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On the tenth day of the first month, it is the first sunny day after the snow, and the spring is cold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The examination was officially held in Jingzhou Township, and more than 200 students from the four prefectures came to take the examination, which squeezed the dilapidated and cramped school hall.

Zhang Yue transferred 300 tooth soldiers to maintain the order of the field, and asked Feng Qianhou to lead the subordinates of the Jiedu Mansion and dozens of officials from the state government to come to invigilate the examination. Zhang Yue personally presided over the opening ceremony of the township examination, and left after the students entered the examination room of the school, he still had a lot of things to do, but he did not have time to delay in this matter for a few days.

On the morning of this day, the Hu family and the Liang family of Jingzhou first transported more than 2,000 stone of grain, and Zhang Yue asked Shi Chenghong to take the soldiers of the Ya to receive it, and move the grain into the official warehouse directly under the Jiedu Mansion for storage. Someone takes the lead, and it should not be a problem to collect the full amount of military rations next.

The army began to reorganize and train under the support of Shi Chenghong and Liu Wenbai, but there was still a shortage of two officers, and several subordinate battalion commanders were also missing; The quality and weapons and equipment of the town army are much worse, but there is no shortage of officers, and many people have the command and head of the army but there is no real shortage, and they all want to squeeze into the tooth army.

As soon as Zhang Yue entered the barracks, he saw that thousands of soldiers on the school field were practicing in the queue, and they were about to step forward to take a look, when Liu Wenbai came over and asked: "Envoy! There is a shortage of officers in the Tooth Army, and I have prepared the shortlist, do you see if it will be filled? ”

"Is there a vacancy for the first rank officer?" Zhang Yue asked, if there are not many shortages, you can promote the head.

"There are a few of them! This is when the predecessor Zhang Yuanjun was reorganizing the army, he transferred the people who were stuffed in several wealthy families out of the Ya Army, and they have not filled the vacancy. Liu Wenbai was familiar with the situation and said.

"Oh well! The roster of officers who had participated in the Battle of Huining in Guangshun in the past three years was transferred out and carefully considered. You know the town army, if you can't do it, you have to change people! Zhang Yue was a little helpless, time was pressing, it was too late to adapt like the Zhenyuan Army, and there were not so many qualified officers.

Walking into the daily office of the barracks, Liu Wenbai transferred the list of candidate officers, but there were only twenty or thirty, which was prepared for the tooth army. The tooth army is the foundation of the marshal's life and the guarantee of authority, otherwise there will be a mutiny in the town army, and the newly appointed marshal has not yet taken root, so he will have to run away.

Zhang Yue took the roster and reviewed it one by one, checked fifteen people and copied it again, and the rest of the personnel, plus Liu Wenbai's other transfer, went through the sieve again, and they will be added to the town army. But Zhang Yue had never seen these people, so he asked Liu Wenbai to find them, meet them one by one, review them again, and replace a few candidates, and these things were busy all morning.

Taking advantage of the noon return to the government for dinner, Zhang Yue filled in the blank and finally signed his name, stamped the marshal's seal, and went to the barracks in the afternoon to summon the whole army to line up in the school field and officially issue the appointment.

The former commander of the Tooth Army promoted Wei Lingze and Hao Jingwu to the chief and deputy capital of the Tooth Army, both of whom were in their twenties, from other states, and had participated in the Battle of Huining. There were five people in the command of the battalion under him, and he was also promoted to the head of the capital. When someone is promoted, all the officers and officers are very happy, because the promotion of a colleague means that the promotion path is not monopolized, and they may also be promoted.

The town army all had military numbers, called the Baoding Army, a total of five battalions, more than a dozen people were demoted, and the original positions were all promoted from the Ya Army to the past officers, including the original military envoy, Du Yuhou and other four senior officers, all suppressed at one time.

Yao Keding and Ma Tan, the commanders of the Yading Army, were promoted to the chief and deputy commanders of the Baoding Army, and Wei Yuan and Feng Shouxin, the deputy envoys of the Yading Army, were promoted to the chief and deputy capitals of the Baoding Army. Eight people from the commander of the battalion and the head of the capital were replaced, which can be regarded as the completion of the rectification of the structure.

Before these people's positions, they were all empowered or checked, which means that they will be replaced again. On the spot, many people were indignant, scolding, and complaining about unfairness.

"What the hell is going on, my family has a few hundred stone of military rations, and I am not allowed to die, but I am demoted, this surname Zhang doesn't know how to do it!" An officer shouted in the crowd.

"Isn't it? In the past, Wang Renho and Zhang Duo took office, as long as the food was issued, the Privy Council issued a decree, my family has three heads, I was expecting to make up for it this time, the surname is too ignorant of the system, not according to the rules of the matter, not to our family to pay food, but also not to give benefits, what do you say? The other immediately responded.

Most of these clamoring are the children of the wealthy family, and Zhang Yue completely saw it in his eyes, his face became darker and darker, and he scolded: "Everyone, listen up! Don't be complacent about those who are promoted, and don't be depressed if you are demoted, starting tomorrow, the next training is the time to test you, and whether you can keep your current military position depends on your performance. It is expected that the army will be sent to Liangzhou in February, and I hope that you will be ready to go to the army and not leave the barracks if you have nothing to do. ”

"You have also heard the commander's order, and if you complain, you will be punished by military law!" Although Liu Wenbai is a native of Lingtai County, Jingzhou, he is from a small household and is the most disdainful of the behavior of the children of the big clan, otherwise he would not be respected by the former marshal Zhang Duo. Now that he has a new commander, of course he must show his loyalty.

Zhang Yue personally presided over the drill for two days, and on the 13th, the township examination site was over, and the examination papers should be reviewed and the ranking of the candidates should be determined.

According to the subjects of this examination, there are four subjects: Jinshi, Ming Jing, Ming Law, and Ming Calculation, and those who pass will be qualified to go to Beijing to take the examination, and they will be able to enter Beijing this winter to participate in the Ministry of Rites examination, and then pass the examination and interpretation test of the Ministry of Officials, so that they can really be conferred officials.

Admitted to the Jinshi and Ming Jing two subjects, these people are rushing to be big officials, Zhang Yue has no interest, and handed it over to the state government secretary to join the army Huangfu Zhen for review, and then select a few older suitable candidates to fill the entrance hall and strengthen the teaching force.

In recent years, those who have also taken the two subjects of Ming Fa and Ming Arithmetic are all based on practicality, mainly to find a staff errand to support their families. Zhang Yue attached great importance to these two subjects, but there were only more than 50 people who took the exam, and the test papers were tried by Feng Qianhou, Li Duoshou, and Niu Congxu in turn, and only 16 people passed the desk handed to Zhang Yue, who were basically from a family of miscarriages or civilians.

More than 50 talents! This is a very rare talent pool. Among the sixteen people who passed, Zhang Yue personally received him, and actually found that one of them was familiar, the young man he had seen on Chinese New Year's Eve when he swam back to the Mountain Queen Mother Palace, named Zhou Delin.

Immediately asked about the family situation of more than a dozen people, and whether they had the intention of serving as officials. Because following the marshal to be a small official is also a way to enter the office, it can be good, and when the marshal leaves office, he can recommend to the court and directly enter Beijing as an official.

Zhou Delin and more than a dozen others have this plan, of course, they intend to find a ministry. Zhang Yue was overjoyed, and each person found that the money was two runs, and he was added to the Jiedu Mansion, and Feng Qianhou and others were given as deputies, and he was appointed to low-level ministries such as Zuo and Shi, and he would be used later.

There were thirty-four people who did not pass, and Zhang Yue did not want to let go, so each person paid money to keep them in the government office, opened a separate compound for them to live in, and continued to study the law, arithmetic, food and goods, economy and trade, salt and iron politics, etc., for later use. (To be continued.) )