That night, Heifu and Zhang Cang sat at the foot of the steps of Xianyang Palace, with an empty couch and a high-hanging sword of the Son of Heaven behind them, and a yawning guard of the Northern Expeditionary Army in front of them.

It took an hour for Heifu to describe to Zhang Cang a method of taking scholars called "exams".

"In the past, if a knight wanted to be a Qin official, he had to try before he could take office."

When Heifu and a certain Liu Tingchang, who didn't know whether he was still in Haidong, were officials, they both took the test, called "trying to be an official", but they were very simple, nothing more than answering some legal questions correctly, as a military official who caught thieves, and he also had to be proficient in performing the use of blades.

"In the future, we have to calm the world right away, but once Kyushu is cleared, we can't rule the world right away like in the past. Some of my military officials are good at marching and fighting, but I want them to wear the crown of law, be civil officials, and face a pile of papers? ”

Then it can only be hehe!

Heifu was also very helpless: "Although I often encourage the old department, so that their generation has money and leisure, and spend some effort to learn literacy, but those military men have studied horizontally and vertically for nearly ten years, and most of them can only write their names crookedly and clearly." ”

Whether it is the first emperor or the southern regime of Heifu, in fact, they all face this problem, and officials from the army go to govern the place, and there is no shortage of jokes.

Although the Qin officials are good, and the school can also produce a group of literate and general law disciples, the resources of the whole world are invested in the crusade and the overhaul of the wonders, and there are really few who are allocated to education. Xianyang School, even if hundreds of people complete it every year, but if it is thrown into the vast land of Kyushu, it is completely insufficient. Moreover, these people went to the local area, and they didn't even understand the local language, so they could only smear their eyes and rely on the local magnates to govern the county.

However, Heifu was unique in the local school in Jiaodong, and organized disciple examinations, so that local scholars had the opportunity to participate in politics.

"Military merit is the foundation of Qin, and it will continue to be maintained, regardless of it for the time being, we only talk about scholars today, accounting for less than 102 literate people in the world......"

Three hundred years after Confucius started private learning, the number of literate people in the world has gradually risen from a few tenths of a percent of the nobles and witches to about 2 percent, and most of them can still read or write. Among them, Qindi and Qilu are higher, and in some places it may reach three percent, and Chu, Yan and other places are the lowest, perhaps less than one percent.

Literacy is the most basic threshold for civil servants.

Although the proportion of students studying is too low, and it is not even possible to take a scholar every year, so in Heifu's vision, at the beginning, the examination could only be used as an auxiliary to the system of military merit and school officials (official education), once every three years.

"What to test?" Zhang Cang was ready to move, and wanted to propose "accumulating literature, doing things righteously, and being able to belong to etiquette and righteousness".

But Heff had his own opinion, and he held out three fingers:

"First, use Lishu to write short essays with good meanings."

"Second, legal Q&A."

"Third, arithmetic!"

Hearing the number of arts, Zhang Cang, who was slightly disappointed when he heard that there was no etiquette and literature, suddenly lit up his eyes.

"That's right." Heifu laughed:

"In your "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", those commonly used questions such as calculating how big an acre of land is, how many bricks and tiles it takes to build a wall, and how much grain is harvested in one year."

In short, it is language, law, mathematics, the most basic three, which will be the standard of small civil servants above the county to do "fighting food", which can be regarded as giving the Kanto people a chance to serve their jobs, and the threshold is already so low that it is equivalent to telling the world:

"As long as you are literate, numeracy and law-knowing, and those who are willing to do things for the government, they will all be given rations!"

It is better to first incorporate all potential talents into the Qin official system than for them to be desperate and use their wisdom and talents on how to mess up the world.

This is only the first time to take the exam, and in the future, the difficulty of the exam will become more and more difficult, and the standard will be higher and higher, and even the item of "history" will be added, which will affect the three views of readers from the bottom.

And next, how to implement benign rewards and punishments within officials, so that talented people in the state department can enter the court step by step, by examination or according to performance, or a combination of the two? Heve has to think again......

But the first cornerstone of this new building can be regarded as settled.

Exams are the fairest means of civilized society, and people all over the world have been tossing and turning for thousands of years, and no country has been able to find a complete alternative.

Hefu can't, no one can.

Exams cannot be completely fair, favoritism and malpractice, accumulation of cheats is difficult to change, and the original ideals change over time, and many problems will arise.

But compared to the competition, it is not better to directly determine which is more fair, let everyone run on a track first, determine the advantages and disadvantages according to the ranking, and select civil officials.

Although, you who were born in Qian, and the officials who have been educated by the government school system, and even those opponents whose parents are meritorious nobles and have received good training since childhood, cannot stand at the same starting line.

The simplest thing is to mumble that this system is flawed, that system is not perfect, and then lie down and continue the old system of "sages" without making any changes.

As a disciple of Xunxue who strongly admires the "Queen of Law", Zhang Cang is obviously seeking change.

"My teacher Xunqing once demarcated the 'royal system', and the king's system is also."

"Heifu...... This idea of the prince is close to the king's rule......"

"That's what you can talk about."

There was some tiredness in Heifu's eyes:

"I'm seriously prescribing medicine for this day, but what they care about is when I will sit on this ......"

"They care right."

Zhang Cang smiled: "I'm afraid you don't like to listen to what I say next." ”

He got up and bowed his hand to Heifu, and said solemnly: "From ancient times to the present, the regents, except for Zhou Gong, have a good end, and the rest will not die well!" ”

"Yi Yin was killed by Taijia."

"Gongbohe was erased from the classics by the Zhou historians, and only a few words remained."

"Lu Yin was killed by his brother Lu Huan."

"You are in the prime of life, even if you are a regent like Gongbo and the general regent, and the position of the Son of Heaven is vacant, there is no problem for fourteen years, or even thirty years, you can maintain this system."

"But what about after that?"

"Either return to the new monarch and hope to meet the king of Qin Huiwen, kill his people and use his government."

"Or." Zhang Cang raised his head: "You take it yourself!" ”

"The monarch is the body, the law is the key, and the etiquette is the use, which is the real government of the king and the law of long-term stability."

His fat body bowed in front of Hefu.

"This is Zhang Cang's opinion as a disciple of Xunxue."

"These are Zhang Cang's heartfelt words as a friend."

"It's also Zhang Cang, as a loyal admonition of his subordinates!"

"If you don't do Zhou Gong, you will be Liuqing and Tian Chang." Heifu touched his chin, this is really a paradox of an endless cycle, and only said after a long time:

"Let's take a step first, let's take a look."

"After all, I am eager to practice my position now, and in exchange for it, I am afraid that it will only be disappointment and fall apart."

Heifu stretched out his hand: "Right now, although I haven't taken Tai'a and Pei, nor have I practiced it, but the power that this Son of Heaven has been held in my hands like the originally invisible sword of Tai'a!" ”

"So now I shouldn't worry about whether this son sits or not, but how to use the power of this son of heaven to do what I wanted to do in the past, but failed to do!"

"What else do you want to do besides taking people from all over the world and gathering together?"

"A lot, a lot."

In Heifu's eyes, there was an ambition that he had hidden for many years.

"The first is to expel Hu Man and clear the customs."

"Restore national strength, support soldiers, and reward those who have merit."

"After that, the east will go out of the Han Valley, sweep away the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, and then merge the world!"

"After the world is settled, rest with the people, men enjoy their domains, and women cultivate their careers!"

"And really, unify the world, six contracts, and Kyushu with the same wind, this is the dream of the first emperor, and it is also his unfinished business."

"I want to be in my hands and finally finish it!"

There's more......

"Like this."

Heifu asked the guards to fetch a huge key and handed it to Zhang Cang.

"What is this?" Zhang Cang took over, only feeling heavy, hippie smile: "Could it be the new mansion you gave me?" ”

"It's a big mansion, yes."

Heifu smiled: "The key to Afang Palace belongs to you!" ”

……

Regardless of whether the Afang Palace was built in history or not, anyway, in this plane, it is completed.

It is an exaggeration to cover more than 300 miles and isolate the day, but there are 30 miles, and they are extremely luxurious and elegant.

"What does that mean?"

Zhang Cang only felt that the key in his hand was extremely hot, and immediately became serious: "Although I am lustful, I am not in a hurry to the extent of lust and fornication in the palace, Heifu, you have seen the wrong person, take it back, take it back......"

Heifu laughed: "Zi Gu thinks a lot, the female dependents in the palace have come out, and after the Guanzhong is cleared, I will let them choose a husband among the single soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army." ”

Zhang Cang was stunned: "In this way, Afang Palace has been vacant......"

Heifu said: "That's right, you and I both know who the First Emperor repaired the Afang Palace for, but unfortunately, it can't wait for the Queen Mother of the West......"

"From now on, there will no longer be an emperor, or the king of Qin will be there, and it will be taken into public ownership by the regency and used for other purposes."

"What's the use?"

Heifu said: "The ancients said that the Long Palace Room was used to show the respect of the king, but I thought that the most qualified person to live in the Nahe Palace was not the emperor, not the ethereal Queen Mother of the West, and of course, not my regent." ”

"It's 'knowledge'!"

Heifu hugged Zhang Cang, and while walking out, he said:

"Didn't you tell me that the Bactrian people who came far away told you that in the far west there was a Greek kingdom called Ptolemy, whose king had built the largest library in the world?"

Zhang Cang bowed his head: "The people of Bactria who have been to the capital of Tuoguo said that the king of Tuoguo ordered that every ship entering the port be searched, and as long as books are found, regardless of nationality, they will immediately be put into the library of books, so as to collect the books of the entire Greek state, and the library is also huge, like a city, with hundreds of thousands of volumes of books......"

Although the Imperial History Mansion of Great Qin also collected the books of the Three Dynasties and the Six Kingdoms, it had not yet reached that scale, so Zhang Cang was quite envious.

"You don't have to be envious."

Heifu was a little proud: "From now on, the entire Afang Palace is the school city and collection room of China, which is more than ten times larger than the library of the Greeks, a hundred times!" ”

Zhang Cang was really stunned at this time, no matter how delusional he was, he couldn't imagine that with a wave of his hand, he would let Qin Shi Huang spend countless people's resources and property to build the Afang Palace, which took several years to build, and waved his hand to let him load the book!

Those books that have condensed the countless efforts of the sages, but in the eyes of the imperial court, are not worth a penny, and they are burned and deleted at will......

He muttered, "But for example, today's book is only enough to fill a few palaces and occupy a corner of it." ”

"Be bolder." Heifu encouraged Zhang Cang: "What I want is not just a book for this generation. ”

"I want Afang Palace to contain the book of a hundred generations! Up to the oracle bones of Yin Shang, the golden inscriptions of Zong Zhou, down to the Spring and Autumn Slips, and in recent years, the endless printing paper scrolls, the law of coercion will be abolished, scriptures, history, poems, books, laws, as long as the government has passed the deep examination, can be passed on to the world! ”

"I still want it to be a book for the world! Bo small Kyushu, the things of Nakakyushu! ”

"Persian slate inscriptions."

"Parchment, statues of the Greeks."

"Ptolemy's papyrus, and the ancient relics of that land."

"Even the myth of the poisoned man."

Zhang Cang had already opened his mouth wide, and in the eyes of Heifu, he saw the majestic ambition that had only appeared in the eyes of Qin Shi Huang!

"All the crystallization of human wisdom will be gathered in Afang for scholars to study, translate, understand, and also for future generations to admire!"

Speaking of this, Heifu's words were a little hoarse, and he was low and restrained: "After reunification, it will be decades of rest with the people, I will definitely not be able to do this, but I believe that the successors of later generations can do it!" “

The first rays of sunlight in the morning sprinkled on the Xianyang Palace, sprinkled on this black-faced designer, he was the only one in the world who had the same ambition as the First Emperor, and even understood the First Emperor.

But Hefu understands better what his mission is:

"People cannot live forever, and when the national strength is exhausted, a generation can only do one generation."

"But I believe that one day, Afang Palace will no longer be synonymous with repetition and tyranny, but a temple of knowledge."

"It will become the axis of all civilizations in heaven and earth in this era!"

……

On the night of the 10th day of the seventh month, no one knew what happened in the main hall of Xianyang Palace.

Even the short guards of Heifu who stood guard only knew that Marquis Wu Zhonghou and Zhang Cang, the latest "Shaofu" who had taken office, the two old men had been together in the palace for a long time, they had not slept all night, and they were so tired that they yawned at dawn, and Zhang Cang's eyes were still red, as if he had just cried......

"That day, I can't see it, you're different, Zi Gu, if you eat less sugar, maybe you can still see that day......"

After all, it is Renrui, who has lived for more than 100 years, and as a witness to history, it is really suitable.

"That's right."

When they parted, Heifu remembered something: "Zi Gu, you hurried from the north and said that you had something important to tell me, what is the matter?" ”

"But they forgot about it!" Zhang Cang came to his senses from the future vision described by Heifu, slapped his thigh, and said solemnly: "It's about the Huns!" ”

"The Xiongnu who invaded the Great Wall this time are not only huge in number, but also mixed with the cavalry of Yueshi and Donghu, and they are different from the past......"

Zhang Cang's eyes were full of warnings: "That generation, I have learned your method secretly, equipped with a saddle and stirrups, and I am more refined in riding and shooting, and the people in the new Qin are difficult to beat!" ”

"Maudun learns pretty fast......"

Heifu was shocked, but think about it carefully, seven or eight years have passed since the Huns chased the Huns in the north, the Huns suffered a big loss in Helan Mountain, and were beaten by Li Xin to turn over on their backs.

This is also one of the reasons why the Xiongnu were able to defeat Donghu?

Heifu asked Zhang Cang to go down to rest, and later explained the matter in detail at a military meeting.

Zhang Cang walked down the stairs of Xianyang Palace, and could only hear Heifu muttering a sentence when he turned around......

"It's cool for a while, it's cool for a while, it's cool for ......"

。 Sogou