Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 443: The Smell of Rice from Another Pot
The first imperial examination in Chu State undoubtedly had a huge influence , but it was still a little far from being able to naturally launch the "Let Everyone Know It", and Bai Tu did not deliberately promote it.
According to Yu Ji's prediction, if she could unify the country or make the imperial examination more popular, she should be able to directly use "Xian Shi Zhi Wen" to announce the results.
Even though it's useless, but... it's impressive!
Even now, after the imperial examination results were announced, countless people poured out of Jinling to spread the news to various places, and official signal towers also began to transmit the news to the outside world.
In a few days, Song Zhong will know that his student has won the first place in the Criminal Justice Department. I wonder if he will be very "surprised" then.
However, Bai Tu is very confident about Pan Jun's top spot. Unlike Song Zhong, Pan Jun's performance in the history without the White Rabbit Effect is not outstanding, but he can also be said to have achieved success.
Originally in history, when Liu Cong surrendered to Cao Cao, Song Zhong was responsible for delivering the surrender letter, but was captured alive by Guan Yu on the way. Although Liu Bei did not harm him and released him because of his reputation, he rebuked him for being shameless. In addition, because Song Zhong's son was later implicated in Wei Feng's rebellion against Cao Pi, Song Zhong also had a bad reputation in both Wei and Wu...
In history, after Pan Jun served the Wu Kingdom, he not only had great achievements in literature and military affairs, but also when Sun Quan favored the treacherous Lü Yi, he repeatedly spoke out to Sun Quan and rebuked Lü Yi. When he saw that Sun Quan was indifferent, he even held a banquet for all officials and prepared to kill Lü Yi personally at home.
Therefore, later generations praised it a lot!
He has clear logic, strong reasoning ability and is upright. Perhaps in the original history, his military achievements could only be considered mediocre and could not be highlighted, but Bai Tu was relieved to put him in the position of Minister of Justice.
The second and third in the criminal department were He Qi and Chen Jiao, both of whom were upright and incorruptible, and both were "natives" of the Chu State. He Qi was born in Kuaiji County, and in his early years he served as a county official. He killed another county official who relied on the Shanyue followers and was a nuisance to the village, and he led people to quell the Shanyue rebellion that occurred afterwards.
Chen Jiao was from Guangling, Xuzhou, and was now also within the territory of Chu. However, in history, he served in Wei State. When he was appointed as the governor of the important Wei County, he found that because of the turbulent times, Wei County generally did not try cases and locked them up. So he rectified the criminal cases and sorted out the cases of all sizes that had been detained in Wei County for a long time...
Bai Tu was very satisfied with the top three in the Criminal Science Department, but what really surprised Bai Tu was Guo Huai, the second in the Military Science Department, and Bu Zhi, the second in the Household Science Department!
It’s not that these two people are more outstanding than Fa Zheng and Zhuge Jin, but because these two people are the only two scholars among the top three in each subject who are not from the State of Chu.
Guo Huai was from Taiyuan, Bingzhou. The Taiyuan Guo family was already considered a noble family. This time Guo Huai crossed the river to the south alone, but later he would move some of his clansmen to settle in the State of Chu - equivalent to the situation of the Gan family and Gan Ning.
Bu Zhi was from Xia Pi, Xuzhou. Historically, during the years when Cao, Liu, and Lu Bu were fighting in Xuzhou, the Bu family moved to Jiangdong. However, now, under the "white rabbit effect", Xuzhou has been under the rule of Liu Bei, except for the time when it was ravaged by Cao Cao, and it is relatively stable, and the Bu family has not moved south.
However, Bu Zhi also took part in the imperial examination this time, and was preparing to move his entire family south across the Huai River and into Huainan!
After all, Xia Pi is only separated from Huainan by a river. The Bu family originally had many industries in Huainan and had opened several workshops in Shouchun, so it was not too painful to move.
In comparison, other scholars were either from Chu or people like Fa Zheng and Zhuge Jin who already had food in their bowls. Bai Tu naturally paid more attention to what was in the pot. After all, home flowers were not as fragrant as wild flowers… Well, it was like eating what was in the bowl while looking at what was in the pot… No, it was like the wife was not as good as the concubine, and the concubine was not as good as... In short, this meant that talents outside of Chu were also being attracted to Chu.
Guo Huai and Bu Zhi were "snatched" by Bai Tu from Liu Bei and Gao Gan!
There is another case of this kind in the first class, and he is also from a famous family. That person is Fu Gan, a native of northern Liangzhou. His father is Fu Xie, who advocated the preservation of Liangzhou.
Fu Gan is nearly thirty years old and is considered to be one of the older candidates taking the imperial examinations.
At this age and with this background, it is natural for him to enter officialdom a long time ago.
Originally in history, he served Cao Cao. When Yuan Shang wanted to unite with Ma Teng, he was sent to Xiliang to urge Ma Teng and Cao Cao to join forces to attack Yuan. However, under the "White Rabbit Effect", Fu Gan defected to the court after the Han Emperor left Xu Du!
In order to preserve Liangzhou, Fu Xie scolded Cui Lie in the court meeting and had always been on bad terms with the eunuchs . The great eunuch Zhao Zhong offered to make Fu Xie a marquis, but he could not change his mind. In the end, he was kicked out of the court and appointed as the prefect of Hanyang in Liangzhou.
Fifteen years ago, Wang Guo and Han Sui rebelled. Because their stupid teammate Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, refused to listen to advice, was greedy for merit and advanced rashly, and died, Ma Teng, who served as the military Sima, took the lead in surrendering to the enemy and rebelling, and Fu Xie was left alone to guard Ji County.
At that time, there were several thousand Xiongnu cavalrymen in the rebel army. They knelt outside the city and begged Fu Xie to surrender because they were grateful for his kindness. They promised to send him back to the north safely. Fu Gan, who was only 13 years old, also persuaded his father, saying that Liu Hong was incompetent and the eunuchs were in power. It would be better to return to the hometown to recruit local warriors and wait for a virtuous person to be born in the future...
However, Fu Xie insisted that even King Zhou of Shang had Boyi to remain loyal to him, and Liu Hong was not as foolish as King Zhou of Shang. Moreover, he was the governor of Hanyang. Since it had come to this, he could only die here in the city.
At the same time, Fu Xie was not so loyal as to put his son at risk. He just said that he had to die, but did not deny Fu Gan. Instead, he told him that the chief clerk Yang Hui was Cheng Ying of the Fu family, the one who escaped with the Orphan of Zhao.
In the end, Yang Hui did take Fu Gan away from Ji County. On the one hand, Yang Hui had his own connections, and on the other hand... with Fu Xie's prestige, many rebels and Huns were unwilling to make things difficult for his descendants.
However, during this year, Fu Gan was very unhappy in the court.
He could understand that the Han Dynasty now had to unite all the forces that supported the Han Dynasty. However, even though he understood it, he was still resentful about Ma Teng being named Marquis of Yong and Han Sui being named Marquis of Zhai.
Moreover, Fu Gan was not a selfless person. Since he was holding a grudge against them, he would intentionally or unintentionally gossip about them in the court. Looking back, Fu Gan felt that what he did was not very upright.
The direct result of this was that Fu Gan was also squeezed out by Dong Cheng in the court. After all, in order to counter Liu Bei, Dong Cheng had always been on good terms with Ma Teng and Han Sui, and tried his best to assure Liu Xie that Ma and Han were the most loyal ministers...
Fu Gan felt that if he continued to stay in the court, not only would his life not go smoothly, but he might even do something even more dishonest due to psychological imbalance. So he resigned after hearing the news about the Chu State's imperial examination.
With the reputation of "son of Fu Xie", many officials were willing to recommend Fu Gan as soon as he arrived in Jinling. After Fu Gan expressed his desire to take part in the imperial examination, many people were willing to help. In the end, it was Lu Bu who personally recommended him, which exempted him from the county examination which was already too late.
The top three in seven subjects, a total of sixteen people, all ranked first. In addition, there were five people who ranked first with the advantage of high average scores. Among the twenty-one people, three were talents from outside the State of Chu, and this did not include those who had moved their families to Yangzhou before.
It undoubtedly also reflects the Chu State's determination to welcome talents from the Central Plains, Bashu, Yongliang and the North and their active participation in Chu. It also dispelled the doubts and made up their minds of many talents and families who had been interested in it before!
