This is true for labour, but also for natural disasters.

Guo Jun was also sent by Guo Peng to the areas along the Yellow River in Qingzhou and Yanzhou more than once to observe and learn from the local people's practical operations in building water conservancy projects and raising ducks to control locusts.

On one occasion, he was even involved in the fight against locusts.

After all, the strategy of raising ducks to control locusts can only make up for the dead, not to cure them radically, and the eradication action is still in progress, and the process is slow.

So every year, there will be some small-scale locust plagues in the Central Plains, and that time, Guo Jun collided.

He carried all kinds of locust killing tools, and rushed to the place where the locusts gathered together with local officials and farmers to kill them desperately to prevent the locusts from eating up crops and plants.

The locust plague was controlled, but after coming back that time, Guo Jun hated the locusts so much that he said that one day he would destroy the locusts in the world, and conducted an in-depth study of the locust plague.

So in terms of practice, he is definitely practical and experienced, and he will not make jokes.

In this regard, he has absolutely no reason to fail the exam.

So in the first two papers, he got a high score of 197 points, and only some bits and pieces were not noticed or he wrote them and lost three points.

Well, not bad.

At least there is no problem with the royal basic education, and it will be done in the future.

As for the strategy exam on the third day, he lost 12 out of 100 points.

This part is related to the consideration of the administrative strategy of the imperial court, so Guo Peng attaches great importance to it, and the evaluation papers are selected from the cabinet auxiliary ministers, cabinet members, various ministries and scholars, etc., to take turns to mark the papers, and use their professional vision to judge the level of these students' strategies.

See if it's very good or flashy, whether it's a feasible argument or a gorgeous rhetorical essay with a fake big empty sky.

Guo Peng looked at his rolling paper.

He personally formulated the two policy questions raised in this year's examination papers, one is the country's general policy for developing grassland Mozhou, and the other is the country's general policy for developing Jiangnan, and asked the students about their views and suggestions on these two major policies.

It is also Guo's own selfishness to raise these two questions, and he feels that from these two national policies full of progress and long-term vision, he can find talents who agree with and also have strategic vision.

You can also find people who are not satisfied with these policies and dismiss them.

In this sense, the imperial examination also helped the emperor find supporters with similar political attitudes, which contributed to the long-term sustainability of the policy.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for him.

Guo Jun's arguments are decent, there are no surprises, there are no fallacies or political mistakes, and the suggestions put forward are reasonable and well-founded, and there is also a distinction between the level and order of implementation, which is a good suggestion, of course, it is not brilliant.

There are some points deducted here, mainly because there is nothing to show for it.

As for the level of free play in the future, Guo Jun chose the locust plague that he was good at and studied in depth to express his views and arguments, and he studied the locust plague in depth, and demonstrated the importance of controlling the locust plague from the root cause in many aspects.

He strongly supported the state's vigorous investment in the development and environmental management of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and the vigorous restoration of population and agricultural production in the Guanzhong region, believing that agricultural production is the mortal enemy of locusts.

Otherwise, raising ducks to control locusts and all-out culling will not solve too many problems.

He wrote a lot of words in this argument and applied a lot of facts that he had researched, so he scored very high, and the main points deducted were the regularity of the first two essays.

After reading his answer sheet, Guo Peng felt that Guo Jun was quite good and could be a specialized official in locust control.

Seeing that he has a lot of experience in controlling locusts, he has always regarded this as his greatest interest, and now he does have a bit of a look, and if he goes further, Guo Peng plans to put him in the Guanzhong area and let him work with the group of officials in charge of development.

Putting away Guo Jun's test paper, Guo Peng looked at Xu Jing.

"In this exam, can my unsuccessful son be ranked in the top ten?"

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, the score of the second son is enough to rank in the top ten, the top three can be, there are not many high scorers in this exam, the main score level is concentrated in the level of two hundred to two hundred and fifty points, and there are not many people above two hundred and fifty points."

Xu Jing replied.

"Well, after all, this exam is the first time to adopt a new assessment standard, and it is indeed able to review a large number of nerds who don't pay attention to anything in the Five Classics.

Guo Peng summed up the results of this exam, and then asked, "Who has the highest score so far?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the person who has the highest score at present is a student from Xiangyang, Jingzhou, a candidate from a scholar's background, Ma Yan, who is twenty years old, with a total score of 291 points."

"Ma Yan?"

Guo Peng was slightly surprised.

"Yes, that's what His Majesty paid attention to...... The scholar who cooked and ate in the examination room, his paper was opened and confused after the evaluation was made known by us, this son is indeed talented, especially the three policy theories, which are really good. ”

The judges and critics were all high-ranking officials of the dynasty, and they were strong fighters who had repeatedly withstood the tests of the Guo Wei regime, and their professional level was excellent, so their evaluations were naturally relatively fair and accurate.

It can be seen that Ma Yan's talent is very real.

Moreover, Ma Jian is indeed not a man who talks on paper, and has successively served as Mianzhu Ling, Chengdu Ling and Yuewang County Taishou, all of which have done well.

Especially the Taishou of Yuewang County, who is a Taishou in that kind of place where barbarians live together, has no ability to suppress rebellions, and it is indeed not good to do this position.

Ma Jian should also have actual combat experience, but not war experience on the regular battlefield.

Successively held the official positions of the central government and the local government, Ma Jian was also a fully experienced old bureaucrat, and he was 39 years old when he led the troops to fight in the street pavilion, which really cannot be said to be a young man, and his age was not younger than Wang Ping.

Zhuge Liang's choice of him can be more analogous to Sun Quan's choice of Lu Xun to deal with Liu Bei, rather than King Zhao's choice of Zhao Kuo to deal with Bai Qi.

It's just that Zhuge Liang never imagined that the "Lu Xun second" he was looking forward to made a mistake in the second, made a second mistake before the changes in history, lost the national fortune, and laughed generously.

It can't be said that there is a problem with Ma Tan's ability.

Staff officers and commanders are not in the same job in the first place, and using staff officers as commanders will inevitably lead to problems, really.

A good commander must have a big heart.

In addition to this reason, Ma Tan talked about it, and Zhuge Liang admired it, and felt that he was very appetizing, and Guo Peng remembered that Zhuge Liang also had a title of champion on his body.

The previous champion, the next champion, this ......

Is it the wonder of history?

Is it the last obsession of this unrecognizable era that has been tampered with by itself?

Guo Peng didn't know.

But he knows that with two hundred and ninety-one points, it seems that this Ma Jian not only has a solid basic knowledge, but also has a great political vision.

Then, Guo Peng asked the current second place again, and learned that the second place was a bit unexpected, it was actually Cao Cao's son, Cao Zhi, with two hundred and eighty-eight points.

Guo Peng smiled, thinking it was quite interesting.