In early November, after Shen Di forced the state of Chu to accept the alliance under the city, Zhao Wuxian got everything he wanted for these wars: the submission of the state of Chu and the renunciation of the title of king, and Xiong Zhang promised to go north to meet Zhao Wuxian on the first day of next year. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, half of the Chu State occupied by the Zhao army was also completely included in his pocket, and Zhao Wuxian waved his hand to divide these newly conquered territories with a total population of nearly one million into five counties: south of Rushui is Runan County; Chen Guo, Hu, Dun and other places were divided into Huaiyang County, and Chen Guo, as a puppet state, also had to listen to the orders of Huaiyang County Shou; The land of Yihu Qunshu is Huainan County, and Cai Guo also has to listen to Huainan's dispatch. As for the territory inside and outside Fangcheng, the land of Danyang Xichuan in the west was included in the territory of Shangjun Zhao Yi; Wan and Shen in Fangcheng are Nanyang County; Xu and Ye to the north of Fangcheng are Luyang County......

After the initial demarcation of the counties and counties of Xinjiang, Zhao Wuxian began to let the army retreat north, returning to Luoyang via Luyang, or returning to Song and Lu via Chen. And he himself took the Chinese army to Yexian......

"Junhou, there is Ye County in front."

It was a cold day, the north wind had swept the land, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses hurried back to the eaves of Ye County, which was already the territory of Zhao State. Although the Chu people in Yedi were still dissatisfied with the Zhao army that occupied this place, they had no courage to resist and could only endure it silently.

Zhao Wuxian is not very worried about this, as long as he reigns for ten or twenty years, it can be completely digested here, and he also has to thank Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang for the water conservancy projects and thoroughfare built here, it is foreseeable that Wan and Ye will resume prosperity one after another, providing convenience for the Zhao army to go south again in the future, and at that time, it will be more than just ceding land and seeking peace.

However, the problem also arises, the territorial expansion of the five counties means that at least 50,000 northern troops must be sent to garrison, in addition, the administration of these places is paralyzed, after all, the military management is only temporary, and the county rule needs to be implemented as soon as possible, so a large number of talents are needed, so Zhao Wuxian has not passed by a place, he will meet and comfort the local elders, and ask them to recommend some talents.

As long as those local clans are willing to recommend people, it means that the local forces are willing to cooperate with the Zhao State, which is the first step in establishing a rule.

However, Zhao Wuxian also attached great importance to the appointment of Chu scholars, these people were depressed before, and could only defect to foreign countries, but now there is no need, Zhao Guozi will recruit talents, tempt them to go north to Yecheng to enter the Linzhang School Palace, or become local officials, and become part of the chain of interests of the Zhao bureaucracy.

However, this kind of large-scale recruitment, the people attracted are often mixed, no, as soon as Wuxian entered Ye County, there was a group of people who recommended themselves, Zhao Wuxian stood in the carriage and looked, it was no one else, but the group of disciples who followed Confucius who were known as "gentlemen and Confucians", among which there were several acquaintances, such as those who looked and figured like Confucius......

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If he is the same age as Zhao Wuxian, he is nearly forty years old, and he is also regarded as a highly respected person in the "Gentleman Confucian", but he is not as good as the original constitution and lacquer carving. Originally, they had a good life in Ye County, eating the rice sent by Ye Gong all day long, although they were exiles far from their hometowns, it did not affect their self-esteem, and they wore wide clothes and sleeves all day long, and talked highly, and contemptuously glanced at the short-hit Chu people who were working hard in Ye Di.

Who expected a Baisheng rebellion, but broke the livelihood of this group of parasites, Ye Gong on the grounds of lack of food, cut off the food for them, this group of gentlemen and Confucians suddenly fried the pot, originally all regarded officials as dung, at this time, in order to fight rice, they went to ask to be Ye Gong's staff, who expected Ye Gong just didn't want it, a group of people had a hot face and a cold buttocks, and they could only come back in disgrace.

In the past two years, they can only rely on the relief of Confucius and Yan Hui to survive. Yan Hui is truly knowledgeable, and has already made a name for himself in Wanye, with nearly 100 disciples, and Confucius, Ye Gong also dare not be disrespectful, plus Zigong, a rich man, has never interrupted his worship of Confucius, so there is still some money and food, and Confucius can't bear to watch a group of disciples under the door starve to death, and a group of people can barely survive.

Then, the state of Zhao attacked Chu, the Chu army was defeated, retreated to Fangcheng, and Zhao Zu, who was regarded as the "division of tigers and wolves" by gentlemen and Confucians, entered Ye County, and began a more strict period of military management.

Because Confucius is the master of the Taifu Lingzi Gong who controls the economic lifeline of the Zhao State, and is the father of the Confucian Lady in the Changle Palace, the Zhao generals who occupy this place do not dare to slack off on him, and they send food over, and the father-in-law Yu Boya who married the princess Shu also came to visit in person.

However, there are a few really tough people in the gentleman Confucianism, Yuan Xian and Qi Diaokai these two guys claimed to follow the example of Boyi Shuqi, and would rather die than eat Zhao Su (in fact, they have been indirectly helped by Zigong for many years), and they ran away with the refugees of Chu State, and now they are missing, and they don't know whether they died in the military disaster or which barren mountains and mountains they went to.

After two years of poverty, most of them were really afraid, and they didn't have the courage to run, so they relied near Confucius's house in the name of "protecting the Master", avoiding the military disaster and observing the situation.

With the defeat of Chu State and the loss of half of the country, the general trend of the world is in Zhao, which is already extremely clear!

So, the gentlemen and Confucians, who had finally polished their two pairs of tricks and saw the situation clearly, came to find Zhao Hou who was passing by with a shy face under the leadership of their new leader.

"In the past, Beidi and Nanban invaded, China was endless, and Qi Huan Gong could not control it, although Jin Wengong won Ziyu in Yanling, but he still could not spread the voice of Jingman, Hanyang Zhuji, Chu Shi exhausted, mourning. The doctor of Shen Zhuliang District of Ye County, even arrogantly called the county prince, we are often heartbroken, looking north to the Central Plains, looking forward to the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, such as looking at the clouds. Today's lord conquered Jianghan in the south, punished the barbarians, and avenged the revenge of King Zhou Zhao's southern expedition, and was in Xinjiang and reason, as for the South China Sea, it is simply to relieve the people in the upside down, and saving me is equal to fire and water! “

If he changed his attitude when he spurned Zhao Wuxian as the secretary of Lu and scolded him for stealing the country, he blew Zhao Wuxian and Zhao Jun into the sky.

The gentlemen and Confucians behind him who relied on hunger and poverty to recognize their cowardice and greed were also constantly nodding their heads and saying yes, and at the same time carefully observing Zhao Wuxian, seeing that this gentleman was dressed in yellow clothes, Peiyu Mingluan, and had an extraordinary bearing, above hundreds of millions of people, and the princes were afraid when they were angry, and they couldn't help but be speechless, secretly saying how they were blind back then, and they didn't throw themselves into their doors like Zigong Zaiyu and others, and missed the opportunity to be in the court.

Seeing this, Zhao Guo's generals and ministers couldn't help laughing, while Zhao Wuxian shook his head, let Youruo stop, and then asked: "Didn't the second and third sons be full of moral articles back then, and they almost attacked the widow as a scumbag?" Why are you so humble in front of you? “

If you couldn't say it anymore, her face turned crimson, and the group of Confucians behind her also lowered their heads.

However, Zhao Hou seemed to give them the stairs, and sighed: "Also, in the world, power, fame, and wealth, how can you ignore it?" The second and third sons came here to ask for officials, right? ”

was broken by Zhao Wuxian, who has always liked to beat around the bush and called him a polite and polite group of Confucians, who dare not speak.

Still thick-skinned, he smiled and said, "The master is right, we came here just to ask for an official!" ”

He turned around and said to the crowd, "What is there to be ashamed of? If the master does not appoint a monarch for three months, he will be in a state of panic, and the scholars will lose their official positions, just as the princes will lose their country! Now that the lord has canceled Shiqing Shilu, this is the luck of our scholars! Learning and excellence is the common feeling of the world! Being an official, glorifying our ancestors, and benefiting the people is naturally our yearning and pursuit. ”

"Learn and excel?"

Zhao Wuxian smiled: "That's a good point, scholars want to be officials, just like farmers want to farm the land, this is the norm in the world." It's just that the peasants rely on agricultural tools to cultivate the land, while the scholars rely on their talents for the officials. I just don't know, the second and third sons have followed Confucius for many years, in addition to reading and hyphenating, what talents have they learned? ”

The crowd of Confucians present was suddenly excited, and they all showed their signature talents, either they were proficient in a certain poem and could recite it backwards; or understand a certain process of Zhou Li, which can restore the simple etiquette system without any difference; There are even people who are good at handling funerals......

Zhao Wuxian listened and disagreed, but thinking about it, in Confucius, Zigong, Zai Yu, Ran Qiu, Fan Chi, and Yan Gao, who were talented and ambitious, had already taken refuge in themselves twenty years ago; and Zilu and Gongliangru, who are known for their bravery, were also reused by Ye Gong and became the martial arts of the Chu army; No matter how bad it is, Yan Hui, Zizhang, and Zeng Shen, who are the best in virtue and learning, are also regarded as erudite people in the Chu State, and they started a sect; One erected the banner of Confucianism in the palace of learning; Zeng Shen even opened a school in Langya, fooling his eldest son Zhao to be a good Confucian......

In short, under the disciples of Confucius, all those who are a little promising, those who are outstanding, and those who are established in their careers, in this way, it is self-evident what kind of waste these people are left.

He was a little too lazy to waste time with these people, and said slowly: "Poetry books and the like, which can be sold all over the country with an engraving plate in any bookstore in Yecheng, and are also compiled into the school textbooks. Nowadays, even elementary school teenagers can memorize the famous passages backwards. When you go to the university in the county capital, any college student can interpret the meaning. As for the Linzhang School Palace, the highest institution of learning, Zixia, Zizhang, Gongyang and others have long begun to make annotations for poems and books, and they have become a family. The second and third sons' little knowledge can only be compared with the elementary school students of Zhao Guo, if you want to rely on this as an official, you can't do it at all......"

Zhao Guo not only has martial arts, but also culture and education. Twenty years of culture and education are not imaginary, especially in Yecheng, unconsciously, Zhao Wuxian has created a young and vigorous literate class, and those talents are the basis for Zhao Wuxian's confidence to rule the world.

In the end, Zhao Wuxian also bluntly told them that to be an official in Zhao State, there is one thing that is necessary first, that is, to pass "Zhao Law"! If any of the Confucians present have studied, they will stand up.

For a while, no one came out, the group of Confucians looked at each other, I didn't expect that there was such a request, this group of people had been advocating morality and etiquette all day long, and they despised the law, and in the past ten years, it was not once or twice that they scolded Zhao Guo's law for ignoring human ethics here, how could they take the initiative to learn?

Seeing this, Zhao Wuxian couldn't help sneering: "The widow has heard that the so-called gentlemen and Confucians are all talented and useless people, and when I see it today, it is really ......."

As soon as these words came out, the group of Confucians were ashamed, and some people were about to retreat, but they were still cheeky and anxious, and stepped forward, regardless of the crumbling of the high Confucian crown, and bowed down and said: "Uncle! Although we are of great use, don't you hear about the horse bones of Qin Mugong's daughter in the past? ”

Of course, Zhao Wuxian knew that it was because someone persuaded him so much that he sent someone to save the life of Zheng Ren Deng Xi, but he picked up a treasure, not only for him to improve the legal system of Zhao State, but also to take the blame at a critical moment, where to find such a good courtier?

If you see Zhao Wuxian silent, he thought that he was moved, and hurriedly said: "Now that the lord has decided the world, there must be many scholars in Chu who are hesitating to take refuge or not. I have never heard that birds can choose wood, how can wood choose birds? “

"Coincidentally." Zhao Wuxian laughed: "My branch is a sycamore tree and a golden jade branch, and I am very picky." Thou art not diligent, thou art not divided into grains, thou art not aware of the general trend, thou art not to learn from the present but to learn from the past, and thou hast harmed the present, and the widowed officials are to serve the people and govern the locality, how can thou be corrupted? Of course, you want a few bones, but you have a pile of rotten bones, what is the use of coming? “

He waved his hand and said in disgust, "Blasting these people out!" ”

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"Is the Confucian Gate outside the door gone?"

Half an hour later, Zhao Wuxian, who was about to sleep in the former Ye Gong's mansion, finished eating and asked Wu Lin, the head of the Yulin guard.

"Most of them walked away dejectedly, and the rest of the people, led by Youruo, were still waiting outside the door." It was freezing this day, and the night was approaching, and those Confucian scholars were wearing thin clothes, and they were already shivering from the cold, but even if they had snot, they still refused to leave.

"Okay." Zhao Wuxian laughed: "I was humiliated by the widow, and I didn't pretend to leave with my sleeves on the high ground." This shows that these people still have one talent, that is, for the sake of officials, they can endure hardships and be shameless. ”

Wuxian stretched his waist, after all, he was not young, he was tired of traveling, and sometimes he had to go to the army to inspect in person, which could make him tired enough in the past few months.

"Let the attendant heat the charcoal in the house, and the widow will rest for a while, and then come back in half an hour to report. If there is anyone waiting outside, throw him a sheepskin fur and bring him in. ”

He muttered: "It's useless to be a Confucian student, and it's natural to be an official, it's good to use it as a dog, isn't it just a mouthful of fighting and eating rice?" There are no less than the widows, and they have their share! Appoint these remaining people as small officials and send them to Yunzhong, Shanggu, Shangjun, and Liaoxi, these remote places are mixed with Rongdi, and literate people are scarce, so let them teach the Central Plains script and language, and by the way, spread the kingship among the barbarian Rongdi, and brainwashing is not bad! “

"Yui!"

After Wu Lin took the order and left, Zhao Wuxian lay down for a while, but he couldn't fall asleep over and over, and for some reason, scenes from the past jumped out of his mind and reflected in front of him.

He said to himself: "This time I passed through Ye County, I came for a person, not for his disciples......

Tomorrow morning, Zhao Wuxian will go to see the dying Confucius, which is the second meeting between the two after 20 years......