For example, what news is most attractive today is not the conquest of all walks of life against the king, nor who is the emperor and who is the king. It is a large-scale civil service examination held in Jincheng, Lanzhou. What is a civil servant, the official explanation given by Lanzhou Jincheng is that the personnel who handle some affairs of the government, from the county order to the clerk, the secretary, etc., to put it thoroughly, it is the official. However, this official was appointed by the Protectorate of the Western Regions and was not recognized by the imperial court. Of course, it is said that Li Xin has already played the acting king, and asked the acting king to allow the outstanding civil servants to be included in the imperial court official system.

In any case, this is very tempting for those who aspire to be officials, especially the scholars of the Han family, and now everyone knows that the Protectorate of the Western Regions in the northwest is actually an independent separatist force, but it is still under the imperial court. Li Xin did not raise the banner, but was still very deferential to the imperial court, at least, Li Xin did not use the Central Plains now, but raised 100,000 troops, led by Li Jing, the general of Zuo Wuhou, to resist the invasion of the Turks.

How many soldiers and horses Li Xin has, everyone knows that there are 100,000 troops, although Li Jing took away this time and there are no 100,000 troops, but there must be 60,000 or 70,000. Li Xin held the male army in his hand, and did not participate in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, but looked at the Turks, the great enemy of the Central Plains, which made Li Xin's reputation once again praised by many people in the Central Plains, and many people even came with this civil service examination.

"The number of participants in the exam we held this time is still small." In a restaurant facing the street, Li Xin, Du Ruhui and Chu Suiliang sat by the window, Li Xin looked at the people below, shook his head and said. In the market, although you can still see scholars from time to time, Li Xin has been to Daxing and Luoyang, and in those two cities, I don't know how many people read.

"Governor, it's only been a few months, and it's good to have so many people coming. Master Chu received a total of 300 registrations. If it weren't for the rush of time, I believe there would be more people coming. Du Ruhui said in a low voice. He is still very satisfied with this number, after all, although Jin Yiwei is very powerful, this kind of exam mainly depends on whether the other party is willing or not. Although Li Xin came in the name of taking the civil service examination, in fact, smart people know that this is Li Xin cultivating his own forces, and Li Xin is not rebelling now, and sooner or later he will rebel. And the northwest is desolate, come here to be an official. Even at the call of the Great Sui, few people came. It's nice to have 300 people.

"Grand Governor, how do you arrange these three hundred people?" Chu Suiliang said with some concern.

The imperial examination was unfair to the children of the poor at this stage, even if Li Xin invented paper, invented printing, and invented punctuation, so that the cost of books was reduced, and the children of the poor family could also buy books. However, in the last years of the Great Sui Dynasty, the popularity of this culture was still much worse. Compared with those children of the family, in this imperial examination, the final admission of people is still more than the family.

If it is in the future, this situation will be forgotten. Not now, Li Xin opened the imperial examination for the first time, and there are fewer children from poor families, and children from poor families will also make trouble. If there are fewer children of the family, these children of the family will also disagree. So this exam, who to admit. If you don't admit anyone, you have to study it carefully.

"Keming, what is the purpose of our exam? It's just to deal with political affairs, manage the people in the territory, and make the northwest stable. What do these officials need to do? Persuade agriculture and water conservancy, so we don't need the other party to be talented, as long as we can handle government affairs. I don't care what the other party is, whether he is a child of a family or a child of a poor family, as long as he can do this, it's fine. Li Xin said with a smile: "As long as you have the courage to come, you must be people with some knowledge, three hundred people, not too much, not too little, not to mention that we need people in the northwest, and when our territory is bigger in the future, we also need people, and it is better to cultivate these people now than to use other people's in the future." ”

"The Metropolitan Governor is saying that all these 300 people are wanted?" Du Ruhui was stunned and said in surprise. Even Chu Suiliang is also wide-eyed, where is the selection of outstanding talents, it is clearly a grasp. This situation surprised the two of them.

But when I thought about it suddenly, I had to admit Li Xin's wisdom, so that no matter what, I didn't have to offend the family and the children of the poor family, and I could cultivate my own people, or the latter was the most important.

"Tongshou, I am different from you, you are an official eunuch family, very knowledgeable, this time you will definitely be selected to be selected for the Dadu Protectorate. I won't be able to. At this time, there was a sigh in the ears of the three of them, but they saw a young man in green shirts sitting behind them. Although it was a green shirt, Li Xin and the others could still see that some of the other party's clothes were washed and turned white, which showed that this person's family was not very wealthy.

"King Bin, you are young, are you still afraid that you will not have a chance? Not this time, there will be next time, what's more, I feel that your literary talent is above me, if I can be admitted, you must be able to, Liang Guogong is not a family to recruit talents, otherwise, he would not have invented papermaking and printing, so that we readers have a book in their hands. Liang Guogong is very good to the children of the poor family, and with your talent, you will definitely win. The student called Tongshou was comforting on the side.

"Dadu Governor, this young man called Tongshou should be Liu Xiangdao, a native of Guancheng, Weizhou, his father is Liu Linfu, speaking of which, he is still a friend of Tang Guogong, and another young man, called Ma Zhou, the word Binwang. A native of Chiping, Bozhou. Chu Suiliang said softly on the side.

"Liu Xiangdao? Ma Zhou? Li Xinzhong moved, his brows furrowed, Liu Xiangdao's name had not been heard, but Ma Zhou's name was indeed very famous, it seemed that he was a famous minister in the Tang Dynasty, but he didn't expect to come to Lanzhou.

"The children of the poor family also want to be officials?" A disdainful voice came into everyone's ears, but they saw several young people in brocade robes walking over, one of the young people glanced at everyone, and said: "The imperial examination held by Liang Guogong this time is actually for these children of the family, in terms of talent, how can you mud-legged people be the opponents of the children of our family?" In terms of noble blood, you can't be compared with us, all official positions in the northwest are prepared for us, if I were you, I would better go home early, don't do useless struggles. ”

"This brother, if you talk about the bloodline surname, isn't Liang Guogong also from a side family? Why can he be the Duke of Liang Guo and take charge of one party? Ma Zhou retorted dissatisfiedly: "Most of the governors know that all beings are equal, as long as you are talented and outstanding, whether it is a poor family or a family, you can be an official?" ”

"Liang Guogong is a disciple of the Li family of Zhao County, and he is one of the five surnames and seven wangs in Kanto, in fact, he was born in a cold family, what kind of identity is his old man, naturally it means that all beings are equal, if it is clearly said, who will defect to him in the world, and who will support him?"

"The Metropolitan Governor is a generation of male lords, how can he abandon the children of the Han Sect, this brother, how can you guess the thoughts of the Metropolitan Governor?" Ma Zhou stood up and said loudly: "The opening of the imperial examination by the Metropolitan Governor is the first in the area, I believe that if the Metropolitan Governor has ambitions in the world, he will definitely be fair to the children of the other family's family and the children of the poor family." ”

"Hmph." The young man in brocade showed a trace of shame and anger on his face, and said disdainfully: "I promise, in this exam, you children of poor families, there will definitely be no one on it." ”

"Who are you? Who is qualified to say this? Liu Xiangdao stood up and said loudly.

"Who am I? Haha, I'm from the Pei family. Pei Mai is me. The young man laughed and said, "My uncle and grandfather are the deputy protectors of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, and my cousin is the wife of the Grand Governor, do you think I have this qualification?" ”

Liu Xiangdao's face changed after hearing this, he knew the news of Li Xin's wedding not long ago, and he was married to Pei Shiju's granddaughter Pei Fu, but the man in front of him was a member of Wenxi's Pei family, and it could be said that he was Li Xin's family. Such people came to compete for places, not to mention Ma Zhou, even Liu Xiangdao had no chance.

"What about the Pei family? The Metropolitan Governor has ambitions in the world, not the world of your Pei family. Ma Zhou did not show weakness, and said loudly: "The Metropolitan Governor is wise and powerful, and he will definitely not let you succeed." I believe that the Metropolitan Governor has already planned for this imperial examination, and it is definitely not something that can be shaken by a few words from you. ”

Pei Mai's face changed, his face was hideous, he looked at Ma Zhou with a cold snort and said, "Good boy, I remember your words today, hehe, even if I don't trouble you, the Duhu Mansion will trouble you." I see that you are the tip sent by Li Mi, and here you are dividing the internal relationship of my Western Regions Protectorate. ”

"Send someone to drag him out." Li Xin, who had been listening to it for a long time, was already gloomy, who is Ma Zhou, that is a generation of geniuses, characters who have appeared in history books, a little Pei Mai humiliated this person like this, don't say that it is Pei Mai, even if Pei Fu comes, Li Xin is still such an attitude, talents are rare, especially Li Xin's background, finally came out of a Ma Zhou, how could Li Xin let him leave, how could he let his children bully him.

"Yes." Du Ruhui and Chu Suiliang glanced at each other, and gave a look to the eighteen horsemen of Zhongnan who were in the dark, and then they didn't dare to speak, although Pei Mai's matter was very small, but it was related to Li Xin's inner house in the back, which was something that the foreign ministers and others could discuss, so they rarely didn't speak.

"This Ma Zhou is very good, Keming will talk to him when he goes back, don't let him take the exam, be my secretary!" Li Xin suddenly said lightly.

"Yes." Du Ruhui and Chu Suiliang were stunned when they heard this, they didn't expect Li Xin to value this Ma Zhou so much, could it be that this Ma Zhou is really a rare talent? For a while, Chu Suiliang was also a little curious. (To be continued......)