Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 66
Chapter 067

Because more than 1000 candidates entered Guanggu, the entire city of Guanggu became bustling because of the bleakness of the war.Ordinary restaurants and inns are full of candidates and their entourage.These days, even poor people have assets at home, otherwise, they would have no money to buy books.Not to mention learning from a teacher.

A set of very common manuscript "The Analects" has a total of more than 700 characters, requires six volumes, and is worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Ten thousand shi can buy more than ten shi of rice in Jiangnan, and even four shi in Jizhou. Four shi of rice is enough to feed a family of five for more than a year.If one thousand catties of rice is converted into the current price of two yuan and seventy one catty of rice, and a set of books costs two thousand and seven hundred yuan, ordinary families cannot afford such expensive study expenses.

Of course, if you want to learn culture, it is far from enough to rely on a set of "Analects of Confucius". It is the so-called Four Books and Five Classics.

This time the imperial examination is to give poor families the same opportunity to be an official as the wealthy families, and the sensation caused can be imagined. Due to the short preparation time for the first imperial examination, poor scholars in many places have no chance to participate at all, and Most poor scholars are skeptical about Ran Ming's imperial examination.

A luxurious mansion in the east of Guanggu City, this is Wenxi Pei's mansion.

Pei Xian is the son of Pei Xian, the bastard son of Prince Shihu, and a regular servant of Sanqi.There is a gap between Xuan and Xing Yu.Xing Yu rode a horse to run to Duan Liao, a Xianbei man, and was captured by him.Xing falsely claimed that Xuan's emissary had told Liao that Shi Hu would attack Liao. Shi Hu was furious and killed Xuan and his brother Yi.Later, Xiwen heard that during Ran Min's uprising against Zhao, one branch of the Pei family moved back to Wenxi's hometown, and some moved to Qingzhou, which Ran Min had never controlled.

Pei Kai is Pei Xian's nephew, young, talented and handsome.At this time in history, he should have entered the Murong Yan Kingdom.For Chang Feng, but because of the appearance of Ran Ming, a butterfly in another world, Pei Kai did not become an official at this time, but lived a life of a hermit and a city.At this time, Pei Kai was playing chess with one person.The person opposite is Wang Hong.Only double ten years old, he is the son of the seventh king of the Taiyuan Wang family.

Although the Wang Clan of Taiyuan is not as powerful as the Wang Clan of Langya, and was known as Wang Sima in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the strength of the Wang Clan of Taiyuan should not be underestimated!
Speaking of the aristocratic family, it is mainly related to the employment system before the imperial examination system was created.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the system of consecutive sittings has been implemented to ensure the talents of the inspectors.That is to say, if you have no real talents and are recommended, once it is found out, the referee will also be implicated.On the one hand, this system guarantees the talents of the recommended people, but on the other hand.It also caused the power of the aristocratic family to become stronger.

Officials in the imperial court have an inseparable relationship with the aristocratic family, which can even be described as both prosperity and prosperity, and loss and loss.Just imagine if you have nothing to do with me, why would I bother to recommend you?Your success has nothing to do with me. If you are unlucky, I will be unlucky with you.Therefore, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a saying that all officials came from aristocratic families.

The aristocratic family reached its peak in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.able.It is very difficult for poor scholars without background to have a bright future.And those aristocratic families are also because of this method of sitting together.Make it more powerful.In the end, a situation that even the emperor could not restrain was formed.

Suddenly, Pei Kai raised his head and said: "Brother Chuhe (Wang Hong's cousin), this Ran Ming's imperial examination has a lot of meaning!"

"Not bad!" Wang Hong said: "This is not recruiting talents, this is clearly the root of survival for my family's famous family!"

Pei Kai pondered and said: "This Ran Mingduan is extraordinary. He has achieved so much at such a young age. I don't admire him when he defeated Murong Ke with a weak army and captured Qingzhou with more than a thousand soldiers and horses. No matter how brave he is, he is nothing more than a man. But today...that imperial examination...that imperial examination...is wonderful!"

Wang Hongdao: "Brother Gong, what is the countermeasure?"

"Response!" Pei Kai said: "How to deal with it? Even if I can prevent Pei's children and students from taking the imperial examination, can I prevent the underprivileged people from participating in the imperial examination? I can block one, two, ten, one hundred... ...But there are so many scholars in the world. Besides, Ran Ming has a powerful soldier in his hand, and he angered him, and asked him to raise troops to destroy my Pei family, how innocent it is!"

Wang Hong's heart skipped a beat. When Ran Min established the Wei Kingdom, he killed people's heads and blood flowed like rivers. Such a person doesn't care about fame at all. He is not afraid of losing the reputation of a murderer. If he doesn't have the burden of fame, he can kill as long as he wants. Kill him, no one can do anything to him.

If Ran Min is a great murderer, then Ran Ming is a minor murderer, an evil star from heaven. He killed all 14 Xianbei people, and he didn't even spare the corpses of those Xianbei people.

Duan Kan's 6000 troops were all burned down by him in Guanggu West Wengcheng. Whoever dares to oppose Ran Ming in Qingzhou now must be a person who is truly not afraid of death, there is no one at all!
"Brother Chuhe, just watch, this year's imperial examinations won't be too sensational, but as long as one common man gets on the damn imperial list, all scholars in the world will return their hearts in the next year. It doesn't take ten years for all the sages in this world to be will enter the wretch's hub."

"Then we just have to wait for death like this?" Wang Hong said.

"It's not impossible."

Wang Hong excitedly said, "What can I do?"

"Don't forget that you and I are both powerful clans." Pei Kai said, "We are all clans that have been passed down for thousands of years. There are no dynasties with a thousand years in this world, but there are families with a thousand years. What can we rely on to pass on a thousand years?"

Wang Hong thought for a while and said, "We have a lot of land and money."

Pei Kai shook his head and said: "No! We rely on our long-standing family education. It is enough to rely on those arrogant soldiers and powerful generals to fight the world, but if we talk about governing the world, we still rely on our officials. There are a lot of talented scholars in our family Scholars, that’s all for this year, next year’s imperial examination, we will let all the talented and talented scholars of the clan participate in the imperial examination.”

After being reminded by Pei Kaiyi, Wang Hong finally understood.Pei Kai used the method of mixing sand and mud to let the children of the aristocratic family participate in the imperial examination, relying on real talents and learning, and compared those poor scholars.Then he announced to the outside world that the so-called imperial examination was just a show, which made the world's humble officials lose confidence in Ran Ming and the imperial examination!
Ran Ming didn't know that at this moment, a family member was already staring at him, and a series of conspiracies had been launched around him!
At this moment, Ran Ming didn't feel any excitement about the imminent success of the imperial examination. He didn't sleep all day and all night, and his eyes were dark, like a panda.He thought about it for a long time, and said that he would not get sick. This is not a long-term solution. It is best to find out what happened in Yecheng!

He was about to find out about the eunuch who came to deliver the decree.Just when I went out, there was a burst of exclamation, "Ah, mother, ghost!"

Ming looked up, and it turned out to be Liu Wei who had changed into men's clothes again. At this time, he was dressed as a scholar, not to mention that he really looked like those scholars who came to take the exam, but it was matched with her exclamation.Ran Ming couldn't help but think of a word "Pseudo-mother!"

Thinking of this, Ran Ming couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart!
Liu Mo's face was filled with surprise, she looked at Ran Ming in surprise and said, "Your Highness, what happened, how did you do this?"

What Liu Wei meant was that Ran Ming's expression was too bad. At the beginning of the Liantai war, Ran Ming's mental state was much better than he is now.Ran Ming patted himself exaggeratedly on his chest, "Miss Liu, it's early in the morning, don't you know that scaring people can scare people to death?"

"You scared me!" Liu Mo frowned angrily, and said, "You scared me! What happened to you to make you look like this?"

"I'm thinking about something!" Ran Ming said without changing his face and heartbeat.In fact, he was only worried about his own future, and he wasn't lying!Ran Ming looked at Liu Mo's worried expression, and suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand, is Lady Liu worried about Gu?"

When Ran Ming said the central matter, Liu Wei felt his face burn, and said in a deep voice, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Suddenly, she remembered that Ran Ming was not a servant of her family, but the dignified king of Chu in the state of Wei. Being scolded like this by herself might bring disaster to the family.She hurriedly said again: "I'm so rude!"

As he said that, he didn't care about Ran Ming, and ran away quickly!In fact, Liu Mo came with a purpose. She heard that the eunuch who delivered the decree came to Yecheng, and she thought that it was Ran Ming who informed Yecheng about the marriage with the Liu family last time. Ran Min made an order to decide this matter. thing.

It's related to his own happiness, Liu Mo is very concerned about it!As the saying goes, which girl does not have a spring?

Of course, although women had a low status in ancient times, they were definitely not as rigid as in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.In particular, the Wuhu chaos, the collapse of the rituals and music in the Central Plains, even the Han people in the Central Plains, more or less have some habits of the Hu people!The so-called national assimilation is actually a process in which the east wind blows the west wind, and the west wind blows the east wind.Like the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, all countries in the world learned the culture of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but now China is blindly learning Western culture!

After leaving the mansion, Ran Ming remembered that he couldn’t go to see Cao Chun empty-handed. All the eunuchs in history loved money and silk besides power. Although Ran Ming is short of food now, but for gold, silver and wealth, he is Very much!
Not counting the gold and silver snatched from Anxi and Gaoyang, in Guanggu City, they also got a lot from Duan Kan.Jing Zhan asked two guards to take out two boxes of gold from the Fuchu treasury.Follow Ran Ming to the station in the city!
At this time, in the guest room of the post station, Cao Chunzheng, who delivered the decree, was lying on a bed with his eyes half closed. He was only wearing a thin red silk underwear, and his legs, feet and arms were exposed, showing Wrinkled white flesh.

It's just that this underwear is actually made into the shape of a bellyband, which is really jaw-dropping.Behind him, a young eunuch was fanning him, and another eunuch was kicking his legs!Cao Mingchun, from Nanyang.He used to be an eunuch in the Shile period, and now he follows Ran Min. He has successively served as the five masters of the four emperors of Zhao and the two countries, and he can be regarded as a top eunuch.Now he is the deputy chief eunuch in charge of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Imperial Palace in Yecheng.Above him was Lu Hong, a great eunuch.

Although Wei Guo was not as powerful as Hou Zhao, Cao Chun had become a wife after many years, and now he was under one man and over ten thousand people.He was wondering why Ran Ming didn't accept the order. According to the news from Chu Palace, His Royal Highness Chu Wang was ill!

"What does this mean?" Cao Chun thought silently in his heart!

(End of this chapter)