At dusk, Liu Decai dragged his tired body back to the palace.
In the past few days, in order to find a suitable venue for the examination, he visited almost every yamen in the northern and southern armies.
Zhou Yafu, the lieutenant in charge of the imperial army, was easy to talk to. As soon as they met, he allowed Liu De to choose one of the training grounds of the northern and southern armies at will.
However, in the tradition of the Han Dynasty, the northern and southern armies each performed their own duties. The southern army was the imperial guard army and was mainly responsible for the security of Changle, Weiyang, Ganquan, and Shanglinyuan. Except for a school ground near the arsenal, the other schools were
It's close to the palace, and the venues are relatively small, only able to accommodate a few hundred people at most.
Obviously, these school grounds are not suitable to be used as examination venues. As for the arsenal, Liu De went to see it. It is quite big, but it is adjacent to a military important place like the arsenal. It is impossible to open it to the outside world.
As for the Northern Army, the Northern Army has always been a garrison guarding the safety of Chang'an City. It has as many as 30,000 to 40,000 people. It has hundreds of campuses. The largest one can accommodate 100,000 people without being too crowded. However, such campuses are generally crowded.
It is set up in the suburbs far away from the city wall of Chang'an City.
However, the Northern Army's campus in Chang'an City was a bit of a mess. Not only was it small, it was also in disrepair. The ground was full of big and small potholes, and it turned into a quagmire when it rained.
Liu De ran around for three days before barely picking out three of these schools.
But even these three require a certain amount of manpower and material resources to be maintained and maintained before they can be used as examination venues. It is the largest school ground. After Liu De looked at it, he estimated that it can only accommodate a thousand people at most.
No matter how much it is, it won't be able to squeeze in anymore.
Liu De could only borrow these three school grounds and set them up as examination rooms respectively. Although this would make the already difficult maintenance of examination order more complicated, there was nothing that could be done!
"Your Highness!" As soon as he returned to the palace, a eunuch came to report: "The children of the former Dazhong doctor Shi Gong sent me a letter asking for an audience!"
"Huh?" Liu De didn't know who it was for a while, so he asked: "Shi Gong?"
"Your Highness, this is Mr. Wan Shi!" The eunuch replied when he saw that Liu De was a little confused.
"Oh!" Liu De finally reacted and said quickly: "Please!"
Lord Wan Shi, Shi Fen!
Have even such honest people started using the back door?
Or is it that the examination he conducted has reached a point where even ministers like Wan Shijun, who claim to be absolutely neutral, have to pay attention to it?
But no matter what the possibility is, Liu De must treat it with caution.
This is because the Wanshijun Shifen family has now become a force that cannot be ignored in the political arena of the Han family.
Shi Fen, Lord of Wanshi, was just a minor official with a hundred shi in Liu Bang's period. At that time, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were fighting for world supremacy and led their troops through Hanoi. At that time, Shi Fen joined the Han family and served as Liu Bang's attendant. His rank was
He can't compare to a hundred stones, but because of his ability, he is not conspicuous at all among the star-studded famous generals and wizards in the early Han Dynasty. Even a diner under Cao Shen's sect can shout at him.
However, as his name suggests, Shi Fen is honest, cautious, diligent, hard-working and responsible. He has always worked hard and done various chores without any complaints.
After a few years of this, even Liu Bang noticed that he had such a diligent and hard-working minister under him, who was as serious as a stone.
So Liu Bang arranged Shi Fen to be by his side and became Liu Bang's personal attendant, leaving Shi Fen to do things like drafting edicts and sorting out official documents.
As a result, Shi Fen's status changed and he became the most powerful among the attendants.
But Shi Fen never changed his style of doing things, being low-key, introverted and honest, which greatly matched Liu Bang's temper. Therefore, Liu Bang liked Shi Fen very much, and because of Shi Fen, he included his sister in his corps.
As a beauty, she favored Shi Fen and promoted him to Zhongjuan. This is an official position similar to that of a secretary in later generations. For example, when Cao Shen first followed Liu Bang, he was assisted by Zhongjuan official and grew up step by step. Therefore,
, Shi Fen became a minister of the Han family.
After Emperor Taizong Xiaowen ascended the throne, the famous ministers and generals who followed Liu Bang to conquer the world died. The old officials of Shi Fen, a young boy at the beginning, became bigger and bigger. From the beginning of a hundred small officials,
In the end, he actually became a high-ranking official with a rank of two thousand shi in the Han Dynasty. This was Jiuqing, equivalent to the deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in later generations.
That's not all. Shi Fen's four sons successively served as officials and each reached the level of two thousand dan.
The eldest son Shi Jian is the servant of the imperial court, and he is already the ninth minister!
There are five members of the Shi family with two thousand dan, and their total salary is as high as 10,000 dan. Therefore, Shi Fen is also called Lord Wanshi by the cheap dad and is highly respected.
Shi Fen retired from politics last year, but the Shi family became more prosperous after his retirement.
In Liu De's memory, this family has always been an evergreen tree in the political arena of the Han family in his previous life. No matter who the emperor was or what his political strategy was, they never fell. After Liu Che came to the throne, it became even more vague.
Some shadows of the clan politics of later generations.
By the first year of Yuanguang, this family had a total of seven officials with a two thousand stone level, a dozen officials with a thousand stone level, and dozens of officials with a hundred stone level. It was already a force that could not be ignored in the political arena.
The Shi family's way of survival is, firstly, to be cautious, and secondly, to have first-class investment vision.
At that time, Liu De's cheap father had an affair with his teacher, the Prince Dongyang Hou Zhang Xiangru, and Zhang Xiangru was dismissed. In addition, before that, Liu De's cheap father smashed the Prince of Wu to death with a chessboard on the streets of Chang'an.
Therefore, almost no one dares to be the new tutor of cheap daddy.
It was at that time that Shi Fen jumped out and took over as the Crown Prince and Tutor. He was considered a die-hard supporter of Cheap Daddy.
Therefore, when the cheap daddy became the emperor, he reciprocated the favor and all four sons of the Shi family were promoted, each receiving two thousand dan!
However, Liu De did not have any expectations for the people of the Shi Fen family because of the glorious history and past of the Shi Fen family.
The reason is very simple. The people of the Shi family are too cautious, dutiful, honest and moderate. In other words, the people of this family have no other advantages except being cautious, dutiful and honest.
So much so that at first Liu De thought about whether to use one of the heirs of the Shi family as a target to establish his power.
Because honest people are easy to bully, even if they are bullied, they will accept their fate.
Only later, when the situation developed too quickly, did Liu De give up the idea.
Therefore, this time someone from the Shi family unexpectedly came to visit him. Although Liu De maintained a certain degree of caution and attention, he didn't take it to heart. It was just that if the other party wanted a place, then give it to him.
As a win-over, but I won't give him anything too important to do.
Because Liu De knew very well that the disciples of the Shi family were notoriously incompetent.
People who come from this family may do some copywriting work and organize some documents, and they will be quite good. However, if they go one step further and want to take care of certain things in detail, they will show their shortcomings.
An obvious example is that Shi Qing, son of Shi Fen, later became a servant. Once, Liu Che asked him how many horses he was driving. He actually counted them carefully several times before answering Liu Che's question...
On the one hand, this story shows that the people of the Shi family are indeed very honest and serious, but on the other hand, it reveals that the people of this family are too dull.
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I went to play with my wife today and just came back~~~~ Well, I’ve kept you readers waiting for a long time. I’ll update the second chapter at 10 o’clock.
