Seeing that Kong Kun helped pull the bias, Liu Jiao was even more fearless, and he sneered: "The so-called scholars are just a little louder." The real poor scholars are all studying hard in the cold window, how can they have the leisure time to make trouble? ”

Liu Jiao's words are very rough, but the truth is not rough. Ordinary scholars are counting on participating in the imperial examination to change the fate of poverty!

In reality, only those so-called scholarly families who have the right to speak have the leisure to give the court eye medicine.

Of course, the really powerful scholarly family will never take the initiative to rush to the front line, but leave the responsibility of being cannon fodder to the poor scholars under the door.

The power of a reader is all on a mouth and a pen, and it is by no means a joke to be in the mouth.

Studying the subset of classics and history for a long time, and being good at summarizing the laws and experiences of political struggles, is the strength of readers!

Wang Zhen didn't dare to point the finger at Kong Kun, so he had to choose to shoot at Liu Jiao, he sneered: "Liu Gong, you are also a scholar......" paused unfinished, and seemed to have endless aftertaste.

Liu Jiao wanted to gain Kong Kun's favor, so he simply turned his heart sideways and said coldly: "I am a scholar who serves the imperial court, not a scholar who causes chaos for the imperial court." ”

Kong Kun couldn't help nodding frequently, although he was a son of Confucius and a famous Hongru, he was also a loyal supporter of Li Zhongyi.

Overall, Li Zhongyi tried to increase the chances of admitting children from poor families, and Kong Kun agreed.

I think that at the beginning, when Kong Kun, the outer Confucius brother, was discriminated against by the inner Confucius brother, it was a difficult period when the family was poor.

It is difficult for children from poor families to study, and it is difficult for their families to be wealthy, so they cannot spare labor force to concentrate on studying, and they do not produce all year round.

Back then, Kong Kun had to study and participate in the heavy work in the fields, day after day, year after year, and lived a very hard life!

It is precisely because he suffered a lot back then, so Kong Kun not only did not oppose Li Zhongyi's major event of revising the scientific examination system, but has always supported it.

Anyone who has read history books knows that when a noble son is not born from a poor family, that is, when the dynasty is at the end of the road.

In the end, Kong Kun only left Liu Jiao, and the two talked in detail behind closed doors.

When Wang Zhen was leaving, he glared at Liu Jiao viciously, and Liu Jiaoman didn't care as if he didn't see it.

Liu Jiao had already offended Wang Zhen, but he just thought that he had no hard backer, and he didn't have the courage to compete before.

Now, the participating minister Kong Kunming swayed and put on a swaying meaning, Liu Jiao still didn't hug Kong Kun's thigh, that was the big fool of the first son of heaven.

Kong Kunming clearly saw Wang Zhen's resentment, but he only regarded it as if he hadn't seen it.

Li Qiong and Zhe Congruan, although they are the prime ministers and deputy prime ministers, are afraid that they will not be able to stay on the phase for a long time because of their advanced age.

Kong Kun and Liu Jinshan, although they are only participating in the prime minister, are the most powerful candidates for the future cabinet chairman and deputy prime minister.

The two elders bring two new, which is very in line with the logic and philosophy of Li Zhongyi's appointment of ministers during the transitional period.

After such a long run-in, Kong Kun can understand that he and Liu Jinshan will be responsible for economic management in different fields in the future.

Kong Kun's speculation is very reasonable. All emerging industries, such as iron-smelting and steel-making workshops, are led by Liu Jinshan. The farming and tax payment of the old economic components were all handled by Kong Kun.

According to Kong Kun's estimate, the emerging workshops are the most important future financial resources for Li Zhongyi. It's just that those new workshops are still small in scale and can't create more taxes for the time being.

Kong Kun left Liu Jiao alone, just to show a political gesture, and publicly announced to everyone that he Kong Xianggong strongly supported Liu Jiao.

Soon after sending Liu Jiao away, Wang Dahu came to the cabinet, and after Kong Kun learned the news, he hurriedly came out of the official hall, walked to the front of the hall, and greeted him with a smile.

"A certain family visited Kong Xianggong." Wang Dahu is not a domineering person, and the rules that should be there will be no bad in the public.

Kong Kun hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Wang Dahu, and said with a smile: "Prince, you are a distinguished guest who is difficult to invite!" ”

Wang Dahu insisted on saluting, Kong Kun resolutely refused, and in the end, the two each took half a step back and walked into Kong Kun's official hall side by side.

Putting aside the communication between Kong Kun and Wang Dahu, after Li Zhongyi arrived in Chizhou, he led 15,000 guards, abandoned the boat and landed ashore, and quietly ran towards Hongzhou.

Li Zhongyi has always believed in raising soldiers for a thousand days, and the soldiers who were selected early were all skilled in bows and horses.

From Chizhou to Hongzhou, after all, it is a long-distance run, and I am not good at arching horses, so how can I rush and fight?

If it is a straight line from Chizhou to Hongzhou, it will pass through four major rivers, namely: Changjiang River, Xi'an River, Le'an River and Yushui.

However, Li Zhongyi had already sent people deep into the hinterland of the Southern Tang Dynasty and drew a map of the water potential of the entire south of the Yangtze River.

After in-depth research, there was a rugged mountain road between Qimen and Xinping Town (now Jingdezhen City), which happened to pass between four large rivers.

It's just that taking this road to Hongzhou is about 300 miles away.

Since Li Zhongyi wants to attack Hongzhou, there are too few people with him, so I am afraid it will not be useful. If you lead too many troops, it will be very difficult to cross four great rivers alone.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Li Zhongyi personally selected 15,000 people, all of whom were one person and three riders. At the same time, thirty 6-pounder bronze guns were carried in the ranks of the accompanying troops.

In case, the whereabouts of the sneak attack on the soldiers and horses were discovered by the Southern Tang people, and the 6-pounder cannon they carried would come in handy.

After the army came out of Chizhou, it bypassed Jiuhua Mountain and went straight to the hinterland of the Southern Tang Dynasty - Qimen!

Li Zhongyi also has some impressions of Qimen, mainly Zeng Guofan in the late Qing Dynasty, who once lived in Qimen for a long time and almost committed suicide because of the defeat.

In June of the tenth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping army gathered in Huizhou, and Li Hongzhang suggested that Zeng Guofan set up the old camp of the Hunan soldiers in Dongliu, but Zeng Guofan decided to lead the Hunan soldiers to set off from Susong, detour to Qimen to meet the Taiping army, and set up the governor in the Hongjia mansion.

"Your Majesty, the patrolling soldiers found the Southern Tang people who crossed the river at night, shot two of them, and the remaining one was thrown into the water, and his whereabouts are still unknown."

While resting on the way, Li Zhongyi got the bad news that the whereabouts of the army were likely to be exposed to the eyes of the Southern Tang people.

Li Zhongyi smiled and waved his hand: "Our army has 15,000 people, and all of them have horses, even if the Southern Tang people discover our whereabouts in advance, there is really no need to worry." Li Yu Xiao'er has always been indecisive in his actions, and when he makes up his mind to recruit troops from the front line to help, hehe, the hot cooking cakes are already cold! ”

With regard to Li Yu's understanding of temperament and temperament, Li Zhongyi can be said to be unusually profound, and this son is not to be worried!

More importantly, 15,000 elite cavalry soldiers had an undeniable great advantage over the garrisons in various parts of the Southern Tang Dynasty, which had few horses and lacked training.