In May, there is no gentle atmosphere of tender spring, more of a sultry weather, the summer time has come, the air can feel the scorching air waves, this air waves overlap, people are a little breathless.

At this time, the excitement brought by the talent search order climbed to the peak.

Guanzhong, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and many places have been affected by this talent search order, so more and more people have poured into the capital, making the capital very lively.

And the Mu's Talent Seeking Hall, in addition to the ten opened by Mujing before, Mu Shan and Huang Shao joined forces to open thirty in one go, but each of the Talent Seeking Halls was overcrowded.

One by one, the talents, like the fallen fruits, continue to enter the fruit basket prepared by the Mu father and son.

"This sour plum soup with ice cubes is really the best in the world!"

In the courtyard of Jingping, Mu Jing drank a bowl of sour plum soup with ice cubes, refreshed, and said to Hu Zhao with a smile.

Most of the magnates in the capital have cellars, and storing ice in cellars is a characteristic of this era.

Taifu Mansion naturally also stores ice in the cellar, which is very expensive, that is, only a few people can use it, with sour plum soup to relieve the heat, in this stuffy and irritable weather, the delicacies of the mountains and the sea are not comparable.

"I used to just hear that the sour plum soup in the dog days is like a fairy brew, but I never dared to expect a certain family to enjoy such treatment, this taste is indeed unstoppable, so enjoyable!"

Hu Zhao also drank a bowl of plum soup with ice sour plum, but let out some sighs: "It's just that the more you enjoy it, the more ashamed you are, the world is so big, the difference between people is really big, there are too many unfairness, today how many people can't even eat a full meal, but some people can enjoy such a luxurious enjoyment!" ”

This kind of extravagant enjoyment can only be enjoyed by the top elites, Hu Zhao did not have this blessing in the past, at most he just vomited in his heart.

Now I enjoy it, but I feel a lot.

"Sir, Jing Ke doesn't agree with this, my Mu's power today is from life and death again and again, the reason why we are desperate is because we want to live better!"

Mu Jing's words are very direct: "There has never been a so-called fairness in the world, some people are destined to be born as ninety-five, and some people are born as thieves, is this fair, we live, what we pursue is the quality of life, people who can't eat, people who work hard to eat, people who eat food, people who eat meat, people who eat meat, work hard for better enjoyment, this is progress, not unfair!" ”

"Your words seem to make sense at any time!"

When Hu Zhao heard this, he smiled slightly, but he didn't care.

There are some big truths that many readers understand in their hearts, but they just accept and don't accept them.

Today, Mu Jing said this, he felt very novel, pursuit and progress, in his opinion, it was a new knowledge that he could study, and he had been studying all his life.

"Sir, are you saying I'm being reasonable?" Mu Jing said dissatisfiedly.

"Praise you!" Hu Zhaodao.

"I always feel like my husband is sarcastic about me!" Mu Jinghu looked at Hu Zhao suspiciously.

"Absolutely not!" Hu Zhao said reassuringly.

The two of you come and go, and in the verbal confrontation, his relationship has become a lot closer.

Hu Zhao is erudite and talented, Mu Jing is treacherous, there are still topics between the two of them, and under the continuous getting along, in fact, they have already let go of their first precautions and began to understand each other.

In Mu Jing's view, Hu Zhao is a talent, a peerless talent who admires even the drama Zhicai, but he is buried by history, as long as he is given a chance, he will shine.

For Hu Zhao, he has not had a good career for half his life, he has already given up, and when he met Mu Jing, this was an accident and an opportunity, he chose Mu Jing, and after getting along with each other, he felt that he had not made a wrong decision.

"This is sent by the Talent Pavilion today!"

Hu Zhao handed a scroll in his hand to Mu Jing.

"How's the Seeker Hall doing?"

Mu Jing took it and glanced at it, not very interested, but asked about the status of the Talent Pavilion.

"Three of them were burned, an average of seven times a day to make trouble, and there have been no less than ten times when a corpse was hung on it in broad daylight!" Hu Zhao looked a little helpless and said, "This is also good!" ”

The storm formed by the merit-seeking order allowed the Mu father and son to collect talents with a big hand, but it also angered the entire Shi clan, and the Shi clan rebounded, which has been preliminarily presented, even if the Southern Army sent troops to escort it, it still made these talent pavilions have all kinds of accidents.

"Damn!"

Mu Jing burst into a foul word: "They are too inferior!" ”

If you continue like this, although it will not stop the search for talents, it will damage their reputation too much, and you can't even keep a talent search hall, so that many people will lose confidence in them.

"I don't think it's Yuan Sikong's handiwork!"

Hu Zhao said: "It's more of the venting of some scholars in Luoyang!" ”

His eyes flashed with a glint of essence: "Yuan Sikong does things, and he also understands three points, he either doesn't do it, or he has to do it, this little trouble can't hurt the foundation of the talent museum, and it can't delay us from seeking the world's talents!" ”

"You mean, this is actually just an appetizer, our fourth and third dukes, known as the head of the scholar clan and the head of the Yuan clan of the first family in the world, Yuan Sikong, is actually brewing a big move?"

Mu Jing squinted.

"Ultimate?"

Although Hu Zhao was a little rough when he heard this, he still understood the meaning of the big move, and he said in a deep voice: "That's right, Yuan Sikong's shot will inevitably break the earth, nine times out of ten, so we have to deal with it carefully, the dog jumps off the wall when it's in a hurry, and it's fatal for people to be in a hurry!" ”

"I'll wait for them!"

Mu Jing sneered.

Since he dares to do it, he will be prepared, and if it is a war, then they will face off against each other to see who will fall first.

After coming back to his senses, Mu Jing began to flip through the scroll: "Is this a roster, there are more than these people in the Seeking Talent Hall, right?" ”

"This is a list of talents, there are scholars, there are rangers, and more are talents from the sidelines, Zhicai is meeting them every day, understanding their knowledge, asking about their past, doing a lot of work, identifying a lot of talents for us, but how to use them, it depends on your ideas!" Hu Zhao said.

"Xi Zhicai, you can obviously make your own ideas, you have to be me!"

Mu Jing pursed his lips, took the scroll, and said with some unhappiness: "There are so many people, if I take ideas one by one, won't I be tired to death?" “

"How to use people is your homework, no one can help you with this, a certain family can't do it, and drama can't do it!"

Hu Zhao said indifferently.

Since he chose Mu Jing, he hoped that Mu Jing could become a master, so he spared no effort to cultivate Mu Jing's master skills.

"Most of the people who are willing to come to the Talent Pavilion are depressed and unwilling!"

Mu Jing squinted his eyes and swept over the names above, Xi Zhicai's homework was still very careful, the information was detailed, name, age, place of origin, and specialties...... And so on, it's all very clear above.

"Especially these scholars, what they want is nothing more than to go through the Talent Pavilion and get out of the ranks!"

Mu Jing continued: "This point, I want to fulfill them! ”

"Fulfill them?"

Hu Zhao said in a deep voice: "Up to today, there are no less than 300 scholars who have entered our Talent Seeking Hall and have confirmed their identities. ”

"As long as there are knowledgeable people, how much comes, how much I collect, this point of reading, from a single point of view, there are a lot, after all, even if there are few scholars in the capital today, but if it is placed above the imperial court, it is actually very few!"

Mu Jing shook his head and said: "Think about it, my father is the prince of the court, he can recruit staff at will, recommend officials, officials with a rank of less than 400 stones, arrange at will, Taifu officials, Weiwei officials, and Shangshutai, although Cai Shangshu has protégés all over the world, there are not many people available under his hands, as long as he has knowledge and inserts one or two, presumably he will not care, and among the nine secretaries of the imperial court, the official office of Dasi Nong has been taken by us, and the court captain is also biased towards us, and the demand for small officials here is very great!" ”

With Mushan's authority, whether it is to expropriate or recommend, officials with a rank of less than 400 stone do not need to discuss at the court at all, and those with a rank of more than 600 stone can also be arranged if they are stronger.

This is the power of the Taifu of the current dynasty.

"This is a bit too generous, these people take refuge in us, most of them are forced to be helpless, aren't you afraid that they will cross the river and tear down the bridge?" Hu Zhao said worriedly.

The career is not so simple, once they are recommended, after they sit in a stable position, they can turn their faces, after all, they are only asking for an opportunity, and they may not choose to still rely on the Mu family.

If you put it from the perspective of the court competition, the Mu clan is actually weak, if it weren't for Mu Shan in charge of the military power in the capital, he would have been squeezed and couldn't survive, this is the foundation of the Shi clan, they are enough to control all the departments of the court.

After being recommended for a career, there are many officials who go to change the court.

"I'm afraid!"

Mu Jing rubbed the corners of his eyes, replied in a deep voice, and said: "But I'm afraid to do it, this is a helpless thing, I'm not afraid that they will cross the river and tear down the bridge, I will recommend these people to careers, as long as half of them can become Mu clan's henchmen, we will all earn!" ”

"Actually, we can slowly cultivate, belong to our scholars!"

Hu Zhao said in a deep voice.

"It's not that simple!"

Mu Jing sighed: "In the final analysis, our Mu clan is too weak, above the court, eight or nine times out of ten, they are all enemies, we rise too fast, with a strong force to enter the court, it is equivalent to falling from the sky, there will be a feeling of floating!" ”

"What is the feeling of floating?"

"Floating is the feeling, it is the lack of a foundation, what is the foundation, the so-called foundation of the court, is these seemingly insignificant officials, our Mu clan is strong, in charge of several departments, but just in charge of the upper and lower levels, most of the officials are above a thousand stones!"

Mu Jingdao: "What we urgently need now is this kind of grassroots officials, my father had no one available before, so I could only do it in a hurry, so I will sound Qin Xiaogong's order to seek talents, seek talents, and fill this vacancy, of course, I also know that such a use of people is mostly disloyal, but now it is equivalent to a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and it can be used if it can be used, and three or four out of ten are harvested!" ”

"I see what you mean!" Hu Zhao said with a wry smile: "In the end, we don't have a reserve of talents, so we catch fish in a big net, and how much we catch!" ”

"Yes!"

Mu Jing snapped his fingers and said, "This is the purpose of my order to seek talents and establish the Seeking Pavilion!" ”

The two then discussed the placement of the list.

"This Guo Ling, as mentioned above, has decided the case for the government, and he can be put to the court for use!"

"That's okay!"

“……”

"As for this Hong Shen, Xi Zhicai focused on commenting, Yi Xuexue is good, good at managing accounts, let him go to Dasikong and be a scribe!"

"I think it's better, but Shangshutai is better!"

"Shang Shutai is also fine!"

“……”

"Yu Feng, a native of Nanyang, is familiar with military books, then send it to Jingping Army, Jingping Army has no shortage of men who fight, less are military advisers who give advice, and a few more readers are staring, I will be relieved a lot!"

"Start quickly, it seems that this kind of person who has read military books and has some martial arts strategies will definitely be stared at by the people of the Violent Bear Army and the Southern Army, if you start slowly, I'm afraid you won't be able to reach the Jingping Army!"

"I immediately ordered and sent people to Bishui Pass!"

“……”

In the next few days, Mu Jing and Hu Zhao continued to discuss, most of them were Mu Jing's ideas, but Hu Zhao put forward a lot of opinions on the side, these opinions Mu Jing accepted with an open mind, and the fate of a person seemed to be decided in their words.

Compared to the talent search order in full swing.

Another storm in the land of Guanzhong, which has been unnoticed and silently brewing, has now begun to erupt completely, and the speed of the outbreak is overwhelming.

Coming out of Chang'an, one by one, through the channels of Jingping Commercial Bank, like snowflakes, continued to enter Jingping Courtyard.

"Shizi, sent by Jingping Commercial Bank, from Chang'an, urgently!"

On this day, Mu Jing was dealing with some military reports recently sent by Jingpingjun, and Huo Yu stepped up from outside and directly handed over a secret letter.

"Can't hide it anymore?" Mu Jing opened it, looked at it, and a sneer rose at the corner of his mouth: "Food is the lifeblood of Guanzhong after all!" ”

The storm of the order to seek merit, although the eyes of the scholars have been accumulated in the capital.

But when the price of grain fluctuates sharply, it still makes many people pay attention, the most important of which is grain, and the grain merchants in Guanzhong are the spokespersons of the wealthy families in nine times out of ten.

Therefore, the family gate valve in Guanzhong will pay attention sooner or later.

"In that case, let's fight on two fronts!"

Mu Jing's fists were clenched, and a gleam of essence burst out of his eyes.

He first sent a letter back to Chang'an.

Then he began to order: "Zhongheng, send someone to tell Sun Hao that he is ready to start buying grain from Luoyang!" ”

Guanzhong granary, two main concentrations, one is Luoyang, Luoyang is the imperial capital, the other is Chang'an, Chang'an is the core of the Guanzhong Plain, if there is a problem with Chang'an grain, Luoyang will respond quickly.

Therefore, it is necessary to fight on two fronts in order to contain the grain merchants in Guanzhong to the greatest extent and make them overwhelmed.

It is best to completely defeat the grain merchants in Guanzhong before the scholars react, so that they can have a chance to win this business war and achieve their goal, so that the price of grain in Guanzhong will plummet, and they will be as cheap as mustard.

"No!"

Huo Yu gave up his order, took the letter and went down to deliver the letter, and then sent his henchmen to pass Mu Jing's password to Sun Hao, one of the three major treasurers of Jingping Commercial Bank in the capital.

Just when Mu Jing was busy, several eunuchs in the palace entered the Taifu Mansion under the escort of the Imperial Forest Army.

"The decree has arrived, please take the decree !!!"

A sharp voice echoed in front of the hall of the Taifu Mansion.