The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 217 Volume Calculated
"Just ten days."

In the Weiyang Palace, Liu Xie handed this number to Jia Xu and asked him to quickly notify the generals in Hanzhong.

"Ten days is the limit that the emperor's uncle can sustain. Once this limit is exceeded, I'm afraid Chengdu will be extremely difficult to defend."

Jia Xu accepted the order, but still couldn't help stretching his neck to check the pieces of scribbles on Liu Xie's desk.

Liu Xie pushed the manuscript paper in Jia Xu's direction and said, "Wenhe can read it if he wants."

However, Jia Xu couldn't help shaking his head when he looked at the pile of messy symbols.

"Your Majesty, I really don't understand."

If you don’t understand, that’s right!

If Jia Xu could really understand all these mathematical symbols, Liu Xie would be sure that this guy was also a time traveler like himself.

The ten days agreed upon by Liu Yue were certainly not a number that he made up just because he was in tune with Liu Bei.

Instead, the number was obtained after roughly constructing a mathematical model and substituting the military strength under Liu Bei's command and the defensive capabilities of the Chengdu city wall into it.

Although it was not very accurate, Liu Xie had a rough idea of ​​it.

Now the war in Shu has completely deviated from the initial predictions and has become a complete mess.

In this case, it would be better to go with the flow and enter Shu directly from Micang Road, poke Zhang Wei in the ass, completely eliminate the Five Pecks of Rice Sect, and completely pacify Shu!
Once Zhang Wei is pacified, Bazhou occupied by Shen Mi, Lou Fa, Gan Ning and others will be at your fingertips without any further effort.

Eleven days later, Liu Xie finally learned the outcome of the war in Shu.

Caught up!
On the tenth day, the Han army finally passed through the Micang Road, captured the weakly defended Baozhong in one fell swoop, and occupied Shuzhong. Afterwards, they followed Zhang Wei's tail all the way to the city of Chengdu, and joined forces with Liu Bei in the city to defeat Zhang Wei's 100,000 followers!

Zhang Wei's 100,000 followers are an advantage, but also a disadvantage.

Zhang Wei is not Han Xin, who can lead more soldiers. His ability is just average, and he can only control an army of 10,000 at most. But now, if he loses control of an army of 100,000, the sky will collapse in an instant!
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others are best at advancing in war, which makes it easier for Zhang Wei to lose his way.

Barely half an hour after the reinforcements arrived, Zhang Wei was defeated and fled.

In order to avoid being hunted down by the Han army, Zhang Wei hid in a nearby farmer's house and begged, "I am the descendant of Zhang Tianshi, please don't betray me."

The farmer agreed verbally, and then turned around to inform the Han army of Zhang Wei's whereabouts, and said to Zhang Wei: "When you allowed your soldiers to rob us, why didn't you think that it was the descendant of Zhang Tianshi?"

Now all the leaders of the Five Pecks of Rice Sect have been loaded onto prison carts by Liu Bei and are being prepared to be transported to Chang'an.

But Liu Xie was afraid that the night would be too long and he would cause more trouble, so he wrote a letter to Liu Bei telling him to kill Zhang Wei directly.

And they just used Zhang Wei's death to weaken the influence of the Five Pecks of Rice Sect in Shu and prevent any descendants of the Zhang family from borrowing Zhang Daoling's influence to cause chaos.

Zhang Wei's failure did not surprise Liu Xie, and dealing with him was just a matter of convenience.

What really surprised Liu Xie was a private letter from Liu Bei.

In a private message, Liu Bei actually admitted his mistake, saying that it was because he was too soft-hearted and careless that he brought about the disaster, causing Liu Mao to lose his life.

Originally, Liu Xie didn't want to keep Liu Bei in Shu.

Liu Bei was good in every way except that he was too kind.

It doesn't matter if you are kind to your own people, the most important thing is to be kind to your enemies as well.

Taking Yizhou is just the first step.

In the future, Yizhou will inevitably undergo a transformation from top to bottom and from inside to outside, just like Liangzhou.

If Liu Bei continues to sympathize with those scholars, it will be extremely difficult to complete the transformation of Yizhou.

But after seeing Liu Bei's private letter, Liu Xie felt a little relieved.

"You can make your uncle the governor of Yizhou and the commander-in-chief of the Yizhou army. And you can make Wu Yi the deputy governor of Yizhou to help your uncle govern Yizhou."

"Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also stayed in Shu to guard against the southern barbarians."

In addition, Liu Bei also specifically noted one thing in the letter, hoping that the emperor could handle it properly.

Previously, a fortune teller had observed Wu Yi's sister's face and said that she was extremely noble and qualified to become the queen.

At that time, he might have said this just to please Liu Yan and Wu Yi.

But now these words have become the death warrant for Wu Yi's sister.

Want to be a queen? Whose queen?

There is no emperor in Shu, so where would you get the title of queen?
As for Liu Xie, there is no need to say more.

Dong Bai had just been canonized as the queen, and suddenly someone with the face of a queen appeared...

Is he cursing Dong Bai, or is he complaining that Dong Zhuo's sword is not fast enough?

But Wu Yi was a great contributor to the expedition against Shu, and Liu Bei was unsure about it, so he wrote a letter to the emperor asking him to make the decision.

"Is this difficult? The emperor's uncle is a relative of the Han Dynasty and my uncle. It is normal for him to be tainted by the emperor's aura. Let the emperor's uncle marry Wu Yi's sister and be done with it."

Liu Xie was unwilling to waste time on such prophecies. Moreover, Wu was an innocent person after all, and she could not bear the consequences, so he simply let Liu Bei marry Wu, which would also allow him to have a closer relationship with Wu Yi.

However, after Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei decided to stay in Shu, Liu Xie was still worried...

Putting these three together, it always feels like something big is going to happen...

"Let Fa Zheng stop staying in Liang Province and causing trouble for the scholars there. Liang Province is now peaceful. Let him go to Shu and transfer to Yi Province to assist the emperor's uncle."

At present, Jia Xu and Xun Yu must undoubtedly stay in the central government and cannot be sent to Shu.

Hedong and Taiyuan, where Zhong Yao was stationed, were also of great importance and could not be easily transferred away. Hanzhong, as the main road connecting Guanzhong and Shu in the future, also needed Xun You to slowly sort it out.

After much thought, Fa Zheng should be the only one who is "doing nothing" and can be transferred to Shu.

Moreover, Fa Zheng and Liu Bei had similar personalities, so there was no need to worry about the two of them having conflicts in Shu and causing disaster.

“We’re short of talent!”

Only then did Liu Xie realize that the court's talent pool was already somewhat stretched.

After all, the essence of the two hundred years of the Later Han Dynasty is still in Luoyang and Guandong.

The outstanding people and beautiful scenery of Hebei and Central Plains are really not just exaggerated.

If the uncle and nephew of the Xun family had not been abducted, the court would have been in a much more difficult situation.

"Lack!"

It is obvious that the imperial court is now overly militaristic.

Not to mention the Xiliang Army under Dong Zhuo.

Even the local aristocratic families in Guanzhong gradually gave up their studies and began to develop into military generals because of the Qiang invasion in the Later Han Dynasty.

As for Liu Bei's subordinates...there's no need to mention them, they are simply notoriously rough and uncouth.

"The imperial examination, the imperial examination."

Fortunately, the day of the first imperial examination is finally approaching.

Looking at the draft in front of him, Liu Xie couldn't wait to quickly dig out a large amount of gold in Guanzhong whose brilliance was concealed and use it for the court!
March 20th, the first year of Jian’an.

The first imperial examination of the Han Empire finally kicked off amid everyone's eager anticipation.

A total of more than 9,600 people passed the qualification review.

This number alone is enough to make Liu Xie happy.

Because this at least means that the court now has at least 9,600 "highly qualified" talents.

That's right!

As long as you can read!
Then you are a high-quality talent!
Even if they failed the imperial examination, they were still qualified to serve as grassroots county officials, or simply return to their hometown to continue teaching, so as to further expand the scale of literate people.

It is obviously not an easy task to let more than 9,600 scholars take the exam at the same time.

The venue alone is a big problem.

Fortunately, Liu Xie was a man who would not feel sorry for selling his father's land to his son, and he directly ordered the cleanup of the Jianzhang Palace built by Emperor Wu of Han. Some of the palaces were directly demolished and turned into a huge examination hall.

As for the examiners, Liu Xie was too lazy to take care of them in detail, so he just let Lu Bu and Niu Fu lead the troops over.

The soldiers under their command have all been to the battlefield and seen blood. Wherever they go, there will be mountains of corpses and seas of blood, which is daunting. They are considered the strongest invigilators.

Originally, Liu Xie wanted to come in person, but was frightened by Jia Xu and Xun Yu, who quickly stopped him.

Firstly, since this was the first imperial examination, many systems were in their infancy and there were bound to be omissions.

If a desperate criminal sneaks into the examination hall and harms the emperor, I'm afraid no one can afford it.

Secondly...

The lives of the candidates are also lives!

The first imperial examination was held in the Jianzhang Palace, with soldiers invigilating with real swords and guns...

Under such a configuration, some weak-minded scholars might be frightened to the point of fainting!

If the emperor came in person and just sat in front of you and stared at you... not to mention those scholars, even Jia Xu and Xun Yu would have wild thoughts and would not dare to move.

Liu Xie thought about it carefully and felt that this was indeed the case.

"hiss!"

Only then did Liu Xie feel that he was indeed a bit of an inhuman being.

But this was the first imperial examination of the Han Dynasty after all. It was a pity that Liu Xie could not witness this historic moment with his own eyes.

"Wenhe, I wonder if you can add a few more candidates. I still want to go and take a look."

What could Jia Xu do in the face of such a frivolous request from the emperor?
To satisfy him, of course!
When Liu Xie saw that Jia Xu agreed, he immediately went back humming a little tune, planning to choose clothes to wear for the exam that day.

It happened that Dong Bai and Cai Yan were also in the palace at this time. They were both a little surprised to see the emperor wearing the white dragon fish costume.

It was Dong Bai who reacted first: "Your Majesty, are you going to sneak out to play again?"

Liu Xie glared at Dong Bai and said, "What do you mean by sneaking out to play? You clearly have something important to do!"

"What's the matter?"

"Go take part in the imperial examination!"

"Wouldn't that be more exciting than sneaking out to play?"

Dong Bai's eyes curved into crescent shapes, revealing a smile that anyone could understand.

"Your Majesty! Take me with you too!!"

(End of this chapter)