Spring passed and autumn came, and cold came again. In the blink of an eye, the time had arrived in 200 AD.
At this time, Li Xiang was already in his thirties, and he was at his peak.
At this time, Li Xiang already had seven children, not including the unborn Cai Wenji's child. Among them, except for Li Hao, the eldest son of Ziwei Zifu, and Li Li, the eldest daughter of Dayu'er during the Yongliang War, the other three sons and two daughters were all acquired in the past few years.
Among them, Xiao Meiniang gave birth to Li Xiang’s next son, Li Yu.
Shangguan Wan'er gave birth to Li Xiang's next daughter, Li Su.
Wei Zifu gave birth to Li Xiang’s third son, Li Xuan.
Wang Zhaojun gave birth to Li An, Li Xiang’s fourth son.
Wu Meiniang gave birth to Li Qing, the third daughter of Li Xiang.
In the past few years, Xiao Yanyan, Changsun Wugao, Xiao Qiao, and Cai Wenji have also entered the house one after another, as well as Zhang Lihua, Chen Xuanhua, Diao Chan, Chen Yuanyuan, Hai Lanzhu, Lan Masanti, etc. who were raised in the outer room by Li Xiang. Girl, after all, Li Xiang's harem is already quite small.
After resting for several years, generals stationed in various places also returned in batches to reunite with their families. Therefore, the generals under his command have also achieved their own gains in the past few years. For example, Xiao Xingtian and Xiao Shisan have been born one after another in the past few years.
However, these children are not implanted by the system, but born naturally. Therefore, the system cannot detect which step he can reach in the future.
After all, the future of these children is unknown and needs to be created by themselves. No matter how talented they are, if they waste their time since childhood and are not enterprising, they will not achieve much.
But if you learn that stupid birds fly first and hard work can make up for your clumsiness, even if you are born with a slight difference, you may not be ineffective.
After all, the system is a summoning system, not a system that predicts the future. Naturally, it is impossible to predict what level these children can achieve in the future.
In the past few years, many amazing things have happened. Among them, including the impact brought about by Li Xiang's implementation of the imperial examination.
As Li Xiang expected, after Li Xiang promoted the imperial examination, the first person to implement the imperial examination was Chi You. After all, he and the aristocratic family had no dealings with each other, and he didn't care if he had too many lice.
Moreover, among the princes in the world, the civil service system under his command is also the most chaotic, and some places are even under military control.
Next, it was Cao Cao who took action. However, he did not directly implement the imperial examination. Instead, he issued three orders to seek talents in just one year.
"Since ancient times, the kings who have been appointed to the Zhongxing Dynasty have never been able to rule the world with virtuous gentlemen! Even if they have gained virtuous people, they have never left the alleys. How can they be lucky enough to meet each other? The people above do not ask for their ears. Today, the world has not yet decided. This is a time when we are in urgent need of talents..."
"A man who is good at what he does may not be able to be enterprising; a man who is enterprising may not be able to do well. How can Chen Ping practice sincerely, and how can Su Qin keep his word? And Chen Ping established the Han industry, and Su Qin helped the weak Yan. From this point of view, scholars have biases. Short, mediocre, can be discarded! If a minister clearly thinks about this meaning, then there will be no stagnation of scholars and no wasted career of officials."
"In the past, Yi Zhi and Fu Shuo were born as bitches; Guan Zhong was a traitor to Duke Huan, and they all used it to prosper. Xiao He and Cao Shen were also county officials; Han Xin and Chen Ping had an insulting name and a shame of laughing at them, but they could become kings by their deaths. His career was recorded in Zai. Wu Qi was greedy for generals and killed his wife for self-confidence. He spent money to seek officials, but his mother died and never returned. However, in Wei, the Qin people did not dare to go eastward, and in Chu, the three Jin Dynasties did not dare to seek south. Today, there is no gain The most virtuous people are placed among the people..."
Among Li Xiang's imperial examinations, Wei Renpu, Li Zhen, Xu Jie, Gao Gong and others were all from Yanzhou, which stimulated Cao Cao. These talents originally came from his own territory, but they all fell into the arms of Li Xiang. Cao Cao almost slapped himself in the mouth!
Moreover, Cao Cao himself never thought that there would be so many top talents among poor families.
After the imperial examination, Li Xiang ostensibly wanted to show the fairness of his imperial examination to the world, so he spread the contents of the answer sheets of the successful candidates throughout the world. It is precisely because of this that the princes realized the quality of the candidates who passed the imperial examination this time.
Out of jealousy, Cao Cao issued three requests for talents within a year, which showed that he only relied on talents and was eager to seek talents. Only talent, regardless of origin, or even virtue!
After the imperial examination, Cao Cao also had some crooked thoughts and followed Cheng Yu's plan to detain the families of Li Zhen, Xu Jie and other great talents, hoping to force Li Zhen and others to leave Li Xiang and return to Yanzhou.
However, Li Xiang was not Liu Bei. If Cao Ah Man dared to play this trick, Li Xiang directly stationed a hundred thousand troops in Hulao. As long as he dares to continue playing dirty tricks, Li Xiang will dare to send troops to teach him how to behave.
The plains of Yanzhou are flat and are the best battlefield for cavalry. As long as Li Xiang divides the cavalry into several groups, he does not need to actually attack the cities in various places. He only needs to use Cao Cao's territory as a racecourse, let the cavalry run around happily, and set off a few fires, which is enough to blind Cao Cao!
Next, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who took action. The Jiangdong family, despite being kings and hegemons in Jiangdong, is not considered to be anywhere by the big families in the Central Plains and the North. Looking at them is no different from looking at the powerful.
If the Jiangdong family is compared to all the families in the world, their strength is actually the same. What's more, all the aristocratic families in Jiangdong, large and small, have already been brought under control by Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's early development was completely based on the blood of the Jiangdong family.
But even so, Lao Zhu was accustomed to playing it safe and waited until the war was almost over before announcing the implementation of the imperial examination. Moreover, Lao Zhu would do nothing if he didn't take action. Once he did, he would hit the mark immediately, leaving no room for opposition from those aristocratic families.
In fact, the princes in the world are not fools. They naturally saw that Li Xiang made the answer sheets of the imperial examination candidates public, not really to show the fairness of the imperial examination as he said, but to attract them to the water. .
However, Li Xiang's plan was an obvious one. Although this purpose could be seen, the temptation was also real, making them unable to help but voluntarily step into Li Xiang's plan.
Moreover, with the implementation of the imperial examination system, although the first imperial examination was limited by time, only scholars from several states near Sizhou had the opportunity to participate.
However, scholars from other distant states also set out for Sizhou, preparing to develop in Sizhou in order to catch up with the next imperial examination.
Although there are not many such people, the talents in their own territory flow to other people's territory, which makes many princes very helpless.
If no changes are made, they will still suffer. The large number of talents from Hebei, Yan and Henan who appeared in the first imperial examination is a lesson learned from the past.
