On a small wine shop called "Yue Lianlou", a group of slightly drunk scholars and students were also talking about the mess between the cups and plates, although they were red and red-eared and had a rough and dull tongue, but they didn't realize it.

"The sixteen states of Pinglu Dao, plus the nineteen states of Hebei, must have at least thirty or forty newly established ambassadors for catching thieves."

"Coupled with the hundreds of reserve lieutenants and battalion officers, reclamation chiefs, and planners, that is also a shortage of nearly a thousand people."

"Although this robber arrester is only a power set up in an unjustifiable name, he has the authority of the real military state Taishou and assassin history."

"Even if it is the position of the commander of the reserve and the battalion officer, the reclamation chief, and the chief accountant in this place, it is also the basic origin of the future state commander, county commander, county officer, and county lieutenant."

"This is where the great future and opportunity of my generation lies."

"Although the first to succeed in the mansion is from the dragon's qualifications, it has no chance with my generation."

"And the work of following the left and right at the beginning, of course, is not mixed with the seniority,"

"But this event will become the opportunity to defect and gather before, but it can no longer be missed."

"It's just that the Lord is not an ordinary high authority now;"

"The so-called high door is strict and different from inside and outside, and ordinary people and identities are not so easy to offer and meet."

"There must be at least a competent guarantor and a master."

At this, the man couldn't help but sigh.

"Otherwise, you have to think about the admission and gradual-level examinations,"

"Study hard, the official has designated the "Practical Collection" and "Zhuxue Summary" series. ."

"How unreasonable,"

Speaking of this, some people couldn't help but complain indignantly.

"Huaizhen advocates the study of official Qing and governance,"

"I don't even consider the allusions of the scriptures, nor the beauty of the poems and songs, nor the etiquette and righteousness."

And focus on arithmetic, judgment, ingenuity, dictionaries, these trivial learning. It's ridiculous. ”

"Isn't this the same as the academic dignity of my generation and the subordinates of those flies and dogs?"

But complaining is complaining, indignation is indignation, and after the feast has dispersed and gone their separate ways; There are still many people who secretly come to the local school administration yamen, pass the most basic liberal arts and science examinations and answer interviews, and get a certificate to go to Xuzhou to participate in the preliminary selection and entrance assessment.

With this thing, they can eat for free in the common hall of the local school, and then take the public bus and boat to Pengcheng, Xuzhou for free.

It's just that some of them have a lot of bold words and make an appointment to do something, and when they meet again by chance in the crowded examination room, they can't help but be a little speechless and embarrassed.

And this large-scale local examination, because the publicity time and scope are relatively limited, is actually not such an ideal, but in the end, unexpectedly,

In addition to the 19 prefectures of Huaibei Province, the number of taxis from Andong, Pinglu, Hebei, Henan, Huainan, Haidong (Silla) and other places who have come out one after another to take the initiative to accept registration and pass the primary test can actually reach the scale of more than 3,000 people. It is almost half of all the students in the joint school combined, which also shows people's yearning for fame and fortune;

This also made those who were responsible for organizing and presiding over the corresponding examinations, observing and disposing of the Beiping Eighth Road, persuading and guiding Lu Wuguan, and felt that the responsibility was particularly heavy and there were some happy and sad emotions.

The good news is that these numbers far exceed the original expectations, and they also represent a certain kind of popular desire and general optimism about the future trend within the sphere of influence controlled by Huaizhen;

However, the number of people is too large, and it is more than several times the number of facilities and places that were prepared at the beginning; And according to local feedback, there is still an endless stream of scholars in the follow-up, who have come in groups through various waterway tools, and even accompanied by horseback, donkeys and even on foot.

Of course, according to the pre-determined constitution and plan, no matter how many people come to be promoted, in the end, there will only be a symbolic direct selection of dozens of officials, to reflect a certain spirit of preferring shortage to abundance and strange goods to live in;

Moreover, these lucky ones were not allowed to take the post of an official or the main position of a local official, but as a deputy or a subordinate position, and arranged in a subordinate system similar to that of a scholar and an agricultural official.

Most of the remaining people will be awarded the corresponding candidate level and title according to a number of equal ranks in the name of retaking and studying, and through the subsidies and centralized living places provided by the government, they will be retained and fetted in Xuzhou in disguise, and used to fill the hunger for the famous painting cake in the examination year after year, and slowly select and replace the talents who can be used.

Therefore, the local government of Xuzhou will continue to provide some short-term work-study jobs such as copying, proofreading, orthography, and learning work, and encourage all walks of life to recruit and employ these students, so as to achieve the purpose of pragmatic polishing and birth in disguise, and the miscellaneous currents that are out of date or lack patience and resilience will be eliminated in reverse.

In the end, the general direction reached was to gradually absorb (abduct) these students who had initially entered the thief ship through the primary election under the direct fire of life and environment to some grassroots positions;

In this way, even if these people have fallacies and deviations due to different affairs, the resulting harms and deviations are relatively limited and controllable; On the contrary, their arrival and filling can relieve the old people who have been used in Huaizhen and are relatively reliable one by one to take on more important positions and responsibilities.

Of course, as someone said at a high-level briefing: the size and pattern of Huaizhen nowadays no longer have to worry much about those speculators who may have ulterior motives and positions and try to mix in it, or the general trend of Huaizhen's development today, it is no longer their noise and counter-current, which can be blocked and reactionary;

On the contrary, what we need to care about is not to let those mediocre talents or superficial people who are indiscriminate and full of talents under the relaxation of the selection criteria affect the atmosphere and atmosphere within Huaizhen.

It is the so-called people who are not afraid of ambition and motivation, but they are afraid of mediocre and incompetent people who have no ideals and beliefs at all. The former can be induced to be transformed and wiped out with great momentum, but the latter can only be used as rat poop for a pot of soup.

For others, however, the scarves and scarves that fill the streets at this moment are like patches of dazzling countercurrents.

For example, Liang Guoqing, who had just finished his prison and was about to leave, was standing in the attic of the post house and looking at the scenery in the city, Liang Guoqing, who was the imperial historian and a scholar of the Tongming Palace, but in a kind of sad and desperate mood, he couldn't help but cry like rain and was helpless.

As the last loyal minister and representative of the Great Liang of the Dynasty in the Northland, this scene on the street can represent and metaphorize the so-called "falling flowers and flowing water" style, and now the people of the Northland are turning their backs on the metaphor and truth;

And his deputy was born in the famous Yan family of Guangfu, and Yan Xiren, the son of the former Guozijian Grand Sacrificial Wine, took the initiative to ask to stay on the grounds of reuniting with old friends and exchanging academics; Therefore, under this example of leading by example, he was the only one left who could take the initiative to return to the country.

Of course, as his former old friend and best friend, Zeng Hua, who is now the ambassador of Zhibalu who came to see him off, is much more calm and open-minded, and constantly comforts each other with a good voice, coupled with a dignified and dignified escort from the side; And he couldn't vent even the last bit of anger and indignation on the spot.

At the same time, Zhai Ruwen, who had just returned from his post as ambassador to Yingzhou (now Fuyang City, Anhui Province), also entered Pengcheng at least surrounded by his entourage.

This non-routine debriefing period is due to recent changes in the situation; And because of his outstanding performance in office, he is quite effective, and it is likely that he will be promoted and then transferred to other important positions, such as Pinglu Dao, which is newly incorporated into Huaizhen.

As the first batch of thieves ambassadors in Huaizhen, in addition to pacifying the local area and arranging the people in the shortest time, there is actually a relatively hidden task, that is, to clean up and deal with the remnants of the wealthy families in those places, and not to make them an obstacle and discordant factor under the rule of Huaizhen.

To this end, it is even allowed to use some unconventional means and necessary cross-border support to achieve some kind of quick cut-through results; The existence of the wealthy and powerful under the rule has also become an invisible criterion for the performance appraisal of the bureaucratic system in Huaizhen.

Compared with those who had to make the "banditry" under their rule in a short period of time and facilitate the bold action of the ambassadors; Zhai Ruwen, who has served as a weaving official, is undoubtedly one of the best among them;

He did not use too much of the support provided by Huaizhen, but only through the inconspicuous but more complicated mobilization of eyeliner and the collection and fabrication of criminal evidence, one after another, those local clans and powerful gentry who have been intertwined for more than ten generations were uprooted after the Ming canon was punished;

During this period, there were dozens of people who were convicted and beheaded by him in Xuzhou for observation, and thousands of people were exiled to Yanbian to supervise labor.

This made him regarded as a "vicious and cruel official" and a "broken family order" in the local area, but the effect achieved was also very good, since then the bandits have been banned and the place has been safe, and the newly opened fields and cultivated land have also blossomed everywhere, and there are no more shaded people and hidden households.

Therefore, during the short period of absence from office that was brought back to report on his work, he also took on the task of imparting the experience and experience of dealing with these local diseases and local forces to those young and backward people.