In the camp, Zhu Youxiao threw the Tang Bao on the table in annoyance, and the tea in the pot was still warm at first, but after reading the Tang Bao, it was already cold.

The accompanying official corrector was about to take the tea away and heat it, but was stopped by the emperor, poured it into the cup, and drank it all.

Zhu Youxiao felt this coolness from his mouth to his throat, and then he felt much more comfortable, and snorted coldly: "Emperor Shenzong has already approved the invitation of the children of the clans of various feudal clans, and those who are idle and have nothing to do can participate in the imperial examination to change their predicament." ”

"But what about them, they don't even have a jinshi so far. There are very few participants, is this because the court did not give them a way to live? ”

"This is their own fault, they are used to living a decadent life, they can't get out, and they don't want to come out!"

The emperor was furious, and all the accompanying civil and military officers looked at each other.

In fact, this is indeed true, the imperial court has long discovered that there are many children of the clan, and it is difficult for the middle and lower class clan relatives to even support themselves.

Efforts have also been made to alleviate their plight.

In the eighteenth year of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor officially stipulated that "Famous Grain Sects and Unknown Grain Sects" could participate in the imperial examination to change the predicament.

In the twenty-second year of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor allowed the children of the clan except for generals and lieutenants to give up their titles and participate in the imperial examination as Confucian scholars.

In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor further relaxed the limit, and ordered the clans below the general, Zhenguo, and auxiliary states to take the exam together with the students. ”

"Those who are born in Jinshi, the second class is elected to the state, and the third class is elected to the magistrate and the county. Those who are elected by the township shall also be removed as usual, and shall not be selected to be removed from the Beijing position. ”

In the Wanli Dynasty, it was determined that except for the prince and the prince of the county, all other members of the clan who did not want to be entitled could give up the clan and participate in the imperial examination.

Chinese-style officials are awarded according to their birth qualifications; But at the same time, it also stipulated that those who were unwilling to give up their money to take the examination were still supported by the imperial court.

This is a very humane regulation, but Emperor Wanli's efforts for more than 30 years have so far yielded little effect, and the fundamental reason is that most of the children of the clan do not want to lower their stature and take the exam.

After more than 200 years of pampering, most of the children of the clan have become accustomed to this special status and status.

Due to the fact that they are not allowed to go out and engage in the business of the four people, most of the children of the clan do not learn and have no skills, and they do not have any advantage in the competition with ordinary poor scholars.

Compared with the days of eating and waiting for death, the process of becoming an official through the reference scientific examination is long and arduous, and after ten years of hard study, many children of the clan are discouraged.

Most of the clan's disciples would rather continue to be decadent than take the road of scientific research.

At this time, a brocade guard walked into the camp and whispered something, Zhu Youxiao sneered a few times after hearing it, and said:

"You go and tell Zhu Shen of the Ning Clan, Zhu Tong of the Yi Clan, I know that they want to serve the court and don't want to be idle, I give them a chance."

"Many children of the clan have no food and no land, but those who want to show their talents and take revenge can engage in industry and commerce and participate in scientific examinations."

"Zhu Shen and Zhu Tong set an example, take the Jinshi exam and come out, give it to me, and show it to the world!"

"Let's start from Luoyang to see the after-effects!"

"Yes!" When the official academy got the order, he turned around and left, left the camp, turned over his horse, and went straight to Beijing.

Not long after the official academy retreated, and before Zhu Youxiao had time to catch his breath, another person from outside the camp came to report an urgent report, and he said as soon as he entered the door:

"Your Majesty, Dongjiang Mao Wenlong has detected the movement of slave horses."

Zhu Youxiao curled his legs, shrunk his body into the finely fur, was slightly stunned, and immediately took the urgent report.

As his gaze moved up and down, his brows slowly furrowed.

What Mao Wenlong reported was what happened in Liaodong in July.

After the infiltration of the Dongjiang Army's secret agents, the Jin Army learned that Nurhachi also knew about the rebellion in the southwest from the secret letter of the traitors in Guannei.

Knowing that the Ming Emperor drove the expedition in person and was dragged by the war in the southwest, Nurhachi immediately convened the Houjin Zhubeile Great Expedition to discuss the matter, and finally decided a few days ago to gather the army to go south.

The target of the slave soldiers this time was the Phi Island where Mao Wenlong was located.

For Houjin, Shenyang failed to occupy it, and Guangning fell short, all thanks to Mao Wenlong's sneak attack in Hou!

Listening to the focus of Guannai's eyes on the southwest, and the deployment of Gyeonggi troops, Nurhachi naturally wanted to take this opportunity to take the Dongjiang River in one fell swoop, and by the way, clean up North Korea together, so as to avoid worries.

Mao Wenlong's tone was very urgent, and he wrote on the note that this time the slave soldiers were unusual, and they almost came from all over the country.

The Dongjiang army is suffering from military affairs, and it has only recently improved, and it is simply unable to withstand such a huge counterattack by the slave soldiers, and if the imperial court does not support it as soon as possible, the newly recovered Yizhou is afraid that it will be lost again.

As soon as Yizhou was lost, the Ming Dynasty's connection with North Korea was cut off, and the Dongjiang Army had to retreat to the island all the time.

Zhu Youxiao had just finished reading it, and Xiong Tingbi, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chengzong's recitals arrived at the camp almost at the same time, and they were all talking about the Liaodong war situation.

Xiong Tingbi and Hong Chengchou convened the generals in Liaoyang, raised the account, unified their opinions, and advocated taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the old slaves to transfer the Liaodong Army to attack Fushun with great fanfare, so as to reduce the pressure on the Dongjiang Army.

The two also made it clear in the sparse that this time it was only for containment, not for long-term work, and once the old slave returned, the army immediately retreated and held on again to cope with all changes.

In order to prevent impeachment by the courtiers, this note was jointly signed by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaodong, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaodong.

As for Sun Chengzong, he listened to the opinions of Yuan Chonghuan, the commander of Ningyuan's military preparation, and proposed that he could take the opportunity to build a large number of city defenses and recruit new troops, insisting on delaying the war.

These two opinions, before they reached Zhu Youxiao's side, had caused an uproar in Beijing, and the civil servants were fighting each other.

"Build and expand the army, and defend the Liao land with Liao people, this Sun Chengzong..."Zhu Youxiao threw Song Shu to the ground and sneered:

"According to what he meant, whether my internal money is enough or not, or not!"

Donggang Town is facing a huge crisis, and the entire territory of Uiju is in flames of war, and the connection with the subject country of Korea is even more related to the supply and support of North Korea to the Donggang army's food and ordnance.

At this time, Qi Jin stood up and said: "Holy Lord, the minister has a sentence, I don't know whether to say it or not..."

"Speak!"

After the emperor said this, Qi Jin suddenly regretted it, and he clearly heard the anger in the emperor's words.

But the words were out, and he had to bite the bullet and relax his opinion.

"As the emperor said, there seems to be some truth."

"But the minister thinks that blindly wasting national strength to repair the city, and then recruiting soldiers and horses to garrison it, this is not 'recovering the land', this is abandonment."

"At that time, there will be empty cities all over the gates, everything will be done, the battle will not be fought, and the defense will be ashamed, so it can only become a laughing stock of Tartars."

"Please think twice!"

Looking at him for a long time, Zhu Youxiao shrank into the mink fur again, a little helpless, and said, "What you said is good, it is very agreeable." ”

Immediately, Zhu Youxiao looked at the person who came and said, "Didn't Mr. always say that Yuan Chonghuan is a capable person?" ”

"Well, I'll give him a chance to show his talents!"

"You go back to Beijing, tell Wei Zhongxian, and ask him to draw up a decree and send it to Ningyuan. It is said that Houjin sent troops to threaten the Dongjiang River, and the only way to do this is to rely on Yuan Chonghuan to send troops to attack Liao and Shen Hu's Den, so that the slave chieftains can be transferred back to attack North Korea and Dongjiang's troops to help! ”

After receiving the order to leave in a hurry, Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly, looked at a brocade-clothed guard beside him, and said lightly:

"I expect that Yuan Chonghuan will not send troops directly, you will set off again tomorrow, go directly to Ningyuan, spread my message, urge Yuan Chonghuan to enter the army, and let him cross the river as soon as possible!"

After saying that, Zhu Youxiao shrank inward until he curled up into a small ball, and sighed:

"Now that my meaning has come out, Wei Zhongxian should know how to do it - let him draw up a holy decree for Xiong Tingbi and Hong Chengchou."