Hongwu Thirty-North and South List Case

Introduction to the work In the 30th year of Hongwu, the Ming Empire was at its peak. However, an imperial examination fraud case that shocked the world was about to tear apart the foundation of this huge empire. When the ranking list was released in the spring, all fifty-one Jinshi scholars were from the south. The Northern Juzi people were so angry that they took to the streets carrying the memorial tablet of Confucius and accused the examiner Liu Sanwu of bending the law for personal gain. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and ordered a thorough investigation. However, the result of the re-examination was that the article was indeed of high quality and the examiner did not commit fraud. An imperial list affects the fate of countless people: the seventy-eight-year-old Liu Sanwu, who insisted on "article fairness" throughout his life, was involved in the political whirlpool in his later years; the twenty-four-year-old Shen Moyan, from a humble family in Shandong, went to Beijing to take the exam with dreams in mind, only to find that The imperial examination is just a plaything of power; Lu Zhihe, a member of the Royal Guards who disguised himself as a man, pursued the truth in the dark, but had to face the collapse of his faith; and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting on the dragon throne, was using this examination to play a bigger game... The confrontation between the north and the south, the game between imperial power and civil servants, and the collision between ideals and reality all broke out in this exam. When the dust of history settles, who is the real winner? The book has a total of 85 chapters, taking you back to the turbulent era of the Ming Dynasty and witnessing a shocking case that changed China's imperial examination system for 600 years.