On September 15 of the sixth year of Xingping, the ceremony was officially held in Yecheng.

The number of scholars from all over the country who came to participate in the ceremony exceeded 1,000, and according to specific statistics, it was 1,371 people.

More than 95 percent of them are from the north, and only a very small number are from the south.

Guo Peng knew that since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, most of the talents lost in the north had returned in one go at this time, and he also sucked a little blood of the Jingxiangshi people by the way.

And for most of this mile, a considerable part of them are broken scholars who have lost their original family and relationships, as well as land and resources, and have to rely on this talent ceremony to fight for their origins.

If this is not possible, they will have to follow the old path of filial piety or being expropriated.

But that's very difficult, if there is no way, you can refer to the old story when Guo Peng had to take risks and exchange his birth for marriage in order to win his background.

The talent ceremony does not count the number of people, as long as you are excellent, you can be selected and become a subordinate official of Wei, which is obviously very attractive, and all the people who come to participate think that they are really talented and plan to fight hard.

The monopoly of the position of the scholar is nothing more than the original position and network of relations.

Whose relatives are you from, who in your family is an official to recommend for my children, I am an official, I will recommend for your children, and by the way, a marriage or something.

Over time, the scholar families monopolized each other's official positions from the central to the local level, forming a very strong network of relationships and controlling local politics and even central politics.

And when the war is chaotic, everyone goes their own way, or loses their lives, or lives in a different country, and there is no original relationship network, and the new relationship network does not take you to play, so it will naturally decline.

A broken scholar like Zhuge Liang, who was uprooted and displaced, if it weren't for this talent ceremony, under the premise that Guo Peng would not take the initiative to promote him, he wanted to be among the ruling group, even if Zhuge Jin was an official in Guo Peng's shogunate, it would be very difficult.

And the Talent Ceremony is a chance to give these broken scholars who have lost their relationship networks.

It is also Guo Peng's own attempt.

On September 15, the ceremony was officially held, and the venue was the main square outside the Wei Mansion in Yecheng.

Cushions and tables were placed in the square for the scholars to use, with their names written on them, and there were enough bamboo slips and pen and ink for them to answer their questions.

In front of each scholar there was a scroll of bamboo slips, which was the test question for the policy theory.

After reading their own test questions, the scholars can answer on the bamboo slips, and then put them on their seats together with the bamboo slips and the test questions, and the people can go.

Having said that, to cope with the examination of more than 1,000 people, the amount of bamboo slips needed is too large, Guo Peng was a little distressed, and decided that the next ceremony of talent will be placed after the emperor, and the quality of the paper is almost mature, and the bamboo slips will be eliminated.

Compared with bamboo slips, paper is much more economical, and the lack of writing carriers is also a practical economic factor that cannot be promoted by the extensive examination system.

Papermaking and printing are really too important, and a series of reform measures he wants to promote in the future are almost indispensable to paper and printing, and in the current period when only bamboo slips and silk cloth can be used, Guo Peng has a lot of things that he wants to do.

However, once the mature papermaking and printing technology are made public and can officially appear on the stage of history, then many things will change qualitatively, and they will change in a practical sense.

And it's definitely not the transformation that Guo Peng's enemies want to see.

This change is so huge, so huge that only the emperor can bear it, and others want to bear it, but they can't bear it.

Guo Peng was ready.

This time, Guo Peng prepared a large number of strategic questions.

From the strategic direction of generalization, as well as the specific practical problems that have been refined, from the basic Confucian classics to some common sense problems in law, mathematics and science.

The questions are still relatively comprehensive, and the strategy of ABC paper is adopted, the questionnaire used by several adjacent people is absolutely inconsistent, and the test is invigilated by the Tiger Guard's own soldiers, and three hundred Tiger Guard cavalry are walking around the field, and no one will be given a chance to cheat.

Want to blend in with the Duke of Wei's mansion?

There are no doors.

Guo Peng didn't personally supervise him, he had too many things to do, and he arranged Chen Jilai as the chief examiner.

Chen Jiduan sat on the top and condescendingly observed that there was a large square full of soldiers, and they were immersed in writing and writing.

That scene, to be honest, is very novel, and it feels very different, and Chen Ji has felt like this for the first time.

He felt that there was no need to be filial piety, but to use such a centralized way to select outstanding scholars from all over the country to enter the Wei Mansion at one time, which was simply a way to catch all the talents in the world, which was really very creative.

And Guo Peng also used a method called obfuscation.

That is to say, when the marking officer is reading the paper, he does not know which scholar made the answer sheet he consults, he does not know his origin, he does not know his name, he does not know his background, he just looks at his talent.

It's more interesting and ensures fairness to the greatest extent.

The examiners are not a single group of people, there are local officials, there are Shangshutai officials, there are staff officials, and the old gentleman in the school palace, a total of eight people.

Everyone cross-checks, each answer sheet must be read and draw a circle to draw a triangle, the most recognized circle, the dot, the triangle that is not good, and reach more than four circles, can be sent to Guo Peng for review, and Guo Peng will make a decision on whether to admit or not.

From the perspective of selecting talents, there is no doubt that it is meaningful.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Qun had already entered the Wei Mansion and became Guo Peng's subordinate, Chen Ji even wanted Chen Qun to take the test and learn knowledge and talent with the scholars from Tiannan and Haibei, and see how many catties and taels a famous family like Yingchuan Chen has.

However, Chen Ji also heard that in addition to scholars from all over the world, there were also some scholars from poor backgrounds who participated in the ceremony this time.

They learned from their own homes or from the Yecheng School Palace, took exams, and competed with the scholars on the same stage to compete for the position of the Duke of Wei's Mansion, which made Chen Ji a little surprised.

But considering that Guo Peng's background is not high, although he is also a scholar, he relied on the strong and powerful of the poor family to form a team when he started, and Cheng Yu, the first strategist who followed him and is now Shangshuling, is also from a poor family, so Chen Ji does not feel strange.

Guo Peng probably doesn't have a good impression of scholars, so he wants to promote poor talents.

However, Chen Ji is confident in this point.

Poor students, whether in quantity or quality, can not be compared with the scholars, even if they participate in the competition, it is impossible to win the scholars, at most, occupy some small seats.

But as far as the internal problems of scholars are concerned, Guo Peng's method of using a vague name is obviously to decide not to deliberately promote scholars from a certain region, whether it is Qingzhou, Yanzhou, or Yuzhou and Jizhou, it is not within the scope of his care.

Chen Ji hoped in his heart that Guo Peng could promote more Yingchuan scholars and increase the strength of Yingchuan people.

In this era of the general trend, it is not a good thing that the number of Wei officials of the Yingchuan people around Guo Peng is seriously insufficient.

In particular, a large number of Yingchuan scholars were led astray by Xun Yu and were excluded as Han officials, with no future.

But judging from the current situation, Yanzhou scholars and Jizhou scholars still occupy a very important position, and then a large number of Xuzhou scholars entered, and there was a feeling of being behind.

Chen Ji guessed what Guo Peng wanted to do, so he was even more eager to join some Yingchuan scholars in Guo Peng's shogunate when the status of the Yingchuan scholars was generally not high, so as to win the opportunity for the Yingchuan scholars to become dragons during the great change period not long after.

That way, you can really stand on your feet.