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Chapter 182 The results of the scientific examination

The news that King Zhou Zhi of Shu and three major aristocratic families rebelled and usurped the throne and were executed spread, shocking the entire Zhou Dynasty.

Especially among wealthy families, it caused quite a stir.

The Yuan family and the Zheng family are the seven great families in the Zhou Dynasty, and they are the leaders of the world's aristocratic families.

The Yuan family in Runan was the first of the seven great families in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

None of the wealthy families in the world expected that such deep-rooted behemoths as the Yuan family and the Zheng family would be exterminated by the imperial court and become a thing of the past.

It really shocked everyone.

In total, four of the seven wealthy families in the Zhou Dynasty have been exterminated by the imperial court, leaving only three.

However, before all the wealthy families in the world could recover from this shocking news, another news from the imperial court caused waves among the wealthy families in the world.

That is the imperial court's scientific examination. If there is no place to recommend the examiner, you can still participate in the scientific examination.

This move by the imperial court directly changed the color of all the wealthy families in the world.

By doing this, doesn't the imperial court want to touch the cake of their world-famous family?

You know, almost 80% of the officials in the Zhou Dynasty came from wealthy families.

Therefore, the power to inspect and recommend candidates in various localities is almost entirely in the hands of wealthy families.

But now, the imperial court allows students who have no place to be inspected and recommended to participate in this scientific examination. Isn't this another disguised deprivation of the right of wealthy families to be inspected and recommended?

If such an imperial examination is formed, students from poor families will no longer rely on their wealthy families.

In this way, when students from poor families enter the official career, they may become opponents of their wealthy families.

This is not good news for the world's wealthy families.

Therefore, after receiving the imperial examination rules from the imperial court, all the wealthy families in the world ordered their children and disciples to give up the imperial examination.

This was a silent counterattack by the world's wealthy families against their dissatisfaction with the imperial examination.

After all, it is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son.

Eighty percent of the world's most talented people come from wealthy families.

Once students from wealthy families do not take part in the scientific examination, the results of the imperial examination can be imagined.

Without the students from wealthy families taking part in the imperial examinations, there will be far fewer students taking part in the imperial examinations this time.

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The Hall of Nourishing Heart.

Zhou Chen practices the art of the Emperor's Conferring Gods.

After cleaning up the court during this period and annihilating wealthy families such as the Yuan family in Runan, Zhou Chen felt that his luck as emperor had increased a lot, and he was able to practice the art of enthroning the emperor more than twice as fast as before.

"Click."

A cracking sound came from Zhou Chen's body.

Zhou Chen's aura gradually increased, as if he had broken some shackles, reaching the top.

"call."

He exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Zhou Chen opened his eyes, and streams of light spurted out.

"The pinnacle of a third-grade master?"

Feeling the power coming from his body, Zhou Chen was slightly stunned.

Zhou Chen did not expect that during this training, he would not only break through to the third-grade master realm, but also reach the pinnacle of the third-grade master in one fell swoop.

This was really unexpected by Zhou Chen.

With his current strength, he should be considered a master outsiders!

Zhou Chen thought secretly in his heart.

"His Majesty."

"Three masters, Du Shangshu, the Eight Sages and the Minister of War, are outside the palace asking for an audience."

At this time, a chamberlain and factory guard came in to report.

"Let them in."

Zhou Chen knew that the court's scientific examination had ended, and these three people were probably here to report the results of the scientific examination.

Zhou Chen stood up and walked out of the inner hall, sitting on the dragon throne.

moment.

Du Ruhui, the Eight Sages Wang Zhouxian and the Minister of War came in.

"I have met His Majesty."

After Du Ruhui and the others walked in, they bowed to Zhou Chen respectfully.

Zhou Chen raised his eyes and looked at Du Ruhui and the others; "The results of the scientific examination should have come out by now!"

"how?"

"How much talent is available?"

Zhou Chen asked directly without any nonsense.

Du Ruhui, the Eight Sages Wang Zhouxian and the Minister of War looked at each other.

Du Ruhui came out, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this is the list of three people who passed the scientific examination and were selected from the competition."

"Your Majesty, please take a look."

Du Ruhui took out a memorial.

The Minister of War also took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty, I have brought the top three test papers into the palace and asked your Majesty to read them."

After saying that, the Minister of War took out three test papers.

Zhou Chen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, glanced at the chamberlain guard next to him.

The inner chamber guard immediately went down and took the memorial from Du Ruhui and the three test papers from the Minister of War, and sent them to Zhou Chen.

The first thing Zhou Chen looked at were the top three test papers.

In Zhou Chen's opinion, those who can be ranked among the top three are definitely not ordinary talents.

But when Zhou Chen read the test papers of the top three, his brows furrowed.

The top three test papers did not contain any astonishing talents in governing the country as Zhou Chen imagined.

On the contrary, judging from the content on the test paper, the talents of the top three can only be regarded as average.

Zhou Chen frowned and put down the three test papers, then looked at Du Ruhui's memorial.

After reading Du Ruhui's memorial, Zhou Chen's brows furrowed even more tightly.

Because, the available talents selected as a result of the scientific examination were far different from what Zhou Chen had expected.

Moreover, the top three test papers made Zhou Chen a little disappointed.

There are thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the great Zhou Dynasty. Even if the sun sets over the mountains and rivers, it’s impossible that we can’t even select a few decent talents!

Zhou Chen looked at Du Ruhui and the others with doubts; "What's going on?"

"The top three papers in the scientific examination were very ordinary to me, and there was nothing outstanding about them."

"And why are there less than a hundred available people selected through the scientific examination?"

"Have the talents of our great empire withered to this point? Only a few hundred people across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers have passed the scientific examination?"

Zhou Chen looked at Du Ruhui and the others in confusion and asked.

Du Ruhui and the three of them laughed bitterly in their hearts.

The Eight Sages King Zhou Xian bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this scientific examination is almost all students from poor families, and students from aristocratic families basically did not participate in this scientific examination."

Zhou Xian, the Eight Wise King, told the story of the scientific examination.

After Zhou Chen heard what Zhou Xian, the Eight Wise King, said, his eyes darkened a little.

Students from aristocratic families did not participate in this scientific examination. This was obviously a silent counterattack by the wealthy aristocratic families against the imperial court's scientific examination.

Come to think of it, wealthy families have also seen the impact of this imperial examination on their families.

Zhou Chen thought silently.

Originally, Zhou Chen's reform of the imperial examination was a touchstone.

Zhou Chen wanted to test the reaction of the world's aristocratic families and test how strong the resistance would be.

But what Zhou Chen didn't expect was that the counterattack from the world's aristocratic families would be so violent in response to this temptation.

It seems that if you want to reform the imperial examination, you need to plan carefully.

Zhou Chen raised his head and looked at Du Ruhui and the three of them; "These useful talents selected in this imperial examination should be transferred to the local government!"

"The top three are all sent to Shu and the four northern states."

"There are many vacant officials in the four northern states and Shu. We should fill these vacancies as soon as possible."

Zhou Chen said.

Although the imperial court in the four northern states had sent some officials there before, there were still a lot of vacant officials.

Zhou Chen just sent these available people selected in this scientific examination to local places to fill these vacancies.

Although these people have average talents and no great talents, they should not have any major problems in governing a place after they have been trained locally for a period of time.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Du Ruhui bowed and said.

Although Fang Xuanling, the official minister, has returned, Du Ruhui is still in charge of this matter.

Currently, Du Ruhui is still in charge.

After finishing this matter, Zhou Chen looked at the Minister of War again: "Li Yuan, how about the pension for the soldiers of the Shenwu Guard who died fighting for the Great Zhou Dynasty?"

Zhou Chen had already issued an order to Xun Yu and Li Yuan, the ministers of the Ministry of War, regarding this matter.

"Reporting to your Majesty, based on the number of casualties reported by the Shenwu Guardian, I have sent people from the Ministry of War to start verification, and based on the list, began to distribute pensions."

The Minister of War bowed and said, reporting on the situation of the compensation for the Shenwu Guards.

After listening to the report from the Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhou Chen nodded: "Your Ministry of War must check it for me, and you can't miss anyone."

"Your Ministry of War must also supervise the officials and generals below. You must not deduct the pensions of these soldiers who shed their blood for the Great Zhou Dynasty."

"Once discovered, I will take strict action directly."

Zhou Chen said sternly.

Throughout the dynasties, pensions have been provided to soldiers, but many generals have deducted them.

Zhou Chen didn't want this kind of thing to happen among the Shenwu Guards.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The Minister of War bowed down to accept the order.

Then, Du Ruhui and the other three reported some more things and left the Yangxin Hall.

…

After Du Ruhui and the others left, Zhou Chen thought about the imperial examination.

Zhou Chen knew that if he wanted to revitalize the Zhou Dynasty, the first thing he had to do was to reform the imperial examination, and he could no longer continue the previous examination and recommendation system.

Let alone allow the world's aristocratic families to control the passage to official career with such words.

Otherwise, many talents will be left out, and the great families in the world will be corrupted.

However, after this test of the imperial examination and the silent counterattack of the aristocratic family, Zhou Chen knew that it would not be easy to reform the imperial examination and break the monopoly power of the aristocratic family.

"It seems that if we want to solve this problem, we have to dig up the roots of the family and defeat them one by one."

Zhou Chen thought with twinkling eyes.

…

Northern Xinjiang.

Zhenbeicheng.

A carriage slowly entered Zhenbei City.

"Is this Zhenbeicheng?"

The curtain of the carriage was opened, and Jia Xu looked at the largest city in northern Xinjiang.

After several days of hard work, Jia Xu finally arrived at his final destination today.

As for why Jia Xu came to Zhenbeicheng in northern Xinjiang.

Its purpose, needless to say, is clear.

Jia Xu came here for the Marquis of Zhenbei.

This is also Jia Xu’s next task.

Zhou Chen knew that if he wanted to solve the border issue, he couldn't resort to force and resort to tactics.

Otherwise, once force is used, even if Zhenbei Hou is suppressed, the overall military strength of the surrounding areas will be weakened.

At that time, the alien races outside the customs will also be given an opportunity to take advantage of it.

The gain outweighs the loss.

Therefore, Zhou Chen sent Jia Xu to Northern Xinjiang.

Zhou Chen believed that with Jia Xu, a poisonous man's methods, it shouldn't be too difficult to capture the Marquis of Zhenbei.

"Mr. Jia, should we go find an inn to take a rest first?"

A big man driving the carriage asked.

"No, go directly to your stronghold." Jia Xu shook his head.

After all, this is Zhenbei City and the territory of Zhenbei Hou.

I don’t know how many informants in this city are Zhenbeihou’s spies.

Especially in the inn, there is definitely Zhenbei Hou's spy.

Jia Xu had to be more cautious and went directly to the safety of Dongchang's stronghold.

"Yes, Mr. Jia."

The big man driving the bus nodded.

The big man driving the carriage was no ordinary horseman, but a factory guard from the East Factory.

Zhou Chen sent Jia Xu to Northern Xinjiang to deal with Zhenbei Hou, and naturally asked Dongchang to assist him.

Dongchang also has their own secret base in Zhenbeicheng.

The big man driving the carriage drove the carriage through several streets and finally stopped in an inconspicuous courtyard.

The big man driving the carriage glanced around, jumped off the carriage, stepped forward and patted the gate of the courtyard.

Soon, the courtyard door was opened.

The big man driving the bus took out a Dongchang token and showed it to the person who opened the door.

The person who opened the door looked at the token in the driver's hand and nodded directly.

After the big man driving the carriage confirmed the identity of the person who opened the door, he turned to Jia Xu in the carriage and whispered, "Mr. Jia, we are here."

Hearing this, Jia Xu opened the curtain of the carriage and got out of the carriage.

Jia Xu didn't say anything and walked directly into the courtyard.

The big man who was driving the carriage also walked in.

The man who opened the door waved his hand three times not far away.

A figure came from not far away, got on the carriage, and drove the carriage towards the courtyard not far away.

…

night.

In a secret room in the courtyard of Dongchang Stronghold.

Jia Xu sat in the main seat.

There are three figures sitting below.

These three figures are none other than Cao Xing, Hou Cheng, and Hao Meng who were sent by Zhou Chen to attack the Zhenbei Army.

As for Song Xian and Cheng Lian, they went to the Xiliang Army.

Jia Xu glanced at Cao Xing and the other three and said, "You have just read His Majesty's decree. Next, you will have to rely more on the three generals."

Cao Xing and the others immediately stood up and said, "If Mr. Jia has any instructions, just tell us. The three of us are at Mr. Jia's disposal."

The content of the imperial edict is to let Cao Xing and the three of them obey Jia Xu's arrangements.

Therefore, Cao Xing and the other three stood up respectfully and listened to Jia Xu's order.

"You all sit down!"

"Tell me about your situation in Zhenbei Army during this period."

"And what have you learned about the main generals of the Zhenbei Army."

Jia Xu looked at Cao Xing and the others and said.

Jia Xu knew that if he wanted to capture the Marquis of Zhenbei without much violence, he could only attack from within.

Only by starting from the inside can we capture the Marquis of Zhenbei at a very small cost.

Jia Xu did not believe that the generals of the Zhenbei Army were all monolithic and loyal to the Marquis of Zhenbei.

What's more, everyone has weaknesses. Even if the generals of the Zhenbei Army are all monolithic, as long as the weaknesses of these generals are found, these generals will not be able to escape from Jia Xu's grasp.

After all, when it comes to calculating people's hearts, almost no one can compare with Jia Xu, a poisonous man.

"Yes, Mr. Jia."

After Cao Xing and the other three sat down, they began to describe the situation of the three of them in the Zhenbei Army and what they had learned during this period.

You know, Cao Xing and the three of them have been dragging the generals of the Zhenbei Army to eat and drink every day during this period.

None of this is in vain.

Although, Cao Xing and the other three did not learn much about the Zhenbei Army from these generals.

But Cao Xing and the three of them basically knew a thing or two about the hobbies and temperaments of these generals.

These are exactly what Jia Xu needs.

Only by understanding the hobbies and temperaments of these generals can we find out their weaknesses.

(End of chapter)