While Zhao Ji was celebrating the victory happily, the Hedong Legion of the Great Zhou Army, commanded by Li Xiaozhong and Wu Yiyong, had passed the bottle-shaped pass and entered the territory of the Song Dynasty and Lu Daizhou.

Pingxingguan is located west of Feihu Path. It used to be the border of Song and Liao, but later it fell into the hands of the Liao people. After the Datong Prefecture of Xijing in the Liao Kingdom was attacked by Jin soldiers, Pingxingguan and the entire Daizhou returned to the Song Dynasty under the leadership of Xiao Gan.

The four once-in-committed state troops, including Daizhou, Ninghua Army, Xinzhou and Xianzhou, merged to form Bian Dailu, and Xiao Gan served as Bian Dailu's politician and governor Daizhou.

However, the Bing Dailu was not always ruled by Xiao Gan. In the past few years, the control of the Northern Song Dynasty court has been strengthening. After all, under the leadership of the "Zhou Wusai Ji Zhongtang", the Song Dynasty's new army developed very well, with more than 300,000 new army. With Xiao Gan's little capital, he could not resist the attack of the Song Dynasty new army.

So by the seventh year of Xuanhe, there were only the magistrates of Daizhou, Xianzhou and Xinzhou, the magistrates of Ninghua Army, and the general manager of the military and horses of the three prefectures and one army. The two generals of Dailu, the deputy generals, the head of the camp, and the chief positions of Xiao Gan. Most of the remaining official positions were held by officials appointed by the court.

In other words, the Bing Dailu has now become a place where the court and Xiao Gan jointly manage. Moreover, the court's strength is quite powerful - the magistrates of the various prefectures, the army, the magistrates, county magistrates, chief clerks, county magistrates, magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates of the Song Dynasty were all from the Song Dynasty!

In addition to these officials, the Song Dynasty court also held another weapon that restricted Xiao Gan's power - the imperial examination!

That’s right, it’s the imperial examination!

The imperial examination is a powerful tool to strengthen centralization! The acquisition of scholars for the country and the rise of poor families is just a reason to be open and honest. What the emperor really values ​​is actually the two points of disarming the civil tyrants and strengthening the central authority.

The former is easy to understand. The imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty mainly rely on Confucian classics. Even if it is a martial arts, it does not pay much attention to martial arts. If you shoot an arrow, you will not hit the target or not...

The latter is not difficult to understand. Both the Ministry of Rites and Palace Examinations in the imperial examination have to go to Kaifeng Prefecture to take the imperial examination. Only scholars who are not independent and loyal to the Song Dynasty court are qualified to get the opportunity to take the imperial examination in Kaifeng Prefecture to take the imperial examination!

If the local area rebelled, there would be no test for the test. The intellectuals of the landlord class in this place would lose the power to pass the test to gain fame.

Therefore, the local literati and officials who were wholeheartedly disarmed in the Song Dynasty who were seeking officials were naturally destined to be loyal to the court and opposed all forms of rebellion...

The reason why Wu Haogu was able to establish a country in Yan was mainly because it was originally the land of the Liao Kingdom. The landlord intellectuals of the Liao Kingdom did not have a good exam and could not pass the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, Wu Haogu opened a university and a military academy in Tianjin, and offered two new routes to become officials.

So everyone became republic officials and did not mingle with the Song Dynasty court.

The Liang Kingdom was similar to the Western Educational and Reform Group. Where did a group of northwestern martial artists get the Jinshi exam? Or would they have a promising future in the Zhang family to join the Tianli Sect.

Although there are not many Jinshis in Hedong over the years, they are counted as the last among the transfer routes of the Northern Song Dynasty. But after all, it is not comparable to Yandi and Hexi... There is a little bit in Hedong. Yandi and Hexi are not lands of the Song Dynasty at all, so there is nothing left!

Since Hedong is part of the imperial examination system of the Song Dynasty, the scholars and officials of Hedong also chose imperial examinations as their first choice.

The literati and officials in Daizhou, Xianzhou, Xinzhou and Ninghua Army were of course no exception, and they were all working hard to study for the high school imperial examinations.

This year (the sixth year of Xuanhe) is another three-year competition year. The candidates who passed the three states and one army's trial all went to Kaifeng Prefecture for the exam with hope. The scholars who did not pass the exam continued to work hard and studied hard for the trial more than two years later (if any surprise, it should be the first year of Jingkang).

So when the news that Xiao Jingluo sold his country to the enemy and the East thieves rioted Zhou troops into Yanmen (the capital of Daizhou Prefecture is Yanmen County), the mood of the scholars and officials from all over Dai Road can be imagined...

The Great Zhou Dynasty did not take the imperial examinations!

Moreover, it is said that the Great Zhou Dynasty also suppressed the merger and carried out equalization of land!

What should I do now? I don’t have to take the imperial examination, and my family’s land may be confiscated. How can I live my life in the future?

Fortunately, although the Great Zhou Republic was a fatherless country that did not know poetry and books, the discipline of the Republican Army was recognized as good. It was truly unblame and did not take the people one by one. They were citizens of the Republic, and were a dignified landlord, rich peasant, industrial and commercial soldiers! What good things have never been seen? Can you see the "stitch and thread" in a poor place like Daizhou?

Moreover, according to the previous style of the Republican Army, the land they have captured must be found out and then redistributed - to soldiers who have made contributions but have no land!

In other words, the fields in Daizhou are sooner or later, and you won’t need a needle or thread...

Regardless of the reason, the military discipline of the Republican Army is well-known and is not worthy of the title of "East Bidder". Therefore, some gentry from all over Daizhou did not escape immediately after the Republican Army invaded, but gathered in Yanmen, the prefecture to find out the news.

When they arrived in Yanmen County, they were immediately attracted by the content on the Anmin notice posted everywhere.

To their expectations, the notice not only did not mention "suppressing mergers" and "equalizing land", but also mentioned two good things that they had unexpectedly expected - opening the imperial examination and not paying food!

"What? What? Eastern thief, oh, the Great Zhou Dynasty is going to hold a trial for the release? Or this year?"

"Look, you will be able to have a Juren status after the exam. If you have a Juren status, you can be exempted from two taxes for 200 acres of land and exemption from one household and five members of a household, and other miscellaneous chores... Is this true?"

"There are also some here, and you can also pay grain to donate officials and donate juren... If you donate officials, you will be an official household, and you can protect 400 acres of land and ten households! I have the opportunity to give a real job! If you donate juren, you can go directly to the Ministry of Rites to take the exam, and it will be effective for life. This is great!"

"Is this true? Didn't it mean that the Great Zhou Republic will not hold the imperial examination?"

"Why isn't it true? The black and white words, Anmin's notice, can this be fake? In the past, there was no imperial examination because it was not in the Central Plains. What imperial examinations were held in the barbarian land of Youyan, Liaodong? Is anyone taking the exam? Now Xiao Wu's head of state is determined by the world, of course he has to open an imperial examination to win scholars and win the hearts of scholars all over the world!"

"This is the right person! You have to be a scholar in the world..."

"It's great now. You can take the test for Dazhou's trial soon..."

"If you don't pass the exam, you have to donate one. Isn't it just to pay food? Staying at home will also cause mold and worms. It's better to change your fame and fortune!"

The literati and doctors who read Anmin’s notice were all excited!

I originally thought that there would be no imperial examinations when the Zhou Dynasty came, but I didn’t expect that they would also be admitted to the imperial examinations and the conditions were better than those in the Song Dynasty. If you pass the imperial examination, you will be a lifetime and you can also enjoy duty-free service... The imperial examinations and not paying grain are good things that scholars and officials can wake up laughing in their dreams!

At this moment, a Laocuo, who had been to Kaifeng Prefecture for several exams, said a sentence.

"We are all people of the Song Dynasty. Now that the country is in trouble, we cannot work hard, but instead are excited because the Eastern thief has opened the imperial examination. Wouldn't it be a waste of reading the books of sages?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone showed a disgusting expression. However, no one debated with him, but dispersed. They did not go home to think about whether their words and deeds were wrong. Instead, they went to the city to inquire about the news.

These scholars and officials are all local tyrants from Yanmen. They have their own way in Yanmen County and Daizhou Prefectures. The officials in the yamen are all related to them.

Now the magistrate of Daizhou, joining the army, the magistrate, chief clerk, and county magistrate of Yanmen, may have run away and died, but most of these officials surrendered. Through them, they can find out the trump card of the fresh master...

At the same time, in the magistrate's ruling yamen in Daizhou, Wu Yiyong, the general military arm of the Hedong Legion, was talking to several civil officials wearing Song Dynasty uniforms.

They were the magistrate of Daizhou, the magistrate of Yanmen, the teaching in Daizhou, and the servants of Daizhou. They all abandoned the secret and turned to the light and surrendered to the Great Zhou Republic!

The Great Zhou Republic and the Liao Kingdom are still different, and they are not barbaric countries.

No one can say that Wu Haogu is a Han person. Wu Yijiu is not a Han person! Moreover, almost all the elders of the Great Zhou Republic were Han people.

Since they were all Han people, then the Great Zhou and the Great Song Dynasty were all countries of Xia. If Zhou destroyed the Song Dynasty, it would not be the world.

The current situation is no different from Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe, and the Song Dynasty won Chai Zhou.

How many loyal ministers were killed in the country after the Chenqiao mutiny? Almost no one was? Since there were no one in the Zhou Dynasty in the Song Dynasty, what was there to be in the Song Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty?

At most, it’s just a matter of the second master... The ancestors of the Zhao family are planning to usurp the throne! It’s not true!

"...Lieutenant General, don't worry, as long as the imperial examinations of our Great Zhou Dynasty are held, no matter how many scholars we can win, the scholars here in Hedong will be very happy. In fact, in the past years of the Song thief's imperial examinations, the number of Hedong students was within the last three in each transfer route, and they could not win a few Jinshi. But a group of scavengers in Hedong are not happy to take the exam? There are not many aspiring people going to join the Great Zhou Dynasty! Now the Great Zhou Dynasty has been enrolled, how could they miss it?"

The person who was talking was a civil servant of the Song Dynasty in a green robe. He was in his thirties, with a white face and a long beard, and always had a flattering smile on his face.

This person's name is Wu Biaochen, a native of Wenzhou. He was a Jinshi in the third year of Daguan. Now he is appointed as the magistrate of Daizhou. When Xiao Gan was referring to Daizhou, he led the civil servants of Daizhou to surrender and was appointed as the official magistrate of Daizhou.

Today, Wu Yiyong called him and several other civil servants from Daizhou to call him for two things: one is to open a statute to win the ranks of the people! The other is to raise military food and civilians.

These two things are actually one thing, the purpose is to raise enough military rations and transport grains for the people who can continue to move south.

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