(The number of chapters in the previous chapter was written incorrectly, so let's explain it here!) ）

The women's talent contest lasted for more than 10 days, and it was necessary to go through the preliminaries, knockouts, semi-finals, and finals, and the total number of women who came to Qianjing to participate in the competition reached more than 3,000 people, and all the inns in Qianjing were full, and many women who participated in the competition were staying at relatives' houses.

These women and their families, servants and a large number of crazy men who came from all over the world to see the beauties and talented women, and wanted to kiss Fangze brought strong vitality to the economy of Qianjing.

Of course, business is not only good in restaurants and inns, but also jewelry stores, clothing stores, food stalls and some other shops.

At this time, the social atmosphere was relatively open, and the feudal etiquette was far less severe than that of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. As for playing the piano and singing songs? That's what only the women in the Qinglou Goolan Courtyard have to learn to make a living.

The talent competition is naturally to compete for talents, in addition to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing, if the contestants have other stunts can be displayed.

But all the women who came to participate in the talent competition have been qualified for the preliminaries from all over the country, and the qualification from the preliminaries to the semi-finals is in the hands of the twelve judges, and they can advance to the semi-finals with the approval of more than half of the judges, and they will also go through the knockout round, which will brush off the vast majority of people, and when it comes to the semi-finals, there will be only fifteen left, three of the fifteen people will advance to the finals, and the other twelve will all be brushed down, but they will be given the title of twelve golden hairpins.

The remaining three qualified for the finals and competed for the top three, and all three of them had a unified title - the Three Fairies, regardless of their rank.

Zhao Junsheng didn't pay much attention to this matter, and he didn't care what Mulan did, so that she wouldn't be idle if she had something to do.

That evening, after checking his son's homework, he was moving in the Imperial Garden, and Mulan came from outside with a few maids.

"All of you go down!"

Hua Mulan drove away the maids, and ran over excitedly and shouted, "Brother Junsheng! ”

Zhao Junsheng stopped and wiped his sweat and asked, "Looking at you like this, what is there to be happy about?" ”

"The women's talent contest is over, guess who the first place is?"

Zhao Junsheng shook his head and said, "How do I know?" ”

Hua Mulan was a little angry, and stomped her feet and said, "Oh, Brother Junsheng, you are the king of Qianguo, how can you not care about such a big thing?" ”

"Hey, you said it lightly, if I, the king of the Qianguo, pay attention to this beauty contest, tomorrow there will be ministers who will risk their lives to admonish me, scolding me for not being obsessed with beauty, but also for putting my mind on state affairs, do you believe it or not?"

Mulan opened her mouth and sighed, "Well, you're right, those upright ministers are sometimes quite annoying!" I'll damn you, the first place in the women's talent contest is······ Miss Wan! ”

"Uh······ Miss Wan? With her talents, she really deserves it! Zhao Junsheng was not surprised, and thought again, "No, with Miss Wan's temperament, how could she do such a showy thing?" ”

Hua Mulan said with a smile: "Miss Wan didn't have this idea, but I sent someone to meet her, and she gave me this face to participate." Besides, with her talent in the competition

Winning a good ranking is a certainty, which helps to increase her fame, and this time her skills such as cutting needlework and embroidery shine in the competition, all the judges and spectators are full of praise, the more famous she is, the more people will ask her to do needlework, and her current wealth is no less than mine! Do you know, since she appeared on stage, more and more people have come to propose marriage, and I heard that the threshold of her house has been broken by matchmakers in the past two days! ”

Zhao Junsheng couldn't help but say, "You did a good thing this time!" ”

Hua Mulan leaned over and asked, "Brother Junsheng, Miss Wan is too pitiful to be alone, why don't we take her into the palace?" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at her, a little angry, flicked his sleeves and left, and dropped a sentence: "Why did you mention this stubble again?" Play by yourself, I'm gone! ”

Hua Mulan couldn't help laughing when she looked at Zhao Junsheng's embarrassed appearance of leaving quickly.

Mulan's successive women's poetry conferences and talent competitions have had a great impact and brought some vitality to the backwater social activities.

Inspired by this, Zhao Junsheng had the idea of recruiting talents from all over the world, the so-called "no first in literature, no second in martial arts", which cannot be compared with literature, and cannot reflect talent compared to poetry, so it can only be reflected in doing facts, so this condition is not available; However, preparations for the imperial examination are already underway, and Zhao Junsheng has already issued an edict to hold the first imperial examination in March next year to select talented people from all over the world to serve as officials and seek well-being for the people of the world.

This statement is very high-end and high-grade, many people of insight also feel that they should have the responsibility to contribute to the well-being of the people in the world, and to do this, you must be an official, the imperial examination of the Qianguo is to conduct an open examination for selection, although it is not necessarily absolutely fair and just, but at least it is much fairer and more just than the nine-grade Zhongzheng system of the Southern Dynasty.

There is still more than a year to go before next year's imperial examination, and students and scholars from all over the country have already rushed to Qianjing one after another after hearing the news.

Zhao Junsheng also thought of recruiting people who were buried in the people to practice martial arts, and planned to hold a martial arts competition to select martial artists to serve in the army, and the reason why he did so was because the proportion of Xianbei and other barbarian generals and officers in the cadre army was too high.

Why is the proportion of Xianbei and barbarian generals and officers in the cadre army too high? This is also a problem left over from history, when Zhao Junsheng first came to Youzhou as the assassin history, all the troops in Youzhou added up to more than 10,000 people, all of them were Xianbei and barbarians, Zhao Junsheng only brought 4,000 cavalry under the command of Gao Xu, and later although the conditions for serving in the army were opened, the Han people were allowed to join the army, and the number of troops increased sharply, but most of the experienced generals and officers were drawn from the military attaches of Xianbei and barbarians, and a small number were drawn from the Han generals.

Up to now, the proportion of Xianbei and barbarian military generals and military attaches in the army still accounts for about sixty percent, and what reassures Zhao Junsheng is that most of the senior military generals are still Han Chinese, and he personally brought them out, and a few are from the Pingcheng Imperial Court and other places, and the composition is also relatively complicated, but at present, it seems that these people are also loyal.

No matter when and where, the importance of the army to a dynasty or even a country is self-evident, and if a dynasty wants to be stable, it must first ensure the problem of the army, so Zhao Junsheng wants to increase the proportion of Han military generals and military attaches in the army.

Isn't it okay to promote Han Chinese directly in the army? It's not that no, there are rules for the promotion of lieutenant generals and colonels, how can they be promoted without merit? Nowadays, the number of Han soldiers in the army has reached seventy percent, but there are not many who have actual experience in leading troops to fight, and those who have military merits are not as many as Xianbei and barbarian.

For more than 100 years, the Han people in the north have not fought on the battlefield, and the inheritance of Jiangmen has almost been broken, which takes time and battle to make up for it, people like Gao Xiu, Gao Xu, Li Bao, and Xue Andu are relatively minority, they all have family traditions, where do those ordinary soldiers have inheritance? Is it possible that as long as an individual goes to the army to be a soldier, he can become a general? It's not that simple!

Martial arts, although not the most important factor in being a general, but it is one of the most important factors for a soldier to gain a firm foothold in the army, if a person can overturn seven or eight people with three fists and two feet, if a person has the ability to penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, this has a strong deterrent effect, and has the ability to make others bow their heads and obey, and other soldiers will instinctively think that the chance of surviving on the battlefield with such a person is much greater, which is the advantage of a person with high martial arts in the army.

In addition to martial arts, to be a general, you also need to know how to arrange troops, military common sense, common sense and experience of marching and leading troops, these things can be observed and learned in the army, but you can't learn the formation of troops, no one teaches you where to learn? If you can't read, you can't read even if you have a military book.

Therefore, due to the restrictions of martial arts and education, ordinary soldiers who are directly promoted from the army can only be a petty officer at most, but there are a few exceptions.

Although there is no inheritance of martial arts, because of their hard work and training, they are much stronger than other ordinary soldiers, and they have some experience in leading soldiers and military exploits to be promoted to petty officers, and such people themselves are clever and willing to be diligent and studious, and ask some clerks in the army to teach them to be literate and read, and can understand military books.

Such a person has the conditions to be a general, although there is no inheritance of martial arts, and he is always inferior to those generals who have a heritage, but he is not inferior to them in terms of wisdom and arrangement, and even surpasses them.

But such people are a minority after all, and not all ordinary soldiers have this kind of self-motivation and ability.

Based on various considerations, Zhao Junsheng decided to convene a martial arts contest to select talents to enter the army, and soon promulgated the edict.

Before receiving the news of the people's feedback, Zhao Junsheng learned that Lu Xuan, the envoy sent to the Southern Dynasty, had returned from Jiankang, so he specially convened a court meeting to summon Lu Xuan to meet him.

"Minister Lu Xuan was ordered by the king to go to Jiankang to meet the emperor of the Southern Dynasty to discuss the friendship and trade between the two countries, and now he has completed his mission and returned to the king!" After Lu Xuan finished speaking, he bowed and kowtowed.

Under normal circumstances, courtiers do not need to bow to the king when they see the king, but in formal ceremonies and high-profile ceremonies, courtiers have to bow big, which is stipulated in the etiquette system.

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Lu Qing is flat, tell me about the situation when you met the emperor of the Southern Dynasty in Jiankang and the customs of the Southern Dynasty, Lone is very curious, I believe that all the Qing present are very curious about the situation over there!" ”

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