Chapter 829: Battle of Chongqing (Part 1) (2)

In fact, compared with the retirement system, the new imperial examination system has made these officials in the court smell many signals.

In the future, if you want to become a high-ranking official in your family, you will have a fortune. It is impossible for children to rely on their brother-in-law to become officials in the court for generations.

The emperor elects talents through the imperial examination. In the future, whether it is a noble or a poor student in the world, he has to rely on his ability to fight for his own way through his own way on the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination.

These officials can only strive to let the children in their families win at the starting line first.

On this day, the thresholds of several schools in Changsha City were almost broken.

The deans of the institution were covered in sweat.

In the past, it was rare that so many officials from the court visited, and each of them was a lot more powerful than their position.

A craze for reading has emerged in Changsha City.

Then, this craze was soon passed to all parts of the Song Dynasty with the imperial edict. Thousands of poor students from all over the world saw hope of becoming officials in the court.

If you touch your whole body, you will inevitably have a lot of hot lamp oil trading in various places in the next period of time.

And on this day and night, Zhao Dongting sent Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie to the imperial study room.

Xuan Lu Xiufu was for the affairs of those old soldiers in Changsha.

Although the Song Dynasty was defeated continuously under the cavalry of the Yuan army, many cities that fought as hard as Xiangyang had appeared in various places. It can be imagined that there are undoubtedly many old soldiers like the begging old soldiers in various places in the Song Dynasty who are struggling to survive. Perhaps some people live very well, but that is definitely only a very small number.

They had never been a soldier of Zhao Dongting, but they had shed blood for the Zhao royal family for the Song Dynasty. Zhao Dongting had no reason to treat them unfairly.

It is just that the old soldiers have to pay pensions every month, and with the current financial situation of the court, it is undoubtedly impossible to provide the money.

Zhao Dongting and Lu Xiufu discussed for a long time, and finally a new policy was issued. The land and land distributed by domestic people are not allowed to be bought and sold privately, but they can contract and lease it themselves.

In this way, the old men who are incapable of farming will not be able to eat enough.

What Xuan Zhang Shijie said was much deeper.

The imperial court implemented the retirement system and the imperial examination system to select officials. It was so vigorous that it would not cause many undercurrents.

Zhao Dongting knew very well that although there were supervision provinces and law provinces in the court, and most of the lower-level officials selected talents from the people, there must be many corrupt and abused people in the court that have not been excavated. They became officials just to make personal gain. Now that they learned that they were going to retire, they would have to fill their own pockets, and even tried every means to put their children in the family to various yamen before the imperial examination reopened.

This has to be guarded against.

Treating greed is like hitting flies in a bowl. While hitting flies in a bowl, you need to avoid more flies from entering the bowl.

That night, Zhao Dongting said to Zhang Shijie: "Before the imperial examination is restarted, you need to be more careful and keep an eye on the people below. Any official who is corrupt and abuses the law and throws people into the court in an alternative way must be severely punished. In this world, there are fewer officials, so there will be no chaos, but letting too many incompetent people become officials in the court will cause endless troubles."

Zhang Shijie realized the seriousness of the matter and did not dare to neglect the matter at all.

Just the next day, dozens of inspection teams from the Supervision Province rushed to various parts of the Song Dynasty.

A few days later.

Zhao Dongting convened the heads of various ministries of the State Council in the palace to discuss matters.

What we discussed this time is naturally how to develop the domestic economy.

Focus on agriculture and business.

Farmers have already divided the land, while businessmen and Zhao Dongting asked all departments to focus on state-owned enterprises, first develop state-owned enterprises, and then use state-owned enterprises to drive private enterprises.

Only when enterprises rise can the country be truly rich.

All departments are in full swing.

Outside Chongqing Prefecture.

The new Emperor of Western Xia, Li Wangyuan, brought more than 50,000 troops to the city.

The city wall of Chongqing Prefecture is more than ten meters high and stands against the mountain, like a barrier, protecting the entire Chongqing Prefecture.

This can be said to be the main road from Kuizhou to Tongchuan Prefecture.

If it were an ordinary team of vendors, they might be able to detour from other paths. But the army would definitely not be able to avoid this mountain city that has been rated as a key place for military strategists in history.

Because it takes too much energy to go around.

Li Wangyuan stood in front of the army and chased him. He wore a dragon robe and no longer had two swords around his waist, and was majestic.

The breeze blew the hem of the dragon robe slightly shaking.

The old emperor's teacher Zhongsun Qifu also had special benefits and sat on the chariot next to the dragon chassis.

Among the entire Xixia old ministers, he was the only one who could go with the siege and only he could enjoy such an honor.

His expectation of Li Wangyuan was indeed correct. Since he was about to be killed in the commander's tent that day, Li Wangyuan has indeed alienated him for two days, but in just two days, his favor was even greater.

Li Wangyuan became more and more like an emperor as the ministers of the Western Xia Dynasty hoped.

Looking at the towering city walls in front of him, he narrowed his eyes and said, "Mongolian Khan Mengge died in Diaoyutai. Today, I will destroy this city that made the Mongolian Khan hate."

After the thunder and hot air balloons, his ambition and confidence grew at the same time.

The weather in Xixia is really different from the past.

Li Wangyuan waved his hand, and behind him, a soldier from Qitian came out of the line. He went to the front of the formation and spread out the hot air balloon.

Countless mushroom-like hot air balloons quickly rose towards the sky.

The remaining 50,000 soldiers in Xixia were ready to go.

In front of them are the vanguard troops used to attack the city and break the formation, and they are all thunderous. They are full of energy and look like they are good players in the army.

Li Wangyuan was surrounded by eleventh-level masters. In terms of posture, it was more majestic than Zhao Dongting's personal command.

Hundreds of hot air balloons also rose on the walls of Chongqing Prefecture.

One mistake can bring wisdom.

This time, the soldiers in the White Horse Army who controlled the hot air balloons obviously learned their lessons. They all carried bows and arrows, and even had small crossbows on the hanging basket.

Rockets shuttled through the air, coming and going.

After only a short while, a hot air balloon fell downward, just like a meteor falling to the ground.

The 50,000 Xixia soldiers outside the city just looked up and watched.

Just wait until these hot air balloons of the White Horse Army are eliminated, the Qitian Army throws thunder to the top of the city in the sky, and then they can take down the Chongqing city wall.

Hot air balloons are really powerful in this era.

The development of the matter did not exceed the expectations of these Western Xia generals and soldiers.

The White Horse Army had only more than 200 hot air balloons left. Facing nearly a thousand hot air balloons in the Qitian Army, fighting in the air was no different from killing death.

It only took about half an hour to go, and more than half of the White Horse Army's hot air balloons were besieged by the Qitian Army.

It is naturally much easier to kill trapped beasts.

The Qitian Army's hot air balloon was able to fly over the city of Chongqing, and then it thundered like rain and fell to the city.
Chapter completed!