Dahan first prince

Chapter 366
With all the Han monarchs and ministers united, and the Empress Dowager Lu Zhi personally sitting in the town, I thought this trip would be full of Xiongnu missions. Not surprisingly, after only a few days of arriving in Chang'an, they embarked on the return journey in despair.

Almost at the same time when the Xiongnu mission crossed the Weishui River and bid farewell to Chang'an, the first official call to action against thieves since the Han Dynasty also flew out of Changle Palace like snowflakes and flew to various places in Guanzhong. ;
——Since the Three Kings and Five Emperors prospered China, Gai only heard about eating the king's salary and being loyal to the king, but he didn't hear that those who betrayed the master were blessed by heaven;

Today in my Liu Han there is a thief named: Wei Man, who eats Han's salary and is not loyal to the emperor.

Since the thief crossed the river east, he was taken in by the Jizi Dynasty established after the Yin and Shang Dynasties. He still didn't want to repay his kindness. Instead, in the 12th year of the Han Dynasty, he took advantage of the funeral of the Han Dynasty and suddenly violently raised his troops and destroyed the country of Jizi Dynasty. , the dove occupies the magpie's nest, and he is the king of 'Weiman Korea';
After I heard about this matter, after the Yin and Shang Dynasties did not honor the poor Jizi Xuyu, I ordered the subsequent Jizhun to be the emperor of the Han and Joseon Dynasty, and sent envoys to order the Weiman thief: Return Jizi to Pyongyang, the capital of the Joseon Dynasty, It is the town of the king of Joseon, and the ancestral temple of Jizi Xuyu is protected by survival and death.

Unexpectedly, the thieves first carried the Han back to the east, and then raised their troops to destroy Korea. In the end, they ignored the defense of Hua and barbarians and the distinction between barbarians and Xia, and fell into the barbarian lackeys. Please go for the northern barbarian Huns.

I have heard that the defense of Huayi is greater than the righteousness of monarchs and ministers;
Nai said: If one day, loyalty to the emperor is against the body of the nobles of China, if you observe the festival without being completely loyal to the emperor and serve the master, then you should keep the festival and be right, abandon loyalty and follow the festival.

I heard it, and I took it for granted.

Today the thief lives in Pyongyang, wears the left lapel, wears Hu clothes and eats blood, and regards himself as a "vassal of the Huns";
Also this autumn, the northern barbarian Huns sent envoys to scare them, saying that if I ordered this thief to return to Pyongyang again, they would march south with 40 Hu cavalry, overwhelming the border and plundering the border of Han.

Woe and pain;

Xizai, ashamed.

I have a flimsy body, without the merits of establishing the country, I was able to protect the ancestral temple, and I was in charge of the court without a weak crown. I was trembling, like walking on thin ice, and dared not slack off for a day, lest my immorality would damage the legacy of my ancestor, Emperor Gao, No words to face the ancestors;

Today the barbarians bully me when I am young, and scare me with elite horsemen. Even if I am not sensitive, I dare not violate the restrained hair, the right-handed lapel, and the ambition of Emperor Taizu Gao.

It is to carry out this call to action, so that all the people in the world can understand my ambition: If the thief Weiman is not punished for a day, I swear that I will not eat millet or drink springs!
This is a proclamation to declare to the world: Anyone who betrays the Han and throws himself into the Hu, kills him without guilt; if he sees him and kills him, he will be rewarded with [-] yuan and a hundred acres of land, and he will give away all the property of the thief; if he hears about it, he will be the first to raise it and reward him with money Three thousand, and I will give you my best wishes!

Today there is a Weiman thief who wears a monkey and wears the crown, steals the kingdom of the Korean monarch and becomes a barbarian, and I want to attack him with troops;

It refers to the counties and counties of the world: if anyone wants to attack the Weiman traitors, he should invite the local counties and counties to be selected for the captains of the counties and counties on the day when he sees this article.

For the loyal ministers and righteous men who go spontaneously, the local counties and counties should not hinder them, and they should open their treasuries to provide for the expenses of the trip, twenty dollars a day.

There are rebels in the state, I want to kill them, there are countless loyal ministers and righteous men in the world, the clouds rise and the scene follows;
God bless my glorious man, who will last forever, and be safe with the people forever...

The call to action was issued, Chang'an was shaken, and the world was shocked!

The Han Dynasty, which was originally peaceful and peaceful, suddenly fell into a busy period with the spread of this letter centering on Chang'an.

——Since the death of the Qin Dynasty, the equipment called "Military Pot Note" has turned its gears again in the land of Huaxia.

It was also in this atmosphere of war regardless of Guanzhong and Guandong that the first examination of the Han Dynasty quietly kicked off in the western suburbs of Chang'an City...
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"Enter according to the order of the wooden signs, no noise!"

Outside the examination room, teams of imperial soldiers cleaned up the area within a radius of five miles. Not to mention people, even birds and beasts were not seen.

And in this 'examination room' completely surrounded by the imperial guards, thousands of scholars have already seated themselves and knelt down, quietly waiting for the next link.

In a short while, dozens of officials dressed in court uniforms appeared, and they were evenly distributed in the examination room at a ratio of one for every hundred candidates.

"My lord, Li You, has been added as Zuo Chengling, the household supervisor of the Xiangfu, and now is your examiner!"

"This examination is ordered by His Majesty to test the ability of the writers and use them as officials and officials;"

"Everyone is already familiar with the regulations of the exam, so I won't go into details."

"I have to teach everyone to know: since the examination questions are issued, you are not allowed to talk to the left and right, and you are not allowed to look around."

"The exam time is counted at two hours. When the time comes, I will tell you all. When you hear that the time is up, you should stop writing and sit quietly and wait."

"During the examination period, if you feel unwell, or have urgent needs that are difficult to express, you can raise your hands in silence, and I will come to see you, so as to relieve your difficulties."

He recounted the exam rules again with a firm expression, and saw the examiner who called himself 'Li You' raised his head and looked around the hundred candidates in front of him.

"Is there any doubt?"

After everyone shook their heads indifferently, Li Youcai finally turned sideways and trotted towards the high platform in the center of the examination room.

When all the examiners came around the high platform, the two figures sitting on the high platform also stood up politely to each other.

Then, the two came to the wooden box behind them, took out the keys in their pockets, and opened the two copper locks on the wooden box.

As they expected, the wooden box was not full of bamboo slips, but a box of bamboo paper.

As for the exam questions for this exam, they are also at the top of the paper stack.

"Wuhou?"

A slightly polite inquiry made Yangcheng Yanhan smile and wave his hands again and again.

"Marquis of Beiping, don't let me offend you..."

"I am not a military craftsman, but thanks to His Majesty's favor, I was able to occupy the current position of Jiuqing, and I was lucky enough to be Hou Qianyi..."

"And this time, the Marquis of Beiping will be the main examiner, and I will be the assistant examiner."

"This test question should be taken by An Guohou, is it more appropriate?"

Seeing that Yang Chengyan's words were sincere, without the slightest hint of politeness, Zhang Cang stopped being polite, and stretched out his hand with a smile, and picked up the few pieces of bamboo paper on which the examination questions were written.

As expected by Zhang Cang, the first three questions were exactly the three arithmetic questions that Liu Ying presented when she summoned several ministers including Zhang Cang.

——Chickens and rabbits in the same cage, plots of square fields, and the 'after-tax income' of farmers.

But on the two extra sheets of paper, there was an extra subjective question.

"Trying to say that in the past few years, I have seen the political abuses in my hometown and the methods to eliminate them..."

"Try to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the court's desire to conquer Weiman and North Korea..."

Zhang Cang couldn't help turning his head when he asked those two questions with a look of surprise and uncertainty;
Seeing Yang Chengyan shaking his head in confusion, Zhang Cang secretly sighed.

After a while, Zhang Cang, who had regained his composure, hurried forward and told the order of the questions on the test paper.

"There is a field, the length and width are 230 and [-] steps, ask the geometry of this field..."

"There is a cage, how many chickens and rabbits, five chickens and rabbits, eighteen feet, how many chickens and rabbits..."

"There is a farmer with a field of 360 mu. The farmer, his wife and the eldest son are all Fu. The annual grain is [-] shi, the tax is [-] yuan, the tax is [-] qian, and the grain shi is [-] qian. Meter Geometry..."

Following Zhang Cang's figure, the officials under the high platform also wrote vigorously, using thick pens to write the five test questions on pieces of wooden plaques that were more than ten feet high and two feet long.

After confirming that the test questions on the wooden board were correct, Zhang Cang nodded, and let the examiners take away a wooden board with the test questions written on it, and the soldiers carried them to the examination room.

After a while, the whole examination room was full of shouts and shouts.

"On the wooden board, there are five questions for you to answer!"

"If anyone is unclear about the problem, you can raise your hand and speak up!"

Listening to the examiner's call sign, almost none of the examinees raised their hands to signal, and they just dipped the tip of their pens in ink in a hurry.

Just when everyone lowered their heads, but belatedly remembered that before the exam, the blank bamboo slips they brought with them were 'confiscated' outside the exam room, and the bamboo slips used for answering were finally distributed to the candidates.

"This bamboo paper was made by His Majesty's special order, and the cost is very high!"

"Your Majesty treats you so courteously, and you must never let me down!"

With the exam questions and papers, as a long horn sounded from the high platform in the center of the exam room, the entire exam room fell into a silence that lasted for two hours.

But on the high platform in the center of the examination room, Zhang Cang bowed his hands to Yang Chengyan with a stiff smile, and then sat back in his seat, moaning to himself.

As a "mature man" who was only in his sixties, Zhang Cang actually forgot to hand out the papers before the examination, which was indeed somewhat inappropriate.

But this is not because Zhang Cang is really 'old and faint' and has a bad memory.

But on the examination paper, the inexplicably extra last two questions made Zhang Cang a little bit out of his mind...

"The political disadvantages of living in the hometown, and the method of eliminating the disadvantages..."

"What's more, make the examiner talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the imperial conquest?"

When he said this with a gloomy face, Zhang Cang shook his head sadly.

——Just from these two extra questions, Zhang Cang dared to promise: this exam is definitely not for the selection of a "young official with a rank of two hundred stones"!
What is the rank of two hundred stones?
Not to mention Chang'an Chaotang, and the yamen of the Sangong Jiuqing, even in a local county, it is the deputy of a certain department of the county yamen, or the head of the county yamen.

Coupled with the condition of "young official", two hundred shi is almost the deputy of the department of the designated county-level unit, or the bottom of the Chang'an court, such as Zuoli, Wenshi and the like.

Such a person needs to see the shortcomings of the policies in his hometown and propose solutions?

Need to see the advantages and disadvantages of the country's foreign crusade?

joke!

——Not to mention two hundred stones, but two thousand stones, but those local sheriffs who are not in Chang'an may not be able to give qualified answers to these two questions!

Especially the latter question, from Zhang Cang's point of view, is clearly the standard for testing national scholars!
"Ugh·······"

"as predicted."

"Your Majesty has high expectations for the examination..."

"In this test, even if the people who have been selected start from two hundred stones, in the future, I am afraid that none of them are things in the pool..."

Full of embarrassment, Zhang Cang let out an exclamation, then sighed helplessly, closed his eyes as if appointed, and fell asleep in the middle of the examination room.

What Zhang Cang didn't know was: at least for this exam, Liu Ying was far from having such lofty expectations as Zhang Cang thought.

——There is a month or so before the exam, not to mention Kanto, I am afraid that even in some remote areas of Guanzhong, there are many candidates who have not arrived in time, and have not even received the news!
Furthermore, from the fall of the six kingdoms of Qin Dynasty, to the death of Qin II, to the struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han, and the internal and external wars after the Han Dynasty came together...
Full of fights and full calculations, the land of China has not seen peace without war for more than three consecutive years for at least 50 years.

In addition, after the unification of the first emperor, most of the books in the world disappeared with the single-handed "law of holding books". Xiang Yu set fire to it and burned all the books in the Shiqu Pavilion of Xianyang Palace...
To put it bluntly, in today's world, let alone scholars, except for the collection of books in Shiqu Pavilion of Weiyang Palace, I am afraid that there are not many decent books and allusions at all.

If you don't even have books, it's even more useless to talk about scholars, and among them, talents and heroes who are knowledgeable enough to be used in officialdom.

Therefore, the two test questions that Liu Ying added later were indeed, as Zhang Cang said, not for the young officials of the [-] stone level.

To be precise, Liu Ying did not expect anyone to give satisfactory answers to these two questions in this examination.

——It’s not a problem to ask candidates about the bad government in their hometown, but it’s not very realistic to ask these people to come up with a solution.

As for the latter question, it is a question at the level of national strategy, and it is definitely not a 30-year-old boy who can say one, two, three, four.

But even so, these two questions were still added by Liu Ying.

As for the reason, it is also very simple: precedent.

For the future, it will definitely become the main means of selecting officials in the Han Dynasty. This examination is the "precedent" for every examination in the future.

With this precedent, Liu Ying was able to add similar subjective questions into the exams in the future without any hesitation, without causing too much public opinion.

Of course, if there is any unexpected gain in this exam, it would be great if someone can give Liu Ying a satisfactory answer to these two questions.

Outside Chang'an City, Zhang Cang and Yang Chengyan stared at the examination room;

In Chang'an City, in Weiyang Palace, the attention of Emperor Liu Ying has already flown thousands of miles away.

——On this day, the news that the Han Dynasty wanted to use things for Weiman and North Korea finally reached the Yishui of the Yalu River.

Upon hearing the news, the entire city of Pyongyang was plunged into extreme panic and an intriguing silence.

However, Wei Man was in a daze for the Han Dynasty's unprecedented tough attitude and unexpectedly quick actions, not knowing what to do...

(End of this chapter)