Li Laiheng silently put away several letters sent by Bai Wang and Gao Yigong. In addition to briefly talking to Li Laiheng about Chu Chuang's stabilization of Yuezhou Prefecture and the war in Jiujiang Prefecture, these two people also focused on Guo Junzhen's character as a person.
The domineering nature is difficult to control.
Only Chen Xin's letter did not mention anything about Guo Junzhen at all. It just focused on the achievements and difficulties of the recent operations of several gentry and merchants such as Geng Yingqu, and asked Li Laiheng in the north to help with some activities.
, to see if we can open up some new markets for the gentry and merchants of Chu.
Li Laiheng smiled noncommittally and said, "Does the king want me to be a housekeeper for the gentry and merchants to recruit military supplies for the invading armies in the Central Plains?"
"These things are secondary. General Guo...General Guo wants the palace master to pay more attention to it."
"Well... Let's not talk about it for now. Leshan, our Prince Chuang is about to ascend to the throne. Recently, Qi Weng has been saying something that should be avoided. Do you know?"
Fang Yiren replied: "There is such a thing. According to what Niu Xiang said, it is to posthumously give all the documents of the three generations of King Chuang's father and ancestors to avoid the sea, with the crosses of jade, light, bright, seal, receiving, self, service, loyalty, and Cheng.
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Li Laiheng curled his lips and said, "These words are quite commonly used. Does our brother Gu's name, Gu Kecheng, have to be changed too?"
"If His Highness really listens to Prime Minister Niu's suggestion, General Gu will of course change his name."
Li Laiheng felt very amused when he heard Fang Yiren's eloquent remarks. Although Niu Jinxing had been appointed as Pingzhang government official, it consolidated his position as the leader of the military and civilian officials.
But Niu Jinxing is from Henan after all. Judging from the fact that King Chuang promoted Hui Shiyang, a Shaanxi native, to serve as Pingzhang, and reused Song Qijiao, Gong and other new officials as ministers, Niu Jinxing's career in the new dynasty may not be that solid.
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After all, Niu Jinxing was a relatively low-income middle-class scholar in the Ming Dynasty. He was familiar with military affairs and had some practical talents. This was indeed better than most of the boastful scholars in the Ming Dynasty.
However, compared with Hui Shiyang, Song Qijiao, and Gong, who had served as high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty and had considerable abilities and good reputations, the gap was more obvious.
Especially recently, the matter of Li Zicheng's plan to ascend to the throne and proclaim himself emperor has been almost completely left to the newly appointed Li Government Minister Gong and Li Government Minister Jiang Xueyi to handle it.
You must know that another minister of the Li government besides Jiang Xueyi, Liu Chang, an official from Henan who was promoted by Niu Jinxing during the founding of Kaifeng, was obviously a minister of the Li government, but he basically had no involvement in the enthronement ceremony.
In affairs.
It is probably for this reason that Niu Jinxing deliberately proposed the posthumous title of Li Zicheng's father and ancestor for three generations, and also avoided taboos to the point of using as many as ten commonly used words.
Fang Yiren continued: "Since Prime Minister Niu wants to avoid printing, he simply collects the Ming Dynasty seals from various places and issues new seals. The seals are renamed as talisman, deed, letter, and record."
"Hahaha, if Qi Weng continues like this, many people in the army will really have to change their names."
"Actually, the master of the palace doesn't know that changing one's name is indeed quite common in the Chuang Army. After all, there are many generals in the Chuang Army who are illiterate. They all come from poor backgrounds. Some people only have nicknames but no big names. What's more,
There is no nickname. What's more, when the generals revolted, because they were afraid of hurting their families, most of them deliberately gave up nicknames instead of their real names after revolting, just because they didn't want others to know the details of their real names. Over time, the nicknames became their real names.
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The situation is different now. The invading army has arrived in the northwest, and all the generals have returned to their hometowns in fine clothes. They have been promoted and knighted, and have returned to their hometowns with honors. There is no need to hide anything at this time. For the sake of dignity, many generals are busy
Changing myself to a new name has nothing to do with Niu Xiang's taboo."
At this point, Li Laiheng asked curiously: "Has any of the generals changed their names recently?"
Fang Yiren said: "Yes, not only Chuangjun Yuancong, but also Wang Genzi, a Ming army general who had just surrendered in Xi'an, recently changed his name to Wang Liangzhi. Now there are rumors in the army that Wang Genzi knew that he was going to
It's outrageous to say that a knight doesn't even have a name."
At this time, many people are waiting for promotions and titles. Everyone already knows that General Quan can probably be granted the title of Marquis, General Zhi may be granted the title of Earl, some General Guoyi and General Weiwu may also be granted the title of Earl, and there are many more.
I heard that the young general has been appointed as viscount and baron.
Because this was a happy event, and Li Zicheng also intended to increase the morale of the army by conferring titles, everyone was discussing this matter openly.
However, there is no clear determination of who will be awarded what title. Many generals, including the old man Yuancong of northern Shaanxi who started the uprising very early, have not yet heard the rumors that they will be knighted, and everyone is very nervous.
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Those who have not been knighted naturally want to be knighted, and those who are likely to be knighted naturally want to be knighted with a higher title.
Only Li Laiheng looked at this indifferently. He pointed at the platinum fracture fan in Fang Yiren's hand and said leisurely: "What if you are a scholar and a Marquis of Wanhu?"
Li Laiheng stood up and slowly pushed the gatekeeper of Bieyuan away. A spring breeze slowly swept in, causing the rice paper on the table to ripple slightly. Fang Yiren put the folding fan in front of his face and said quietly: "For now
Whose Lingyan Pavilion should I go to?"
"Hahaha! Leshan, let's go, come with me to visit my adoptive father and Master Liu. The enthronement ceremony is coming soon. I don't know what trouble will happen in Taiyuan City? Now that my adoptive father is in charge of public security in Taiyuan, what's the situation? Let's
Just ask my adoptive father and you will know everything."
"I would like to obey the master of the palace."
Li Guo is not only in charge of Taiyuan's public security affairs, but also most of the matters related to Li Zicheng's ascension ceremony. So now Li Guo is very busy. He has to discuss with Gong, the Minister of Ceremony, how to hold the ascension ceremony, and at the same time he has to discuss with Gong, the Minister of Li Zicheng, how to hold the ceremony.
Song Qijiao, the Minister of Civil Affairs and Government, discussed the resumption of imperial examinations in various places.
He is from Shaanxi, Song Qijiao and Gong are also from Shaanxi, and their hometown accents are similar. In the conversation, he mentioned various scenes and stories about Sangzi's hometown, which was more common than Niu Jinxing, who he had worked with for many years.
Today Li Guo is helping the Li government solve the situation of the joint examination. Due to the urgent need for talents, the Central Plains Army is not like Li Laiheng. It has accumulated a large number of cadres through four channels: the camp school, the township official school, the military department and the festival government examination.
Reserve, so soon after entering Taiyuan, he immediately started organizing the government examination.
Originally, in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, one had to pass the county examination, government examination, and college examination before becoming a student member, commonly known as a scholar; and then pass the provincial examination before becoming a scholar.
But now the army in Taiyuan is in a special situation and is in urgent need of talents, so the examination procedures have been greatly simplified. Those who take the Chinese-style examination will become juren, and can go directly to Xi'an and Taiyuan to participate in the joint examination. Because Li Zicheng is in Taiyuan, he will be given priority in the joint examination.
Arranged to arrive in Taiyuan.
Now that the joint examination has been held, the list of the first batch of high school imperial examination candidates who entered the army will be confirmed the day before the enthronement ceremony. Today, the examiner Gong He, the examiner, and the Minister of Ceremony Jiang Xueyi will report on the relevant situation
, and submitted the papers of the top three candidates to Li Zicheng.
Li Guo was there to help them arrange the venue, personnel and guards. Li Guo did not read much, but it was not a problem to read through the text. Today's "Four Books" test title is "What has been passed is transformed, what is preserved is divine, and the top and bottom flow together with the heaven and the earth."
, the other title comes from the "Book of Songs" in the "Five Classics", and the title is "Explanation of the meaning of Sui Wan Kingdom's repeated good years".
Compared with the imperial examinations originally held in the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Examination of the Chuang Army had a smaller number of questions due to the urgency of the situation, and it was not allowed to answer questions in the eight-legged style. The number of questions on classics and meanings from the Four Books and Five Classics was also greatly reduced.
Li Zichen himself had no understanding of the content of the imperial examination. He just let his admired Li government minister Song Qijiao and Li government minister Gong Xinxin reform.
Gong Bian put forward the reform theme of "emphasis on historical theory and light on classics and meanings". In this examination, there were only two questions on classics and meanings, but there were five questions on historical theory, namely:
"Those who know the current affairs must be distinguished by heroes", "The Northern Song Dynasty united the Jin Dynasty and conquered the Liao Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty assisted the Yuan Dynasty to attack Cai Dynasty", "The Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty decreed that business taxes should not be fixed", "The Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty recruited officials and the people to understand the current affairs of the world and learn the skills of the sages.
"The County's Continuation of Food, Orders and Plans", "King Wen of Zhou divided the world into two parts".
There was another question about writing a fu. Li Guo picked up a piece of work called "Dingding Chang'an Fu" and started reading it. Gong said from the side: "General, this is the test paper for Fufeng Juren Zhang Wenxi."
Jiang Xueyi, the minister of the Li government, continued: "Since Ban Mengjian wrote "Fu on Two Capitals" and Zhang Pingzi wrote "Fu on Two Capitals", Kyoto Fu has become a great sight. "Selected Works of Zhaoming" divided fu into fifteen categories, and Kyoto was included
It is the first category. However, "Ode to Two Capitals" and "Ode to Two Capitals" both disparage Chang'an and praise Luoyang. During the Western Jin Dynasty, Zuo Taichong wrote "Ode to Three Capitals", which sung the poems about Wu and Wei, the capitals of Shu, and Chang'an.
No involvement. Zhang Wenxi’s poem actually used Chang’an as the theme again since the Eastern Han Dynasty, “Fu Dian Yong Wen”, and what he focuses on describing is the founding atmosphere of our army, and what he sings about is the majesty of our majesty.
Sidley, I think it can definitely be ranked first."
Li Guo looked at the original text of the examination paper and saw what it said: "Zhongnan rises from the ground, Taiyi Qianyun... The garden is decorated with Shanglin Bowang, the palace is marked with Xingqing Huaqing, the pavilion with agarwood is fragrant, and the plate with dew
"The dew is pouring" are all about Chang'an's springs and monuments; there are also "Yang Xiong waiting for the imperial edict at the Golden Horse Gate, and Liu Xiang's book is posted at Tianlu Pavilion", which is about the cultural history of Chang'an people; and
The words "Living in the fifth position and being Yang, being called the ninth level and ruling the world...the auspicious snow blows the celebration of one person, and the strong wind blows the foundation of eight hundred" is a praising of the new king.
Li Guo was completely unfamiliar with the names Zhang Pingzi and Zuo Taichong, and he had never read any Kyoto Fu, but he knew that the entire article was generally a praise of the new dynasty.
It’s just that Li Guo thought of what Gong had said before about abolishing stereotyped writing and reforming policy theory in order to promote talented people with real practical knowledge. However, from this poem, Li Guo really couldn’t feel any sense of “practical learning”.
location.
He shook his head and said to Gong and Jiang Xueyi: "This... we can't make the decision. We still have to send it to the palace for confirmation. But I feel that this article seems to be missing something."