The wives of the ancients gave birth to sons and daughters, and concubines were people who could not be on the stage, and the status of the children born was too far from that of the children born to the main wife. Moreover, some people prefer to give away concubines, so you can see how low the status of concubines is.

Because of this, after Zhang Meng got the news that Wang Xu was about to marry the emperor's daughter, he hurried to Wang Xu's study and asked Wang Xu how to treat Zhang Xue.

Now that he got Wang Xu's letter, Zhang Meng was relieved.

Wang Xu smiled: "General Zhang, are you satisfied now?" ”

Zhang Meng smiled and said, "Okay, with the guarantee of the lord, I can rest assured." ”

For Zhang Meng, as long as the woman Wang Xu married does not affect Zhang Xue's position, he has no objection. It is normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, and to have several women. If there is only one woman in the family, I am afraid that some people will say that the woman is not virtuous and jealous. Therefore, Zhang Meng has no objection to Wang Xu's concubine.

Zhang Meng smiled happily and said, "Lord, you still have official business to do, so I'll go back first." ”

Wang Xu said: "Okay, you go down first!" ”

Seeing Zhang Meng leaving, Wang Xu shook his head and smiled bitterly, and immediately returned to his seat and continued to read.

The matter of concubines has always been handled by the Ministry of Rites. After Wang Xu promised the emperor, the holy purpose of the imperial court reached Wang Xu in the shortest possible time. And, a very large number of dowry gifts from Princess Huaiyang were sent to Languan, Liao Yun didn't let them in, and after taking all the things, let the people in the imperial capital return the same way, and after that, Liao Yun sent someone to send the princess to the Western Capital.

In fact, the emperor's move was not to really win over Wang Xu, but a new strategy of Yang Mingyue, while appeasing other small thieves, he slowly dealt with the three kings, and for the three kings, he was not able to fight the enemy, so he could only outwit him. Yang Mingyue's strategy is to pull one and place two, just like now. Wang Xu married Princess Huaiyang, so in the eyes of outsiders, Wang Xu really became a member of the court, so what would Hu Ling and Zhu Huai think?

So, the emperor made this move. It was held badly, and the intention was to let Wang Xu make enemies in all directions, and it evolved to the point that it was best to let the thieves kill each other, and then the court would sit back and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Soon after, Princess Huaiyang was welcomed into the Western Capital and became Wang Xu's concubine.

All of this was done quickly, a bit similar to the situation of flash marriages in later generations, and everything was done before I could react. Wang Xu saw the emperor's daughter. I was really surprised, I didn't expect that she looked better than Zhang Xue and Wen Mengliang, and she was smart, a bit of a Jiangnan woman, but she had the boldness of a woman outside her bones, which was quite energetic.

On the first night of entering the house, Wang Xu lived in Princess Huaiyang's boudoir, and the spring breeze was all night, so unhappy.

For several days, Wang Xu lived in another courtyard.

And then. Wang Xu left.

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At the same time, the literary and military examinations for the promotion of talents in the Western Capital were carried out one after another.

The assessment of the literary examination is not based on the assessment of classical theories as in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is based on the actual ability of the individual as the assessment, which is more targeted.

Because of this, many nerds who read dead books, or Confucian students who are arrogant and unruly but have no real talent and real learning, have been eliminated, and those who remain in the end are all really talented and learned.

Among them, the children of the big clan still occupy the majority. Poor disciples occupy a minority.

It can be seen that the right to speak is still in the hands of the big clan.

In the literary examination, there are many children of big families who enter the office. Among the big clans in the Western Capital, the children of the Qian family, the Li family and other big clans are the same, and each family is smiling after getting the results.

Although the official positions of the children of these big families are not large, the largest is the level of the county town master, as for the lowly official positions, there are many people who are small officials, subordinate officials, etc., but Wang Xu's strength is getting stronger and stronger, as long as he is an official under Wang Xu, it is a smooth road. As long as you are willing to work hard and do things steadfastly, you will definitely be able to rise step by step and enter the core of the officialdom of the Western Capital.

In the literary examination, the most outstanding people are Yan Zheng, Zheng Feng, Zheng Li, Zhang Du, and Fei Shi, most of whom are talents from North County and South County, and their talents are outstanding.

Among them, Yan Zheng, Zheng Feng, and Zheng Li can be said to be famous, especially Zheng Feng and Zheng Li, who were still fighting Wang Xu on the battlefield a few months ago, but now they are decisively pitched.

There is also Yan Zheng, this person can be said to be a famous person in Nanjun, and Han Shushu knows a lot about it, because the two have known each other before.

Wang Xu's order to seek talent made Yanzheng secretly moved. He has high cheekbones, a high nose, and a Chinese face, which is exactly the young man who once appeared outside the south gate of the Western Capital.

Zheng Feng and Zheng Li, both of whom are disciples of the Sword God, did not expect that they were both civil and military, and during the literary examination, many literati and Confucian scholars looked sideways.

In fact, the two of them originally went to the garrison of Wu County with Yu Yuan, but the recruitment order issued by Wang Xu at this time made the two of them tempted, not because of the official position, but because of Wang Xu's policy, Wang Xu exempted all the people from paying taxes, which made the two of them decide 2, if they could support such a bright monarch and not accept their ambitions, the imperial court would have paid a lot of taxes, and they should have died a long time ago!

Zhang Du, Fei Shi, a native of Beijun, comes from a poor family.

The two came together, they had long wanted to join the priesthood and had no chance to die of thirst, it can be said that they were both down-and-out scholars, and they were representatives of the children of the poor family, this kind of person was destined to be reused by Wang Xu.

Because of Wang Xu's order to seek talent, he began to emerge and show his talent.

In the literary examination, almost all the talents of the Western Capital are included.

However, when it comes to the martial arts test, there are relatively few generals, except for Zheng Feng and Zheng Li, who are both civil and military, there are almost no decent generals, and the most powerful ones can't take the three moves of these two people, and the rest of the children of the big clan are also, the literary talent is okay, but the martial arts are sparse, and there are almost no showers.

As soon as Zheng Feng and Zheng Li arrived at the school to compete, they were immediately recognized by Zhang Meng and Li Zhi, who had fought hundreds of rounds with Zheng Feng.

With the recommendation of Li Zhi and Zhang Meng, Zheng Feng and Zheng Li are superb in martial arts, and they are focused on by Han calligraphy and painting and Huang Quan.

This time, although the literary and martial arts examinations were selected as grassroots officials, as long as they were trained, Wang Xu believed that most of them would be able to go one step further and become the middle-level pillars of the Western Capital. Due to the large number of people selected, and countless appointments signed by the officials every day, Han calligraphy and painting can be said to be so busy that they don't touch the ground and have no leisure time.

When it comes to the development of the Western Capital, Han Calligraphy and Painting does not dare to slack off in the slightest, and he determines everyone's official position according to the assessment results of each literary examination candidate, and then signs the order.

At this point, Wang Xu's recruitment of talents has come to an end, but Wang Xu has not given up, he still has to continue to search for talents, Jinyiwei is also operating in each county, if you find a good talent, you must report it as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )