"Dongdongdongdongdong..." The golden drums sounded and the scholars waiting to be summoned came to the gate of the main hall of the palace under the guidance of the Psychic Officer.

"bye……"

"prosper……"

"bye……"

"prosper……"

Amid the harmony of the ritual officials, a hundred famous scholars on the list performed three bows and nine knocks in front of the hall gate.

"I'm going to pay a visit to the emperor, and the emperor will be blessed!"

"Forget it." Li Zhongyi, who had already changed into court clothes, sat high and enjoyed the worship of the scholars with peace of mind.

Suddenly, Li Zhongyi found that someone in the queue of scholars outside the hall had performed the wrong etiquette, and he couldn't help but smile.

In the court of the powerful Han Dynasty, the military generals paid a visit to Li Zhongyi and generally performed military rituals of beating their chests. However, the civil officials were a little stubborn. Generally, they all bowed to the ground.

As for the Wu Yue Kingdom, Li Zhongyi was determined to shock the scholars who had just passed the exam and deliberately arranged a grand ceremony of three bows and nine bows.

The kneeling ceremony will sooner or later be completely abolished, but not now. After all, Li Zhongyi has just conquered Wu Yue for a few days, and the people have not yet returned to their hearts, and the vassal states in several states are still ready to move.

More importantly, after the army advanced westward, Liao Shanhe only had 30,000 soldiers, 20,000 of them were auxiliary soldiers, and the responsibility was extremely important.

Based on this, Li Zhongyi decisively adopted the strategy of open examinations, that is, the strategy of differentiation and disintegration.

The purpose of the open examination is to fully mobilize officials and minor officials who were originally unpopular or reused in Wuyue, so that their fundamental interests are roughly similar to those of Li Zhongyi.

Once these selected scholars taste the sweetness of gaining real power, they will be hard to give up!

Li Zhongyi used open conspiracy, not conspiracy, or willing to go to the hook. All the people on the list came today, and no one was bad, which shows that Li Zhongyi's open conspiracy has completely worked.

The palace was just a big house of a salt merchant before, and the so-called main hall was actually far less magnificent than the imperial palace in Kaifeng.

Therefore, today's re-examination can only be held in the back garden.

Seeing that the scholars had finished their salutes, Li Zhongyi said gently: "Thank you all for your hard work, and you have spared the common rituals of today."

After some comfort, the scholars followed the Psychic Officer to the back garden, where books, pens, ink, paper and ink were already arranged.

This is the first time that the scholars who have participated in the re-examination in the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, and all of them have experienced it, which is particularly amazing.

The re-examination questions have been hung publicly in various places in the back garden. Zhang Bennian took a closer look and couldn't help but breathe.

The question of the re-examination is actually: The importance of water trade is beyond Mount Tai!

What is this question?

The scholars who prepared a bunch of Four Books and Five Classics all stared at the test questions with their eyes wide open.

After Huang Guangqun saw the question clearly, he was calm on the surface, but he felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart.

As the Hangzhou Prefecture Office, Huang Guangqun still has an unknown identity, namely, smuggling the ship owner, that is, smuggling the smuggling activities privately.

There was a shortage of food in the north, iron tools in the southern Tang Dynasty, and salt in Wu and Yue. What Huang Guangqun did was smuggling and trading on water, so naturally everything was clear.

The core of water trade is ships, especially large ships with many sails and masts. Only large ships can avoid the pursuit of the government naval forces at sea.

Since the topics that Li Zhongyi had raised were all important in water trade, Huang Guangqun was not polite to explain what he saw and heard clearly one by one.

Before becoming the Hangzhou Prefecture Promotion Office, Zhang was the chief clerk of the Municipal Bosi for a period of time. He was very familiar with overseas trade taxation.

Because the topics were particularly biased, Li Zhongyi had reason to believe that even if the scholars who were referring to plagiarize the things in the book, they would have no choice but to copy them.

Therefore, the invigilator who Li Zhongyi arranged privately on the scene was actually a group of maids serving tea and water.

The back garden exam tests the water trade questions, and there is no invigilator on the surface. Today's re-examination is indeed an ingenious assessment.

Not to mention the candidates racked their brains to answer questions, Li Zhongyi summoned senior military generals such as Liao Shanhe and Li Haodong in the inner study.

"Everyone, after Ma Yaoming quelled the rebellion in Muzhou, the entire army will continue to advance westward and jointly attack the enemy of the Southern Tang Dynasty with Yang Lie's troops..." Yang Wushuang, who was in charge of the General Senate, explained the deployment of the entire war one by one in accordance with the war plan.

"Your Majesty, I am not worried about the enemy of the Southern Tang Dynasty. I am a little worried about the unstable land of the Thirteen Prefectures and will cause a big trouble." Li Haodong took the lead in speaking, and this was the first time he had encountered the 1930s.

In the past, when it was Li Haodong's turn to speak, most of the meetings came to an end. This time, Li Haodong took the initiative to stand up and speak in front of everyone, which already illustrates the seriousness of the problem.

Li Zhongyi nodded and turned his head to look at Liao Shanhe, the chief general stationed in Hangzhou. Liao Shanhe really needs to answer his questions about Li Haodong.

Liao Shanhe stood up and bowed, "Emperor, my subordinates think that our army has less strength to control the city of Hangzhou and can only control the city of Hangzhou. If there is a chaos in other prefectures and counties, and it is temporarily out of reach, as long as they do not come to Hangzhou to seek death, they can be ignored for the time being."

Li Haodong couldn't help but question Liao Shanhe: "Liu Du, according to your words, all prefectures and counties except Hangzhou will give up and ignore them?"

Liao Shanhe said lightly: "The taxes in Hangzhou account for more than 50% of the entire Wuyue region, and there are mountains of food stored in the city. Under the premise that they cannot achieve, they will inevitably be abandoned."

Yang Wushuang couldn't listen anymore, so he stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the Wu and Yue area is a fertile land. If the sect soldiers were destroyed, it would be a pity. Why not leave behind 20,000 combat soldiers and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers?"

Li Zhongyi didn't say anything, but just stared at Li Haodong intently. Li Haodong understood that all intelligence matters were under his jurisdiction and there must be a clear opinion.

"Emperor, as far as our military law department knows, after the failure of the Qian family in Wu and Yue, the situation was relatively stable in Mingzhou, Xiuzhou, Dongfu and other places close to Hangzhou. The main ones in doubt are Taizhou, Chuzhou, Wenzhou and Fuzhou that are far away." Li Haodong paused for a moment, leaving time for everyone to digest and absorb, and then continued to explain, "As long as the army of Ma Du used to suppress the rebellion and quickly pacify the rebellious army in Muzhou, the vassal states in various places will learn lessons and they will definitely not dare to act rashly."

Li Zhongyi nodded slightly with a smile. After learning that Muzhou had changed, he immediately sent Ma Guangda to lead the army and quickly went to suppress it.

The purpose is to extinguish the forces of resistance with lightning speed and shock the ambitious people in the thirteen states.

According to the battle report I received today, Ma Guangda has arrived at the Tiger Depression 30 miles away from Muzhou City. As long as it is not ambushed, it is expected that it will be able to break through Muzhou City tonight.

After the news of Ma Guangda's quick victory came back, as Li Haodong said, even if there was chaos in the situation near Hangzhou, it would not be too messy.

As for Taizhou, Wenzhou, Chuzhou and Fuzhou, after all, the distance is relatively far, and Liao Shanhe's view is also very reasonable.

If there is a real chaos in these four states, it will be a mess for a while. After the main army destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, it would turn around and kill back with a gun, and it would not take much energy to put it out in one fell swoop.

Objectively speaking, Wenzhou, Taizhou and Fuzhou near the seaside are no matter how chaotic it is, the harm is limited.

With the strong strength of the Li family navy, as long as you free up your hands and head south along the coastline, you will not need much effort to completely pacify these four states with the help of 12-pound cannons.

"Your subordinates should keep more capable people." Li Zhongyi directly ordered Li Haodong.

Li Haodong immediately beat his chest and saluted loudly: "When you go back to the emperor, the subordinates must leave behind capable people and stare at every move in Hangzhou."

Li Zhongyi was quite satisfied with Li Haodong's answer. After all, Hangzhou is the most exquisite and richest area in the entire Wu Yue Kingdom.

As long as there is no big trouble in Hangzhou City, no matter how chaotic other places are, the impact will be very limited.

However, Li Haodong's concerns were also very reasonable. Li Zhongyi thought about it and asked Yang Wushuang: "How many troops can he draw?"

Yang Wushuang did not answer immediately, but carefully calculated it before reporting: "We only have 20,000 mobile troops, and at most 5,000 combat soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers were drawn to Liao Shanhe."

Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "We have a total of 80,000 soldiers heading south, and we will draw 15,000 out, and there will be 65,000 left."

Yang Wushuang also smiled and said, "Your Majesty, let alone there are 65,000 combat soldiers. Even if there are only 5,000 combat soldiers, on the front battlefield, the shrimp soldiers and crab generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty are not our opponents."

This is a bit crazy!

However, Li Zhongyi knew that under the premise that the main force of the Southern Tang Dynasty was restrained by Yang Lie, as long as the navy and artillery were assisted, 5,000 combat soldiers and 20,000 auxiliary soldiers would have been able to sweep across the states in the inland of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Before going south to pacify the Wu Yue Kingdom, the General Senate had carefully calculated that the minimum force of the partial division was only 30,000.

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree!

Yang Lie is the first strong general under Li Zhongyi. With the assistance of some navy troops, he confronted Lin Renzhao. I believe Lin Renzhao would not dare to be careless.

The total force of the Southern Tang Dynasty actually exceeded 200,000, but most of these troops were scattered among the various military states and could not fully form a joint force.

Li Zhongyi led the 80,000 combat soldiers southwards. Even if he distributed 20,000 combat soldiers to Liao Shanhe, the remaining 60,000 combat soldiers, plus 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, was an extremely huge military force.

"Since that's the case, then give Xiaoda another 10,000 soldiers?" Li Zhongyi glanced at Yang Wushuang.

Yang Wushuang then realized that Li Zhongyi did not want Wu Yue's rich land to cause chaos.

He bowed and said, "Your Majesty, why not give Liao Du another 10,000 combat soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers. After all, there are still 30,000 soldiers and horses on the Navy."
Chapter completed!