Wei Ze was not particularly optimistic about the recruitment of civil servants, and at this time, he came out to serve the Taiping Army not only to break with the Manchus, but also to openly make enemies of the Manchus. As long as it is not hysteria, there is no need to consider the possibility of a large number of intellectuals rushing over to become an official here in Weese. That's why Wei Zecai divided the civil service into three categories, so as to reduce the worries of the literati who came out to serve as officials as much as possible.

Wei Ze didn't want to forcibly recruit literati, because although it was more efficient for the literati to come out to be officials, they also had to give them some benefits. Wei Ze has a very low evaluation of literati who only know how to read the Four Books and Five Classics, even if they can write some prose and a few sour poems, they can't get into Wei Ze's eyes. Therefore, any compromise given to the literati made Wei Ze feel that it was not worth it.

But when it came time for the June 18 exam, the whole situation was much better than Weeser had thought. Not a single official civil servant applied for the examination, but more than 400 part-time workers came to apply. As for temporary civil servants, there were also twenty or thirty people who signed up.

After two days of exams in the morning and afternoon, the written test of the four classes was over. The content of the written test is divided into culture (language + history), arithmetic, geography, and comprehensive knowledge. The cultural class is not bad, and the basic writing skills and historical knowledge are not too difficult for these readers. Wei Ze, who led the team to mark the papers, couldn't help laughing after reading the arithmetic, geography, and comprehensive knowledge test papers. Even junior high school students in the 21st century will not be so confused when answering these papers.

If you can't solve a binary equation, you can't do multiplication and division, and many guys who come to apply for the exam can also make mistakes in addition and subtraction. As for some math problems that require them to list calculation formulas, they basically don't get them right.

As for geography, Wei Ze didn't take it too seriously, and it turned out that these readers were also confused about geography. However, Wei Ze was very interested in a candidate named Shen Xin, and Shen Xin received a perfect score on the solar system question. And there are more than 30 other people, who seem to have studied the content related to the solar system in the "Anqing News". So their answers were messy, but they didn't look like they were black-eyed.

The comprehensive knowledge test is a question of world view. Weeser lists a bunch of more opposing questions. Ask the test takers to be able to write self-justifying arguments.

For example, the more famous one about Shun's father killing Shun several times, requiring both to look at and deal with this issue from the perspective of filial piety and from the perspective of law.

Weeser chose these for one purpose, and that was to see if these test takers had their own legal concepts. If you want to be a lackey for the government, then you must at least show respect and obedience to the regime. There is no better way for the government to control than the rule of law, and those who cannot enforce the rule of law cannot be mixed up in the new regime that Weeser hopes to establish. "Ruling the world with filial piety" was the concept of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and this concept of agricultural production was incompatible with the concept of the industrial era that Wei Ze wanted to establish. Screening out the right candidates is a very important thing for Weeser.

The list was released on June 21, and in theory, Wei Ze should have selected all the applicants to be selected. Even if Wei Ze knew that he should do this, it took a lot of effort for him to make such a "right" choice. Some people's ideas, and the knowledge they have, are too far away from Weeser's needs. Pinching their noses and letting them into Weeser's system is really a test.

However, this test was not yet over, and soon, a general who was very unhappy with Wei Ze's choice asked to see Wei Ze. Wei Changrong was obviously pushed out by the generals to be the spokesperson, although he still lacked some confidence when facing Wei Ze, but Wei Changrong also bravely stood up to express his dissatisfaction. Of course, the inability to refute face is a reason, Wei Changrong is really unhappy with Wei Ze's choice, he said: "Prime Minister, I have read the exam papers, and many of our brothers can do better than these scholars. Some readers have read all the books in the dog's belly, and they have not been able to do the right topic at all. You let them know so much, I don't think I'm convinced! ”

Wei Ze sighed, and asked the generals to sit down first, a little tired, "I want to tell you a real story. The Manchu Qing Dynasty had just entered China, and Kangxi wanted to buy the hearts of the scholars. opened Enke once, and recruited all local celebrities who refused to come out to be officials for the Manchus. These people refused to contribute to the Manchus, so they scribbled on the papers, and some of them were slightly backbone and wrote poems on the test papers to scold the Manchus. And guess what? ”

When everyone in the General Staff heard this, they knew that what Wei Ze was talking about was the matter of this imperial examination, and Wei Changrong replied with a gloomy face: "Then naturally they should be killed, and they should be beaten!" ”

All the generals have this opinion, and as soldiers, this courageous and ruthless spirit will make them have a good attitude towards the enemy who is openly provocative.

Wei Ze shook his head, "Wrong! Kangxi ordered that all those who took the exam should be able to pass the guò and give them official work. ”

"What?" Wei Changrong was stunned. He looked at Weser carefully, trying to see if Weser was joking. But no matter how you look, Wei Ze doesn't look like a joke, Wei Changrong asked: "Prime Minister, why did Kangxi do this?" Is he so thick-skinned? ”

"It's definitely not that Kangxi is thick-skinned, but that he needs someone to be an official for him." Weser sighed tiredly. Although when I read the history books, I still appreciated Kangxi's choice. And when he made this kind of decision in person, Wei Ze was also able to understand some of Kangxi's difficulties a little.

However, this does not mean that Wei Ze can face this matter very easily, Wei Ze also replied with some emotion: "Changrong, there are brothers of all families." We don't let others be officials, and no one wants to be an official here, that's two different things. Now, if we can't get some officials from local background, how can we let the Anhui landlords and gentry come to us? ”

"We didn't rely on these people when we conquered Anhui! Besides, they did too badly in the exam, so it is better to let all the brothers from our army act as local officials. Wei Changrong said.

Weezer smiled, and there were some things he felt he couldn't even say. Let the brothers from the poor directly become officials, most of the time there will be trouble, because the pursuit of these people is to be able to be officials, and then use the power in their hands to do mischief, in this regard, Wei Ze never looked down on any poor people.

"Just listen to me this time, and talk about other things later. That's all this once! Weeser expressed his views quite forcefully.

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