Going to war?

Pang Tong was shocked when he heard this, his head stuck out of the window, carefully observing the bustling streets downstairs, and listening carefully to the transactions of those traders with his innate martial arts cultivation.

As the so-called subtle knows, he soon discovered the changes in the big man quietly from these transactions.

At the same time, he also sighed that Kong Ming was still more careful than him, and when he talked to him just now, he didn't forget to observe everywhere.

Then there is the doubt, the Han Dynasty is at its peak and has occupied a continent, who else is going to go to war with?

The islands of the East China Sea, or the island countries of the South China Sea?

Pang Tong thought about it for a while, and soon had an answer, and he said to Zhuge Liang: "The imperial court has finally decided to do something against those kingdoms in the west? ”

Zhuge Liang bowed slightly: "Yes, from the news weekly published by the Ministry of Commerce recently, we can see some clues, my Han has successively terminated the commercial contacts between Wusi Tibetan State, Baoxiang Country, Wuji Country, and Chechi Country. ”

Pang Tong had also seen these news, so Fang was able to make this judgment, he knew that these western kingdoms were the obstacles to the westward expansion of the Great Han.

In addition, combined with the changes in various civil industries, it can be seen that the Han is adjusting various policies to prepare for war.

Zhuge Liang said again: "I don't drink anymore, I've been busy taking exams recently, and I haven't had time to see the latest news trends in the imperial court." ”

After saying that, the figure flashed and disappeared.

Pang Tong grabbed a handful of food and hurriedly chased after him: "Wait for me." ”

……

The imperial examination of the Han Dynasty was divided into liberal arts and martial arts.

Originally, the liberal arts had four levels: the college examination, the township examination, the general examination, and the palace examination, but because the king Liu Xiu delegated power to the cabinet, the palace examination was canceled, and only the first three levels were retained.

After the examination, the cabinet ministers will jointly read the papers to determine the final top three rankings.

The imperial examination is held every three years, and this year it is the 54th liberal arts examination.

Before the exam, the examiners Guo Jia, Fa Zheng, and Lu Su were discussing what to test in the third session.

Guo Jia smiled and said: "Let's set a strategy for the Han Dynasty to go west, and see if we can catch a prime minister from these candidates." ”

Fa Zheng shook his head: "This is too difficult for them, the key information of the westward expansion is in the cabinet, and it has not been reported, and there are probably very few candidates who can see these subtle changes from their ordinary lives." ”

Lu Su frowned and said: "The candidates are all nervous about taking the exam, and no one should pay attention to the changes in the DPRK and the people in the recent past." ”

Although two people objected, the goal of the policy was still set as the westward expansion of the Han Dynasty.

Because Guo Jia is the main examiner, Fa Zheng and Lu Su are the deputy examiners.

In addition, Guo Jia is also the champion of liberal arts in the 52nd imperial examination, and Lu Su is the eye of the list.

And Fa is the eye of the 53rd liberal arts list, the champion at that time was Zhou Yu, and Tanhua was Yang Xiu.

……

After the examination began, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tongyi entered the Gongyuan together and found their respective examination rooms.

Because the imperial court specially arranged for the inspection of immortals, no one had the opportunity to cheat at all.

Pang Tong sat in the examination room and secretly cheered himself up: "This time you must win Kong Ming, and you must be ranked higher than him!" ”

He also fantasized about being ranked first, but Dahan has too many geniuses in the last twenty or thirty years, so he is satisfied if he can surpass Kong Ming.

In the next exam, Pang Tong answered smoothly and felt that he could at least get a top second.

It wasn't until the question of the last question came down that Pang Tong was stunned.

Han's strategy to move westward? That's the title!

He smiled bitterly again: "I'm not as good as Kong Mingye." ”

After the last time he made tea around the stove, he and Zhuge Liang had been studying various policy changes of the Han Dynasty towards the West, and had also deduced the strategic guidelines of the Han Dynasty's westward expansion.

In all fairness, he is inferior to Zhuge Liang in this regard.

On the other side, Zhuge Liang also saw the question of the question, he smiled slightly, and added another layer of strategizing thousands of miles away on top of his confidence.

This imperial examination is stable!

A month later, the much-anticipated liberal arts examination was finally released.

The crowd in front of the Gongyuan was full of people, from the top three, to the second class, and then to the first class, one by one the lists were hanging in the air, and they were seen by countless pairs of eyes.

"Xinke Tanhua, Sima Yi!"

"New science list, Pang Tong!"

"New champion, Zhuge Liang!"

The three names were shouted by 10,000 people, and soon spread all over the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, and were known by countless people.

Although Sima Yi was young, he was calm, and he was sitting at home reading books, and he didn't go to the Gongyuan to read the results at all.

Until the next person who went to see the list came back to report and said the names of the champion, the list eye, and the flower.

"Just Tanhua?" Sima Yi frowned slightly.

He didn't go to the list, firstly, because of his temperament, he was really calm, and secondly, he was very confident, and he would definitely be the top student in high school this time.

Because although his father Sima Fang is not the prime minister of the cabinet, he is a high-ranking cabinet minister, and he is Jing Zhaoyin, who is in charge of the land of Gyeonggi in the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, the most powerful Prime Minister Cao Cheng in the DPRK today was supported by his father.

Therefore, his father was qualified to attend important cabinet meetings, and every time he returned, he often talked to him about things that were not important, so as to develop his decision-making ability.

It can be said that he is very familiar with the preparations for the westward expansion of the Han Dynasty, and has also made deductions, and has already had his own ideas.

Compared with other candidates of the same year, this question is undoubtedly a point for him.

But unexpectedly, he turned out to be only the third place Tanhua.

Sima Yi couldn't understand that Zhuge Liang, who was unknown before, had any other Pang Tong, and his achievements were even above him!

Before the exam, he heard Zhuge Liang's name from his father, saying that it was the person Prime Minister Cao Cheng was looking for, but he didn't care about it at the time.

"I don't know what his westward strategy is?" Sima Yi fell into deep thought, and after a brief moment of surprise and loss, he regained his composure.

I don't know how long it took, his father Sima Fang led Chen Qun from Prime Minister Cao Cheng's mansion over.

"Father, Brother Changwen." Sima Yi stood up and saluted, although Chen Qun was older than him, he was a peer.

Chen Qun smiled and said, "Zhongda, congratulations." ”

Sima Yi's face was calm, and he only said two words: "Thank you." ”

Chen Qun knew that he had this temperament, so he was not surprised, and said with a smile: "Last time, the prime minister asked you to do something, but you were busy with the imperial examination, and now that the results of the imperial examination have come out, it is the time to make meritorious contributions."

By the way, I greatly appreciate your westward strategy for writing. ”

Sima Yi didn't refuse anymore, nodded in agreement.

Sima Fang on the side did not speak, but a smile appeared on his face.

Knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, he knows his son's ability best, and Sima Zhongda has the talent of a prime minister.

……

After the imperial examination, the first, second and third rank jinshi are eligible to enter the official ranks.

They can follow the orders of the imperial court, or they can choose which faction of the court to do things for themselves.

But except for the champions, lists, and tanhuas of the first class, most of the jinshi obey the order, rather than choose by themselves.

Here, Sima Yi got an order from Prime Minister Cao Cheng.

Over there, Zhuge Liang also came to the door with a distinguished guest, and Prime Minister Liu Cheng, who had not been seen last time, came to the door again.

And Pang Tong had already rushed to Prime Minister Sun Cheng's mansion, leaving Zhuge Liang alone.

Tongfu Restaurant knew that Zhuge Liang had won the champion and had arranged him in the best villa courtyard.

At this moment, Zhuge Liang saw Liu Bei and Xu Shu outside the gate of the small courtyard, and hurriedly saluted: "Liang has seen Prime Minister Liu Cheng." ”

Liu Bei saw the young man in front of him wearing a scarf and his face like a crown of jade, he was immediately shocked, turned over his hand and took out a pot of good wine, and praised with a smile: "Kong Ming, today's champion and first, you should drink to celebrate." ”

Zhuge Liang readily agreed, and sat opposite Liu Bei in the courtyard, while Xu Shu left with a smile.

After a glass of wine, Liu Bei said directly: "Kong Ming's westward expansion strategy has won my heart, and now that the westward expansion of the Han Dynasty is imminent, I am the only one who lacks a mastermind, I don't know if Kong Ming is willing to give me advice and make contributions to the Han Dynasty?" ”

Zhuge Liang got up and saluted, and said solemnly: "Liang is originally a cloth cloth, but he has to be a prime minister, and he should be dead." ”

Then the two asked and answered, and counted all the things of the Han Dynasty and the westward expansion.

In later generations, some people wrote books on this matter, calling it "the courtyard of Tongfu Restaurant".

Three days later, the Han Cabinet held an enlarged meeting, and Liu Bei brought Zhuge Liang with him.

This made Guan Yu and Zhang Fei very unhappy, because in the past few days, their eldest brother has been very close to this newcomer, eating, living and sleeping together, and they are inseparable at all, and now they have to bring them to the cabinet to attend a meeting?

What kind of identity, isn't it the champion of the new department? Can it be like them?

When Liu Bei saw the expressions of his two younger brothers, he knew what they were thinking, and explained with a smile: "I have Kong Ming, like a fish in water, I hope you don't say anything more." ”

Only then did Guan Yu and Zhang Fei understand Zhuge Liang's status in the eldest brother's heart, and they didn't say more.

Zhuge Liang watched with a smile on the side, not caring about the opinions of the two, because status and respect can only be obtained by strength.

Moreover, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were originally the top five fierce generals of the dynasty, both of them were martial arts celestials, and they had their own arrogance.

……

The words were divided into two ends, and it was said that Pang Tong had arrived at Sun Jian's mansion, and first Lu Su heard that Pang Tong was coming, and he was busy to greet him.

Pang Tong's uncle Pang Degong is a famous man in Jingzhou, and he has a great reputation in Shu and Jiangdong, so Lu Su has long known Pang Tong's talents, and even more so that he has the name of Feng Xiao.

Now that Pang Tong has won the exam, it shows that the name of Feng Xiao is true.

Lu Su was happy with Pang Tong's choice and hurriedly took him to see Sun Jian.

On the way, they met Sun Quan.

Lu Su smiled and introduced: "This is the second son of the prime minister." ”

Pang Tong saluted and said, "I've seen the second son." ”

Lu Su hurriedly introduced Pang Tong's identity to Sun Quan.

After hearing this, Sun Quan frowned, and asked Pang Tong: "You are the eye of the new science list, I don't know how your talent compares with the previous champion Zhou Yu?" ”

Pang Tong smiled: "What a certain person has learned is very different from Gong Jin. ”

Sun Quan was very unhappy in his heart, he admired Zhou Yu the most in his life, Zhou Gongjin was beautiful, elegant and elegant, ambitious, proficient in music and rhythm, and could dance.

Who is this Pang Tong? With thick eyebrows and nose, a black face and short hair, he is very ugly, and he dares to be disrespectful to Gongjin in his words?

Sun Quan didn't express what he was thinking, but he didn't look at Pang Tongyi anymore, and left with his sleeves brushed up.

After Sun Quan walked away, Lu Su hurriedly explained: "Shiyuan don't care, the second son has always been like this. ”

Pang Tong only frowned slightly, he didn't care, because Prime Minister Sun Cheng's mansion was dominated by the eldest prince Sun Ce, and the second prince Sun Quan did not have much power.

Later, where the two Sun Jian practiced martial arts, Lu Su explained the intention and introduced Pang Tong.

Sun Jian put down the big knife in his hand, but did not put away the martial arts heavenly aura emanating from his body, after he saw Pang Tong, he did not hide the disgust between his eyebrows, and waved his hand: "And stand down, when you are useful, I will invite you." ”

Pang Tong's face was not very good-looking, and he immediately left.

Lu Su's face changed, and he hurriedly asked, "Why doesn't the prime minister use Pang Shiyuan?" ”

Sun Jian looked displeased: "I am the prime minister of the cabinet, if I use such an ugly person, won't I make the world laugh?" Laugh at me with no one under my command? ”

Lu Su couldn't cry or laugh, but he was helpless, but as a strategist, he could only persuade again: "Prime Minister, now that the westward expansion of the Han Dynasty is imminent, Pang Shiyuan can deduce a good westward expansion strategy with just a few words in the news.

If he can serve the prime minister, he will definitely be able to help the prime minister establish great feats when he goes west! ”

Sun Jian was a little impatient: "It's just a small example, without him, I can't establish meritorious deeds?" Zhou Yu, the mastermind under my command, is the champion, can he be worse than a leader? ”

Lu Su didn't know what to say, the ruler is long, the inch is short, everyone is good at different things, how can it be simply based on the ranking of ability?

Xiniu Hezhou is so big, the situation is complicated, once the westward expansion begins, it will definitely encounter various situations, and naturally the more ministers, the better.

I only heard Sun Jian say again: "Besides, when I was reading the papers, I also read Pang Shiyuan's article, his westward strategy is similar to Zhuge Liang's, I heard that the two of them are brothers in the same school, he must have copied Zhuge Liang's ideas!" ”

Lu Su sighed and left helplessly.

It's a pity that the eldest prince is not in the house, otherwise Pang Shiyuan would have been used by Wu Hou.

You must know that Sun Jian can sit as a general and become the prime minister of the cabinet, and the main help is the Grand Duke Sun Ce.

If there was no support from the Grand Duke Sun Ce, Sun Jian's current status would probably not be as good as that of General Wei Lu Bu.

Half a day later, Sun Ce came back from the army, and after hearing about it, he was immediately furious, and in front of Sun Jian, he gave Sun Quan a hard lesson.

He can't beat Lao Tzu, he can only vent his anger with his younger brother who can't do anything.

Zhou Yu shook his head lightly on the side.

……

After the enlarged meeting of the Han Cabinet was held, Zhuge Liang followed Liu Bei to the magnificent cabinet hall.

I saw a huge sand table, which was placed in the center of the main hall.

In the sand table, there are many kingdoms dotted with stars, among which there are lofty mountains, river valleys and streams.

This is exactly the West Niu Hezhou, which has shrunk many times!

At this moment, many of the civil ministers and military generals of the Han Dynasty were watching around the sand table, all of them were amazed.

"Wonderful!" Zhuge Liang fell into it at a glance.

This looks much clearer than an ordinary map, and when you are fighting, you can use this sand table map to grasp the situation of the enemy and us more clearly, and make more accurate plans.

Liu Bei explained with a smile: "This is the sand table map that Wu Zu taught us to make last time we went to see Wu Zu and the King of People, and the detailed terrain of Xiniu Hezhou was also restored by Wu Zu with his magical powers. ”

Zhuge Liang praised again and again: "Martial Ancestor is really a god, I can't hate to see it!" ”

Boom!

He walked around the huge sand table and watched, and was fascinated by it, when he suddenly bumped into a young man with an expressionless face.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Zhuge Liang hurriedly clenched his fists.

Sima Yi was also fascinated by the edge of the sand table, he glanced at Zhuge Liang, turned his head again, and fell his gaze back on the sand table, very obsessed.

Zhuge Liang saw that this person was the same age as him, and he was secretly curious in his heart, I don't know who it is, but there is also a great talent!

At this time, Sun Jian took Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and other civil servants and martial artists to come, and Sun Quan was beaten to bedridden and did not come together.

Zhuge Liang looked around, but he didn't find Pang Tong's figure, he was a little puzzled, didn't Shi Yuan choose to do things for Prime Minister Sun?

There are not many powerful advisers under Prime Minister Sun Cheng, and with Shiyuan's ability, he should be able to be taken seriously, why didn't he come to this enlarged cabinet meeting?

I think the characters of the Three Kingdoms are very interesting, so I wrote more related plots, and it can be better developed later in Xiniu Hezhou, don't talk about me, big guys......

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