After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 200 Arrangement
"Speaking of which, I Liu Ji and Brother Luo used to be rivals." Liu Bowen thought back to reality and said, "I proposed to the emperor, that is, the then King Wu, to pretend to attack Huzhou, so as to confuse Zhang Shicheng and leave the remaining troops. Do your best to deal with Chen Youliang. Brother Luo was at Zhang Shicheng's side at the time, and he must have seen my plan."

"Yes, I saw it. At that time, I suggested Zhang Shicheng to join forces with Chen Youliang to attack Jinling." Luo Guanzhong shook his head and sighed, "It's a pity that Zhang Shicheng is just like Yuan Shao. , He heard good things but couldn't accept them... Although he respected the two of us, he just wouldn't listen to our suggestions."

"Such a master, even if Zhuge Liang is alive, I'm afraid he can't help." Shi Nai'an also sighed.

"Yuan Shao in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Brother Luo must have Zhang Shicheng's shadow." Gao Qi laughed.He and Liu Bowen had also read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and liked it very much, otherwise they would not sympathize with each other.

"Not bad." Luo Guanzhong said, "For us scholars, it's a big regret in our life that we can't meet a wise master. We can only express our dissatisfaction in the article and talk about it for comfort."

"But now Brother Luo and Shi Lao have abandoned the dark and turned to the bright, and they have joined the Ming Dynasty, and it is not too late to make contributions to the country from now on." Gao Qi said.

"The two of you can't show your talents with Zhang Shicheng, and it's the same with the emperor's ambitions."

"Our current Emperor Zhu has both great talent and love for the people, and he is also a holy monarch." Liu Bowen said, "Serving for the Ming Dynasty, the two of you will definitely build a great cause in the future, become famous in history, and live up to your knowledge. "

"That's right." Luo Guanzhong nodded in agreement, "It is precisely because we saw that the emperor loves the people that we are willing to come out to assist."

Leaving the mountain is the fate of Shandong Erxian, but the crowd did not say it.

"Speaking of that, Zhang Shicheng is really far from Emperor Zhu." Shi Naian also sighed.

"Yeah, neither Zhang Shicheng nor Chen Youliang can be compared with the emperor." Gao Qi said.

"Brother Luo and I have played against each other secretly. It can be said that we don't know each other." Liu Bowen said.

"Yes, yes." Luo Guanzhong said, "When I was with Zhang Shicheng, I admired the three great sages."

"In the future, my master and my apprentice and several of the same dynasty will serve as officials, and I hope a few of them will take care of me." Shi Nai'an said.

"Where are you, the two are too modest." Gao Qi said, "With the peerless talents of the two, the emperor will definitely entrust the two with a heavy responsibility. In the future, it is inevitable that the limelight will surpass our few scumbags."

"Brother Gao said that we are talented?" Shi Nai'an smiled bitterly. "Our two masters and apprentices can't even compare to that person's apprentice. The champion was taken away by the princess, and we are only second in the list."

"Yeah, with the insignificant talents of the two of us, how could the emperor give us a heavy responsibility?" Luo Guanzhong said, it seemed that because he lost to Zhu Yingrao, he was rather indifferent.

"The two of you are wrong." Liu Bowen said, "Although that person is very talented, he can't possibly take all the officials in the court. Besides, he lives in Lujia Village and works as a private school teacher, which is a high-ranking hermit. "

"It's impossible to handle some actual government affairs for the emperor at all, and at most it's just occasional advice."

"To deal with the government affairs in the court, the emperor has to rely on those of us in the court." Gao Qidao.

"I really envy his landscape and rural life!" Liu Bowen sighed.

"Furthermore, the emperor's intention to make Southwest Enke the two of us the chief examiner this time, and to promote Southwest students in a big way, can't be more clear. That is to ask us to unite to check and balance those nobles of Huaixi." Gao Qidao.

"Therefore, checking and balancing those noble and arrogant generals in Huaixi is the important task that the emperor has given to the two of you."

"It's too early to say these." Shi Naian said, "Let's see how the emperor arranged us."

After a few people talked about the government affairs of the court for a while, they showed their literati qualities again, and began to recite poems and fu, and play with flying flowers.After that, it was divided into Cao Shefu, throwing a pot, and playing the guqin.

The recreational activities among the literati cannot be understood by the laity.

……

The next day, the emperor held a banquet in Qionglin to entertain all the high school students.

The banquet was very lively. The students all dressed in Chinese costumes and celebrated with their crowns. The scene was full of joy.

Before the emperor came, he talked about poetry and songs, and the musicians played the ancient song "Luming"

Not long after the emperor arrived, he raised his glass to toast all the students with a glass of wine, and then said his arrangement for them: "Students, you are all pillars of the country, and you must make good contributions to the country in the future."

"If you are a jinshi, first, each person will have a fish scale book, and then go to the southwest to conduct a population census and measure the land, starting from the bottom."

The previous two sessions of Enke Zhu Yuanzhang also did the same. First, let those scholars go to the mountains and the countryside to exercise and familiarize themselves with the local customs.Three years later, they were assigned official positions by the Ministry of Personnel, and most of them were county magistrates.

Scholars who have been trained in the countryside have significantly improved their ability to govern prefectures and counties, and many famous officials have emerged among them.

"As for the 180 scholars admitted, they will stay in the Imperial Academy to work with Gao Qi and the others." Zhu Yuanzhang said again.

Scholars go to the countryside, and scholars stay in the Hanlin Academy as editors?
This wave of operations by Emperor Zhu made Liu Bowen and Gao Qi unable to rectify again.

But they didn't dare to ask, they could only act according to the imperial edict.

After encouraging the students, Zhu Yuanzhang left with his servants.When the imperial court held the Qionglin banquet, the emperor would not accompany them to the banquet, and often just said a few words of encouragement and left.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Luo Guanzhong and Shi Nai'an separately in the imperial study: "You two are very close to Liu Bowen, Gao Qi, and Song Lian, which is both good and bad."

"Excuse me, Your Majesty, what do you mean by this?" Luo Guanzhong said that he couldn't understand it again.

"The two of you bought a house in the southwest, and you are referring to them as students from the southwest, so you are now from the southwest." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "And at present, in the whole country, only the southwest has implemented the practice of squatting into the gentry. One is on duty and one food is served.”

"Liu Bowen, Gao Qi, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas where they are located have not implemented these two new policies."

"The world is the world of the common people, not the world of Qingliu civil servants."

"Your Majesty, I understand." Luo Guanzhong said.

"It's good to understand." Zhu Yuanzhang said, drumming doesn't need a heavy hammer, Luo Guanzhong is not only writing novels, he still has a certain ability in terms of power, so Zhu Yuanzhang believes that he really understands.

"The edict of the two of you will be issued soon. Luo Guanzhong will go to the Ministry of Personnel to be the servant, and your student Li Zian will be the head of the Ministry of Personnel. Shi Nai'an will go to the Hanlin Academy as an editor, so he can help Song Lian to repair the history of the Yuan Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)