I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Liu Tan knew from the beginning that Yan Guo's party must not be so smooth. These people had too many bad habits before, and it was impossible to suddenly turn them into honest and honest officials. The sheriff did the same.

Because of this, he happened to give out a bunch of papers to these county guards.

Come on, let's take the test.

There is nothing that cannot be solved by the exam. If there is, there will be two more exams.

But this time is different from the previous ones. This time he has Liu Che as his backing. Long before he came to Yan State, all the information about the counties of Yan State had been sent to him. Chang'an didn't know that the county had been taken by Wuhuan, but it was enough for Liu Tan to have a certain understanding of Yan.

Anyway, the urban changes in this era are not so fast, and they will not change even after many years. Except for the natural laws of population, birth, old age, sickness and death, other things can remain unchanged for many years.

This information is enough for Liu Tan to understand the current situation of Yan State, at least there is no problem in giving them exam questions.

It happened that these county guards were all here, so Liu Tan directly asked Dou Sibo to preside over the exam.

Dou Sibo was stunned for a moment after hearing Liu Tan's order, and he carefully asked: "Your Highness, I...don't I have to take the exam?"

Liu Tan raised his head and looked at him: "No, this test just lets me know how stupid they are. You were selected by the emperor himself, so you don't need to mix it up."

Dou Sibo said in his heart that he had known the King of the Northern Territory before, and his great trick was the exam. After an exam, no matter whether it was a human or a ghost, he had to do it.

And those county guards were all at a loss when they heard the word "examination", and even asked what an examination was.

When Liu Tan found out, he was about to be laughed at by them. Now, he wished that all the scholars in the world knew that the imperial court was going to hold an imperial examination. These people didn't know the news at all, and they didn't know what these people were doing every day.

Even if they were dismissed before, they were only dismissed. How many years has it been since the founding of the Han Dynasty, are there still few cases of reinstatement after being dismissed?Anyone with a little brain knows to pay attention to the trend of the court. Once there is a chance, the official may be restored to his post.

It turned out that these people didn't know anything about it. Liu Tan reckoned that after the imperial examinations were held in Chang'an this year, the Yan Kingdom might become the only vassal state in the whole Han Dynasty without any students taking the exam.

Liu Tan couldn't help getting angry when he thought of this. If it was the past, he might feel that the students of Yan State were more unlucky, and even thought about whether to abduct all the talents here, but now... he takes over here Yes.

Even if everyone knew that he took over hastily, was too busy with other things, and it was understandable that he could not take the imperial examination for a while, but in the eyes of those who did not know the truth, he was negligent in his duties.

Liu Tan turned to look at Miao Rui and said, "Choose some people and tell me about the imperial examination."

The township examination is about to be held, and I heard that Chang'an has finished issuing the test questions, so I waited for the test to be held on the stipulated day after the questions were issued.

Liu Tan did some calculations, and there should be some time, but it was too hasty.

Now he can't wait for those people who went to the northern border country to occupy the quota to come to Yan country. Anyway, Yan country has been made into such a virtue by Liu Dan, and he no longer expects Yan country to have many talents.

If you can attract those people, and then trick them into staying... Liu Tan subconsciously touched his chest, feeling that doing so seemed a bit wicked.

But there is no way, Yan Guo is not short of population, but short of high-end talents.

Yes, Liu Tan also deeply feels that Yan Kingdom is a magical place. The climate here is not very good, the princes and kings do not do anything, and the officials below do not do anything. A lot of people die every year because of various disasters, but the population is so small. No, it made Liu Tan feel a little strange.

It's just that after he carefully looked at the various data of Yan State, he realized that there is a certain historical reason why the population of Yan State has not decreased-there are more ethnic minorities here.

If you are a Han Chinese, even if you say that your homeland is hard to leave, if you really can't live on, you have to leave if you are hard to leave.

But these ethnic minorities have always lived in this place, and they are not familiar with other places, let alone... there is no other place for them to go.

The big man must be on guard against them, so other than Yan Kingdom, other places will definitely not take them in.

In this case, the living conditions are harsh and the supplies are not sufficient. If you want to let the tribe continue to reproduce, you can only continue to reproduce.

Regardless of whether men or women are married at a young age, after careful investigation, it will be found that the women of these tribes either live extremely long, or die at a young age due to dystocia or various postpartum diseases.

Liu Tan couldn't help but sigh after reading all kinds of materials.

He didn't have that much defense against ethnic minorities. Didn't these people stay here honestly after living such a difficult life for so many years?If they were allowed to intermarry with Han people, maybe their descendants would become Han people in the past few generations.

However, Liu Tan didn't mention this idea. He seldom expresses his opinion easily on matters involving three views, because few people can understand him.

The big Han can accept the vassal states of the big Han from other small countries, but it is not necessarily acceptable for them to enter the territory of the big Han and intermarry with the Han people.

Of course, this matter should be put aside first. Anyway, Yan country has no shortage of people, which makes him relieved. This means that there are people working.

When the county guards were taking the exam with blank faces, Liu Tan could only write the proposal there bitterly.

When he was in the northern border country, he had already written many plans, but here...he tore them all up, and the entire order was wrong.

All he needs to do now is temporarily stabilize the situation, and then... drive Wuhuan out of Liaodong County.

Even if he thinks that he should wait for a while, after he smooths out the affairs of Yan State, let Yan State breathe a sigh of relief, and then drive Wuhuan out and take back Liaodong County, so that the loss can be minimized.

However, he guessed that Liu Che probably didn't want to see such a scene.

Liaodong County has been silently occupied for three months. Liu Che will be furious when he finds out, and the only way to calm him down is to take Liaodong County back quickly.

Liu Tan was very moved. Fortunately, he brought the elite group directly when he came, otherwise the current situation would be really difficult.

Not long after, a little eunuch came to report that the exam was over, and Prime Minister Dou had brought someone to deliver the papers.

Liu Tan was really taken aback when he heard the word Dou Xiang, and then he remembered that it was Dou Sibo.

He put the plan aside and let Dou Sibo come in first, but as soon as Dou Sibo stepped into his temporary study, Liu Tan was a little surprised: "What's wrong?"

At this time, Dou Sibo's face was flushed, and there seemed to be anger on his face, which made Liu Tan a little surprised.

Ever since he met Dou Sibo, he knew that this person was actually a relatively calm one.

However, his composure is not the same as Huo Guang's. Huo Guang is calm with confidence, while Dou Sibo has no idea and just waits for others to order to be calm.

So Dou Sibo seldom has very clear emotions on his face, and he doesn't know what happened if he can show such an expression.

Dou Sibo couldn't help but said: "These people...these people actually ignored the rules of the examination room, made loud noises and asked each other for answers."

Liu Tan raised his eyebrows: "Didn't this king ask you to bring people to maintain order?"

Dou Sibo bowed his head and said: "I... I am incompetent, I can't control them."

Looking at him like this, Liu Tan knew that Dou Sibo probably didn't dare to let the elite group do it, and he was the Prime Minister of the country anyway, and without his order, the people sent by Liu Tan could not do it privately.

In fact, Liu Tan is not worried about asking each other for answers, because everyone's papers are different, and the test is based on the basic situation of the counties they are in charge of. Each county is different from each county, and the problems they face are also different. , how could there be the same answer?

However, even if it is impossible to copy the answers, it does not mean that they can despise the examination room.

Liu Tan said directly: "Let them all come over."

Dou Sibo immediately rejuvenated, and left with the people. Liu Tan looked at his back and sighed deeply, and at the same time missed Huo Guang very much.

When Huo Guang wanted to go to the northern border country with him, he was just surprised. Now he knows how lucky he was. If there was no Huo Guang, and when he first arrived in the northern border country, he would be surrounded by such an idiot as Dou Sibo. , I'm afraid he will either be pissed off or exhausted.

As for now... After so many years, Liu Tan already knows how to do certain things, and even has enough experience in government affairs.

In this way, Dou Sibo was lucky.

Just as he was thinking about this, Dou Sibo had brought all the county guards here.

When the sheriffs arrived, they didn't look very afraid.

Liu Tan didn't talk politely to them and said directly: "Before the exam started, I sent someone to read the exam discipline to you, and asked repeatedly if you understood it. You all understood it at that time, right?"

As soon as he said that, the county guards below knew that he was going to make trouble.

After winking at each other, one of them, who was relatively young and looked to be in his early twenties, stood up and said, "His Highness, calm down, we didn't mean to disturb the examination room, it's just... Dou doesn't know much about the examination, we He couldn't even answer the questions asked, and we couldn't come out and ask His Highness, so we had to find a way to solve it."

Liu Tan looked up at Dou Sibo, and then saw Dou Sibo angrily say: "What are you all doing? Why can't you grind the ink, the ink is not black enough, the paper is too thin, and you...deliberately destroy the test paper..."

Dou Sibo stared at the young man very angrily, but the young man was calm and unhurried: "These problems are indeed not serious, but this is my first exam, so it's normal to have no experience. Some people's ink is not easy to use. Since Prime Minister Dou can't solve it, then we can only solve it ourselves."

The young man observed the expression of the King of the North while talking, wanting to analyze Liu Tan's thoughts.

According to his thinking, he must not be able to bear Dou Sibo's sloppy package like this. Who are the courts of the Northern Kingdom?All of them are the sons of high-ranking officials after nobles. As for Dou Sibo... It is said that he is from the empress's mother family, but the Dou family did not have much success when Queen Dou was there, let alone so many generations now.

These county guards even felt that if someone like Huo Guang came to be the prime minister, they would be convinced, but now such an idiot came out of nowhere and wanted to put it on their heads?Think beautifully!

But they also knew that with their official positions, it was impossible to do anything to the Prime Minister of the country. No matter how miserable Dou Sibo was, he was chosen by the emperor himself. To bring him down, they needed an ally—the King of the North.

Based on the emperor's love and favor for the King of the North, if the King of the North felt that the Prime Minister of the country was not suitable, he might be able to replace it.

Liu Tan didn't know what they were thinking, even if he knew, he wouldn't change Dou Sibo as they thought.

He could see that these people were pointing at Dou Sibo with swords. Not only was he not dissatisfied with Dou Sibo, but he felt that these people were slapping him in the face.

Before Dou Sibo could speak, Liu Tan said: "I don't care what your reasons are, you can't make noise, you can't make noise. Since the day I ordered the discipline of the examination room, no one can challenge it. You..." He said There is a smile here: "You are not small."

The young man's complexion changed slightly, he was very flexible, bowed and said: "I know I was wrong, please ask your highness to read it for the sake of my first crime, please forgive me once."

Liu Tan asked, "So you took the lead?"

The young man backed away a bit, but he remembered Liu Tan's temperament in the legend, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes."

He somehow knew that what Liu Tan hated the most were people who didn't take responsibility.

Liu Tan asked, "Is there anyone who didn't make a mistake?"

When he asked this question, he was looking at Dou Sibo. Dou Sibo was slightly taken aback, then nodded and said, "The Governor of Liaoxi County and Shanggu County did not participate."

Liu Tan looked at the two people and was a little surprised. As a county adjacent to the Northern Kingdom, Shanggu County knew something about him. On the contrary, he was the governor of Liaoxi County, and he was quite knowledgeable about current affairs. mean.

He added: "You, come here and write down all their faults."

Dou Sibo was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Liu Tan to make such a request, but he had one advantage that he was obedient enough.

Whatever Liu Tan asked him to do, he would do it.

So he sat down and started writing.

At this time, the faces of the county guards were all pale, and they looked at each other, a little unsure.

In fact, they also knew to some extent that there was once a sheriff of Xi'an Yang County who was stabbed by his highness because he openly disobeyed the King of the Northern Realm in the examination room.

So when they troubled Dou Sibo, they deliberately controlled the level of disturbance.

Trouble is trouble, but they still took the exam honestly.

From this point of view, the crime they committed should not be too big, so they wouldn't be stabbed for such a small matter, right?

Among them, the most calm one is probably the young man.

Liu Tan was also curious, because the introductions he had met before were rather hasty, he only knew that this young man was the sheriff of Guangyang County.

To be able to become a sheriff at this age, this person must have a good background, but Liu Tan has seen a lot of people with a good background and cleaned up a lot.

Didn't the sheriff of Guangyang County think that he would spare him because of his background?

In the silence, Dou Sibo quickly finished writing the crimes of these people. Liu Tan took it over and took a look, and found that Dou Sibo's words were distorted by anger. Obviously, he suffered a lot just now.

He glanced from top to bottom, and found that the one who escaped the most was not the sheriff of Guangyang County, but the sheriff of Pinggang County.

It was a man who looked like a big and three rough, let Liu Tan see that he was not a civil servant but a military officer. The most coincidental thing was that this man still had a few lives in his hands.

In this era, it is not uncommon for someone to have a life on their hands. Even Liu Tan did it himself with only two people.

It's just that Liu Tan once focused on those who killed people in these county guards. The county guard in Pinggang County killed not foreign enemies but the people under his rule, and he directly set fire to the entire village.

In his words, the villagers in that village were covering up and working carefully, but Liu Che's embroidered clothes messenger found out that this person often searched for beauties to give to Liu Dan. This time, the beauties he found happened to be married, but he Regardless of those who insist on taking the beauty away.

The family that married the beauty was not a small family, they just refused to let it go, but who would have thought that the sheriff would be a peerless murderer, just like that, killing the entire family that lived together, one If he didn't stay, the beauty would naturally be snatched away.

It's just that when the country of Yan was purged, this person did not know what method he used to escape the sanctions. Otherwise, Liu Tan would not be able to restore this kind of official to his post no matter how short he was.

But it's okay, I just packed them together today.

Liu Tan didn't ask him anything, and said directly: "Come here, the magistrate of Pinggang County disobeyed the emperor, and he will be punished with a staff of forty."