Chapter 317 No Place to Stay
Wu Yuqi came back from the night shift at Shunfeng Company and saw him sleeping on the desk. She woke him up to let him rest on the bed and asked him where Feiyan was.
Zhao Yulin said he didn't know, and probably took the manuscript they had written to find Mr. Li.
Yuqi said that the two of them were really something, risking their lives for work.
He told Wu Yuqi: The situation on Guangnan West Road and Jinghu South Road is complicated, so we should speed up the establishment of downwind locations in these two places.
Wu Yuqi kissed him lightly on the cheek and said, "Why worry about it, brother? They have already done it. They have transferred people from all over the country and are gradually moving in. It's just that these places have too few organizations built by themselves and lack cover."
Zhao Yulin asked her to prepare a group of people to take the exam, and he would personally mark the papers and send them over.
The little woman immediately stamped her seal on his face to confirm.
Yuqi repeatedly ignited Zhao Yulin's anger. He pulled the woman onto the bed and quickly helped her get dressed...
At this time, a fierce court debate was taking place .
After Duan Xiaolin returned to Dali to report, he repeatedly told his father the advantages of the New Song Dynasty's reforms, such as wealth growth, social stability, and rapid economic development, and strongly advocated reform.
His father, the young emperor, was also very aware of this and became very interested, putting the reform of the Dali court on the agenda.
But the three-foot-thick ice does not form overnight.
Dali was different from the New Song Dynasty. Zhao Yulin started his advancement from the territory under his direct jurisdiction, allowing the surrounding people to benefit. Seeing the integrity and prosperity under the rule of the Shenwei Army, the people forced the government to change.
It was different in the Dali Kingdom. Those officials, especially the princes, nobles and bureaucrats like the Gao, Chai and Chen families, became very upset when they found that the reform would hurt their vital interests, and they found ten thousand reasons to obstruct it in every possible way.
In particular, Duan Xiaolin proposed an extreme measure, which was to gather the private soldiers of each family and redeem each private enterprise. This aroused public anger. It is said that robbing people of their money is equivalent to killing their parents.
He thought that those people had united to seize his jade business, and he could return the favor. How could that be possible?
When he was persecuted, it was because Duan Xingzhi contacted the princes and ministers to deal with him. They had common interests. Now, only his Duan family is dealing with the whole court, and even their Duan family is not united. Only he and his father are fighting side by side.
Because his move hurt everyone's interests, these people came together to oppose him without any contact.
The outcome was predictable. No one was willing, but they dared not be rude to the emperor, so they could only vent their anger on Duan Xiaolin alone. They found several unfounded reasons to depose the Prince of Zhennan.
The young emperor was helpless in the face of public anger, and someone had to take the blame. What else could the two masters say? He asked Duan Xiaolin to go to Kunming to avoid the limelight and ease the atmosphere between the monarch and his subjects.
Duan Xiaolin's reforms were fruitless and he was very disappointed. He ran to Tianlong Temple and knelt in front of the tablets of his ancestors and cried bitterly, expounding on the long-standing problems of Dali and shouting that Dali was hopeless...
In Chengdu, notices were posted at the four gates of Chengdu and at the doors of the inns and taverns in the city that the New Song Dynasty court would hold an examination to recruit talents to go to Guangnan and Jinghu. Students from all over the country gathered together to discuss the matter.
Several students gathered in a tavern and drank sake. Student A started to talk: What happened to the new Song Dynasty? It was decided that the imperial examination would be held in the autumn, why did it change so suddenly? The examination will be held in five days, and we are here to select the top scorer.
Student B said that it was clearly stated in the notice that the imperial court had recovered Guangnan West Road and there was a shortage of people to work there.
Student C said with some dissatisfaction that even if they were short of people, they couldn't be so careless. This was the imperial court's imperial examination to select scholars. How could they only give a university diploma from Caotang Academy if they passed, and those with good political achievements would be evaluated as Jinshi.
What is this Caotang University?
The imperial examination system in the world also evaluates the candidates based on their political achievements. Is there any other imperial examination system like this?
Student B drank a glass of wine and said that this was the court reforming academic affairs. Didn’t the New Song Dynasty have enough strange things? The New Song Republic was the first strange existence. Looking around, the courts around were still kneeling on the ground and shouting "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor".
A burly man who was drinking at the next table slammed the table, shocking the whole room into silence.
He glared at the group of scholars with his leopard eyes and said: "You idiots, you are all idiots. Do you want to be happy only if there is an emperor? Do you crawl on the ground and live like dogs?"
The Third Young Master wants to select the real talents from those who are doing things. We in the New Song Dynasty don't want those embroidered pillows who can only shake their heads, recite poems and pretend to be noble.
A loud laugh broke out in the tavern.
Several students immediately panicked and left quickly in shame.
Soon, more than 400 students from Cuiping Mountain, Jiading and surrounding areas who were able to come took part in the temporary talent selection examination of the New Song Kingdom.
Zhao Yulin personally reviewed the papers and selected 108 people as trial students to be sent to Guangnan West and Jinghu.
The president of Caotang Academy, Mr. Wuyong, personally signed the third-year diploma certificates of the Faculty of Arts of Caotang University for the students, and promised that those who passed the assessment after one year would be awarded the diploma of Caotang University.
Zhao Yulin told them that he would personally conduct the examination in one year, and those who passed it would become famous Jinshi of the New Song Dynasty.
These students were excited, and they swore to work hard when they got there and never bring shame to the Third Young Master.
Lord Li looked at this group of students happily and said with a smile, "One hundred and eighteen. Great, they will be one hundred and eighteen generals when they go out, and will definitely do something for our New Song."
Zhao Yulin was a little puzzled. Why did they choose 108 people?
I don't know why Li Gong thought of the 108 Liangshan heroes? It seems that there is no such great writer as Shi Naian, and there is no such book, but he really likes these 108 heroes.
He suggested to Mr. Li that arrangements should be made for those who took the exam but were not admitted. Those who were willing to stay in Chengdu to study for the exam should be directly enrolled in the provincial school as students. For those who wanted to return to their hometowns, the Ministry of Education would give them travel expenses, and their food and accommodation would be covered.
Mr. Li thought it was a great idea and immediately asked Zhao Feiyan to arrange it.
The news of Chengdu's temporary selection of young talents was reported in succession by the Chengdu Weekly, and it soon became known all over the country.
Most of the literati in the New Song Dynasty understood that this was a fundamental change in the country's personnel selection system, which was leaning towards practice and getting things done.
The court in Jiangdong was in an uproar.
The fake emperor Zhao Bing was reading the "Chengdu Weekly" in his hand. This guy used the newspaper as the most basic means to collect intelligence about the New Song Dynasty and understand the trends in Chengdu. He carefully read every corner of every issue of the newspaper and never missed anything.
When he saw Zhao Yulin recruiting young talents from all over the country in Chengdu and personally setting the questions for the test, he immediately became angry.
Damn it, what’s the difference between this and the emperor appointing the top scholar?
Zhao Qi'er was about to pick up the iron loudspeaker and shout: He, Zhao Qi'er, is the emperor, and he is selecting the top scholar.
Zhao Bing felt that Zhao Yulin had stolen his limelight in Lin'an, and he was very unhappy. He began to wonder whether he should also take part in an imperial examination.
Shi's son was also reading Chengdu Weekly, and his perspective on things was different from Zhao Bing's.
When she saw Zhao Yulin's method of selecting scholars, she realized that he emphasized the ability to do practical things. She then saw that among the 108 admitted people, 28 were from Jiangnan, which meant that many students from Jiangnan went to Chengdu to take part in the imperial examination in the autumn.
He began to ponder, this is what people want.
This is the basic judgment of the people on world affairs. They must believe that the Lin'an court is on the decline and dying. The new Song Dynasty is like the rising sun, and it is a thriving land.
This man was still in deep thought when Zhao Bing sent someone to call him and asked him to discuss the matters of selecting and employing people for the imperial examination.
Shi's son walked and muttered, "Why choose a bird?"
In the past two years, he and Zhao Bing have been selling official positions continuously. The court is filled with a large number of mediocre officials. Jiangbei has been losing cities and land continuously, and a large number of fleeing officials have no place to be resettled.
Unlike Zhao Qi'er in Chengdu, he has taken over Guangnan West Road, occupied Jinghu, and just took over Jianchang and Huichuan in Dali. There are many places that need talents to do things...
After finishing his official business, Zhao Yulin returned with Feiyan. When they saw Madam Danfeng Kuang Sisi had arrived at the mansion, they immediately stepped forward to greet her and invited her to the flower hall for tea.
Kuang Sisi was very happy and told him that Lord Li had sent someone to deliver a string of pearls from Dai Viet as tribute. Each pearl was plump, evenly distributed, and as white as jade, and extremely beautiful.
Zhao Yulin saw that his mother-in-law had already worn it around her neck, as if it was made specifically for her. He laughed and said that this thing had really found its owner, and it was a blessing for her to be wearing it.
Kuang Sisi discovered that her son-in-law was very good at praising people. She said with a smile that Mr. Li was very thoughtful and thoughtful.
Zhao Feiyan leaned on her mother and said, "My brother asked us to take out all the tribute sent by Dayue and put them in the office for everyone to appreciate."
Kuang Sisi immediately looked at him in a daze and asked in surprise, "But it's a tribute, how can you just give it to me like that?"
Zhao Yulin said that good things should be appreciated by everyone. Otherwise, who would have known that Yue State sent gifts to our New Song?
Kuang Sisi was already confused by his strange reasons.
She originally thought she was very proud of having won a pearl necklace, but she didn't expect that her son-in-law would let everyone enjoy the seafood delicacies of South Vietnam.
Zhao Yulin was still playing his big trick, telling them that he would build a big museum in Jinguan City in the future, and put all the rare treasures from all over the world in it for people to visit and appreciate.
Kuang Sisi and her daughter both opened their mouths in surprise.
After Zhao Feiyan sent her mother back, she told him: Our mother wants to be a teacher in a college.
He held the little woman in his arms and asked, "Is it because her mother is tired of sitting around and is looking for her daughter to help her get through the back door?"
Zhao Feiyan said that her mother was born with a natural talent for rhythm. After coming to Chengdu for such a long time without doing anything, she felt physically and mentally exhausted, so she wanted to come out and do something.
She couldn't make up her mind, so she asked her brother.
Zhao Yulin said that he should be sent to the provincial school to be a music teacher, but he had to talk to Mr. Li first.
Feiyan was delighted and nuzzled against his chest like a little deer.
Zhao Yulin couldn't stand it anymore and asked to take a shower and rest.
The couple exchanged glances and immediately ran towards the bathroom hand in hand...
In the Tubo territory, in Basu Village at the foot of Warrior Mountain, Li Yunqing led Cao Yong and his 50,000-strong army across the Black Water River. After defeating the Tubo army, they occupied Basu, a land with a pleasant climate. The harvested barley was just enough to provide them with dry food for their westward march.
