Liu Xie didn't come back to Jingxiang for the first time, but he was a little tired of the flattering and flattering face of the Jingxiang family. Of course, Liu Xie also knew the reason why these Jingxiang families were like this. People are sophisticated, ushering in and sending them off, Liu Xie still understands the etiquette rules of these interactions between people, and he doesn't plan to play with personality and make a difference. Because Liu Xie understands that his every move, word and deed will be interpreted by people with intentions, and it is good to say that he is right by mistake, but once he guesses wrong, it is very likely to be another trouble.

Liu Xie doesn't like to socialize, and he wears masks and says insincere things one by one, which makes people feel very tired. But in order not to make extraneous branches at this time, Liu Xie could only show up again and again and say soothing words. And the effect is also obvious.

The Kuai family rebelled against Kuaiqi, and everyone in the Jingxiang family was suddenly in danger, and many people thought that this was an excellent opportunity for the imperial court to weaken the Jingxiang family. Kuaiqi, who has more than enough success and failure, hates his immortality, and even resents the Kuai family.

In order to save themselves, the Jing Xiang family drew a clear line with the Kuai family during this time and cut off contact, but what they didn't expect was that when Liu Xie arrived in Xiangyang, the first thing he went to was the Kuai family, and he had a good conversation with Kuai Yue, the head of the Kuai family who was waiting for the death of Dai Sin at home. As soon as the news came out, those families who had previously drawn a line with the Kuai family came to visit the Kuai family with their faces licked their faces, hoping to get some useful news from Kuai Yue's mouth, but at this time, Kuai Yue would no longer pay attention to those wall grass, and they were all closed.

The Jingxiang family who ate the closed door soup did not give up, and Kuai Yue went to visit Sima Hui and Pang Degong, who were also treated by Liu Xie, these two were the presidents of Xiangyang Academy, and there were more important ministers in the court who were related to them, Pang Degong's nephews Pang Tong and Pang Lin, and Sima Hui's proud protégés Sima Yi, Xu Shu and Shi Jian. Liu Xie just doesn't value the reputation of Pang Degong and Sima Hui themselves, but just looking at the face of these advisers under his hands, he will not treat Pang Degong and Sima Hui badly. What's more, Pang Degong and Sima Hui's talents and deeds are worthy of respect.

Xiangyang Academy is a government-run academy, and students in Jingxiang Land who want to participate in the imperial imperial examination must first pass the examination of Xiangyang Academy before they are eligible. Academies with the same function as Xiangyang Academy include Chengdu Academy, Xuchang Academy, Xuzhou Academy and so on. Just like the structure of the pyramid, Taixue is located at the top of the tower, and the next floor is a county-level academy such as Xiangyang Academy, and then down are counties, townships, and villages. Through this hierarchical way of studying, Liu Xie was able to recruit most of the talented people to work for the imperial court. Although private schools have not been abolished, if they want to participate in the imperial examination, they must obtain a certificate issued by a county-level academy, and other certificates are not recognized.

A bottom-up mechanism responsible for sending talents to the imperial court was born. The advantage of this is great, although it cannot prevent the occurrence of the situation of going through the back door, but it can ensure the quality of those who participate in the imperial imperial examination, and there are very few people who abuse the number of people.

Visionaries can not only see the advantages of this talent selection mechanism, but also Liu Xie's dissatisfaction with the family's monopoly of talents. The imperial examination system, a means of cutting off the corners of the family, with the help of powerful military power, forced the family to follow the new rules drawn by Liu Xie. Families like Xun Yu and Zhong Xuan who are confident in their own children do not think that letting the children of the clan compete fairly with many poor children will fall into disadvantage, while families with insufficient reserve talents such as Chen Qun and Yuan Yao are not very willing to follow Liu Xie's rules.

There are many families in Jingxiang, especially after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, in order to avoid the scourge of war, families who originally lived in other places have also moved into Jingxiang, Zhuge Liang's Zhuge family is a clear example. These families did not oppose the imperial court's measures to replace filial piety with the imperial examination, because they had no foundation in Jingxiang, and such a good thing as filial piety and honesty basically did not fall on their heads, but the local families in Jingxiang were not very comfortable.

Originally, there was a means of promoting filial piety and honesty to control talents, but now the imperial court has deprived them of the right to "recommend talents" for the imperial court through the imperial examination. This also means that those poor children who originally needed to rely on them to have the opportunity to become officials could directly bypass them and recommend themselves by taking the academy exam. In order to relieve the worries of these reserve talents, Liu Xie was also thoughtful. As long as you can pass the county examination, you can get the money issued by the government, and if you pass the county examination, you will get double the money, and when you pass the imperial examination, you will be the reserve official of the imperial court, and you can be released as soon as there is a vacancy.

There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book, Liu Xie uses practical actions to make those students who are aspiring to be officials can study wholeheartedly without worries, but in this way, there is one less place where the family wants to intervene.

Xiucai, lifting, Jinshi, every time you pass the first-level examination, students can get the corresponding title, and these titles bring not only glory, but also bring substantial benefits, in this case, but anyone who is a little ambitious is unwilling to climb the family, sell their dignity.

The more the imperial court perfected the imperial examination system, the less the family could exploit loopholes, except for honestly following Liu Xie's way to let the children of the clan participate in the imperial examination, there was no other way to become an official. But in this way, the family's dissatisfaction with Liu Xie will be louder, the things that originally belonged to themselves were taken away by life, and no one was happy, but the arms couldn't twist the thighs, and if you want to cooperate with today's son Liu, you need not only strength, but also courage.

If the whole world can unite to oppose Liu Xie, Liu Xie may not compromise due to the situation. But the bad thing is that the family is not one heart, and it is difficult to unite together. This is where Liu Xie is smart, wooing a group, suppressing a group, and never making enemies of everyone. Xun Yu and Zhong Xuan's families are all vested interests, how can they give up their own interests for the interests of other families, you must know that Liu Xie has always taken care of the two families, and the children of his two families are also fighting for themselves, and there is no problem at all if they want to prosper for three generations.

It is precisely because of the "black sheep" like Xun and Zhong, and the emerging families like Du Ji and Fa Yan are also on Liu Xie's side, that the big alliance of the family that Chen Qun wants to promote will not be realized.

The minority obeys the majority, there are not many families like Chen Qun in the Han Dynasty, and the family in the land of Jingxiang, the Cai family has declined, and the Kuai family is now difficult to protect themselves, and they dare not go against Liu Xie, as for the Pang family, the Sima family and the imperial court are wearing a pair of pants, and the remaining Jingxiang family lacks a leader, in the face of Liu Xie, in addition to bowing his head is compromise, but he does not dare to resist.

Liu Xie did not feel difficult for these people who chose to bow to themselves for the sake of the survival of the family. In any case, Liu Xie's purpose in implementing the imperial examination was not to eliminate the Han family, but to take back the right to select talents from the family. The goal has been achieved, so naturally there is no need to kill them all, not to mention that the innate advantages of the family also make the talents produced by the family higher than those from poor families.

The imperial examination is to break the family's monopoly on talents! Liu Xie hopes that his court will have both outstanding people from families and talents from poor families, and he does not want the situation of Yiyantang, because once there is a situation of Yiyantang, it will be unfavorable to himself, the emperor.

National interests need to be aligned, and it is not necessarily a good thing for those in power to align their personal interests. Liu Xie is not a saint, and he doesn't want to be overshadowed by hundreds of officials in the future, so it is necessary to support one side and suppress the other party.

The central idea of the emperor's mind is nothing more than the word balance, the emperor is like a referee who is good at blowing a black whistle, neither can let the ring be harmonious, nor can the ring be flesh and blood, and the grasp of this is the means to test the emperor. So far, Liu Xie's court is quite stable, as more places are recovered, people from all over the country with different interests and demands are also flooding the court, and what Liu Xie has to do is to ensure that the distribution of power in the court will not be unbalanced, and filling with fresh blood is a means. Of course, the changes in the power of the court are like the rise and fall of the water, and they will not remain unchanged, what Liu Xie can do is to grasp the military power and not allow anyone to touch it.

There is a way that Xiucai's rebellion has not been successful for three years, and without the participation of the army, the battle in the court can only be regarded as a nest fight, no matter how it fights, it is within the controllable range. Although Liu Xie did not have any position in the army, he appointed himself commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, and others wanted to reach out to him to ask for military power, that is, to seek death.

In Liu Xie's heart, military power is a red line, and whoever wants it is plotting against him, no matter who it is. Unless Liu Xie is willing to give, whoever wants it will be unlucky. So far, in addition to the regular army, the soldiers of all counties and counties of the Han Dynasty also belong to Liu Xie's "private soldiers", and the local government has the right to ask for assistance but has no right to appoint, as for the officials responsible for maintaining law and order in the local government, although they obey the orders of the local government, but most of those people are also discharged from the army and assigned, these people have been educated by the loyal monarch since the day they entered the army, and if the local officials dare to be opposed, they don't even need the local garrison to dispatch, and the officials can take them down.

Liu Xie created a spider web, and he was the big spider in the middle of the web, and he could sense it at the first time if there was a little wind and grass anywhere. Long before coming to Xiangyang, someone secretly reported the situation of the Jingxiang family to Liu Xie, and Liu Xie also formulated this trip to Xiangyang because of this.

is about to start a war with Sun Liu, how can the rear be unstable? Out of this consideration, Liu Xie decided to let go of the Kuai family, otherwise the Kuai family would be able to make the Kuai family doom to Liu Beijun's sneak attack on Jiangling. This kind of punishment of the Nine Clans is just applicable to the great crime of rebellion.

Of course, capital sins can be avoided, but living sins are unforgivable. Liu Xie decided to let the Kuai family go for the sake of stabilizing people's hearts, but it doesn't mean that the Kuai family doesn't have to bleed. You can't kill people, so you can always pay a fine. In the face of the huge fine from the imperial court, the Kuai family was grateful to Liu Xie. Since he knew that Kuai Qi colluded with Liu Bei to seize Jiangling and was taken alive on the spot, it can be said that everyone in the Kuai family is in danger, and as a member of the Kuai family, they can't do it even if they want to draw a line with Kuai Qi. Rebellion, that is a big crime to be punished by the nine clans, if the court really asks the guilt, it doesn't care whether you participate in Kuaiqi's plan or not, it only depends on whether you and Kuaiqi belong to the nine clans.

That kind of despair with nowhere to escape before Liu Xie went to Xiangyang to express his attitude, tortured the nerves of the Kuai family all the time. Kuai Yue's initiative to abdicate and avoid suspicion cut off the last chance for the Kuai family to die and survive, and the Kuai family also complained about it. It's just that they didn't know that if Kuai Yue didn't know the current affairs at that time, then the Kuai family wouldn't be able to wait for Liu Xie to come to Xiangyang, and they would be attacked by Pang Lin, who was engaged in Xiangyang at that time. Kuai Yue's initiative to let Xian leave a trace of vitality for the Kuai family. It wasn't until Liu Xie came to Xiangyang that the Kuai family realized Kuai Yue's hard work.

The large amount of family savings and the return of the land to the public made the life of the Kuai family much more difficult than before, but the Kuai family was already very content to be able to escape death and save a life. They don't blame Liu Xie's black hand, they only blame Kuaiqi who caused all this. If you don't have that ability, you just want to succeed, and the result is that everyone suffers together.

The Kuai family is injured and their vitality is greatly damaged, but with Kuai Yue's means, it is not a problem to find an official position for the children of the clan. Although it is unlikely that high-ranking officials will appear in a short period of time, it is still no problem to ensure that food and clothing are not worried. Moreover, Liu Xie did not completely occupy the Kuai family's land as his own, according to the number of heads of the Kuai family, he still left a part of the cultivated land for the Kuai family, and if he took agriculture as a business in the future, he would also not starve to death.

Kuaiqi's life is not easy! As the culprit, although he didn't suffer any flesh and skin, the resentment and hatred of the clansmen, and the alienation and ridicule made Kuaiqi's life worse than death. He wanted to die, but his people wouldn't allow him to die at this time. Just kidding, you committed suicide in fear of sin, in case the court wants to ask the guilty family, do you want us to stand up for you? There are no doors either!

Before Liu Xie arrived in Xiangyang, Kuai Qi had been under house arrest at home, and he was guarded by a special person, and he would be pushed out to confess when the court asked for the crime. But Liu Xie didn't ask for someone from the Kuai family, as if he didn't know that there was such a person as Kuai Qi, but he just appeased Kuai Yue a bit, and then left a huge fine and floated away, as for the disposal of Kuai Qi, Liu Xie didn't say a word.

Although Liu Xie did not mention how to deal with Kui Qi, the Kui family did not intend to let Kui Qi go. Even if Kuai Qi is the most valued child of the clan by Kuai Yue, this time he poked such a big basket, Kuai Yue couldn't protect him.

Expelled from the Kuai family! It was the unanimous decision of the elders of the clan after deliberation. Kuaiqi, who regained his freedom, left the Kuai family with him, and only his wife Zhuge Shi, who had never left him since the accident. Looking back at the gate of Kuai's house, Kuaiqi had mixed feelings, his wife Zhuge silently clenched Kuaiqi's hand, and the silent encouragement made Kuaiqi's heart feel a little calmer, but just when Kuaiqi was about to take his wife to leave Jingxiang and go to other places to settle down, a team of soldiers and horses blocked Kuaiqi's way.

"What do you want to do?" At this time, he was already outside the city, in the wilderness, and Kuai Qi was a scholar again, so he couldn't help but be a little nervous and afraid, and he protected his wife and questioned the dozen strong men who were blocking the road.

"Don't be nervous, I've been ordered to wait here for a long time, please come with me, my master is invited." The leader of the lead, Wen Yan, said to Kuaiqi.

“…… Who is the owner of your house? ”

"Holy today."