Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 552

Bi Shi'an looked at Zhang Qixian and said, "Brother Shiliang, this imperial examination is a joy for the whole country. With your talent and learning, it should not be difficult to be a Jinshi. Why don't you take part together?"

The most difficult part of this imperial examination is the first grade. The number of Jinshi and No. [-] Scholar, No. [-] and Tanhua, the second grade and the third grade depends on the actual situation.

The Jinshi and the first comparison are not only about talent and learning, but also luck.

But Zhongjinshi is really not difficult for people of Zhang Qixian's level.

Only for this period of course.

Zhang Qixian said with a smile: "I won't join in the fun. The future needs to be carefully considered."

Yang Pu said: "Brother Ren still doesn't know Shi Liang? He probably still wants to gain military merits!"

Zhang Qixian raised his hands, the fat all over his body shook three times, and said: "With my body, if I don't fight for a title, I always feel sorry for myself."

Luo Youdu has indeed raised the status of civil servants, and also gave scholars great respect and benefits.

At the same time, Luo Youdu didn't favor one person over another for military officials and warriors.

In order to encourage civil and military enterprising spirit, Luo Youdu promulgated a rule that those without military merits shall not be conferred titles.

Even if you are a prime minister who is under one person and above ten thousand people, without military merits, you are not allowed to enjoy the title.

After all, compared with civilian officials, generals do suffer a bit.

Governing the world and stabilizing the people's livelihood cannot be separated from civil officials for a moment, and military generals will eventually have time to rest. Even if they are as warlike as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and won the inheritance of the two generations of sages in Wen and Jing, they dare not fight again in the end.

Not to mention other...

Therefore, the benefits of military generals will be slightly better than those of civil officials.

Of course, if civil servants have the courage to go around the front line and achieve impressive military achievements, they can also enjoy the title of knighthood.

The civil servants of this era are not overly elevated. They have the experience of being stepped on by generals, and they have never tried to feel superior to generals.

This can restore the equal relationship, and the civil servants who have suffered are already very content.

Scholars like Zhang Qixian who are willing to invest in the army are not despised by prejudice, but a kind of good talk.

Bi Shi'an joked: "Then why doesn't Brother Shiliang go to take the martial arts exam?"

Zhang Qixian had a bitter face, he was so fat and intimidating, he was going to compete with real warriors, what was the difference between that and begging for a fight?
Bi Shi'an didn't try to persuade him, but said: "This prosperous age is coming, and His Majesty attaches great importance to enlightenment. In less than ten years, it will achieve miraculous results. The imperial examination will only become more and more difficult in the future. We must seize these few opportunities."

Zhang Qixian toasted and said: "I understand, I will think about it."

A group of people chatted and laughed, but saw an official coming up from downstairs, his eyes swept upstairs, and fell on Li Congde and Master Mani, with a flash of joy in his eyes, he strode forward and bowed: "Your Highness, Master, His Majesty summoned the two of you in the afternoon, and Xue Shangshu specially asked you to tell the two of you to prepare for the face-to-face."

Li Congde and Master Mani did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly left with the officials.

As soon as they left, there was a lot of discussion all around, all guessing the identities of Li Congde and Master Mani.

Yang Pu said: "Looking at their appearance, they are blond and blue-eyed, so they should be Persians."

Zhang Qixian was the most knowledgeable, and said: "They come from the west, and they are also called Your Highness. Because they are the sons of King Li Shengtian of Khotan..."

The West now respects the Central Plains, but the Xizhou Uyghur and Ganzhou Uyghur courts canonized the Khan, and the Cao family of the Guiyi Army was not eligible to be crowned king.

The only one who was crowned king was Li Shengtian, king of Khotan, the hero of the Western Regions.

Zhang Qixian really guessed right, Li Congde is the son of Li Shengtian and the prince of Khotan.

As for the Manichaeologist, Hulasd is one of the treasure tree kings in Manichaeism, and has a very high status in Manichaeism.

The two were summoned by Luo Youdu, they didn't dare to neglect, they rushed back to the Sifang Hall to take a shower, put on their gowns, and waited for the audience.

Li Congde said softly to Hulasd in Tocharian: "This time, you must not talk nonsense about the West. You know the strength of the Central Plains all the way. It really makes the Central Plains mix with Western things." , is of no use to you or me."

Hulasd said piously: "Your Majesty took us in, we are only for preaching, and we dare not think about it."

Li Congde solemnly said: "This is the best." He paused, and added, "My father will definitely support your Manichaeism and let the saint return to the Kara Khanate."

Hulas de respectfully expressed his understanding to Li Congde's heart.

Under the leadership of officials from the Ministry of Rites, the two left the Sifang Pavilion and walked all the way to the palace.

Li Congde and Hu Rasde looked at the people, scholars, and warriors coming and going on the street from left to right, with indescribable shock in their eyes.

Hu Rasde couldn't help but said: "There is a saying in the Central Plains that is to sit in a well and look at the sky. Scholars in the Great Food Kingdom are like frogs at the bottom of a well."

The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty had a strong collision with Western culture.

Westerners have always known that there is a powerful and mysterious country in the far east.

There is a scholar in Dashi Kingdom who intends to visit the mysterious country in the east. He came to the Western Region of Khotan, looked at the traces left by the Central Plains in the past, and expressed emotion.

When I came to the ancient city of Shandan built by the Uighurs in Ganzhou, I was amazed by heaven and man, thinking that I had arrived at the legendary capital of the East, and praised the magic of the East with incomparably gorgeous words.

Hulasd likes to read, and he happened to read books written by scholars from the Great Food Kingdom.

After traveling to the east this time, he realized that the scholars of the Great Food Kingdom wrote nonsense and worshiped the capital of a small country in the Central Plains as Chang'an.

The big joke of slipping the world.

Li Congde's eyes were gloomy, and the resentment in his heart was mixed with anxiety.

Khotan has always claimed to be the clan of the Tang Dynasty. The Central Plains is chaotic, and the Western Regions have long been separated from the control of the Central Plains.

Yuchi Poba, the king of Khotan, was well aware of the influence of the Tang Dynasty. He claimed to be the clan of the Tang Dynasty, and took the surname Li of the Tang Dynasty as his surname.

People in the West who don't know much about the East regard Yutian as the Tang Dynasty in the past.

Although Li Shengtian was very humble towards the Central Plains, and kept sending envoys to express his congratulations and affiliation, his intention was not to give the Central Plains an excuse for the Western Expedition.

After all, the Western Regions have been an integral part of the Central Plains since ancient times.

Li Congde was very dissatisfied with Li Shengtian's humility.

Their national power is prosperous and powerful, and their territory reaches Congling in the southwest to connect with the Brahmans, a distance of three thousand miles.It is connected to Tubo in the south and Shule in the west for more than two thousand miles. Why is it so humble to the Central Plains, a famous country in the Western Regions?

Until this visit to the Central Plains in person, what I saw along the way was the enthusiasm of warriors to join the army and make contributions; I saw literati talking and commenting on current affairs; I saw the array of goods on the street, and I saw whole paddy fields...

The warriors are good at martial arts, the literati are high-spirited, the businessmen are always smiling, and the common people live and work in peace and contentment...

Such a country, how can Khotan be an opponent?
Li Congde felt that he was the Yelang Kingdom in the story of the Central Plains, and his head was full of arrogance.

He didn't dare to have any thoughts, and his mind was humbly kneeling at the feet of Luo Youdu, the emperor of the Central Plains, persuading him to agree to conquer the Kara Khanate.

(End of this chapter)