On May 8, the weather was fine, and early in the morning, hundreds of newly granted county orders from the Ministry of Officials appeared on the Hanyuan Palace.

They are very excited, and some people are not willing to be petty officials, they think they can.

Li Longji sat on it and accepted the salute of the county commanders first.

He spoke slowly: "All the secretaries are the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, where the secretaries are, there will be peace; What you do, you will be appeased.

The education and livelihood of the local people are all in the body of Zhu Qing, and I want to see what Zhu Qing can do if he wants to calm the people. ”

The eunuchs shouted out Li Longji's words.

The other palace maids carried the four treasures of the study to the small tables of the newly granted county orders and put down the four treasures of the study.

Then help spread out the paper, polish the pen, and grind the ink.

The county magistrates understood, let them write An Mince now.

Some county orders took the pen and lowered their heads to write, while some were trembling and their hands were shaking, and they couldn't fall for a long time holding the pen.

The officials in the Hanyuan Hall wiped their sweat, it was hot, and it was hot early in the morning.

Yao Chong had a cold face, and his eyes swept over the county orders one by one.

Your Majesty obviously has a purpose and doesn't joke, what do those few who never write mean?

"Ask, why don't you write." Li Longji spoke up.

A eunuch ran over, glanced at the name on the table, and asked, "Xie Yun County Order, Your Majesty asked why you didn't write it." ”

'Click' The brush in Xie Yun's hand fell on the paper, and the place went black.

He knelt down: "Minister, minister can't write." ”

The other cases are similar, some say they have little literacy, and some say they can't figure out how to write.

Li Longji took out the loudspeaker: "Okay, my good county order, there are illiterate people, other literate people, what do you want to write?" ”

He waited that An Mince was the foundation of the magistrate and did not belong to advanced learning.

Just like the official who was newly assigned to the position of the county magistrate at that time, ask how you are going to teach the people, and the official began to say.

Basic skills, I don't even know this, how do I choose the people in the ministry?

The officials are now sweating like rain, and the back of their clothes is soaked.

What should I do if I am caught by His Majesty? Reproduction, etc., is in a hurry.

After waiting for half an hour, some officials were still writing there, and they didn't write a hundred words in total.

"Zhuqing, the ministers of the ministry, go and see for yourself, and present it to me." Li Longji continued to shout with a loudspeaker.

The officials of the ministry ran over and looked at them one by one, but fortunately none of them could not read.

Some watched, hating to kick the new county order to death.

In the evening, Li Longji went to the Li family Zhuangzi with his wife and children sullenly.

He took a sip of wine: "Brother Yi, today Your Majesty asked the newly granted county order to write An Mince in Hanyuan Palace, what do you guess the result?" ”

"Someone can't write?" Li Yi said with a guess in my heart.

"Yes, I can't write, it's not as good as the dealer on your Zhuangzi."

Li Longji picked up the dish as he spoke, his chopsticks trembled slightly, obviously angry.

"The villagers on my Zhuangzi can't write An Mince now, but a few stewards want to be able to write, and they usually have to manage the manpower and be able to speak."

Li Yi smiled and filled the two of them with wine.

"How so?" Li Longji couldn't figure it out.

"Actually, people who can't write don't necessarily fail to be county magistrates.

Let them write, they can't write, let them say, they can say.

There are many people in the village who are also illiterate, but they can manage the village well.

Illiterate county orders, or county orders with few literacy, as long as someone helps them write them, they can do a good job in the county in some cases. ”

Li Yi didn't kill with a single shot, theoretically, the county order must be able to write An Min's policy, including literacy.

At that time, he had a natural village head who couldn't read a single big character, and the village was well managed.

Of course, after that, there is no more, you need to read the documents, how to do it if you don't know the words.

"There must be officials in the ministry to be cleaned up." Li Longji already has a candidate, and whoever is in charge will clean up whoever is responsible.

But it won't be killed, and it will get the following states as assassins.

This shows that Datang still lacks officials and cannot be topped, and there are not enough talents for the imperial examination every year.

Li Yi thought of this question: "Third brother, when the dictionary comes out, more people will learn pinyin, and it will be good to relax a little during the imperial examination." ”

"How?" Li Longji did not continue to stare at the matter of the county order.

"Now the exam is to enter the Shike with five current policies, five fill-in-the-blanks, and an additional poem or fu, and each answer two questions incorrectly, even if you don't pass the exam.

It can be turned into 50 fill-in-the-blank questions, 50 multiple-choice questions, as well as essay questions, noun explanation questions, and so on.

If you take a lot of exams, you will be given a few points for each question, and the total score will be enough, and you will also be given an official.

At present, many students don't know what to do because they can't pass the imperial examination, some go to teach, and some write poems all day long.

Failing to pass the imperial examination does not necessarily mean that they do not have the idea and ability to govern the locality. ”

Li Yi said from another aspect: If you can't get into the civil service, it doesn't mean that you can't manage the enterprise well.

They are just not good at that kind of examination mode, if they take a test in other aspects, give it to a petty official, maybe there will be unexpected surprises.

"Is that possible?" Li Longji didn't try.

"Song De, the steward of Zhuangzi, he has failed several imperial examinations, you see him now, can you say that he is worse than whom?"

Li Yi has a ready-made example, Song De.

Song De can actually take the imperial examination this year, and he is very likely to be admitted.

Song De didn't take the test, he saw it through.

He manages this and that every day, and Li Yi lets go of most of the things in the entire Zhuangzi.

Song De not only manages the affairs of Zhuangzi himself, but also promotes people to manage it together.

"It's better than those county orders." Li Longji thought of Song De, and had to admit that the current Song De is estimated to be a thorn in history.

And such a person, who failed to pass the imperial examination several times before, had to go to Zhuangzi to find a job.

"Give them the official positions of the outer ninth, and like the two hundred and twenty students in Zhuangzi this year, they will be thrown into the village to help.

Tell them to help manage the village and give them a promotion.

No matter how bad they are, they can be elected by the state government to participate in the imperial examination, which is not comparable to ordinary people. ”

Li Yi said the origins of the students in the imperial examination, the township tributes and the apprentices.

Li Longji thought about what Li Yi said, drank slowly, and considered the feasibility.

Those who fail to pass the imperial examination do not mean that they are ordinary people, and some people are talented and unlucky.

Some of them gave up, and when they returned to the place, they felt that they couldn't hold their heads up, and some of them took a random errand and did it all their lives.

"Third brother, candidates who have not been admitted in previous years and this year, and have not left Chang'an, ask them if they are willing to put down their bodies and become petty officials."

Li Yi persuaded again, anyway, none of the students of Zhuangzi today can't run, and they must go down.

"Okay, talk to Your Majesty." Li Longji agreed.

Early the next morning, he happily went back to the court meeting, and the matter of the county order did not matter.

There are more candidates who can write An Mince and have not been admitted, aren't they better than those many newly awarded county orders?

Li Longji found that Datang is no longer short of talents, what is lacking is the opportunity to give talents.

When other things were over, he called Yao Chong and the three of them.

"What do you think of the Li family's Zhuangzi's Song Desong ability to manage things?" Li Longji asked the three of them.