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Cao Ying retreated, and Sun Quan was shocked when he learned the news, and hurriedly sent a messenger to inquire. www.biquge.info For the allies, Cao Ying didn't cherish the broom. Sun Quan learned of Cao Jun's speculation, and the surprise in his heart was no less than that of Cao Ying, and at the same time, he coveted the power of the family. Perhaps, only Liu Zhang can resist the temptation of strength!

In Chang'an City, in the chamber of the Duke of Qin's mansion, every court meeting was underway, and the news of Cao Ying's withdrawal from the army also reached Liu Zhang's hands through the Ministry of Intelligence. However, when he heard that Cao Ying had withdrawn from the army, Liu Zhang was not very happy, his soldiers had not been trained yet! Looking at everyone with a smile, Liu Zhang asked: "Zhugong, Cao Mengde has retired, should we use Sun Quan to train our troops?" ”

He smiled and said: "Lord, my sergeant has a lot of experience in defensive battles, but he is still a little jerky about attacking fortified positions, so it is better to capture Wancheng to cut off the connection between Sun Quan and Cao Ying!" ”

"Attack Wancheng?" Liu Zhang pinched his chin and said: "Although Cao Ying has withdrawn his troops, Sun Quan has set up heavy troops in Wancheng, if our army attacks strongly, the losses are too great, and some gains outweigh the losses, but if it is a feint, it will have no effect!" ”

"That's a mistake!" Tian Feng said: "Lord, although Wancheng is heavily guarded, how can Sun Quan's army be on par with the elite of our army?" Now that Guan Yu and Huang Zhong are in Wuguan, why should Wancheng be worried? ”

"Fengxiao, what do you think?" Seeing that the two major strategists under his command suggested attacking Wancheng, Liu Zhang was a little undecided, so he immediately asked Guo Jia.

"If the lord has no other plans, it is not a bad idea to attack Wancheng, but the goal of the lord is far more than just unifying the Han Dynasty, if he attacks Wancheng, it will be a bit of putting the cart before the horse!" Guo Jia knew Liu Zhang's plan, and he did not approve of going out casually.

"Fengxiao, the lord just wants to train the army, and you are thinking too far!" Tian Feng frowned, he felt that Guo Jia had misinterpreted what he meant.

"Yuan Hao, it's not that I misunderstood what you meant, it's that our army is not suitable for war!" Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Now, the books and papers jointly produced by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Education are being sent to various places. When all these things are in order, the lord is going to carry out the last reform, do you think now is a good time for us to attack? ”

"This..."Tian Feng thought for a while and said, "It's me who got carried away!" But how long will our army endure? Cao Ying and Sun Quan have provoked several times, if our army is so forbearing, won't it make the world look down on it? ”

"In the past, it was said that if King Qi Wei did not make a sound, it was a blockbuster, and our army was about to be amazing, and it was the time to forbear. If you want to achieve great deeds, you must be able to endure what others can't endure! Guo Jia's tone was affirmative, and his face was resolute, which surprised everyone.

"What Feng Xiao said is very true!" Jia Xu smiled and said: "The reason why Sun Quan can occupy Jiangdong is because he can endure it!" Could it be that the lord is not even as good as Sun Quan? ”

"Wenhe, there is no need to use the radical method!" Liu Zhang said with a smile: "I ordered the Ministry of Industry to rush to make books and paper, it's been almost half a year, is it enough now?" You must know that in order to increase manufacturing efforts, the Ministry of Commerce has severed the transaction with the family under the rule of Cao Ying and Sun Quan! ”

"Lord Qiqi, it's all right!" Liu Ye, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, said: "The books and papers made by the Ministry of Industry have been shipped to various places, and now the history of the Six Prefectures is waiting for the order of the lord, and it will begin to recruit students." ”

"Old Huang, is what Ziyang said true?" Hearing that books and paper had been shipped to various places, Liu Zhang hurriedly looked at Huang Chengyan, who was in charge of education.

"Qi Qi Qin Gong, Lord Liu is not lying at all!" Huang Chengyan said with a smile on his face: "As the saying goes: be prepared. I was worried that there would not be enough things, so I asked the states to wait for a while. Now, it is already possible to order the admission of students! ”

"Good!" Liu Zhang was overjoyed and said: "Pass on my order, all schools in all states and counties will start to recruit students, as long as children between the ages of five and eight are five or eight, and those who are too young or over the age will not be accepted!" ”

"My lord, why are children between five and eight years old?" Simbi was a little puzzled, in his opinion, the older the student, the stronger the learning ability, much better than those who are both naughty and sloppy children!

"George, do you know why I started a school?" Looking at Xin Bi, Liu Zhang's face was full of smiles, although many people know the meaning and benefits of founding a school, they may not know Liu Zhang's purpose.

"Please also ask the Lord to teach!" Xin Bi bowed slightly, as if he was sincerely asking for advice, but he smiled secretly in his heart: "The establishment of the school is not to cultivate talents, to interrupt the family's monopoly on the imperial court!" ”

"George lied to me!" Seeing Xin Bi's expression, Liu Zhang knew what he was thinking, so he asked with a smile: "Do you think that I founded the school to cultivate talents in order to lift the monopoly of the family on the imperial court?" ”

"Uh..." Xin Bi was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Liu Zhang to see through his thoughts, and couldn't help but say with some embarrassment: "The lord is clearly decided, and he really thinks so in his heart!" ”

"You're right, I do have such thoughts, but not completely!" Liu Zhang said with a smile: "George, the world I want is different from the previous dynasties, I want the people to understand the truth and have knowledge!" The reason why there is a Yellow Turban Rebellion in the world is because the people have no knowledge, so some ambitious people can take advantage of it! The reason why the Yellow Turban Dao was able to develop was nothing more than giving the people runic water during natural disasters [***], but those runic waters were actually boiled with herbs. They healed the people with medical skills, but they did things that pretended to be gods and ghosts, so that the people were fooled! Why is this happening? It's that the people have no knowledge! ”

"What does this have to do with the Lord's choice of children between the ages of five and eight?" Simbi was a little puzzled, he couldn't see what the Yellow Turban Rebellion had to do with the founding of the school!

Liu Zhang said with a smile: "Five to eight-year-old children are the time when their learning ability is the strongest, too young is not easy to teach, and too big is to have their own thoughts." Why can the Yellow Turban Road succeed? It is because the people have a fixed mind in their hearts, and they regard things that cannot be explained as ghosts and gods! When my children's learning ability is at their strongest, I transform their minds, and after only two generations, the people's belief in ghosts and gods will disappear! ”

"It's... Is it possible? Although Xin Bi is a big family, he has come into contact with a lot of people, and he really doesn't believe that Liu Zhang can change the people's minds.

"Of course it is possible, as long as there is the support and leadership of the head of state!" Liu Zhang is full of confidence, because there has been such a situation in history. I want to establish a new China, under the leadership of the great leader, break the four old and establish the four new, and then reform and open up to eliminate illiteracy. In the twentieth century, except for some remote cities, where did anyone in the big cities still believe in ghosts and gods? Even if it is burning incense and worshiping the Buddha, it is only psychological comfort. Of course, there are some people who believe in superstition, but almost all of those people have been deceived!

Seeing that Liu Zhang was so confident, Xin Bi didn't say much, pouring cold water on the lord was not something he could do at his level! However, there is no problem with Xinbi, it doesn't mean that others don't have problems either, so he stood up and asked, "Lord, when will the imperial examination you said start?" ”

"Imperial examination..."Liu Zhang thought for a while and said: "It's okay to have paper, but if you start now, most of the people who come to take the exam are children of families, and I really don't know whether I should use these people or not!" ”

"Is it possible to refuse the assessment of the children of the family?" Guo Jia thought for a while and said: "There is no so-called family in the six states anymore, if the lord refuses to participate in the assessment of foreign families, I don't know if it is possible?" ”

"No!" Liu Zhang frowned and said: "There are also many talents in overseas families, how can I abandon them like a shoe?" Cao Ying once said that if the intelligence of the world is controlled by the Tao, it will be unfavorable! The family is also a common man, and I still have to win over the family that supports me! Of course, if they follow my policy! ”

"Lord, this matter is not difficult!" Jia Xu smiled and said, "Aren't you just worried that the children of the family are in control of the government?" You can let the children of the family who have passed the assessment go to other places to become officials, such as remote places such as Bingzhou and Liangzhou, and then take the assessment once every five years. If the political performance is outstanding, he will be promoted or transferred back to Chang'an, if he has no political achievements, he will continue to work, and the incompetent will be dismissed! ”

"That's a great idea!" Liu Zhang slapped his thigh, he wanted to implement the imperial examination, but he almost forgot the assessment system, but he suddenly remembered another question, and couldn't help frowning and asked: "I still have a problem, if the other party is not sincere in the assessment, but wants to make me ugly, what should I do?" ”

"Ugly for you?" Guo Jia said: "The lord is worried, the person who came didn't really want to join our army, but passed the exam but gave my army an ugly look?" ”

"Yes!" Liu Zhang sneered: "If someone gets a good ranking in the imperial examination, but refuses to be an official, then our face will be disgraced!" ”

"Don't worry, this kind of person can't live!" Jia Xu said gloomily: "This matter will be handed over to me, I will definitely do it properly for the Lord!" ”

"Wenhe, not everything can be solved by killing!" Liu Zhang patted his forehead and said, "There are indeed many true hermits in this world, we can't let them die because they don't want to be officials!" ”

"Qin Gong Rende!" Huang Chengyan was very satisfied with Liu Zhang's reaction, thinking that he, Pang Degong, and Sima Hui also refused to be officials, but they didn't want the court to lose face. If Liu Zhang kills people just because he is a talented man who is unwilling to be an official, he will lose his temperament.

"Huang Lao praised it!" Liu Zhang waved his hand, and suddenly thought of a good idea, he laughed and said, "Huang Lao has merit, you have given me an inspiration!" ”

"Oh?" Seeing that Liu Zhang had an idea, Huang Chengyan was also very happy, so he asked with a smile; "What did Gong Qin think of?"

"Huang Lao didn't want to be an official back then, the imperial brother didn't embarrass you, but you did a lot of things in Jingzhou! If those talented people who have passed the assessment are not willing to become officials, I will let them be teachers, preach and teach, I don't know what Huang Lao thinks? Liu Zhang shook his head, quite proud in his heart.

Talented people don't want to be officials, but they will never want to bury their talents. Preaching and teaching and being a role model for others is also the goal of many people! When the school is established, the people will definitely be willing to send their children to the government-run school, at least without the need for repair. As for the people who want to find a private school teacher, they are all rich families, so there must not be too many!

"Gong Qin is a good plan!" Huang Chengyan's eyes lit up, in fact, he didn't want to be an official, but the position Liu Zhang gave him couldn't refuse. The Minister of Education is also a teacher of students in the world, and this transcendent status makes even Sima Hui and Pang Degong very jealous. It's a pity that the two came too late, and they didn't have a daughter and son-in-law who could compete with Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying, so they had to succumb to Huang Chengyan!

"It's not that my calculations are good, but there is an example of Huang Lao!" Seeing that the last thing on his mind had been dealt with, Liu Zhang was quite happy in his heart, and he said with a smile on his face: "Princess, since everything is ready, let's embark on the final test!" ”

"Obey the orders of the lord!" Everyone looked at Liu Zhang, their hearts were very excited, they had been waiting for this day for a long time!

According to the 12 departments of the imperial court, Liu Zhang divided the first imperial examination into ten subjects, namely agriculture, commerce, industry, criminal law, etiquette, clear calculation, education, civil affairs, military strategy and morality, of which morality is required to be tested in each subject. After all, if a person who is an official has talent and no virtue, it will hurt the country even more! However, as soon as Liu Zhang's ten subjects came out, they were opposed by many people, because among the Han scholars, the Ming Jing is the mainstream, but Liu Zhang did not set up this subject!

"Lord, is there something wrong with you doing this?" Seeing the ten subjects announced by Liu Zhang, all the scribes were a little surprised. Even Guo Jia raised objections, thinking that he had learned a lot of classics in Yingchuan Academy back then!

"What's wrong?" Liu Zhang understands everyone's thoughts, but he doesn't think that the imperial court needs to be Mingjing. What is the benefit of finding chapters and excerpts for the people? It can only waste the money and food of the imperial court, and it will also make the imperial court lifeless!

"Isn't it reproachful that most of the great Hanshi students choose to study the classics, but you don't open this course?" Tian Feng was upright and directly said what he thought in his heart!

"Humph!" Liu Zhang sneered: "Princes, the people who oppose it are all those families!" ”

"This..."Everyone was stunned for a moment, it seemed that this was really the truth. You must know that the common people of the Han Dynasty don't even have very many books, and it is impossible to get the so-called classics, only in the big families can there be classics!

Liu Zhang said: "Princes, I want to establish a new Han, all officials are set up for the people, and those things that are looking for chapters and sentences should be done by teachers and scholars!" From now on, the Ming Jing subject will be classified as education, and those who are in the middle can become local teachers and be responsible for teaching a moral lesson! The kind of rotten Confucianism who does not distinguish between grains and does not work hard, don't enter the court, so as not to mislead others and yourself! ”

"I'll get it!" The ministers bowed and saluted, and there was no longer any opinion. After all, each monarch's way of governing is different, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty felt that Huang Lao was not good, so he deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, and Liu Zhang wanted to be both internal and external, a hundred schools of thought, and at the same time vigorously develop science, but it is also a new attempt, as for whether it can succeed, it depends on Liu Zhang's means!

After the end of the court meeting, Liu Zhang announced to the world with a holy decree, and the imperial court opened a scientific examination to select materials and make contributions to the people of the world, and the entire Han Dynasty suddenly fell into a shock, but the six states under Liu Zhang's jurisdiction were jubilant, especially some scribes, who were ecstatic that they had a way out!

(To be continued)