Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 189 The terrifying number of candidates
After leaving the palace, Chen Qingsi was in a good mood. With this suggestion, the Tubo matter was settled.

The current Tubo Empire is not the Tubo Empire in history that can compete with the great food country in the West and the Tang Dynasty in the East.

Historically, they relied on Gar Dongzan's strategy to seize Qinghai Lake and lay a strong foundation for Tibet.

Now that the imperial court is prepared, Tubo cannot take advantage of the Tang army's combat effectiveness.

Moreover, Su Dingfang is now in charge of the war on the Western Front. If there is any special situation, he will be transferred to Qinghai Lake.

Isn't this the finale?
Leaving aside others, Chen Qingsi knew very well about Su Dingfang's strength.

In the next ten days or so, there seemed to be no changes in the imperial court, but in fact, preparations had begun to prepare against Tibet.

The Khan of Tuyuhun, Murong Nuohebo, was a mediocre man who indulged in pleasure and ignored political affairs. His country was in political chaos. Because of this, in the 15th year of Zhenguan, ministers fought for power and the country was in chaos.King Xuan, Prime Minister of Tuyuhun, conspired to attack Princess Honghua and defect to Tibet.This incident occurred when Xi Junmai led 120 elite cavalrymen to attack the army of Prime Minister Tuyuhun, beheaded his brothers and quelled the civil strife.

It was also because of Murong Nuohebo's incompetence that the treasure land of Qinghai Lake was available, but it failed to produce corresponding value, and the tribute to the court was limited.

Only Li Zhi and Li Ji valued Tubo and despised Tuyuhun.

Only Li Ji said, "Tuyuhun is not as respectful to me as before, so it would be better to let him suffer a little loss."

After all, Tubo's tribute of cattle, horses, wealth and silk was more than twice that of Tuyuhun. Before Tubo exposed his ambitions, the Tang Dynasty took advantage of other people's softness and favored Tubo in view of the national policy.

It happened to be the rotation of officials in the New Year. The imperial court arranged for many capable ministers to enter the Hehuang area to serve as officials, and specially sent envoys to visit Tuyuhun and Tubo.

In order to avoid Tubo being suspicious, the mission mainly visited Tubo, and Tuyuhun was only incidental.

Chen Qingsi heard about this and didn't pay too much attention.

Li Zhi and Li Ji are both rare and outstanding figures in the world. It is not his turn to worry about the layout.

At this moment, he has no extra leisure time to worry about.

Because the various state governments in the Tang Dynasty had handed over the list of candidates for the imperial examination one by one to the court and passed it to Chen Qingsi, the examiner.

The imperial examination exploded!

"Mr. Chen!"

With an excited look on his face, Jia Dayin strode into Chen Qingsi's office with a burning light in his eyes.

"The statistics have been calculated. The number of people taking the imperial examination this time is as high as 600, which is far more than before. It even exceeds..." He paused and whispered: "The total number of people taking the imperial examination since the emperor succeeded to the throne. .”

When Chen Qingsi heard this number, her heart trembled slightly.

The imperial examination in this era was in its infancy, both because the court did not pay enough attention to it and because there were too many inside stories to pursue.

On the surface, the imperial examination is for the world's scholars to have a fair and just examination opportunity, but in fact it is still a toy played by princes, nobles, and dignitaries.

For each imperial examination, there were only 2000 or [-] people.In the past few years, the result of Li Zhi's emphasis on Jinshi was that there were fewer people before.

This time it suddenly increased tenfold, completely beyond everyone's expectations.

Including Chen Qingsi himself.

According to his initial estimate, six to seven thousand would be pretty good.

Now the number is suddenly ten times more than before...

Jia Dayin was so excited that he was a little incoherent.After hearing Chen Qingsi's reform strategy, Jia Dayin immediately changed his banner and wrote a speech carefully to express his loyalty to Chen Qingsi.

Chen Qingsi naturally knows how to win over a group of people and suppress a group of people.

Jia Dayin's father, Dr. Taichang Jia Gongyan, was his colleague.

Nepotism is a derogatory term.

But at critical moments, if you want to stabilize the situation, you have to rely on nepotism.Only by choosing people who are close to you can you stabilize the situation the fastest.

Of course, there is a prerequisite, and this "kid" must have certain abilities.

Chen Qingsi chose Jia Dayin, who had worked in the Kao Gong Department for 11 years, as his deputy, and quickly secured the Kao Gong Ling Shi and Shu Ling Shi in the Kao Gong Department, which was far faster than choosing his confidants from the Kao Gong Ling Shi and Shu Ling Shi. .

Jia Dayin felt guilty for Chen Qingsi because of his initial positioning problem, so he made up for it with his attitude. He had both ability and attitude, and gained Chen Qingsi's trust.

"Don't be excited, let alone be happy, it's too early to laugh!"

Chen Qingsi had seen the big world and quickly regained his composure, saying: "2 people, do you know what it means? We need an examination room that can accommodate 2 people, we need to be responsible for the security of [-] candidates, and we need to have enough marking Officials and scribes, everything from big systems to small things like eating, drinking, sleeping, etc., all need to be solved by us. There are still two months before the exam. In other words, we only have two months to solve these problems."

Jia Dayin only thought about the new system. Before he thought deeply, Chen Qingsi poured cold water on him, which directly made him feel cold. He asked: "I was so complacent for a while. Mr. Chen, please forgive me. What should I do now?" I’ll listen to you sir.”

Chen Qingsi stood up and said: "This is no longer something we can solve. I will enter the palace immediately and report this matter to Your Majesty."

Chen Qingsi is not surprised by the popularity of the imperial examination.

Although in the Gyeonggi area, under the instigation of well-intentioned people, there are constant voices of opposition.

Chen Qingsi's original reputation has plummeted, but he knows that looking at the world, the majority of people praise him.

After all, compared with the poor families of the common people in the world, the gentry are still in the minority, and there are also a large number of branches of the gentry who do not enjoy family benefits.

For this kind of people, the reform of the imperial examination system is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it only happens once. Therefore, there are countless people who recommend themselves to participate, and there are many people who should follow.

Of course, the imperial examination cannot be held only once.

It's just that this kind of system reform will hurt the interests of some people. It can be seen from Chen Qingsi's criticism that it has already affected the interests of some people.

Therefore, many people are not sure whether this year's imperial examination reform will continue, and whether the court or the new examiner next year will be able to withstand the pressure and continue this system like Chen Qingsi.

The poor families of the common people are looking forward to an opportunity. Now that it appears, they dare not and cannot afford to gamble, so they do not dare to expect that there will be such a system in the coming year, and there will be an examiner like Chen Qingsi, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire. Get together in one place and break into him.

Chen Qingsi also came from a poor family, so he could understand this feeling and predicted in advance that the number of people taking the imperial examination would be much higher than before.

But such a number of people is somewhat unusual.

Chen Qingsi had a keen sense of smell, and Li Zhi had a tough attitude. No matter how old the official was, even if he was at the rank of minister, even if he said a few words from his son, he would be expelled from the court.

Naturally, no one dared to touch Li Zhi's brow. In Li Zhi's place, there was never such a thing as "violating the law."

At worst, we will support another Li Yifu.

If the obvious thing doesn't work, let's do it secretly, starting with the imperial examination itself.

(End of this chapter)