616.The Battle of Chongqing (I)
After the dispersal of the dynasty on this day, all the civil and military officials returned to their respective yamen, and they had to find some officials to talk to secretly.
Some officials began to try their best to stuff the children of the clan into the Yuelu Academy and Shigu Academy, which are located on Jinghu South Road.
Some people even knew that they were afraid that they would not have enough energy, so they stuffed the children of the clan into those private colleges that were quite prestigious among the people.
The Song Dynasty schools were divided into governmental, semi-governmental, and private, among which of course, government colleges such as Yuelu Academy were the most favored by the imperial court, but the rest of the semi-government and private colleges also had the qualifications to recommend meritocracy.
Of course, now that the emperor has reopened the imperial examination and stated that he will no longer accept any recommendations in the future, he will be determined by the results of the imperial examination, and this so-called recommendation qualification is naturally useless.
But it is not surprising that those private colleges will follow the example of Yuelu Academy in the future and open professional classes, so that children can go in and study, which is much better than reading books at home, right?
In fact, compared with the retirement system, the new imperial examination system has made these DPRK and Chinese officials smell many signals.
In the future, if you want to be a big official in the family, the blessings will continue, and it is impossible for several generations to have children who rely on the relationship between the brothers-in-law to be officials in the court.
The emperor selects talents through the imperial examination, and in the future, whether it is a noble child or a poor student, on the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination, he will have to rely on his ability to fight his way out.
These officials can only strive to let their children win at the starting line first.
On this day, the thresholds of several schools in Changsha City were almost broken.
The deans of each school were sweating all over their heads.
In the past, it was rare for so many court dignitaries to visit, and all of them were people with much higher and more powerful positions than them.
There is a reading craze in Changsha City.
Then, this craze soon spread to all parts of the Great Song Dynasty along with the holy decree. Thousands of students from poor families all over the world see the hope of becoming officials.
Affect the whole body, and in the next period of time, even the lamp oil trade will be much more popular in various places.
And on this day and night, Zhao Dongting announced Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie to the imperial study.
Xuanlu Hideo is for those Changsha veterans.
At that time, although the Song Dynasty was defeated again and again under the iron cavalry of the Yuan army, there were also many cities like Xiangyang that fought to the death. It is conceivable that there are undoubtedly many old soldiers like the old begging soldiers who are struggling to survive in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty today, and some people may live well, but they are definitely only a very few.
They have never been Zhao Dongting's soldiers, but for the Great Song Dynasty, it can be said that they have shed blood for the Zhao royal family. Zhao Dongting had no reason to treat them badly.
It's just that these veterans have to be given monthly pensions, and with the current financial situation of the imperial court, there is no doubt that they can't come up with this money.
Zhao Dongting and Lu Xiufu discussed for a long time, and finally a new policy was issued. The land divided by the people in China is not allowed to be bought and sold privately, but they can contract or lease it on their own.
In this way, it will not be impossible for those old soldiers who are not able to plough the fields to even have enough to eat.
And what Xuan Zhang Shijie said is much deeper.
The imperial court implemented the retirement system and the imperial examination system for selecting officials, which came vigorously and resolutely, and it was impossible not to cause many undercurrents.
Zhao Dongting knew very well in his heart that although there were supervision provinces and law departments in the DPRK and the central government, and most of the lower-level officials were selected from the people to serve as meritocrats, there must still be many corrupt people in the DPRK who have not been excavated. Now that they know that they are going to retire, they will inevitably fill their own pockets, and even try to dare to stuff their children into various yamen before the reopening of the imperial examination.
This has to be guarded against.
Fighting corruption is like fighting flies in a bowl, and while fighting flies in a bowl, it is necessary to prevent more flies from burrowing into the bowl.
This night, Zhao Dongting said to Zhang Shijie: "Before the reopening of the imperial examination, you need to pay attention to the people below. All officials who are corrupt and pervert the law and stuff people into the court and the central government in a different way must be severely punished. This promises that the world is big, and if there are a few officials, there will be no chaos, but if too many incompetent people are allowed to become officials in the court, there will be endless troubles. ”
Zhang Shijie realized the seriousness of the matter, and he didn't dare to slack off.
On the very next day, dozens of inspection teams from the Supervision Province secretly flocked to various parts of the Great Song Dynasty.
After a few days.
Zhao Dongting also convened the heads of various ministries of the Ministry of State in the palace.
This time, of course, we are discussing how to develop the domestic economy.
Heavy agriculture and business.
Agriculture has already divided the land, and business, Zhao Dongting is to let all departments focus on state-owned enterprises, first develop state-owned enterprises, and then use state-owned enterprises to drive private enterprises.
Only when enterprises rise can the country be truly prosperous.
Departments are in full swing.
Outside Chongqing.
Li Wangyuan, the new emperor of Western Xia, came to the city with more than 50,000 soldiers.
The city wall of Chongqing Mansion is more than ten meters high, standing against the mountain, like a barrier, and the entire Chongqing Mansion is guarded.
It can be said that this is the main road from Kuizhou to Tongchuan Province.
If it is an ordinary team of vendors, it may be able to detour through other paths. But the army is absolutely unable to bypass this mountain city that has been rated as an important place for soldiers by successive generations.
Because the effort required to get around is really too great.
Li Wangyuan stood on the dragon in front of the army, wearing a dragon robe, and no longer equipped with double knives at his waist, majestic.
The breeze blew the hem of the dragon robe and swayed slightly.
The old emperor's grandson Qifu also had special preferential treatment, sitting on the chariot next to the dragon.
Among the entire Western Xia veterans, he was the only one who was able to go with the shelf and personally conquer, and he was the only one who could enjoy such an honor.
His prediction of Li Wangyuan was really correct. Since he was about to die in the handsome tent that day, Li Wangyuan did distance himself from him for two days, but after only two days, his grace was even greater.
Li Wangyuan, as the ministers of Western Xia expected, became more and more like an emperor.
Looking at the Chongqing Mansion with the towering city wall in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said: "When the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge died in Diaoyutai, I am going to destroy the city that makes the Mongolian Khan hate." ”
After the thunderstorm and the hot air balloon, his ambition and self-confidence grew at the same time.
The weather in Western Xia is really different from the past.
Li Wangyuan waved his hand, and there were Qi Tian's soldiers in front of him. Before you arrive, spread out the hot air balloon.
Countless mushroom-like hot air balloons soon rose into the sky.
The remaining 50,000 soldiers of Western Xia were ready to attack.
In front of them is the vanguard army used to attack the city and break the formation, all of them are hanging thunder from their waists. And full of energy, he seems to be a good hand in the army.
Li Wangyuan was surrounded by dozens of Pintang masters, and in terms of posture, he didn't know how much more majestic than Zhao Dongting's royal expedition.
Hundreds of hot air balloons were also raised on the walls of Chongqing.
Eat a trench, grow a wisdom.
This time, the soldiers in the White Horse Army who controlled the hot air balloons were obviously well-behaved, and they all carried bows and arrows, and even had small bows and crossbows mounted on hanging baskets.
Daodao rockets shuttle through the air, you come and go.
After a short while, a hot air balloon fell downward, like a meteor falling to the ground.
Outside the city, the 50,000 Xixia soldiers just looked up and watched.
As long as these hot air balloons of the White Horse Army are eliminated, the Qi Tianjun throws thunder at the city head in the sky at the same time, and then they can take the city wall of Chongqing.
Hot air balloons are really a weapon in this day and age.
And the development of things did not surprise these Western Xia generals and soldiers.
The White Horse Army only has more than 200 hot air balloons left, and in the face of nearly 1,000 hot air balloons in the Qi Heavenly Army, taking to the air to fight is really no different from sending them to death.
About half an hour has passed, and the hot air balloons of the White Horse Army, which have fallen more than halfway, have been besieged by the Qi Tian Army.
Next, it is much simpler to kill the trapped beast.
The Qi Tianjun hot air balloon was able to fly over the city of Chongqing, and then it thundered like rain and fell to the city.
Smoke billowed and rubble flew at the head of the city.
The flags of the White Horse Army were torn apart in the smoke of gunpowder.
The humiliation suffered by the Western Xia army in Chungju that day was finally returned to the White Horse Army with a tooth for a tooth.
Li Wangyuan waved his hand again.
There are bannermen on the high-flying women's cars waving the flags in their hands.
The snare drum sounded.
The forward army consisted of about 5,000 men, divided into five small formations. Qi Qi pressed towards the gate of Chongqing Mansion.
The flag is fluttering, and the army is murderous.
It was only 500 meters outside the city, and the forward army stopped again.
Then an army of 1,000 soldiers suddenly ran towards the gate of the city, shouting and killing to the sky.
When we reached the side of the moat, a series of ladders were rumbled on the moat.
There were not many white horse soldiers at the head of the city, and they did not dare to bring thunder to the city, so they could only use bows and crossbows and arrows to fight the enemy at this time.
In the sound of the boom, there are only more than 100 people who can still have the energy to resist the enemy army. This little arrow will undoubtedly not hinder the Western Xia army below.
It was only soon that the Western Xia soldiers were able to sweep across the moat and rush to the city gates.
In front of the army, Li Wangyuan, Zhongsun Qifu and others all showed some smiles on the corners of their mouths.