I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 392 The Winter is Coming
"Yan Yi..."

"At that time Zheng..."

"Zhu Maichen..."

"Master father Yan..."

"Um······"

After finishing the court ceremony, he sat on the imperial couch in the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace, and announced the top four candidates in this examination in order. Liu Sheng let out a breath, and there was a sigh and emotion on his face. .

In this exam, more than 8000 people took the exam, and more than 5000 people passed.

Among them, among the more than 8000 candidates who took the exam, scholars born in various schools of Confucianism accounted for at least half;
Among the more than 5000 people who passed the exam, this ratio has further increased to [-]%!
And now, the status quo of various academic schools in the world can also be seen from the results of this examination, and even the origins of the top ten.

——Yan Yi, a direct descendant of Yan Hui, won the number one prize, and Zhu Maichen, who made a living by chopping firewood, won Tanhua. There were ten Confucian scholars in the fifth to tenth place, and six of the top ten scholars were of Confucian origin!
This means that Confucianism has grown to a certain extent into the Han Dynasty with the largest number of people, the most powerful school, and even a better school in all aspects.

Among the top ten, the only Huang Lao was born at that time, and his background as a knight-errant was an old acquaintance of Liu Sheng who had dealt with in the empress dowager's womb. The "Zhi" Huang Lao was only three or five years old;

All of the above, all of which prove that Huang Laoxue has declined to an astounding level.

It can even be said that the reason why Zheng was able to rank among the best at that time, perhaps he had to thank himself for "curing" Huang Lao for not long enough, not yet ready.

It's really going to be the fire, and it's unknown whether Zheng can still be on the [-]-person gold list at that time.

Excluding the Six Heroes of Confucianism led by Yan Yi, and Zheng Dang, the lone ranger of Huang Laoxue, two of the remaining three were of Legalist origin.

This is also in line with Liu Sheng's previous expectation: the discourse power of the Legalists in the academic circles of the Han Dynasty today was approximately equal to zero in the early Han Dynasty, and it was raised to Today's [-]% or so.

Only [-]% is already the legalist limit.

Unless there is a great sage who can be respected as a "son" by later generations and is recognized by Liu Sheng, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for the Han Dynasty to have a situation where the Legalists came to power and the "tyranny of the Qin Dynasty" reappeared.

As for the only outlier among these ten people: the father Yan, who was born in the Zongheng family, was attributed to an accident by Liu Sheng's father without hesitation.

Liu Sheng even wanted to say: Master Fuyan's talent is simply because he chose the wrong theory!
But if you switch to the "popular" school of Confucianism, Legalism, Huang Lao, etc., or even choose Mohism, Zhu Fuyan will probably do better.

This also made Liu Sheng subconsciously have great expectations for the master father Yan——for this young man who can rank among the best in this examination.

Except for the top ten, there are not many other people in the list of the [-] people in the gold list that Liu Sheng can care about.

——In this exam, more than 8000 intellectuals took the exam, but only three Mohists came to Chang'an.

Of these three people, two of them are disciples of Gonghou. Out of the idea of ​​being unconventional or wanting to cosplay, they filled in the three names of 'Zimozi' in the column of teacher and inheritance on the information column. large characters.

The remaining person only got [-] points for the first four arithmetic problems, and handed in blank papers for the three edicts written silently and the three subjective questions.

Liu Sheng can only say: The brain circuits of scientists are always so strange.

In order to maintain the order established by himself, Liu Sheng had no choice but to exclude the only Mohist seedling from the qualified list, and sent his mother-in-law, Jia Gui, to communicate with the real Zimozi disciple and grandson. Negotiate.

If you are willing to stay, arrange someone in Shaofu to be a craftsman or something;
If you don't want to stay, then eat and drink for a few days, and then send people on the way home.

In general, the results of this examination verified many of Liu Sheng's previous conjectures about the academic world, and also brought many tangible benefits to Liu Sheng and the Han family.

Today, in Chaoyi, Liu Sheng also fulfilled his promise, received the top [-] candidates in the examination, and had a question-and-answer session with the representatives (mainly those who were eye-catching).

Liu Sheng was quite satisfied with the correct result, and further confirmed that the top four were the main results of this examination.

And then, what Liu Sheng needed to worry about shifted from a peaceful examination to a murderous war.

——Autumn has arrived.

After autumn, it is not far away.

In the spring of this year, Liu Sheng rejected the proposal of the Huns to get married again, and threatened to "fight as soon as possible, whoever is afraid of whom";
And the next turn of autumn and winter is when Liu Sheng pays for his previous big talk and 'pays the price'...

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"What do you guys think, what are the odds of my Han family winning this war?"

Shangguanli, the prime minister's residence.

When Liu Sheng began to have a headache for the next war that was likely to break out, Prime Minister Liu She had already summoned the ministers of the DPRK and China to discuss a specific response plan.

The participants also knew at a glance: there are three princes and nine ministers in the current dynasty.

If there is a new face, it is the young minister who has just been officially appointed on the top of today's Chaoyi: Zhongwuhou Jiagui.

Other than that, the rest of the people belong to old acquaintances and buddies who have cooperated for many years...
"I don't know how the Shaofu is doing now?"

Since we are discussing war, the first thing that needs to be determined is naturally the reserve of logistical materials.

Of course, Liu She also intends to take this opportunity to test the details of Jia Gui, the young man.

——After all, I have worked in the Shaofu for so many years, whether it is the Shaofu government office, the Shanglin workshop of the Han Dynasty, Liu She has extremely deep feelings for the grass and trees of the Shaofu.

Taking this opportunity to test Jia Gui, he also wanted to know the origin of the new Shaofu.

If it is a Karami who knows nothing, then Liu She can be sure: Liu Sheng wants to find a puppet so that he can control everything in the Shaofu;
If it is a naughty relative, Liu She can draw a conclusion: Liu Sheng wants to kill at least one of the Shaofu and his uncle.

——Either kill the uncle who ruined the Shaofu, or kill the Shaofu who taught the uncle to spoil the uncle, or both.

But what Liu She and even the court officials had expected was that Jia Gui's performance seemed to be much more optimistic than everyone's most optimistic guess.

"To the Prime Minister."

"The Shaofu now has a total of nearly 270 million yuan of money accumulated over the years since the three years of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen to the present;"

"If Xingyang Aocang and Chang'an Taicang are included, and the warehouses of the counties and states in the Kanto region are included, the available grain reserves total about 800 million shi."

"In addition, gold, stones, pearls, jade and other property are basically the same as when the prime minister left office, and various items such as salt and vinegar are only slightly less than when the prime minister left office."

"Cough, cough, cough..."

"I'm not afraid of your gentlemen's jokes: During this period of time, I was busy with the cicada's wing paper that His Majesty gave me, and I didn't pay much attention to familiarizing myself with the Shaofu."

"I just got an appointment today, so my knowledge of the Shaofu is limited to this..."

Having said that, Jia Gui still smiled shyly, and lowered his head a little 'ashamedly', as if he felt very embarrassed about his performance.

On the other hand, everyone in the hall looked at Jia Gui's unrecognizable performance, and immediately exchanged glances with different expressions.

——Only this?
What else do you want to do?
You haven't become a Shaofu yet, and you want to get a thorough understanding of the money inside and out?

Not to mention that you are a foreign relative, you are the main focus of the defense of the treasury of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the internal funds of the Shaofu, even the foreign ministers, you have to avoid suspicion, right?
Thinking in this way, everyone soon realized that it was Liu Sheng's long-planned and long-planned plan to use Jia Gui as the young mansion.

Thinking back to Chaoyi today, it was Fengchang Nanpi Hou Dou Pengzu who stood up to recommend Jia Gui...

"Mr. Dou, is this an alliance with Mr. Jia?"

"hiss······"

"Probably not?"

"No matter how young your majesty is, at least he was taught by the first emperor. How could you allow such a thing to happen?"

···
"Thinking about it, the Jia and Dou families want to maintain a little dignity on the bright side."

"Combined with Jia's, it's really not popular for men..."

In the blink of an eye, everyone's thoughts flew thousands of miles, and even extended from Jia Gui to the relationship between the Dou and Jia queen mothers, and even the empress dowager, the queen mother, and Liu Shengsan today. close relationship between people.

But soon, everyone's scattered thoughts were brought back to their eyes by Liu She's serious voice again.

"What about internal history?"

With a light inquiry, Uncle Tian nodded with a sad face.

"Since the beginning of spring, Your Majesty has refused to make peace with the Huns, so I have sent letters to the prefects and county magistrates in Guanzhong, reminding them that this year is a delicate one, and that they should not conscript the people unless necessary."

"If there is a war, then the people in Guanzhong can also be recruited..."

Hearing Uncle Tian's words, everyone present just nodded their heads, and even the sadness on their faces disappeared a little.

In this era, or the entire era of cold weapons, wars between countries and civilizations are actually about logistics, not combat power.

Or it should be said that as long as the army's combat effectiveness is not much worse, and there is no obvious restraint of arms, then the war in the cold weapon era will be fought to the end, in fact, it will be a fight over whose logistics can't handle it first.

It's like the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping. On the surface, it was Ma Fuzi's talk on paper, which ruined a generation of Zhao Guo's young and strong combat power, but in fact, the real reason for Zhao Guo's failure in the Changping World War I was actually the lack of logistics. I can't hold on, and I really can't spend it with Qin, which is rich in Hetao, Hexi, Hanzhong, and Bashu.

Before Ma Fuzi became a general, the strategy adopted by Zhao Guozhu's general Lian Po was actually consumption.

If it wasn't that the logistics couldn't hold up, why did Zhao Guo need to change his coach and replace the veteran Lian Po?
If it weren't for the logistics, how could Lian Po be criticized for "wasting national strength", and how could the rumors spread by Qin in Handan City really send Ma Fuzi to the position of Zhao Jun's coach?
Specific to the present, the war between the Han and the Hungarian sides is actually the same.

In terms of combat effectiveness, whether it is a single soldier or a group, the Han Dynasty actually has a relatively obvious advantage-the Huns are far inferior to the current Han Dynasty in terms of eating habits, military training methods, and even the stage of the entire civilization.

However, due to the restraint of arms, in the past few years, the Han Dynasty could only accept the status quo of "lose if you fight or not, if you fight big, don't fight small losses", and chose to marry "small losses".

Up to now, the outbreak of war seems to be unavoidable, so the attention of the Chang'an court is naturally focused on the logistics work first.

As the saying goes: Before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first.

In addition to the 'food and grass' itself, the folks who are responsible for transporting the 'grain and grass' are also the top priority.

In today's "Han Law", there is such a crime specifically against the princes and vassals, called "Excessive Expropriation of Labor".

It means: A certain prince and vassal king enlisted civilian husbands to participate in voluntary labor for a certain period of time, and the number and time exceeded the regulations, and he needed to bear the guilt and accept punishment for this.

If the princes and vassals are like this, the Chang'an court that made this rule naturally needless to say.

Although there is no indicator that stipulates how many laborers and how long the Chang'an court can only conscript each year, this is not really "no indicator", but because the Chang'an court, or the Han emperor's indicators, are indescribable of.

The last time this indescribable indicator was broken, it was exchanged for Ying Qin: princes, generals, would you rather have a kind?
Therefore, even if there is no specific indicator of "no more than how many people and how long", the Chang'an court is still the administrative unit that cares most about "not to overwork".

And Uncle Tian's answer was a reassurance for everyone present: there are still quite a lot of indicators for this year, and if we really fight, we don't have to worry about the common people's complaints from the court.

"A servant?"

After asking Jia Gui about the status of Shaofu (supplies), and getting Guanzhong's "requisition index balance" (transportation) from Uncle Tian, ​​Liu She's focus naturally shifted to the most important factor in war: combat effectiveness.

To be more precise, it is the problem of arms restraint that caused the Han Dynasty to suffer.

But the answer Yuan Ang gave cast a thick shadow over the hearts of everyone present...
"Since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen set up horse gardens in the northern border, our Han family has set up a total of 36 horse gardens."

"Among them, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen set up nine places, and Emperor Xian Xiaojing set up 27 places;"

"Emperor Taizong Xiaowen established nine places, and two were destroyed by the Huns during the reign of the first emperor..."

···
"Excluding the two places that were lost, the remaining seven horse gardens established by Emperor Taizong now have a total of one hundred war horses that can be slaughtered every year."

"As for the 27 places set up by the first emperor, they basically couldn't produce war horses because they weren't established long enough."

"And now, counting the horses that will be slaughtered in the seven horse gardens after autumn, the number of horses recorded by the eunuch is definitely less than ten thousand."

"Less than [-] war horses..."

"Ugh·······"

"I'm afraid this battle, my Han family, will still fight on foot..."

(End of this chapter)