East Hall Banquet.

This time, the Jinshi will have the opportunity to participate in the Cao Chao banquet.

That is, the rumored East Hall Banquet.

When these young juniors sat on both sides, their heads bowed, and couldn't suppress the ecstasy and honor on their faces, Cao Chao couldn't help but want to sigh.

I still remember that more than ten years ago, I just set up the East Hall Banquet.

At that time, the Dongtang banquet was not yet large-scale, although it had its own reputation to build the foundation, and the result was not bad, but the hardships of the process were only clear to Cao Chao himself.

At that time, Cao Chao looked at the powerful celebrities in front of him helplessly, his eyes were almost full of stutters, restrained and uneasy to deal with everyone, always worried, for fear that Sima Shi would suddenly lead troops to break in from which direction.

But now, these elites from the top clans are sitting in front of them very well-behaved, and it is really touching to regard the Dongtang banquet as the highest honor.

Cao Chao looked at everyone with a smile, and he first inspired everyone.

"All the talents of the country, you will have a banquet today, and you will not be disappointed in the future!"

The people stood up, saluted, and said, "Obey the order!" ”

Cao Chao asked Pei Xiu on the side to read out the results.

Pei Xiu stood up, and it was not surprising that Liu Yuan won the crown, in the words of later generations, that is, he won the champion, and his article was set as the best.

Then there is Liu Hong, and then there are Pei Kang, Xun Fan, Pan Yue, Lu Hao, Cui Shen, Yang Quan, and Xin Gui

Until the last person, Guo Ping finished reading, and everyone's exam results this year were settled.

Actually, they don't all rank among themselves.

The main thing is that the top three have rankings, Liu Yuan, Liu Hong and Pei Kang.

The distribution of these three men was different from that of the rest of the people.

Liu Yuan went directly to Zhongshutai as a secretary.

And Liu Hong went to Shangshutai as a waiter, and Pei Kang went to Yushitai to serve as a doctor's secretary.

These three people started directly from the core of the temple, although the official quality of the start is not very high, but the local start is different from the temple start.

The next ten people were assigned to various places as officials, serving as county magistrates, or county magistrates.

Only the last few, serving as alternate wailang, continue to wait for the gap and study hard!

Pei Xiu finished talking about everyone's going and staying, even those who didn't make it to the top, they were very happy at the moment, after all, the road to career was opened like this.

Cao Chao ordered again to give these people good wine, but it was not effective to force them to drink it like Sun Hao.

Just when everyone was immersed in joy, Cao Chao looked at Pei Xiu on the side.

"Pei Qing, this year's upstarts, why do they all seem to be close relatives of your family?"

Pei Xiu was not panicked at all.

If the emperor suddenly asked such a question a few years ago, he was afraid that he would be scared to death.

But now, he's used to it.

The emperor definitely didn't say that he was cheating, it was Yang Zong who was in charge of the imperial examination today, that was the emperor's hardcore henchman, even if someone cheated, it was also Yang Zong's business, and it had nothing to do with Pei Xiu.

His Majesty opened his mouth at this moment, and it seemed to be even more ridiculous.

I'm making fun of myself!

The relationship between Pei Xiu and Cao Chao is not what it used to be, although it is not as good as Zhong Hui and Zhang Hua, but it is definitely not comparable to the rest of the ministers.

Pei Xiu replied very calmly: "All of you here are loyal ministers of Your Majesty, not relatives of ministers. ”

Cao Chao laughed.

Pei Xiu asked again: "Your Majesty thinks that these people are all from big families, and none of them are from poor families, something is wrong?" ”

Cao Chao looked at the scholars in front of him again, and then shook his head, "It's not inappropriate. ”

"I just don't think what I've done over the years has been working."

"I have opened so many schools, and I have also set up a special superintendent for scholars, so that celebrities and scholars can serve as scholars and promote books everywhere, but this triennial assessment, I can't see what Pei Qing, a scholar from a poor family, thinks?"

Pei Xiu pondered for a moment and asked rhetorically, "Why does Your Majesty want to see the cold door among these people so much?" ”

Cao Chao said: "It's not to break the monopoly of the officials. ”

"You see, I have now migrated the big clan of Jizhou to the south, they have nothing, but they still hold the channel of rising, soon, these people will become the big clan in the south and make a comeback again, you said that there was no me in the temple at that time, how to deal with it?"

"And once the temple is full of people from this background, the policy of suppressing the big clan will be reversed by them sooner or later, and when the time comes, I am afraid that the Central Plains will be in chaos again."

Cao Chao took a sip of wine.

Pei Xiu groaned again.

"Your Majesty, in fact, it is effective, there are more and more scholars from the poor family all over the country, that is, in Taixue, the scholars from the poor family have occupied thirty percent, which is already the highest in the history of Taixue."

Pei Xiu looked at the people in front of him again, "As for these people, these are the top talents, people from poor families, unless they are as talented as Zhang Shangshu, how can they compete with these people?" ”

"Let's say that Liu Yuan, he follows Zhong Situ to study all day long, and every day he comes into contact with major events in the world, how can a person from a poor family compete with someone like him?"

"The minister thinks that Your Majesty doesn't have to care too much about these last few people, you can care more about the participants in the first two exams, although these people are elites, but there are not many of them, as for the cold doors, there are more and more, one day, Your Majesty will see what you want to see, but you just need to wait."

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Pei Xiu is now outspoken, no longer hiding his head and tail, and he will say whatever he wants.

Cao Chao nodded, and didn't say anything more.

When the East Hall Banquet ended, these students said goodbye and left together.

Cao Chao led Pei Xiu to walk around the palace.

As the head of the ministries, the Ministry of Rites is responsible for many things, namely diplomacy and foreign trade, which are actually the work of the Ministry of Rites.

In these years, the Great Wei sent envoys to foreign countries many times and established a lot of diplomatic relations, which Pei Xiu was responsible for.

Cao Chao and Pei Xiu walked in the evening breeze, chatting as they walked.

Cao Chao likes this feeling of going for a walk after being slightly drunk, the breeze is blowing, and it is refreshing.

"Pei Qing, I sent people to Guishan before, but the result was not very satisfactory to me."

"Guishuang is already a dry bone in the grave, and there is no cure."

"Its internal and external troubles, there are princes running rampant in the country, and there are foreign enemies standing abroad, even if I let Da Sima lead 50,000 troops to go, it will be difficult to succeed."

"To the point where it's going to perish anyway."

Cao Chao never hesitated too much, he had a more comprehensive understanding of Guishuang from everyone's documents, and after understanding, Cao Chao immediately decided to give up.

With Cao Wei's strength, he can actually help Guishan extend his life.

Let's put it simply, as long as Dawei supports King Guishan on the bright side, the princes everywhere will be more jealous, and then exchange more materials and send more merchants, which can enhance the prestige of its king, improve the strength of the king, and so on.

But what's the use of that?

This doesn't essentially solve any problem, and Cao Chao doesn't like such ineffective inputs.

Pei Xiu also knew something about these things, and he nodded, agreeing with Cao Chao's idea.

Cao Chao continued: "As for the Persians, in fact, they can trade with them, but this group of people is quite strong, I am afraid that there will be a war with them in Shazhou in the future, and there will definitely be a huge investment in the early stage, if the war in the future will destroy these, then I will be a little reluctant."

The Persians are now ambitious and expanding everywhere.

They continue to encroach on Kushan's territory, and now they all border parts of Shazhou.

In the past, Cao Wei's mind was in the Central Plains, so he would not have any thoughts in the face of the expansion of the Persians, and the two empires were safe.

But judging from the current situation, the Great Wei will definitely continue to develop Shazhou, and the Persians will definitely get closer to Shazhou.

Then, there will be a battle between the two empires that will be fought inside and outside Shazhou, and it may not be very large, just hundreds or thousands of people, but it will mean different things to the two countries, and commercial exchanges will cause big problems.

Cao Chao looked at Pei Xiu.

"I also told Zhong Hui about this, but Zhong Hui wanted to send troops to Shazhou, and he wanted to get General Zhenxi's administrative office to Shazhou."

"He can't be relied on in this regard, I want to ask you what you think."

Pei Xiu laughed, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that you can trade with Guishan, you can trade with Persia, and you can trade with anyone." ”

"Guishan is disintegrated, and it is not a bad thing for Great Wei, those princes will want to trade with us even more, as for Persia, which Your Majesty often talks about, as long as some of them benefit from trade, then the war will not start easily."

"Even if it starts, it won't jeopardize trade."

"The minister thinks that what the temple does is only to send envoys, and as for the trade, it is handed over to the people to do, and the temple only needs to be slightly urged, and the merchants come and go to various places, and they can make friends with the princes of various countries, and they can bring back a lot of news."

The more Pei Xiu talked, the more he seemed to have thoughts about these things.

Cao Chao grabbed his hand, "That's good, then I'll leave it to you!" ”

"You can do whatever you want, and pay more attention to those overseas, I know that this trade exchange is not something that can be seen in the short term, that is, it will take several years for the caravan to go back and forth, you can do it with confidence, I will not rush!"

Pei Xiu immediately received the order.

When he returned to the West Hall, for some reason, Cao Wen was still waiting here.

Cao Wen stood at the door, didn't go in and waited, he was so sleepy that he yawned, and when he saw Cao Chao appear, he hurriedly cheered up.

"Father!"

"Why are you here on the big night?"

Cao Chao motioned for him to follow, and the two walked into the west hall together.

Cao Wen hurriedly said: "Father, I"

Looking at Cao Wen, who was hesitant, Cao Chao was a little angry, "If you have something to say, why hesitate?!" ”

"Father! I would like to implore you to give Da Sima two months to make a trip to Jingzhou."

"Jingzhou??"

"The teacher learned the news of the death of Zhuge Taiwei, for a few days, he was restless, and he wanted to go to Jingzhou for funeral, but he said that the temple was eventful, and he didn't dare to leave his son a little distressed, and the son knew that state affairs were important, but he still hoped that his father would approve him for a while."

Looking at the little guy who was a little frightened in front of him, Cao Chao was silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed again.

"Not bad."

"Teachers who know how to care for themselves."

"Shingo's also!"

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