Chapter 1351: Prologue to the Southern Expedition
The turmoil of miscellaneous subjects has not passed, and the marking work of Jinshi has come to an end, and the chief examiner Sun Congwen led more than a dozen fellow examiners to meet Li Zhongyi in the vertical arch hall.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you have worked hard." Li Zhongyi waved his hand, ordered the palace maid to bring the brocade stool, and ordered the examiners to sit down.
According to the usual practice, Li Zhongyi picked up a test paper listed by Sun Congwen and others as the first class. The test paper has been unsealed, and after Li Zhongyi saw his name clearly, he couldn't help but smile slightly, daring the examiners to list Zhang Quhua as the first place in the first class Huiyuan.
Li Zhongyi didn't care too much about the ranking of Jinshike, and looked at the test papers in turn according to the ranking preliminarily drawn up by the examiners.
In the end, Li Zhongyi said with a smile: "Just according to the ranking set by Zhu Qing, let's make the list!" "If he moves Jinshike's hands and feet, I'm afraid that the Wenchen Group will dare to pierce the sky.
With Li Zhongyi's order, the list of Jinshike, after re-copying, was posted on the emperor's list outside the noon gate.
Several ministers in the cabinet were originally very worried, after all, Li Zhongyi moved his hands and feet in the miscellaneous department, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not move the hands and feet of the science department.
However, to the surprise of the ministers, Li Zhongyi actually accepted the opinions of the examiners in full, which is really a bit unbelievable.
The unexpected surprise suddenly gave Wenchen Group a sense of seeing the sun, and everyone generally believed that this was a huge concession by Li Zhongyi.
According to the usual practice, the tributes of the new branch have to participate in the palace examination held ten days later, and the location of the palace examination is in the vertical arch pavilion in the vertical arch.
The area of the vertical arch pavilion is several thousand square meters, which can accommodate thousands of tributes to take the examination here at the same time.
There is no chief examiner for the palace examination, and the ministers of the cabinet will collectively read the papers, and collectively come up with the list of high school scholars.
On the day of the start of the palace examination, Li Zhongyi sat on the throne and accepted the collective worship of the cabinet ministers and the new Gonggong.
As for the topic of the palace examination, it is a current policy written by Li Zhongyixin, namely: Zhou and Tang are heavy on the outside and light on the inside, and Qin and Wei have their own opinions on the outside and on the inside?
The meaning of the title is that the Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty belonged to the national defense system of strong branches and weak branches, while the Qin State and Wei State belonged to the national defense system of strong branches and weak branches.
To put it bluntly, for the tributes who have no experience in current affairs at all, the so-called answers to the questions are typical on paper.
According to the usual practice, after the start of the exam, Li Zhongyi can flash people. However, not only did he not flash, but instead sat on the dragon chair calmly, silently flipping through the abridgements presented by the inner study room.
Li Zhongyi didn't leave, and the ministers of the cabinet naturally had to accompany him, and the six ministers and nine secretaries who accompanied the examination did not dare to leave without permission.
The palace test arranged so many people on the spot, in fact, it was the ministers who lived the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, worried that Li Zhongyi would make a demon moth on the list of jinshi.
In fact, Li Zhongyi does not have the slightest interest in who will be the champion and who will be on the list.
Li Zhongyi wants to rejuvenate the country through industry and through science and education, and it is very difficult for the scholars who only study the Four Books and the Five Classics to adapt to the definition of talent under the new situation.
It was almost noon when Li Zhongyi got up and left the Vertical Arch Pavilion with the abridgement that had been reviewed.
Before leaving, Li Zhongyi said to the ministers of the cabinet with a smile: "The ceremony of the imperial court is by no means child's play, and the specific ranking is up to you." ”
As soon as Li Zhongyi said this, he was immediately shocked, which was tantamount to completely handing over the power of Jinshike to the cabinet.
Li Qiong glanced at Kong Kun, who was very excited, and he couldn't help but secretly shake his head, arsenic of A and honey of B, Li Zhongyi didn't pay attention to the examination of the Jinshi department, so it was possible to release the power of taking the scholar, why was he happy?
According to the usual practice, among the 100 new tributes, as many as 50 should be deposed, but because of the turmoil caused by the miscellaneous department, Kong Kun strongly advocated that all of them should be selected.
Liu Jinshan also believes that it is better not to be too biased towards miscellaneous subjects, and it is better to take all of them than a hundred Jinshier.
Although Li Qiong and Zhe Congruan are the prime minister and the second minister, they occupy a secondary role in the Jinshi scientific examination.
Since Kong Kun and Liu Jinshan reached a consensus opinion, and Li Qiong and Zhi Congruan had no objection, Li Zhongyi simply waved his pen and selected all the tribute scholars who participated in the palace examination as jinshi.
After the news came out, the courtiers celebrated each other with crowns, and regarded this incident as a great victory for the Confucian disciples.
However, after the Qionglin Banquet, none of the new scholars were assigned to the Hanlin Academy.
On the contrary, those miscellaneous subjects, although their grades are all from the ninth grade, but in the name of observing politics, they are all assigned to various key positions of real power in the three provinces and six ministries, and they rotate once every six months.
In a certain yamen, Shangshu or Shilang have to rely on reports from their subordinates to make decisions. The officials who really hold the power of the actual administration of each yamen, that is, judges, doctors, professors, chief bookkeepers, and Guan Gou.
Don't look at these people's low grades, but they are all proficient in politics, and they are the ones who really do errands in the yamen.
Li Zhongyi distributed more than 300 people in miscellaneous departments to the lowest level of each yamen, and once these people fully mastered the affairs of each yamen, the Shangshu, Shilang, Langzhong, or Wailang and others floating on the top could be easily replaced.
The direct benefit of the 300-strong contingent of officials, who are densely distributed at the lowest level of each yamen, is that the speed at which each yamen handles official affairs is more than five times faster than before.
The reason is actually very simple, after Li Zhongyi assigned these people from miscellaneous departments to various yamen, he gave them the right to do things.
In other words, these preparatory officials who went to various yamen to observe the government had their own concerts for Li Zhongyi.
It is precisely because the preparatory officials who observe the government have the right to do things that the low-level officials who are targeted to death one-on-one in various yamen have a very difficult life.
In fact, Li Zhongyi came from Emperor Yongzheng for this routine. Among the many achievements of Emperor Yongzheng, in addition to the system of secretly building reserves and the policy of apportioning the land into the mu, what Li Zhongyi appreciated the most was actually the appointment of alternate officials and keeping an eye on the current officials.
In a word, if an alternate official wants to become a regular official, he must grasp the handle of the current official and bring him down before he can smoothly ascend to the post.
In the officialdom of these days, only major matters closely related to vital interests can officials offend their colleagues to death.
What's even more ingenious is that Li Zhongyi temporarily did not touch the cheese of the scholars, and sent them all to the Hanlin Academy.
Hehe, isn't there an unwritten rule that if you don't enter Hanlin, you can't be a phase?
In fact, the rules are set by people!
Often, the person who sets the rules is the first to break the rules, which is a privilege!
After finishing the imperial examination, Li Zhongyi's work focused on the unification war that was about to begin.
According to the suggestion of the General Staff, the imperial forbidden army can be divided into two routes, one way by land to Hongzhou, and the other by sea, first to destroy the Wu Yue Qian family, and then to encircle and eliminate the Li family in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The money and food for attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Zhongyi had already prepared, for the sake of today's plan, the biggest problem was the question of who to be the commander.
According to common sense, Liu Heyang is the general of the southern expedition, the general of the Huaiyang army and horses, and the commander of the southern expedition, so he should be selected.
However, some people advocate that the Southern Expedition is not a trivial matter, and if Yang Lie is appointed as the commander of the Southern Expedition, the certainty of winning the Southern Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop will definitely be greater.
Just when he was planning the southern expedition, Liu Heyang suddenly fell ill, and Li Zhongyi realized from the description of his illness on the piece that Liu Heyang was likely to suffer from malaria.
After the incubation period, the first chills are preferred, followed by high fever, followed by profuse sweating. Judging from Liu Heyang's condition, it just meets these three elements.
In modern medicine, blood tests, malaria parasites, and serological tests are generally used to determine the cause of malaria.
Under today's conditions, Li Zhongyi naturally cannot take the method of blood testing, but can only take the treatment plan of traditional Chinese medicine.
There are many ways for the ancients to call malaria, and the first record is found in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing: Su Wen". Of course, there are other common names, such as cold fever, chills, spleen cold, spleen cold, malaria, half a day, half a day, a pendulum, being a master, selling firewood, malaria, meridian malaria and so on. In addition, Guangxi calls it wool sha, Yunnan, Guizhou called miasma, in addition to shrimp toad miasma, loach miasma, butterfly miasma and other names.
Zhang Jingyue's "Jingyue Quanshu" of the Ming Dynasty made it clear that malaria was caused by feeling malaria. Therefore, in addition to the disease caused by ghosts and spirits, Chinese medicine generally believes that malaria is caused by external malaria and miasma.
Ge Hong, an alchemist of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once wrote a practical ancient "first aid manual", called "Behind the Elbow" (also known as "Behind the Elbow Rescue", "Behind the Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription"), the so-called "behind the elbow", which means that it is not long, it can be hung behind the elbow and easy to carry. The book focuses on simple and first-aid remedies for some common diseases in ancient times, including malaria.
"Behind the Elbow" includes "Artemisia annua prescription" to treat abuse, and the usage is extremely simple: "Hold Artemisia annua with one hand, stain it with two liters of water, wring the juice, and serve it." ”
However, this Artemisia annua is not the other Artemisia annua also!
In May 1693, Emperor Kangxi suffered from malaria, which could not be cured for a long time, and was finally cured by the cinchona medicine offered by the missionaries.
The artemisinin invented by Professor Tu is a product of modern Western medicine, which is nothing more than a highly effective antimalarial ingredient extracted by pharmacists using modern chemical methods in the traditional Chinese medicine Artemisia annua, and has nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine in essence.
For malaria, Li Zhongyi actually didn't have a particularly good way, he could only order someone to pick a large amount of Artemisia annua, send it to Liu Heyang, and twist the artemisia to extract the juice!
Since Liu Heyang is unlucky and has malaria, the choice of the coach of the Southern Expedition has settled, and it must be Yang Lie!
Considering the reality of advancing by sea and land, Yang Lie commanded 100,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Bu's army, which approached Hongzhou and attracted Lin Renzhao's attention.
The sailor carried 80,000 soldiers and horses, set off from the Bianhe River, went out of the Yellow River into the sea, and then went south along the coastline, and took Wu Yue first!
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