With Li Liang's order, the army moved westward to Igo County. And Zhang Juntai also followed Li Wenyuan's order, followed unhurriedly behind, and the two armies approached the first stop to Yiwu County step by step, Zhangye County.

Li Wenyuan took Qiu Niang to stand at the head of Wuwei County, looked at Li Railjun in the distance, tilted his head and asked Qiu Niang: "How many of the people on the list you investigated are Li Rail's hardcore henchmen?" ”

Qiu Niang took out a notebook from her body like a trick and handed it to Li Wenyuan: "The first five pages of the people recorded in this book are Li Liang's hardcore henchmen, and the rest are the people around these henchmen who use various means of interest to win them over, and the last few pages are neutral officials who are not loyal to Li Liang and are only loyal to the Great Sui." ”

"Those who are neutral don't care, and as for those who have been co-opted by interests, we can also use interests to bring them over. You take these lists to inform Xue Renyue, and ask him to arrest these people on charges of plotting rebellion. Since you can say that these people are Li Rail's henchmen, then it is up to you to find evidence that these people are colluding with Li Rail. These people will be imprisoned in a prison in the county first, and the trial will be held in the city at noon tomorrow. Li Wenyuan flipped through the book casually, and returned the book to Qiu Niang.

Li Wenyuan looked at Qiu Niang's distant back, and secretly calculated in his heart: he and Xue Renyue spent a winter reorganizing the officialdom of the entire Wuwei County, and this time they would dispose of Li Liang's henchmen, and he would finally have a stable place to settle in the Western Regions.

Thinking of this, Li Wenyuan looked at the direction of Zhangye County, where Li Rail's army had retreated, and his heart became more and more hot. Li Wenyuan went down the city wall and came to the outside of the Hansheng Courtyard in Wuwei County.

This cold living institute is the place where the students who came to rush to take the examination lived when Li Wenyuan and Xue Renyue held the scientific examination last winter. There has been a dispute over the name of the residence. Some people want to name it Confucius, which means the residence of the students of Confucius. Some people also suggest that the straightforward, simple and clear one should be called the champion residence, and take the auspicious name of the champion. In the end, the faction quarreled with each other, and the matter still came to the front of Li Wenyuan, the governor of the Western Regions.

Looking at those red-faced people who were arguing with each other, Li Wenyuan smiled and said: "My imperial examination is for the world's cold scholars, and that time the residence is called the Hansheng Yuan, one is to show the identity of the people who live here, and the other is to always warn them to go out of the cold door, even if they are officials, they must be dedicated to the people, and their sleeves are clean." ”

Recalling the first imperial examination held last winter, Li Wenyuan also felt a lot. The examination and selection system, which was originally accustomed to the future, was able to encounter so much resistance in this era when the imperial examination system had just been created. First of all, some officials from wealthy families were directly forced to abandon their official positions, and Li Wenyuan did not have the slightest concern about these people, and he just took this opportunity to abolish some redundant bureaucratic structures and improve administrative efficiency.

There are also some original officials who choose inaction, and the inaction here does not mean that they do not take a position on this matter, but on the contrary. It is an extremely negative attitude of opposition. They chose to do things by prevaricating, and insisted on postponing things that could have been done in one day to two, three, or even seven days. These people did not cause much resistance to Li Wenyuan, and after the successful implementation of the people's assembly system and the investigation and filling of gaps. Li Wenyuan promoted this system to Wuwei County, and many officials opposed this policy of returning power to the people at that time, but it was forcibly suppressed by Yuanyuan at that time, and now it has burst out together with the imperial examination system.

Before they could cause any obstacle to Li Wenyuan, these officials had been impeached by the main council composed of the common people and lost their positions, and the substitute officials of Wuwei County took their positions. With the lessons of the past, those substitute officials did not dare to slack off in their work, even if they were dissatisfied in their hearts.

As for the last kind of people, they are very smart and choose to follow the trend, they use their favors, connections, and financial resources to send their children to participate in the imperial examination. Trying to bribe the invigilators and the officials who mark the exam papers to get their own children on the job. It's just that the behavior of these people is under the monitoring of the night owls, as the first imperial examination for the whole country, Li Wenyuan naturally will not let these scandals appear, but since he has already said that whether it is a child of a family or a bachelor from a poor family, he can participate in this exam, and he cannot stop those who try to cheat from taking the exam normally.

However, Li Wenyuan has a better way to deal with these people. On the day of the release of the list, it was different from the previous imperial examinations. On the streets of the city center of Wuwei County, three large wooden signs were erected, on which were the names of various people. The largest wooden sign was posted with the names of the people admitted to the examination and the ranking of the test results, and the other two wooden signs were also conspicuous with the names of the cheating candidates and the names of the officials who took bribes.

Regardless of whether ancient or modern scholars are always a group of pretentious people, they can even give up their lives for the sake of protecting the festival, this time their names appear in the list of cheating exams, I am afraid that in the minds of the people of Wuwei County, it is already notorious in the minds of the people of Wuwei County, which is even better than killing them directly. As for those officials who take bribes. This is a fine of double the amount of bribes, reduced to a reserve officer.

In the process of this examination, Li Wenyuan withstood the pressure from both the family and the officials, and did his best to achieve justice in the true sense, giving those children of the poor family who had studied hard for more than ten years a way out, and also made these children admire Wuwei County. Even Yang Guang praised after knowing the details of these things: "Dare to do things that ordinary people dare not do, it is worthy of the pillar country on which I rely on." ”

The arrival of these scholars suddenly enriched the bureaucratic resources that were originally scarce in Li Wenyuan's hands. That's why he dared to startle the snake and drove Li Liang to flee to Yiwu County. Li Wenyuan's purpose in returning to the Hansheng Academy was to select a group of young and capable scholars to go to Zhangye County with the army, take over the official position of Li Liang's henchmen, and strengthen his control over Zhangye County.

This was a bold decision made by Li Wenyuan since he knew that Li Liang's ultimate goal was to escape to Yiwu County. He asked Zhang Juntai to lead the army behind and tightly force Li Liang to flee all the way to the west, and not stop for too long on the way.