After Liu Qi consulted with Jia Xu, he ordered Huang Zhong, the assassin of Yizhou, to actively prepare for the grain and straw, and ordered Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, Gan Ning, Ma Chao and other generals to train soldiers and prepare for the conquest of Liangzhou, and ordered Li Dian, Huo Jun and others to repair the tools for defending the city, deep ditches and high forts, and strictly defend the fortresses in Hanzhong.

At the same time, the Xiao Guards and the Praetorian Guards also began to rest and recuperate, preparing to recuperate and recharge their strength, and set out with themselves to attack Xiliang.

Liu Qi's preparations for the expedition were set for ten days later, because in these ten days, he would personally preside over one thing, that is, to preside over the last round of the first imperial examination in history, the palace examination.

Other subjects such as the Ming Classics, Ming Law, Ming Calculation, Agricultural Science, and Medicine have all ended, allowing him to harvest hundreds of talented and talented people, and the most valued Jinshi and Military Departments were personally presided over, inspected, and awarded according to regulations.

The Jinshi Department mainly examines policy theory, and Liu Qi investigates the current development strategy of Dachu, but finds that the talents of Zhou Budo, Ma Liang, and Dong Yun are particularly prominent.

Zhou Budo's policy of "guarding Yanyu, breaking Xiliang first, and then trying to close Long" coincided with Liu Qi's proposition, and was cited as a genius by Liu Qi, although he was only 14 years old, he was named the champion by Liu Qi, and was exceptionally promoted to be in the middle of the matter, and was the fifth product, responsible for the consultant's response and advice.

Ma Liang paid attention to the development of agriculture and commerce, especially the hoarding of grain, and advocated the implementation of the equalization law, funded by the government, to purchase peasants' surplus grain at a fair price in good years, and sell reserve grain at a flat price in disaster years, which could not promote grain income and prevent businessmen from blackmailing peasants. This point is deeply agreed by Liu Qi. was pointed out as the eye of the list, and was hired as the head of Taicang, from the fifth grade. It is responsible for the establishment of granaries in various localities, the sale or purchase of grain, the collection of grain taxes, and the supply of grain and grass to the military.

Dong Yun, on the other hand, won Liu Qi's appreciation for his outstanding administrative skills, and did an extremely thorough and meticulous job in dealing with some emergency problems, and was hired as Shang Shulangzhong, from the fifth grade.

In addition to Zhou Budo, Ma Liang, and Dong Yun, Jinshike also admitted Lu Xun's father Lu Ji, Gu Yong's son Gu Shao, Zhang Zhao's son Zhang Cheng, Zhang Hong's son Zhang Xuan, Zhu Zhi's son Zhu Ji, Chen Deng's son Chen Su, Liu Ji's son Liu Ji, Pang Tong's brother Pang Lin, Pei Qian's brother Pei Jun, Han Ji's son Han Zhao, Fu Xun's brother Fu Yun and more than 30 people from the Hanmen family were born as Jinshi, as well as hundreds of students from the same Jinshi. These people were all arranged to serve as county magistrates, county magistrates, county lieutenants, and other positions.

In the military examination, Quan Cong won the championship of martial arts with his bravery and military management skills. was worshiped by Liu Qi as General Zhaowu, and he was the fifth grade; Ma Tan became an example for his art of war and strategy, and was worshiped as a military priest's sacrificial wine; Tanhua is Ling Cao's son Ling Tong, who was appreciated by Liu Qi for his martial bravery, virtue, and art of war. He was worshipped as the general of Yamen; In addition, there are Huang Xu, the son of Huang Zhong, Tai Shixiang, the son of Tai Shici, Zhu Cai, the son of Zhu Zhi, Luo Tong, the son of Luo Jun, and others, as well as Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Ma Zhong, Yan Zhi, Chen Shi, Lu Dai, Xie Jing and others from the poor family as Wuju people, and were awarded the positions of military Sima, school captain, and Zhonglang general respectively.

Of course, whether it is the talents selected by the Jinshi Department or the Wuju, the official positions they are awarded are only on probation for half a year, and if they are competent within half a year, they will be formally appointed, otherwise they will be reassigned, and even if they are derelict in their duties, they will be punished.

But even so, Liu Qi's selection this time was very strong. The scale and the number of officials awarded also surpass history, so that all the talented people in the world are inspired. Even those who were not selected were not dissatisfied, because they knew that as long as they worked hard, they would still have a chance in the future.

Originally, the family represented by Chen Qun was still worried that a large number of poor people would be used, which weakened the influence of their family in the country. However, they saw that whether it was Jinshi or Wuju, most of the people in high positions were children of the family. The uneasiness and panic in their hearts dissipated, so they also spared no effort to support Liu Qi's selection.

And for such a result, Liu Qi actually knew it from the beginning, he understood that most of the famous ministers and generals in history were born in the big families, otherwise they would not have the extra financial resources to train their children to learn literature and martial arts, plus his rule also needs to be supported by the big families in various places, so there is no dissatisfaction with the result that the big families occupy the majority of talents.

However, after all, Tongguò was a scholar in this imperial examination, and there were still some Hanmen children who were included in his command, although their status was not high, but after all, this was a beginning, presumably in the future, with the continuous development of his various education in various parts of the world, there will be more and more Hanmen children under his rule, and the influence will definitely become more and more extensive.

As a college student who traveled from later generations, he naturally knew the bad impact of the scholar gate valve system on history.

As far as the matter is concerned, the scholar gate valve system has indeed cultivated a group of hereditary nobles, and these families have formed the cradle of talents, well-dressed families, and have contributed many outstanding talents to all dynasties.

For example, Pei Qian's descendant Hedong Pei family, from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties in the six hundred years, the Pei family has produced 59 prime ministers, 59 generals, 14 Zhongshu Shilang, 55 Shangshu, 44 Shilang, 11 Changshi, 10 Yushi, 25 envoys, 211 assassins, 77 Taishou, 21 horses, 117 Jinshi, including 11 civil and military champions, 2 Bangyan, and 3 queens, 4 princesses, 2 princesses, 20 princesses, etc. There are more than 600 people in the official history, and there are more than 3,000 officials above the seventh grade.

Many of these ministers are talented, have a lot of official reputations, and they have made indelible contributions to history, but we must not admit that this kind of scholar system is only limited to a small range of talent training, but it is to stifle the opportunity for more scholars to forge ahead, so that the talent training mechanism is extremely unfair, making the family power stronger, extremely affecting the centralization of power, and also affecting the progress of the times.

What's more, in the process of long-term development of every family, there will be a decadent atmosphere, and the breeding and spread of these decadent, extravagant, arrogant and other tendencies will eventually lead the trend that affects the entire dynasty, and eventually make a dynasty quickly decay under the drive of this atmosphere.

However, even if the power of the family is recognized in later generations, it is by no means possible to eradicate it overnight. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the people in power recognized the threat of the family clan to the imperial power, so they began to support the clan to fight against the clan, which could only lead to more and more chaos in the regime, and finally even the Eastern Jin Dynasty was wiped out by the clan of the family.

The Tang Dynasty can be regarded as the most prosperous period in history, but even in the Tang Dynasty, after the efforts of several generations such as Tang Taizong and Wu Zetian, the scholar gate valve system is still stubborn, and even the dispute between the family and the Hanmen has become one of the three major political tumors in the late Tang Dynasty.

It is precisely because he has a clear understanding of the influence of the family and has a long-term plan to eliminate the influence of the family, and he cannot be impatient at all, Liu Qi is not impatient, but some gradual measures gradually weaken the influence of the family, and little by little the later scholar gate valve system is nipped in the bud.

Of course, he knew that after the development of the Han family for two hundred years, even if he wanted to bridge its influence now, it would be a process of decades or even hundreds of years, and this process could not be completely ended even until he died of old age, but he thought that with his continuous efforts, he would always develop in the direction he expected.

Of course, he is only making a slight start now, because if there is no unity today, he must still rely on the support of the family to win the world, and the favor of the family is bound to continue, and it will be even more obvious than before.

Therefore, in today's imperial examinations, he really takes materials as his main purpose, and slightly suppressing the family is just a matter of taking sheep.

In any case, after this imperial examination, Liu Qi not only encircled those old and new subordinates under his command, but also recruited a large number of talents, regardless of their background, real talent and real learning is genuine, he believes that with the assistance of these people, his great cause will definitely go further.

"Now the prosperity of talents under my rule is unmatched in the world, Hugh said that in the Guanzhong region where there is a shortage of talents today, even Cao Cao, who is known as a meritocracy, is probably far less talented than Cao Cao. I use such a vast territory, such a strong economy, and such a strong talent base to deal with Cao Cao, even if he has the ability to reach the sky, I'm afraid the world can only be given to me, right? Looking at the talent list of all aspects selected for this imperial examination little by little, Liu Qi thought smugly in his heart.

At this time, Jia Xu slowly came to Liu Qi and said softly: "Lord, now that the matter of selecting talents has come to an end, the rectification of the Praetorian Guard and the Xiao Guard Army is almost over, and now Huang Zhong, the assassin of the state of the state, has come to report, Liu Bei has led a large army to conquer Wuwei, Han Sui led 30,000 elite cavalry to meet the coalition army of Liu Bei and the Huns, and now there are only 20,000 soldiers and horses of Yang Qiu, Candidate and Chengyi in Longxi County, which is a good opportunity for us to attack, I don't know when the lord will consider the westward expedition of the army?" ”

Liu Qi suddenly woke up from his thoughts, and then said with a smile: "Since the Duke of Qin has given us the opportunity to create a zào, if we don't take Longxi and Jincheng, wouldn't it be disrespectful?" In this way, our army will set off from Xiangyang tomorrow, along the water and into Hanzhong, and then we will join forces with Huang Thorn Shi, an army of 100,000 people to conquer Liangzhou, this time we vow to seize Longxi, Liu Bei will be completely locked up in the land of Guanzhong, so that he will never have room for development, hehe, the land of Guanzhong is barren, Liu Bei has to guard against us, when the time comes, we don't have to fight, just continue to add troops to drag him to death. ”

"Hehe, the lord's clever strategy, and Xu Zheng, Liu Bei thought that he would be able to become the ancestor if he got Guanzhong, but he didn't expect the speed of the development of the lord's strength far beyond his expectations, when he was competing with Cao Cao and the state, the lord had occupied the entire Bashu, completely blocking his development path, if Liu Bei knew that there would be today's situation, I don't know if he would regret being greedy for cheap, and Cao Cao would compete for the state?"

Jia Xu's eyes were full of ridicule, and he said leisurely. (To be continued)