Time flies, and another year has passed in the blink of an eye. This day is a good day for Fusu to open a subject to obtain scholars. Under the service of several palace maids, he began to wear the clothes that only the emperor would wear when he was offering sacrifices to heaven.

He put on the most solemn dress and the twelve-pin long crown that symbolized the emperor. After living in this era for several years, Fusu has begun to integrate into this era and began to act like an emperor.

Living a luxurious life. Of course, all this is to ensure that the people under his rule can live a stable life. Now Fusu will not feel embarrassed by any behavior of others serving him, but takes it for granted.

This is the biggest change in Fusu these days.

As for the entire Qin State and the entire Central Plains, a lot of things happened this year. First, because of Fusu’s idea of ​​​​lighting Yao and weak gifts, and because of God’s good intentions, the farmers had a great harvest this year.

Now everyone has a lot of grain in their homes. And because of the bumper harvest of grain, farmers can sell the grain, which further promotes the development of related industries, such as wine making. As a result, people's lives have become better than

It has been improved to more than one level before.

At the same time, the imperial court really implemented the imperial examination system in the autumn of last year, using examinations to recruit talents from all over the world to serve as officials. At the beginning, the people could not believe it, because it had never happened before.

Before selecting officials in this way, most of the previous officials were able to become officials because they were from noble families. They had not yet seen that ordinary common people could join the court. Although they were very skeptical about this, because of the support

Su's decree on light corvee and low taxes was quickly implemented, so some people still took the exam last autumn with the mentality of giving it a try. The best among them were actually recruited by the imperial court to serve as officials as written in the decree.

At this time, all the educated people began to pay close attention to the imperial examination. At the same time, many people began to read and become literate. After all, it is the dream of everyone in the world to be able to rise from a commoner to a court official.

In addition to these news that can make Fusu feel relieved and happy, there is another thing that has to give Fusu a headache, and that is that the 30,000 horses he sent to the grassland to drive out the Huns are missing.

, it can be said that there are no people alive and no corpses dead. Zhou Xing and others, who were in the clouds, sent hundreds of scouts deep into the grassland, but they only found out that this group of people had madly massacred herdsmen in the grassland.

, but there are different opinions on whether they were annihilated by the Huns in the end. It can be said that this group of people disappeared from the grassland. Fusu was really stunned for a long time after knowing the news. Although after subsequent discussions, he

He also knew that his idea was a bit taken for granted, but he never expected that these 30,000 troops would suddenly disappear. At the beginning, he was worried that the disappearance of these troops would cause some forces behind them to rise up and cause trouble. At this time,

Chen Ping then advised him to block the news. Because only the imperial court could detect the situation of these people after they entered the grassland, so it was easy to cover up the news. In this way, for a year, the families of these 30,000 horses only regarded them as

They were still on the grassland and did not dare to cause trouble. As time went by, many people speculated that there was something wrong with it. However, at this time, because the lives of the people in the world had settled down, coupled with the introduction of the imperial examination system, various places

From the officials to the common people, they have become content with the status quo and will no longer have any objections. Therefore, those who still have a certain amount of power can only endure it and only think that their children can return as soon as possible.

Therefore, the current situation in Daqin is stable, with no major natural or man-made disasters. Daqin's country is as stable as Mount Tai. At this time, in order to further consolidate its rule and give the people a big hope, Fusu had a spring day in the first month of this year.

The decree to hold another imperial examination. This time the whole country

Scholars among the common people all took action, but in just a few days, tens of thousands of people signed up to participate, which made many officials not sure how to deal with it. You must know that there were only a few hundred people last year, so

They can all come to Xianyang, but it is difficult to attract more than 10,000 people now.

It was done. But Fusu didn't find it difficult at all, and immediately came up with the method of "later generations", which was to divide the imperial examination into rural examination, county examination and palace examination, and based on certain results, the outstanding candidates would be promoted to the highest level.

Next round. As soon as this idea came out, it really made everyone worried about too many people.

The officials were greatly relieved. At the same time, they also admired Fusu even more, thinking that he was indeed a wise man. After listening to their words, Fusu felt funny in his heart. What he relied on was just the superficial knowledge he knew.

Unexpectedly, historical knowledge can be so praised by these officials.

Today is the most important day of the palace examination in the spring of this year. In order to show that he attaches great importance to the imperial examination system and to improve his status in the hearts of the re-examination candidates, Fusu put on such grand clothes and stood in front of the imperial guards.

They crowded down to the main hall. Then dozens of the best candidates were led to him.

After seeing the ceremony, Fusu first said a few words, mostly encouraging these people, hoping that they would do more for the court and the people in the future. Finally, he smiled and said to the candidates: "Here I am for you.

Waiting for the candidates who took the imperial examination to write

A short poem: I am a farmer in the morning, and ascend to the emperor's hall in the evening. A general has no talent, but a man should strive for self-improvement. I hope you will not be discouraged even if you cannot top the list this time." Fusu thought about this poem for a long time.

Remember, I think it should be a big incentive for these candidates.

At the same time, through the mouths of these people, this poem can be spread outside, and the people who are originally very interested in the imperial examination system will focus their attention here, so that they can do it for themselves or their descendants in the future.

Officials, these people must support their proposal

With the establishment of the imperial examination system, the counties in the Central Plains will be completely stable. Even if some people want to restore the situation of the past, those who think about their own interests will not let them succeed. The people just want to survive.

It's enough to have another hope.

Sure enough, as soon as Fusu finished speaking, the candidates showed excitement, thinking that they were about to enter the officialdom, and they couldn't help but feel happy.

Seeing their expressions, Fusu already knew that these people would be as devoted to the imperial court as he thought, so he changed the subject and continued: "The last scientific examination, I aimed to understand the knowledge of those people.

How. But some of them are not feeling well

Therefore, I have decided today that this palace examination will not use this as a question, but will instead test how you handle government affairs. Today’s test question is to ask you to tell us how you should deal with the Huns on this grassland."

After saying this, he signaled all the candidates to write down their own opinions before going to the case.

Two hours later, the correct answers were presented to Fusu one by one. He flipped through some of them casually, but they all followed his wishes. They all saw the imperial court using troops against the Huns one after another.

He advocated using large troops to push to the north and drive out the Huns without leaving any further trouble. The difference was just in the strategies they used. But in fact, the strategies these people thought of were not clever. Fusu shook his head repeatedly, knowing that these people

In order to be able to become officials, they always wanted to cater to their own wishes, but they never expected that their ideas had changed over time. After reading several similar articles, Fusu asked those candidates to leave the palace to rest first.

, and he and several important ministers slowly read these articles in this palace.

The sky was getting dark, and they still couldn't find an article that they could discuss. Fusu saw that Zhang Liang and others were a little tired, so he ordered the waiter to serve the food and wine. As soon as the food and wine were put on the table, Chen Ping said: "

Your Majesty, what this person wrote is the same as others, he does not think that sending troops to the grassland is the best way to deal with the Huns." He stood up and handed a scroll of bamboo slips in his hand to Fusu.

Fusu took it and took a look, and it was indeed very different from what others had said. The opening line of the book read: "Destroying the Xiongnu with force can only solve the temporary crisis. Only trade can solve the conflict between the Central Plains and the Xiongnu for more than a hundred years."

Hatred." What follows is a detailed explanation of how to open up business on the border with the Huns, and how to get what the Huns need through trade, so that the Huns will not always think about invading.

The people of the Central Plains exchanged the lives of their tribesmen for a few things. At the same time, the people of the Central Plains could obtain some things from the grasslands that they had never had before through these transactions, such as furs, meat, etc.

Unexpectedly, among these people who only kept praising the imperial policy, there was such a truly insightful person. Fusu was also overjoyed. In the past few days, he was also discussing with Zhang Liang and others whether there should be no need for troops.

Instead, he used trade methods to resolve matters between himself and the Huns. However, there is no final conclusion yet. Unexpectedly, there is a candidate who coincides with his and others' ideas today. This makes Fusu have no choice but to treat this candidate

When he became interested, he said to the person: "Tomorrow, I will call the candidate who has the correct report and let me see him, and let me see what kind of person he is."

The officials on the side nodded in agreement. Fusu nodded and said to the other officials: "You will have dinner here and then go back to your homes. Thank you for your hard work today. I will continue to read these things tomorrow morning.

Where are the candidates’ essays?”
Chapter completed!