Mid-March, Tanggula Mountain.

Light snow is falling, and the mist is misty.

Yang Zhirou walked quickly to the top of the city, and a red-clothed and gold-armored Qianniu Wei was coming down from above, and when he saw Yang Zhirou hurriedly standing aside, he stood with his hands over.

Yang Zhirou nodded and stepped forward.

In the tower, the cold wind was kept out of the tent, and the warmth in the furnace was blowing in the face.

More than a dozen books were neatly placed on one side, and Li Xuan sat on the velvet carpet, wrapped in a cloak, and read.

"Lord Wang." Yang Zhirou stopped and said respectfully: "Chang'an is here. ”

"Hmm!" Li Xuan put down the book, glanced up at Yang Zhirou, and nodded: "Sit down." ”

"Whoa!" Yang Zhirou bowed his hand, and then sat down on the side.

Li Zhu stepped forward and poured a cup of hot tea for Yang Zhirou.

Li Xuan lowered his head and opened the official document, glanced at it, and then brought a smile on his face, looked at Yang Zhirou, and said: "In the second year of the dew, the list of Jinshi of Gengchenke came out, the champion is He Zhizhang, the list is Bi Gou, and Tanhua is Chen Ziang. ”

Yang Zhirou was stunned, the hot tea was in his hand, and he forgot to put it down for a while, and soon, he felt hot.

Packing up in a bit of a panic, Yang Zhirou hurriedly looked at Li Xuan and asked, "Lord Wang, how can this be, even if a few people in the family withdraw, it is not He Zhizhang's turn to be the champion...... It's not that He Zhizhang doesn't learn enough, it's just that his identity ......"

He Zhizhang was born in a southeastern family, although he is related to Gu Lu, Zhu and Zhang, he is not one of the four families after all.

Although there are two uncles in the family who work in the Hongwen Pavilion, they are only few, although they are not from a poor family, but they are not better than a cold family.

is not in the eyes of the children of the real family.

If it weren't for He Zhizhang's support with Li Xuan behind him, then even if he had great talent, I am afraid he could only be pressed under the family lord.

Of course, this imperial examination is still different.

Although Cui Xuan, Lu Yuan, Xue Shao and others withdrew from the imperial examination, Wei Huan, Dou Xiwan, Yang Zhiyi and others are still there.

As for He Zhizhang as the champion, and Bi Gou made the example, and Chen Ziang did the Tanhua.

are all small and medium-sized families, and even poor families.

All the rules of the imperial examination were broken.

This is no small matter.

……

Li Xuan handed the official document to Yang Zhirou and said: "This imperial examination has not been held, because the Turks and Tubo are going to war, Your Majesty has no intention of holding a palace examination, and Your Majesty has made a strategy before, so the list of scientific examination officials shall prevail...... It is also strange that the previous official test turned out to be He Zhizhang first, Bi Gou second, and Chen Ziang third. ”

Yang Zhirou took the official document and read it carefully, but when he saw the emperor's personal policy topic, he understood.

The emperor said: "Since the ancient emperors' rule, there are many ends, and its big is only the Tao and the law."

It is the two ends, the name is there, and it is different. The order of action is also necessary and can be abandoned.

The saint of the husband emperor is none other than Yao Shun; The saint of the king is none other than Yu Tang Wenwu. The prosperity of governance is like seeing it for all ages.

It is the trace of the Tao and the law, which is contained in the scriptures and can be verified and verified.

Since I came to Zuo, I have been working hard all night and night, trying to be the first in the light, and I have been in the past for many years, but the Turkic rebellion, the Tibetan rebellion is difficult to top, and the governance effect has not been perfected, so why is the Tao not practiced, and the law has not been obeyed? The wisdom of the world, if there is a high theory, I will do it. ”

Yang Zhirou sighed softly, he knew in his heart that such a strategy was not easy to write, it was very difficult to write.

It takes a lot of empirical experience.

He Zhizhang has served as a county lieutenant in his colleagues for many years, and he has rich experience, which is comparable to ordinary scholars.

He Zhizhang's champion strategy was attached to the official document, and Yang Zhirou glanced at the opening topic and knew that others were not comparable.

"Those who rule the world are prosperous and reasonable, and there are many political reasons, but they are the ones who value agriculture and manage the army and repair the army."

In the article, He Zhizhang elaborated on the relationship between "heavy agriculture" and "managing the army" and put forward a number of useful political opinions.

Even a lot of it can be used in today's Tibetan and Turkic wars, and even the prime minister must read it carefully.

It's not too much to give a first place.

Other articles by Bi Gou and Chen Ziang also have many merits.

Bi Gou's father is Tobe Langzhong, and he is familiar with many things, so he can naturally be ingenious.

As for Chen Ziang, although his strategy is also excellent, it has not yet been able to make people shine, but his poetry is really amazing.

Yang Zhirou finally understood that these three articles could not be suppressed by the Ministry at all.

Especially in He Zhizhang's article, high-level people know that he is Li Xuan's person, and he returned to the court to participate in the imperial examination this time, and the emperor personally named him.

Otherwise, Li Xuan may have to ask him to train in Changzhou for a few more years, maybe he won't need the imperial examination in a few years, and He Zhizhang is already a county order.

And there are many people staring up and down He Zhizhang's ranking, especially the East Palace.

Not only He Zhizhang, but also Bi Gou and Chen Ziang have all participated in the compilation and annotation of "Cut Rhyme", and their achievements are closely related to the East Palace.

So it is destined that their results in the official examination will not be low.

Although the family lords had some ideas, they didn't want to do anything at this time, and they paid more attention to the palace test.

The ranking in the palace examination will determine who belongs to the champion.

But no one expected that the emperor would cancel the palace examination all of a sudden, and set the top prize and tanhua with the ranking of the official examination.

At this moment, all the calculations of the family's big valve have failed.

Not only that, but this time the family family was not able to get the champion, so does it mean that in the future, the family will often lose the champion position.

The tacit understanding between the emperor and the great clan was broken.

But the big family can't help the emperor, and they can't even change the results of the imperial examination this time, everything about the emperor is within the rules, and they can't compete with He Zhizhang and others.

Especially in this case, it is also the war between the Turks and Tibet, and the emperor's excuse is grandiose, didn't he see that the prime minister of the court and the six Shangshu all recognized it?

But it doesn't end there.

Yang Zhirou looked up at Li Xuan and said with a smile: "The prince is really a good article next." ”

Li Xuan turned his head in surprise and said, "What is Brother Yang talking about?" ”

Yang Zhirou glanced at Li Xuan deeply, then shook his head and said, "It's nothing." ”

Now how could he not see that Li Xuan had already begun to calculate even before He Zhizhang returned to the court.

How is the editing of "Cut Rhyme" less southerners, not only He Ji and He Yi, the two bachelors of Hongwenguan, but also He Zhizhang and Li Xuan.

The canonization of the Emperor Zhengdan Dynasty has sent He Zhizhang's name to the peak.

Although he is a Confucian Linlang of the ninth grade, it is enough to make the world's scholars extremely admired.

After that, there was the list of the Du family's gambling house, which suddenly made the children of the family who really worked hard withdrew.

After all, at that time, they had to spend more of their thoughts on the princess.

After that, there is the topic of the emperor's pragmatic policy, which many people can guess.

However, the emperor suddenly stopped the current palace examination with military affairs, so that the real calculation of the family died before it could be started.

What a good means!

……

Yang Zhirou looked up at the misty snow outside the window, and asked with some curiosity: "Since the prince returned to the front of the army, for ten days, he has basically sat on the city tower every day, watching the sky from afar, I don't know if there is a harvest?" ”

Li Xuan smiled and glanced at Yang Zhirou, the curiosity in Yang Zhirou's eyes was almost overflowing.

In fact, it is not only Yang Zhirou who is curious about this matter, in the entire army, I don't know how many people are secretly speculating about Li Xuan's practices every day.

Getting up, Li Xuan put the cloak on his body, and then walked out of the city gate tower.

Yang Zhirou hurriedly got up and followed.

Yang Zhirou had just stepped out of the city gate, but found that in an instant, the wind and snow had stopped.

Suddenly it stopped.

Seeing this scene, Yang Zhirou was directly stunned.

At this moment, a beam of sunlight shot out of the dark clouds overhead, shooting directly at everyone.

Yang Zhirou looked at Li Xuan in horror, and the beam of light shot towards them like a sword.

Then it shot over the heads of the people and fell directly into the city.

Yang Zhirou breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really scared that the beam of light fell on Li Xuan like this.

After that, if there is the slightest rumor, Li Xuan will be finished.

But fortunately, fortunately.

Li Xuan smiled, standing in front of the female wall, Li Xuan looked at the mountains in the distance, and said: "Brother Yang, do you know that this Tanggula Mountain is known as a saying that ten miles of different days, we are here with ice and snow, but on the other side of Tanggula Mountain, maybe it will already be a downpour." ”

Yang Zhirou thought slightly, then nodded: "It's March now, and the weather in Tubo is naturally warmer than ours here." ”

"Yes, all the heat from the sea in the south is blocked by Tanggula Mountain, but this also means that the snow on the top of the mountain has begun to melt, and the rocks that were originally as hard as steel have begun to dig up, and the waterway is gradually forming!" Li Xuan looked at the east peak of Gradan at the end of the distant line of sight, covered with ice and snow, and the glacier was sinking to the bottom.

Yang Zhirou immediately understood: "Lord Wang, is this going to do it?" ”

"How can it be so fast, now that the Qinling is actively on guard, if you want to do it, you have to find the opportunity to take it by surprise." After a slight pause, Li Xuan said: "However, the competition for the waterway with the Tubo people can begin."

Herald. ”

Yang Zhirou was slightly stunned, and then immediately gave up his hand: "Huh! ”

"Copy six copies of this official document, and distribute it to all the departments in the city, and add a bowl of wine to each person tonight." Li Xuan ordered directly.

"Whoa!" Yang Zhirou gave up his hand, and then looked at Li Xuan cautiously and asked, "What about the prince?" ”

"Naturally, this king will continue to be here." Li Xuan waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, the armies are in rotation, and you can't let the Tubo people seize the opportunity." ”

"Whoa!" Yang Zhirou left again, he knew that Li Xuan must be calculating something, but Li Xuan didn't say it, and he couldn't ask.

……

Watching Yang Zhirou leave from under the city gate, Li Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly.

He Zhizhang is the champion, this matter is far bigger than anyone imagined.

I'm afraid no one can imagine that even if the founding of the Tang Dynasty has been more than one Jiazi, the entire Jiangnan, the entire Jiangnan Province, has not produced a champion.

He Zhizhang is the first champion of the entire Jiangnan.

In this way, the door of the champion was opened in Jiangnan.

Dozens of families in the south of the Yangtze River, headed by Gu Lu, Zhu and Zhang, immediately put more strength into next year's imperial examination.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Li Xuan.

But because of He Zhizhang's champion position, Gu Lu, Zhu Zhang, and countless families in Jiangnan have been deeply bound to Li Xuan.

Especially next year, once they hit a wall in Chang'an, they will gather around Li Xuan even more.

Today's Datang, with the war in the north and northwest, the proportion of this year's tax revenue in Jiangnan Province will even exceed half.

Whoever masters Jiangnan Province is equivalent to mastering the first economic lifeline of Datang.

That's the real thing.

But on the contrary, no one in the DPRK and China saw it.

They fell on Jiangnan's gaze, and they were all staring at the Yangzhou loom that Li Xuan threw out, but they forgot that Li Xuan had already pried something bigger.

He Zhizhang is going home.

Since following Li Xuan to Changzhou a few years ago, He Zhizhang has never returned home.

Now that the spring breeze is proud, the horse's hooves are fast, and I don't know how many others I want to envy to death.

Not to mention that he still has to get married.

He Zhizhang went back, which was enough to stir up the situation in Jiangnan.

……

Li Xuan turned around and looked at the Tubo checkpoint twenty miles away.

The two places breathed and heard each other, and Li Xuan believed that the Qin Ling must have been staring at him all the time.

On the Qinling is staring at Li Xuan at all times, and Li Xuan is also staring at the Qinling at all times.

Both were waiting for that crucial opportunity to come.

Li Xuan believed that he must have waited first, because the news from the Western Regions was coming soon.

(End of chapter)