The atmosphere of the New Year in Bianjing City has disappeared for a long time, and it has returned to its original appearance, but the streets have become more prosperous, and Li Jing's Luan drove from outside the city and slowly entered Bianjing City.

At the beginning of the new year, Li Jing first has to sacrifice Sheji, in order to make the wind and rain smooth this year, this is what the king must do every year, even if Li Jing does not like this kind of red tape, but in China, a country that pays attention to etiquette, for such a major event as sacrificing to the sky, it must also be observed, and early in the morning he led the imperial forest army to the outside of the city to worship Sheji.

"Your Majesty, did you hear about Ludi's victory?" After getting off the dragon chariot, Zhao Ding greeted him and said, "The ministers seem to celebrate when they suggest the Shangyuan Festival. Zhao Ding also knew that Lu Di defeated Yan Zonghan and eliminated Xia Quan, and Li Jing would raise troops to conquer Lu Di in the next step, and unifying Lu Di was almost a sure thing.

"Well, Wu Jue and Liang Zhong lived up to my high hopes, killed Xia Quan, defeated Wanyan Zonghan, and now Wanyan Zonghan can only retreat in Qingzhou City, Ludi, we can be regarded as a firm foothold, and after the Spring Festival, I will lead the army to the east to completely recover Ludi." Li Jing said with a smile. After receiving Wu Jue's 600-mile urgent paperwork, he knew that the situation in Ludi was in crisis, and he didn't expect that Wu Jue and Liang Zhong were so bold and carried out such a crazy plan, and they simply succeeded, otherwise, the tens of thousands of troops in Ludi didn't know how much they could come back.

"The grain and grass have been prepared, the army has been gathered, who is your majesty going to use as a general, and when will you go on the expedition, I don't know if your majesty can decide?" Zhao Ding thought about it and asked, originally this matter was not something he could ask, but the grain and grass of the army had been raised, the Imperial Forest Army had also gathered in Beijing, and the troops from all over the country had gathered, but the generals of the army had not decided, and Zhao Ding was suddenly a little anxious.

"Zhao Qing has someone to choose from?" Li Jing looked at Zhao Ding with a smile.

Zhao Ding's face changed, he quickly shook his head, and said: "The minister is just a literati, how do you know that the generals are arranging troops, but the army is gathered, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is very large, if you don't decide early, the minister is worried about the consumption of grain and grass." "If he was in this position in the previous dynasty, Zhao Ding might be able to say something and recommend this general to recommend that general, but not in Datang, even if he thinks which general is suitable, the recommended candidate can't come out of his mouth.

Li Jing nodded, who is the commander, how many ways the troops are divided, etc., these things must be seriously considered, what Li Jing needs is not anything else, but to hit with one blow, this is what he needs.

"Passed the decree, Liang Zhong temporarily took the post of the head of the East Route Army, transferred Wu Jue back to Beijing, Boyan and Xiao Weige reorganized the soldiers and horses, ready to go out at any time, planted the master Dao and Lin Chong returned to Beijing, Han Shizhong was the general of Zhennan, sitting in Jiangdu, training sailors, Hu Yanzhuo led 50,000 troops to sit in Xinye, and monitored Xiangyang." Li Jing thought about it, and was still ready to let Han Shizhong sit in the Yangtze River.

"Yes." Zhao Ding suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, Li Jing issued such a holy decree, which means that the time of the Northern Expedition has been determined, and the next step is to transfer troops and send generals, and the Northern Expedition is about to begin, and the first war related to the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty is about to begin.

"Now that the city is full of scholars, what talent does Zhao Qing have a fancy for?" Li Jing thought that the spring was approaching, and asked with some curiosity.

"There are some characters, although the minister has heard of talents, but whether they are capable of governing the world now, they still need His Majesty to come and see in person. Where can the ministers decide. Zhao Ding hurriedly said: "There are Ye Yan, Li Yi and others here, all of whom have some talents. ”

"It seems that they are all Jiangnan people!" Li Jing thought about it carefully, and these people were mentioned on the list of secret guards, but they were basically people from Jiangnan, and there were very few from Jiangbei. For a long time, there are many talented people in Jiangnan, and Jiangbei is scarce, especially in recent years, the war situation in Jiangbei has changed chaotically, and many people have entered Guanzhong, or fled to Jiangnan, which has also caused a scarcity of talents in Jiangbei.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, most of them are Jiangnan people, Jiangnan literary style is flourishing, this is a fact that cannot be ignored, even if the minister wants to be partial, it is impossible, the minister is worried that if Jiangnan scholars admit too many people, the scholars in Jiangbei will definitely be dissatisfied." Zhao Ding hurriedly said.

"And how are you doing over there?" Li Jing hesitated. The world has not yet been unified, and only the scholars from Jiangbei and Guanzhong came to participate in the imperial examination, and there were very few in Hebei, but Jiangnan was relatively large because of the strength of Li Jing's army.

In fact, this situation also appeared often in history, and it was most obvious in the Ming Dynasty, and later the imperial court came up with various methods to appease these students.

"Since the imperial court selects scholars based on talent, it is based on talent, and this regulation will not be changed because of the difference in the geographical distribution of scholars." Zhao Ding Zhengrong said: "The ministers think that this precedent cannot be opened, once it is opened, what should be done in the future?" Although Jiangnan has a prosperous literary style, is there no good teacher in Jiangbei? Isn't there a holy place for reading? Or the students in Jiangnan still think that Jiangbei is under the rule of His Majesty, and they must be partial to the scholars in Jiangbei. At that time, how did His Majesty accept the heart of Jiangnan scholars? ”

Li Jing nodded, at any time, if you don't suffer from widowhood, you will suffer from unevenness. If Li Jing is prejudiced against Jiangbei scholars, Jiangnan scholars will definitely not do it, but in terms of strength between the two sides, Jiangbei scholars are definitely inferior to Jiangnan scholars.

"Then eat on your own! If you don't have the ability, don't be an official, with the grace of the court, even if you win the move, I'm afraid you will be looked down upon in the officialdom. In the end, Li Jing decided to play fair. It's just that this is also Li Jing's decision, in fact, whether or not he can achieve fair competition in the end is not something that Li Jing can control, the test paper is named, re-transcribed, sometimes there is no effect, the pen, the pen and even the first few words, etc., these things can be used as a means of cheating.

"Your Majesty." Zhao Ding breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, he dragged Li Jing to talk about things today, mainly for the imperial examination, this is the first imperial examination after Li Jing won the Central Plains, if something big happens, don't say that it is Zhao Ding, even the Manchu Dynasty civil and military are not easy to deal with. It's better to get a preventive shot now, so as not to have problems in the future, and Li Jing's board hits him.?

"Whether the saint is holy or not, that is secondary, the main thing is to let the people live and work in peace and contentment." Li Jing shook his head, every day someone said Shengming in front of him, sooner or later, he would become a faint king like Zhao Ji.