Chapter 407: Strange Entrance Exam

Qin Ze is a layman and a rough person, and he has always been self-aware of this. When it comes to people's livelihood and hundreds of workers, no one is his opponent. But when it comes to the court, it is his weakness, so Li Er has never expected Qin Ze to be able to serve as much of an official.

If it is divided by knowledge, Qin Ze is obviously biased towards encyclopedias, so the least important thing in Datang Academy is not the Explicit Document.

Qin Ze is not familiar with teaching and educating people, and he is not willing to be familiar with it. The old gentleman also knows what Qin Ze means, so the knowledge of the Ming Wen Department has always stayed only on the basis of knowledge and outside the officialdom.

Literacy and hyphenation can be taught, and character and ethics can be cultivated, but the way of being an official is never touched. The school system of the Ming Wen Department is three years, and after three years, after Li Er's selection, you can enter the Guozijian. And this is the place where they are trained to become officials.

Heavy ministers are the lifeblood of a country, and they can only be in the hands of the emperor, and this is the reason why the Tang Academy has never touched it.

In the past three years, the Ming Wen Department has only trained a total of about 30 students, and only seven of them have the opportunity to enter the Guozijian, and the rest can only serve as some casual officials such as the chief bookkeeper.

It seems to be an extremely low acceptance rate, but compared to Datang's official position, it is already a huge number.

Therefore, the first enrollment of Datang College was even more lively, and the most popular was of course the Ming Wen Bureau, which directly came more than 600 people. Among them are down-and-out scholars, unwitting Confucian students, and illiterate children.

Datang College is so popular, not only because of the cooperation with Guozijian, but also because the tuition fee here is extremely low, which is naturally a big attraction for poor students.

If there are more people, it will be more troublesome, and there are still too few gentlemen in Datang Academy, and they are not capable of teaching so many students. In particular, more than 400 of these 600 people are illiterate children, and it is obviously unrealistic to let the old gentleman teach them.

There was no way, Qin Ze had no choice but to discuss with those students who had already completed their studies, after all, it was better to stay in Datang Academy to teach and educate people than to be a master who had no official or position. The least thing is that Datang Academy's treatment of Mr. can be said to be difficult to find in the world.

In this way, Qin Ze finally persuaded five or six people to stay, and finally lived up to those children's desire for Datang Academy.

It is impossible to take all 400 children, and it is much easier for them to choose. As long as you look at the clever ones, you can enter the academy, and Qin Ze directly asked those students who were willing to stay to choose by themselves.

And the rest of the students who have studied are Qin Ze and the old gentleman who will produce the test papers together.

"A hunter crosses a single-plank bridge with a wolf, a sheep and a basket of vegetables, and the hunter can only carry one thing at a time, and asks the hunter how can he make sure that everything crosses the bridge in good condition?"

"Zhang Sheng's Yeye has a total of three sons, one of them is called Zhang Yi, and the second is called Zhang Er, what is the name of the third son?"

"What is the planting time and maturity time of millet and millet?"

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When the test takers opened the test paper and saw this strange question, their first thought was whether they had taken the wrong test paper. But after repeated inquiries, I realized that it was not the wrong test paper but that it should be so......

Compared with the assessment of these students in the Ming Cultural Department, the students of the other five departments are a little cold, especially the Agricultural Department, which has only about 20 students this year, and they still come to Datang College to try their luck because they can't eat enough......

Qin Ze can only lament this, except for the Ming Wen Bureau, the rest of the Shinong Industry and Commerce is only the last business in the hearts of the people after all.

And this is also where Qin Ze feels sad, because the Mingwen Department, which has invested the least in the entire Datang Academy, is overcrowded, while the Encyclopedia Department and the Agricultural Department, which have invested a huge amount, have to be said to be a kind of sadness.

Fortunately, the staff of the Craftsman Department is quite abundant, after all, it is still good to use this thing for mixing food.

Tang Jian, the enrollee of Datang Academy, also rushed over, but after taking a look at the test papers, he was completely stunned.

The four books and five classics in front of it can be regarded as decent, but what does it mean that there are hunters and wolves behind it, and what kind of talents do you want to cultivate?

"Tang Shangshu thinks something is wrong?" Qin Ze saw that Tang Jian was fascinated, so he also leaned up and asked.

What Tang Jian was holding in his hand was a scholar named Zhou Jingxian, and his handwriting was also elegant and smart. The previous four books and five classics are also very good, especially the one "On Stones" written is even better. But the problem is that Tang Jian found out this among the students who were eliminated.

"Although every gentleman has his own requirements for his students, this week's students are both knowledgeable and astute in their arguments. But why did you fail the entrance exam? Tang Jian took the test paper and sighed again, with a loving expression on his face.

Qin Ze smiled and motioned for Tang Jian to turn back further, this candidate did get the first grade from the old gentleman, but the bad answer behind him was really disappointing.

The hunter question of the first question, this candidate directly wrote a no. The second answer is to answer that the third son is Zhang San, not to mention the maturity time of Su, and it is a mess.

Datang Academy is for cultivating talents, not for cultivating mediocre people who follow the script. If the four books and five classics are well memorized and called talents, then Qin Ze believes that he is definitely a top talent.

If it was even necessary, Qin Ze could recite all the books that Tang Jian had seen. But then you can be a good officer? Others Qin Ze didn't know, but he knew that if he was really allowed to manage a state alone, he would definitely make it a miasma.

And for this kind of scholar who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, it is naturally not worth Qin Ze's training.

Tang Jian also saw the answer behind him, and finally put down the test paper with a sigh. Although there are still some different opinions in my heart, this is Qin Ze's right as the dean after all.

It's just that after picking up another test paper, Tang Jian's brows furrowed again.

"Stun the sheep and the wolf, and then take any of them across the bridge at will. This ......"

Tang Jian was also stunned, but Qin Ze said with a smile: "Naturally, he can't enter the Ming Wen Department, but the Xue Xue Department is quite suitable for him." ”

"Teach students according to their aptitude and make the best use of them." Tang Jian said eight words, and put down the test paper in his hand stupidly.

"Your Majesty heard that Jingyang County has been completely built, so he specially sent me here to take a look." Tang Jian changed the topic, looked at Qin Ze and said.

There are about 1,000 households in Jingyang County, and only about 300 households are around the Hou Mansion. The Jingyang County that Qin Ze asked Wang Daoren to build this time was just an inner city.

The standard symmetrical arrangement, although it is some distance from the Jing River. But Wang Daoren still deliberately asked people to build several waterways, so that the entire inner city was also surrounded by water.

All the houses are built on the water, the ground is paved with concrete, and the wide avenue is lined with houses one after another.

If you look at it in terms of appearance, the layout of the inner city is somewhat like a square in Chang'an City. It's just that because it is for the people to live in, the house does not need to be built too big at all. And because of the presence of cement, the house does not need to be just one floor, which saves a lot of space.

Don't underestimate this aspect, just by doing such a small thing, Jingyang County has more than 1,000 acres of land for nothing.

And this is just an inner city, Qin Ze's plan in the future is to gather the entire Jingyang County together. So as long as you keep working hard, one day this will become a new city.

It is said to be a city, but it has no walls, not even walls. What a wall means is not trivial, the reason why Qin Ze did not build a city wall is that he doesn't want to make Li Er feel guilty.

The inner city had just been built, and the people had just moved in.

Qin Ze walked here with Tang Jian, and his heart was also in a trance.

No matter how long you have lived in Datang, the reinforced concrete will always look so kind.

Each family's residence has a small garden, and when Qin Ze and Tang Jian came, the common people were planting some vegetables in it.

The husband and the woman followed, and the half-grown children followed the adults, throwing seeds into the dug pit.

"In the past, when the people had a piece of land, they did not hesitate to plant grain, but now the people of Jingyang County have begun to grow vegetables." When Tang Jian said this, he was also embarrassed.

"Rice millet is grain, and vegetables are also grain. And now that the Tang Dynasty is in good weather, the income from growing vegetables and vegetables is much higher than that of grain. Qin Ze replied with a smile.

Tang Jian glanced at it again, then shook his head and said: "But if there is one more person to grow vegetables and vegetables, there will be one less person to plant rice and millet, so that the food of the Tang Dynasty will be one less point, and I am afraid that it will be overwhelmed in the long run." ”

This is the biggest difference between Qin Ze and these people, in the eyes of these people, copper money is not money, cloth is not money, only grain is money.

They ignore one of the biggest problems, which is that anything that is created with labor can be called money.

"As long as the seeds cultivated by the Quyuan plough and the Department of Agriculture can be promoted, then the fields can at least double the number of fields in the whole world. And now the people of Jingyang County grow vegetables because their fields have doubled. Grain is not only made up of rice millet, but in fact, in order for food to continue to increase, it is necessary to circulate it. ”

This is the case with grain in Jingyang County, because it has been producing high yields for two consecutive years. Therefore, farmers can only sell it in the market, and it can be expected that if the grain cannot be sold, then the farmers will definitely reduce their planting in the next year.

This is the relationship between production and consumption, and the relationship between supply and demand has always been dialectically unified. Demand determines supply, and supply in turn constrains demand.

The real prosperity of the world not only refers to how much surplus grain there is in the farmers' homes, but also refers to how much wealth the entire Datang has. And this is Qin Ze's point of view, and it is also the reason why he has always supported business.