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"So it is!" Xie Lingyun suddenly realized.

Zhao Junsheng pointed to the teams passing by under the tower and asked, "Xie Lingyun, what do you think of the soldiers and horses of my king?"

Xie Lingyun said: "Your Majesty's soldiers and horses are very strong, but they are not as good as my Great Song Dynasty!"

Dongfang Chen next to him said: "Grand Xie's words are wrong. If I am not as good as the Song army, why was the Song army beaten by our army a few months ago and fled south in embarrassment?"

Xie Lingyun said: "Don't your majesty and your lords not know that I announced to the world early on that Tan Daoji would support the bandits? It's not that our Song army was defeated by the Gan army, but that Tan Daoji didn't want to fight. Something happened to him, so he tried his best every time he fought! But in the end he was wrong, and he paid the price for his wrong behavior!"

Gao Yun said to Xie Lingyun: "Tan Daoji had an army of ten thousand at the beginning, but when he retreated back to Jiangzhou, there were only less than forty thousand left. You said he didn't want to do his best, so he was willing to pay such a heavy price?"

Xie Lingyun was speechless, and he couldn't say that the Gan army could win the battle only because of the advantage of the cavalry, let alone that someone in the court was playing tricks behind Tan Daoji's back.

After the ceremony was over, Zhao Junsheng gave a banquet to all the envoys and some celebrities from Qianguo, and he introduced Xie Lingyun to everyone.

Wan Yutong, who was invited to the banquet, liked Xie Lingyun's poems very much, and many officials and literati of Qianguo also asked Xie Lingyun for advice on poetry.

During the dinner, Xie Lingyun asked Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, the foreign ministers heard that Qianguo intends to recruit officials through the method of conducting examinations. I wonder if there is such a thing?"

Chapter 654 Ma Zheng

Zhao Junsheng has been thinking about the establishment of the scientific examination. He has consulted the thoughts and opinions of some ministers and officials at the top of the Qian State.watermark ad test watermark ad test

Zhao Junsheng didn't expect the news to spread so quickly, even Liu Song knew about it. At this time, some ministers of the Qian Kingdom, envoys from all parties and invited celebrities of the Qian Kingdom also pricked up their ears.

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a while and said, "I've been thinking about this matter all along, and I've also solicited the views and opinions of some ministers, and most of them still agree with it at this time!"

Xie Lingyun frowned and said, "Your Majesty, the foreign ministers think that this kind of scientific examination system is actually just superfluous. The vast majority of educated people are still members of the gentry, and it's just a change of soup!"

"I don't agree with the words of the envoy of the Southern Dynasty!" Pei Jin stood up and refuted loudly. He said: "Our country has started to set up schools in various places, and all school-age children can go to school. As long as time passes, it will be regarded as a poor family. Gritting your teeth can bring out a person!"

"That's even more inappropriate. It's an elegant thing. How can poor and lowly children do it? If poor and lowly people can still take part in scientific examinations and even become officials, wouldn't this world be messed up? Poor and humble people are born poor and humble, and rich and noble People are born rich and noble, if it is possible for poor and lowly people to be equal to rich and noble people, wouldn't the world be in chaos?" An envoy of the Northern Wei Dynasty stood up and shouted loudly.

"The world is in chaos? Isn't the world not chaotic enough? No matter how chaotic it is, it can't be as chaotic as it is now, right?" Liang Ji immediately stood up and retorted.

Zhao Junsheng pressed his hands and said to the crowd: "Okay, this is our country's internal affairs. Messengers had better not interfere. Our country will never allow any person or force to attempt to interfere in our country's internal affairs! Come on, let's sing and dance."

A group of court ladies stepped into the hall with small steps to the sound of musical instruments, and danced in the middle of the hall. The ministers of the Qian State and the envoys of various forces were fascinated by it.

The selection of officials by the scientific examination system is Zhao Junsheng's deliberate deliberation, and it is not a whim.

During this period, the gap between the rich and the poor was huge, and the contradictions between social classes and ethnic groups were very large. Ordinary people had almost no political rights. This was also the reason for frequent social turmoil during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Under such a social background, Zhao Junsheng believes that the selection of officials through the implementation of the scientific examination system can alleviate social conflicts to a large extent, which gives the common people the opportunity to change their destiny and provides a relatively fair competition environment.

And Zhao Junsheng also wants to use this method to completely change the status quo of the gentry's clan controlling the world's political structure, because he knows that if the system of selecting officials through the imperial examination is not adopted, it will only take another ten or 20 years for the ministers and generals who started the country to become Become a new gate valve.

In the next few days, the envoys left Qianjing one after another.

At this time, the leaders of Xinliguo focused on farming. Except for those left behind, other government officials at all levels went down to check on farmland planting, weeding, and irrigation. For counties and counties with insufficient water conservancy facilities, superiors Officials must severely reprimand and warn lower-level officials in charge. For barren farmland, the government will severely punish the owners of barren farmland, and in the most serious cases, their ownership will be deprived and sold to other farmers.

At this time, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan are concerned about the issue of animal husbandry. The loss of war horses in the previous war against the Southern Dynasties was too great. Once the horses are lost, they must be replenished in time, otherwise the combat effectiveness of the army will drop sharply.

In fact, there is no shortage of horses in Qianguo, but there is a shortage of qualified military horses. It is not a matter of one day to train ordinary horses into military horses, so there must be one or even several horse breeding lands that can supply military horses to the army at any time.

At present, there is no large-scale horse breeding land in Qian Kingdom. Most of the war horses used in Qian Kingdom come from the barbarian tribes between Dongchile and Wuchuan to Yuyi Town. The horses provided by these barbarian tribes are used as military horses after being trained by grooms. To supply the army, after all, the domestication time is too short, and the horse has not been fully domesticated.

However, the quality of the horses of these barbarians is uneven. If you want to have qualified military horses, you must have special horse breeding land and careful breeding. This requires a large area of ​​pastures to raise military horses, and you also need grooms who are proficient in breeding fine horses. .

By Zhao Junsheng

As the king of a country, there is no shortage of grooms who are proficient in breeding fine horses, but choosing a suitable horse breeding land is the most important thing.

First of all, the area of ​​the horse farm must be large enough, with a suitable climate and rich water and grass; secondly, the location of the horse farm is very important, and it should not be too close to the hostile power's jurisdiction.

In Zhao Junsheng's view, the most suitable places to raise horses are in the northern part of Bingzhou, the Hetao area, and the north and south of Yinshan Mountain. However, except for the area between Wuchuan and Yuyi Town, Bingzhou and Hetao are not in his control area.

Although the area between Wuchuan and Yuyi Town is under his control, it is too close to Rouran, and the northern border is too long, so it is impossible for Rouran people to guard against it. It is impossible to guard every border. It is as strong as gold, if a special military horse breeding land is established in this area, once the Rouran people sneak attack, Qianguo may face the embarrassing situation of lack of military horses.

On June [-]th, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan went to Wuchuan Town, and inspected the defense conditions, military drills, morale, weapons and equipment of various sections of the Great Wall, passes and forts along the way. These conditions were better than Zhao Junsheng expected. Some.

On the first day of July, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan arrived in Wuchuan. This time they came to Wuchuan to find a large horse farm;

Gao Xiu, who had been named Marquis of Gaoyang by Zhao Junsheng, led a large number of soldiers from Wuchuan Town more than ten miles to meet him. The two sides met at a location fifteen miles east of Wuchuan Town.

"The minister and all the officers and men welcome the King and Princess to visit Wuchuan Town!"

Zhao Junsheng reined in the reins and stopped, raised his hand and said: "All generals and soldiers are excused, let's go back to the city first!"

"Thank you king!"

The team continued to move towards Wuchuan City, and Zhao Junsheng signaled Gao Xiu to go with him.

"How is the situation in Huaishuo Town and Woye Town? Is it hostile to Wuchuan?" Zhao Junsheng asked.

Gao Xiu said: "After coming to Daqian to take charge of Huaishuo Town and Woye Town, although I have not turned against Wuchuan Town, but I am not as close as before, but both sides will still inform each other about the issue of dealing with Rouran, but We will not send troops to reinforce each other!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded and asked, "Has Rouran people put more pressure on Wuchuan in the past two years?"

Gao Xiu clasped his fists and said: "I am about to report to the king that in the past two years, small groups of Rouran cavalry have often appeared in Monan, but after our army's patrolling cavalry arrived, they quickly retreated to the north. The number of times they appeared More and more frequently, I feel that Rouran's strength should have recovered a lot in the past seven years!"

After Zhao Junsheng heard this, he was not very hopeful about finding a large horse farm near Wuchuan this time.

After arriving at Wuchuan City, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan found that the city was much more prosperous than when they built the city. It stinks.

Zhao Junsheng took care of Gao Xiu's face and didn't mention it. Hua Mulan was impatient and said directly: "Gao Xiu, when we left, we gave you a clean and tidy Wuchuan City. Look at you, it's dirty now. What a mess it is!"

Gao Xiu's face showed embarrassment. In the past two years, his main energy has been on training soldiers and watching Rouran people, thus ignoring the city construction and sanitation maintenance issues of Wuchuan City.

He said: "The princess taught me the lesson, Wuchuan City should be rectified!"

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan rested in Wuchuan City for a day, and went to the surrounding areas to inspect the next day. They ran around the area under the jurisdiction of Wuchuan Town for five or six days in a row. Check out all the pastures.

On the whole, Wuchuan Town is still very qualified in terms of armaments. At least Zhao Junsheng can't find many faults. When checking several large pastures, Zhao Junsheng also found that the locations suitable for military horse breeding and breeding horse breeding are relatively good. Close to the border, it is easy to be attacked by Rouran people.

In the end, Zhao Junsheng gave up his plan to put the horse farm where the military horses were bred and cultivated in Wuchuan Town. Before leaving Wuchuan, he made a deal with Gao Xiu. from all towns

He and the local government promoted several generals to serve in Qianjing, and Gao Xiu was one of the most suitable candidates, so he asked Gao Xiu to arrange the affairs here as well as possible.

On July [-]th, Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and his party came to the Songmo area.

Since the Baishan and Sumo tribes of Kumoxi, Khitan, and Wuji were wiped out by Hua Mulan's army, many people from Hebei were moved to the vast areas south of the West Liao River and on both sides of the East Liao River. dilute.

At this time, this area had a large area of ​​grassland and abundant water resources, especially the area where the Kumoxi and Khitan people used to be active was very suitable for raising horses.

Zhao Junsheng immediately decided to locate the horse farm in the area south of the Liaohe River Basin after checking it. However, in order to prevent the desertification of the land caused by large-scale grazing, he divided the horse farm into ten areas and dispersed the horses within a unit area as much as possible. quantity.

The breeding and breeding of military horses is only one branch of animal husbandry. The development of animal husbandry is very important to the current Qianguo. The army and civilians have an increasing demand for meat, so the Qianguo must also bsp;tái Corresponding decrees support the development of animal husbandry.