《明史·志·卷四十六》
随后认为所选取的多是后生少年，能够以所学知识用在行政上的很少，便祇命令主管部门考察选拔贤才，而罢除科举不用。
既而谓所取多后生少年，能以所学措诸行事者寡，乃但令有司察举贤才，而罢科举不用。
Afterwards, believing that too many of the selected were young and newly emerged, and that only a little could apply what they had learned to administration, he ordered the relevant departments to survey and select worthies, and abolished the civil service examinations without using them.