The people of Zhu Pingjin's previous life liked to refer to the so-and-so exam as the "national examination" for short, and the people of Zhu Pingjin's life were equally smart.

Less than an hour after Wang Bang was posted, the abbreviation of "Shu Kao" spread to the streets and alleys of Chengdu Mansion. Last year's autumn and this year's spring have long ended, and Wei Zaode, a native of Tongzhou, Shuntianfu, has been the champion. The next scientific expedition will wait until the sixteenth year of Chongzhen. With the exciting experience of the last award-winning poem, the Chengdu scholars who have been so idle recently immediately gathered under the two stone tablets of the Huangcheng Dam to comment on the relevant rules of the Shu examination to see if it is worth their go.

The Shu exam is divided into three sessions.

The first session is called "The Foundation". The content of the test is whether the writing is clear and whether you are familiar with the Confucian classics. These requirements are roughly the same as those of the science field, and it is a small case for scholars who have had one or even more than a dozen science field experiences. When Wang Bang read this, some scholars began to roll up their sleeves and prepare to go into battle shirtless.

Then look down. It is stated in the list that there are two questions in the "basic" session, and candidates can choose one of them to answer. There is no restriction on format, style, language, and entrainment.

The format is not limited, that is, it is not limited to eight shares, can the poem be?

The style is not limited, that is, it is not limited to discussion, so can the music card be?

There is no language limit, which is a new thing for scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Is it okay to use market slang, is it possible to answer in Yi language?

There is no limit to the entrainment, which is even more novel. Isn't that a way to openly bring family classics into the examination room and answer questions while flipping through books?

The only limitation for the first exam is time. Within one hour, the paper must be submitted. Those who do not submit it will be immediately expelled from the examination room and the examination papers will be invalidated.

The scholars were looking and thinking, and there were more and more questions. A few of the errand officers who had already grabbed the list began to ask questions. But that official is just guarding the list, how can he say it clearly?

More scholars were patient and continued to read the list of articles.

The second session is called "Skills". What is a skill, is it the meaning of a person's specialty? Thinking of his personal strengths, a famous frivolous scholar immediately thought of an allusion, that is, the story of Xinling Jun of Wei who used a rooster and a dog thief to steal talismans to save Zhao. He spoke out loud in the crowd without hesitation, for fear that others would rob him of his originality.

I heard that Shu Shizi is young and old, will the old man like such a frivolous style? A few scheming scholars immediately mentally made a negative comment to those companions who echoed him.

Skills are clearly written on the list, and three categories can be selected:

The first category is accounting. Mathematics and planning should be added to the financial planning class;

The second category is geography. Geography requires additional mathematics and line drawing;

The third category is the law.

Planning? The scholars who read the list have a good understanding. It is said that the Shu Wangfu is the best at making money, and it is really mixed with his own private goods! Isn't this the shopkeeper of Zhaowang Zhuangwang Store?

The law is better understood. It's nothing more than "Da Ming Law" or something.

But in the second type of geography, everyone is confused. Everyone understands what "geography" is, but everyone doesn't understand why the palace has to take the geography test, plus mathematics and incomprehensible line drawing!

In the crowd watching the list, an old scholar with a long goatee spoke eloquently:

"Line drawing, Danqing's technique is also! No color at all. Only outlined with lines, so it is also called white drawing! ”

"It turned out that Wu took the wind!" The confused scholars suddenly realized. But more questions followed, "I wonder what this geography has to do with line drawing?" ”

"The students don't know what they mean. A certain thief thought that the palace painted the mountains and rivers of Shu with line drawing! ”

Although Mr. Lao Shu has a gray beard, he still calls himself a student. Because in the circle of scholars, the elders and young are judged according to the level of knowledge and fame, rather than age.

"What's the use of drawing?" Some scholars continue to ask the old scholar without knowing whether they are alive or dead.

THE OLD SCHOLAR WAS VERY WELL EDUCATED, SO HE STOPPED HIS ANGER. But he wielded his beard so hard that he accidentally tore off a gray beard.

"Students also come to see the list, I really don't know!"

After a pause, a young scholar continued to question the old gentleman with his divine logic.

"It's useless to describe, and you can't describe. Why does the palace still have to test us? ”

"You can't draw it, you don't have to take this test!" The old scholar's anger finally erupted, and he was no longer polite when he spoke, "Or something else." It is clearly written in the recruitment rules: among the three exams, except for the first one, the rest are optional! The palace must have deep meaning in choosing people, how can there be a reason to test and be useless? If you can't, then you don't have to take the test! Move around as soon as possible to avoid embarrassment! ”

When the young scholar was scolded, he neither blushed nor got angry, but shook his white-washed cloth shirt, as if he were chanting a poem:

"To take the test or not? A must-have exam too! Rice is not expensive? Too expensive too! Wait for you to get off the pot at home! ”

The crowd burst into laughter. One of the ghosts imitated the tone of the young scholar and continued:

"I ate the last meal, but I didn't have the next meal! Hugh asked why his eyes were straight, he had been hungry for three days! ”

The laughter spread like ripples through the pile, from the few parties in the middle to the edge of the pile. A man with a well-developed laughing nerve laughed until he cramped. I saw him bent over with his belly stunted, shaking with his mouth open and his eyes closed, but he didn't let out a little laugh.

Cultured people have a lot of crooked intestines.

"Don't die laughing!" Someone muttered quietly. As if everyone had heard, the crowd quickly flashed out of the gap, leaving the man who couldn't stop laughing in the blank space. Laughing to death, what should their families do if they rely on themselves?

But the initiator is different.

The scholar of divine logic was ridiculed by everyone, neither blushing nor timid. He shook off his hole in his sleeve and looked around, and said unashamedly:

"Yes! It has been ten days since the family stopped eating, and even the shabby shirt of the contemptible person was borrowed! If the palace doesn't accept me, I will have to go to the street to rob it! EVEN IF HE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH BY THE RUFFIANS ON THE STREET OF THE YASMAN, IT WAS BETTER THAN YU (YU) KILLING THE BAMBOO BOARD BED AT HOME AND BURYING HIMSELF IN A DESOLATE PLACE! However, from a contemptible point of view, all the benevolent brothers who are on the list today, the food in the family is only three days! If there is a mountain of rice and grain at home, you can embrace the beauty and travel in the spring forest, so why bother to compete with the contemptible people to be this palace house! ”

The scholars who laughed at him were exposed, and their faces were flushed, so they had to stay away from him and never talk to him again. He was bored at first sight, so he ignored it and squeezed into the crowd again to read the list.

People crowd people, squeeze people to death. The scholar squeezed others, and others squeezed him. His stomach was empty, his feet were weak, and in the blink of an eye, he was squeezed to the edge of the list.

He looked up and saw that it was a white list full of small letters, called Treatment Instructions.

After passing the Shu examination, there will be a half-year internship period. There is an internship treatment during the internship period. After passing the internship period, you can also get more generous treatment after being officially hired by the royal government.

The treatment is also related to the number of passes passed. For example, internship treatment: after one session, it is nine taels per month; After two games, it was nine taels and nine dollars; If it is after three games, it will be ten taels and five dollars a month!

Ten taels and five dollars a month! I bought two stones of rice, and the whole family of five was full, added some kimchi and watercress, added another meal of meat every month, pulled a zhang of cloth to make two clothes, and there were three taels of silver left!

It's just that the provident fund has to collect one-third of the salary, so what's the matter?

The scholar read the treatment explanation back and forth a few times, and then let out a long sigh. Although the treatment is good, you have to pass the test. Instead of envying the fish in the abyss, it is better to retreat and close the net, and go back to the broken temple outside the city to study hard!

The scholar had just squeezed out of the crowd, but suddenly someone tapped him on the shoulder. He turned his head to look, and a young man in a cloth robe with a short beard asked, "What's the matter with Brother Tai?" ”

……

Zhu Pingjian's energy into this Shu examination can be said to be unprecedented. In addition to personally formulating the recruitment policy, he also personally brought Sun Hong out to check the registration situation.

The most important resources of a country and a nation are not gold, silver, oil, land and minerals, but the most important resources are always people and talents.

In the turbulent times, the specific implementation of the talent strategy lies in the competition for talents and manpower and the competition for people's hearts. If you don't grasp it first, others will take the lead, and then they will use this resource against you.

The conversation between Songlinshan and Sun Hong inspired Zhu Pingjian's thinking a lot.

Chinese have more land and less land, and in the long run, there will always be a shortage of farmland. However, the more obsessed they are with solving the land problem on land resources, the worse the results tend to be. Doctors pay attention to the headache and foot pain, which is not the nonsense of the bull's head and the horse's mouth, it runs through a kind of oriental philosophy.

Zhu Pingjin is now going to have a headache and try to achieve the effect of not having a sore head and no sore feet.

Food, by its very nature, is a commodity. Even if it is magnified to the level of strategic materials, it is still an agricultural product. The practice of using the method of developing agriculture to solve the shortage of agricultural products is a headache. This approach solves the fundamentals, but it is very slow and completely unable to adapt to the fast pace in troubled times. The redistribution method generally balances the people's demand for food, which is not only fast, but also effective. But in doing so, Zhu Pingjin was bound to challenge the political privileges of the gentry landlords, the foundation of the landlords. This practice is a headache cure.

The political privileges of the gentry landlords were to a large extent reflected in their political discourse.

If you want to deprive the gentry of their right to speak, it is not enough to rely on Sun Hong to run a tabloid show. Ordinary people have a high rate of Chinese illiteracy, and it is impossible to have spare money to buy newspapers. The news in the newspaper can only be obtained through the scholars in the village.

In order to deprive the gentry of their right to speak, it is necessary to break up the internal alliance of the gentry and establish an alliance between the gentry and Zhu Pingjin. It was necessary to separate the ordinary poor scholars from the scholars who belonged to the vested interests and rally around Zhu Pingjin, so as to completely isolate the handful of the most reactionary and stubborn gentry politically.

The united front, armed struggle, and the building of D are the three magic weapons for revolutionary success that Zhu Pingjin learned in D school, and the united front ranks first among the magic weapons.

Zhu Pingjin wanted to establish his own united front against the scholars, destroy the united front of the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and then complete the control of the entire Sichuan politics.

……

In a simple tea shed on the edge of the Huangcheng Dam, the tea in the stoneware bowl in front of Zhu Pingjin did not move, and the scholar was devouring a large bowl of Yangchun noodles, snoring loudly in his mouth.

In the midst of the loud noise, Zhu Pingjin opened his mouth and asked the scholar: "Brother Tai, why are you sighing?" Listening to the accent, Brother Tai is not a local? ”

The scholar did not immediately reply. After drinking the last drop of noodle soup, he picked a green onion on the edge of the bowl into his mouth with his fingernails and rolled it with his tongue, and then he reluctantly put down the bowl.

He bowed his hand to Zhu Pingjin and said: "The name of the contemptible Zhaohua County (now the ancient city of Zhaohua, Guangyuan City), the surname is Cai Shao Yan (XIAN). Fang Cai sighed in front of the list, sighed in troubled times, the rain hit duckweed, and the poverty fell like this! The second sigh and eight articles are harmful, and there is no way to take refuge without strengths! Three sighs of the king is dark, and the country will not be a country! At that time, where will we and the small people live, it is not equivalent to pigs and sheep, and we will be slaughtered! The kindness of the son is engraved in the heart. His son can use Cai, and Cai should protect his life! Please also leave your name! ”

Zhaohua County is an important military town in northern Sichuan that controls the upper reaches of the Jialing River. Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan several times, and without exception, they passed through Zhaohua County. Since this Cai Shaoxuan is from Zhaohua County, it is mostly related to the military rebellion.

Crazy and down, and still know how to repay the kindness! Zhu Pingjin nodded with satisfaction.

He didn't want to discuss with Na Cai Moumou in front of the public why "the king was dark", and it was impossible to leave his name because of a bowl of Yangchun noodles, so he just asked lightly:

"Brother Tai is in Chengdu, just when the palace is recruiting, this is the opportunity of Brother Tai. Why don't you go and post and give it a try? Even if you get a test, it's fine! Maybe I'll be accepted. ”

Then Cai Shaoxuan sighed again, "Why don't I want to post?" It's just that the palace employs people, not the science field, there must be its specialities! When I first arrived in the provincial capital, I was even more ignorant in the palace. Although I thought about it for a long time, I still couldn't get the point. rashly refer to the posting, lest you become a laughing stock again! ”

This crazy man is smart, and he knows that the son of this world must be disciplined in employing people!

Zhu Pingjin groaned for a while, and then said to Cai Shao: "There is a new newspaper on the market today, called 'Fuxing Daily'. It is said that the Fuxing newspaper has a stake in the Shu Wangfu, and the brother may wish to look for it. The news of this palace recruitment examination was also published on it. ”

"Really?" Cai Shaoyun's eyes widened.

Zhu Pingjin did not answer. He bowed slightly to Sun Hong, who was standing beside him. Sun Hong immediately took out a stack of folded paper from his arms and put it on the tea house. Then Cai Shao grabbed it and unfolded it, and took a closer look.

Sure enough, the front page of the newspaper published the recruitment brochure for the Shu examination. In addition to this, the newspaper also published two long articles. One is the experience of Li Chongwen, a Xiucai in Zitong County: "The Heart of the Blue Blood Pill Goes to the Ming Dynasty - Liu Sance's Heroic Martyrdom in Renshou Zhi County", and the other is the memoir of Liu Sance's orphan Liu Hongting "Father and Me". The third edition has a detailed introduction to the Shu examination.

Zhu Pingjin had already walked out of the tea shed, and Sun Hong left a sentence: "Brother Tai is better to sign up!" I have a wide range of people in the world, and there are so many talented and capable people. However, the employment of the son of the world depends not only on your talent, but also on what you do. ”

When Zhu Pingjin walked away, Cai Shaojun suddenly knelt down towards Zhu Pingjin's distant back, and kowtowed three times.

"Thank you for the order, he will not hesitate to repay him!"