Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

The prisoner offering ceremony that Chai Jin was looking forward to to show off his skills was not held in the end, but the extra pensions that the court gave to the casualties of the Northern Expedition attracted the attention of courtiers and common people more than the rewards they received for their military exploits.The Yuan Dynasty still adopts the recruitment system, but the Forbidden Army after the Empress' integration adopts the method of strengthening the army. Not everyone who wants to join the army can make a living in the barracks.There is an age limit, you have to be able to endure hardships, you have to dare to work hard, and cultural exams are added. Recruits still have a three-month trial training period. If they fail to meet the requirements, they will be sent back to the auxiliary logistics arms.As for the artillery with the best treatment, there is also an additional test of mathematics.

The cavalry has more requirements. Those who have never ridden before or have no talent will not be accepted by the cavalry.

The conditions for recruiting soldiers are becoming more and more stringent, and there are not many sons who want to join the army. The salary that the Empress gives to ordinary soldiers is enough to support the three mothers and children who do not work at home.Even if you are disabled, there is such a base number as a guarantee.Many workshops of the imperial court gave priority to hiring the disabled, meritorious persons and their wives and children who had retired from the battlefield.

After the Northern Expedition Army wiped out the royal family of the Kingdom of Jin, the common people were also looking forward to the prisoner offering ceremony.I didn't wait for the grand ceremony, but I waited for the news that the empress would send troops to the west after the year.The news immediately overshadowed the appeal of the first-time women taking the imperial examinations.Teahouses and gambling houses on the street began to use new gimmicks to attract people to gamble/lottery, guessing what kind of territory the empress wanted Dayuan to achieve.

The sensitive touch of Bianliang citizens made the empress, who often went to the barracks to supervise the soldiers to practice, to make the soldiers more loyal to the court, and to see the people's sentiments, was amazed.No wonder the people under the imperial city like to talk about state affairs, they have this ability.

The people speculated that the imperial court wanted to use troops against Xixia because the amount of beef and mutton coming from Xixia was getting less and less, and it was difficult for merchants who sold horses to bring good horses.

It has to be said that the people of Bianliang have a great ability to know the works by seeing them.

Hu Sanniang's plan to use troops against Xixia was also discussed on the agenda last year.Hu Sanniang discussed with Lin Chong, Li Gang, Gongsun Sheng, and Jiang Jin many times, but only considered that using troops from the west and the north together would increase the court's load and affect the strength of the Northern Expedition, so she temporarily postponed it.

The grandparents and grandchildren of the Zhao family also worked hard to conquer Xixia and even bring the land where Xixia was located under the Song Dynasty.In the process of this effort, Da Song took advantage of the characteristics of Xixia's small population, relying on Da Song for food, and insufficient supplies, and adopted a cannibalization policy, and made more than a hundred years of hard work.

But because of the great power of Liao, the tug-of-war between Song and Liao was repeated.Xixia was in the gap between Song and Liao, first professing ministers to Song, and then to proclaiming ministers to Liao, achieving a tripartite confrontation.

In history, the Northern Song Dynasty has always suppressed Xixia. If the Eastern Route Army of the Kingdom of Jin did not suddenly break through Yanshan Mansion and go straight to Bianliang, causing the famous "Jingkang National Disaster" in history, I am afraid that Xixia would rely on the Yellow River, Helan Mountain, and Liupan Mountain. The tenacious resistance of Qilian Mountains, Yanzhi Mountains and other natural dangers could not save them from being destroyed within a few years.

Now that the royal family of the Kingdom of Jin was wiped out by the Imperial Army of the Northern Expedition, the Kingdom of Jin has been destroyed in name, and the Jurchen who fled for their lives after the defeat, no one can organize effective and powerful military operations against the Imperial Army.Had it not been for Hu Sanniang's instructions to Qin Ming to slaughter the Jurchen and the remaining Mongolian tribes on the border of the Liao Kingdom, the Northern Expeditionary Army could have returned to the dynasty.

But Hu Sanniang sent an army of 30, and the army's demand for animal power and the soldiers' demand for meat increased a lot, but Xixia actually reduced the number of cattle, sheep and horses bought and sold in the market at this time.

This is to understand that it will slow down the speed of the forbidden army's destruction of gold, and set up obstacles for the Great Yuan forbidden army.Hu Sanniang sent the officials in charge of the negotiation field from the Ministry of Household Affairs to negotiate, but did not get a satisfactory result.

In fact, Xi Xia was right to be worried.

It turned out that the three kingdoms of Xixia, Daliao, and Song Dynasty, which had been stable for more than a hundred years, have undergone shocking military changes in recent years.First, the Song Dynasty and the Kingdom of Jin cooperated, and the Kingdom of Jin destroyed the Liao Kingdom with unstoppable power and became the most powerful dynasty.Xixia has already professed its vassal status to the Kingdom of Jin, preparing to use the power of the Kingdom of Jin to resist the threat of the Great Song Dynasty.

How could he have thought that the emperor of the Song Dynasty actually took the Zen throne.

As for the Kingdom of Jin, it just destroyed the Liao Kingdom, and when it turned around, it was right for the former Song Dynasty's Great Yuan to use troops.Da Yuan repulsed the invasion of the Kingdom of Jin, and took advantage of the trend to destroy the Kingdom of Jin.

Will the sudden rise of the Yuan Dynasty use troops against Xixia after sweeping away the remnants of the Liao and Jin kingdoms? Get ready for a war of annihilation.

Alas, this battle of destroying the country has dazzled and amazed the common people, and also caused the royal families of various countries to experience great changes in the world from heaven to hell.

The Western Expedition before the Great Yuan court became something that had to be carried out immediately.

This time, Hu Sanniang transferred Huarong back from the northern line as the commander in chief, appointed Zhang Xiaochun, the former economic and strategic appeasement envoy of the Taiyuan Mansion of the Song Dynasty, as the deputy commander, Huang Xin as the vanguard, and Zhe Kecun as the deputy vanguard. The purpose of the battalion's artillery is to level Xixia in one fell swoop.

Kuntai's Western Expedition in the third year of the year went smoothly.With the blessing of the artillery, Huarong was assisted by such brave generals as Zhang Xiaochun, Huang Xin, and Zhe Kecun, and successfully won the Xingqing Mansion.

When the battle report arrived in Bianliang, it happened to be Kuajie, the champion of Chunwei for the first time in Kuntai years.The people all over the city crowded to see the Xinke Scholars, especially the Xinke No. [-] Scholar. Hu Sanniang chose a girl to be the No. [-] Scholar.

This is also what the courtiers and the people expected, and it is beyond everyone's expectations.It's just that the number one scholar is Jiang Jin's second daughter, which is beyond Jiang Jin's expectations.

Jiang Erniang won the first prize, thanks to her excellent performance in mathematics and high scores in the comprehensive paper, which provided great help for her to finally win the first prize.

In this meeting, Hu Sanniang asked the six departments to directly propose the manpower plan that she needed to supplement. First, she took several exams among the officials who had studied in Taixue for a long time, and all the officials who had no real positions left over from the former Song Dynasty. Some of the qualified candidates who meet the requirements will be assigned to the six departments in advance.

Then, in the coming exam, she changed the nine-day exam to three days, and took the exam every other day. She didn't need to stay in the exam dormitory, and all the exams were in the open hall, and the body search was also cancelled.A large examination room with hundreds of people, the ministers, ministers, and doctors of various ministries were assigned to monitor in each examination room, and those who violated the discipline were found to be deprived of their merits and shackles in front of the examination room during the Chunwei examination.Of course, he will never take the imperial examination again in the future.

The bigger change is that Hu Sanniang exercised the imperial power, cut off the subjects of poetry, poetry and Fu, which had to be tested in spring every year, and divided the content of the test into several parts:

On the first day of the exam, the applicant department is different, and the content of the exam is also different.Apply for the Ministry of Household and Ministry of Industry tests that focus on mathematics, apply for the Ministry of Punishment that focuses on criminal laws and cases, apply for the Ministry of Rites that focus on the test of etiquette and law of the past dynasties, and apply for the Ministry of War that focuses on the art of war and the test of climate and terrain in various places.

All are practical exams.

The second exam a day later used the comprehensive questions given by the prime minister and the six ministers, and each department gave fifty questions.In this large comprehensive volume, all six volumes are involved, and they are all filled-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions.And this comprehensive paper has standard answers.Many people stumble in front of this comprehensive scroll.

The exam on the last day consisted of one big policy theory and two small policy topics.

The big policy theory is very pitiful, and it examines the impact of female households on patriarchal clan, economy, and social security.Everyone can understand this.The later two small policy discussions were suggestions for female officials' work arrangements during the puerperium period, and the other was how to determine the molestation of the opposite sex in the workplace and what punishment should be imposed to prevent this behavior.

This kind of exam questions can't be blamed for the failure of male candidates.Those who feel the same as them are those who take the martial arts examination. They not only have to answer the questions that focus on the art of war, but also do the big comprehensive paper, and then go to the Five Armies Dudufu to take the art test.

This kind of examination for selecting talents, Li Gang raised questions about it in Xiaochaohui.

"Your Majesty, it will be difficult for such a Jinshi to rotate among the six divisions in the future."

"What I need at the moment is to solve the manpower problem that the six ministries urgently need to do things. As for the transfer of officials from the six ministries, it is a reserve of talents for Zaizhi and Shangshu. There are still nearly [-] Jinshi left in the former Song Dynasty."

When it comes to the Jinshi left by the former Song Dynasty, those who can come to participate in the Xiaochaohui have nothing to say.

Those Jinshi who are waiting for a shortage, have read and memorized the Thirteen Classics by heart, and can write poems and songs almost at their fingertips, but what Liubu needs are people who do practical things.These people went to Taixue to study together with the officials who failed the assessment of various ministries, alas!Li Gang is worried when he mentions them, why are these people not enlightened.

Don't you understand that the Empress pays attention to those who can do practical things and those who can solve problems?

In-service officials occupy part of the manpower required by the Six Departments. In fact, only more than 23 people were admitted to Xinke Jinshi, including [-] Wu Jinshi.All these Wu Jinshi were from Liangshan, and Hu Sanniang's guards accounted for the majority.Although some people have doubts about this, but after seeing all the exam papers posted outside the Gongyuan, and the papers of the Art of War exam, compared with the standard answers, the voice of doubt did not make any waves.

The exam also limits the age of taking the exam, regardless of whether men or women are limited to 50 years old.When the final examination results came out, Li Qingzhao, the oldest woman from Qingzhou, at the age of 47, became the first female Jinshi in the mixed examination of male and female subjects during the Kuntai years with her low grades.

After Jinshi Kuajie, Hu Sanniang hosted a banquet for Xinke Jinshi in Jiying Hall. When she met Li Qingzhao, the most famous person in history, she knew that she would never have the chance to write the magnificent poem "Being a hero in life, and a ghost in death".

That's okay, so Zhao Mingcheng doesn't have to die in depression.In this way, she can also love Zhao Mingcheng and his wife and grow old together.Don't be displaced in his later years, no matter how suitable Zhang Ruzhou is and then sue to leave him, he will be humiliated by many people with his injustice in his later years.

Hu Sanniang transferred Li Qingzhao to the Ministry of Rites as she wished, starting as the secretary of Qipin.The content of this job is to research the influence of etiquette and law in the past dynasties on folk customs.It coincides with Li Qingzhao's hobby of studying inscriptions and ancient books.As for Zhao Mingcheng, who passed the examination by the Ministry of Rites at the same time, he and his wife became colleagues.

After Jinshi was assigned to various ministries, the court and the people focused their attention on the battlefield of Xixia.

Hua Rong led the army and occupied Xingqing Mansion like a broken bamboo, but the Xixia royal family fled ahead of time.Hua Rong was so angry that he organized his army and followed closely behind.And Jiang Jing followed Huarong's footsteps in the battle, and the business of relocating people to the returned Xingqing Mansion and other places was also in full swing.Hu Sanniang suggested to solicit volunteers in Dayuan first to see how many people are willing to migrate.Then lead the powerful clans from all over the country, and the branches move in.

Jiang Jing promoted Xingqing Mansion as recovery. He evolved from the cracked soil of the Tang Dynasty to today's countries in the world, telling the truth that the power of the world must be united for a long time.Let people print his words in the Dibao and various tabloids in Bianliang.It immediately became a new topic in the streets and alleys, and it really won the heartfelt approval of many people.Cooperating with the imperial court's preferential immigration policy, nearly [-] people from Bianliang and its surroundings quickly and proactively diverted.

Ahem, Jiang Jing also knows that the most fundamental reason is that the immigration preferential policies given by the empress are too good and attractive.The other is that the people have recognized the force of the Forbidden Army and will soon occupy the entire territory of Xixia.But anyway, he, Jiang Jing, beautifully completed the first step of relocating the people. .