The examination of the imperial examination system recommended by Yizhou Mansion came to an end, and Qin Mi, who was invited to participate, got into his own carriage with his friend Peng Yi after leaving the General's Mansion and returned to Ye County.

Qin Mi, who was sitting in the car, was a little distracted, still thinking about the exam questions in her mind, and also thinking about the significance of Guo Jia's move.

Outsiders don't know that Guo Jia wants to use the examination method to select new officials in Yizhou, and many Yizhou people think that Guo Jia wants to use his talents to humiliate them, so there is an examination, as for the reason behind it, only Guo Jia and his staff know it.

However, Qin Mi saw Guo Jia's intentions, and at the same time sighed lightly in his heart: Lord, how to clean up the mess after getting rid of the Yizhou Shi clan, you finally came up with a countermeasure.

And this countermeasure is undoubtedly cut off the way of survival of the scholars, if you want to become an official, you need a capable person to take up his position, and the way of filial piety and honesty has been abolished.

"I thought Guo Jia's exam questions were so difficult, but that's it, Brother Ziyi, you have great respect for Guo Jia, which is an exaggeration."

Qin Mi frowned slightly, contemptuous of his friend Peng Yi sitting in front of him, and his words were deeply disdainful of Guo Jia, which made Qin Mi shake his head.

I know that this friend is also talented, but he is full of arrogance and a little contemptuous of everyone, but he is calm in front of himself, Qin Mi doesn't know what the reason is, maybe his young fame makes him have preconceived admiration.

"This is a bad statement, my lord invited Yizhou scholars to take the exam this time, not intentionally to make things difficult, but to select real scholars from them to benefit the people of Yizhou, which is a great good."

Qin Mi did not shy away from calling Guo Jia "my master", which was actually a respect for his friends, he recognized Guo Jia as the master, and he was also upright and upright, and there was no need to hide it.

The admiration and maintenance of Guo Jia by these words made Peng Yi put away his contempt, and a trace of solemnity appeared on Junlang's face, and he said with concern: "Brother Ziyi, do you know how people in the world will view you?" ”

Hearing this, he smiled faintly, Qin Mi's face did not change and said: "The reputation of the world, personal honor and disgrace, it is not enough, I want to help the lord to achieve a great cause and settle the heart of the world, and the mountains will not move." ”

Peng Yi's face was ashamed, Qin Mi's ambition made him ashamed, but he still sincerely stated the pros and cons.

"Brother Zijing, if Guo Jia is defeated, you will become a laughing stock in the world, and it will be difficult to protect yourself. Guo Jia Ruocheng, behind you, countless remnants of the Han family will spurn you in every way, and even your children and grandchildren will be implicated. ”

How could Qin Mi not understand this truth? He is the first child of the scholar clan to take refuge in Guo Jia, no matter whether there are more children of the scholar clan attached to Guo Jia in the future, he will always be on the cusp, people loyal to the Han family will scold him and Guo Jia is the same raccoon dog, the father and son of the monarch, filial piety and etiquette, Qin Mi, is the world in the eyes of disloyal, unfilial piety, unkind and unrighteous people, even if Guo Jia achieves the emperor's cause, but later generations of Confucian scholars will still criticize him Qin Mi at this time to take the lead in the behavior of thieves.

Qin Mi was silent, his mind was clear, and he didn't need to say anything, but Peng Yi thought that Qin Mi was speechless, so he continued to admonish.

"Brother Zijing, with your talent, if you leave Yizhou to join Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu, you will be famous in history. Guo Jia killed your elder, but you served him, it is reasonable and reasonable, it is incomprehensible, Yu Gong, Guo Jia is a criminal in the imperial court, a traitor in the Han family, Yu private, Guo Jia and the Qin family have a blood feud, you serve Guo Jia, will he reuse you? ”

Qin Mi didn't care, and said indifferently: "Regardless of whether my lord should be crusaded by the people of the world, the Qin family instigated the people to make a rebellion, and everything was successful, and hundreds of people died, the crime of the Qin family was not with my lord, but in the common people, my lord only punished the evil and forgave others, is it unwilling to be killed again, and I am grateful for my generosity, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu?" Hehe, can't anyone still see that the Yuan family's ambition is to unify Shandong and establish itself as the king? How is it different from my lord? The people of the world were deceived by our lord and the Zhen family more than two years ago, and now, they have been deceived by the Yuan family again, but the Yuan family has deceived the world. ”

At this time, Shandong refers to the area east of the Kushan Mountains and Hangu Pass, similar to the Kanto of the Kwantung princes.

Peng Yi's face was shocked, and after Qin Mi mentioned this, it seemed that many unsolvable puzzles had been answered.

Why did the Kwantung coalition army have a huge momentum but failed to exterminate Dong Zhuo in the end, why did the Kwantung coalition army die down after Dong Zhuo moved the capital, and only Sun Jian was still fighting with Dong Zhuo's generals in the Sili area.

Ambition is the ambition of a wolf, what is the difference between it and Guo Jia? Even Liu Yan, the patriarch of the Han family, was named the state pastor after entering Yizhou, but in fact, he sat on the soil emperor, will the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes really spare no effort to support the Han family?

Sighing silently, Peng Yi asked Qin Mi with a worried face: "Brother Ziyi, will Guo Jia reuse you?" And you, can you really let go of your family feud with Guo Jia? ”

Qin Mi smiled, as if talking to himself: "Remember the goodness of people, forget the mistakes of others, my lord has treated me with deep affection, the world is falling apart, the troubled times are born, if loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, I can only be loyal to my lord and not filial piety to the Qin family." ”

After a while, Peng Yi, who had a respectful look on his face, bowed to Qin Mi and was silent.

Qin Mi's words shocked Peng Yi's heart, Qin Mi was determined to assist Guo Jiakuang to help the world, and he had already disregarded his personal honor and disgrace and family selfish interests.

Lifting the narrow curtain of the carriage, Qin Mi looked at the sky, goose-featherlike snowflakes slowly falling, and the earth was already vast and silvery.

The first snow of the year.

But the cold winter of the Yizhou Shi clan has not really arrived.

Guo Jia, who was in the Chengdu General's Mansion, did not participate in the review of the scholars' answer sheets, and there were still many things to deal with at hand, and the matter of marking the papers was completely handed over to Xi Zhicai.

"Guo Jia, Guo Jia, you come out for the old man."

Cai Yong's angry voice came from outside the hall, Guo Jia, who was sitting at the desk and working, looked up, Xiao Ren came and said, "Lord, Cai Gong is about to break in before I report it, Xiao Yizheng is stopping him." ”

Rubbing his temples, Guo Jia waved his hand and said, "Please invite him in." ”

Cai Yong swaggered into the hall with a gloomy face, Guo Jia tilted his body, supported half of his cheek and asked helplessly, "Cai Gong, what's the matter?" ”

Cai Yong snorted coldly and asked, "Guo Jia, you invited Yizhou scholars to come to the examination to compare talents, do you plan to select talents for your use?" ”

In this exam, Cai Yong guessed Guo Jia's intentions after getting the news, but he didn't object at that time, but now he has the momentum of asking the teacher for guilt, which makes Guo Jia puzzled.

Guo Jia said calmly: "That's true, although it is the way to win the Han family, but I can't trust the talents recommended by the county, most of them are in name only, do I want to sit back and watch them not seek politics according to their positions?" Putting aside the rights and wrongs of my capture of Yizhou, the people always have to live, right? Does Gong Cai want me to poison the people? ”

Filial piety has long become a cancer of rule, on the matter, Cai Yong is not blindly loyal to the Han family, wrong is wrong, harmful policies to the people should be abolished, and he obviously did not come today to ask Guo Jia for introducing the imperial examination system.

"The old man asked you, can you dare to use those who are outstanding in learning? Regardless of origin, regardless of status, regardless of the past. ”

Guo Jia nodded and said, "As long as I really want to benefit the people and stabilize the people, why don't I dare to use it?" If there is no other dissent, abusing power for personal gain, or even plotting against others, then it is a different matter. ”

Cai Yong's expression changed, and he said angrily: "Then why did the old man mark the papers with your subordinates, and among the talented ones listed, Xi Zhicai put Zhang Song's answer sheet aside?" Isn't this an obvious suppression of Yizhou talents? ”

Zhang Song again?

Guo Jia really didn't expect Zhang Song to stand out, he didn't think it was Cai Yong who secretly colluded with the Yizhou scholars, after all, except for Qin Mi's answer sheet, everyone else's answer sheet will be pasted with their names, before the completion of the marking, there will basically be no favoritism, not to mention cross-marking, if Zhang Song is not talented, Cai Yong will hold him to the sky, will Xu Shu and others read Zhang Song's answer sheet, will they also applaud?

As for Xi Zhicai pressing down Zhang Song's volume, it is estimated that it has something to do with Zhang Song's identity.

Zhang Song was born in the Zhang family, a big clan in Shuzhong, not long ago Zhang Su was beheaded by Guo Jia in response to Xu He's rebellion, but Zhang Song came to take the exam at this time, and it is not wrong for Xi Zhicai to be cautious.

Unlike Qin Mi, Guo Jia and Qin Mi have been in contact with each other for several months, but they have not conspired with Zhang Song, whether Zhang Song really wants to impress Guo Jia with his talent or has other plans, no one can say.

"Cai Gong, don't be impatient, Zhang Song, I have heard a little, Zhicai put him aside not out of the intention of suppressing Yizhou's talents, otherwise, why should I issue a talent seeking order to Yizhou?"

Hearing Guo Jia's words, Cai Yong also calmed down and felt that Guo Jia's words were reasonable, so he sat down and waited for Guo Jia's explanation.

Guo Jia then said calmly: "Gong Cai, Zhang Song has a brother named Zhang Su, some time ago Xu He rebelled, Zhang Su led the Hao clan of Shu County to respond, and after the rebellion was suppressed, Zhang Su was beheaded by my order. Let me ask, Zhang Song, shouldn't I guard against him? Since he is talented, I want to use him, and he will definitely not be a petty official like a shelf, but if I reuse him, he has other plans and causes trouble again, what should I do at that time? There is a saying, you may not like to hear it, but I still have to say, at this moment, Yizhou without me Guo Jia, will fall into unprecedented turmoil, Jingzhou is a lesson from the past, and if I Guo Jia is dead, no one will stabilize the situation in Yizhou, and the rebellion in Yizhou will be ten times that of Jingzhou. ”

This is the big truth, except for Guo Jia, there is no second person in Yizhou who can stabilize the situation, Guo Jia dies today, tomorrow the scholars and wealthy families will be in trouble, the Taiping army has no lord, and they will fight separately, and they will only become a few or even a dozen small warlords in the end.

Although Xu Chudianwei and other generals have a good personal relationship, the love of their colleagues is very different from the love of the monarch and the minister, and it is already good for them not to fight themselves, and whoever wants to make others obey is wishful thinking.

Jingzhou can be stabilized, that is Liu Biao's credit, but it is even more difficult for the world to find the second Liu Biao, who is one of the eight horses in the world and is also a member of the Han family.

Guo Jia is walking on thin ice in Yizhou, step by step, he can't be cautious, if he has an adult heir and can entrust the future, maybe he can be bolder, but now, it is necessary to be cautious.