How lively the Central Plains is has little to do with the imperial court in Chang'an. At present, the imperial court is busy with the autumn harvest, how can there be spare time to deal with those rebellious ministers and thieves. Only by recognizing oneself can one understand what one can do, and having a son of heaven who recognizes reality, the people around Liu Xie have also become pragmatic.

Instead of clinging to that unimportant face, it is better to be more practical, now the world is the princes rising together, if the court does not want to become the son of Zhou Tianzi in the Spring and Autumn Period, then it can only lower its posture and become one of those princes. Liu Xie has a very practical saying, if you want to revive the Han Dynasty, just rely on your mouth or hope that the conscience of those princes will find it, it is unrealistic, only if you are strong and powerful, imitate the Qin State during the Warring States Period, and sweep the six-in-one to dominate the world, in order to truly achieve the goal of reviving the Han Dynasty. Nowadays, the imperial court is operating Guanzhong as the foundation of the future world.

In addition to the great disaster of the Western Liang Army, the four counties bordering Liangzhou were also garrisoned by the imperial court, and the people of the counties inside could finally sleep peacefully. Since Dong Zhuo was executed, Li Dao Guo Yan led troops to garrison Longxi, the people of the counties near Chang'an often saw the imperial court send troops to clear out the hidden bandits and bandits, this kind of activity has been used by Liu Xie as a means of training, and it is precisely because of this that the county soldiers of each county can stabilize their positions when they go to Longxi with Liu Xie to fight with the Xiliang army.

After the elimination of the Xiliang Army, Lu Bu's Bingzhou soldiers and horses expanded to 50,000 in one go, and Liu Xie's men and horses are no longer a few thousand. The number of soldiers in each county was still 3,000, and the soldiers who had been conscripted in the past were also reorganized into the official official army of the imperial court, and now they were stationed in various places, and if they were gathered, they would not necessarily be less than the army of the prefecture. Of course, in terms of combat power, it is still incomparable with Lu Bu.

At this time, Lu Bu's impression of Liu Xie was still good, although he had not surrendered in his heart, but at least he didn't dare to despise Liu Xie as a yellow-mouthed widow anymore, and Lu Bu liked the way Liu Xie dealt with him from the bottom of his heart. It is never difficult to force others, but to negotiate and measure.

Speaking is a science, good words are warm in three winters, and bad words are hurtful and cold in June. For a master like Lu Bu who eats soft and not hard, Liu Xie is obviously very experienced. He never put on an attitude of his superiors ordering his subordinates to talk to Lu Bu, and always spoke softly, so that Lu Bu couldn't find a reason to be angry. Like this time, Zhang Liao was borrowed to lead troops to garrison Anding County, Zhang Liao was one of Lu Bu's most relied on generals, but after Liu Xie spoke, Lu Bu finally agreed to Liu Xie's request for a borrower.

Now that everything is going well, Liu Xie can finally live a stable life for a few days, and he no longer has to stay awake at night like he did some time ago. And Liu Xie is a person who can't be idle, and after staying at home honestly for two days, he is not willing to stay in the palace all day. After saying hello to Cai Yong and Xun Yu, Liu Xie left Chang'an with Wang Yue. In the name of it, it is called patrolling the localities to prevent corrupt officials and corrupt officials from taking advantage of the autumn to collect money.

Cai Yong and Xun Yu also knew that inspecting the place was just an excuse for Liu Xie to leave the palace, but at the same time, they also understood that their own son of heaven did not like to be restrained. Now there is really nothing that Liu Xie has to deal with personally, so he agreed to let him go. However, Xun Yu also reminded Liu Xie that he must rush back in a month, and there is a big man who must be greeted by Liu Xie in person.

Liu Xie knew who Xun Yu was talking about, and to be honest, Liu Xie was also a little surprised that Zheng Xuan, who lived in seclusion in Qingzhou, was coming to Chang'an. For Zheng Xuan, Liu Xie is very grateful. After becoming Liu Xie, there are three people that Liu Xie has to be grateful to, one is Wang Yun, without him Liu Xie is still a puppet, the second is Lu Zhi, without him Liu Xie would not have been able to get talented generals like Xun Yu and Zhao Yun, and the third is Zheng Xuan.

Who is Zheng Xuan? That is the big man in the Qingliu realm at the end of the Han Dynasty, without him, there would be no Sun Qian, Guan Ning, and Bing Yuan's investment, and these three people are all good shepherds who can govern one side. Originally, they were worried about Li Dao and Guo Yan's Xiliang army, but now that there is no threat from the outside, Sun Qian and the three of them finally began to play a role, trying to accumulate strength for the imperial court.

In addition, Zheng Xuan's help to Liu Xie is far more than that. Zheng Xuan is a well-educated Confucian, and his public support has made many scholars turn to Chang'an, and the recruitment order issued by Liu Xie is precisely because of Zheng Xuan's support that it can cause a wide influence among readers. And Liu Xie is also a person who will come to things, after learning that Zheng Xuan was going to come to Chang'an in person, he let out the wind, saying that this imperial court examination will be presided over by Zheng Xuan, Cai Yong and Lu Zhi. In history, Lu Zhi died of illness soon after the success of Dong Chenggong, and now, because Liu Xie left a sum of money for the Lu family when he left, the Lu family used the money to invite a local famous doctor when Lu Zhi fell ill. After experiencing the experience of death, Lu Zhi's family set off to return to Chang'an, which was not long ago. Liu Xie was worried about Lu Zhi's health, and he didn't give Lu Zhi any real job, so he asked Lu Zhi to go to Taixue as a professor, and when he was happy, he went to give two classes to the students, and if he was unhappy, he tossed and tossed the students, anyway, the students were young and tossed.

Liu Xie, this is a typical dead friend who does not die in the poor way!

The role of well-educated Confucians like Lu Zhi and Cai Yong in staying by Liu Xie's side is naturally self-evident, but the problem is that Confucianism has the problem of being good teachers. And Liu Hehe is the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, so he naturally became the first choice for Cai Yong and Lu Zhi to be educated. Liu Xie knew that Cai Yong and Lu Zhi were willing to teach themselves that it was their blessing, but the problem was that Liu Xie was not a person who could sit still, and it was no problem for him to study, but he also had to pay attention to ways and means, holding a book and reading it all day long, which is something that nerds love to do. Cai Yong is currently entangled in political affairs, and Lu Zhi is held by Taixue again, but if Zheng Xuan comes, Liu Xie will not be able to escape the fate of being educated.

Xun Yu told Liu Xie that there was still a month for Zheng Xuan to come to Chang'an, Liu Xie understood, one was to remind Liu Xie that he could only go out for a month, and the other was to tell Liu Xie that the time for him to be at ease was only this month. After Zheng Xuan came, it would be impossible for Liu Xie to be idleness like now.

Liu Xie slandered Xun Yu's schadenfreude in his heart, saying that Xun Yu was a humble gentleman, but in fact he was also a bad person. When Xun Yu served as the county guard of Hanzhong, those families who had been entrenched in Hanzhong for many years were obedient to Xun Yu's tidying up not long after, so that they did not dare to go east to west, and they did not dare to catch chickens. Thinking of the Yan family and the Yang family, the big families of Hanzhong, when Xun Yu left Hanzhong, Liu Xie was a little suspicious that these people were not reluctant to give up on Xun Yu, but to send Xun Plague God away.

A month's time, not long, not short, it is not possible to go to a far place, but it is no problem to go around Chang'an. Now that the bandits near Chang'an have been cleaned up, Liu Xie didn't bring many people when he left.

took Wang Yue and the four guards who worked together, and by the way, Zhao Yu and Zhen Mi, who were going to go together, and Liu Xie and his party of eight left Chang'an. Liu Xie is still dressed as a son-in-law, Wang Yue is a housekeeper, the four guards are family members, and Zhao Yu and Zhen Mi are the two little maids who serve Liu Xie's diet and daily life.

At first, Zhao Yu and Zhen Mi were a little unhappy with Liu Xie's arrangement, but Liu Xie threatened not to take them with them if they didn't do so, and the two could only succumb to Liu Xie's "obscenity".

Don't look at the world in these years, but there are also many children of the family who go out to travel. Going out dressed as a son of a family like Liu Xie is not very eye-catching. Especially now that Guanzhong has just been pacified, many families also want to know what the state of the current imperial court is, and Guanzhong has become the first choice for many children of the family to travel.

Liu Xie doesn't like the children of the family very much, not that there are no talents among the children of the family, on the contrary, the family with a large number of books is the place with the most talents. But the problem is that the concept of these children of the family is to put the family before the country, and the interests of the family are the first thing they need to consider.

Those children of poor families or down-and-out families are the ones Liu Xie wants to recruit the most. Because this part of the people want to revive the lintel or soar, then they must rely on themselves and take the interests of the country as the first choice. And if you want to fight against the family's control of the court, the only way is to use the Hanmen to fight against it.

It's just that the influence of the family is huge now, and Liu Xie is killing himself when he turns his face with the family at this time, but Liu Xie has been seeking to break the family's monopoly on talents, and has taken the first step. The reopening of Taixue is to allow the imperial court to regain its hematopoietic function and get out of the situation of relying entirely on the support of the family's talents. In order to avoid the embarrassment of improper employment, Liu Xie deliberately added an unspoken rule when he reopened Taixue, opening high and going low. As long as you have a certain amount of talent, you can enter Taixue, but it is not so easy to graduate from Taixue.

Liu Xie knew that the imperial examination system was a good way to break the monopoly of the family. But the problem is that in the Han Dynasty, where the literacy rate is not high, even if Liu Xie announces the imperial examination now, most of the children of the family who come to participate in the imperial examination are still the children of the family.

If you want to break the Maison's monopoly on talents, it can't be solved by a decree. Only by first popularizing education can the country have a broad base in selecting and appointing talents. However, if we want to popularize education, the first thing to solve is the problem of insufficient teachers, and the investment of a large amount of money has become a secondary problem in comparison.

And the reopening of Taixue is to prepare for the imperial examination held by the imperial court in the future. The shortage of teachers is easy to solve, but all students who have reached the graduation standards must first go to the local area to teach for a few years, in the name of in-depth understanding of the people's suffering. What is an official? That is the shepherd of the court who governs the people, if you don't even know what the life of the people is like, then what is the talk of governing the people? Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.

Through these free lessons, the children of the common people were able to receive basic education, and then those who excelled in their studies were selected for further education, and finally the imperial examination was held.

Township examination, county examination, county examination, state examination, and national examination are divided into five steps to complete the imperial examination. Liu Xie specially discussed these major matters related to the fate of the country with Cai Yong and Xun Yu. Both Cai Yong and Xun Yu were amazed by Liu Xie's whimsy, and what made them feel relieved was that Liu Xie was not in a hurry, and admitted to them that this thing would not have been possible without decades of work. It is precisely because Liu Xie clearly realized this that Cai Yong and Xun Yu would support Liu Xie's reopening of Taixue at a time when the imperial court's finances were still tight.

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Liu Xie came out to let off the wind this time, and he was still in a good mood. With the extermination of the Xiliang Army, Guanzhong regained stability, and many people who had left their homes to escape the scourge of war also returned to Guanzhong. Liu Xie was naturally happy about the return of these people, after all, these people came back to enrich the population of Guanzhong, and what enhanced the war potential of the imperial court meant that the imperial court could raise more soldiers and produce more grain.

Whenever he met people who returned to their hometowns, Liu Xie would always go over and say a few words. Liu Xie is dressed as the son of a family, and ordinary people don't dare to mess with him, and Liu Xie doesn't put on a domineering look, and the people passing by are still willing to chat with Liu Xie.

However, this time Liu Xie encountered trouble, in fact, it was not Liu Xie alone, but the team of returnees he chose to accompany him.

You've met a robber in your way! There aren't many people, just a dozen or so people, and they should have been miserable recently. Although in these years, when you go out, you usually bring self-defense weapons, but in the face of more than a dozen fierce people with sharp blades and facing vicious gangsters, ordinary people are overwhelmed, so they will be instigated first.

What to do in case of danger? What else can I do? Run! Anyway, there are more than 100 people, maybe they will run away. More than 100 people scattered as birds and beasts, and ran away. Liu Xie didn't run away, this was his territory, and there was Wang Yue by his side, more than a dozen gangsters were a threat to ordinary people, but they had no impact on him at all.

In order to avoid being swept away by the crowd, Liu Xie let the carriage retreat to the side of the road, and it turned out that a different person was discovered. Everyone else was running away, but the man with his wife and children didn't move. Liu Xie knew this person, although he didn't talk directly, but he knew from the mouths of others that this was a family of three, and he took the old lady's coffin back to his hometown to settle down. Liu Xie didn't know what this person's name was, no one knew, and Wang Yue didn't want Liu Xie to contact the funeral person, thinking it was unlucky. Liu Xie didn't care, but Wang Yue was also well-intentioned, so he didn't refute it.

The whole team stayed in place with Liu Xie's team and the filial son who sent the coffin back to his hometown. Zhao Yu and Zhen Mi in the carriage heard that something was wrong outside, so they showed their heads one after another to see what was going on. As a result, it didn't matter if he appeared, he immediately shocked the villain, and he didn't care about the filial son, so he rushed straight to Liu Xie's side.

Liu Xie frowned and looked at the gangsters who pounced, and ordered the four guards who had already taken out their weapons and were ready to fight, "You don't have to keep your hands." ”

The four guards were all carefully selected by Dian Wei and Zhao Yun together, they were shrewd and capable, and there was nothing to say about martial arts. The four relatives and guards are surnamed Wang Ma Zhang Zhao, and as for the names, they are all numbers, Wang Wu, Ma Liu, and the like. Doesn't have a good background, and doesn't even have a serious name. Liu Xie wanted to change their names, after all, Dian Wei is now the chief general of the first army, and it is impossible to always follow him as a follower. And these four people will follow their own relatives in the future, and the names are too inferior, so it's hard to say. So Liu Xie also tried to save trouble, and the four relatives changed their names to Dynasty Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu, which sounded more formal than Wang Wu and Ma Liu.

After Liu Xie's order, the four people of the dynasty and Ma Han immediately let go of their hands and feet. Although I don't know how these villains offended the lord, since the lord has spoken, then they don't need to show mercy to their subordinates.

"Go in and don't make any more trouble." Liu Xie stretched out his hand and pushed Zhen Mi, who wanted to see the excitement, back.

"Wait, let me see."

"What's so nice about killing someone?" Liu Xie was angry and pushed Zhen Mi's head into the carriage.

More than a dozen villains were really not the opponents of the four guards, and before they could make a cup of tea, they asked Wang Dynasty Mahan and others to kill them, and Wang Yue didn't make a move.

After this gang of gangsters was solved, Wang Dynasty Mahan and others carried the dead bodies to dig a pit and bury them, and Liu Xie walked in front of the filial son and asked curiously: "Why didn't you run away?" ”

"The robbers are blocking the road to rob money, I have no money on me, only a coffin, and I can't leave my wife and children just for my own safety." Hearing this, the filial son replied. Fang Cai's order to kill people does not change, especially after seeing the scene of his subordinates killing robbers, it is even more untouched, which means that this person is either used to seeing this kind of scene, or he is cold by nature. For the sake of the safety of the family, he didn't dare to offend the person in front of him at this time.

“…… You're a smart man, huh...... He is a smart man with affection and righteousness. What is your name? Liu Xie looked at Xiaozi and asked with a smile.

"The villain Du Ji, the Jingzhao Du Ling clan." Du Ji hurriedly replied.

"Are there any words?"

"Word Bohou."

"And you went to school?"

"I used to be Jingzhao Gongcao, and later moved my family to Jingzhou to avoid the disaster of war." Du Ji is a smart man, but he is also unwilling to be mediocre. Seeing that the child of the family in front of him was speaking kindly, he said more.

"Jing Zhao Gong Cao? …… Do you have any plans to re-enter the career this time? Liu Xie looked Du Ji up and down with some surprise, and asked out loud.

"The villain naturally doesn't want to waste what he has learned over the years, but he suffers from no one to recommend him." Du Ji said with a wry smile.

"Huh...... It's easy to recommend, but if you don't have real talent...... Do you have the courage to meet Xun Situ? ”

“…… Dare to ask Childe's surname? Du Ji asked Liu Xiedao cautiously.

"When you turn around, you will know if you ask Xun Situ." Liu Xie turned around and shouted in the direction of the carriage: "Bring a waist card, remember that it is wood." Dynasty, go to the carriage and get ten pieces of money. ”

"Childe, what do you mean?" Du Ji asked in surprise.

"Giving you the wooden card is so that you can meet Xun Situ smoothly, but whether Xun Situ can take a fancy to you depends on whether you have real talent and learning. As for the ten money, it is a meeting gift I gave you, if you really let Xun Situ take a fancy to it, you and I will have a lot of dealings in the future. Liu Xie said with a smile.