By the time Xiong Huai arrived at the Taixue examination room, the assessment had already begun for a while.

Xiong Huai made a rough tour of the examination room, and saw that some people were scratching their ears and cheeks, some people were thinking hard, some people were writing like flying, and some people were sweating like rain waving carving knives...

After seeing the various forms of references, Xiong Huai couldn't help but shake his head.

Because this time it is mainly just for the selection of subordinate officials for each county, so the examination questions this time are simple, most of them are common sense questions related to arithmetic, fortifications, military affairs, and the laws of the Chu State, these questions are not difficult, as long as you have a general understanding, it is easy to answer.

However, because there are still many public and private students participating this time, in order to avoid the omission of talents, at the request of Xiong Huai, Jing Cui and others can also add a question at the back: The widow hears that the gatherer dies, and the king who enriches the people dares to ask why the people are rich.

Xiong Huai is looking forward to being able to select some real pearls from the many fish eyes.

Those who carved knives in their hands were obviously answering questions.

It's just...

Xiong Huai just glanced at those people and couldn't help but shake his head.

"In the era when paper was not yet popular, participating in this kind of assessment and carving hundreds or even thousands of words on bamboo slips in one breath was really a physical work, a real physical work. If it is a weak scholar who has no power to tie the chicken in the future, I am afraid that he will have collapsed before he has finished answering a question!

Therefore, those who are weak or negligent in writing can only be qualified at most, and if they want to answer the question, they are more than enough to have more than enough strength. ”

Thinking of this, Xiong Huai glanced at those who used knives like gods again.

At this moment, although Xiong Huai has not yet read their answers, it can be seen from their turn at the moment that these people are not only agile, but also strong.

It may not be known that these people will be county governors, but there should be nine out of ten county officials.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai nodded.

Then, Xiong Huai inspected outside Taixue again, expressed his importance to this assessment, and left the examination room.

This time, the assessment only lasted for one day and ended.

However, after Jing Cui and the others finished inspecting the bamboo slips in the three major rooms, it still took them a full three days.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, in the Chu Palace.

Jing Cuiyu reported: "Wang, the results of this assessment have come out. According to the results of the examination, 673 people passed the test, and the remaining more than 300 people did not meet the requirements for qualification. In addition, according to the king's request, the ministers have divided the more than 600 people into four classes. And the answer sheets of ten people of the first class have been brought into the palace for the king to read. ”

Xiong Huai nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, there is Lao Lingyin." ”

As he spoke, Jing Cui asked people to present the first answer sheet.

Xiong Huai unfolded the bamboo slip and looked at it, and when he saw Zhaoqi with the name on the bamboo slip, his heart moved, he didn't look up, and directly looked at Zhaoqi's answer, and asked Jingcui in the audience: "Ling Yin, who is this Zhaoqi, but he is from my office." ”

Jing Li immediately responded: "King Yingming, this Zhaoqi is a member of the Zhao clan, he was originally a student of Taixue, and he should participate in the assessment." ”

Xiong Huai nodded as he watched, and then stared intently at Zhaoqi's answer.

As the bamboo slips unfolded one by one, Xiong Huai couldn't help frowning when he saw the third volume.

This strange answer, starting from the second volume, has been off topic.

Xiong Huai himself asked why the people were rich, but the answer given by Zhaoqi became a rich country. Moreover, Zhaoqi's toughness and harshness towards the people in the literature and science made Xiong Huai even more unhappy.

The problem of Chu is indeed that the people evade taxes and avoid taxes, and they cannot collect taxes, but the root of the problem is not that the law is very lax or the implementation is not effective, which gives the people an opportunity to take advantage of.

It's that the tax burden of Chu is too heavy, no, it's not that the tax burden is too heavy, but that too few people bear too heavy a tax burden, making it difficult for the people to bear it, and they have to flee.

Xiong Huai evaluated in his heart while reading Zhaoqi's answers.

Then, Xiong Huai groaned, and this Zhaoqi, who was full of aristocratic thoughts, had a place to go.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai put away the bamboo slips, put them aside, and smiled: "Okay, yes, although it deviates from the problem of widowhood, but the question of governing the country can be regarded as a material that can be made." ”

Jing Cui below immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

This time, the people of the clan did not participate in it because those elite children disdained to participate in the assessment of the county officials. And this Zhaoqi is because he is in Taixue, and because he is fighting with others, so he participates in the assessment.

Although Zhao Qi's question was seriously off-topic, he was the best answer in the Zhao family, so he was selected by Jing Cui.

Then, Xiong Huai watched the questions of several people again, which were decent, large and empty, and had nothing to say.

When he arrived at the sixth person, Xiong Huai unfolded it and took a look, and he was still looking for the usual way to start with the national policy, and to discuss the policy of governing the country based on Taoist inaction.

However, when Xiong Huai saw the second volume, he suddenly changed his pen and asked from the change of land, water conservancy, climate, and grain prices to increase peasant incomes, and then expanded from the grain trade to the standardized trade of the entire national market (unified prices, unified weights and measures, restrictions on commerce, etc.), in order to discuss the ways in which all the people in the country have their own income, and finally the focus of the entire country shifted to farming and fighting.

Seeing this, Xiong Huai's eyes suddenly lit up, and this was the first specific article he saw that discussed the strategy of increasing the wealth of the people. Although many of the things in it are slightly radical, there is no doubt that this question has something to say, and there are concrete ways to implement it.

Later, seeing this person's discussion on centralization, from the small family system of a family of five to the layer-by-layer control strategy of the country, counties, counties and villages, Xiong Huai's eyes lit up again.

It wasn't until he finished reading all the answers in the eight circles that Xiong Huai stopped unsatisfied, and then immediately found the name of this person, and when he saw that it was Chen Xiang, he suddenly realized.

It turned out to be a disciple of Xu Xing, no wonder he was so proficient in farming, the farming and warfare system established by Shang Ying in the Qin State originally had a very deep peasant viewpoint, and the people of the peasant family had such a deep understanding of the farming and warfare system, which was not unexpected by Xiong Huai.

Moreover, this Chen Xiang is different from Zhaoqi and others, he is the head of the Confucian and peasant families, and has been famous for more than ten years, which is far from being comparable to those students who have not had much experience.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai nodded slightly, and then took out the next person's answer sheet again.

Until he finished reading all the answers of these twenty people, although there were eye-catching countermeasures later, to Xiong Huai's regret, there was no better answer than Chen Xiang's.

Xiong Huai groaned slightly, and then understood why there were no sages coming.

Maybe the time from the announcement to the assessment this time is too short, and many people abroad have not reacted, and the assessment is over.

In addition, the matter of selecting the subordinate officials of each county has already been spread this time, and it may be that the real sages will not participate in it for the sake of a single subordinate official.

Perhaps, there are still some people who are still waiting and seeing, and are still skeptical about the determination of the Chu State, so they have not yet taken action.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai sighed in his heart: There is a long way to go!