Crowned the New Han Dynasty

Chapter 1159: Changes in Guanzhong, as stated
Chen Zhi said this to Tong Hai without further explanation to the people below. This inevitably caused some officials below to be affected by external public opinion, and even some candidates who took part in the imperial examination were greatly affected by this.

However, although there are signs of ideological confusion, because the entire upper-lower system in Youzhou has been very complete, and management and supervision restrict each other, there will not be any commotion.

As for the worst-case scenario, there are still soldiers from the Xuanjia Army who can suppress the situation, so it is quite peaceful.

On the Pingzhou side, there was not much influence, because the Hu tribe's atmosphere there was relatively strong, but there was no big reaction to these remarks. Even if there was, they would think that General Chen's true temperament is that he is powerful!
On the other hand, there was a disturbance in Bingzhou. The aristocratic family was in a slight commotion. In addition, some remaining Xiongnu forces were in contact, which caused a great disturbance.

However, due to the Taiyuan Wang family's support for Chen Zhi, Liu Kun and others returning to take charge of the situation, and the military suppression of the Xuanjia Army, this wave finally failed to cause a big situation.

In this weird atmosphere, the imperial examination, which was the source of everything, was still proceeding in an orderly manner.

With the end of the second round of state examinations in various places, the exact time for the final examination, the General's Mansion Examination, has finally been determined, which is the beginning of the next spring.

After the heavy snowfall and the beginning of the new year, the Guanzhong court couldn't wait to change the Yuan Dynasty to Chengjing, which was the first year of Chengjing.

But what is interesting is that the Jiangzuo court still used the original Jianjia year name.

As the imperial examination approached, the atmosphere in the three northern states slowly changed without even realizing it.

But at this moment, a piece of news suddenly came, causing the whole world to look sideways——

It is said that a general in Guanzhong rebelled, which caused a great impact. Although he was suppressed, it still caused fluctuations in the situation. The most direct impact was that many tribes in Guanzhong became active——

Guanzhong was originally the foundation of the Han family and was the capital for many years. However, with the chaos of the Three Kingdoms, the population declined, and foreign people had to be introduced. Some of them passed through Hanzhong and entered the Shu region. The Li family that separatized the Shu region was this General origin.

In contrast, Guanzhong, which has been an important town for the Han family since ancient times, was naturally valued by the imperial court, so the Hu tribes there were forcibly suppressed.

Unfortunately, with the weakening of the imperial court, the military strength continued to weaken, especially after the Three Kings Rebellion, Shi Le's southward movement, and the short-term conflict with the Xuanjia Army, the imperial troops in the pass became increasingly scarce, so they did not even dare to leave Tongguan. One of the big reasons for returning to Luoyang was that I was worried that I couldn't stand Luoyang.

In this case, a general suddenly made a rebellion, which was equivalent to adding insult to injury. All of a sudden, part of the originally small force was divided, and it also made Guanzhong unsafe to defend.

This turned into elbows and armpits, and it became increasingly difficult to resist, and there was no time to mobilize troops and horses. So in desperation, the two kings had no choice but to rely on the Hu troops in Guanzhong to judge as Chen Zhi expected.

At this moment, it was like a cage was opened and the tiger was released, making the entire situation in Guanzhong more and more complicated.

These contents were all mentioned in Chen Zhi's previous article. Although there are some differences in details, in general they are not much different.

For a moment, all the forces that had ridiculed Chen Zhi couldn't help but fall silent, and the public opinion celebrities who were manipulated by them also fell into an embarrassing situation.

What shocked the world even more was that before the last imperial examination, the two kings of Guanzhong suddenly announced that they would introduce Buddhism as the national religion and confer several eminent Buddhist monks as national teachers, just as Chen's article said.The turmoil caused by such a change far exceeded the impact of the article when it was first published.

I don’t know how many people found articles that had been thrown away long ago from the pile of old papers, and then read them carefully for the first time.

Correspondingly, everyone in Youzhou breathed a sigh of relief. Not only that, but a new round of worship movement was launched immediately afterward. Rebounding back at an extremely fast speed, those scholars, scholars, and even ordinary people who had always believed in Chen Zhi cheered and rushed to tell each other, and held the article, waiting for more things predicted above to happen.

Even among the candidates who participated in the imperial examination, many people, because of this incident, changed from simply admiring Chen Zhi to worshiping him, and even showed signs of blind obedience.

And this point became more intuitive after the imperial examination started.

After several exams and long journeys, the candidates finally arrived at Jixian County, the core of Youzhou. Although it was difficult, they also tempered their will and knowledge. They deeply realized that in the imperial examination, their knowledge will be tested, But he will also be involved in the world situation, and of course he will care about these.

As expected, in this last exam, there was an additional section of policy discussion, allowing them to discuss the current general trend of the world and give certain countermeasures.

This topic naturally requires all parties to express themselves freely, but those civil servants who were selected to mark the papers were often filled with emotion during the marking process.

"Many of the policies and arguments in these examination papers were written down without any revisions. The Governor's article was written down. How can we pass this?"

"These candidates are not trying to figure out their intentions, thinking that they can pass by writing like this, but they don't know that this is really meaningless."

"In the final analysis, the governor's words are thought-provoking. As soon as the situation in Guanzhong emerged, everyone in the world knew that the original article with ten thousand words was not aimless, but truly spoke of the general trend of the world. Since these candidates want to make decisions about the general trend, how can they do it? Can you forgive me?"

"It's true. It's just that some of these candidates are smart. At least they know not to copy. They just change the order or change the words into their own words. But they understand it more or less. This can give some insights. past evaluation.”

“This article is great!”

While several correction officers were talking, someone suddenly said something, which aroused everyone's curiosity. They leaned over, looked at it for a few times, nodded, and praised one after another.

"This article is good. Although it still follows the framework set up by the governor, it has its own thinking, and it clearly explains why the pass has become like that. Isn't it what the governor often mentions, because the Hu people have no scriptures and traditions. What?"

"It's really good, especially these few sentences, they hit the point."

"What's even more rare is that he didn't rush for perfection, but honestly used the Guanzhong incident as the basis, discussed his views, and finally elaborated on his own views, gave strategies, and said how to avoid it. It's really good."

So this article was of great concern to them, but because their names were sealed, they didn't know their identities, but they kept them in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)