Just do what you say, although you are not sure, but if you succeed, you can solve the problem quickly. Chen Yingliang decided to give it a try, and arranged for some servants and reliable sergeants to escort Changsun Wuji by boat to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to protect himself. Regarding the activities of weapons and armor, as for the funds for the activities, Chen Yingliang gritted his teeth and took out a batch of jewels seized from the black and white brothers and Zhang Qian's thief's lair, as well as all the gifts that Qiao County and counties gave him during this period of time, as well as Sui Yang's The gold rewarded to him by the emperor this time is going to be sent to Pei Yun, Pei Hongce, Huangfu Wuyi and others by the way, as a New Year's greeting, and to get closer to each other.
It is worth mentioning that Chen Yingliang also prepared a gift for Fan Zigai, who was an upright official, ten volumes of "Fan Huazong's Poetry Collection" printed with movable type printing. Considering this old stubborn who loves face and name, Chen Yingliang reckons that old stubborn will definitely love this gift. At the same time, movable type printing was invented by Chen Yingliang after he accidentally found out that woodblock printing was still happening in this era. He planned to use it as a source of income to give back to the people of Yongcheng, and also used it to flatter Old Fan's stubborn flattery.
In mid-December, Changsun Wuji left with his guards, and he didn't pay much attention until after Changsun Wuji left, and Chen Yingliang realized how hard this brother-in-law had been helping him during this time, because without Changsun Wuji's After helping, Chen Yingliang had to rely on Chen Yingliang to review and write the piles of official documents alone. He was so tired that his wrists were sore and he couldn't get a rest until late at night. After regretting his carelessness, Chen Yingliang also discovered the lack of civil servants around him. Now, the idea of recruiting a few talented literati to serve as staff also appeared in Chen Yingliang's plan.
The lack of civil servants is not limited to civil servants. Chen Yingliang, who has been serving as the governor of Qiaojun for more than half a month, has been overwhelmed with political affairs and public affairs. Fifteen years old is hard to take on a big job, and there is only Ma Sanbao as a military commander. He can barely cope with the military training now. Once he goes to the battlefield in the future, Ma Sanbao will definitely not be enough. In addition, Chen Yingliang was incomparably short of scientific and technological talents, especially talents in casting, ironmaking and machinery, as well as mathematics talents necessary for calculating ballistics in the future.
In order to solve these problems, Chen Yingliang followed the example of Cao Cao once, and posted a notice on the notice board at the south gate of Yongcheng, openly recruiting talents in civil and military fields, and also recruiting talents who are good at physical science. , claiming that once he can satisfy himself, he will definitely keep it with a lot of money.
Chen Yingliang soon realized that he had done a stupid thing. In the next few days, although quite a few so-called literati and warriors came to Chen Yingliang to apply for jobs, what made Chen Yingliang desperate was that these so-called literati could only write a few words. A crooked text, silently writing a few paragraphs of the Analects of the Mean, or just being able to write a few sour poems and rotten words, there is no one who really knows how to govern the people, let alone the counselor who Chen Yingliang expects to be good at astronomy and geography Think tank.
The military generals are even more miserable. Although the Sui and Tang Dynasties worshiped martial arts and the folk martial arts prevailed, it may be because of Chen Yingliang's character. The warriors who came to apply for the job were all a bunch of fleshy feet. Nine out of ten Pioneer seals, including the more modest one, are all things that even Chen Yingliang, who only knows superficial martial arts skills, can't beat. Kicking over, there was no one available for the last one, and Chen Yingliang wasted countless precious time, which once affected the most important military training event.
Talents in science and technology are even more miserable, because there is no term science in this era, Chen Yingliang used the word "gewu" instead of arty, but those who came to apply for the job were all talking to Chen Yingliang about self-cultivation and self-cultivation. It took Chen Yingliang a long time to realize that the so-called Gewu in this era only refers to the category of philosophy, not a synonym for ancient science (in fact, Gewu, as a synonym for natural science, first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty). Then Chen Yingliang could only scold himself for traveling too early, while tearing up the original notice with his own hands, and re-wrote a notice for recruiting talents proficient in smelting, forging, machinery and arithmetic.
Having learned the lesson from the last notice, and in order not to waste time, Chen Yingliang posed a math problem in the notice this time - I don't know how many things can be counted today, three or three counts to two, five to five counts to three, The number of seven and seven is two, what is the geometry? Chen Yingliang had inquired carefully, and knew that this advanced mathematics problem had already appeared more than a hundred years ago in this era, and some people had already solved the answer, so Chen Yingliang believed that if someone could give the answer, it would be very important in mathematics. There must be certain attainments, worthy of reuse, so Chen Yingliang announced that the first one to answer the correct answer will be rewarded, and he will keep it with a lot of money! But if you give the wrong answer or come here deliberately, you will be rewarded with ten army sticks!
The new notice was released, which naturally caused quite a stir in the area of Yongcheng, but it is a pity that countless pretentious literati studied in front of the notice for a long time, but they all shook their heads and retreated, unable to find the correct answer. He didn't dare to run blindly in front of Chen Yingliang, and was beaten by ten army sticks in vain. At the same time, because no one was selected by Chen Yingliang, there were very few literati and warriors who came to apply for jobs. After a long time, Chen Yingliang couldn't even find a single available person. His master came to write an official document for himself.
After ten days of tossing around in vain, it was already the end of the ninth year of the great cause, and the new year was approaching. Chen Yingliang, who was busy with official and military affairs, gradually forgot about recruiting talents. However, what Chen Yingliang did not expect was that a snowflake In the busy afternoon, when Dong You, the magistrate of Yongcheng County, came to Tongshou Mansion to discuss business affairs, after finishing the business affairs, Dong You casually asked Chen Yingliang in his spare time: "Chen Tongshou, I heard that you How about setting up a list to recruit talents, recruiting literati and warriors, as well as excellent craftsmen and people who are proficient in arithmetic?"
"Don't mention it, it's just nonsense." Chen Yingliang smiled wryly and sighed. He casually talked about the situation in the past few days, and then sighed: "I don't want to waste my energy. I plan to tear up that notice in a few days. Dong County magistrate, you are from a scholarly background, if there are any suitable people, as long as their writing skills are a little better, please recommend one or two to me, and help me sort out the official documents, I will not treat them badly."
"It's easy to say, I have a few friends in poetry and prose, and their calligraphy is not bad. When I get back, I will ask them if they are willing to serve as your staff for Chen Tongshou." Dong You, who is not bad, agreed, and then said: " But Chen Tongshou, excuse me for your words, if you want to find craftsmen who are proficient in iron making and casting, and people who are proficient in arithmetic, if you only look for them in Yongcheng and Qiaojun, then you are looking for the wrong place."
"What's the meaning of Dong county magistrate's words? Please advise." Chen Yingliang asked in a daze.
"Because the outstanding folk craftsmen have been recruited by the court." Dong You and Chen Yingliang got along quite well, and they didn't hesitate to speak, explaining: "Today's emperor loves novelty utensils, and builds a lot of dragon boats and imperial chariots. It is ordered that all the counties in the world pay tribute to skilled craftsmen, and at the same time reward these skilled craftsmen very generously, so almost all the top skilled craftsmen of the Sui Dynasty have moved to Luoyang and Daxing, or they are used by His Majesty's patrol team. Chen Tongshou, you want to collect them again It is of course almost impossible to recruit talents in this field.”
"There are also talents who are proficient in arithmetic." Dong You added: "The emperor likes to build palaces. There are more than forty palaces alone, and canals are dug, and the east and west are rebuilt. To do these things, it is natural to build civil engineering. People who are proficient in arithmetic, so people who are proficient in arithmetic have also gathered in the two capitals, Chen Tongshou, you are naturally hard to find in Qiao County."
"Ouch! Why am I so confused?" Chen Yingliang patted his forehead and screamed, regretting: "If I had known that these talents had already gone to Dongdu and Daxing, I should have recruited them on the way here, my uncle Li Guogong And it happens to be General Jian Zhengqing, and there are people who are proficient in arithmetic under his command! Confused, confused, why didn't I even think of such a simple thing?!"
"Chen Tongshou doesn't have to blame himself so much." Dong You said with a smile, "I can't blame you. To say something disrespectful, Chen Tongshou, you are only seventeen years old now, and you were only seven or eight years old when the current emperor ascended the throne. It’s normal to know that.”
Chen Yingliang still blamed himself very much, and thanked Dong You for his kindness. Dong You was modest and said with a smile: "It is my honor to be able to help Chen Tongshou with a little effort. , might as well write a book now, and the next official will immediately arrange a postman to deliver the letter for Tong Shou."
Chen Yingliang wanted to agree, but changed his mind when the words came to his lips, shaking his head and said: "There is no need to be in such a hurry. I will tell you the county magistrate Dong. In fact, what I lack most now is skilled craftsmen. You must first have skilled craftsmen before you can use arithmetic talents." Alas, it's a pity that I don't have a good relationship with He Chou and Yun Dingxing from Shaofu, so it's hard to get someone from them, otherwise, things would be much easier."
Dong You's official position is not as high as Chen Yingliang's, but his age and qualifications are placed here, and his understanding of this era is far higher than Chen Yingliang's. After hearing Chen Yingliang's unintentional words, his heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly said: " Chen Tongshou, after hearing your words, I was suddenly dismissed..."
"Report." San Gouzi, a soldier who came in suddenly, interrupted Dong You's words—it hadn't been a few days since Chen Yingliang, Chen Yingliang's old neighbor San Gouzi didn't know the rules, and he didn't care that Dong You was in the hall, so he directly He bowed his hands to Chen Yingliang and said, "Tongshou, a man came from our yamen and said he can answer your notice questions, so I ask you to see him."
"Is there really someone who can answer it?" Chen Yingliang was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Lead him in."
San Gouzi took the order and went away, Dong You also continued to say to Chen Yingliang: "Chen Tongshou, just now you said that it is difficult to recruit skilled craftsmen from the Shaofu He Zhengqing and Yun Shaoqing, and you said that you must have skilled craftsmen before you can use arithmetic. Talent, this reminds me of a strange person, he is not only a rare skilled craftsman, but also proficient in arithmetic, and he is not under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu, if Chen Tongshou can recruit him to serve under his command, he can kill two birds with one stone."
"A strange person like the World Conference?" Chen Yingliang asked happily.
"The world is full of wonders, and it's not uncommon for one or two such strange people to emerge." Dong You was very pleased with Chen Yingliang's surprise. He also intentionally whetted Chen Yingliang's appetite, shaking his head and said, "However, speaking of it, the ups and downs of this strange man's life experience and the twists and turns of his fate are really rare in the world. I wonder if Tongshou would be interested in hearing about it?"
"Magistrate Dong, please introduce me. I'm very interested." Chen Yingliang really fell into Dong You's trap.
"This strange man is from Danyang. He was already famous for his skills when he was in Chen." Dong You deliberately slowed down his speech, and said: "When in Chen, the false emperor Chen Shubao appointed Wang Yong as the governor of Dongheng Prefecture. , because this strange man was already famous in Nanchen, Wang Yong visited the thatched cottage three times, and finally invited him out of the mountain to serve as Wang Yong's staff... "
"Tongshou, someone brought it here." San Gouzi ran in to make trouble again, and led a man into the lobby of Chen Yingliang's Tongshou mansion, pointing to the man and said, "I'm reporting to Chen Tongshou, this is the man who claims to be Said that he could solve the arithmetic problems on your notice, and said that if the answer was wrong, he would pay double the penalty."
Chen Yingliang glanced at the man casually, saw that he was in his thirties, his appearance was ordinary and inconspicuous, he was still wearing a somewhat tattered thin Confucian shirt in the heavy snow outside, and the toes of the cloth shoes on his feet were already showing, and he saluted to himself Jian Jian was still trembling, looking very downcast, so he didn't pay much attention, and pretended to be generous and said: "Sir, please sit on the brazier and wait for a while, I still have something to do, I will talk to you later. Chen San, Serve this gentleman a pot of hot tea."
San Gouzi agreed, and the down-and-out man was not polite, and said cautiously: "Tong Shou, can I have some hot soup and rice? I haven't eaten all day."
"Nothing for more than a day?" Chen Yingliang frowned, thinking that this guy was so hungry that he was beaten so hard to cheat food and drink, right? But because of the reputation of loving the people like a son and seeking talents like a thirst, Chen Yingliang still reluctantly ordered San Gouzi to do so.
"Who are you? Where did you come from?" Dong You, who had been the magistrate of the county for many years, was not as hypocritical as Chen Yingliang, and said directly to the down-and-out man, "Are you here to cheat, or to answer questions? Chen Tongshou stayed with the question shown in the notice, but you can also answer the difficult questions in "Ghost Valley Calculation Questions"?"
"The answer is twenty-three." The down-and-out man answered calmly, and asked back: "Dare to ask you two adults, have you ever answered wrong?"
Dong You didn't know the answer, so he could only turn his head to look at Chen Yingliang. Chen Yingliang was slightly taken aback, and nodded slightly to indicate that the answer was correct, but he was not too surprised, because someone had already calculated the answer to this calculation problem, and this down-and-out man might have heard it from there. The answer was not surprising, so Chen Yingliang didn't care, and said to the downcast man: "Sir, please sit down, the food will be here soon, we will talk while eating."
The down-and-out man thanked him, and then he sat next to the brazier to warm himself up, and then Chen Yingliang turned to Dong You and said, "Magistrate Dong, what happened to that strange man you mentioned just now, after he was hired as an aide by the former governor of Chen, Wang Yong?" ?”
"Later Wang Yong suddenly died of illness in Lingnan." Interrupted by the down-and-out man, Dong You had forgotten a lot of the jokes he had prepared in his stomach, so he had to reply quickly: "That strange man lost his support and had no travel expenses to go back to Danyang." In my hometown, I had to settle down in Lingnan, where I got along very well with the Yue people tribe, and later when the Yue people rebelled, they even promoted him as the leader and enshrined him as the master."
"Later, the false emperor Chen Shubao sent King Shiji of Shangzhu to quell the rebellion, and the Yue people's rebellion was quickly put down. That strange man was captured alive by Wang Shiji's team." Dong You beamed again, and said: "It stands to reason , that strange person should have been executed by a chariot, but that strange person was so eloquent that he even said that Wang Shiji pardoned his death crime, and took him as a domestic slave and kept him by his side."
"Further on, my Great Sui Heavenly Soldiers challenged Chen from all directions, and quickly pacified Southern Chen. Wang Shiji surrendered to the Great Sui with Chen Shubao, and moved to Daxing. That strange man also came to Daxing, and built an armillary sphere powered by water. I gave it to Wang Shiji, and Wang Shiji presented this armillary sphere to me, the late Emperor of the Sui Dynasty. The late emperor was overjoyed, and personally decreed that the strange man should be stripped of his slave status and made an official in the Taishi Bureau. Later, he gave it to Yang Xiu, king of Shu, which was very rewarding. The trust and reuse of His Royal Highness the King of Shu once made the scenery infinite in Shu."
"What happened later, Chen Tongshou must have known that the rebellion of the king of Shu was quickly put down by Yang Su." Dong You continued: "That strange man was once again a prisoner, and he was once again guilty of crimes, but no one thought of it." What's more, this strange man immediately made a chilo (pocket timepiece) and dedicated it to He Chou, who asked He Chou to intercede for him, and then restored the legendary water clock (water clock) , Dedicated to the current Holy Majesty, the Holy Majesty was overjoyed, and pardoned his death penalty. Then another year later, he was appointed as the supervisor of the Shangfang Department. Two years ago, this strange man was promoted again and took the post of Daxing Taishicheng .”
"The Taishi Cheng of Daxing?" Chen Yingliang was taken aback, and said in surprise: "So, I should definitely have met him. What's his name?"
"Geng asked Geng Dunxin."
A voice suddenly sounded from the side of the hall, and he answered the question for Dong You first. Chen Yingliang and Dong You turned their heads to look in surprise, but saw the desolate man who was warming himself facing the brazier, and said weakly: "Geng Dunxin, I see you!" After a few times, apart from being able to speak a little bit, his talent is actually very average. Ten years ago, I competed with him in arithmetic and astrology in Sichuan, and he lost to me. The so-called hydraulic armillary sphere he built is nothing special. When I was eighteen years old, I already built an armillary sphere with the advantages of a sextile and a quadrangle, but at that time I had no money and couldn’t afford to make a copper armillary sphere, so I had to use wood, so I didn’t keep it.”
"Bold man!" Dong You was furious, and said angrily, "How dare you utter wild words and insult the imperial court officials!"
"Your Majesty, forgive me." The downcast man got up and turned around, clasped his fists in salute to Dong You, and said calmly, "But I didn't say anything outrageous. I really competed with Geng Dunxin in arithmetic and astrology, and easily won him. Also, I am actually an official of the imperial court."
"Are you also an imperial court official?" Dong You and Chen Yingliang were both taken aback.
The down-and-out man nodded, and said with a wry smile: "But it shouldn't be now. I was originally the magistrate of Yanguan County in Kuaiji County. More than a month ago, Liu Yuanjin's team, supported by the rebellious thieves in the city, defeated the Yanguan. In the county town, I was powerless to resist, so I had to abandon my post and flee, and the road was blocked by thieves. I couldn't go to Kuaiji to plead guilty to the prefect, so I had to go back to Dongdu and directly plead guilty to the imperial court. The coil was robbed, and the two servants were killed, so it became what it is now."
"Are you really an imperial court official? Or an in-service official?" Chen Yingliang and Dong You were a little tongue-tied.
"That's true." The down-and-out man nodded again, and said with a bitter smile: "I finally came here, hungry and cold, with no relatives, and accidentally saw Chen Tongshou posting a list to recruit talents, so I took the liberty to come here for a meal and drink .”
"What's your name?" Chen Yingliang hurriedly asked.
"I'm in Chengdu, Yuan Tiangang, and I met Chen Tongshou." The down-and-out man saluted respectfully and replied calmly.
There was a loud bang, although the depressed man's tone was calm, but Chen Yingliang, who had been thoroughly brainwashed by Di Renjie, reacted extremely violently, his butt slipped and fell to the ground, pointing at the depressed man and screaming: "What? You Is it Yuan Tiangang? You evildoer, you have come out now?!"