"Civil servants, those who handle government affairs for the people, are not established for the welfare of the family, but for the people of the country, and those who wish to do so may apply for recruitment in the county and county offices, and must be between the ages of twenty-five and fifty. Don't forget ······"

In a square in the middle of Zhenhai City, there was a huge yellow paper notice posted on the Shenming Pavilion board, and hundreds of people formed a large half-circle to discuss, and several young people at the closest place to the notice were reading the content aloud, so that those who could not see clearly behind could also know what was going on.

You heard it right, it's the civil service exam!

Because of the sharp increase in the land area, the number of citizens has almost doubled, and the original number of officials in the Xia State has been seriously insufficient, even if the official system of the Xia State has been very streamlined, but the gap in the number of officials needed for the new land is too large.

Originally, Liu Xin, Yang Ku and others suggested that Wang Ze could select a large number of talents according to the way of promoting filial piety and talent in the former Han Dynasty, so as to supplement the problem of insufficient number of officials.

Although even in the Han Dynasty, this practice of selecting talents by recommendation was criticized by many people, but in the absence of a better way to select talents, this is already a very good way.

However, Wang Ze finally refused, his first thought was the imperial examination pioneered by Yang Er in history, compared with the way of promoting filial piety and showing talent, the advanced nature of the imperial examination is beyond doubt, even if the civil politics gradually formed after the modern society in Europe and the United States in later generations are also changed according to the Chinese imperial examination.

However, after careful consideration, Wang Ze finally abandoned the imperial examination, although the imperial examination is a good way to select talents, Wang Ze is not ready to conduct the imperial examination in Xia Guo.

Yes, Wang Ze is biased against the imperial examination!

Although the content of the imperial examinations in the Sui and Tang dynasties initially included current affairs, policy theories, and various theories, as the Confucian doctrine of power and profit gradually gained strength, they soon excluded other disciplines from the imperial examinations.

For a long time in history, whether the poetry is doing well has become a powerful factor in whether or not it can be examined, which has to make Wang Ze complain, can the poetry be a good official if it does well? Obviously, in the eyes of the very pragmatic Wang Ze, these Confucian scholars with sparse skills and extremely conceited skills are not what Wang Ze needs.

From the very beginning, Wang Ze was based on vocational and technical education and factory technological progress, and only with strong advanced productive forces can the country and the nation be strong, so he was very disgusted with Confucianism, which rejected technological progress in history and regarded it as a strange skill.

In the past 20 years, he no longer knows how many Confucian students who have secretly killed and expelled Confucianism from the Xia Kingdom, but fortunately, at this time, the power of Confucianism has been greatly weakened because of the hundreds of years of war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, otherwise Wang Ze may have to add another Confucianism after having the great enemy of Futu Sect.

In the end, Wang Ze decided to recruit officials according to the method of the civil service examination in later generations, and the recruitment of civil servants was not a one-brain examination, but mainly a highly professional and technical official.

Different Cao genera recruit different subjects, and there is no limit to the social identity of the applicant, as long as you are a citizen of Xia Kingdom, and after the age is reached, both men and women can register, it is for the whole society.

Most of the content of the exam is also very simple, but the question type is very complex and the amount of questions is also very large, obviously students from colleges and universities who have received comprehensive basic education in Xia Guo have more advantages in the exam, but many technical civil servants are more popular in the later stage.

"Although the requirements of the law for officials are becoming more and more stringent nowadays, it is a good thing to have the opportunity to be a member of the official palace after all!" The two young people who looked like students in the square discussed with each other, "Our Xia State officials are not separated, as long as they pass the civil service examination, they may even become a county guard in the future!" ”

Another young man said, "I don't pray to be a county warden, even if I can be a county lord, it's a good thing!" And now the officials' salaries are not low, no matter what, it's a good thing for us people! ”

Speaking of this, the two said together: "Why don't we go and sign up?" "Let's go! Go now! ”

Saying that, the two young people went to the Zhenhai County Shoufu together, and at the same time, I don't know how many people in all directions were also playing the same idea, and the same scene was also staged at the same time in various counties of the Xia Kingdom.

In the East China Sea in summer, it is said that this is the time when Western maritime merchants come to the East with the summer wind when the most ships come to the East, and in previous years, the people of Xia Guo were busy selling all kinds of goods to Xia and Western maritime merchants, and the county guard was also the most idle time of the year.

But now a civil service examination has completely changed this scene, covering an area of hundreds of acres in front of the Zhenhai County Shoufu Square, was crowded with all the people who came to sign up, and the excitement of the scene made people have a feeling of rushing to the temple fair.

In fact, this is because Zhenhai is the capital of the Xia Kingdom, just like the civil service examination in Beijing in later generations is much more attractive than the civil service examination in other places, so it is not surprising that there are so many people here in Zhenhai County, and even there are already organic vendors in the square to sell food, melons and fruits and other food.

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A sixty-year-old man with a long beard shook his head helplessly, obviously dissatisfied with the fact that a civil servant had signed up for a temple fair.

A middle-aged man in his fifties next to him smiled slightly, and then smiled at the sixty-year-old man: "If Brother Gao is still like this, doesn't it mean that the Xia Kingdom we govern is becoming more and more prosperous, you must know that even Pingyang County can only gather so many people during the Chinese New Year!" ”

"What Mr. Liu said is very true, if it wasn't for the vigorous management of the two gentlemen, where would Xia Guo be what it is today!" A young man who followed behind the two old men spoke, and it turned out that these two old men turned out to be Liu Xin and Yang Ku, the two prime ministers of the Government Council.

Seeing the two of them dressed as ordinary scribes, and then looking at Wang Ze who looked like a follower standing behind them, the three of them actually went out of the palace to inspect the registration of civil servants, of course, it is impossible for Wang Ze, who has always been afraid of death, not to bring guards.

Within a radius of fifty paces, at least twenty guards disguised as ordinary people kept an eye on their surroundings, and hundreds of them were scattered within two hundred paces.

Yang Ku was said by Liu Xin and Wang Ze very helplessly, and he said weakly: "Of course, prosperity is a good thing, but a county guard mansion has become a temple fair-like place, which is really detrimental to the majesty of the official mansion!" ”

"Why is Brother Ruo still so unsightly?" Liu Xin smiled and said, "You still don't know that what Your Majesty needs is to maintain the majesty of the law, as for us people, we are just ordinary people, and if we don't do things well, the people will blame us and others!" ”

Yang Ku was stunned for a while by Liu Xin's words, and then he sighed: "Or Qishan Xian Brother sees it thoroughly, in the past, the law was just a plaything with random twists and turns in the mouths of officials, and only by highlighting the prestige of officials can we ensure that the people are afraid of the government, but now we don't rely on any clean officials, everything has laws!" ”

Speaking of this, Yang Ku looked at the two of them and laughed at himself: "Although I am still a little disappointed in my heart, I just feel that this is the way to govern the country for thousands of years!" ”

Seeing Yang Ku say this, Wang Ze laughed and said: "Mr. Yang, don't laugh at yourself, if it weren't for the hard work of you and Mr. Liu over the years, how could our Xia Kingdom be what it is today, I dare to say that as long as you are in your own identity, someone will definitely come to ask you for an autograph!" ”

"Forget it," Yang Ku waved his hand repeatedly, "I'm not going to join in such a lively scene!" I just hope that some suitable people can be selected this time, there are too many things to do in this time! ”

The sheep withered during this time, but they were busy.

Because of the tremendous expansion of the land area, a large number of new counties and counties needed to be managed by officials, and Wang Ze carried out a major reform of the bureaucratic system of the Xia State, and a large number of new citizens needed to be resettled in a timely manner, and after the New Year, the cultivated land of the whole country had to be divided on a large scale.

Such a complicated and huge amount of things came one after another, so that the already young sheep withered a little unbearable, and he only hoped to recruit more capable young people to share his pressure at this moment.

Wang Ze is also full of expectations for this civil service examination, the reborn Northern and Southern Dynasties are not a historical period that he is familiar with, and it is impossible to collect celebrities in advance after learning from others, and it is estimated that the grandfather of the collector is still possible.

Therefore, the people recruited by Wang Ze this time are basically the talents that Xia Guo has cultivated himself for more than 20 years, and they are the most suitable candidates for Xia Guo in any case, which is also the hope of Xia Guo in the future, he looked back at the crowded square in front of him, full of young men who signed up for the exam!

Wait!

Oh, I was wrong just now, and it's not all young guys who signed up, there are a lot of young girls in men's clothes, I said these girls are all going to apply for the civil service exam? I've got to be careful not to let those guys get into a blind date!

Wang Ze secretly slandered the officials of his own government in his heart, but the Xia State would charge a high tax for ordinary civilians to marry a second Han wife, and there was a large influx of foreign women in the Xia Kingdom every year, so he was not worried about the serious imbalance between men and women in the Xia Kingdom.

Alas? How can there be fifteen or sixteen-year-old kids? Didn't I already advertise that only people over the age of 25 would be accepted? Oh, it's for your eldest brother to queue up, I don't think anyone who is too lazy to queue up won't come to the exam, I'm sure I won't be able to pass the test.

What? The seventy or eighty-year-old man also came to line up, forget the old man or save it, you can't pass the registration at this age, it's better to enjoy the sun at home!

Well? Your grandchildren are all twenty-five years old, and you are accompanying your grandchildren to sign up? This grandfather is really worrying enough! Such a big grandson even needs his grandfather to accompany him, and it seems that he will be very hung in the future when he enters society.

Why is there a deep-haired and white-skinned foreign friend over there, oh, this know, isn't this the Egyptian Sea Fernesk who followed the Egyptian governor's envoy Belsalika to the Xia Kingdom?

It seems that this foreigner is really attracted by Xia Guo and is reluctant to leave, but as long as he enters the nationality of Xia Guo and passes the exam, Wang Ze is still willing to give him an official position, but at this time, Wang Ze is still proud of his country's attraction of foreigners to take the exam.