() Li Zhongyi's assessment of the senators is both tricky and very testing of basic skills, and since the emperor himself personally took the exam, once the exam is failed, it is likely to affect the future future, who dares to be careless?

After the questions were completed, Li Zhongyi only left Zhang Sanzheng to supervise the exam, and he himself continued to wander around the barracks accompanied by Ma Guangda.

"Yaoming, you have more and more means to govern the army." Li Zhongyi watched the two teams of soldiers catch each other and tear each other apart with wooden knives and guns, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Ma Guangda touched his head, showed a sincere smile, and explained: "Sooner or later, our army will fight all the armies in the world, and the early targeted training is exactly in line with what you have always advocated, be prepared!" ”

Li Zhongyi nodded frequently, touched his chin and said: "Among the generals under me, you are the most down-to-earth and hardworking, much better than Liao Xiaoda, who likes to play tricks." ”

Ma Guangda understood Li Zhongyi's subtext, Li Zhongyi was not criticizing Liao Shanhe, but pointed out the character characteristics of the two generals respectively.

In fact, Li Zhongyi's love for Liao Shanhe, among the generals in the army, who doesn't know, which one doesn't know?

Compared with Liao Shanhe, who likes to have many mouths and tongues, Ma Guangda belongs to the type of stuffy gourd, and his temperament is roughly similar to Yang Lie.

This is mainly related to Ma Guangda's growth environment, Ma Guangda lost his father since he was a child, and relied on his mother to do needlework for others to earn some money, which was slowly raised.

Therefore, from a very young age, Ma Guangda learned to look at the eyes of adults, and also made him develop a good habit of being cautious in words and deeds.

However, Ma Guangda has few words, and it is just for ordinary people. As long as he is with Li Zhongyi, he has a lot of words, so much so that Li Zhongyi has a feeling of facing Liao Shanhe.

"Your Majesty, you often say that jade is not cut into a weapon, sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime. The minister believed that the way to train soldiers was to dare to imagine scenes that had never been seen before, and to urge officers and soldiers to train them. Once Ma Guangda opens the chatterbox, he will talk more than Liao Shanhe's big mouth.

Li Zhongyi said with a smile: "The major affairs of the country of soldiers, everything is foreseen, and if you are not prepared, you can continue to do things like this for many years, and I didn't look away." ”

Ma Guangda won Li Zhongyi's praise, touched the back of his head with some embarrassment, and said softly: "Aren't all the ministers' skills taught by the emperor?" ”

"Haha, you're very comfortable with this ass." Li Zhongyi was amused, the more people who don't shoot sycophants on weekdays, the more enthusiastic they suddenly filmed, which made Li Zhongyi feel a little uncomfortable.

Ma Guangda blushed slightly, and whispered: "The minister doesn't know how to pat the horse, and the emperor is very satisfied if he doesn't offend the minister's nonsense." ”

Li Zhongyi almost laughed out loud, hehe, the generals around him, starting from Yang Lie, are all human spirits.

After walking around Ma Guangda's barracks, Li Zhongyi returned to the residence of the Senate Department and read the answers submitted by everyone one by one.

This time, Li Zhongyi's topic is not tricky, but a stable discussion question: A brief discussion on the logistics of the labor expedition?

Fighting a war is fighting logistics, and although the people of the Senate Department do not care about the logistical burden, they must first calculate the sufficiency of logistics materials to calculate the gains and losses of the results of the war.

Among Li Jiajun's staff and council departments, the supply capacity of logistics baggage is the most basic ability, and everyone should have it.

Li Zhongyi picked up an answer in his hand, and after reading it carefully, his eyes couldn't help but light up. At the end, he found the person's name, Zeng Gongchang.

Zeng Gongchang put forward a very novel idea of setting up a reserve of heavy materials and a transshipment warehouse in the country's important water transport hub cities.

In wartime, because there are already reserves of materials in normal times, the army only needs to arrive quickly by horse, and there is no need to gather too many people to transport grain, grass and baggage with the army.

Li Zhongyi naturally knows very well that both the primary colonial rule of Britain in the world and the economic colonial rule of the United States are based on the control of military bases.

For example, during the Opium War, Britain used India's bases to quickly transport soldiers and war materials to China's coastal areas through sea lines of communication.

According to Zeng Gongchang's concept, a number of military material transshipment centers can be set up along the rivers or along the rivers in the country. Regardless of whether there is a mutiny or a civil mutiny, the speed at which the imperial court sends a large army to suppress it will be greatly accelerated by the existence of the transit center.

Li Zhongyi turned Zeng Gongchang's answer upside down, read it three times, but did not call Zeng Gongchang in public, but stuffed the answer directly into his cuffs, and then looked at the answers of other senators as if he was fine.

For the promotion and promotion of special talents, in Li Zhongyi's view, it should be diversified, rather than rigid and old-fashioned mechanical implementation.

Examinations of a general nature are actually a mode of selecting and promoting ordinary officers, and do not meet the needs of special talents.

For example, Zeng Gongchang, his name has been firmly remembered by Li Zhongyi, just wait for the right time, and then summon him separately and talk slowly.

As for those senators who are not well prepared and do not answer the questions very well, Li Zhongyi does not need to memorize their names, he only needs to comment on the answers, which can have the effect of whipping a fast horse.

In a human society, there is naturally competition, or it meets Li Zhongyi's requirements and is quickly promoted. Otherwise, they will be eliminated from the last place.

In the Senate system, there are regular examinations every month, and according to the results of the examinations, five percent of the senators are always called out of the Senate system, and an equal number of new officers are added.

In Li Jiajun's system, the role of the officers in the Senate system is to plan operations and connect the upper and lower levels, and there is absolutely no room for mediocrity to live for a long time.

On the way back to the palace, Li Zhongyi received a battle report from the sailor: Zhao Laoqi had used the great power of various artillery pieces to successfully force Wu Yueguo's sailors to surrender in Hangzhou Bay.

"Hehe, Zhao Laoqi is worthy of being a sailor." Li Zhongyi was very satisfied with Zhao Laoyi's performance.

Of course, the strength of Wu Yueguo's sailors cannot be compared with the powerful sailors of the Qiang Han Dynasty, and the ship-borne artillery alone is far behind.

However, the characteristics of Wu Yueguo's naval forces were that there were quite a lot of large transport-type sea-going ships, which were just suitable for carrying the countless war results and materials captured in Hangzhou.

To put it bluntly, there are many large ships of Wu Yueguo's naval division, whether it is transporting troops, horses, or materials, they are much more relaxed and comfortable than before.

Today, the sailors of the Qiang Han Dynasty plus the sailors of Wu Yueguo have nearly 1,000 large ships. In terms of water power alone, the naval division of the Qiang Han Dynasty has far surpassed the naval division of the Southern Tang Dynasty under the command of Lin Renzhao, not to mention the traditional superior infantry force of the Qiang Han Dynasty.

In the final analysis, Li Zhongyi relied on the strength of the strong infantry army to seize the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the weak infantry army of the Southern Tang Dynasty could not be compared with the Li family army at all.

Among the rulers of the past dynasties, Li Zhongyi was the one who paid the most attention to the sailor, and the significance of the sailor was that the cost of transferring troops and transporting materials was the lowest.

With Zeng Gongchang's reminder, Li Zhongyi had already made up his mind to build a number of material reserve centers along the Huai, Yellow and Yangtze rivers to meet the growing political and economic needs of the empire's territory.

After returning to the palace, the test papers of Wu Yueguo's officials had been sorted out and neatly placed on Li Zhongyi's imperial case.

Li Zhongyi looked at the piled up test papers, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, this is the price of being a monarch.

In the assessment of Wu Yueguo's low-level officials this time, because the army was on the march, the ministers did not accompany the army, and the chief examiner could only be served by Li Zhongyi himself, and he must also serve in person.

After all, the selection and appointment of qualified officials is related to the clarity of the rule of officials and the implementation of basic national policies, and Li Zhongyi will never dare to be careless, even if there are many test papers, he must have the courage to undertake them alone.

Three days passed, and Li Zhongyi hurried to hurry up, and finally read all the test papers carefully before sending troops to the west.

The final result was that there were less than ten local officials in Wu Yue who met Li Zhongyi's requirements. The rest of the people are either very good at calligraphy, but the policies of governing the country are completely made up; Or, it's so hollow that you don't know what to do.

However, through the review of these test papers, Li Zhongyi can be regarded as understanding that the influence of Confucianism can be said to be deep-rooted regardless of the north and south of the country.

Objectively speaking, 99 out of 100 examination papers are inextricably linked with Confucianism.

Among the nearly 1,000 officials, there are less than 10 of them, which is roughly similar to Li Zhongyi's concept of governing the country.

Among them, the test paper that Li Zhongyi appreciated the most was written by Liu Jiawen, the former chief bookkeeper of Wu Yueguo City.

In the test paper, Liu Jiawen spent a lot of time analyzing the importance of overseas trade. Although Liu Jiawen is more concerned about the increase in taxes, it is a good article.

Li Zhongyi put pen to paper in the small notebook, and wrote down Liu Jiawen's name one by one, in his opinion, as long as it is a talent, it can be used, and it is not eclectic to reduce talents!

As for the use of doubtful personnel and the use of suspicious personnel, this mainly depends on whether the supervisory organs can carry out effective supervision.

To make officials dare not be greedy, not to be greedy, and unwilling to be greedy, it is not possible to solve the problem overnight, but only slowly.

Although there are less than 10 Wu Yueguo officials who match Li Zhongyi's wishes, there are still more than 50 officials whose names Li Zhongyi has left their names.

After all, Wu Yueguo had just been pacified. If Li Zhongyi selects less than ten officials for the first time, it will inevitably make the gentry in the Wuyue area fluctuating and unstable.

Just when Li Zhongyi finished reading the official document and was about to go to bed, Li Haodong, who also knew the military justice department, suddenly asked for an urgent meeting, saying that he had a major event to report.

Li Zhongyi's heart sank violently, with Li Haodong's character, something must really happen before he could leak the night to report.