Three Kingdoms: The blind box draws Da Qiao at the beginning

Chapter 304: Five Tiger Generals, Zhuge Liannu and Zhanma Dao
  After three dynasties, Lu Yi became busy.

On the first day of the Three Dynasties, he gathered the officials in Wu County to worship heaven and earth, and then went to the immortal monument in Qu'a to worship.

Since the establishment of the Immortal Monument, Lu Yi has determined the status of the Immortal Monument: it is an incomparable honor to be able to have your name engraved on the Immortal Monument.

After that, Lu Yi and Chen Deng, Zhang Hong, Gu Yong, Chen Gong, Jia Xu, Liu Ye, and Yan Xiang determined the specific official position changes of the civil and military officials after the founding of the Wu Kingdom.

After the official positions of all officials are determined, they will be issued to various positions in the form of edicts to ensure that important officials on the front line will not frequently change positions, thereby causing hidden dangers on the defense line.

In addition, the questions for the second imperial examination have been released.

Lu Yi will review the questions himself to ensure that they are not too stereotyped.

After Lu Yi has reviewed the questions, they will be reviewed by Chen Deng and others.

Half a month before the second imperial examination, all examination questions must be checked.

The location of this second imperial examination was still in Wu County.

The third exam, that is, starting from next year, will be extended to the nine counties of Wu.

If the response this time is good, it will be implemented in all five prefectures: Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Yuzhou.

On the first day of February, the second imperial examination was officially held in Wuxian County.

This exam lasts for three days.

Three days later, the examiners will review the test results of these candidates.

The process was the same as last year.

However, the number of people taking the second imperial examination was more than three times that of last year!
  Last year, a total of [-] people took part in the first imperial examination.

Moreover, these candidates are basically concentrated in Yangzhou, with a small number in Jingzhou.

In this second imperial examination, there were a total of [-] people!
  The scope of candidates has changed from Yangzhou, the main place, to Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou and Qingzhou.

Even, nearly two hundred candidates came from Yanzhou and Yizhou!

Zhuge Liang was originally responsible for the registration, but this year, Zhuge Liang, Lu Ji, Zhou Buyi and Liu Ba were jointly responsible for completing it within the limited time.

Among the four, Lu Yi's favorites are probably Zhuge Liang and Zhou Buyi.

Zhuge Liang somewhat has the filter of a time traveler two thousand years later, and also has elements of his second brother-in-law.

I like Zhou Buji purely because of his photographic memory and his cleverness.

Despite this, Lu Yi still transferred Zhou Buyi to his side and asked him to do some low-level work on weekdays.

When he was too busy, he was allowed to join Zhuge Liang and others.

The reason for doing this is simple: he is afraid that he will become "Fang Zhongyong" in Wang Anshi's mouth.

This time, Zhou Buyi's uncle, Liu Xian, a fellow native of Liu Biao, the former shepherd of Jingzhou, also took part in the imperial examination!

Although the imperial examination is now being promoted, so far, county selection still dominates.

Jingzhou Zhizhong Hengjie recommended Liu Xian as the most talented person, but he was rejected.

Liu Xian, Zhou Buyi's uncle, is more willing to use test scores to prove himself.

Lu Yi felt quite sad after seeing the family backgrounds of these registered candidates.

Even for the imperial examination, the students who took the examination were all from noble families.

The worst of the so-called poor families, their ancestors have also had great successes, and none of them are truly poor people.

Lu Yi could only urge the papermakers at Wujun University to continue increasing their research and development of paper.

The paper they developed last time was not cheap enough, the raw materials were not common enough, and the quality was not what Lu Yi wanted.

In order to increase their enthusiasm, Lu Yi asked Yan Xiang to set up a large reward.

It took nearly twenty days to correct the second exam questions.

The number of officials participating in correcting questions and answers increased from [-] last year to [-] this year.

The grades are still divided into third, sixth and ninth grades.

As soon as the results come out, the government will post a notice.

However, Lu Yi and the civil and military officials discussed that starting from next year, which is the third imperial examination, the candidates with the top three grades will be sent by officials from each county to the candidates' homes, so that the candidates can He also enjoyed being admired by others, which increased the desire of more noble disciples to participate in the imperial examination.

Because the number of candidates participating in the imperial examination has greatly increased, and the examination results are indeed good, Lu Yi and the civil and military officials discussed and decided to completely abolish the previous recommendation system starting from the third year of Tai'an, which is the third imperial examination year.

Although many officials objected, most of them agreed, especially Lu Yi himself.

In the battle of Shouchun, he defeated Yuan Shao and greatly increased Lu Yi's prestige.

The big family, which was still a bit stubborn at first, gradually lowered their heads.

On the second day of April, information came from Hebei about Yuan Shao: Yuan Shao did not recognize the new emperor Liu Feng, and promoted Liu He as emperor after Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, with a prosperous reign.

On April [-], intelligence came from Liangzhou: Ma Chao, Liangzhou Mu Wei Kang, and Hanzhong Zhang Lu allied themselves with a force of [-] to stop Cao Cao's army in Zuli!
  The battle between the two sides is imminent!
  Since Cao Cao's defeat in the Battle of Tongguan, he used alienation tactics to force the princes in Guanzhong to kill each other.

Later, Han Sui led a large army to surrender, which greatly increased Cao Cao's strength.

Cao Cao's army continued singing loudly and defeated Ma Chao several times.

When they arrived at Zu Li, Cao Cao's army was blocked again.

In addition to being hindered militarily, Cao Cao's army also broke the news of a horrifying piece of information: Cao Cao had massacred the city three times in order to encourage his soldiers' fighting morale and to force the cities to surrender without a fight!
  Moreover, when Ma Chao later retreated, he resorted to burning food and grass, resulting in Cao Cao's army being short of food and grass. In order to maintain the expenses of the army, Cao Cao first made dried meat from the dead soldiers, but later it was still not enough, so he even cooked and eaten the living people!
  After the intelligence came out, not only Liangzhou and Hanzhong, but also Yizhou were in a state of confusion.

In order to prevent Cao Cao from going south, Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang has stationed troops on the border, ready to defend Cao Cao at any time.

Liu Zhang even sent his companion Zhang Song to contact Ma Chao and expressed his willingness to send [-] troops to jointly fight against Cao Cao.

You know, Yizhou and Hanzhong have always been incompatible.

Such bad behavior among Cao Cao's troops this time really frightened the people of Yizhou.

On April [-], Cao Cao announced to the world that the emperor Liu Xie was not dead and was in Anding County, and there was a jade seal passed down to him.

Moreover, cannibalism did occur in the military before.

However, Cao Cao did not know about it, and it was Cheng Yu who was ordered by Shangshu to do it.

For this reason, Emperor Liu Xie stripped Cheng Yu of his official position and threw him into a dungeon.

Because Cao Cao, as Sikong, failed to fulfill his duty to restrain all officials, he was whipped with fifty military sticks and had his salary cut off for one year.

Neither Yuan Shao of Hebei nor Lu Yi of Wu recognized Cao Cao's announcement.

On the first day of May, the new emperor Liu He conferred the title of King of Zhao on Yuan Shao. After the founding of Zhao, he appointed prime ministers, generals and other officials.

On May [-], the coalition forces of Ma Chao, Liangzhou, and Hanzhong fought against Cao Cao's army in Zuli, and the coalition forces were defeated!

Liangzhou Mu Wei Kang was killed!

Cao Cao's army took advantage of the situation and captured Liangzhou.

Ma Chao and the Hanzhong coalition retreated to Ayang City.

On the first day of July, Lu Yi and the civil and military officials formally determined the positions of the officials.

Civil servants include:
  Tutor: Chen Gong

Taiwei: Jia Xu

Prime Minister Left: Zhang Hong
  Right Prime Minister: Gu Yong
  Imperial Censor: Yan Xiang Great Sinong: Pang Degong

Dahonglu: Huang Chengyan

Guard: Shi Huan

Shangshu Ling: Chen Deng
  Shang Shu Pu She: Zhuge Liang, Lu Xun

Taichang: Sima Hui
  Doctor: Liu Ye
  Prince Tutor: Sun Shao

Zong Zheng: Zhang Zhao

Will be Minister: Ma Jun

and so on.

The military attaches are:
  General: Cheng Pu
  Chariot General: Zhu Zhi

Cavalry General: Taishi Ci
  General Wei: Zhao Yun
  General Fujun: Wenpin

The Five Tiger Generals: Former General Tian Yu, Left General Zhang Xiu, Right General Huang Zhong, Rear General Lu Bu, Lieutenant General Zhang Liao
  General of the Conquest of the North: Gao Shun

General Zhenbei: Huang Gai

General of the Conquest of the West: Han Dang

General Zhenxi: Song Qian

and so on.

Once the positions of the civil and military officials were determined, envoys would distribute the canonization documents to various places, and the officials would be transferred one after another.

On August [-], "Emperor Liu Xie" issued an edict to move the capital to Xiliang County, and named Cao Cao the King of Xiliang. He established the Liang Kingdom, made the capital Jincheng, and installed hundreds of officials including prime ministers, lieutenants, and generals.

On the second day of October, Ma Chao, Hanzhong Zhang Lu and Yizhou jointly sent [-] troops to attack Yuzhong!
  In December, all officials of the Wu State gathered in Wu County to discuss the appointment of the crown prince, and finally selected Lu Feng, the eldest son of Lu Yi, as the crown prince (during the Han Dynasty, the heirs of princes and kings were also called princes, and after the Han Dynasty, they were changed to heir apparents).

On the first day of February in the third year of Tai'an, the third imperial examination was officially launched in Jing, Yang, Henan and Xuzhou.

In this year, the election system was officially abolished in Wu State.

On April [-], General Minister Ma Jun led a group of craftsmen from Wujun University, as well as Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Cao, to develop the Zhuge Liannu, and was awarded the title of mass production to equip the Xuzhou Army and the Lujiang Army.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Ma Jun, the general minister, forged the first horse-cutting sword, and was awarded the title of large-scale production and equipment for the Jingzhou Army.

On the first day of July, a hundred thousand allied troops from Ma Chao, Hanzhong, and Yizhou captured Yuzhong.

On July [-]th, the allied forces of Ma Chao, Hanzhong, and Yizhou were defeated again by Cao Cao's army!

Cao Cao's army advanced from Yuzhong into Ayang.

Ma Chao fled to Hanzhong and married Zhang Lu's daughter.

On August [-], "Emperor Liu Xie" appointed Zhang Lu as King of Hanning. Zhang Lu wanted to surrender, so his younger brother Zhang Wei led an army of [-] to Yangping Pass.

On the fifth day of October, Cao Cao led an army of [-] to Wudu and confronted Zhang Weijun.

On the outskirts of Nanzheng City, the Hanzhong Administrative Office, there is the commander's tent of Ma Chao's military camp.

Ma Chao sat alone on his knees in the handsome tent, looking down at a bloody piece of cloth placed on the table.

His face was terribly gloomy.

His eyes were bloodshot.

After a while, Ma Chao raised his head, looked outside the commander's tent and said, "Come here, call the military advisor!"

Not long after, Deng Zhi hurried over from outside.

After saluting Ma Chao, Deng Zhi asked, "General, what's the matter?"

Ma Chao handed the bloody cloth to Deng Zhi and said, "See for yourself!"

Deng Zhi took the bloody cloth in confusion, glanced at it, and sighed.

It came from Xi Zuo who was lurking next to Zhang Lu.

Although Zhang Lu's younger brother Zhang Wei firmly opposed surrendering to Cao Cao.

However, Zhang Lu, now King of Hanning, did not dare to confront Cao Cao.

Cao Cao had written to him before, asking him to remove his brother Zhang Wei's military power, surrender, and hand over the head of his son-in-law Ma Chao.

Zhang Lu is afraid of Cao Cao, and is currently discussing with his ministers a plan to lure Ma Chao into the city, and then ambush the swordsman and axe, chop Ma Chao into pulp, and send his head to Cao Cao.

When Ma Chao saw Deng Zhi read the contents on the banner, he gritted his teeth and said, "I treat Zhang Lu as my father, but he wants to take my head because he is afraid of Cao Cao. What should I do?"

"Zhang Lu will send someone over soon."

"Today, I have less than three thousand soldiers and horses."

"What should I do?"

"If it's revealed that I know Zhang Lu wants to kill me, I'm afraid the army will immediately surround us."

"But if I go, I will definitely die."

"Bo Miao, I want to go south to join Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang, what do you think?"

Deng Zhi: "."

Ma Chao has several generals who are very good at riding and shooting.

Moreover, they know the terrain of Liangzhou well.

Wu Guo has been recuperating for five years until this year.

Next year taxes can be collected and war can begin.

If they want to attack Liangzhou and Hanzhong, Ma Chao and others can definitely use them.

Rather than letting Ma Chao take these people to Yizhou, it would be better to let Ma Chao surrender to Wu.

However, he couldn't speak.

In the past two years, although he had made suggestions, he had been unable to reverse Ma Chao's defeat against Cao Cao, and Ma Chao began to doubt his own abilities.

Once he directly surrenders to Wu, Ma Chao is likely to do the opposite and insist on surrendering to Yizhou.

Now, there is only one way -

That is to assist Ma Yunlu in seizing military power.

Ma Yunlu said that it was impossible to take refuge in Cao Cao. She had always wanted to avenge Ma Teng and others.

If Ma Chao defected to Yizhou Liu Zhang, then Ma Yunlu would definitely do the opposite.

Thinking of this, Deng Zhi nodded and said: "General, I also think it would be better to join Liu Zhang in Yizhou."

Ma Chao frowned and said, "You have no other suggestions?"

Deng Zhi shook his head.

Ma Chao took a deep breath and said, "Okay, get ready now, we'll set off later!"

Deng Zhi responded, turned and left.

(End of this chapter)