Outside the city of Yong'an, the camp of the Wu army, late at night.

The cool wind of the autumn night is getting stronger, and the autumn rain is gradually falling outside the city of Yong'an, and the camp that was originally full of fighting spirit, looking at the eight big boats that lock the river, the camp inside and outside the camp are also in a dead silence.

In the end, it was Ma Zhong who spoke first: "Governor Quandu, today is the tenth day of General Jiang's siege of the city, if it drags on until winter, our army will have no winter clothes and food, and sooner or later it will freeze to death here." ”

Quan Cong sat limply on the chair, supported his forehead with his hand, just sighed, and said, "Why don't you know? But now there is no way to advance or retreat, unless you lead the whole army to cross the Wuling Mountains, maybe there is still a glimmer of life, do you want to climb the mountain? ”

Ma Zhong was silent for a while, indeed, now there is only this Wuling Mountain Range left for Wu Jun on the map, of course, if it can be crossed, Quan Cong will not sigh here, because there is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the Wuling Mountain Range, which is now Zhangjiajie.

"What do you say about the small work in the city?" Jeon Chung still has his eyes closed.

Ma Zhong just shook his head and said, "Dudu, I thought the credibility of this fine work was not high, but ....."

"But what?" Quan Cong suddenly opened his eyes and asked.

"But the fine man said that he wanted to meet the governor alone, and the governor made his own decision." Ma Zhong arched his hand.

Quan Cong's eyes suddenly lit up and asked, "Who is it?" Why is it not credible? ”

Ma Zhong signaled left and right, Quan Cong understood, and immediately let the left and right retreat, only to see Ma Zhong immediately close to Quan Cong's ear, and whispered in his ear: "Li Yan." ”

Quan Cong listened, dumbfounded, a pair of eyes as big as copper bells, unable to speak for a long time, immediately got up and paced back and forth in the tent, and the candle flame in the tent shook rhythmically with Quan Cong's pacing back and forth.

"What General Ma said is true?" Quan Cong still couldn't help but ask.

Ma Zhongyan said: "I dare not deceive the governor, but whether this person is credible or not is indeed debatable." ”

Quan Cong suddenly raised his hand to stop Ma Zhong and said, "If this is really Li Yan, why don't you surrender the city when our army arrives?" With his prestige in Yong'an, why wait for Li Xian to arrive? ”

"The governor doesn't know, Li Xian is in charge of agriculture and mulberry in the area of Yong'an and Jiangzhou, and the military power is all Chen Zhi, even if he wants to sacrifice the city, there is no chance, and this Li Yan is more selfish, with his prestige in Xichuan, according to the general, he should want to be the second Liu Bei." Ma Zhongyan said.

Quan Cong's brows were furrowed, and when he heard Ma Zhong's words, he said bluntly: "If this Li Yan wants to use the soldiers of my Wu State to enter Xichuan, and then use his prestige to become the king of Hanzhong, it is really a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone, but as long as this Yong'an is broken and our army enters Xichuan, how can he Li Yan be able to call the shots?" Tell the city that tonight, let him find an opportunity to go out of the city to meet, and the governor of Pontus will see him in person! ”

Ma Zhong listened to Quan Cong's analysis, and he didn't want to say more, so he arched his hand and said: "Obey the order of the governor!" ”

That night, a long arrow with a secret letter was shot by Ma Zhong from the bottom of the city wall and nailed straight to the pillar of the city tower. The sergeant hurriedly took it and quickly handed it over to Li Yan, who was sitting in the city tower.

Li Yan opened the secret letter, frowned, and after reading it, he immediately clapped the secret letter together, his hands began to tremble uncontrollably, he forcibly swallowed his saliva, and called left and right: "Hurry up and invite General Zhao over!" ”

"Yes!"

......

Inside the Jianye Post House, late at night.

Sun Chong pretended to be panicked and knelt on the ground, and hurriedly said: "The grass people don't know that Your Majesty has arrived, and they are far away, I hope Your Majesty will forgive your sins!" ”

I saw that Sun Quan waved his hand slightly, and said slowly: "Mr. Sun doesn't need to be polite, hurry up, you have come thousands of miles to get along, I came to see you in person late at night, and it can be regarded as a good story of a monarch and a minister." ”

Sun Quan saw Sun Chong get up, and he didn't intend to stop, but continued to speak: "Mr. Sun, I am deeply interested in the method of selecting talents in the imperial examination that you said during the day, I wonder if Mr. can solve a question or two for me?" ”

Sun Chong hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty has an order, how dare the minister disobey." Immediately, he took down three bamboo slips from the bookshelf behind him and handed them to Sun Quan one by one.

"Your Majesty, please see, this first volume is the method of selecting talents for the imperial examination formulated by the minister for His Majesty, and please take a look at it."

Sun Quan didn't say anything, but just raised his hand lightly and motioned for Sun Chong to sit down, and he couldn't wait to open the outline of the first volume of the method of selecting talents in the imperial examination and watch it immediately.

Sun Chongyan said: "In the Eastern Han Dynasty in the past, there was Zuo Xiong who changed the inspection system to the imperial examination system, and later after the Nine Grades Official Law, all the positions of hundreds of officials in the court were recommended by the Zhongzheng officials, Your Majesty, you can imagine it, even if Your Majesty's generation did not appear in the gate valve family to hold the power, and what about the later generations? If this system is not changed, there will inevitably be a day when the power will fall and Tai'a will hold on to it, and the reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty exists in name only, the root is here. ”

Sun Quan frowned slightly, and while reading the contents of the book, he listened to Sun Chong's words, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Sun continues." ”

Sun Chong arched his hand and said, "Yes!" Your Majesty, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there is a dictatorship of foreign relatives, and even more such as the second emperor of Huan Ling, who did not hesitate to raise eunuchs to check and balance, and eventually inevitably died, Your Majesty has ever thought that in today's troubled times, if you continue to follow such a system, you will only fall into an endless cycle, and at that time, even if Your Majesty dominates the rivers and mountains, it will be controlled by Zhang Gu Lubu and other family families, and these families are like barbs on the hilt of Tai'a's sword, and they want to hold the authority, otherwise they will go deep into the flesh and blood, and to uproot it, it is not an overnight effort. ”

Sun Quan closed the bamboo slips of the first volume, his facial muscles began to twitch a little unconsciously, and the corners of his mouth murmured: "Imperial examination, imperial examination..... Mr. Sun continued. ”

Sun Chong slowly handed over the second volume of the book and said, "Your Majesty, we are now in troubled times, and the highest power in troubled times is military power!" The reason why Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao can coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes is because the military power is in hand, and there is a saying in the Zhou Dynasty in the past, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, but the system of subdivision leads to the princes' confluence, it is because the military power is implemented next to it is the way to die, and the second volume of the minister is the policy of following the imperial examination, which is offered to His Majesty with literature and imperial martial arts! Soldiers, murder weapons, the sage has to use it as a last resort, only the sage firmly grasps the military power, in order not to make Tai'a upside down, Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao's generation appeared. ”

Sun Quan then finished reading the second volume, and after hearing Sun Chong's words, he motioned for Sun Chong to take the third volume, and Sun Chong also received the order, so he handed the third volume.

"Three provinces and six departments?" Sun Quan's eyes were full of curiosity, and he couldn't wait to open it.

"Your Majesty, these three strategies are a step-by-step method, do not rush for quick success, when slow, slow, slow, today's Jiangdong Shi clan is intertwined, deeply rooted in Jiangdong, Your Majesty is thinking of the former Prime Minister Zhang Zhao, if it is not for his own prestige in Jiangdong, he dares to confront His Majesty, and does not even care about the prestige of His Majesty's Chibi and Yiling two epic decisive battles, and the system of the three provinces and six ministries offered by the minister is to let each of these officials check and balance each other, and not let one of them dominate, so as to disobey the holy will."

Sun Quan looked at it, and suddenly slapped the third volume together: "Could it be that I am really a godsend?" But do you know that if you want to carry out the reform of this system, the road ahead is dangerous, can you withstand it? ”

"The iron cable across the river, only one person is allowed to pass, Sun Chong is willing to break this Hengjiang iron cable for His Majesty! Never give up! Sun Chong knelt down and kowtowed.

"Do you know that Zhang Gu and Lubu are four major families, and any one of them may want your life, are you still willing to go?" Sun Quan asked.

Sun Chong continued to kowtow and said: "How can it be reasonable to do great things!" Even if Sun Chong can't succeed, there are Ma Chong and Wang Chong behind him, and if one Sun Chong falls, there will be thousands of Sun Chong standing up! This Jiangdong is His Majesty's Jiangdong, and it is definitely not the Jiangdong of his four major families! ”

"Good! Have guts! Sun Quan said, "In that case! Tomorrow autumn hunting, you follow me, I want the world to see, my Jiangdong, no, my world, what kind of appearance it looks like! ”

"Command!"

The next day, the autumn hunting grounds.

Sun Chong stood next to Sun Quan's hunting car, and behind him were the left and right guards. And many clans and gate valve doctors are behind the guards, which makes them greedy for a while.

"Doctor Bu, isn't this Sun Chong who was beaten by your palace last time? Why is he on His Majesty's side? Yu flipped forward and joked.

How do you know that Bu Zhi snorted: "Phew! Such a villain is suddenly pampered, arrogant and unstoppable, and will suffer disaster in the future! ”

Yu was suddenly soaked, and he didn't know whether he or Sun Chong was scolded by this step, so he had to beat the horse and leave.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty for getting a deer!"

"Hooray, hooray, hooray!" All the soldiers shouted in unison, and of course the doctors had to shout along.

But Sun Quan, who saw it, said loudly on the hunting car: "Doctors and soldiers, you have worked hard today!" I'm going to eat this venison with you! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The generals chanted in unison.

"Today, you have eaten the venison I rewarded, and in the coming day, you will go to the Central Plains to shoot deer for me!"

"The last general will die for His Majesty!"

"And my doctors in Koto! Today, you have eaten venison, I am here, carved stone as an inscription, no matter in the future, I pass through the east of the river, or unify the rivers and mountains, I will rule the world with the world's corporal doctors! If I break this oath, I will die by throwing myself into the sea! ”

Sun Chong hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, this oath is too poisonous to be said lightly!" ”

Sun Quan shook his head and said, "This is the promise I made with the world's corporal doctors, if it is not for the crimes of usurpation and rebellion, I will never kill the scholars!" ”

The scholars and doctors after the guards lost their voices for a moment, but outside the autumn hunting ground, there were no math students, which was naturally arranged by Sun Quan outside the hunting ground in advance, and the location of the hunting vehicle could ensure that his voice could be transmitted outside the hunting ground.

"I'm going to do it today! Cutting deer as a sacrifice, three days after the autumn hunt every year, open the imperial examination! Regardless of your background, anyone who has learned something can participate! Change the name of the year to Longxing! The imperial examination system was later issued to the officials by the squire Sun Chong. ”

Before the words fell, I could hear the cheers outside the autumn hunting field, and the entire Jianye City exploded at this moment, so that a deer and dragon were .....