the transportation;
Xu Yan (1519-1581, a native of Jiangsu, the 154th of the top three in the top three) in "The Four Disciplines of Liaofan";
Wang Zongmao (1511-1562, a native of Hubei, ranked 167th in the top three) who was not afraid of power;
Chen Jiamo (1521-1603, a native of Anhui, the 146th of the top three);
The loyal and upright Tianguan Tsukazai Lu Guangzu (1521-1597, a native of Zhejiang, the 194th of the top three ranks) ......
Ding Moke's first list of the Ming and Qing dynasties profoundly affected the politics, military, culture, economy, etc. in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.