An hour passed quickly, and the candidates came out of the examination room one after another!
Tian Chou did not leave the examination room after handing in his papers, but waited for Xian Yuping and the others to come out!
After seeing them, he walked over and asked, "How did the test go?"
Lu Dun frowned and said: "I don't know. I only said to write an article of 500 words, but there was no defined scope. I don't know if my article will be favored by the examiner! The number of words is too small, and I am very uncomfortable.
This piece of policy planning is probably the worst I’ve ever done in my life!”
The number of words is small and the time is short. It is really painful for Lu Dun, as if the conversation ends just as it begins!
Gongsun Xu smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, 500 words is too little. When I wrote the border strategy, I wrote thousands of words. Later, I kept revising and reducing the number, but it was still too much!"
Xian Yuping said with relief: "Write more and it should be fine!"
Tian Chou asked: "Guoan, what strategy did you write?"
Xian Yuping said: "Regarding the strategy of ocean development, I stayed on the islands in Youzhou for more than two years and found that there is extremely huge wealth in the sea, but we have not developed it before. The ocean is a huge wealth. If Jizhou had
Exploiting the struvite on the island, or learning to govern and fishing for sea fish will not lead to millions of refugees!"
Tian Chou nodded and said: "Indeed, the ocean is a huge wealth. We have ignored this before!"
But Xian Yuping also smiled bitterly and said: "I only wrote briefly! There is too little time!"
One hour is really not enough time to write a policy essay!
A few people suddenly fell silent. They found that this exam was the worst they had ever performed, and they felt a little panicked for a while!
And at this time, several people passed by them and were discussing the exam!
"It's too difficult to write 500 words. I don't understand many of the words. I can't even read through books. I just can't find the words I don't understand!"
"Yes! It would be great if there was a book that could specifically search for words. It won't be a big deal to bring the book into the examination room this time!"
Another laughed and said: "You don't know how to write in Pinyin, but the 500-word article is indeed the longest article I have ever written! I thought about it for a long time before I managed to write 500 words!"
After listening to these people's words, Tian Chou's confidence seems to have returned. With such an opponent, their strategies don't seem to be that bad!
At the same time, after the exam, hundreds of examiners headed by Jia Xu continued to correct the exam papers!
"That doesn't make any sense!" Jia Xu saw the test paper with a bunch of circles and crosses, and immediately made a big cross with a red pen!
"Bullshit!" This is really annoying. One-tenth of the 500-word article is Pinyin! It's unimaginable that such a person dares to take the imperial examination!
Jia Xu's correction speed is very fast. If the reading is clear, it will be marked and passed. If it is not clear, he can basically correct it with a glance! And articles like Tian Chou's can be said to be out of ten. Jia Xu feels that he
I'm almost sick, and the other examiners are the same. This is no longer about literary talent. These examiners can judge whether the article is passed or not by reading it once, so the marking process is very fast. One person only has 300 test papers.
That's all
At this time, Xu Wei came to the examination room and asked Jia Xu: "Wenhe, what is the quality of this batch of candidates?"
Jia Xu shook his head and said: "You still have to set a threshold for governing!"
Then he took out a somewhat large-scale article and said: "Letting such people take the imperial examination not only undermines the quality of the imperial examination, but also wastes a lot of energy! Such people are not scholars at all!"
Jia Xu looked disdainful and couldn't even write a word. He deserves to be called a scholar!
Xu Wei looked nostalgic after reading these articles. They were really similar to the articles he had written as a primary school student in his previous life. The sentences didn't make sense, and the pinyin was all over the place!
But for Xu Wei, this is already a success. Don't look at this candidate's articles and rely on pinyin, but at least 3,000 common words should be recognized. This is considered to be out of illiteracy. As for using pinyin to replace words, if Xu Wei didn't have a mobile phone
If so, there are still many words that I don’t know! Youzhou’s literacy education is still very successful! After all, the rule here only lasted two years.
Xu Wei said: "This is the threshold. If you can't even learn such a short composition, you are obviously a scumbag! Such people still need to study for a few more years!"
Then Xu Wei looked at some of the essays that had been ticked. Most of them were barely readable, but there were a few classical Chinese essays of good quality. Xu Wei could roughly tell the meaning of the articles. There were actually many people who wrote them in 500 words.
If you have a strategy, you can be considered a talent.
Even without looking at the name, Xu Wei knew that this person should be a child of a noble family. They had read the Six Classics of Confucianism for more than ten years to have such literary talent! However, Xu Wei didn't care. He didn't rely on strategies to select talents.
The second is that no matter how beautifully written the strategy is, it means becoming a small official with hundreds of stones, and it is the same when Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chu are here! For Xu Wei, governing the country through science and engineering is the kingly way. In the future, more people will read basic mathematics than the Analects of Confucius.
Even Xu Wei was wondering if he should also come up with an allusion to rule the world in nine chapters, so as to show the world that he attaches great importance to mathematics! It is much more meaningful to produce a few mathematicians than to produce a few great Confucians. After all,
Great Confucian scholars are always surrounded by the words of Confucius, and mathematicians can really change the world. At least the industrial age requires a lot of mathematical talents!
Xu Wei stayed here for an hour. Jia Xu and others also finished correcting the test papers, and then reported to Xu Weihui: "In power, 3520 people passed the first round of the imperial examination!"
Xu Wei was a little surprised. After all, Youzhou had been in his hands for only two years. Simple literacy not only trained 30,000 primary school students, but also trained more than 3,000 middle school students. It really exceeded his expectations!
Xu Weidao: "These people will be considered children from now on. They can start from the second round of the next imperial examination. Of course, if they want to enter politics, they can also start from fighting against officials!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Dou Li is no longer even the village chief, but the lowest-level clerk in the county, but he has finally entered the civil service system of Daqian! It can be said that he is on the rails.
Job.
Jia Xu nodded, and then asked: "When will the second imperial examination be held?"
Xu Weidao: "The list of those who passed the test will be posted today, and the second test will begin tomorrow!"
In the afternoon after the exam, Jixian County posted the list of those who passed the exam!
30,000 candidates gathered around to look at the list. Those who passed the exam were naturally overjoyed, and those who failed the exam kept looking for their names!
The four Tian Chou people were happy to find that they all passed the exam, and as they continued to see their familiar companions, Tian Chou and the others seemed to realize that the difficulty of this exam was very low, and basically all of them passed the exam.
middle!
Xian Yuping couldn't laugh or cry: "It turns out that only those who really write a 500-word article can win. This imperial examination is too easy!"
Lu Dun thought for a while and suddenly realized: "This is not a selection of talented people, Lang Guan. Didn't you see it said above that those who pass the exam can become Dou Li? Even if we come for the second round, we can only become Baishi."
Li Zheng, what policies does such an official need to know? As long as he knows how to collect taxes and inform the people of the court's notices, that's all!"
Tian Chou said: "We think too much. In fact, just write 500 words to prove that we can read and pass! I don't think it will be that difficult in the second round. What we need in power are not unparalleled national scholars, but small officials who do a lot of things."
, after all, it only took a few years for Daqian to expand from one county to three states. It lacked a large number of officials, and Daqian had the right to go to the villages. The number of officials it wanted was several times more than that of Dahan. Thinking about it, Daqian now needs a large number of officials.
Officials are required to do things, so the government uses the imperial examination method to recruit talents!"
Tian Chou's statement was recognized by people like Xian Yu Ping. After all, there were 3,000 people to be selected this time, and there were thousands of people in Guangyou Prefecture. With such a large number, they were embarrassed to say that they were unparalleled national scholars.
But they are very bitter in their hearts. They all regard themselves as unparalleled national warriors, but they never thought that they are just petty officials in the eyes of the ruling party!
The next day, the examination room was still the same, and the process was the same as yesterday, but there were 10 times fewer candidates.
The test papers for the exam were quickly distributed, and Tian Chou discovered that this mathematics test was filled with papers, with a hundred questions in total.
Tian Chou has not yet dealt with the previous four arithmetic operations. Even if he encounters a symbol that he does not understand, he can look through mathematics books to find the meaning of the symbol, and then write the answer according to the method he learned from the nine chapters of arithmetic. But when he reaches intermediate mathematics
There were many geometry and algebra questions that Tian Chou didn't understand. He had to flip through books to find formulas while doing calculations and doing questions. This time he wasn't as relaxed as last time. After taking the exam for an hour, he still had more than a dozen questions that he couldn't understand.
as!
After the exam was completed, the four Tian Chou gathered together again!
"I haven't finished more than a dozen questions?" Tian Chou was the first to say.
Xian Yuping said in frustration: "I know more than you. I know a lot, but I just can't calculate it!"
Lu Dun smiled bitterly and said, "I'm probably just a little higher than passing grade!"
Gongsun Xu said helplessly: "I can't even pass the exam. I didn't do half of it. It seems that I can only start from fighting against officials! If I had known that mathematics is so important, I would have studied the nine chapters of arithmetic seriously!"
However, based on the experience last time, several people found other people to ask about their exams, and found that everyone else did not do well in the exam! This made them feel more relaxed. If everyone was not good, then they might still be able to do well.
There is a chance to pass the exam!
But when they looked at the list the next day, they were extremely surprised. In their opinion, the extremely difficult test paper had hundreds of people getting perfect scores. After observing, they found that those who got perfect scores were basically students from Jixian School. . And there are quite a few with high scores among them, but it is the children of their noble family. Although they all passed the first round, more than half of them failed in the second round. The only luck is that they passed the first round and can pass. Working as a Dou Li in Da Gan, and there is no distinction between officials and officials in Da Gan, Dou Li can also be promoted. This can be regarded as a blessing among misfortunes!
Among them, Tian Chou had the highest score, but it was only 76 points, and his ranking was 233rd. The others were even worse, but they were lucky to find that several of them were above the 1,000th place, which means they passed the exam!
After several people passed the exam, they found a tavern to celebrate. After three rounds of drinking, Tian Chou said drunkenly: "It seems that if Daqian replaces Confucianism with mathematics to rule the world, we need to learn mathematics well if we want to go further in the future! Even if we all Don’t give up studying mathematics even if you become Li Zheng, our future will definitely be more than just petty officials like Li Zheng!”
Lu Dun said: "Yes, a gentleman should constantly strive to improve himself, and we must also strengthen our study in the future!"
The vigorous imperial examination ended like this, but for Xu Wei, it was just a larger civil service examination, not a big deal. People who passed the first round of the examination were recruited to the counties and counties in Youzhou to become office workers. , Youzhou's industrialization continues to strengthen, and the city needs many more civil servants than Dahan. Their arrival has accelerated the development of Daqian's urbanization.
The scholars who passed the second round of the exam were assigned to the villages in Youzhou. They followed the old village chief to learn how to deal with farmers and deal with trivial daily matters in the countryside. After one month of study, they were assigned to Liaodong. After all, this imperial examination is mainly to transport talents to Liaodong!
Tian Chou and the others had no complaints about going to Liaodong. They were familiar with the officialdom and knew how rare the opportunity was to climb up. Especially as they were in the new dynasty, they had to seize every opportunity they could to climb up, because at this time they were one step ahead. , and will lead step by step from now on.
Going to Liaodong to become the head of the village, it took three years to change to a county magistrate. In their opinion, it was worth it. It took another three years to change to a county guard. This had already broken through the restrictions imposed by the Han Dynasty on them. In the Han Dynasty, people like them were so powerful. It is basically impossible to contaminate a 2,000-stone prefect. Only in Daqian did the new dynasty have such an opportunity! Tian Chou and the others all signed up to assist the Liaodong Protectorate.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After presiding over the examination in Jixian County, Xu Wei came to Jizhou!
It is now mid-June, and the drought in the Central Plains is becoming more and more obvious, and it has begun to affect Jizhou. The water levels of the entire Jizhou rivers have continued to drop, and many small streams and rivers have stopped flowing. The villages in Jizhou are competing for water. Faced with this situation, Under such circumstances, Zhang Baiqi also slowed down the importation of immigrants and informed Xu Wei of the situation!
When Xu Wei came to Jizhou, there was a drought scene everywhere in Jizhou, especially the fields far away from the river, which were so dry that they were about to crack.
When Xu Wei saw this scene, he asked Zhang Baiqi: "If you didn't say you were going to build water conservancy facilities in Jizhou, why is Jizhou still like this!"
Zhang Baiqi said helplessly: "I didn't expect that Jizhou would suffer from drought this year. In the first two months, most of the people were working hard to restore the wasteland. The real time for water conservancy construction was only these two months, but in this short time, the water conservancy work could not be repaired."
The facilities can save not much grain, but can only save wheat close to water sources. It would be a blessing if Jizhou's grain and grass output this year can be the same as last year!"
You must know that a few months ago, Zhang Baiqi told Xu Wei that he would find a way to double Jizhou's food supply, but now a drought has nullified all Zhang Baiqi's efforts in the past six months!
Xu Wei saw the drought scene and said helplessly: "I will grant you 300 million yuan in drought relief funds to build water wells, canals, waterwheels and windmills! Build waterwheels and canals where there is water, and build water where there is no water."
Well, build a windmill!”
Now in this situation, we can only find ways to expand the scope of water conservancy facilities, and we can also provide work relief to the people of Jizhou.
However, this method also has limitations. Some rivers and streams have dried up, and it is useless to build canals and waterwheels. At this time, wells need to be drilled. In this era, groundwater has basically not been developed, and the water level is very high.
Basically, if you pump water down a few meters, there will be water! But this method of using a big man to lift water will make people exhausted, and it is not very efficient! Build a windmill and use the principle of siphon to lift water. Such a windmill can fill
With thousands of acres of land, this irrigation method has become very popular in Bingzhou.