Qian Song

Chapter 62 Infernal Affairs (please read more!)

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On the day of Xiaonian, Li Cun held the first imperial examination of Huben Army.

Although Li Cun spared no effort in publicity, he even said bluntly that as long as you come to participate in this imperial examination, you will definitely be able to use your skills, but in the end there were only 99 candidates to take the exam.

This number actually looks quite a lot, but in fact, [-]% of them are market literati like Zhou Zan, Wu Fang, Zheng Nan, and Hu Tu who have a little knowledge of books and history.

Such a literati must not even know in which direction the door of the imperial examination is opened in Zhao Song, where there are so many talents.

And the remaining adults are almost all children from poor families.

Several of them were Tai students who went out from poor families.

Seeing this, Li Cun, who didn't want his relatives to dominate his family, couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

In fact, all of this was within Li Cun's expectation.

The Northern Song Dynasty has always had the problem of redundant officials and cronyism.

This makes it very difficult for children from poor families to become officials.

By the time of Zhao Ji, the problems of redundant officials and cronyism had almost reached their peak.

After Wang Fu came to power, his greatest political achievement was that he reversed what Cai Jing had done, dismissed Fangtian, destroyed Piyong, medicine, and mathematics, merged the institutes and institutions of the Six Codes, eliminated redundant officials, and dealt with Yuanjun envoys and Hengban officials. His salary was halved, and people all over the world called him a virtuous prime minister.

Therefore, in Zhao Song, where layoffs and salary reductions have already begun, it is even more difficult for children from poor families to stand out.

Moreover, Zhao Ji also promoted Taixue, resulting in the birth of three or four thousand Taixue students a year.

This makes it difficult for the children of poor families to succeed in this harsh environment where there are many wolves and few meat.

Therefore, Li Cuncai has always been very confident that if he conducts the imperial examinations himself, he will definitely be able to recruit some children from poor families who are eager to get ahead.

Facts have proved that Li Cun is right.

Although there are still very few, at least there are bold and humble children who have come to vote for Li Cun.

This strengthened Li Cun's confidence.

Li Cun believed that as long as he could block a few waves of Song army's attacks and give these poor children hope that he could achieve great things, there would definitely be more poor children, even wealthy children, who would vote for him.

At that time, Li Cun will no longer have to worry about lack of talents.

According to the results of the written test, Li Cun personally interviewed the 99 candidates one by one.

Although most of these candidates did not perform very well, Li Cun still simply sent them to Jiande, Tonglu, Xincheng, Fuyang, Qiantang, Renhe, Yu, etc. according to their respective talents. In the eleven regions of Qian, Yuhang, Yanguan, Changhua, and Lin'an, they were either allowed to serve in the central government (that is, Hangzhou City), or they were allowed to serve as staff officers in the Huben Army, writing and managing Jiyi characters.

In addition, Li Cun's cheap uncles, cheap father-in-law, some relatives of Li Cun's concubines, and a small number of some noble children who "actively" voted for Li Cun.

Finally, the Hangzhou area no longer has to worry about lack of talent for governance.

As for the old officials and officials of Zhao and Song Dynasties who were used in transition at the beginning, Li Cun did not cross the river and demolish the bridge.

Among them who are willing to vote for Li Cun, Li Cun will continue to use them, and will promote them as appropriate, but usually they will be transferred-most of them will be transferred to the central government for appointment, so that they will not be in Cao Ying, but in Han, and so on. Song Jun called and directly surrendered in Kaesong.

Those who were unwilling to vote for Li Cun thought that they had helped Li Cun stabilize the situation. Li Cun would pardon his crimes and give him a small amount of severance pay.

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Li Cun handed over the army plan to a handsome middle-aged man in his 40s, and said to him, "Shutong, the army is the most important thing for our Tiger Army today, and you must not slack off."

This middle-aged man was Li Cun who won the first imperial examination——Yuwen Huangzhong.

Speaking of Yuwen Huangzhong, many people may find it unfamiliar.

But when it comes to Yuwen Huangzhong's other name "Yuwen Xuzhong", I'm afraid many people should be familiar with it, right?
——If history does not change, Zhao Ji will bestow the name "Yuwen Xuzhong" on Yuwen Huangzhong in a few years.

Yuwen Huangzhong's ancestors belonged to the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He was a Jinshi in the third year of Daguan Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, and he passed the official prefectures and counties.

In the fifth year of Zhenghe, Yuwen Huangzhong entered Beijing as a living roomer and editor of the Academy of National History.

In the sixth year of Zhenghe, Yuwen Huangzhong served as Tongzhi Gongju and Chutongzhi Langzhong Shusheren.

Since Tong Guan was going to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, Yuwen Huangzhong entered the Tongguan shogunate as a waiter of Xianmo Pavilion, and was going to be the staff officer of the Xuanfu envoy of Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi.

In other words, Yuwen Huangzhong should now be Tong Guan's senior aide.

As for why Yuwen Huangzhong appeared in Hangzhou, and why he came to participate in the imperial examination held by Li Cun, don't ask Li Cun, Li Cun doesn't know the reason.

In fact, if Yuwen Huangzhong hadn't revealed his family name truthfully, Li Cun would have thought that he might have made a mistake, and the two might have the same name.

According to Yuwen Huangzhong himself, he was not allowed to be reused by Zhao Song. He felt that Li Cun's side was thriving, so he abandoned the dark and turned to the bright, and prepared to assist Li Cun as the founding minister.

For what Yuwen Huangzhong said, Li Cun didn't even believe a single punctuation mark.

Because Yuwen Huangzhong also has a title in history-the first spy in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Historically, after the shame of Jingkang happened, the Zhao and Song Dynasties were broken in an instant. Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and the men and women of the Zhao family were captured and went north. Jin quickly occupied most of northern China and established a puppet regime to manage it on its behalf. , and Zhao Gou, the only hope of the Zhao family, escaped to Hangzhou and established a small regime in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Gou ran like a bereaved dog for two years, and finally fled to the sea. It was not until the situation between Song and Jin finally eased.

Seeing this, Zhao Gou wanted to send an envoy to the Kingdom of Jin to seek peace.

The situation at that time was that if one envoy was sent, the Kingdom of Jin would detain one.

As a result, all the civil and military ministers who were usually impassioned in the temple became shrinking turtles, and none of them dared to go to the Kingdom of Jin to negotiate a peace.

When Yuwen Huangzhong heard the news, he took the initiative to ask Ying to be an envoy.

Unexpectedly, when Yuwen Huangzhong arrived in the Kingdom of Jin, he was also detained. There is also a saying that the Jin people let him come back, but he did not come back.

Yuwen Huangzhong is handsome in appearance and outstanding in talent. He knows astronomy and geography, and is good at writing and poetry.

Jin Xizong loved Yuwen Huangzhong's talent, so he gave him an official title and treated him very politely.

Yuwen Huangzhong then went from a Hanlin scholar to a doctor of Jin Ziguanglu in the Kingdom of Jin, and was granted the title of Duke of Henan County. Because of his profound knowledge, he was called "National Teacher" by the Jin people.

But Yuwen Huangzhong was full of loyalty and courage, and his heart was attached to the Zhao family, so he acted as an undercover agent, kept abreast of Jin's movements, and promptly passed the information to the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, smashing the plans of the Jin people to destroy the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty many times.

Moreover, Yuwen Huangzhong endured the humiliation and wanted to find a chance to rescue Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan.

The point is, Yuwen Huangzhong not only thought about it, but also launched a mutiny to hijack Jin Xizong. A complete lone hero, he almost succeeded in killing Jin Xizong.

To use Yuwen Huangzhong's poem to describe it is: life is a nosy business, and the canthus pierces the chest without forgetting.

With such a master of Infernal Affairs, is it possible for Li Cun to believe that he really came to vote for him?

But then again, Yuwen Huangzhong is very talented, and his talent is even higher than that of General Lu.

In line with the principle of using nothing for nothing, Li Cun could just ask Yuwen Huangzhong to help him reorganize this huge army.

Of course, in order to prevent Yuwen Huangzhong from destroying it, Li Cun must not let Yuwen Huangzhong touch the core things, and Li Cun himself and Zhang Shi and other supervisors should complete that part.

Just in case, Li Cun assigned Hutu, the last candidate in this year's imperial examination, to Yuwen Huangzhong as an "assistant"...

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(End of this chapter)