The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 734 Imperial Examination Questions
After Lu Heng read the list, there were really many people who interested him. Besides Yang Xiu, there was also Xiao Huisui, who also attracted Lu Heng's attention!
This person is a hermit in the Water Margin, but unlike Xu Guanzhong, he is completely disappointed in Zhao Song, and the four bandits can't afford to make waves and choose to be a hermit!
Xiao Huisui is an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, and he must be accepted by all Water Margin colleagues.

In addition, Lu Heng also noticed that there are Wang Gui's names in both liberal arts and martial arts!

You must know that Lu Heng followed the policy of separating the military from the government. Although there are talents with all-round talents in civil and military affairs, they are only allowed to refer to one subject.

So what happened to Wang Gui?Is there official fraud now?
In an instant, Lu Heng overthrew his own idea. Even if he wanted to cheat, he couldn't do such an obvious and useless thing.

These two kings aroused Lu Heng's curiosity.After asking the head of the Ministry of Education, I found out that both of them are called Wang Gui, but they are indeed two people!
Since there are two people with the same name and surname, don't pay any attention to it. However, the two Wang Gui gave Lu Heng another surprise afterwards, which will not be mentioned for the time being.

Going back to the topic of formulating liberal arts and ethics, Lu Heng thought about it and decided as follows.

The liberal arts topics are as follows. The first question is how to deal with the issue of land annexation in the late Han Dynasty. How to prevent the ills of the previous dynasty when the Song Dynasty was facing hundreds of wastes?

Question [-]: The currency chaos in the previous dynasty led to cumbersome transactions. Many areas were even bartering and using grain as the basis for exchange. The Song Dynasty was also short of copper. How to solve the currency shortage problem?
The third question is how to treat grassland peoples like Jurchen, Xianbei, and Liao, and how to use policies to check and balance grassland peoples?
That's right, the above are the exam questions for the final exam, which examines talents from the three aspects of internal affairs, economy, and diplomacy. It is also a difficult problem to be solved by the Great Song Dynasty established by Lu Heng.

Internal affairs are fundamental, and land annexation is a stubborn problem that every dynasty cannot solve. Even though Lu Heng's various policies believe that land annexation may still occur as time goes by.

Economics is the lifeblood. In this era, economics is still a very vague concept. It does not mean that there are not many similar talents, but they are not many, but they are also part of the political system. At the same time, Lu Heng wants to see if there is anyone who agrees with him.

The current chaotic economic system has a preliminary plan submitted to the cabinet under the sorting out of the Ministry of Finance and Economics. Just as Lu Heng said, the current monetary system is very chaotic.

There are five baht coins issued by Dong Zhuo, which is a kind of money that cannot be used at all, and there are also coins minted privately by various princes, and there are even coins left over from the imperial court in the Eastern Han Dynasty!

This has led to inconsistent prices. "Money" is not money and cannot be used at all. Years of wars have led to grain as the hard currency, and grain is used as a unit of measurement to exchange things.

Even so, the grain is divided into high-quality grain, old grain, miscellaneous grain, etc., which vary from place to place. The result is that commercial taxes cannot be collected.

After Lu Heng established the Song Dynasty, he planned to unify the currency like the first emperor, but there were many problems in it. First of all, how to deal with the five baht coins left by the Eastern Han Dynasty, the five baht coins issued by Dong Zhuofa, and the coins circulated by the princes?

The second is to re-establish the currency system, not to mention the face value, exchange ratio and other issues. In this era, there are too few gold and silver precious metals, and copper is the standard.

Back then, Emperor Ling bought and sold officials at every turn. At that time, the court was not in chaos, and it was too cumbersome to pull copper coins in horse-drawn carriages.

Even if the copper in the Song Dynasty is not enough for the people of the country to circulate, how to deal with these problems is a headache.

The central bank system that Lu Heng has always wanted to do also needs to be sorted out slowly, and this question is for this purpose.

As for the third question, it is about diplomacy. The existence of old enemies among the grassland peoples must be a big problem. Foreign wars will definitely exist in the future. Lu Heng does not want his court to be full of weaklings!This question is to check the attitude towards foreign nations!

There are also two topics on the topic of discussion. The first is how to counterattack the grasslands, and the strategy for wars against Xianbei, Jurchen, and Liao.

The second is the plan to capture Sili and Yizhou. Simply put, it is the plan for how to capture Cao Cao. The main opponent after that is Cao Cao.

Sun Quan and Fang La are not in Lu Heng's eyes yet, but Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu from Xiliang will deal with them specially.

After finally solving the problem of the imperial examination, Lu Heng looked at the latest information. The Jingnan direction is likely to be related to Du Gao's army besieging Wancheng. Fang La and Sun Quan are ready to move.

Although Fang La is still under the rule of Sun Quan in name, in fact, he has listened to the tune and not listened to the propaganda.

The flashpoint of the conflict was Liu Bei's attack on Liu Bei when Du Gao, and the latter sent Sun Qian to ask Sun Quan for help.

At that time, Sun Quan felt that he should send troops to rescue. The reason is very simple. Cao Cao's territory is too far away. If Liu Bei is destroyed, he must be the next one!

Sun Quan's views were recognized by Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, and Lu Fan, and a big problem arose when he was preparing to deploy troops to attack.

Fang La's soldiers and horses can't move at all!

Fang La's idea is also very simple, Da Song is the last life-saving talisman, and now Sun Quan let himself attack Da Song, isn't it just to cut off his back?

Fang La thought that the result of sending troops to fight Song Dynasty was to offend Lu Heng and be tied to Lu Heng's must-kill list.

After the news of Wuhuan and Liu Yu's great victory came, Fang La believed that he had done the right thing. He would rather offend Sun Quan than offend Song Dynasty. This was Fang La's most sensible choice.

Fang La's actions made Sun Quan furious and at the same time he was on the verge of riding a tiger. Not long after Sun Quan came to power, some people ignored him. This was a major blow to his prestige, and Sun Quan had to deal with it. Otherwise, how would he convince the public?
Therefore, the relationship between the two sides was very tense. Sun Quan frequently mobilized troops, and Fang La sent envoys to Song Dynasty while preparing for the war.

This is of course what Lu Heng wanted to see. At the beginning, Lu Heng planned to divide Fang La and Sun Quan. Once the war started, Du Gao's army would march southward.

It is Lu Heng's basic policy to destroy Sun Quan first and then destroy Fangla. This "destroy Fangla" may be a military action or a diplomatic action. In short, it depends on the situation to make a response.

Now the situation in Jingnan is developing just as Lu Heng thought.

The last major event was in the direction of Yizhou. At the beginning of the year, Lu Heng sent out a plan to destroy Liu Bei. Boss Cao did not rescue Liu Bei with one soldier, but beat Yizhou severely!
This time Boss Cao launched an army to storm Mianzhu!

To say that Liu Zhang is very entangled in front of him now, the origin is Qin Mi. At the beginning, Lu Heng's threat made Liu Zhang not scared to death, and a Cao Cao made Liu Zhang feel frightened. Heng has great personal prestige) How do you live these days?
The timid Liu Zhang was worried and afraid for a long time, and he was relieved when Liu Bei jumped out to show his presence. Without him, Liu Bei, who made troubles like Lu Heng, would definitely beat Liu Bei first, and Liu Zhang would not come to beat him, would he?

However, Boss Cao's onslaught still frightened the cowardly Liu Zhang, and finally something happened!

(End of this chapter)