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With the two martial arts competitions, the women's ranks, the son-in-law, and the county horses, both of them were able to win a satisfactory result (mainly Zhao Kai was satisfied), and the eighth year of Xuanhe was almost at the end.

By the way, this year has been a big deal!

At the beginning of the year, Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of the Song Dynasty, saw that it was already under the Jin bandits' attacks, but no one expected that the Song Dynasty, which had been in a coward for 160 years, would really let those barbarians who had just emerged from the mountains and forests in the northeast kick over the barbarians and hit them. Isn't it just a matter of cede land and paying money? Why did it create a situation where the "Song of Song Dynasty is about to end"?

Oh, it is not 100% going to be finished, but a "Song of Song Dynasty" came, plus a "Song of Song Dynasty is about to be finished". On the other hand, the crown prince of the Song Dynasty took the orthodox court of the Song Dynasty to the imperial prefecture of Jiangdong after the death of the late Emperor Zhuangzong. Although most of the prefectures and counties in Hebei and Jingdong were lost, the rest became a mess, and all kinds of separatist forces emerged like mushrooms after a rain. Some of them held high the banner of anti-Jin, but more of them just wanted to occupy a small piece of land in this sudden chaotic world to become king. In order to achieve this goal, even if they had to surrender to the Jin Kingdom to seek a seal!

On the other side is Zhao Kai, the General of Tiance who is respectful to the army, reopened the Song Dynasty, and opened a "Sui and Tang version" in Hedong and Shanxi. This really shocked the billions of people in the world! How could the world of Song Dynasty be peaceful? How did the world become such a disintegrating and chaotic scene?

Judging from this, the Song Dynasty, who was a little scared, could finally make the wife of billions of Simin live a peaceful life, really can't come back?

Is the world really going to look like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms or the Northern and Southern Dynasties?

If the world really becomes a chaotic world where strong soldiers and horses become the emperor, then what should we do if we study Confucianism and articles and rely on a piece of articles to exchange for wealth and glory from the official family?

Do they still have a place to take the exam?

Ten miles northeast of the reopened emperor's residence in the Song Dynasty, Lingquan Palace, Lishan Mountain, there is a town called Xishui Town. This is a place where merchants entering and leaving Chang'an Prefecture (Jingzhao Prefecture) from the east to rest. When the end of the year approached, it should have been very cold.

But this year, an accident occurred. Countless "armed scholars" who were nervous and nervous actually gathered from all over Shaanxi. Not only did they fill up all the inns in the town, but many houses in the town rented them to these scholars with books, long swords, and some with bodyguards at high prices.

These "armed scholars" are all juren from Shaanxi prefectures. They have passed this year's trial and gathered in Xishui Town. Of course, after the New Year, they will follow Zhao Kai, the official of the Song Dynasty who is stationed in the "Chang'an Court" stationed in Lingquan Palace, and go out to Kaifeng Prefecture to take the exam together!

Although it seems very stupid to take the chance to be hacked to death by Jin soldiers and drowned by the Yellow River flood to take the Jinshi exam. But it is a silly thing to ask for the Jinshi!

To be honest, Shaanxi scholars are not as knowledgeable as talented men from the Southeast Sixth Route. Compared to writing essays, few of them can win the fierce competition for the imperial examination and become good men who can call outside Donghuamen.

Therefore, in the past exams, Shaanxi students have always been "accompanying the exam". However, this subject is a rare opportunity next spring!

First of all, there is a Jinling court on the Southeast Sixth Road, so those "compositionists" should not travel thousands of miles to Kaifeng Prefecture for the exam.

Secondly, going to Kaifeng Prefecture to take the exam is a life-threatening thing!

This is a Jinshi who is in danger!

If the students in Shaanxi are comparing to write essays, they are the last among all the Song dynasties. But if they compare courage, they are definitely the first!

Shaanxi has been fighting with the Western Army for more than a hundred years. There are a lot of scholars who have joined the army and even have frustrated in the imperial examination and directly surrendered to the Western thieves, helping the Western thieves to defeat the great men of the Song Dynasty!

So by the end of the eighth year of Xuanhe, the Xishui Town was crowded with Shaanxi scholars who were preparing to go to the imperial examination hall with swords and almost won the imperial examination!

But then again, shouldn’t the scholar-officials be like this in troubled times? Otherwise, what’s the use of being admitted to the imperial examination? I dare not be appointed officials in a dangerous place, and I am afraid of being an official in the army and are afraid of death. What are the officials like this coming to do? Are they going to help with corruption?

Therefore, these "armed scholars" gathered in Xishui Town have the basic qualities of becoming civil officials in troubled times. Whether they can become officials depends on their next performance!

Although the students who gathered in Xishui Town thought they were brave, as the end of the year approached, the date for going to take the exam was approaching, so everyone was still a little nervous!

Will you die before you get a Jinshi? Or you have to think about it carefully!

Just as the armed scholars in Xishui Town were about to usher in an inevitable night of thinking too much, the arrival of the brigade of cavalry suddenly broke the peace of Xishui Town.

"This is the emperor's dragon flag! Why did the emperor come to Xishui Town?"

In Xishui Town, in a restaurant where scholars often gather, someone opened the window and saw a flag embroidered with the pattern of the yellow dragon playing with the sun and moon. Then he saw a white banner embroidered with the words "China has mountains, rivers and land, the sun and moon reopen the Song Dynasty". He also saw a large group of majestic cavalry and a team of female knights wearing chain armor. There was no doubt that the person who came was Zhao Kai, the official of the Song Dynasty!

But why did Zhao Kai come to Xishui Town?

Could it be that something happened to Kaifeng Prefecture? The officials are going to leave the customs in advance?

So will the trial be held next year? Will it be cancelled? Will it be held in a safer place?

The group of scholars with swords were actually thinking too much. Zhao Kai came out of Lingquan Palace at dusk regardless of the cold in order to welcome Zhao Shuxiang and Zhao Bushi.

He wanted to use his kin greeting to tell the "partner cavalry" and "female squad" around him that it is very important for Uncle Zhao and Zhao Bushi!

In this way, the generals and gates along the border of Shaanxi will also pay attention to Zhao Shuxiang and Zhao’s failure.

With their attention, Zhao Shuxiang and Zhao Bushi were able to command the troops summoned from the five border routes more easily!

That's right, Zhao Kai is ready to let Zhao Uncle Xiang and Zhao Bushi lead his troops to the expedition!

However, he did not want them to face the Jin thieves immediately, but wanted them to do some errands that would win people with virtue. He wanted Zhao Bushi to serve as the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy and lead his army into Sichuan to control this extremely rich land for the Chang'an court!

As for Zhao Shuxiang's mission to be more difficult, Zhao Kai wanted him to serve as the Xuanfu envoy of Jinghu Road and to supervise the army to control most areas of Jinghu North Road, especially the rich Jianghan Plain!

Of course, the place where Zhao Bushi and Zhao Uncle Xiang were going was not a hostile area, but a mid-district where they were at a loss now has no "Kaifeng Court", but two new Song courts suddenly emerged, so many government officials themselves are confused.

Should they listen to the Emperor Chang'an, or should they listen to the Emperor Jinling, or should they deal with both sides carelessly?

Therefore, the "middle area" or "two-sided official uniforms" are now appearing in many places where the emperors of Chang'an and Jinling are beyond the reach and cannot be controlled for a while.

Similar situations occurred in Sichuan and the Jianghan Plain south of Xiangzhou. Many prefectures had already left the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty and had also intercepted taxes without authorization and were not transferred to Chang'an or Jinling.

Even after the news that the Chang'an court had recovered Kaifeng Prefecture and would hold the imperial examination in Kaifeng Prefecture, the response was not as fierce as imagined.

So we have to send troops to convince people with virtue!

However, Zhao Kai was not in a good position at hand, and he could not draw out the Tiance troops to move south. Now a large number of Tiance troops were heading to Hedong or the west of Beijing to collect the land they distributed to them. The number of Tiance troops still around Zhao Kai was not large, and he had to leave some to stay in Chang'an. The rest had to follow Zhao Kai to go east to expedition.

Therefore, the army that went south to fight against Bashu and Jianghan Plain was mainly five-way government soldiers, and it was very important to get the support of the five-way generals.

In addition, it was also carefully considered that two royal generals were arranged to be the head coach.

First of all, the capital of the "Imperial Martial" of the royal family can strengthen the Song Dynasty's royal family, and the royal family is ultimately the clone of imperial power. The royal family is actually the king's imperial martial arts!

Secondly, taking the Zhao family as the prophecy can enhance Zhao Kai's orthodoxy and make local officials in Bashu and Jianghan more likely to accept Zhao Kai, an official family that "reopened the Song Dynasty".

Third, of course, it is to train Zhao Shuxiang and Zhao no longer try. There are only a few members of the Song Dynasty who can command the army, so of course they have to cultivate them well.

In a mansion in Xishui Town, Zhao Kai has already been with Zhao. Uncle Zhao has met him and they have known each other for a long time. They are all "old Kaifeng".

Now that time has passed, Kaifeng has been destroyed, they can only gather together and think about the past

However, Zhao Kai was obviously not as sad as those two people. He talked to them about Kaifeng scenery and then changed the topic and got straight to the point.

"Uncle Emperor, I heard that you called yourself the king when you were in Kaifeng Prefecture?"

"Officials, ministers, ministers" Zhao Shuxiang was originally sitting, but now he was so shocked that he was lying on the ground.

Zhao Kai looked at him and asked, "Uncle Emperor, are you calling yourself a prince or a prince?"

"The prince is the prince." Zhao Shuxiang actually didn't explain this clearly to his subordinates, but he felt that the prince was relatively small and his crimes could be smaller.

"Okay," Zhao Kai said, "Then I will turn around and I will appoint you as King Xiangyang. If you go south to pacify Jinghu North Road with the honor of King Xiangyang!"

What?

Uncle Zhao was stunned: If I call myself a prince, can I be named King of Wei?

Zhao Kai said to Zhao Bushi again: "If you don't try, the emperor's uncles are all princes. You can also be a prince, and you will be the king of Hanzhong. You will also be the king of Hanzhong. The gains and losses of the army entering Shu Jinghu North Road and Sichuan are related to whether our dynasty can raise enough food and money, so I hope you can take all the two lands for me.
Chapter completed!