The Northern Expedition of the Three Routes Army went smoothly, here in Kaifeng, Tokyo, Sanniang sat in the center, and began to adjust the place by virtue of the grand strategy of the Northern Expedition to the Jin Kingdom. It also depends on the national policy of the Great Song Dynasty, and most of the local military and political chiefs are civilian officials. Civil officials are very different from military attachés, they are deeply influenced by Confucianism, pay attention to the Mandate of Heaven, and are more compromising.

Sanniang was in Tokyo, since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, he ordered the local government to actively mobilize troops to reorganize the back of the army, and mobilized the money and grain of various military states to supply the war, and strictly supervised the local officials, but there were corrupt and perverted the law, all of them were quickly removed from their posts by thunderous means, and they were selected from the Shandong Road and appointed to official positions.

Sanniang is in Shandong Road, and the imperial examination of the feudal town is carried out every year, unlike the second dynasty of Huiqin, which canceled the imperial examination and took the Tai students as candidates for official positions, which is to accumulate a large number of civil and official talents as early as Shandong Road.

One of the stupidest things Emperor Huizong did was to stop the imperial examinations, and the officials were all selected from among the Taixue students. And within Taixue, without the imperial examination, how to select talents? Naturally, there is a Taixue sacrificial wine promotion, or it is to defect to a faction and be elected by the courtiers within the faction, and in this way, the students' emergence is no longer a fair exam, but has become a matter of relying on relationships or alliances with the powerful to get ahead.

Among the local officials, there are powerful relatives such as Liang Zhongshu, Cai Jiu, Gao Lian and so on. In fact, these people do not have the ability to govern the country, and they are good at harming local people and expropriating tyranny. In the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing and others controlled the government for decades, and many of the local officials were protégés of Cai Jing's party.

After Sanniang got Cai Jing's party connections from Gao Yu and Wen Huanzhang, she ordered Lou Minzhong, Huang Wenbing and others to screen them, and pardon the officials who had not harmed the people and were willing to follow Sanniang, and the rest of the people who had done evil things and had no ability to do things were naturally to be swept out, and then replaced by the people they brought from Shandong Road.

At this time, in the Great Song Dynasty, only Sanniang opened the town of Shandong Road and held the imperial examination every year, everyone spoke according to their ability, and had attracted a lot of students who failed to enter the Taixue to take the exam, these students were either poor, or arrogant and disdainful of the powerful, so many students came to Shandong Road to take the imperial examination in the town of Fan, and finally they could stay in Shandong Road as an official.

Just like Chen Dong, a student of Tai back then, honest scholars all went to Shandong Road to take the exam, and it was Sanniang's side that it could be said that the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty insisted on holding the imperial examination every year, which was also a means for Sanniang to take advantage of the incompetence of the Song Dynasty and gather the world's upright scholars for their own use. In Shandong Road, under Sanniang, in addition to the many fierce generals, there are more talented civil officials.

After Sanniang sacrificed to Confucius that year, Qufu Kong had begun to fully support Sanniang, and it was even more supported by scholars all over the world. Sanniang also put forward her own Confucian views when she was on Shandong Road, which was the school of mind proposed by Wang Yangming in later generations. This school of thought pays attention to the knowledge of things, the unity of knowledge and action, and the application of learning.

Sanniang's Confucian school is very different from the gradually flourishing Zhu Cheng science in the Northern Song Dynasty, although Zhu Xi was not born at this time, but this Confucian school of science has been carried out under the leadership of Ercheng in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the middle of the court, Yang Shi, who attaches great importance to science, is an official, and science has begun to rise.

Science pays attention to respecting heaven and eliminating human desires, paying attention to heaven and human ethics, and paying attention to etiquette and religion. The psychology advocated by Sanniang is just the opposite of science, it respects more human nature and guest reality, guides people into heaven from the unity of knowledge and action, and pays more attention to Confucianism.

Since Sanniang began to advocate this school with the support of Confucius in Shandong Road, there are many Confucian students who have become supporters of this school, in Sanniang's view, Confucianism is not useless, on the contrary, the school of mind is more suitable for the current dynasty, and Confucianism should pay more attention to learning and applying learning. At the same time, Sanniang added a retro meaning to her school of mind, emphasizing that Confucianism should restore the six arts of the gentleman, and learn from the Confucian scholars of the Han Dynasty, poetry and swords go hand in hand, and the gentleman should not only know the book and reason, but also cultivate the martial arts, just like the Confucian students of the Han Dynasty. The perfect Confucian morality and behavior in Sanniang's mind are like the Confucian scholars of the Han Dynasty, with poems and swords in hand, rather than the useless scholars after the Song and Ming dynasties.

After the rise of Sanniang's school, the world became the Taishan School, and most of the civil and cultural officials in Shandong Road were people of this school, and by replacing the corrupt officials in various places with these people, Sanniang was confident that the Taishan School could be spread more widely, so as to achieve the purpose of resting Confucianism, so as to revive the Han people in the future.

They not only learn the Book of Poetry, but also learn to cultivate water conservancy, but also learn natural science, so as to govern the country, not like other officials in the Song Dynasty, only pay attention to power, royal people and how to bend and deceive, pit the people, and not like the later Song and Ming officials, only know the etiquette, but do not know the military strategy. It is not like the later Ming and Qing dynasties, which emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, and degraded martial arts and culture.

The edicts of Kaifeng were issued one after another, and thousands of civil officials on Shandong Road who had been honed in various official positions went to various places, either to take over the state, or to take over the county, or to take over the academic officials, and began to take over the political situation in various places. The local civil officials who are not satisfied are powerless to resist, firstly, Sanniang is starting from the righteousness of the imperial court to resist gold and occupy the commanding heights of legal theory, and secondly, the magistrates of the Great Song Dynasty are not clean, and there are a lot of corrupt and perverted the law. It must be known that the local military strength in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty was extremely weak, otherwise there would not have been a situation where hundreds of thieves occupied a hill and the local government would be helpless.

Within a few months after the start of the Northern Expedition, Sanniang replaced more than two-thirds of the officials in the world, as Sanniang said, there may be a shortage of people in the world, that is, there will be no shortage of officials.

As the person who did the matter for Sanniang, Sanniang chose Lou Minzhong and Huang Wenbing. Just after the Northern Expedition, Huang Wenbing was recalled to Kaifeng from Lin Chong, Shanxi, and Su Yuanjing and Li Gang returned to Kaifeng at the same time.

Sanniang saw Li Gang first, Su Yuanjing and Li Gang set off from Baidi City and went north by water, while Huang Wenbing was delayed for some time because of the Taiyuan War. After Li Gang met Su Yuanjing, he read the letter written by Sanniang, and Su Yuanjing analyzed it clearly, plus Li Gang valued the country more than the king, so he quickly agreed to allow Su Yuanjing to return to the dynasty as an official.

After arriving in Kaifeng, Su Yuanjing led Li Gang to Sanniang's Taishi Mansion to see Sanniang, when he entered Taishi's Mansion, this was originally Cai Taishi's mansion, only to see that there was no glitz and luxury when Cai Taishi's Mansion was here, and officials at all levels were in a hurry, and the entire Great Song Dynasty military and political affairs were issued from here, and the officials who came and went were extremely busy, and it seemed to be a thriving color.

Li Gang sighed after reading it: "In the past, in Taishi Cai's mansion, he was arrogant and lascivious, and the officials who came and went were all rich and gifted, and they were rich and wealthy, but now it is a pragmatic and truth-seeking, busy scene of military and political affairs, which is really a new atmosphere." Su Yuanjing said with a smile: "This is the difference between Master Hu and Master Cai, she is really doing things for the world." ”

Entering the house, in the static hall of Sanniang's office, Li Gang saw Sanniang, although he had several encounters with Sanniang before, but they were all in a hurry, and now when he saw him again, he saw Sanniang wearing a black hat hunting suit, bright eyes, soft eyes with rigidity, and graceful when acting in government affairs, and his subordinate officials were respectful.

Su Yuanjing and Li Gang waited on the side for a while, only to see that after Sanniang had just assigned Lou Min and others a few errands, Lou Min and others retreated, and Sanniang got up to greet Li Gang and Su Yuanjing.

After the two met with Sanniang, Sanniang ordered someone to serve tea, invited both of them to sit, and didn't talk nonsense, so she opened her mouth and smiled: "Li Xiang's ability to return to the dynasty is a great blessing for the country." Li Gang said humbly: "The master said that he was joking, now that Li Mou is white, he is no longer an official, and Li Xiang does not dare to mention it." ”

Sanniang waved her hand and said: "Li Xiang is the prime minister in my heart, the official body is just a piece of paper, and those who can sincerely serve the country and the people are all prime ministers." After a pause, Sanniang said: "Now that the Northern Expedition is tight, the Right Route Army is under the command of Deputy Marshal Yue Fei, and it urgently needs a highly respected person to go to the town, I don't know if Li Xiang is willing to go?" ”

Li Gang didn't want to think about it and said: "It is the duty to defend the country and protect the family, Li is willing to go, even if he is only a pawn in front of the army." Sanniang stroked his palms and smiled: "Li Xiang is really a person who cherishes his family and country, and what others and leaders care about is what kind of official position he can get, but Li Xiang only wants to go and make a judgment." ”

At that moment, Sanniang got up and took out an official letter from the official case and said: "Li Xiang has never returned to the court, and has already reported to His Majesty and the imperial court, so he named Li Xiang as the right servant and the Zhongshu squire, the scholar of the Guanwen Palace, and the position of marshal of the right army of the Northern Expedition." ”

Li Gang hurriedly got up to pay respects, since he was demoted by Qinzong, he has been worried about the national disaster, when the second emperor was in trouble, he was even more anxious, and now he can lead the Northern Expedition, naturally he is agitated, after receiving the official letter, the old tears are all over the place, almost choked.

After a few words of persuasion between Sanniang and Su Yuanjing, he ordered someone to lead Li Gang to Yanqing to order troops, Li Gang did not shirk, and ordered 500 forbidden troops to escort him on the day of Kaifeng, and went straight to Laizhou Port on Shandong Road, where its own navy sent ships to escort Li Gang north to Yanjing and take charge of the military affairs on the right road.

After Li Gang left, Sanniang's heart finally completed a grand wish, among the three heroes of the anti-Jin Dynasty in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Li Gang and Zong Ze both avoided the regret of history, and the two anti-Jin heroes could personally lead the Northern Expedition, and they did not have to shout across the river before their deaths like Zong Ze. The only fly in the ointment is that the seed master Dao has been martyred and has not been able to lead the army in person, and his younger brother has led the Northern Expedition by the seed master, which can be regarded as a little regret.

Sanniang felt nostalgic for a while, and then asked Su Yuanjing to sit down and talk, and then told Su Yuanjing about her strategy of adjusting the officials in various places. Su Yuanjing is naturally supportive, and the rule of officials in the late Northern Song Dynasty was extremely dark, and it also reached the point where it had to be adjusted, and Su Yuanjing was also in favor of taking this opportunity to adjust.

But Su Yuanjing still raised his worries, and only said: "It is a good thing for the Taishi to clean up the world's officials, but the people appointed must be impartial and upright, and they can be ruthless, otherwise the decree will not be fully implemented, and I am afraid that the rectification of the officials will be abandoned halfway." ”

Su Yuanjing didn't say it too clearly, Sanniang also knew the key, what he was worried about was that the officials and officials were protecting each other, the world officials were corrupt, not one or two officials were like this, but at that time, the Great Song Dynasty from Cai Jing down, officials at all levels were corrupt and collapsed. Otherwise, the appointees will not be able to resist the pressure and will give up halfway, and the rectification of the government will only be a decree on paper.

Sanniang smiled faintly and said: "Don't worry about this matter, I have already found two candidates, and these two people will definitely become cool officials in the world." ”