Kill monsters in the Three Kingdoms and upgrade to become God of War

Chapter 542 The First Scientific Examination

A year of severe drought, even with locusts as a supplement, the people still had to be displaced because of hunger.

Ji Ling's [-] troops defected to the court, but in the end the court could not afford to support him. Seeing that his treatment was getting worse and worse, he rioted angrily and went north to join Yuan Shao.Yuan Shao was also short of food. Fortunately, when Ji Ling came to Hebei, only less than [-] of the [-] army remained, so he reluctantly accepted it.

The life of the imperial court was also difficult, especially Yingchuan and Yanzhou, which were disturbed by Ji Ling, and the order that was finally restored became chaotic again.The people had no confidence in the imperial court, so they moved south one after another. Many of them heard that the south could have enough food.

In this way, the three forces in 196 AD almost spent their time licking their wounds, and this tone did not ease until 197 AD.In 195 A.D., the imperial court and Hebei had almost no harvest. In 196, the harvest was halved. After two years, Liu Ting and Yuan Shao had to be on guard against each other, and on the other hand, they had to find ways to find food. Their lives were very miserable.

In the second half of 196, Li Ming provided Yuan Shao with the first batch of grain by sea and traded [-] uncastrated war horses.At the same time, they reached an alliance with Yuan Shao by sea.The only remaining princes of the two routes understand that only by uniting can they deal with the imperial court.

There are also side effects, that is, Yuan Shao has set up a lot of outposts in the Bohai Sea and the coast of Youzhou.Many outposts were rebuilt on the basis of what Gongsun Zan left behind. At first Yuan Shao wondered why Gongsun Zan built these things.

In 196, 200% of the fiscal budget under Li Ming’s rule was used for infrastructure construction and relief from work, etc., and accepted more than [-] million people. It's a pity that he can't do a project like the cross-river bridge.However, through river transportation and sea transportation, the exchanges between Jiangdong area and Xuzhou area have also become more frequent.

Caravans even went to Qingzhou and Bohai to do business, selling urgently needed goods such as grain, fish floss, medicinal materials and furs.Even the weapons that have been eliminated have been sold to Yuan Shao a lot, among which the strong crossbow and crossbow are the best sellers.

"Business is not easy these days!" In May 197, Li Ming looked at the financial report of the Kuaiji Chamber of Commerce for this month, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed. The sales of raw materials and rough-processed goods were good, but the profit was meager.On the contrary, the sales of the industrial products he valued, such as weapons, glass, silk and spices, began to shrink two years ago and only improved slightly this year.

"The landlord's family doesn't have any surplus food. In the past two years, it has been a problem to eat. Those aristocratic families in the north spend all their money on food storage. How can they have spare money to buy these useless luxury goods?" Zhang Mo complained.

He knew very well that Li Ming was actually being hypocritical.In the past two years, the commercial activities under the rule of Yuan Shao and the court have almost stopped, and Yuan Shao and the court have not received a cent of business tax at all.Even the re-use of troops in the Western Regions and commercial trade had to be temporarily suspended, and it was not easy for my side to be able to draw blood from them.

Li Ming is not stupid, how could he not understand, complaining at the moment is completely hypocritical of a rich man.

"After having a son, why has Shen Yan become more and more talkative? The name is clearly Shen Yan, but the person is a chatter..." Li Ming looked at Zhang Mo angrily.

"My lord was complaining before, don't you need your subordinates to speak up?" Zhang Mo tilted his head towards Li Ming.

"Cough..." Li Ming was choked up immediately, Zhang Mo was not so much a chatterbox as a bit dark-bellied. Sure enough, after getting along with a black-bellied woman for a long time, he also became black-bellied?But obviously Cai Yan became more virtuous after giving birth!
"I just want to ask how the scientific research is going... You know, I've been living in the mansion for a while!" Li Ming looked at Zhang Mo. During this time, he was either practicing martial arts or spending time with his family , or deal with government affairs, did not go out much.

I feel that all emperors must be senior nerds, otherwise, how can this emperor survive?You have to know that if you are bored in the palace all day, day after day, year after year, if you change to a current one, it may not take more than three months, and you will go crazy directly.

"My lord, the person in charge of the scientific examination is Mr. Cai Yong... Well, the venue for the scientific examination has been prepared, and the examinations from all over the country have rested in temporary inns. We have gained a lot this time, and we have been conducting it in various places in China since last year. Publicity, this year we have more than 5000 candidates who came to the exam.

Many of them come from poor families. I don’t know where they got the books. They are proficient in writing and ink. They plan to come to try their luck. There are probably less than 1000 of them who are really talented, and more than [-]% of them are from aristocratic families. ! "Zhang Mo originally planned to push the troublesome commentary to Cai Yong, but seeing Li Ming's unhappy eyes, he could only answer obediently.

The specific situation can be understood by anyone who has an understanding of Wanling today.Besides, similar data can be known with a little inquiring.This time the imperial examination is related to the proportion of the aristocratic family in the government, so not only Li Ming is paying attention, but all the aristocratic families are paying attention, and Zhang Mo is of course one of the followers.

Not only that, but Wanling has also come to many northern businessmen or tourists recently. Li You suspects that these people, even among the candidates who came to take the exam, may not have spies from Yuan Shao and the imperial court. The purpose is to understand the so-called imperial examination system.

This is a fresh move. Li Ming publicized that the imperial examination will replace the filial piety system in the future and become the only way for the government to select and employ talents.This propaganda naturally attracted the attention of the court and Yuan Shao.The difference is that Liu Ting really intends to learn and promote it, while Yuan Shao just wants to understand.

After all, the latter relies too much on the aristocratic family, and rashly abolishing the filial piety system is equivalent to making an enemy of the aristocratic family under his command.In fact, even the imperial court was still having a headache with this problem, but Liu Ting's iron and blood methods, coupled with money from the Western Regions, allowed him to slightly force the aristocratic family to compromise appropriately.

"Let them see it! Haha, as long as they don't know the specific operation process, then there is no point for them to learn it!" Li Ming laughed, not to mention that neither the court nor Yuan Shao could get rid of their dependence on the aristocratic family, just said It took hundreds of years from the appearance of this scientific research to its perfection. Give him hundreds of years, even decades, and he can regain China!

"The exam will officially start in three days. Master Cai Yong hopes that the lord can meet the candidates and give a few words of encouragement. We will only admit about [-]% of the candidates for this exam. The candidates who fail the exam may not come to the exam again next time, so in advance Gaining their favor is beneficial to us! Not to mention, many of them are students from Kuaiji Academy, and I hope the lord can give them some encouragement!" Zhang Mo persuaded.

"Alright, let's arrange it. I'll meet the candidates tomorrow!" Li Ming nodded.

Today's Wanling is very prosperous because of the arrival of a large number of candidates.Li Ming canceled the curfew, but there will be more soldiers patrolling at night, and even Yu Fan's security forces will send more people to assist in patrolling.Therefore, although it was lively, petty theft and even other vicious incidents almost never happened, and even if they happened, they could be dealt with in time.

Merchants naturally wouldn't miss this business opportunity, the whole Wanling was brightly lit up at night, various night markets sold delicious local products, and even brothels took the opportunity to make a fortune.

"Compared with Wuling, it is a sky and a place..." A candidate looked at the prosperity of Wanling and said with emotion.

"Wuling has just been ruled by Duke Chu, and it will be much better in a few years!" The examinee next to him laughed.

"Gongyan, Chengming, the exam is three days away, are you still interested in shopping?" Another candidate stepped forward and said with a smile.

　The scientific examination begins!It's a pity that this is not a scientific text...

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