I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 350 It’s all for the future

"The master lives in the village and teaches and educates, and everyone in the village is grateful. As the head of a county, I am very ashamed that I have just come to visit the master today!"

"I am a countryman, how can I be so virtuous that the Ming court would care about you?"

Lu Jun felt happy when he saw the rural teacher in front of him expressing his attitude.

He continued to praise: "Master, why should you be humble? The dozens of students under your disciples are proof of your virtue and talent! In the counties and villages, it is the place where they display their talents, and the master who taught them, how can he not be a wise man? ?”

Mr. Zhao, who was already over fifty years old, felt very happy when he faced Lu Jun's courtesy and praise. Regarding Lu Jun's request, he didn't play riddles and said bluntly: "With Ming Ting here, I can safely ask my students to participate in the trial without any worries."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jun immediately promised: "Master, don't worry, all the questions used in this test are in my heart, and no one else knows about it!"

……

"Master, please stay."

"Ming Ting, walk slowly!"

The two said goodbye reluctantly, as if they had just met once and had become friends they had never known each other.

After bidding farewell, Master Zhao returned home. His wife happily welcomed him in and said, "Our Ming court is so generous. Not to mention other things, those three pieces of silk are worth more than two thousand dollars." , counting other things, it’s at least four to five thousand dollars.”

In Changjin County, an acre of midfield land only costs about two thousand yuan.

Master Zhao thought more than his wife: "Don't touch these gifts for the time being... Although Lu Mingting said that they were from his private wealth, there is probably no lie, but we still have to be just in case. Wait for some time Use it again.”

That's right, in addition to verbal flattery, Lu Jun actually gave many gifts, and the source of the money was his own private money.

No one else could be as good as him as an official.

But who knew that Lu Jun's family already had money, and he had a personal relationship with the emperor, so he really wanted to get things done!

Lu Liu, the servant of the Lu family who was in charge, felt very sad about Lu Jun's behavior of giving away two or three acres of land as soon as he gave it away.

At first, he received an order from Lu Jun to prepare a heavy gift for the visit. He was still a little confused. He even thought that the son of his master was trying to bribe the superior officials in the name of the visit. Who would have thought that it was to be given to these people in the countryside? Teacher.

Lu Jun has always had a good personality and doesn't care much about money.

Lu Liu felt that as an old servant, he had the trust of his master, so he still had to remind Lu Jun one or two more. After leaving here, he asked: "Gentleman, will the next master also offer such a heavy gift?"

Lu Jun said in a matter-of-fact tone: "This is natural, aren't we all ready?"

Seeing that Lu Jun's eyes were still as sincere as when he was young, Lu Liu couldn't help but patted his thigh hard and sighed: "A gentleman is running for official business, why should he use his own private money?"

“Because we can’t use public money!”

Lu Liu:......

He was speechless.

He really wanted to cry in front of Lu Kang now, he had tried his best!

Lu Jun didn't understand the collapse in Lu Liu's heart, and patiently explained to Lu Liu, who had watched him grow up: "Although these gifts are heavy now, they are as light as a feather when it comes to fulfilling the king's mandate and replenishing the county and township officials. ”

"Besides, if I do well in office, I will definitely have a bright future. Compared with this, what is a little money?" Lu Liu felt that Lu Jun's words made sense, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt a little strange...

In the end, Lu Jun insisted that no matter how much he objected, he would have no choice but to obey.

Before arriving at the next husband's house, another car carrying gifts met Lu Jun.

"The Master lives in the village and teaches and educates, and everyone in the village is grateful..."

Honest people also know how to use strategies. Lu Jun's visit was quite fruitful. Every rural school teacher he met gave Lu Jun a face.

After all, Lu Jun gave him all his face, and even the rhetoric was finalized after he thought about it all night.

Following Lu Jun's actions, the news of trying to recruit officials has been spread throughout the countryside by petty officials. Of course, Lu Jun leads by example, but the petty officials are so obedient without the intimidation of another person - Zeng and Lu Jun gave birth to discord with Yang Pei.

The cause of the discord - Tian Caoyu of this county was later found to have been falsely accused, and Yang Pei severely punished the scoundrel who made the false accusation. Because his handling process was reasonable and well-founded, he was not punished for this matter.

In this Guanjin County trial, Yang Pei was ordered to come to assist Lu Jun.

As a former Taiwei who was recruited as a subordinate, Yang Pei did not bend down because of the change of Taiwei, but he had to admit that the county magistrate in front of him was more upright in nature. Although he had no outstanding talents, he could not stand out. There are still no problems with some of the test questions for evaluating petty officials.

On the day of the test, Lu Jun looked at the candidates waiting outside the room in the county temple that had been packed up, and felt quite proud.

These are all due to his hard work some time ago!

When the candidates entered the room one by one, Lu Junwang took out the test questions he had carefully prepared and was very satisfied.

Seeing that Lu Jun seemed to have a successful ambition, Yang Pei did not resent Lu Jun because of the previous disagreements, but kindly reminded him: "Now is a critical time, you must pay attention to whether anyone is cheating."

Yang Pei admitted that he was not a person who abandoned public service for personal reasons, but Lu Jun did not expect that Yang Pei would suddenly express goodwill to him... Could it be that he knew about his private friendship with the emperor? But after thinking about it, he realized that this matter was quite secretive, and Yang Pei probably didn't have the ability to know.

In the past few months, Lu Jun also discovered that Yang Pei had not created any unjust, false or wrongful cases for the sake of merit, so he responded to Yang Pei's goodwill and explained: "Kong Qu doesn't have to worry. I used to go to Taixue often, and I am well-informed. I know everything about how to prevent cheating in the academic exam.”

Yang Pei: I hope you can always be so confident.

Fortunately, the examination in Changjin County went smoothly. Yang Pei and Lu Jun took the lead in patrolling the examination room, and no fraud occurred.

It fell into Lu Jun's eyes because he had made complete preparations before.

Lu Jun now feels very confident that he can handle even two thousand stones!
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The examinations in the five states were in full swing, and Liu Bian, who could only understand the situation in the five states through writing, was not idle either.

Optimistically, Liu Bian rode his horse and stood on the high platform, watching the Han army escorting some Hu chief prisoners past the high platform, feeling extremely comfortable.

The army in front of me comes from Liangzhou.

This means that Lu Shuihu has become a historical term.

After this battle, regardless of the Hu people outside the northern and southern walls of Liangzhou, at least the largest unstable military force within Liangzhou has disappeared.

It would be a lie to say that the Qiang and Hu problem in Liangzhou, which has plagued the Eastern Han Dynasty for almost a dynasty, has been completely solved, but at least it does not involve too much manpower and material resources of the Han Dynasty. Even if Liangzhou does not provide taxes for the court, as long as it can be stable and self-sufficient, it will be a great achievement.

(End of this chapter)