First, the number of ancient scholars was influenced by two factors: 1, the number of candidates, that is, the number of people who took the exam. 2. It depends on the specific situation of the job vacancy.

Second, this is the number of candidates (part of them) after the rural examination in the early Ming Dynasty, and the number of juren employed in a short period of time is uncertain, which in turn affects the number of Jinshi.

Third, this is the number of scholars in the early Ming Dynasty. Hongwu four years 120, Hongwu eighteen years 472, Yongle four years 2 19. Therefore, there was no fixed number of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were 472 people in the 18th year of Hongwu and the 2nd year of Yongle, and 3 1 person in the 24th year of Hongwu. These are special cases. At other times, there are about three or four hundred people.