November 15th is the day when the imperial examination results are released again.
In addition, it was the fifteenth day of rest, and many ordinary people in Jinling came to watch the "Inscription on the Gold List".
Although there are three lists in the imperial examination, the most important one is naturally the "gold list" that everyone pays most attention to.
The second imperial examination did not have the flood discharge effect of the first period, and the gold content of the gold list dropped slightly, but the number of participants increased significantly...
After all, for the scholars in Jingyang and Yangzhou, the truly talented ones had already participated in the first imperial examination three years ago.
The second session... Most of them were those who failed in the previous session, or had unsatisfactory results, and who were outside the Chu State. They were encouraged by the first imperial examination, or attracted by the growing national power of the Chu State and Chu learning, and rushed to Chu State.
Find a career in the country!
Top talents like Fazheng and Zhuge Jin would appear in the imperial examination for the sake of gimmicks and applause in the first session, but there were no talents of this level in the second session.
But even so, there are still many heroes among the people, many of whom are familiar to Bai Tu...
For example, Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Liang's younger brother "Zhuge Jun"; "Yin Mo" who was born in Yizhou, studied in Jingzhou, and was recommended by Sima Hui to take the imperial examination; Ma Liang's younger brother, "Ma Su", the fifth brother of the Ma family;
Huainan, the "Jiang Ji" who served as the Three Dukes of Cao and Wei in history...
Although each of them is not very famous, if you look at the whole history, they are not outside the "Three Kingdoms Circle", and even the reputation of Ma Di is a bit tearful... But during the Three Kingdoms period, they were all temporary choices, and they can be left in the history books.
A piece of talent that even became a biography on its own!
After the seven subjects, the most surprising thing for Bai Tu was the military subject - Hao Zhao, a fellow countryman of Guo Huai who was named on last year's gold list, came from Taiyuan after seeing Guo Huai's fate and won the first place in this year's military subject.
The most famous battle in history was in Chencang, where Hao Zhao led more than a thousand defenders to fight against Zhuge Liang's 30,000 troops. He held on for more than 20 days, causing Zhuge Liang's second Northern Expedition to return without success!
At that time, the two countries Wei and Wu fought for control of Huainan in the battle of Shiting. Wei was newly defeated, and the main force was piled in the Jianghuai area. So Zhuge Liang saw the right opportunity, sent his troops out of Chencang, and pointed his sword at Guanzhong...
However, Hao Zhao had garrisoned troops in Chencang a year ago and was diligent in reinforcing the city. In the end, he defended the city with more than a thousand men for more than 20 days. After Zhang He came with troops to help, Zhuge Liang retreated.
To a certain extent, this also dampened the enthusiasm of the radicals led by Wei Yan - Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition has always tended to take Longyou, that is, Yongliang to the west of the Guanzhong area as the strategic goal, while Wei Yan advocated a shuttle, directly
Advance into Guanzhong.
Just like Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, "built a plank road openly and secretly attacked Chencang", he directly attacked Guanzhong from Chencang, first destroyed the Three Qin Dynasties, and then fought against Guandong.
Won by Changan Fuhan, lost by inserting bids and selling out...
Hao Zhao's record in Chencang all shows that Guanzhong is not that easy to advance!
Unfortunately, after this great achievement, when Cao Pi was preparing to marry Hao Zhao, he fell seriously ill and died.
Although it was possible to defend the "1,000 vs. 200,000" for more than 20 days against Zhuge Liang, a large part of the factor was due to the strength of Chencang itself, but... the reinforcement of Chencang itself was supervised by Hao Zhao.
Even "Three Kingdoms" only mentions "by order", which means to reinforce Chencang under the orders of Cao Zhen, which invisibly flatters the trends of Shu in Cao Zhen's materials. However, other historical materials only mention Hao Zhao and Wang Shuang's garrison at
this……
If he did not "obey the order" and reinforced Chencang on his own, it would be even more obvious that Hao Zhao was cautious and adept at guarding. Moreover... Wei Guo's performance at that time can hardly be said to have anticipated Zhuge Liang's movements. Otherwise, why would he go to Huainan and Wu Guo to fight for his life?
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In any case, Hao Zhao is a good general, and like his fellow countryman Guo Huai - good at defense!
Now Hao Zhao is about the same age as Guo Huai, but only twenty-one, just enough to be integrated with reality, and gradually accepts the new strategic thinking after the application of infuriating crossbows and artillery.
Quan Cong, who ranked second in military science, was "meat in a bowl", but his talents also attracted the attention of many senior generals in the Privy Council - Quan Cong's father Quan Rou was Sun Ce's general, and Zhou Yu specially asked him to
Quan Cong took the imperial examination route and was not recommended.
Historically, Quan Cong, as a general of the Wu Kingdom, should have never met Hao Zhao, but the two have some indirect connections, that is... In the Battle of Shiting mentioned earlier, the coach of the Wu Kingdom was Lu Xun, and the two deputy commanders on the right and left were Lu Xun.
One is Quan Cong.
And in history without the White Rabbit Effect, Quan Cong was very capable of "taking credit" - from Lu Meng's attack on Jingzhou, to Lu Xun's command of the Battle of Yiling, to the later Battle of Shiting, Quan Cong had achieved military exploits.
Especially when Lu Meng attacked Jingzhou...
At that time, Lu Meng and Sun Quan had already decided to attack Guan Yu, but in order to keep it secret, no one else was informed. Quan Cong also wrote a letter at this time suggesting that Jingzhou be captured, but naturally there was no response from Sun Quan.
However, after Lü Meng's victory, Sun Quan specifically mentioned the matter and believed that Quan Cong also had some merit, so he made Quan Cong, who had no knowledge of it before, a pavilion lord!
Later, when Quan Cong was the deputy general, he was able to make many achievements. He not only assisted the coach, but also played a big role. However... in the late period of Wu Guozhong, Quan Cong began to be the coach, especially because he had enough seniority to become the Soochow University.
After becoming the governor, his performance was lackluster.
Being able to take second place in the Military Science this time proves that Quan Cong's foundation in military competition is still very solid, and his wealth is clean, so he can be considered a useful person.
What also attracted Bai Tu's attention was that the Hanoi Sima clan, Sima Badazhong, Sima Lang, and Sima Fu, the third oldest after Sima Yi, actually participated in the imperial examination of Chu State.
Unlike Zhuge Jun, Sima Fu should be regarded as a signal that the Sima clan in Hanoi chose to officially transfer part of it to Chu!
Sima Fu got the first place in the household subject and the first in the etiquette subject. If Shi Kuang hadn't opened the back door for him, maybe he could have finished in the top three in both subjects.
Historically, Sima Fu was considered to be the more honest among the Sima family...or more cautious and cherished feathers. Compared to Sima Lang and Sima Yi, Sima Fu's character was actually more in line with the concept of a "noble family".
In history without the White Rabbit Effect, when the Gaoping Ling Incident first occurred, Sima Fu could be said to be the mainstay of the Sima clan, and he had a strong presence before.
However, after Sima Yi gradually took control of the Wei Dynasty, Sima Fu began to fade away from the core decision-making level, and after his grandnephew Sima Yan officially usurped the throne, Sima Fu still regarded himself as a Wei minister.
It is difficult to say that Sima Fu was a loyal minister of the Wei State. After all, he did not do anything except verbally. It was just that when Sima Yi and Sima Zhao were in power, Sima Fu restrained himself from doing something.
Sima Yi lived to be seventy-two years old. Judging from the times, he was considered to have longevity genes. But Sima Fu... obviously inherited the longevity genes more obviously than him, and lived to be over ninety years old!
For Sima Fu, there is no harm in calling himself Wei Chen - how can his great-nephew Sima Yan be held responsible for this? He is still promoted to a higher position. Every time Sima Fu enters the palace, he is always picked up and dropped off by car.
Treat each other like family.
At the same time, Sima Fu did have some talent, but... he was not as talented as Sima Yi.
But in terms of temperament, Bai Tu can rest assured. If Sima Yi abandons Zheng Hou Zhang Yan and goes to Chu State, Bai Tu will probably be very conflicted and be wary of him!
Of course, Sima Yi didn't dare to come - not to mention that Chu State didn't give him any room to develop, and... Zhang Chunhua was still here!
Who among the "outsiders" doesn't know the relationship between Zhang Chunhua and the King of Chu? Sima Yi was even worried about being blown to death by the wind from his pillow!
What's more, even if the "scandals" rumored outside are unsubstantiated, would Sima Yi still know about Zhang Chunhua's temper?
Now that he actually comes to Chu State, he is afraid that he will be plotted against him step by step - in terms of talent, Sima Yi will naturally not be afraid of Zhang Chunhua, but in terms of calculation... Zhang Chunhua is at least an opponent that Sima Yi can be careful about.
What's more, Zhang Chunhua is now in the Chu State and is already a minister. Behind him is the old poisonous Jia Xu who is a bachelor of the palace. Sima Yi will not come to find him unhappy...
And under Zhang Yan, Sima Yi feels that he has room to perform!
Although compared to the kings of Wei and Chu, Zhang Yan was weaker, and even inferior to the Marquis of Qi within the auxiliary forces of Han, but at least Zhang Yan was easy to control.
How easy is it?
In order to facilitate movement, Sima Yi has now stood up - Zhang Yan is convinced that this is a medical miracle.
Moreover, Zhang Yan's power is mainly in Guanzhong, which is the closest to Chang'an among the feudal lords supporting the Han Dynasty...
Although the Emperor of the Han Dynasty has his own army in Chang'an now, and the six auxiliary Han princes each have 3,000 troops stationed in the cities around Chang'an, which can be regarded as mutual constraints, Zhang Yan's control area is closest to Chang'an, which does not mean that he can
Like Li Jue, Guo Si, Cao Cao, and Dong Zhuo, they had such a great influence on the court.
But for Sima Yi, he saw a lot of maneuverability...
However, it can be seen from Sima Fu's arrival in Jinling that Sima doesn't want to "stud" with Sima Yi at all now.
The most eye-catching person now is not Sima Fu or Hao Zhao, but...
Second in Etiquette, Shi Kuang!
This "second" is very serious, and it is still reflected in the interpretation of "Jingyi" in the Li Ke, and it is said that the actual gold content is not high.
The biggest role is probably to come out to support Wang Su's new learning - I, a passerby Confucian scholar who has never been out of Jiaozhou, saw that you were so enthusiastic about the new learning, so I paid special attention to it, and now I have started to become a fan of the new learning.
!I bought many copies of Wang Su’s books!
In fact, everyone is tacitly aware of what is going on.
The reason why he is "eye-catching" is because of Shi Kuang's identity...
As the son of the second-largest person in Jiaozhou, Shi Kuang came to Chu State to serve as an official, which undoubtedly meant that Jiaozhou was getting closer to Chu State.
Even if the other princes are not happy to see this happen, they can't stop it.
After all, Jiaozhou's position is destined to be a vassal of the Chu State, and there is nothing anyone else can do if they want to interfere, unless... they can directly intervene in Jiaozhou by sea like the Chu State landed in Liaodong.
It is a pity that neither the Marquis of Qi nor the King of Wei have such perfect navigation skills. Even though the ship technology has rapidly improved under the leadership of Chu, the navigation skills cannot be smoothed out in a short time.
More importantly, when the Chu Navy was "paying tuition", it had "teaching materials" after all, and it faced a simple sea, but now the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea, Bohai Port, Donglai Port, Liaodong Port, Zhouhu Port
Port...there are also Danzhou Port to the east and Yizhou Port to the south...
There are Chu warships wandering around everywhere!
Even if they had the ability to travel to Jiaozhou by sea, they did not have the confidence to fight Chu's navy. They were even on guard one by one, fearing that the 20,000 navy troops that Gan Ning had taken away were actually planning to attack them.
On the contrary, if the State of Wei has any thoughts about Marquis Yan, the State of Chu can completely intervene by sea and gain the upper hand...
It is also worth noting that this year, not only the imperial examinations, academic examinations, but also the pure martial arts examinations, many more women signed up to participate - after all, there are a large number of zhenqi practitioners among the people, including women.
The training discounts provided by Chu State are equally effective for men and women, and those Qi tools actually narrow the gap in work between men and women after they practice the same way.
And there really is a woman who won the third place in the martial arts test...
Different from the theoretical assessment of military science, the martial arts examination is organized by the Privy Council itself and is a pioneering assessment based only on personal force and physical fitness.
If you only have strong military force, it will be difficult to become a general. Naturally, the military test is not taken seriously in comparison.
However, warriors who have passed the martial arts test can be incorporated into some special elite units to serve as grass-roots armor, or sent to martial arts halls to train in military science. After all, at present, the role of armor on the battlefield is not
It will be too weakened.
For a martial artist with civilian background, this is quite an opportunity.
However, the woman who came third in this year's martial arts test is not from a civilian background, but Sun Shangxiang, whom Bai Tu has known for a long time, and she used to often treat her to sweets!
Compared to his scheming second brother Sun Quan, Sun Shangxiang's temperament is closer to that of Sun Ce.
Not only was he careless, but he was also not very interested in reading. However, when the Chu State was just promoting female officials, Sun Shangxiang still had the patience to read for a while because of his "ambition."
But in the end it just wasn’t the right material, so I gave up after a few months…
Although the Sun family is a prominent family in Wu County, the family tradition of Sun Jian is still very relaxed, especially because of Sun Ce's special status in Chu State... The other elders of the Sun family not only have no restraints on them, but sometimes even keep a distance to avoid suspicion.
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Although nominally every Chu army, whether they are grassroots generals or Ji Zao soldiers, are soldiers of the Chu State, not soldiers of each family, the team under Sun Ce's command were left by Sun Jian.
From grassroots warriors to high-level command, everything is available...
Although Bai Tu made arrangements for Sun Ce's army from time to time, he did not deliberately break up Sun Ce's generals, so Sun Ce's army still had the shadow of a "private army".
If Sun Ce really wanted to form a small circle, that would be fine. The problem is... Sun Ce himself did not use it to gain any additional benefits. For example, this time, Quan Cong was not recommended by Sun Ce's department, but he just left.
In the imperial examination, the shadow of the so-called "private army" is also getting weaker and weaker.
In this case, Mrs. Sun naturally did not want to get involved with him, lest he would not be able to catch up with his good deeds and be suspected in vain.
Therefore, after Sun Ce agreed to Sun Shangxiang's practice of martial arts, others also opposed it to no avail.
Even the two Madam Wus usually dote on the youngest Sun Shangxiang...
Sun Shangxiang's talent in martial arts is slightly inferior to that of her elder brother Sun Ce, and because the war situation is not tight, the top generals of the Chu army have often had the opportunity to return to Jinling in the past year. Sun Ce has also given her guidance several times. Eight years ago, she was still a
Sun Shangxiang, a six-year-old kid, is now wearing a gilt armor!
For this reason, Sun Ce even went to Bai Tu privately, hoping to study the distribution issue for Sun Shangxiang - even Sun Shangxiang was carrying it. After all, Sun Ce knew his sister's temperament and didn't want her to know, so he helped her through the back door...