In early December of the fourth year of Shaoxi, Ye Qing, as the last army, began to withdraw from Yanzhou. After a long talk with him on the Yellow River embankment, the Qishilie Gods slaves also led the rest of the Jin soldiers and began to withdraw from Hedong North Road to the court. The battle between the Jin Dynasty, which lasted for more than half a year, was finally completely over.

This war is the side that has no victory, but no defeat. Although Ye Qing captured most of the territory of the Xia Kingdom in one battle, he also gave the opportunity to give Shi Miyuan and Han Tuozhou intervened in the power of the officialdom in the North due to the restraint of the Jin people.

So by weighing the trade-offs, in this battle in which Mongolia, Song, Jin, Xia, and Liao were inevitably involved, Ye Qing was far from being the biggest winner of this battle.

The fall of Liao and Xia was obviously the failure side. The Jin Kingdom's standing still would not be the victory side. However, in the end, it was able to rely on the army to force Ye Qing to take the initiative to discuss this element. Although he did not obtain any substantial benefits in the end, he still preserved the face of the Great Jin Kingdom as the sect leader over the years.

However, with the founding of the Mongols and the counterattack of the Song people, everyone now knows that the Jin Kingdom is no longer as powerful as before. In the era when Song and Meng quietly rose, the Jin Kingdom was already declining and began to decline.

The fall of Liao and Xia caused a fundamental change in the situation where the five countries in China's territory coexisted. The competition between Mongolia, Jin and Song will also become the main theme in the future. In the context of the great era, everything seems to be beginning to move towards the direction of great unification.

However, no one knows now that the next journey of China that has been recorded in history will be the ultimate victory. Whoever controls the ups and downs of China and who will compete for the Central Plains is still a confusing question mark.

The strength and advantages at the geostrategic level have enabled Ye Qing to be able to make arrangements ahead of his opponents before, and even to set up a long-term situation that others cannot match. However, as the current historical trajectory has completely deviated from the original route, Ye Qing can rely on no advantage except his own strength in the Northland and the teacher-student friendship with Wanyan Jing.

Tiemuzhen's wolf ambition was already known to everyone in the world as he conquered the Liao Kingdom. As a real opponent that Ye Qing had known for a long time, Ye Qing could still rely on his innate cheating advantage to avoid repeating the old path of the Song court and forming an alliance with the Mongols to attack the Jin Dynasty.

If he wants to truly join forces with the Jin people to fight against Mongolia, Ye Qing still faces huge resistance. Whether it is the court or Shi Miyuan, Han Tuozhou will never give up this excellent opportunity to attack Ye Qing, which makes it difficult for Ye Qing and the Jin people to achieve the desired intimacy.

Fortunately, Ye Qing didn't have to worry about some concerns about the army and officials in the north in the past. After all, with the victory of the victory of the Xia Dynasty, no one can compare with his reputation in the north.

War has always been the easiest and direct means to plunder wealth. Similarly, for rulers, it is also the best way to gather forces, strengthen strength, and establish absolute prestige.

When Ye Qing escaped from the battle of Guanshan, he knew very well that the reason why the northern land was able to capture cities and territory in the territory occupied by the Jin people was not entirely because he withstood all the pressure from the court, which allowed the Song army to regain so many lost lands in a very short time.

The reason why this is achieved is obviously related to the hatred of the soldiers of various armies towards the Jin people is not entirely because of Ye Qing, a general in the northern region.

Ye Qing was very self-aware and knew very clearly that his status in the North and his influence in various armies. Before the Xia Dynasty, the reason why he was able to bring everyone in the North was entirely because the "enemy" of the Jin people invisibly helped him win over a lot of cohesion, which allowed him to enjoy extremely high prestige in the North.

Now, with the victory of the Battle of Xia and the resistance of the Jin people in Yanzhou, the word Ye Qing has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of all the soldiers and the people from all over the north.

Now Ye Qing can also shout out arrogantly: The northern land is his northern land, and it is the territory he built with one hand, and it has nothing to do with others.

It was finally done. When people talked about the North, the first reaction in their minds was the word Ye Qing. The personal prestige and imprint finally completely surpassed the court in the North. The territory of the North has become his private territory.

Starting from Yanzhou, heading south to Jingzhao Prefecture, and passing through the prefecture government office of Hetao 3rd Road again. At this time, Hetao 3rd Road, in just half a year, took advantage of the battle with Jin, and once again experienced the adjustment and appointment of officials in the officialdom. Most of the officials left behind from the Jin Dynasty returned in vain with the Jin Dynasty, and finally completely lost the recapture of the Jin Dynasty's Hetao 3rd Road.

hope.

Just as the people of the Song court who were ruled by the Jin people, the hopeful king's army of Nanwang recovered the lost territory, but after the news of the defeats of the Song army in the Northern Expedition, they finally bowed to reality, some people and officials of the Hetao three routes also experienced the disappointment of the defeat of the Jin people in the past six months, and finally realized the reality and began to have to accept the fact that they were Song people, not Jin people.

The beginning of the Battle of Xia made many people with ulterior motives ready to move. The Jin soldiers came to Yanzhou, which made everyone feel excited. However, they were defeated by the Song army again and again and again, and returned in vain. What consumed not only the lives and wealth of the Jin soldiers, but also the confidence of some people and officials in the Jin people who were looking forward to the three routes of Hetao and even the entire northern region.

Ye Qing, who withdrew his troops through the three prefectures of Hetao, finally felt the breath of the Song court or the North from various prefectures, this time, in each prefecture, rather than the aura of the Jin Kingdom that was still floating around when he passed by half a year ago.

This is a feeling of invisibility and intangibility, but it is so real that it makes people feel real and true. The remaining officials who were used by Ye Qing and Bai Chun to kill the chicken to warn the monkey were naturally unable to escape their established destiny during the war. It was just after a brief riot, after the Liu Minxing brothers and the Chongguo Duke Zhao Shichun briefly stayed at the Hetao Road to appease the people, everything began to develop in the ideal direction.

Of course, passing through the three routes of government offices and prefectures is not all about Ye Qing’s happy news. The people’s living and working in peace and stability have made Ye Qing smiled with satisfaction, but the current shortage of officials in the three routes of government is also a headache.

After half a year of war and the adjustment and appointment of the officialdom, there have been many officials dismissed and imprisoned, but there is not much new force injecting, which has also made the officials in the three routes somewhat short of enough.

"Sir, the current situation can only solve this problem by re-opening the imperial examination. If you rely solely on transfers and adjustments from other channels, it is not a solution. Officials are like crops. After cutting off a crop, they always rely on local seeds to reproduce. Otherwise, they will only cause the prefectures to fall into a bad situation of unacceptable land." Liu Minxing sent Ye Qing and the Zhuanghua family army to the border with Jingzhao Prefecture, and then looked at the endless loess land and endured the cold wind that came towards us and said: "Taxes, etc., the lower officials and others can completely follow the tax laws and criminal laws of our Song Dynasty court. However, if these officials, especially those ninth, eighth, seventh, and sixth rank officials, were transferred from various places, could only solve the urgent problem. Now the three routes of Hetao have been stable, and the lower officials think it is time to adopt the imperial examination system."

"Yes, whether it is transfer or dispatch, even if it is recommended, it is not a long-term matter, nor is it the key to solving officials at all levels. The imperial examinations will eventually be included in all walks of life." Ye Qing nodded, still wearing the black fur that Wanyan Jing gave back then.

"Sir, I don't know if I want to say something..."

"You said that." Ye Qing nodded thoughtfully.

"Sir, the lower officials know that all the world is the king's land, the shores of the land, or the king's ministers. Although the northern territory is also the territory of our Song Dynasty court now,..." Liu Minxing looked at Ye Qing's peaceful face nervously, and then continued to say carefully: "But the northern territory is different from the imperial court and the Jiangnan province. No matter what, there are still some differences. The lower officials think that with Jingzhao Prefecture as the head, the capital protection palace or the current prefecture, it is not appropriate to follow the current prefecture, but in this case, whether it is the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites or the provincial examination of the Shangshu Province, the northern territory cannot be bypassed. In this case, it is naturally inappropriate."

"What do you mean?" Ye Qing was slightly surprised, but he continued to ask calmly without showing any expression.

This is exactly the problem that I have been hesitating about. It is naturally a good thing to hold the imperial examination, but how can I independently perform the imperial examination in the North now? And if I act alone, then the hat of rebellion and independence will be really put on my head.

The reason why he has always been transferred to other officials from all walks of life is that he can avoid the various lengthy procedures of the court, and thus does not give others the opportunity to interfere in the officialdom in the North.

In addition, the northern land was a lost land, and Ye Qing could always send troops to the north in the name of war to appoint and remove officials at all levels. But now with the Xia and Liao fallen into the country, the northern land also negotiated peace with the Jin people. Without any war for a while, Ye Qing had to rely on the court if he wanted to smooth out the administration of the entire northern land.

Moreover, even in the war, he never bypassed the Ministry of Personnel for the promotion of officials from all walks of life. Although the Ministry of Personnel agrees with it, this is different from the imperial examination after all.

The imperial examination is ultimately a platform for literati to provide a career path for literati, and literati

When a scholar first entered the officialdom, how could he look at the direction of the wind like a veteran who had been a long-time official? In the hearts of the rookies who had just entered the officialdom and who had just entered the officialdom, which one of them puts loyalty to the court first? Which one would have thought of participating in party struggles from the beginning, or thought that he would become a hero in the future while he was promoted step by step?

Obviously, this is impossible for a rookie who is just a newcomer to the officialdom. Therefore, once the imperial examination is held in the North, it will inevitably bring in the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Personnel, the Secretariat and other government agencies. In this case, Ye Qing's influence in the North may not be affected for a while, but after three or five years, once a scholar makes his mark, the originally iron-clad North will fall into a dilemma of fragmented officialdom and uneven people's hearts, so that others can take advantage of it. Even from then on, Ye Qing will be backfired by him, questioned by those officials, and then attacked by others, and may even lose full control of the North.

This does not meet the interests of the North, and naturally it does not meet Ye Qing's requirements.

Seeing Ye Qing's expression as usual, Liu Minxing secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Logically speaking, these should not be the things that he, the prefect of the state, should be the things that only big men like Ye Qing should worry about.

But no matter what, if Ye Qing had not given the kindness of his knowledge and promotion, Liu Minxing and Liu Minxue would not have had such a high position today. Now, it is probably still in the corrupt officialdom in the south, who are walking corpses day after day.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Liu brothers are also very clear about the subtle relationship between the north and the court, and they also know that the two brothers have long been stamped with the big Ye label on their foreheads by the court and other officials in the south. Therefore, whether it is for consideration of the career of the officialdom or the loyalty to Ye Qing, at this critical moment, the only choice between the two brothers and the two brothers can stand firmly by following Ye Qing.

Liu Min moved his lips, and then said cautiously: "When Emperor Taizu first established his country, he actually faced a situation that was almost the same as the one in the north. At that time, Emperor Taizu referred to the list of 100 people carefully screened by the Ministry of Personnel, and finally made a separate pen with a stroke of his pen. "

"Enke Jinshi?" Ye Qing frowned slightly, but his expression was not at all unhappy, only a blush left after the cold wind blew.

"Yes, my subordinates think that you can follow my example when the Ministry of Personnel was just established in the Song Dynasty. When officials were short of money, they did things cheaply. The imperial examination in the north was naturally only held in the provincial examination, and this was within the scope of the rights of various prefectures. As for the provincial examination, there is no need for provincial examinations. The provincial examination was conducted through the provincial examination, and then the adults screened again. After the school examination, a single report was submitted to the emperor for the examination. In this way, the situation where officials in the north were short of money can be solved." Liu Minxing looked at Ye Qing with a look of expression, saying that he was extremely cautious.

This method was thought about for a long time, and after he inferred for many days and nights, he finally plucked up the courage to speak out when Ye Qing was about to step into Jingzhao Mansion.

He believed that in this way, the imperial examinations in the north could completely bypass many government agencies such as the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Secretariat, and other courts, and did not give others the opportunity to interfere in the officialdom of the north, and then resolve the situation where the officials in the north were stretched. The most important thing was that they could also prevent Lord Ye from being controlled by his opponents in the court, such as Shi Miyuan and Han Tuozhou, the two biggest opponents of Ye Qing.

Seeing Ye Qing, who was thinking about his solution, Liu Minxing continued: "It is December 9th of the fourth year, and the New Year's Day will be in a few days. After the New Year's Day, the imperial examination will be held. As long as the adults respond properly, it will be able to solve the urgent needs of the Northern Officialdom in at least half a year or more in one year."

"Who else knows about this?" Ye Qing nodded and asked seriously.

"Sir, you are the only one who knows it." Liu Minxing paused and continued: "But if this matter is to be done, I am afraid that the adults will have to bear some bad statements on their shoulders, such as the initial confusion and complaints of those literati who know everything about the imperial examination, and the court's impeachment of the imperial examination actions in the northern region, etc...."

Liu Minxing's implication was that this move could only solve the urgent problem, but it was like walking on a cliff. If you accidentally have the possibility of being crushed to pieces, you would be detained as a rebellion and self-reliance.
Chapter completed!