Volume Three: A Generation of Heavenly Pride - Chapter 25: The Sacredness of Monarchy (7)

Zhou Maosheng always felt that he was dreaming, and in the dream, he was hit by the circle.

It's no wonder that as a poor scholar in a poor rural area, most of the time on weekdays is to deal with hoes rather than books, although he has put a lot of effort into reading since he tied his hair, but no matter what, the part-time scholars who are halfway out of the house can't be compared with those nobles who have been born in the scholarly place since childhood, Zhou Maosheng does not have a far-sighted father, and he smashes pots and sells iron for his son to study in order to get ahead. The only reason why Zhou Maosheng's father supported Zhou Maosheng's study before his death was that the old man himself could not read the account book and suffered enough from the officials, so the big characters that Zhou Maosheng practiced since he was a child were not three-character scripts with a thousand characters, but from one to ten Chinese characters.

When it comes to reading, Zhou Maosheng feels that it is not too bad, but when it comes to making articles, he retreats, those gorgeous rhetoric and complicated rhetoric are not something that can be written with this bit of ink in his stomach, let alone those allusions.

Therefore, Zhou Maosheng's strategy basically does not have a series of allusions and quotations, but only follows the most superficial causal logic duty, and the whole text is not obvious, and most of them are in the vernacular. It's just that Zhou Maosheng's own words are not bad, Zhou Maosheng thinks that even if he fails to make the list, earning a "scrivener" can be regarded as having an official status.

However, it was his vernacular policy of "On Education" that was personally given a perfect score of ten points by Taiwei Li.

It is said that for his policy, Taiwei and Shizhong, the two Yanzhou bigwigs, had an argument, although Li Bin is not famous for his articles, but he also does not look down on pure vernacular writing, and he naturally has opinions on Li Wenge's article that gave Zhou Maosheng a full score.

However, Li Wenge's comments were also quite tricky, without mentioning the story of Wencai, and Li Taiwei crookedly criticized 20 words on the volume: grand arguments, far-reaching insights, clear logic, appropriate examples, and clear reasoning.

Li Bin once sneered mercilessly: "Huairen doesn't study at home. complained that other people's articles were written too deeply, how can it be reasonable? ”

Li Wenge did not allow excuses: "The people who opened the department and took the scholars were the future state and county officials, and what they wrote was to be submitted to me for approval." If I can't read what they submit, how can I approve it at my discretion---- then I can only reject it altogether! Governing the government is a real matter, and it can't be a little fancy, since now I am presiding over the military administration of Yanzhou. Then the state capital, naturally, will be based on what I see and hear. Although the Cultural Revolution did not read, it also knew that the articles were eternal, and the words of Wei and Jin Hua corrupted the customs, so there was a Korean official retro regularity, but although the Qin and Han styles were good, they were still not readable by everyone in the world. If you talk about poetry and songs, it is natural that the higher the literary style, the better, and then when it comes to the case proclamation. Practicality comes first. ”

Li Bin smiled bitterly, he knew that Li Wenge was by no means a person who did not learn and did not learn and did not know how to do it---- and he would never be able to take charge of Han Yu in a retro way---- but he really couldn't understand Li Wenge's stubborn attitude in terms of policy standards. Although Li Wenge's reasoning cannot be said to be vexatious, it has had too great an impact on the concept of traditional scholars. Li Bin is not worried about the present, but about the future.

"Huairen has his own reasoning, but this reasoning is difficult for the priests to convince!"

"I don't want everyone to ......be convinced," Li Wenge shook his head sincerely. In front of the avenue. Scholars should be persistent. Instead of blindly following blindly. As for the specifics of this matter. Xianggong can wait for the future to see what is happening. It is necessary to know that practice is the only criterion for testing truth......"

No matter how Li Wenge tried to get Li Bindi's approval. The end result is. Zhou Maosheng was named round because of the first overall score in seven subjects.

Yanzhou officialdom has an urgent demand for talents. The second day of the autumn festival. The Eighth Route Army Festival was a long history, and Qin Gu began to meet these middle-class candidates in the long history study. After receiving the interview, each candidate will receive a proclamation of appointment jointly signed by Qin Gu and Li Wenge. and the chief secretary of the government will check Cao to pay the tolls. Within three days, they will leave for local states and counties to take up their posts.

It varies according to the grades. The actual position of the distribution site varies.

Those who have obtained the degree of Jinshi are generally directly distributed to the three divisions and twelve cao of the Jiedu Prefecture to do the work, or the state magistrate's office is the master of the three cao sections. With the Jinshi birth ranking, the first place to distribute the state department as the main book of the canonical history. The lower ones are distributed to each county as the chief book of the captain. That is, the so-called pro-people officials. Those who excelled in a single subject were left in the state capital. They were appointed as the history books of the military commanders of each section.

For Jinshi and the first three tripods. It is clear that the assignment of work should be given preferential treatment. In the Tang Dynasty, most of them directly entered the center of the imperial court as the official of collecting and supplementing the relics, and were entrusted with the dispatch of the Zhishi Museum. This is undoubtedly a place that is favored by all the officials of the bureaucracy. There is no need to stay away from the prosperous Beijing division to go to remote prefectures and counties with extremely poor living conditions or even sparse population, to be so-called pro-people officials. Of course. In order to finally enter the main book, Xuan Ma worships the prime minister. Foreign official qualifications are indispensable. However, compared with the general imperial examination scholars. They can always be stable in the center, and then release the county after they have become a member of the five grades. At that time, they were patrolling as observers. At worst, you can also find a rich prefecture and county around Kyoto or Hedong in Hebei Province to be the last assassin. And all that. It's just that they have an extra "state and county" resume when they enter the political affairs hall and "bear the progress and peace affairs under the door of the same Zhongshu".

The so-called shape of the circle is not too much to call it the pride of the sky.

Although the treatment of Yanqing Qiufu's Sanding A is not as good as the national examination, it is still different from other candidates who are ranked lower.

Tanhualang Gao Shaoliang went straight to the main book of the Cao Hydrological Surveying and Mapping Section of the Waterway Transport Division of the Jiedu Prefecture, and belonged to the officials directly under the jurisdiction of the Jiedu Prefecture. Zhao Yuan, who is the leader of the Jincheng County, knows the military and political affairs of Jincheng County, and is under the seventh grade, and is the person with the highest rank and the most powerful among the foreign county officials.

However, as the appointment of Zhou Maosheng, it has never been announced.

For ten days after the list was released, Zhou Maosheng waited patiently. He thought to himself that even if he couldn't stay in Jiedu Mansion as an official like the Gao family's Xiaoyanei, it would be good to actually lead a county like Zhao Yuan. From his own heart, he would rather go down to the county to have a real experience, although the marshal officials are clear, when it comes to real power, they are not as good as foreign officials. He has even begun to guess which county the Shuai Mansion will send him to, the long orders of the two counties of Yan'an and Fushi are naturally impossible, and the county orders of Jinming and Fenglin counties are also vacant now, and they are currently in charge of the county Cheng, and these two counties are possible.

However, the marshal quickly dismissed his thoughts with an appointment proclamation. The former Yanzhou Buzheng Cao was engaged in Zhang Nai's removal of Jin Mingling, and he had the right to know the political affairs of Jinming County; Cui Bao, the former chief secretary of Yanzhou Buzheng Cao Si Agricultural Branch, was promoted to the post of Buzheng Engaged, the former Jinming County Cheng Liangyou was transferred to the chief secretary of Buzheng Cao Si Nong, and the former Linzhen County Ling Yao Mingyi was transferred to Fenglin County Order, and the right to know the political affairs of Fenglin County; The former Fenglin County Cheng Wei Guoming inspected the school Linzhen County Order, and the right to know the political affairs of Linzhen County.

Seeing that these two vacancies were filled in the blink of an eye. Zhou Maosheng had no choice but to set his sights on other counties, Xiazhou and Youzhou lacked county officials, he was prepared for this, but he felt that since Zhao Yuan could go out of Jincheng, he should not be sent to that kind of bitter place...... Perhaps, Gyeongju's Gao Shao Yuanju will judge himself.

This state of apprehension was maintained until he saw Li Wenge.

He is round, the captain personally ordered, and the marshal's meeting is inevitable. To his surprise, however, it was. Li Wenge didn't say a word of superfluous nonsense after seeing him, and directly assigned him an errand: "Qin Changshi's study has read all the papers of the scholars of the current Keqiu Dynasty, you go and read them carefully." Pick two of them to be your adjutants. ”

"Assistant?" Zhou Maosheng was confused.

"From the history of the Jiupin Book to the Zhijiedu military meeting, it is a clear and important errand......," Li Wenge said simply.

"Oh!" Zhou Maosheng's heart sank, he thought about it but didn't expect that his official position would only be nine grades in the end, although he was an internal official involved in the secret, but after all, it was not quite consistent with his identity.

"Taiwei has an order, Mao Sheng doesn't dare to resign, but Mao Sheng knows that the article is mediocre and the case is a matter of fact. I'm afraid it's not what students can do......"

Li Wenge looked at him strangely: "Who said that you want to do the crime?" ”

Zhou Maosheng was dumbfounded.

Li Wenge thought about it, and then realized that Zhou Maosheng had misunderstood, and he laughed and said: "It's that I don't say it clearly, I asked you to go to the undergraduate bachelor's degree to select two people to do the history of the Jiupin Shuling, they are your assistants, and they are sent by you. From today onwards, you will serve in the Inner Government, and the official Zhaowen will join the military! ”

Zhou Maosheng let out an "ah", he never expected Li Wenge to keep himself by his side. He is the one who was brought up by Han Wei, how can he not know what "Zhaowen joins the military" is all about? Immediately bowed down and said: "Han Gong Yu Maosheng has the virtue of knowing and encountering, Maosheng is not talented, and he does not dare to be in the same column as Han Gong!" ”

Li Wenge smiled: "Don't make so many courtesies at every turn. Han Wei stepped down from Zhaowen Academy, this is a matter of time, diplomacy and propaganda are important authorities. It cannot be in the hands of one person. I made this decision after consulting with Ki-in. Zhaowen participated in the military replacement candidate, and Qiren also belonged to you! ”

He said so. Zhou Maosheng couldn't resign anymore, and he said with a sneering face: "Actually, the students are counting on being released to a county outside and stretching their fists and feet." For a period of three years, if you can't be governed, students are willing to be military lawyers! ”

Li Wenge frowned and said with a wry smile: "I can understand, but there is more than a shortage of people now. Only two of the nine participating troops under my direct jurisdiction have now arrived, and the secretary, the history of the order, and the history of the secretary are all gone. Zhaowen Yuan is a critical place, and the public opinion propaganda and customs of the twenty-eight counties in the four states are all in it. Our imperial examination is not a three-year exercise, but every year, and in the future, we will add a lot of knowledge in chemistry and chemistry, which is not a trivial matter. No one is going to do it, can't I be the commander of the light pole in this section? ”

Although Zhou Maosheng didn't know what "Commander of the Light Pole" meant, he also heard that Li Wenge took this matter very seriously in his heart. At this time, he didn't know the current affairs, and he bowed down and said: "The student will live up to the trust of the captain!" ”

Seeing Zhou Maosheng resign, Li Wenge's face became solemn, he stretched out his hand and beckoned Zhang Guizhi, who was standing in the courtyard, Zhang Guizhi hurriedly walked into the outer hall and saluted with a flat chest: "My lord!" ”

Since the end of the Battle of Pingxia, Xifeng Minda led his troops to the north, Kang Shi no longer served as the commander of Li Wenge's personal army, for this young man with a resolute temperament and resolute style, Li Wenge regarded him as a general, so Li Wenge forced him to enter the Liutao Pavilion with the rank of commander of the independent cavalry battalion, and his position was taken over by Zhang Guizhi.

As Kang Shi's most tacit partner on the battlefield. Zhang Guizhi was a brave soldier on the battlefield, but he clearly did not understand the magnitude of his current responsibilities.

Li Wenge's original pro-army team was composed of elite cavalry, and although the scale was not large, its combat strength could not be ignored.

However, Li Wenge himself was very dissatisfied, in his opinion, such a pro-army team was a pure waste, and the idea of holding the elite soldiers in his own hands as much as possible was purely a warlord concept. Far from helping to enhance the combat effectiveness of the armed forces, this concept has created a situation in which the internal and external priorities are reversed. The practice of sending troops not on the basis of division of functions, but on the basis of combat strength, is incompatible with modern military concepts.

On the other hand, the stall was too big, and Li Wenge urgently felt that it was urgent to strengthen the security work. At present, the achievements made by the Yanzhou side in intelligence collection and analysis are not bad, and basically Li Wenge can be deaf and clear-sighted, but correspondingly the security work is not satisfactory. This problem was not obvious when the stall was not very large before, but now the Shuai Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion are opposite. There are dozens of large and small section-level administrative units in the Jiedu Prefecture, and there is no corresponding safety and security regulations and mechanism. I'm afraid that it will be a leak sooner or later.

In fact, Li Wenge yesterday found some people in the outer courtyard of Jiedu Mansion who had come to ask for a meeting with the local squires of Qin Gudi, which made Li Wenge shake his head again and again, and there were many police officers in the outer courtyard who were maintaining order, while his own soldiers turned a blind eye to these situations, and the scope of their responsibilities seemed to be narrowed down to the small scope of the military meeting in the inner court.

"Guizhi, this won't work. The security work of Jiedu Mansion should still be dominated by you, and the police are only auxiliary, and can only be responsible for peripheral work, understand? This is a pivotal land, and the responsibility of the guards is too great to be overlooked! Li Wenge's expression was serious, and there was a hint of blame in his words.

Zhang Guizhi smiled bitterly with some embarrassment: "My lord, since Brother Kang returned to the independent battalion, you have incorporated most of your own soldiers back into the combat unit. There are only two soldiers under the subordinates, and such a large courtyard can't be taken care of. ”

Li Wenge nodded: "The pro-soldiers are not used to go into battle to fight, when it is the turn of the pro-soldiers to go into battle, there will be nothing to fight in this battle!" I'll give you the name of forming an internal guard battalion. ”

"The Inner Guard Battalion?" Zhang Guizhi read the new term softly, but he didn't know what it meant.

Li Wenge nodded: "The internal guard battalion is different from the combat unit, its duty is not to fight on the battlefield, but to be on security alert. Therefore, the quality of the soldiers is relatively high. Literate people in the army should be high. I will issue an appointment announcement tomorrow, and you go to Qin Changshi to go through the list of the fallen scholars of the imperial examination. Pick up the children of poor families and homeless people to recruit. The establishment of the internal guard battalion is the same as that of the infantry battalion, with five capital and ten teams. But the armband should be equipped with a special armband, so I will find someone to design the plan. The internal guard battalion is not part of the combat force, and is not under the command of Sima, but is only responsible to me. The security and security work inside and outside the Marshal's Mansion, including the Prime Minister's Mansion, should be undertaken by the Internal Guard Battalion as a whole, and you will serve as the Eighth Route Army's internal guard to participate in the military, and the commander of the Internal Guard Battalion. It's a little late to do this now! ”

Zhang Guizhi blinked, not knowing what to say for a while.

Although he is stupid, he has heard a lot about things recently, this "joining the military" seems to be a great and important official rank, is the seventh grade, the battalion command of the combat unit is only from the eighth grade to the eighth grade, Kang Shi, the commander of the cavalry independent battalion, is currently the highest rank in the army, and he is only the captain from the seventh grade, his current military rank is just a lieutenant, but the command to join the army, the rank from the eighth grade, suddenly skip the fourth level and become the seventh grade on the section to join the military, This kind of pie-in-the-sky thing is too rare, right?

Li Wenge ignored his nonsense, and explained like a cannon: "The internal guard battalion is composed of nine infantry teams and a cavalry team, and the cavalry team is the communication team of the Marshal's Mansion, and every day there should be a team of troops specially responsible for setting up sentry posts on duty at the two gates on the front of the Marshal's Mansion, one team of troops is responsible for the security of the Foreign Dean's History Study and Sima Zhongjun's army, one team of troops is responsible for the security of the military conference and the White Tiger Festival Hall, one team is responsible for the security of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and another team of soldiers is stationed at the back gate of the Marshal's Mansion to respond to maneuvers in case of contingencies. You will be equipped with five four-wheeled carriages for the mobility of your troops. ”

Zhang Guizhi couldn't comprehend so much content for a while, he only knew that Dashuai was so serious, and naturally he had his reasons, so he only memorized these confessions one by one in his heart, and then pondered it himself later.

Li Wenge thought for a while and added: "The first thing the two Lingshi did after they took office was to establish a system of internal guard guards and a system of passes. The pass for the outer courtyard of the Shuaifu must have the signature and seal of Qin Changshi and Zhou Sima, the pass for the inner court must have my signature and seal, and the pass for the Xiangfu must have the signature and seal of Li Xianggong himself. All persons who do not have a pass, whether they are officials or civilians, must register when they enter and leave the Prime Minister's Mansion, and when they arrive, what kind of official business they have, who they contact and how long they stay, they must be registered one by one, and the contact person shall sign and sign the signature. ”

"In short, the duty of the internal guard is the safety of the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Guard, the post is exclusive, and the responsibility is the cardinal, not to be foolproof, but to have a record!" Li Wenge's eyes were blazing, and he crossed his fingers and explained to Zhang Guizhi seriously and carefully.