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The west wind is tight, the banner is hunting, and the big tent of the yellow-headed Uighur leader Han Moyi is located in the cliffs.! Wearing armor and a treasure knife at his waist, he was reading aloud the edict of the Great Song Emperor against the military array stretching down the slope.

The gist of the edict is: the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land, it is not the king's ministers, and now there are the people of the Great Song Dynasty who go to the city of Youchang through legal channels, but the lord of the city of Youchang Salwa has acted perversely and persecuted the good, which violates the will of friendly exchanges and harmonious coexistence among all countries, so that it angers the face of heaven and is condemned by heaven.

This time, the Great Song Dynasty sent troops for sufficient reasons, and this crusade edict was naturally righteous and awe-inspiring, and the wording was strong, but these were superficial articles, and what really made the Yellow Uighurs willing to send troops to crusade against Yochang City together was the rich benefits waiting for them after the war.

There are 28,000 cavalry under the slope, swords and guns are lined up, thousands of horses are neighing, and the soaring murderous aura permeates the grassland, and it cannot be condensed.

Of the 31,000 cavalry, 4,000 were from the Great Song Dynasty, 6,000 from the Xizhou Uighurs, 4,000 from the Yellow Heads, 3,000 from the Caotou Tatars, and 6,000 from the Achaibu.

In addition, what is surprising is that after the two tribes of Tubo and Qiangtang learned that the Great Song Dynasty united with the four departments to crusade against Youchang City, they took the initiative to ask to join;

These two Tibetan tribes are close to the Achai tribe, and it is uncertain whether they are worried that the Achai tribe will be unfavorable to them after the alliance with the Great Song Dynasty, or whether they will be interested in the distribution of benefits after the war.

But for the current Great Song Dynasty, the more these tribes are co-opted, the better, and the cultivation of the building will naturally not refuse.

So Tusi Mabu sent 3,000 troops, and Qiangtang sent 2,000 troops, and joined the ranks of the crusade against Yochang City.

Although the Great Song Dynasty did not use the largest number of troops this time, the command of the coalition army was none other than the construction of the army. After reciting the edict of the Great Song Emperor, he gave an order, and 28,000 cavalrymen immediately jumped on their horses and raised their guns. Rushing north, the surging sound of iron hooves was like a storm crashing on the shore, and the astonishing sound made the earth tremble.

The army must go north first. From the Solkuri Pass, we crossed the Altun Mountain, and then turned west and passed through Shanshan to reach the city of Jochang.

To the north of the city is the vast Tarim Desert, to the south is the no-man's land of Hoh Xili, and to the east is the Qaidam Basin controlled by the Huangtou Uighurs, but the two are separated by the Altun Mountains, so they can only cross the Altun Mountains from the Solkuri Pass to the north. Take the southern Silk Road from Shanshan to Yochang City.

It took about two days for Shanshan to reach the cavalry of Yochang City, and Salva was shocked after the news that the Great Song Dynasty and the various Xingshi had come to ask for it, and there were only 6,000 defenders in Yochang City, so Salwa could only close the city gates, and then send someone to his father Khan Hassan for help.

Chong Jianzhong also understood that he would have to face more than just the 6,000 defenders in Yochang City, and Hassan would definitely send troops to reinforce him. However, Tokyo's intention was to keep the war within a certain scale, and it was best to quickly take the city of Yochang, and after achieving the goal of deterring and really pulling the troops into the water, he would immediately withdraw his troops to avoid a full-scale war with the Black Khanate.

This makes it a little difficult for the plantation to be built. After cleaning up Salva himself, will his son Hassan give up?

The city of Yochang is nearly thousands of miles away from Yumen Pass, and Chong Jianzhong is not worried about what threat the Black Khanate poses to Shazhou, but the Uighurs in Xizhou are very likely to be counterattacked by the Black Khanate, and the Great Song Dynasty must send troops to help.

Yang Yi has repeatedly led troops to fight, he should understand the truth that the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and at that time, Chong Jianzhong can only hope that Yang Yi can help him exonerate him.

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Tokyo, Government Hall.

In the face of Empress Dowager Liu and the ruling ruler in the hall, Zhang Shangying, the secretary of the ministry, was talking eloquently: "In the battle of Jiaozhi, including the rewards and pensions of the soldiers after the war, our dynasty spent a total of 9.2 million guan, and the war captured 21 million guan, and the surplus money was actually used as an investment in the development of Lingnan this year, that is to say, the Lingnan project did not spend money on the treasury this year. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Shangying paused before continuing: "According to the annual income forecast submitted by the Ministry of Households, there will be a large surplus in the treasury this year, so the minister suggested that the Yellow River control project continue to increase investment, and now it has entered October, and all parts of the country have basically entered the agricultural slack season. Striving to complete the river control project before the flood season next year comes, first, it can avoid the dangerous situation like last year's Lingpingsi, which is conducive to ensuring that the lower reaches of the Yellow River can safely pass the flood season, and second, the sooner the river control project is completed, the sooner the imperial court will be able to spare energy to deal with the imminent chaos in Liao. Third, it is necessary to avoid too much money being retained in the treasury, which will cause the economy of the Great Song Dynasty to stagnate. ”

Su Songxian said: "Although Zhang Shangshu's analysis is reasonable, but to recruit 100,000 young people, the imperial court has to send a large number of officials to manage, and the current transfer of the imperial court is already in an overloaded state, if the officials are transferred again, I am afraid that many departments will be paralyzed." ”

Su Song's words can be said to be to the point, now more than half of the officials in many departments of the DPRK and the Central Committee have been transferred, and if they are transferred again, the center will probably be paralyzed first. That's what everyone fears the most.

After being reminded by Su Song, everyone had already planned to veto Zhang Shangying's proposal. Empress Dowager Liu suddenly said: "In this case, why not contract some river control projects to businessmen like the road construction project in Lingnan, such as digging deep river channels, which have low technical requirements and only need to have strength, why not contract them to businessmen and let them hire workers to excavate, so that the imperial court can send a small number of officials to supervise." ”

Liu Qingjing's words even Yang Yi was greatly surprised when she heard this, because she said it was too reasonable, digging the river is just a pure force work, there is no technical content at all, but it requires the most labor, and the officials sent to manage it are naturally the most.

By contracting these unskilled jobs to merchants, the imperial court may spend a little more, but it will free up a large number of officials to do other work.

What the Great Song Dynasty lacks now is not financial resources, but energy;

To put it bluntly, there is a lack of officials, which seems to be a joke, because redundant officials have always been one of the main problems that plagued the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years.

But this is indeed the dilemma that Da Song is currently facing.

Since the first year of Shaosheng's new party's rise to power, a large number of old party officials have been dismissed. The court was almost empty, and the "talents" who only knew how to write poetry were unusable during the nine years of Yuan You.

The development of Hexi, Hetao, and Jiaozhi also required a large number of officials to be dispatched. As many as 2 million people have migrated to the Jinghu area. A large number of officials will also be used.

In addition, the river control project and the Lingnan development project are all in urgent need of capable personnel.

This pass is added and subtracted. Da Song is now not to mention redundant, donkeys and horses are almost pulled out and used up.

As soon as Liu Qingjing proposed this workaround, the eyes of the troubled political hall leaders immediately lit up, and the resolution was passed without much controversy.

Yang Yi thought about it and felt that this could only be regarded as a palliative treatment, even if the current shortage of officials was temporarily solved, but if it was necessary to start the battle of Yanyun in the short term. The problem of the military is not too big, and where will officials be sent to take over the governance?

"Queen Mother, ladies and gentlemen, the shortage of court officials must be resolved as soon as possible, so it is better to let Your Majesty open an additional Enke in the name of pacifying Jiaozhi. A number of available talents will be selected to make up for the shortage of current officials. ”

The imperial examination is the top priority in the world, and Zhao Jiefengji just opened Enke last year, and opened Enke again in the blink of an eye, which sounds like a bit of a child's play. So after Yang Yi proposed, including Zhang Dan, he didn't say anything for a while.

Yang Yi had no choice but to persuade: "Have you forgotten Wang Jinggong's words, the sky is not enough to fear, people are not enough to be compassionate, the law of the ancestors is not enough to be followed, this rule is dead, people are alive, the original intention of the imperial examination is to select urgently needed talents for the imperial court, in the past three years, it was because the imperial court does not need so many officials, and now since it is urgently needed, why not open an enke." ”

Liu Qingjing first agreed, she said: "The official family is holy, the way of governance is clear, since the accession to the throne, with the assistance of all the ministers, the external destruction of Western Xia and Jiaozhi, the internal benevolent government, the people's livelihood is prosperous, and there is an urgent need for talent governance, and it is understandable to add an Enke, I think it is feasible for the scholars of Hallym University to discuss this proposal." ”

Open Enke one more time, Zhao Jie will be able to win more people's hearts, Yang Yi proposed to add Enke, which is in line with Liu Qingjing's thoughts, and she naturally agrees.

Zhang Dian and the others thought that Yang Yi was reasonable, although this is unprecedented, and it is likely to attract criticism from people all over the world, but the imperial court is really in urgent need of supplementing officials now, and the overall situation is still important, so let him go if others want to criticize it.

This bill was finally passed, and it was drafted on the spot by Yang Yi, a bachelor of Hanlin, and after Liu Qingjing used the seal, it was promulgated by Shangshu Province.

Because this is a temporary decision to open Enke, the distance varies from place to place, and candidates have to rush into Beijing to take the exam, and some need to walk on the road for several months, and the promulgation of the holy decree is slow, and many candidates cannot arrive.

In order to take care of the long distance candidates, the test date was postponed to the beginning of April next year.

The innocent children of Hetao, Hexi, Jiaozhi and other places can also take the exam together, which can be regarded as a means of coercion, which has a positive significance for the stability of these newly recovered territories.

After the day's political affairs hall meeting, Yang Yi was going to the Erying Hall to give Zhao Jie a lesson again, and now Zhang Dian and they had every opportunity to give Zhao Jie's lessons, and the time for teaching Zhao Jie was shortened, in fact, the main teaching task fell on Yang Yi's head.

Time is really fast, in a blink of an eye, the eldest is already four years old, not only has the temperament of ADHD not changed, but is more active than before, and Yang Yi does not deliberately restrain him when he teaches him;

Sometimes he even takes a book and walks with him in the imperial garden, explaining at the same time, this kind of teaching method is unheard of, if Liu Qingqing didn't trust him, he, the emperor, would have been fired a long time ago.

Zhao Jie likes to ask things that have nothing to do with books, for example, now, the two of them are walking under the plane tree of the imperial flower, and Yang Yi is explaining the story in the Three Character Sutra to him, but he suddenly asks: "Teacher, why can't you hear the cicada cry now?" ”

Seeing his little face up, with a thirsty look, Yang Yi had no choice but to change the Chinese class to a biology class and began to explain the habits of cicadas to Zhao Jie.

"Your Majesty, the male cicada's abdomen has a pronunciation device, so it can chirp, the female cicada does not have a pronunciation, so the female cicada cannot chirp, to distinguish the male and female of the cicada, the main thing is to look at his abdomen, the abdomen of the male cicada is like a large drum covered with a layer of tympanic membrane, and the eardrum will make a sound when it is vibrate, while the female cicada does not have this eardrum. As for why the chirping of cicadas is not heard now, it is determined by their habits and growth period......"

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