Author: no falling bones

The next day, when Ziyou Youyou woke up, it was already noon. Last night's celebration banquet ended up being dominated by everyone. Even the Grandmaster couldn't bear the thought of so many people coming together.

Ziyou was already drunk by the time he knew it. Soldiers were lying everywhere in the camp. The captains and generals had also fallen. Wang Jian and Meng Wu had been helped away last night.

Ziyou rubbed his sore head and walked out of the camp. As for these drunken soldiers, someone would come to watch them. The patrolling soldiers last night were not only for precaution, but also to prevent the drunken soldiers from causing trouble.

, they are all a group of warriors and the stimulation of alcohol will inevitably do impulsive things, and there is also the need to clean up the camp the next day.

After walking out of the camp, Mo Ya was already waiting here with his carriage. As a qualified horseman, Mo Ya knew very well the principle of drinking without driving and driving without drinking, so he didn’t drink much last night and stayed awake until

The next day, he drove Zi You back. After all, Mo Ya had a lot of things to do yesterday. He sent Shao Siming to Wang Shi's Mansion and Chen Ping to the Talent Recruitment Hall. Although Chen Ping was Zi You's disciple, he still had to go.

process.

After Ziyou returned to the King's Mansion, everyone was eating. After seeing Ziyou come back, Xue Nu served Ziyou breakfast. After being hungover, Ziyou felt particularly happy after having a bowl of porridge.

"It's so uncomfortable. I'll never drink with them again. Hundreds of people take turns drinking you." Ziyou said, rubbing his head.

"It's great that you can come back alive." Jing Salamander said, and then went to the kitchen to bring a bowl of hangover soup. This was prepared last night, but Ziyou didn't come back, and he heated it up just now.

Ziyou took the hangover soup, took two sips and put it down. He looked at Shao Siming who was sitting next to Concubine Yan and said

"You all know each other, right? Xiaoyi has been living here during this period. I want to see how Donghuang Taiyi saves people."

"He took action?" Concubine Yan said in surprise.

"He didn't take action against me. When Xuan Jian went after the Moon God, he fought against Donghuang Taiyi. In the end, Feng Wuze and Bai Yifei arrived with their army and scared Donghuang Taiyi away." Ziyou took it out from his arms.

The bloody black cloth.

Concubine Yan looked at the black cloth and immediately knew that it belonged to Donghuang Taiyi. Looking at the blood stains on it, she was not surprised. If the army had nothing to do with Donghuang Taiyi, then Donghuang Taiyi would not be so timid.

It was done in secret.

"I received a secret order from His Excellency the old Dong Huang of the Yin Yang family. They hope to join forces with you." Concubine Yan took out a piece of cloth with the characters of Yan State and said.

"The previous generation's Donghuang Taiyi is not dead?" Ziyou asked in surprise. He thought that the previous generation's Donghuang Taiyi had died a long time ago, otherwise it would be impossible for the current Donghuang Taiyi to do this to the Yin-Yang family.

"No, Donghuang Taiyi defeated the previous generation of His Excellency Donghuang, and he took control of the Yin and Yang family. Donghuang Taiyi was raised by the old Donghuang, so he did not kill the old Donghuang. The old Donghuang has since disappeared.

The Eight Meridians of Yin have been locked up in the Jieshi Palace of Yan State." Concubine Yan said, this is the secret of the Yin and Yang family, and she only discovered it when she went to the Jieshi Palace to break through the master.

"What does he want to join forces with me for?" Ziyou asked curiously.

"He said he wanted to protect the Yin and Yang family, but I always felt that there was something in his words. He also said that if you want to know, you can go to Jieshi Palace." Concubine Yan said.

"Ignore him. He still wants to cooperate with me. It's not like I begged him to cooperate with me." Ziyou said, Jieshi Palace is one of the bases of the Yin Yang family, and he doesn't want to travel so far in the Yan Kingdom.

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"In that case I won't reply." Concubine Yan shrugged and said.

Before Ziyou could continue to say a few words, he was called away by Zhao Gao. After arriving at Zhangtai Palace, Lu Buwei, Li Si and Han Fei were all here. Looking at their expressions, Ziyou knew that something big had happened.

Something happened.

"Your Majesty." Zi Xing's ceremony.

"Teacher, please sit down and read this memorial first." Ying Zheng gave this memorial to Ziyou.

Ziyou looked serious as he looked at the content inside. This memorial was written by the steward of the recruitment hall. It said that there are many Confucian disciples in the recruitment hall now, but there are fewer disciples from other sects, and over the years, scholars from the six countries have entered.

Although there are still many Qins, they are no longer as good as before. Although this is just a simple work report, the crisis contained in it is great.

Because if this continues, Confucian disciples will fill all aspects of the Qin Dynasty's court. If it was only at the grassroots level, it would be okay, but now more and more Confucian disciples have reached the middle and high levels by virtue of their political achievements. If it continues to develop, it is very likely that it will become a one-spoken hall.

situation.

Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Humanity and sophistication will make them stick together to warm each other and safeguard their own interests. This is inevitable. In order to prevent one family from becoming dominant and controlling the court, other people are needed to check and balance. Qin Zhaoxiang

During the king's period, in order to fight against the relatives of the Chu family who controlled the Qin State, they recruited scholars from the six countries into Qin and let them enter the court to fight against the Chu family in order to balance the court. However, now the Confucian family in the Qin court is gradually changing.

For another Chu family.

Today's Confucian Jiuqing, Tingwei, Zhisu Neishi, and Dianke are all Confucian people. After Yao Jia was succeeded as Tingwei by Li Si, he went to serve as Dianke and was responsible for Qin's foreign affairs, while Gongsun Bai

He is one of the three officials who serve as Dianke. Ziyou, the leader of the Confucian family, as the king's master, has the same status as the three princes. He can intervene in the political affairs of the Qin State and is equivalent to the prime minister. Now it seems that the Confucianism in the Qin State's court

It is no exaggeration to say that it is number one in terms of power.

If it weren't for Lu Buwei as prime minister, relying on the scholars of the Six Kingdoms and the half-broken Zhao and Chu families to check and balance, the Qin State would already be a Confucian one-spoken hall, so it would be very dangerous if it continued like this. If it was really turned into a single-spoken hall,

Let’s not talk about decision-making. Even recruiting talents will become difficult. Talents from hundreds of schools will choose other countries because they are worried about the power of Confucianism.

Ying Zheng looked at his think tank. Three of them were from Confucianism. The military was okay. Confucianism was not good at military affairs, so they could not interfere. Fortunately, Ziyou distinguished between public and private matters and separated himself from Confucianism. Otherwise, the current Jiujiu

Not only three of your ministers are Confucian disciples.

"Fortunately, your Majesty saw this memorial, otherwise it would have been a big mistake." Ziyou said.

"Maybe it's the blessing of our ancestors. When I woke up in the morning to review the memorial, I picked one up and it happened to be this one, otherwise I wouldn't have found it." Ying Zheng said.

"The Qin State continued to expand externally and needed a large number of scholars to move in. The Qin State favored martial arts and had a weak literary style. It could not support such a large-scale employment. It could only rely on recruiting scholars from the six countries. This was a long-term shortcoming of the Qin State, and the Six Kingdoms of Shandong

In the country, scholars and Confucian disciples account for the majority, and this is an unchangeable pattern," Li Si said.

At the beginning, the scholars of the Six Kingdoms were mainly from the Bai Jia and the powerful families. Among them, the Bai Jia was the main force and the big families accounted for the majority, and the powerful were less powerful. And among the Bai Jia and the big families, Confucian disciples made up the majority. This is an unsolvable proposition.

Previously, due to Confucian prejudice against Qin and the conflicts between Qin and Confucianism, Confucian disciples were reluctant to join Qin. Later, Xunzi praised Qin's policies in some articles, and this changed some. Qin and Confucianism

The conflicts between Confucianists eased a little, and some Confucian disciples also entered the Qin Dynasty. Meng Gong and Yao Jia also entered the Qin Dynasty because of this.

Historically, Fusu's teacher was chosen as Chun Yuyue to ease the conflict between Qin and Confucianism, because governing the world requires too many talents and officials. Most of these talents and officials, whether they are civilians or powerful people, are Confucian disciples, so the first emperor was

He wanted Fusu to favor Confucianism in order to open up this situation, but what he didn't expect was that he chose the wrong person, and Chunyu Yue was taught by Fusu that he would only be a loyal minister and forget how to be an emperor.

This proposition itself is unsolvable. The only way is to allow scholars other than Confucians to join Qin or to vigorously cultivate local scholars in Qin.

"There are two ways to solve this problem. The first is to focus on cultivating the people of Lao Qin. No matter what the people of Lao Qin study, they are only loyal to the King of Qin. Moreover, they are trained by the state, which can stipulate the knowledge they learn. Second,

Introducing hundreds of schools of thought, and establishing it just like Jixia Academy, established Daqin Academy, and allowed hundreds of schools of thought to take root in the Qin State. Even though there were mostly Confucian disciples at that time, there were still disciples of hundreds of schools of thought, which could check and balance Confucianism. This could break the Yiyantang

situation." Han Fei said.

Everyone nodded after hearing this, and Lu Buwei said again

"But the scope of selecting talents will become smaller in this way. The talent reserve of Qin State is mainly the recruitment hall. When the recruitment hall recruits talents, although they do not look at their origin, they will focus on the rich families and hundreds of families. This is too passive.

, unable to attract talents from all over the world.”

In addition to the selection of officials from the Six Kingdoms, the Qin State mainly selects three types of officials, military merit and title, recommendation and recruiting. However, the latter three are completely inferior to the recruitment hall in terms of quality and quantity. The recruitment hall also has its own shortcomings. It is passive.

It is not attractive enough, and the Talent Recruitment Hall is set up in Xianyang. Although there are local recruitment halls, most of the scholars in the local Talent Recruitment Hall who want to come to the Xianyang Talent Recruitment Hall need the recommendation of local officials, so a large number of talents are missed.

And as time goes by, the court will be monopolized, and the common people will have less and less chance to get ahead.

"But compared to other countries, the Talent Recruitment Center is already the largest method of recruiting talents. Does Father Zhong have any other methods?" Ying Zheng said.

"I'm stupid, no." Lu Buwei spread his hands and said. He knew the problem. If he could come up with a solution, wouldn't he have done it earlier?

"The imperial examination is used to select scholars." Ziyou said, if you want to break this situation, you can only rely on the imperial examination to select scholars, and you can also use Confucianism to select scholars. The relative fairness of the imperial examination is that everyone has the same channel.

They all rely on grades rather than relationships, and different types of talents can be selected through different examination subjects. No matter how many Confucian disciples there are, it is impossible to have every type.

Thanks to book friend 20210731211213510 for correcting all the typos and fluent sentences for me. Thank you very much. I have contacted the editor to open and modify it. I will modify it one by one in the afternoon.
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