The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

At the end of the seventh lunar month in the twelfth year of Jingli, Song Yingkui moved to Wazhou City.

The reason why we moved from Huizhou to Wazhou is that after more than three months of intense war, the overall situation in the world has temporarily stabilized.

The Mimeng people could not bear the scorching heat in the Central Plains. Since the end of June, the offensive had slowed down, and after July they were basically in a state of rest and recuperation.

Zheng Jun finally had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief, and the paralyzed central mechanism started to operate again.

Li Zhenggang, who was stranded in Guanzhong, was transferred to the post of Deputy Privy Envoy, Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu Recruitment Envoy, and the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi responded to military and civilian affairs. It seems that this arrangement was possible because the old boy's series of actions after returning to Guanzhong received the attention and recognition of Dazheng Chaotang.

The slowdown in the war was due to two factors. One was that the important city of Shaanzhou on the east side of Tongguan, under the leadership of the defender Xu Guoqing, resisted the Mongolian army's westward offensive. Furthermore, some of the soldiers who fled in the Battle of Luoyang did not have time to follow Emperor Zheng to escape to the south of the Yangtze River. Instead, they entered Xiangyang southward and established a defense line along Xiangfan.

As a result, the only route the Mongolian army can continue to attack Zheng is Jianghuai. As for the Jianghuai line, due to the southward retreat of the Shandong defenders, the Zheng army has assembled more than 300,000 soldiers and horses. With these soldiers and horses, it can temporarily stop the Mongolian advance. It is still possible for the army to continue the pursuit.

The situation did not continue to collapse. Song Yingkui judged that the Mongolian army should rest until mid-September before further military operations would be possible. I just took this opportunity to go to Wazhou to take care of government affairs in order to deal with the war situation after the autumn.

After moving to Wazhou, the first thing Song Yingkui did was to set up a cadre training class in Wazhou. Anyone who has the title of Juren or above in Dazheng can join the class and be appointed to an official position after training! In addition to gathering the exiled personnel from Dazheng, officials who have been formally appointed in Beixiang can also be recruited into the cadre training class.

The reason why Song Yingkui did this in a hurry was really not because Song Yingkui was thirsty for talents, but mainly to appease people's hearts.

The people who are most likely to cause trouble are scholars and powerful people. If you open the door for them to make progress, the situation will be much more stable.

"The leaders of the cadre training class are jointly held by Li Junhao and Qin Ke'an. All those who are qualified to join the class, regardless of their previous background, will be treated as ordinary students. The training period is three to six months, and the completion period is three months. Finally, organize a round of exams.

Those with excellent or inferior test scores are divided into four grades. Those in the first grade are treated at deputy county level and are arranged to work as administrative assistants in various departments of the administrative department or as relevant-level supervisory errands in various states and counties.

Those in the second class will be assigned to corresponding positions in various states and counties on trial basis with regular town-level treatment. After passing the trial period, they will be promoted to regular posts. The third class is assigned to serve as ordinary civilian officials in yamen at all levels and factory affairs at corresponding levels. Those who are in the fourth class and remain in school and are still unqualified after six months of study can either go to the government-owned property system for employment according to their wishes, or return to the people on their own.

In addition, anyone who has published articles or monographs in journals sponsored by the Governor's Office will be exempted from studying if they enter the training class. They will directly report to Yungu University and be given priority to be admitted to the university to teach. If there are currently no qualified teaching positions at Yungu University, the application will be reported to the Department of Personnel Affairs and the Ministry of Public Affairs and Property, and the applicant will be awarded the corresponding official position based on his or her talent. "

After the fall of Beixiang and the chaos in the Central Plains, only the territory of Anxi was relatively stable. Song Yingkui estimated that among the people who had recently flowed into the territory, there should be relatively high-profile talents.

Journals, a back-up tool for recruiting talents, can now be put on the table openly. Those who can publish articles in journals generally do not hold a high position in the Dazheng Dynasty, and are unlikely to be pillars of the court. When the royal family fled south, they didn't have much chance to escape south with them, so they had to find their own way.

The Mimeng attacked Luoyang very quickly. After Luoyang was defeated, they put most of their energy into pursuing the Dazheng center in the south. As a result, a large part of the middle-level officials who were stranded in Luoyang were captured or evacuated westward toward Chang'an. It is not easy for the grassroots officials in Dazhengzhong who fled to Guanzhong to return to the central government. They need to travel a long way through mountains and rivers to reach Jiangnan, and they may not be able to have their seats after arriving in Jiangnan. Dazheng Central Committee's order for these officials to reissue was that it was best to stay in Guanzhong and help Li Zhenggang form a temporary governor's mansion to guard Shaanxi and stabilize the overall situation.

Therefore, Song Yingkui estimated that there should be some interested officials who did not want to go to Jiangnan and instead sought a career in the Anxi military government. How much it will come is not certain, but it is better than nothing.

As for those who are indifferent and cannot see the future of the Anxi Army, it is not regrettable. At this time, people who are not clear-minded, what big things can be expected from them? They are also hardly talented.

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In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed for the enrollment of the cadre training class. According to reports from Li Junhao and others, the number of people who have registered for enrollment is very gratifying, with a total of five or six hundred people, including those who came from Dazheng. There were nearly five hundred people.

I heard that there are still a large number of people coming from Guanzhong after learning the news, and there are likely to be hundreds of people coming later.

With so many so-called talents coming in all of a sudden, the Executive Office is in trouble again! For a while, it seems that there are not so many positions available to accommodate so many officials.

"Uncle, how many officials are there in Luoyang? According to my estimation, after Luoyang was separated, at least one-third of the officials fled south with the troops, and one-third of the officials were captured by the Mi Meng. The remaining Of the 40% below, at least half want to come to Anxi. In other words, there will be more than five or six thousand officials in the capital of Zheng? Isn’t this a bit outrageous?" The scale of the training class far exceeded the estimate, and Song Yingkui hurriedly asked for advice. What happened to the second uncle?

Seeing that Song Yingkui didn't understand anything, the second uncle hurriedly explained: "There can't be so many officials in the court! Most of the people who came this time were absent officials and unofficial officials, and about half of them were from Qin and There are not many Chinese members who are truly famous and important."

It turns out that many people who had no jobs before saw an opportunity and came to take advantage of it. No wonder there are so many people. Thinking about it, the employment environment for scholars in Dazheng is actually not very good.

Most people cannot be directly employed. This time, Anxi can provide direct employment positions, why don't you try your luck?

"The Department of Personnel Affairs said that it can provide jobs for up to three to four hundred people. How to arrange the remaining people is very problematic. I thought about it, and the only place that can be organized to solve the job gap can only be on the railway project.

Let’s do this, instruct the Railway Construction Project Department to organize every fifty workers into a small team, six teams to form a construction section, and six construction sections to form a project department.

Each construction section will be assigned three chief and deputy supervisors, and the project department will assign five chief and deputy supervisors to form a construction supervision team to manage the railway construction personnel, with a view to completing the construction of the railway from Hezhou to Yinzhou as soon as possible! "

(End of this chapter)