Even at night in his own house, Guo Wei is used to thinking about the direction of the political situation, but at this time, he usually has an opponent to discuss, and this person is Guo Rong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Guo Rong had already been relieved of the dispatch of the guards, leaving only one official title, and of course Yu Lu. In addition, the position of the forbidden army has not yet been officially finalized, he is Guo Wei's live chess, of course, he can't fall into the position so early. Therefore, during this time, Guo Rong was ostensibly idle. In fact, it is not easy for him, and it is a very big test to shift from his previous position to the consideration of the overall situation of the Guo family.

"Boy Rong'er, why are you in a daze?"

"Oh father, I'm pondering, since the real power of the guard battalion has gone, only a false title, but the previous tenure was too short, and a reliable person has not yet been cultivated, so the power of the martial arts division Li Ye in the inner court is not trivial."

Guo Wei smiled faintly, and was just about to answer his slightly worrying words, when suddenly the porter sent a servant to report that a guest asked to see him at night.

"Who is it? It's so late, let him come back tomorrow. Whenever Guo Wei chatted with Guo Rong in the secret room, he was reluctant to meet visitors.

"Back to the lord, what I want to see is the Hanlin bachelor's will, the household secretary Wang Renyu, and the slave will go to persuade Master Wang to return early."

"Wait," Guo Wei didn't care about being the master's shelf, so he actually reached out and grabbed the servant's sleeve, "It's cold outside at night, hurry up and let him in." ”

Guo Wei ordered someone to light a large copper brazier, and when Wang Renyu came in, the room was already warm. At this time, Guo Rong also returned to his usual simple and respectful appearance, and gave him a big gift to meet his elders.

Wang Renyu hurriedly returned the salute: "I dare not be ashamed...... General Guo Xiao doesn't have to be polite. ”

Guo Rong observed Wang Renyu's expression when he returned the salute, and found that his face was full of sadness and doubt, and at this time he heard his father ask:

"Bachelor Wang's knowledge of the tribute, for the Ministry of Rites to lock the hospital for a full thirty days, it is really hard, now the provincial test has just ended, I don't know if something happened?"

Wang Renyu frowned, he shook his head and handed over a scroll of paper.

Guo Rong glanced at Wang Renyu again, whose face was full of error, and saw that his father had already unfolded the piece of paper.

"This ...... Shouldn't these be archived in the Ministry of Rites and awaited the court's evaluation? Why are you here? Guo Wei tapped his fingers on the paper, looking puzzled.

Guo Rongxin said: "It turned out to be a few provincial exam papers. ”

"Please also ask the Privy Council to take a closer look."

Guo Wei looked at the signature that looked up and said with a smile: "Oh...... It turns out that this is the baby who popped up in Dengzhou......" and frowned and skimmed through the strategy. When Guo Rong next to him heard this, he couldn't help but tilt his head to the side, and he couldn't wait to take a look.

After a while, Guo Wei sighed and threw a few exam papers on the table.

"Nonsense! Monkey business! ”

Guo Rong was about to pick up the test papers to see what "Kuixing" had written, but Wang Renyu said embarrassedly: "There is one more important matter...... I also want to show the privy to my face. ”

Guo Wei knew that there must be something inconvenient to mention in front of the juniors, so he waved his hand to Guo Rong:

"Guo Rong, you go out first."

Guo Rong had no choice but to walk out of the room in a huff.

He is in a small attic called "Qingyuan Pavilion" in Guo's mansion, and downstairs is a small garden, with water and stones, and a unique small bridge. Although the layout is cramped, the advantage lies in the clever structure. Guo Rong had no choice but to enjoy some of the scenery in the garden under the moonlight to ease his urgent curiosity.

It wasn't until Wang Renyu said goodbye that Guo Rong hurriedly returned upstairs. Guo Wei immediately handed over the few things.

"You can show me that too."

Guo Rong also nodded at the beginning: "This character is written neatly, neatly, and not as a whole, as if to say to the person who reads the article: I am modest and respectful, and I will never play treasure, let alone teach you a lesson." ”

But he didn't read a few dozen words, and he laughed: "Ha...... This one...... Is this also an exam paper? Hahahaha......"

Guo Wei saw that his son was almost smiling, but he didn't laugh with him:

"This is the so-called Kuixing that Liu Yanseng found, it's really a joke."

"However, I think there is some truth in this article."

"Tell me about it?"

For example, he said that in the past two years, even if the various armies and teeth have been transferred again and again, even if they have changed three times in less than a year, like Hezhong and Xuzhou, it is impossible to achieve results, and if there is no attitude of wholeheartedly advocating culture and education, and there is no way to give the literati a status, then there will be no real scholars who can govern political affairs, and there will be no situation in which "political affairs are decided by the central government". ”

Guo Wei nodded: "And he said that he should promote the matter of "respecting literature and not suppressing force", otherwise the country will be weak and unable to defend against foreign enemies.

It turns out that in Chengyuan's view, there are many stages in Chinese history regarding literature and martial arts. Literature and military affairs did have a separation in a very early era, but it was only "civil affairs" and "military affairs", not "civil officials" and "military officials", and asked: Is Confucius's disciple a politician or a military strategist?

Later, after continuous development, finally at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a distinction between "civil officials" and "military attachés", but the distinction between the two was not clear, for example, although the position of general in the Han Dynasty was set up for military purposes, but at the same time had the power of political decision-making. Moreover, although there is a slight difference between "civil officials" and "military attachés" at this time, they may not necessarily form real "literati" and "military officials". For example, Zhang Fei's title is a general, but he is a literati? Or a warrior? , I'm afraid it's both, just because the Wenwu Shu Path in the Yuan and Ming dynasties has already been truly formed, so Luo Guanzhong forcibly kicked it to the side of the warriors, creating an image of a rude martial artist.

It should be said that before the Tang Dynasty, there was no distinction between literati and warriors in the strict sense of the word.

Even in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, because the selection of officials for scientific examinations has not yet formed a real normality, the situation of not being civil, civil, and military is still not completely broken.

The scholars and nobles are too lazy to make a fuss, so they will take care of political affairs, and if their ambitions come, then they will "deploy weapons in the world". There is no distinction between civil and military - or scholars who are both civil and military, it is one of the hotbeds of feudal separation!

However, when the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms came, a group of bandits, officials, and officials who did not have the identity of scholars flew out as if they had been opened by Huang Chao in Pandora's box, and they smashed the old and new scholars of the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties. Warriors, this group that is truly independent of the scholars, has finally been born! Although Song Taizu himself was a martial artist, but for the stability of the country, he finally created a real literati bureaucracy, and the Great Song Dynasty perfected the imperial examination system, as long as he wanted to be a "scholar" and become a human being, he had to go to the scientific examination as a civil official.

Guo Wei and Guo Rong were born and raised in the late Tang Dynasty, and they have a deep sense of the process from "no distinction between civil and military" to "martial arts in the world", and it is precisely because of this that they smell a different flavor from Chengyuan's article and feel the new era he "foreshadowed".

"Chongwen doesn't suppress martial arts? It's easy to say. Guo Rong was a little unimpressed by this paragraph.

"Let's move on."

Guo Rong glanced at it a few more times, and then shook his head: "He said that if the Bianhe River survives for a day, the country will have no hope for a day, what kind of bizarre theory is this?" ”

"You haven't seen it all, his original intention is that the center of the country is not in Heshuo for a day, and there will be no peace, he wants to wait for the world to be peaceful in the future, so he will add another canal, so that Heshuo (that is, Hebei Province) and Jingkou (that is, Zhenjiang) are connected, and then move the imperial court to Heshuo, and the border will be conquered by the Son of Heaven."

Guo Rong carefully understood what he meant, and seemed to realize something.

Guo Wei continued: "He said that even if Yongji and Tongji dry up, the newly built road at Tongjingkou in Hebei must be saved." All these words written by this person, if they were in the field, would be simply crazy and unashamed, and the madness would be endless. However, if I see it in the deep hall, it makes me feel ...... Well...... As if he was about to point out the way out of the whole world, the following strategies two and three are the same. ”

Guo Rong smiled: "Is my father's evaluation of this person too high?" In any case, this person is useless," Guo Rong sighed softly again, "Thanks to us, I originally wanted to give him a champion, and then teach him to be a thing without a real job, and get some money." In this way, sending him away is that the matter of Deng Zhou's accompaniment to the capital will be shelved. ”

Guo Wei was still full of seriousness: "Send it away?" That's more than that! At that time, the Gongyuan Province had reached the second half of the test, and now the saint came in, and saw that this person's test paper was still empty. ”

Guo Rong was shocked: "What did you say?" Did he write these three essays with his last breath? ”

After being a guard general for a period of time and being whipped, Guo Rong knew Liu Chengyou's personality best, so he quickly sighed: "Since this is the case, it is a fluke, after all, there is no word on the exam paper at this time, otherwise this nonsense is only afraid that my emperor will be sick......"

"See......" Guo Wei sighed, "Our emperor not only saw him writing and discussing, but also angrily blasted out Bachelor Wang, who was locked in the courtyard, and let him stare at it." ”

"What? So angry that you don't even want the national system? Guo Rong stood up in surprise, and then nodded: "In this case, this Cheng Kuiyuan not only can't rank it, huh...... I'm afraid that this person won't be able to stay at all......"

"I can't keep it......"

Guo Wei also nodded slowly.