November 20, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, is definitely a commemorative day for Li Xiao and all Tang Jun. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Because, on this day, Li Xiao finally occupied all the land of the entire Philippines, and all the rebel forces on the islands were eliminated, and the entire Philippines completely and completely fell into Li Xiao's hands.

You must know that the area of the entire Philippines is eight times the size of Taiwan. In Taiwan, Li Xiao has already resettled 3 million people, and now in this larger and more fertile Philippine region, there is no problem at all in rehousing more than 10 million people.

Li Xiao ordered the mainland officials to send as many immigrants as possible, and arrange for Han immigrants to all the islands in the Philippines as soon as possible, so as to achieve complete possession of these lands.

At the same time, Li Xiao also ordered to do his best to finally eliminate the soldiers of Pingnan Town in Maguindanu, rest on the spot in Mindanao, and prepare for the next step, continue to attack southward, and seize the island of New Guinea and the whole of Australia.

So far, Li Xiao has owned various islands including Dengzhou in Shandong, Jinan Prefecture, Tielongcheng in Shanxian County, Jintangcheng in Xuanfu Town, Jeju Island, Ezo Island, Sakhalin Island, Taiwan Island, Luzon Island, Mindanao, and the central Philippines, and has achieved complete control over these territories.

These territories, especially overseas territories, are specially designated as the following provinces and regions under Li Xiao's plan.

That is, Taiwan Province, with the island of Taiwan as the mainstay, including the neighboring islands, the provincial capital is located in Kaohsiung.

Luzon Province is dominated by Luzon Island, including neighboring islands, and its capital is Manila.

Sulu Province is based on the central islands of the Philippines, and its capital is located in Hele City, the former capital of Sulu.

Mindanao Province, mainly in Mindanao, including neighboring islands, is located in Kudara, the capital of the former Maguindanu State, but now the provincial capital, the word Sudan has been removed and changed to Kudara.

Next, places such as Jeju Island, Sakhalin Island, and Ezo Island were divided into districts because of the fact that the land was either small or sparsely populated, and it was difficult to immigrate to the country.

Jeju District is based on Jeju Island and includes the neighboring islands.

The Ezo area is based on Ezo Island and consists of neighboring small islands.

The Sakhalin district is based on Sakhalin Island and consists of the neighboring islands.

As for the domestic territory, in order to avoid too much irritation to the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiao did not divide it into other divisions for the time being.

Each province has a governor, a vice-governor, and each district has a district head and a deputy district head, so that all affairs of provinces and regions except the military are given unified control and responsibility.

Under the rule of various provinces and autonomous regions, the division of various prefectures, counties, villages and towns was carried out by subordinate officials, and Li Xiao no longer personally intervened.

In view of the increasing amount of territory acquired, Li Xiao ordered that a unified examination for the selection of civil officials under the Tang Army be held in Shandong, Taiwan, and other places, and that all kinds of civil officials should be recruited in a big way, and that all kinds of officials who won the examination should be filled in the newly divided provincial and regional territories, so as to effectively manage the local areas.

Of course, Li Xiao's approach, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, is simply a big rebellion. Because these newly acquired territories, nominally speaking, were still the land of the Ming Dynasty, the appointment of officials from various places should also be carried out by the emperor's appointed officials.

It's just that after Li Xiao repelled the Qing army in Guanguan last time, the imperial court did not give Li Xiao any reward, and the conditions given were that Li Xiao's new lands were all assigned by Li Xiao himself, and the local tax management was also responsible for Li Xiao, and the imperial court did not care about it.

Therefore, now that Li Xiao is doing this, although the court is extremely angry and dissatisfied, they can only be helpless.

Of course, for all kinds of dissatisfied officials in the imperial court, Li Xiao does not intend to bird them at all, and now he is basically completely free from the control of the imperial court.

Moreover, Li Xiao is very confident, he believes that as long as he plays a recruitment sign, there will definitely be a large number of scholars who will come to take the examination to become officials, and they will definitely not miss this great opportunity to rise to the top.

Li Xiao remembered a story in the history books.

In 1900, after the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing, Cixi Lafayette, with the little emperor Guangxu, fled all the way to Xi'an for refuge.

Originally, the imperial court was going to hold the imperial examination this year, but it didn't expect that the foreigners would enter the capital, the queen mother and the emperor had fled, and the Qing Dynasty was also in danger of crumbling.

What is strange is that the provinces in Beijing did not go home because of this, but most of them continued to stay in the capital.

This is because they heard a strange message coming from nowhere, and they don't know who posted it first.

That is, after the Eight-Nation Coalition led by Seymour, the commander-in-chief of the German army, entered the capital, the Gyeonggi area was already the territory of the German Empire, and the people in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area became Germans from then on.

In order to advance the Central Plains and dominate the world, Emperor Wilhelm II of the German Empire decided to move the German capital from Berlin to Beijing, thinking that it would be the trend of the Central Plains, so as to follow the story of the Manchurians, personally lead the royal division, and unify China.

In order to consolidate his rule in Beijing in the future, Wilhelm II was willing to vigorously enlist Chinese scholars, and was willing to give them a chance to take the imperial examination, so as to select British talents and serve the German Empire, which was determined to annex China.

When this news came, all the scholars in Beijing were very excited, and in their chats with each other, they all praised Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was far away in Berlin, Europe, and did everything they could.

"Kuanggu Xianjun." "Lord of the World." "Majestic." "The First Emperor of the Ages." and other meaty words, which were pasted on the body of Kaiser Wilhelm II one by one.

I really don't know how Wilhelm II, a polio patient in Europe, should feel when he heard that the scholars in Oriental China were so numb and praised him.

Some people have even verified that the Kaiser Wilhelm's family was formed by the 35th son of the Yellow Emperor who moved west and combined with the local Germanic natives. And specially for Wilhelm II, wrote an article "My Emperor Gets the Most Righteous Gift" to show his loyalty.

“…… Therefore, the German emperor's line, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, is the king of the king's division, returning to his homeland in the east, cleaning up the old land of China, and reorganizing the mountains and rivers of Kyushu, isn't it appropriate? My emperor's throne can be described as the most right! ……“

Unexpectedly, these scholars looked forward to it early and late, but they never looked forward to the Kaiser's move to Beijing, nor did they look forward to coming to Germany to hold the imperial examination.

These months have passed, the Kaiser has not come, and the coils on his body are almost exhausted.

Some scholars were anxious, so they jointly wrote a memo and went to the German commander Seymour in a group, asking him to report the memo to the Kaiser, and asking him to move the capital as soon as possible, hold an imperial examination in the capital as soon as possible, and select scholars.

This story of black humor developed so far, and finally the dull and blunt German commander Seymour put an end to the illusions of these readers.

Seymour told them in all seriousness that the Kaiser had no desire to rule China at all and would never move the German capital from Berlin to Beijing.

In addition, the Kaiser showed no interest in these pig-tailed scholars, and had no intention of holding the imperial examination in Beijing.

Next, Seymour ordered the German soldiers to forcibly drive them all away as troublemakers.

At this time, the dream of the scholar was shattered, and many people began to scold the ruthlessness and unrighteousness of the Germans, and angrily denounced these barbarians who did not obey the king.

This farce of Germany's holding of the imperial examination has finally come to an end.

Later, during the Republic of China, Dr. Hu Shi was still lamenting this story. In his article, he quipped: "Seymour is a fool, and if he really reports to the Kaiser, implements the policy of annexing China, and then follows the story of the people, and attracts the hearts of Chinese scholars, I am afraid that today, we are all subjects of the German in the East." “

It can be seen from this story that for these scholars who are studying and becoming officials, who is an official under whom is the most important thing, the most important thing is that they can have the opportunity to become an official.

Think about it, even the German emperors who were far away in Europe had Chinese scholars wishful thinking, so it would only be much easier for Li Xiao, who was now under the banner of Tang Guogong in the Ming Dynasty, to recruit these people.

It's just that Li Xiao's selection of them is not the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, asking them to write eight-strand essays, but in the form of policy discussions, they will be investigated.

Li Xiao himself also designed several exam questions himself.

1. What is the distinction of Huayi? What are the fundamental characteristics of the Han nation? How to make Han immigrants and local aborigines integrate and coexist, and eventually assimilate?

2. What is the biggest advantage and gap between China and the Western countries?

3. How to prosper the industry and secure the people, how to educate the people, and how to eradicate corruption?

4. In your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages of classical Chinese culture, and how to develop the strengths and avoid the weaknesses?

5. From your own point of view, try to talk about how to sweep away the rogues and how to expel the Tartars.

It should be said that there are actually no standard answers to these questions, and a thousand scholars may have a thousand opinions.

This novel examination method, compared with the rigid and rigid eight-strand essay exam, is simply a waterfall compared to a pool of stagnant water.

Moreover, judging from the design of these questions, Li Xiao hopes to select from these scholars the kind of outstanding talents who do not read dead books, have a wide range of knowledge, and have their own independent thinking and opinions on things, rather than the kind of rotten Confucians who can only find chapters and extract sentences, only harden eight shares, and have no ability except to read dead books.

Sure enough, after Li Xiao announced that the civil service selection examination would be held, the registration points everywhere were crowded with applicants.

There were even scholars from the mainland who rushed to take the exam.

What surprised Li Xiao even more was that there were many scholars from the Jiangnan area who were also willing to come to work under Li Xiao and go to the distant wild land to be officials.

It can be seen that the temptation of being an official is too great.

In the end, ten days later, Li Xiao selected many talents he thought were qualified from all the candidates and arranged to be officials in various regions.

Of course, these elected scholars, they all knew that the new official positions they were going to take up were completely different from those official positions in the Ming Dynasty, and they were a new form of government.

Department of Civil Affairs, Department of Commerce, Department of Industry, Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Department of Money and Grain, Department of Supervision, Department of Supervision and Care, Department of Safety...... These various government departments were all arranged by Li Xiao according to the results of the examination and combined with the wishes of the scholars themselves.

It's just that these officials, under Li Xiao's arrangement, will carry out brainwashing education and on-the-job training arrangements before they officially take up their posts, so that they can officially take over the relevant work, so as to ensure that they can do all the specific work well under the condition of being loyal to themselves.

After another 10 days, the personnel arrangements for officials in various localities were completed, and all officials went to the places where they went to report for duty.

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On the day he got the admission notice, Zhejiang Shizi said strictly, and his heart was full of emotion.

He was originally a talent from Ninghai County, Zhejiang, but when he was taking the exam, he failed to do well in Bagu because of his poor work, and because of his poor family, he could no longer afford to go to the county school, so he could only become a private school teacher and chat to make a living.

Because Li Xiao's current Minister of Education is Liu Zongzhou, a native of Zhejiang, Yan Dao, who is also from Zhejiang, finally got the news from the words of his teachers and friends that Li Xiao, the Duke of Tang Guo, is vigorously recruiting scholars to become officials in various places overseas.

At first, Yan Dao was quite hesitant, he was worried that he would not be able to get in, and he was worried that he would not be suitable for overseas life, so he was quite worried.

It's just that he finally mustered up the courage, said goodbye to his parents and wife at home, and went to Jinan, Shandong Province alone to catch the exam.

What about going overseas, if a seven-foot man can only live like this for the rest of his life, it is a real shame!

At the beginning, Yan Dao thought that Li Xiaoding was also taking articles such as Bagu, but he didn't expect that this Tang Guogong Li Xiao was unique and only tested topics such as strategy theory.

Seeing these topics, Yan Dao's heart, the indescribable joy was entangled with the inexplicable desolation, which made him feel mixed feelings for a while.

Alas, I have always been good at reading miscellaneous studies and don't like Bagu, and if I had encountered such an exam method earlier, I would not have been so stumbling so far.

Yan Dao came back to his senses from the sentimental emotion, and immediately wrote hard, and wrote all the thoughts in his heart during the three-hour examination time.

After finally handing in the test papers, Yan Dao let out a long breath.

He suddenly felt that this kind of exam made him feel a sense of depression in his chest, and the feeling of being able to truly show his thinking and talent was really wonderful.

Ten days later, when the time came for the release of the list, Yan Dao was admitted as the second and third class talents, and was finally appointed as the island of Panai in the central Philippines, and is now the candidate for deputy director of the Civil Affairs Department of Panai County, Sulu Province, Tang Army.

Yan Dao then packed his luggage, took the ship of the Tang Army Naval Division, set off from Dengzhou, and went all the way to the Philippines.

After more than a month of sea voyages, Yan Dao finally arrived at Panay Island smoothly and began his career as an official in this southern land full of tropical rainforests.

After experiencing the initial discomfort, Yan Dao found that he was here, the salary was generous, and it was relatively easy to deal with his superiors and subordinates.

And as time passed, I gradually fell in love with this distant and strange land, and fell in love with the simple life here like a blank sheet of paper.

Perhaps, after a period of life, I will be able to bring my wife and children to this Panai Island, and the family will live together.

Yan Dao looked at the vast sea and couldn't help but think in his heart.

After all, the place where dreams can be realized is the real hometown......