Outside Nanjing, Chen Xuan's follow-up troops had basically arrived, and although Feng Guozhang's team in an unsuccessful attack on Anshan was bitten by Jiang Zhongqi, he finally joined Feng Guozhang after paying a certain price.

Xuzhou City is still fighting vigorously, Zhang Xun seems to be iron-hearted to ignore his rear, staring at the outside of Nanjing City motionless.

Zhang Xun's troops and Feng Guozhang's troops together exceeded 80,000, more than double Chen Xuan's troops.

Chen Xuan had a stinky face, he was very dissatisfied with the battle of Wuchang, Wuchang City was taken, and Sun Chuanfang also gave up Huangshi to take his life after the loss of Wuchang, so Huangshi also had an amazing record.

But Chen Xuan has been in this era for eight years, and he still can't integrate into the thinking of people in this era, although Jiang Fangzhen did not report it openly, but Chen Xuan knew that the Beiyang Mutiny in Wuchang had Jiang Fangzhen's shadow, and even his influence occupied an absolute dominance.

It is a happy thing to be able to successfully recover Wuchang, but the pain brought by the war to the people of Wuchang is acceptable to Chen Xuan, according to the report of his intelligence department, it is well documented that the Beiyang mutiny, more than 800 people died, and countless people were mutilated.

At this critical moment of the Northern Expedition, if the matter leaks out, it will be a great blow to Chen Xuan's new Republic of China, Chen Xuan can't help but think of the evaluation of Jiang Fangzhen by some people in later generations, if it comes to military affairs, Jiang Fangzhen is called second, and no one can call it first, but the political mind of everyone in this strategy is absolutely not flattering, and during the entire Republic of China period, almost every time he stood in line, he stood wrong.

Chen Xuan has maintained the good reputation of the Baath Party over the years, in his thoughts, he would rather spend more effort to attack Wuchang, rather than bring so much harm to the people of Wuchang, taking Nanjing as an example, if Chen Xuan really wants to quickly take Nanjing City, it is not impossible, his own aircraft, artillery, warships and tanks are not decorations, but if they really fight down, I am afraid that the famous city will also be destroyed in the war.

In front of him, there was a report on the invitation to merit in the first battle of Wuchang, but Chen Xuan didn't know how to approve it.

"Yiyang, you have scolded Brother Fang Zhen, war is war, how can there be a revolution without bloodshed and sacrifice in this world?"

Song Jiaoren, who came to Nanjing to discuss state affairs with Chen Xuan this time, said.

Chen Xuan sighed, even if he is idealized, of course he knows what the essence of the war is, forget it, don't think about it, although Chen Xuan is idealized, but there is an advantage that if you can't figure it out, don't think about it, love whoever you want.

After signing the credit book in his hand, Chen Xuan still vaguely reminded Jiang Fangzhen, as for whether he could understand it, I don't know.

"Brother Dunchu, your new Republic of China made a big mistake this time, the brothers in front of you have knocked down the country, but your follow-up officials can't keep up, and the military has sued me several times."

"I, we didn't expect the brothers of the military to fight so fast, it's only been a few months that most of Hubei and half of Hunan have been taken, and the whole of Jiangxi, our talents are also stretched, Fengtian has also taken it back, Yiyang, don't just talk and don't have a backache, do you know how many officials are needed to fill such a big place? Seeing that Jiangsu is also coming down, where do you let us go to find someone, the thousands of people who have been reinforced by Xia Guo are just a drop in the bucket, and the talents we have cultivated over the years have long been used as a few, isn't there really no way. ”

Song Jiaoren blushed a little, as the political premier of the new Republic of China, he had nothing to do about it.

Chen Xuan was also a little speechless, could it be that the army was too capable of fighting, and it was wrong! It doesn't make sense! But Song Jiaoren was able to run to Nanjing to ask for help in his busy schedule, and he must have been helpless.

But Chen Xuan is also a little confused, he has been saying that he will devote himself to cultivating his own talents over the years, but the university has been built countless times, but the faculty is really flattering, and the trained people have been asked to leave by various departments before they graduate, and even the technical schools run by businessmen have been selected Many people have joined the government of the New Republic of China, and these big businessmen are already a little unhappy about this.

In fact, Chen Xuan found that the problems he is facing today are far more than this, in recent years, the Baath Party and the New Republic of China and Zhenhua Group have appeared exaggerated, and the traffic road network that he asked to build, because the gray mark can not be reached, the lack of steel, although it has been repaired a lot, but from the perspective of later generations, it is a tofu slag project, with the increase of vehicles, the repair of roads has also become a big problem, and many places have been directly broken.

There is also the industrial aspect, because the accumulation of technology and talents are too little, blindly expanding many factories, and now they have been in the loss stage, the scrap rate is amazingly high, even their own fist product cars, the life span is far lower than that of imported cars, if it were not for the price gap, the users who bought cars would have been looking for trouble with car companies。。。。。。

There are so many of them, Chen Xuan began to envy those comrades who also came through the same time, they can build an industrial empire from scratch in a few years, and it is never a word to surpass Britain in three years and catch up with the United States in five years, but he has worked hard for eight years, but he is still a mess in his hands.

"In this case, the only way to do this is to adopt the civil service system!"

Chen Xuan rubbed his eyebrows and stopped thinking nonsense.

"Civil service, what's that?"

Song Jiaoren was a little puzzled, and Zhang Jian and the others present were also confused, but these people were already familiar with Chen Xuan's habit of saying some inexplicable things.

"The imperial examination is the imperial examination! Well, it should be said that it is an improved imperial examination! ”

"No! This is absolutely not possible! ”

What Chen Xuan didn't expect was that Zhang Jian, who was born as the champion of the imperial examination, was the first to object.

"A lesson from the past! The Manchu Qing Dynasty because of the imperial examination system for a long time, too many people who only know poetry and painting, do not know anything about practice, when the literati are officials, smugglers and horses are a good hand, and things are a mess, just like the Song Dynasty, there were a large number of redundant officials and redundant personnel, which directly dragged down the finances of the imperial court! ”

"Ji Lao," on a public and serious occasion, Chen Xuan naturally couldn't call Zhang Jian his father-in-law, "What year is the old Huang calendar of you, not to mention whether the Song Dynasty has collapsed its finances because of redundant officials, let's just say that the territory of our Baath Party is now not smaller than the territory of the Song Dynasty, how many officials are needed?" And the Song Dynasty is not saying that redundant officials were destroyed for one reason, in fact, no matter what kind of regime it is, it is not afraid of many officials, but is afraid of useless officials and incompetent officials.

As long as our system is perfect enough and the implementation of rewards and punishments is in place enough, do we still need to worry about the number of officials? What we should be worried about is that there are not enough officials, there are not enough talents, and the civil service system I am proposing today is not like the previous imperial examinations, which are determined for life, even if they are admitted, there are all kinds of assessments, the capable are mediocre and the mediocre are lowered, and the content of the examination is no longer limited to poetry and lyrics, as well as all kinds of common sense and logic。。。。。。 ”

"With so many subjects, when do you have to take the exam?"

Before Chen Xuan finished speaking, Gu Weijun had already denied it.

"So we need all departments to work together to make questions, since there are too many subjects, we will intercept an important part from each subject to test, this exam is not to embarrass others, but to select a group of people with basic common sense, and then after internship training, delivered to various positions, the selection of people training is much simpler, first set the post, and then targeted training, and these people also need to continue to learn and participate in training and assessment after taking up the post, so that we dare not slack off, of course, This is just a general idea of mine, as for how to operate, it is up to you professionals to discuss and come up with a feasible plan! ”

Chen Xuan didn't dare to say too much, the province was asked by others, although he had contacted friends who took the civil service exam in later generations, how did he know how others operated, even the students who took the civil service exam didn't necessarily know much, right?

But these are enough for everyone to digest, and at the beginning of the discussion of what you say and I say, all the people present are erudite people, and one by one Chen Xuan can't think of novel ideas are constantly put forward to discuss and prove, at first Chen Xuan can still interject some words, and then these people are quoting and quoting scriptures, and Chen Xuan is more and more difficult to listen to, so he retreats on the grounds that he has something.

In fact, it's not that Chen Xuan is lazy to make excuses, but there is something really going on, now that nearly 40,000 troops are gathered in Nanjing, there are so many things that people collapse, Chen Xuan also has to expand his staff team, and the number of people in the entire headquarters has reached an astonishing 700 people in addition to the guards, and these are a small part of the political power and army security.

Back at the barracks' tent, a group of well-dressed senior Baath Party officers had arrived, and the other two armies in the East China Theater had taken other offensive routes and were now fighting fiercely with the Beiyang Army in other places.

But even so, Chen Xuan's subordinates are absolutely strong, Feng Ru's air force, Xue Kai's Yangtze River fleet, Qin Yuan's second army, Chen Ruiqing's directly under the central guard division, Youling's tank division, and Lu Yongxiang and Yang Shande's two divisions of Toucheng, adding up to nearly 40,000.

Today's Lu Yongxiang and Yang Shande are in good spirits, they thought that they would be idle after defecting to Chen Xuan, but they didn't expect to be a senior staff officer for less than a month, and they were released as division commanders.

Not to mention that now these two divisions are under Chen Xuan, and a big battle is about to start, don't look at Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun's strength seems to be too much more than Chen Xuan, but when it comes to fighting, the two of them are not afraid of their old comrades-in-arms at all.

With the support of the Air Force and Navy, coupled with the disciplined and high-spirited troops under their command, they even thought that even if Chen Xuan's large army did not move, the nearly 10,000 brothers under the two of them would dare to directly confront Feng and Zhang!