Since the beginning of the opening of the department in Qiongzhou, Zhao Yu was tired of the stylized articles that groaned without disease, so he wanted to dethrone all the Chengwen examination papers that had lasted for a hundred years, and only took the articles that had things to say and reasoned, but there was resistance at that time, and although there was reform, he could not fully achieve his satisfaction.

Zhao Hao made adjustments to the content of the exam, greatly reducing the content that used to be based on science and adding new content. After all, the writing ability of poetry also represents a person's literary literacy, if it is a group of officials who can't even understand official documents in Jianyannian, wouldn't it become a joke.

In addition, Zhao Yu also made adjustments to the number of scholars in each subject, and the quota of Jinshi still followed the old practice of 300 people, but the number of arithmetic, Ming law and medicine in each subject was increased, and the number of Ming Jing was greatly reduced, and miscellaneous courses such as calligraphy and painting were not examined. In addition, the number of students admitted to each subject is much higher than the previous situation of only half of the students in the science department.

As a result, many scholars who have studied hard for many years have stepped into the void and lost their names to Sun Shan, especially the scholars who applied for the entrance examination obviously felt that they had suffered a loss. However, before the entrance examination, the scholars still held the confidence that they would be admitted, so except for a few complaints, there was no sound, but after the list was released, they saw that they were not on the list, and those who were not as good as themselves in terms of articles and talents on weekdays were on the list because of the application for various subjects, and their psychology changed......

"Official, isn't the scientific examination going well?"

"Oh, why did you come here to eat again today?" Zhao Yu had just returned to Zhiyuan Hall after the next dynasty, and before he could change his clothes, several wives came up, and he didn't answer Chen Shu's brainless words and smiled. Since the 'supervision' incident, although the matter has passed peacefully, the system of the concubines and concubines has been retained, and from time to time they will go to the Zhiyuan Hall to hold a party.

"Official, I have no conscience, we are all worried, but we dislike waiting for a meal!" Chen Shu said angrily.

"Meng Yuan has been defeated, there have been no major incidents in the DPRK and China recently, and there has been no famine among the people, what do I have to worry about!" Zhao Yu spread out his hands and said with a smile.

"Haven't the officials read the newspaper recently?" Concubine Lei Yan said with some surprise.

"I've been busy with scientific research for the past few days, and I haven't looked at it for a few days, why is there a strange person appearing in it, or is it whose cow has given birth to a monster?" Zhao Yu said with a smile. In the past, he had the habit of collecting all kinds of newspapers in Beijing to understand the situation in the outside world, and now several wives have also added problems, but girls are more concerned about gossip news, anecdotes and gossip, and they are not particularly keen on current affairs, so sometimes they will tell him.

"Don't be joking, it's a serious matter this time!" Lei Yan opened the emperor's hand that touched his face, and he was very 'serious'.

"Oh, this time it's business, huh?" Zhao Yu said with a surprised face, but in fact, he didn't take it to heart, the business in their mouths was often trivial parents, nothing more than a fight between neighbors to the government, or a liar fooled the old lady, so they would make up their own brains according to the report, argue right and wrong, and even pull him in as a referee, and he didn't care about it anymore.

"Let the official family change clothes and wash up first, let's sit down and talk to the official family slowly!" At this time, Wu Xi stepped forward to stop their pestering words.

"Yes, yes, I have been yelling with the ministers for a long time, and I don't even bother to take a sip of tea, and my mouth is dry!" Zhao Yu hurriedly went down the donkey, to be honest, he was really busy these days, he read all the test papers in each subject, wanted to understand their level, and see if there was any cheating in it, of course, he saw that it was all strategy and arithmetic, and the history of poetry and scriptures was exempted, but the amount was still too large, and he took it in his spare time, and he didn't have time to talk about it.

"Official, drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat first!" Without waiting for Zhao Yu to try to divert the topic, he was pulled into the tea room as soon as he finished changing clothes and washing, and Li Sanniang sent a cup of tea.

"What the hell is going on? And make it so grand! Zhao Yu took the tea and drank two sips, and looked at the wives who sat on the left and right, as if they were in a meeting, he touched his chin and said.

"Official, please look!" Wu Xi put the few newspapers in front of the emperor's eyes and said.

"There are all articles in memory of Li Guang, it must be his anniversary!" The newspapers were all sorted out and marked with a pen, Zhao Yu took a cursory look, these newspapers that were somewhat famous in Lin'an all published articles involving Li Guang in a prominent position on the front page, and he was a little puzzled.

The official family also discovered that not only today, but also for several days after the release of the list, and in the past two days, it has become more and more intense, and newspapers of all sizes in the capital have published relevant articles one after another. The concubines were worried that someone did it on purpose and wanted to be detrimental to the official family! Wu Xi said.

"What the hell are they doing, a person who has been dead for a thousand years can still make waves!" Zhao Yu said a little funny.

"Official, if the theme of these articles is just to miss General Fei, it is unavoidable, but the theme is 'Li Guang is not sealed', so the queen suspects that someone is using this to insinuate the official family, use it to demagogue, and provoke the fallen scholars to make trouble." At this time, Concubine De Zhang Ping explained.

"And who do you think is manipulating it in the shadows?" Zhao Hao frowned when he heard this, he also realized that it was indeed a little strange to mention Li Guang's unsealed matter at this juncture, so he asked instead.

"The official family, the concubines think it is nothing more than the military ministers who feel that the official family rewards and punishes unfairly; Or the scholars who failed to play on the list took advantage of the question, thinking that the official family rewarded the Yellow Sea Battle and the twenty warriors of Guabu Town in front of the time, which violated the ancestral system of emphasizing literature and light on martial arts, making the scholars despised, and then causing them to fall off the list, so as to lament the injustice! Wu Xi analyzed.

"Well, there is some truth, the 102nd Division of the First Army was deposed by me and escorted back to Beijing to discuss the crime, which may have something to do with this matter. However, he has only been in Beijing for a few days, and he has been detained in the military department, and outsiders know very little, and the soldiers will not complain about such a convicted military official! Zhao Yu thought about it and said, "Could it be that the winners of the list are showing off, still thinking that 'expanding the territory for thousands of miles is not as good as the title of the gold list', and then ridiculing those award-winning generals?" ”

"No matter what the so-called thing is, the concubine thinks that the official family should pay attention to this matter and not be taken advantage of by villains!" Wu Xi said again.

"Well, I'll let people keep an eye on this, but after thinking about it, I still think that most of the fallen scholars are complaining." People care about themselves so much, Zhao Yu can't let them put their hot faces on their cold butts, and nods to show that they pay attention.

"The official's view is unique, a group of scholars complain but want to borrow a martial artist, wouldn't it make people laugh!" Chen Shu pouted.

"It is true that Li Guang is a martial artist, but he is a tragic hero in the eyes of the scholars of all dynasties, and there is naturally something to do in it!" Zhao Yu paused the teacup in front of him and said.

"Li Guang is a real hero, how can he say that he is sad!" Chen Shu poured tea for the emperor, and returned it with both hands, but pouted.

"Heroes are counted, but real heroes have to be considered." Zhao Yu took another sip of tea and said.

Li Guang has been in the army for decades, and he has experienced hundreds of battles, which frightened the Huns and ran away, how can he not be a real hero. It was only Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who was mean and unkind and refused to be a marquis, which led him to commit suicide in anger. Li Sanniang also disagreed with the emperor's statement at this time, and interjected to retort.

"In that case, then tell me, what are the conditions for the Han Dynasty to be a marquis? Besides, why can't Li Guang be made a marquis. Zhao Yu saw that several wives were 'glaring' at him, obviously he was 'blasphemy' the hero in their minds, but he couldn't admit defeat casually, so he looked at the women and asked.

"The feudal marquis of the Han Dynasty, one is the royal family, the other is to buy the knight with money, the third is military merits, and the fourth is the emperor's grace." Concubine Chen Wang Yu said, "It's a pity that Li Guang is not a prince; The rewards for meritorious service are all distributed to subordinates, so that there is no money to change the knight; and because of the vicious battles he participated in, the losses were huge, and the merits and demerits were offset, so it was difficult to be knighted; Moreover, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a prejudice against him, and he would not make an exception to reward him. It's a pity that he couldn't be sealed for the rest of his life. ”

"Concubine Chen is right, but things are not all right." Zhao Yu was really thirsty, and took a sip of tea before saying, "It is the practice of all dynasties to be knighted by relatives, but Li Guang is also related to the royal family, and the daughter of his third son Li Kang is favored by Emperor Wu's crown prince Liu Ju, if he can ascend the throne, Li Guang will naturally be knighted." It's a pity that Liu Ju failed to ascend the throne after being the prince all his life, and later he was even beheaded by the whole family because of the witch Gu case, and he lost the opportunity to be a marquis......"

Zhao Yu then went on to analyze one by one, and publicly stated that the first to sell officials and lords under the explicit provisions was Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng. In the Han Dynasty, the market for buying and selling officials was more mature. By the time Liu Che (Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty) became emperor, the monetary policy was stronger, and the officials no longer collected grain, but directly collected money. The imperial court began to sell martial arts. Shi Wugong Jue was divided into seventeen levels, but from the bottom to the top, he only sold to the eighth-level "Le Qing".

But this title is false after all, the buyer is not very active, in order to stimulate consumption, the imperial court will try to give the person who buys the martial arts to give the "real" official, the "thousand husbands" in the martial arts are the same as the "five doctors" in the civil service. Li Guang was once the commander of Wei Wei and Lang Zhongling, and Guangluxun was ranked as one of the nine high-ranking officials in the central government. Although Li Guang also wanted to spend money to buy a knighthood, firstly, the "liege" he wanted was not on the sales list, and secondly, the rewards that Li Guang received every time were basically distributed among the generals and soldiers under his subordinates, and he himself had no money to spare, which was indeed the truth.

Han Cheng Qin law, according to the original Qin Dynasty's military merit system, how many heads are cut off, how many ranks are awarded, and they are accumulated in turn, it seems easy to calculate, but there is another problem: it is difficult to calculate the merits of people such as strategists. In the era of Gaozu Liu Bang, this issue has caused controversy, such as Zhang Liang, Xiao He and others, although they did not personally go into battle to kill the enemy, but the credit is not just a few heads can be assessed.

The final result agreed upon by Liu Bang and the ministers was: Xiao He was the first, Cao Shen was second, and Zhang Liang, who was praised by Liu Bang as being able to win a decisive victory thousands of miles away in the strategy, was ranked 60th in the end. However, Xiao He, who has the first credit, has only 8,000 households, and Zhang Liang, who ranks sixtieth, is 10,000, and in fact, if it weren't for Zhang Liangqian's concession, Liu Bang would have given him 30,000 households.

Therefore, in the era when there were wars to be fought, there were two ways to become a marquis: either he had the ability to go into battle to kill the enemy and exchange his head for a title; Either they have a peerless genius and can sit in the center to help the supreme ruler provide decision-making advisers. Obviously, Li Guang does not possess the latter talent. To calculate his military exploits, it is easy: just count how many heads he has chopped off!

Let's look at Li Guang's performance on the battlefield. It is also necessary to pay attention to one issue: To make meritorious service, the merit must outweigh the demerits before there is a possibility of being a marquis; if you kill 800 enemies and lose 1,000 yourself, then not only will you not be able to make a marquis, but you will be held accountable by military law. This point is particularly important in analyzing the reasons why Li Guang could not be made a marquis.

And there are none of the three, and all that is left is the emperor's special reward. In this regard, the founding emperor Liu Bang left a testament: If there is no merit (or) those who do not say anything, the world will punish them. It means that if you want to be a marquis, you must either have military merits or meet the conditions set by the emperor. Although a large proportion of the people were soldiers and also fought in battles, they did not make any military achievements for the Han Dynasty, but they were also made marquis. This part of the people is more special, the reason is that these people were originally the princes of the Xiongnu, Korea, Nanyue and other countries, because they led the troops to surrender, so they were made marquis.

In addition, in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a very scarce practice of feudal marquis, that is, officials who held the position of prime minister, even if they did not make any military merits, they could also obtain the marquis, which was "Enzehou". This started with Gongsun Hong, and Li Cai, the cousin of Li Guang who succeeded Gongsun Hong as prime minister, also benefited from it, although he was made a marquis because of his military exploits in fighting the Huns, but his 2,000 households of food were actually only more than 600 households because of military merits, and the rest were sealed after becoming prime minister.

But Li Guang has been in his life, except for a period of time when he was transferred to the capital as the leader of the forbidden army, most of the rest of the time was spent fighting and killing the Huns on the border. Therefore, apart from fighting bloody battles on the battlefield and beheading the enemy to sacrifice the king, General Li Guang wanted to obtain the title of marquis, and there was no other way - the fame should only be taken immediately.

"What the official said, Li Guang's inability to be a marquis is all his personal reason, and his name is not true?" Hearing the emperor 'belittle' the hero in his mind like this, Chen Shu was dissatisfied.

"No, it is difficult for Li Guang to be a marquis, that is, the number of missions, which is also related to his character, and secondly, he is actually not pleasing the emperor. And Li Guang's name is more of a reputation for being a scholar and a doctor, and he is moved by the heart of the vulgar! Zhao Hao sighed and said, this fact is unacceptable, but the facts are the facts, and he himself may have responded to what Wu Xi said and was accused of scolding Huai......