The Western Wei State decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Sun Kewang's tiger and wolf dispute with Wu Sangui to collect the land of Sichuan and Shu, but the war needed to be prepared, especially to attack a dangerous place like Sichuan.

Sichuan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not easy to enter, and it is difficult to fight out.

If there is no careful plan and adequate preparation, tens of thousands of Wei troops hurriedly slaughtered in, but they could not sweep Sichuan, and then they fell into a dilemma, then it would be troublesome.

Therefore, although Gao Yihuan decided to take Sichuan, the feudal government did not have a few months to prepare, so it was impossible to send troops.

In fact, since the end of the war in southern Henan, the Wei army has been preparing for the capture of Sichuan, but the Western Wei State is busy moving the capital, the imperial examination, and Gao Yihuan's wedding, and his energy is really limited, so the preparation is there, but it is not sufficient, and it has not reached the point where it can be moved.

After deciding to take Sichuan, Gao Yihuan sent Jin Shenghuan to lead a town of soldiers to Jingzhou, join forces with Wang Deren and Zhao Zhuzi, prepare supplies, train soldiers, wait for his military orders, and then go to Yiling into Sichuan.

The goal of this group of men and horses is to capture Kuidong, take Chongqing, and then outflank southern Sichuan and block the road to the south of Wu Sangui and Sun Kewang.

Then he asked Zhao Daxian to explore the road into Sichuan in Hanzhong to prepare for the army to march into Sichuan from Hanzhong.

The goal of this road is to fight from Hanzhong into northern Sichuan and attack Wu Sangui's back.

When the army was mobilized, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry fully cooperated and transported the food, military supplies, soldiers, and equipment to Jingzhou and Hanzhong as soon as possible.

After the preliminary deliberations and arrangements were made in the hall, many officials went to prepare.

At the beginning of June, as the wedding date approached, the palace of King Wei had begun to decorate, the palace was decorated with lights, and the newly recruited maids were also dressed in new clothes, one by one, beaming, busy, tidying up the palace, ready to welcome Princess Kunxing.

The palace of King Wei was full of joy, and Gao Zurong was also happy to close his mouth, but the old rich man was still a little unconfident in his heart after all, and he was afraid of neglecting his daughter-in-law, so he recently began to find someone to learn some court etiquette, so as not to make jokes and break the face of the old Gao family.

At this time, the entire city of Xi'an, affected by the wedding, the gentry were talking about the wedding of King Wei, and the city was full of joy.

At this time, Gao Yihuan's mind was not on marriage, but on the imperial examination and preparations for the capture of Sichuan and Shu.

As the head of a country, King Gao is busy with things and has no time to fall in love, which will involve his energy.

All he has to do is wait for the Ministry of Rites to prepare things, and then complete the ceremony, and sleep directly with the princess, who will give him a baby and fall in love over time, instead of bothering to please a woman, even if she is a princess.

The emperors of the past dynasties slept with whoever they liked, and they were all three thousand beauties to compete for favor, and they did everything possible to use all their skills to please the emperor, if the emperor went to please the concubine in turn, it would basically be the wall falling down and the house collapsing, and the dynasty was estimated to be not far from the end.

At this time, outside the palace, several guards were hanging lanterns, and a carriage stopped in front of the palace gate. ”

Gao Yihuan has recently visited workshops outside Xi'an, where craftsmen are said to have developed a way to forge weapons and armor with the help of water power, and the King of Wei is very attentive to it, often staying for a day, so Li Yan is not sure whether Gao Yihuan is in the palace.

"The king just met the Lu Gebu today, and he is still in the palace!" The guard on duty said.

Seeing this, Li Yan immediately said: "Then bother to spread the word, and say that there is something to report in this pavilion." ”

The guard smiled and said: "The king has already decreed, and several scholars can enter the palace directly, without passing it on." ”

After a while, Li Yan followed the guards to Gao Yihuan's study, and after the soldier spoke, Li Yan hurriedly walked in, and saw Gao Yihuan leaning on the chair, pressing his forehead with one hand, as if he had encountered something annoying.

Thinking of what the guards said, plus some things Li Yan heard, he could guess a rough idea, and it was estimated that the money was not enough.

Gao Dashuai usually doesn't worry, but when he does, most of them have no money to spend.

However, the financial issues are not under Li Yan's control, and all the ministries of the feudal government have their own responsibilities and cannot be messed with, so Gao Yihuan doesn't ask, and he doesn't mention it.

"Sir is here!" At this time, Gao Yihuan saw Li Yan, sat up straight, and stretched out his hand again: "Sir, please take a seat." ”

"Thank you, the king!" Li Yan bowed, first put a file in front of Gao Yihuan, then sat on the stool, and said: "This is the result of the palace examination, a total of 123 scholars, of which our scholars from the Western Wei Dynasty were admitted to 61 people, Henan and Shanxi scholars were admitted to 10 people, and Jiangxi, Nanzhili, and Zhejiang scholars were admitted to a total of 52 people. ”

Gao Yihuan took the file, opened it and looked at it, "The southern people are really powerful in the imperial examination." Two or three percent of the references actually occupy nearly half of the places. If it weren't for the fact that King Gu had made proper adjustments in the palace test, my Great Wei Shizi's face would really not look good. ”

Li Yan also sighed: "Jiangnan's literary atmosphere is far better than that of Huguang and Guanzhong, where scholars often form associations, talk about current affairs, and summarize each other's experience in the exam, and even bet on the exam questions." If it weren't for the king's question, there might be many more Jiangnan scholars on the list. Chen read a lot of test papers and found that many of them are indeed very talented, such as one of them, Chen Zhenhui, who answered very well whether it was eight shares or the following strategies. ”

In this examination, the examiner finished the review, ranked the test papers, and then tore up the pasted names.

Chen Zhenhui was the first, Mao Xiang was the second, and it was not until the fifth place that a scholar Liu Xiangke of the Western Wei Dynasty appeared, and then another scholar Kuang Pengsheng was born after a few more places.

In the top ten, the Western Wei scholars only occupy two places, and there is no way to compare with others.

Gao Yihuan frowned and said: "The lonely king has made Liu Xiangke the champion, Kuang Peng has been promoted to the leader, and Chen Zhenhui is the tanhua, so the lifters have no opinion." ”

Li Yan said: "Liu Xiangke and Kuang Pengsheng's talents are also good, so the lifters don't have many opinions on this, but many outsiders are a little dissatisfied with the fact that the feudal government admitted fifty unsuccessful Western Wei scholars to enter the Guozijian and took the opportunity of the big wedding to give Jinshi treatment, and thought it was not fair. ”

Liu Xiangke and Kuang Pengsheng are not unknown, Liu Xiangke is one of the five tigers of the Yongli Dynasty and can be regarded as a traitor, while Kuang Pengsheng is a friend of Wang Fuzhi and is a little famous in the Huguang area.

Therefore, Gao Yihuan raised their rankings, as long as their articles were not too bad and there was not much gap, the scholars had nothing to say. After all, there is no first, and the gap is not big, it all depends on the examiner's preferences.

However, for the feudal government to only admit fifty people among the scholars of the Western Wei Dynasty who failed to make the list, and gave them the Jinshi background, some of them were not on the list, but the Jiangnan scholars who ranked high were a little dissatisfied.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "Mr. came over today, mainly to talk about this matter!" ”

Li Yan nodded, "The minister has a suggestion, change the rules for the admission of these fifty people, and the soldiers in Jiangnan can also be selected, but they must move their families into my Western Wei and become the children of Western Wei in order to enjoy this quota." What does the king think? ”

Gao Yihuan touched his beard and said with a smile: "This strategy is conducive to my Great Wei absorbing talents from all over the world, which is naturally feasible!" ”

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