The prosperity and rapid growth of the Chu State have made the cohesion of the whole country unprecedentedly high, but with the improvement and development of the entire political and military system of the Chu State, the demand for talents has also further increased. Not to mention that there are many vacancies at the top of the core, there are even more vacancies under them.

For example, the Jiaozhou army is now extremely large, not to mention more than 60,000 people, and its combat power has also risen sharply, gradually approaching the main army, and its main towns are guarding the southern border areas such as Rinan and Jiuzhen and Nanhai County, among which Nanhai County has the largest number, mainly to guard against Wu.

But the configuration of the generals of the Jiaozhou Army is obviously much worse, and now it is still commanded by the new former general Xu Sheng, but in fact, Xu Sheng is now a former general, and his position is the commander of the Guards Corps, but he ran so far, it is really helpless.

During this period of time, whether it is the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Three Princes' Mansion, or the major generals' mansions, and even Shang Shutai, they are considering promoting young and promising people almost every day, but those less important official positions are just that, for many important official positions, Wang Xu has strict orders, which must be jointly approved by Shang Shutai, and then handed over to him for review and approval.

As a result, the civil and military officials submitted by Shang Shutai always made Wang Xu not very satisfied, although most of these people were diligent and loyal, but they felt that their talents were worse after all, such as the candidate for the commander of the Jiaozhou Army, etc., that faced Wu Guoyingjie, there was no extremely outstanding talent, and it was difficult to rest assured.

But it's too troublesome to find them one by one, there are so many talents in Chu State, and there are those talents who don't know where they are now, and they can't be effectively discovered and used.

For this reason, Wang Xu was very sad.

After many days of hard thinking to no avail, fortunately Pang Tong gave advice.

"My lord. It is better to open the general election. Those wizards were jointly assessed by the people of Shangshutai. ”

"General election?" Wang Xu sighed. Shaking his head, he said: "I have also thought about the general election, but the state of Chu is no longer what it used to be, if there is a sudden general election, and a large number of unknown capable people are promoted, I am afraid that it will cause the dissatisfaction of many meritorious officials, it is too sudden." ”

This is the truth, the system of selecting talents by assessment has been practiced in Chu for many years. But that is gradual, the successful assessment of talented people, only have the opportunity to serve in the army, but suddenly in a high position has never been, similar to the way of recommendation is quite popular, after all, the recommendation system has been prevalent in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years. But the problem now is that the time is too short, and there is no suitable person to recommend for a while, so it needs to be promoted and selected from the crowd.

However, the echelon assessment system for new students in the Chu State is an introductory examination for the selection of military and political officials. If all of a sudden, you can directly get a high position, and it will become a system similar to the imperial examination system. If you can ascend to the sky in one step, it will definitely cause a lot of opposition at this time.

After all, there are assessments in the state of Chu every year, and with such a sudden change, wouldn't the people in the earlier suffer a big loss, and even years of diligent dedication have become meaningless.

Unexpectedly, Pang Tong seemed to be prepared, and in the face of Wang Xu's questioning, he quickly smiled and said: "Lord, in fact, the minister has also seriously thought about this matter, and there may not be no way!" ”

"Oh? What's the solution? Wang Xu raised his eyebrows and looked over in surprise.

"Lift the restrictions and allow anyone to refer to them, including military and political officials who are already in service!" After speaking, Pang Tong paused for a moment, and then continued: "The lord can set up a separate name, this examination is different from the annual selection assessment, anyone is allowed to participate, and the positions that need to be filled are listed in advance, and those people can choose." In this way, there is no reason for everyone to object, because the opportunities are equal. ”

"Huh? That's a great way to do it! ”

Wang Xu woke up like a dream, how could he not turn a corner with such a simple question!

Barely thinking too much, after he closed his eyes a little and thought about it, he said urgently: "Okay, just do as you say, but the assessment items must be carefully drafted by Shang Shutai, try to use as little as possible to say and write, I want to see the live performance, there are martial arts to show martial arts, there are political strategies to show political strategies, there are command talents to show command talents, I will let all the soldiers of the Guards Legion do their best to assist." In short, we meet all the needs and just want to find real talents. ”

"No!"

"Also, after Shang Shutai drafts the subjects, remember to hand them over to me for review!"

"Yes!"

Pang Tong is a very pragmatic capable person, as Shang Shuling, he is very competent, after Wang Xu made a decision, he immediately convened Shang Shutai Wenwu who was still in the capital to discuss the subject of the assessment, in just two days, he came up with a detailed plan and handed it over to Wang Xu.

Wang Xu took this plan, and after careful consideration, he only made some simple modifications, canceled some traditional and pedantic projects, and added something that could test his actual ability more. For example, Wang Xu directly abolished the ancient poetry test for military generals drafted by the ministers, and instead added a military general test for combat, that is, to give him a team of soldiers, so that he could fight with the generals in the army with wooden weapons, so as to assess his ability to apply it practically.

Before this plan was announced to the public, it was first spread in the political and military circles, and such opportunities are not common, and many people who think that their positions are not worthy of their abilities are all gearing up, intending to make a splash and show themselves in front of the king of Chu. The local clans are also looking for their own outstanding children in the clan, expecting them to achieve excellent results.

Unexpectedly, in the end, it would cause these big clans to compete with each other, and each family first conducted a round of selection among its own clansmen, and the best and most special people represented the family to participate.

Soon, the list of the royal approval of the king of Chu also spread to all parts of the Chu country, and there were officials everywhere in the townships, li, and pavilions.

Because Wang Xu in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of more officials, prompting those officials who are familiar with the local area to promote the selection of talents, he personally made a promise, saying that he would give the discoverers rich rewards according to the merits of the talents found, and the more outstanding the talents, the more generous the rewards, and included them in his own political achievements.

For them, not only are these rewards attractive enough, but the achievements are even more attractive, and it is very difficult to obtain political achievements, but now as long as a talent is selected, it is listed as a very high political achievement, which is a wonderful thing. If you find someone who can enter the top of the Chu State. Then the reward he receives is enough to keep him from worrying for the rest of his life.

And so it goes. The state of Chu can be said to be moving up and down, tossing in full swing.

Those who had a good reputation in the township, whether they wanted it or not, were visited every day by local officials, who painstakingly persuaded them to refer to them.

Of course, Wang Xu is happy to see such a scene, in order to prevent someone from curbing talents for the sake of being on top, he even personally came forward to supervise the matter, and the registration was all jointly responsible for the spy department and the thief Cao. The local government will make every effort to assist and be sure to bring these people safely to the assessment site, and whoever goes wrong will be held jointly and severally responsible.

For so many years, the people of Chu still know Wang Xu very well, but whoever dares to intervene in anything he attaches special importance to will definitely not be happy. As a result, all these people who refer to them have become baby bumps, and almost no one dares to stop them in the slightest.

Within half a month of the news of the list. There are not many people who refer to it, but it can continue with time. More and more people rushed to Xiangyang, and the streets and alleys of the entire national capital were full of such people.

Xiangyang's post houses, restaurants, etc. naturally cannot accommodate so many people, and there are still many people who do not have the economic conditions to live in, so Wang Xu personally came forward and ordered dozens of reception points to be set up, and a whole military camp was set up for these people to eat and live.

Such a magnificent selection scene is rare in ancient times, and all kinds of talents and strange people emerge in endlessly.

It's a pity that the assessment is really strict under the supervision of Wang Xu himself, although the direction chosen is very rich, but the vast majority of people still can't pass a round and go home directly, that is, they come to take a picture, and they completely lose the opportunity.

Many losers are reluctant to leave, and still linger to visit, and gradually a lot of messages come out.

The most said of them is only three words - it's too hard!

Yes, the subjects are really hard.

There are four assessment lines in the army: Confucian generals, wise generals, fierce generals, and talents!

In terms of internal affairs, there are five assessment lines: political talents, literary talents, military talents, intellectual talents, and different talents!

Nine kinds of assessments, everyone can choose, can participate, but it is not easy to pass the first round, the second round is already a talent, after the third round is rare, but after three rounds will be considered to be retained, but where to go up to the court to decide, there is no choice, only willing to stay.

Only after six rounds can you enter the Shangshutai for review, and the Shangshutai will discuss and select.

As for the high-level positions that were established, they had to go through nine rounds before they were really qualified to choose by themselves, and finally Wang Xu personally screened and hired them.

This kind of difficulty is really not simple, for example, those who think they are outstanding in martial arts and choose the fierce general line, facing Dian Wei or Zhao Yun and others in the sixth round, must insist on being undefeated within twenty or fifty moves under their hands, and there are not many things that can be done, not to mention other projects.

Of course, in order to deal with some arrogant and capable people, and these people are too troublesome and unwilling to take the assessment step by step, then Wang Xu also set up a shortcut, that is, to face him directly, that is, the legendary special examination room.

It's a pity that there is a prerequisite for this, which directly scares off almost everyone, that is, the person who participates in this independent assessment, if he can't pass more than three assessments, then he will be punished with thirty military sticks, and the Chu court also let out the words, don't be lucky, the difficulty of choosing this road is the same as passing nine rounds, if you don't have enough ability and self-confidence, please don't sign up indiscriminately.

This is also to put an end to people who try their luck blindly, otherwise Wang Xu would not have to die alone. As for the really capable people, why not be afraid of the so-called thirty military sticks, if they don't even have the courage and ability to bear it, then they don't need to take the test to know that they are not qualified to directly enter the top level.

It's just that in this way, all the test centers are busy, but only Wang Xu, the most eye-catching test room, is full of people and is amazingly deserted.

In fact, there are many generals and officials in the court who have participated in this assessment, including even some middle and high-level generals and ministers, but they dare not choose Wang Xu directly, because they understand the affairs of the court and the central government, they understand that there are still some opportunities to break through step by step, and they can compete for the best among the same batch, but in Wang Xu's place, no matter what is the best, they only want to be qualified.

It's just that the qualified requirement is enough to be daunting.

On this day, Wang Xu sat on the gorgeous high platform near the military camp outside Xiangyang City, casually looking at the examination rooms in the distance, and the mild sunlight made him even more drowsy. Although Xu Shu and other women are watching the excitement with their children these days, they are not here, they are protected by special people and are playing around, and it is also to let the children increase their knowledge.

When Wang Xudu was about to fall asleep in this lazy atmosphere, three people finally slowly walked under the high platform, a big man, a middle-aged woman, and a slightly childish child. When they were about to approach the high platform, the soldiers on duty suddenly put down their halberds and asked loudly: "Your Excellency is participating in the assessment, if not, please stay away from here." (To be continued......)