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After the two consecutive days of the exam, the next two days will be the day to wait for the recruitment notice.

On the morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month, the Military Governor's Office finally announced the number of admission personnel. The total number of admissions was 1,700, with a pass rate of less than 10%. Gu Ziyan and Wu Shizhao were both admitted, and even Lan Sheng and Du Shiwen were also admitted.

Next, they will conduct a one-month internship trial. Once they pass the qualification, they will officially become members of the various departments of the Military Governor's Office. At that time, they will be released from the field list and inauguration documents.

However, compared with the official examination, the news about the capital published in the newspaper made the entire Jizhou military and civilians completely angry, and for a while it overwhelmed the enthusiasm of the official examination.

Half a month later, almost the entire Far East knew about such a deeply shameful event, and they all accused Li Suwen of being kind to the court. Even the major families who had always been generous with court etiquette began to look down on the court from the bottom of their hearts.

After all, the capital was robbed by the Hu people and asked people to rob, which really made people feel ashamed to speak up. It was very embarrassing to say it, and it was deeply disappointing to say it.

At this moment, the envoy from the imperial court came to the Far East was walking halfway and knew nothing about the current life in the Far East...

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In the 373rd year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on the third day of January, the court sent Dong Wenshu as the chief envoy, Xie Yang and Yao Zhong as deputy angels to come to the Far East to declare the throne ceremony of the new monarch. Now it has arrived in the Far East and plans to appoint a new governor.

In fact, Dong Wenshu didn't want to come to the Far East, but after Wei Ran ascended the throne, many old ministers of the Wei Zhen period in the court began to be dismissed one by one. Dong Wenshu and Xie Yang only bit the bullet and took on the job for their own official position.

Of course, it would be fine if we just came to announce the imperial edict. The problem was that the court had financial difficulties and wanted to collect taxes from families in the Far East, especially the Jizhou area under Liu Ce, which was the focus of Wei Ran's attention.

Dong Wenshu and Xie Yang also heard about the situation in the Far East. Jiang Ze had just been in office for a few months and had lost all the Jiang family's territory on the border. Now Liu Ce is almost covering the sky with his hands.

Moreover, when Wei Zhen was in power, he had promised Liu Ce that in the next ten years, all taxes in the Far East would not have to be paid to the court, and that Liu Ce himself decided to break the contract. Now that the contract is only one year, isn’t this a loss of the reputation of the court? If this is spread, what will the people in the world think?

"Hanling Hou Zhongjun and his country will definitely understand the difficulties of the court and donate generously..." Dong Wenshu tightened his brocade cotton coat tightly and comforted Xie Yang and Yao Zhong, "What's more, the entire Far East is now in the hands of the Hanling Hou. It's enough for my court to admit that he is rational in the Far East. It's not too much to exchange for this sincerity to go back for 30 to 50 million taels of silver..."

Xie Yang hurriedly said: "Mr. Dong said so much. As long as we pass on the meaning of the court to the Marquis of Hanling, he will be grateful and dedicated his money. Maybe there will be a filial piety to you, Lord...."

"A group of snakes and flys!"

Yao Zhong, who was riding in the same car, looked deserted and sneered at the conversation between Dong Wenshu and Yao Zhong.

This time, Yao Zhong came with the two of them and was completely entrusted by Wei Ran, asking him to ask Liu Ce to resolve the urgent needs of the court.

Wei Ran was ambitious since he came to power and wanted to change the new policy to create a prosperous Zhou era, but he was unable to do so in financial difficulties and the national treasury was empty. The new policy was difficult. In addition, the aggressive force of various royal families made the court pay the pension, which made him exhausted and had no time to change the new policy.

In order to quickly get rid of the current predicament, Wei Ran opposed the opposition and appointed Li Suwen's father Li Ji as prime minister, Zhen Sidao as minister of finance, Zhang Fuguo as inspector of the Supervisory Court, and also appointed Xu Chongming as the commander of the imperial guards, which consolidated his imperial power.

Although the capital was killed by Gaomi, Gao Xiang was unable to support him alone, and it was not a big deal, Wei Ran soon realized that the power of various aristocratic families was stronger. Whether it was Li Suwen, Xue Chengzong, or Pei Ji brothers, the troops and financial resources under each of them could easily threaten their throne. Over time, he might be a puppet in their hands.

The imperial guards adapted from the "Pingjing Army" had only 40,000 people. There were basically no need to rely on the troops in the Palace Front Office. After careful consideration, Wei Ran decided to take the risk and exchange power for time with those aristocratic families, and finally comforted them temporarily.

However, this is just a delaying strategy. The power released must be taken back, and the premise is that the new policy must be popularized, which requires sufficient financial support.

After a series of wars and the spread of diseases and plagues in the capital, people suffered heavy casualties and wounded people. Many people fled from important areas of the capital. Thousands of miles of fertile land were abandoned and no one could reclaim them, and no tax was collected at all.

To the south, the yellow-covered rebel army was disrupting the Jingchu land. The clan, who used the Jiang family, stopped paying taxes to the court on the excuse of blocking the road to the capital...

In the north, all the families of aristocratic families had just mobilized troops to help the king, but it was already good not to collect money from the court. If they were forced to force themselves, they would be able to tear each other directly, not to mention that the military expenses of the soldiers in Xuanwu Pass needed to be paid.

To the west, the territory of the Li family, and the Yongzhou army under Li Suwen suffered a lot of losses, and they also could not receive any money or food for the time being...

To the southwest, the border of Shu had to deal with the attacks of the Bohe people, and it was also difficult to collect taxes. In addition, Wei Zhen and the royal family's expenses during the refuge period, the financial resources of most of Shu's land were exhausted, and the people were also unable to bear the disturbance...

In other words, the court is now empty, and the treasury and the inner treasury can no longer pay the money to maintain the normal operation of the court, and even the salaries of officials are almost out, let alone implementing the new policy.

After thinking about it, he could only ask for help from the Far East. After all, Wei Ran felt that Liu Ce was still a trustworthy pillar of the country, and might be able to understand the difficulties of the new dynasty and help him.

So, Yao Zhong ordered to come to the Far East to raise money, grain and materials from Liu Ce that the court was urgently needed. He was ready to meet Liu Ce's anger. As long as the country of Great Zhou could improve, what if he sacrificed his life?

The carriage was driving on the bumpy road. Halfway through the journey, the groom suddenly stopped the horse and stopped, but he heard a horse roar, causing a violent sway in the carriage...

"What's going on? Why did you stop?" Dong Wenshu straightened his crooked official hat and said dissatisfied to the groom outside the carriage.

The groom replied: "Report to Lord Dong, there are civil servants in front of us who are building roads. Should we change the way?"

When Xie Yang heard this, he immediately put on an airs and said to the groom in a deep voice: "It's outrageous. We are the angels who were personally granted by the emperor of the capital. How could we change the way because of a group of lowly civilians?

Tell them, let them go aside quickly, and don’t offend the power of the angels!”

Upon hearing this, the groom jumped out of the carriage, came to a supervisor and bowed and said, "Master, can these civilians stop what they are doing and let our convoy pass first?"

Upon hearing this, the supervisor turned around and looked at the angel's car and the nearly hundreds of guards of ceremonies behind him, and couldn't help but curl his lips and said, "Didn't you see that we are building roads? You didn't see such a big roadblock? You can't wait for you to pass through the path next to you."

The groom said, "To be honest, the convoy comes from the capital, please make it convenient..."

"Oh, I said you can't understand what you are?" The supervisor frowned and said angrily: "Didn't you see the road being built here? Look at it, there are hundreds of people here, why do you want to give way to you and go to the path next to you..."

The groom frowned and whispered: "Master, I'll say it again. We came from the capital, so please make some convenience..."

He deliberately made the word "Capital" particularly heavy, in order to show that the convoy behind him had an extraordinary origin. As for why he didn't report the official account directly, it was simply to prevent being learned by the robbers and avoid accidents.

I didn't expect that the supervisor didn't understand the groom's meaning. When he heard what he said, he looked at the groom with disdain: "So what's going on in the capital? It's amazing? The military supervisor is not as arrogant as you. What's the point? Finally, I said it, the path is right next to you. If you don't want to walk, just stay here..."

Seeing that the craftsman was still in a arrogant manner, the groom was very angry. He glared at him fiercely, then turned around and walked towards the carriage.

After hearing the groom's words, Dong Wenshu was furious: "This group of troublemakers dared to be so rude that they would not give way to my emperor envoys? That's outrageous!"

Seeing this, Xie Yang hurriedly said to Dong Wenshu: "Mr. Dong, please calm down and let me go and teach this group of unruly people who are ignorant of the world!"

After saying that, he opened the curtain and jumped out of the carriage and walked towards the group of civilians.

As soon as he arrived at the group of enthusiastic civilians, Xie Yang cleaned his clothes, cleared his throat, and said arrogantly: "Do you group of troublemakers know that we are the angels sent by the imperial court? If you don't let go, let us go..."

The civilians who were working immediately stopped the work at hand when they heard this. The supervisor who had originally planned to go to the road ahead to check could not help but stop and turned around and looked at them in shock.

After a long time, the supervisor asked, "What did you say? Did you send it from the court?"

Xie Yang thought these civilians were afraid, and even carried their hands with an arrogant face. He raised his chest and said arrogantly: "How is it? Now I know you are afraid? I am not as good as you ordinary people today. Let me get out of the way!"

"I'm gonna ~"

"Pooh……"

"Pooh……"

Unexpectedly, the result was as great as Xie Yang expected. Not only did these civilians not show any fear, but they all spit out disdain and stared at them with resentment.

Xie Yang felt something was wrong and was about to take out the official airs to scare them. He didn't expect the supervisor to say in an extremely contemptuous tone: "You actually have the face to come to the Far East? What a group of shameless things. It's really unlucky to see you guys..."

Some of the men next to them also looked contemptuous and muttered something in a low voice. Although Xie Yang couldn't hear what they were saying, it could be seen from the expression on their faces that it was a look of extreme disgust.

Xie Yang shook his head hard, feeling that the situation in front of him was incredible, and it must be an illusion caused by the fatigue of the journey. After he came back to his senses, he continued, "You dare to disrespect the angels of the court? Are you not afraid of destroying the nine clans?"

"You're going to kill me!" The supervisor put his hands on his waist and said viciously to Xie Yang, "You guys who don't treat the people as human beings have the face to say this? Believe it or not, I'll let you all 100 people go to the wilderness today!"
Chapter completed!