The fifth year of Hongwu, on the 16th day of the first lunar month.

An imperial examination is underway in the seven major classrooms of Xiyuan University.

Today is the first day of the fifth year of Hongwu exam. The exam was written, which was to write essays and do arithmetic. In the morning, there were two essays, one was “strategy” and the other was “theory”.

The so-called "strategy" is practical strategy. The title is: Once the artillery is launched, how should the three parties in the world respond?

The so-called "theory" is the meaning of the scriptures, and the title is: What is the study of things? What is the attainment of knowledge? Can the things in the world be fully understood? Can the ways of all things be fully understood?

Unlike the past, the "theory" is first and the "strategy" is later. The current imperial examinations are mainly based on "strategy" and supplemented by "theory", so first take "strategy" and then take "theory" - the imperial examinations are originally intended to select senior bureaucrats, and of course the level of "practical policies" should be used as the most important criterion for judging.

On the afternoon of the 16th, we will take the exam for military, mathematics and history.

Among them, the military academic exam is not a general idea, but a detail - how to defend the city? How to organize and train the people and the strong? How to raise military expenses? How to build weapons and equipment?

Well, basically these are the skills of separatist rebellion. Before the Xuanhe crisis, 90% of the local guards in the Song Dynasty did not know about this. Otherwise, the Jin soldiers would be happy in front of them and look back... OK, they were all anti-Jin bases!

Calculation is an application problem - it is the kind of "how much money is collected in a certain place in a year, how much grain is needed to support soldiers in order to resist the Jin Dynasty, how much money is needed to build weapons, and how much savings are there in the official treasury, and more money is spent than you receive, asking when the place will be occupied by the Jin thieves."

Historiography mainly examines the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty - how many forts were in the Central Plains after the Yongjia Rebellion. What role did these forts play in the process of resisting the barbarians? Where are their gains, losses, successes and failures?

On the 17th, it was a "practical test", which means taking the martial arts test!

Step shooting, riding shooting, spear, swords and axes... all test! You don’t want to have real skills, you must have real skills.

If you shoot an arrow, you can hit the target, you can run a horse, you can have a long spear, and you can cut off wooden poles with a knife and axe. The difficulty is really not high, but civil servants in troubled times must know it, and they cannot regard these as "the courage of a man."

Because you do not have this "brave of one man", the lord of your county is just an amateur who watches the fun and doesn't know whether the training and equipment of the people and the strong are in place?

If all of the above are done, then even if this candidate is not a Jinshi, he is still a rare talent. It should not be too difficult to find a job as a official with the "Hongwu Five-Year Examination Report Card".

Because the imperial examination was very difficult, there were not many candidates who could pass the examination and enter the examination room of Xiyuan University. In the seven major classrooms, there were only three or four hundred candidates sitting in total. Some of them were already writing quickly, and some were having a card.

That Xiao Buyan got stuck!

Because he didn't know how the Jin Kingdom should deal with a military weapon like a 10-jin long cannon!

The power of this weapon exceeded his previous imagination!

In the test shot at the end of last year, a shotgun smashed dozens of wooden targets a hundred steps away!

And the continuous shooting of one iron bullet, one stone bullet, and one lead bullet penetrated a thick stone wall two hundred steps away!

The so-called laymen watch the excitement, while the expert watches the tricks.

Xiao Buyan is an expert. After watching the test shooting, he knew that the Great Jin Kingdom was in trouble. Because no fortress owned by the Great Jin Kingdom could stop a fierce hammer of this 10-jin cannon. Therefore, it was impossible for the Great Jin Kingdom to use the original Liao Kingdom to deal with Song Taizong, and to defend the city, the enemy was tired and the main force fought against the enemy in field battles to deal with the Song army. It was impossible for the Great Jin Kingdom to succeed.

If Zhao Kai could concentrate 100 10 kilogram cannons, he would only be able to strengthen the city defense of Daxing Mansion for one or two days.

As for field battles... how to shoot shotguns with 10 kilograms? Besides, they also have fried pots, hot pots, casserole cannons, red scarf infantry, and iron cavalry!

This battle cannot be fought unless... to make a cannon!

Thinking of this, Xiao Buyan's eyes lit up!

Isn’t it just a cannon? You can build 10 kilograms of cannons in the Song Dynasty, but I can’t build them in the Jin Dynasty? It seems that Zhao Kai is still a trick away from chess!

He should keep it strictly confidential and hide the 10-pound cannon without letting anyone see it. He will only use it at critical moments, so that he can set the victory in one fell swoop!

Now Dajin already knows Zhao Kai's ace, and he also knows the appearance of this 10-pound cannon. He can immediately open the furnace and cast the cannon, cast 100 doors, no, cast 200 doors! How can Zhao Kai be arrogant?

Thinking of this, Xiao Buyan finally stopped writing and wrote after picking up his pen.

Of course, Xiao Buyan would not write about "using fabrication and artillery" in the policy theory. In his policy theory to Zhao Kai, he believed that the best strategy of the Great Jin Kingdom was to go to the top thirty-six strategies!

The Dajin should give up the land south of Yanshan Mountain and west of Yuguan, and relocate the population as much as possible. At the same time, they should rely on the dangers as much as possible to defend the entrances of Yanshan Mountain to maintain the forward strongholds that could invade the Central Plains at any time...

When Xiao Buyan wrote a masterpiece in one go, Yu Yunwen was still thinking of a solution for the Southern Song Dynasty.

Because when watching the gun, he found that when the 10-pound cannon was fired, it was just the earth shaking!

Such a violent shock, can the warships of the Southern Song Dynasty bear such a violent shock?

Although many warships in the Southern Song Dynasty had installed hot pot guns that were as loud as fire when fired, when the hot pot gun was fired, the power was transmitted downward, which would press the ship downward, but would not cause the ship to capsize. Moreover, the hot pot gun was bending and could not hit the moving target, so it could only hit a fixed target. Therefore, the hot pot gun was generally installed on the solid bow deck. When fired, the cannon could only adjust the high and low firing angles. If you want to adjust the left and right, you could only turn the hull.

But the 10-pound cannon cannot be installed like this!

The 10-jin cannon is aimed directly, while the bows of the large ships of the Southern Song Navy were raised upwards, covering the muzzle of the 10-jin cannon!

These 10-jin cannons cannot be installed on the side side because the strength of the side side is not enough, the board is too thin, and water wheels are installed on the side side side - so there is no place to install cannons under the side side deck, and cabins are built on the deck...

In other words, all ships of the Southern Song Navy cannot install 10 kilogram cannons!

If they encounter enemy ships with 10 kilogram guns installed, they will be vulnerable... As long as a new warship with several 10 kilogram guns installed on the bow of the ship, the Southern Song Navy will lose the water control power.

So as soon as Zhao Kai took out the 10-pound cannon, the "grenadier ships" of the Southern Song Dynasty were eliminated!

But they are all new ships!

However, no matter how much I feel sorry for the money, the new warship must start designing immediately, and construction must be started immediately after the design is completed.

Not only should we build a naval 10-jin gunship, but we must also build a Jiangjun 10-jin gunship!

Not only did it take to build 10 kilogram gunships, but it also had to make a large number of 10 kilogram guns. Because the Southern Song Dynasty needed these cannons to defend the city, this was called using artillery to protect the cannons and using the city to protect the cannons...

Of course, these countermeasures cannot be written in practical strategies.

It is not possible to let Zhao Kai know such a good idea as a 10-pound cannon on board, otherwise the "water rights" of the Southern Song Dynasty would be difficult to protect.

Thinking of this, Yu Yunwen also started writing.

The trick he gave to the Southern Song Dynasty was to move the capital to Ezhou!

Because Ezhou was blocking the mouth of the Han River entering the river, before the 10-jin cannons were not allowed to block the mouth of the Han River entering the river before the 10-jin cannons.

But now there are 10 jin cannons, so building a fort in Ezhou and deploying a sufficient number of 10 jin cannons can block the Northern Song army heading south from Xiangyang. With the strength of the existing "navy grenadiers" of the Southern Song Dynasty, as long as the Northern Song navy cannot pass Ezhou, they can completely defend the Yangtze River. Even if some Northern Song troops cross the Huai River and then risk stealing the Yangtze River, they will soon be cut off by the Song army warships because of their retreat, and they will face a crushing defeat if they are unable to carry cannons.

Therefore, the key to the war between the two Song dynasties in the future is the gains and losses of Ezhou!

Of course, Yu Yunwen also knew that he was writing nonsense... Because Zhao Huan could not have the courage to move the capital to Ezhou, if he really dared to do this, it would not be Zhao Huan, but Sun Quan, the Emperor of Wu.

......

"Okay, okay, good... talent! It seems that I underestimated scholars all over the world before. I thought that although there are many scholars with outstanding literary talent in the past few decades, they are hard to use in military and national affairs. I didn't expect that there are still people like Yu Yunwen and Xiao Buyan!"

The person who was talking nonsense with two "routine" strategy papers in Huiyou Hall of Ziwei Palace was Zhao Kai, and the queen Zhu Fengying and Shufei Guo Tiannu were both a little amused and crying when he heard him.

Guo Tiannu looked at Zhao Kai who was probably a little drunk after drinking some wine and said with a smile: "Why is it difficult for the Jinshi of this dynasty to be used as a great use? At least one person can have the ability to conquer the world!"

"Oh," Zhao Kai nodded, "You mean Zong Ze? He is indeed a talent, but unfortunately he is too old..."

“Geeh…”

The two women laughed, and Zhao Kai was a little confused, and he squinted his drunken eyes and looked at them.

Zhu Fengying said: "The official family is also a Jinshi!"

"Oh, I'm also a Jinshi? It seems that this is the case..." Zhao Kai really forgot about this, and he thought he was just a "second-year high school student"!

"You are too noble in the official family, have you forgotten too much?"

"That's right, why did you even forget about becoming a Jinshi?"

Zhao Kai waved his hand and smiled, "If you forget it, forget it... My past is so different from now, it is completely different, it doesn't count." As he said, he also felt something was wrong, so he turned the topic back to the imperial examination, "There are both the top scorers in this class! The top scorers are Yu Yunwen, and the second scorers are Xiao Buyan."

"Official family," Guo Tiannu reminded, "That Xiao Buyan is a Khitan, and Yu Yunwen is a southerner!"

"Xiao Buyan is indeed a bit unreliable. He cannot be allowed to enter the Hanlin Bachelor's Academy," Zhao Kai paused, "But Yu Yunwen will not have any problems. He is a loyal minister and a good general... I must use him seriously and make him an editor. Within ten years, he can be appointed as a general and prime minister!"
Chapter completed!