After sending the news to the carrier pigeon, Duan Zan returned to the camp tent, and when he saw Xia Hongsheng, he looked Xia Hongsheng up and down, then touched his chin and said, "I think you can really sit down with General Li and have a good drink." Your countermeasures, one of which is more damaging than the other, must be very much in line with General Li Shixuan's wishes. Haha, why don't you go and worship General Li Shiqi as a teacher, learn his Yin tricks and damage the way, and then our brothers will go to the Yin Turks together, wouldn't it be beautiful! ”

Xia Hongsheng rolled his eyes, knowing that Duan Zan was joking, so he ignored him, just thought about it, and said to Duan Zhan: "No, Brother Duan, I'm afraid we have to send some spies to the Turks." Now that the Turks are in civil strife, Jieli still has the heart to support Liang Shidu, it seems that Jieli's heart is still not small, and the heart of the Tang Dynasty is not dead. Therefore, the Liang division of Liushuo Fang thought it was a buffer. Liang Shidu himself does not have much ability, and he has been defeated repeatedly in several battles, but the Shuofang area he occupies is the only way for the Tang Dynasty to deal with the Turks, and the geographical location is very important, which can be described as a choke point. That's why the Turks have always supported Liang Shidu. If the Liang division occupies the Shuofang area, it will be inconvenient for our Tang Dynasty to use troops against the Turks. And once the Shuofang area is recovered, then our dynasty will have a logistics base against the Turks, and it can use Xiazhou as the rear to advance into the Turks. Jie Li must have seen the stakes here, so he tried his best to support Shuo Fang. ”

"That's true, if I am Jieli or Tuli, in the face of this situation, I will definitely put aside my prejudices for the time being and support Shuo Fang." Duan Zan nodded and said: "It's just right, now there is another group of special combat personnel and spy personnel who can go out, they haven't gone through actual combat, and the Turkic side is not the main one now, so you can just send them over, and it can be regarded as an internship." ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded and said, "Yes, let them keep an eye on the movements of the Turks in the past, and if it is about the movements of the Shuo side, send back two pieces of news at the same time." One was sent back to Chang'an, and the other was sent directly to Xiazhou. Also, let them spread out and spread rumors. Continue to stir up the relationship between Jieli and Tuli. It's best to let them make some noise, so that the Turks don't have time to take care of Shuo Fang - of course, provided that it can't be revealed that it was someone from the Tang Dynasty who did it. ”

Duan Zan nodded: "Okay, I'll go and arrange it immediately." ”

With that, Duan Zan strode out. This made Xia Hongsheng very envious. Duan Zan is the kind of person who will immediately start implementing the decision as soon as it is decided, and compared with Xia Hongsheng, a serious procrastinator, he is more than a star and a half more efficient.

Xia Hongsheng of Hongwen Hall was not going to go again, seeing that the weather outside was good, he was ready to go out for a walk and bask in the sun.

As soon as he walked out of the tent, he saw Ma Zhou coming towards him with a stack of papers, and when he came to him, he bowed his hand and said, "Brother Xia, the previous school examination results have come out." Here is a list of all along with the grades. ”

In order to win over these scholars, Xia Hongsheng was commensurate with them as scholars, and did not let them be called according to their identities in the officialdom, so Ma Zhou called Xia Hongsheng Brother Xia.

"Oh?" As soon as Xia Hongsheng heard that the results came out, he quickly took them, looked at a piece of paper carefully, and found that these soldiers did not do well in the exam. The test paper is a question from Xia Hongsheng, a 100-point system, Ma Zhou and those scholars have never seen this kind of test paper, and they have never heard of fill-in-the-blank, phonetic, word choice, etc. I thought it was like the scholar's exam, I came up with a question and wrote an article, but I was familiar with it for a few days. The results will be graded.

"According to the results from high to low, the top 300 soldiers have been screened out." Ma Zhou said to Xia Hongsheng.

"Very good, Brother Binwang, let's go and post this result and let these soldiers see it for themselves." Xia Hongsheng said to Ma Zhou, and the two went to the school together. Xia Hongsheng sent someone to find the paste again and posted the report card.

The soldiers who were training on the school ground, although they were still training one by one, their eyes had obviously run to this side, and they were all staring at the wall paper one by one. Seeing this scene, Xia Hongsheng smiled, walked onto the school stage, and ordered people to beat the drums. With the sound of drums, the soldiers quickly changed their formation and gathered.

"The previous results have been posted today, and after they disperse later, you can find your own results." Xia Hongsheng said loudly on the school platform: "It's still what I said at the mobilization before the exam that day, the top three hundred, congratulations, the back, don't be discouraged, you still have a chance, and compared to other soldiers, it must be a priority, continue to work hard." After checking your results, if you have any doubts about your scores, you can go to your husband who taught you to apply, and then come to me to check the test papers to see if there are any mistakes and any errors in the calculation of scores. That's it, disbanded! ”

With Xia Hongsheng's exit of the word "disband", the group of soldiers below suddenly dispersed, and they all rushed towards the front of the earthen wall where the report card was posted like a torrent.

Naturally, whether it is the release of the imperial examination in ancient times or the announcement of the results in later generations, it has always been a few happy and a few worried, and it didn't take long for the school to witness this sentence.

Some people jumped excitedly, shouted, and danced, while others shook their heads gloomily and sighed, looking depressed.

Xia Hongsheng turned around and went back to the camp, and at this time he still handed over to those soldiers to express their ecstatic excitement there, or to relieve the loss of falling off the list.

On the way, Xia Hongsheng said to Ma Zhou: "Brother Binwang, I'm tired of calling everyone over, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Ma Zhou nodded, and called out the dozen or so scholars in Xia Hongsheng's military tent in the past, Xia Hongsheng had already asked people to take chairs and let these scholars sit down.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in the past two months, thanks to the dedication of your brothers, we have the achievements of these 800 soldiers today." Xia Hongsheng got up and said, then bowed down and said, "Hongsheng is here to thank you." ”

Although Xia Hongsheng and them are usually commensurate with Shilin students, but in the end, he is still an official family, and these scholars do not dare to accept Xia Hongsheng's thanks like this, so they got up and bowed back to Lilly.

"Previously, in order to teach these 800 soldiers to learn to read, Duan Duwei and I went to ask for a lot of gentlemen, but they were all refused. Duan Duwei went to beg his own master to come, but was reprimanded by his master. Xia Hongsheng asked the scholars to continue to sit down, and then said: "Those people look down on these soldiers, and think that they are vulgar people who are not worthy of reading and learning words. But Brother Duan and I don't think so, these soldiers are sometimes rude, but we don't think they are contemptible at all. Because if they didn't fight to the death on the battlefield and fight with their lives, where would we be able to study without worries in Chang'an City? So I think these people are respectable, they are rude because most of them come from poor backgrounds and don't have the opportunity to learn the words of the sages. So I thought about teaching them literacy, so that they could learn those truths, learn more knowledge, improve their personal recuperation, and become literate soldiers. I couldn't find anyone, so I took turns with Brother Duan to teach, eight hundred people, after two days, they were dumb and speechless. ”

Xia Hongsheng was very embarrassed and said to those scholars: "Later, I really couldn't do it, so I asked my acquaintances to help find someone, so I got married to all the brothers, I didn't look down on these soldiers, I didn't have those ignorant prejudices, and I personally came to teach those 800 people to read and write." This kindness, whether it is me, Brother Duan, or the 800 soldiers outside. Especially those 800 soldiers - don't look at these soldiers vulgar, but they are indeed the most affectionate and righteous people, on the battlefield, they can use their bodies to block the sword for their comrades, one life in exchange for one life, those old Confucians who claim to be gentlemen, how many dare to pick up the sword to defend the enemy and defend the country? I am confident that they will never forget the kindness of your kings to their teachings. The thank-you ceremony on that day was not hidden from you, that is, those soldiers wanted to thank you for your teaching, but they didn't know what to do, and they wanted to thank you, but they were afraid that they didn't know the etiquette and offended you. On the battlefield, I have never seen them so cautious! The words of that day, the shouts, the prostrations, they were from the bottom of their hearts. ”

"Alas...... Oh, yes! It is ashamed to say that Zhou had looked down on these soldiers before, thinking that they spoke indecently and behaved vulgarly. This time I came because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked General Chang for someone, and General Chang recommended Zhou, so Zhou agreed to come here. Ma Zhou shook his head with a guilty face and said, "When I first came, I thought that it was to teach them a few words and leave as soon as possible." However, after two months, I found that these soldiers were completely different from what Zhou thought, and they were not only strictly disciplined, but also extremely respectful of us. In the past two months, we have walked in the school grounds, and if it weren't for the training time, which of those soldiers would not have stopped and bowed ten paces away, and waited for me to pass before leaving on their own? Zhou Fangjue's previous thoughts were really villain's heart. After two months of getting along, Zhou also saw those soldiers training hard during the day every day, and read and write with oil lamps at night, and gradually understood that without these people, where would there be our scribes? I'm afraid that they are all busy fleeing for their lives from the swords of foreign enemies, where can they care about poetry, books and songs? Now, Zhou hopes that this day will pass slowly, and he really doesn't want to be separated from them! ”

"yes!" Another scholar also sighed: "I was also from a poor family, when have I ever been so respected?" A few days ago, a few soldiers asked me where I lived, saying that they were going to visit me in the future. I'm not afraid to make jokes, and I almost wiped my nose and shed tears when I was down, it's really ......"

Hearing the words of the scholars, Xia Hongsheng took a step back, then bowed down and said, "In this way, Hongsheng still has something to ask for, and I want to ask you to continue teaching!" (To be continued.) )