After Guan Ning retreated, Ma Qiang began to quickly browse through the volumes.

The examination is already in the selection of officials, so the questions of the examination are no longer the same as the county examination, there are a large number of miscellaneous questions, but are closer to the actual government affairs, and because of the time relationship, the examination is not divided into subjects, but students can choose the type of answer in the test paper.

After reading through it, Ma Qiang found that most of the students liked to answer government questions, while few of them chose to answer professional questions, such as criminal law, education, agriculture, industry and commerce, etc.

"Hey, it seems that we really don't lack people who can be officials." Ma Qiang looked at the scroll in his hand and shook his head.

These volumes are basically very well written, and some Ma Qiang himself feels that he can't think about it so comprehensively, but looking at the pitiful number of professional papers on the side, Ma Qiang always feels that it is not right to go on like this.

Officials are actually divided into two kinds, one is technical officials, such as the public procuratorate, customs, industrial and commercial taxation and so on in later generations, the middle and low-level officials of these departments do not need too much administrative ability, but need professional and technical ability, even if this kind of officials do not do their own jobs, jump into the society can also rely on their skills to find a good job.

And the other is administrative officials, this kind of officials in the eyes of outsiders, is the kind of people who can't do anything but be officials, it seems that they can only hold meetings and write documents, and they are useless talents in society, and later generations of provincial, municipal and county government officials at all levels belong to this kind of administrative officials, but in fact, the ability that administrative officials need is the ability to make overall plans and screen information and judgment in a short time, and this ability is extremely precious and difficult to cultivate.

You must know that an administrative official often has to manage everything, everything has to be grasped, if he wants to be proficient in all the business, it is almost impossible, and even a report he only has a short time to read and make decisions, so he must find the information or loopholes he needs through the following processed reports in a short period of time, and handle various affairs correctly, because the report information is provided by people, and it will inevitably be polished because of personal tendencies, how to see through the polish, understand the actual situation, and how to deal with it correctly, no book will teach you.

Therefore, relatively speaking, it is relatively difficult to judge the competencies required by administrative officials through examinations, because many questions are not answered until they are actually practiced, while technical officials can easily judge their competence through professional tests.

But the problem Mr. Ma now faces is that most people want to be administrative officials rather than technical officials.

"It seems that the imperial examination system still needs to be reformed...."

Ma Qiang squinted and thought about it.

In later generations, the implementation of the civil service examination system, no matter who wants to enter the civil service, must take the examination, and the examination is to select the departmental position first, and then the examination, and except for a very small number of scarce talents, generally will not directly recruit officials at or above the section level, even if they graduate with a doctorate, it is only the treatment of non-leadership positions in the main department, which can not be called officials.

"Let Hanmen and Qianshou occupy the grassroots first... Reform the imperial examination system step by step, only in this way can we establish a modern civil service team! ”

Ma Qiang casually threw aside the finished volume and began to write down a few names that he had just written down after reading it.

The news of the upcoming official competition soon spread throughout Guangzong City, and students who had been waiting for many days poured into the streets to inquire about each other's news.

Mu He, who had already passed the exam, also took to the streets, and like other students, he inquired about the news of the official competition.

"Point official, that is, what kind of official should we be ordered by General Zhenbei!"

Maybe it was because the enemies didn't get together, Mu He met the richly dressed Sun Yan again.

Sun Yanzheng and a group of children of the family, under the protection of a group of guards, shook the paper fan, laughed and walked towards Qionglou.

"That brother, what kind of official do you think you will order?"

"Hehe, I've already asked people to go to the Education and Science Bureau to inquire, so this time General Zhenbei has newly acquired Youzhou, maybe there are more positions in the county guard and the county order, I have to be at least a county order, maybe the Zhenbei general has a good eye, and he will also promote me to the county guard!"

"Oh, that's Brother Gongshizi, if there are any good things in the future, don't forget to take care of a few of us."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!"

"Phew!" Mu He secretly snorted, he just couldn't get used to the behavior of these children of the family, what can such a person bring to the people?

But he had to admit that the knowledge of these children of the family was indeed good, and he had secretly read Sun Yan's articles, both in terms of words and dictionaries, they were much better than him.

Look at it, people are better than you, and their knowledge is better than yours.

"Oops!!"

Mu He suddenly felt a pain in his ears, and couldn't help screaming, he hurriedly turned his head to look, and when he saw his face clearly, he suddenly lost his temper.

"Sister.. It hurts, let go, there are so many people~~"

Mu Bing's ears were naturally Mu Bing, and I saw Mu Bing crossing his waist and scolding angrily, "You brother who doesn't make people worry, where have you gone for so many days, you don't know that your brother-in-law has slept outside the door for more than ten days in order to find you!" ”

？？？

No, I said sister, my brother-in-law slept outside the door because you didn't let him in...

"I don't care, you go back with me! If I let my mother know that you are still living outside in Guangzong, can I still go back to my parents' house? ”

"Sister, you let go first, I just don't run." Mu He saw that the people around him were all around, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed and said.

Mu Bing let go of his hand, and then asked, "By the way, how did you do in the test?" ”

"I'm winning, wait for General Zhenbei to hold a point official competition." Mu He rubbed his ears and said to Mu Bing with a smile.

"Hit?? My brother tried it in middle school?? Hurry up, hurry up! Come home with me, I'll ask your brother-in-law to buy more good food, ah, yes, you tell me, you won't come back to talk about such a big happy event! ”

"Isn't there another one, don't worry."

"What's not in a hurry, can you still miss this last game? Leave it alone! Come home with me!! ”

Mu He was dragged home by Mu Bing for a meal this time, this time, he let go of the burden in his heart, and he was confident that he would give his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew more and better food in the future.

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In the blink of an eye, it was time for the official competition.

With the opening of the gate of the Zhenbei General's Mansion, one by one the students who had been waiting for a long time walked into the General's Mansion and came to the top of the main hall, Ma Qiang sat on the top, and all the senior officials of the Political Supervision Institute sat below, looking at the students who entered the palace, everyone all stroked their beards and smiled, these people represent the future of the Zhenbei Army.

"The official competition is about to start, please take a seat!"

As Huang Xu shouted, all the students sat down according to the names marked on their seats.

The official contest has begun!