After a period of time, Lu Yuan's daily life became regular again. At night, he played and played affectionately with Lan Cai'er, and worked hard for the great cause of having a baby.
In the morning, I would take some time alone to practice Taoism.
In the afternoon, he dealt with state affairs and sorted out domestic political affairs.
Such three points and one line are regular but busy and fulfilling.
Time goes by like this. A few months passed in the blink of an eye, and it was March of the ninth year of Hongdao.
According to the plan, on the third day of this month, the imperial court will open Enke again and recruit 800 scholars to supplement the shortage of officials in various places.
After nearly three months of publicity and preparation, the news of the imperial examination here has been delivered to every corner of every country and county.
Scholars from Ninghai and Nanhai, Dongting, Xiangyang, and Xichuan counties, who are interested in scientific research and Changsha Kingdom, have all flocked to Changsha City, preparing to participate in this last encore.
Well, that's the last time Enko.
Or to be more accurate, it may be the last Enco in the past ten years.
Now with the end of the Northern Expedition, the Zhou, Yue, and Changsha countries have withdrawn their troops. All knowledgeable people in the world can see that in the boundaries of the three states of Yong, Qing, and Yang, for a long time, there should be no War broke out.
Zhou and Yue went through successive wars, both of which lost troops and territory, severely weakened their vitality, and were in urgent need of recuperation and recovery.
Although Liang Guo's strength was well preserved, it had already prevented this after Zhou and Yue negotiated peace.
Therefore, after the Northern Expedition, there were constant exchanges of envoys between the two countries, and the emperors of each country sent gifts to each other's monarchs from time to time to communicate their friendship.
The relationship between the two countries, which had reached a freezing point due to the war, began to heat up sharply again.
In addition, both countries began to station heavy troops on the border with Liang State.
On the Yue side, Wuchenghou Shangguanming led an army of 100,000 people and returned to Guangling County in northern Xinjiang, restoring the normal size of the local frontier army.
In response, the Liang people had to withdraw 100,000 troops from the 200,000 troops in Jiangxia County, and also returned to the border of Pengcheng County adjacent to Guangling County to confront them.
Bai Mengyang, Marquis of Wu'an, led 30,000 soldiers and horses and continued to station in the three prefectures south of Xiangyang.
At the same time, he was rectifying the local Zhou people, building the defense of the three palaces for the imperial court, and completely digesting this territory.
On one side, they faced off across the river from the Liang people in Jiangxia County.
Although 30,000 soldiers and horses are a bit small, with the great god Wu'an Hou here, even though there are 100,000 Liang people on the opposite side, they still dare not be careless in the face of Bai Mengyang's threat.
One hundred thousand people were still keeping their eyes on Jiangxia County, not daring to go anywhere.
The ability of one man to contain an army of 100,000 people shows the importance of Marquis Wu'an's reputation in the hearts of all countries.
While the Yue Kingdom was making continuous moves, the Zhou Kingdom in the north did not stop either.
The original 200,000 Zhou troops in Xiangyang began to return north after delivering Xiangyang City to Lu Yuan. On the way, tens of thousands of conscripted civilian men were released and allowed to return to their hometowns and resume production.
Then the Zhou people left 50,000 soldiers and horses to garrison in the Sanfu land north of the Han River in Xiangyang County, which they controlled.
This was to prevent Lu Yuan from the south from moving north, or Liang Guo from the east to threaten.
Then the remaining 100,000 troops, led by Li Yanjing, were stationed in Nanyang County by the Zhou people to confront the Liang people's Huaiyang County.
In Henan County to the north, the Zhou people also gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses, threatening Zhou's Hanoi and Yingchuan counties.
Zhou and Yue cooperated tacitly, and each stationed troops on the border between the two countries. The total number of troops was nearly 400,000, and they were all elite soldiers.
Such huge pressure instantly made Liang Guoda feel overwhelmed.
In the end, they had to give up. The last thought of taking advantage of the chaos began to withdraw their troops from Jiangxia, Pengcheng, Yingchuan, and Hanoi counties, leaving only the original scale of border guards in the local area.
Then he sent envoys to Zhou and Yue, and began to make good alliances with the two countries. They each agreed to end the war and restore peace to the three states.
At this point, the civil strife in Vietnam that was initially triggered by the invasion of Jinghai Kingdom, and eventually evolved into a chaotic war involving more than 20 counties in three states, a territory of 100,000 miles, and millions of troops, finally came to an end.
With the Three Kingdoms Alliance, the three largest countries in Yongzhou, Qingzhou, and Yangzhou have stopped moving. Even if some other small countries want to move, they are unable to do so.
Therefore, the long-term trend of peace can be seen by everyone.
In the previous Enke and imperial examinations held in Changsha, hundreds or even thousands of people were selected each time. What did they rely on?
It relies on the dividends of continuous wars and successive land annexations.
But now the war has subsided, countries are stable, and local situations are becoming peaceful.
So in the environment of great peace, it is no longer possible for the Changsha Kingdom to imagine relying on war to expand its territory as before.
Therefore, the current territory of Changsha's three counties and seventeen prefectures should last for a long time, perhaps more than ten decades.
In this case, there is naturally no need to select officials on a large scale.
From now on, an imperial examination will be held at the end of each year to select dozens of people to fill the official vacancies. This will become
This way.
If you miss this Enke, you miss this last express train. If you want to be an official in the future, you will have to compete with tens of thousands of people for a dozen or dozens of places.
The intensity of this kind of competition is as high as tens of thousands of people competing for 800 places today. Can the difficulty be the same?
Therefore, after figuring this out, all scholars with a long-term vision began to flock to Changsha City.
No one wants to miss the last wave of dividends after the founding of Changsha.
Because of this miss, it may be really difficult to have it in the future, and I will never be able to be an official again.
Under this general trend, after the wedding of the king, after the celebration, and with the influx of a large number of scholars, the city began to be noisy and noisy again.
In this atmosphere, Changsha Kingdom's momentum was once again pushed to the top of the clouds.
Government Hall.
Lu Yuan was meeting with his left prime minister Cui Changqing at this time.
"Your Majesty, a total of 21,000 people have registered for this imperial examination. According to statistics, among these people, there are 4,000 scholars from the Ninghai Kingdom and 6,000 scholars from the Nanhai Kingdom.
In our country, there are 3,000 scholars from the former Dongting County, 2,300 from the Xiangyang County of Jiangbei, 4,400 from Hanzhong County, and 500 from Xichuan County. .
In this way, the total number of scholars from the three countries totaled more than 20,000.
Even the three kingdoms of Zhou, Liang, and Yue rarely heard of such a grand occasion, and the world was extremely prosperous. "
Cui Changqing reported on the preparations for the imperial examination. When he mentioned the number of applicants, he couldn't control himself and his face turned red with excitement.
Twenty thousand people participated in the imperial examination at one time. This kind of grand event was rarely seen in the Zhou, Liang, and Yue kingdoms.
Because the imperial examinations of the Three Kingdoms were held in each county, it was basically impossible to gather scholars from all over the country to participate in the imperial examinations in one city.
But Changsha State has achieved this and achieved a leading achievement.
You can imagine.
After the grand event of the imperial examination spreads out, people all over the world will have a greater impression of the Changsha Kingdom and their emphasis on the Changsha Kingdom's strength.
This is extremely beneficial to the improvement of Changsha’s national identity and international status.
Even apart from the benefits of improving reputation and international status, the fact that there are tens of thousands of scholars in Changsha alone is still exciting.
This means that the current talent pool of Changsha Kingdom alone is enough to sustain this new small kingdom, and there is no need to worry about the shortage of talents.
Seeing that the descendants are emerging one after another, there is no danger of inheritance.
This is undoubtedly great news for people like Cui Changqing, who is already an old man and has regarded Changsha as his lifelong career.
Therefore, all these factors combined make the left prime minister, who is currently the number one civil servant in Changsha, and even the number one person in the literary world, particularly happy.
Not only did he have more energy to work, but even his appearance seemed to be several years younger, and his whole body was filled with inexhaustible energy.
"Since there are so many scholars gathered here, I will be even more attentive in handling this imperial examination."
After listening to Cui Changqing's report, Lu Yuan felt quite excited and said at this time: "For this imperial examination, all countries and local counties in the world are interested in our country of Changsha, so they came here eagerly.
These people are all heroes of the moment, with considerable knowledge and reputation in the local area, and they are the cornerstone of local stability.
How about this.
During my previous Northern Expedition, many scholars were delayed in the city of Changsha, unable to take scientific examinations.
This is my fault and I need to compensate these scholars.
After this Ci Enke, no matter whether they win or not, all the scholars who sign up to participate will be given twelve taels of traveling expenses in the name of the king, so that they can have a smoother journey home.
Although the money is not much, it can be regarded as my country of Changsha and a little bit of my heart. "
Ten taels of silver was indeed not much to Lu Yuan.
The number of people participating in the scientific examination this time was just over 20,000.
For these 20,000 people, even if each person is given one hundred thousand taels, it is only two hundred thousand taels of silver, just a small amount of money.
You must know that Lu Yuan spent more than four million taels of silver on the wedding a year ago.
Two hundred thousand taels of silver is really just a fraction.
For today's Lu Yuan, it is a drop in the bucket.
Now that they have returned from the Northern Expedition, the various harvests of Lu Yuan's Changsha Kingdom army in Xichuan and Hanzhong counties are gradually being counted.
In these two counties, through various seizures and the sale of the assets of local officials and captives, Lu Yuan obtained a total of more than 43 million taels of cash.
There are also a large number of extremely valuable jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and curios, etc., which are being sold. When all are sold, it is estimated that more than 30 million taels will be harvested.
The above harvests add up to 77 million taels of silver.
With this large amount of money, Lu Yuan allocated 20 million taels of silver to the national treasury as a special fund for immigration, allowing the court to resettle millions of immigrants.
Then another 50 million taels of silver were left as military expenses.
Now in Lu Yuan's Changsha, there are as many as 240,000 miscellaneous people including local county soldiers, county soldiers, central imperial guards, palace guards, and capital garrison troops.
For such a large-scale army, one year's pure military pay alone would cost 14.4 million taels of silver.
If some daily maintenance expenses are included, the expenditure may reach about 16 million taels of silver.
Fifty million taels of silver is actually enough for three years.
Well, although there are 240,000 troops, it does sound exciting, exciting, and heroic.
But it’s really hard to raise them.
Even though Lu Yuan now had three counties and seventeen mansions, he still felt it was very difficult.
Fortunately, according to the estimates of the two prime ministers Sun Siwen and Cui Changqing, after three years, as immigrants from Xichuan and Hanzhong counties resettled production locally and the eight prefectures recovered in the north recovered, domestic taxes would will be multiplied.
At that time, the current annual income of more than five million taels will directly become an annual income of tens of millions, or even 12,3 million taels.
Ninghai and Nanhai will also provide aid of five million taels of silver and four million shi of grain every year.
Together, these two items can barely cover military expenditures.
Even if there was still some shortage at that time, at worst, Lu Yuan would be able to find other ways to get it together.
In this case, the problem of military expenditures in the past three years will be borne by the current seizures. Three years later, with the support of domestic taxes and aid from Ninghai and Nanhai, it was considered settled.
In addition to the above two expenditures for immigration and military expenses, the remaining seven million taels of silver were used by Lu Yuan as royal funds and put into his own private treasury for daily expenses.
But in fact, Lu Yuan actually had more than five million taels of silver in his private treasury.
The 20 million taels of silver previously obtained from Danding Road and Iron Sword Gate, after going through the Northern Expedition and various expenses, there were finally 5 million taels of silver left.
Therefore, Lu Yuan's current private balance is more than 13 million taels of silver, which is a huge amount of money.
It's just that although there was a lot of money, Lu Yuan didn't spend it carelessly.
As said before.
Three years later, no one knows whether the military expenditure will be enough. If not, at this time, they will have to pay for it from their own private treasury.
It was precisely because he had a private treasury of 13 million taels of silver that Lu Yuan did not panic at all when he maintained an army of 240,000 men.
Of course, so be prepared to spend your money wisely.
But at this time, it is okay to take out two hundred thousand taels of silver and use it to win the hearts of the scholars in the world.
And to be honest, to win the hearts of the world, money is essentially used wisely.
No.
After Cui Changqing heard Lu Yuan's thoughts, he immediately praised: "The scholars in the city will burst into tears of gratitude when they hear that the king is so benevolent, and they will return home from now on."
Ten taels of silver, although it was not much for those scholars from well-off families, it might even be just the money for a meal.
But for those who are really poor, it may be just the cost of traveling to take the imperial examination.
With these gifts from Lu Yuan, many scholars no longer have to waste time in the city, wandering around in the market, and worrying about earning travel expenses after completing their exams.
It may even be that this money, for some people who are extremely poor, may be tomorrow's next lunch and life-saving money.
How can such behavior not be called benevolent government?
And the king cares so much about the scholars, how can he not win their gratitude?
Lu Yuan smiled: "In that case, let's do it over there. I'll have the money sent to me later."
Cui Changqing saluted: "Then I will retire."
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In the next few days, the imperial examinations in Changsha City went on as scheduled.
After rounds of examinations, the 20,000 scholars were considered and the 800 winners were finally selected. They successfully obtained the status of Juren and were qualified to be officials since then.
After the exam, Lu Yuan presented ten taels of silver to all the scholars who were candidates for good governance. As expected, it aroused praise among the scholars.
Many people who had been saved by this money were even more grateful to Lu Yuan and shouted long live for him.
And with this unexpected fortune, many people who failed in the scientific examination have also felt a lot less lonely and are in a better mood.
Taking this opportunity, Lu Yuan harvested another wave of people's luck.
After the county examination, there is the general examination, which is the test for candidates to be admitted as Jinshi.
Considering that the two newly established counties have a large shortage of senior officials, there will be vacancies for many department heads in each county.
Therefore, after Lu Yuan considered it, he decided to admit hundreds of Jinshi candidates for this examination.
The time is set for five days.
However, before the examination could begin, an urgent message from Jinling City caught Lu Yuan's heart.
"Marquis Wu'an passed away?"
In the Chaohui Hall, Lu Yuan received the envoy from the Yue Kingdom. After hearing the news brought by the other party, his whole face was filled with shock.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The imperial envoy nodded, and then said: "In recent years, the imperial court has been unlucky. The place has suffered from frequent chaos and rebellions. The surrounding countries have been restless and engaged in war with me.
It has been eight years since Marquis Wu'an led the troops on the expedition in the 28th year of Longqing's reign and returned to the court in January this year.
Since leading the army on the expedition, Marquis Wu'an has led his army in battles every day and has carried out many military affairs. Traveling long distances is extremely hard. Confronting the enemy takes a lot of effort and effort.
In addition, Marquis Wu'an was already very old. After all the hard work, he finally couldn't hold on. One month after returning to Beijing, on February 20, the ninth year of Hongdao, he suddenly passed away at his residence in Beijing at the age of one. One hundred and forty-six years old.
Now that the imperial court has received a report from Wu'an Hou's family, he has begun to prepare for Wu'an Hou's funeral, and the date is set for May 20th in the ninth year of Hongdao.
The foreign minister was entrusted by the emperor to report the matter to the king and invite your country to come and witness the ceremony. "
Being buried three months after death is a treatment that belongs to the king of a country in today's world.
The imperial court gave such specifications to Wu'an Hou, which clearly shows its recognition and attention to this military god.
However, given the illustrious military exploits that Marquis Wu'an had made for the court, and having fought for the country for more than a hundred years, he already had outstanding achievements.
Before his death, he personally helped the court put down the rebellion since Longqing, and now peace has been restored in the country of Yue.
It is as it should be to have such sorrow and honor.
After Lu Yuan heard what the messenger said, there was only one thought left in his mind.
Dai Viet's Optimus Prime was broken.
Yes, it's Dai Viet's Optimus Prime, broken.
Without the military god Wu'anhou, the imperial court's external deterrence power could be said to have been reduced by three points out of thin air.
This is undoubtedly very bad news for the imperial court, which is currently in a difficult situation and faced with many external crises.
This isn't Optimus Prime broken, what is it?
Lu Yuan didn't know if the situation in various countries that had finally calmed down would cause another disturbance due to the death of Bai Mengyang, the Marquis of Wu'an.
If this is true, it will really be a disaster for the people.
People in various countries have only enjoyed a few months of peace, and war is about to begin again.
