Feeling Cao Cao's threat, Guo Jia glanced at Cao Cao, and began to show his horse-beating skills that he had practiced hard for many years.

"In terms of martial arts, I, Wei Tianzi, went deep into Mobei, wiped out Xianbei, sealed the wolf Juxu, and told the heavens and the earth, no one knows it, and even the heavens will be shocked by this.

Essay governance, I, Wei Tianzi, unified the Five Classics, deposed the family law, re-found the right path for the world's scholars, and selected talents regardless of family background, such a meritorious deed, even if it was the Qin Emperor and Han Wu? ”

Guo Jiafei wants to be another guy on the basis of Cao Cao, and he wants to raise Guo Peng's status a little more, so that his voice will be louder.

Cao Cao was immediately very unhappy, glared at Guo Jia fiercely, and wanted to open his mouth to pat the horse, showing his profound horse-beating skills.

As a result, Guo turned his head and looked at the two of them with a smile.

"What, you two are competing right now, who is going to tout more about me?"

Guo Jia and Cao Cao hurriedly said no.

They said they were just telling the truth, praising His Majesty the Emperor for what he had already accomplished.

Guo couldn't bear to laugh out loud, so as not to affect the exams of the candidates, and took a turn on the top floor of Wangyuan Building, sighing.

"Tens of millions of living beings in Shenzhou, by the end of the Han Dynasty, there were only 400,000 people who could read and write, tens of millions of people, only 400,000 who could read and write, and what about the remaining tens of millions? I can't write a word in my life, and I don't even know how to write my name or how old I am.

The selection of talents can only be selected among the 400,000 people, and among these 400,000 people, most of them can read and write, and those who can learn and master knowledge from teachers, and those who can become high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and only a small number of them, and there is probably only one out of ten people.

The talents who govern the country are selected among these tens of thousands of people, you say, in the long run, what is the difference between these tens of thousands of people and those nobles who were not even willing to publicize the law in the pre-Qin period? What can you do if you stick to the fourteen family laws and stick to the righteousness of small words?

As a last resort, I want to do such a thing, so that more people can read and read and understand the truth, so that more people can have the opportunity to be officials, and select the best of the best, so that talents and talents will continue to flow, just like the students who are full of learning, in the future, there may be better people than us among them. ”

Guo Peng was full of smiles and looked at the students below who were struggling to write.

Suddenly, Guo Peng frowned, stretched out his hand and pointed to the place not far below, and said as if surprised and confused: "That...... Is someone cooking rice to eat? ”

Cao Cao and Guo Jia were stunned when they heard this, and immediately stepped forward to check the situation, and when they saw it, they were shocked.

Not to mention, they looked down, and they really saw a person not far away squatting in front of his house to build a small fire, cooking things on the stove, and then squatting there leisurely, as if he was not in a hurry at all.

This time, Guo Jia's reaction was faster, and he immediately asked the invigilator here to come up, and asked what was going on in front of Guo Peng, how could someone cook in the examination room?

When the invigilator saw it, his face immediately turned blue, and he hurriedly confessed to Guo Peng, and he was going to deal with the candidate who didn't know the height of the sky, so that he could know what an iron fist bombardment was.

"Wait."

Guo Peng stopped the invigilator and asked, "Did the exam rules say that candidates are not allowed to bring cooking utensils to cook and eat on the spot?" ”

The invigilator was stunned and looked at Guo Jia and Cao Cao.

Guo Jia and Cao Cao looked at each other, and they didn't know what the emperor meant.

So the invigilator had no choice but to reply: "Back to Your Majesty, there is no clear regulation, it just says that the candidates should prepare their own rations, there is only water in the examination room, no food is provided, and the candidates' food problems need to be solved by themselves." ”

Guo Peng nodded.

"That's fine, since he didn't break the rules, don't care so much, it's okay to have a hot meal, it's just human nature, what you have to care about is cheating, is cheating not tolerated, understand?"

"Obey."

The proctor takes the order, and then he has to go down.

"Wait, that candidate is interesting, what's his name and where he's from, let me know."

"Yes."

The invigilator immediately went downstairs to look through the statistical table of the candidates' room arrangement.

Each seat in Taixue is marked with a number of numbers, and each number corresponds to a candidate, which can be found.

After a while, the examiner brought a piece of paper for Guo Peng to read.

"Your Majesty, this candidate's name is Ma Yan, his expression is young, he is twenty years old, he is a native of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and he is also a scholar, and he came from Xiangyang to Luoyang to take the exam."

"Ma Yan?"

Guo Peng took the paper and looked at it, hey, it's really Ma Yan.

A native of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, he is young, and it should look right, it is the Ma Jian who lost the street pavilion.

The kung fu is first-class, but after all, he lacks the practical experience of leading the troops to fight, and as a result, his ability to resist pressure is not good, and he made a big mistake and became a laughing stock.

Guo Peng handed the paper back to the invigilator and stared at the guy who was cooking and eating leisurely.

He is a typical representative of a group of scholars in the late Han Dynasty, that is, the kind of person who is really talented, and sees problems very thoroughly, is very good at discussing the gains and losses of others, and loses ground when it is his turn to get started.

It looks like a person with God's perspective suddenly falling into the mortal world.

In fact, if he is given a little more opportunity to experience and start from small things, he may not be impossible, just as he has held the positions of local officials and central officials.

It's just that Zhuge Liang has too much hope for him, hoping that he will immediately turn into a famous general, and when he comes up, he will arrange a key place for him to show his military talent.

The art of war is completely different from the actual battlefield, just like the difference between Ma Tan and Zhang He.

In fact, Ma Jian is more suitable to be a staff officer.

If you have to say it, give him a little time to familiarize himself with the battlefield, and he may not be able to lead good soldiers.

Let Wang Ping be the main and Ma Jian as the auxiliary, maybe you won't lose the street pavilion -

It's hard to say that Ma Jian is proud and has a high education, so I'm afraid that he won't honestly accept the command of Wang Ping, who can't read a lot of big characters.

And Wang Ping is more wooden and easy to take himself lightly, these two people are together, something will definitely happen.

Zhuge Liang probably hoped too much that Ma Jian would quickly become a truly useful talent, and he hoped too much that Ma Jian would quickly transform from a theoretical talent to a military practical talent.

Looking at Ma Tan's leisurely cooking and eating, Guo Peng felt that Ma Jian was a person who was very confident in himself.

Such a person who is full of confidence in himself will be a real talent if he uses it well, and if he doesn't use it well, he will pull out the seedlings and help it grow, that is, a castle in the air.

Guo Peng shook his head and did not continue to pay attention to this Ma Yan.

However, he thinks that Xiangyang Ma is still quite discerning, or rather, these Jingzhou people are quite discerning.

It is said that the number of Jingzhou scholars who came to participate in the imperial examination this time was the largest among all the culturally and educational flourishing areas, followed by Xuzhou people.

As you can imagine, the Jingxu scholars seem to be more able to accept the important reality that they are no longer unique than the scholars of other regions.

Of course, Guo welcomed this, and he very much welcomed those who knew the times to join his imperial examination system, and changed from a scholar bureaucrat to an imperial examination bureaucrat.

In terms of the amount of knowledge reserve, scholars are obviously better than Hanmenzi and Li Shuzi, of course, they are not much better in this examination mode, but in the end, their knowledge will be better.

If they are willing to participate in the imperial examination, actively move closer to the imperial examination, and move closer to the new policy, Guo will definitely not reject them, but will accept them.

Let those who reject the imperial examination be red and greedy.

Such policy dividends can only be eaten by those who are lucky and courageous, and I wonder who is such a lucky person?

Those who are already dead are certainly not anyway.