Regarding the lack of talent, Chen Longzheng has no choice.

Xiao Ruxun is a military general, and it is not too difficult to recruit literati staff, but all the capable literati in the Ming Dynasty are above the fame, Xiucai and even Xiucai are not scholars, and there are really no one or two capable ones.

Not everyone has the wisdom to read people.

The literati above the level of the people were divided into two parts, one part was simply to live a good life, to study for the sake of obtaining land for the family and reducing taxes, not for other things, most of these people became squires and heroes.

And the other part of the ambitious will naturally choose to continue to study and take the imperial examination, and become a big official in the future.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty is good, and in one fell swoop, all the capable people of culture have been enveloped, Xiao Ruxun is a military general, and he is already discriminated against, even if he is named the first general in Wanli, it doesn't work, and the literati still look down on you.

And the key thing is that Xiao Ruxun was "assigned" to the frontier in the eyes of everyone, rather than taking the initiative to come by himself.

What the hell is Myanmar?

The displaced people were desperate, and the imperial court was worried that the displaced people would rebel, so they tried to send the displaced people to Myanmar.

Anyone who lifts people, there is no poor, no one lacks a mouthful of food, even if he can't pass the Jinshi exam, when he is a strong land, sitting on tens of millions of acres of fertile land, sucking the blood of the empire, comfortable, not to mention how happy he is, who wants to suffer with you in Myanmar?

Although in Chen Longzheng's eyes, Myanmar is not like this at all, and it is even different from the paradise of the Central Plains, everyone lives here better than in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many times.

Xiao Ruxun doesn't know how much money he has, and he doesn't know how prosperous Myanmar is, but in the eyes of the Central Plains, Myanmar is a place of exile.

China has not lacked talents since ancient times, but talents have not come to Myanmar, in all fairness, Chen Longzheng originally came to Myanmar because of his teacher Yuan Huang.

If it weren't for Yuan Huang's earnest persuasion, he wouldn't have come, and he wouldn't have recognized Xiao Ruxun as his master and his staff as he is now.

And there is a more important reason why he went south at the beginning, that is, Chen Longzheng himself is just a showman, not a lifter.

Although Yuan Yan is a lifter, he was not admitted to the Jinshi in the previous exam, and Yuan Huang thought that Yuan Yan's personality was too straight and not suitable for survival in the Ming officialdom, so he asked him to come to Myanmar to serve as Xiao Ruxun's staff.

In the final analysis, there is only one real literati under Xiao Ruxun, Yuan Huang, a Jinshi who has been an official in the imperial court, and Xiao Ruxun has a relationship in North Korea, and believes that Xiao Ruxun has the ability to save the time, so he does not hesitate to use his fame to recruit talents for Xiao Ruxun in his hometown.

However, no matter how great the fame is, it can't compete with reality, there are too few people who have the discernment and talent, and most people choose to follow the established path, studying, taking the imperial examination, entering the scholar, becoming an official, and have no other ideas.

Xiao Ruxun was forced to reluctantly choose to defect to his Nanyang maritime merchant children to be officials, these maritime merchant children are literate, have done business, and are more shrewd, the key is that there is nowhere to go, only to come to Myanmar, which is barely reliable, which reluctantly builds the bureaucratic system of Myanmar.

Now Xiao Ruxun is extremely lacking in bureaucrats, so Yuan Huang has to make double efforts to assist Xiao Ruxun in handling government affairs.

"Xiao Hou, there are some words, subordinates also have to say, although people are not willing to come to Myanmar to follow you, but you don't have to stare at lifting people to Jinshi, some talents, not necessarily lifting people may not be Jinshi, or even not necessarily Xiucai, but they are very talented, such people, you should also go to find more people."

Xiao Ruxun couldn't stop sighing.

"I don't know how much to search, but I am a military general, and I am guarding the border passes, ordinary people have already retreated when they hear these two things, and they can't find Xiucai, so how can they talk about raising people to enter the army?

It is already my great luck to have Yuan Gong's assistance, but Yuan Gong is very old, and I always need to find some young people for him to help him share the pressure, but I just can't find it! ”

Chen Longzheng spoke: "You said that there is a Shangshu Ye Mengxiong of the Nanjing Military Department who admires you very much in Nanjing City, why don't you look for some available talents through Ye Gong's relationship?" ”

Xiao Ruxun said: "I have looked for Ye Gong, Ye Gong recommended a good talent to me, called Xu Guangqi, but he only won the promotion this year, and he was about to go to Beijing to take the examination, I wrote a letter and sent someone to Beijing to find him, and I don't know what happened after that."

Ye Gong said to me that he mentioned the matter of Myanmar to Xu Guangqi, Xu Guangqi didn't say anything bad, just said that he wanted to go and try it, so I plan to wait for news next year, if he wins the test, I won't go, but if he doesn't win, I will go to meet him. ”

Chen Longzheng frowned and said, "Xu Guangqi? Who is this? Can you get Ye Gong's attention? Isn't that a great career? Would he be willing to come to Myanmar? ”

Xiao Ruxun smiled.

What kind of person Xu Guangqi is, the current Chen Longzheng naturally doesn't know, but Xiao Ruxun knows it very clearly.

Xu Guangqi can be called the greatest cadre at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a pragmatic cadre, and the prime minister of the time, and also served as the first assistant of the cabinet in the Chongzhen year.

Xu Guangqi did win the Jinshi, and even was a Shujishi, and finally became the first assistant, but Xiao Ruxun also knew that Xu Guangqi's official career was quite unsmooth, quite bumpy, he was not in tune with the mainstream forces of the DPRK and China, he wanted to work hard, but the mainstream of the court wanted to stir up political struggles.

The mainstream of the Donglin Party only knew about political struggles, but Yu Guoce had no opinions, and finally succeeded in killing Daming.

Xu Guangqi's life is incompatible with them, but he is unable to compete with them, so he can only resign repeatedly and go into hiding, spending a lot of time on practical work and writing books.

Such a hard-working talent who is dedicated to the country can still go to the highest peak of the political arena, which is particularly valuable at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as a great hope left by God to the Ming Dynasty, but this hope has not been able to take root and grow into a towering tree.

Xiao Ruxun's letter to him wrote-Jingshi is a huge whirlpool, there are countless opportunities, and there are countless dangers that can threaten his life, and more importantly, at this moment, Jingshi, the danger is greater than the opportunity, if he wants to work hard to prosper the country, he can't do it in the current Jingshi.

Xiao Ruxun revealed a little bit why he chose to go south to Myanmar instead of returning to Beijing to fight for the commander of the Beijing camp, hoping that Xu Guangqi, who had a clear understanding of the drawbacks, could understand what he meant, and think about it a little, don't focus on the Beijing division, and lose a place where he can show his strength.

Whether Xu Guangqi comes or not, Xiao Ruxun is not sure, everything can only depend on the will of heaven.