The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 261 The role of military history

Again, as Liu Tai occupied Yecheng and the political system gradually improved, the selection of talents would not be the same as when he started his business, just arranging whoever he liked to join the company.

Because from this point on, every time you arrange manpower in this way, it is a disruption to your existing system.

From the moment he takes Yecheng and raises the banner of the Han Dynasty, all his actions must be on track, and this is how he selects talents.

And Chu Hui is not so much Liu Tai's mastermind as Liu Tai's chief steward.

It's just that Chu Hui has a bit of a Juan Wang personality. As long as he has no work to do, he feels a little uneasy.

But Chu Hui also focused on the key points in his work. For example, when he captured Yecheng, people were still undecided, so he focused on appeasing the people.

With the arrival of spring, Chu Hui focused his work on spring plowing.

Now that spring plowing has been successfully completed, the remaining work needs further intensive cultivation by the people. As the help that the government can provide has become quite limited, Chu Hui immediately focused on selecting talents.

Liu Tai became thoughtful when he heard Chu Hui's words, thinking about which one was more suitable for him, the imperial examination system or the imperial examination system.

Chu Hui looked at Liu Tai's silence and thought that Liu Tai had not thought of this, so Chu Hui quickly said to Liu Tai:

"Now that Hebei is settled, the people are happy and happy. It is precisely because of the selection of talents that they either join the imperial court to assist as advisers or go to local governance.

Otherwise, when war breaks out in the future, we will not have enough talents to govern, and we are afraid that it will become more troublesome to digest the Central Plains. "

Chu Hui understood that Liu Tai must want to conquer the Central Plains. After all, even the reign name was Shaozhen, so he must have the idea of ​​unifying the world.

However, compared with Hebei, the Central Plains region is more densely populated and has more aristocratic families. If Liu Tai still adopts the attitude of mainly managing veterans and letting the children of aristocratic families use them if they can, he will definitely be resisted by the aristocratic families.

Even if Liu Tai is really the overlord of the world and can suppress aristocratic families for a lifetime, Liu Tai will not kill all the aristocratic families in the world.

Not to mention, my own Chu family, Su Jun’s Su family, Yang Man’s Yang family, aren’t these all aristocratic families?
However, Liu Tai only accepts families that can accept the rules he has set. For families that are unwilling to abide by Liu Tai's rules, Liu Tai's choice is that if I can't solve the problem, why can't I solve it for you? I will directly destroy them through humane destruction.

But the problem is that as time goes by, as long as Liu Tai is gone, the inspection and examination system will be reborn.

Because it was the aristocratic family that developed the Chaju system, and it was also the Chaju system that developed the aristocratic family, and the two complemented each other.

As long as Liu Tai still implements the inspection and examination system, the aristocratic families south of the Yellow River will know that Liu Tai does not cannot tolerate the aristocratic families, but they just need the aristocratic families to abide by the rules set by Liu Tai.

It can be said that the appeal of this policy to aristocratic families is undoubted. At least for the vast majority of aristocratic families, a group that implements the inspection system will one day be able to climb to the top again, because aristocratic families are better than anyone else. Learn the rules!
"You can't use the inspection system! If you use the inspection system, it will provide a hotbed for the resurgence of the aristocratic family."

Liu Tai said to Chu Hui simply: "The ultimate in inspection and examination is the nine-level Zhongzheng system.

In the end, even if the Han Dynasty is re-established, this Han Dynasty will inevitably be swallowed up by the aristocratic family. What's the point of creating a country that is destined to be destroyed! "

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, his lips trembled a little. He wanted to persuade Liu Tai, hoping that Liu Tai would stop being so sensitive and believe in the wisdom of future generations. It would be great if our generation could unify the world.

Do you want to plan what will happen after the world is unified now? !
Even if you are foresighted, the family’s current resistance to you is real!

In the past, you only occupied Qingzhou and Youzhou, and the aristocratic families there were basically just bumpkins.

But your next target is the Central Plains, where the resistance capabilities of aristocratic families and powerful families are much stronger than those of northern aristocratic families.

Under such circumstances, you don't need to use the inspection system to win over the aristocratic families. Instead, you have to find ways to make unification more difficult, but why bother!
As long as you accept the family, the family will definitely hold high the prophecy of the golden sword and help the Liu family regain the world!

Liu Tai understood very well that Liu Xiu trusted these aristocratic families too much, which caused the entire Eastern Han Dynasty to basically fall into constant entanglement with these aristocratic families.

The aristocratic family, the eunuchs and the relatives, all three parties sang their songs and I came on stage. It was not until the border troops came in and directly solved the problem from the physical level that the Eastern Han Dynasty fell apart.

To a certain extent, the entire Eastern Han Dynasty was unstoppably sliding towards the abyss from the very first moment of its establishment.

Therefore, the foundation must be solid in the early stage. Even if you can't come up with any clever solutions, at least you can't leave behind an obviously flawed system for later. If that's the case, why do you have to work hard!

"Your Majesty, do you have any ideas?" When Chu Hui saw that Liu Tai proposed not to use the inspection method, he couldn't help but ask again.

"Use the examination system!" Liu Tai said to Chu Hui, "I want to find like-minded people to govern the world, so I select the most talented people in the world.

Divide the exam into two parts, one general exam, where only the top [-] will be selected, and one palace exam, where the top three, top ten, and others will be selected.

I will personally set the questions for the palace examination, and the ministers will make the selection.

All those who are selected for the palace examination, whether they are national reserve talents, or appointees, are all our great talents! "

this? Chu Hui was a little stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words. He didn't expect Liu Tai to actually think of other systems.

However, Chu Hui, who was familiar with various classics, reacted immediately and asked Liu Tai, "Is what the king said was Zuo Xiong's strategy?"

"Has it been around since the time when the imperial examination system was established for big men?" Liu Tai was a little surprised when he saw Chu Hui's reaction.

I originally thought that Chu Hui would be surprised by his introduction of this kind of imperial examination system and boasted that he was a genius. However, I didn't expect that Chu Hui had already cited examples from history.

Chu Hui continued to Liu Tai: "Chen Fan of Runan, Li Ying of Yingchuan, Chen Qiu of Xiapi, etc. were all promoted to be filial and incorruptible and entered the court because of Zuo Xiong's merits. Therefore, Zuo Xiong's reputation as filial and incorruptible is very important. Significantly."

Liu Tai nodded when he heard Chu Hui's words, thinking in his mind that the aristocratic family also knew that this kind of test could not reflect fairness to the wealthy and aristocratic families, so it was naturally abandoned by them who had power.

In fact, many smart policies have prototypes in history, but these policies have been suppressed by vested interests.

Until these vested interests become corrupt or become really rampant, some of the little tricks in history will be used as sharp blades and weapons to deal with these vested interests.

Liu Tai said to Chu Hui: "You come to arrange it. As for the exam time, in order to minimize the impact of the farming season, you set it in November or December every year, and the time for announcing the answers is at the beginning of the year to show that it is time to collect materials for the country." It’s the top priority of the New Year!”

Chu Hui nodded when he heard Liu Tai's words, and then said with some doubts: "What do you think the question should be better?"

"Let's use the "Book of Han" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" to take the test. I, a Han scholar, cannot be ignorant of the history of the Han Dynasty, and I, a Han scholar, cannot be ignorant of arithmetic. Are you right?" Liu Tai said to Chu Hui, "When Xun Chuoxun completes the "Book of the Three Kingdoms" in the future and compiles it into an official document and sends it to the world, then the "Book of the Three Kingdoms" will also be included."

For Liu Tai, what other theories have anything to do with him? He is holding high the banner of nationalism. As for Confucian culture, Taoist culture, and Buddhist culture, get down on them all!
The first thing for all the scholars under his command is to study history, and the second thing is to study mathematics.

If you are not good at history and have forgotten the history of the Han Dynasty, then you will suspect that you do not have the spirit of the Han people, are not good at mathematics, and are not a smart person at most. Don't get involved in things like becoming an official. When you go out, turn left and go to the military camp to report. Maybe we can have a better future.

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed. Chu Hui seemed to have thought of something, so he couldn't help but raise his head and said to Liu Tai:
"Can military history take part in the assessment?!"

"Any generals and officers who have no grades can participate in this assessment.

But if you have reached the ninth level, there will be regular internal assessments every few years, and the best ones will be promoted and the weak ones will be demoted! "

Liu Tai thought for a moment and said, "In addition, if someone voluntarily resigns, he will not be allowed to return to the Han position within one year."

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he looked at Liu Tai in surprise. He always felt that Liu Tai seemed to have experienced the imperial examination system. He paid very clear attention to these things and handled them very skillfully, which saved himself a lot. of effort.

However, Chu Hui also understood that this was an opportunity prepared by Liu Tai for the aristocratic family, but it was not just an opportunity prepared for the aristocratic family.

Liu Tai has single-handedly created a military history system since he joined the army, but the ratio of one military history in the army is almost the same as two military histories in a camp, which is almost 25 to one.

Although there were indeed positions waiting for people at the beginning, with the continuous victory over the years and the accumulation of time, and the continuous promotion of cultural construction in the military, the positions of military history naturally began to be filled.

Some of the sergeants were even assigned to the Fu soldiers to be responsible for the teaching of "Han Shu" and "Nine Chapters".

The examination system proposed by Liu Tai is clearly a method that Liu Tai came up with to divert military history.

Let the military history specially trained by Liu Tai compete with the scholars specially trained by the aristocratic family.

There is no doubt that scholars trained by aristocratic families must be more outstanding in comprehensive aspects.

But Liu Tai limited the scope of Han history and arithmetic. For military history, this is a skill they must master.

This makes it possible for military history to fight with scholars, although the first and second batch of military histories are definitely not as comprehensive as those of scholars who have the words and deeds of their ancestors.

But with the huge number, there may be a few weirdos among the sergeants who can compete with the scholars trained by the aristocratic families in certain directions. Even if the scope is limited, the scholars from the aristocratic families may also suffer.

After all, military history really depends on this for a living, and although scholars are more comprehensive, they are not professional after all.

Chu Hui couldn't help but sigh, Liu Tai always hid the cards in his hand very well, but he could always play them when necessary.

As long as others want to win, they can only follow Liu Tai's rhythm!

Nowadays, the aristocratic families are afraid that they will be unable to get off the tiger. If they could have collectively resisted Liu Tai's examination system policy through a series of methods.

After all, as long as his own scholars don't come, this is also a provocation within the rules, and Liu Tai can still tolerate it.

After all, the rules you set are not in the interests of the family. If the family doesn't want to play with you, you can't force them to play!
But Liu Tai didn't give them a chance to make this move at all.

Because you don't come to play, then these positions will be taken by military history apprentices who you think are stupid.

These military history apprentices are not even military historians and have no structure at all. Even if they want to become military historians, they have to wait until Liu Tai expands the army or until the old military historians leave, so that positions can be vacated for them.

Now Liu Tai only gives them multiple choices. They are probably temporary workers in the streets. They can still take the national exam, the provincial exam and the municipal exam.

"Then my subordinates will prepare for this and announce the selection of talents north of the Yellow River!" Chu Hui said.

"You can also send people to announce this to the south of the Yellow River." Liu Tai said with a calm smile.

"What does the king mean?" Chu Hui couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words. He didn't expect Liu Tai to say such a thing.

"Just test the attitudes of those aristocratic families. Are they willing to accept the examination system and let themselves compete with talented people in the world? Or do they choose to rely on their family roots and continue to rely on the examination system to monopolize their status!"

Liu Taidao said, "Of course, no matter what the aristocratic family thinks, it is the same to me. As long as they are proficient in "Nine Chapters", I will never reject someone who is proficient in arithmetic.

Arithmetic can only be used as a guarantee for the top people in the world. The real difference is to use Han history to write your own king's article!

As for who can pass this exam, to me, it’s all the same! "

Liu Tai really didn't care whether these people who had passed the examination would stay as officials for him.

Because Liu Tai knew that the current history of the Han Dynasty was basically a banned book for all non-Han regimes.

It would be fine if there was no Han power in the world, but as long as there was Han power and the possibility of unifying the world, the pressure brought by Han history would be enough to make all those in power in the world feel fearful.

The people Liu Tai selected from among so many people could not be said to be very capable, but they definitely knew the history of the Han Dynasty very well.

And if this kind of person says that he has no idea of ​​​​recovering the Han Dynasty in his heart, not even Liu Tai, even the Sima family will not believe it.

Therefore, it is unrealistic for these people to take the exam here and then want to leave.

Unless he really plans to become a hermit in this life, then Liu Tai has no choice.

After all, even Liu Tai can't oppress a person who is ready to lie down, but as long as you want to be an official, other forces will definitely be wary of you.

When I arrived at Liu Tai's place, I took part in an examination and stood out. For other forces, no matter how talented you are, your body, ah, your mind is absolutely useless. How can I use such a person!

After Liu Tai told Chu Hui about this matter, it didn't take long for Chu Hui to announce it.

In an instant, the whole land of Hebei was boiling with discussion.

(End of this chapter)