In August of the 13th year of Jian'an (200), Emperor Xian of Han, Ma Yue returned to the court.

The next day, Deyang Palace.

There was a single chair in front of the ranks of officials, but the emperor gave it to the prime minister. Ma Yue sat on it with his eyes slightly closed.

The officials below were raging, which coincided with the annual grand dynasty discussion. Most of the governors from all over the country had returned to the court to report their duties, such as Shen Pei, the governor of Jizhou, Xin Ping, the governor of Qingzhou, Xin Pi, the governor of Bingzhou, Feng Ji, the governor of Youzhou, Ju Su, the governor of Shuozhou, Fu Xie, the governor of Liangzhou, Fa Zhen, the governor of Yongzhou, Zhang Song, the governor of Yizhou, and other local officials were also listed.

In the civil servant class, Jia Xu winked, and the governor of Jizhou learned from his companion and gave a comment: "Your Majesty, I have a memorial."

Emperor Sushou said, "What's the matter?"

Shen Pei said: "There are six vacant county magistrates under the ten counties and three countries under the rule of Jizhou, two ministers of the state, and 167 counties under the rule of each county and state, a total of 109 county magistrates (chiefs) have been vacant. Such a huge vacant official has seriously affected the transparency of Jizhou's government orders and the stability of society. I urge Your Majesty to select capable people from the court officials to release the county magistrates and the county magistrates."

"I have a memorial."

"I have a memorial."

"Your Majesty, I have this memorial."

As soon as Shen Pei finished speaking, Qingzhou Governor Xin Ping, Bingzhou Governor Xin Pi, Youzhou Governor Feng Ji also went out of duty to kneel down on the ground one after another.

The emperor asked, "What's the matter?"

Xin Jing said: "Qingzhou has vacancies of seven county magistrates and ninety-six county magistrates."

Feng Ji said: "Youzhou has vacancies for five county magistrates and seventy-nine county magistrates."

Xinpi said: "There are three vacant county magistrates in Bingzhou and thirty-six county magistrates."

"This..." The emperor couldn't help but turn his eyes to Situ Kong Rong, and said, "Ji, You and Qing are vacant, 23 county magistrates and ministers, and more than 300 county magistrates. Isn't the gap in the newly established officials in Yan, Yu, Xuzhou, Huainan and Lujiang counties even more serious? Kong Aiqing, I wonder how many officials in the court are there?"

Kong Rong said in a dilemma: "I heard from Your Majesty that there are only 39 central officers in the court."

As Kong Rong finished speaking, a sneer appeared on Ma Yue's lips.

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, wars have continued in the Kanto prefectures. The gentry in each prefecture or county either died of military disasters or went into Luoyang, the capital of the capital, so that Luoyang became a gathering place for the gentry in the world at the end of the Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, Dong Zhuo and Liu Bei rebelled the capital twice, killing and stabbing the gentry in the capital, posing a devastating blow to the power of the gentry family.

After that, Guandong was in war and chaos. When Ma Yue pacified Huainan, the number of the gentry in Guandong was no longer one hundred. Fortunately, most of the people who did not die of military disasters also avoided Jiangdong, Jingzhou and other places. There was only relatively stable Yizhou. The number of gentry in Jingzhou and Yangzhou increased instead of decreasing. However, Cao Zhen and Sun Quan could not allow the gentry in Jing and Yangzhou to come to Luoyang to serve as officials, and Ma Yue would not allow the gentry in Yizhou to go out of Xichuan.

Now, the Luoyang court is facing the dilemma of having no scholars to be conquered. Even the officials in the court have many vacancies, let alone local officials in various prefectures and counties. Obviously, there is no choice but to choose officials except to open a statute to select officials.

"What?" the emperor said in a lost voice, "There are only 39 central officials in the court? Even if all the thirty-nine people are released, they will not be able to fill the gap in such a huge official in the states and counties in Kanto. What should we do?"

Jia Xu winked again, and Guanglu Xunqing Chen Qun understood and reported: "Your Majesty, I have countermeasures to make up for the gap in officials in various counties."

"Oh, what's the countermeasure?" the emperor said happily, "Your dear, come on."

Chen Qundao: "I am happy to hear that Guan Ning, a great scholar in Qingzhou, had 800 disciples. He taught and taught in Shuozhou, Liangzhou and Yongzhou Guangkai School. It has been more than ten years since then. Now there are more than thousands of scholars in Guanzhong. Why not issue an edict to select the wise and capable people from the Guandong county, and the county magistrate? In this way, it can not only enhance the enthusiasm of scholars in the world to study, but also solve the vacancy of local officials. Wouldn't both beauties?"

"Your Majesty, no!" As soon as Chen Qun finished speaking, Kong Rong hurriedly left the class and knelt under the golden stairs, and opposed it sternly, "Although there are many scholars in Guanzhong, most of them are from humble origins and are common people. Since ancient times, there have been differences between scholars and common people. How can we generalize them? If a large number of common people are appointed as officials, it will not only be inconsistent with etiquette, but also place the face of scholars in the world?"

As Kong Rong finished speaking, all the officials in the court nodded, and they were very likely to go out to discuss the matter.

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Ma Yue suddenly grew up and shouted sternly: "Kong Rong!"

Ma Yue's silence was like a thunder blew up in the Golden Hall. The discussions of all officials suddenly stopped, and the entire hall showed death-like silence, and almost everyone's eyes fell on Ma Yue. Usually, Ma Yue rarely expressed his opinions, and even if he expressed his opinions, he would speak softly. Today, he suddenly spoke harshly, and the officials were shocked.

Kong Rong couldn't help but feel awesome in his heart, and reluctantly clasped his fists and said, "What do you think of the Prime Minister?"

Ma Yue said slowly: "I thought Mr. Chen's advice was very reasonable, but Mr. Situ thought?"

After saying this, Ma Yue slowly turned around, facing the civil and military officials in the hall, and asked lightly: "What do you guys think?"

Henan Yin Zhongyou stepped out of the shift and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I fully support what Lord Chen said."

"I support what Lord Chen has to discuss."

"I support it too."

"I support..."

As soon as Zhong Yao finished speaking, the governors of various states came out to kneel down on the Danban, and even the civil and military officials in the court knelt down halfway. Kong Rong looked back and found that in addition to Sikong Kong Yi, the Minister of the Shangshu Cai Yong, the Minister of the Minister Zhen Yi and others, most of the civil and military officials in the court had chosen to surrender under the power of Prime Minister Ma Yue.

The emperor was afraid that Kong Rong and Kong Yichang would not know the current affairs and advise him to death. He hurriedly said, "Since that's the case, I will submit it."

"Your Majesty's wiseness."

Ma Yue turned around and bowed to the emperor, turned around and took his seat.

The emperor said to Chen Qun again: "Chen Aiqing, there are no less than thousands of scholars in Guanzhong, but there are only hundreds of vacant officials. I wonder how to select this official?"

"Exam." Chen Qun replied without hesitation, "Select a student to win a student!"

"To open a cadet and win a scholar?" the emperor said inexplicably, "How to open a cadet?"

Chen Qundao: "Civil officials selected liberal arts, examine Confucianism, law, study matters, and mathematics. Military officers selected martial arts, examine martial arts, and examine martial arts subjects, including martial arts subjects, martial arts, and martial arts subjects, including heaven, earth, and man, each with a hundred. The heavenly list was given the Jinshi, the earthly list was given the Jinshi, and the humans list was given the same Jinshi... "

Chen Qun told the story of opening a statute and winning a scholar after a secret discussion with Jia Xu and Li Su last night.

Although the emperor and the civil and military officials in the court heard it freshly, they were also clear and clear. Just as the admission of imperial examinations and the selection of scholars itself is indeed the most fair official selection model. However, the only thing that officials cannot accept is that once this method of recruiting imperial examinations and selecting officials is implemented, the gentry will lose their noble status forever and will have to be on an equal footing with the common people.

Only the gentry is respected, and only the scholars will become those who are respected.

In fact, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system offered by Chen Qun to Ma Yue was the extreme of pleasing and winning over the gentry, while the imperial examination system that Ma Yue himself thought of was the extreme of suppressing and weakening the gentry! Although these two methods were completely different and their attitudes towards the gentry were very different, their purpose was the same, that was, to push Ma Yue to the throne.

The Nine-rank Zhongzheng system is to please the gentry and protect the interests of the gentry in exchange for the support of the gentry.

The imperial examination system is to support scholars with poor backgrounds to gain the support of scholars all over the world.

Before Ma Yue, the gentry was almost the scholars in the world, and scholars in the world were the scholars. These two were combined into one, but after Ma Yue occupied Guanzhong, the situation changed fundamentally. As the saying goes, no businessman would be unlucky. Ma Yue spared no effort to support the development of industry and commerce, which greatly improved the living conditions of the people in Guanzhong.

After having a rich life, poor children also had the material foundation for studying. In addition, Guan Ning's eight hundred disciples were all established and familiar with each other, which eventually led to the emergence of tens of thousands of poor students in Guanzhong, especially Fu Xie, Fa Zhengyong and Liang prefectures first tried to open academic qualifications to select scholars. After selecting local officials from scholars, the enthusiasm of poor children in studying was unprecedentedly high.

Up to now, the gentry has withered due to war, while the poor scholars have appeared in thousands due to the great governance of Guanzhong. As one goes up and down, poor students have already gained an overwhelming number advantage, and the conditions for implementing the imperial examination and selecting scholars have been fully ripe. This is the biggest reason why Ma Yue dared to ignore the opposition of the gentry in the world and strictly implemented the imperial examination system!

As long as Ma Yue firmly holds the regime with his army and survives the first few years, when the poor children from the imperial examinations gain a foothold in the officialdoms of various states, counties and counties, the remnants of the gentry under Ma Yue will not be able to make any trouble! As the saying goes, the economic foundation determines the political system. Now the economic development level in Guanzhong has made most poor children able to read, so the implementation of the imperial examination system will be natural.

Due to the high-profile support of Prime Minister Ma Yue, most officials chose to turn against him because of Ma Yue's tyrannical power.

Although Situ Kongrong, Situ Kong Yi, Shangshu Cai Yong, and Minister Zhen Yi and other major generals and officials strongly opposed it, they were unable to support it. In the end, the emperor issued an edict to issue documents to all counties and counties across the country. Anyone who wants to seek fame and fortune, whether they are from a gentry or a commoner, whether they are literary or military, can go to Beijing for the exam. The date of the "Autumn Examination" is set in late October.

The first examiner was naturally led by Ma Yue himself.

The position of chief examiner is really important. Although Ma Yue has no education, he has watched a lot of Yue Opera when he was a child. He knew that he would become a master after going to Beijing to take the exam. The masters in the play are generally prime ministers. In this way, the new top scholar will become the prime minister disciples, and these disciples are very loyal to the prime minister.

Imagine that if all the officials in the world came from the sect of Prime Minister Ma Yue, would there be any obstacles for Ma Yue to become emperor in the future?

In addition to piloting the imperial examination system, the emperor also issued an edict to promote Ma Yue to King Liang, and add 100,000 households to the town. All officials in the court turned against each other again. Although Kong Rong, Kong Yichang and others firmly opposed it, they were no longer able to turn things around.

On August 15th, the 13th year of Jian'an (200th), Emperor Xian of Han, the emperor formally appointed Ma Yue as King of Liang and gave him nine tins.

In September, Cao Zhen reported to the emperor to express his conspiracy with Sun Quan as the King of Wu.

In October, Sun Quan submitted a report to the emperor for Cao Zhen to be the King of Chu.

In November, Sun Quan married the 10-year-old young sister Sun Ren (Sun Shangxiang, Bowwall Ji) to the Cao Zhen, Wu and Chu families to form an alliance.

In the 14th year of Jian'an of Emperor Xian of Han (201).

In the first month of the year, Zhang Song, the governor of Yizhou, designed to instigate the Wuxi barbarians to rebel.

In February, Cao Zhen used Zhang Liao to stay in Xiangyang, and Zhuge Liang as his military advisor to lead an army of 30,000 to fight against the Wuxi barbarians.

In May, the Chu army defeated Wuxi barbarians, collected all of them, and gained ten thousand strong strength.

In June, Cao Zhen adopted Zhuge Liang's plan and instigated the rebellion of the barbarians in the southern part of Yizhou. Five groups of foreigners rebelled, including Yongchang, Jianning, Yuezhi, and Jianwei. The French king Meng Ke (made up by Meng Huofu) led 100,000 soldiers to conquer more than ten cities in a row, with the troops heading towards the vassal state of Shu County. Many Qiangs in the western front also rebelled, and raised troops to connect the southern barbarians, with a huge force.

In July, Shu general Zhang Ren fought in Nanzhong. Due to the hot weather and unacceptable weather, most of the soldiers suffered from illness and suffered from illness.

In September, Yizhou Governor Zhang Song designed to lure and kill the King Meng Ke under the city of Chengdu, and the rebels were defeated.

In October, the king of the foreign king Meng Huo made a comeback and the thief power rose again.

In November, Wuxi barbarians raised their troops to respond and threatened Xichuan.

In December, Chu general Zhang Liao led an army of 20,000 to Yiling and threatened Yufupu. Zhang Song rushed to Luoyang to urgently expedite 800 miles.

Luoyang, Liang Prince's Mansion.

On New Year's Eve, it was the time for the family to reunite. The Liang Palace was decorated with lights and the servants and wives were busy. In the magnificent hall, Ma Yue sat on the desk wearing a rolling dragon king robe. Outside the gate, there were crowds of people, and Ma Yue's dozens of famous concubines and more than a hundred children were arranged neatly.

Ma Yue has hundreds of women, but most of them are three concubines who have no status, status and children, so naturally they are not qualified to appear in such formal occasions.

Amid the melodious and pleasant music, the concubine Liu Yan walked into the hall. Liu Yan held the eldest daughter Ma Yue in her left hand and the second son Ma An in her right hand. She was one step behind in her left hand and followed the eldest son Ma Zheng. At this time, Ma Zheng was eighteen years old and had long become an Angzang boy. Compared with Ma Yue, Ma Zheng had fewer tough auras but more elegant and romantic.

However, the pair of eyes completely inherited Ma Yue's genes, which were dark and bright, and dazzling.

The little girl Ma Yue is already twelve years old, and she is becoming more and more cute. Perhaps because of her first daughter, and Ma Yue is a modern person after all, so she is more extra addicted to Ma Yue.

"Go." Liu Yan patted Ma Yue and Ma An's little heads and said, "Go and pay tribute to your father."

Ma Zheng took his younger brother and sister forward, knelt down respectfully to Ma Yue, and sang loudly: "I wish you goodbye to my father, and I wish you good health and good health and longevity."

"Hahaha..." Ma Yue said in a row, "Get up, get up."

"Thank you, Father."

Ma Zheng bowed again and then stood up and stood respectfully on one side.

Ma Yue, Ma An had already giggled into Ma Yue's arms. Ma Yue was tall and hugged Ma Yue's neck. Ma An was short and stretched out his hand and could only barely hold Ma Yue's thighs. He kept shouting "Haven, hug, hug" in his mouth. Ma Yue smiled so hard that his mouth was grinning to his ears. Perhaps because of his age, Ma Yue's requirements for his second son Ma An were far less strict than Ma Zheng.

"Come on, Yue'er, this is for you."

Ma Yue opened the brocade box on the table beside him, took out a pair of bracelets from it and handed it to Ma Yue.
To be continued...