Inside the Wangwu Mountain.

Liu Lu looked at the letter in his hand and pondered for a long time.

Just today, he received an order from the emperor again.

Originally, Cao Chao was going to use Liu Lu to clean up the big clans in various places, but in anger, He Zeng directly snatched Liu Lu's errand and directly killed the Quartet.

Liu Lu's group suddenly became a little useless.

The thorn histories that Cao Chao is arranging in various places now are also ruthless people, who dare to fish the people, and these thorn histories can make them eat a pot.

Liu Lu did not get a new appointment, so he stayed in the mountains with peace of mind, established a good relationship with the leaders in the mountains, established his prestige, and continued to operate here.

Today, he finally received a letter from the emperor.

Cao Chao's correspondence with Liu Lu was very straightforward, because Liu Lu's cultural level was not very high, and he was still at the point where he had just finished learning writing, so his correspondence with the emperor was simple and popular.

In his letters, Cao told Liu Lu that his mission had changed.

Cao Chao was going to ask Liu Lu to find some smart and capable people from the mountains, send them to all parts of the world, and set up a pawn house in all parts of the world.

There is no real mansion in this mansion, it is just a name.

These people can do different errands in different places, they can be government officials, they can be merchants, they can even be ploughers, they can do anything.

And their main task is to inquire about the news and intelligence in various places, and inform the emperor of what is happening in various places at any time.

During Cao Cao's period, the school affairs had their own mansions in various places, and they were mainly responsible for arresting people or something, and the canons that Cao Chao wanted to set up were not set up in the palace, that is, they were secretly active.

The matter of the pawn, Cao Chao wanted to hand it over to Liu Lu to complete.

This requires a large number of people, or people from the bottom who are not easy to be recognized, if you want to say that Liu Lu and this group of people in the mountains, aren't they born to do this?

Although the quality may not be high, the base is large enough.

Liu Lu couldn't help but scratch his head at this moment.

His Majesty's expectations of himself are a little too high.

This is to stab the world for His Majesty's ears and eyes, can you do such a thing?

Liu Lu pondered for a long time, and he decided to find a deputy first.

Guo blames such a person, of course, it does not meet Liu Lu's criteria for finding people.

This kind of thing is not something that the children of the big clan can do, since the Western Han Dynasty, the scholars have a very low evaluation of the secret service.

They are disgusted with such behavior, and even equate these institutions with "the road to the goal", which they consider to be the most unwise and cruel way to govern.

Scholars were so elegant that they never felt that a wise man like them needed to be watched.

The emperor wanted to spy on them, which was disrespect for the scholars and distrust of them.

Even if they have frequent contacts with Shu and Wu ministers in private, business contacts constantly, fish and flesh the people, hoodwink the temple, and collude up and down, but the emperor can't distrust them!

This is an unvirtuous and unkind act!

Liu Lu immediately found Wang Yuan.

At this moment, Wang Yuan has become an excellent friend with Liu Lu, of course, there is a bit of truth in this friendship, only they know.

Wang Yuan is not reluctant to the power in the mountain, he is not Zhang Yan, even if it is Zhang Yan, he can't wait to be surrendered by the temple, he takes more than 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled in this mountain, where is it better to follow the emperor's henchmen to eat and drink spicy?

He is also a man who has seen the world.

If Guo hadn't blamed him at the beginning, he would still be an official of Great Wei now.

Wang Yuan very respectfully let Liu Lu sit on the top seat, and he sat beside him, "Duke Liu, what edict does Your Majesty have?" ”

Liu Lu said in a low voice: "There is one thing, but this matter can only be known by you and me, but if anyone else knows, both of us will have to lose our heads." ”

"So I have to ask you first, if you want to follow me to do it, if you do it, the future is limitless, if you are afraid, then I have never been here."

Wang Yuan said without hesitation: "I am willing to follow Liu Gong, no matter what it is, I will go to the soup and fight the fire!" ”

Liu Lu likes to deal with such sharp people.

He immediately vaguely informed Wang Yuan of the emperor's thoughts.

It's not that Liu Lu lowered his vigilance, it's because he can't do this matter alone, he needs a powerful helper, and Wang Yuan is smart and not high-born, and now he is still in a state of wanting, so it is naturally the most suitable for him to help.

Wang Yuan listened to Liu Lu's story very carefully.

He was overjoyed.

He immediately understood what the emperor wanted to do, this was a good opportunity to get close to the Son of Heaven.

If this can be done, the power in the future is unimaginable.

His eyes almost lit up.

"Gong Liu, I'm willing to help you complete this matter, we can first select some reliable and capable people together, let them go to various places, and settle down."

"Then there's the matter of coming and going, and you have to prepare fast horses so that they can get the message on at any time."

"This requires His Majesty's help, and this is not something we can do"

The two immediately began to discuss the feasibility of this matter, and the specific implementation must not be easy, they decided to start from the Sili area first, and then accumulate experience, and slowly expand to various places.

"If that's the case, then there's no need for the cottage to exist."

"Although it is possible to let them go to various places in the name of the mountains, let them keep an eye on the official mansion, and not tell the truth, but Your Majesty may not agree, this is directly under Your Majesty's mansion, and it cannot be so limited If you want to do this important thing with all your might, then you can send the people in the mountains to their original places in batches, so that the temple can forgive them for their mistakes, and it is best to let Guo Jun lead them down the mountain to surrender."

"We're leading the rest of us to do this."

Liu Lu shook his head, "Don't be in a hurry about the dismissal of the people, arrange the affairs of the Warden Mansion first, and then carry out the dismissal." ”

"We can do this big thing starting today."

The two made a decision and immediately set to action.

They were the first to start selecting people, Liu Lu had dealt with them for a long time, and he knew in his heart which people could be used and which people could not be used.

Immediately, Liu Lu met with these people separately, and together with Wang Yuan, he told them about the matter.

When they learned that they had an official identity and would have to do things for the Son of Heaven in the future, these people were unbelievable.

Liu Lu then began to cultivate them.

Liu Lu himself didn't know these things, so Cao Chao appointed an old man from the school office to teach them how to do these things

In the second year of Zhengyuan, at the end of the year.

The temple is not too busy at the moment, after all, the autumn harvest and the rest of the things are over, and there is really no errand to do in winter.

The busiest is still the Yubei Mansion of the Imperial Historical Tower.

Xun Miao has already left the temple, and now he is running back and forth with people in the north, busy with disaster relief.

The Empress Dowager advised the emperor to be simple and reduce the expenditure of the palace, which caused a stir in Luoyang.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but praise the Queen Mother, who was the Queen of Benevolence and worthy of being the mother of the Son of Heaven.

And then, Cao Chao took the lead in doing this, he reduced a lot of eunuchs and palace maids, and greatly reduced the expenses needed for his food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Reduced those unnecessary pomp.

He convened another court meeting, and when he talked about it in public, he called on all officials in the world to be diligent and thrifty, and to lead by example.

Soon, the nobility everywhere became popular in wearing tattered clothes, and the great clans deliberately made their clothes tattered, and then wore them at banquets to show that they were more thrifty than anyone else.

The rest of the ministers also began to compare, that is, to see who was dressed worse.

Some people even entertain guests with wheat rice at banquets to show their thrift.

And the ministers changed into donkey carts.

For a time, the entire Luoyang was full of black smoke and miasma.

Cao Chao was not surprised at all.

After all, it is my minister of Great Wei, and it is too reasonable for such a situation to happen.

Sima Yan was more luxurious than anyone during the period, and now he is starting to compare who is poorer

They don't know how to converge, and no matter what they do, it's easy to overdo it.

Although Luoyang has become a dilapidated capital, the atmosphere in Luoyang is becoming solemn at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the excessive arrogance of Great Wei is being tightened little by little, and the scholars on the road are no longer as dissolute and uninhibited as before.

Officials did not dare to ram into cars again.

The armor soldiers made their rounds around the city in a neat manner.

In an instant, Luoyang had the solemn appearance of a big man again.

But Cao Chao didn't have time to go out to watch these things, and now, he was thinking about next year's big events with Zhong Hui.

That is, the first imperial examination of the Great Wei.

In the first month, the township examination is about to begin, this township examination, and the township examination of later generations is a completely different thing, this is not required to take the examination, it is recommended by the three elders of the township to participate in the next examination, which is regarded as a reference qualification examination.

Not to mention that such a recommendation will brush off people from poor families and common people, the current imperial examination of the Great Wei Dynasty was not originally held for the poor and common people.

Great Wei is not the Tang and Song dynasties, not the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are not so many talents from the common people.

It is good to read and write, but if you want to master advanced knowledge, such as classics, you need to apprentice, and ordinary people don't have this thing at home, and they can't get in touch with this thing.

And each of the teachers who teach these is from a big family, even if they weren't originally, they will become a big family after mastering the classics, and the apprentice will become the protégé of the other party, so it has a relationship with the big family.

You must know that even if you are a poor child who is admitted to Taixue, you are not qualified to take the Five Classics, and you can only return to your hometown to become a persuasive scholar or something like that after completing your studies.

Today's imperial examination is just to select talents who can be used from the big clans, and brush off the wine bags and rice bags.

If you want to select a large number of talents from the poor, you have to wait until the knowledge is no longer monopolized and the talent reserve of the poor is sufficient.