Everything in the Juxian Pavilion has been prepared, just waiting for the arrival of talents from all walks of life, this is the current top matter of the Assassin's Mansion, everything else has to stand aside, nothing is as important as talents.

Talent is the cornerstone of the great cause, the foundation of prosperity, and the foundation of the stability of the dynasty.

A dynasty is the gathering of countless talents, managing the people under their feet and defending the security of the country.

After three days in a hurry, the exams in each county were finally over, and the list of personnel, assessment questionnaires, and the ranking of advantages and disadvantages were all sent over one by one.

Li Ru, Han Yan, and Pang Tong immediately began to light the lights and stay up all night, and some signs could be seen in the first step of the assessment, that is, Yuan Xi didn't have time to spend the night in the room that had just taken over Quhua, the time was too urgent, and the talents who passed the test should arrive in Jixian County one by one in two days, so they must get a certain understanding in a limited time.

This time through the first round of assessment, there are thirty-seven people in the Wendian, all of whom are from the cold family, plus the original eleven scholars, a total of forty-eight people, and twenty-nine people in the Wudian, all of whom are extraordinary masters who defeated eight soldiers in a stick of incense, and the Qidian is the least, only fifteen people, but this is compared to the second hall of Wenwu, in fact, this number has exceeded Yuan Xi's prediction, after all, what he wants is not an ordinary carpenter, he wants innovative thinking, which is difficult to do for scholars who read and write, and are well-informed, let alone them.

There are ninety-five people in the three halls, although it doesn't seem to be much, but it is already extremely rare to have one state, which shows that all counties are attentive, if this group of people can be used properly, it will be of great help to Yuan Xi's great cause.

In the middle of the night, it was dark outside, but in the inner hall of the Thorn Mansion, the lights were still bright, Yuan Xi looked at a copy of the governance strategy written by the scholar in his hand, and nodded slightly, he had already read four copies, all of them were not bad, although there were no shocking moves, but in the words, they were all solid, without those gorgeous and hypocritical words, which was what he needed most.

When it was about time, Li Ru, Han Yan, and Pang Tong arrived together, and it was obvious that they had gained something.

"Liu Quan, prepare some supper" Seeing this scene, Yuan Xi immediately commanded, and they estimated that they would have to talk for a long time.

"No!"

After the three of them gave the salute, Yuan Xi said: "Don't be polite, Shiyuan, you first talk about the situation in the Qi Palace."

"Nuo" After Pang Tong responded, he immediately took out the first brown paper, and after gently opening it on Yuan Xi's desk, he said excitedly: "Yu Gongzi, this is painted by a person named Lu Yu in Yuyang County, Tong and Ma Jun watched it together, if it can really be realized, the future city will not be an obstacle of our army, and his deterrent power is even stronger than the cupola."

"What!" Yuan Xi immediately looked over in surprise, only to see a behemoth jumping on the paper, as if it was a chariot with several layers, the chariot was several zhang high and dozens of zhang long, and the car was divided into four layers, and each floor had ladders for going up and down.

"According to Lu Yu's explanation, this is called the Lu Gong Car, the legend is that Jiang Ziya invented, the height of the car can level the city wall, it can carry hundreds of soldiers, equipped with machine crossbows, poisonous arrows, guns, halberds, knives and spears and other weapons, ordinary cities, it is simply like walking on the ground" Pang Tong carefully introduced.

When Li Ru and Han Yan heard this, they immediately came over curiously, and the four of them formed a circle.

"This thing is so big!" Han Yan took a look at it and said in surprise.

"Look at this volume, can you travel far?" Li Ru asked with a slight frown.

"He can't travel far, he is too large, even when attacking the city, he needs hundreds of soldiers to push, and he can only make it temporarily, which is also his only shortcoming," Pang Tong said solemnly.

"That's too troublesome, and the temporary production takes too long, which is not conducive to the strain on the battlefield," Han Yan said.

"Indeed, although this thing has a novel idea, it can only be used as a miracle strategy, not a conventional weapon," Li Ru nodded.

Yuan Xi smiled slightly, "It's a bit of a tricky problem, but it's really rare for this Lu Yu to have such an idea, just by virtue of this, after he comes, you can immediately arrange for him to join the Tiangong Academy, enjoy the first-class treatment, let him make a model of this Lu bus for me, remember, every detail must be recorded, unless there is Xi's order, no one can look at it"

"No"

"Anything else?" Yuan Xi asked again expectantly.

"There is another one, but this point of view is too amazing, even Ma Jun thinks it is too difficult, and he himself is also in the process of development, and there is not much progress yet" Pang Tong took out a drawing from his cuff again, and after opening it, he saw that there was something like an iron ball painted on it.

"What is this?" Han Yan was curious.

"It's called Thunderbolt, it was drawn by a person called Mo Jin in the ancient county, he said that this iron ball has saltpeter in it, saltpeter will explode when heated, once it is successfully developed, the power of the explosion is amazing, like a thunderbolt, it can be used to open the city and crack the ground, but because it is too amazing, I don't know how much ridicule I received, and I didn't have much money, so I originally planned to give up, but at this time, the opening of the Qi Hall made him have a glimmer of hope in his heart" Pang Tong said.

"Explosion," Han Yan and Li Ru were suddenly surprised.

Yuan Xi looked at the rough graphics above, and a trace of shock flashed on his face, isn't this the roughest version of the grenade in later generations? He knew that gunpowder was one of the four great inventions of China, but he didn't expect that someone would discover it in this era, but the model of this thing is not important, the key is the configuration of gunpowder, which is the most difficult and the most dangerous.

"Niu'er, Niu'er" Yuan Xi thought for a while, and suddenly shouted loudly.

"Childe has and orders," Hu Niu'er quickly rushed in.

"You immediately take someone to Shanggu County, and bring a person named Mo Jin to Yecheng in person, don't stay for a moment, he doesn't have to take the exam, Xi wants to talk to him personally" Yuan Xi suddenly said very seriously.

Li Ru and the three of them were stunned for a moment, and Hou Ye seemed to attach great importance to this thing.

"No!" Hu Niu'er hurriedly turned around and rushed out.

"Master Hou, have you ever seen this thing?" I saw Pang Tong ask suspiciously, it asked itself to cover the group of books, but since I heard about such a weapon, just listening to it is a bit fantastical.

Yuan Xi smiled faintly, "Xi can't say it now, when I see Mo Jin, everything will be clear."

The gunpowder matter is too important for him to say now, and if he says it, no one will believe it, so he has decided to take control of it himself, and he can't let anyone know about it at present.

"It seems that Qidian has gained a lot this time, Shiyuan, do you still have it?" At this time, Li Ru suddenly asked with a smile.

"No, although the others are not bad, they have already been filed in the Tiangong Academy, so it's not surprising" Pang Tong shook his head slightly.

"Haha" Yuan Xi laughed loudly and said: "Enough, it's completely enough, with this Lu Yu and Mo Jin, the recruitment of the Qi Palace has reached the standard, Shiyuan, you are working hard, the assessment must still be strictly implemented, maybe there are still some that have not been revealed, for these people, we must care and love, we can't let them be wronged, once they accept it, they will also take their wives and children together."

"No"

"Okay, then next the military advisor, tell me about the personnel of the martial palace, are there any outstanding people" Yuan Xiyan asked excitedly, the most important thing in ancient warfare was manpower, and the military general was the essence of manpower and the arrow, which was very important. Not to mention Zilong, Niu Er's level, if he can have Shi A, Li Fei, Li Shang's level of force or specialty, he will be extremely satisfied.