A month and a half passed in a flash, and the first imperial examination of the Zhengxing Dynasty was close at hand.

When they gathered in front of the Gongyuan, Xiong Bolong, Tan Fengzhen, Zhang Sanyi and other officials saw Luo Yongshou and the others of the Liu family all smiled, and everything was silent.

If you are more serious, you can find that although the number of people who participated in this imperial examination is as high as tens of thousands, there are not many people who really belong to the traditional reading of dead books.

If you look closely, I'm afraid that many people are from the same place.

Liu Ximing and others know this inside story, but Zhu Cihong, Liu Zongzhou, Sun Chuanting and others don't know.

As soon as they heard that tens of thousands of people had signed up for the imperial examination, the ministers who originally opposed it were all ashamed.

The prime minister deserves to be the prime minister, and this imperial examination reform is really imperative.

The main purpose of this imperial examination was to fill the huge number of officials in the Zhengxing Dynasty, so Liu Ximing deliberately played Zhu Cihong and put Jinshi, Juren, and Xiucai together to take the examination.

Those who have won the rank of jinshi and those who have been promoted can be directly conferred officials, and those who are selected for talent can be appointed as officials first, and then take the examination or be promoted to officials in the future.

Of course, it is also clear in the Ministry of Rites document that this time is only a special case.

In the future, when the government is stable, all people, whether they are jinshi or people, will start with officials, so as to continue to promote the reform of the rule of officials, which does not distinguish between officials and officials.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, the ten-day Zhengxing Dynasty imperial examination was completed.

In the list of Jinshi Zhongbang released by the Ministry of Rites, it is written that the champion Liang Yizhi, Xun Bowen on the list, and Tanhua Xia Mingzhi.

As for Luo Yongshou, Xiong Bolong, and Zhang Sanyi, they have all been ranked dozens of people outside.

In this imperial examination, a total of 750 jinshi were selected, 2,300 people were raised, and more than 5,000 talents were selected.

Zhu Cihong in the court is full of pride, so many people have been favored by me, and the prime minister's trick to broaden the hearts of the people in the world is really useful, so I am still afraid of the instability of the government.

So many jinshi and people will be the first to refuse!

No matter what happened to the government and the opposition, more than 3,000 people poured in at once, and the situation that no one was available in the Zhengxing Dynasty was instantly alleviated, from the county to the government to the six ministries, at least all the middle and low-level officials were already in place.

As for the top two lists in Jinshi, many people even directly awarded the high positions of the government, which made Liu Zongzhou, Sun Chuanting and others speechless, and deeply sighed by Liu Xi's eclectic employment.

Of course, Liu Ximing is not stupid, in order to reduce the attack of public opinion, he deliberately played Zhu Cihong to reposition the prefect's official position as the fifth grade, which is relatively reasonable.

However, in Jiangnan and other places outside the control of the Zhengxing Dynasty, as the news of this new imperial examination spread, it attracted the Jiangnan scholars to scold, which is naturally another story.

The imperial examination is Guan Wenyun, and Jiangnan is the base camp of Cheng Zhu Lixue, and the Nanjing Imperial Court originally planned to have a big fight with the Wuchang Imperial Court for this, at least to fight a dozen war of words.

A sudden news from the north brought everyone to a halt.

The Qing army entered the pass and had already begun to attack south.

When the news broke, there was panic in all parts of the South.

However, before everyone could react, a piece of news that had been concealed by Liu Ximing for several months once again refreshed the perception of the military and civilians across the country.

At the beginning of September, news came that Li Si, the newly sealed Wu Anbo of the Zhengxing Dynasty, the general army of Shaanxi, and the right governor of the former military governor's mansion, led 100,000 soldiers and horses to successfully recover Shaanxi and Shanxi.

The Marquis of Wuning and the Governor of the Central Army, Mu Nan, led 50,000 soldiers and horses to recover Luoyang, Henan.

This news swept directly through the Zhengxing court like a storm.

"Hahaha, a great event, a great event."

On the Imperial Palace, Zhu Cihong laughed wildly with the recital handed over by Liu Ximing.

"It is a great achievement to recover Shanxi, and it is even more important to force the thief Li Zicheng to retreat to Mobei, Prime Minister, this Li Si was not famous before, but now he can make this great achievement, which shows the ability of the prime minister to know people."

Liu Ximing gave up his hand with a humble face, "The ministers are ashamed and dare not be, they are all Your Majesty's blessings, and talented generals will help each other." ”

The conversation between the two monarchs and ministers in the Jinluan Palace caused Sun Chuanting on the side to frown, and he asked directly:

"Prime Minister, this Wu Anbo Li Si, the lower official has served in Shaanxi for many years, but he has never heard of it, why did he suddenly appear out?"

Yuan Jixian, He Tengjiao and others in the court also looked at Liu Ximing, which was also what everyone wondered, where did such a big Wu Dingbo and that Wu Ninghou come from.

Why haven't you heard of it before?

You must know that among the generals of the Zhengxing Dynasty today, such as Cao Bianjiao, Shao Rong, and Zheng Cai, these are all famous and well-known.

On the Jinluan Palace, Dou Yuquan, Lei Hong and other relatives were sweating, and they all sweated for Liu Ximing.

Unexpectedly, Liu Ximing said indifferently:

"This kind of thing is normal, there are tens of thousands of military attachés in the world, do all the court officials know it, besides, everyone knows what the situation was before, how can you and other civil officials ever put military generals in their eyes."

"This Li Si fought in the Central Plains with Cao Bianjiao in his early years, and he had his merits in the Yamen of the Ministry of War, but because of the death of his mother at home, he was worried for three years. Last year, when the Liukou occupied Guanzhong, Li Si recruited a militia to resist in his hometown of Fengxiang, and later asked for help from the prime minister. ”

"The imperial court is newly established, in order to appease the place, the prime minister has to show him as the general soldier of Shaanxi, the former military governor of the right capital of the palace, and now it seems that this person is still a little public. Not to mention the rest, isn't it the same for Yu Yongkai, the chief soldier of Sichuan, and Yang Zhan, the general of Sichuan. ”

"If there is no Zhang Xianzhong to enter Sichuan, who can know that there are such fierce generals among the generals in Sichuan, it can be seen how much the official system of this dynasty has been lacking in the past, and even these talents cannot come forward."

"Hey, this matter is true, in the past, the court was biased in employing people, especially in the army, and cronyism and corruption were rampant......"

As soon as Liu Ximing led the topic to employing people, he successfully deviated from the topic, Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue and others led the troops for several years, and they had long complained about the unreasonableness in them.

At this time, Liu Ximing gently led the way, and several people poured bitter water, and Zhu Cihong was extremely angry when he heard it.

In the end, Liu Ximing waved his hand, "Okay, Brother Bo Ya doesn't need to say much, let's go back and discuss these carefully, the most important thing at the moment is to discuss the matter of Jianyu going south." ”

"Now that Shanxi has been controlled by the imperial court, then Shaanxi and other places also have to rely on, the construction is ferocious, there are often Jurchen invincible sayings, our army is a new place, the minister thinks, when the Shanxi army is ordered to try their best to keep the place, must not attack at will."

On the throne, Zhu Cihong's excited face gradually stopped, although Shanxi was recovered, there was a bigger enemy immediately, and it was really eventful for the country.

"What the prime minister said is very true, so let's follow what the prime minister says."

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"The Jurchen is invincible?"

At the mouth of the well, Li Jingsi, who was holding a telescope to look at the Qing army array from afar, grinned disdainfully.

Directly throwing the telescope to the guards on the side, Li Jingsi patted his deputy Li Jinghong.

"Hehe, let's let the Tartars take a look at what it means to be truly invincible."

"Hahaha", glancing at the sturdy Jingcheng under his feet, Li Jinghong had a sinister smile on his face.

At the mouth of the well, the Qing army had already set up a battalion of 30,000.

In June, when Dolgon captured the capital, he reported this time to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at the same time asked Fu Lin to move the capital.

At the beginning of August, the Manchu court moved its capital from Shengjing and Shenyang to Beijing, and then held a ceremony to succeed the emperor in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City, announcing that "Yanjing is hereby determined to appease China".

In order to crack the influence of the establishment of the Nanjing Imperial Court and the Wuchang Imperial Court, the Manchu Qing Dynasty attacked the Central Plains Daily and other public opinion positions at the suggestion of the surrendered Han Chen, and on the other hand, spread the remarks of the pseudo-prince everywhere.

At the beginning of September, he directly sent the two armies of Azig and Duoduo to the south to attack Ximing and Nanming respectively.

The Qing army that came to the mouth of Jingcheng was led by Prince Azig of Ying, Wu Sangui, King of Pingxi, and Shang Kexi, King of Zhishun.

In the Qing army's tent, Azig deliberately raised his eyes to look at Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi.

"My Qing warriors are invincible in front of the formation, but this siege is a little bit worse, and the Han army under the two men should also come in handy now, this time it's up to you, so that the king can see the combat power of you."

Below the main tent, Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi looked at each other and scolded in their hearts.

This Azigsu looked down on Hanchen who surrendered, which made it clear that he wanted to use himself and others as swordsmen.

However, at present, Wu Sangui's troops are all under the watchful eye of the Qing army, and he can't help but agree.

"The last general will go to rearm for war."

Seeing that the situation was inviolable, Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi walked out of the camp with their fists in their hands.

"Lord Wang, the Han dog can't be trusted, we have to be careful"

Wu Sangui and the others walked on the front foot, and Dorobele Aixin Jueluo Nikan, the third son of Guangluo Belle Aixin Jueluo Chu Ying, immediately said beside Azig.

The rough-faced Azig grinned, "Don't worry, this kid is just going to let these Han dogs kill each other." ”

"Hahaha, good strategy."