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November 21 of the first year of Qin.

The red sun is rising, the light is ten thousand, Qin Mu is dressed in a black royal robe, standing on the high stage with a sword at his waist, and the ministers such as the cabinet assistant and the six Shangshu are lined up on both sides.

The brightly dressed warriors in front of the palace held the flag and held the flag, which was majestic and mighty, making the scene more solemn.

Led by officials of the Ministry of Rites, the three hundred and sixty-two tributes rushed in, paying homage to the high-ranking Qin Mu and shouting: "My king is ordered by the heavens, and he will live forever." ”

After Qin Mu raised his hand and asked everyone to get up, he said loudly: "You are all one in a million talents, and they are the hope of Great Qin. ”

The palace examination is only a policy test, and it is based on the fact that there is a "discourse" of Qin Mu, and hundreds of tributes worship again, and then regardless of rank, each according to a few, they sit in the courtyard under the bright winter sun to start the exam.

The topic of this palace examination was personally proposed by Qin Mu, and the topic was: Jia Yi's five baits and three tables, and Ban Gu ridiculed him. However, Qin Mu tried to use it to dominate Xirong, and the Bank of China also used the precept to say, and his theory was not invalid; Zhuge Liang did not have the heart of Shen Shang and used his technique, and Wang Anshi used the truth of Shen Shang to hide his name; Westerners often reap benefits in the name of preserving the land, while China often seeks the name of the Celestial Empire and loses profits.

This question is actually a three-in-one, and the tributes are asked to discuss three aspects.

The first aspect is Pingrong's knowledge: "Jia Yi's five baits and three expressions are said, and Ban Gu ridicules it." However, Qin Mu tried to use it to dominate Xirong, and the Bank of China said that it was also a precept. This is not ineffective. ”

Jia Yi was a famous scholar in the Han Dynasty, wrote "On the Passage of Qin", and also proposed a strategy to defend against the Xiongnu to Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. The "five baits and three tables" in his strategy roughly mean:

It is to order delicacies, beauties, high-level mansions, property, slaves and maids for the Huns, and use some advanced things as bait to lure the Huns to surrender, and after they come to surrender, the emperor himself mingles with them, personally drinks wine for them to drink, so that they are moved to the ground, and then they will bow their heads and worship. The third table is to require Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to be an example in the world. Convince people with virtue.

Ban Gu, the author of the Book of Han, ridiculed Jia Yi for his bookish studges at these strategies. It is unrealistic and empty talk misleads the country.

But the fact is that Qin Mugong did rely on wealth and beauties to lure Xirong to join him; Goujian, the king of Yue, also relied on the beauty Xi Shi to make Wu lose the country; After the Bank of China said that after taking refuge in the Xiongnu, it also advised the Xiongnu not to like Han silk and Huawu beauties. That would only make the Huns weak. The Bank of China also believed that Jia Yi's set was a great threat to the Xiongnu.

The first of Qin Mu's topics is to let the tributes discuss the arts. In the end, Jia Yi was right, or Ban Gu was right.

The second aspect is the issue of changing the rule of law: "Zhuge Liang did not have the heart to apply for business and used his skills, and Wang Anshi used the truth of applying for business and concealed his name"

Shen Shang refers to Shen Bu and Shang Yang during the Warring States Period. He is famous for changing the law and is a representative figure of Legalism. It means that Zhuge Liang is not a Legalist, but he uses the Legalist strategy of governing the country, and Wang Anshi also uses the theory of Legalism to implement the law, but he only does not say it, and he is secretive.

Qin Mu wanted the tributes to discuss what Zhuge Liang and Wang Anshi were like, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each school's doctrine in governing the country.

The third aspect can be classified as a problem of diplomatic strategy: "Westerners often reap benefits in the name of preserving the land, while China often seeks the name of the Celestial Empire and loses profits." ”

The gist is that Westerners pay attention to practical interests abroad, while China attaches importance to fame and profit to foreign countries, and there are advantages and disadvantages between the two, so the tributes also discussed in this regard.

These three-in-one problems involve military, political, economic, diplomatic and other issues, and Qin Mu came up with them after hollowing out his mind;

In particular, the last question seems to be very simple, but I believe that there has never been such a question in the imperial examination since ancient times, Qin Mu hopes that through this question, readers can open their eyes to the world, compare Chinese culture with Western culture, and don't always stare at their toes.

The tributes had a day to write a strategy, and Qin Mu was looking forward to getting some true knowledge from it.

Including Fu Shan, the chief examiner of the examination, the cabinet assistants, the six Shangshu, and Gu Yanwu, a scholar of Hanlin, and others couldn't help but be impressed by Qin Mu's question when they saw Qin Mu's question.

This question has a lot of weight, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, military, political and economic changes are all included in it, if the test taker can only memorize some eight-strand model texts, he must be a black eye when he sees such a question.

After the start of the exam, Qin Mu took his hands and walked slowly between the various candidates, hoping to see some unique insights, generally speaking, the palace examination is usually just a formality, and most of the emperors appear just to make a show, so that the tribute students are classified as "protégés of the Son of Heaven".

But Qin Mu not only came up with the question after careful consideration, but also planned to carefully read the answer sheet of each candidate, and when he passed by the table of Han Jing, who was the first in the exam, he saw that he was burying his head in writing.

Qin Mu stopped and looked at it, and saw that there was something on his answer sheet:

"The Son of Heaven controls Baiyi in Zhongxia and has his own way of strengthening the country and the people. Those who govern the country well cannot be invincible but invincible, so that strong neighbors and enemies will be angry and dare not commit, then the world will be safe. If you lead people to obscenity and take advantage of them, then this so-called wisdom of piercing the hole is also a great plan for the king's self-improvement. And I read the Han book Jia Yi biography, then in the five baits and three tables of the saying cut but not the book, still ridiculed its negligence, in order to prescribe the future generations. So he sighed at the book of Ban, which is taken as the most refined, and its knowledge as farther. ”

Han Jing's remarks can be understood in this way, iron has to be hard, relying on some crooked ways to lure other countries to erosion, is it the way to self-improvement?

Qin Mu went back to work, and when he arrived at Sima Kai's table, he saw that one of the paragraphs he had written was:

"I think that Mu Gong's hegemony is increasing the national government, and the national situation is solid, and the diplomatic skills are inappropriate, and at that time, the world is high in deception, and Qin is in Rong Di, and he can do his cunning tactics to take advantage for a while. If the Huns are in Han, although they are good, they will not be weakened. He also, the Xiongnu border is in the north, and the fierce and angry eagle is out of nature, which is not the only reason for its customs. The Han does not seek to defend itself against insults, but specializes in producing good things to the country of tired people, and I am afraid that the property will be exhausted and the border counties will plunder freely. ”

From Sima Kai's point of view, he also believed that if the Han Dynasty did not seek self-improvement and seek ways to resist the enemy, but instead focused on the country of beauty and beauty with money, I am afraid that all the shorts would be sent out of the country, and the enemies on the frontier would still loot as before. This is basically the same as Han Jing's view.

Qin Mu is quite satisfied with it, in fact, Jia Yi's approach is not wrong, the key depends on the circumstances under which you implement such a strategy, if Qin Mugong is not strong, it is impossible to let Xirong belong by sending a few beauties, in the same way, if Goujian, the king of Yue, does not use Fan Liwen to govern the Yue Kingdom strongly, sending Xi Shi is also a free gift.

Cultivating government to strengthen oneself is the way. It is a technique to produce good things to make a country of tiredness. The Tao and the art are used together, and it is the right thing to complement each other.

Qin Mu walked slowly, stopping from time to time to watch the answers of the tributes, some people were so nervous that they were sweating, but some people just wanted Qin Mu to stop at their table and not leave, a hundred people have a hundred forms, and one is enough.

When Qin Mu passed by a tribute named Chen Zhenyuan, he found that he had already answered the second question, only to see him write:

"There is no greater trouble in the world than the name of being lenient in the name of not being in power in the times. Although the art of Shen Shang and the Tao of Confucianism, the times are worth it, and those who are good at serving the country will not dare to follow their scruples, and the world will suffer from unforeseen dangers."

His point of view, in Qin Mu's opinion, is okay, so he stopped to take a closer look, Chen Zhenyuan was out of control, and his pen was sprinkled with nearly a thousand words;

He not only discussed the bitterness of Zhuge Liang and Wang Gongshi's change of law, but Qin Mu concluded that his thinking was actually based on Confucianism as skin, Tao as flesh, and law as bone. Although this meaning is expressed very implicitly, it is the meaning inside.

At the moment, he can definitely be called an outlier, and Qin Mu personally tends to Taoism and Legalism, Legalism needless to say, Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" is enough to be called the crystallization of Xia Hua's highest wisdom, at least Qin Mu thinks so.

When the Han and Tang dynasties were at their strongest, they all governed the country with Taoist strategies. The "rule by inaction" advocated by Taoism is by no means really inaction.

Qin Mu would rather superficially understand the "rule by inaction" as the official has less control over the people's thoughts, allowing various ideas and theories to collide freely, and less dividing what is noble and what is strange and clever to denounce.

On the other hand, it is to delegate power and less finger-pointing at all walks of life

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