On the whole, the level of elite scholars is indeed not something that can be compared between the children of the poor family and the children of Li Shu at present.

Even if he took more care and focus on the assessment, and clearly set up obstacles for the scholars, he still couldn't stop the scholars from winning such high scores, better than his sons.

It can be seen that even after his cruel blows, the scholars can still obtain status according to his rules under the system he dominates, and the children of the Han family and the children of Li Shu cannot compete with them.

That's what the heritage is all about.

However, it is also temporary.

After that, the children of the Hanmen and the children of Li Shu, who have an absolute advantage in numbers, will keep up with the pace of progress, and the scholars will still be buried in the dust of history.

Having lost their privileges, their inheritance, and everything, scholars are just smarter scholars.

It's not worth caring much about.

However, it is these talents who emerged in this exam, and their merits and demerits have aroused Guo Peng's concern.

The imperial examination can test a person's knowledge and political vision, but in terms of practical operation, it does not have such a function.

And at the level of personality and psychology, it is even more difficult to relate.

This is where the shortcomings of the exam lie.

Only a truly good experienced bureaucrat can discern from thousands of words what a person's nature is and whether he can take on big things, which most people can't.

But Guo didn't have any good ideas, and he wasn't going to make any changes to the imperial examination.

In fact, the selection of talents and talents is a problem for the ages.

Let's say that Liu Bei is good at knowing people, let's not talk about those bad things in the early years, such as Zhang Fei guarding Xuzhou and the like.

In the early years, he really didn't have so much capital to employ people, and when he became arrogant, he almost abandoned Pang Tong, almost killed Jiang Wan, and let Mi Fang guard Jiangling and Fu Shiren guard the public security.

Zhuge Liang protected Pang Tong and Jiang Wan, but he made a mistake in Ma Yan's matter.

Therefore, the so-called knowing people and making good use of them may not be the whole picture.

Knowing people and knowing faces do not know their hearts, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, the so-called heart-to-heart communication cannot be said to be a reliable mode of communication, no matter how intimate the interaction between people is, it is difficult to really understand each other.

Not to mention the selection of merit at the national level.

The examination can only be used as a screening to select those who are hardworking, diligent, and talented, but they have no relevant functions in terms of personality and behavior.

After all, the exam is a paper, a test question, and a standard answer, and it is impossible for a group of people to try to govern a county, and then divide the advantages and disadvantages, which is too costly.

Therefore, talented people like Ma Jian and Cao Zhi can shine in the imperial examination, get high scores, and reach the pinnacle of life.

However, people like Jiang Wan who have practical ability to govern the country cannot beat them in the exam.

It seems to be a little unfair, irrational, and imperfect.

But if you think about it, what other way in the world can be more fair and equitable than such an open imperial examination?

If the selection criteria are to be enlarged to the scope of the whole country, the most intuitive score is the best choice, rather than the more abstract personality and behavior.

The country needs an intuitive, clear and difficult to operate standard to select talents, so as to reduce the cost of material selection, and cannot use abstract and easier to operate criteria to select talents.

This is like the battle of establishing a virtuous person, whether it is good to establish a virtuous person or a long one, everyone will say that it is good to establish a virtuous person.

However, the standard of virtuous is too general, and everyone has different opinions on how to be considered virtuous.

Liu Bei felt that Ma Yan's words were exaggerated and unvirtuous.

Zhuge Liang felt that Ma Jian was eloquent and accurate, and he was a great sage.

It's too maneuverable.

The criterion of "long" is fixed, unchangeable, not subject to human will, objectively existing facts, once the standard of "long" is determined, no one from the emperor to the ministers can operate it.

As for the repeated phenomenon of the elderly being unvirtuous, it can only be said that it is a stubborn disease of human society, and there is no solution for the time being.

After all, for a country of huge size, stability, fewer mistakes, and long-term continuity are the best policies.

Therefore, the examination is the same as the establishment of the chief, in this respect, it can reflect the advantages that other systems cannot reflect, it can bring stability, it can bring peaceful development, and it is also the only way that Guo can take at the moment when educational resources are extremely scarce.

The selected talents may make mistakes, and there may be problems once they get started.

But I have to say that the real talent ratio among this group of scholars who are willing to pay hard and stand out must be higher than the proportion of talents among ordinary people in the ocean.

Examinations are one of the best ways to help the government and employers reduce the cost of selecting and appointing talents.

As for those talents who are hidden in the people, the geeks......

Compared with the national level as a whole, there is nothing to be sorry for giving up, it can only be said that it is bad luck and bad fate.

So even though Ma Tan can be the champion, Cao Zhi can be the role model, and Jiang Wan can only be a tanhua, it doesn't matter, the rules and system of the imperial examination, Guo will only further maintain it, and will not waver.

The lesser of two evils is the true taste of the world.

Guo Peng asked Xu Jing to continue to go back to preside over the work, and then brought the papers they thought were the top ten to him for a look, and then called Guo Jun over.

Soon, Guo Jun came and learned the fact that he could get a third place score in this exam.

"Ma Yan, there are ...... Zijian. ”

Guo Jun sighed: "I can't compare Zijian's talent, Zijian's export is a chapter, this kind of talent is recognized by the world, I serve, who is this Ma Yan?" ”

Guo Peng showed Ma Yan's volume to Guo Jun, mainly for the part of the later strategy.

After reading it, Guo Jun silently put down the volume, and had to admit that he did not do as well as Ma Jian in terms of strategy articles.

"Know what's wrong?"

"Got it."

"Is Ma Jian powerful?"

"Awesome."

"Then why does the father think that his words are exaggerated and cannot be of great use?"

"Huh?"

Guo Jun blinked, not understanding what Guo Peng meant.

"You take a closer look at his papers, look at his strategies, and each of the strategies he mentions is a relatively broad goal, what kind of goal to achieve, and on this basis, another goal is achieved, and then they unite to achieve a big goal."

Guo Jun looked at it, it was indeed like that.

"That ......"

"Did he say exactly how to do it? How many people and how to do this, did he say it? ”

Guo Jun was stunned for a moment, and then looked at it, and sure enough, as Guo Peng said.

It is true that this paper does not say exactly what to do to achieve his goal, but how to achieve the big goal by achieving the small goal.

Although this goal is indeed well stated, and it is indeed what the Wei Empire should do, the line is also correct, and a considerable part of the rhetoric is even consistent with the line planned by the Wei government.

Ma Yan's vision is indeed good.

But it's not enough to have a vision.

"Look at your strategy for controlling locusts, as a father, you will know that you have been to the front line of locust control, personally experienced the hard work and practical problems of locust control, and gave feasible conclusions for these practical problems, while what Ma Tan gave was just a goal."

Guo Peng leaned back in his chair: "You don't have to think that you are inferior to Ma Tan, you are not inferior to Ma Tan, it's just that Ma Jian is better at words than you, he looks a little farther, but he doesn't notice his feet, such a person always walks with his head up, if he can't learn to look down at the road, sooner or later he will suffer." ”