However, when he saw Gongsun Hong, Liu Rong was a little surprised, he was already in his forties at this time, but he didn't look old, so Liu Rong wanted to ask Gongsun Hong if he had any tricks to stay in the face.

"Gongsun Hong visited His Royal Highness", but participated in this imperial examination, Gongsun Hong just wanted to have the idea of giving it a try, but even he didn't expect that he could finally pass the imperial examination and meet Liu Rong smoothly.

However, when he arrived in the palace, the people he saw were all young people who had just reached the crown, or who had not yet reached the crown, so he only felt a little strange when he got along with him in the same hall.

Especially when he introduced himself, everyone looked at him, which made Gongsun Hong feel very embarrassed.

Therefore, Gongsun Hong was also afraid that Liu Rong would not use it when he saw that he was so old, so he was very nervous when he entered the palace to meet Liu Rong.

"Excuse me."

Gongsun Hong stood up and said, "Your Highness Xie! ”。

But Liu Rong asked bluntly: "Qing is a person who has been Emperor Gao for 14 years?" ”。

Seeing Liu Rong ask this, Gongsun Hong was even more nervous, "Back to Your Highness, it's exactly ...... Exactly".

After finishing speaking, he said eagerly: "The minister is old, and when he goes to Chang'an to take this imperial examination, I hope His Royal Highness will use it!" ”。

Gongsun Hong has a strong desire to enter the office.

In the first year of Liu Yujian's first year, he issued an edict to the officials of the entire Han family of 2,000 stones, and when he summoned the "virtuous and good Fangzheng", he was summoned to Chang'an together with Yuan Gusheng.

However, later, by chance, he was sent by Liu Yu to envoy the Xiongnu, and originally thought that he would enter the eyes of the Son of Heaven because of this.

However, when he was reinstated, it was not in line with Emperor Wu's wishes, so Liu Yu thought that Gongsun Hong had no talent, so Gongsun Hong was sick, and he had to return to his hometown after being dismissed.

However, after that, he was discouraged by this, but he studied Confucianism for a few years, and a few years later, when the Zichuan State recommended the virtuous and square, he came to Chang'an again.

However, this time, Gongsun Hong was reused by Liu Yuzhi, and he rose all the way up, becoming the only person in the Han family who was crowned a marquis with the position of prime minister.

The previous prime ministers of the Han family were all prime ministers if they were listed as ministers, and Gongsun Hong was the only one who asked the Son of Heaven to be the prime minister and named him the prime minister.

When Liu Rong asked about his age, he couldn't help but be nervous.

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Liu Rongduan sat down and asked, "Sir is a Confucian scholar, why do you know so much about Legalism?"

Gongsun Hong, although he is a Confucian person, is also an alternative in Confucianism.

He was a Confucian who did not alike Legalism at all, but he was also a Confucian who agreed with the ideas of many Legalists. In the various governing concepts of Liu Yuchao, it infiltrated many Legalist elements, such as the Legalist emphasis on appointing officials because of ability, the combination of law and righteousness, and the clear distinction between rewards and punishments.

However, there is a significant difference between Gongsun Hong and Zhang Tang, who are simple legalists. He is not like Han Fei, who completely denies benevolence and righteousness.

In the eyes of Legalists, the word "benevolence and righteousness" does not exist at all. How can we rule the world with what kind of "benevolence and righteousness" should be done according to the law, and everything must be based on the law.

However, Gongsun Hong affirmed the existence of benevolence and righteousness, and emphasized moral politics, believing that Tiande has no selfish relatives, and it is a typical Confucian ideology to follow the harmony and harm to the opposite. From this point of view, Gongsun Hong is neither a simple Confucian, nor a simple Legalist, but skillfully blends the two together.

In Liu Rong's opinion, although he is older and not very good, he is also a usable talent.

"Back to His Royal Highness, although the minister is a Confucian, he has also read through the works of the sages of the Legalists."

However, no matter how you look at it, Gongsun Hong seems to be a little nervous, seeing this, Liu Rong is laughing and saying: "Mr. Gongsun doesn't have to be so nervous, I'm just a little curious, Mr. Gongsun is already in his forties, but he can't see it at all."

After holding back in his heart for a long time, he was still said by Liu Rong.

Seeing that Liu Rong was saying this, Gongsun Hong said: "It's useless to be a minister, and he has not yet been recommended as an official at the age of forty, and he is really a minister to be able to pass the imperial examination that His Highness has done this time."

"Haha, Mr. Gongsun doesn't need to say that, and there is a sequence of words and hearings, and there is a specialization in the art industry, which varies from person to person. However, no one has said that he must attain the Tao when he is a young man.

And Mr. is indeed a talented person, at the beginning, Nahe Shibi was still the king of Chu for three generations, and his talent was recognized, and he did not secretly cast his pearl into it.

However, when the imperial examination was carried out, it was not decided, and the elderly could not do it.

Liu Rong's words were very moving to Gongsun Hong, and even if he knelt down in tears, he said: "The minister can use His Royal Highness with the ability of the end, and the minister will die and repay His Highness's kindness."

At this time, Gongsun Hong was completely submissive to Liu Rongxinyue.

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However, the first imperial examination of the Han family, so far it is completely over, this time one person participated in the imperial examination to nearly 3,000 people, but only ten people were selected, and they had to be elected as officials.

Liu Rong even remembered the later generations, after the imperial examination high school, he had to parade the streets to praise officials.

Even if he ordered someone, the names of these ten people and the officials they received were all recorded on the notices and posted all over Chang'an City.

In this way, the imperial examination once again became a matter that shocked the entire Chang'an.

However, those who are in the imperial examination, of course, do not need to look at it here, but the place where the imperial examination list is posted is surrounded by the people in Chang'an City.

These people all want to know who can win the favor of the heavenly family and become officials from a white dress.

Before Chang'an West Market, such a list was posted, but seeing this, the vendors above the West Market, as well as people passing by, all gathered around to watch it.

Most of the people in Ranxi City are the lowest people in Chang'an City, but after watching it for a long time, no one is literate, and they don't know what this notice says.

Still in the crowd, one person squeezed to the front and yelled: "Wait for Hugh to make another noise, let me read the words on this notice!" ”。

Hearing this, the crowd, which was still very noisy, was relatively quiet.

I saw this person looking at the notice, and said: "This is the list of people who have passed the imperial examination some time ago, and the person at the top of the list is a person from Dongjun, Yan is different, and the official rank is 600 stones, and second, Sima Xiangru of Shu County is like, and he is 500 stone ............."

And in a short time the man read out all the words of the proclamation.

Hearing this, among the crowd, the pot exploded again, and the shopkeeper of the wine house where Yan Yi lived He Xiang was here, but he was naturally literate, but it was too late to pass by, and when he saw that everyone was gathered here to watch something, he also came forward to watch.

When he heard the name of Dongjun Yanyi, he was overjoyed, "The young master has won, the young master has won!" ”。

Then I went home excitedly.

In this way, there are still more surprised people, when they hear someone say that some of them are the righteous people of Hedong County, several of them are stunned.

One of the children, who was no more than ten years old, asked his father, "Father, what is the right person to pass the imperial examination?" ”。

As soon as he turned his head, the man next to the child stroked the child's head, and said with a smile: "After passing this imperial examination, you can become an official."

However, this man is a person who doesn't even know a few big characters, how can he know how to get this imperial examination, but he knows a little, it seems that as long as he passes this imperial examination, he can become an official.

Hearing this, the child nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked, "Is the righteousness that Shicai said the same as the one who lives on the side of our house?"

The man nodded and sighed, "It should be him!" ”。

After speaking, he secretly said in his heart: "Such a poor person can't imagine that he can be an official ..................."

"Father, when I grow up, I will also take the imperial examination!" The kid said very seriously.

"Haha, I'll definitely be able to pass the exam by then!" And when he had said that, the man went home with the child.

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However, the most sensitive sense of smell in Chang'an City is those wealthy businessmen.

If you are strong in the local area, you may still be majestic, but in Chang'an City, even if you are a businessman with rich wealth, you still have to add your tail to be a man, and those ministers have never looked at these businessmen with their eyes, let alone the imperial court.

It was only when the rebellion of the Five Kingdoms of Wu and Chu was quelled that there was an exception, and the reason was that such a huge military expenditure was difficult for the imperial court to afford for a while, which made Liu Qi, the son of heaven, very embarrassed and had to borrow money from private businessmen.

In the eyes of these businessmen, the country and the world have nothing to do with them, no matter when, only interests are what they value.

Whether it is a businessman who is rich in the world with thousands of servants, or a powerful man with only a hundred hectares of land, in his heart, there is no dream of becoming a businessman like Fan Li and Lu Buwei.

However, at first, these businessmen saw that the five kingdoms of Wu and Chu were powerful, and they were all unwilling to lend money to the imperial court, and later, somehow, they finally had a few businessmen who borrowed thousands of gold from the imperial court.

However, there is a price to be paid for borrowing this money, that is, when the money is repaid, it must be repaid several times.

Among these businessmen, some people want to go with gold to fund Liu Bi, the king of Wu, and when Liu Bi, the king of Wu, enters Chang'an and becomes the emperor, he will repay himself for sending charcoal in the snow, and he can also pay homage to the marquis.

If in the midst of the rebellion, Liu Bi really broke through the Liang State, had to enter the Han Valley, and went straight to Chang'an, these merchants, even if they would go out of the city to meet them, and even worse, maybe in order to make profits, they would also cooperate with the rebels and sell the artifact of the Han family to Liu Bi, the king of Wu..................

Now the people who have won the examination are all future princes, and the current emperor's eldest son Liu Rong personally selected ministers, so if the emperor's eldest son Liu Rong succeeds to the throne as the emperor, these people are not to say that they are all generals, and they will definitely be able to be high-ranking officials of 2,000 stones.

In this way, how could the businessmen and heroes not want to establish a relationship with these people one after another like hungry wolves.

Businessmen are people who can see long-term benefits. Regardless of what it is doing now, it will be of great use in the future.

Earlier, those businessmen began to make up their minds above Liu Rong's subordinates. The master's father Yan already had a family before he defected to Liu Rong, and after he became an official, he took his wife and heirs who were far away in Qi to Chang'an.

However, Zhang Tang is still unmarried, and after he became an official in the Imperial Lieutenant Office, he said that the person who talked about his relatives was to break through the threshold of his family.

Although Zhang Tang's mother is old, she is a person who understands righteousness, and when she sees these people who are relatives for businessmen, no matter how much dowry they give, they are not allowed.

Later, the number of people who came to his house to say goodbye was not only not less, but there were more and more, and his mother was tireless. Later, for some reason, Zhang Tang turned out to be the Marquis of Anguo Wang You and married his queen Shu.

Although the Marquis of An Guo is not as good as the Hou of Pingyang, he is also a marquis of more than 5,000 households, and his ancestor The tomb of the first Marquis of An Guo was in the early years of the Han family, and the era of the heroes and princes everywhere also served as the right prime minister of the Han family.

However, when he summoned his son-in-law in the house, how could he look at the five hundred officials in the last district, and why he was like this, the courtiers could see it............

However, after these businessmen saw this, they could be regarded as "letting go" Zhang Tang.

And now, there is a goal, and there is not just one, these businessmen are naturally more excited.

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As a person who has personally experienced the suppression of the Wu Chu rebellion, Liu Rong is naturally clear about the actions of these merchants.

Previously, Liu Rong didn't hate these businessmen so much in his heart, but after that, especially in the future, he will be the prince, and he will inherit the throne, rule the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers of the Han family, and tens of millions of people, Liu Rong is really aware of how harmful these businessmen are to the Han family at this time.

If you don't pay attention to it for a while, it will develop at a rate you would never have imagined, and by the time you notice it again, it may have become an appendage, intertwined and ineradicated.

However, Liu Rong naturally will not be like a person from the Legalists, and he is determined to kill the businessman as soon as possible.

And the harmful may also be beneficial, although the merchants are a great harm to the imperial court, they are also beneficial, at this time, the stability of the Han family in the world, speaking of which, also has some credit for these merchants.

Of course, it is impossible to completely exterminate the merchants, and only by formulating strict regulations on the conduct of merchants and carrying them out absolutely, controlling them in a framework and locking them in cages, can we ensure that they are not harmful to the regime.

Of course, these businessmen found these ten people who had passed the imperial examination, which can be regarded as a test for them, and Liu Rong also wanted to know how many people could pass this test.

A few days after the release of the list, Liu Rong received a secret report that someone had already begun to find the family of ten people, and their methods were so similar - to get married.

With the letter in his hand, Liu Rong began to wonder if someone would be deceived by the merchant and follow it.

Cao Zheng and Gongsun He don't have to think about it, even if the son of Liehou is unlikely to marry the daughter of a businessman, if Pingyang Hou Cao Qi and Pingqu Hou Gongsun Hun know that their son married a businessman's daughter, it would be strange if they were not mad.

And Pingyang Hou has always married the princess of the Son of Heaven of the Han family, and the daughter of the Heavenly Family and the daughter of Shangjia are concubines.

However, the high gate of the Hou Mansion is not something that ordinary people can enter.

Yan Yi, Zhou De, Chen Guangyan and others, although they are not the home of the Liehou Gongqing, but they are also the family of generations of family learning, although Confucianism and Huang Lao are different in philosophy, but they are the same in despising businessmen.

Although Yizong was born in a powerful family, he was like Zhang Tang, he was a member of the Legalist family, and he was the most disgusted businessman.

Not to mention the "old man" poop of Gongsun Hong, he is already in his forties, and he should not .............................. anymore