When Huang Chen, from Shanxian County, Yuanshan County, was silently reciting this position in astonishment, some people in Languan County, Tiannan County, curiously turned their eyes to the position of "chemical researcher of the Ministry of Industry", which they had never heard of.

This is a Taoist priest in his early thirties, the Taoist robe on his body looks a little tattered, there are a lot of oil stains and carbon black at the cuffs, and there are several burnt holes in the placement of the robe, and the whole person looks quite sloppy. Seeing him squeeze in, several scholars and officials from Languan County around him consciously separated a few steps to the side and looked at him with slightly disgusted eyes.

However, the wild Taoist priest completely ignored the gaze around him and read the proclamation cheekily.

"Researcher of Chemistry of the Ministry of Engineering."

"There is no restriction on the background of the examination, and after passing the written examination and practical operation, you can be hired."

"The main research content: acid, liquid, alkali, steel, gunpowder. Those who have the corresponding travel learning experience in the Western Continent, Taoist alchemy experience, flower concoction experience, and blacksmith experience are preferred. There is no limit to the number of people recruited for this position, but those who can pass the assessment will receive as many as they want. ”

"This position is dangerous, but the treatment is preferential. After joining the Department of Chemistry of the Ministry of Engineering, the rating is conducted on a regular basis. The lowest level is 100 gold coins per month, and one stone of Matsue rice. The Ministry of Engineering will send specific research tasks and provide corresponding materials for free, and you can get additional rewards for completing the corresponding tasks. ”

"The deadline for registration is December 15, 672 in the continental calendar."

This treatment!

From the beginning to the end, the eyes of the wild Taoist priest lit up. As long as you can pass the guò assessment, the lowest level has 100 gold coins per month, as well as rice!

As for the conditions for recruitment?

"Taoist alchemy-related experience, flower concoction zuò experience, isn't this a tailor-made requirement for Daoist master?"

As Zeng Siwu, who was abandoned and raised by a Taoist master since he was a child, refining pills or something is simply commonplace. The master in his Taoist courtyard was bent on refining pills and taking them for consumption, pursuing immortality. As a Taoist child, he has been helping with alchemy since he was six years old. The grasp of the heat of various minerals can be said to be perfect. Flower cannons and the like, in order to earn some extra money to maintain the expenses of the Daoist Academy, to provide materials for the master to refine the elixir of longevity, Zeng Siwu has not done less.

His firecrackers are well-known in Languan County, and during the New Year's Festival, the poor set off firecrackers, and the aristocratic families naturally set off firecrackers for the sake of identity. The best firecrackers can sell for five silver coins each!

Although the gunpowder of the fireworks is difficult to match, he has limited manpower, and the market in Languan County is even smaller, and Zeng Siwu can still earn one or two hundred gold with this craft every year.

However, this income is far worse than that of this researcher in the Ministry of Engineering.

Not to mention that the monthly treatment is fixed, just the materials are provided for free, and he has an official status, which makes Zeng Siwu tempted. Although I am very suspicious that this government would recruit people like them in an unusual way, since the proclamation was stamped with the seal of the governor of Matsue and posted here in a grand manner, it should not be wrong to reads();.

He also noticed that in the new division of departments in Dengzhou, the Ministry of Industry is placed alongside the Administration Department and the Finance Department.

This was undoubtedly an important signal that the new governor, who had been in the rebel army and accepted Zhao'an, took this newly created department very seriously.

"Deadline, December 15th!"

After glancing at the time, the wild Taoist priest Zeng Siwu felt a lot more at ease, and there was still nearly a month, and it was too late to leave for Dengzhou. As for whether it can be shun, Zeng Siwu has no doubt about this. He was confident in his experience, and the proclamation said that there was no limit to the number of people, as many as there were. As long as the Dengzhou government does not deceive people, he will definitely be able to become a researcher in the chemistry department of the Ministry of Industry!

"That dead ghost master, I'm afraid I can't imagine that I will also become a staff member of the government one day, right?"

Humming a small tune proudly, the wild Taoist priest squeezed out of the crowd and rushed towards the Taoist temple on the hill outside the city.

………

When Huang Chen, Zeng Siwu and others found their favorite positions and began to pack up their salutes and rush to Dengzhou, with Dengzhou in Songjiang as the center, almost the entire prefecture and county in the eastern part of the empire received announcements from Dengzhou one after another. A large number of talents who are either in office or idle have moved their minds in the face of this unprecedented announcement, or "recruitment order".

Although more than eighty percent of them did not take action in the end, such as fearing the identity of Chen Wu's rebels, fearing that the Dengzhou government would rebel, etc., there were still more than thousands of people who decided to give it a try. Their identities include the sons of poor scholars, the children of down-and-out little nobles, and even some local families. Either on foot, on horseback, or in a carriage, or even by taking the Songjiang waterway, they entered the Songjiang River one after another.

There are even some people who have a relationship with the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce who chose to follow the caravan back to Dengzhou, which is trouble-free and safe.

The influx of these talents made Dengzhou very lively for a while. Although Chen Wu ordered someone to arrange a response, the number of people who came to participate was too large. As a last resort, many later talents can only settle in the major hotels and restaurants in Dengzhou, which makes these shopkeepers smile.

However, this is clearly not a situation that everyone is happy to see.

The local powerful families in Dengzhou, as well as the various forces of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, have quite a few complaints about this.

In their view, the local government should be governed by local officials. Before this announcement, which was called the "Recruitment Order" by outsiders, these local forces in Dengzhou were all targeting vacancies in various positions one by one. On the one hand, he was thinking about how to divide these posts and control them in his own hands, and on the other hand, he was also planning to use this to blackmail the Songjiang Army and seek more policy support.

Quite simply, the Songjiang army was short of talent—the local powerful families had the vast majority of the talent—and if Chen Wu wanted to ask them to support the Songjiang government in sending people to serve in the new government, he would have to make concessions elsewhere.

Otherwise, all forces will join forces to advance and retreat, so that the Dengzhou government will never be able to recruit people, and eventually it can only stop operating.

For this reason, these powerful families and businessmen have tacitly ordered their own people, and patiently waited for Chen Wu to visit them. However, they didn't expect that Chen Wu would ignore this trick and abruptly make a recruitment order, recruiting talents from all walks of life regardless of their background.

This is undoubtedly taboo, but before Chen Wu issued the recruitment order, he symbolically sent people to ask the local family whether they wanted to participate in the operation of the government. These powerful families were waiting for Chen Wu to visit in person, so they naturally declined. There is such a play, Chen Wu ostensibly occupies a rational word, and they have nothing to say reads();.

Moreover, even now, local forces can still take the test, and even give priority to admission.

Things have come to this point, even if the local forces are dissatisfied, they can only quarrel and blame each other, and at the same time compete to prepare for the exam. They thought they had eaten Chen Wu before, so they had nothing to fear. Now that Chen Wu directly issued a "recruitment order", the talents of Yuanshan County, Tiannan County, and Donghai County rushed over to grab the position, and it would be hellish if they could still sit still.

When the day before the assessment deadline, Chen Wu couldn't help but smile smugly after receiving a roster that was dozens of pages thick.

There is such a thing as talent, and the Qianyuan Empire says that it is lacking, but if it really wants to recruit, it is really a lot of effort. It is naïve for these forces in Dengzhou to think that they can force the government by reaching an agreement.

These things are all leftover from players before the crossing.

After this assessment, the situation on the Dengzhou government was different. Officials from other places will occupy a large proportion of the government in Dengzhou and even in the whole of Songjiang, and then form a balance with the local officials in Songjiang and the former Taiping Army. Supplemented by the suppression of the militia groups and private soldiers by the police system, and the disintegration of the alliance of forces by the Southeast Chamber of Commerce, Chen Wu can eat these dishonest forces to the death without much effort -- there is no need to use force to suppress them at all.

The three-day assessment soon began to attract the attention of the people of the city and even the surrounding states and counties.

For some conventional vacancies, the assessment method is relatively ordinary. Basically, it is to refer to the old practice of the empire, or the remaining Dengzhou government officials can simply revise the test questions Chen Wu. In this regard, with Yuan Xingwei helping to check the gates, and Ganxing's military intelligence department helping to review, there will basically be no major problems. Chen Wu's attention was mainly focused on a few newly formed departments.

In particular, the Ministry of Industry and the Press and Distribution Agency.

The Press and Distribution Agency has recruited dozens of positions, a small number of which are for publication censorship, mainly for the distribution of new newspapers. Including the editor-in-chief and editors, as well as the reporters who collect information on the article, they are all a new plan on the Songjiang side. There were about seventy or eighty people who participated in the examination this time.

Looking at the resume, most of them are some unfamous Yeluzi literati, although they have blown their talents to the sky, Chen Wu is very unoptimistic.

He had already made up his mind that if it really didn't work in the end, he would send someone to Zhongzhou and poach people from the few newspapers that existed in Zhongzhou with high salaries.

As for the Ministry of Industry, there are more than twice as many people as the Press and Distribution Bureau. It's just that looking at the resumes submitted, there are not many people who really know how to do it. Most of them are Taoist priests or have dealt with merchants from the Western Continent at the seaport of Donghai County, probably trying to cheat and cheat money.

If you change an uninformed official, you may really be deceived by these articulate braggadocio. But who is Chen Wu? With the knowledge before the crossing, these people who want to swagger and deceive are doomed to fail.

However, at first glance, it is not completely fruitless.

After all, the empire has a population of hundreds of millions, and even if it is limited to the scope, only a few counties in the east have received the news, and at least 20 million people still have the opportunity to see the proclamation. With such a large base, it is possible for any kind of talent to come out. For example, this Taoist priest named Zeng Siwu took a fancy to Chen Wu's writing expertise.

With more than 20 years of experience in alchemy, he is familiar with various minerals and can independently mix several kinds of firecracker medicines!

What's even more rare is that his handwriting is very good, and his writing is quite well-adjusted.

If this resume is not faked, then this person is likely to be one of the few applicants with real materials, and he is also the talent that Chen Wu wants the most!