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Chen Gongfu took the upper house exam in Zhenghe for three years and won the first place.

——The Zhao Song Dynasty adopted the "three rounds" examination method during the reign of Zhao Ji, in which the "upper house" was the highest grade of the examination, and the first place in the upper house was equivalent to the champion of the Jinshi test.

Undoubtedly, Chen Gongfu, who has the talent of the champion, is a very talented person.

Such a talent, if it weren't for the fact that he was not liked by the ministers in power and was excluded everywhere, he would have become a high-ranking official in the Zhao and Song dynasties a long time ago, and it would have been impossible for him to mix in the officialdom for more than ten years before he got mixed with the right side of the seventh grade.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Chen Gongfu, after he entered the official career, advocated integrity, was loyal and outspoken, and acted without looking at other people's faces.

When Chen Gongfu was a professor in Pingjiang Mansion, Zhu Mian was very favored by Zhao Ji, and many officials succumbed to Zhu Mian, but Chen Gongfu never had a relationship with Zhu Mian, and when Zhu Mian's brother held a funeral, Chen Gongfu not only did not go to mourn himself, but also taught his students not to go.

At the beginning, Li Bangyan was dismissed, but within a few days he was awarded the title of Dazai by Zhao Huan, and the people were shocked for a while, but most officials in the DPRK and China dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and only Chen Gongfu wrote a chapter of impeachment overnight, listing all kinds of facts and bad deeds of Li Bangyan who betrayed the country and defected to the enemy, and finally Li Bangyan and his henchmen Wang Xiaodi and Cai Mao were dismissed.

Historically, after the first southern invasion of the Jin people, Wu Min and Li Gang were at odds with each other, although Chen Gongfu had a good relationship with Li Gang, he was impartial and upright for the country.

In short, Chen Gongfu is not only talented, but also straightforward, often loyal and straightforward for state affairs, and even Zhao Gou in history highly respects Chen Gongfu, and gives him three court clothes, and also ordered Shangshu Province to specially draw a portrait of Chen Gongfu and give it to him for viewing.

Such Chen Gongfu has not risen in the Zhao and Song dynasties.

It is said that after coming to the Daqian Dynasty as an official, Chen Gongfu, as a subordinate, should be a man with his tail between his legs, so as not to be driven out of the court by Li Cun and never become an official.

But Chen Gongfu is not like this, but like Li Guang, when he sees something unpleasant, he gives Li Cun a recital.

In the past, even if Li Cun wanted to show his mind and not worry about your little imperial history, but when the cadres were rejoicing in their victories, you wrote to Li Cun, asking Li Cun to stop the war and let the people in the Central Plains and even the entire Daqian Dynasty recuperate for three years.

Are you saying you're crazy?!

Indeed, at first glance, when they heard Chen Gongfu's claim, many people thought that Chen Gongfu was crazy, and some people even thought that Chen Gongfu was a spy of the small court of the Western Song Dynasty and asked Li Cun to kill Chen Gongfu.

But although Li Cun was also surprised by Chen Gongfu's proposition, after carefully reading the recital that Chen Gongfu gave him, Li Cun frowned.

Chen Gongfu: This is not a loss.

First of all, it has to be said that Li Cun has grown so fast that although Li Cun has been carefully managing every piece of land he has obtained over the years, and has robbed, blackmailed, and confiscated everywhere, in the end, the money and grain obtained are barely enough for the development and growth of his own territory.

And this was only before Li Cun got the Central Plains.

After getting the Central Plains, which has been battered to pieces, Li Cun can't help but have some trouble running it again.

This is really something that can't be helped, starting from the uprising of Li Cun and Fang La, and even from earlier, the people in the Central Plains have been living in dire straits.

By the time Zhao Ji began to join Jin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, the people in the Central Plains had been deprived of living and could only revolt and rebel.

Waiting for Li Cun to fight the Song Dynasty, although Li Cun has not robbed the people of a stitch and has been providing disaster relief, the pain caused by the war still cannot be completely avoided, which makes the people in the Central Plains begin to march to hell.

The person who completely sent the people of the Central Plains to hell was Zhao Gou, who used Du Chong's desperate plan to dig up the Yellow River, resulting in more than 200,000 people in the Central Plains being drowned, and the deaths caused by displacement and plague were several times that of this.

Although as soon as this catastrophe broke out, Li Cun had already done his best to relieve the victims, and Li Cun had also made sufficient preparations for the seizure of the Central Plains, but after this huge and incomparably heavy burden was smashed down, the Daqian Dynasty could only barely support it.

What made Li Cun even more troublesome was that he had to manage the Yellow River.

Even if Tang Ke only used the method of work relief to govern the Yellow River according to Li Cun's intentions, the cost of this is terrifyingly high.

The most important thing is the consumption of food.

Although the Daqian court did not pay money, but only promised to give the people the fertile land in the two river basins according to the merit after the Yellow River was well managed, in order to make the people have the strength to control the Yellow River, all the people had to eat very much, otherwise how could they have the strength to do such hard work?

Moreover, if Li Cun, the emperor, sent hungry soldiers to govern the Yellow River, there might be something that shook Li Cun's country with "Mo Daoshiren has one eye and provokes the Yellow River to rebel against the world".

In addition, the Daqian Dynasty was also facing a huge trouble.

Although Li Cun has been recruiting the defeated troops, bandits, and rebels in the Central Plains, Hebei, and Hedong regions, because the war has not really stopped, there are always new routs scattered in all directions, and then there will always be new routs, bandits, and rebels.

Here are a few examples:

At this critical moment when the Great Qian Dynasty launched a general attack on the small court of the Western Song Dynasty, a person named Li Xiaozhong (not Li Yanxian in history) actually gathered a group of routs to attack Xiangyang Mansion, judging by their meaning, they wanted to enter the Jingxiang area, or even want to enter Shu from the Jingxiang area;

There is also a person named Yan Jin, who also took advantage of this opportunity to gather tens of thousands of bandits and is attacking Huangzhou;

The original big thief Gaotuo Mountain, who made a lot of noise in Hebei, was later recruited by the Zhao Song Dynasty and renamed Gao Sheng, after the Zhao Song Dynasty was destroyed by Li Cun, Gaotuo Mountain regathered more than 10,000 people, and made a lot of trouble in the Taihang Mountain area of Hebei.

If these rebellions had only occurred in the Central Plains, Hebei, and Hedong regions, which had not yet been completely stabilized, Li Cun would not have been so bothered.

But Chen Tong, a native of Hangzhou, has gathered thousands of people, and is currently haunting the eastern part of Zhejiang, and many local governments have reported that Chen Tong has signs of conquering the city, and it seems that he wants to take the old road that Li Cun has walked before;

What made Li Cun even more upset was that Zhong Xiang, a native of Wuling in Dingzhou, used religious activities to organize the people in his hometown, and all the peasants who joined his organization, the township community, had to pay a little money and grain, and the society practiced mutual assistance and mutual assistance, so that "the silkworms were prosperous and physiologically rich." He declared: "The law divides the rich and the poor, and it is not a good law." I practice the law, and I should be equal to the rich and the poor, both rich and poor. ”

Zhong Xiang was deeply supported by the local people and was called "Old Man" or "Heavenly Sage".

Countless people from hundreds of miles around have joined the village community.

- Zhong Xiang's township society did not grow during the Daqian Dynasty, but as early as the Zhao and Song dynasties ruled the Jingzhou region, they had begun to develop secretly, and its history is almost twenty years, and its influence expanded to the counties around Dongting Lake.

If Zhong Xiang is just asking for an official, Li Cun will definitely give Zhong Xiang a reward, and then decompose their township community little by little.

But the problem is, I don't know if Zhong Xiang thinks that when he comes to the Daqian Dynasty, he has little room for development, and only by first going to mix with the dying Zhao Song Dynasty, and then he establishes his own dynasty, he can become the emperor.

It's a pity that at that time, Li Cun sent troops to block all the roads to the north, so that Zhong Xiang couldn't go north at all.

Later, Zhong Xiang planned an uprising based on these 300 people.

Not long ago, Zhong Xiang took advantage of the chaos to lead the people to revolt, with the slogan of "supporting the Song Dynasty and destroying the cadres", tangled up a lot of people who believed in their religion and their hearts to the Zhao and Song dynasties, and coerced a large number of innocent people to occupy the 800 miles of Dongting Lake, Zhong Xiang proclaimed himself the king of Chu, set up official subordinates, they burned the official mansion, the city, the temple, the temple and the house of Haoyou, and killed officials, Confucian scholars, monks, witch doctors, divination and people with enmity.

They called the act of killing officials and other acts "practicing the law," the act of dividing the property of these people equally as "equalization," and denounced the state law of the Daqian Dynasty as an "evil law." All those who participated in the rebel army were exempted from taxation and were not subject to the constraints of official decrees.

Relying on these ideas and actions, as well as religious misdirection, Zhong Xiang gathered more than 100,000 people, relying on the natural danger of Dongting Lake, to fight with the cadres and the army, and to deal with the small court of the Western Song Dynasty from afar.

In other words, not only has there been problems in the Central Plains, but also in Li Cun's southern nest.

Li Cun actually knew very well that the reason why there was a problem in the south was mainly because he had focused all his attention on the Yanyun region and the Central Plains region in the north over the years, and squeezed a large amount of money and grain from the south to supply the north and the Central Plains.

In addition, with their own successful examples in front of them, some bold people will inevitably think "the emperor will take turns to do it, and he will come to my house next year".

This led to many Xiaoxiao jumping out to take advantage of the chaos, and even take risks.

Actually-

At present, everything is still under Li Cun's control, including Zhong Xiang's gang, which is currently the most powerful

- If it weren't for Zhong Xiang and their mediation with the cadres and the cadres in the dangerous place of Dongting Lake, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, they would have been wiped out by Zhao Han'er, Sun Sandao, Zhang Goudan, and Erpolezi.

But then again, this only means that Li Cun can still control the overall situation, it does not mean that there are no problems at present.

After reading Chen Gongfu's recital, Li Cun finally realized that the problem with all of this was the lack of people's power.

The lack of people's power is that there is not enough money and materials.

Li Cun had always thought that the Daqian Dynasty would not have such a problem, because the Daqian Dynasty had neither redundant troops nor debts, and had recovered all the land and a large amount of property from the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

It wasn't until he saw Chen Gongfu's performance that Li Cun realized that without sufficient food and materials as a foundation, no matter how much money the Daqian Dynasty had, it would have no value, and it would not become real wealth.

In other words, what the Daqian Dynasty lacks now is not money at all, but food and basic materials, especially the former.

Moreover, the people who have been baptized by the war are so tired that they need to rest and recuperate.

So Chen Gongfu's reminder was not wrong and it was also timely.

But—

Although Li Cun also realized the problem, Li Cun still did not immediately agree to Chen Gongfu to let the people recuperate for three years.

The main reason why Li Cun did not make this decision now is that the current front line is really good, and if he continues to fight like this, Li Cun is likely to complete the real unification this year.

If Li Cun can successfully complete the great unification, many problems will no longer be a problem, including the current turmoil.

Therefore, it is impossible for Li Cun to miss the opportunity to complete the great unification because of some problems that he can still suppress.

Li Cun summoned Chen Gongfu to the palace and had a heart-to-heart conversation with Chen Gongfu.

Li Cun and Chen Gongfu explained the problems faced by the Daqian Dynasty thoroughly.

Li Cun also said that as long as this battle is over, he will definitely let the people recuperate, and by the way, deal with all the problems that the Daqian Dynasty is currently facing.

Chen Gongfu understood that Li Cun, the emperor, could tell him these things so patiently, which showed that Li Cun was really aware of the problems he raised and agreed with his proposal.

It's just that in such a good situation, it is indeed too difficult for Li Cun to let Li Cun withdraw his troops and give up the opportunity to complete the great unification.

Chen Gongfu said: "As a minister, it is the duty of the minister to remind His Majesty of the national crisis, and His Majesty decides according to the general trend of the country, which is the decision of the emperor. ”

said that although he said so, the emperor could explain the reason to him in person, which still made Chen Gongfu very comfortable.

This at least shows that the emperor really listened to the harsh advice of his courtier.

This also proves that Chen Gongfu did not misunderstand Li Cun at the beginning, although Li Cun is lustful, a little greedy, and not a gentleman, but in terms of ability, attitude, foresight, etc., Li Cun does have the qualifications of an emperor through the ages, and he is a person who can end the troubled times.

Li Cun didn't say anything more to Chen Gongfu, so he let Chen Gongfu leave.

The next day, Li Cun promoted Chen Gongfu to the imperial doctor.

The Imperial Historical Observatory is the central administrative supervision organ and one of the central judicial organs, responsible for picketing, impeaching officials, and enforcing discipline. Moreover, for all major cases, the Yushitai and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple will form a joint trial of the three legal divisions.

——Dali Temple is responsible for interrogating criminals and drafting sentences, and the Criminal Department is responsible for review, and at the same time reporting to the Imperial Historical Observatory for supervision.

Although the power of the Imperial Historical Observatory is not large, it can manage everything, and even the emperor can theoretically manage it.

And the Imperial Historian is a senior official of the third grade, which is eight grades higher than Chen Gongfu's original Seventh Rank Imperial History!

Li Cun suddenly promoted Chen Gongfu, who was from the Zhao and Song dynasties, to such a high level, which surprised many people and saw that Li Cunzhen would use talents regardless of previous suspicions, but also made some people with a sensitive sense of political smell smell smell some different flavors.

First of all, of course, Li Cun is very optimistic about Chen Gongfu.

What's more, Chen Gongfu's suggestion to Li Cun, Li Cun must have listened to it.

And based on this, something that no one thought of before may be about to happen soon!

The thing is that the war may be over, at least for a while......

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