Lin Jiang's behavior caused a great uproar in the court of Datong, but at first no one dared to adopt their children to Lin Jiang, because they were afraid that Lin Jiang would regret it.

What if Lin Jiang suddenly married and had children in a few years? Wouldn't the family that became Lin Jiang's stepson be exterminated?

Lin Jiang was helpless about this and had to continue making up stories. He told a group of important officials that he had an adventure in his childhood and met an immortal in the mountains. He lived with the immortal for more than ten years and learned a lot of skills. After the immortal left, he went out of the mountains and immediately made a big fuss in Zhongzhou, starting a vigorous career for more than ten years.

But no matter how many years, Lin Jiang's desire to seek immortals has never been extinguished, so he didn't want to get married and have children, because he didn't want to leave any ties in the world.

Lin Jiang spoke truthfully and made up for many details. He said some things from the era of cultivating immortals, and finally made a group of ministers believe it. Of course, who knows whether they really believe it or not. Anyway, not long after, 28 children aged five or six appeared in the palace.

Lin Jiang had told them before that these people were not yet their adopted sons. There was only one throne, so there was no need for so many adopted sons. Now these people were considered Lin Jiang's disciples. When he was about to leave Datong to seek immortals, he would choose adopted sons.

Lin Jiang still attached great importance to these children. He invited the best teachers to teach them, and Lin Jiang himself would give them lessons every day, mainly to broaden their horizons. ········In

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3888th year of the Xia calendar, Lin Jiang officially established the imperial examination system in Datong Dynasty. He did not ask about identity or origin, but judged officials by their achievements and grades.

The imperial examination system was not established casually. It was a very complicated thing. For example, what the imperial examination system tested, what aspects the content covered, etc., were all very particular. If the imperial examinations were to test the ideas and propositions of a certain predecessor, then whether a certain technique should be respected alone, if these things were not sorted out, it would be very easy to cause trouble. This is why Lin Jiang delayed for so many years before announcing the imperial examination system.

Lin Jiang covered a lot of content about the imperial examination system, but the overall focus was on the thoughts of Confucianism and Legalism. The future of Datong would definitely be to control the military with civil servants, but it would not be the situation in the Ming and Qing dynasties, where military commanders were treated as pigs and dogs. The Datong Dynasty controlled the military with civil servants, and the martial arts and military qualities of the civil servants were also very high. In simple terms, they were both civil and military, and they were the kind of people who could govern the army on horseback and pacify the people on foot. In the same year

, the Datong Dynasty began to organize county examinations in various places. Each state had a quota, and those who met the requirements could be called scholars. Scholars could be exempted from corvée, but not from taxes. Lin Jiang had already set a rule that no matter what title, they could not be exempted from taxes.

The following year, a provincial examination was held, and those who passed the examination were called Juren. The basic treatment of Juren and Xiucai was the same, but Juren had the advantage of being able to be appointed as officials. Starting from the clerks, Lin Jiang also opened up for the clerks, and the clerks could be promoted. After all, some of the corrupt aspects of the clerks would be gradually broken.

Three years later, in the 3891st year of the Xia calendar, the meeting ceremony began. There were more than 6,000 candidates from 51 states who came to participate in the whole meeting. Linjiang only accepted 600 Jinshi. With the title of Jinshi, they could start from county-level officials when they were appointed.

The 600 Jinshi took another palace examination to select the top three candidates. Their starting point for officialdom in the future would be higher. Basically, they would stay in the court to start. There was no other way. They were the real elites. It was too time-consuming to start from scratch.

The significance of the imperial examination system is self-evident. Anyway, its existence ensured that there was a certain degree of mobility among social classes and could also curb the monopoly of aristocratic families on certain things. It was of great progressive significance. Moreover, the imperial examination system set up by Linjiang was not the kind of that in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In the same year, the Datong Dynasty, which had been recuperating for nearly ten years, started a war again. It sent a million troops to fight against the monsters in the north, and at the same time, it sent 100,000 naval forces to go upstream and enter the Qingjiang River to fight.

In the past ten years, the Zhou Dynasty has given up on exterminating the monsters and has only been engaging in minor battles with them in Lingyun Mountain. The ones that are really fighting the monsters are the remnants of the Qingjiang Legion and the Great Wall Legion from the Immortal Kingdom.

In this battle, Lin Jiang did not require to wipe out all the monsters immediately, but to nibble away at them step by step. In this battle, Lin Jiang did not take action. Lin Jiang wanted to see if these warriors could beat the monsters without him.

For this reason, Lin Jiang sent out almost all the martial saints in his hands. There were a total of 46 martial saints, which were the result of all the efforts of Lin Jiang in cultivating them for many years.

Twenty-eight disciples who might become stepsons also went to the battle with the army. They would become middle and lower-level officers and fight bloody battles on the battlefield. If they did not have the courage to go to the battlefield, they would not be qualified to be emperors.

The inertia of the dynasty was here. Even if a million people were supplied to go to war, Datong State was still constantly moving towards prosperity, and it was far from its peak.

The Datong Army had a million soldiers, plus the Qingjiang Legion had 300,000, a total of 1.3 million soldiers, and the soldiers were divided into several routes, each with a commander. As time passed, some suffered failures and some won great victories, but the entire strategy failed. Lin Jiang ordered them to retreat to some strategic points, which almost occupied the territory of two or three prefectures.

Lin Jiang carefully read the news sent back by the secret envoys. The Datong army was not afraid of fighting, and there were no mistakes in command. It was quite normal, but it still paid a huge price to fight with the monsters.

When they were able to sweep across the 18 states of the north, Lin Jiang played a very important role. Those monster martial saints were all powerful enough to fight against thousands of troops. But in front of Lin Jiang, they were no different from mortals. However, in front of other Datong troops, they were still insurmountable mountains.

"The gap in the number and quality of martial arts masters can no longer be made up by national strength, but by technology."

After reading all the reports, Lin Jiang sighed. There were many monster martial saints, and there were hundreds of them that could be counted. For those that could not be counted and were located inside the monster city, it would not be a problem to double or triple them. In Lin Jiang's

mind, there were only a hundred martial saints at the peak of the Wei Dynasty. With the addition of the fairy kingdom, they were only on par with them. Even if they could wipe out all the monsters south of Qingjiang River, what about the north of Qingjiang River?

Zhongzhou, Youzhou, Liangzhou, Beizhou, what a vast territory. What if after a few hundred years or a thousand years, Datong State weakened, and Lin Jiang did not wake up?

So Lin Jiang needed a permanent solution, that is, to completely wipe out the demons, so he needed the support of the technology tree.

In fact, Lin Jiang did not like to click the technology tree to the modern era, because there were many things in the modern era that Lin Jiang did not like, such as all kinds of messy thoughts, which made most people become realistic and selfish, just like marriage. Modern people do not pay much attention to love, but more to interests. Lin Jiang did not get married for thousands of years, which was also the root of these thoughts. After all, he had seen too many terrible examples, and he was afraid.

So in the previous awakenings, Lin Jiang did not click the technology tree casually, just for fear of clicking crookedly or clicking the wrong one.

But now, Lin Jiang can only bite the bullet and click the technology tree. If he does not click the technology tree, even if Lin Jiang himself goes to the battlefield to kill the enemy, he does not know when he will kill.

After much deliberation, Lin Jiang finally decided to light up the technology tree of gunpowder. Lin Jiang found craftsmen, explained the concept to them, and asked them to copy specific products.

There was no need to study the formula of gunpowder. Lin Jiang remembered the content. It was mainly about the equipment, which would take some time to mass produce. Lin Jiang's design was to skip the matchlock gun and enter the era of the flintlock gun. The cannon was a muzzle-loading cannon and a smoothbore cannon, but Lin Jiang required a large caliber, the kind that a martial saint could not stop.

If these two weapons could be mass-produced, the end of the demons would be here, especially the large-caliber flintlock gun, which could be handled by a soldier with a stronger body. Then Lin Jiang would not have to spend years training soldiers. A qualified soldier only needed to be trained for two or three months, and then they could be sent to the battlefield continuously. With a population of nearly one billion in Datong, what force could resist?