In Fang Yannian's view, the second disadvantage of the Boling Army is the lack of talent. It is true that Li Xu now has capable ministers like Zhao Ziming who are both civil and military, as well as warriors like Wang Suba and Zhang Jiang who cut the generals and captured the flag in front of the two armies. But except for Li Xu himself, there is almost no handsome talent who can be compared with Wagang Xu Maogong and Jiang Dutongshou Wang Shichong. This led to Li Xu, as the commander-in-chief, having to go out in person in every battle, and once he encountered a situation that required multi-front combat, the Boling army would have to take care of one and lose the other.

Fang Changshi's words made everyone feel very shocked, but no one could deny that this was a fact in front of everyone. If there is really a great sage like Zhang Liang and Xiao He in the Boling army, the conspiracy of the Eastern Capital will have no chance to be carried out at all. If there is one more fierce general in the Boling army in addition to Li Xu, when he is on the south bank of the Yellow River, everyone can kill Xu Maogong first, take Liu Changgong and Duan Da with his backhand, and then wave his army to take the eastern capital! And why should we scatter and break through and cause most of the brothers to be buried in their homeland?

"Thirdly, the general has been fighting outside for many years, but there is no stable rear. Although the six counties of Boling are under the jurisdiction of the general, they are not enough to become the foundation of the hegemony. The new policies implemented by the general in the past have made many enemies. And the general's heart is too benevolent, and he is not wary of intrigues. The general opened the imperial examination, broke the rules of the Later Han Dynasty for 400 years, and made the sons and nephews of wealthy families lose their basis for entry. And the act of dividing idle land into the homeless people is standing on the opposite side of the world's wealthy families! Fang Yannian ignored everyone's darkening faces and continued to talk.

This is a little annoying to everyone's ears. Not only Zhang Jiang, Zhou Daniu and others raised their eyebrows, but even Ying Yanglang, who admired Fang Yannian the most, pulled Wang Xuba down his face. If it weren't for Li Xu's reopening of the local level imperial examination, with Fang Yannian's background, he would definitely not have a chance to enter the core of the Boling Army. Now he turned around and criticized the New Deal, he was simply picking up cheap and being smart!

Fang Changshi said lightly. Could it be that what the general did in the past is useless? Don't you forget where you got the position of marching commander of the first battalion on your right? Before everyone could do it, Wang Xuba rebuked in a low voice. At the same time, he gently handed his shoulder to his long history, signaling the other party not to talk nonsense.

Fang Yannian didn't see Wang Xuba's hint at all. Or maybe you see it and don't want to pay attention to it. smiled and responded: "What General Wang said is extremely true, Fang Mou can have today, thanks to the general's governance. Therefore, Fang Mou has to do his best to plan for the general! Let the new policy be implemented in the long run! ”

This stubborn donkey! Wang Xuba couldn't rush over and grabbed his own family history's neck, forcing him to swallow the words just now back into his stomach. Although as a military general, he rarely cared about local government affairs, but he also understood the importance of the two new policies of Kaike and Tianzhu to the six counties of Boling. Those wealthy families look down on the general's background, no matter how Li Xu shows goodwill, he will not win their sincere support. If it loses the support of poor students and ordinary people, the Boling Army will be a wild tree on the rock, and it may be uprooted if a gust of wind blows.

"According to you, is the New Deal wrong from the beginning? Or is it poorly executed and needs to be greatly improved? Li Xu first stopped Zhang Jiang and Wang Xuba, who were about to break out, with his eyes, and asked with a smile.

He also doesn't like to be criticized for the mistakes of the New Deal, but he doesn't want to experience the same fiasco again, having just suffered a big loss. Xuzi knew that the family had repeatedly and repeatedly harmed each other, not only because of his humble background. There must be some fundamental conflict of interest between himself and the latter, so the other party wants to get rid of it quickly, and even does not hesitate to cheapen the tile gang thief.

"It's not that it's wrong, but it's limited by the conditions at the time, and the implementation is not thorough enough!" Fang Yannian pondered for a moment and gave an answer that was completely opposite to what everyone expected.

"Fang Changshi, please speak up!" Li Xu's eyebrows jumped suddenly, and his voice raised slightly because of excitement.

A few of the sleeping soldiers were awakened, looked this way, and carefully closed their eyes. According to the military regulations of the Boling Army, when the core generals discuss military affairs, they should not eavesdrop. But Fang Changshi's words drifted along the wind, and drilled into everyone's hearts word for word.

"In order to change the situation of excessive power in the wealthy family, the former emperor created the policy of opening the imperial court, which can be called the first good governance in ancient times. It's a pity that the government was controlled by several major families at that time, and the position of the former emperor was unclear, so the imperial examination was intermittent, and it was difficult for the selected talents to gain a foothold in the court! His Majesty's ambition is far less firm than that of the previous emperor, and after he ascended the throne, he regarded the imperial examination as a dispensable decoration, resulting in the heroic people not having the opportunity to show their strengths, but those mediocre and confused people, relying on the shadow of the family to steal the authority of the state, and the decrees they made were only for their own selfish interests, never caring about the safety of the country and the life and death of the people! ”

Fang Changshi said this very well. Not only do poor talents have no chance to serve the country, but they are also big families, if they can't get along with the seven surnames, there is no way out if they want to find a background. Shi Defang looked at Li Xu's face and echoed his colleague's words.

"Only people who have so much money that they don't know how to spend it will also let the Hus outside the Saiwai go to the Central Plains and eat and live for nothing. Only those who have too many clothes to wear will be eager to wrap the trees in silk in order to look good. Only people who don't understand the difficulties of crops will attack Liaodong three times in a row, regardless of the agricultural time! ”

If this was said a month ago, even if Li Xu agreed with the point of view, he would have stopped talking. And today, he just nodded with a wry smile and quietly waited for the other party's next step.

Fang Yannian saw the encouragement from the lord's smile, cleared his throat, and continued: "The general reopened the imperial examination in the six counties of Boling, so that I can wait to see the day when I come out, and it will also give us Boling one more way to choose scholars!" The general granted the barren land to the displaced people, so that the people could see the hope of life again, and also made the local life again. This is good governance, and no one can deny it. However, the general was the general of the imperial court at that time, and he had to consider the attitude of the ministers of the court and the central government, and he did not dare to offend the local tyrants too harshly. Therefore, although the imperial examination was reopened, local government affairs were still controlled by various families. Although Tuntian protects the people, he has to grant a large amount of good land to the wealthy families, making their power stronger and stronger......"

"Not exactly. Eat the rice in one bite. The people selected for the imperial examination were far less proficient in government affairs than the original officials. Rashly inserting it into the place will not have any good effect, but will delay things! Zhang Jiang participated in the decision-making on how to settle the Hanmen scholars, and interrupted Fang Yannian's words.

"The scholars will not be as skilled in handling government affairs as the original team, but they will not disobey the orders of the generals. Not to mention the fact that the general is fighting at the front, and at the same time worrying that there will be a sudden rebellion in the local area! Fang Yannian frowned and quickly added. Now in the six counties, the powerful families are powerful but cannot be used by the generals, and they always threaten the foundation of the six counties. When the general went south to fight for thieves, he had to leave tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Boling, so that he was lonely in Henan! ”

Among the students selected in the same batch of imperial examinations, he currently holds the highest position. So unconsciously, Fang Yannian had already regarded himself as the leader of the Hanmen scholars. He believes that since the local wealthy families are unwilling to buy Li Xu's account, there is no need for Li Xu to tolerate them everywhere in the future. It is simply more straightforward, completely replacing the original method of selecting talents with the imperial examination, and re-establishing the structure of local officialdom.

Those who benefited from the New Deal would not undermine their advancement. It is also difficult for the local Haoqiang, whose interests have been damaged by the reopening of the imperial examination, to negotiate with the scholars of the poor family. In this way, not only did it solve the problem of the smooth flow of government decrees in the six counties, but Li Xu did not always have to worry about the loyalty of the officials.

"But those local officials will inevitably rise up against it!" The German side was taken aback by the recklessness of his colleagues and hurriedly reminded him. If Li Xu immediately adopted Fang Yannian's suggestion after returning to Boling, there would definitely be a earth-shaking change in the officialdom of the six counties. If you can't hold the heat a little, some families who are already attached to the Boling Army will be forced to take risks!

"The general's policy of granting land has already offended them. The reason why they did not dare to turn their faces with the general was that they were afraid of retaliation from the Boling army, and second, they could not figure out the intentions of His Majesty the Emperor. And now that His Majesty the Emperor's decree can no longer cross the Huai River, the fear in their hearts is less than half. Coupled with the fact that Luo Yi may capture Shanggu at any time, the threat of the Boling Army to them is three points less. With only two points of loyalty left, what's the use of keeping it for the general? Why don't you just do it! Fang Yannian shrugged his shoulders and sneered all over his face.

"How to do it, is it as simple as adjusting the official rank?" Li Xu didn't fully agree with Fang Yannian's suggestion, but he didn't want to dampen the enthusiasm of the other party, so he thought about it and asked with a smile.

"It is not an adjustment, but a reinstatement of those who benefit from the generals. Let those who are at odds with the interests of the generals leave officialdom. The general distributed the wasteland in Henan to the displaced people, and the beneficiaries were more than 100,000 families. And these hundreds of thousands of families have no power or power, so when the general is framed in the Eastern Capital, even if they want to support the general, they can't do it. This is what General Zhou Lang just said, the reason why the general won the hearts of the people but was inevitably harmed by traitors. If the beneficiaries of the great generals at that time had the power and soldiers in their hands like the great families, who in the world could harm the generals? ”

"If I did that at that time, the court would not tolerate me!" Li Xu sighed, feeling sorry in his heart. From Fang Yannian's analysis, he finally knew what he had offended the ministers of the Eastern Capital. But the land was taken back from the Wagang army by the brothers! If he did not have himself, the original owner of the land would not be able to collect half of the rent, so how could he blame himself for the loss of interests?

"At present, the general is no longer tolerated by the imperial court." Fang Yannian saw that Li Xu's heart was moved, and he struck while the iron was hot, "The heroes and powerhouses in the six counties are not all separated from the general. Those who can support the general, the general will stay. If you can't be used by the general and are half-hearted, I hope the general will deal with it as soon as possible, so as not to raise tigers! ”

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