Spring passed and autumn came, and cold came again. In the blink of an eye, the time had arrived in 200 AD.
At this time, Li Xiang was already in his thirties, and he was at his peak.
At this time, even not including the unborn Cai Wenji's child, Li Xiang already had seven children. Among them, in addition to his son Wei Zifu, his eldest son Li Hao, and Dayu'er's eldest daughter Li Lizhi during the Yongliang War.
In addition, the other three sons and two daughters were all acquired in the past few years.
Among them, Xiao Meiniang gave birth to Li Xiang’s next son, Li Yu.
Shangguan Wan'er gave birth to Li Xiang's next daughter, Li Su.
Wei Zifu gave birth to Li Xiang’s third son, Li Xuan.
Wang Zhaojun gave birth to Li An, Li Xiang’s fourth son.
Wu Meiniang gave birth to Li Qing, the third daughter of Li Xiang.
In the past few years, Xiao Yanyan, Changsun Wugu, Xiao Qiao, and Cai Wenji have also entered the house one after another, as well as Zhang Lihua, Chen Xuanhua, Diao Chan, Chen Yuanyuan, Hai Lanzhu, Lan Masanti, etc. who were raised in the outer room by Li Xiang.
Female, after all, Li Xiang's harem is already quite small.
After resting for several years, the generals stationed in various places also returned in batches to reunite with their families. Therefore, the generals under their command have also gained something in the past few years. For example, Xiao Xingtian and Xiao Shisan have been born one after another in the past few years.
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However, these children are not implanted by the system, but are born naturally. Therefore, the system cannot detect what step they can reach in the future.
After all, the future of these children is unknown and needs to be created by themselves. No matter how talented they are, if they waste their time since childhood and do not think about making progress, they will not achieve anything.
But if you learn that stupid birds fly first and diligence can make up for clumsiness, even if you are born with some differences, you may not be ineffective.
After all, the system is a summoning system, not a system that predicts the future. Naturally, it is impossible to predict what level these children can achieve in the future.
In the past few years, many remarkable things have happened. Among them, the impact brought by Li Xiang's implementation of the imperial examination.
As Li Xiang expected, after Li Xiang promoted the imperial examination, Chi You was the first to implement the imperial examination. After all, he and the aristocratic family had no dealings with each other, and he didn't care if he had too many lice.
Moreover, among the princes in the world, the civil service system under his command is also the most chaotic, and some places are even under military control.
Next, it was Cao Cao who took action. However, he did not directly implement the imperial examination. Instead, he issued three orders to seek talents in just one year.
"Since ancient times, the kings who have been appointed to the Zhongxing Dynasty have never been able to rule the world with virtuous men and gentlemen! Even if they have found virtuous people, they have never left the alleys. How can they be lucky enough to meet each other? The people above do not ask for their ears. Today, the world has not yet decided.
This is a time when we are in urgent need of talents..."
"A man who is good at practice may not be able to be enterprising; a man who is enterprising may not be able to do well. How can Chen Ping practice diligently, and how can Su Qin keep his faith? Chen Ping established the Han industry, and Su Qin helped weaken Yan. From this point of view, scholars have biases.
If you are short and mediocre, you can abandon it! If a minister clearly thinks about this meaning, then there will be no stagnation of scholars and no waste of official career."
"In the past, Yi Zhi, Fu Shuo, was a bitch; Guan Zhong, Huan Gong was a thief, and they all used it to make a fortune. Xiao He, Cao Shen, were county officials; Han Xin, Chen Ping had an insulting reputation, and they had the shame of being a joke, but they were able to become kings. His career was recorded in Zai. Wu Qi was greedy for generals, killed his wife for self-confidence, spent money to seek officials, and his mother died without returning. However, in Wei, the Qin people did not dare to go eastward, and in Chu, the three Jin Dynasties did not dare to seek south. Today, there is no gain. The most virtuous people are placed among the people..."
Among Li Xiang's imperial examinations, Wei Renpu, Li Zhen, Xu Jie, Gao Gong and others were all from Yanzhou. This stimulated Cao Cao. These talents originally came from his own territory, but they all fell into the arms of Li Xiang. Cao Cao almost slapped himself in the face!
Moreover, Cao Cao himself never thought that there would be so many top talents among poor families.
After the imperial examination, Li Xiang ostensibly wanted to show the fairness of his imperial examination to the world, so he spread the contents of the answer sheets of the successful candidates throughout the world. It was precisely because of this that the princes realized The quality of those who passed the imperial examination this time.
Out of jealousy, Cao Cao issued three requests for talents within a year, which showed that he only relied on talents and was eager to seek talents. He only considered talents, regardless of family background, or even virtue!
After the imperial examination, Cao Cao also had some crooked thoughts and followed Cheng Yu's plan to detain the families of Li Zhen, Xu Jie and other great talents, hoping to force Li Zhen and others to leave Li Xiang and return to Yanzhou.
However, Li Xiang is not Liu Bei. If Cao Ah Man dares to play this trick, Li Xiang will directly station a hundred thousand troops in Hulao. As long as he dares to continue to play dirty, Li Xiang will dare to send troops to teach him how to behave.
The flat terrain of Yanzhou Plain is the best battlefield for cavalry. As long as Li Xiang divides the cavalry into several groups, he does not need to actually attack the cities in various places. He only needs to use Cao Cao's territory as a racecourse and let the cavalry run around happily. , setting a few fires is enough to make Cao Cao blind!
Next, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who took action. The Jiangdong family, despite being kings and hegemons in Jiangdong, was not considered by the big families in the Central Plains and the North at all. Looking at them was no different from looking at the powerful. .
The Jiangdong family, compared to all the families in the world, is actually only as strong as the Jiangdong family. What's more, the Jiangdong family, large and small, has already been taken care of by Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's early development was completely attracted by the Jiangdong family. Bloody.
But even so, Lao Zhu was accustomed to playing it safe. He waited until the war was almost over before announcing the news of the imperial examination. Moreover, Lao Zhu would have done nothing if he didn't take action. Once he did, he would hit the mark without giving any trouble to those aristocratic families. room for their objection.
In fact, the princes in the world are not fools. They naturally saw that Li Xiang made the answer sheets of the imperial examination candidates public, not really to show the fairness and justice of the imperial examination as he said, but to attract them to the water. .
However, Li Xiang's plan was an obvious one. Although this purpose could be seen, the temptation in it was also real, making them unable to help but voluntarily step into Li Xiang's plan.
Moreover, with the implementation of the imperial examination system, although the first imperial examination was limited by time, only scholars from several states near Sizhou had the opportunity to participate.
However, scholars from other distant states also set out for Sizhou, preparing to go to Sizhou for development, also in order to catch up with the next imperial examination.
Although there are not many such people, the talents in their own territory flow to other people's territory, which makes many princes very helpless.
If no changes are made, they will still suffer. The large number of talents from Hebei, Yan and Henan who appeared in the first imperial examination is a lesson learned from the past.