Ma Qiang issued the imperial examination order, but in fact, many people within the country opposed it.

Ma Qiang never thought of using such a method as the imperial examination so radically at first.

But this month, the bloody reality told him that he couldn't attract those talents from the big families at all.

This month, Ma Qiang also tried to recruit some of the big clans who remained in the local area, but almost all of them were closed.

There are even many big clans who don't run when the Yellow Turban rebels, and when they hear that Ma Qiang is in power, they are called fast.

Ma Qiang only knew at this time how bad his reputation was.

After all... He has been eating a lot in the plains for several years.

And Ma Qiang has just accepted so many Yellow Turban Army, and the blind understand that these people all want land, so where does the land come from? and shall not take it out of the hands of the nobles.

In this way, after a month of reality beatings, Ma Qiang decided not to do it.

Bah, without Butcher Zhang, I still have to eat hairy pigs?

You big families don't look down on me, and I don't look down on you anymore!

Lao Tzu cultivates cadres by himself and uses them himself!

As soon as the imperial examination order came out, it immediately set off a huge wave in Qingzhou.

Countless scholars criticized the imperial examination, and even laughed and waited for Ma Qiang to perish.

If there is no participation in the imperial examination, how can we select talents?

But there are also many people who are excited and sleepless for several nights.

Most of these people are poor county officials, they are grassroots officials who are really proficient in business, but because of their background, they can only be grassroots officials for the rest of their lives, but now, they seem to have a chance to turn over.

There are even some heroes in the mountains and fields, eager to try, and even the news has spread to Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Jizhou, and they are ready to try their luck in Qingzhou.

While Ma Qiang was running Qingzhou, other princes also had their own actions.

Let's talk about Cao Cao first, Cao Cao almost lost all his soldiers and horses in the battle against Dong, and at this time he turned around and came to Danyang, erected a big banner to recruit soldiers everywhere.

As I said before, Danyang is a mountainous place, the terrain is steep, many fugitives like cats here, plus there is a copper and iron mine in the local area, which can build ordnance, the local powerful tribe is very strong, and the people are also brave and good at fighting.

Cao Cao has recruited a lot of elite soldiers here, and the capital he can recruit so many people here actually relies on Chen Wen, the assassin of Yangzhou, and Zhou Xin, the Taishou of Danyang.

Especially Zhou Xin, which can be said to be Cao Cao's original shareholder, as early as the last time Chen Liu's army was recruited, he asked his younger brother Zhou Qiao to bring 2,000 soldiers and horses to help, and the reason why Zhou Xin helped Cao Cao like this was not because he had a strong relationship with Cao Cao, but because he used to serve in the Taiwei Mansion, yes, he was Cao Cao's old subordinate Cao Song.

Cao Song has paved a lot of roads for his son in this life, and the third prince that Cao Song bought is indeed worth it.

But also because the previous soldiers and horses have gone and never returned, this time, Cao Cao is not very popular with the Danyang people.

That night, Cao Cao looked at the soldiers' book, this recruitment has been a month, and there are almost 5,000 soldiers and horses, so he can almost go back to the Central Plains and find a way to raise troops in a city and a half.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a sound of killing, Cao Cao pulled out his Heavenly Sword in a panic, walked out of the big tent and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"General! It seems to be a mutiny! ”

Cao Cao looked at the firelight of the camp, knew that it was not good, and shouted directly, "Let everyone rush north, bring the general flag!" ”

Cao Cao's mutiny, what caused it, no one can say clearly, some say that Cao Hong leaked money, some say that it is because of the unfair distribution of military food, and some say that it is because the Danyang people do not want to follow Cao Cao to die, no matter what, Cao Cao finally counted the soldiers and horses, and only more than 500 people were left in the 5,000 Danyang army recruited, and the rest fled in all directions.

Cao Cao sighed, looking at Liu Bei, who had rushed to support with his troops after getting the news, he almost wanted to cry.

The conscience of heaven and earth, this hard work for a month, all in vain, the most annoying thing is that I only got 500 people in the end this month, how did you Liu Bei recruit nearly 1,000 people, and after a long time, I am not as good as you as the boss!

Sigh to sigh, Cao Cao and Liu Bei joined forces, this pair of enemies in the original history, at this time it was a group for warmth, and after the Xiahou brothers recruited more than 1,000 people from Qian County, Cao Cao took new chips and went to Yanzhou, ready to sit back on the table for world domination.

After talking about Cao Cao, let's talk about Yuan Shu and Sun Jian.

Sun Jian bears the name of Yuzhou's assassin history, but because he killed too easily in front of him, he couldn't get the support of the Yuzhou scholars at all, although he took Yingchuan, but he couldn't recruit troops if he wanted to, and no one paid attention to him if he wanted to collect grain, so he couldn't stay at all in Yuzhou.

Sun Jian thought about it for about three seconds, and felt that Yuzhou didn't keep his master, and he had his own place to keep his master, so it was better for me to stay in Jingzhou.

Sun Jian turned his head and said to Yuan Shu, I want to fight Jingzhou, I'll give it to you Yingchuan, how about Jingzhou for me?

Yuan Shu closed his eyes and said Okay, okay, you go to beat Liu Biao first, and Yingchuan will be handed over to me.

While eating the grain and grass supported by Yuan Shu, Sun Jian took Sun Jiajun and began to go south to teach Liu Biao who picked up Jingzhou.

Liu Biao, who had almost forgotten Sun Jian's stubble, immediately understood why he called Sun Jian a tiger, Liu Biao watched Sun Jian drive Huang Zu from Dengcheng all the way south like a sheep at the head of Xiangyang City, if it weren't for the Jingzhou Shi clan, who had been harmed by Sun Jian once, who swore to die and would fight with Sun Jian to the end, Liu Biao was ready to protect the people and go to Jiangdong.

But I have to say that Xiangyang is indeed a strong city, and the Kuai brothers are also wise, although Cai Mao and Huang Zu can't win against Sun Jian, they are also unwilling to admit defeat, Sun Jian can't fight Xiangyang for several months, and the war is deadlocked.

After reading Yuan Shu, let's look at his good brother Yuan Shao.

Soon after Yuan Shao stationed his troops in sour dates, he felt that Yanzhou was not interesting and moved to Hanoi.

Yanzhou is really not interesting, because Yanzhou is about to become a pot of porridge, Liu Dai and the county guards below do not deal with it, you come and go, open guns and hidden arrows, the place is not big, there are many thieves, and Yuan Shao is annoyed to watch.

Of course, the more important reason is that Yuan Shao fell in love with Jizhou.

- Jizhou

"The allied forces have been dispersed for several months, and Yuan Shao has been stationed in Hanoi, constantly asking us for grain and grass, what year and month is this?" Han Fu looked at the crowd below and complained.

"Ming Gong! Between the following, Yuan Bohai's grain and grass can no longer be allocated! Changshi Geng Wu said, "In the past, grain and grass were allocated to the allies, in order to save the Son of Heaven from fire and water, but today, if the son hunts in the west, the allied forces have dispersed, and Yuan Bohai is a subordinate of the Ming Duke, how can he allocate grain and grass again?" ”

Han Fu nodded and said, "I also have this heart, but I am worried that Yuan Bohai's soldiers are strong and strong, if he comes to attack me, what can I do?" ”

Governor Zhao Fu said, "Ming Gong doesn't need to worry, Yuan Benchu's army has no fighting grain, and there are many discrete, although there are Zhang Yang and Yu Fuluo, they are not willing to use it, and they are not enough for the enemy." ”

At this time, Han Fu sat down and said angrily, "Yuan Ben originally raised troops for the country, and now that Dong thief has not been destroyed, why do you persuade Ming Gong to do what Dong thief wants to do but can't do?" ”

Everyone looked at it and saw that it was Xiliang Lu Yi, and they couldn't help but chuckle lightly.

Lu Yi is a native of Guzang, Wuwei County, Xiliang, he has lived in Liangzhou since he was a child, and he was Han Fu's general at this time.

"For the country, if it wasn't for him in the past, how could Dong Zhuo have succeeded?" Some people who knew the secret of the past couldn't help but sneer and said, the angry Koji Yi wanted to cut people.