While Gao Cheng rectified the economy in the south of the Yangtze River, Yuwentai also gained in Shudi.

After years of persistent exploration, using various means such as division, pacification, and instigation of infighting, the Western Wei regime in Shu finally subdued the planners on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

The so-called planers, that is, the Yi people in later generations, when Zhuge Wuhou conquered the southern barbarians, he adopted the strategy of razing and razing, and the planing people grew stronger.

The Western Wei Dynasty set up Nanning Prefecture on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which was officially incorporated into its territory and adjacent to Chen Baxian.

In the face of the military threat from Gaoqi, the two sides have become more and more closely connected, even to the point that the border between the two sides is not garrisoned and fortified.

They both understand that if they don't join forces, they will only be sent to Luoyang, which is what Chen Baxian and Yuwentai don't want to see.

However, at this time, Gao Cheng did not have any plans to go south, and he needed time to digest Jiangdong, Jiangzhou, and Jingnan.

Although Gao Cheng retained most of the officials in Jiangnan, the subsequent crackdown on corruption also made many people fall off, and more Xiao Liang's former ministers chose to return to their hometowns for retirement when they saw this.

A large number of reserve officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty were sent to serve in Jiangnan, and Gao Cheng had to issue an edict again, and the Enke selection would be reopened in March of the seventh year of Zhaode, and the Jiangnan region that had been included in the Northern Qi system was also included in the scope of the imperial examination.

Jiangnan is not without the foundation of the imperial examination, Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan once opened the Five Classics Examination to open up a rising channel for the children of the poor family, but due to Xiao Yan's preferential treatment of the scholars, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system is still the main channel for scholars.

Now that Gao Cheng has annexed Jiangnan, it is only natural that the Jiupin Zhongzheng system will be abolished.

In this time and space, there was no Hou Jing slaughtering the Shi clan, but there were also Wu Mingche and Liu Zhongli working for him, the difference is that Wu Mingche and Liu Zhongli only aimed the spearhead at the Shi clan, and did not commit any crimes with the people.

But they also killed the warriors to the cold.

The killing is ruthless, the killing is afraid, and the implementation of the imperial examination system in Jiangnan is naturally no longer hindered.

In the past, the monarch accommodated the scholars because they needed to participate in the rule, but the Jiangnan scholars also knew that they were not qualified to bargain with Gao Cheng, and the north had flourished in culture and education for more than ten years, not to mention that there were many talents among the poor families, and the northern scholars did not mind excluding their southern counterparts from the ruling class.

After all, the official position of the imperial court is one radish and one pit, and one is less than one.

Resolving the gap between the north and the south is as important as dealing with the contradictions between the Hu and the Han.

The death of the Qin Dynasty II was not only due to its tyranny and militaristic nature, but more importantly, it did not shape the sense of national identity of the other six states.

In the final analysis, he just didn't treat the people of the Six Kingdoms as his own, and Gao Cheng would not make such a mistake.

Of course, while providing Jiangnan students with the opportunity to show what they have learned, we must also safeguard the interests of the northern scholars and not chill the hearts of the old people.

Gao Cheng has even set the number of candidates to be admitted in various places in the next Enkejing examination, roughly according to the morning and evening of being included in Gao's rule.

Even though Gao Cheng worked hard to promote education in the north, he still lagged behind Jiangnan in terms of culture and education.

There is no absolute fairness in the imperial examination, and it is really necessary to admit students fairly according to academic knowledge, so that there are more scholars in the south than in the north, at least at the beginning of the founding of the country, there will be a big mess.

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The south of the Ming Dynasty merged with the north, but the 51 people on the first list were all southerners, which caused dissatisfaction among the northern students, and even Zhu Yuanzhang had to dispose of the examiners, and then opened another list, all of which were admitted to the northerners, which were the two lists of the north and the south.

The merger of the north and the south of the Northern Qi Dynasty allowed southern students to occupy the majority of the Jinshi list in the early stage, which inevitably caused dissatisfaction among the people in the north and shook the foundation of the rule, and in this danger, the absolute fairness of the imperial examination was insignificant.

After all, since the Wuhu Rebellion, the North and the South have been facing each other for more than 240 years, and the estrangement between the north and the south has not been so easy to dissolve.

Nowadays, it will take at least one or two generations for the people of the north to regard themselves as superior to the people in the south before they disappear.

At the same time, Gao Cheng also encouraged the five princes of the Kaifu, including Gao Xiaocong, to recruit southern scholars into the scene.

Don't really think that Gao Cheng spends all day and night in Yaoguang Temple, although Gao Cheng plays more absurdly than many faint kings, but being able to reasonably allocate work and entertainment time is the biggest difference between them, at least Xiao Gao Wang will not slack off for the sake of women.

Just when the rule of the Northern Qi Dynasty was being carried out in an orderly manner in the south of the Yangtze River, news came from Jiangdong that Wei Cang had surrendered to Jiang and was martyred.

After Xiao Gang learned about it, he was very sad, and Mrs. Xiao, who had just entered the palace, also asked Gao Cheng to reward Wei Cang, so as to strengthen his dignity and set an example for future generations.

But Gao Cheng categorically refused, if Wei Cang was rewarded for martyrdom, how would Wu Mingche, Liu Zhongli and others deal with themselves.

It is one thing to admire his integrity, but as a ruler, every word and deed will be infinitely magnified, and Gao Cheng will never encourage people to go against the grain in the general trend of north-south integration.

In Luoyang Market, in a wine shop, a one-armed old man is showing off his broken arm with others, and his son who was born as a Jinshi is bored.

Since Wang Ajing broke an arm, he went back to Hebei with the villagers to brag about it and prove his bravery, and then returned to Luoyang to retire.

For the sergeants who were disabled due to the war, Gao Cheng will arrange easy work in addition to pensions, such as the doors of each city, most of which are served by disabled soldiers.

Wang Ajing could also have reported to the government, but after his son Wang Gongyun became a jinshi, he left the opportunity to others, and lived a life of retirement early, bragging with people in the wine shop during the day, and when he returned home, he teased his grandson, and his life was very comfortable.

A slave ran into the liquor shop and shouted at Wang Ajing:

"The head of the family, Lang Jun has been transferred to Wuxing to serve as a county order, let me call you back quickly."

Wang Ajing got up and smiled at the acquaintances in the wine shop, said hello, and left in a hurry.

As soon as he left, there was a discussion in the wine shop.

"This Wang Lao'er is really lucky, and he raised a Jinshi son."

"No, Qiu Ba, who can't read big characters, has actually become a decent person."

"It's not that I have inherited the grace of Your Majesty, if it was a few years ago, his son, not to mention Zhongjinshi, would not even have a chance to study, and he would be like him all his life, just a mound and eight lives."

A good sake shop, the sour taste is extraordinarily strong.

Wang Ajing finally did not follow his son to Jiangnan, sent away Wang Gongyun's family of three, and he took his wife back to Yecheng, Hebei.

In that year, he was conscripted into the water division, and Wang Ajing's family was moved to Gyeonggi.

After Gao Cheng was disabled and discharged from the army during the expedition to Huainan, he stayed because Wang Gongyun got married here, but he felt that his roots were still in Hebei, and in Yecheng, people pay attention to a fallen leaf when they are old.

Wang Ajing and his wife returned to Yecheng, and returned to their hometown in fine clothes, which made the old people not envious, and countless people regretted that they should have learned from him to save money for their son to study, maybe the scenery is himself now.