"Yan Yi ······"

"Zheng was ······ at that time"

"Zhu Maichen ······"

"The Father of the Lord ······"

"Hmmm······"

At the end of the ceremony, sitting on the imperial couch of the Xuanshu Hall of Weiyang Palace, and the top four in this examination were said in order, Liu Sheng exhaled a little, and a sigh and emotion immediately appeared on his face.

More than 8,000 people took the examination and more than 5,000 passed.

Among the more than 8,000 candidates who took the examination, at least half were born in various schools of Confucianism;

Among the more than 5,000 people who passed the exam, this proportion has been further increased to 60%!

Nowadays, the current situation of various academic schools in the world can also be seen from the results of this examination, and even the origins of the top ten.

- Yan Hui's descendant Yan Yi won the champion, Zhu Maichen, who made a living by chopping wood, won Tanhua, five to ten and ten Confucian students, and six of the top ten scholars were from Confucianism!

This means that Confucianism has to some extent grown into the most numerous, most powerful, and even better school in all aspects of the Han family.

Among the top ten, Zheng Shi, the only one born in Huang Lao, was an old acquaintance of Liu Sheng who had dealt with the Imperial Palace, and the total number of 'governance' of Huang Lao was only three or five years;

All of the above all confirm that Huang Laoxue has declined to a staggering point.

It can even be said that the reason why Zheng was able to be among the best at that time may be due to the fact that he has not been able to 'treat' Huang Lao for long enough and has not yet reached the fire.

If it's really time to get to the fire, then whether Zheng can still be on the gold list of 100 people at that time is unknown.

Except for the Confucian Six Heroes led by Yan Yi, and the lone ranger Zheng Shi of Huang Laoxue, two of the remaining three people were from Legalism.

This is also in line with Liu Sheng's previous prediction: the discourse power of the Han family and Legalism in the academic world is probably due to the efforts of the first emperor and the development of pioneers such as Chao Cuo and Zhidu, which was about equal to zero in the early Han Dynasty and has increased to about 20% today.

Just these two percent are already the limit of Legalism.

Unless there is a great sage who can be called a 'son' by future generations and is recognized by Liu Sheng, it is absolutely impossible for the Han family to be in power and the 'violent Qin' to reappear.

As for the only outlier among these ten people: the master father Yan who was born in the Zongheng family, it was attributed to an accident by Liu Sheng's father without hesitation.

Liu Sheng even wanted to say: The talent of the master father Yan is simply the wrong doctrine!

But if you change to a 'popular' school such as Confucianism, Fa, and Huang Lao, or even choose a Mo family, the master is likely to do better.

This also made Liu Sheng subconsciously have great expectations for the master father Yan - this young man who can be among the best in this examination in terms of length and shortness.

In addition to the top ten, the other people in the list of 100 people on the gold list do not have much to make Liu Sheng happy.

——In this examination, more than 8,000 intellectuals took the examination, but only three people from the Mo family came to Chang'an.

These three people, and two of them are the sons of Gonghou, out of ideas like being unconventional, or wanting to coplay and so on, and the teacher column on the information column is filled in with the three big words 'Zimozi'.

The rest of the people only did the first four arithmetic problems and got four points, and the three edicts were written silently and the three subjective questions were directly handed in the blank papers.

Liu Sheng can only say: The brain circuits of scientists are always so strange.

In order to maintain the order he had personally established, Liu Sheng had no choice but to remove the Mo family's only seedling from the qualified list, and sent his maternal uncle Jia Gui to the door to communicate and negotiate with the real Mozi disciple and grandson.

If you are willing to stay, you will arrange people in Shaofu to be a craftsman or the like;

If you don't want to stay, then eat and drink well and entertain for a few days, and then send people on the way home.

In general, the results of this examination verified many of Liu Sheng's previous conjectures in the academic world, and also brought many tangible benefits to Liu Sheng and the Han family.

Today, Liu Sheng also fulfilled his promise, met with the top 100 in this examination, and had a Q&A with the representatives (mainly those who can be seen).

Liu Sheng was quite satisfied with the results, and further determined that the first four people were the main results of this examination.

And then, the problem that Liu Sheng needed to worry about shifted from a peaceful examination to a murderous war.

- Autumn, it's coming.

After autumn, it is not far away.

In the spring of this year, Liu Sheng rejected the Huns' proposal to make peace again, and threatened to 'fight and fight, who is afraid of whom';

And the next autumn and winter turn is the time for Liu Sheng to pay for his previous big words and 'pay the price'······

·

"Do you think that in this war, what are the chances of my Han family winning?"

Shang Guanli, Prime Minister's Mansion.

When Liu Sheng began to have a headache for the next war, which was very likely to break out, Prime Minister Liu She had already convened the ministers of the DPRK and China to discuss a specific response plan.

The participants also saw at a glance: the three princes and nine kings of the dynasty.

If you have to say that there are any fresh faces, that is, above today's court, the young secretary who has just been officially appointed: Zhongwu Marquis Jia Gui.

In addition, the rest of the people belong to old acquaintances and old buddies who have cooperated for many years······

"I don't know what the situation of Shaofu is now?"

Since we are discussing war, the first thing that needs to be determined is naturally the reserve of logistical materials.

Of course, Liu She also had the intention to take this opportunity to test the details of Jia Gui's young mansion.

- After all, he has been a Shaofu for so many years, whether it is the Shaofu official office, the Han Shanglin workshop, Liu She has extremely deep feelings for the grass and wood of Shaofu.

took this opportunity to test Jia Gui, but also wanted to know what the new Shaofu was for.

If it is a Karami who doesn't know anything, then Liu She can be sure: Liu Sheng wants to find a puppet so that he can control everything in Shaofu;

If it is a stubborn relative, Liu She can conclude that Shaofu and his maternal uncle, Liu Sheng at least wants to kill one.

- Either kill the maternal uncle who broke the Shaofu, or kill the Shaofu who taught the bad maternal uncle, or the two die together.

But what was quite unexpected by Liu She and even the full court: Jia Gui's performance seems to be much more optimistic than everyone's most optimistic speculation.

"Prime Minister."

"Shaofu now, since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen three years ago, the accumulated money over the years, totaling nearly 2.7 million yuan;"

"If Xingyang Aocang and Chang'an Taicang are counted, plus the treasury of the various counties in the Kanto region, the total amount of grain that can be called up is about 8 million stones."

"In addition, gold, stone, beads, jade and other property are basically the same as when the prime minister left office, and salt, vinegar and other kinds of things are only slightly less than when the prime minister left office."

"Ahem, ahem······"

"I'm not afraid of the jokes of the princes: during this time, I was busy with the cicada wing paper explained by His Majesty, and I didn't care much about being familiar with Shaofu."

"I just got appointed today, and my understanding of Shaofu is limited to that······

Saying this, Jia Gui didn't forget to smile shyly, and lowered his head with some 'shame', as if he was very embarrassed by his performance.

However, everyone in the hall looked at Jia Gui's posture that did not show any traces of performance, and immediately exchanged glances with different expressions.

- That's all?

What else do you want to do?

I haven't done Shaofu yet, so I want to get a thorough understanding of the inside and out?

Not to mention that you are a foreign relative, you are the main focus of the treasury of the Prime Minister and the internal defense of the Shaofu, even the foreign minister, you have to avoid suspicion, right?

Thinking like this, everyone quickly reacted: Taking Jia Gui as the Shaofu is probably a plan that Liu Sheng has been planning for a long time and has been preparing for a long time.

Thinking back to today's Chaoyi, it was Dou Pengzu, the Marquis of Fengchang Nanpi, who stood up to promote Jia Gui······

"Dou Clan, is this an alliance with the Jia Clan?"

"Hiss ······"

"Probably not, right?"

"No matter how young Your Majesty is, how can he allow such a thing to happen?"

···

"Come to think of it, it's the Jia and Dou clans who are on the surface, or they still want to maintain some decency."

"Plus Jia's family, it's really not a good man······"

In just a blink of an eye, everyone's thoughts have flown out of 108,000 miles, and even extended from Jia Gui to the relationship between the Dou and Jia clans, and even the close relationship between the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and the current Liu Sheng.

But soon, everyone's scattered thoughts were once again pulled back to their eyes by Liu She's serious voice.

"What about the internal history?"

A light inquiry caused Uncle Tian to nod with a sad face.

"Since the beginning of spring, Your Majesty refused to make peace with the Huns, so I sent a letter to the local county and county magistrates in Guanzhong, reminding them that this year is a little delicate, and they should not be conscripted from the people unless necessary."

"If there is a war, then the people in the pass should also be able to levy a ······"

Hearing Uncle Tian's words, everyone present only nodded their heads, and even the sadness on their faces was visibly dispersed a little.

In this era, or the entire era of cold weapons, wars between countries and civilizations are actually about logistics, not combat power.

Or it should be said that as long as the combat effectiveness of the army is not much different, and there is no too obvious restraint of the arms, then the war in the era of cold weapons will be fought to the end, in fact, it is fighting whose logistics cannot be carried first.

It's like the first battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, on the surface, it was Ma Fuzi who talked about the army on paper, and buried the Zhao State with a full generation of young and strong combat power, but in fact, the real reason for Zhao's defeat in the First Battle of Changping was that the logistics were really a little unbearable, and it was really impossible to consume with the Qin State that was rich in Hetao, Hexi, Hanzhong, and Bashu.

Before Ma Fuzi became the general, the strategy adopted by Zhao Guozhu Lian Po was actually consumption.

If it weren't for the logistics that couldn't hold it, why did Zhao Guo need to change the commander and replace the veteran Lian Po?

If it weren't for the logistics that couldn't hold it, how could Lian Po be criticized for 'wasting national strength in vain', and how could the rumors spread by the Qin State in Handan City really send Ma Fuzi to the position of the commander of the Zhao army?

Specifically, the war between Han and Hungary is actually the same reason.

In terms of combat effectiveness, whether it is a single soldier or a cluster, the Han family is actually in a relatively obvious advantage - the Huns are far inferior to today's Han family in terms of dietary habits, army training methods, and even the stage of the entire civilization.

However, due to the restraint of the arms, in the past few years, the Han family can only accept the status quo of 'losing money if it fights or not, and it loses big losses and does not fight small losses', and chooses to make peace with its own 'small losses'.

By now, the outbreak of war seems to be inevitable, and the attention of the Chang'an court is naturally focused on logistics first.

As the saying goes: the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first.

In addition to the 'grain and grass' itself, the people who are responsible for transporting the 'grain and grass' are also the top priority.

On top of today's "Han Law", there is such a crime specifically aimed at the princes and vassal kings, called 'excessive expropriation'.

This means that a certain vassal lord has to bear the responsibility and accept punishment for the number and time of compulsory labor in a certain period of time.

The princes and vassal kings are still like this, and the Chang'an court, which formulated this rule, naturally does not need to say much.

Although there is no indicator, stipulating how much labor can only be levied and how long the Chang'an court can work each year, this is not really 'no index', but because the Chang'an court, or the indicator of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, is unspeakable.

The last time this ineffable indicator was broken, it brought a sentence for Ying Qin: Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind?

Therefore, even if there is no specific indicator of 'how many people and how long', the Chang'an court is still the administrative unit that cares most about 'not overwork'.

And Uncle Tian's answer can be regarded as a reassuring pill for everyone present: there are still a lot of indicators this year, and if you really fight, you don't have to worry about the people complaining about the court's labor.

"Servant?"

After asking Jia Gui about the situation of Shaofu (materials), and getting the 'balance of labor requisition index' (transportation) in Guanzhong from Uncle Tian, Liu She's focus naturally shifted to the most important factor in the war: combat effectiveness.

More precisely, it is the problem of restraint of the troops that has devastated the Han family.

But Yuan An's answer cast a thick shadow on the hearts of everyone present······

"Since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen began to set up a horse garden in the north, my Han family has set up a total of 36 horse gardens to this day."

"Among them, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen set up nine, and Emperor Xianxiaojing set up twenty-seven;"

"Of the nine places set up by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, two were destroyed by the Huns during the reign of the first emperor······"

···

"Removing the two places that were lost, the remaining seven horse gardens set up by Emperor Taizong have a total of 100 war horses that can be slaughtered now."

"As for the twenty-seven places set up by the first emperor, because they have not been established for a long time, they are basically unable to produce war horses."

"And now, counting the war horses that are about to be slaughtered in the seven horse gardens after the autumn, the number of war horses recorded by the servant is by no means less than 10,000."

"Less than 10,000 horses ······"

"Alas·······"

"I'm afraid that in this battle, my Han family will still have to ride on foot ·········"

(End of chapter)