Wang Mang's words fell in the court, and immediately made the ministers turn red, and they all kowtowed under the leadership of Zhang Jian, the secretary of the ministry: "The ministers are ashamed of the emperor, your majesty, and the people of the world." ”

"Yes, you are indeed ashamed of the people of the world!" Wang Mang sneered.

Although he has not been in this world for a long time, not even a day, Wang Mang already knows that his situation is not as good as he imagined.

First of all, there are wars in the south, there are rebels, from a historical point of view, a prosperous, thriving court is difficult to have a large-scale rebellion, the rebellion is either just founded, or the middle and late dynasties, catch up with the former yourself can also get a prosperous lord, open up a prosperous era, if you accidentally catch up with the latter, that is the last emperor who sings the flower of the back garden across the river, and the state he sees is obviously not the period of the founding of the country.

Looking at the financial situation of this imperial court, it is a terrible mess, a huge imperial court can't even pay the salaries of officials, and can't even make up 100,000 taels of silver, which makes Wang Mang extremely unoptimistic about the happy life he yearns for.

Finally, look at these ministers, speaking of which, there is no one who really wants to work for himself, they are all trying to find ways to kick problems to themselves, and they don't see how well they do things, and the level of this kicking is really good.

So Wang Mang was a little mad, but after the madness, Wang Mang was also a little uneasy, after all, his family knew his own family affairs, and he was a foreign product, so it seemed a little unreasonable to be too arrogant, right?

Fortunately, at this time, someone relieved Wang Mang's siege, and Zhao Xin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, my lords, let's put aside the military salaries of the southern soldiers for the time being, but there is one thing that we must solve immediately." ”

"I don't know what Zhao Shangshu is talking about?" Li Hong didn't want to continue to talk about this topic, no matter how he talked about silver, it was like talking about his Li Hong's incompetence.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our Great Qin Kingdom has always been a country based on scholars, and the first year of the Great Grandfather set the rules, every three years to take 100 scribes and 100 warriors, in order to be the foundation of my Great Qin, now it has been three years since the Shangke Scholars, and this summer is another subject, how should we do this subject, and please ask Your Majesty and your lords to say a charter. Zhao Xin said.

Great Qin?

It turns out that the country where I am now the emperor is called the Great Qin State, the Great Qin is good, and it has a future to annex the country of the four seas and eight desolations!

But it seems to be a little different from the imperial examination, Wang Mang was a little confused, but he knew that this was not the time for him to ask more, and the ministers in the hall would explain it to himself.

Sure enough, as soon as I heard that I didn't talk about money, the atmosphere in the court seemed to become relaxed and pleasant in an instant, and even the air seemed to become much more active.

This bunch of paper talk about books!

Wang gritted his teeth angrily, but he also knew that it was inconvenient for him to say more at this time, but he had already made a decision in his heart.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to me. After the ministers expressed their opinions, Zhao Xin said: "I am the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so I naturally know what the regulations of this scholar are, but your opinions are also very good, and I have written them down here, but there is a new situation in our scholars this year." ”

"What's the situation?"

"What about the scholars of the south?"

"What happened to the scholars in the south?"

"In the past few years, the war in the south, some wealthy families have been involved in the rebellion, some of the vitality is greatly damaged, and some of them have become traitors, although some of the rebellious wealthy families have surrendered, but loyalty is not so easy to believe, what the old man said is true, you don't listen to happy or unhappy. Zhao Xin paused and continued: "The southern scholars have always been the largest source of scholars for the imperial court, and from the past situation, about sixty percent of the scholars in each subject are from the south, so what should we do with this subject this year?"

"Naturally, the rebellious wealthy families are not allowed to participate in this year's competition. ”

"If they are not allowed to participate, they are not stupid, how can they be loyal to the court. ”

"If you take them, they will not be loyal to the court. ”

"I am a southerner, I heard my family say that today's south can be said to be a real vitality, many people have lost confidence in the future, many people are looking forward to this court of this subject, hoping to be inspiring, if according to a few adults said, the southern people's hearts are lost!"

"Yes, our southern vitality has been greatly damaged this time, I think we should follow the ancestral system and open the north-south list, otherwise it will be unfair to the south. ”

"Nonsense, our northern scholars have studied hard all night, and they are even more loyal to the imperial court, shouldn't we reward the northern scholars to reward the loyalty of the northern scholars. ”

......

The entire court suddenly fell into the vegetable market, Wang Mang was very helpless, feeling that he was really boring as an emperor, these guys didn't take themselves in their eyes at all, and they didn't know how their predecessors did this job, and they were very undignified.

Wang Mang's face seemed to be a little unhappy when he knocked on the corner of his eye, and Deng Fang suddenly shouted in a loud voice: "Silence!"

The court suddenly quieted down, and all the ministers looked at Wang Mang, only to find that the emperor seemed to be a little unhappy, so they kowtowed and pleaded guilty.

Regarding the ministers' set of kowtowing and asking for sin, if Wang Mang was still a little curious and full of a sense of accomplishment at the beginning, then now Wang Mang is silent about this.

How can a group of people who are not in awe of themselves at all still feel a sense of accomplishment when they kowtow to themselves?

"The ministers respectfully ask Your Majesty to make a holy judgment!" Seeing that Wang Mang did not speak, the ministers kowtowed again.

Wang Mang gritted his teeth secretly, these bastards, kicked the ball to himself in a blink of an eye, he had created such a sin, how could he be such an emperor who specializes in kicking leather balls for people.

Raising his hand, Wang Mang said, "Everyone, Aiqing, be flat!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty. The ministers stood up one after another.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have heard what you just said, and I deeply feel that what you said is very reasonable, especially what Zhao Shangshu said is very insightful, this matter of taking scholars is indeed a major event that affects our Great Qin State. Wang Mang pondered for a moment and continued: "I feel that this matter is very important, and I have always believed that professional matters should be handed over to professional people, so I have decided to hand over this important matter to Zhao Shangshu, the most professional in our court, what do you think?" ”

A group of ministers, you look at me, I look at you, in the spirit of the immortal poor Dao friend at the same time, kowtowed: "Your Majesty Shengming!"

Zhao Xin originally wanted to say something, but when he saw that everyone kowtowed and agreed, he had to kowtow and say: "The minister's decree must live up to His Majesty's trust!"

Wang Mang nodded with satisfaction, and said in his heart that this is what it feels like to be an emperor.

So Wang Mang once spoke: "Everyone, this matter of taking scholars has been decided, and there is one thing that I think can also be decided." ”

"I wonder what Your Majesty is talking about?"

"I have just thought about it for a long time, and I feel that the construction of the queen mother's garden can be postponed, and the 100,000 taels for repairing the garden will be temporarily allocated to the southern soldiers as military salaries. Wang Mang said: "As for the silver for the queen mother to repair the garden, you can wait for the court to have money, and build a bigger and more beautiful one, Li Shangshu, this matter will be left to you." ”

The ministers looked at Wang Mang with strange faces, as if Wang Mang had said something terrible.

And Li Hong was crying, looking at Wang Mang and said, "Your Majesty, what you said about Weichen can't do it!"