In Chang'an, another examination has come to an end.

This time, the reference scholar set an unprecedented record.

In total, nearly 20,000 people signed up!

So many people participated, so much so that the commerce and trade of the entire Chang'an were prosperous for more than a month before and after the examination!

Whether it is selling luxury goods or dealing in daily necessities, anyway, as long as you are in business, you will make a lot of money.

Of course, the lord Duwei Yamen also took the opportunity to brush his face.

Under the auspices of Gongsun Hong and the lord's father, the lord Duwei Yamen, taking the opportunity of the examination, collected nearly 10 million taxes from the nine cities of Chang'an.

This alone is almost equivalent to more than one-third of Guanzhong's land tax last year.

This made Gongsun Hong and the main father Yan's confidence burst.

But for Liu Che, the end of this examination means that trouble is staged.

"More than 4,000 jobs...... Liu Che put aside the recital played by the Imperial Doctor's yamen, and rubbed his temples with a headache.

This is the biggest test of the examination for the current Han regime.

It is different from the imperial examination, which only takes dozens of them at a time and supports more than 100 deaths.

The number of people admitted at one time is thousands.

And, the number of admissions is sure to increase!

Just like the college students of later generations.

With the development of social and economic development, people's pockets are slowly bulging.

They will definitely choose to send their next generation to read and write.

There are more and more intellectuals, and eventually the once romantic genius has become tomorrow's storyteller.

However, this has had an impact on the current examination system.

Because, jobs are not something that can be changed if you want to.

Especially now, there are more than 60 counties in the Han Dynasty, and most of the positions have already been pitted.

Forcibly kicking people out and stuffing them into the examination scholars is not only disrespectful to the country, but also produces very bad results.

Think about it.

Chongzhen asked Li Zicheng to be laid off, and then Li Zicheng armed to petition and let Chongzhen hang himself on the coal mountain.

So, in fact, the only positions available for arrangement now are those of those who have reached the point of retirement.

In the past few years, Liu Che has hollowed out his potential in this area.

It is unrealistic to expect to trade in the old with the new.

However, if you let these admitted scholars go, if you don't arrange jobs for them, something will happen.

The typical one is the Yellow Nest.

Heroes and heroes, who are outside the system, what terrible results will be.

In the history books, it has been clearly written.

So, in practical terms.

"I'm forcing me to expand!" Liu Che put down the pen in his hand.

He had just racked his brains to clean up more than 500 veteran cadres from various yamen who had not yet retired, gave them the honor of being added to the rank of official, and let them become officials, thus freeing up more than 500 posts to accommodate these examination scholars.

However, this is only a drop in the bucket.

Fortunately, there was a big news last year, which washed Qilu and freed up at least 2,000 jobs.

Therefore, this year is barely strong, and it can be regarded as being able to pass the test in the dark.

But what about next year? And the year after?

Moreover, as the new generation of young people grows up, there will be more and more scholars in the Han family in the future.

On the one hand, this will require Liu Che to start reforming the examination system and raising the entry threshold.

But the bar won't be raised too much all at once.

The difficulty increases with the number of scholars.

But, one thing is certain: these people will surely increase year by year.

As a result, there are only three paths in front of Liu Che.

The first is to expand domestic demand and invent some new institutions to house more and more examiners, but this new yamen cannot be established if it wants to.

Although the salaries of officials are low now, they are quite a lot.

Even the lowest-level hundred-stone officials have to give them a hundred stone corn plus a certain amount of cash for their annual salary.

What's more, Liu Che himself even came up with a system of allowances and subsidies.

Therefore, if you increase the institution at will, you will only drink to quench your thirst, and in the end there will be no other result except for repeating the Northern Song Dynasty cups.

The second way is to reduce the number of admissions.

However, if the number of students is reduced, it will increase the passing of the examination.

It is easy for intellectuals and cultural people to have the illusion that labor and management are superior to others, even though they have always had this illusion.

But the examination can let them know that you are not superior to others.

And the third way......

"Use the sword of the Han Dynasty to obtain the jobs that belong to them for the officials of the Han Dynasty...... Liu Che shook his head and sighed with a smile.

This is also the only way out that can be achieved.

It's a simple truth.

As long as you lay down a piece of territory, you have to establish a local government and enforce your rule.

Just like the current Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, it can fix at least a few hundred scholars for Liu Che every year.

And it's also a sustainable path.

The world is so big.

Even if there was future colonization and feudal rule in distant Central and West Asia and South Asia.

There are officials there too.

If you need officials, you need to take the test to occupy the pit.

Then, slowly, as society progresses, economic development develops, the state will also start asking for more officials.

In this way, you can be sure that there are no problems.

"It seems that the war against the Huns is indeed imminent, and it has to be sent!" Liu Che sighed with emotion.

Five years ago, he made the examination, purely to brush up his prestige and buy people's hearts.

Unexpectedly, five years later, he came up with a tool to brush up his reputation, forcing him and the whole country to have to go to war.

Because, if more and more young scholars are not found jobs.

The Han Dynasty will pill sooner or later.

The Han Dynasty didn't want to eat jujube pills, so it had to expand.

Speaking of the Huns, Liu Che stood in front of the map with great interest, staring at the map that had just been updated.

On this map, the black color belonging to the Han family has already crossed the Great Wall and infected the grassland.

In some places, even the whole block turns black.

This is the fruit of the long-term policy towards the Xiongnu pursued by the embroidered guards and the Han family.

"Jia Changsha, Jia Changsha, ......" Liu Che sighed, and had to express his admiration for this world-famous strategist and celebrity back then.

It seems that in the Han Dynasty, people with the surname Jia will be great as long as they are famous.

In the front, there is Jia Yi, Jia Changsha, and then there is Jia Xu and Jia Poison.

They are all the kind of people who say a word to calm the world and mourn the society!

Jia Yi's contribution to the Han dynasty was not only that he proposed the original version of the Tui En Decree that 'the princes of the public are less powerful'.

Greatly weakened the power of the princes and kings.

What's more, he was the first to initiate and established a set of psychological offensive against the Xiongnu and a policy of co-optation and division.

The full name of this set of policies is: three tables and five baits.

The whole set of policies is very complicated, and if you really want to explain it in detail, you can't explain it in 10,000 words.

But to sum it up simply, it is actually eight words: fanning the flames and sowing discord.

Jia Yi believed that the strength between the Han and the Huns was seriously unequal, and the Han army was unable to attack and attack the heart of the Xiongnu.

Therefore, Jia Yi pinned his hopes on infiltrating, buying, and spreading rumors to corrupt the Xiongnu aristocracy, provoke the relationship between their monarchs and ministers, and create civil strife, so that the Xiongnu people would have no time to take care of themselves and invade the south.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the entire plan, Jia Yi even took the initiative to ask Ying to be the person in charge of commanding the entire plan, that is, the position of a vassal state.

This person is indeed a genius!

Since this set of policies was proposed, to this day, although it has not caused the Xiongnu to fight and split as Jia Yi expected back then.

But it also caused the return of Han Jundang's brothers to righteousness and the Zhangni incident more than ten years ago.

Even, the tribe of Lu Tazhi, the king of Donghu, and the other six tribes, in their original history, would bring their population and livestock to the Han dynasty the year before last.

And because of their submission, it led to the dismissal of Prime Minister Zhou Yafu.

Now, although because of Liu Che, the incident of the return of the seven tribes to Han did not happen.

However, the infiltration and control of the Xiongnu by the Han family has long been more than seven tribes.

The Xiongnu tribe at the foot of the Great Wall is almost black.

These tribes, though may be small.

The big ones have a population of two or three thousand, and the small ones have a few hundred people.

It's not so much a tribe as a tribe.

However, their position was tilted towards the Han family, which made the Huns' vigilance in the clouds-Yanmen line nullified.

The Han army could go out of Saibaili, and the Huns would even be kept in the dark.

Nowadays, the tribes that have sent protons to convey sincerity to the Han family are increasing every day.

Yesterday it was nineteen.

But today it has broken twenty.

And, except for small clans.

There are also big fish entering.

The leader of the Xiutu tribe once ambiguously expressed to the Han family that I did not take a stand in the war between the Liu family and the Su clan.

Although the original words are not like this, the meaning is like this.

Even, there were unknown Xiongnu nobles, quietly through certain channels, such as merchants or returned Han people, euphemistically asked the Han family: If the Xiongnu civil war broke out, which side would the Han family stand on?

There is more than one such person.

Of course, the situation is so good. It can't be completely attributed to Jia Yi.

Actually, the reason why it is like this now.

On the military merit medal, there is half of the military minister.

This brain-dead actually publicly said: Uwe's death is a curse!

This has led to a large number of Xiongnu tribes loyal to Yin Zhixie's father and son to panic all day.

As a result, many Xiongnu tribes who originally had an ambiguous position and took care of him left and right, after the military minister's statement, took the initiative to contact the Han family, saying that they were "willing to return to the righteous son of heaven and be the concubine of the Han minister." ’

Some people even put forward it nakedly - if the king is out, the foreign ministers are willing to be the vanguard of His Majesty in order to seek injustice. Such a leading party manifesto.

And the change in the position of these people, obviously, is only motivated by the idea of self-preservation or survival.

Their old master, U Wei, his father Yin Zhixian, and the right virtuous king, all became bad guys.

So what are they?

A villain's minion?

In other words, in fact, they threw themselves into the Han family, not because of Uwei's death, but because they felt that if they didn't find the Han family to hug their thighs, once Shan Yuting dealt with them, they wouldn't even have a chance to escape!

In Liu Che's eyes, this behavior of the military minister was as childish and unreasonable as the various behaviors of Qin II back then.

Of course, Liu Che understands better.

If it were not for the glorious victory of the Battle of Mayi.

At present, the number of these tribes who have turned to the Han dynasty or their stance to the Han dynasty is at least half smaller.

"By next summer, we should be able to complete the preparations for war......," Liu Che thought in his heart.

Now, the generals and princes led by Prime Minister Zhou Yafu have made a preliminary strategic plan.

In order to conquer Gaoque, the Han army needed to invest 30,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, and Izumo was blocked for hundreds of miles.

Army, good mobilization.

Liu Che can complete the transfer with a single edict.

The key is grain and equipment.

Daiguo, Longyou and Yunzhong, their own grain production, can only be self-sufficient.

This is still the result of Emperor Taizong's desperate efforts and crazy farming in these places - before Taizong, it was common for the garrison of the Great Wall to go hungry.

Last year's Battle of Mayi almost exhausted the strategic grain reserves in this area, and they have not yet been filled.

The cost of getting out of the fortress is definitely higher than fighting on the inner line.

Moreover, the lengthening of the supply line will itself increase the amount of grain and grass consumed, as well as manpower and material resources.

The only good news is that if you go out to fight, you don't need to worry about the source of meat that the army needs now.

The pastures of Shaofu and the horse gardens on the front line are full of livestock captured in the Battle of Mayi last year.

Casually allocate a hundred thousand, which is enough to support the expenses of the army.

Moreover, as long as Gaoque is taken, the Xiongnu livestock in the entire Hetao will also become the spoils of the Han army.

It is possible to feed the enemy. (To be continued.) )