Chapter 23 Strategy

Li Yuting, who was guarding Anqing Mansion, was already going crazy.

More than ten years ago, during the great drought, he had just been awarded the Hanlin Academy by the "Shu Jishi" through the "Dispersal Hall".

Many people think that the top prize in the scientific examination is the most powerful, but in fact, they are all countrymen who have never seen the world. The champion of the palace test, of course, is also counted, but there is a lot of luck in it - for example, the appearance is dignified, or the name is good, and the saint likes it......

The scientific examination of this dynasty is divided into three levels: township examination, meeting examination, and palace examination - the "talented master" in the eyes of the countrymen is just a student who has passed the children's examination, and he is not in these three levels at all, and he can't do it at all.

The township test is held once every three years, and it is held in August of the year of Fengzi, Mao, Wu and You, so it can be called both "Xiangfu" and "Qiufu". The examination will take place in the north and south and the provincial envoys, that is, the provincial capitals. The name in the exam is "lifting people", and the first name is "Xie Yuan".

The examination is held in the spring of the following year of the township examination, that is, in the spring of the year of Chou, Chen, Wei, and Xu, so it is also called "Chunqiu". The Ministry of Rites presides, and the whole country participates in the Beijing Division, so it is also called "Lifu". The name of the examination is "Gongshi", and the first name is "Huiyuan".

In that year, the tributes who passed the examination would participate in the "temple examination" presided over by the Holy Lord himself. The palace examination is also called the "court examination". How can the saint have a lot of opportunities, how can he see hundreds or thousands of articles? In fact, it is still evaluated by the examiners, and it is divided into three grades, which are called the first class (first class), the second class, and the third class. Generally speaking, the examiners will select the ten best tribute to the imperial review, and the "three tripod armor" will be selected by the holy royal pen, which is commonly known as the champion, the list eye, and the tanhua - got it? In the top ten in the country, it is difficult to say how high it can really be compared to anyone else. In this, it may also be that your handwriting is good, maybe the saint sees that you are pleasing to the eye, well, and thinks that your name is auspicious, but it is not certain......

The "first class" is these three: the champion was awarded the "Hanlin Academy Editing", Bangyan and Tanhua were awarded the "Hanlin Academy Editing", and all three were awarded the "Jinshi and the first". The number of the second and third class is different, and the second class is given "Jinshi origin", and the first name is "Chuanlu". The top three are given "the same Jinshi origin". This Sanding A and the Top Three are two completely different things.

Interject a digression. Why is it called "same"? Because it's "different"! For example, "commanding and knowing" is one level lower than "commanding and knowing": there are some things that you should theoretically "know", but in practice, they will not tell you! Therefore, "Tongjinshi" will have some derogatory connotations - Zeng Guofan in later generations was born in Tongjinshi. Zeng Guofan has two hobbies, one is to write a diary, the other is to write couplets, especially couplets - he has nothing to write for his friends at home, well, his friends are still alive, Lao Zeng began to think about what to send when you die! Once a friend came to visit, Lao Zeng hurriedly crumpled the things he wrote, this thought that Lao Zeng was writing a little yellow text, grabbed it and looked at it on the spot, and was anxious: it was his own couplet! Break off on the spot. Another time, Lao Zeng gave people a couplet: "Mrs. Ru" (that is, the little wife), I wanted to be embarrassed for the other party, but I didn't expect to be treated by the other party as "Tongjinshi", and was equated by others with the little wife, and I was angry.

"Sanyuan and first" refers to those who have successively won the first place in the township examination, the meeting examination and the palace examination, that is, those who have the titles of Xie Yuan, Hui Yuan and Champion in one. There are very few in history.

In addition to the three who directly entered the Hanlin Academy, the other Jinshi would take another examination, which was called the "Chao Examination". The best ones are also selected and entered the Hanlin Academy, which is called "Shu Jishi". Pay attention: The Jishi who entered the Hanlin Academy cannot be regarded as a genuine Hanlin!

The name of Hallymin Temple is very particular. The original meaning of the word "Han" is the long, hard feathers on the golden pheasant, which was used to write in ancient times (can't you think of it?). Most people think that the quill is the patent of Europeans, and we jumped from carving bamboo and wood tablets with knives to writing brushes. In fact, we have used similar hollow feathers to make pens. By the way, the inventor of the brush was Fusu, the eldest son of Qin Shi Huang who was sent to the north to fight against the Xiongnu), and later, it was used to refer to excellent articles. Hanlin Academy - the land of the magnificent Huazhang like a forest, the country's talent pool!

He studied at the Hanlin Academy for three years and had to take a graduation exam, which was called "Sankan". If it is passed, it will be edited and reviewed according to the results; Those who do not pass are assigned to the positions of directors and other positions in various ministries such as officials, households, soldiers, and criminal workers, or are given priority to the county party committee.

The grade of Hanlin is not high, the revision is from the sixth grade, and the editing is the seventh grade - but it belongs to the long-lived literary acolyte, and it can face the saint! Moreover, there has been an unwritten unspoken rule for a long time in this dynasty: non-jinshi are not allowed to enter the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin is not allowed to enter the cabinet. Shu Jishi, who entered the Hanlin Academy, was even more respected by everyone as the "Prime Minister"!

Therefore, the highest level of reading is really not the champion that rural slang people talk about, but - Hanlin!

Li Yuting, who was ambitious as a young man, was full of cultivation at that time. I dare not say that it is incumbent on me to establish a life for the people, so I rushed to the book: The great drought in the world is a warning from God! Taxes should be reduced to compassionate to the people, long live there are villains around you......

And then...... He went to prison and almost died.

Waiting for the first emperor to control the dragon for nine days, the saint succeeded to the great unification, and re-ranked the dynasty by himself*, in retrospect, it was really two lives.

After so many years, although that kind of bookish atmosphere is long gone, the enthusiasm for worrying about the country and the people has not diminished in the slightest. Seeing that all kinds of rogue gangsters were going down one after another, affecting eight or nine provinces, and Shenzhou was full of devastation, he took the initiative to ask for help. Of course, the saint understood this fist heart, not only warmly exhorted him, gave the Son of Heaven a sword for his own heroism, but also assigned eight brocade guards to accompany him - that was the Son of Heaven's own soldiers! However, when I arrived at the local level, I realized that I was still too naïve.

After dealing with the rogue for a year or two, Li Yuting realized that if the imperial court really wanted to completely solve the so-called giants who made people talk about the tiger, in fact, it was not as difficult to extinguish as imagined: there were so many core people who had become elite, and nine out of ten were coerced outcasts - as long as these people could be fed, who would want to be thieves!

If you have food to eat, you must have a field to plant. Right?

Arida?

Yes, yes!

Where the rogue passed, the land was thousands of miles away.

The red land is the wasteland, and the wasteland is the terra nullius. By distributing these ownerless lands to the homeless, won't the thieves lose the support of their subordinates and become rootless trees with no source of water?

It's easy to say, but the actual operation is another matter. Li Yuting understood it very well in his heart.

First of all, those imperial historians who "heard the wind and played things" will definitely attack in groups, and the pigtails are too easy to catch: divide the field? Is there still merit in being a thief? Then let's all go and be thieves...... I will be drowned alive by the foaming stars of these mouth cannon masters.

Secondly, this move will offend almost all the military leaders, large and small.

It's no wonder that no matter whether it's real or fake, it's all spent all these years with the rogues anyway, and the soldiers themselves are so poor that they are no different from calling Huazi, and suddenly I saw the guys who were still stained with the blood of their comrades living a happy life of two acres of land, a cow, a wife, and a child's hot kang head in a blink of an eye, and they all had to be reversed? Besides, everyone is still looking forward to these easy-to-cut heads in exchange for rewards, and they can also ask for more materials, grain and grass, and "great victory" rewards and pensions...... This is clearly cutting off people's financial routes - no matter how much the imperial historians spray, it's a big deal to roll up the cover and throw a black gauze hat home, cut off the financial road of these Qiu Ba, and lose their lives by an outlaw who took advantage of the darkness to cut two knives!

In the end, even if everything goes according to expectations, with the efficiency and ability of the Ming bureaucracy, it is impossible for the resettlement of millions of displaced people from a dozen or so paths, large and small, without chaos. No one can afford to toss up and kill a few newly appointed parents or something!

Besides, where did this almost astronomical cost of resettlement come from? Can Tobe spare himself?

Therefore, although it is the best policy to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, the plump ideal cannot withstand the reality of the skinny: it is better not to kick this red-hot iron plate.

Then let's go to the conquest with all our hearts.

Although headache and head and foot pain are said to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, after all, it is also a good strategy. No matter how powerful the rogues are, they are also thieves, after all, the official army is a regular army, not to mention that he was ordered to pass through Henan, Huguangnan, and Zhili. Combine the forces of the provinces, urge all members to concentrate their efforts on destroying one or two of the largest forces, and leave the rest to fate, and they can also return to the Holy Mission.

But it can't be.

Don't look at Li Yuting's terrifying title of passing through the four provinces, whether it is the governor or the political envoy, he is also respectful and polite, but in fact, he can't command the people of any province. On several occasions, it was clear that the thieves had been chased to the end of the road, and the remnants of the sin had their tails between their tails and drilled into the mountains at the junction of several provinces, seeing that they could return with a full stunt, and the officers and soldiers here would soon receive the order of the provincial government to "quickly return to reinforcements when they found the enemy's traces", and turned around and retreated home! In a few months, no more than a year or two, the thieves healed their wounds again and made a comeback, engulfing more homeless people, and the momentum was even greater than before!

Li Yuting, who has always been a Beijing official, didn't expect it to be like this at first. However, after all, the prison was not in vain in those years, and I pondered a lot, and soon understood the mystery: all provinces only take care of their own stalls, and you and neighboring provinces selflessly cooperated to exterminate this group of thieves, and you fought hard to lose your own troops and hurt your vitality, and other thieves came over to deal with it?

At that time, even if your colleagues in neighboring provinces are righteous and send troops to help you, the army will have to eat and be paid, this is normal, right? It is ironclad to lead 2,000 soldiers to ask you for 8,000 men's food, can you run and count the heads yourself? The guest army has no local feelings with you, and will never talk about any politeness, burn a few villages and towns to make a few lives, and push them on the head of the thief with both hands, you have to swallow this fruit or not! Whether you can exterminate the thieves or two words, it is a certainty that the province will become a white land where the army passes - at that time, even if the thieves are beaten away, it will be the great righteous help next door who will turn the tide and fall, in case the thieves become bigger, people pat their butts and leave, that is if you control the people and have no way to defeat the neighboring provinces, the lightest is to dismiss the crime and never continue! Therefore, no matter how this account is calculated, it will benefit others and be finished by themselves!

On the other hand, no matter how big the mess is, it is the guy next door who is his own business: even if he goes to sue the royal court - everyone is born in a pen, isn't it just biting each other, who is afraid of who will come? There was a true story a long time ago: the plague of locusts. It's impossible to exterminate locusts, but you can drive them away! A county commander led the old and young in the city, all of them were united, smoky and fired, and drove the locusts to Linxian, and the guy next door was really anxious to report to the saint...... The result? A piece of paper went straight to the front of the emperor: Wei Chen was afraid of the trust of the saint, and he worked tirelessly for dozens of nights to protect the township - he can also lead the people to drive the locusts back again...... Shengshang Longyan Dayue handed over the order of the department, and the unlucky ghost next door was removed from his post and investigated! Living examples are here. If you take another 10,000 steps back, even if the thieves come back after a while of recuperation - one, by that time, they may have already completed their term of office, and they have been promoted to other places to benefit the people, even if they are still in office, who wants to take over this mess? At most, isn't it just a "dismissal and retention", wearing a crime and making meritorious service? The position is not stable yet! Therefore, as long as the provincial capital is not lost, it is a business that will make sure that it will not lose money.

In this regard, Li Yuting was helpless.

Then make a decision: raise your own soldiers and come by yourself.

Anyway, before leaving, Shengshang Chrysostom also said: let go of your hands and feet and do it boldly. "I don't worry about Meng Lang, but I am afraid of Qing. On the day of the victory of the army, I will not be stingy with the reward of the marquis! Moreover, in order to block the mouths of those villains, before leaving Beijing, he deliberately took his mother, wife, children and grandchildren from his hometown to Beijing! When he left his majesty, the saint also specially gave the whole family brocade wine and food - this is very meaningful! So far, the two sides have reached a tacit understanding, and the subtext is tacit. I am here: I must live up to the trust of the saint, the minister will leave the whole family in Beijing as a hostage, in case there is a negative trust, you want to cut which one, the saint also expressed his attitude: let it go, I will ensure that your whole family has no worries about food and clothing......

After passing through the four provinces, the household department will allocate some money and grain anyway.

When I read "The Art of War" on weekdays, I feel that it is nothing great to strategize and defeat the enemy. But when I really put up the recruitment flag, I realized that leading the troops was not as simple as giving a few coins of silver with a knife, but there were so many specific problems: not to mention the establishment of the army, the management of baggage, and the marching camp, etc., and the formation in front of the enemy was even more of a dream: the vast majority of hungry and crazy guys who joined the army couldn't even tell the difference between left and right! That's it, but they all have nothing to do with everything - it's no wonder that there are few good birds in exile and confiscation in the army, and the recruits are all market hooligan outlaws - how can this be trained!

Li Yuting suddenly found that he used to live in two completely unrelated parallel worlds with these guys, and just restraining the soldiers from harming the place made the head of Jingluo as big as a fight, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: The soldiers are all scumbags!

Fortunately, thanks to the reform of the imperial court a few years ago, the post of governor was added in some places. His brother-in-law Qian Qianfu (the word is respectful) established a Fu Biao in the past few years as the governor of Shandong, played the Ming Shengshang, and allocated a horse team of 500 people, which was used as the backbone, and then after Zhao Sanxi's best efforts, he barely pieced together a thousand members of the horse team and a family base of 3,000 foot teams.

These guys are really hard to manage, they beat their chests and talked bitterly, and they knew that they were foaming at the mouth with great righteousness, and they saw those guys trembling and kowtowing on the ground like pounding garlic, do you think he really repented?

That's weird!

In a blink of an eye, I went to harass the rough country mother-in-law again!

It's really thanks to Zhao Sanxi's discipline. The light archery parade camp is to take a number of feather arrows from the cheeks, ears, nose and other places according to the severity of the crime, and then let people set up a traveling exhibition, cut off the skulls on the spot, and use bamboo poles to pick gongs, drums, and turn in circles to make negative teaching materials...... In this way, it has finally converged a little.

Zhao Sanxi, who has always led the horse army, doesn't know much about foot combat, but according to him, the infantry team rushed into formation, even in the eyes of a semi-layman, these guys are a rabble, and they can only be city defenders, and they have to fight a few times with real knives and guns, and they can only be pulled out of the field - then his horse team has to force the formation with knives in the back, so as not to scatter in a hurry - win or lose!

This time, the giant Kou Zhang Hu poured out of the nest, and the main force rushed to Anqing from Huguang, and the other division entered the Luzhou Mansion from Henan...... Needless to say, the dog thieves have ruined all the area and started the idea of Nan Zhili. In case Jiangning falls into the hands of thieves, what awaits him is a big crime to destroy the door! Therefore, when he knew that the thieves were about to invade Anqing on a large scale, he not only rushed all the way from Jiangning, but also took the risk of dividing his troops and sent Zhao Sanxi to aid Luzhou, hoping to break the thieves all the way first, and then cooperate with Sun Jieli to block the main force of Zhang Thief under Anqing City - with his own strength, it is a pipe dream to exterminate it, but Nanzhili is the foundation of the imperial court, and there will definitely be a strict decree from the saints. A hat with a negative grace can no longer be taken off, whether it can save his life depends on whether the city wall of Anqing can stop the thieves.

A bolt from the blue!

Zhao Sanxi didn't even see the city wall of Luzhou Mansion, so he only brought back half of the remnants of the defeated army, no need to ask, Luzhou Mansion is finished - this point, Li Yuting guessed wrong.

Li Yuting touched the dagger in his boots, and once again made up his mind: If it ...... He must not be humiliated by thieves, and when the time comes, he must use this dagger - Li Yuting did not guess wrong.

*This is a typical royal conspiracy.

The old emperor felt that he might not live long, and he wanted to leave his son a few courtiers with trustworthy character, and it was best that this guy would cause some trouble recently, offend himself and his colleagues...... Take advantage of the topic to play, depose to the old and young border and poor areas to drink wind and eat soil, or go directly to prison, and then be ruthlessly beheaded, but they will take care of the subordinates, and they are not allowed to really die. It's easier to behead the prisoner, just don't tick his name every time......

Secretly explain to the prince again.

When the new emperor ascends the throne, take this or these people directly out of the ravine or death row and put them on an important post!

Two lives, a human being~ Can you not be grateful for the "grace of knowledge" of "Mingjun"! will die for his son......

A more famous example is Lin Zexu in later generations, no matter who intercedes, including making great contributions to water control, Daoguang is to exile you to Xinjiang! Wait for Xianfeng to take place, and reuse it immediately! Of course, Lao Lin is so grateful that he is dying~ It's a pity that his health is not good, and in a few days, he really died......