Chapter 800: Even if you have superpowers, you can't expand

The imperial examinations in a few days were completed soon, but it would take half a month to wait until the papers were graded and the results were announced.

Especially in this year's exam, the additional questions of Youdao are that officials in the literature department cannot meet the criteria for judgment. They need to wait until the Prime Minister's new theory system is announced before they can obtain the criteria for official ideology, and the marking of the papers will be even slower.

It means that candidates and examiners must learn new things together.

The "college entrance examination composition questions" in history have always been the most likely topic to be hotly discussed in Shilin.

In addition, this year's "College Entrance Examination Essay Questions" appeared simultaneously with the official new theories, and the heat of discussions that resonate with the same frequency was even more rampant.

Among the candidates who have finished the exam, some of them are not happy with things or sad with themselves, but they answer the paper based on their original heart and do not regret it after answering, such as Sima Zhi.

Some people have dug their minds and figured out the meaning, and finally found that they had made mistakes after publishing the official ideology. They also left many far-fetched flaws between the lines, and they couldn't help but beat their chests and stamp their feet.

Of course, there are also a few who give up treatment directly, and the resentment between the lines is beyond words. Some of them are young and energetic, without knowing that the flaws of "remembering Yuan Shao's rule model" can be seen in their papers, which means that their career has ended.

If you want to lead troops for generals in the future, you will basically have to be a traitor.

After all, Liu Bei is about to unify the world. Although he still has to take the exam for the "Knowing Military" subject and get a martial arts student, the scale of the examination will definitely not be as large as in the war years.

In the era of peaceful development as the mainstream, the generals are still needed, but ensuring the loyalty and personality reliability of the generals is more important.

Li Su would not have completely denied the Song Dynasty's literati-doctoral route because the dynasties of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and Song dynasties were too weak in foreign combat power.

It can only be said that there is no need to be as careful as Song, and there is no need to suppress the military officials. But on the premise that the candidate for generals is large enough, it is nothing wrong to require both moral integrity and talent.

In the last few days of the end of September and even in the early October, more and more court officials moved from Chang'an to Luoyang in batches. Even if their responsibilities had nothing to do with the imperial examination work, they tried to take time to learn the new theory that Prime Minister Li had just announced.

All the wealthy merchants in Luoyang who operate book printing business also worked overtime to print the woodblocks. For a time, Luoyang paper was expensive, so they signed Li Su in a short time. In fact, "The Confucian and Legal Lunheng" written by Cai Yan was sold for hundreds of thousands of volumes.

Luoyang City alone sold more than 100,000 volumes, and the remaining 700,800 were sold to other places.

With the three blessings of the classics and the prime minister's works and official ideology, if you don't study quickly, you will feel ashamed of yourself and feel that you are not worthy of being an official.

Liu Ba and Fa Zheng, the utilitarian senior officials at the nine-ministerial level, were of course also learning new ideas. They also focused on reading shortly after they arrived in Luoyang.

Then Fa Zheng felt a little ashamed. The feeling was like when Liu Bei first entered Chengdu successfully in history. Fa Zheng started to act recklessly at the beginning, but then he became ashamed by Zhuge Liang's comparison.

This time, he was also ashamed of his dark worldview, but what impressed him was not actions, but philosophical theory.

What's even more exaggerated is that not only Fa Zheng felt impressed, but even Zhuge Liang was a little impressed. After all, in history, Zhuge Liang should have been the representative of "ruling the country according to law", which shows that Zhuge Liang also had no confidence in human nature.

This time, I learned a little more from Master Li to make up for Zhuge Liang's only shortcomings, allowing him to understand the world more angle.

Of course, this does not affect Zhuge Liang's style of doing things. After all, his original governance efficiency was very high and fair. Master Li's new theory only made Zhuge Liang feel more encouraging in his spirit and more confident in doing things.

A doctrine that convinced Fazheng and Zhuge Liang at the same time shows that it has indeed reached a level of indisruption. The truth becomes clearer the more it is debated, and there is no fear of repeated argumentation at all.

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Li Su was not idle either while waiting for the imperial examinations to mark the papers and popularize the new theories.

He took advantage of this leisure to devote most of his energy to the last important civil affairs work he had at hand this year, that is, the release of war treasury bonds.

At the same time, when you have time, you will pay a little attention and pay attention to the progress of the Hebei battlefield.

Liu Bei's work focus is similar to Li Su, but Liu Bei has to pay more attention to one thing, that is, the progress of resettlement of the capital, which involves the decent attitude of the court.

After getting these things done, Zhangwu will basically be able to do nothing in the fourth year. Just wait for the spring plowing next year to launch a further war of unification.

The issuance of war treasury bonds started in early September, and it is synchronized with the collection of autumn taxes every year, which is also in line with the government's working habits.

Logically speaking, the War Treasury bonds had been sold once last year, and the subscription amount last year reached 12 billion yuan.

The government has also injected a large amount of precious metal currencies and banknotes to stabilize prices and allowed previous government procurement to offset bond subscription funds. It prevents the government from accumulating too much money on the market, resulting in cheap money.

With such mature work experience, this year's war treasury bond issuance system has become relatively mature and there are fewer problems that need to be solved.

But such large-scale money and grain work cannot be completely free, especially since people's hearts will change, and market confidence will change rapidly. Therefore, the main focus of this year's regulation is how to ensure market confidence and subscription enthusiasm.

More than half a month after the actual sale, Li Su and Liu Ba gradually reminisce about it and found some problems reported by various states.

The problem is still relatively common, because even Sun Qian, the governor of Yizhou who was the best in charge of the subscription work last year, reported that the market confidence was shaken and the subscription share was insufficient.

If no measures are taken, this year's war treasury bond sales will not be able to maintain a scale of 12 billion, even 10 billion may be a bit overwhelming.

After all, the imperial court collected money on such a large scale every year, and the wealth of the people was indeed shrinking, and liquidity was shrinking. The money sold last year was enough for merchants to operate normally for four years.

The merchant's production recovery has not yet been kept up. For this interest alone, it is indeed impossible to stock up on more money without limit, just for one priority to supply the right to queue up.

After all, they temporarily feel that their "supply chain" is safe, so they can see the direction of the wind and decide whether to increase their banknotes and attract holdings.

Last year, Sun Qian used a lot of detailed techniques of "creating shortage panic" to exaggerate the supply chain of salt and other scarce materials.

Let everyone believe that "you have the right to supply when buying early, and you have to queue up to wait for the early purchase before you can pick up the goods after buying late", but this method is actually a bit of a deceptive attribute.

Within a month and a half, wealthy businessmen will be afraid of shortage of stocks, supply chain breaks and their minds will be popular. But after a full year of calm down, they will also come back and figure out many truths.

This year, when Sun Gan increased his efforts to promote the sales, the biggest doubt and lack of confidence encountered was that some merchants wanted to tentatively redeem the bonds they bought last year, wanting to see if "whether such bonds are possible to accept and repay in advance, and whether the court promised priority to pick up the goods for the year, can they be given up for a fee."

Of course, this descendants cannot open it at will, and it is indeed unfounded by the law, which is a place where the relevant laws and regulations on industrial and commercial tax have not clearly stipulated.

So Sun Gan rushed to write a private message to Liu Ba and also posted a letter to the court. The letter and letter arrived in Luoyang in early October. He hoped that he would get a reply before the end of October and give a clear reply to the wealthy business group in Chengdu.

Of course, the local reports from Liu Ba were not the only one in Sun Gan’s family. After he summarized them all and discussed them in the ministry, he came to ask the Prime Minister for instructions because of the great work.

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This day is the ninth day of the 10th lunar month, and the next day is the day when the autumn examination will be released.

Li Su's prime minister's mansion was extremely busy. He had just spent half a morning working hours to send off Guan Ning, the Minister of the Ministry of Culture, who came to report on his work.

Just as lunch was about to have lunch, Liu Ba, the Minister of Finance, was welcomed. Prime Minister Li had to spare lunch time and invited Liu Ba to talk about policies while having a working meal.
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