Chapter 4: Breaking the Cauldron and Sinking the Boat, Section 15 |Jin Shang knew that Jizhou was in a difficult situation at the moment. After he got out of Huguan, he went all the way south, and all he saw along the way were homeless people.

Everyone knows what the consequences will be. Just look at the continuous wars in the four prefectures of Hebei, Yan, Qing, Xu, and Henan.

Jin Shang understood the general's difficulties, so he saw that Li Hong was speechless for a long time, and immediately said: "If the general can't send troops to follow me south, give me a tun of men." Just send me to the Yanzhou Thorn History Department. "The seat of the Yanzhou Thorn History Department is in Changyi City, the county of Shanyang County, and after crossing the river, you need to cross the East County and Jiyin County of Yanzhou, and the road is far away.

Li Hong thought for a moment and shook his head,

"Since the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army defeated the Yanzhou Army in Jibei and killed Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, the morale has been high, the attack momentum is very fierce, and the Dongjun and Jiyin areas are very unsafe. Without military escort, the lives of adults cannot be guaranteed. I am ordered by the Son of Heaven to send you to Yanzhou safely, and I will also help you defeat the Yellow Turban Army, so this matter cannot be rushed. In my opinion, you'd better wait a little longer. As long as Gongsun Chan retreats to Youzhou, the Northern Frontier Army can quickly move south. "Kim Shang is in his forties, tall and tall, with a wide forehead and a long beard.

He is a native of Gaoling in Fengyi County, Guanzhong, and studied at Ma Rong in Guanzhong in his early years, and is an old friend of Ma Riyan and Lu Zhi.

When he heard that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was ravaging Yanzhou, he became even more anxious.

"Yuan Xiu, you stay in Handan for the time being, don't rush south to Yanzhou." Lu Zhi traveled a long way to Jizhou, his body was even weaker, and he was weak to speak.

"Don't think that it is a simple matter to take up the post of assassin in Yanzhou, if you are not careful, it will bring disaster to Jizhou. The current situation is very unfavorable to Jizhou, and it affects the whole body. Once you've figured things out, decide when to go south, don't just cross the Yellow River and give away your life. Jin Shang disagreed,

"Although I am not very familiar with Zhang Miao, Yuan Yi, Wu Zi and others, I am still friends, and I believe they will not embarrass me. They will always obey the Son of Heaven's decree, right? ”

"Yuan Xiu, are you brainbroken by the blood of Chang'an?" Yang Qi glared at him fiercely,

"If they had respected the Son of Heaven and obeyed the Son of Heaven's holy decree, how could the world be in chaos like it is today? Friend? Do you still have friends? Are friends still trustworthy? He pointed at Cui Lie angrily and said,

"I had just turned my back when Master Cui raised the butcher's knife. These are the friends I've been friends with for decades. Cui Lie was calm and looked very innocent.

Li Hong looked embarrassed and smiled wryly. Jin Shang looked left and right, uneasy and hesitant.

"Uncle Weng (Ma Riyan) went to Youzhou, it is estimated that there will be a response soon, you wait in Handan first." Chen Ji also persuaded,

"The situation in Yanzhou is complicated, and now Cao Cao, with the support of the county and state ministers of Yanzhou, has appointed himself as the pastor of Yanzhou and is in charge of the military and political affairs of Yanzhou. Therefore, this Yanzhou cannot be set foot in casually. Now the general is ordered to supervise the six states and four counties. In my opinion, it is better to ask the general to write a letter to Cao Cao first and see what he has to say. Everyone thought it was a good idea and agreed with it.

"As a private person, you write a letter to Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao, Jiyin Taishou Wu Zi, Shanyang Taishou Yuan Yi, and Chen Liuda Confucian Bian Rang." Zhang Wen pointed at Chen Ji and said,

"We want to learn about Yanzhou from many aspects. If the officials of the counties and states in Yanzhou have the heart to respect the Son of Heaven, then this matter will take a turn for the better. Li Hong sent Jin Shang out of the big tent and asked him to escort Jin Shang from Handan City to meet the eldest princess with dozens of black leopards.

When he lifted the curtain again and walked into the big tent, there was already a lot of noise in the big tent. These former world-famous Han pillars were red-faced, blaming each other, regardless of their respected status, even the eighty-four-year-old Zhao Qi roared like thunder, and his voice was particularly loud.

Li Hong stood at the door of the big tent and listened quietly, with a sad face. To snatch back the land from the gate valve tycoon, it is really very simple to say, but what about after snatching it back?

Is it that these gatekeeper tycoons will not buy land anymore? Won't you hide the real estate and evade taxes?

Will government offices at all levels be able to handle it impartially and no longer bend the law for bribes? Will the people who rent the land be able to live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer abandon the land and be displaced?

Obviously, this is not possible. The Great Han Law is in hand, there are laws to follow, and there are laws to follow, but why are land annexations repeatedly prohibited and intensified?

Even in the midst of the Yellow Turban Army's attack in full swing, there are still big tycoons who are buying and plundering land with intensification?

Some homeless people rent the land of the gatekeeper tycoons, because the gatekeeper tycoons impose taxes on them, they work hard for a year, and still have nothing, these people can understand that they abandon the land, but why do some homeless people abandon the land even when they have land at home?

Judging from the experience of Tuntian in northern Xinjiang in recent years, land annexation and government should be the main reason for the people to abandon the land on which they depend.

However, to crack down on land annexation and rectify the rule of officials, it is not something that can be done by maintaining the dignity and authority of the Great Han Law, which requires severe punishment, continuous improvement of national policies, more honest and loyal officials, and too many things.

As far as Jizhou is concerned, the most important thing at present is not to crack down on land annexation, because Li Hong has already acted vigorously and resolutely ordered Zhao Yun, Jiang Wu, Yang Feng, Sun Prince, Wang Dang and others to start clearing the land with their troops, and it is too late to stop it.

At present, for Jizhou, the most important thing is how to ensure that the law of the Han Dynasty is strictly observed, the land is no longer annexed in large quantities, the government is no longer the best to the extreme, and the people no longer abandon the land.

The scale of land clearance and the targets of the attack can be controlled within a certain scope and time, but it is a very complicated, difficult, and long, long thing to ensure the results of this crackdown on land annexation and to strive to maintain stability in Jizhou.

It was precisely over this matter that the old ministers in the tent quarreled over the formulation and revision of the national policy. Zhang Wen, Lu Zhi, Ding Gong, Chen Ji, Cai Yong, and Zhao Qi were all well versed in state affairs, and they also knew that in order to stabilize Jizhou, it was necessary to solve the problem of land annexation.

They ask themselves if they don't have the determination and ability to solve this problem. Li Hong was determined, and he used strong force to start cracking down and dealing with it in a short period of time, but the resulting deep crisis was enough to overthrow Jizhou.

Li Hong may not have considered this point enough, but the old ministers knew it clearly. After the old ministers got the news from Li Wei's mouth, they did not hesitate and immediately chose to go south to Jizhou.

Zhang Wen and Lu Zhi even invited Zhao Qi to Jizhou together. On the evening of the arrival of the eldest princess and her entourage in Handan, Zhang Wen, Lu Zhi and other ministers discussed the restructuring with Li Hong, and they stayed up all night.

The purpose of the old ministers to Jizhou was not to prevent Li Hong from cracking down on land annexation, nor was it to persuade the wealthy men of Jizhou to take the initiative to pay taxes by virtue of their connections.

They had to help Li Hong deal with the problems that followed the crackdown on land annexation, and at the same time use this rare opportunity to carry out the restructuring that they had been brewing for a long time.

The revision of the national policy requires a process of exploration and practice, and then it is necessary to revise and improve the pros and cons many times, and Jizhou just provides them with such a rare opportunity.

In the hearts of today's scholars, there is a common understanding that there are many reasons for the rapid decline and defeat of the Han Dynasty, but there is only one way, that is, to reform the system.

If you want to reform the system, you must have authority, so the fundamental reason for the two disasters of the party is still the struggle for authority between scholars and emperors.

Now that the Han Dynasty has reached the point of overturning, restructuring is the only way to revive the society. Even if all the rebellions in the world are quelled by force, in the end, the national strength must be strengthened through restructuring.

Therefore, no matter how big the contradictions between the scholars are, they are absolutely in step and highly unified in the matter of restructuring and strengthening the country, and the scholars are full of passion and hope for this.

As long as the restructuring does not seriously affect their own major interests, scholars of various factions are very willing to gather under the banner of the restructuring and be loyal to the country.

This time, there were more than 100 officials at all levels who accompanied the eldest princess to Jizhou, which shows the status of the restructuring in the minds of the scholars.

The restructuring entrusts all the loyalty and enthusiasm of the scholars to the Han Dynasty. Last year, the reform of Jinyang started from the fundamental official school of the national policy, and the result failed.

If they failed, there was a lesson, and the old ministers immediately changed their strategy and began to reform the system from the national policy.

Since it is difficult to regret the fundamental principle of official learning, it is necessary to change the direction and start to reform the system from the complicated system.

No matter how complicated the system of the Han Dynasty is, in the final analysis, it is the bureaucratic system, the financial system, the selection system, the bureaucratic system, the legal system, and so on, but the most important ones are these.

No matter which one is changed, it will affect the fate of the society. Zhang Wen, Lu Zhi and others put forward a package of restructuring strategies, the purpose of which is:

"Confucianism and law are integrated, and the country is ruled by law". In this package of restructuring strategies, it is prominently reflected

"Solemnity and heavy law, light and thin punishment, meritocracy, and severe punishment" four specific governance measures, especially

The eternal law of "severe punishment and heavy punishment in troubled times" can be seen everywhere in all restructuring strategies.

In order to solemnize the law and respect the law, it is necessary to gradually make major adjustments in government and school. Since it is an adjustment, the academic contradiction between modern literature and classics and ancient literature and classics will not be seriously intensified in the short term.

At the same time, this method can also greatly ease the huge differences in political views between the two bureaucrats and help to adopt and implement the policy of restructuring.

The purpose of lightly endowing people and making the country strong is to enrich the people and strengthen the country, but judging from the current situation, it is very unrealistic to rely purely on agriculture to increase national strength in the short term and defeat the rebellions all over the world.

Therefore, according to the experience of governing northern Xinjiang, the old ministers still decided to implement the policy of attaching equal importance to agriculture and industry in the early days of this dynasty, comprehensively and thoroughly liberalizing various industries such as salt, iron, tea, etc., and encouraging business.

There is a big difference between the current merchants and the merchants of the past. The Han Dynasty has been selling officials for decades, and the wealthy businessmen with rich family assets have not entered

The "scholar" nationality has become the home of the official eunuch, and the identity has long been different. Officials and businessmen have become one in today's Han Dynasty, and the boundaries are blurred.

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"Shang" can't ban it even if it wants to, but it has caused the imperial court to lose a large amount of tax profits, so it is better to completely liberalize and increase the revenue of the treasury.

Only when the treasury has money can it provide relief to the victims, send troops to quell the rebellion, and be able to pay lightly. Otherwise, this kind of light endowment and thin taxation and hiding wealth from the people is a self-deceptive remark.

Meritocracy is the main thrust of the Han talent selection system, and it has been the case for nearly 400 years. But why was it that outstanding talents could not be selected later, which led to the extreme of official governance, and later there was a strange thing that real virtuous people could only rely on Li Ying, Guo Tai, Xu Shao, and other celebrities to enter the office?

The selection system of this dynasty is historically called the selection of the township, and the virtuous people can enter the office in three ways.

One is indefinite, such as the death of the old emperor and the accession of the new emperor. At this time, the new emperor often issued an edict, ordering all states and counties to recommend virtuous people to the imperial court.

For example, in a year of famine, the Son of Heaven will often issue an edict hoping that the local government will nominate sages to serve the imperial court.

This selection is irregular, and there is no fixed referral body. Local counties can be cited, three dukes and nine secretaries, and court officials can also be cited.

The second type is a special selection, which is also irregular. For example, if the imperial court wants to send people to the Xiongnu, it needs talents who can understand the Xiongnu language and can endure hardships and adapt.

Some of the special talents needed in the imperial court, such as those who know how to control water and are familiar with astronomy, are often solicited by the Son of Heaven.

If you think you have the talent to do so, you can take it personally. Officials at all levels can also be recommended. There is also a regular selection, which is to elect filial piety.

The so-called inspection of filial piety is that the local county magistrate recommends filial piety and honest officials to the imperial court after discovering filial piety and honest officials in the local area.

This system began with Emperor Xiaowu and has been used to this day. There are more than 100 counties in this dynasty, and more than 200 filial piety are recommended to the imperial court every year.

When these people arrive at the imperial court, they can't become officials immediately like virtuous people, and most of them are placed in the palace Lang Office as a lang official.

More than a decade later, there are more than 2,000. In the past, there were only about 2,000 Langguan guards in the palace, but twenty or thirty years after the formation of this system, all the Langguan in the palace became the filial piety of the county.

Most of these counties are filial piety and honesty, and most of them are from the supplementary officials who graduated from Taixue. So after Emperor Xiaowu, the officials of this dynasty gradually became scholars.

The system at that time was very good. A young man ran into Taixue to study, and after completing his studies, he went to the local county to become a subordinate official.

After the results are obtained, they are selected to the imperial court by the county governor. After passing the examination prescribed by the imperial court, he began to officially enter the office.

This was the only way to enter politics at that time. Almost all the officials of the imperial court were born in this way.

Since Emperor Xiaozhao and Emperor Xiaoxuan of this dynasty, all the prime ministers have been scholars, and their backgrounds have also been selected by the local government.

However, after the arrival of Emperor Guangwu, this system changed a lot. There are too many talents in the Lang Bureau, and there are countless talents to be distributed and appointed, so the indefinite selection and special selection system of this dynasty has been shelved, and there is only one way left in the official career.

But in this way, there are still more and more people, so the imperial court ordered the sub-district inspection, and then it evolved to distribute according to the proportion of the number of households, and the system was a fixed number of inspections.

At that time, the county was full of 200,000 households to be able to inspect a filial piety, so filial piety became a sought-after commodity, which completely lost the original meaning of filial piety and honesty.

Later, because of the fraud, the court was forced to add an exam after inspecting filial piety, so that the original intention of inspecting filial piety was completely gone.

In this dynasty, when selecting talents, the first thing to do is to enter Taixue to study, so that they can obtain the status of a supplementary official. Only after becoming a supplementary officer can you obtain the qualification of probation.

This four-stage process of education and administrative practice, selection from administrative practice, selection from selection to examination, and appointment by examination may seem reasonable, but it has great drawbacks.

In this era, the poor could not afford to read, and ordinary scholars were also rare. First of all, books are very hard to come by.

At this time, books were written on bamboo silk, with very little paper. Even if you have paper, it's extremely valuable. (There was no printing at this time, and it was not until the Tang and Song dynasties that printing began.)

Ancient books must be copied, and a piece of bamboo can only write about 20 words. Copying a book is very expensive.

Silk is a silk fabric, its preciousness can be imagined, and ordinary people do not have it at all. Even if you have bamboo slips and silk silk, you don't have books.

To copy a book, you have to travel thousands of miles to find a teacher. Then again, if the teacher doesn't accept you, where do you copy the book?

Therefore, in this era, studying is an extremely luxurious thing, and ordinary poor people dare not think about it.

Of course, if you come from a family of readers, then the problem of this book is solved. Although the title of this dynasty is not hereditary, the hereditary title of the book is a matter of course, and no one can interfere.

With generations of books, there will be generations of scriptures, and with generations of scriptures, you can enter the government from generation to generation. For example, if you don't become an official, the emperor will force you to be an official.

Therefore, learning and books are actually power and wealth. A house full of gold is not as good as a posthumous son, that's the truth.

At that time, a family of scholars could easily become an official family, and an official family was also a rich and powerful family.

If there is an official in the family who has achieved 2,000 stones, and he becomes the governor of a county, he has the right to inspect it. Those who were examined by him were his protégés.

After these people are developed, they will always repay their personal favors to the deceased master, and they will inevitably judge his descendants. The number of filial piety in each county is limited, so this limited number of places falls on a limited number of families.

These limited families became the so-called family families. These clans are present in every county, and the more prosperous they are, the more and more officials in this county become.

It is conceivable that in this environment, the rule of officials has become inevitable. A good system has become a bad system, especially this kind of system related to the rise and fall of the dynasty and the rise and fall of the country has become bad, and the Han Dynasty will inevitably decline.

Meritocracy, it's easy to say, it's been said for hundreds of years, and it turns out this

"Cai" is there, this

"Lift" went wrong. If you want to really be meritocracy, it is very difficult, this

"Only" and

The contradiction of "lifting" is very prominent. Those who can read now have a good family background, and they can't read without money. So far, I heard that the cattle herder not only read, but also became an official, and at present, there is only Yu Chengxian, one of the six sages of Yuzhou, who has been commented by Xu Shao.

However, before this Yu Chengxian was commented by Xu Shao, he was a pastoral supervisor in the township, not a cattle herder.

This is just like He Jin is not a butcher, this person is actually still a scholar, but his status is low.

But because of his low status and poor life, he did not have the opportunity to study in Taixue, and then lost the possibility of being investigated.

However, having said that, there are very few such people after all, and those who really read books have more or less a certain amount of property, and this kind of person is more or less inextricably linked with the rich people of the gate.

"Lift" it

"Lift" to go, or the people of the gate valve family, like the Yuan valve and Xu valve in Runan, the Xun valve in Yingchuan, the Yang valve in Guanxi, and the horse valve in Guanzhong, which family does not have a dozen or even dozens of officials?

Scripture is the golden rice bowl of the gate valve family, and the inspection system is the brocade box to maintain this golden rice bowl, and breaking which one is directly related to the interests of the gate valve family, so how to do meritocracy has become the key to the implementation and guarantee of the success of the reform.

If there is no one to implement and maintain the policy of restructuring, it will be difficult for the community to flourish after all. Zhang Wen, Lu Zhi and other old ministers once convened celebrities and Confucians in Jinyang University Hall to discuss this issue in depth.

Xu Shao was once a famous commentator in this dynasty and presided over it

"Yuedan Review" is well-known in the world, and the talents he commented and recommended have proved to be very good.

He is now vigorously promoting the township evaluation in Taiyuan County, trying to combine the township evaluation with the inspection system, so as to ensure that the recommended people are real talents to the greatest extent.

The so-called township commentary refers to the use of public opinion and their own fame by some local Confucian celebrities to evaluate characters, so as to influence the selection orientation of the government, and then manipulate public opinion and advance and retreat characters.

The scholars used the moral standards that met the requirements of Confucianism, such as making a knight, pushing wealth, hiring, and mourning for a long time, to win the affirmation of the township evaluation, so as to seek a career in office.

This was very popular after the first party disaster, and the township reviews in many places gradually became celebrities

The center of "clean discussion" and the authority of recommending talents. For example, Xu Shao and Xu Jing brothers presided

"Yuedan Review". After the second disaster of the party, the eunuchs who were in charge of the government at that time felt that more and more township reviews in various places were more and more harmful to them, so under their auspices, the township reviews in various places were forcibly banned.

After Xu Shao arrived in Jinyang, he was forced by the lack of talents in northern Xinjiang, and Zhao Qi, Cai Yong, Wang Jian and other famous Shuoru once again carried out the township evaluation, hoping to find more talents.

Over the past few years, facts have proved that this method of selecting people by combining township evaluation and probation is very effective. This is how many scholars from the poor families who had become dispossessed by the Yellow Turban Disaster and fled to northern Xinjiang with the displaced people were discovered, which to a certain extent alleviated the crisis of the extreme shortage of talents in northern Xinjiang.

Zhang Wen, Lu Zhi, and others drew on Xu Shao's successful experience and immediately decided to use the method of combining the township appraisal and the probationary system to correct the shortcomings of the probationary system.

However, this method cracked down on and curbed the monopoly of power by the clan of the gate lord clan to a certain extent, so this system, which could be successfully implemented in northern Xinjiang, met with great resistance in Jizhou.

Cui Lie, Yang Qi, Chen Ji, Wang Ze, Guo Yun, Wei Gu, Zhang Fan, Huang Yue, Ma Feng and many other gate valve officials who participated in the discussion of the restructuring expressed their opposition in unison.

Cui Lie is the person of the Jizhou Cui family gate valve, Yang Qi is the person of the Guanxi Yang family gate valve, Chen Ji is the person of the Yingchuan Chen family gate valve, Wang Ze is the person of the Taiyuan Wang family gate valve, Guo Yun is the person of the Taiyuan Guo family gate valve, and the world-famous party member Guo Tai Guo Linzong is a member of his family.

Wei Gu is a member of the Hedong Wei Lord, Zhang Fan's family is a family in Hanoi, Huang Yue's family is from Jiangxia in Jingzhou, his uncle is Huang Wan, and his great-grandfather is Huang Qiong, each more famous than the other.

Ma Feng is the descendant of Guanzhong Gate Valve and the nephew of Ma Riyan. The opposition of so many children of well-known families was very loud.

They believe that in the past, there were township reviews that existed and could play a role, mainly as a means used by the party to resist the eunuchs, and later facts proved to be very effective.

Now that the eunuch is gone, the Son of Heaven and the imperial court are being held hostage by the emperor, everyone is working hard to revitalize the community, what are you doing with township commentary?

After all, the township appraisal can control public opinion to a certain extent, which is not beneficial to the stability of the society. The two sides have too different views, and quarrels are inevitable.

The selection system is directly related to the revival of the society and the continuous and correct implementation of the national policy, so Lu Zhi and others refused to give in.

When the eldest princess set off to Jizhou, Li Wei wrote to Li Hong urgently, which also mentioned the restructuring.

In his view, only by restructuring can the country be rejuvenated, which is beyond reproach. As for how to change it, no one knows, and we have to grope our way forward.

Therefore, he pleaded with Li Hong to resolutely support the reform as long as it is conducive to saving and revitalizing the community and helping the people to eat and clothe themselves.

The restructuring was successful, and both the Han and the people benefited, and if it failed, it was reformed again. There is always a way to prosper the community, and there is a way to keep the people fed and clothed.

What our predecessors can do, we will surely succeed. Li Wei has a positive attitude towards the selection method of combining township evaluation and inspection.

In this dynasty, the evaluation of a person by the clans, Hongru and celebrities was often demarcated by grade.

Then the scholars will be according to this grade to make officials, which has become the practice of this dynasty, and it can also be said to be a system of selecting scholars.

This method of judging people by grade still originated from Master Bangu. Master Bangu vigorously advocated the idea of the three qualities of sex in his "Ancient and Ancient Table" in his "Book of Han", in which he divided human nature into:

"Shangzhi",

"Middleman",

"Foolishness" three grades, and in each product is divided into three grades, this method of evaluating characters has a great impact on later generations, and has continued to this day, with a history of more than 100 years.

In fact, the township evaluation is that the family of the gate valve divides the scholars into different levels according to the power and wealth of the people being evaluated, and then refers to their character and ability, and shares the power of being officials in turn.

For example, Xu Shao once commented on Cao Cao

"The capable minister who rules the world, the best hero in the troubled times", if Cao Cao was not born in a prominent official family, but from a dilapidated family of small officials, Xu Shao would never say the same thing.

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The reason why "Yuedan Commentary" is famous in the world is not because Xu Shao and Xu Jing have good vision and are more knowledgeable than others, but because

Behind the "Yuedan Review" is Xu Valve. Getting the affirmation of the Yuedan evaluation is equivalent to getting the affirmation of Xu Valve, and the career of the evaluated person is of course smooth sailing.

This kind of township evaluation is still very beneficial to the selection of talents, especially the poor scholars. For example, I have neither family background nor money, only a teacher in a high position.

If I hadn't met a general, I would have been a government official for the rest of my life. But if I can be evaluated by Mr. Xu Shao, it is estimated that I will be able to carp and jump into the dragon gate, and my value will rise sharply.

Another example is Xu Haozi, the son of Xu Xiang, the former Situ master, this person is full of evil deeds, if he is said to be useless by the township comments, it is estimated that Xu Xiang is embarrassed to take out this son and embarrass people.

It's the same with Yuan Shu. This person had it when he was in the capital

The nickname of "Yuan Changshui, the ghost in the road", if he was badly criticized by Xu Shao in his early years, it is estimated that he would not have a bright future now.

The selection of township evaluation is very open and transparent, which is very different from the non-disclosure and non-transparency of the probation system, but the disadvantages of township evaluation are also obvious.

The gate valve family is powerful and powerful, and they themselves are involved in it, so they can control the influence of the township evaluation within a certain range at any time, otherwise people like Yuan Shu and Xu Haozi will not embark on a career in office.

Li Wei believes that at present, the Son of Heaven and the imperial court are being held hostage in Guanzhong, the prefectures and counties are supporting their own troops, and the probation system has been virtually abandoned, and we are extremely lacking in available talents, so the only way to select talents through the combination of township evaluation and probation has become the only way.

Otherwise, when the restructuring touches the interests of the wealthy people, the new system will not be implemented, and the great cause of ZTE will be seriously hindered.

In his letters, Li Wei repeatedly warned Li Hong that in view of the current tense situation and the heavy task of counterinsurgency that was about to begin, the military and political officials in northern Xinjiang and Jizhou must vigorously rectify the situation.

The subordinates who have serious differences of opinion with the Great Sima and the Great General's Mansion must take advantage of the two opportunities of the abolition of the Jinyang Imperial Court and the reform of the national policy to eliminate them all, so as to prevent these people from causing trouble in Hebei and shaking the great cause of Zhongxing in the future.

However, the difference of viewpoint does not mean that these people have no knowledge or talent, and the great generals can fully rely on their illustrious lineage, power, wealth, and prestige, and channel their enthusiasm for rejuvenating the country and the country into academic study and the evaluation of talents, and in the development of classics and other kinds of scholarship.

The selection of talents is the most urgent need of Zhongxing's great cause, and it is also the most lacking at present.

Li Wei's idea is very tempting, but it really has to be concrete. But it's extremely tricky. Li Hong originally thought that he would take Jizhou, alleviate the crisis in northern Xinjiang, and get closer and closer to the great cause of Zhongxing, but now it seems that it is not getting closer and closer, but out of reach.

There is a world of difference in the difficulty of governing a country compared to fighting a war. I often feel exhausted and difficult to support because of this.

When will the situation be better and the governance of the country easier? At present, all the generals in northern Xinjiang are fierce generals who have followed their own battles for many years, and although there are many factions and frictions occur from time to time, they have not yet endangered the stability of the army, and the frequent reorganization and change of generals still have a certain effect.

However, the many officials in northern Xinjiang are not full of factions and sharp contradictions, but have major differences among themselves in the strategy of governing the country.

There is no way to resolve this disagreement, and the only way to do this is to let those who have different political views leave the Great Sima and the Great General's Mansion.

But now that there are several major forces among the civil officials in northern Xinjiang, Li Hong has a headache about who to let go, who to transfer, and who to leave behind.

The most powerful civil officials in Northern Xinjiang are these old ministers from the Chang'an court, and they are also the backbone of the reform and the revival of the society.

Since the eldest princess was no longer in charge of state affairs, the Jinyang court was abolished, and a group of ministers who were originally subordinate to the eldest princess's mansion were immediately transferred to the hussar general's mansion.

The reason is very simple, the imperial court has been abolished, and Northern Xinjiang is no longer obliged to provide these ministers with money, as long as the eldest princess's food is replenished.

The eldest princess couldn't afford to support so many ministers, and the ministers had no money, and the problem became serious. Ministers also have to eat and support their families, and it is impossible to do without money.

Li Hong then asked them to hang up their names in the Hussar General's Mansion and get a share of the Lulu, and everyone was still subordinate to the Eldest Princess's Mansion.

But the eldest princess was worried about state affairs and didn't want them to be idle, so she let them all go to the Hussar General's Mansion to do things.

These people have gone to Jizhou, especially ministers such as Ma Riyan and Cui Lie, who have made great efforts to stabilize Jizhou.

These people Li Hong didn't dare to move no matter what, he didn't even have the qualifications to move. When Li Hong returned to Lu Longsai and was still a scout, Cui Lie was the Situ of the imperial court, Zhang Wen was Sikong, Yuan Fan was the ruling Jinwu, Gai Xun was Jing Zhaoyin, Ma Riyan was the Taixue Great Sacrifice Wine, and Lu Zhi was the Shangshu.

One in the sky, one in the ground. Now that he is an official and in power, he dares to openly drive out the old ministers.

Li Hong didn't even dare to think about this thought. There is also one of the largest forces in northern Xinjiang, that is, Li Wei, Yu Peng, Xie Ming, Song Wen, Tang Yun, Yin Si, Tian Chou, and Tian Yu, the first to follow him.

Now these people are in the most important positions in Northern Xinjiang, they are the core force of Northern Xinjiang, and they are the people Li Hong relies on the most.

At the same time, this force also included Zhao Qi, Xu Shao, Wang Jian, Zhu Mu and other scholars who first came to northern Xinjiang to help them, as well as Tang Fang and a group of officials from the former state capital, as well as Zuo Yan, Huang Ting, Tian Wan, Kong Xuan, these Yellow Turban scholars, who made great contributions to the Tuntian in northern Xinjiang and the stability and development of northern Xinjiang.

Li Hong trusted them very much, and when Li Hong set out to conquer the desert, it was their hard work in the rear that helped the army recover the border counties and conquer the Hu people.

Several other forces in northern Xinjiang are also very eye-catching. Some people came to Northern Xinjiang one after another, such as Zhao and Shi Lu are the descendants of the former chariot general He Miao, Liu Gong and Li Li are the subordinates of the former Jizhou Mu Hanfu, Liu Fan and Liu Fang are recommended by Taifu Liu Yu, Ding Li is recommended by Zhu Jun, and Zhang Fan and Xing Hao are from the eldest princess.

These people are now in high positions in northern Xinjiang. But what directly affects the safety of northern Xinjiang are the wealthy men and their protégés, including Guo Yun, Wang Rou, Wang Ze, Ling Hu Shao, Wei Gu, Fan Xian, Xu Ling, Lizhong, and Sun Zi.

All of them are people with deep roots, and some of them even hold the wealth lifeblood of Northern Xinjiang in their hands, and none of them can be moved casually.

These major forces are divided into many intertwined small forces because of their different identities, different regions, different academic views, different political views, and so on.

The more Li Hong thought about it, the more his head hurt, and he couldn't help but curse hatefully,

"Zhong Yuan, this bastard, why didn't he come to Jizhou?" Zheng Yan, who was standing next to him, glanced at Li Hong strangely, and whispered, "General, do you want to transfer Master Li urgently?" ”

"No, no......" Li Hong shook his hand again and again,

"I just thought of him and scolded casually." In mid-July, Yanzhou, Shanyang County, Changyi City. After the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, led by Ke Ma Ju, conquered Dongping, it did not return to Qingzhou as expected, but suddenly went south, joined up with Sun Guanbu, who attacked Xuzhou, and stormed Donghai County in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou Assassin Shi Taoqian couldn't resist, and asked for help from Cao Cao, the Taishou of Chenliu County, Zhang Miao, the Taishou of Shanyang County, and Zheng Sui, the Minister of Renchengguo, but before Cao Cao made a decision on whether to rescue, Xu He, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, led his army to kill Renchengguo.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army once again showed its sharp attack power, and its sharpness was unstoppable, and Liankefan County and Rencheng roared up along the Surabaya River.

Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Yuan Yi, Bao Xin, and Wu Zi hurriedly gathered troops and went to Rencheng to support. After the defeat in northern Jibei, the Yanzhou army suffered heavy losses, and its 20,000 troops were mainly composed of Cao Cao's Dongjun men and Zhang Miao's Chen Liu's army, and the rest of the counties had almost no troops.

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