June 15, sunny day, southeast wind.

This morning, I divided Mrs. Xu's soldiers and horses out of 4,000 people, incorporated them into the Mountain Leopard Regiment, and expanded them into the Mountain Leopard Brigade.

In this way, the Tang Army had two woodland combat brigades, the Mountain Tiger Brigade and the Mountain Leopard Brigade. Then, the two brigades were assigned to the Higashiyama Camp near Ikuban.

I also selected 5,000 recruits from the 10,000 Fujian auxiliaries and expanded the brigade. The remaining 5,000 were organized into a baggage brigade.

In this way, the Tang Army's land division had four major battalions, namely, the Southern Battalion, the Northern Battalion, the West Bank Battalion, and the Dongshan Battalion, and the army strength reached 80,000.

All told, there are sixteen brigades in the army. Among them were two light cavalry brigades, two mountain brigades, two heavy infantry brigades, two ballista brigades, six light infantry brigades, one baggage brigade, and a mixed Janissary brigade.

The naval division is still 20,000 people, and it is still the ocean-going fleet and the patrol fleet.

In addition to this, there were 500 gendarmes, 1,000 sergeants, 100 rangers, and 100 guards. This is the entire land armed forces that are being formed.

According to Li Luo and my latest plan, the army division will at least set up five firearms brigades, two chariot brigades, one Modao brigade, one heavy cavalry brigade, two light cavalry brigades, one ballista brigade, one heavy infantry brigade, two light infantry brigades, and one Praetorian Guard brigade.

The navy will also be expanded by 10,000 people, ready to be used to blockade the Yangtze River.

In this way, we have a shortfall of 90,000 troops, and we need more than 600,000 new immigrants to build a foundation.

Obviously, this task will be difficult to accomplish this year.

Hey, and the manufacturing efficiency of firearms has not been able to be effectively improved. I don't know what a hydraulic hammer looks like, so I can only explain the working principle to the craftsman, and I don't know if they can figure out the water hammer machine.

In three days, there will be the imperial examination, and in another five days, there will be a large-scale drill for the whole army. After these two things are done, I will go to Quanzhou to live for a while, and the family will be reunited for a few days.

Men are really, they can't go home after a day by boat? I don't care about my wife and children.

Li Yuan persuaded me to have another one, and I really want to have another one. A son is indeed too thin. Take advantage of the young body and give birth to two more, and it will be easy in the future.

Today the she-fox is sick and does not want to eat. I went to see it, and it happily began to eat. I'll go, is the fox so cunning? The young lady said, where is it sick, it just wants to see me.

But who calls it old, I can't ignore it, blame the poor one.

The young lady told me that the back garden has almost become a paradise for foxes. These foxes, the more they are raised, the more they look like dogs, they have no wild nature, and it is difficult to catch a rabbit. Forget it, I'll be a pet for my son in a few years.

My son is still crying too much, and I'm really worried that he will grow up like this. But my father-in-law said that everyone's tears are counted, and when I was a child, I cried a lot, and I didn't cry when I grew up. If you don't cry when you're young, you cry when you're old.

The strange thing is that the son rarely cries with his father-in-law, and he seems to be very close to his father-in-law.

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The next day, Li Zhi from the Confidential Department of the Special Investigation Bureau came to see Cui Xiuning and reported: "Teacher, those twenty people are ready to leave, and they are waiting in the flower hall to bid farewell to Mrs. ”

Cui Xiuning put down the secretary of state's letter and came to the flower hall, and the twenty young people immediately bowed down and said in unison: "Wechen has seen Madame!" ”

"Excuse me, all of you." Cui Xiuning sat down with a spring breeze on her face and ordered everyone to serve tea, but everyone didn't even dare to say anything.

Cui Xiuning only wore a casual Yanju regular clothes, and her hibiscus-like face was also lazy, but a pair of extremely bright eyes seemed to inadvertently take everyone's expressions into her eyes without a trace.

Then, the woman lowered her eyes, her long, dense eyelashes obscuring her pensive gaze.

When everyone's minds were a little uneasy, Cui Xiuning spoke.

"You are all talented people selected by the king and me, and many of you are still students of the king and me. If you can go to the Central Plains to be an official and lurk, you must be your own person who is trusted by both the king and me. ”

Cui Xiuning observed their expressions and continued slowly: "I know that you and the Yuan Court both have a family enmity, and being an official in the Yuan Court is indeed entangled in your heart. ”

"Therefore, you must hide the hatred in your hearts, at least in the eyes of your colleagues, you are loyal to the Yuan Court, and you must not act rashly and arouse the suspicion of others."

"You are the magistrate of the county and the governor of the Yuan court, just like the generals leading the army to fight, all for my Tang, for the anti-Yuan, for the people of the Central Plains, and for your wives and children in Haidong."

"You have only one task at the moment, to get promoted, and to find ways to get promoted. I will help you to open the way with silver and precious stones. As long as you are willing to spend a lot of money, it is still very fast to be promoted in the Yuan Court, and as long as you are clever enough, it is not difficult to become the prefect of the state in two years. ”

"Once a year, you can be reunited with your wife and children. As long as you do things well, your lord and I will not forget you. It will be remembered for you in the book of merits. Your wives and children, I will take care of them. ”

After Cui Xiuning finished speaking, he asked Li Zhi to take out a stack of documents and distribute them to everyone one by one.

"This is your household registration paperwork, all prepared for you. You have to memorize every word of this backwards. Cui Xiuning admonished.

These twenty people were all carefully selected by Cui Xiuning for many inspections. First of all, they all have enmity with the Yuan court, and they are reliable, smart, and suitable for lurking in the Yuan court officialdom. In addition, they have wives and children in Haidong.

According to the promises made by Zhang Sanfeng and Li Luo, twenty people will be recommended to serve as five- to seven-rank officials. Since Kublai Khan abolished the imperial examinations, Jixianyuan became an important department for the selection and promotion of officials. Zhang Sanfeng, as a scholar of Jixian Academy, and now Kublai Khan's most trusted Taoist official, has this power.

Almost all of these twenty people were put in Shu and Jingxiang as officials. The reason why these two places were chosen is, of course, for ulterior purposes, and only these two places can play the greatest role.

"Madame's teachings, we will definitely take them to heart. Please take care of your majesty, lady and son, I will go west to the Central Plains. ”

Zhou Yun, the eldest, took the lead in bowing down and said.

"Madame, take care, the ministers are gone......" The other nineteen people also bowed down together.

"I'll send you away." Cui Xiuning said that he insisted on personally sending Zhou Yun and others to sea.

When Zhou Yun and the others got on the boat and left, everyone looked east on the deck, and saw Cui Xiuning standing on the shore watching the sailboat in the distance.

"Mrs. Xie......" Everyone couldn't help but burst into tears and bowed down again.

Three days later, the imperial examination of the Tang Kingdom, which attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of people, finally began.

The examination location of Xiucai is in the barracks of the Peking University Camp. There can only be one candidate per barracks, and they must be checked before entering. All food and drink pens and inks are provided, and cannot be carried privately.

The women's examination is held at the weaving department.

Two days later, the exam ended, and Cui Xiuning immediately organized civil officials to read the papers. She herself drew a hundred test papers.

When she got the first test paper, she almost laughed and squirted tea in her mouth.

The first exam question is a propositional poem, and the title is: Looking at the Central Plains.

This candidate's poem is:

"I can't see it in the Central Plains, but it's in my heart. I don't know whose land my land has changed. ”

It rhymes to rhyme, and the meaning is clear, but is it really a poem? The words are also written as if they have been violently beaten, but fortunately, they can still be recognized.

Cui Xiuning didn't grind, and for the sake of efficiency, he directly hit a C.

Look at his article again. The article is also a unified proposition, and the title is: Song Qingwu died.

The candidate wrote directly: "The official family of the Great Song Dynasty, the court and the court, are really a disadvantage to the generals, and they are so light." Yue Peng was unjustly killed in the Storm Pavilion, and Han Po's five official positions were set at nine grades. When I was in my hometown, I saw the county scolding the system, you are a thief with the army, what kind of soldiers do you bring, you don't worship the officials, pickle and splash talents! ”

"The commander is a general, and there are thousands of soldiers and horses, but he didn't dare to show his teeth when he was scolded by the magistrate, why do you say? Since the court has been light for a long time, it is difficult to discipline those martial artists, and when it comes to war, who can ...... desperately"

Cui Xiuning sneered when he saw it, this person knows some truth, and the articles he writes are also substantial. However, this person should only be a rough text, and he must not have read the subset of scripture and history.

Cui Xiuning sought truth from facts, but still played a C.

However, when he saw the general knowledge questions of this person's subset of scriptures and history, Cui Xiuning laughed even more.

The first question is actually to give points, which is: Kill me by words, who is the one who kills me?

Anyone who reads the history of the scriptures knows that I am a disciple of Confucius. The purpose of this question is, of course, to warn candidates not to judge others with their words lightly.

The candidate's answer is: Whoever kills me, so does the enemy.

You say, how can Cui Xiuning not be happy after watching it?

The second question is also a score: Wei compiles three uniques, what does it mean?

The candidate's answer is very strange: reed baskets, baskets, baskets, very durable, three unique.

Question 3: How to repay grievances with virtue?

The candidate replied: Eli repays virtue.

Question 4: Why is Huan Gong an uncle?

The candidate answered: The husband is older, so he is naturally an uncle.

Cui Xiuning saw the word "husband", holding her stomach and laughing breathlessly.

Damn, is this guy here to be funny? How can such a person become a civil servant?

Thirty points for common sense questions, this person didn't answer any questions correctly, and they were all spitting answers, which was really funny. It is really courageous for such a person to dare to come to the exam.

But when Cui Xiuning saw this person's six arts achievements, he couldn't laugh.

The arithmetic turned out to be right!

Although the arithmetic problem is not difficult, it is only a question in the sixth grade of primary school, but this person can get it all right, and it is not easy.

Looking at the other two arts, he chose riding and archery, and was sentenced to second class by the officer who took the main examination.

In addition, the "Brief Laws of the Tang Kingdom" is all right, and the agricultural exam questions are also all correct.

The last theory of current policy, entitled is: The Disadvantages of My Tang.

The student's article did not talk nonsense, and directly wrote: "The first disadvantage of the Tang Dynasty is that there are many soldiers, there are many people who eat imperial grain, and there is not enough labor. ”

"The second disadvantage of the Tang Dynasty, the people are happy every day, the fighting spirit is insufficient, they only care about the present, and the heart of counterattacking the Central Plains is not in a hurry."

"The third disadvantage of the Tang Dynasty is that there are more men and fewer women in immigrants, and there are more and more singles, which is not good for the country."

In the end, he also gave a solution: "Move the water, catch the slaves, and fill the labor; By the power of the Mengtars, by the poison of the Mengtars, they beat the people, and did not dare to forget the war; Recruits are not allowed to marry wives for two years, so that they will be dragged down by no family, and second, so that the people will have a daughter to marry. ”

Although the article is unliterate, it is already very good in terms of its strategic content.

Cui Xiuning looked at this person's name, his name was Yongcheng, and he was one of the first batch of immigrants.

Cui Xiuning thought about it, and finally wrote down the record as second-class.

This is actually an exception, otherwise with the results of this Yongcheng poetry and subset of scriptures and history, it would be impossible to admit them, let alone the second class.

Most of the next test papers are bullshit, in Lin Biju's words, they can really only be said to be literate, not a reader at all.

However, many of them are also knowledgeable and have novel perspectives.

There is only one person named Qiao Yunzhi, who really has the ability to show talent. This person's proposition poem made Cui Xiuning's eyes light up. His poems:

"Looking west at the Central Plains, tears are not dry, where is Chang'an in Guanshan. Luohe Qingbo drinks Huma, and hunts in the north of the mountain...... How many things happened to the rise and fall of the Han family, it is the most sad today. ”

The general knowledge questions of this subset of the scriptures and history that Qiao Yun has brought to are all right.

In arithmetic in the six arts, only one question is wrong.

He chose horseback riding and calligraphy for other items in the six arts, and the officer who took the main examination for riding was C, calligraphy, and Cui Xiuning gave the second class.

In addition, the articles and strategies are very good, not only the rhetoric is beautiful, but also the words are substantial, and the arguments are rigorous.

As he wrote:

"The Zhao family is a military general, wearing a yellow robe in Chen Qiao, usurping firewood and being a widow, and this reckless operation is not faulty. However, in the late Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties, the military ministers were fierce and the civil servants were tied, but there were frequent changes, and the society was changeable. This is because of the martial arts of the Tang Dynasty, and the checks and balances have been lost. ”

"The Song room is open, and I am afraid of repeating it, which is overkill, although the literature is prominent, and the martial arts are lost...... Therefore, the major military and political affairs are yin and yang adjustments, the combination of rigidity and softness, the appropriateness of civil and military, the degree of relaxation, the nobility and martial arts, and the effective checks and balances, which is the rule of moderation. ”

"Wu is strong and weak, but there are worries about the late Tang Dynasty; The noble and martial arts are cheap, and there is even the disaster of the Song Dynasty. Yin Jian is not far away, the king should take the mean, take the civil and military as the goal, the outline is open, the martial is important, and the complement each other is also ......"

Qiao Yunzhi meant that Tang made the general's tail too big, which was wrong. Song overcorrected, emphasizing literature over martial arts, resulting in the death of a foreign race, which was even more wrong. Therefore, it is necessary to be impartial, pay equal attention to civil and military affairs, practice the golden mean, advocate the honor of civil and military affairs, respect the martial arts and emphasize literature, each has its own duties, and checks and balances each other.

Obviously, this is the method that has been practiced in modern times. Cui Xiuning agreed.

Regarding the disadvantages of the Tang Kingdom, Qiao Yunzhi also wrote very well:

"The disadvantages of my Tang are the first for righteousness. The king entrusted the name of the Dongguo family, and endured humiliation and burdened the Yuan court, which is also a technique. However, the people of the Central Plains, can they know the truth? If the day of the army is raised, the world is spread to restore the Central Plains, then the name has been lost. Even if the Li family in Longxi is restored and the old business of Li Tang is inherited, how can he win the trust of the Han family? ”

"The disadvantages of my Tang Dynasty are that there are more soldiers and fewer people, and there is a lack of labor. ……”

Cui Xiuning couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that Qiao Yunzhi was worried that Li Luo's Han identity would be difficult to trust the Han people in the world. This insight is already extraordinary.

Of course, Qiao Yunzhi didn't know that she and Li Luo had already had a complete solution, and at that time, the Han people in the Central Plains would definitely believe that Li Luo was a Han person, what did the Special Investigation Bureau do?

Qiao Yunzhi's solution, although not very clever compared to Li Luo, is also one of Li Luo's plans, he advocated spreading news in the Central Plains before raising troops, deliberately revealing Li Luo's identity.

It was the agricultural exam paper, and he got a few questions wrong, but he also passed.

Cui Xiuning did not hesitate to rate Qiao Yunzhi as a first-class, that is, Xiucai.

She decided to let Qiao Yunzhi take the position of county magistrate.

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